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06/20/2023

FIND YOURSELF AT HOME: A Conscious Approach to Shaping Your Space and Your Life is here! 🏡 Written by Emily Grosvenor, , design journalist and interior consultant.

Drawing on ancient wisdom and modern science, along with examples from Grosvenor's groundbreaking research work with clients, FIND YOURSELF AT HOME is a philosophical and practical guide to making spatial shifts that will help you cultivate a more meaningful life by shaping your space so it shapes you back.

Get your copy wherever books are sold.

04/25/2023

Happy pub day to TOUCH MATTERS by Michael Banissy () 🎉

An exploration of the new science behind our most under-appreciated sense and why we need to harness the power of touch for our health and well-being.

Every day, we use our sense of touch to navigate the world. A handshake, a pat on the shoulder, a hug—all essential touches that make up our daily lives. Professor Michael Banissy brings together diverse scientific insights from the world's largest study on touch with takeaways on how to enhance your levels of touch for a happier, healthier life. The book explains why touch is essential to our well-being, the role it plays in our relationships, friendships, in the bedroom, workplace, in team activities such as sports, and much more.

Banissy's latest research explores:
🌟 Our "touch personalities"
🌟 Touch starvation
🌟 How touch defines our relationships and self-esteem
🌟 The impact of touch on our physical and mental health

This is a fascinating window into one of our most important and basic senses and how to harness its power.

🌟 FEATURES ORIGINAL RESEARCH FROM "THE TOUCH TEST": Touch Matters is based on one of Banissy's most recent projects—the Touch Test—a science and broadcast collaboration with the BBC and Wellcome Collection. This project explored attitudes and experiences of touch via the world's largest contemporary survey on the topic, public exhibitions, and a series of broadcast programs focused on the topic of touch that received worldwide attention. The project had approximately 40,000 participants from 112 countries.

🌟 OFFERS GUIDANCE ON COMMUNICATING AND CONNECTING IN OUR DAILY AND PROFESSIONAL LIVES: As we return to office work and live in a world where touch has become loaded with meaning, this book will help people understand how important touch is and the role it plays in every aspect of our lives, from relationships and friendships to the workplace and team activities and much more.

03/21/2023

Manifesting is using the power of your mind to change and create the reality you experience...Positive thinking and the Law of Attraction are part of the manifesting process, but they’re only a small part…manifesting is about so much more than that. It’s about your self-worth, believing in yourself, taking action, and stepping out of your comfort zone.” – talks to about her new book, MANIFEST: 7 STEPS TO LIVING YOUR BEST LIFE (available wherever books, ebooks, and audiobooks are sold. Link in bio.)

02/15/2023

Michael Banissy's () TOUCH MATTERS: Handshakes, Hugs, and the New Science on How Touch Can Enhance Your Well-Being has been featured in Reader's Digest "26 Best Inspirational Books That Are Sure to Change Your Life" by Farrah Pen. On sale 4/25/23 and be sure to snag your pre-order wherever you buy books or through the link in our bio 🎉

02/13/2023

Cover reveal for TOUCH MATTERS by Michael Banissy () on sale 4/25/23 🌟 Be sure to snag your pre-order wherever you buy books or through the link in our bio 🎉

A fascinating scientific and sociological exploration of our most underappreciated sense

Every day, we use our sense of touch to navigate the world. A handshake, a pat on the shoulder, a hug—all are essential touches that make up our daily lives. In Touch Matters, social neuroscientist Michael Banissy brings together diverse scientific insights from the Touch Test—the world’s largest contemporary survey on touch, with 40,000 participants from 112 countries.

Professor Banissy unfolds the research behind why touch is essential to our well-being, combining expert findings with notable touch points in pop culture to explore the role it plays in our physical and digital social life, workplace, bedroom, and more. Learn why a hugged person is a happier person, why teams who high-five each other win more games, and how a handshake makes you more likely to tell the truth. Banissy offers a groundbreaking and surprising new perspective on touch, with guidance on how to enhance your level of touch for a happier, healthier life, exploring topics including

• Your “touch personality”
• How touch defines our relationships and our self-esteem
• The impact of touch on our physical and mental health
• Cultural distinctions around touch and how to navigate them
• Solutions to the “touch hunger” that has become a modern epidemic

Touch Matters is a fascinating window into one of our most important and basic senses—and how to harness its power.

02/10/2023

For those who might've put dieting as part of your New Years Goals, we have our very own Evelyn Tribole () who was featured in NYT for her work in shepherding intuitive eating and as one of the foundations for the modern anti-diet movement. Check out a copy of INTUITIVE EATING FOR EVERY DAY in a bookstore near you 🎉

02/08/2023

Research shows 80% of people abandon their New Year’s resolutions by February but luckily Chronicle Prism has you covered with a few books to help keep you on track.

Goals:
🥒 Healthy eating ➡️ INTUITIVE EATING FOR EVERY DAY by Evelyn Tribole
✨ Focusing better ➡️ MANIFEST by Roxie Nafousi
😵 Relaxing from all the “self-help” ➡️ DO I FEEL BETTER YET by Madeleine Trebenski
✈️ Travel ➡️ DESTINATION WELLNESS by Annie Daly

https://www.abccolumbia.com/2021/12/31/research-shows-80-of-people-abandon-their-new-years-resolutions-by-february/

02/06/2023

Our very own Annie Daly, author of DESTINATION WELLNESS and newly released ISLAND WISDOM offers real and humorous advice on how to not be a Tanya when traveling to Hawai'i. Snag a copy of ISLAND WISDOM by Kainoa Daines () and Annie Daly () wherever you buy bookstores to learn more about Hawai'i's culture and values or through the link in our bio 🌺

11/01/2022

Happy pub day to START MORE THAN YOU CAN FINISH 💚🌱 🎉

Master the art of the start with this new way of thinking, with exercises to help you unleash your ideas and create more.

In START MORE THAN YOU CAN FINISH, writer, artist, and entrepreneur Becky Blades () offers a powerful new mindset for our modern world: acting on more ideas makes us happier – and reveals our highest creativity. She empowers readers to become "stARTists"– initiators with a bias for action and the courage to ignite ideas and introduces the concept of "stARTistry," spotlighting the 4-step starting process:

🌱 Imagine
🌱 Think
🌱 Decide
🌱 Act

Using digestible data, humorous and honest personal experience, interviews with artists and entrepreneurs, and assignments to help you get started, START MORE THAN YOU CAN FINISH challenges the tropes our dads, moms, and third-grade teachers told us about finishing. In today's world, we must, in fact, start more than we can finish.

10/25/2022

Happy pub day to ISLAND WISDOM 🏝🎉

ALOHA (love) • 'ĀINA (land) • MO'OLELO (stories) • 'OHANA (family)

DISCOVER FOUR FOUNDATIONS OF HAWAIIAN LIVING FOR A PEACEFUL AND BALANCED LIFE.

More than just a beautiful paradise, Hawai'i has a rich culture, deeply rooted in tradition. Native Hawaiian and cultural expert Kainoa Daines () has spent many years teaching visitors to the islands about this time-honored wisdom, and now he has teamed up with journalist Annie Daly () to share that knowledge with you.

ISLAND WISDOM () is an inspirational and rewarding journey through traditional Hawaiian teachings that have stood the test of time, from how to be pono (live a balanced life) every day, to how to mālama 'āina (preserve and protect the land). Filled with :

🌟 Voices and guidance of Hawaiian elders
🌟 Regional folklore
🌟 Ancient teachings and rituals
🌟 Gorgeous local photography and illustrations
🌟 Local recipes

ISLAND WISDOM is a celebration of Hawaiian culture, language, and values that will give you a deeper understanding, appreciation, and respect for Hawai'i and the Hawaiian way of life.

10/18/2022

Happy pub day to MANIFEST 🧡🎉

Change your life with the first truly practical guide to manifesting, the hugely popular self-development practice that will transform your life for good . . .

Written by self-development coach and 'Queen of Manifesting' , this book is the essential guide to anyone and everyone wanting to feel more empowered in their lives. In just seven simple steps you can understand the true art of manifestation and create the life you have always dreamed of.

Whether you want to attract your soulmate, land the perfect job, buy the home you have always wanted, or simply find more inner-peace and confidence, Manifest will teach you exactly how to get there . . .

🌟 Be clear in your vision
🌟 Remove fear and doubt
🌟 Align your behavior
🌟 Overcome tests from the universe
🌟 Embrace gratitude without caveats
🌟 Turn envy into inspiration
🌟 Trust in the universe

A meeting of science and wisdom, manifesting is a philosophy and a self-development practice to help you reach for your goals, cultivate self-love and live your best life.

10/18/2022

Happy pub day to MODERN NIRVANA ORACLE 💫🎉

From Amenti Oracle author Jennifer Sodini (), and the founders of the spirituality and wellness platform Modern Nirvana (.nirvana): actress, singer, and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Kat Graham (), four-time Emmy-winning journalist and energy healer Frank Elaridi (), and master breathwork instructor Bryant Wood ()—comes a deck for finding clarity around the gradients of love, loss, levity, and each chapter of the human experience.

A sensory experience inspired by avant-garde '80s fashion, The Modern Nirvana Oracle Deck includes a guidebook and 50 beautifully illustrated cards by renowned artist Natalee Miller () inside an elegant, easy-to-travel, metallic gold box with lifting ribbon and a magnetic closure. Each card will provide an inspiring quote, ageless wisdom for our modern lives, breathwork and meditations, and a mantra designed to further activate the intentions within the cards.

Let this powerful oracle deck help you to tap into the wisdom and insight that lies within. Use it as a gateway away from suffering and illusion, and a connection to nirvana in the here and now.

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