Seeing What's Hidden: Uncovering Ireland’s Ancient Ways of Knowing

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Celebrated, international bestselling author Manchán Magan takes readers on a fresh, eye-opening journey as he re-examines old Irish ways, finding links between ancient Irish beliefs and other Indigenous cultures around the world. With a foreword by Robert Macfarlane and a contribution by Merlin Sheldrake.

The Most Remarkable Insect Migrants: How These Tiny Travellers Shape Our World

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Full of jaw-dropping wonder, cutting-edge science and immersive storytelling, a leading scientist of insect migration reveals a world on a different scale. For many, insects inspire creepy-crawly fear. To Dr. Will Hawkes, bugs are complex creatures who alter every facet of our world with the beat of their tiny wings. In The Most Remarkable Insect Migrants, Hawkes takes us across continents and through centuries, tracking the impact of our many-legged friends.

By Sword: The Peter Riedemann Story

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In Reformation-era Europe, a peaceful Christian group known as Hutterites faces a new edict forbidding them to share their money and goods, on pain of death. Peter Riedemann, a 30-year-old who has already spent four years in a castle dungeon, is tasked with leading the weary band. Will they go back to living private lives? Or flee yet again? Or take up arms? This graphic novel brings to life these radicals, labeled Anabaptists by their enemies, ready to die for their vision. Thousands were executed — by water, by fire, and by sword — in both Catholic and Protestant lands. This action-packed account of young people daring to stand up for their convictions will appeal to today’s nonconformists.

Finding My Place in the Dance

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Significantly deaf since early childhood, this survivor of the ’60s grew up in a world in which everyone seemed to mumble. Finding My Place in the Dance is a memoir about transcending disability and a lifetime of eclectic careers to find peace and meaning in the golden years. "Well-written and heartfelt, readers who enjoy memoirs about discovering where they belong will adore this book." —Readers' Favorite 5-Star Review

Isn't It Ironic.: The Amazing Saga of a Not-Bad Figure of Speech

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For 2,500 years, irony has been a subject of fascination — and vexation. In Isn’t It Ironic., acclaimed author Ben Yagoda presents a compelling tour of irony’s complicated history in literature, philosophy, the arts, and popular culture — from Plato and Jane Austen to Ralph Ellison and David Letterman, and from the post-9/11 “end of irony” to today’s debates about being “irony-pilled” or “irony-poisoned.”

Worklife: A Philosophical Guide

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Few things inspire as much hope, fear, joy, or misery as work. A difficult or degrading job can profoundly harm our wellbeing, while a meaningful one can bring with it many of life’s greatest goods. In Worklife, Paul Blaschko shows that how we think about work, what we expect from it, and the place we give it in our lives can determine whether it becomes a source of meaning and purpose that helps us flourish and build a good life.

The Arrow of Shame: How the World Makes Us Feel--And How to Stop Blaming Ourselves

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For far too long, we have been led to believe that shame is a feeling we inflict on ourselves. We are told to go easier on ourselves and practice self-compassion. But what happens when self-compassion isn’t enough? Why are we still self-conscious, insecure, or feeling like imposters? The Arrow of Shame gives relief to anyone who has ever blamed themselves for feeling bad.

A Solution to Every Problem: The Rise and Rule of the Economy

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In A Solution to Every Problem, Timothy Shenk explores the astonishing rise of a concept that not even economists talked about before the twentieth century — “the economy.” Today, of course, the economy is inescapable: managed by institutions like the Federal Reserve (founded in 1913), studied by macroeconomists (a word that didn’t exist before the 1940s), and measured by statistics like GDP (another twentieth century invention). Shenk’s account explains how we got here — and asks whether the age of the economy might be coming to an end.