Starting pitchers sling 100 mile-per-hour heat for just four or five innings before departing; third basemen often station themselves much closer to second (to say nothing of the shortstop’s whereabouts); home runs and strikeouts dominate at-bats; all while the length of contest tips toward the four-hour mark.

There’s no getting around it: the game looks different now. And as Major League Baseball scrambles with rule changes, equipment modifications, labor negotiations, and more, fans are left grasping for the true essence of this beloved pastime among the moving pieces.

In The New Ballgame, Russell Carleton (The Shift) deftly identifies and examines the many levers and inflection points that have shaped the game into what we see on the field today. Through a singular blend of statistical analysis, history, and cognitive science, readers will trace the rapid evolution of the modern game while contemplating the sport in an entirely new way.

Blending incisive research with affable storytelling, Russell Carleton delivers a kaleidoscopic view on modern baseball in this welcome, revelatory work.　

In “The Kingdoms Game”, patients of all age groups are encouraged to create for themselves a private, personal kingdom. They determine its inhabitants and their lifestyle, whether it will have tall, well-guarded walls or vast, open fields. Through The Kingdoms Game, patients are given a chance to discover and share their own personal stories.

While the concept of bibliotherapy isn’t in itself “new”, it is not yet common knowledge that therapists cannot treat patients without first learning their story. After more than 20 years of working with children, teens, and adults, Dr. Even Shoshan-Reshef captures the essence of the dynamic therapeutic process with a new form of storytelling therapy.

Using her innovative method, she harnesses patients’ imagination as a therapeutic tool to project their inner dialogues and emotions in a clear, non-hostile environment. In a detailed account of her process over several individual and group sessions, she unfurls her unique method as she manages to bring her patients’ stories from the mind – to the page.　

以色列心理治疗师 Even-Shoshan-Reshef 博士开创出一套书目疗法新工具 -“王国游戏”（The Kingdoms Game），抓住和应对心理疗程中的动态本质。“王国游戏”鼓励不同年龄段患者为自己创造一个私属王国，利用患者的想象力作为一种治疗工具，为他们建造一个清晰、无敌意的环境，帮助他们将内心对话和情绪表达出来。

在她的新书《讲故事疗法》中“王国游戏”得到详细介绍，并为专业治疗师提供指南，也让一般读者有机会了解讲故事疗法的独特世界。

作为一名拒绝因循守旧的情绪治疗师，治疗室内外，她都勇敢地提出真实的治疗困境与艰难课题，并不断寻求更好的解决方案。

在多年工作中，Even-Shoshan-Reshef 博士遇到过许多患者因对现实的艰辛感到极度厌倦而濒临放弃生命，这成为了她首创“王国游戏”治疗模式的持续动力和力量。“王 国游戏”在她的最新书作《讲故事疗法》中得到详细的介绍与分享。

Dr. Orit Even Shoshan-Reshef has been working as a bibliotherapist for over two decades, working with teens, adults, and children at her private clinic. Over the years, Dr. Even Shoshan-Reshef has taught bibliotherapy, group therapy and dynamics at different colleges, where she developed the “Authentic Bibliotherapy” method. She also lectures and hosts professional international workshops at AGPA and IAGP.

During her many years of work, Dr. Even Shoshan-Reshef faced plenty of situations where patients grew tired of the hardships of their reality. That feeling of inaptitude made her understand the need for a new type of therapeutic tool. In her book Storytelling Therapy, Dr. Even Shoshan-Reshef presents The Kingdoms Game: a first-of-its-kind therapy method, using patients’ imagination as a tool for personal therapy and growth. As an unconventional emotional therapist, she courageously and authentically presents difficult questions and subjects which arise both in and out of the therapy room.

In her groundbreaking approach to self-discovery, fulfillment, and growth, Sharona Hadar Houri will facilitate you how to train your mind to ask infinite choice questions – questions that harness the power to open up infinite possibilities and steer you onto a healthy path of awareness and receiving.

With these questions, you will discover how to unlock your reality with five master keys that will allow you to acquire everything you’ve ever wanted and far more, in all areas of your life with greater ease – the keys to Reality, the Mind, the Body, Sex, and Money.

With insightful advice and practical instructions, Infinite Choice Questions is your guide to transformation across the board – the small change in mindset you’ve been waiting for to entirely shift your perspective on life, and with it your reality with ease and without effort.

Until 5 years ago, my days started with pain and ended with even greater pain. I wished I was dead. I remember sitting on the stairs of my house, crying, lacking the courage to tell my husband and five daughters, "I’m choosing to die". I asked for God’s help, which actualized as invitation to a course in Stockholm.

With 200% pain and 3 different problems, I was asked questions - and my body responded. The facilitation only took 15 minutes, but for the first in a long time I experienced 70% reduced pain.

5 years later, I’m "pain free", living a life of pleasure, greater than ever. The turnover helped me perceive how much of our suffering is just a story; what if all our difficulties derive from our resistance to receive?

What if instead we would ask: "What do I resist receiving that created that?"

What if the change most people are afraid of, requires only a change of language?

From conclusions that duplicate what you already know, to open questions that allow different realities to actualize with ease, I will facilitate you to a simple and effective way to be & receive the question that will change your life with ease, with my book Infinite Choice Questions, and my masterclass: "5 Keys for hopeful life & Living to master your life."

My motto is: "What we are willing to receive, don’t create suffering."

Every one of us has the ability to become an extraordinary leader. All you need to do is apply your unique talents and turn them into regular habits.

Weekly Habits for Extraordinary Leaders offers 52 lessons, one for each week of the year, with an insightful quote, an innovative idea and a question to help you develop your leadership skills. With practice, you’ll become a masterful leader that people look up to.

In this book you’ll learn:

- How to identify small changes that bring about great results
- How to prioritise what’s important and eliminate procrastination
- The one thing most employees want and managers don’t do enough 3 rules for personal mastery and 3 questions to ask your leadership mentor
- How to establish successful workplace habits to create a great culture
- The best strategies to shift your mindset from surviving to thriving

Daphna Horowitz draws on her decades-long experience of working with some of the world’s top-performing leaders and CEOs and provides a practical approach to take your leadership skills to the next level. She has a keen understanding of the leadership mindset required to lead a business and teams in complex, ever-changing environments.

This book will leave you inspired, with practical tips and a clear guide to building leadership habits, week by week.　

ACTUARY , AUTHOR , SPEAKER, PODCAST HOST AND LEADERSHIP EXPERT

It’s tough to know how to navigate your way through these times of change and challenge. As a leader, you’re faced with people looking to you for answers and you don’t always have them. A question that’s top of mind for leaders today is: How do I lead through this fast-paced, uncertain, time of global crisis and beyond?

Daphna Horowitz is a sought-after CEO Coach and trusted advisor, working with clients around the globe, to achieve excellence and reach their full potential as leaders. Working as an actuary at Director level in a large consulting firm, she learned the importance of developing a leadership mindset that takes you from being an expert top-performer to an extraordinary leader. She has a keen understanding of the leadership mindset required to lead a business and teams in complex, ever-changing environments and provides a practical approach to take your leadership skills to the next level. When she’s not helping leaders master their mindset and elevate their business, you’ll find her in her favorite places - hosting her podcast, Leadership Live with Daphna Horowitz, writing articles for Forbes Coaches Council, and raising three kids with her loving husband.

Daphna is the host of Leadership Live Podcast - the podcast that cuts through the noise and helps you focus your leadership on what matters most in a practical, impactful way - available on www.daphnahorowitz.com/podcastlive and all your favourite podcast platforms

You can connect with Daphna on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/daphnahorowitz . You can also visit her website www.daphnahorowitz.com for free resources and tips on how to become an extraordinary leader.

You Deserve Better will teach you specific strategies and tactics designed to improve your negotiation and persuasion skills. Contrary to popular belief, intuition and life experience are not enough. Academic studies have shown that concrete knowledge from behavioral and social science can be brought to bear as you learn how to persuade and negotiate better.

Sounds great! But can anybody learn these methods? Written in a fluent and accessible style, this book addresses the general public and aims to help everyone. It is rich in instructive negotiation scenarios, with which anybody can identify: employees with their employers and colleagues; parents with young children about hours of television permitted and with teenagers about curfews; partners about sharing housework and raising children; businessmen with customers, investors, suppliers and partners; politicians with friends and foes alike.

You Deserve Better is packed with “take-away” power! As editor, Tami Chapnick, remarked after completing the editing process, “I find myself using at least one of the tools that I learned from this book every week.” The insights and useful strategies that it demonstrates will remain with you long after you have finished reading.　

His acclaimed books have been translated into English, Hebrew, Korean and Arabic and he has published articles in numerous popular journals as well as scholarly journals.

While businesses in the West are getting disrupted and left behind, the savvy leaders among them can learn, innovate, and excel – by copying China’s playbook!

Chinafy distils the key lessons from China to unlock business potential anywhere in the world. These lessons serve as catalysts for how to “Chinafy” innovation for growth. Taking a deep dive into the workings of China’s most successful brands – from Haier to ByteDance – author Joanna Hutchins reveals what it takes to get ahead in the world of business and innovation.　

当西方的企业被中国企业大幅度颠覆和超过落后时，这些西方企业家其中精明的领导者则会想办法复制中国的成功之道来学习、创新和超越！

Chinafy 《中国化》从中国企业汲取重要经验教训，以成功的世界的任何地方释放出商业的潜力。这些经验教训是如何能够成功的使用 “中国化” 来创新以促进增长的催化剂。作者乔安娜哈钦斯深入探讨了中国最成功品牌的运作——从海尔到字节跳动——揭示了这些中国企业是如何在竞争激烈的市场创新领域取得成功。(Wendy)

“China’s 50 Top Marketing Leaders” (New Internationalist)

“Business Leader of the Year” (International Professional Women’s Society)

“CEO of the Year” (shortlisted; Campaign Asia’s Women Leading Change Awards)

屡获殊荣的首席执行官乔安娜·哈钦斯 (Joanna Hutchins) 在过去的 15 年中一直致力于帮助全球消费品牌和《财富世界500 强》创新和扩展其在亚太市场的战略。她在品牌和营销领域的职业生涯非常广阔，她从纽约市开始，凭借前沿的营销活动获得了美国营销协会 (AMA) 颁发的多项艾菲奖。之后，她搬到了曼谷、新加坡，最后搬到了上海，她自 2010 年以来一直居住在那。Joanna 继续帮助一些著名的全球品牌创造更具吸引力的身份，以在不断发展进步的亚洲环境中保持相关性。

教育学⼠、家庭辅导硕⼠、在读社会学博⼠，根据多年⼯作实践与积累，Liat 针对 ⼆⼗⼀世纪⽗⺟教育⼦⼥⾯对的挑战创新⼀个指导模型。她强调：“如果我们要把孩⼦培养成有责任感的⼈，能成熟地⾯对⼈⽣未来挑战，⽗⺟需要学习适⽤这个世纪的⼯具。”

2022年7⽉《以⾊列福布斯》对她进⾏了采访，报道她成功为成千上万以⾊列⽗⺟提供的指导。

Liat Rockah Zimroni, is an expert in the field of raising happy children towards a prosperous future. She Is qualified by the Israel Ministry of Education to train parents.

Liat Rockah Zimroni, is a mother of three, who holds a B.A. in Education, an considered an expert in the field of raising happy children, leading towards a prosperous future.

She is a parenting mentor, and a facilitator of groups run for professionals (women) in the field of parenting and family. She is the entrepreneur and founder of “The Path of Parenting,” a method she has developed, based on positive psychology.

Over the past decade, she has trained and accompanied teams of educators, kindergarten teachers, mentors (parenting instructors in the “Path of Parenting” method) and has helped thousands of parents in her successful private clinic, through workshops, lectures and online courses.

A great adventure takes twins Mia and Max into a spooky forest, which in normal circumstances they wouldn’t dare enter. But who could resist the allure of a living ball of red of yarn? The ball’s thread guides the children through the book, from one amazing monster of the forest to the next. Guess who is hiding under the hay in the animal feeder – go on! This marvellously illustrated book encourages adventurers aged five and over to read, puzzle things out and maybe even make things out of moss and sticks!　

Kateřina Boudriot Bažantová alias Ktaiwanita is a Czech illustrator. She graduated from the Václav Hollar Art School and the University of Applied Arts, majoring in animated film. Currently, he mainly devotes himself to book illustrations, especially children’s ones, and the creation of book covers in Paris, where he has lived since 2012.
However, as a screenwriter, she also collaborated on television programs and theater performances in the Czech Republic, especially at the Vosto5 theater. She is also a co-founder of the gallery and screen printing studio Hygienická stanice in Vinohrady, Prague, and a member of the Hura Kolektiv art group.

Her previous book was the number one bestseller Apple Tree Yard. First published in 2013, it has sold over half a million copies in the UK alone and has been translated in thirty territories worldwide. A four-part TV adaptation with Emily Watson in the lead role was broadcast on Sunday nights on BBC1 in January 2017.

Doughty’s sixth novel, Whatever You Love, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award and longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She has also won awards for radio drama and short stories, along with publishing one work of non-fiction, A Novel in a Year, based on her popular newspaper column. She is a critic and cultural commentator for UK and international newspapers and broadcasts regularly for the BBC and has been the judge for many prizes and awards including the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award. She lives in London.

In 1852, Johanna Heusser married Bernhard Spyri. Bernhard was a lawyer. Whilst living in the city of Zürich she began to write about life in the country. Her first story, A Leaf on Vrony’s Grave, which deals with a woman’s life of domestic violence, was published in 1880; the following year further stories for both adults and children appeared, among them the novel Heidi, which she wrote in four weeks. Heidi tells the story of an orphan girl who lives with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, and is famous for its vivid portrayal of the landscape.

Romance scams, pyramid schemes, bogus debts and fake news, the world is awash with confidence tricksters and swindlers. But what happens if the fraudster is your lover?

It has been said that trust is a risk masquerading as a promise and, as Hemingway suggested, ‘The way to make people trustworthy is to trust them’. Once we have fallen under the spell of malevolent hucksters, their power is real, as is the loss of self and hope when the spell breaks.

A hybrid memoir and a personal detective story, Trust is an exploration of what it means to trust, why we trust, and what happens when trust is betrayed. With a particular view to fraud and corruption within the hallowed walls of sandstone universities, Ryckmans brings to light the oft subtle, brutal nature of the control that fraudsters have over their victims, and shows the deep impacts their actions have on others personally and professionally. The cover up – sometimes said to be worse than the crime – has insidious effects.

Trust is a fractured fable. It is darkly funny, wistful, and spare in tone and approach.　

有人說，信任是一種偽裝成承諾的風險，正如海明威所說，「讓人們值得信賴的方法就是信任他們」。 一旦我們被惡毒的小販迷住了，他們的力量就是真實的，當咒語被打破時，自我和希望的喪失也是如此。

一部混合回憶錄和個人的偵探故事，本書探索了信任的意義、我們為什麼信任，以及當信任被背叛時會發生什麼。 萊克曼斯特別關注砂岩大學神聖牆內的欺詐和腐敗，揭示了欺詐者對受害者的控制往往微妙而殘酷的本質，並展示了他們的行為對他人個人和職業的深刻影響。 掩蓋事實——有時被認為比犯罪更糟糕——具有潛在的影響。

本書是一個現代社會的寓言。以陰暗且樸實的語調娓娓道來。 (Zoe)

JEANNE RYCKMANS has worked for two decades in Australian publishing. A literary agent with Cameron’s Agency, she was formerly senior publisher at Random House and HarperCollins Australia. Prior to this she worked in arts television in France and Australia as presenter and producer, and was features editor at ELLE and books editor for Vogue Australia. She is the author of two books.

We are very excited to share the clever and insightful proposal for Opinionated by Turi Munthe.

This will be a book which explores why we think what we think, a question which has always obsessed Turi, a journalist and tech entrepreneur. In order to answer this question in a meaningful way, Turi sourced funding to build the website Parlia, which aimed to be the Wikipedia of opinions - a resource we could all consult and contribute to, in the hope of understanding all sides of any controversial debate and perhaps sympathise more with those whose opinions we disagree with. For various reasons, it didn’t work, but the site’s thousands of users did provide Turi with a wealth of data about who they are and what they think, which unexpectedly revealed a great deal about how we come to form our opinions in the first place.

We tend to think that our judgements are the result of a rational process; based on our experience of the world, our extensive reading and education. And of course that’s true, to some extent. But it turns out there is a lot more to it. There are a vast range of external factors that have an influence also - from our genetic make-up, the culture around us, our physical appearance and even the geology of the land where we live - which can make people more or less likely to believe certain things. Even our preferred type of peanut butter (right wing voters choose smooth) or how we eat an ice cream can, it turns out, give a pretty good idea of some of our most cherished beliefs.

In the Vendee in France, the map of voters on the left and right coincides exactly with a map of the area’s geology, and those in the granitic north tend conservative while those in the limestone south are more socialist. The very land our ancestors grew up on can have a role to play in what we think today. In the same way, many of our beliefs are inherited from our parents, and still others may come as part of a package with the personality traits we are born with. Some of us even adopt beliefs which make no sense at all because they give us an identity, and a sense of belonging to a specific group.

In the end, Opinionated makes the case for rational debate and, above all, conversation. Once we realise that some of our own most deeply held opinions might be the result of something in our environment which is beyond our control, then perhaps we’ll be more inclined to listen to, and consider more seriously, the views of those we vehemently disagree with and dismiss out of hand. Turi suggests that it’s not about what we think, it’s about who we are. And this realisation has never been more urgently necessary than it is in the world today.

Turi Munthe is a journalist and media entrepreneur. In the former role he has written for the Economist, the Guardian, the TLS and the Spectator, inter alia, and appeared on the BBC, CNN, al-Jazeera and NBC. In the latter he founded Demotix, the world’s largest network of photojournalists, later sold to Bill Gates’s Corbis, as well as Parlia. He is on the board of Index on Censorhip and Italy’s largest media company GEDI, publisher of La Stampa. He is a French and Italian native speaker, and speaks Spanish fluently.

Alongside the data from his website Parlia, Turi has spoken to experts in their fields from behavioural economists to clinical psychologists, artists to pollsters, and has mined the latest research from around the world. His writing style is accessible and engaging, and this book is guaranteed to spark lively and thought provoking conversation. Helen Conford pre-empted world rights from Doug Young at PEW and will publish in February 2025. Approximate length 80,000 words, we aim to have an edited manuscript in spring 2024.

After the devastation of World War II, the nation is finally on the road to recovery. And so is Milly Hendry. After her parents died in the Blitz, Milly was taken in by her aunt - a cleaner in what is known as the Royal Army of Cleaners at Buckingham Palace.

The palace, and the people who work there, have become a family to Milly. On the cusp of her twenty-first birthday, she is getting ready to celebrate with her beloved friends from below the royal stairs and, in particular, the dashing footman, Timothy.

But the King’s health is declining, and tensions in the palace are rising.

And then a devastating letter arrives for Milly - a letter containing secrets from the past that could change her whole future...　

"The Monist essays are included in the first volume of the compact and welcome Essential Peirce; they are by Peirce’s standards quite accessible and splendid in their cosmic scope and assertiveness." ―London Review of Books

A convenient two-volume reader’s edition makes accessible to students and scholars the most important philosophical papers of the brilliant American thinker Charles Sanders Peirce. This first volume presents twenty-five key texts from the first quarter century of his writing, with a clear introduction and informative headnotes. Volume 2 will highlight the development of Peirce’s system of signs and his mature pragmatism.

Eric C. Rath is professor of premodern Japanese history at the University of Kansas. He is the author of Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Japan.