The Neolithic relief found in southeastern Turkey may illustrate humans' changing relationship with animals. (photo by K. Akdemir, courtesy Cambridge University Press) About 11,000 years ago, ...

Most people know George Lucas as the writer-director of the original Star Wars trilogy, as well as a producer of many films and series that make up the franchise’s extended universe. In recent years, ...

As a graduating doctoral candidate, I find myself facing many transitions ahead. At times like these, we often use a book metaphor: The Stanford chapter is coming to a close, and a new chapter is ...

All of us have felt like a misfit in our professional career from time to time. We’ve all lost a job or been told in one way or another that we aren’t good enough. When that happens, we have a clear ...

Over the last couple of years, I've gotten more involved with collecting and sorting through multiple narratives to help businesses understand and deal with difficult problems. (Difficult, meaning the ...

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. —Robert Frost, 1874-1963, “The Road Not Taken” When individual teachers or entire schools are faced with the desire/need to ...

Imagining things that do not exist in nature and weaving them into narratives are unique signatures of the human psyche. These abilities are abundantly evident in the earliest example of narrative art ...

Around the world, growing populations of older adults need social care. Aging is typically associated with steady physical and cognitive decline; the practice of narrative therapy, by contrast, ...

Credit: Getty Images Narrative medicine seeks to apply the humanities — literature, art, storytelling — to clinical encounters as a means to provide more holistic care. Health care requires humanity.

In this edition, we explore a narrative shared by Grupo Xcaret and the Gran Consejo Maya de Quintana Roo that presents Mayan ...