A fresh new year has arrived and with it the opportunity for exciting new experiences in the year ahead.

Last year we made it our New Year’s Resolution to spread happiness, and this year our goal is to learn something new. To help us get started we turned to Charlie Burton and his new book GQ How to Win at Life, which is filled with expert advice on everything from food to fashion and from politics to parkour.

This small but mighty book is filled with achievable New Year’s Resolution ideas and is where we found inspiration for the first segment in our Learn Something New in the New Year blog series: learning a new language.

The Foreign Service Institute’s James Bernhardt and Catherine Doughty — whose words of wisdom are included in GQ How to Win at Life — are experts in learning new languages quickly, as they regularly assist American diplomats in becoming fluent in new languages, sometimes over the course of just a few months.

International Men’s Day gets a bad rap. The phrase is most often associated with people trying to derail conversations around International Women’s Day, but the actual celebration — which is taking place worldwide today — is about recognizing the unique issues facing men such as mental health, suicide, and toxic masculinity.

(To get the low down on some of the staggering stats about men and mental health, check out this article from British GQ, the magazine that brought you the ultimate handbook for the modern man GQ How to Win at Life.)

While the aforementioned toxic masculinity insists on narrow definitions of what it is to “be a man” (and attempts to force these definitions onto men everywhere), as a nonfiction publisher with hundreds of male and female authors writing about every subject under the sun, we know that men are multifaceted and certainly not just interested in traditionally “manly” things.

This International Men’s Day, discover the ways our authors are challenging old-fashioned stereotypes about “being a man” — and find a great book to read, no matter what kind of man or woman you happen to be.

We are all afraid of something, whether it's a horror movie monster or a more palpable physical fear, and Halloween is the time of year when these fears are out in the open. 

Some fears are rational (a spider bite could have some frightening symptoms), while others make little sense (your dentist probably doesn't want to pull all your teeth out), but we're here to help you face them all!

Whatever you're afraid of, we have a great book that will help you face down your biggest fear — just in time for the scariest day of the year.