When veterinarian Peter Curry identified Eleanor's furry friend as an escaped research animal, he couldn't know where that clue would lead. To adventure, romance, counterplot and conspiracy, and to the explosive enigma that was Familiar's past life.

In this fast paced fictional novel The Familiars Lie, Maize’s resolve is waning thin to abstain from her world of pornography as she prepares to preach on Sunday morning. Anxious, horny and out of sorts, she finds herself drawn in by her hidden demons affectionately known as the Familiars. As Maize spirals more out of control into a binge of sex toys, faceless men, and aimless internet surfing she meets Freddy, the son of a Pentecostal preacher that she initially has a love hate relationship with. He challenges her to confront her estranged relationship with God, deal with the affects of her abusive past that have crept into her present, and face the reality of the possibility she has turned into a hypocritical minister, finding more gratification in pornography than the things that really satisfy!

Recently, an interest in our understanding of well-being within the context of competition and cooperation has re-emerged within the biological and neural sciences. Given that we are social animals, our well-being is tightly linked to interactions with others. Pro-social behavior establishes and sustains human contact, contributing to well-being. Adaptation and Well-Being is about the evolution and biological importance of social contact. Social sensibility is an essential feature of our central nervous systems, and what have evolved are elaborate behavioral ways in which to sustain and maintain the physiological and endocrine systems that underlie behavioral adaptations. Writing for his fellow academics, and with chapters on evolutionary aspects, chemical messengers and social neuroendocrinology among others, Jay Schulkin explores this fascinating field of behavioral neuroscience.

The New York Mets fan is an Amazin’ creature whose species finds its voice at last in Greg Prince’s Faith and Fear In Flushing, the definitive account of what it means to root for and live through the machinations of an endlessly fascinating if often frustrating baseball team. Prince, coauthor of the highly regarded blog of the same name, examines how the life of the franchise mirrors the life of its fans, particularly his own. Unabashedly and unapologetically, Prince stands up for all Mets fans and, by proxy, sports fans everywhere in exploring how we root, why we take it so seriously, and what it all means. What was it like to enter a baseball world about to be ruled by the Mets in 1969? To understand intrinsically that You Gotta Believe? To overcome the trade of an idol and the dissolution of a roster? To hope hard for a comeback and then receive it in thrilling fashion in 1986? To experience the constant ups and downs the Mets would dispense for the next two decades? To put ups with the Yankees right next door? To make the psychic journey from Shea Stadium to Citi Field? To sort the myths from the realities? Greg Prince, as he has done for thousands of loyal Faith and Fear in Flushing readers daily since 2005, puts it all in perspective as only he can.

What do ... - Navy SEALS and Army Green Berets - Police and SWAT team members - Bodyguards, Bounty Hunters - Israeli Special Forces and - New York Taxi Drivers ... have in common? They have all not only mastered the art of overcoming fear, they put fear into everyone else.

The world we inhabit is enchanted—every tree, rock, and star, and even "empty" space itself, is teeming with living energy and awareness. And it's all nearer to us than our own breath. Why, then, can't we see it? Because, according to Jeremy Hayward, we are taught not to. And because our cultural conditioning keeps us in denial about the fact that a strictly scientific worldview provides only a partial, and unsatisfactory, view of reality. Letters to Vanessa is the guidebook for a generation caught in the crunch between the hard realities of science and the genuine yearning for an experience of the sacred. In a series of letters addressed to his teenage daughter, Dr. Hayward points the way past the limits of science and shows how we can connect with the magical, multidimensional universe of soul. Along the way he presents the most recent findings of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, new biology, and physics in a most engaging and understandable way. He also provides practical meditation instructions that will enable everyone to reconnect with the joyous reality of ordinary life.

This 1986 book describes a cross-cultural study of emotional experience and reaction in seven European countries and Israel.