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Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World

by Richard Snow

Published: 2019-12-03

Hardcover: 432 pages

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A propulsive history chronicling the conception and creation of Disneyland, the masterpiece California theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard Snow.One day in the early 1950s, Walt Disney stood looking over 240 acres of farmland in Anaheim, California, and imagin...

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Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement

by Buster Benson

Published: 2019-11-19

Hardcover: 288 pages

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Have you ever walked away from an argument and suddenly thought of all the brilliant things you wish you'd said? Do you avoid certain family members and colleagues because of bitter, festering tension that you can't figure out how to address?Now, finally, there's a solution: a new framewor...

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Volume Control: Hearing in a Deafening World

by David Owen

Published: 2019-10-29

Hardcover: 304 pages

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The surprising science of hearing and the remarkable technologies that can help us hear betterOur sense of hearing makes it easy to connect with the world and the people around us. The human system for processing sound is a biological marvel, an intricate assembly of delicate membranes, bo...

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Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime

by Sean Carroll

Published: 2019-09-10

Hardcover: 368 pages

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of Publishers Weekly’s “Most Anticipated Books of the Fall”As you read these words, copies of you are being created.   Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist and one of this world’s most celebrated writers on science, rewrites the history of 20t...

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Looking at Mindfulness: Twenty-five Paintings to Change the Way You Live

by Christophe Andre

Published: 2016-07-05

Paperback: 304 pages

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A book to help you achieve mindfulness and practice meditation while looking at the world's greatest works of art.Psychiatrist and leading meditation practitioner Christophe André guides you through the art of mindfulness, beginning with art itself. Looking at Mindfulness collects classi...

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Ordinary Extraordinary African American Women: The Elders

by Stephana I Colbert

Published: 2017-03-01

Paperback: 218 pages

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Ordinary Extraordinary African American Women: The Elders, the most recent project of Oklahoma-based Jewell Jordan Publishing, is an illuminating collection of true and candid narratives celebrating African American women who have lived their ordinary lives in an extraordinary way. Often invisible and...

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The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

by Emily P. Freeman

Published: 2019-04-02

Hardcover: 256 pages

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Nothing gets our attention like an unmade decision: Should I accept the new position? Which schooling choice is best for my kids? How can I support my aging parents? When we have a decision to make and the answer isn't clear, what we want more than anything is peace, clarity, and a nudge i...

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White Christmas Wedding: A Novel

by Celeste Winters

Published: 2019-10-01

Paperback: 256 pages

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This heartwarming, feel-good holiday romance brings together a loveable cast of characters who find hope where they thought it had been lost and romance where no one ever expected it. Returning home to her family’s farm in the Midwest for her Christmas wedding was never Beth Dean’s pla...

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In Love with Jerzy Kosinski: A Novel

by Agate Nesaule

Published: 2009-02-09

Hardcover: 211 pages

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From Agate Nesaule, acclaimed by writers across the globe from Doris Lessing to Tim O’Brien, comes a long-awaited novel. In Love with Jerzy Kosinski is a story of courage and persistence, exploring in fiction the themes that gripped readers of Nesaule’s award-winning memoir, A Woman in...

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The Sound of the Mountain

by Yasunari Kawabata

Published: 1996-05-28

Paperback: 288 pages

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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s The Sound of the Mountain is a beautiful rendering of the predicament of old age — the gradual, reluctant narrowing of a human life, along with the sudden upsurges of passion that illuminate its closing.   By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo b...