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SMALL HABITS, LASTING CHANGE de Tal Ben-Shahar

Cultivate lasting change with simple habits, fromNew York Times bestselling author Tal Ben-Shahar.

SMALL HABITS, LASTING CHANGE
by Tal Ben-Shahar
Alcove Press, January 2026

Do you struggle to make real change because you’re starting too big without building a foundation first ? get a new job, lose twenty pounds, learn a new language? Maybe the tools at your disposal seem inadequate, the prospect of change overwhelms you, and you feel stuck.

In SMALL HABITS, LASTING CHANGE, happiness expert Tal Ben-Shahar provides accessible and easy-to-implement tools, and an easy-to-follow three step process, that can help you realize your goals, aspirations, and dreams.

He starts with simple intervention techniques to reset your mood in as little time as possible—what he calls Happiness Boosters in the form of MVIs (Minimum Viable Interventions), which include:

– Taking three deep breaths
– Writing down five things for which you are grateful
– Reading a quote slowly and deliberately
– Vigorously climbing stairs for 45 seconds

From there, discover how to improve well-being—spiritual, physical, intellectual, relational, and emotional—and build a stronger base within yourself for committing to change, increasing your willpower, and finding joy in the journey.

The final step in Ben-Shahar’s guide will help you learn how to create the daily rituals that will help you turn goals into habits, and intentions into reality, using the 3 Rs of change:

– Reminders
– Repetitions
– Rituals

With concrete examples, practical, direct advice, and an easy-to-follow action plan, Ben-Shahar shows you that while cultivating lasting change takes motivation, it does not have to be a frustrating experience that is doomed to failure: you’re just starting without the foundation you need for real change.

Tal Ben-Shahar is the New York Times bestselling author of Happier and the co-founder and chief learning officer of The Happiness Studies Academy. He taught two of the largest classes in Harvard University’s history, “Positive Psychology” and “The Psychology of Leadership.” In 2022, Tal designed and launched the world’s first Master’s Degree in Happiness Studies in collaboration with Centenary University. His books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and have appeared on bestseller lists around the world.

THE NATRUAL LAW d’Amish Shah

Based on the author’s award-winning documentary, endorsed by Deepak Chopra, THE NATURAL LAW is a transformative guide to Ayurveda for healing, happiness, and connection, sharing the author’s personal health journey and the advice of renowned experts, and offering simple practices for readers to incorporate the power of Ayurveda into their daily lives.

THE NATRUAL LAW:
The Ancient Wisdom of Ayurveda for Modern Healing, Happiness, and Connection
by Amish Shah
Union Square, March 2026
(via Park, Fine & Brower Literary)

Despite being a tech millionaire with access to every specialist under the sun, Amish Shah was brought seemingly to death’s doorstep by a series of mystery symptoms that no Western diagnosis could solve. He credits Ayurveda and a return to his Indian roots with saving his life—the documentary shared his journey, including his interviewing 72+ of the world’s leading experts, and this book offers a deeper dive into the Ayurvedic practices that changed his life, with practical guidance for readers to experience similarly transformative results.

Ayurveda offers a transformative framework for thinking about your health. Its healing modalities include herbal medicine, yoga, dietary changes, acupuncture, fasting, massage therapy, and more, all based on understanding your dominant dosha—Vata (air), Pitta (fire), or Kapha (earth/water)—and how to rebalance it for better energy, vitality, and joy, as well as improved relationships, sleep, focus, and presence.

Readers today don’t want another diet. They are looking for profound practices to feel better in their bodies and their lives. Ayurveda has provided that for centuries, and people are finding it through a new lens, en masse, with THE NATURAL LAW.

Amish Shah is a three time “Inc. 500”-listed entrepreneur and philanthropist with a twenty-year career in the fields of health, wellness, and spirituality. His latest documentary project, The Natural Law, has already won nine International Film Festival Awards. Amish’s dedication to holistic wellness extends beyond his work as an entrepreneur and filmmaker, as demonstrated by his two hundred-hour yoga certification and numerous meditation certifications

ZEN ECOLOGY de Christopher Ives

Discover a way of living that can help you slow down and stay grounded—and at the same time reduce your ecological impact and engage more fully with the climate crisis.

ZEN ECOLOGY
by Christopher Ives
Wisdom Publications, March 2025

It may seem as though living ecologically and engaging in activism sacrifices our own enjoyment and happiness on the altar of doing the right thing. In this book, professor, naturalist, and Buddhist author Christopher Ives offers an alternative: a way of living that can actually be more fulfilling than the modern consumerist lifestyle. Rather than deprivation, it can bring us richness.

In Zen Ecology, Chris outlines his environmental ethic as a series of concentric circles, beginning with ourselves and then moving outward into our communities, all the while focusing on spaciousness, mindfulness, generosity, and contentment. At the individual level, we deal with distraction, clutter, and ecological harm. Here, Chris offers ways to help us pay attention, simplify our lives, and lower our impact. Then, we explore how to envision our home as a “place of the Way,” with Zen monastic life as a model for this—without having to be a monk! Next, we realize our embeddedness in nature and emplace ourselves in community with others, including other forms of life. Finally, we build on this basis to engage in activism to create a world that is more supportive of ecological health and spiritual fulfillment.

In this way, we avoid the two extremes of apathy and burnout, and uncover a way of living that is simple, joyful, embedded in nature, connected to others in community, and supportive of collective action.

Christopher Ives is a professor of religious studies at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts. In his teaching and writing, he focuses on ethics in Zen Buddhism and Buddhist approaches to nature and environmental issues. His publications include Zen on the Trail: Hiking as Pilgrimage; Meditations on the Trail: A Guidebook for Self-Discovery; Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen’s Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics; Zen Awakening and Society; a translation (with Masao Abe) of Nishida Kitaro’s An Inquiry into the Good; a translation (with Gishin Tokiwa) of Shin’ichi Hisamatsu’s Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Buddhist Ethics.

HOW TO AI de Christopher Mims

A frank, hands-on guide to harnessing AI and leveling up your business, revealing the tools that companies of every size are relying on and how they can dramatically alter your bottom line and free up your time—from a Wall Street Journal tech columnist.

HOW TO AI
by Christopher Mims
Crown Currency, January 2026

Imagine a freelancer suddenly having access to a sophisticated legal team for red-lining contracts; a data analyst on a small team who can suddenly transform spreadsheets full of numbers into sophisticated, bulleted insight; a mini-business consultant to help them adapt in the face of changing market conditions. Artificial intelligence has the potential to revolutionize our workplaces, our day-to-day realities, and our lives. But you can’t just ask AI to do these things for you—in fact, you can’t even know what it’s capable of. Most of the abilities of AI have been discovered through trial and error. Users may be surprised by how improbably, magically good today’s best AIs can be at some things—and how terrible they can be at others.

Christopher Mims argues that it is this tension between the power and inscrutability of today’s AI tools that is at the heart of people’s awe and befuddlement at just how to incorporate AI into their work. HOW TO AI resolves that tension: it’s an accessible, narrative guide to how regular people are getting the most out of these systems, from the flashiest forms of generative AI to the dozens of other flavors that are often overshadowed. Brought to life by hundreds of interviews with people who rely on AI in their work, as well as Mims’ in-depth case studies of a trio of handpicked businesses, readers will see how everyone from construction companies to independent lawyers to healthcare startups are using AI tools to transform their businesses.

Animated by the humor and brilliant explanatory power that have earned Mims’ columns a devoted following, HOW TO AI will arm readers to become a part of the AI revolution—and, more importantly, give them the tools to make it work for them.

Christopher Mims writes Keywords, a weekly technology column, for the Wall Street Journal. Before joining the Journal in 2014, he was the lead technology reporter for Quartz, and has written on science and tech for MIT Technology Review, Smithsonian, Wired, Atlantic, and Scientific American, among other outlets. He is the author of Arriving Today (Harper Business, 2021).

THE TRIANGLE OF POWER d’Alexander Stubb

At the end of the Cold War, we in the West assumed that our values were destined to become universal. Instead, they are in danger.

THE TRIANGLE OF POWER:
Rebalancing the New World Order
by Alexander Stubb
on submission, Spring 2026
(via Levine Greenberg Rostan)

The forces that were supposed to bring us together—open trade, technology, information, and global financial markets—can also pull us apart. Economic interdependence does not guarantee peace. Liberal democracy is not a universal desire.

The Global West, until now led by the United States, wants to maintain the old liberal international order. The Global East, led by China, wants to change it. But the balance of power is no longer bi-polar. The ascendence of the Global South – led by a range of states from Asia, Africa, and Latin America – has created a Triangle of Power.

The Global South has the power to tip the new world order toward West or East, democracy or autocracy, free trade or state control, shared rules or none. The next few years will decide the dynamics of the new international order for the rest of the century, or at least for decades to come.

This is the 1918-, 1945- or 1989 moment of our generation. What’s certain is that the world order as we know it will be reborn. The question is what kind of order it will be—and where the values of freedom and democracy will stand within it.

In THE TRIANGLE OF POWER, Finland’s President Alexander Stubb argues that the West can only maintain its central role—and preserve the liberal world order—by adopting an approach he calls “values-based realism” in dealing with other countries and with the key challenges of our time economic, climate, and technology.

Alexander Stubb is the 13th President of the Republic of Finland, inaugurated on 1 March 2024. He has previously served as Prime Minister, Finance Minister, Foreign Minister, Trade and Europe Minister of Finland (2008-2016). He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2008 and national parliament (2011-2017). He was the Chairman of the Finnish National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) from 2014 to 2016 and Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2017 to 2020. Stubb worked as a civil servant from 1995 to 2004 as an advisor at the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Helsinki and Brussels and in President Romano Prodi’s team at the European Commission. He was involved in the negotiations of the EU Treaties of Amsterdam, Nice and Lisbon.