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Below are some of our most recently released books.
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Framing the Universe
A Proposal by J. M. Alvarez de Lorenzana
How can we model systems not only as they operate, but as they are becoming, and even as they begin? That is the challenge author Juan Manuel Alvarez de Lorenzana set himself early in his career. In Framing the Universe: A Proposal, he presents his answer: the Evolutionary Systems Framework (ESF). The ESF is a meta-framework for considering how systems develop and evolve within and across scales—from fundamental physics and cosmology to biology, culture, and social organization. He poses two far-reaching questions: What if the full complexity of the Universe arises from only a few general mechanisms? And what if our explanatory framework could be just as general? The ESF rests on a bold claim: Complexity results mostly from two forms of integrative change: development and evolution. Development unfolds potential within a system; evolution produces transitions that increase intrinsic structural complexity. Development builds. Evolution enriches. Alvarez de Lorenzana’s framework builds on a concept first introduced in the 1980s: the formally defined “evolutionary system.” He outlines the first steps toward a mathematical formalism capable of representing the properties and behaviours of such systems without invoking external structures. In this sense, the ESF is explicitly background independent. Situating his work alongside paradigm-challenging ideas in cosmology, biology, and complexity science, he calls for greater formal attention to hierarchy throughout the sciences, especially in studying phenomena across scales. The ESF offers a shared structural language for understanding change and a foundation for the interdisciplinary dialogue required to address humanity’s most urgent challenges.
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Truth Wisdom Love
A Soul’s Perspective by Beverly Creran
In a world that moves fast and runs on fear, it’s easy to lose touch with the quiet truth inside you. Drawn from a decade of healing, growth, and spiritual awakening, this intimate collection of soul-led messages offers gentle guidance for personal healing and coming home to yourself. Each message is a seed—inviting you to shift from unconscious patterns and grow into awareness, remember the power you carry, and reconnect with the love you are. You’ll be encouraged to live with more openness, trust, and confidence—to strengthen your relationship with your intuition, and to choose self-love a little more each day. “Imagine a world that lives from a place of love. Now, imagine yourself being a part of creating it!”
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An Hour Upon the Stage
The Life of Elisabeth Whitworth Scott, Architect 1898-1972 by Sylvia Fox and Peter J. Cooper
Elisabeth Scott’s birth and circumstances at the end of the Victorian era might well have led to an unremarkable life of quiet domesticity. But as she grew up through WW1, becoming increasingly aware of the campaign for female suffrage, she saw her own future beyond the domestic sphere. Elisabeth enrolled at the Architectural Association school, which had only recently started to admit women. After graduation she found employment as an assistant at several different practices, gaining experience and independence. From this modest background, she was thrown into the spotlight when she became the first woman to win an international architectural competition with her design for the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford. Her famous relations, Sir George and Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, may well have inspired her career choice, but her modernist style adoption was very much her own. Still not of an age to vote, she seized the opportunity to start her own architectural practice. For ten years she was one of a rare breed of women making a living from architecture. But WW2 led to a crisis in her profession, and with her husband she retreated to the Bournemouth area of her childhood. She was employed by the Bournemouth Borough Council but her designs for the Pier Theatre and other municipal buildings remained hidden from the public, being attributed to her departmental head. Such a quiet, low-key employment was in complete contrast to her earlier career. ‘An Hour Upon the Stage’ explores all stages of Elisabeth’s life and the challenges she faced.
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Good Wine, Bad Wine and The Ugly
Contemporary Christian Music Dangers From a Biblical Perspective by James J Frizzell
What does the Bible really say about wine, worship, music, and separation from the world? In this book, James J. Frizzell examines two issues he believes many modern churches have failed to address with proper seriousness: alcohol and contemporary Christian music (CCM). Writing from a dispensational perspective informed by the King James Bible, he argues that Christians need to be guided by something more than cultural opinion, personal preference, or church tradition when deciding what belongs in their lives and worship. They need the authority of Scripture. This book explores the biblical distinction between good wine and bad wine, the danger of intoxicating drinks, and the spiritual consequences of compromise. Frizzell also turns his attention to contemporary Christian music, asking whether modern worship has become too influenced by entertainment, emotionalism, celebrity culture, commercial interests, and secular musical forms. At its heart, this is a book about discernment. Frizzell challenges believers to examine what they drink, sing, tolerate, and call worship in light of God’s word. He warns against a church culture that seeks popularity at the expense of doctrine and urges Christians to return to reverence, separation, and soul winning. Emotionalism is not true spirituality. Direct, urgent, and unapologetic, this book is a call for Christians to test all things by Scripture and recover a form of life and worship that sets them apart from the world.
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Caliph of Dreams
by Asim Salim
When a quick-witted slave is bought for a prince who values intelligence, she sets off on a journey to Baghdad that will culminate in an age of enlightenment. Al-Khayzuran, an educated woman kidnapped by bandits, rises from her position as palace concubine to the most powerful woman in the Abbasid Caliphate—a queen whose son, Harun, is only sixteen when he earns the name "al-Rashid" (the Rightly Guided) by leading armies to the gates of Constantinople. Welcoming scholarship and religious plurality, Harun rules with measured diplomacy, replacing his brutish brother after their mother makes the ultimate sacrifice for the empire’s future. Yet power comes at a cost he could never have imagined … Caliph of Dreams is a fictionalized account of a famous ruler from the Islamic Golden Age. Al-Rashid’s twenty-three-year reign was a high point of civilization: Baghdad grew into the world’s largest city, and the House of Wisdom translated Greek, Persian, Indian, and Chinese texts into Arabic. Harun traded gifts with Charlemagne, humbled Byzantine emperors, and roamed his capital in disguise—stories later made famous in The Thousand and One Nights. Empires fall, but wisdom lasts: the seeds Harun planted outlived his world.
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The Transactional Presidency
Is Trump's negotiating method well suited to constitutional government, and can it produce durable outcomes? by Erik Richer La Flèche
"A must-read cogently breaking down Donald Trump’s aggressive strategizing and bargaining methods." —Kirkus Reviews Big deals, strategic uncertainty, and challenging critics are some of the key moves used by Trump to become a very rich man. In fact, he outlined these strategies in his 1987 book, Trump: The Art of the Deal. But how do these strategies work in his presidency? Author Erik Richer La Flèche explores this intriguing question in The Transactional Presidency by focusing on Trump’s first eighteen months of his second term. Examples of domestic and international affairs during this period provide the backdrop against which the strategies of a transactional presidency and leadership by deal-making meet legislative oversight, judicial review, and other constitutional safeguards. In the examination of these, the author offers a nonpartisan, thought-provoking, and insightful analysis of the effectiveness—and limitations—of Trump’s negotiating methods while president. By exploring how the tactics that create movement in business work in a constitutional system, The Transactional Presidency offers a fresh framework for understanding the relationship between negotiation, power, institutional constraints, and durability—and for considering what it takes to turn a successful deal into an enduring result for negotiators in any field.
