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The Right to Be Human is the award-winning, definitive biography of Abraham Maslow, perhaps the most important American psychological thinker of the 20th century. In many ways, Maslow remains more relevant than ever in impacting such diverse fields around the world as psychology, counseling, social work, education, health care, management, marketing, and even theology. Written by psychologist Edward Hoffman, this book has been widely praised for its lucidity in placing Maslow' s influential life in its cultural-historical context.

As a key founder of humanistic psychology, Abraham Maslow has had tremendous impact on a variety of fields ranging from education and counseling to business management and marketing, as well as theology and health care, including nursing. Since Maslow's death in 1970, his ideas on higher motivation and self-actualization have continued to influence American culture - and are increasingly resonating abroad as well. 

Alone among modern psychologists, Carl Jung ranks as a visionary. His ground-breaking approach to personality theory and psychotherapy was matched by pioneering work in the fields of inner growth, wholeness, and mystical experiences, and his ideas continue to influence every aspect of our lives, from education and business to popular culture. This book distills Jung's wisdom into an essential volume that allows listeners to contemplate his fascinating ideas as he would have liked them understood: in his own words.

With James Agee, Jr.'s second work of fiction, Mask City, he presents a world where two siblings, Thomas and Lacy Farthur, are thrust out of their seemingly harmless world into a society they formerly didn't know existed: an underground domain where the common adage "A person is not a person without a mask" is exploited in the most dreadful manner. Thomas and Lacy, through a series of dramatic and horrendous undertakings, eventually find themselves challenging the system that took everything away from them.

In this powerful, far-reaching collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Freedman and psychologist-biographer Edward Hoffman bring John F. Kennedy to vibrant life through his own words, examining the broad range of his thinking on such topics as racism, religion and faith, peace, war and terrorism, partisan politics, business and employment, welfare, education, celebrities and world leaders, technology, the futures, and his vision for the United States.

The Scarifyers is a series of rip-roaring tales of comedic supernatural intrigue set in 1930s Britain, distilling the likes of Dick Barton, The Avengers, The Devil Rides Out and Quatermass into cracking new audio adventures. The Scarifyers is broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Extra, and has been described in the national press as 'rollicking good fun', 'a slice of audio perfection', 'the smartest and most enjoyable thing on British radio' and 'like Tintin but with the lights out.'

Dorian has it all: good-looks, money, and a prominent social status. But when he agrees to sit for a portrait, he is introduced to a man who unwittingly plants a dangerous idea inside Dorian’s head. As Dorian becomes more and more obsessed with the painting, he seeks out supernatural means of retaining his youth and beauty.

Victor Frankenstein, a young college student, has left home for the first time, his mind full of adventure, aspirations, and hopeful wonder. A lover of science, he is eager to start making discoveries worthy of the history books. His newfound knowledge of Galvanism gives him just the spark of inspiration he needs for a project that he deems remarkable and that will change the course of human history and our understanding of death. To feel close to his mother—who is a descendant of Vlad the Impaler—and escape persecution in England, Victor travels to Romania to complete his work.

Dr. John Montague is on a mission to uncover the truth behind the afterlife, and Hill House is where he’ll find it. The 18-year-old mansion’s warped exterior hides a soul just as gnarled and twisted. Can he unmask Hill House's secrets before it drives him insane, or will he become one more casualty to its horrors? Thriller and suspense lovers will fall victim to this mashup between The Haunting of Hill House and select stories by Edgar Allan Poe.

H. G. Wells had a lifelong and powerful relationship with the United States. Beginning with his first visit in 1906 when Wells was already a world-famous science-fiction writer and futurist, he met personally with several American presidents and kept a close eye on scientific, technological, and social developments in the New World until his death in 1946 at age 80. In 1968, the German-born American historian Sylvia Strauss wrote her doctoral dissertation on H. G. Wells and America for her PhD at Rutgers University; she died in 1997 after a distinguished career.