SMARTS! Everybody’s Got Them, Thomas Armstrong
From one of our top educators, an imaginative picture book that defines eight ways everyone is smart and shows how to get smarter in each way. It’s easy for kids to get dejected and believe they’re not as smart as the people around them. Maybe they got a low grade on their math test last […]
INSIDE THE HELMET, Julie M. Stamm, PhD
Associate Lecturer in the Department of Kinesiology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Julie Stamm PhD’s INSIDE THE HELMET, on the effects of repetitive brain trauma (CTE) on young athletes, providing guidance for parents and coaches on how to minimize trauma and enhance safety in contact sports. ( Rowman & Littlefield/Spring 20201, World English)
MEN I’VE NEVER BEEN, Michael Sadowski
Pitched in the tradition of BETTYVILLE and THE TENDER BAR, the coming-of-age journey of a gender non-conforming male trying to navigate the blind alleys of traditional manhood facing the gauntlet of masculinity tests he feels destined to fail: the role models that don’t deliver, the TV tropes and archetypes that never seem to fit, as […]
THE POST-COLLEGE SURVIVAL GUIDE, Nora Bradbury-Haehl
From the co-author of the bestselling FRESHMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE comes a warm, compassionate guide to the next big transition in young people’s lives: your twenties. (Thomas Nelson/World Rights/Spring 2021)
IF EINSTEIN RAN THE SCHOOLS: Revitalizing US Education, Thomas Armstrong, PhD
“What a terrific book! Armstrong describes the kind of school that almost everyone wishes they had attended, the school that Einstein would have run, where creativity, imagination, and joy were the goals of education, not scores on a lifeless standardized test.” (‘Diane Ravitch, Former Assistant U.S. Secretary of Education, Author of Reign of Error, and Historian […]
MINDFULNESS FOR LIFE, Willem Kuyken
A leading researcher makes the argument that mindfulness can be invaluable throughout life and help us to meet the challenges at every stage. (Guilford, World Rights, Fall 2020)
FLAT, FLUID & FAST, Brynne Kennedy
“Workers today are more mobile than ever ― whether they’re telecommuting from a kitchen table or relocating to another continent. How can you support these folks while ensuring you have the talent you need, where you need it, when you need it? Flat, Fluid, and Fast has the answers.”– Daniel H. Pink, author of When, Drive, and To Sell is […]
HOW TO TELL A STORY, Aristotle, Translated by Philip Freeman
For over two thousand years, Aristotle’s Poetics has been a fundamental but often little-known text on storytelling. In this short but fascinating work Aristotle reveals the timeless secrets of plot, character, timing, and all the other elements needed to make a story work. In this new translation, entitled How to Tell a Story, Philip Freeman […]
THE DOG WENT OVER THE MOUNTAIN, Peter Zheutlin
The New York Times bestselling author of Rescue Road and Rescued embarks on a cross-country journey to take the measure of America with a loyal friend. “Poignant and magnificent. Brilliantly observed and Odyssean in breadth, this book reveals all that is generous about the American heart. A classic story of finding truth and humanity in the mundane―and how […]
REBEL NUN, Marj Charlier
Former WSJ reporter Marj Charlier’s REBEL NUN, pitched in the vein of Pope Joan, Hild and The Birth of Venus, historical fiction about the daughter of a king and a slave, who led a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the Medieval Church (Blackstone Publishing, World Rights, Spring 2021)