Higher Practice

For over two decades, Donald Michael Kraig's Modern Magick has been the world's most popular step-by-step guide to working real magick. Tens of thousands of individuals and groups have used this course as their primary instruction manual. Now, greatly revised and expanded, this set of lessons is more complete and relevant to your life than ever. Modern Magick will safely guide you-even if you know little or nothing-through a progressive series of practical exercises and rituals, complemented by the knowledge, history, insights, and theory you need to become a successful ceremonial magician.

Sean Anderson, better known as Big Sean, has reached incredible levels of success in his music career. And while, from the outside, his life looks like a collection of enviable achievements, in truth, he has experienced the highest highs and the lowest lows that come with anxiety and depression. At the age of eighteen, Sean decided to forgo college to sign with Kanye West’s record label. Even though he saw his wildest dreams coming true, almost like a rap fairytale, he found himself contemplating taking his own life.

Great nonprofits spend as much time working with institutions outside their four walls as they do managing their internal operations. They use the power of leverage to become greater forces for good. This landmark book reveals the six powerful practices of 12 high-impact nonprofits and tells their compelling stories.

Leadership in Higher Education explains the fundamental principles that support these practices and provides case examples of people in higher education who demonstrate each one. Drawing on the same pioneering research that formed the foundation of their classic best seller The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a set of leadership skills and practices that will make a significant difference in every area of higher education - faculty, administration, library services, career counseling, auxiliary services, campus safety, and more.

Master NICU certification with confidence—and elevate your clinical edge at the bedside. Certification and Core Review for Neonatal Intensive Care Nursing is the ultimate, exam-focused guide designed specifically for working NICU nurses preparing for the RNC-NIC or CCRN-Neonatal exam. With targeted content, strategic guidance, and real-world relevance, this book helps you not only pass your test—but truly refine your clinical judgment and critical care expertise. This isn’t just another review book padded with fluff and recycled questions. It’s a clinically accurate, high-yield, and...

When we are grieving the death of someone loved, we may struggle with making it through each day. How are we supposed to cope with our gut-wrenching grief and live our daily lives at the same time? What should we do with our chaotic, painful, and intrusive thoughts and feelings? How do we survive? And is it possible to both grieve and live with meaning and hope? If you've been asking yourself such questions, this book by one of the world's most beloved grief counselors provides affirmation and answers.

His work is cited by the world's best-known thought leaders, from Steve Jobs to Malcolm Gladwell. In this classic best seller - one of the most influential business books of all time - innovation expert Clayton Christensen shows how even the most outstanding companies can do everything right - yet still lose market leadership. Christensen explains why most companies miss out on new waves of innovation.

Llyn Roberts shares her years of experience with indigenous healers, shamans, and Elders who come from cultures that know how to shapeshift realities. She translates ancient techniques into easy-to-understand modern practices that you can use every day to transform personal imbalances, open to your life purpose, deepen your relationship with spirit and nature, and reclaim your power to make a positive difference in the world.

“Magick saved my life,” says Damien Echols. When he was on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, Damien used the spiritual practice of magick to stave off intense pain and despair, keep hope alive - and ultimately to manifest his freedom. Now this best-selling author presents an unabridged audiobook on this misunderstood tradition, bringing listeners instruction in key meditations, insights, and practices to reshape our reality with the divine energy of creation.

It's 1986, and "beautiful, radical ideas" are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a "deconstructed relationship." They become lovers, and the narrator's feminism comes up against her jealousy. Meanwhile, an entry in Woolf's diary upends what the narrator knows about her literary idol, and throws her own work into disarray.

Your Key to Passing the HESI A2: 🌟 Ready to Start Your Nursing Career? 🌟 Feeling overwhelmed by the breadth of topics on the HESI A2 exam? 🌟 Worried about where to focus your study efforts? HESI A2 Exam Prep 2025 is the guide you’ve been looking for! Why this book is your ultimate ally: 🌟 Everything you need in one place: A comprehensive guide covering every section of the test, including Math, Reading Comprehension, Biology, Chemistry, Grammar, and more. 🌟 Strategic approach: Learn the best strategies to organize your study routine, manage time, and tackle your weak areas ...

Written by Sir John Whitmore, the pioneer of coaching, and Performance Consultants, the global market leaders in performance coaching, this extensively revised and extended edition will revolutionize the traditional approach to organizational culture. Brand-new practical exercises, corporate examples, and coaching dialogues strengthen the learning process, whilst a critical new chapter demonstrates how to measure the benefits of coaching as a return on investment, ensuring this landmark new edition will remain at the forefront of professional coaching and leadership development.

If you want to pass the Hesi A2 Test, but don’t have a lot of time for studying keep reading...You are no doubt a busy student with a lot of things going on! It can be challenging to find the time to read your textbook in preparation for the Hesi Exam. However, the truth is that the Hesi exam is a challenging test, and you are given a maximum of three tries in 12 months to complete the test. This edition is a practice questions edition. It reviews all essential concepts found on the exam, from all categories of the test.

Ever felt like your life is running on a script you didn't write? As if you’re playing a role decided by someone else? You're not alone. The solutions to your problems are within you—in your Inner Child. "Healing Your Wounded Inner Child: A Spiritual Approach" is the definitive guide to reclaiming your life. Unearth the profound impact of your past and how it molds your present. But more importantly, learn how to break free. Inside, you'll discover: The pivotal role your Inner Child plays in your everyday life Methods to heal emotional wounds that have been festering for years Step-by-...

The best and the brightest use advisors and experts. Whether in business, sports, entertainment, academia, or politics—expert help is a fundamental enabler of success. That means that the demand for expert advice will grow and the competition will increase for such help. This isn't a matter of "certificates" and "universities," it's a matter of specific skill and behavioral sets that create a trusting bond and reliance. Trusted advisors are beyond coaches—they are comprehensive resources and supporters.

Hávamál is presented as a single poem in the Icelandic Codex Regius, a collection of Old Norse poems from the Viking age. The poem, itself a combination of numerous shorter poems, is largely gnomic, presenting advice for living, proper conduct, and wisdom. It is considered an important source of Old Norse philosophy.

Trauma pervades every aspect of our lives, particularly in recent years between climate change, social justice issues, the coronavirus pandemic, and more. But the truth is that post-traumatic growth, rather than post-traumatic stress, is not only possible but probable. In this book, you'll discover the conditions and compassionate practices that make growth and resilience possible.

Based on 20 years of investigative reporting and interviews with 100 practicing physicians who embrace the keto lifetstyle as the best prescription for their patients' health, Taubes' book puts the ketogenic diet movement in the necessary historical and scientific perspective. It makes clear the vital misconceptions in how we've come to think about obesity and diet (no, people do not become fat simply because they eat too much; hormones play the critical role) and uses the collected clinical experience of the medical community to provide essential practical advice.

In Neurodharma, the follow up to his classic Buddha’s Brain, New York Times best-selling author Rick Hanson, PhD, not only explores the new neuroscience of awakening, but also offers a bold yet plausible plan for reverse-engineering peak experiences, sense of oneness, and even enlightenment itself. And he does so with his trademark blend of solid science and warm encouragement, guiding you along this high-reaching path with good humor, accessible tools, and personal examples.

Barking Up the Right Tree offers proof that aversive punishment seldom works to eliminate undesirable behavior or to get the dog back on track. Dunbar presents numerous nonaversive yet highly effective solutions for misbehavior and noncompliance—simply by using the words you teach, and without even raising your voice.