In a time when leaders are falling like trees in a storm, there is a need for a different kind of leader.Our world desperately needs leaders with roots: ones who are deeply grounded, who know who they are, and who are equipped to endure adversity and bear the fruit of vibrant leadership.Eric Geiger believes that lasting leadership starts beneath the surface. Drawing from the biblical story of Nehemiah—often referred to as history's first leadership book—Eri...

In the folklore of south-western Scotland, the ordinary world trembles under the pressure of hidden powers. Witches, fairies, ghosts, death omens, and funeral customs all mingle in a richly documented record of rural belief, where illness, bad luck, and strange weather could be read as signs of supernatural interference. Framed with scholarly sympathy, this study preserves the oral traditions of Galloway and its neighboring districts, tracing how superstition shaped fear, memory, and daily...

When a troublemaking party crasher is found dead in a fountain during an elegant soiree in Newport, Rhode Island, newspaper editor Emma Cross Andrews must clear her own society reporter from suspicion of murder…August 1903. Emma and her husband Derrick are among the men in white tie and tails and the women wearing white gowns from the House of Worth at Tessie Oelrichs’s Bal Blanc, or White Ball, at Rosecliff, her grand cottage on Bellevue Avenue. ...

The Mayan peoples of highland Guatemala live within an animate world, where the physical environment, ancestors, and surrounding people, plants, and animals are infused with spirit and presence.At the heart of this daily engagement are the ajq'ija', Mayan spiritual guides who serve as mediators between human communities and the rajawala'-the vital, living energies of the world. This book offers insight into the foundational knowledge ajq'ija' use to communicate with...

Not all houses are haunted by the dead.Grace Cather thinks she isn't really running away from home. She's just leaving for a night or two, to crash the party at the Last Prayer Club in Hollywood. She'll be right back after, with stories to tell her friends about how she was the only one brave enough to even try it.But she needs a place to stay for the night at the very least. Luckily her new friend Ariela, the Queen of No Tomorrows knows a place just for her. What neither o...

A thrilling and cataclysmic collection of city-smashing titans and the desperate coalitions of humanity clinging to survival in the wreckage, from the New York Times-bestselling and multiple award-winning editors.Featuring bestselling and award-winning authors such as Tananarive Due, Christopher Golden, Seanan McGuire, Scott Sigler and Steve Alten, author of The Meg.An explosive collection of monster terror, featuring 25 original tales of c...

Aaron Harry Gorson painted powerful and dramatic night scenes of Pittsburgh’s steel mills in the early 1900s. A pioneer industrial landscape artist, Gorson was partial to the nighttime beauty of industrial Pittsburgh and the magic of the glowing streams of molten iron and steel flowing from the blast furnaces and open hearths and their effects on river waters and night skies. He painted dozens of powerful nocturnes featuring the vast Jones and Laughlin mills located on both sides of the Mo...

You have probably been told a thousand times to just start, to break things into steps, to make a list and check things off, and you have watched that advice fail again and again. The failure was never about the advice being wrong, and it was never about your character. The advice was designed for a different machine, a machine with different fuel, different memory, and a different perception of time, and you have been running its instructions on the machine you actually own. This book is ...

Achieve your goals and gain peace of mind with help from this updated and expanded classic self-help guide.Self-image is the most important psychological discovery of the modern age. It is our mental blueprint. It dictates where we think we belong and thus can stand in the way of our success.In 1960, Maxwell Maltz published Psycho-Cybernetics seeking to help others learn how to redraw that negative wiring and remove the obstacles blocking their dre...

Drinking and drugs have long led to a multitude of problems within families. Given the availability of various forms of substances, and the potential harm to families, it is essential that greater research be focused upon substance use and addiction. This edited volume offers a broad examination of substance use and the family.Featuring a broad variety of chapters across the many issues pertaining to substance use and addiction, topics include those such as spousal addiction and ma...

Not all houses are haunted by the dead. Book 4 in Hazeland, but don't let that scare you. New story from a new character POV.

For centuries, England’s country houses have been where affluent, grand families have displayed their wealth and status. The country is still well endowed with these houses today, although many of them are now popular visitor attractions instead of private homes, but there are also many houses that have disappeared over the years. Some have been demolished as they could no longer be sustained due to the changes in social habits, surrounding development or because of the cost of repairs or ...