A practical, approachable guide that reframes beauty as simple, low-effort rituals for busy people, offering straightforward skincare, haircare and makeup tips alongside gentle self-care practices; it emphasizes sustainable, time-friendly routines and small habits that boost confidence, calm and everyday wellbeing rather than chasing perfection.

Addiction by Keith Humphreys examines how addiction affects individuals and society, and its intersections with criminal justice, family, social, and medical responses. It explains what addiction is, how it develops, and how it is treated, and covers addictions to illicit and licit substances such as alcohol as well as behaviors like compulsive gambling. Humphreys summarizes evidence on treatment outcomes and the effects of laws and public policy, and he outlines the personal experience of addiction and recovery.

A confessional, inward-looking novel in which a man chronicles a debilitating, nameless illness — a creeping depression and psychosomatic crisis — through intimate reminiscences of failed relationships, family tensions and creative paralysis; as he submits to psychoanalysis he dissects guilt, sexual confusion and recurring self-destructive patterns, producing a darkly comic yet painful portrait of a mind at war with itself.

Two high school students—a girl paralyzed by grief and survivor’s guilt after a family tragedy and a charismatic, deeply troubled boy who battles intense mood swings and suicidal thoughts—meet on the edge of a school bell tower and pair up for a class project to visit notable places across their state. Their growing bond becomes a lifeline that helps each confront painful truths, challenge fears, and briefly imagine a future together, even as his unpredictable darkness and persistent despair complicate everything. The relationship ultimately forces both to face harsh realities: she must learn to grieve and reclaim joy, and he struggles with an illness that leads to a devastating outcome that reshapes her understanding of love and loss. In the aftermath she seeks ways to honor him and find a path toward healing, showing how fragile connections can also foster resilience.

A series of theoretical essays and interviews develops a practice of mapping social and psychic territories that rejects Oedipal psychoanalysis in favor of a schizoanalytic approach emphasizing multiplicity, machinic assemblages, and lines of flight; it proposes concrete cartographies of desire and subjectivity that reveal how capitalism, institutions, and technological systems shape individual and collective experience while also pointing to transversal practices and micro-political resistances that open new forms of ethical and political becoming.

The book examines Robby Wilde, a man with paranoid schizophrenia who first heard a voice at age nine. Ten years before his death at fifty-three, Wilde asked his friend Elizabeth Kytle to write about his condition. Kytle traces his life from rural North Carolina to impoverished last days in Columbus, Ohio, using twice-told tales in which Wilde's recollections alternate with differing accounts from friends, family, and coworkers, and chronicles the slow unraveling and final breakdown of his life.