Surviving Work

How to Protect Yourself from Toxic Coworkers and Thrive Again Beneath the polished language of “team culture” and “collaboration,” there exists a subtler, colder game being played in many organizations. Most professionals believe success is earned through skill, integrity, and effort. Yet countless capable people find themselves drained, disoriented, and unfairly discredited – wondering how, despite their competence, they are losing ground to colleagues who seem less talented but somehow always come out ahead. This guide is written for those professionals: the conscientious, ...

Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships draws on current research, a wide variety of clinical modalities, and 30 years of clinical work with stepfamily members to describe the special challenges stepfamilies face. The book presents the concept of "stepfamily architecture" and the five challenges it creates, and delineates three different levels of strategies - psychoeducation, building interpersonal skills, and intrapsychic work - for meeting those challenges in dozens of different settings. 

Before Greek mythology existed as stories, Hesiod wrote the source. The Theogony and Works and Days are not merely ancient poems. They are the infrastructure of Western imagination: the texts that first gave names to the gods, ordered the cosmos from primordial Chaos, and asked how a human being ought to live. Every Greek mythology retelling, every novel about Zeus or Hades or Prometheus, every epic that has shaped modern fiction traces its ancestry to this voice. To read Hesiod is not to read an origin — it is to stand at the origin. This new translation by Henry Bugalho presents the ...

Your job can still exist while your professional value is quietly disappearing. That is the shift many people will not see until it is too late. You may already use AI to write, analyze, summarize, or get work done faster. You may even be more productive than ever. But there is a more uncomfortable question: What if being more productive no longer makes you more valuable? For years, you built your career on experience, knowledge, and hard work. You learned how to do difficult things well. You earned trust, responsibility, and a position that once felt secure. Now, much of that difficulty is...

In the New York Times bestseller Brain Rules, Dr. John Medina, a molecular biologist, shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule - what scientists know for sure about how our brains work - and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives. Medina’s fascinating stories and infectious sense of humor breathe life into brain science.

Bloomsbury presents Ambitious Mother by Anne Welsh, read by Jennifer Woodward. Women are told, “You can have it all.” You can be an incredible mom and have an incredible career at the same time. But nobody explains how to actually pull this off--until now. In Ambitious Mother, Dr. Anne...

Do you feel like a failure? Learn how one woman changed her life through prayer. After years of excelling in every type of employment, Anna experienced failure and the inability to perform. The devastation was compounded by seemingly kind managers. How could things have gone so wrong in such a short amount of time? In Surviving Work, Anna takes you through the struggles she faced. See how to: - Find your purpose and renew your faith. - Restore joy and laughter in your life. - Gather the strength and courage to move forward. Surviving Work is a devotional journey from loss to faith. Read ...

The stated goals of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs are often reasonable, if not noble—to create a more welcoming and inclusive environment for all. Yet, as more and more people are discovering, DEI as commonly practiced isn't a natural extension of past civil rights movements or an ethical framework for opposing discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, etc. Rather, it is inextricably connected with an illiberal and authoritarian ideology—Critical Social Justice—that demands adherence to its tenets and punishes any dissent from its dogma.

Have you ever lost a friend, family member, or coworker to full-blown Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS)? 🚨 Do you know someone who hyperventilates at the mention of "Trump 2024?" 🚨 Have you witnessed a meltdown over the mere sight of a red hat? 🚨 Do you fear that political sanity is becoming an endangered species? If so, this book is for you. Welcome to The Trump Derangement Syndrome Handbook—the hilarious, yet shockingly practical, guide that will help you navigate the outrage-fueled madness of modern political discourse.Inside The Trump Derangement Syndrome Handbook, you’ll ...

“An honest, practical, as well as emotional guide to working through the processing of mourning” (Vogue), Grief Works is a lifeline for all of us dealing with loss and a handbook to help others—from the “expected” death of a parent to the sudden and unexpected death of a child or...

Disappointing Affirmations for Adults: Funny, Honest, and Slightly Unhelpful Life Advice for Surviving Modern Life Disappointing Affirmations for Adults is a collection of affirmations designed not to inspire you to impossible heights, but to acknowledge exactly where you currently are: slightly tired, probably overthinking something, doing your best with the information available, and occasionally pretending to know what "equity" means in a financial context. These affirmations will not tell you that you are limitless. That would be statistically improbable. They will not tell you to ...

The wit and wisdom of William D. Sutton can now be shared with all. “As the muscles in the human frame, Is strengthened by our avocation, The human intellect it’s the same, By constant use and occupation” –William D. Sutton For a man of humble means from Grayson County, Kentucky, Sutton became a fairly well-off man, served in the Confederate army, where he was captured by his own brother, who was serving in the Union army. He languished as a prisoner of war and eventually lost his fortune. Sutton’s surviving works include never before published material from his own journals that ...

Most bullies are psychopaths, but not all psychopaths look like bullies. Many blind us with their charm and dazzle us with their success. But they all share a common trait that makes them highly dangerous: they don't have empathy. Research tells us that one in twenty people have no empathy...

After layoffs, the work often continues before people recover. The meetings restart. The deadlines remain. The inbox fills again. But the workplace no longer feels the same. Productivity Is Harder After Layoffs is a practical, emotionally honest guide for employees and managers trying to keep going after the people left but the workload didn’t. Artemis Ellis explores why productivity changes after layoffs—not because people stop caring, but because trust, focus, workload, motivation, and emotional safety have changed. This book names the survivor’s guilt, hypervigilance, overwork, ...

The definitive guide to working with -- and surviving -- bullies, creeps, jerks, tyrants, tormentors, despots, backstabbers, egomaniacs, and all the other assholes who do their best to destroy you at work. "What an asshole!" How many times have you said that about someone at work? You're not...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Grief Works, written and read by Julia Samuel. Death is the last taboo in our society, and grief is still profoundly misunderstood. So many of us feel awkward and uncertain around death, and shy away from talking honestly with...

How to Deal with a Toxic Boss Without Quitting at Work: A Practical Guide to Protect Your Mental Health, Set Professional Boundaries, Handle Workplace Manipulation, and Thrive in Your Career While Keeping Your Paycheck Your boss makes your stomach tighten before every meeting. You've rehearsed emails three times before hitting send. You've started wondering if you're the problem — you're not. Who this How to Deal with a Toxic Boss Without Quitting at Work book is for This book is for the full-time employee stuck in a genuinely toxic work environment who can't just walk away. Maybe it's ...

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know - such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget - and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains?

This annotated edition includes: • A 16,000-word critical study of Aeschylus and the birth of tragedy • The complete Oresteia — the only surviving Greek trilogy • All seven surviving plays, including Prometheus Bound • A life of Aeschylus (c. 525–456 BCE), the soldier of Marathon • The Plumptre verse translation, public domain worldwide Before Aeschylus, there was no drama. One actor faced a chorus, and nothing could happen. He added a second — and with two figures who could disagree, tragedy, and the whole of theatre after it, was born. Aeschylus is the oldest of the great ...

This annotated edition includes: • A 16,000-word critical study of Sophocles and tragedy • All seven surviving plays — everything that came down to us • The complete Theban cycle: Oedipus the King, Colonus, Antigone • A life of Sophocles (c. 497–406 BCE) • The Campbell verse translation, public domain worldwide A king hunts the murderer whose crime has plagued his city, swearing to bring him to justice — and discovers, scene by scene, that the man he is hunting is himself. Oedipus the King is the play on which Aristotle built the theory of tragedy, the play Freud reached for...