MYSTICISM IS THE NEW MINDFULNESSElevate Mindfulness. Expand Awareness.Become a Modern Mystic.We often feel separate and isolated, cut off from the deeper connection that gives life meaning. Repressed emotions, fear, distraction, and unconscious patterns can block our inner light, leaving us unable to fully express who we are or to create the life we sense is possible. We may feel disconnected from ourselves, others, ...

Self-awareness has long been recognised as central to career development, yet in practice it is often overshadowed by a focus on skills and interests. This book places self-awareness back at the heart of career guidance, drawing on existing research and reframing it for modern contexts.This fascinating guide offers:Expert insights: Drawn from over 20 years’ experience as a practitioner, quality award assessor, and business owner, John Ambrose offers r...

The drought has parched the Ohio River Valley, exposing bones that should have stayed buried.Penelope "Penny" Rhodes studies dangerous things for a living, like venomous snakes, reptilian predators, anything with teeth and a bad attitude. She doesn't need saving. So when a swoon-worthy EMT with a hero complex revives her after she collapses at the fossil beds, she's annoyed, not grateful. Especially when his secret healing magic accidentally wakes up the dinosaur fossil she'd been ...

EVERY COUNTRY HAS RULES. DOES YOUR HOME?Every nation on earth writes down its laws — so anyone who crosses the border knows exactly where they stand. But most people run the most important country they'll ever have, their own home, with no written rules at all. Then they wonder why it falls apart.Titus Ambrose Gibson refused to live that way.Sitting in a guard tower in Kosovo, a world traveler and retired military veteran wrote down the laws of his own land — 52 rul...

Ambrose Bierce is one of American literature's great originals: a Civil War veteran turned journalist whose fiction is as haunting as his wit is savage. This comprehensive collection brings together his most celebrated work, The Devil's Dictionary, a satirical lexicon still quoted for its acid definitions of human folly, alongside In the Midst of Life, the story collection containing his masterpiece "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," and the eerie supernatural tales of Can Such Things Be...

Procrastination isn't a time management problem-it's an emotional avoidance system, and the longer you treatthe symptom instead of the source, the more elaborate your defenses become. Ambrose Rourke's insightfulbook explores the psychological mechanisms that turn simple tasks into sources of dread, and why yourproductivity tools keep failing you.When a task triggers avoidance, it stops being about deadlines and becomes about the discomfort you'reunwi...

"Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work."Bierce's groundbreaking Devil's Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in t...

Enter the dark, strange, and brilliantly satirical world of Ambrose Bierce. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce brings together the distinctive fiction, satire, essays, and poetry of one of America's most uncompromising literary voices. Known for his dark humor, sharp wit, psychological insight, and fascination with death and the supernatural, Bierce created stories that remain both unsettling and thought-provoking. His writing frequently explores the darker sides of war, violence, ambit...

"Dictionary, n: A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work."Bierce's groundbreaking Devil's Dictionary had a complex publication history. Started in the mid-1800s as an irregular column in Californian newspapers under various titles, he gradually refined the new-at-the-time idea of an irreverent set of glossary-like definitions. The final name, as we see it titled in t...

The rejection isn't about your qualifications-it's about the three seconds a recruiter spends on your job titlebefore reading your first bullet, and what happens next depends on whether you control that verdict or letchronology write it for you. Ambrose Crenshaw's insightful book explores the translation gap between the skillsyou've proven in one field and the language career-change hiring managers actually recognize.When your resume lists only what you've b...

Tessa Sterling has built her reputation on dissecting desire-she's Louisville's sharpest literary critic, and she treats her own life like the novels she loves: full of transgression, drama, and just enough chaos to keep things interesting.Then she meets Jonah Hale.Soft-spoken, impossibly genteel, and secretly drowning in debt, Jonah is nothing like the men Tessa usually collects. He's a warlock from an old magical family, using his...

Daphne Mercer has built her career on studying the edges of society-urban folklore, riverfront rituals, and the myths people tell after dark. But in Louisville's supernatural underbelly, the monsters aren't just stories. And the most dangerous man she meets isn't in her field notes.Elias Crowe is a street-magician with flexible morals, a talent for curses, and a desperate need to pay his rent. When Daphne's academic curiosity collides with his latest retrie...