Human Biography

At just ten years old, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts was forcibly removed – stolen – from her family, community and kinship systems. After eight years in various out-of-home care placements, Vanessa fled the system, reconnected with kin and returned to country for the very first time.

Virginia Mendoza's first memories are of drought. She grew up in La Mancha, Spain, the driest region in Europe. In The Search for Water, Mendoza weaves this personal reflection together with a dazzling scientific and anthropological enquiry into the ways the search for water has shaped the story of humanity. From flows of migration, agriculture and pagan rain gods to contemporary struggles with drought and climate change, Mendoza writes a gripping and inventive history of humankind as driven and united by one force: thirst.

Human sacrifice still goes on uncomfortably close to home - cases have been found in the U.S., Europe, and the United Kingdom. In other parts of the world, such as South America, ritual killing is almost commonplace. Human Sacrifice investigates the terrifying current spate of human sacrifices and ritual killings. Jimmy Lee Shreeve draws on police reports and interviews with the victims' families to paint a horrifying picture of ritual sacrifice at home and abroad.

Michail Antonio wants you to know what it actually feels like to earn a living from playing professional football. 'Humans Not Robots is fantastic … brilliant … eye-opening … enjoyable' The Sunday Times 'Not since Tony Cascarino's seminal Full Time, which is now 26 years old, have I read a...

In 2012, Hakeem al-Araibi was a promising young player on Bahrain's national football team when he was arrested for attacking a police station during the Arab Spring, despite television footage showing him playing soccer at the time of the alleged attack. After three months of torture and wrongful imprisonment, Hakeem was released. He fled the country and made his way to Australia, where he was granted refugee status. Hakeem made a life here and was playing for the suburban Pascoe Vale Football Club, in Melbourne. He thought he was safe.

When Ted Greenfield first said yes to God’s prompting to help in the fight against human trafficking, he had no plans, no aircraft, and no experience. But through divine guidance, answered prayer, and miraculous provision, Invisible Angels was born – an air rescue ministry flying trafficking survivors to safety. Rescuing children sometimes not even ten years old and at other times rescuing thirty- or forty-year-olds in desperate situations, this gripping story reveals the evil of trafficking, the resilience of survivors, and the courage it takes to make a difference.

Every doctor is haunted by memories of difficult patients. People whom, despite all of their patience and persistence and the best communication, diagnostic and reasoning skills, they haven't helped. And anyone who has been a patient will tell you about encounters with difficult doctors, of relationships freighted with mutual bafflement, hostility and pain. Despite its vast resources, medicine is so often destined to fail people. Written by a practising GP, this book is told through stories of Dr Peter Dorward's hardest cases.

God’s people are hiding in plain sightTens of millions of Christians live in China today, leading double lives to hide from a government that relentlessly persecutes them. By day, Bob Fu was a teacher in a communist school; by night, he was a preacher in an underground house church network. This edge-of-your-seat book tells the true story of Fu’s conversion to Christianity, his arrest and imprisonment for starting an illegal house church, his harrowing escape, and his subsequent rise to prominence in the United States as an advocate for his oppressed brethren.

Logo que nascemos - e às vezes antes -, nossa mãe determina “como somos”. Assim, as lembranças se organizam em nossa consciência, por meio das palavras que ouvimos desde a mais tenra infância. Toda família tem a boazinha, o estudioso, a ovelha negra, o avoado.... Mas até que ponto esses rótulos de fato refletem quem somos?

Make no mistake about it-you can manifest ANYTHING you want in life when you connect with the abundance in the Universe-and on this one-of-a-kind lecture download, bestselling author and speaker Dr. Wayne W. Dyer shows you how to do just that! This bestselling program includes the powerful Japa...

You don't need a degree, a million dollars, or permission to make a difference. You just need the courage to start. The problems are real. The urgency is real. And the voice telling you to wait your turn and let the adults handle it? That voice is wrong. In this audiobook, you'll hear the gripping true stories of young changemakers who refused to stay silent and reshaped history. These teens did not wait for permission. They grabbed the microphone—and the world listened.

These captivating, all-new anonymous accounts, compiled by Alyssa Shelasky, in the style of her New York magazine column, pull back the curtain on non-monogamy, answering questions like: How does it really work? Who’s taking care of the kids? And who’s making breakfast? Featuring an...

The Right to Be Human is the award-winning, definitive biography of Abraham Maslow, perhaps the most important American psychological thinker of the 20th century. In many ways, Maslow remains more relevant than ever in impacting such diverse fields around the world as psychology, counseling, social work, education, health care, management, marketing, and even theology. Written by psychologist Edward Hoffman, this book has been widely praised for its lucidity in placing Maslow' s influential life in its cultural-historical context.

Met hierdie unieke boek vertel Nataniël die verhaal van ’n kindertyd in drie klein dorpies en een groot voorstad, ’n era waartydens reëls blindelings gevolg is en oor ’n jong seun met ’n oorweldigende vrees vir die gewone. Kyk na my is Nataniël se eerste volwaardige memoir. Voorgelees deur die skrywer.

Con este libro, Nietzsche se adentra en el estilo aforístico que llegaría a dominar sus escritos, discutiendo una variedad de conceptos en párrafos cortos. En sus páginas se encuentra la apertura a conceptos cruciales para la filosofía posterior de Nietzsche, como la voluntad de poder y la necesidad de trascender la moral cristiana convencional. El resultado es una de las piedras angulares de la obra de su vida.

When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Raymond Joseph, the former Haitian ambassador to the United States, found himself rushing back to his beloved country. The earthquake ignited a passion in Joseph, inspiring him to run for president against great competition, including two well-known Haitian pop stars, his nephew Wyclef Jean and Michel Martelly. But he couldn't compete in a democratic system corrupt to the core.

At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This chronicle of a young man's drive to transcend domestic abuse offers a challenging look at our worldwide sense of community and how we can make things better.

Arthashastra' is one of the oldest books with immense historical significance written by Kautilya or Arya Chanakya as he was popularly known. This book is one of the most effective books ever written on the art of statecraft and the science of everyday living. Originally written in Sanskrit...

During World War II, Heinz Drossel saved Soviet prisoners of war and several Jews, including Marianne Hirschfeld. Again and again, he wasn't afraid to risk his own life when others' safety was at risk. Nearly all of Hirschfeld's family members were murdered by Nazis; she survived in hiding - and met Heinz again by coincidence after the war was over. They married in 1946. At that time, starting over was difficult. In the judicial service, Drossel witnessed Nazis continuing with their careers....

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The conscience of the AI revolution” (Fortune) explains how we’ve arrived at an era of AI harms and oppression, and what we can do to avoid its pitfalls. “AI is not coming, it’s here. If we answer the beautiful call inside these pages, we can decide who we are...