Non-Fiction

Alba Castillo has always been gutsy. A proclaimed rebel, she flees her small village in Spain for adventure and new life in the States. But what she meets instead is the devil himself. After several failed relationships, the charming and charismatic Peter seems like a gift from Heaven. Until he isn’t. Cruel, controlling, and malicious, Peter will stop at nothing to win, even if it means destroying Alba, and her children, in the process. Left with nothing but her spirit, Alba faces the fight of ...

When we eat may be as important as what we eat. Like most people, you probably wake up, get hungry for meals and doze off in bed around the same time every day. If you’ve ever experienced jet lag or pulled an all-nighter, you know that this schedule can easily be thrown off kilter. But for some people, that imbalance—difficulty sleeping at night, hunger at odd times, or sudden fatigue at noon—is a constant. If you’re one of those people, Dr. Satchin Panda, one of ...

Discover the simple exercises you can use to to think faster, learn quicker, and get smarter – fast.

A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this “stimulating and important book” (Financial Times) from the director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Human Sleep Science is a fascinating dive into the purpose and power of slumber. As the Guardian said, Walker explains “how a good night’s shut-eye can make us cleverer, more attractive, slimmer, happier, healthier, and ward off cancer.” With two appearances on CBS This Morning and Fresh Air‘s most popular interview of 2017, Matthew Walker has made abundantly clear that sleep is one of the most important but least ...

Our perceptions become our perspectives, and our perspectives can become so rigid that they create problems in our lives. Mind Files: Perception, Perspective & Problems takes a look at the mind’s process of using the past as a reference in understanding what we are currently experiencing and how that process interferes not only with the present, but the future as well. Delve into the filing cabinets of your mind, and gain insight as to how the conclusions you formed at the end of emotionally painful ...

A groundbreaking book about how ancient DNA has profoundly changed our understanding of human history. Geneticists like David Reich have made astounding advances in the field of genomics, which is proving to be as important as archeology, linguistics, and written records as a means to understand our ancestry. In Who We Are and How We Got Here, Reich allows readers to discover how the human genome provides not only all the information a human embryo needs to develop but also the hidden story of our species. ...

An in-depth look at virtual reality and how it can be harnessed to improve our everyday lives. Virtual reality is able to effectively blur the line between reality and illusion, pushing the limits of our imagination and granting us access to any experience imaginable. With well-crafted simulations, these experiences, which are so immersive that the brain believes they’re real, are already widely available with a VR headset and will only become more accessible and commonplace. But how does this new medium affect its users, and ...

  The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus The Gaia hypothesis proposes that Earth, and the organisms on it, form a self-regulating system that maintains the conditions necessary for life. That the planet is alive, in other words, in much the same way that we are. And just as we have mechanisms to fight off infections, the Earth has tools to protect its well-being. Are viruses, such as Ebola, Marburg, and HIV, acting as “the Earth’s own antibodies, protecting the environment from encroachment ...