We're all just walking each other home. "The quieter you become, the more you can hear." "We're fascinated by the words-but where we meet is in the silence behind them." "It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed." Ram Dass Dr. Richard Alpert, a former Harvard professor and Timothy Leary cohort, was an icon of the hippie, LSD-fueled revolution of the 1960s....

Professor and "de facto global therapist" to an ever-growing audience of hundreds of thousands of people builds on national bestseller “The Parasitic Mind” to argue that happiness is not merely a changeable mood but a process toward which we can strive by following some basic steps that have been known to humans for millennia. Happiness Is a Fact It is a scientific fact, which means we can measure it, we can assess it, and we can devise strategies...

Monsters of the Upside Down, beware! Travis Langley (author of the acclaimed Batman and Psychology) returns with a group of expert contributors to explore these and other questions to shine a light on true human nature through the Netflix series and cultural phenomenon, Stranger Things. When do feelings of grief, guilt, depression, fear, and isolation tear us down, and how do we transform them into hope, inspiration, forgiveness, acceptance, and...

Roosevelt Montás is senior lecturer at Columbia University's Center for American Studies and director of its Freedom and Citizenship Program, which introduces low-income high school students to the Western political tradition through the study of foundational texts. From 2008 to 2018, he was director of Columbia's Center for the Core Curriculum. He lives in New York City. Twitter @rooseveltmontas A Dominican-born academic tells the story of how...

Marshall Sahlins (1930–2021) was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of many books, including Stone Age Economics and Culture and Practical Reason. Frederick B. Henry Jr. is an independent scholar and translator. One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other cultures From the...

"One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of the Year" "Winner of the Heartland Booksellers Award in Nonfiction, Midwest Independent Booksellers Association" "Longlisted for the Non-Obvious Book Awards" "A Scholarly Kitchen Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations of the Year" Jeff Deutsch is the director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, which in 2019 he helped incorporate as the first not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling....

This second edition adds to the first and only book that offers a leadership model firmly based on the Latino experience and culture. More important than ever before, the expanded and updated edition of The Power of Latino Leadership offers a blueprint for Latinos to lead from their cultural core. Currently 64 million Latinos live in the United States, and it's estimated that by 2060 one-third of the US population will be Latino. Despite Latinos'...

The Future is Emotionally Intelligent We're in the midst of a parenting revolution that is radically changing the way we raise our kids. Gone are the days of minimizing emotions: Don't Cry. You're Fine. Don't Make a Scene. As our understanding of developing brains has increased, today's parents are looking for a new way to help their children understand their feelings and learn to process them. Early childhood experts Alyssa Blask Campbell and Lauren...

From the internationally bestselling author of Red Herrings and White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, New World Order and many more. Albert Jack's Mysterious World Part One is a collection of the world's most famous and puzzling mysteries. What really happened to Agatha Christie? Who is responsible for Crop Circles? Where is Bigfoot? Could Aliens really exist? From crop circles to the Scottish lighthouse keepers who vanished one stormy night and from...

Stop trying to be "normal" just to fit in… embrace your true self, enhance your unique gifts, and experience the happiness you've been longing for! Have you ever been described as overly emotional or too sensitive? How many times have you found yourself feeling the same way your friend or loved one feels – whether it's joy, anger, or anxiety? Do you wonder why you often seem to know exactly what another person thinks or even what they're about...