An exuberant infant bounces through the day's activities, including a trip to the zoo.

While resilience is innate in the brain, our capacity for it can be impaired by our conditioning. Unhelpful patterns of response are learned over time and can become fixed in our neural circuitry. What neuroscience now shows is that what previously seemed hardwired can be rewired.

Packed with humor and thrilling sports action, this "wonderful story of friendship and the unique ability of kids to overcome a challenge" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Mitch Albom) "will get in your heart and won't get out" (#1 New York Times bestselling author Mike Lupica). Back in his old basketball league, before the car accident, thirteen-year-old Carlos Cooper owned the court, sprinting and jumping and lighting up the scoreboard as his opponents (and teammates) watched in amazement. But now, Carlos feels completely out of his league on his new wheelchair basketball team, the Rollin' Rats. After all, how can he make a layup when he's still struggling to learn how to dribble? But when the city's crooked mayor threatens to tear down the Rollin' Rats' gym, Carlos realizes that he can't stay on the sidelines forever. Because without a gym, the team can't practice, and if they can't practice, they can kiss their state tournament dreams goodbye. If Carlos is going to learn what it truly means to be part of a team and help his new friends save their season, he'll have to either go all-in . . . or get out.

We live in times of global recession and slow recovery, where millions of people are facing redundancy, failed businesses, or the effects of cutbacks and budget reductions. Bouncing Back is for anyone who has suffered a setback in their career, who wants to make sense of the new world, and who wants to recover and move on quickly. Richard Maun is an expert in career management. He is the author of the bestsellers My Boss is A Bastard, Leave The Bastards Behind, Job Hunting 3.0 and How to Keep Your Job (by Marshall Cavendish). He lectures and speaks widely on the topic of careers and jobs to business schools and groups.

Everybody's entitled to a bad day. But Cally Storm's bad day is worse than most. She loses her job, her home, her marriage and her self-respect, all in one fell swoop. At 30, she's back in her mum's spare room, contemplating a dismal future ... until fate takes a hand and forces her to take a job at the local wildlife park. It's a real shock to the system for someone who used to work for an insurance company, and at first Cally's driven to despair by the likes of Colin the skunk, S(a)tan the donkey, and Bob, the laziest zoo-keeper in the world. But there are compensations - notably in the form of Will, her unconventional colleague. If there's such a thing as animal magnetism, Will's sure as heck got it; but he's playing hard to get. And besides, Cally's a married woman ... The only thing is, she hasn't got round to telling Will yet.

This book is not your ordinary book; it breaks all walls of religion, and it deals with realness and real people though this is not my life story or the story of my family, but this is the story of so many women and men in this world. I would ask you not to get caught up in who the people are but look at the challenges they faced and how God helped them out of their situation after they found them self. What they did, as I hope you do, is realize they need God and that they could not change without him. If you allow it to speak, it will minister to the broken places in your heart, mind, body and soul. Those places that we cover up with our smiles, and fancy clothes; those deep places that only you and God know are there. MINISTER CHRISTY L. LASSITER was born to Gloria Rhodes Lassiter and Alonzo King on January 18, 1980 in Goldsboro, NC. She later was blessed with extended parents when both her mother and father married SGT. Thomas Howell and Gwendolyn Brown. Her older brother Ulyesse Lassiter has been one of her greatest supporters. Her pride and joy is her son Jeremiah who was born November 11, 2001. She has had a lot of life experiences and many trials some she brought on herself and some just a test of her faith. In all that she has been through the good and the bad she wouldn't change a thing it has made her a stronger woman. She says that she is enrolled in the school of life and she has a lot to learn.

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