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Book of Living

by Ashok Kumar

The book develops and describes a cogent framework in which human living takes place. The framework depicts linkages and interactions among our behavior, actions, survival, and evolution, and delineates the relationship between survival and morality, and morality and religion, as well as rationale for the latter. Additionally, the framework describes how evolution in humans is similar and yet different from other species.

Tour of Insanity: A Manifesto for Better Home Design

by Kelly Mitchell & Matthew Zakutny

Have you ever walked around your house wondering WHY this was installed that way or WHY there is orange shag carpet in the kitchen? Maybe you wondered WHY there has to be a front yard or WHY do pests keep getting into your home? We provide a comedic look at the WHY and some insight on what should be. This book provides a tour of the insanity of past, present, and future home design highlighting the tragic comedy of why things are the way they are and what could be done differently to elevate ... more

Clap If You Can Hear Me

by Kelly Mitchell

When a teacher exclaims, “Clap if you can hear me,” students are meant to clap once in unison in answer to demonstrate they are attentive, focused, and processing what is being said. The essential ingredient in enhancing education is paying attention. This book presents practical solutions to empower students and parents in education. Clap If You Can Hear Me is a navigational guide that exposes critical deficits in PreK through higher education programs. It also illuminates best practices to ... more

Perfect in Weakness: The Original Resistance

by Peter Munoz III

Do today’s resistance movements pose a real challenge to power? The present volume argues that only the Bible offers a coherent basis and strategy for achieving an authentic resistance, one grounded paradoxically in a radical embrace of nonresistance and a total rejection of violence. This thesis is pursued in conversation with the ideas of Michel Foucault, René Girard, and John Howard Yoder, among others. Beginning with the Hebrew scriptures, the author identifies a dialectical movement tracing... more

Sicily Destination Wedding

by Luana Andronico, Iolanda Muscia

You have always dreamt to get married in Sicily but you feel overwhelmed by the number of things to do and don’t know where to start from? Maybe you have already read tons of guides and blogs but you feel like they have not given you the right information and have not succeeded in making you comfortable to jump on this adventure? Taormina or Noto, Palermo or Etna, where would you like to get married? How can you find your vendors and how can you trust them? What is it and how important is the w... more

The Idea of Things: How Things Really Are As They Seem

by D W Hoyle

The Idea of Things is a detailed and systematic, yet patently playful and consummately comical overview of how the brain strives to represent the things in our world, while also imbuing things with feeling—and how the ensuing ideas the mind generates about things, swayed by selective attention, shape our everyday experience with its many ironies and subtle shadings. It's mind candy. With extra sprinkles.

Rightsize Your Home

by Belinda Woolrych

Like many thousands of mature Australians, you are not alone. Transitioning from your family home can feel incredibly overwhelming and stir up mixed emotions from the past. Downsizing can be difficult or even overwhelming if you have lived in your home for 20, 30 or 40 years. It's a rite of passage almost no one will escape: the difficult, emotional journey of downsizing your or your aging parents' home. Belinda Woolrych, Downsizing Expert & Author, has written a comprehensive and insightful dow... more

The Color of Play

by Nneka J Howell

Two second-graders share a special friendship and a superpower that they use together to make the world a better place—for all kids. A heartfelt new picture book combines delightful storytelling with an important message of diversity, acceptance, and friendship; a perfect offering in today’s landscape.

The Little Encyclopedia of Modern Ignorance

by Kevin Casey

This book takes a no-holds-barred look at some of the baffling ways our brains temporarily cease to function as we navigate the 21st century. As a species, we appear to be transforming from healthy scientific skeptics into ill-informed, outraged cynics. We are losing our intellectual humility, reluctant to accept the limits of our knowledge. We are entering a new post-factual age in which spin overrides reason and science is forced to compete with head-in-the-sand denial. Alternate truths are d... more

EXCEPTIONALLY UPSETTING: How Americans are increasingly confusing knowledge with opinion & what can be done about it

by Howard Burton

As American society becomes more polarized by the day, the question of how this "exceptional nation" can hope to regain its mojo is more pressing than ever before. With his unique blend of wry humor and clear-headed analysis, Howard Burton, creator and host of the award-winning Ideas Roadshow, wades into America's partisan fray, weaving together historical investigation, pop culture and a passionate belief in the country's true strengths in order to develop a concrete way out of the current cult... more

Politics, Police and Other Earthling Antics

by Mickie Winkle

94, irreverent,illustrated, anecdotes satirizing: politics, police, our renaming mania, California, ATT, Comcast, Charities and our whacky human ways.

Rise of the Digital World: An opportunity India cannot afford to miss!

by RS Amblee

A digital world is rising! Not only our phones are going smart our homes, cities and even businesses are going smart. It is a momentous time for India to catapult itself in the digital world.

At the same time the world is also deglobalizing to protect itself from future COVID-like pandemics. Not-so-coincidentally, a smart world is a deglobalized world. This has created an incredible opportunity for India to become the digital hub driving this me... more

Finding Family in a Far-Away Land

by Amanda Wall

Two Indian sisters, Priya and Ari, experience what it's like to be adopted into a multi-cultural, interracial family. Walk alongside these two charming, dynamic girls as they journey through the adoption transition to a new country full of new experiences! "Finding Family in a Far-Away Land" is a pensive and sometimes comical book that demonstrates how children can experience the same journey quite differently. A glossary of cultural terms is included so that all can learn and enjoy what Ari... more

Let's Meet Baby Jesus

by Michele Darlhing

Let’s Meet Baby JESUS is an edited version of Michele Darlhing’s book A Heart for JESUS…intimate basics. It has been written especially for toddlers. “Permit little children, and forbid them not, to come to Me: for such is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 19:14 (KJVER) Prepare a child the opportunity to be acquainted with Jesus. Allow them the privilege to develop a personal relationship with Him while they are still young. With the awareness of Jesus at a young age they will be blessed from the... more

The Amazing True Stories of Pepito The Squirrel

by F. Jordan Erebia

The true story of an injured baby squirrel, found by a retired physician who video documented his physical therapy and full recovery, and captured the hearts of social media fans around the world.

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