Winner of the Wren Poetry Prize selected by Sandra Beasley, Guilt Ledger is Ross White’s sophomore poetry collection.In Guilt Ledger, money is a weight, a wound, and a reckoning. Opening amid the fallout of the savings and loan scandal of the late 1980s, this collection maps the complex and corrosive impact of the financial sector on a family. It charts a childhood in the banking centers of the South and the speaker’s acceptance of late-stage capi...

Fifteen of North Carolina’s finest writers reimagine and reclaim the stories of the ghosts who have haunted all corners of the state.North Carolina ain’t what it once was: forests and fields have given way to suburbs and vacation homes, textile mills to high tech, tobacco farms to tourism. That doesn’t mean, though, that the ghosts of the Old North State have gone away.In this anthology, readers might glimpse some of the ghostly apparitions, headless fiends...

A Season in Patagonia is angler, naturalist, and outdoor conservation author Steve Ramirez’s newest collection of fly fishing, nature trekking, and exploration stories that are intended to entertain and enlighten his readers while focusing on “Nature and the Best of Human Nature.” In A Season in Patagonia, Ramirez takes us on an epic journey retracing the westward expansion of Euro-American conquistadors while exploring the legacy and lessons offered by the indigenous peo...

'A smart, engaging and, best of all, incredibly practical guide to winning in life without losing yourself along the way' Damian Hughes, co-host of the High Performance PodcastModern life urges us to push relentlessly for what looks like success and to be resolute in avoiding anything less. But at what cost? Burnout and disillusionment are on the rise.What if there is another way? One that allows us to both do well and

Drawing on current scholarship and research by authors with experience of a range of International contexts who are experts in their field, this accessible guide focuses on approaches that encourage spiritual, physical, mental and emotional development in children.By outlining a range of lenses through which readers can reflect on their ministry with children and their families. this book offers inspiration to help them improve their practice. Up-to-date research and thinking provi...

You’ve got What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but where do you go for a pregnancy guide when you’ve been pregnant before, and didn’t get to come home with a baby? For the nearly 2.6 million women worldwide every year who lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth and early neonatal loss, this is the pregnancy guide for you. Joy at the End of the Rainbow: A Guide to Pregnancy After a Loss gives you a month-by-month survival guide to a pregnancy that is different from the others. If you’re wo...

Elite sport can be an unforgiving and harsh environment. This book explores psychological predictors of wellbeing and performance excellence in elite level athletes, and presents an innovative approach for optimizing mental wellbeing and sporting performance. Jointly developed by performance psychologists, clinical psychologists and sport scientists the Flexible Mind approach draws on contemporary psychological theory and research to help athletes build ‘psychological flexibility’...

You’ve got What to Expect When You’re Expecting, but where do you go for a pregnancy guide when you’ve been pregnant before, and didn’t get to come home with a baby? For the nearly 2.6 million women worldwide every year who lose a baby to miscarriage, stillbirth and early neonatal loss, this is the pregnancy guide for you. Joy at the End of the Rainbow: A Guide to Pregnancy After a Loss gives you a month-by-month survival guide to a pregnancy that is different from the others. If you’re wo...

This handbook incisively explores challenges and opportunities that exist in efforts aimed at addressing inequities in mental health provision across the globe. Drawing on various disciplines across the humanities, psychology, and social sciences it charts the emergence of Global Mental Health as a field of study. It critically reflects on efforts and interventions being made to globalize mental health policies, and discusses key themes relevant for understanding and supporting the mental ...

The long wait is over.  After a century and a half, the New Horizon Generational Starship has finally arrived at its destination and the planet seems to be everything the crew could have hoped for. Four simulants of the mission’s original founders wake up after their long sleep to discover a dangerously factionalized crew, and the animosity and hatred amongst the crew threaten to destroy the mission before its dream can be triumphantly realized.  Learn more at www.newhorizo...

More than two centuries into the future, the New Horizon generational starship is halfway through its long journey towards the planet Haven. It is the last great project of humanity, but after eighty long years the journey is still only half over. The last person to have known Earth died a long time ago, and new ship borne generations are having to suffer the existential nightmare of a complete and total absence of choice in their lives. A horrific event starts unravelling their small and ...

Energy and artificial intelligence revolutions have made life perfectly comfortable for all of the people of Earth. The New Horizon generational starship project is the last great forward thinking project of a world which is gradually succumbing to a deep existential malaise. The target is Haven, a planet one hundred and sixty years, and six generations of crew away. Launch is the story of those who join this mission, and who bet against the universe to establish a fully self-sustaining hu...