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Why did only one species evolve a mind this powerful? The answer has eluded science—until now. The Curiosity Gene traces curiosity to its violent birth amid warfare that predates humanity itself, where it became a survival tool like no other—triggering a 2.3-million-year march from ape to human. But this is no museum piece. It is your burden. Turning that same ancient drive on the present, The Curiosity Gene lays bare the anxiety and frustration of modern life, revealing why true, meaningful happiness cannot be chased. It must be earned.

The solution to your most persistent struggles isn’t in your thoughts—it’s in your nervous system, waiting to be found, teaches Dr. David Grand, developer of Brainspotting. This revolutionary update to Brainspotting explores how to work with our body’s interlocking nervous systems to...

We have learned how to suppress our pain and deny its presence, but when we fight against our internal turmoil, glimmers of peace are short-lived. Rejecting our suffering is not a sustainable solution because trauma is held in the body. In this book, Nityda Gessel invites listeners on a journey toward lasting freedom, with insights and experiential practices that marry the wisdom of Buddhist psychology, yogic teachings, and Indigenous understanding with somatic psychotherapy and neuroscience.

Continuing our study of man, we must now speak with more detail about the different states of consciousness. As I have already said, there are four states of consciousness possible for man: Sleep, waking consciousness, self-consciousness, and objective consciousness; but he lives only in two: Partly in sleep and partly in what is called waking consciousness. It is as though he had a four-storied house, but lived only in the two lower stories.

A mainstay in my undergraduate learning course, Understanding Behaviorism is an excellent text covering the core concepts of both the philosophy of behaviorism and the science of behavior analysis. Dr. Baum provides a clear, accessible introduction that anyone interested in behavior analysis or...