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Are birds monogamous? Why do kookaburras laugh? Is the ivory-billed woodpecker really extinct? These fascinating stories feature the delightful and exotic sounds of birds, plus astute and informative commentary from bird lovers, bird experts, and sometimes birds themselves. Learn how naturalist F. Schuyler Matthews translated bird song into musical notes. Discover how the city of Chicago has drawn purple martins back to Lake Michigan, their historic habitat.

In this follow-up to Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Kabat-Zinn adds a decidedly American flair to the elusive art of living fully in each moment as it unfolds. This product includes guided instruction in mindful walking, sitting meditation, mindful hatha yoga, and also Kabat-Zinn's responses to questions from workshop participants, which may help deepen both one's understanding and commitment to the cultivation of mindfulness.

Fasten your seatbelts for a rapid-fire, sophisticated thrill ride that propels you through one of the most infamous financial scandals in history! With a spicy blend of humor, pathos, and music, the big biz machinations of Kenneth Lay, Jeffrey Skilling, and Andy Fastow are laid bare as razzle-dazzle entertainment. Lucy Prebble’s Enron casts a shocking new light on today’s economy and how we got here.

Uncover the madness at the heart of society in this Sunday Times bestseller. 'The belly laughs come thick and fast' – The Observer 'Chirpy, inquisitive, funny' – Craig Brown What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an...

He came back. He's polling well. When a man calling himself Emmanuel walks into a failing presidential campaign and claims to be Jesus Christ returned, Sen. George Matthews stops losing. The miracles are real. The base ignites. A long-foretold prophecy appears fulfilled. And the people closest to the candidate begin to disagree about what they are actually witnessing. As Emmanuel bends Scripture to justify immigration raids, the death penalty, and the relentless pursuit of power, chief aide Simon Fuller, Rev.

The Undercover Game Warden is a book of true stories from the man who lived it. As rare as game wardens are, there is an even rarer tiny group among them. They are the undercover game wardens. It is a world hidden from the public. A world of secret meetings, false names, suspicious characters, illegal deals, and long investigations that can stretch on for months or even years. It is the world of the undercover game warden. These officers operate in places where wildlife crimes are bought, sold, and traded far from public view.

Tropical drinks, Cold War secrets, and temperamental Tikis... Welcome to a wonderful, crazy paradise. It’s 1959. Burned-out spy Don Hula just wants to fade into his tropical island hideaway and forget the world. But when bizarre phenomena begin shaking up a remote chain of South Pacific islands—think underground labs, South Seas assassins, and neighborhood Tikis with existential angst—Hula’s forced back into the game for the weirdest, most dangerous mission of his career.

The clockwork man is crafted, to begin with—his father forced by that terrible tyrant Time to create her a slave for all eternity. His brain boasts balance wheels and torsion springs; he can wind himself up with a key in his side; and, most importantly, his gyroscopic tourbillon heart glimmers with pure diamond. He is a living being and he is art, and he refuses to remain a slave forever. He therefore slips through Time’s fingers as the Sands of Time slip through the cracks of reality (at least, when the time cats aren’t using them as a litter box).

As the BBC's North America Editor, Jon Sopel has had a pretty busy time of it lately. In the 18 months it's taken for a reality star to go from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon has travelled the length and breadth of the United States, experiencing it from a perspective that most of us could only dream of: he has flown aboard Air Force One, interviewed President Obama and has even been described as 'a beauty' by none other than Donald Trump.

In A Year at the Circus: Inside Trump's White House, BBC North America Editor Jon Sopel takes you inside Trump’s West Wing and explores the impact this presidency has had on the most iconic of American institutions. Each chapter starts inside a famous Washington room, uncovering its history and its new resonance in the Trump era.  

Drift Protocol books 1 & 2 should be read before this book. Humanity rebuilt civilization on the certainty of the Fold. They were wrong. After the Drift fractures shattered the illusion of stable space, the network beneath reality awakened—revealing ancient harmonic structures hidden beneath human transit corridors for centuries. But now something older is coming. A foreign singularity known as the Axis is spreading through the Fold, collapsing relational space and tearing open the barrier separating reality from the horrors beyond it.

A new vector has opened —and it was never meant to be found. When Elara reaches the edge of the known Fold, she uncovers a hidden pathway buried deep within the lattice —an uncharted vector that defies every known rule of transit. But the corridor isn’t empty. As systems begin to react and the lattice shifts in response, Alana realizes the network isn’t just infrastructure —it’s aware. And something inside it has been waiting. Crossing this path could redefine humanity’s reach… or trigger a failure no limiter can contain.

A Washington and tech insider rings the alarm about America's misguided approach to reindustrialization and calls for a new solution: "leapfrog innovation." The United States once defined the future of technology and manufacturing. Today, we have been leapfrogged by China. Our response has been...

Two out of three American adults don't have an estate plan. The ones who do? Most of their plans are outdated, unfunded, or missing the documents that actually matter when a crisis hits. If you've been putting off your estate plan—because the legal jargon is overwhelming, the attorney quotes are staggering, or you simply don't know where to start—you're not alone. And it's not your fault. Most estate planning books either drown you in four hundred pages of theory or hand you a stack of generic forms and wish you luck. You finish them knowing more but having done nothing.

From master storyteller and New York Times-bestseller Tad Williams comes the second book in the landmark epic fantasy saga of Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn. Tad Williams introduced readers to the incredible fantasy world of Osten Ard in his internationally bestselling series Memory, Sorrow, and...

A routine patrol becomes humanity’s first contact with the impossible. When Commander Jack Reynolds and the crew of the USS Colorado detect an unidentified object moving through the deepest regions of the Pacific Ocean, they assume it is a foreign submarine. What they discover instead will challenge everything humanity believes about its place in the universe. The mysterious object leads to a shocking revelation hidden beneath the Mariana Trench —an ancient civilization that has remained concealed beneath Earth’s oceans for millions of years.

The first book in a stunning new dark fantasy romance series from TheNew York Times bestselling author of Den of Vipers. **This DELUXE EDITION features gorgeous sprayed edges*: Never trust. Never yield. And never, ever let them see what you truly are. My name is Dessandra, but here I am only...

In a near-future city drowning in screens, metrics, and constant self-exposure, something begins to surface—not from shadows, but from attention itself. STATIC VANITY follows an ordinary man living through an era where every moment is framed, filtered, and fed back to an unseen audience. When disturbing anomalies begin to appear—subtle glitches, lingering reflections, moments that feel watched rather than seen—it becomes clear that the danger is not a single killer, cult, or conspiracy. It is the system.

A thoughtful work of religious nonfiction for readers seeking faith, spiritual formation, interfaith understanding, and a deeper way to live. Living the Pulse is Volume II of The Covenant Pulse Series, a spiritual and theological guide that invites readers to move beyond religious caricature, surface-level belief, and abstract comparison into a more faithful rhythm of listening, learning, and living. In a world filled with noise, division, skepticism, and misunderstanding, this book asks a simple but powerful question: What would change if we learned to listen before we judged?

Every Treasure Holds a Story. Every Story Holds a Promise. Some treasures are measured in gold. The greatest are measured in the hearts they change. In this heartwarming collection of two sweet contemporary romances, cherished pieces of jewelry become the unexpected thread connecting lives, love, and the promises we carry with us. A forgotten piece of jewelry rekindles a love once thought lost, reminding two wounded hearts that forgiveness and second chances can be the greatest gifts of all.