A noted anthropologist explains how our sense of ethics has changed over the course of human evolution.

Shame can take on many forms. It hides in the shadows of the most successful, confident and high-achieving woman who struggles with balancing her work and children, as well as in the heart of the broken, abused and downtrodden woman who has been told that she will never amount to anything. Shame hides in plain sight and can hold us back in ways we do not realize. But Christine Caine wants readers to know something: we can all be free. "I know. I've...

Jon Ronson travels the world meeting recipients of famous public shamings, often while their shamings were in full force. These are people like us--people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once a transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane, and the next thing they know, they're being torn apart, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their jobs. A...

We Are Enough: Engaging with the World from a Place of WorthinessCourse objectives:Summarize the differences and similarities between the experience of shame for men and womenDefine guilt vs. shame-why one is a useful force for growth, while the other keeps us smallDiscuss the four elements of shame resilience-identifying our triggers, practicing critical awareness, sharing our story, and speaking honestly about shameDiscuss empathy as the primary...

When Eliza Jane Murphy--line leader, captain of the worm rescue team--impulsively pockets a sparkly green stone from her classroom's "Exploring Green" display table, her heart crumples. My heart stopped singing. My letters went wonky. I was too heavy to swing! I wanted to put it back...But what if someone saw? But when she discovers that nearly everyone in her family took something once in their lives--from her baby brother and mom, to her nana with...

"Class Mom meets Small Admissions in this wryly observed debut about the privileged bubble that is Liston Heights High--the micro-managing parents, the overworked teachers, and the students caught in the middle--and the fallout for each of them when that bubble finally bursts. Isobel Johnson can't stand helicopter parents like Julia Abbott, a stage mom whose world revolves around interfering in her children's lives. Julia resents teachers like Isobel,...

It shares the story of returning war veteran SFC Travis Fox who has one more battle to fight, PTSD. Fox and his best friend SFC Ron "Preach" Pearcy are on their sixth combat deployment when Preach and his entire Ranger platoon are killed in a deadly improvised explosive device attack. Travis returns to his hometown to settle the affairs of his parents who had passed away years before. In searching for answers about his parents, he also discovers a...