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  The Swerve - How the World...

  Stephen Greenblatt

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  Renowned historian Stephen Greenblatt's works shoot to the top of the New York Times best-seller list. With The Swerve, Greenblatt transports listeners to the dawn of the Renaissance and chronicles the life of an intrepid book lover who rescued the Roman philosophical text On the Nature of Things from certain oblivion. "More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master scholar and historian."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review

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  The Forerunner & The Madman

  Kahlil Gibran

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  Most famously known for his book The Prophet, the Lebanese poet Kahlil Gibran, who has been called "the single most important influence on Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of [the twentieth] century."Contained herein are two lesser known works. The Madman was the first book Kahlil published in English, and it's success was enough for The Forerunner to be released by the same publisher less than two years later.

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  The Reformation 1495-1553 - The...

  Martin Luther, Phillip...

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  Martin Luther and John Calvin are household names, where people have little knowledge of them besides their vast impact on Christian thought and culture. It is surprising how closely their language and concerns reflect modern times.  
  Martin Luther was a rabble-rousing man of the people, filled with invective and the emotional force of connecting with humanity rather than culture or wealth.  
  John Calvin’s sardonic sense of humour permeates a constant barrage of mythbusting that would do a modern-day fact checker proud. 
  Three less well-known writers round out the collection. Zwingli, Melancthon and Savonarola all preach with a force befitting true Christians fighting against the vast powers of a Catholic church that was the most powerful entity in Europe, and had consolidated a wide range of practices that broke the people away from an experience of divinity. 
  Savonarola speaks with the voice of a travelling preacher, a man of the people whose voice matched that of Eugene Debs. Zwingli spoke with a proud nationalism and pride that was wounded by the use of foreign armies, when the land could provide for all its citizens if managed correctly. Melancthon is an academic, providing a point-by-point deconstruction of the Pope’s claimed powers in ways that were irrefutable even for the Jesuit strains that held the Catholic Church’s intellectual force. 
  Just as with the liberation fighters, socialists, and anarchists of previous volumes, these historical figures lived under great threat, attacking vast forces with little more than courage and the certainty of their beliefs. They stand as the bridge over the cultural change between the middle ages and the renaissance.

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  Unshattered - Surviving My...

  Emma M Churchman

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  What happens when your mother isn't one person, but 123?
  Emma Churchman's extraordinary memoir follows her search for identity as the eldest child of a woman with one of the most extreme cases of multiple personality disorder (now known as dissociative identity disorder) diagnosed in the 1980s. Never knowing which of her mother' s alters would emerge— the playful child, the raging demon, or the suicidal depressive— Emma became the family's anchor in an ocean of psychological chaos, raising her three younger brothers while navigating a mother who had no clear identity.
  This gripping account captures a lineage of violence over generations leading to a family' s struggles with suicide, addiction, and mental illness. Emma reveals a landscape where reality is shattered: changing personalities, a mother locked in a padded room, a homeless father, a child asking for a bodyguard, alters too young to parent, and a daughter picking up the pieces.
  Emma's transformation leads to her role as a trauma chaplain and then a successful entrepreneur and demonstrates how our deepest wounds can become our greatest wisdom. With raw honesty and hard-won insights, she proves we can choose integration over fragmentation, wholeness over mere survival. This beautifully crafted narrative poses the fundamental question: Is identity predetermined by genetics and environment, or can character be born anew through selective choices?
  For readers who loved Educated and The Glass Castle, this revolutionary story shows that healing isn't just survival— it' s transformation in its most powerful form.

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  Science and Technology of...

  Learn Alchemical Editors

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  Over the past five million years, our species has spread from the plains of East Africa to every inhabitable landmass on our planet. Combinations of our technological Know-how, scientific knowledge, and complex societies have allowed humanity to shape and affect our environment more than any of our fellow species, even to the point of our peril.How did we get to this situation?What are some of our ancestors' choices as individuals, societies, and species that shaped our history to the present day?How did we develop those complex societies that let us build the first cities, nations, and empires?How much control did our ancestors have over their choices?What did they ascribe to the will of the Gods, and what was the result of human abilities?How do we in the present day, acknowledge and interact with our cultural inheritance from the ancient world?The answers to these age-old questions, of course, span some 11,000 years! The evidence looks like we had a fragmented intruder comet sometime about 10,000 BC that ended the Ice Age. This Concept is now the debate of Astronomers in the last decade only.

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  Art of War

  SunTzu Tzu

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  "Sun Tzŭ on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World" by Sunzi is an ancient Chinese military treatise written in the 5th century BC. Composed of 13 chapters, each explores different aspects of warfare, strategy, and tactics. This influential text emphasizes intelligence operations, environmental conditions, and military discipline. For centuries, it has shaped military thinking across East and West, inspiring leaders from Mao Zedong to Douglas MacArthur. Its timeless wisdom on strategy continues to resonate far beyond the battlefield.

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