Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. We see disagreemen
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham is the acknowledged master of the legal thriller. In his first collection of novellas, law is a common thread, but America’s favorite storyteller has several surprises in store. “Homecoming” takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham’s unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he’s not in the courtroom.
A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis.
Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, bele
The global phenomenon returns with the third book in the One of Us Is Lying series, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen M. McManus. When someone from the Bayview Four's past resurfaces, history begins to repeat itself-and the consequences are deadly.
Learn how to play chess the Bobby Fischer way with the fastest, most efficient, most enjoyable method ever devised. Whether you're just learning the game or looking for more complex strategies, these practice problems and exercises will help you master the art of the checkmate.
This book teaches through a programmed learning method: It asks you a question. If you give the right answer, it goes o
Thrawn and his allies race to save the Chiss Ascendancy from an unseen enemy in the second book in the epic Star Wars: Thrawn Ascendancy trilogy from bestselling author Timothy Zahn.
Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A forme
From bestselling and National Book Awardnominated author Tahereh Mafi comes a stunning novel about love and loneliness, navigating the hyphen of dual identity, and reclaiming your right to joyeven when youre trapped in the amber of sorrow.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, now in hardcover for the first time **A small hardcover edition featuring a new afterword by Madeline Miller**
The explosive finale to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Shatter Me series. Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie?
Vanessa Mazur refuses to feel bad for quitting--she knows she's doing the right thing. The thankless job of personal assistant to the top defensive end in the National Football Organization was always supposed to be temporary. She has plans for her life, and none of them include washing extra-large underwear one more day for a man who could never find it in him to tell her good morning, congratula
There will be times when you walk into a room and no one there is quite like you.There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it’s how you look or talk, or where you’re from; maybe it’s what you eat, or something just as random. It’s not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.Jacqueline Woodson’s lyrical text and Rafael López’s dazzl
Outlines a fresh approach to handwriting analysis designed to enable whole-person profiling - providing handwriting samples of famous people - coverage of how to determine emotional disturbance or mental illness and new material for understanding the significance of the writing rhythm.
There is a certain romance attached to playing cards: from the riverboat gamblers on the Mississippi to genteel parlour games and the current popular surge in poker tournaments. How many of us while away our bored moments with a game of solitaire?This user-friendly, easy-to-use guide will show you how to turn an ordinary deck of cards into a fun and simple tool for telling the future. Learn the pa
Affectionately known as Lady Ruth at the Jivamukti Yoga School in New York City where she teaches, Ruth Lauer-Manenti has presented "dharma "talks on daily life from a yogic perspective for many years (collected in "An Offering of Leaves" and "Sweeping the Dust" both published by Lantern Books). FELL IN HER HANDS is an altogether more ambitious work - a commentary and reflection on the venerable y
“When I finished Witness to Roswell, I said to myself, ‘Case closed!´ for the very wealth and sheer weight of eyewitness testimony.”—George Noory, host, Coast to Coast AM
This classic in the field of UFOology is filled with hard-hitting eyewitness testimony of one of the most important events of all time: the actual recovery of a UFO outside of Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. For more
A guide for every empath and spiritually sensitive soul to explore their abilities with exercises, affirmations, and creative journaling, as well as methods to protect themselves.
Are you an empath looking to better understand yourself and your place in the Universe?
To be an empath is an art form—to discover how our perceptions guide and inform us, shape us, and at times limit us, require
C.S. Lewis For Beginners is a thorough examination of C. S. Lewis, the greatest Christian apologist of the twentieth century, throughout his career as an author and as a professor at Oxford University.
A Christian apologist defends Christianity as a consistent and coherent worldview that squares with human reason, history, and desire. It offers answers to every facet of our lives on earth as wel
In this new edition of THE QUANTUM DOCTOR, Goswami boldly reinterprets the leading methods of alternative medicine - homoeopathy, Chinese medicine, acupuncture and Ayurveda and conventional medicine. He shows how these seemingly different models can be combined into a new system of integral medicine and offers profound insights into the relationship between physics and consciousness.He gives physi