Social sciences

Why are we devastated by a word of criticism even when it's mixed with lavish praise? Because our brains are wired to focus on the bad. This negativity effect explains things great and small: why countries blunder into disastrous wars, why couples divorce, why people flub job interviews, how schools fail students, why football coaches stupidly punt on fourth down. All day long, the power o

​​An essential guide for all yoga practitioners to delve deeply into the tradition and practice authentically with appreciation, not appropriation. Includes practical advice for embracing yogic values—such as service, non-harm, and truthfulness—in your daily life and relationships and for the well-being of others. Popular yoga educator and advocate Susanna Barkataki invit

Equal parts cookbook and lifestyle guide, this cozy little book shows you how to cultivate comfort and contentment and embrace life´s small pleasures with the Danish practice of hygge. Hygge (loosely translated as "coziness") is centered around the idea of inviting comforting elements into day-to-day life while creating warmth, community, and intimacy. The Hygge Life teaches you how small gestur

A new edition of A.E. Waite's classic The Pictorial Key to the Tarot that explores tarot's radical political potential and its usefulness for the left. A.E. Waite´s The Pictoral Key to the Tarot has been a mainstay among tarot reference guides for more than a century. As an acclaimed occultist and scholar of the Kabbalah, Waite collaborated with artist Pamela Colman Smith to create what has beco

Find peace and serenity through the mindful art of stone stacking. This calming desktop kit includes: - 9 hematite stones - Beechwood tray - Bag of sand - 32-page book on the art of stone stacking

Desktop Strongman is based off the beloved carnival game and includes everything you need to become a high striker! Kit includes: - Rail - Pellet - Bell with sound - Hammer - 32-page book with history, techniques, and the rules of the game

A digitally remastered facsimile edition of Danny Lyon's seminal 1971 photobook, highly influential in the history of documentary photography. Conversations with the Dead provides an extraordinary photographic record of life inside six Texas prisons and the relationships Lyon built with the inmates. Revolutionary at the time of publication, it was one of the first photobooks to include ephemera

The pages of Harper's Bazaar have been a stage for fashion's biggest supermodels for generations and remain so today. Harper's Bazaar: The Models features all of them—from Suzy Parker, Dovima and Lisa Fonssagrives to Linda Evagelista, Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Kate Moss. Author Derek Blasberg has selected stunning photographs by the best fashion photographers and also shares the stori

In 1962, After thirty-plus years animating classic Disney features, Marc Davis became one of the most renowned of Walt Disney's Imagineers. During Marc's time with WED (later Walt Disney Imagineering), he would become a driving force behind the designs of many of the most iconic attractions at the Disney theme parks. This two-volume set includes more than 1,500 pieces from the Imagineering archive

A big story in a tiny book! This pocket-sized book tells the full story of Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, as he ventures from Halloween Town to discover Christmas Town and does his best to capture and spread the spirit of Christmas. Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King! Follow Jack Skellington on his nightmarish journey into Christmas Town and back through the pages of this tiny storybook. A c

A Pulitzer-nominated author and one of the great public intellectuals of Slavic culture bring to life the unfamiliar myths and legends of the Slavic world.

Slavic cultures are far-ranging, comprising of East Slavs (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus), West Slavs (Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland) and South Slavs (the countries of former Yugoslavia plus Bulgaria), yet they are connected b

International bestseller Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth; Conspiracy) is back with a fascinating and hilarious look at armageddon through the ages

Three award-winning reporters offer the definitive, inside story of the most tumultuous and consequential presidential campaign in US history.

"The whole world was against me, and I won," said Donald Trump in an exclusive interview, ten days before his second inauguration. Nearly four years after Trump's turbulent presidency concluded in a violent attempt to overturn the elect

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An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance-from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind

There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States.

An illustrated guide to Dungeons & Dragons' beloved fifth edition told through interviews, artwork, and visual ephemera from the designers, storytellers, and creators who bring it to life.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2024 BY NPR, TIME, AND THE ECONOMIST “Get the Picture is one of the funniest books I´ve read . . . Brilliant.” —The Washington Post “A gripping and often hilarious investigation into the art world. . . . Bosker goes full Tom Wolfe.” —TIME “Funny, whip-smart, and gorgeously written, Get the Picture will forever tr

"We all need an opportunity to sit gently and thoughtfully with our grief. Consider this book your invitation."—Rachel Cargle, author of A Renaissance of Her Own A guide to living and making peace with your ever-changing body Have you ever felt like your body has failed you? Maybe you´re not as quick or as strong as you used to be, or an illness has wrecked your sense of self, or no matter

A road map to free your kids from the harms of digital technology and to recover the beauty, wonder, and true purpose of childhood—by a leading tech policy expert “We know smartphones can be harmful to kids and teens, but what can we do about it? In this indispensable guide, Clare Morell documents the solutions that actually work.”—Cal Newport, author of Slow Productivity and