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Many theories that form the bedrock of good parenting were created decades before devices even existed - they don't consider the significant impact on a child's psychological and physical development. The landscape of the early years has changed so quickly, yet parents and caregivers do not have ...

At ten months old, Holly Marie was brought to the door of a church by three barefoot women in white robes and head coverings. Adopted by the pastor and raised in a loving Christian home, Holly nevertheless struggled with the ache of not knowing what had happened to her biological parents. She sti...

A frank, funny and informative guide to menopause and aging by beloved actress Naomi Watts, one of the leading voices in menopause awareness. At thirty-six, Naomi Watts had just completed filming King Kong and was trying to start a family when she was told that she was on the brink of menopause. ...

Name a major global sports icon, and there will be a sin or two, maybe more. Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, Pelé, Babe Ruth - they all committed their fair share of sins. And we are not talking low level sins like coveting your neighbour's servant, or his ox or donkey, as appealing as...

An ex-pat from San Francisco, Antonia Murphy is living on a farm in rural New Zealand with her husband and two kids, bored and isolated, when her husband leaves her. Suddenly, she has to figure out how to survive. Upon discovering the decriminalisation of sex work in New Zealand, Antonia's mind s...

Drawing on over a hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today's highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. Bui...

When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn't been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He'd too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills. But the Air Force recogniz...

This book is a guide to thriving in our current violent, divisive and deeply uncertain times. It shows us a way to fulfilment through living according to Buddhist practical teachings, and reveals exactly how radical, exciting and life-changing the Buddhist wisdom of compassion, joy, detachment an...

Each year, The Chaser and The Shovel combine forces to generate an end-of-year Annual, compiling together in one volume all the best satirical news from the year, as well as fresh original content, that makes it the perfect gift for anyone you can't think of a better gift for.

Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman pushed the boundaries of polar exploration and paved the way for the ultimate conquest of the North Pole -- which would be achieved by a...

Award-winning author Michael Walsh looks at twelve momentous battles that changed the course of Western history. A sequel to Michael Walsh's Last Stands, his new book A Rage to Conquer is a journey through the twelve of the most important battles in Western history. As Walsh sees it, war is an im...

An enthralling tale that ties together themes that are urgently relevant today: freedom of the press, the role of journalism, and the price of speaking truth to power' Sunny Singh Hicky's Bengal Gazette is the story of India's first newspaper and its pivotal role in exposing the corruption of the...

In ancient times, the vast area that stretches across what is now modern-day Iraq and Syria saw the rise and fall of epic civilizations who built the foundations of our world today. It was in this region, which we call Mesopotamia, that history was written down for the very first time.

Drawing on over one hundred interviews with industry insiders, former Spotify employees, and musicians, Mood Machine takes us to the inner workings of today's highly consolidated record business, showing what has changed as music has become increasingly playlisted, personalized, and autoplayed. B...

Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain way of doing things which, as Benjamin Hoff brilliantly demonstrates, seems strangely close to the ancient principles of Taoist philosophy. Taoism emphasises living in harmony with the Tao, the way of the universe, just as Pooh lives in harmony with his surroundings ...

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more, the ability to rethink and unlearn. In recent months, the pandemic has forced us all to re-evaluate our assumptions about health and saf...

An urgent, indispensable guide to why Taiwan matters -- for China, the West and everyone's future. When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao's Communists won and took China's mainland; Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and...

In the 1980s and 90s, amid an explosion in international money flows, a handful of people saw a new financial future and staked claims in it, triggering a battle to control the world's money markets. With phenomenal profits at stake, the conflict would go all the way to the United States Supreme ...

Beloved star of ABC TV's award-winning Love on the Spectrum and disability rights advocate Jodi Rodgers shares stories from her three-decade career working with the autistic community and calls for a more inclusive and accepting society where we are more empathetic and curious about all the relat...

In virtually every way that can be measured, Gen Z's mental health is worse than that of previous generations. Youth suicide rates are climbing, antidepressant prescriptions for children are common, and the proliferation of mental health diagnoses has not helped the staggering number of kids who ...

If forests are the lungs of the planet, then animals migrating across oceans, streams, and mountains -- eating, pooping, and dying along the way -- are its heart and arteries, pumping nitrogen and phosphorus from deep-sea gorges up to mountain peaks, from the Arctic to the Caribbean. Without this...

Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? You haven't, have you? No one has, not in many, many years. They used to be everywhere. That's because they come out of the factory as adults. In the 1970s, the United States government killed off the entire bird population and replaced them with robotic bird rep...

Robert Dessaix's testament to a wonderful life is funny, incisive and literary. His voice is completely distinctive and utterly compelling. Robert Dessaix's Chameleon is about everything that matters, a book of memories that flow so freely they seem to happen as we read. Cartwheeling from story t...

More than 2,000 years ago, Aristotle originated the scientific method. And it's been an uphill batter ever since. Instead of sticking to what the evidence proves, we love to believe in things like the Bermuda Triangle, personality tests, crop circles, Bigfoot, spontaneous human combustion, and UF...

In The Secret Life of the Universe, astrobiologist and the director of the Carl Sagan Center at the SETI Institute Nathalie A. Cabrol takes us to the frontiers of the search for life. The book's odyssey begins by exploring how life began on Earth in order to understand what's necessary for its ex...

Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself from terminal brain cancer with a healthy diet. She built a global business based upon her claims. There was just one problem: she'd never had cancer. Written by the same journalists who uncovered the details of Gibson's lies, this book trac...

In a remarkable story unfolding across more than two hundred years and places as far apart as the Caribbean, the American colonies, Suriname, England, and the Netherlands, Kristina R. Gaddy uncovers the banjo's key role in Black spirituality, ritual, and rebellion. Gaddy follows the instrument fr...

"The singer and poet Leonard Cohen was deeply learned in Judaism and Christianity, the spiritual traditions that underpinned his self-identity and the way he made sense of the world. In this book Harry Freedman, a leading author of cultural and religious history, explores the mystical and spiritu...

A journey through K-dramas that lets us in on why we can't stop watching them. In a humorous and heartfelt history interfused with personal reflections as a Busan-born Korean emigre raised in NY, this book journeys through impossible standards of academic achievement and hilariously camp kimchi-s...

A father of three with a stressful job, Tyler Moore felt his life resembled an overstuffed closet: disorganized and overly busy behind the tidy, closed doors. When it all became too much-for their 750-square-foot apartment and his nerves-he set out to unpack the physical and emotional mess around...