Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. It’s hard enough fitting in but to make matters worse and definitely more complicated, Jake can see the dead. In fact he sees the dead around him all the time. Most are harmless. Stuck in their death loops as they relive their deaths over and over again, they don’t…
Maggie loves teaching English at beautiful Downey House but she is less keen on planning her wedding to dependable Stan. Instead, she's working on ignoring her crush on David McDonald, who teaches English at the local boys' school. Just as Simone and Fliss have become friends, Zelda arrives to upset everything. Zelda is loudly, glamorously American, and she's full of ways to improve life at bor…
The adventures of a boy growing up in the nineteenth century in a Mississippi River town as he plays hookey on an island, witnesses a crime, hunts for the pirates' treasure, and becomes lost in a cave. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, our fun-loving protagonist goes on multiple adventures, getting into all kinds of trouble as he navigates the messiness of boyhood. Sawyer is now so emblematic of…
Tiap orang dengan latar belakang, pengetahuan dan pemahaman yang berbeda, dapat memaknai nilai-nilai positif dengan sudut pandang yang tidak jauh berbeda . Menjadi tantangan, bagaimana nilai-nilai positif tersebut, tidak hanya diterima, tetapi juga mampu diimplementasikan dan menjadi kebiasaan dalam keseharian. Gaversa, siswa-siswa kelas 12 yang berkesempatan menempuh pendidikan dan bereksplora…
We all want to be happier, more successful and less stressed, but what really works? From building confidence and boosting creativity to forming better relationships and getting smarter (and healthier), This Book Could Fix Your Life explores the real science behind self-help. Award-winning science writer Helen Thomson has zero desire to become a lifestyle guru. All she wants is to help us under…
Robin Dunbar is the world-renowned psychologist and author who famously discovered Dunbar's number: how our capacity for friendship is limited to around 150 people. In Friends, he looks at friendship in the round, at the way different types of friendship and family relationships intersect, or at the complex of psychological and behavioural mechanisms that underpin friendships and make them poss…
Lebih dari 2.000 tahun lalu, sebuah mazhab filsafat menemukan akar masalah dan juga solusi dari banyak emosi negatif. Stoisisme, atau Filosofi Teras, adalah filsafat Yunani-Romawi kuno yang bisa membantu kita mengatasi emosi negatif dan menghasilkan mental yang tangguh dalam menghadapi naik-turunnya kehidupan. Jauh dari kesan filsafat sebagai topik berat dan mengawang-awang, Filosofi Teras just…
We make a ridiculous number of decisions every day--possibly even thousands. We think about what to eat for breakfast, how many cups of coffee it's okay to drink, and how to get to work. In Your Day, Your Way renowned health policy expert Timothy Caulfield takes us through a regular day--from the moment we wake up--to when we go to sleep--and shows us the science behind our habits. What he reve…
Failure is something none of us like to experience, but in Dare to Win, Jeff Chegwin and Carmela Di Clementi explain that mistakes are not only good for you, they can actually lead to huge successes. If you look at the most inspirational innovators, athletes and icons throughout history, they all share a common belief – they simply do not entertain the notion of failure as a bad thing. In Dare …
As a career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost's life is dedicated to balancing being a mother to her five-year old son Nathaniel and seeking justice to keep those who commit the most unthinkable of all crimes behind bars. But this delicate balance is upset when Nina and husband Caleb find out that Nathaniel has fallen victim to the same crime she strives to fight - and whose lega…