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A guide to surviving in the modern age shares advice on the pursuits of a fulfilling life, outlining a four-part strategy based on self-observance, relating to others, enabling unusual experiences, and reinventing the self.

Uses modern, ripped-from-the-headlines examples to clearly explain how to identify bad evidence and poor arguments. He provides a roundup of the rhetorical tricks people use when attempting to pull the wool over our eyes, and even offers advice about how to take these unscrupulou...

"Kathy Park uses stories from her own life to illustrate how the principles of Aikido can be taken off the mat and out of the dojo to help us cope with the many challenges of life in an increasingly chaotic world"--Provided by publisher.

The head writer of a new sketch comedy show must deal with a crazy star, a rude new boss, and ratings, while trying to stay sane. Includes 21 episodes and deleted scenes, outtakes, and commentary.

"Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord's Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to po...

"In this much-needed guide, popular blogger Ilana Jacqueline writes poignantly about her experience living with two debilitating, yet invisible autoimmune diseases, and offers sound advice and practical tips for living with a chronic illness or disability that others can't see. R...

"With The Power of Off, Colier sounds the call for wakefulness, reminding us that we can use technology in a way that promotes, rather than detracts from, our well-being. This book provides an essential resource for anyone wanting to create a more empowered relationship with tech...

"Elite New York City divorce attorney Jacqueline Newman is here to help, sharing her secrets from over two decades in the trenches. The new rules of divorce : twelve secrets to protecting your wealth, health, and happiness, is the first definitive guide for navigating modern divo...

What could be more important to parents than a healthy, well-fed family? As two urban, working moms, Ceri Marsh and Laura Keogh learned quickly how challenging healthy meal-times can be. So they joined forces to create the Sweet Potato Chronicles, a website written for, and by, n...

Greg Harden changes lives. This is why hundreds of world-class athletes, doctors, lawyers, teachers, business leaders, college students, and professionals from all walks of life have come to him for advice and direction-including 7-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady, 23-time Olym...

Short, simple and refreshingly practical, Living Simply offers 21 Earth Warrior practices to help us live more consciously and to cope with the ever increasing pace of modern life. Bob Hillary shares the lessons he learned living off the grid, exploring his wild edges and practic...

A Nazi concentration camp survivor spends the next 15 years of his life as a patient at a hidden experimental insane asylum, where he uses his magic tricks and comic abilities to stay sane. When he tries to help a young boy also suffering, he is forced to deal with his own pain a...

As skies darken and hopes grow dim, the Beatys try to stay sane in a lavishhome with every possible comfort, except sunshine. Raymond plans to have hisfamily transported to a secure underground bunker. But as he makes a gruesome discovery, the greatest threat to their survival ma...

"Jen Miller, Kittie Spears, and Cynthia Nichols have been friends since childhood. Now approaching forty, their lives have changed, but their insular East Texas town has not. They stay sane by drinking wine in the afternoons, dishing about other women in the neighborhood, and bon...

"Fourteen-year-old Aaron Greenburg is trapped in a vegetative state. He's awake and aware of everything around him--but the doctors don't realize it. After years of being left in a care facility and facing dwindling interest from his own family, Aaron begins to despair--until, th...

"We've all been shut-ins for more than a year, eating and drinking too much, exercising too little, gaining weight, sleeping poorly, missing our friends and family, and struggling to stay sane in the face of worldwide calamity. It's time to shout 'enough!' and prepare for our imp...