The Art of Riding Stress Waves: Self-help psychology for an anxious ageHow are we to live happy, healthy and satisfying lives in this anxious age? On top of life's usual challenges, we now face cascading social, political, economic and environmental crises the likes of which humanity has never seen before. And the stress waves keep rolling in.Like ocean swells, as one stress wave crashes over us, the next forms. Psychologists can no longer provide enough ...

We were promised freedom. Instead, we live in a cage.Capitalism, socialism, communism—each claims to be the answer. Yet every system reduces humanity to numbers, profit, and control. We labor for systems that do not honor us. We struggle, compete, and survive—but few truly thrive.The Hidden Forces is a call to awaken. It strips away illusions and reveals a truth too long ignored: systems exist to serve people—not the other way around.Written by a systems engineer wh...

A detective's fall from grace. A rookie's baptism by fire. A town's secrets laid bare.In the unforgiving wilderness of Maine, a disgraced detective must confront his past to solve a chilling murder.Detective Brock Justice's career is on thin ice. Once the golden boy of Maine State Police, Brock now finds himself exiled to the remote northeastern wilderness, punishment for crossing the thin blue line. Assigned to the Major Crimes Unit—North, he suffers the a...

Resisting Educational Inequality examines poverty, social exclusion and vulnerability in educational contexts at a time of rising inequality and when policy research suggests that such issues are being ignored or distorted within neoliberal logics.In this volume, leading scholars from Australia and across the UK examine these issues through three main focus areas:Mapping the damage: what are our explanations for the persistent nature of educational ...

Dynamic Focus is about creating a meaningful legacy while effectively navigating the inherent multifaceted challenges of life. Mental habits can become subtle traps that distort perceptions, thoughts and relationships into limitations. Dynamic Focus provides a practical, powerful and integrated methodology with tools for breaking these traps or "spells of limitation" and living a more meaningful life.

Essential Information about Algorithms and Data StructuresA Classic ReferenceThe latest version of Sedgewick’s best-selling series, reflecting an indispensable body of knowledge developed over the past several decades.Broad CoverageFull treatment of data structures and algorithms for sorting, searching, graph processing, and string processing, including fifty algorithms every programmer should know. See algs4.cs.p...

Men's WorkJourneys of Strength, Compassion, and Transformation"The heart of man is very much like the sea; it has its storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too."What does it mean to be a man in today's world? Men's Work explores this question through the voices of fourteen men who have embarked on a journey of self-discovery, growth, and transformation. In a society where traditional notions of masculinity are being chall...

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This volume deals with the varied forms of shame reflected in biblical, theological, psychological and anthropological sources. Although traditional theology and church practice concentrate on providing forgiveness for shameful behavior, recent scholarship has discovered the crucial relevance of social shame evoked by mental status, adversity, slavery, abuse, illness, grief and defeat. Anthropologists, sociologists, and psychologists have discovered that unresolved social shame is related ...

Two distinguished scholars offer eight steps to help organizations discover and embrace an authentic higher purpose-something that will dramatically improve every aspect of any enterprise, including the bottom line.Managers are taught that employees are self-interested and work resistant, so they create systems of control to combat these expectations. The result? These gloomy assumptions become self-fulfilling prophecies, workforces tend to underperform and resist control, and mana...

16 Short Fantasy Stories written exclusively for this anthologyTake a Glimpse into 16 fantasy worlds with this anthology of short fiction by some of the brightest new fantasy fiction talent.Download this amazing collection of fantastic stories and find your next favourite fantasy author today.Stories from: Adrian G Hilder, Cameron Wayne Smith, Craig A Price Jr, Eloise Hamann, J C Kang, Georgina Makalani, Kevin Partner, Kevin Potter, Ki...

The Routledge Companion to Folk Horror offers a comprehensive guide to this popular genre. It explores its origins, canonical texts and thinkers, the crucial underlying themes of nostalgia and hauntology, and identifies new trends in the field.Divided into five parts, the first focuses on the history of Folk Horror from medieval texts to the present day. It considers the first wave of contemporary Folk Horror through the films of the ‘unholy trinity’, as well as discussing...