Inside the Liberal Arts: Critical Thinking and Citizenship by Jeffrey Scheuer Inside the Liberal Arts accomplishes two ambitious goals at once, and shows why they are inseparable: It explains the nature and purpose of liberal learning – to produce critical thinkers and well-rounded democratic citizens – and offers a probing, accessible guided tour of critical thinking, emphasizing the analytic skills that form the intellectual core of all higher education. Becoming better critical thinkers doesn...
Apr 13, 2023•40 min
Mixed Signals: How Incentives Really Work by Uri Gneezy An informative and entertaining account of how actions send signals that shape behaviors and how to design better incentives for better results in our life, our work, and our world Incentives send powerful signals that aim to influence behavior. But often there is a conflict between what we say and what we do in response to these incentives. The result: mixed signals. Consider the CEO who urges teamwork but designs incentives for individual...
Apr 12, 2023•35 min
Forgotten War (A Matt Drake Novel) by Don Bentley "A fascinating, action-packed thriller from one of the genre's most talented authors. Don Bentley delivers a blistering adventure loaded with excitement and fabulous characters. You will not want it to end!"—Brad Thor, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Dead Fall A brotherhood born in battle is endangered by a deadly secret in the latest astonishing thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Tom Clancy Zero Hour and Hostile Inten...
Apr 12, 2023•38 min
The Magick of Physics: Uncovering the Fantastical Phenomena in Everyday Life by Felix Flicker An award-winning Oxford physicist draws on classic sci-fi, fantasy fiction, and everyday phenomena to explain and celebrate the magical properties of the world around us. If you were to present the feats of modern science to someone from the past, those feats would surely be considered magic. Theoretical physicist Felix Flicker proves that they are indeed magic—just familiar magic. The name for this mag...
Apr 12, 2023•31 min
Grand Delusion: The Rise and Fall of American Ambition in the Middle East by Steven Simon A longtime American foreign policy insider’s penetrating and definitive reckoning with this country’s involvement in the Middle East—and its bitter end The culmination of almost forty years at the highest levels of policymaking and scholarship, Grand Delusion is Steven Simon’s tour de force, offering a comprehensive and deeply informed account of U.S. engagement in the Middle East. Simon begins with the Rea...
Apr 11, 2023•58 min
Come Up for Air: How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work by Nick Sonnenberg The practical guide to go from “drowning in work” to freeing up an extra business day per week for everyone on your team. “There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done!” Sound familiar? Forget the old concepts of time management and the hustle culture of working until you burn out. You and your entire team can get more done, in far fewer hours, with the right blueprint. Come ...
Apr 10, 2023•33 min
The Twyford Code: A Novel by Janice Hallett The mysterious connection between a teacher’s disappearance and an unsolved code in a children’s book is explored in this new novel from the “modern Agatha Christie” (The Sunday Times, London) and author of The Appeal. Forty years ago, Steven “Smithy” Smith found a copy of a famous children’s book by disgraced author Edith Twyford, its margins full of strange markings and annotations. When he showed it to his remedial English teacher Miss Iles, she bel...
Apr 09, 2023•16 min
I Am Still With You: A Reckoning with Silence, Inheritance, and History by Emmanuel Iduma A deeply moving, lyrical journey through the author’s homeland of Nigeria, in search of the truth about his disappeared uncle and the history of a war that shaped him, his family, and a nation In inimitable, rhythmic prose, the author and winner of the prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize Emmanuel Iduma tells the story of his return to Nigeria, where he grew up, after years of living in New York. He traveled ...
Apr 08, 2023•48 min
All Else Failed: The Unlikely Volunteers at the Heart of the Migrant Aid Crisis by Dana Sachs As hundreds of thousands of displaced people sought refuge in Europe, the global relief system failed. This is the story of the volunteers who stepped forward to help. In 2015, increasing numbers of refugees and migrants, most of them fleeing war-torn homelands, arrived by boat on the shores of Greece, setting off the greatest human displacement in Europe since WWII. As journalists reported horrific mas...
Apr 07, 2023•38 min
The Case for Cancel Culture: How This Democratic Tool Works to Liberate Us All by Ernest Owens Refinery 29's Most Anticipated Books By Black & Latine Authors in 2023! Philadelphia Inquirer's Best New Books for February! "A necessary discourse about power and control, and who ultimately has a voice versus whose is often stifled." ―Preston D. Mitchum, LGBTQIA attorney, activist, and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University The first major case for cancel culture as a fundamental means...
Apr 06, 2023•58 min
Pride (7 Deadly Sins) by Victoria Christopher Murray Mylifetime.com/movies/pride-a-seven-deadly-sins-story The 7 Deadly Sins series that inspired four Lifetimeoriginal movies continues with this unputdownable novel following mortgage broker Journee Alexander as she tries to escape the secrets of her past without losing all she has worked to build in the present. Journee Alexander grew up believing that the only person she could depend on was herself. After being abandoned by her mother, burning ...
Apr 04, 2023•45 min
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Apr 04, 2023•11 min
The Plot to Save South Africa: The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation by Justice Malala A riveting, kaleidoscopic account of nine tumultuous days, as the assassination of Nelson Mandela’s protégé by a white supremacist threatens to derail South Africa’s democratic transition and plunge the nation into civil war. Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in power sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist sho...
Apr 03, 2023•1 hr 5 min
THE GODDESS COMPASS: “A life-transformational guide for every woman going through physical or emotional trauma.” by Deanna Hann Goddess compass is not only a guide or a program but a complete lifestyle to help other women overcome trauma and heal on so many levels through the goddess compass and guide them so they can navigate from their pain. The Goddess Compass is the most powerful way to reconnect to self-love, rebuild your stunning self-worth and establish healthy boundaries, so you can have...
Apr 01, 2023•40 min
Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End by Bart D. Ehrman A New York Times bestselling Biblical scholar reveals why our popular understanding of the Apocalypse is all wrong—and why that matters. You’ll find nearly everything the Bible has to say about the end in the Book of Revelation: a mystifying prophecy filled with bizarre symbolism, violent imagery, mangled syntax, confounding contradictions, and very firm ideas about the horrors that await us all. But whether you understand th...
Mar 31, 2023•43 min
The Plans He Has For Me: A 12-Week Daily Devotional for Freedom from Alcohol by Rose Ann Forte Are you ready to change your relationship with alcohol? Rose Ann Forte was, and she knew she needed an approach that was more meaningful. And she wanted a fresh start that kept her motivated! The Plans He Has for Me is a twelve-week guided devotional that will teach you: What stepping away from alcohol really does for the body and mind How to positively change the language you use to talk about drinkin...
Mar 30, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Maybe You Should Give Up: 7 Ways to Get Out of Your Own Way and Take Control of Your Life by Byron Morrison After years of being his own worst enemy, Byron Morrison knows exactly how frustrating the never-ending cycle of hard work, expectation, and minimal results can be. Maybe You Should Give Up is Morrison’s answer to the question: how can anyone achieve their dreams if hard work isn’t enough? It seems like every self-help book and personal development program is the same these days, preaching...
Mar 29, 2023•51 min
The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science by Alan Lightman From the acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams comes a rich, fascinating answer to the question, Can the scientifically inclined still hold space for spirituality? Gazing at the stars, falling in love, or listening to music, we sometimes feel a transcendent connection with a cosmic unity and things larger than ourselves. But these experiences are not easily understood by science, which holds that all things can be explai...
Mar 28, 2023•52 min
Malady of the Mind: Schizophrenia and the Path to Prevention by Jeffrey A. Lieberman Of the many myths and misconceptions that obscure our understanding of schizophrenia, the most pernicious is that there is no effective treatment or cure. Though that may have been true in the past, the current reality couldn’t be more different: today’s treatments have the potential to be game-changing—and often lifesaving. This powerful portrait of schizophrenia, the most malignant and mysterious mental illnes...
Mar 26, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Investing in a Recession - Time to Think about Gold by Simon Popple Brookvillecapital.com
Mar 25, 2023•34 min
Bayou Beloved (Butterfly Bayou) by Lexi Blake When a woman returns home to Louisiana's Butterfly Bayou, her high school crush finally notices she exists, in a small-town contemporary romance from New York Times bestselling author Lexi Blake. Quaid Havery always planned to follow in his father’s footsteps. He went to law school and then came home to take over his dad’s legal practice. Being the only lawyer in small-town Papillon, Quaid is pretty sure he’s seen everything. After all, he was once a...
Mar 24, 2023•28 min
The World Itself: Consciousness and the Everything of Physics by Ulf Danielsson There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it. It is time for physics to take life seriously. Can we ever truly comprehend the universe before we fully understand consciousness and the wonders, and limits, of the mind? Ulf Danielsson, an acclaimed theoretical physicist who has dedicated his career to probing the deepest mysteries of nature, thinks not. As he dismantles the arguments o...
Mar 23, 2023•44 min
Creators Take Control: How NFTs Revolutionize Art, Business, and Entertainment by Edward Lee A leading legal scholar offers a compelling new theory to explain the meteoric rise of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and their impact on art, business, entertainment, and society, and explains how they are revolutionizing our understanding of ownership. If you buy an NFT, do you own anything? Critics say no. Then why are people spending so much money to own them—to the tune of $27 billion in 2021? And why a...
Mar 21, 2023•43 min
They Ask, You Answer: A Revolutionary Approach to Inbound Sales, Content Marketing, and Today's Digital Consumer by Marcus Sheridan The revolutionary guide that challenged businesses around the world to stop selling to their buyers and start answering their questions to get results; revised and updated to address new technology, trends, the continuous evolution of the digital consumer, and much more In today’s digital age, the traditional sales funnel―marketing at the top, sales in the middle, c...
Mar 20, 2023•50 min
The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma Ian Buruma’s spellbinding account of three near-mythic figures—a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur—who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule, or true heroes, or something in between. On the face of it, the three characters in this book seem to have little in common—aside from the fact that each committed wartime acts that led some to see them as nation...
Mar 19, 2023•29 min
How I'll Kill You by Ren DeStefano Your next stay-up-all-night thriller, about identical triplets who have a nasty habit of killing their boyfriends, and what happens when the youngest commits their worst crime yet: falling in love with her mark. Make him want you. Make him love you. Make him dead. Sissy has an...interesting family. Always the careful one, always the cautious one, she has handled the cleanup while her serial killer sisters have carved a path of carnage across the U.S. Now, as th...
Mar 18, 2023•22 min
The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History's Most Astonishing Murder Ring by Patti McCracken The Angel Makers is a true-crime story like no other—a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 men. The horror occurred in a rustic farming enclave in modern-day Hungary. To look at the unlikely lineup of murderesses—village wives, mothers, and daughters—was to come to the shocking realizati...
Mar 17, 2023•27 min
Collateral Damage (17) (Ali Reynolds Series) by J.A. Jance Ali Reynolds and High Noon Enterprises face the dangerous consequences of one man’s desperate search for revenge in this unputdownable thriller from J.A. Jance, the New York Times bestselling author who “has been delivering must-read books for a long time” (The Real Book Spy). After spending twenty years behind bars, Frank Muñoz, a disgraced former cop, is out on parole and focused on just one thing: revenge. The wife who abandoned him a...
Mar 15, 2023•31 min
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