Field Work

In The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem Branden delivers the culmination of a lifetime of clinical practice and research. In this exciting program he conclusively demonstrates the importance of self-esteem in our quest for psychological health, personal achievement, and positive relationships. Dr...

Brought to you by Penguin. A fascinating personal account of a revolution in British farming Sarah Langford had left her country roots behind to live and work in the city as a barrister. But when she found herself moving to the countryside, back to an agricultural life she had left behind, she...

Long based in Chicago, Iliana and her new wife, Anna, decided to create a culinary destination, the Milkweed Inn, located in Michigan’s remote Upper Peninsula, where much of the food served to their guests would be foraged by Regan herself in the surrounding forest and nearby river. Part fresh challenge, part escape, Regan’s move to the forest was also a return to her rural roots, in an effort to deepen the intimate connection to nature and the land that she had long expressed as a chef, but experienced most intensely growing up.

Protect Your Peace: How to Set Boundaries and Say “Yes” to Yourself Take the first step toward reclaiming your time, energy, and peace—Read this book now on Kindle Unlimited! Are you exhausted from trying to keep everyone happy, constantly overcommitted, and feeling like your life isn’t your own? It’s time to break free. Protect Your Peace: How to Set Boundaries and Say “Yes” to Yourself will help you reclaim control over your life by teaching you the art of setting boundaries. This practical and empowering guide is packed with real-life examples, humor, and strategies to help...

When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, working for one of Thailand's English-language newspapers. One evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story. A charismatic American anthropologist has been found dead, a suicide, in the Thai prison where she was serving a 50-year sentence for murder. Motivated first by simple curiosity, then by deeper and more mysterious feelings, Mischa searches relentlessly to discover the details of her crime.

Born into Russian nobility, Peter Kropotkin became a geographer and naturalist before emerging as a revolutionary and one of anarchism’s leading theorists. Across four major works, Kropotkin challenges the belief that competition, hierarchy, and concentrated power are necessary for human progress. In their place, he makes the case for mutual aid, voluntary cooperation, and decentralized production.

The German shorthaired pointer, or GSP, is an exceptionally versatile hunting dog that was bred in Germany in the 19th century. Like all pointer breeds, GSPs are very capable of spotting and quietly drawing attention to their quarry. Included with breeds like bloodhounds and English pointers, however, GSPs are also excellent trackers that are both fast and agile when pursuing game.

Winner of the Autism Society of America’s Dr. Temple Grandin Award for the Outstanding Literary Work in Autism A groundbreaking book on autism, by one of the world’s leading experts, who portrays autism as a unique way of being human—this is “required reading....Breathtakingly simple and...

You can diagnose almost anything with your hands. You still lost the interview in the first five minutes. Not on competence. On terminology. Somebody asked you the difference between a CRAC and a CRAH, or what N+1 means when a unit trips, and the conversation was effectively over — while a candidate with half your field time answered it and got the job. That's the whole gap. Not a degree. Not a certification nobody actually asks for. A specific, learnable layer of vocabulary and systems knowledge sitting on top of skills you already own. Every other book on data center cooling is written ...

"The Minimalists show you how to disconnect from our conditioned material state and reconnect to our true essence: love people and use things. This is not a book about how to live with less, but about how to live more deeply and more fully." —Jay Shetty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of...

If you long to reach kids and see their lives changed by God, this updated, comprehensive guide shows you how. Purpose Driven Youth Ministry will do for youth ministry what Rick Warren's Gold Medallion award–winning The Purpose Driven Church is doing for pastoral ministry. It's an...

Every leader knows they should delegate more. Then the day fills up with work they could hand off, decisions their team could make, and problems that only reach them because they trained everyone to bring them. The calendar says senior leader. The actual hours say something else.

"Middle manager." The term evokes a bygone industrial era in which managers functioned like cogs in a vast machine and bureaucracy ruled. In recent decades, midlevel managers became a favorite target for the chopping block—underappreciated, often considered a superfluous layer of the organization. Not only does this outdated perspective need to change, the future demands it. In Power to the Middle, McKinsey thought leaders Bill Schaninger, Bryan Hancock, and Emily Field call for a profound reimagining of what middle managers can and must be able to do.

Open the file. Train the state. Return with something useful. The Gateway Process has become one of the most fascinating subjects in the world of declassified consciousness research, altered states, intuition, sound-assisted awareness, and practical inner exploration. But between the rumours, theories, dramatic claims, and internet mythology, one thing is often missing: A grounded field manual. The Gateway Process Field Manual is an unofficial guide to Gateway-style practice for readers who want structure, caution, and clarity. Written in the black-file style of James Hutchinson’s ...

It is 3 a.m. and you are reading the news about your own profession. You are not paranoid. You are paying attention. Three people from your industry got laid off this quarter, two of them with ten more years of experience than you. The model your company started using in March now handles a meaningful slice of what you were hired to do. The math, when you finally let yourself do it, no longer works the way it worked five years ago. You do not need another LinkedIn post about embracing change. You need a protocol. OBSOLETE. is the calm, specific manual for what to actually do when the ground...

Every HVAC owner knows the first 97-degree Saturday. Thirty-one voicemails before 7 a.m. Every caller says "no air," and every one of them is right that it's an emergency. A tech texts in sick — maybe sick, maybe interviewing with the shop that's been poaching. And somewhere in that phone, a $12,000 replacement quote is going cold, because the season that buries you in $189 service calls is the same season you lose the five-figure installs. Feast or famine, twice a year, every year. Either the season runs you, or you run the season. This is a practical playbook for owners of residential ...

Called “the most influential Ukrainian book for the 15 years of independence", Field Work in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko is the tale of one woman’s personal revolt. It provoked the top literary scandal of the decade. The novel was first published in Ukraine in 1996, unleashing a storm of controversy and propelling the author to national fame. It topped the bestseller list in Ukraine for more than ten years, making it the most successful Ukrainian-language book of the '90s in every regard.

Every property manager knows the 11:47 call. Water coming through a ceiling. A scared tenant. A nervous owner you can't reach. A plumber to find at midnight, and money to spend that someone has to approve. You're standing in the dark, the human shock absorber between every owner and every tenant and every broken thing. You didn't get into this to be on call twenty-four hours a day. This is a practical playbook for owners of small residential property management companies — single-family and small multifamily, roughly 50 to 500 doors — who want to use AI where it actually helps, and ...

Discover your unique imprint for work that makes you come alive, fills you with meaning, joy, purpose, and possibility, then spend the rest of your life doing it. We’re all born with a certain “imprint” for work that makes us come alive. This is your "Sparketype," your DNA-level driver...

Master the art of crafting workshops that not only educate but also inspire lasting transformation in participants, with this time-tested and user-friendly guide. This comprehensive guidebook equips you with everything you need to successfully facilitate personal growth and collective wisdom in workshops, retreats, and trainings. Featuring a range of ready-to-use exercises, templates, worksheets, and checklists, this results-driven guide empowers you to confidently create and fine-tune your workshops with confidence and skill.