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Did the ancient Greeks and Romans have conspiracy theories? Did they come close to an industrial revolution? Did they drink beer?In a series of fast-paced essays, this book answers forty questions that ancient historian Garrett Ryan has been asked in the classroom and through his popular YouTube channel ToldinStone. As in Dr. Ryan's previous book. Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants, the emphasis is on the fascinating details of d...

Twenty-first century's nightly news can't pass by without running another story on religious conflicts or clashes. While these modern-day battles play out for the world to see, the issues that act as catalysts for them are deeply embedded in ancient texts that claim to contain absolute certainties. An eye-opening and vitally important new book has burst upon the literary scene called Allah, Jesus, and Yahweh: The Gods That Failed. The author, ...

Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) is not only an assault on the body--it is also an assault on the mind and spirit. In addition to imposing a significantly higher rate of conditions like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, suicidality, and substance abuse, the most devastating consequences of childhood sexual abuse is shame. Freedom at Last will help former victims recover from all as...

Steady, Calm, and Brave is a practical guidebook for life's most difficult moments. Meditation teacher Kimberly Brown shows you how to meet unexpected circumstances--a serious health crisis, a looming natural disaster, a terrifying accident--with patience, clarity, and kindness. You'll learn how to support yourself and others with simple mindfulness exercises and compassion techniques drawn from the Buddhist tradition. These transformative pra...

As millions struggle to afford housing and tent cities proliferate across the country, Gallup reports that homelessness is Americans' number one concern.How did we get here? Why, despite decades of work to end it--and important victories along the way--has homelessness continued to grow? And what will it take to solve it?As a pioneering lawyer in the fight to end homelessness, Maria Foscarinis answers those questions. After almost forty years ...

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A New Masculinity is a practical guide for men of all ages to embrace their on-going process of developing a balanced, compassionate, and positive masculinity.

For anyone looking to learn a new skill, teach someone else to do the same, or to better understand how our brains evolve and excel, this fascinating tour of cognition will reveal the path to surprising potential.

Losing Our Religion tells us how we became religious, why we're leaving faith behind, and how we can get along with others across the religious divides we've culturally evolved.

She¿s Gone collects the true stories of five different women living in different decades who all have one thing in common: one moment they were busy living their lives and the next moment ¿ they were gone.

Exploring basic pharmacological insights, cutting-edge science, and the arc of new-drug development, Medicine Wars will change the way readers think about medicine.

In this smartly curated book, author Guy P. Harrison collects 1, 001 of the most influential and transformative quotations over the centuries of sci-fi.

In this lively and timely tour, neuroscientist Ruth DeFoster and mass communication professor Natashia Swalve lead readers through the history and psychology behind widespread cultural fears of innocuous things, beginning with the most personal fears within our own bodies and moving outward to the home, our country, and finally to culture at its largest level.

A milestone of child psychology, The Child's Conception of the World explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from those of adults.

We are concerned here with a contradiction. The question becomes: Is the virus a seeking organism for some validation, or is it simply something destructive? Concerning its harmful behavior, one might hypothesize that the virus becomes dangerous only when it does not get what it wants. Thus, the first issue raised concerns whether the virus is an organism that may want something ¿ even wish for it. Second, if the virus wants something, does th...

For more than thirty years, The Skeptical Inquirer has steadfastly championed science and reason. In this collection, editor Kendrick Frazier has selected some of the best writing exploring science and skeptical inquiry, public controversies, and investigating pseudoscientific claims"--

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