Books

Dementia afflicts millions of Americans and deeply affects the lives of their loved ones. Good care has been proven to have a significant effect on the quality of life of a person with dementia. To ensure good care, staff members of nursing homes,...

''The definitive account . . . Detailed, meticulous, and accurate.''--American Scientist.Owsei Temkin presents the history of epilepsy in Western civilization from ancient times to the beginnings of modern neurology. First published in 1945 and...

A pivotal twentieth-century composer, Samuel Barber earned a long list of honors and accolades that included two Pulitzer Prizes for Music and the public support of conductors like Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. Barber's...

Weaving a Fabric of Unity shares the story of FUNDAEC (the Foundation for the Application and Teaching of Science), a non-governmental organization found in Cali, Colombia in 1974, and highlights five decades of stories, learning, and insight from key...

A research-based guide uncovering what teachers say keeps them in their schools-and how leaders can sustain them The Reasons Teachers Stay offers a powerful new perspective on the urgent issue of teacher retention. While national headlines focus on why...

With an estimated 3.3 billion gamers globally and an industry valued at nearly $300 billion, video games represent the fastest-growing form of entertainment-outpacing traditional sports, music, and movies combined. Although gaming can foster community...

Countless studies have established a clear link between what we eat and our physical health. Increasing evidence shows that nutrition also plays a crucial role in mental health outcomes. The complexities of causality and the underlying biological...

As our understanding of mental disorders and their pathophysiology has advanced over the last few decades, and with the advent of innovative biological treatments, psychiatry has become increasingly rooted in medicine, drawing from both neurology and...

When the AIDS pandemic emerged in 1981, the diagnosis of AIDS was considered terminal. Over the four decades since then, advances in medicine have transformed HIV/AIDS into chronic and manageable—if still severe— condition. Despite this success, the...

Since the first transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) system was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2008 to treat major depressive disorder in adult patients, the field of TMS has experienced tremendous growth. Despite the growing...

"Now more than ever, we need a teacher and a book such as this."--Anne Lamott, from the foreword Stories tether us to what matters most: our families, our friends, our hearts, our planet, the wondrous mystery of life itself. Yet the stories we've been...

The Earth is warming. The climate is changing. Sea levels are on the rise, and plastic is showing up... everywhere. We have every reason to be concerned about our planet, our only home. New inventions and technologies will help, but cleaning up the...

America is at a pivotal crossroads. The soul of our nation is at stake and in peril. A new public narrative is needed to unite Americans around common values and to counter the increasing discord and acrimony in our politics and culture. The process of...

Jesus never intended to start a religion that would justify stealing land, enslaving people, or destroying creation. So how did we get here? In How Western Christianity Got It Wrong, acclaimed author Randy Woodley, of mixed white and Native American...

Perhaps no work of Martin Luther so captures the revolutionary zeal and theological boldness of his vision as does The Freedom of a Christian. Yet, prior to the initial publication in 2008 of Mark Tranvik's new translation of this treatise, it was not...

"You may not remember your baptism, so we tell you the story again and again." With lyrical text, this picture book lovingly describes the collective memory that a family and church community carry about a childs baptism and what it means to be washed...

"Though I don't have each answer, I hope that you know, there's meaning to find wherever you go." The Love That Made You is a wonder-filled, empowering picture book introducing children to the idea of a higher power called Love that connects us and...

In this lyrical portrait of Syrian and Iraqi refugees and the belongings they carry, writer and journalist Stephanie Saldaña illuminates hope, home, and the stories we hold within us when everything else has been lost. 2023 Christopher Award Winner 2024...

The Psalms are dangerous. These ancient songs inspire us and bring us a sense of joy, but they also scare us. They might even transform our faith. The Psalms of the Hebrew Bible testify to a rich, complicated life--150 stories from a people passionate...

Jubilee's name means happiness, but lately, she hasn't felt so happy. The foot-stomping, hand-clapping Sunday morning praise breaks at Rise and Shine Community Church used to be Jubilee's happy place. But ever since her beloved Grandma Mozelle passed...

Known for his work debunking bad history, author and professor Warren Throckmorton addresses the seven myths Christian nationalists use to falsely claim that America was founded as a Christian nation, in order to equip readers to counter these claims...

We live inside a nautilus of prayer--if only we open our senses and perceive what is infused all around. Throughout millennia and across the monotheistic religions, the natural was often revered as a sacred text. By the Middle Ages, this text was given a...

A hilarious story about making a mistake and learning to laugh at yourself. One day, as Peg is running around chasing butterflies, she comes upon an egg! What is it doing out in the field by itself?! It's a big egg, and she wonders what it could be! A...

On the longest day of the year, during the summer solstice, flowers explode like tiny fireworks of joy. A community comes together to savor the golden days of summer and celebrate the summer solstice, by gathering in a large community flower garden...

A gay Christians behind-the-scenes account of evangelical megachurches and eight years in conversion therapy before finding wholeness and authenticity. Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez was an invisible architect behind evangelical Christianitys digital...

An empowering guide for learning to interpret the Bible. Have you ever seen the Bible used to hurt someone--or has it been used to harm you? Have you sometimes gotten the feeling that people were misapplying verses but been unable to explain how? Do you...

Transformative change is often met with intense opposition, but we will not back down from the fight for social justice. In a nation caught in the crosscurrents of progress and backlash, Weathering the Storm offers both a wake-up call and a balm for the...

A daughter of the Asian American church wrestles with faith, exile, and belonging. Being a Christian has nothing to do with being Chinese American--that's what Kristin T. Lee learned as a child. A fissure between her identity and what she was told to...

Tall and short. Straight and queer. Sports has got a new frontier. A rhyming romp through professional and amateur sports, Play Proud highlights sixty historic and modern queer athletes, from Billie Jean King to Megan Rapinoe, Johnny Weir to Carl Nassib...

When all seems lost, hope finds a way. It's almost spring, and Sparrow can't wait to enjoy his favorite garden--until he discovers that it's been neglected and overrun with weeds and dead plants. It looks terrible! Discouraged and feeling hopeless,...

Curiosity slows us down, tunes us in for transformation, pushes past shame, activates awe, and rewrites with hope. What if our most accessible resource for healing and transformation is ready and waiting to be harnessed? When everything feels gray and...

From the creators of The Boy with Big, Big Feelings comes a new story about a boy who's bursting with energy--moving, talking, bubbling excitement--and how he learns to channel it for good. This is a story about a boy with so much energy, he struggles to...

Playing the Game investigates the intersection of race and ethics in cultural misinterpretations of Black athleticism in the United States. The book demonstrates the way Black athletes expose the colonizing logic of white supremacy and the story it tells...

"A moving and inspiring book about the most important topic facing all of us." --Johann Hari, author of New York Times bestselling book Stolen Focus. An exploration of what it means to be human in a technological age. Like it or not, tech is part of the...

Inspired by the author's experience of immigrating to the U.S. from Iran, My America Blooms shares a story of hope. My America Blooms is a story about a young girl who is uprooted from her home in Iran. When she and her family are forced to flee Tehran,...

A guide for Black women to unlock their potential in business and in life. Despite being the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the US, Black women face systemic barriers that threaten to derail their dreams, including lack of funding, racial and...

A hidey-hole, a climbing tree, and a polka-dot wall. 4B is perfect! So why did they have to leave? For a spunky girl and her cat Suki, 4B is the perfect home. It's full of quirks, keeps all her secrets, and has the best neighbors. But with her family...

Birding can nourish our spiritual lives. Birdwatching is a delight, a deepening. It puts us in touch with the ineffable, and it draws us toward self-denial for the sake of love. Birding brings us close to hope, abundance, and joy. In fact, it looks a lot...

Lutheran Study Bible, Second Edition, features the NRSVue translation and introductions, notes, and articles written by more than fifty pastors and teaching theologians. Explore the Bible and its message through solid background material, unique Lutheran...

"A moving and inspiring book about the most important topic facing all of us." --Johann Hari, author of New York Times bestselling book Stolen Focus. Who will you become when you put down your phone and pick up your life? The average smartphone user...

"Uh-oh! Sometimes, when Squirrel felt BIG feelings, he couldn't stop racing around." Squirrel feels squirrelly all the time! Porcupine gets the pricklies when things don't go the way she expects them to. And Bear only knows how to express his feelings...

Best known as the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, the celebrated poet and writer Langston Hughes believed in the power of art as resistance. What can we learn from his works today? Randal M. Jelks delivers this revelatory portrait of the celebrated...

Author, meditation educator, and yogi Coby Kozlowski offers this comforting companion to walk with those who are experiencing any kind of ache (a longing, a loss, an unrealized desire or dream, etc.) and encourages readers to turn toward this ache...

The world is imbued with a life force, a thrumming relational energy of creativity. That life force is Eros, and connecting with the erotic opens up a world full of possibility, sensuality, and creativity. For far too long we have relegated the erotic to...

Say it loud, say it proud: I Love My People! An energizing tour of Black culture, history, and community, I Love My People is a joyous celebration in rhythmic poetry. Follow two children as they excitedly experience their neighborhood, family gatherings,...

Capitalism's excessive patterns of production and consumption are fueling the biggest existential threat to humanity: climate change. The central assumption of our current economic system puts economic growth before all other values. But infinite growth...

Teach students essential skills like time management, organization, and goal setting Strategies and Tools for Self-Regulation in the Classroom provides resources to support students in developing self-regulation and executive-function skills they need to...