Here's the full book description, ready to paste into IngramSpark's "Full Description" field (300 words, comfortably under any typical limit):Sisyphus pushing his boulder up the same hill, forever. Icarus falling from the sky, and the father left behind who must decide whether to build with wax and feather again. Penelope at her loom, unweaving each night what she wove by day, while everyone around her mistakes her stillness for surrender. The old myths are usually told with the ha...

Hindsight to Foresight: How the Stories We Tell About the Past Shape the Futures We Can ImagineWe usually imagine the past as fixed and the future as open. The brain doesn't organise experience quite so neatly. Remembering and imagining draw on much of the same constructive machinery - so much so that people who lose the ability to recall their past in detail often lose, at the same time, the ability to picture their future in detail. The two are not separate syste...

Unstuck: A Companion Guide pairs each of the twelve myths in Unstuck: A Mythology of Moving Forward with a short, plain-language explanation of what the story is really pointing at, a set of reflection questions, and one small, concrete step.You don't need to work through all twelve. Most people find that one or two of these stories describe their own situation almost exactly, while the others simply don't fit right now - and that's fine. Read the one that matches...

People often wait for a feeling of readiness before they act. That strategy works well enough when motivation rises and falls naturally - but it becomes unreliable once depression, anxiety, burnout, avoidance, perfectionism, or prolonged stress have already changed what effort feels like and what the future seems likely to contain. Waiting, in those conditions, doesn't lead to readiness. It leads to more waiting.The Nike Principle - named for the Greek personification of v...

The Trapped Loop: Why We Get Stuck - and How to Help the Brain Find a Way OutWhy do you keep ending up in the same place - the same panic, the same shutdown, the same argument - even when you understand exactly what is happening?The Trapped Loop offers an answer grounded in contemporary neuroscience: the brain is a prediction machine, not a passive recorder of experience. It uses past learning to anticipate what's about to happen, prepares the body...

The most important vocation on the face of the planet is Christian ministry. The most important public speaking is gospel preaching. Therefore, the most unique and dangerous vocation on the face of the planet is professional Christian ministry. This book addresses these uniquenesses and dangers by describing why professional ministry is so unique and dangerous, what ministerial soul health is, the work of nurturing soul health, and the wisdom of including the minister's family in this soul...

This text is for the Spirit-filled Bible teacher seeking to preach expository sermons in a manner that honors the Pentecostal/Charismatic tradition. It seeks to accomplish two crucial tasks: reclaim the office of teacher in the local Pentecostal pulpit, and provide a model for expository preaching that is faithful to Pentecostal preaching distinctives and the unique approach with which Pentecostals interpret Scripture. Jesus gave the church five offices: apostle, prophet, evangelist, pasto...

Death is a topic we often avoid talking about, but in The Death Ship Victoria Brown faces it head on, taking a deep dive into the fate of Titanic's victims: how did they die? How did their bodies decompose? Were their bodies recovered and buried? What happened to the bodies that went down with the ship?And what of Titanic's legacy? Here, Brown explores the proposed legislative changes, salvage proposals and surge of interest the wreck rec...

Report into the Loss of the SS Titanic is a complete re-evaluation of the loss of Titanic based on evidence that has come to light since the discovery of the wreck in 1985.This collective undertaking is compiled by eleven of the world's foremost Titanic researchers – experts who have spent many years examining the wealth of information that has arisen since 1912. Following the basic layout of the 1912 Wreck Commission Report, this modern ...

Employment Now! The insiders track of how to gain employment quickly in today's job market was written to be a highly "tactical and practical" way for people looking for a new job, looking to make a career change or anyone needing to find employment. From an entry level position to executive management, the content in this book is like no other! It contains exercises to help the reader develop a true plan as to how to structure and execute a highly successful job search. There are resume f...

Why does every form of therapy—from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to reflexology—meet with a certain degree of success to change people’s lives?In Help! OK. Richard O. Morgan, a retired teacher and former hypnotherapist, highlights the single thing all these different therapies have in common. Perhaps magic happens not because of the therapy we choose but by our cry for help being met by someone willing to listen.Which raises the question: where do we find the right listene...

Relationships are breaking down across Australia and the developed world - and the standard explanations no longer hold up. It's not primarily a failure of communication, commitment, or character. It's a structural mismatch.Drawing on evolutionary biology, neuroscience, attachment theory, and more than thirty years of clinical practice, Dr Steve Halls argues that the human nervous system was never designed for the environment it's now asked to sustain intimate partnership within. P...