Archives de catégorie : Nonfiction

WHY SPACE? d’Ariel Ekblaw

Aerospace engineer and architect Ariel Ekblaw invites us to look up and see humanity at the edge of a new era. As civilization begins to extend beyond Earth’s cradle into the wider solar system, she argues that space exploration is not a luxury, but a moral, practical, and aspirational necessity.

WHY SPACE?
by Ariel Ekblaw
Crown, August 2027

Blending history, philosophy, and cutting-edge technology, the book shows how the challenges of living and working in orbit drive innovations that improve life on Earth, from biomedical breakthroughs in microgravity to sustainable systems shaped by extreme environments. It explores a rapidly growing space economy powered by commercial stations, new industries, and bold entrepreneurs, while also examining the profound perspective shift that comes from seeing Earth as a fragile, shared home.

Visionary yet grounded, WHY SPACE? reframes the space age as a collective project: a call to innovate responsibly, expand thoughtfully, and build a future in which life in orbit strengthens life on Earth.

Dr. Ariel Ekblaw is a visionary space architect and singular voice in astrophysics. She is the founder and CEO of Aurelia Institute and General Partner for Aurelia Foundry Fund, a hybrid space architecture research institute and venture incubation studio. Prior to founding Aurelia, Ariel founded the MIT Space Exploration Initiative, a team of 50+ students, faculty, and staff building and flying advanced technology for space exploration. She led this organization for seven years inside the MIT Media Lab. Ariel’s work has been featured in WIRED, Harvard Business Review, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, CNN, NPR, numerous academic papers, and top tech podcasts like Lex Fridman and Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “StarTalk.” Her TED talk ‘How to Build in Space for Life on Earth’ has been viewed over 500K since May.

MEIN UNGLÜCK BEGINNT DAMIT, DASS DER STROMKREIS ALS RECHTECK ABGEBILDET WIRD de Saša Stanišić

Language – courage – magic: speeches against idleness, both delivered and undelivered.

MEIN UNGLÜCK BEGINNT DAMIT, DASS DER STROMKREIS ALS RECHTECK ABGEBILDET WIRD
(My Unhappiness Starts With the Fact that Electric Circuits Are Depicted As Rectangles)
by Saša Stanišić
Luchterhand/PRH Germany, October 2025

There’s nothing for it: we have to do something to counter hardship and human suffering, war, poverty, fascism and the rest of it. Each of us can do their bit. Everyone. Donate stuff, help out somewhere, that sort of thing. Take responsibility. If the world’s going down the drain, we might as well go down with dignity, goddamn it.

Hardly anyone takes literature seriously any more, and not just since mobile phones . Still, here you are holding a book in your hand and wondering whether to buy it. There are speeches in it. Which you think is stupid. Speeches are something you make, that’s all.

I get it. But anyway, here’s a list of what you’d miss out on:

• The word « unlikely », about twenty times
• my great uncle Stevo, who got six numbers right in the lottery in the late 1990s and promptly drowned (along with a trumpet player)
• a chair in a back yard
• language, courage, magic
• the sentence « Doing is the opposite of death »

Saša Stanišić, born in Višegrad in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1978, has lived in Germany since 1992. His novels and stories have been translated into more than 30 languages, and have won numerous awards, including the 2019 German Book Prize (for Herkunft) and the 2014 Leipzig Book Fair Prize (for Vor dem Fest), as well as the Eichendorff Book Prize, Schiller Prize and Hans Fallada Prize. He lives in Hamburg.

EROTIC SEASONS de Kimberly Ann Johnson

From author of The Fourth Trimester, this is a guide for women of any age who feel out of touch with their body and their true desires but know that their sexuality holds untapped power.

EROTIC SEASONS: Tuning into the Rhythms of Women’s Sexuality and Spirituality
by Kimberly Ann Johnson
St. Martin’s Essentials, November 2026

Women experience so many crossroads at the different stages in our lives—these might include exploring sexuality, beginning a relationship, becoming a mother, trying to get pregnant, losing a baby, being in perimenopause or menopause, leaving a marriage. At these thresholds, our bodies change, our relationship to sexuality changes, and our desires can become mysterious. Most of us don’t have the language, information, or courage to communicate about these changes, so we are left feeling confused, lost or broken.

Kimberly Ann Johnson, sexological bodyworker and Somatic Experiencing practitioner, has helped thousands of women connect with their bodies and desires and put their pieces back together. In EROTIC SEASONS, she offers profound insights to women at all stages. Johnson guides women toward a revolutionary reckoning with sexuality. Grounded in understanding the female body in our monthly, seasonal, and lifetime rhythms, the book guides readers to locate themselves in their own anatomy and nervous system patterns. Kimberly reframes the archetypes of the female lifespan—maiden, mother, virgin, crone—for women today and shares powerful stories of women across generations, helping readers orient to the realities and mysteries of each life stage. Then, with this knowledge, women can experience sexuality that allows us to become more present, awake, and alive throughout our lives.

Kimberly Ann Johnson is a sexological bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, postpartum advocate and culture worker. She works at the intersection of birth, sex and trauma helping women heal from birth injuries, gynecological surgeries, and sexual boundary violations. She is the author of Call of the Wild as well as the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester. She has taught courses on women’s sexuality and spirituality, nationally and internationally for the past fifteen years.

USE YOUR BRAIN d’Erica Dhawan

A provocative, story-driven guide to reclaiming your mental edge in a tech-dominated world. Dhawan’s previous book, Digital Body Language, has been a go-to title for navigating the digital workplace with rights sold in nineteen territories.

USE YOUR BRAIN: How to Think Deeper in a World on Autopilot
by Erica Dhawan
St. Martin’s Press, January 2027

We have trained ourselves to surrender pieces of our agency to technology for decades; GPS tells us where to turn, search engines tell us what to know, and smartphones make constant availability feel normal. With the dawn of AI, the age of hyper-speed is here whether we like it or not. These new tools don’t just support our brains, they outsource them to machines that don’t feel, don’t doubt, and don’t care. But the future doesn’t belong to those who blindly follow algorithms or trends—it belongs to those who outthink them.

USE YOUR BRAIN is a practical playbook for nurturing, not abandoning, your critical thinking skills in an era defined by speed and automation. Author Erica Dhawan conducted a years-long intensive study of people across five continents and all walks of life—from CEOs and artists to students and scientists—and the leaders who are thriving aren’t dependent upon new technology; they’re able to use it to their advantage while refusing to compromise their own judgment.

Packed with entertaining stories and concrete advice, USE YOUR BRAIN is essential reading for getting ahead in modern life, whether you’re an executive navigating scale, an employee trying to stay relevant, a parent raising independent thinkers in a world of instant answers, or someone who just wants to remain mentally sharp and fully human. Anyone who wants to succeed in today’s world must understand a baseline truth that runs counter to everything Silicon Valley is selling us; that speed is not the same as wisdom, automation is not the same as judgment, and efficiency is not the same as progress. They will be the ones who know when to challenge it, when to trust their own reasoning, and when to step back and think for themselves.

Erica Dhawan is a globally-recognized expert on leadership and teamwork. She is regularly named as one of the top fifty management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50 and a top fifty keynote speaker by Real Leaders. She speaks on global stages ranging from the World Economic Forum at Davos to TED, and her work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and NPR, among others. She has degrees from Harvard, MIT Sloan and The Wharton School.

SIT de Bodhipaksa

A popular Buddhist teacher guides you through strategies to build and maintain a rock-solid daily meditation practice—from setting reminders to dealing with setbacks to introducing the philosophical concepts underpinning Buddhist meditation—and everything in between.

SIT: 28 Days to a Rock-Solid Daily Meditation Habit
by Bodhipaksa
Wisdom Publications, February 2026

It’s widely known that there are many benefits to meditation, particularly if undertaken regularly, but making it a daily habit can be a challenge for many people. Why? Because it takes more than willpower.

Here, longtime meditation teacher and Buddhist blogger Bodhipaksa presents a collection of strategies and tools to help build a rock-solid daily meditation practice into your life. The book is divided into twenty-eight chapters, one for each day.

Each chapter starts with a Practice Reminder, just a few words reminding readers of the importance of practicing meditation rather than merely reading about it. There’s also a link to a web page of guided meditations.

Following that is a Today section, a brief summary of the day’s reading.

Then there’s a Strategies section, which offers suggestions to help readers build the habit of meditating daily. Strategies can be as simple as setting reminders or using a meditation timer, or more involved tools such as changing any belief that you lack what it takes to meditate daily.

That’s followed by a Going Deeper section, with a deeper exploration of some of the Buddhist teachings underpinning our practice, often referring to the suttas, or scriptures, of early Buddhism.

Next is a Reflection section, which encourages readers to keep a journal to make the content of the Going Deeper section more experiential.

Each chapter ends with a Last Words section, quickly summarizing the Going Deeper section.

To help you get started, Bodhpaksa has recorded eighteen meditations for you to listen to and provided a 28-day calendar to help track your deepening meditation habit. Simply scan the QR code in the book for access.

Bodhipaksa is a Buddhist teacher and author who is originally from Scotland but now lives in New Hampshire. He has practiced in the Triratna Buddhist Community since 1982, and became a member of the Triratna Buddhist Order in 1993. The author of several books, Bodhipaksa also runs Wildmind (http://www.wildmind.org), an online meditation center with a mission to spread compassion and mindfulness through the practice of Buddhist meditation. Most of his teaching is done through Wildmind. Bodhipaksa is the father of two adopted children, and counts his children among his spiritual teachers.