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Theme 1 of 6

Consciousness.

The press reads consciousness broadly: not as a self-help subgenre, but as the kind of careful attention a writer brings to the experience of being a person inside a system. The shortest working definition is the one Daniel J Henry uses in the society-and-ecology lane — strategies as ecologies, identities as colonies, the dominant narrative as the nutrient base. We expect more volumes to land here as the slate grows.

• Consciousness

  The Attention Economy and the Self

  When every platform is optimised to capture the mind's margin, what remains of the interior life that generates original thought?

  Daniel Jennings · September 15, 2025

Theme 2 of 6

AI.

Two volumes on the climate generative AI is quietly introducing into the institutions the next generation will inherit. One reads the courtroom as an ecosystem and asks what survives when the attorneys are partially replaced by a different kind of mind; the other is a parent-led handbook for the platforms children are already threading through. Both refuse the panic on one side and the dismissal on the other.

• AI

  What the Courtroom Will Look Like

  AI is not replacing lawyers — it is changing the ecology of the courtroom, and the species that will struggle are not the ones you expect.

  Daniel Jennings · October 3, 2025

Theme 3 of 6

Agriculture.

A single volume today: an accessible, scientifically grounded tour of the underground fungal networks that hold American soil together — and of the land-use and finance history that has been quietly dismantling them. The theme is held open. Reports from working regenerative farmers and from the soil biology bench are exactly the voice the press wants to keep inviting in.

• Agriculture

  Soil as Inheritance

  The topsoil beneath a working farm represents centuries of biological accumulation. Modern tillage practices can undo that accumulation in a single generation.

  Daniel Jennings · November 20, 2025

Theme 5 of 6

Health.

Health writing the press can stand behind: research-grounded, shame-free, written for ordinary readers who have begun to suspect the popular conversation is selling them something. Two volumes — a careful argument that sugar behaves less like a food and more like a substance the body has been trained to crave, and a manual for recovering from the long-term defaults the nervous system quietly recruits under sustained stress.

• Health

  The Nervous System After Stress

  Chronic stress does not merely exhaust the body — it teaches it a set of habits that persist long after the original stressor has gone.

  Daniel Jennings · January 8, 2026