"The Art of Lovingly Unshackling: A Playful Guide to Breaking Up Without Breaking Hearts" is a compassionate and insightful handbook designed to navigate the delicate terrain of ending a relationship with grace and empathy. This book serves as a beacon of understanding, offering a playful yet profound guide for individuals seeking a way to part ways without causing unnecessary pain. In this meticulously crafted guide, readers embark on a transformative journey through 35 thoughtfully curated chapters, each addressing a specific aspect of the breakup process. From the initial stages of reflection and understanding to the later stages of self-discovery and empowerment, this book provides a roadmap for those who wish to navigate the end of a relationship with both kindness and clarity. The chapters unfold like a map, starting with "The Prelude to Parting," guiding readers through "The Power of Reflection," and leading them to the pivotal chapter, "Crafting Clarity: Understanding Your Decision." As the journey progresses, the book delves into choosing the right time and place, mastering the gentle art of communication, and offering scriptural wisdom for those unscripted moments. The playful tone of the guide is a unique and refreshing aspect, infusing humor and lightness into a traditionally heavy topic. The chapters on "Dating Diversions: A Playful Interlude" and "The Humor in Heartbreak" bring a refreshing perspective to a challenging experience, reminding readers that even in moments of difficulty, there can be joy and laughter. Whether it's the exploration of post-breakup friendship, finding closure, or rediscovering joy in singlehood, each chapter is a stepping stone toward healing and growth. The book also addresses the crucial aspect of seeking support from friends and family, embracing self-care, and using journaling as a therapeutic tool. "The Art of Lovingly Unshackling" is not just a guide; it's a companion for those traversing the emotional landscape of separation. It provides practical advice, emotional support, and a reassuring voice that reminds readers they are not alone. By the time readers reach the final chapters on forgiveness, personal growth, and the journey to self-love and empowerment, they will have gained not only the tools to navigate the end of a relationship but also the wisdom to embark on a new chapter of their lives. In essence, "The Art of Lovingly Unshackling" is a masterful blend of compassion, humor, and practical guidance, offering solace to those navigating the challenging path of breaking up without breaking hearts. It's a testament to the resilience of the human spirit and the possibility of finding light even in the darkest moments.

This is the graphic, authentic and often humorous autobiography of a young man's journey into Melbourne's underworld and nightclub scene in the recent past. 'The Hammer' was a feared enforcer capable of inflicting indescribable pain on anyone that stood in has way. Supreme violence and a manipulative calculating streak were tools of the trade. This story gives the reader a rare insight into addiction, the dark art of violence and ego involved in the world of a drug dealer, debt collector and stand over man in Melbourne's underworld scene. An embracing family background and unwavering ability to believe he was destined for redemption allowed 'The Hammer' to claw his way back from the darkness and use his hard-earned experience to assist men to break the cycle of addiction and crime and re-discover their own power and spirit. Nice work mate! Proud of you and glad to call you my friend. - Trevor Hendy AM

Applying new research to sex in the animal world, the authors dispel the notion that monogamy comes naturally. As "The Myth of Monogamy" reveals, biologists have discovered that for nearly every species, cheating is the rule--for both sexes.

From David Graeber, the bestselling author of The Dawn of Everything and Debt—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).

New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection “Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa. The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it—from garden seeds to Scripture—is calamitously transformed on African soil. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Against this backdrop, Orleanna Price reconstructs the story of her evangelist husband's part in the Western assault on Africa, a tale indelibly darkened by her own losses and unanswerable questions about her own culpability. Also narrating the story, by turns, are her four daughters—the teenaged Rachel; adolescent twins Leah and Adah; and Ruth May, a prescient five-year-old. These sharply observant girls, who arrive in the Congo with racial preconceptions forged in 1950s Georgia, will be marked in surprisingly different ways by their father's intractable mission, and by Africa itself. Ultimately each must strike her own separate path to salvation. Their passionately intertwined stories become a compelling exploration of moral risk and personal responsibility.

Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.