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  U2's Achtung Baby

  Stephen Catanzarite

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  Stephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2's most fully formed album through the prisms of religion, politics, spirituality, and culture,  illuminating its previously unexplored depths, arguing that it's a concept album about love and the fall of man.

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  First lessons in the principles...

  Lady Barker

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  Lady Barker's First Lessons in the Principles of Cooking introduces the fundamentals of food chemistry, healthy preparation methods, and basic dietetics through simple, structured lessons. An essential historical guide to 19th-century household cookery and food science.

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  Decluttering For Beginners - A...

  Johnny Nelson

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  You've tried before. You know that. 
  You watched the videos. You bought the bins. You had one really good Saturday where you filled three garbage bags and felt like a different person. 
  Then three months later, you were standing in the same kitchen, looking at the same counter, thinking the same thought. How did it get back to this? 
  Here's what nobody tells you: the problem was never your motivation. It was never willpower. The problem was that you were given inspiration when what you actually needed was a system. 
  Inspiration runs out. Systems don't. 
  Decluttering for Beginners is a step-by-step, room-by-room system built for real people with real lives and real homes that have been losing the battle against clutter for longer than they'd like to admit. 
  Inside, you'll discover why clutter keeps coming back even after you've done the work. You'll get a five-step loop that works on any space in your home, from a junk drawer to an entire garage. You'll learn how to let go of things you've held onto out of guilt and obligation. And you'll build a maintenance routine so simple you'll actually stick to it — even on the hard weeks. 
  This book doesn't ask you to become a minimalist. It asks one thing: start owning things on purpose instead of by accident. 
  Because a cluttered home isn't just an aesthetic problem. It's a daily tax. The ten minutes searching for your keys. The low-grade stress when you walk into certain rooms. The things you bought twice because you couldn't find the first one. 
  You deserve a home that doesn't cost you that. 
  If you've tried before and it didn't stick — this is why. And this is the fix.

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  Bob Dylan in Minnesota -...

  K G Miles, Ed Newman, Paul...

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  For Bob Dylan enthusiasts and anyone with an interest in the early life, places and roots of Bob Dylan.
  Bob Dylan was born in Duluth, Minnesota, grew up in nearby Hibbing, and cut his musical teeth in the folk scene of Dinkytown.
  This travel guide brings together wonderful stories from these key locations and the roots and early life of Bob Dylan.
  We also introduce you to four great contributors who live in Dylan's homeland and play an active part in promoting everything Dylan. Ed Newman - writer, artist and promoter of the Duluth Dylan Fest and lives in Duluth. Marc Percansky - concert, music and event promoter based in the Minneapolis Saint Paul. Matt Steichen - journalist, publicist, presenter and big Dylan fan living in Lakeville. And Paul Metsa - musician, songwriter, author, radio and TV host. The Huffington Post called him, 'The other great folksinger from Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range.'
  We travel back in time to hear stories from his early teacher, tales of the mysterious wandering rabbi, eye-witness accounts from early Dinkytown musical collaborators, as well as being privy to secrets from behind the scenes of the classic 'Blood On The Tracks' album.
  Fascinating insights into the early life of one of the most important songwriters in music history – and told with Minnesota voices.

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  Lurking Under the Surface -...

  Brandon R. Grafius

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  Horror can be a valuable conversation partner for the spiritual questions that animate so many of us. 
   
   
   
  Whether through a movie, television show, novel, or even myth, horror as a genre has always spoken to our deepest human fears and anxieties: fear of death, of the unknown, of knowing too much. Whether you're looking at classic narratives like Frankenstein, or contemporary films like Get Out, which explores racism and white guilt, horror provides a window into our culture and what makes us human. The same can be said of religion. 
   
   
   
  Horror movie buff and religion scholar Brandon Grafius finds common ground between these two seemingly disparate bedfellows—horror and religion—in Lurking under the Surface. What parallels can we draw between The Walking Dead and sacred texts? How do the stories of Hebrew Christian scriptures and apocalyptic films like A Quiet Place and Bird Box help us find hope when it's in short supply? When we treat them both seriously, we see that horror movies and religion lead us through the same sets of questions. Both explore questions of justice, hope, and our relationship to the world and the cosmos. And both offer us ways to make meaning out of the contradictory pieces of our world—a world filled with so much hope and so many recognizable fears lurking just beneath the surface.

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  As Serious As Cancer

  DJ Semtex

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  “It’s hard to believe I’m doing this,” DJ Semtex opens his book. “I never considered for one moment that I would be writing about an experience like this.” As an acclaimed DJ, producer and radio host, he spent years telling other people’s stories, now it’s time to tell his. As Serious as Cancer is an unflinching portrait of the man behind the decks and his unexpected face-off with the C-word.  
  “All I know is I’ve never faced anything as serious as cancer before.” - DJ Semtex 
  “I got a question as serious as cancer,” Rakim raps on his iconic 1987 album Paid in Full. Semtex leans on the popularised hip hop trope in his tell-all: When you’ve got everything going for you, what do you do when one word turns your whole world upside down? The book charts the four-month period in early 2023 from a sudden concerning discovery to his diagnosis with kidney cancer, treatment and finally recovery. Semtex takes us on this journey with a gut-wrenching honesty and searing specificity that will resonate with anyone whose life has been touched by the disease and move even those who have not been personally affected by it. 
  Semtex reflects on his past, family, career, the NHS that saved his life and hip hop’s relationship with cancer. But above all, As Serious as Cancer is an exploration of the self. Vulnerable, insightful and compelling, Semtex ponders finding yourself face-to-face with your own mortality – “The darkest cloud over a life that I had worked so hard to build and still many more dreams to pursue.” He details the mental anguish and physical toll of figuring your way out of a health crisis; Navigating your life’s work and treatment – and how ultimately passion is the greatest medicine for despair. At its core, As Serious as Cancer is about resilience and the human spirit. “I had no intention of giving up,” he writes, “I wasn’t ready to die, I was ready to live."

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