The Map of Life is Changing

The nation's first generation of knowledge professionals, some thirty million Americans who've earned a living through their education, intelligence and expertise, has reached or is nearing retirement age. For more than half, this feels like a life sentence to purgatory, according to the most scientific studies ever done on this generation.

While many can afford to, they have no interest in powering down their ambitions to play golf, garden, cruise or play pickleball for the rest of their days. Recalls one who tried: You retire, you have a drink on your patio at 4:30 in the afternoon. More time goes by. Now you have a drink at 1:30 in the afternoon. You realize it's time to go back to work.

And that they are-the number of college educated Americans in their mid-60s and beyond who have kept working rather than retire, has more than quadrupled over the past few decades. And their numbers continue to climb, as millions more each day recalibrate their career trajectories, realign the U.S. economy, and reinvent the path to happily ever after for future generations to follow.

Reported the Wall Street Journal in April 2023, for many people, the idea of stopping work is a nonstarter-an inevitable path to boredom, ill health and a life devoid of meaning.

In this sequel to his Amazon bestseller Boundless Potential and the nationwide PBS-TV Special that it spawned, Peabody award-winning journalist and Fortune 100 management consultant Mark S. Walton crisscrossed the country, visiting with passionately unretired CEO's, Mayo clinic doctors, attorneys, neuroscientists, psychologists, financial experts, journalists and more, to chronicle their stories, share their lessons learned, and unpack the seismic trend that's changing the map of life.

If a book can be a song, the pages of Gone the Sun sing. They sing remembering and forgetting. Grief and Endurance. Present and past. In the present time of this memoir-in-fragments, Joel Peckham spends a last summer as music director at Manitou, the boys camp that has been part of his life since he was a child. Manitou summons Peckham's past-his father, his lost wife, his lost son. But there are songs of redemption those weeks too. This is a book that sings both back and forward with love, urging us all home.Karen Salyer McElmurray, author of Voice Lessons and I Could Name God in Twelve Ways In Gone the Sun, Peckham writes about his loving, sometimes fraught history with Manitou, a summer camp he and his father worked at for many years. As his father declines into dementia the middle-aged Peckham-still working summers at the camp between semesters as a college professor-muses upon time, upon loss, and the various selves we inhabit as we age. This is a beautiful, heartbreaking book, but heartbreaking in the most resonant, emotionally intelligent, and illuminating way possible.

Sequel to Secunda.

Patience has barely settled into married life with her husband and their inhuman partner when they are invited to spend the holidays up north. Along the way to meeting her new husband's family, the man and the monster begin to navigate their own relationship.

Though a less than warm greeting awaits their arrival, family cynicism is the least of their worries. A camp full of beasts and the land itself threaten to upend their new normal when a hike gone awry divides the trio.

Temptations old and new challenge them as they fight for survival in the northern wilderness. Will Patience be able to save her partners, or will there be nothing left to save?

Robin Ng didn't expect to discover the existence of werewolves on his journey north, let alone make the acquaintance of one. When he misses a crucial transit connection, he has no one else to rely on other than the enigmatic Dusty Tedesco to take him to his destination. Over the course of the trip, the two face bumps in the road and dangerous detours all while growing closer, but will Dusty's nature cut short their blooming relationship?

More than just a road trip romance, this is a story about finding a connection across the perceived lanes that divide us.

***This prequel must be read prior to book one, Let Us Prey to understand the world the characters live in.***

Being a teenager is bullshit.

You'd think being an heir in one of most powerful families in predator society would make it easier, but you'd be dead wrong.

From the moment I was old enough, my bloodthirsty parents made sure I understood my job is to smile, nod, and look pretty in public. None of my choices are my own, including my friends, my future, and even my hairstyle. The only sliver of happiness I cling to is my boyfriend, Todd, and attending Apex Academy where I'll be free of the chains holding me down.

Unfortunately, my life is a cosmic joke and everyone but me is laughing.

The perfect prom night I envisioned ends in disaster and my entire world explodes in the blink of an eye.

I didn't emerge as a predator and now there's hell to pay.

My name is Delores Drew and I've got news for the friends and family who betrayed me when I turned out different than they expected.

I'm no ordinary bunny.

Note: This book was previously released as a co-write and has now been re-written, edited, and changed to reflect the journey of the FMC as the series continues. All content information can be found inside the book or on the author's website.

This is a book about the most important discoveries in psychology. Not just the bleached bones of the studies in a textbook, but what has been left out of our textbooks. From Genius to Suicide Bombers, from Science to Sex, we will cover the most censored facts in psychology.

How is it that the greatest minds in history were able to make some of the most astonishing discoveries of all time when others could not? How is it that others reacted with anger to the greatest discoveries of all time?

Understanding how the mind works, gives us the potential to control our own mind. Only by coming to understand the forces that shape the human mind can we hope to change our psychology as effectively as science has changed our physical environment. We are way behind in that understanding.

All of us want to read about the amazing, secret, hidden powers of the mind. This book is often about the opposite; not just the genius of the mind but the other 99.99% of reality, the part left out of our education.

Psychology has been presented as if it is only a series of conflicting ideas (behavioral, developmental, cognitive, perceptual, neuropsychology, etc. etc.). All have found some important pieces. What we need is to put the known pieces together. Yet psychology has gone more toward a philosophy of differing opinions, instead of a unity of understanding. No other science does this. We cannot call ourselves a science if we are only a gaggle of conflicting opinions. We need a unified field theory.

MIND is about what has been left out, what others have not told us, in our high schools, our colleges, our psychology textbooks, and our daily news. Albert Einstein, in his autobiography, spoke of the realization of how much is censored from us. This led Einstein to ...an orgy of freethinking About life, freedom, and the ideas they forced him to memorize in his physics textbooks.

MIND is not for the fainthearted, it is for those who, like Einstein, have already run slam into a reality they never knew existed and who want to know what they were not told.

If you read each chapter to the end, I think you will see a unique insight from anything you have heard before, solely based on the evidence from psychology. Some of it may be liberating, some of it may painfully clash with what we have been told. Some of it may make you laugh at the extent of human stupidity. Let the chips fall...

A Little Book of Mourning follows the journey of the human heart when confronted with loss. Through this collection of spontaneous short essays, Katherine Lench Meyering shares the pathway she navigated through the abyss any parent would experience after a child's catastrophic choice. A trained actress, vocalist, songwriter and author, Katherine attempts to make amends with sadness, despair and anger, and to find forgiveness, understanding and peace with the unthinkable. With the unchangeable. With the illogical. These are the lucid, raw feelings that arose after the loss of her daughter, Alex, to suicide, presented chronologically as Katherine experienced them. Katherine hopes the vivid descriptions of her feelings and thoughts as she is forced to cope with an untimely death might help someone else living through the same thing. It might feel like you are alone in this, but you aren't. And reading how Katherine is getting through this never-ending process might help you get through it, too.

Magic, Adventure, and Mayhem.

Arda was meant to be a new lease on life for Kenko. However, the gods' meddling leaves her constantly scrambling to survive. All she wanted was a normal, healthy life. Will she be drawn into a brewing war threatening to take over the world?

Was asking for a normal, safe life too much?

What is a newborn elf to do?

Hell hath no fury like a girl pretending to be a boy at an all-demon university.

I thought surviving the first few months at Discordia was a win-until The Caliphate Games were announced.

Now, I'm being trained to fight in a deadly competition I shouldn't qualify for, juggling bloodthirsty rich jerks, sneaky headmasters, and living with seven demon hybrids who are way too hot for my sanity.

Anyone who says girls have it easy is out of their freaking mind.

My new 'brothers' are bound to me by some ancient ritual magic, but every look, every accidental touch, every too-long stare has my scarred heart racing. Even Jasper, the snarky, brooding prince who hates me, gets my motor running, and he makes me want to throttle him.

They're a distraction I can't afford, especially when I'm just trying to survive.

As if that's not enough, my powers are randomly waking up, making me a bigger target than ever. The headmaster's neck-deep in some sinister scheme, the royal families are gearing up for a brawl, and if my magic doesn't kill me, the truth about who I am just might.

What am I and where did I really come from?

The question isn't if the guys will figure out my secret-it's what happens when they do. Will they stand by me? Or will they let the world burn and leave me to go down with it?

Hell's never been so hot, and I'm playing with fire in more ways than one.

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Quiet Burn is book two in the series Discordia University. Discordia University is a multi-book series where the main character does not have to choose as she navigates the mysteries and adventure in her tale. Fans of Zodiac Academy, Demon Reform Academy, Lexi C. Foss, and Jen Thorn will love this exciting series that is part of the Legends of the Ouroboros universe.

America has always been and will continue to be a country of immigrants. In The Broken Welcome Mat, immigration expert Helen Raleigh weaves in her own experiences as a Chinese immigrant with U.S. history to create a vivid picture of the evolution of America's immigration policies and the challenges we face today.

Intelligent, sensible, and witty, The Broken Welcome Mat provides a road map for improving America's immigration system and creating a better, more united country for generations to come.

Growing up in a family active in promoting civil rights, Anita L. DeFrantz knew the importance of letting her voice be heard as an African American and as a woman. Her activism for individual rights and her ascent as a leader began in earnest at Connecticut College, where she was sophomore class president, chairman of the student judiciary committee her junior year, author of a student bill of rights, and a house fellow, supervising student dorm residents her senior year. At commencement in 1974, she was elected a trustee of the college by her class. Eventually, she would serve as a Connecticut College trustee for 24 years.

In college, DeFrantz found that she was a natural for the new and exciting sport of rowing, with its focus on teamwork. She continued her rowing training throughout law school and during her early career as an attorney. She competed in the 1976 Olympic Games in Montréal, which was the first time women's rowing was on the program of the Olympic Games, and raced to a bronze medal in the U.S. 8-oared shell with coxswain.

From the start of her involvement in the Olympic community, DeFrantz found a new direction for her voice: to be the champion of athletes everywhere. Her rowing background and experience as an Olympian - matched with her legal training, powers of persuasion, and passion for equality and inclusion - propelled her to speak out on behalf of Olympians. In the process, she gained access, and eventually leadership, at the upper echelons of the Olympic world, where she remains to this day, fighting for equality in sports and promoting the Olympic ideal of mutual respect and fair play. Named by Newsweek as one of the 150 Women Who Shake the World and Sports Illustrated as one of the 101 Most Influential Minorities in Sports, DeFrantz has used her platform in the Olympic Movement to advance fairness in sports. She's fought sexual harassment, helped change outdated gender verification rules, pushed forward the introduction of women's events, including Olympic soccer and softball teams, cracked down on doping, influenced new eligibility requirements, and more. With unwavering tenacity, she even took on President Jimmy Carter when he used Olympic athletes as leverage in the Cold War.

In My Olympic Life, readers will journey with an African-American youngster from racially-charged and segregated Indianapolis in the 1950s and '60s, who went to a high school with no sports for girls, as she grows up to be a member of the first women's U.S. Olympic rowing team and wins a bronze medal in the 1976 Montréal Olympic Games. They will then see how her Olympic experience galvanized her to become an active member in national and international sport and Olympic organizations, including becoming the first woman vice president of both FISA (the International Rowing Federation) and the International Olympic Committee. Her story is more than a civil rights and sporting victory for one person. It reveals how with grit, determination and passion, one person can change the game positively for all.

In 1915, Charles Beadle had the honor of creating a banned literary novel, A Passionate Pilgrimage, one of ten books blacklisted between 1914 and 1916 by Britain's Circulating Libraries Association. By today's standards, there's nothing lewd, graphic, or obscene in this largely autobiographical confession. But for the Britain of 1915, Beadle's carefree portrayal of casual sensual encounters between an unmarried protagonist (Jim) and various members of the opposite sex was a literary taboo - especially since it doesn't lead to moral retribution. Instead of suffering a fateful nemesis, Jim is focused on how to express his natural instincts without being waylaid by hypocritical doublethink. He also holds unconventional views regarding marriage, religion, and the forging of a personal life philosophy. Bucking the collective morality, he even empathizes with the plight of sex workers, whom he regards as victims deprived of a better life simply because of a bad roll of the dice. The author's sympathetic portrayal of Jim's romantic relationship with a dark-skinned African native, whom he regards as a more worthwhile companion than her proper Victorian counterparts, must have been a difficult pill for the contemporary puritans to swallow. Such notions flew in the face of the Genteel Tradition of Anglo-Saxon literature: a convention of cautious Victorianism that was about to crumble under fledgling but mounting attacks by courageous authors such as Theodore Dreiser (another censored innovator, with whom Beadle was personally acquainted), who sought to explore the unspoken realities of contemporary life. The upcoming decade of the Twenties would mark a full-frontal assault by the literary giants of the avant-garde; thus, A Passionate Pilgrimage appears at the very cusp of this creative revolution. Drawing directly from personal experience, Beadle affords us a rare glimpse into the underbelly of Victorian society, breaking through the mind-forg'd manacles of what was then considered an acceptable or tasteful tale and exploring points of view that only an anti-Victorian story might dare encompass. With the Obelisk Press publication of his seventh novel, Dark Refuge (1938), he produced an even more provocative chronicle - and one that was also banned in the Anglo-Saxon world due to its brazen portrayal of the Parisian demimonde of the interwar years. Therefore, both of these censored books portray the shifting mores of the times and encompass a major trajectory in the author's life. Newly revised, with over 200 annotations.

In From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter, Francis Carco evokes the rich, hallucinatory marvels of Montmartre, Montparnasse, and the Latin Quarter during the 1910s and early Twenties. The work also serves as a poignant memorial to all those artists and writers who were sacrificed during the Great War, their young, promising lives nipped in the bud before they reached their highest potential. From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter is a record of deep friendship in which memory serves as the most potent talisman of the heart. This newly revised edition features Rob Couteau's in-depth Introduction and over 300 annotations that serve to greatly expand the context of this lively chronicle. It also features a poignant Afterword titled Francis Carco's Complexity by the author Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno. In 1922, Carco was awarded Le Grand Prix du Roman for his novel L'Homme traqué (The Hunted Man), and in 1937 he was elected to the Académie Goncourt.

These poems hit where it hurts and score when it counts. The guy writes like an angel with its hair on fire. End of story. - John Yamrus, Author of nearly 40 books, the latest being Twenty Four Poems. Driving the Lost Highway goes from a rainy day cup of coffee and a purring catto a short suicide note, lonely men with stuffed unicorns for pets, then Christmas ghost memories with gone on family members, and includes more love than Hallmark could ever market. The poems read like daily prayers and ransom notes for missing hearts. They cheer for the most hopeless and forgotten underdogs and know that it's never about keeping score. They eschew anything mainstream, cookie cutter, or poems about wrens and snowy egrets, unless they're dying a day at a time, just like we are. Jeff Weddle's poems pack BAM!-POW!-metaphors, and this collection stands amongst the best poetry published this year. Dan Denton, union autoworker, poet and novelist These are cerebral poems that roll off the tongue and leave you smiling. Celebratory and castigatory, honest work. A delight to read. - Bree of Green Panda Press

I suggest you focus your considerable talents and effort on finding another career path.

From the moment those words left Agent Grant's lips, I realized my dream of being a profiler for the F.B.I. was dead. All because I happened to come from a small town in the Midwest.

Seriously, that's the only reason he would give me.

So I did what any sane woman with a heart full of rage and an Ivy League education would do.

Pack up what was left of my failed life and move back...

I don't know what triggered the flags on my file, but you can sure as hell bet I will find out-even if it kills me.

I suggest you focus your considerable talents and effort on finding another career path.

From the moment those words left Agent Grant's lips, I realized my dream of being a profiler for the F.B.I. was dead. All because I happened to come from a small town in the Midwest.

Seriously, that's the only reason he would give me.

So I did what any sane woman with a heart full of rage and an Ivy League education would do.

Pack up what was left of my failed life and move back...

I don't know what triggered the flags on my file, but you can sure as hell bet I will find out-even if it kills me.

If Stephanie Plum meets Sookie Stackhouse in a small Southern town sounds like your jam, get ready to be captivated by the Misfit Protection Program. Step into a world where the polite words are as cutting as the claws and fangs of the people uttering them and the threads of mystery have been woven by the Fates since the dawn of time. Jolene Whitley may not know what's really going on in her hometown, but she's determined to survive it.

I suggest you focus your considerable talents and effort on finding another career path.

From the moment those words left Agent Grant's lips, I realized my dream of being a profiler for the F.B.I. was dead. All because I happened to come from a small town in the Midwest.

Seriously, that's the only reason he would give me.

So I did what any sane woman with a heart full of rage and an Ivy League education would do.

Pack up what was left of my failed life and move back...

I don't know what triggered the flags on my file, but you can sure as hell bet I will find out-even if it kills me.

If Stephanie Plum meets Sookie Stackhouse in a small Southern town sounds like your jam, get ready to be captivated by the Misfit Protection Program. Step into a world where the polite words are as cutting as the claws and fangs of the people uttering them and the threads of mystery have been woven by the Fates since the dawn of time. Jolene Whitley may not know what's really going on in her hometown, but she's determined to survive it.

If you are looking for epic space battles, if you are looking for generals winning victory through genius tactics, if you are looking for berserker warriors carrying empires aloft on their swords, look elsewhere my friends. Here you will find laughter.Here a quartermaster must discover why the human insists that the mass produced broom, identical down to the molecule to every other broom on the base, is the wrong broom, and why and how they expect him to fix it. Here aliens learn the meaning of enough C4. Here a medic meets the challenge of understanding why a human thinks it can survive on chocolate cake. Here Monty Python meets Star Trek.

PSYCHOLOGY and the ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION Illustrated. What are the secrets of Gobekli that archeologists have missed? Psychology blends with archeology to investigate the purpose of Gobekli, the origin of it as a center of trade, the secret of how wild animals are tamed, and the evidence of the earliest and longest-lasting religion in history.
Gobekli Tepe was built six thousand years before Stonehenge. Organic matter, found in the mud plaster of the walls, was radio-carbon dated at 11,500 years ago. It quickly became the greatest mystery of modern archeology. When archeologist Klaus Schmidt did his great work unearthing Gobekli Tepe, he declared it to be a complex of stone temples built by Hunter-Gathers.
Did Hunter-Gatherers really take time out from surviving to come to Gobekli to build a complex of more than 20 temples? If this many people lived as Hunter-Gathers they would have exhausted their food base very quickly. It might make for a very bad episode of Naked and Afraid, with all of them starting to die off from starvation after 21 days. What really happened at the world's oldest historical site?

IMPRINTING AS THE KEY TO PRE-AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
Taming wild animals is easy, if you catch them as babies. Changing their genes to make them look like domesticated animals would have taken hundreds of years of herding in corrals to select the cute ones into such a dramatic genetic change.
It is a mistake to assume that domestication of animals had to wait until the large aurochs had been artificially selected by humans into becoming the smaller modern domesticated cows before our ancestors made use of them. More likely, they had been herding wild animals for hundreds of years before any genetic changes were selected that would lead to what we call domesticated.
All of these, the boars, gazelles, goats, ducks, aurochs, etc. might be misinterpreted by today's archeologists as wild animals when they found their bones; indicating that the sites around Gobekli were peopled by Hunter-Gatherers.
Instead, these remains may be evidence of people raising wild animals to feed the village. Wild does not mean they were hunted.
More people are killed by water buffalo in Southeast Asia, than any other species, yet when raised from birth, they become gentle farm animals, even pets.

HERDING ANIMALS WOULD HAVE BEEN ESSENTIAL BEFORE FARMING
If you think that farming is just throwing seeds on the ground and waiting for the rains, you have never been a farmer. The likely basis of farming would have depended first on the development of stationary herds of animals, likely sheep and goats came first, along with flocks of ducks as in the bas reliefs at Gobekli.

What Psychology tells us about the findings at Gobekli
I: GOBEKLI TEPE: World's First Civilization? Temple or Trade?
II: ANIMAL HUSBANDRY: Imprinting as the basis of Civilization
III: NEW EVIDENCE AT GOBEKLI
IV: 11,500 YEARS FROM NOW: Archeologists Discover America
V: EVIDENCE FOR EARLY RELIGIONS: Sky Burials
VI: CENTRAL PILLARS AND THE BURIAL OF GOBEKLI
VII WHOEVER CONTROLLED THE TRADE
VIII Epilogue
NEW EVIDENCE FROM GOBEKLI shows that animal husbandry
And trade allowed the establishment of civilization.
MODERN RELIGIONS THAT ECHO THE EARLIEST RELIGION
HOW CIVILIZATION GREW OUT OF TRADE: Trading Centers
Sprouted across Europe like corner grocery stores.

A weeping woman wanders the L.A. River, wailing for her lost son. A teen wants to find true love's kiss for their quince but discovers so much more. The journey of the last ahuizotl through the Franklin Mountains. King Triton's son finds a way to leave his tail behind to seek out the stars. Two girls become the keys to freeing long-trapped goddesses and their villages.

Where Monsters Lurk & Magic Hides is an anthology of Latine/x genre fiction from both new and established young adult authors. The stories in this anthology span the genre categories of romance, sci-fi & fantasy, and gothic horror. They take place in this world, other worlds, or maybe somewhere in between. Most importantly, the characters on these pages are not stereotypical Latine characters. Rather, they are fleshed-out characters, embarking on amazing adventures, who are unabashedly Latine.

Jumping between sections of this anthology, you will have a chance to see how tropes and settings specific to these genres are interpreted through our specific cultures. At the core of the stories are themes of family, love, religion, loss, food, longing, and ever-shifting identity. This anthology explores all of the joy and speculation found through Latinidad.

Contributors: K.C. Amira, Carolina Florez-Cerchiaro, Jaelin St. Clair, Shayna Conde, K. Victoria Hernandez, Sabrina Prestes, Jarrard Raju, Kiara Medina, Ashley Jean Granillo, Mariel Jungkunz, Nathalie D. Medina, Judy Fernandez Diaz, Lauren T. Davila, Flor Salcedo, Stephanie Slagle, Alexandra Campos, Taylor Ramage, and Linda Raquel Nieves Pérez.

Cover design by Mazziel Coello