Edmund Hajim
2021

On the Road Less Traveled is the inspirational story of Edmund A. Hajim, an American financier and philanthropist who rises from dire childhood circumstances to achieve professional success and personal fulfillment. At age three, Hajim is kidnapped by his father, driven from St. Louis to Los Angeles, and told that his mother is dead. His father soon abandons him in order to seek employment—mostly in vain—leaving his son behind in a string of foster homes and orphanages. This establishes a pattern of neglect and desertion that continues for Hajim’s entire childhood, forever leaving its mark. From one home to another, the lonely boy learns the value of self-reliance and perseverance despite his financial deprivation and the trauma of being an orphan.

Kavita Daiya
2020

In Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to the question “What is created?” after decolonization and the 1947 Partition of India. She explores how stories of Partition migrations shape and influence the political and cultural imagination of secularism and contribute to gendered citizenship for South Asians in India and its diasporas. In Graphic Migrations, Kavita Daiya provides a literary and cultural archive of refugee stories and experiences to respond to the question “What is created?” after decolonization and the 1947 Partition of India. She explores how stories of Partition migrations shape and influence the political and cultural imagination of secularism and contribute to gendered citizenship for South Asians in India and its diasporas. Daiya analyzes modern literature, Bollywood films, Margaret Bourke-White’s photography, advertising, and print culture to show how they memorialize or erase refugee experiences. She also uses oral testimonies of Partition refugees from Hong Kong, South Asia, and North America to draw out the tensions of the nation-state, ethnic discrimination, and religious difference. Employing both Critical Refugee Studies and Feminist Postcolonial Studies frameworks, Daiya traces the cultural, affective, and political legacies of Partition migrations.

Randall Abate
2019

Future generations, wildlife, and natural resources - collectively referred to as 'the voiceless' in this work - are the most vulnerable and least equipped populations to protect themselves from the impacts of global climate change. While domestic and international law protections are beginning to recognize rights and responsibilities that apply to the voiceless community, these legal developments have yet to be pursued in a collective manner and have not been considered together in the context of climate change and climate justice. In Climate Change and the Voiceless, Randall S. Abate identifies the common vulnerabilities of the voiceless in the Anthropocene era and demonstrates how the law, by incorporating principles of sustainable development, can evolve to protect their interests more effectively. This work should be read by anyone interested in how the law can be employed to mitigate the effects of climate change on those who stand to lose the most.

Joseph Adler
2019

The Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual based on trigrams and hexagrams, by the beginning of the first millennium it had acquired written explanations and a series of appendices attributed to Confucius, which transformed it into a work of wisdom literature as well as divination. Over the centuries, hundreds of commentaries were written on it, but for the past thousand years, one of the most influential has been that of Zhu Xi (1130–1200), who synthesized the major interpretive approaches to the text and integrated it into his system of moral self-cultivation. Joseph A. Adler’s translation of the Yijing includes for the first time in any Western language Zhu Xi’s commentary in full. Adler explores Zhu Xi’s interpretation of the text and situates it in the context of his overall theoretical system. Zhu Xi held that the Yijing was originally composed for the purpose of divination by the mythic sage Fuxi, who intended to create a system to aid decision making. The text’s meaning, therefore, could not be captured by a single commentator; it would emerge for each person through the process of divination. This translation makes available to the English-language audience a crucial text in the history of Chinese religion and philosophy, with an introduction and translator’s notes that explain its intellectual and historical context.

Peter Antonucci
2019

Billionaire’s Paradise: Ecstasy at Sea chronicles the adventures of Eva Lampedusa, a high-powered and highly successful attorney who has an idea. When a Saudi prince is saddled with a megayacht he doesn’t want, Eva wonders if she could bring together a community of uber wealthy jetsetters and captains of industry aboard the super yacht and sail around the world enjoying elite experiences most can only imagine in their wildest dreams.

Benjamin Austen
2018

Joining the ranks of Evicted, The Warmth of Other Suns, and classic works of literary non-fiction by Alex Kotlowitz and J. Anthony Lukas, High-Risers braids personal narratives, city politics, and national history to tell the timely and epic story of Chicago’s Cabrini-Green, America’s most iconic public housing project. Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to twenty-three towers and a population of 20,000—all of it packed onto just seventy acres a few blocks from Chicago’s ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource—it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed. In this novelistic and eye-opening narrative, Ben Austen tells the story of America’s public housing experiment and the changing fortunes of American cities. It is an account told movingly through the lives of residents who struggled to make a home for their families as powerful forces converged to accelerate the housing complex’s demise. Beautifully written, rich in detail, and full of moving portraits, High-Risers is a sweeping exploration of race, class, popular culture, and politics in modern America that brilliantly considers what went wrong in our nation’s effort to provide affordable housing to the poor—and what we can learn from those mistakes.

Catherine Kyle
2019

In her collection, Shelter in Place, Catherine Kyle offers unapologetic mirrors and terrifying prophecies; these graceful, imaginative poems are not afraid to look into the deep dark--within and without--into the places we often close our eyes against. Refusing retreat, spurning sanctuary, Kyle's poetry is interrogatory, seeking answers: if we advocate awareness as a "balm," especially now "in the age of the image," how can we stare into the faces of suffering and do nothing? She goes on to ask: "if this world is a story, / what is its moral," an answer that relies on our acceptance of responsibility as "the sovereign or the heir." Will we be parent or legacy, liberator or disciple? Kyle reminds us that although we often give in--make deals with crossroads demons, relinquish our "hands" for "gloves," the "softest kid skin," take the easy outs--through it all we have a choice; we can choose to be museums, to "make shelters of / our bodies," to "carry the ghosts / of what is lost." We can "become custom jobs," play our parts, save empathy, create change. Even as Kyle's poetry terrifies and punctures us with worry, it rebels, refusing to relinquish hope, goading us into bravery. Shelter in Place is a warning, a slap in the face, a kick in the ass, a pre-apocalyptic prayer, a guide to action where "agency" equals "lullaby elegy power."

Elizabeth Blades
2018

A Spectrum of Voices there have been significant advances in voice studies. Prominent members of the new generation of voice teachers join their voices with now-canonized teachings. Asking questions about technology, pedagogy, and stylistic changes within the field, Elizabeth L. Blades brings the wisdom from the past and present to voice students at all levels. A Spectrum of Voices draws from the brilliance and combined experience of an elite group of exemplary voice teachers, presenting interviews from more than twenty-five notable teachers, six of them new to this second edition. Voice teachers offer valuable insight into their teaching philosophies, the types of auxiliary training they recommend to their students, and how they structure their lessons. This second edition also addresses significant technological advances of the past twenty years, especially the impact on vocal performance and pedagogy. A quick-and-handy reference for the studio teacher, this book also serves as a text for vocal pedagogy courses and as an essential supplement for physiology and vocal mechanics, teachers and students of singing, music educators, and musical theater performers.

Michael Blumenfield
2018

Although depression has been long considered an exclusively mental disorder, this book highlights the importance of recognizing it as a systemic--physical--illness. The chapters herein present key findings from research on animal models before proceding on to examine the "allostatic" load that depression bears on the body, commonly observed patterns of depression, and illnesses that it is likely to adversely effect--through mechanisms other than that of non-compliance with treatment. The authors also explore various diagnostic dilemmas including symptom-driven, phenomenologic approaches, and discuss drug-drug interactions and the use of unique electronic health records as collaborating agents to the physician. Depression as a Systemic Illness emphasizes the need for the primary care physician to be the first agent to care for "garden variety" depressive disorders and the need to alter medical school and residency training to accommodate the development of the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes to fulfill this goal. Its unique approach and presentation of depression makes it a key resource for clinicians within the fields of both psychiatry and primary care medicine.

Robert Bly
2019

Robert W. Bly is a self-made multi-millionaire and brings in six figures of sales annually from marketing and selling his own products, not to mention more than half a million from his freelance writing. He’s been a professional copywriter for nearly forty years and has been named America’s best copywriter. And now he’s drawing back the curtain and revealing hundreds of proven words and phrases that can help you: Grab the reader’s attention. Convey a sense of urgency. Communicate what’s special, different, and unique about your product. Boost response with proven time-tested offers. Arouse the reader’s curiosity. Overcome buyer objections. Announce something new. Move the reader emotionally. Create a perception of superior product value. Give the reader news. And much more.

Robert Bly
2018

Written to help marketers―from the Fortune 1000 to small business owners and solopreneurs―turn their websites from cost centers to profit centers, The Digital Marketing Handbook by legendary copywriting pioneer and marketing expert Robert W. Bly teaches you the proven models and processes for generating a steady stream of traffic, conversions, leads, opt-ins, and sales. Whether you are marketing an online-based business, brick-and-mortar store, or a hybrid business, Bly will teach you how to: Integrate a digital marketing plan with traditional marketing outreach efforts Maximize open rates, click-through rates, conversions, and sales. Avoid the most common internet marketing mistakes that cause people to fail online. Build a large and responsive opt-in email list. Master Google AdWords, Facebook Advertising, and other traffic-generating tactics. Drive quality leads to your online and offline storefronts. Produce brand awareness and generate leads with Snapchat, Instagram, Periscope, Pinterest, and other social media platforms Design hub sites, landing pages, and "squeeze pages" guaranteed to bring in leads. Plus, Bly shares tested direct response methods that can increase your online revenues by 50, 100, and even 200 percent along with an extensive resource section to give your website a competitive edge.

Robert Bly
2018

Practices, strategies, and templates for optimizing your email use. The average business employee spends more than thirteen hours a week reading and responding to email. That’s 675 or more hours—over 28 days a year—spent on email. Wouldn’t it be nice to get some of that time back? In The New Email Revolution, Robert W. Bly Bly draws from decades of experience sending millions of emails to help you take that time back. With this book in hand, you will be able to quickly and easily: •Find templates you can use to create emails for dozens of different situations. •Know the right wording and optimal word length for email communication. •Get recipients to read and respond to your email messages. •Understand when it is legal and not legal to send email to a person you do not know. •Incorporate photos, graphics, sound, and video into your email messages. •Measure the deliverability, bounce rate, open rate, and response rate to every email you send. •Write clearer, more engaging, more persuasive email copy for every occasion. Get better results in less time with The New Email Revolution.

Nicholas Brandt
2019

JOB INTERVIEW QUESTION #3: Are you allergic to burlap? Fresh out of college and with little to no work experience, Joshua Jace takes a job... or should I say the job takes him. Abducted, Joshua finds himself trapped in a cubicle at the inactive volcano lair of THE VILLAIN CORPORATION Taking over the world... Because we care. For merely minimum wage, Joshua is now the office assistant to a company with its sights on global domination. Ruling - So you don't have to. From Dr. Matt Scientist to Colonel Commando, Joshua has his hands full with a variety of colorful coworkers, not to mention strategic health initiatives that cause murderous snack cake rage, bizarre "voluntary" science experiments, robot sensitivity training, and Lovecraftian elder gods. All of this and making sure the office supplies are stocked. Writer Nicholas David Brandt draws on 10+ years of executive assistant experience and, being a professional writer in Hollywood, to pull together the world of Joshua Jace with his co-creator, Scott Arnold, a professional artist in Toronto - with his own years of cube-dwelling feeding the look and feel of the Villain Corporation's fine office decor. JOSHUA JACE: MINIMUM WAGE HENCHMAN - a romp of a story about work, coworkers, and the occasional Viking invasion. And remember: your co-workers might be out to get you.

Ward Buckingham
2019

Was it luck or the Lord, and does it really matter? Life is an adventure filled with outcomes reflecting luck or providence besides the expected results of purposeful effort. Someone in recent years suggested I compile a list of memories for which I feel thankful. Since then, I've written two published books, neither of which were conscious responses to that suggested action. Perhaps I'm showing increased awareness of my elderly age status and becoming more introspective about significant events over my lifetime. The profound finding in carrying out this exercise is that I can recall at least ten events where I could easily have died or been permanently disabled, but something or someone spared me that outcome. What or who was it, and why was I spared? Is there value in reflecting over past life events? Can this process be helpful to others, and, if so, how? As you view the life vignettes that follow, remember that providence refers to the protective power of God.

Ward Buckingham
2019

Captain Ward Buckingham was saddled with the potentially devastating disease of alcoholism at a time when the disease was misunderstood and often ridiculed. In an industry whose attitude was typically to deny that a problem existed or to summarily fire the affected pilot, he was able to confront and control his illness. He was also a groundbreaking leader in helping the airlines 1) acknowledge and address this disease among their pilots, 2) support rather than ignore or humiliate or fire those who fell victim to it, 3) establish one of the most effective assessment and treatment programs in any major industry today. Imagine yourself a passenger on Pan Am's London to Los Angeles Boeing 747 in the early 1970's with actress Elizabeth Taylor seated on the captain's lap steering that one-million pound bird as it jockeyed for position at its assigned arrival gate in L.A. Or better yet, how about being a passenger on Pan Am's Boeing 707 leaving Seattle with the captain so drunk he had to be helped up the stairway by two fellow crew members and strapped in the cockpit's jump seat well removed from aircraft controls! But as far as passengers and airline management and FAA regulators knew, the captain remained in command of that flight on paper and over the PA system so that the 'secret' reality of his impaired state never left that cockpit and crew.

William Cahn
2019

“NEXUS is widely recognized as one of the most influential percussion ensembles to have emerged in the post-war period” (2006 doctoral dissertation U of Hong Kong.) New York Times has called NEXUS “the high priests of the percussion world” and Steve Reich says, “probably the most acclaimed percussion group on earth.” NEXUS is in the Percussion Hall of Fame (along with Ringo Starr) and tours extensively. The group has participated in 60 international festivals, 4 times at the Kennedy Center, twice at the BBC Proms (Royal Albert Hall), 5 times in Carnegie Hall. The group is made up of four master percussionists internationally revered for virtuosity, innovation and extraordinary music out of the broadest array of percussion instruments imaginable. Their original compositions and arrangements, high-end commissions from Pulitzer prize-winners Steve Reich and Ellen Taafe Zwillich, Grammy-winner Libby Larsen, and Japanese master Toru Takemitsu, and famed collaborations with the likes of Canadian Brass, Kronos Quartet, and Richard Stoltzman, have created repertoire ranging from novelty ragtime and haunting African rhythms through award-winning improvised film music and ground-breaking compositions. NEXUS delivers a stunningly virtuosic spectacle of sound and rhythm.

John Caligiuri
2019

Dante Carloman is the king of the humans on the planet of Cocytus. That title has earned him leadership of a small colony clinging to life on a bleak world and a death sentence by the dominant species in the galaxy: the Ipis. In this desolate place, Dante uncovers unnerving clues linking humans to the Ipis dating back to Earth’s early civilizations. Captured and sent to a world designed for the slow tortured death of the Ipis’ enemies, Dante discovers astounding truths about mankind’s role in the galaxy. With his wits as his only weapon, he faces an enemy who has not known defeat for a millennium. Failure will not only doom everyone he loves but guarantee humanity’s annihilation.

Robert Cepeda
2019

Robert Cepeda, CFP®, writes a usable and story-laden book about specific life stage financial planning. His writing style invites the reader into the stories and helps you see yourself in them. The lessons learned are helpful to avoid pitfalls and dream about your own personal goals.

Israel Charny
2018

Psychotherapy for a Democratic Mind proposes that the optimal goal of psychotherapy lies in cultivating a free mind with integrity that will not seek to do major harm to one’s life or to the lives of others. This book looks at a wide range of psychiatric disorders, including classic conditions of neurosis, personality disorders and psychoses, through a different lens. Rather than simply enumerating symptoms, namely, how a person is addressing the opportunity of his/her life and the lives of others and whether a person is doing harm to themselves and/or others. This book proceeds to grapple with several critical life experiences and styles: tragedy, violence and evil, all of which often have posed insurmountable problems in therapy.

Brock Clarke
2019

“This exuberant comic novel—involving explosions, secret agents, religious fanatics and a hapless narrator dragged around Europe by his long-lost aunt—is also a sly theological exploration of fate and predestination.” —The New York Times Book Review. Calvin Bledsoe has never grown up. His mother, an internationally known theologian, was the dominant force in his life—so much so that he never left home, even when he married. Now she is gone, and at her funeral, Calvin meets an aunt he never knew existed, who immediately takes charge of his life and whisks him off to Europe for a grand adventure. As Calvin and his aunt traverse the continent, it becomes apparent that her clandestine behavior is leading him into danger. Facing a menagerie of antiquities thieves, secret agents, and religious fanatics, as well as an ex-wife who is stalking him, Calvin begins to suspect there might be some meaning behind the madness. Is he the person he thought he was? Is anyone ever who they appear to be? But there’s little time for soul-searching, as Calvin first has to figure out why he has been kidnapped, why his aunt has disappeared, and who the hell burned down his house in Maine.

Brock Clarke
2019

Ploughshares was founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in the Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Each issue is guest-edited by a prominent writer who explores personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Over the years, guest editors of Ploughshares have included Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Raymond Carver, Tobias Wolff, Sherman Alexie, Lorrie Moore, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Guest editors have been the recipients of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, National Book Awards, MacArthur and Guggenheim fellowships, and numerous other honors. Many of today's most respected writers had their first or early work published in Ploughshares, including John Irving, Russell Banks, Sue Miller, Tim O'Brien, Robert Pinsky, and Jayne Anne Phillips. The Literary Magazine Review proclaimed Ploughshares to be "a magazine that has published a good deal of what has become our significant contemporary American literature".

Nancy Cohen
2019

Are you having a bad hair day? Whip out your whisk, snatch up your spoon, and prepare your palate. Inside the pages of this cookbook are recipes that will bring you good cheer.Enjoy 160+ tasty recipes from Nancy J. Cohen’s popular Bad Hair Day cozy mystery series. Included in this cookbook are excerpts, cooking tips, and anecdotes written by hairstylist and savvy sleuth Marla Vail. From appetizers to desserts, Marla offers cooking tips and tricks along with commentary about the dishes she prepares for her family. Whether you’re a skilled cook or an eager novice, this cookbook will unravel the mystery of cooking. Put on your apron and plan to make some killer recipes! Bonuses Include•Meet the Sleuth•Introduction by Marla Vail•Cooking Tips•Excerpts from Series Titles•Themed Menu Suggestions•“A Sabbath Dinner” by Nancy’s MotherFor Home Cooks, Mystery Fans and Cookbook CollectorsRecipes are listed in these categories:APPETIZERSBEVERAGESBREADS SAUCESSOUPS ENTREES – BEEF ENTREES – LAMB ENTREES – POULTRY ENTREES – FISH ENTREES – VEGETARIAN SIDE DISHES DESSERTS“Being an empty nester for over a decade, I got out of the habit of cooking and my husband and I eat out all the time. Reading through this cookbook has revived my interest in getting back in the kitchen.” Rhonda Gilliland, Author and Editor of the Cooked to Death Series“Mysteries and cookbooks belong side by side on readers’ shelves. A Bad Hair Day Cookbook serves up both food and justice.” Christine A. Jackson, Ph.D., Author of Myth and Ritual in Women’s Detective Fiction

Randall Curren
2018

Should schools attempt to cultivate patriotism? If so, why? And what conception of patriotism should drive those efforts? Is patriotism essential to preserving national unity, sustaining vigorous commitment to just institutions, or motivating national service? Are the hazards of patriotism so great as to overshadow its potential benefits? Is there a genuinely virtuous form of patriotism that societies and schools should strive to cultivate? In Patriotic Education in a Global Age, philosopher Randall Curren and historian Charles Dorn address these questions as they seek to understand what role patriotism might legitimately play in schools as an aspect of civic education. They trace the aims and rationales that have guided the inculcation of patriotism in American schools over the years, the methods by which schools have sought to cultivate patriotism, and the conceptions of patriotism at work in those aims, rationales, and methods. They then examine what those conceptions mean for justice, education, and human flourishing. Though the history of attempts to cultivate patriotism in schools offers both positive and cautionary lessons, Curren and Dorn ultimately argue that a civic education organized around three components of civic virtue—intelligence, friendship, and competence—and an inclusive and enabling school community can contribute to the development of a virtuous form of patriotism that is compatible with equal citizenship, reasoned dissent, global justice, and devotion to the health of democratic institutions and the natural environment. Patriotic Education in a Global Age mounts a spirited defense of democratic institutions as it situates an understanding of patriotism in the context of nationalist, populist, and authoritarian movements in the United States and Europe, and will be of interest to anyone concerned about polarization in public life and the future of democracy.

Mary Jane Curry
2018

This collection of empirical work offers an in-depth exploration of key issues in the education of adolescents and adults with refugee backgrounds, residing in North America, Australia and Europe. These studies foreground student goals, experiences and voices, and reflect a high degree of awareness of the assets that refugee-background students bring to schools and broader society. Chapters are clustered according to the two themes of Language and Literacy, and Access and Equity. Each chapter includes a discussion of context, researcher positionality and implications for educators, policy-makers and scholars.

Roger DiPietro
2019

Decoding Persistent Depression: Book Two - Mind and Body Mysteries is the second book in a series that addresses a vital and compelling question: What if psychological symptoms aren't necessarily the result of some cause, but personality-based means to achieve goals? It explores common perceptions of mind-body dichotomy, conscious and unconscious functioning, the role of emotions, defining neurotic characteristics, the diverse origins of problematic perceptions and goals, as well as various symptom functions. Written as a probing conversation with easy metaphors, guiding questions, and enlightening examples, it's comparable to therapy or classroom discussion. The information is presented in a way that allows a smoother, more approachable path of discovery. Patient investigation will enable you to detect, examine, and contemplate illuminating clues - often so subtle as to be easily overlooked - that may bring a telling pattern to light.

Jennifer Donnelly
2019

Don't just fracture the fairy tale. Shatter it. Isabelle should be blissfully happy - she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who's cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella's shoe . . . which is now filling with her blood. When the prince discovers Isabelle's deception, she's turned away in shame. It's no more than she deserves: she's a plain girl in a world that values beauty; a bold girl in a world that wants her to be pliant. Isabelle has tried to fit in. She cut away pieces of herself in order to become pretty. Sweet. More like Cinderella. But that only made her mean, jealous, and hollow. Now she has a chance to alter her destiny and prove what ugly stepsisters have always known: it takes more than heartache to break a girl. Evoking the original version of the Cinderella story, bestselling author Jennifer Donnelly uses her trademark wit and wisdom to send an overlooked character on a journey toward empowerment, redemption . . . and a new definition of beauty.

Jennifer Donnelly
2018

Perfect for anyone fascinated by the Royal Wedding, Netflix's The Crown, or Wolf Hall, this is a pitch-perfect reimagining of the romance and tragedy of Henry VIII and his six wives, told from multiple points of view by some of your favorite authors. If you were one of King Henry VIII's six wives, who would you be? Would you be Anne Boleyn, who literally lost her head? Would you be the subject of rumor and scandal like Catherine Howard? Or would you get away and survive like Anna of Cleves? Meet them and Henry's other queens--each bound for divorce or death--in this epic and thrilling novel that reads like fantasy but really happened. Watch spellbound as each of these women attempts to survive their unpredictable king as he grows more and more obsessed with producing a male heir. And discover how the power-hungry court fanned the flames of Henry's passions . . . and his most horrible impulses. Whether you're a huge fan of all things Tudor or new to this jaw-dropping saga, you won't be able to get the unique voices of Henry and his wives--all brought to life by seven award-winning and bestselling authors--out of your head. This is an intimate look at the royals during one of the most treacherous times in history. Who will you root for and who will you love to hate?

Mark Eisenberg
2019

Carl Ellenberger
2018

A fascinating glimpse into the mysterious workings of music on the human brain. Part neuroscience, part memoir, Theme and Variations makes the latest evidence about how we process music in our conscious and unconscious minds accessible to every reader. Through his own experiences, the author, a musician and neurologist, shows us how he came to understand the importance of music in his life--in all of our lives--revealing a number of suprises that will fascinate physicians, musicians and the music-loving public alike, raising and answering such questions as: * Can music heal? delay dementia? comfort the terminally ill?* Do couples who play music together have more sex?* Can music make kids smarter or better students?* Why have homo sapiens made music since the origin of our species?Music, Dr. Ellenberger tells us, is an affirmative medium that stimulates us to imagine and embrace our fullest human potential.

Scott Evans
2018

When the Sun starts bombarding the Earth in changing colors, it disrupts the perfect utopian society of the year 4377. The world's water is drying up fast, and a family of two mothers, three fathers, and two kids must build an evacuation ship. But the insanity causing sky colors make it impossible. LITTERBOT is a humble and faithful cleaning robot who gets no respect. His body is able to transform into any shape to meet whatever situation arises. His processors can predict spills up to 3 days in advance. Unfortunately there's not much to clean in a perfect world. TROLL, one of the mothers, is a fun loving water scientist who must draw on her heroism to save her family. BULB, one of the fathers, is exceptionally logical and grumpy. His utter faith in science will be put to the ultimate test. When the world computer crashes, they must find primitive paper books. Society unravels, and they are forced to face their savage natures. Will a clumsy cleaning robot sacrifice himself to save his masters?

Jerramy Fine
2019

Percy is one very hungry puppy. Everything he sees looks so delicious! He wants to eat it all -- but his human parents tell him that he can't. So frustrating! Why are so many things "not for Percy"? With beautiful, hand-painted illustrations, this book is a must-have for all children and dog-lovers.

Jane Finkle
2019

What do Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, Marissa Mayer, and Bill Gates all have in common outside of being wildly successful? They are all introverts. In today's fast-paced, unstable workplace achieving success requires speaking up, promoting oneself and one's ideas, and taking initiative. Extroverts, fearless in tooting their own horns, naturally thrive in this environment, but introverts often stumble. If you question your ability to perform and succeed in this extroverted work culture, The Introvert's Complete Career Guide is custom fit for you. In this supportive, all-inclusive handbook, Jane Finkle demonstrates how to use your introverted qualities to their best advantage, then add a sprinkling of extroverted skills to round out a forceful combination for ultimate career success. Finkle shares the keys to navigating each stage of professional development--from self-assessment and job searching, to survival in a new position and career advancement.

Elizabeth Fitzsimmons
2019

Entrepreneurship seems like a thrilling, lucrative adventure—until things go horribly wrong. As crisis after crisis hits, even the most seasoned founder can get disoriented. Whether you’re in the throes of business woes or just getting into the game, E. Keller Fitzsimmons has written a field guide outlining the terrain to help you avoid getting Lost in Startuplandia. Keller has been there, done that, starting six businesses over twenty years. In this honest, personal guide, she draws on her trials and triumphs, as well as those of fellow entrepreneurs, to share their most valuable lessons for surviving startup failure. From staying self-aware to redefining success to prioritizing relationships, Keller illuminates the pitfalls that can make or break even the most resilient entrepreneur. Startuplandia can be as exhilarating and rewarding as you dreamed—as long as you’re ready to navigate the inevitable crevasses and quicksand along the way.

Adam Frank
2018

Astrophysicist and NPR commentator on what the latest research on the existence and trajectories of alien civilizations may teach us about our own. Light of the Stars tells the story of humanity’s coming of age as we awaken to the possibilities of life on other worlds and their sudden relevance to our fate on Earth. Astrophysicist Adam Frank traces the question of alien life and intelligence from the ancient Greeks to the leading thinkers of our own time, and shows how we as a civilization can only hope to survive climate change if we recognize what science has recently discovered: that we are just one of ten billion trillion planets in the Universe, and it’s highly likely that many of those planets hosted technologically advanced alien civilizations. What’s more, each of those civilizations must have faced the same challenge of civilization-driven climate change. Written with great clarity and conviction, Light of the Stars builds on the inspiring work of pioneering scientists such as Frank Drake and Carl Sagan, whose work at the dawn of the space age began building the new science of astrobiology; Jack James, the Texas-born engineer who drove NASA’s first planetary missions to success; Vladimir Vernadsky, the Russian geochemist who first envisioned the Earth’s biosphere; and James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis, who invented Gaia theory. Frank recounts the perilous journey NASA undertook across millions of miles of deep space to get its probes to Venus and Mars, yielding our first view of the cosmic laws of planets and climate that changed our understanding of our place in the universe. Thrilling science at the grandest of scales, Light of the Stars explores what may be the largest question of all: What can the likely presence of life on other worlds tell us about our own fate?

Odetta Fraser
2019

Ode to America is a song both difficult and sweet. It touches upon America's bittersweet soul as it struggles to impress itself upon a girl so unfamiliar with its cold and aloof persona. It is written in poetic form, daring its readers to catch up as it takes flight into issues both far and near to every person's aching heart, in a country so treasured and bold.

Sidney Friedman
2018

There are thousands, maybe millions, of diet and fitness books. Most of them will work if you maintain consistency. The problem is in a few days or weeks, most everyone slips back into their old habits. Ouch! Hey, we've all been there. But now there is an actual answer. MIND OVER BLUBBERTM shows you how to set your mind to keep you on the path!! Yes!! You will easily have focus and you will have consistency, without submitting to temptation. Beautifully written, quick and easy to read, the book costs less than $20. That's it. No up-sells. No extra stuff to get. No subscriptions. And MIND OVER BLUBBERTM is totally fun. This Ebook shows you simple, easy-to-do mental components which keep you on track and get you to your goal.

Daniel Gillion
2020

The “silent majority”—a phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response to Vietnam War protests and later used by Donald Trump as a campaign slogan—refers to the supposed wedge that exists between protestors in the street and the voters at home. The Loud Minority upends this view by demonstrating that voters are in fact directly informed and influenced by protest activism. Consequently, as protests grow in America, every facet of the electoral process is touched by this loud minority, benefiting the political party perceived to be the most supportive of the protestors’ messaging. Drawing on historical evidence, statistical data, and detailed interviews about protest activity since the 1960s, Daniel Gillion shows that electoral districts with protest activity are more likely to see increased voter turnout at the polls. Surprisingly, protest activities are also moneymaking endeavors for electoral politics, as voters donate more to political candidates who share the ideological leanings of activists. Finally, protests are a signal of political problems, encouraging experienced political challengers to run for office and hurting incumbents’ chances of winning reelection. The silent majority may not speak by protesting themselves, but they clearly gesture for social change with their votes. An exploration of how protests affect voter behavior and warn of future electoral changes, The Loud Minority looks at the many ways that activism can shape democracy.

Ian Gordon
2018

Author Michael Chabon described Ben Katchor (b. 1951) as "the creator of the last great American comic strip." Katchor's comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer, which began in 1988, brought him to the attention of the readers of alternative weekly newspapers along with a coterie of artists who have gone on to public acclaim. In the mid-1990s, NPR ran audio versions of several Julius Knipl stories, narrated by Katchor and starring Jerry Stiller in the title role. An early contributor to RAW, Katchor has contributed to Forward, New Yorker, Slate, and weekly newspapers. He edited and published two issues of Picture Story, which featured his own work, with articles and stories by Peter Blegvad, Jerry Moriarty, and Mark Beyer. In addition to being a dramatist, Katchor has been the subject of profiles in the New Yorker, a recipient of a MacArthur "Genius Grant" and a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a fellow at both the American Academy in Berlin and the New York Public Library. Katchor's work is often described as zany or bizarre, and author Douglas Wolk has characterized his work as "one or two notches too far" beyond an absurdist reality. And yet the work resonates with its audience because, as was the case with Knipl's journey through the wilderness of a decaying city, absurdity was not only what was usefully available; absurdity was the reality. Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer: Stories presaged the themes of Katchor's work: a concern with the past, an interest in the intersection of Jewish identity and a secular commercial culture, and the limits and possibilities of urban life.

Donald Graff
2019

The Last Offering is the story of the young hunter Atírin and the maiden Pazhè, set long ago in a land called Armágin. Here their people, the Arbir, hunt, fish, and garden by its lowland waters. But all is not idyllic, for the people depend upon witches as healers and diviners while fearing their curses, and demand blood vengeance for wrongs.When Pazhè accepts Atírin's proposal of marriage, a rival suitor strikes a deadly bargain with Dahlor Magman, a sorcerer from a far island, to possess Pazhè nevertheless, leading to abduction, treachery, murder, and the waking of an ancient evil.

Jeremy Greenwood
2018

The transformative effect of technological change on households and culture, seen from a macroeconomic perspective through simple economic models. In Evolving Households, Jeremy Greenwood argues that technological progress has had as significant an effect on households as it had on industry. Taking a macroeconomic perspective, Greenwood develops simple economic models to study such phenomena as the rise in married female labor force participation, changes in fertility rates, the decline in marriage, and increased longevity. These trends represent a dramatic transformation in everyday life, and they were made possible by advancements in technology. Greenwood also addresses how technological progress can cause social change.

Charles Halsted
2019

Charles Halsted finds the powerful, haunting, tiny moments within a story and shows his reader there are entire worlds in them. Writing as a physician, he knows how to save someone's life and also how to stand "silently by, awe stricken." With humor, with reverence, in awe of the "master molecule" and "orange-flamed trees," these moments can be shocking, heartbreaking, and heartfelt. In this collection, the fleeting moment is caught and held with tenderness. These are poems brimming with life. --Lauren Hilger, poetry editor of No Tokens and author of the poetry collection Lady be Good (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016) In Breaking Eighty, the reader is taken on a journey through the peaks and valleys of being human. We begin with the child fighting monsters in the attic and conclude with a grandfather lovingly explaining the scientific method to his granddaughter.

Charles Halsted
2019

In Charles Halsted’s poignant debut, the reader journeys from first beers to medical school, from missing a mother to the profound start of each day. Halsted writes poems of awe—for the practice of medicine, in which he made a lifelong career, and humanity, which exists alongside America’s history, with its “bombs in the night,” its inequity and rage. Extenuating Circumstances delivers a frank and powerful gift—it challenges us to connect “line and hook with millennia of evolution.” Lauren Hilger, poetry editor of No Tokens and author of Lady Be Good Extenuating Circumstances is an autobiography in verse that carries its subject, physician Charles Halsted, from early years in New England to his eighties in northern California.

Kelli Harding
2019

Discover an eye-opening and provocative new way to look at our health based on the latest groundbreaking discoveries in the science of compassion, kindness, and human connection. For all of its rigor and science, medicine is full of stories—mysteries—that doctors and research cannot explain. Patients who are biologically healthy, but feel ill. Patients who are biologically ill, but feel healthy. What if these health mysteries could teach us something about what really makes us sick—and how to be healthy?

John Heffron
2019

The Rise of the South in American Thought and Education documents the generalization of southern values and institutions northward at the close of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. The traditional emphasis in the South on vocational education (a reflection of the Christian ethic of work as redemption, not the Republican one of free labor), country life and living, racial segregation, and the centrality of nature study as a source of both science and religion, added up to a coherent vision that responded to "undesirable" economic and social change in the urban North. The survival of Southern cultural traditions, as antiquated as they were, posed no threat to the plans of corporate progressives; indeed, as the book argues, it facilitated them, and nowhere more so than in the field of education. Modern educators wanting to put into historical context relations of class, race, and ethnicity as they persist in today’s schools will find much here to inform them, putting to rest, for example, false distinctions in the history of school reform between a liberal-progressive North and a conservative and reactionary South.

Susan Hochmiller
2019

Vocal chamber music encompasses a wide range of music composed for anything from a solo to twelve voices and instruments. Performing chamber music offers the singer a unique opportunity to increase collaboration with instrumentalists and improve technique, musicianship, artistry, and communication. So You Want to Sing Chamber Music offers a comprehensive guide to learning, rehearsing, and performing in this genre. The book explores such critical skills as choosing repertoire that is appropriate for one’s voice type, communicating with wind players and string players, preparing for a successful rehearsal, performance style, staging considerations, and recital programming. Also included are suggestions on using vocal chamber music as a pedagogical tool in the voice studio, alongside recommendations for listening and further reading.

Lewis Hsu
2019

"This is a marvelous piece of work. I think it will be a tremendous asset to sickle cell resource libraries. More importantly, it has put into one volume information that is usually spread over many publications--and in terminology the lay person can read and understand, yet also be meaningful for healthcare providers as well."--Louise Dorn. R.N. Sickle Cell Center, University of Illinois Medical Center. Allan Platt, PA-C graduated with a BS in Health Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1977, a BS in Medical Science from the Emory University School of Medicine, Physician Assistant program in 1979, and a MMSc in Career Physician Assistant from Emory in 2006. From 1984 until 2004 he was Program Coordinator, and Physician Assistant at the Georgia Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center at Grady Health System, the world's first dedicated 24 hour emergency center for sickle cell patients. Allan is co-inventor of the MPS ― Multidimensional Pain Score. The MPS is a new documentation tool for patients and clinicians to communicate about pain. He is co-author of Overcoming Pain from Hilton Publishing published in September 2006 and author of Evidence Based Medicine for PDAs: A Guide for Practice Published by Bartlett and Jones March 2008.

Maurice Isserman
2019

The epic story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division, whose elite soldiers broke the last line of German defenses in Italy’s mountains in 1945, spearheading the Allied advance to the Alps and final victory. At the start of World War II, the US Army had two cavalry divisions—and no mountain troops. The German Wehrmacht, in contrast, had many well-trained and battle-hardened mountain divisions, some of whom by 1943 blocked the Allied advance in the Italian campaign. Starting from scratch, the US Army developed a unique military fighting force, the 10th Mountain Division, drawn from the ranks of civilian skiers, mountaineers, and others with outdoor experience. The resulting mix of Ivy League students, park rangers, Olympic skiers, and European refugees formed the first specialized alpine fighting force in US history.

William Kaplin
2019

Based on the fifth edition of Kaplin and Lee&;s indispensable guide to the law that bears on the conduct of higher education, The Law of Higher Education, Fifth Edition: Student Version provides an up-to-date textbook, reference, and guide for coursework in higher education law and programs preparing higher education administrators for leadership roles. The Student Version includes the materials from the full fifth edition that most relate to student interests and are most suitable for classroom instruction. For example: The evolution of higher education law and governance, Legal planning and dispute resolution, The relationship between law and policy, Faculty and staff employment issues, including collective bargaining, Academic freedom for faculty and students, Copyright basics, The contract rights of students, Legal issues in online education, The rights of students and faculty with disabilities, Campus issues: safety, registered sex offenders, racial and sexual harassment, student suicide, campus computer networks, searches of students&; residence hall rooms, Hate speech and freedom of speech, including the rights of faculty and students in public universities, Student organizations&; rights, responsibilities, and activities fees, Governmental support for religious institutions and religious autonomy rights of individuals in public institutions, Nondiscrimination and affirmative action in employment, admissions, and financial aid, Athletics and Title IX, FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act)

Tim Kasser
2018

PAPERBACK ORIGINAL From the bestselling cartoonist of The Cartoon History of the Universe comes an explosive graphic takedown of capitalism Bestselling “overeducated cartoonist” Larry Gonick has delighted readers for years with sharp, digestible, and funny accounts of everything from the history of the universe to the intricacies of calculus. Now Gonick teams up with psychologist and scholar Tim Kasser to create an accessible and pointed cartoon guide to how global, privatizing, market-worshiping hypercapitalism threatens human well-being, social justice, and the planet. But Gonick and Kasser don't stop at an analysis of how the economic system got out of whack―they also point the way to a healthier future.

Gershen Kaufman
2019

This teacher’s companion to a classic book for kids provides tools for building self-esteem and personal power. Without self-esteem, kids doubt themselves and may turn to unhealthy habits as a way of coping. With self-esteem, kids feel secure, are willing to take positive risks, and are resilient in the face of challenges. This teacher’s guide expands the messages of Stick Up for Yourself!, teaching self-confidence and how to be assertive with easy-to-use sessions. Created for the classroom, these sessions can also be used in other group settings including counseling groups, out-of-school programs, community programs, and more. Digital content includes reproducible handouts.

Richard Kellogg
2019

BARRY BASKERVILLE & The Buried Treasure Airship 27 Productions is delighted to announce the release of their sixth chapter in the ongoing Barry Baskerville children’s book series. Written by Richard Kellogg and illustrated by Gary Kato, the series spotlights the young boy who wants to grow up to be a detective like his hero Sherlock Holmes. In this sixth adventure, Barry’s father inherits a diary farm out in the country. When Barry learns there is a buried treasure hidden on the farm, he makes it his mission to solve the puzzle and find the treasure. Once again Kellogg & Kato present a delightful adventure for children of all ages.AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – Pulp Fiction For A New Generation!

Daniel M. Kimmel
2019

In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, creating the iconic concept, and incidentally creating modern science fiction. In 1935, Elsa Lanchester married the monster. And now, Daniel M. Kimmel updates the myth, and tells us the tale from the point of view of the most important character: the Father of the Bride of Frankenstein. This is not Ms. Shelley's monster, but (dare we say it?) a dazzling urbanite, literate and thoughtful... and Jewish? Science has always outrun the guidelines of ethics. It's not unthinkable that interspecies relationships will be the next big question. And with those relationships will come a father's love for his daughter, and that father's fears for his bankbook when his doting daughter plans the most outrageous of weddings.

Lawrence Klein
2019

"Sensor and Data Fusion for Intelligent Transportation Systems introduces readers to the roles of the data fusion processes defined by the Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) data fusion model, data fusion algorithms, and noteworthy applications of data fusion to ITS. Additionally, the monograph offers detailed descriptions of three of the widely applied data fusion techniques and their relevance to ITS (namely, Bayesian inference, Dempster-Shafer evidential reasoning, and Kalman filtering), and indicates directions for future research in the area of data fusion. The focus is on data fusion algorithms rather than on sensor and data fusion architectures, although the book does summarize factors that influence the selection of a fusion architecture and several architecture frameworks"--

Ian Koenig
2019

The Principle Based Enterprise Architecture (PBEA) Method is a proven approach for implementing an enterprise-wide architecture practice in large- and medium-sized technology organizations. These diagramming guidelines guidelines facilitate the documentation and communication of technology architecture. Clear communication is necessary both as a part of an enterprise architecture governance process and in the flow of information from business requirements to systems architecture to technical design to implementation to live operations.

Ian Koenig
2019

The Principle Based Enterprise Architecture (PBEA) Method is a proven approach for implementing an enterprise-wide architecture practice in large- and medium-sized technology organizations. The method begins with a set of architecture objectives linked to concepts that matter to the business. It then lays out how to build technology platforms from components we call assets and how to manage those assets over time, through the calculation and management of technical debt. The PBEA method is a pragmatic approach to enterprise technology architecture which is based on the fundamental tenet that technology is never perfect, compromises must be made, and one of the most valuable functions an enterprise architecture group can provide for a company is a method for managing those compromises.

Shari Kramer
2019

The college admissions process can be stressful, overwhelming, and cumbersome. Where should you start? How can you get involved in meaningful extracurricular activities? How do you identify your best-fit colleges? How do you write a compelling essay? How can you stand out from other applicants? And how can you accomplish all of this, while keeping your sanity? We are here to help! THE ESSENTIAL COLLEGE ADMISSIONS HANDBOOK is the first college planning book you should read! This easy-to-follow book offers clear and practical advice to guide you through the competitive and complex world of college admissions.

John Kruse
2019

ADHD causes more than just distractibility and restlessness. Dr. John Kruse capitalizes on his training in neuroscience and his decades of experience as a psychiatrist to explain how the concept of “executive function deficits” illuminates why ADHD can manifest as impulsivity, inconsistency, spontaneity, emotional volatility, poor follow-through, extreme candor, and troubles prioritizing. We avert tragedies by accurately identifying and treating adult ADHD, yet far too often we fail to recognize the condition.Through his political prominence, Mr. Trump nominated himself to be the poster child for adult ADHD. The President also showcases how we frequently ignore or mischaracterize even florid and daily ADHD-driven behaviors, particularly in individuals who also display other mental health conditions.

Joanne Larson-Smith & George Moses
2018

Through multiple narratives reflecting the complexity of participatory action research partnerships for social justice, this book sheds light on the dialogic spaces that intentionally support community literacies and rhetorical practices for inquiry and change. Applying literacy as social practice, Larson and Moses tell a story of a unique collaboration between community members and university faculty and students, who together transformed an urban corner store into a cornerstone of the community. Building on the emerging field of community literacies, the book captures the group’s active work on the ground and, on another level, how transformation occurred in the dialogic spaces of the research team as it learned to embrace distributed expertise and multiple identities.

Michael Lee
2019

Sometimes you just want to read something a little bit different from your usual choices. If you're looking for a fun read, perhaps you should give poetry a try. "What? Poetry?" you might ask. Yes, poetry. Biography physician turned poet Dr. Michael A. Lee has just recently published a funny, entertaining book of children's poems/sketches called NOT GONNA WRITE POEMS. The book of poems/sketches was inspired by the work of Shel Silverstein and deals with a wide variety of topics- from sleepovers, hiccups, slime to the Boogey Monster. Dr. Lee wrote the 70+ poems in the book while both his 10 year old daughter and the author drew the accompanying sketches for the poems. It's ideal for children of all ages and their families to read aloud and to laugh-- a lot!! You can also check out his story/book on the author's website page: mikeleethepoet.com

David Levine
2020

From the dinosaurs and the glaciers to the first native peoples and the first European settlers, from Dutch and English Colonial rule to the American Revolution, from the slave society to the Civil War, from the robber barons and bootleggers to the war heroes and the happy rise of craft beer pubs, the Hudson Valley has a deep history. The Hudson Valley: The First 250 Million Years chronicles the Valley’s rich and fascinating history and charms. Often funny, sometimes personal, always entertaining, this collection of essays offers a unique look at the Hudson Valley’s most important and interesting people, places, and events.

Tadz Lewandowski
2019

Born in Wisconsin, Philip Bergin Gordon--whose Ojibwe name, Tibishkogijik, is said to mean Looking into the Sky--became one of the first Native Americans to be ordained as a Catholic priest in the United States. Gordon's devotion to Catholicism was matched only by his dedication to the protection of his people. A notable Native rights activist, his bold efforts to expose poverty and corruption on reservations and his reputation for agitation earned him the nickname "Wisconsin's Fighting Priest." Drawing on previously unexplored materials, Tadeusz Lewandowski paints a portrait of a contentious life. Ojibwe, Activist, Priest examines Gordon's efforts to abolish the Bureau of Indian Affairs, his membership in the Society of American Indians, and his dismissal from his Ojibwe parish and exile to a tiny community where he would be less likely to stir up controversy.

Barry Libin
2019

Conspiracy, intrigue, deceit, and murder in the holiest of sanctuaries result from man's ultimate fall – thou shall not covet. THE VATICAN’S VAULT is based on religious and historical events that portray the fierce enmity within the Catholic Church emanating from the challenge of modernity versus tradition. The novel traces an early nineteenth-century secret Italian document, The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita, that maps out a generational blueprint to overthrow the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. The story takes place during the final phase of this conspiracy at a time when the Church is most vulnerable following the deadly sins of child molestation, the redefining of family and marriage, and the attempt to overthrow theological rigidity and conservatism. New York Medical Examiner and detective, Dr. Jeffrey Moss, fresh from solving The Mystery of the Milton Manuscript (Urim, 2014), leads the investigation of a young priest murdered at 452 Madison Avenue, the official residence of the Archbishop of New York.

Angela Longo
2019

Do you want to discover and meet your unique quantum wave self? Do you want to tap into a world where you feel empowered and confident? Do you want to know an easy way to move from being dissatisfied with life to feeling the abundance and magic of living? In this workbook you will: Learn how to tap into the energy of your personal quantum wave pattern. Discover techniques to instantly replace your unproductive Beliefs, Actions, Thoughts, Habits, Words, Attitudes, Values, and Emotions, (the acronym BATHWAVEs). Recognize how your relationships, dreams, body symptoms, illnesses and daily events provide information to transform your life from dissatisfaction into emergent miracles.

Tara McCarthy
2018

n the late nineteenth century, an era in which women were expanding the influence outside the home, Irish American women carved out unique opportunities to serve the needs of their communities. For many women, this began with a commitment to Irish nationalism. In Respectability and Reform, McCarthy explores the contributions of a small group of Irish American women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era who emerged as leaders, organizers, and activists. Profiles of these women suggest not only that Irish American women had a political tradition of their own but also that the diversity of the Irish American community fostered a range of priorities and approaches to activism. McCarthy focuses on three movements—the Irish nationalist movement, the labor movement, and the suffrage movement—to trace the development of women’s political roles.

Honey Meconi
2018

A Renaissance woman long before the Renaissance, the visionary Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) corresponded with Europe's elite, founded and led a noted women's religious community, and wrote on topics ranging from theology to natural history. Yet we know her best as Western music's most accomplished early composer, responsible for a wealth of musical creations for her fellow monastics. Honey Meconi draws on her own experience as a scholar and performer of Hildegard's music to explore the life and work of this foundational figure. Combining historical detail with musical analysis, Meconi delves into Hildegard's mastery of plainchant, her innovative musical drama, and her voluminous writings. Hildegard's distinctive musical style still excites modern listeners through wide-ranging, sinuous melodies set to her own evocative poetry.

Kevin Meuwissen
2018

Social Studies in the New Education Policy Era is a series of compelling open-ended education policy dialogues among various social studies scholars and stakeholders. By facilitating conversations about the relationships among policy, practice, and research in social studies education, this collection illuminates various positions―some similar, some divergent―on contested issues in the field, from the effects of standardized curriculum and assessment mandates on K–12 teaching to the appropriate roles of social studies educators as public policy advocates. Chapter authors bring diverse professional experiences to the questions at hand, offering readers multiple perspectives from which to delve into well-informed discussions about social studies education in past, present, and future policy contexts. Collectively, their commentaries aim to inspire, challenge, and ultimately strengthen readers’ beliefs about the place of social studies in present and future education policy environments.

John Michael
2018

Secular Lyric interrogates the distinctively individual ways that Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson transformed classical, romantic, and early modern forms of lyric expression to address the developing conditions of Western modernity, especially the heterogeneity of believers and beliefs in an increasingly secular society. Analyzing historically and formally how these poets inscribed the pressures of the modern crowd in the text of their poems, John Michael shows how the masses appear in these poets’ work as potential readers to be courted and resisted, often at the same time. Unlike their more conventional contemporaries, Poe, Whitman, and Dickinson resist advising, sermonizing or consoling their audiences. They resist most familiar senses of meaning as well. For them, the processes of signification in print rather than the communication of truths become central to poetry, which in turn becomes a characteristic of modern verse in the Western world.

Randi Minetor
2019

Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature's ways with so little effort--if one knows what to look for. Birding New England opens the world of birding to the novice and expert in this complete guide to getting the most out of birding in New England. Birding New England includes a section on birding technology and features detailed advice on equipment, identification techniques, birding "by ear," field guides, optics, and other essentials to get the beginner into the field quickly to identify birds throughout New England. Especially valuable are descriptions of bird behaviors including feeding, flight, courting and breeding, nesting, and migration--informing the reader not only about what kind of bird is on the other end of the binoculars, but what it is up to as well.

Brian Mitchell
2018

How can colleges stay relevant in the twenty-first century? Residential colleges are the foundation on which US higher education is based. These institutions possess storied traditions fondly cherished by students, alumni, and faculty. There is no denying, however, that all colleges today struggle with changing consumer preferences, high sticker prices, and aging infrastructure. Technological and pedagogical alternatives―not to mention growing political pressure―present complex challenges. What can colleges and smaller universities do to stay relevant in today’s educational and economic climate?

James Mold
2019

Good health care is care that helps you achieve your health goals. However, most of us haven't thought very much about our goals or how to achieve them, and the health care system is too often focused on problem-solving rather than on helping you achieve your personal health goals. In this book, the author, an experienced primary care physician and teacher provides real life examples and practical advice that will help you live a long and rewarding life, maximize your ability to enjoy essential and meaningful activities, increase your ability to face health challenges, and make end-of-life plans consistent with your preferences and values. It includes 16 chapters divided into 3 sections, The Goals of Health and Health Care, Obstacles and Challenges, and Achieving Your Health Goals. Questions for contemplation or discussion accompany the first 14 chapters.

Roger Nelson
2019

Is There an Earth Mind? This is the story of the Global Consciousness Project, a unique 20-year scientific collaboration of researchers recording the effects of mass consciousness in response to major global events. Its findings are consistent with the wisdom traditions of many cultures and speak of humanity’s unity and deep connections through love, compassion, and the creative impulse. ROGER NELSON runs the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), an international collaboration studying mass consciousness. He conducted psi research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory from 1980 to 2002 and, while at Princeton, created the GCP in 1997. Interests in psychology, physics, philosophy, and the arts facilitate his research at the edges of what we know.

John Newton
2019

This is the story of a young frontiersman and Lakota maiden who marry and establish a trading post in the northwest region of the Louisiana Territory during the mid-1800s. It’s about dealing with their very real feelings of love and hate, strength and fear, joy and sadness as they face numerous challenges in bridging the gap between two seemingly incompatible cultures. It’s a story about fulfilling a dream and the perseverance it takes to accomplish it. Additionally, Wilderness Nation describes the expansive beauty and wonders of nature and the undeniable unity that exists among all creatures of life, all people, and God. The book further offers a unique and profound philosophy of life that’s championed by an enlightened group of Native Americans confined to a single village of a few hundred people.

John Nothaft
2019

Awaiting the birth of a newborn is such a special time. Robert and Clara Sheepman are expecting their first little lamb and all their musical friends are just as excited as they are. We join McHandel on his farm as he completes his chores–and his finest musical masterpiece–a piece to celebrate the birth with a little help from his friends. Bela Bardog and Benjamin Kitten, his closest companions, are joined by Felix Mendelswan, Goosetav Mahler and other classically inspired musical characters as they work together to finish a piece to celebrate the birth of the baby lamb. If you love the music of Handel and you want to inspire your youngest musician too you will love this book.

Dorinda Outram
2019

Unveiling the nearly lost world of the court fools of eighteenth-century Germany, Dorinda Outram shows that laughter was an essential instrument of power. Whether jovial or cruel, mirth altered social and political relations. Outram takes us first to the court of Frederick William I of Prussia, who emerges not only as an administrative reformer and notorious militarist but also as a "master of fools," a ruler who used fools to prop up his uncertain power. The autobiography of the itinerant fool Peter Prosch affords a rare insider’s view of the small courts in Catholic south Germany, Austria, and Bavaria. Full of sharp observations of prelates and princes, the autobiography also records episodes of the extraordinary cruelty for which the German princely courts were notorious. Joseph Fröhlich, court fool in Dresden, presents more appealing facets of foolery.

Frederick Paillet
2019

This book interprets our natural surroundings in a way that enhances a simple walk in the scenic deciduous woodlands of the Ozark Mountain region. Explanations go beyond trees and their habitat to include other diverse subjects: the leaf litter beneath a hiker’s feet, strategies used by wildflowers for pollination and seed dispersal, diseases that can ravage our forests, and forces active in the landscape that impact conservation efforts. Simplified line drawings demonstrate specific points of interest in a way that visually cluttered photographs cannot do. Includes: 163 line drawings, a list of species used in the text, a glossary, and a reading list.

Thomas Perry
2018

A bomb is more than a weapon. A bomb is an expression of the bomber’s predictions of human behavior―a performance designed to fool you into making one fatally wrong move. In The Bomb Maker, Thomas Perry introduces us to the dark corners of a mind intent on transforming a simple machine into an act of murder―and to those committed to preventing that outcome at any cost. A threat is called into the LAPD Bomb Squad and when tragedy ensues, the fragmented unit turns to Dick Stahl, a former Bomb Squad commander who now operates his own private security company. Just returned from a tough job in Mexico, Stahl is at first reluctant to accept the offer, but his sense of duty to the technicians he trained is too strong to turn it down.

Valery Perry
2019

This volume explores the issues of extremism and violent extremism in Serbia through research from a multitude of different interdisciplinary perspectives. The topic of violent extremism and radicalization leading to terror (VERLT) has grown as a field of policy and donor aid support, globally and in the western Balkans. This new focus has been manifest through both increased counterterrorism support as well as efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism (P-CVE)—activities which are often peacebuilding as well as democratization initiatives. The main manifestation of extremism of interest to foreign donors (and often domestic authorities) is ISIS-inspired Salafi jihadism. However, in many of the countries in the region, and in the case of Serbia, there are other forms of extremism—namely far-right nationalism, violent hooliganism, and neo-Nazi movements—that are considered to be more of a threat, particularly as they are often viewed as examples of ‘normalized’ political expression.

Geoffrey Pierce
2018

Nista is nine months pregnant, starving, and living in a cave. Her husband, Dane, thinks she's gone crazy. And the first time she heard the voice of her unborn child, she thought she'd gone crazy, too. But the child has told her too many things, shown her too many things that have come to pass. She knows…someone is coming to usher them away from their isolated purgatory. Someone is coming to lead them through the unforgiving desert - teeming with lawless killers and savage beasts - to the last bastion of civilization, a mythical land of plenty called Manna City.

James Powers
2018

Value driven healthcare is the lasting legacy of the Affordable Care Act, which had three goals: to improve access to healthcare by increasing healthcare insurance coverage, to improve the patient’s experience and quality of care, and to slow the rate of increase in healthcare costs. Regardless of changes to the financing of healthcare or changes in policy, value-based purchasing for healthcare is to remain a constant feature of the healthcare horizon. Value-based purchasing is a demand side strategy to reward quality in health care delivery. Value-based purchasing involves cost considerations and includes the actions of employers, the public sector, health plans, and individual consumers in making healthcare decisions. Effective health care services and high performing health care providers are incentivized to provide quality outcomes and to control cost. Value-based purchasing drives quality metrics which are publicly reported and serve as important levers for changes in healthcare delivery.

Jarold Ramsey
2018

Words Marked by a Place is a book of interconnected writings reflecting on the human and natural history of central Oregon. This chronological collection presents the reader with key episodes of central Oregon history, from nineteenth-century exploration to the railroading and homesteading era to the era of community-building and development that followed. While telling these local stories, Jarold Ramsey explores alternative ways of engaging history in the act of writing, breaking new ground by discovering and exploring primary sources that bear on the region’s colorful but little-known past. Throughout the collection, he interrogates “local history” as a subject. What is local history?

Marie Rolf
2019

Franois Lesure's "critical biography" of Claude Debussy (Fayard, 2003) is widely recognized by scholars as the most comprehensive and reliable account of that composer's life and career as well as of the artistic milieu in which he worked. This encyclopedic volume draws extensively on Debussy's complete correspondence (at that time unpublished), a painstaking tracking of contemporary reviews and comments in the press, and an examination of other primary documents-including private diaries-that had not been available to previous biographers. As such, Lesure's book presents a wealth of new information while debunking a number of myths that had developed over the years since the composer's death in 1918. The present English translation and revised edition, by Debussy authority Marie Rolf, augments Lesure's numerous notes with several thousand new ones by Rolf, providing more precise information on crucial and sometimes contentious points. It also reflects Debussy scholarship that has appeared since 2003, updating Lesure's seminal work.

Luke Rosiak
2019

nvestigative reporter Luke Rosiak is being hailed as “one of the smartest, most diligent reporters in Washington” (TUCKER CARLSON) and “a bulldog” (DANA LOESCH) for uncovering “what is possibly the largest scandal and coverup in the history of the United States House of Representatives” (NEWT GINGRICH). It’s like something out of a spy novel: In the heat of the 2016 election, an unvetted Pakistani national with a proclivity for blackmail gained access to the computer files of one in five Democrats in the House of Representatives. He and his family lifted data off the House network, stole the identity of an intelligence specialist, and sent congressional electronic equipment to foreign officials. And that was only the beginning.

Steven Rozenski
2018

Devotional Interaction in Medieval England and its Afterlives examines the interaction between medieval English worshippers and the material objects of their devotion. The volume also addresses the afterlives of objects and buildings in their temporal journeys from the Middle Ages to the present day. Written by the participants of a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded seminar held in York, U.K., in 2014, the chapters incorporate site-specific research with the insights of scholars of visual art, literature, music, liturgy, ritual, and church history. Interdisciplinarity is a central feature of this volume, which celebrates interactivity as a working method between its authors as much as a subject of inquiry.

Judith Ruderman
2019

n Passing Fancies in Jewish American Literature and Culture Judith Ruderman takes on the fraught question of who passes for Jewish in American literature and culture. In today's contemporary political climate, religious and racial identities are being reconceived as responses to culture and environment, rather than essential qualities. Many Jews continue to hold conflicting ideas about their identity―seeking, on the one hand, deep engagement with Jewish history and the experiences of the Jewish people, while holding steadfastly, on the other hand, to the understanding that identity is fluid and multivalent. Looking at a carefully chosen set of texts from American literature, Ruderman elaborates on the strategies Jews have used to "pass" from the late 19th century to the present―nose jobs, renaming, clothing changes, religious and racial reclassification, and even playing baseball. While traversing racial and religious identities has always been a feature of America's nation of immigrants, Ruderman shows how the complexities of identity formation and deformation are critically relevant during this important cultural moment.

Daniel Russell
2019

How to be a great online searcher, demonstrated with step-by-step searches for answers to a series of intriguing questions (for example, “Is that plant poisonous?”). We all know how to look up something online by typing words into a search engine. We do this so often that we have made the most famous search engine a verb: we Google it—“Japan population” or “Nobel Peace Prize” or “poison ivy” or whatever we want to know. But knowing how to Google something doesn't make us search experts; there's much more we can do to access the massive collective knowledge available online. In The Joy of Search, Daniel Russell shows us how to be great online researchers. We don't have to be computer geeks or a scholar searching out obscure facts; we just need to know some basic methods.

Joel Salomon
2019

The 9 Money Rules Millionaire’s Use is fabulous, enlightened reading, filled with gripping personal stories – my favorite way to learn – written by someone who has walked the talk and who wants to help others do the same. I could not more highly recommend reading this one as soon as possible.” —Mike Dooley, NY Times Bestselling Author of Infinite Possibilities ”The 9 Money Rules Millionaires Use is a must-read if you want to make, have and attract more money! There are two sides to money as with everything else in life; energy and action. Joel provides a fabulous mixture of spiritual tools and practical ideas and exercises for increasing money flow now! I highly recommend you read Joel’s powerful guide to attracting abundance and prosperity into your life.” —Christy Whitman multi-New York Times bestselling author The Art of Having It Alland Quantum Success: 7 Essential Laws for a Thriving, Joyful and Prosperous Relationship with Work and Money www.christywhitman.com

Joel Salomon
2018

“Joel’s life experiences and spiritual grounding make him an ideal sage for money management. Filled with helpful techniques that harness timeless truths, his words inspire as much as they offer readers immediate traction.” -Mike Dooley, NY Times Bestselling Author of Infinite Possibilities “Joel followed a path less travelled to pursue a dream that many in the financial community share. While he was successful in achieving his ‘dream job’ of running a hedge fund, the experiences that followed led to a personal transformation and enlightenment that may surprise many readers… His story shares…uniquely personal observations coupled with a great fabric of philosophical insights...that Joel admires. This book will be instructional to...anyone interested in learning to truly follow their dreams.” -Scott Wollney, CEO Atlas Financial

Yves Sammartano
2019

Arturo DiMartino's Italy is in ruins at the end of WWI. Its politics splintered. Its economy tattered. Its social fabric shredded. Italians blame their weak leaders and demand their overthrow. Mussolini steps onto the political stage and his populist views and spirited charisma captivate the country. Arturo joins Mussolini's political campaign and begins a long political career under the Fascist Regime. Rewarded for his loyalty and political instinct, the National Fascist Party appoints him to the most powerful office in Sicily's Trapani Province. But, when Il Duce tries to expand Italy's influence through military force, Arturo pushes back. His resistance starts a series of perilous events. The Blackshirts, Mussolini's enforcers, issue an ultimatum--leave Italy or die.

Doris Ann Santoro
2018

Demoralized: Why Teachers Leave the Profession They Love and How They Can Stay offers a timely analysis of professional dissatisfaction that challenges the common explanation of burnout. Featuring the voices of educators, the book offers concrete lessons for practitioners, school leaders, and policy makers on how to think more strategically to retain experienced teachers and make a difference in the lives of students. Based on ten years of research and interviews with practitioners across the United States, the book theorizes the existence of a “moral center” that can be pivotal in guiding teacher actions and expectations on the job. Education philosopher Doris Santoro argues that demoralization offers a more precise diagnosis that is born out of ongoing value conflicts with pedagogical policies, reform mandates, and school practices. Demoralized reveals that this condition is reversible when educators are able to tap into authentic professional communities and shows that individuals can help themselves.

Melissa Schoenberger
2019

During the decades following the English civil wars, British poets seeking to make sense of lingering political instabilities turned to Virgil’s Georgics. This ancient poem betrays deep ambivalences about war, political power, and empire, and such poets as Andrew Marvell, John Dryden, and Anne Finch found in these attitudes valuable ways of responding to the uncertainties of their own time. Composed during a period of brutal conflict in Rome, Virgil’s agricultural poem distrusts easy stability, urging its readers to understand that lasting peace must be sowed, tended, reaped, and replanted, year after year. Like the ancient poet, who famously depicted a farmer’s scythe suddenly recast as a sword, the poets discussed in Cultivating Peace imagine states of peace and war to be fundamentally and materially linked. In distinct ways, they dismantle the dream of the golden age renewed, proposing instead that peace must be sustained by constant labor.

Jeremy Schott
2019

Eusebius’s groundbreaking History of the Church, remains the single most important source for the history of the first three centuries of Christianity and stands among the classics of Western literature. His iconic story of the church’s origins, endurance of persecution, and ultimate triumph—with its cast of martyrs, heretics, bishops, and emperors—has profoundly shaped the understanding of Christianity’s past and provided a model for all later ecclesiastical histories. This new translation, which includes detailed essays and notes, comes from one of the leading scholars of Eusebius’s work and offers rich context for the linguistic, cultural, social, and political background of this seminal text. Accessible for new readers and thought-provoking for specialists, this is the essential text for anyone interested in the history of Christianity.

George Shaw
2018

A non-technical (but serious) treatment of those parts of Earth history leading up to human history, as well as some pre-historical aspects of humanity. Many “events” in Earth’s history necessarily preceded the emergence of human beings (and intelligence). Geology has provided us with a great deal of information about these various steps on the way to intelligent life, and how and why they were important. Some of these events were on a cosmic scale (no universe – no life!), some were planetological/astronomical (no Earth – no life), some were essentially chemical (how did life emerge in the primordial ocean and why do we have oxygen in the atmosphere?), and some were details of evolutionary history (how did life colonize the land and how did mammals develop?). In this book an enthusiastic professor of geosciences presents a broad introduction from the Big Bang to the present and into the future, lucidly explaining aspects from various disciplines to interested, non-specialist readers.

Denese Shelton
2019

Sierra is a successful real estate agent living a comfortable life. But she has a secret so painful that she has erected emotional walls around her heart that block anyone from getting close. Then the dreams begin. In one, Sierra is running from the sound of dogs barking and men chasing her in the darkness; in another, she’s in a field, lashes coming down on her back; in many, she is a woman of faith named Dorothy, fighting for civil rights. Sierra tries to ignore the dreams and continue with life as usual―but the more she disregards them , the longer and deeper she sleeps, and soon the long nights begin to affect her work and sanity. Finally, she seeks the help she needs. The more she works to understand the nature of and reason for her dreams, the more freedom Sierra feels in her own life.

Louis Siegel
2019

An in-depth look at a psychopathic hacker hell-bent on inflicting havoc on a small Florida community’s healthcare system and a heroic doctor’s quest to bring him to justice. The book is a cautionary tale and urgent warning about what can happen when our digital lives collide with a sociopath with malicious intent. From the Author The idea for this book began in 2014 when I came across an article in Wired magazine by Kim Zetter titled, "It's Insanely Easy to Hack Hospital Equipment." She reported on cybersecurity expert Scott Erven's findings of an investigation he made for his employer, Essentia Health, into the cybersecurity of over one hundred of their healthcare-related facilities. Erven reported that by hacking the software that controlled most of the hospital's devices he was able to control them remotely, including turning them on and off, and these devices included lifesaving, life-supporting, and disease-detecting equipment. I found the ease with which Erven was able to do this fascinating and downright scary. It occurred to me that although Erven's hacking skills had much to do with his success, it was really the device's extraordinary built-in vulnerabilities to hacking that had allowed him to do it. It was a small step from there to imagine the mayhem that a crazed and unethical hacker could cause should he want to take control of these medical devices, or the hospital itself, to satisfy evil desires.

Ronian Siew
2019

This Spotlight offers a perspective on the role of Monte Carlo simulation in the analysis and tolerancing of optical systems. The book concisely explores two overarching questions: (1) What principles can we adopt from a variety of statistical methods - such as the analysis of variance (ANOVA), "root sum of squares" (RSS), and Monte Carlo simulation - to analyze variability in complex optical systems? (2) When we assign perturbations to component variables (such as tilts and radii of curvatures) subject to arbitrary probability distributions, are the resulting distributions of system parameters (such as EFL, RMS spot size, and MTF) necessarily normal? These questions address the problem of analyzing and managing variability in modern product development, where many functions integrate to produce a complete instrument. By discussing key concepts from optics, multivariable calculus, and statistics, and applying them to two practical examples in modern technology, this book highlights the role Monte Carlo simulations play in the tolerancing of optical systems that comprise many components of variation.

David Skonieczki
2018

No greeks, no get-rich-quick hyperbole. Simply a how-to investment book. The author purposefully selected the primer's title, chose to apply an autobiographical format, and presented the strategy emphasizing the option seller's perspective, rather than the option buyer's. These choices have made this pithy story not only an easy-read, but also a must-read for newcomers to option trading. Sort of like Options 101. Use it as a prerequisite to your reading in Options 102, 103... About The Author Author bio imageAfter 30 years as a stockbroker, David F. Skonieczki retired from Fidelity Investments in 2017. He's a 1972 graduate of the University of Rochester and formerly operated Skonieczki Capital in Vestal, NY. David and his wife Kathleen currently live in Hampton, NH and are dedicated grandparents to Anders, Lucas, Grace, Jack, Donovan, Cameron and Rose.

Mario Sparagana
2019

A little Bird warbled a tune. It tweeted in the forest of the night In music that arose from its soul. It had no choice but to intone. It roused the neighboring beasts To look at the creature in the tree. Friendly ears picked up the tune Moving them to smile as brothers will. To be a bird is to have the gift That brings melody to life. The bird sings to sweeten the air In trills that lift the sprit up. To perfume the air with a lilting song Is a rare gift given to very few. It bestows a sense of majesty On those who can manage it true.

Mario Sparagana
2018

Go softly in the pine forest below. Hear the melodious warbling of the dove. As the soft creatures skitter to and fro. Nestling in the high branches far above. Listen to them twitter as they chatter. Their singing comes down from a lofty tree. They tweet the music of the wayfarer. I listen to their songs; they bewitch me. All of a sudden their singing ceases. As the sun goes down slowly in the sky. Music that perfumed the air decreases. At the close of the day I still hear birds cry. How I love to listen to their singing, Cascade down on me, their voices trilling.

Max Stern
2018

Music is well said to be the Speech of the Angels, in fact nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite…into the eternal Sea of Light where song leads and inspires us…it was actually so in Greek, in Roman, in Moslem, most of all in old Hebrew times...David, king of Judah, a soul inspired by divine music…was wont to pour himself in song; he, with a seers eye and heart, discerned the godlike amid the human, struck tones that were an echo of the sphere harmonies and are still felt to be such. Thomas Carlyle, from 'On Music and Morality'

David Stringham
2018

Musicianship: Improvising in Band and Orchestra provides philosophical, theoretical, and practical tools that have been desperately needed for band and orchestra teachers hoping to bring improvisation to their students. As Maud Hickey states in the Foreword, Improvisation should be as natural as drawing freely with crayons. Yet improvisation has remained elusive from most band and orchestra programs. This remarkable book contains practical lesson plans as well as all the necessary background information to help conductors incorporate improvisation into their work, with ensembles of any size or ability level. The lesson plans contain step-by-step instructions, including outlining prerequisites and detailed procedures that are flexible enough to apply to ensembles at a wide range of skill levels. Topics covered include: improvisation readiness strategies, working with large ensembles, a classroom case study, and teaching in a diverse environment.

Mary Tantillo
2018

Understanding Teen Eating Disorders introduces readers to common teen eating disorder scenarios, their warning signs, and treatment options. Each chapter examines a teen or tween and brings the factors, whether they be environmental, genetic, co-existing conditions, etc. that contribute to his or her eating disorder, to life, while seamlessly integrating the latest research in gene inheritance, brain chemistry, and eating disorders in accessible, reader-friendly language. Each chapter provides treatment options, including outpatient, group therapy, and in-patient programs, for both the young person and the family. Each also ends with a Q & A section that reflects the concerns a parent, loved one, or treatment professional may have.

Mathew Tekulsky
2019

Adam Jacobs, a seventh grader at Beachmont Middle and the son of a Holocaust survivor, is tired of Hebrew School and tired of being bullied because he is Jewish. The bright spot in Adam’s day is when he follows Sally Fletcher—and her irresistible blonde ponytailhome from school. But it is 1966, and Sally is Catholic. Jews and Catholics don’t mix in the suburban town of Beachmont, New York. Inspired by the reclusive writer and activist, Gladys McKinley, and horrified by the religious and racial divisions of their suburban town, Adam and Sally organize a kids’ march to protest the Vietnam War. In the heady weeks that follow, the two are featured in a local newspaper, interviewed on the radio, and meet the charismatic Martin Luther King who is shaping the civil rights movement of their day.

Mathew Tekulsky
2019

Fans of bird watching will rejoice with Backyard Bird Photography, a guide for learning how to set up your backyard in order to take the best photographs of your local birds. In addition to guiding you through the first steps of setting up your plantings and bird feeders, this book describes the types of photographic equipment you will need to get just the right image; how to maneuver yourself into just the right position to create a quality bird photograph; how to compose your shots for the greatest visual effect; and how to use more advanced techniques such as macro lenses and external flash techniques. Author and bird photographer Mathew Tekulsky breaks down the challenges of photographing these beautiful creatures and explains how utilizing your own natural surroundings can create stunning shots that rival those shot in the wild. Tekulsky explains that when your garden is set up as a tiny oasis for these feathered friends—with the right foliage, water sources, and feeders—then your backyard will be frequented by a variety of species on any given day. With tips for gaining the bird’s trust and composition, every photograph will come out a stunner.

Paul Thornton
2019

The Joy of Cruising is about passion. Award-winning author Paul C. Thornton profiles travelers from all over the world with a passion for cruising and who act on that passion in creative and fascinating ways. (Just announced as medal winner Florida Author & Publishers Association President's Book Awards!) From a Grammy award winner, Poker Hall of Famer, winner of the TV series Last Comic Standing, to "ordinary" cruisers doing extraordinary things, The Joy of Cruising will fascinate anyone who has ever cruised, aspires to take a cruise, or just loves travel. The Joy of Cruising is an anthology that takes a look at the magic of cruising from the vantage point of travelers passionate about travel--a compendium of anecdotes, stories, and profiles of cruisers who have some unique or interesting perspective

Thomas Tiffany
2019

Young Tommy T. is of an age where understanding of events in his life is critical in his development. He is provided such understanding by a mysterious character named My!Key Mugwump. Who is My!Key? What is My!Key? Does My!Key physically exist?

Eric Topol
2019

One of America's top doctors reveals how AI will empower physicians and revolutionize patient care Medicine has become inhuman, to disastrous effect. The doctor-patient relationship--the heart of medicine--is broken: doctors are too distracted and overwhelmed to truly connect with their patients, and medical errors and misdiagnoses abound. In Deep Medicine, leading physician Eric Topol reveals how artificial intelligence can help. AI has the potential to transform everything doctors do, from notetaking and medical scans to diagnosis and treatment, greatly cutting down the cost of medicine and reducing human mortality.

David Townes
2018

The fields of Global Health and Global Emergency Response have attracted increased interest and study. There has been tremendous growth in the educational opportunities around humanitarian emergencies; however, educational resources have not yet followed the same growth. This book corrects this trend, offering a comprehensive single resource dedicated to health in humanitarian emergencies. Providing an introduction to the public health principles of response to humanitarian emergencies, the text also emphasizes the need to coordinate the public health and emergency clinical response within the architecture of the greater response effort.

John Vanek
2018

When Father Jake Austin is assigned to his hometown of Oberlin, Ohio, in July of 2002, he has been away for a long time. A physician and a war veteran before entering a Catholic seminary, he is now a member of the Camillian Order. He takes comfort in his vows of obedience, poverty, chastity, and service to the sick. Jake arrives just in time to attend his high school reunion, where an encounter with his high school sweetheart forces him to question his commitment to the priesthood. Before the night is over, one of his classmates will be dead, a second gravely wounded, and a third hospitalized. The carnage at the reunion comes on the heels of what appears to be an unrelated murder at the quarry. Overseeing the investigation is Jake’s former football teammate, Chief of Police Tremont “Tree” Macon, who is unwilling to rule out anyone as a suspect, not even Jake

Gwenn Voelckers
2018

Have you ever wondered, Will I ever be happy again? Can I survive another lonely weekend? Or manage life on my own? Whether you've lost a spouse or partner through divorce, death or other life circumstance, you may be struggling to regain your confidence, courage, and zest for living. You're not alone. In Voelckers' new and inspirational collection of empowering essays, she offers hope and encouragement for those searching for answers. "I know how painful it can be to find yourself living alone," Voelckers shares. "I also know it's possible to reclaim your life, to determine who you really are, and to turn living solo into an adventure of self-discovery and personal growth."

Joseph Vogel
2018

By the 1980s, critics and the public alike considered James Baldwin irrelevant. Yet Baldwin remained an important, prolific writer until his death in 1987. Indeed, his work throughout the decade pushed him into new areas, in particular an expanded interest in the social and psychological consequences of popular culture and mass media. Joseph Vogel offers the first in-depth look at Baldwin's dynamic final decade of work. Delving into the writer's creative endeavors, crucial essays and articles, and the impassioned polemic The Evidence of Things Not Seen, Vogel finds Baldwin as prescient and fearless as ever. Baldwin's sustained grappling with "the great transforming energy" of mass culture revealed his gifts for media and cultural criticism.

Todd Watkins
2018

Microfinance has grown from the obscure efforts of a few philanthropic institutions into a global industry that reaches 150–200 million clients through the branches of thousands of institutions. Microfinance has matured from exclusively funding loans to providing savings, insurance, healthcare, and education. Yet many people still think of it narrowly as microcredit. Understanding remains thin of what the industry does, how it functions and why. Introduction to Microfinance provides a non-technical introduction to the broad array of inclusive financial and non-financial services for the world's poor. It explores the financial lives of those families, and the microfinance institutions and rapidly growing industry that serve them.

Bonnie Thornton Dill
2009

The United States is known as a "melting pot" yet this mix tends to be volatile and contributes to a long history of oppression, racism, and bigotry. Emerging Intersections, an anthology of ten previously unpublished essays, looks at the problems of inequality and oppression from new angles and promotes intersectionality as an interpretive tool that can be utilized to better understand the ways in which race, class, gender, ethnicity, and other dimensions of difference shape our lives today.

Harriet Washington
2006

From the era of slavery to the present day, starting with the earliest encounters between Black Americans and Western medical researchers and the racist pseudoscience that resulted, Medical Apartheid details the ways both slaves and freedmen were used in hospitals for experiments conducted without their knowledge—a tradition that continues today within some black populations. It reveals how Blacks have historically been prey to grave-robbing as well as unauthorized autopsies and dissections.

Shail Rajan
2020

Tired of her fast-paced life in New York City, Callie leaves it all behind to embark on an adventure that will bring her to a new town, a new home, a new career, and possibly, a new love.

Charles Halsted
2021

Now in his early 80’s, retired physician Charles Halsted has lived a full life, and thanks to this vivid and eclectic collection, On Razor-Thin Tires, readers can experience it, too. In poems filled with Victrolas and Superman comics, Elvis and Jabberwock, we journey back through the 40s, 50s and tumultuous 60s, then up to the present time. Writing in free and formal verse, he takes us through the challenges of college, medical school and on to Europe, where we view art in a series of ekphrastic poems. Throughout, we glean wisdom as Halsted reflects on aging with wit, curiosity and compassion. Here is a collection to savor and share.

Janet Garber
2016

Join Melie, HR manager, on her desperate search for solutions to the messes boiling over in Axis Mundi Medical Center. You will laugh but is it funny to her? Why can’t those buttock-groping doctors and their flaky staff just get along? As she tries to seize control, and incidentally get a life, she runs into a little murder here, a cancer there, a mystery man, rivals that are not always human, like Gladys, the first parrot-woman gladiator. She won’t quit until she has it all—the hunk, the macaw, her life work—and neither will you!

John Shipman
2015

Meaning and purpose, order and disorder, despair and wonder… A 10,000 line, ten-hour long sentence constructed from proverbs from around the world, The Endless Proverb was part of John's Scotiabank Nuit Blanche Toronto 2013 independent project — Ten Models of the Universe presented by the Department of Household Sciences & Advanced Proverbs featuring The Endless Proverb

Evan Granite
2015

This essential handbook and ready reference offers a detailed overview of the existing and currently researched technologies available for the control of mercury in coal-derived gas streams and that are viable for meeting the strict standards set by environmental protection agencies.

Joe Miano
2020

It is 1889 and imagine the shock of the East African men and women looking out from their huts and seeing and hearing the giant locomotive destroying the peacefulness of their homeland. What is going through their heads as they see the colonials and goods unloaded? What more is coming on these iron rails? How will all this affect their lives and children?Three men of different tribes each finds a way to interact and deal with the British. They become chiefs or soldiers. They rise in status and learn western ways. As the years go on, their elders take them into confidence, teaching them more tribal lore about migration and slavery. Slowly we see them evolve from servants of the British to organizers for their nation’s freedom.

Yohay Wakabayashi
2020

"ROCOCO Tokyo WHITE" is a luxury beer that is mainly sold only at top-class restaurants with Michelin stars in Tokyo. For this beer, President Wakabayashi, an American business school graduate, and three MBA graduates, an American friend and a Canadian, have abandoned their careers as ""one office workers"" at large companies such as investment banks and consumer goods manufacturers. It is a raised venture. From the perspective of why there is no beer to drink in high-end stores, by practicing meticulous marketing and straightforward sales, we can deliver to many Michelin-starred stores, which can be said to be impregnable. President Wakabayashi himself writes the story that was successful with only three people. This is a new business book that everyone who pursues "special moments" should read."

Judith Kerman
2016

The broken Aleph—first letter of the Hebrew alphabet—represents the chasm between the author, a secular Jew, and her cultural and religious heritage. The poems in this collection explore her efforts to repair that breach and to find her footing in the world, negotiating the path of history and tradition while fully alive to the present.

Kevin Harding
2019

Practical Optical Dimensional Metrology provides basic explanations of the operation and application of the most common methods in the field and in commercial use. The first half of the book presents a working knowledge of the mechanism and limitations of optical dimensional measurement methods that use: light level changes, two-dimensional imaging, triangulation, structured-light patterns, interference patterns, optical focus, light characteristics such as polarization, and hybrid methods with mechanical or other measurement tools. The book concludes with a series of manufacturing application examples that look at measurements from the centimeter range down to the nanometer range.

Grant Dever
2019

So you want to become a more effective leader? You want to solve problems and help create a better future? In Lead The Future, Grant shares powerful ideas and actionable steps to accelerate your growth as a leader.

Daniel M. Kimmel
2017

Set at the University of Rochester, Time On My Hands investigates the myriad time travel troubles over which most science fiction readers have pondered, but it presents a fresh take on the time travel novel by adhering to the Aristotelian Unity of Time: it all takes place within a single day.

James Ellis
2020

Remote sensing has undergone profound changes over the past two decades as GPS, GIS, and sensor advances have significantly expanded the user community and availability of images. New tools, such as automation, cloud-based services, drones, and artificial intelligence, continue to expand and enhance the discipline. Along with comprehensive coverage and clarity, Sabins and Ellis establish a solid foundation for the insightful use of remote sensing with an emphasis on principles and a focus on sensor technology and image acquisition. The Fourth Edition presents a valuable discussion of the growing and permeating use of technologies such as drones and manned aircraft imaging, DEMs, and lidar. The authors explain the scientific and societal impacts of remote sensing, review digital image processing and GIS, provide case histories from areas around the globe, and describe practical applications of remote sensing to the environment, renewable and nonrenewable resources, land use/land cover, natural hazards, and climate change.

Robin Clifford Wood
2021

Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award–winning novelist, a Newbery Medal–winning children’s writer, a poet, playwright, and rising Hollywood success in the early twentieth century. Her light was abruptly extinguished at the age of forty-seven, when she died at the pinnacle of her personal happiness and professional acclaim.

Elianor Marissa Aoun
2020

With wild nights and wacky misadventures, turning eighteen is supposed to be "sick." That is, unless you literally get sick. Dealing with Dramedies is an honest look into the glamorously unglamorous triple life of a restless perfectionist, a university student dealing with her own dramatic comedy and her rapid physical regression from a rare autoimmune disorder. Award-winning screenwriter and author Elianor M.A. writes about taking setbacks and difficulties, whether it's an illness, dysfunctional family, or a demanding workload, and transforming them into success and humor that makes it all worthwhile.

Nykki Matthews
2021

An adventurous story about a normal kid who finds strength in who he is, just as he is. As a free-spirited child, Jody’s joyfulness is contagious throughout the story. Jody’s curiosity, gentleness, and bold spirit are felt through each page as you dive into his truth and get to know him. As Jody practices being himself daily, he can be himself. Now, look to yourself and ask, “What is my truth?”

Charles Levin
2020

From the bestselling author of NOT SO DEAD and NOT SO DONE comes an international psychological spy thriller that you can't put down. Sam Sunborn, Rich Little, and Michelle Hadar return to unravel the mysteries and disturbing secrets behind these multiple attacks and save their own families.

Dennis Rebelo
2021

Each of us has a story to share, a mixture of lived experiences-planned and unplanned-that come together and give our existence shape and identity. But in a world where we rely on screens and images for communication and self-expression, do we truly know how to tell our story?

Ed Colodny
2020

The son of a small town grocer in Burlington, Vermont, Ed Colodny eventually became the CEO of a major airline and president of a university and medical center. Along the way, he also studied violin and considered becoming a concert violinist before pursuing a career in law. His memoir provides insights into his values, principles, and how he ultimately created a happy and productive life.

Dan Ollendorf
2021

The Right Price sheds light on the controversial topic of drug pricing by providing an accessible guide to pharmaceutical markets and analytic techniques used to measure the value of drug therapies.

Matthew Burns
2021

Steeped in the everyday violence of the wild that is and is not human, Imagine the Glacier argues that even the devastations of our age can yield to intimacies with the lover and the other, including the non-human, such as animals and the elements, weather patterns and the seasons. In an age of rapid urbanization when one place seems interchangeable with another, Burns casts a compassionate, granular gaze on human-built and natural environments, capturing their interconnections and textures in gorgeous, vividly rendered poems.

Cindy Rizzo
2021

A deeply polarized and ungovernable United States of America has separated into two nations—the God Fearing States (GFS) and the United Progressive Regions (UPR). Told through the eyes of three Jewish teenagers, this story examines issues of antisemitism, racism, resistance, and young adult identity.

Philip John Lewin
2021

Completing the exploration into the origin of Oz magic started in The Witch Queen of Oz and The Master Crafters of Oz.

Odetta Fraser
2021

Olympic Sun is about a boy, Sonny who visits the Olympics and has a love affair with the variety of sports that it offers. Sonny, enjoys each sport that he visits and he comes away with meaning and memories for life.

Randi Minetor
2016

Adventures in the wilderness can be dramatic and deadly. Collected here are some the most gripping accounts in park history of these unfortunate events caused by natural forces or human folly.

Randi Minetor
2019

From the top of the Adirondack Northway to the precipitous drop that creates Niagara Falls, Hiking Waterfalls in New York State provides all of the information readers need to find their way to New York's most magnificent waterfalls.

Randi Minetor
2021

Birdwatching is for everyone. No other outdoor pursuit yields so much knowledge of nature's ways with so little effort––if one knows what to look for. Birding Florida opens the world of birding to the novice and expert in this complete guide to getting the most out of birding in Florida.

Charles Smith
2021

Thane Solace is a private detective, with a difference. Thane is an empath. He can’t read minds, but he can read emotions. When a young woman goes missing, Thane is tasked with finding her––an unwelcome proposition for criminals with mystical powers of their own.

Michael Blumenfield
2021

Dr. Blumenfield covers a wide variety of subjects such as: ethical dilemmas psychiatrists can face, dealing with anxiety, panic, depression, suicidal thoughts, sexuality, Cornavirus epidemic, PTSD, and his interactions with two U.S. Presidents plus many other psychological issues. Also included in the book are answers to questions he has provided on popular websites.

Jennifer Collins
2021

Larissa Whitcomb flounders in the wake of unimaginable losses. Forget about coping; she can barely function. Life as she has known it evaporates, and she isolates herself from work and friends. Aware, however, of the dangers of her bleak existence, she reluctantly agrees to embark on a unique business opportunity, which becomes Larissa's journey of grieving.

Beverly Grasley
2017

Days No More is the story of Winnie Davis, the youngest daughter of Confederate President, Jefferson Davis and his wife, Varina. Winnie was born near the end of the Civil War and had no recollection of it, yet when she toured the South in the 1880s with her father, she was bestowed the title, “Daughter of the Confederacy.”

Beverly Grasley
2018

Young Varina Howell was a teenager when she married Mississippi planter and future President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis.

Beverly Grasley
2018

Can the President of the United States be forced to resign? In “The Margin of Error,” Kathleen Harrington, the first female Secretary of Defense and a 30-year veteran of the Army, faces a crisis of the Presidency.

Nancy Cohen
2021

A dead body in her mother's bathroom during a home remodel leads hairstylist Marla Vail to flush out the clues and nail the killer in this stylish cozy mystery.

W.E. Wynne
2021

Wynne's self-discovery of the many evils associated with the racial injustice permeating our society, institutions, and our hearts is captivating, experiential, and illuminated by his innate ability to build diverse relationships that result in many enduring friendships.

Gheysika Agambila
2021

It is the desire of young Africans to leave their countries to seek green pastures in Europe or North America. This novel is the story of one such young man from Ghana and his ambivalent experience in America.

Gheysika Agambila
2021

Girls in Ghana confront a difficult socio-economic environment. This novel is the story of one such a girl from childhood to middle-age and the lessons of this life journey. 

Reneé Richards
2021

Legendary tennis and transgender pioneer, Renée Richards gives an intimate peek into her renowned pediatric ophthalmology practice and chronicles an unforgettable and watershed year from her six-decade medical career.

Rosa Rivera-McCutchen
2021

Educators often invoke the term care to describe why they entered the field and what compels them to continue. This book argues that care is not sufficient for leading schools, particularly those serving Black and Latinx children. Instead, school leaders need to embrace radical care. 

Jeannine Gibson
2021

This poetic celebration of womanhood and love reflects the ethereal threads that weave together the transcendent emotions of the female experience.

Sanul Corrielus
2022

In this book, Dr. Corrielus explains heart disease, its causes, its treatments, and its prevention. With his focus on mind/body/spirit balance and integrated care, Dr. Corrielus gives you the tools to fight for your own heart health.

Anna E. Jordan
2021

Pups are perfect friends, it’s true! See what else a dog can do in this early-learning book for ages 0 to 3.

George Hole
2017

This collection of poems by George T. Hole reflect his love of a blue collar city, rooted in an industrial past. 

Candace O'Connor
2022

O'Connor draws upon contemporary newspaper articles, institutional records, and her own oral history project to tell the first full history of the Homer G. Phillips Hospital.

David M. Aikens
2022

This book provides a foundation for understanding the fundamentals of ISO 10110. It is meant as a guide for users to familiarize themselves with the notation and symbology, leading to a better understanding of the ISO 10110 drawing notation system.

Edith Pawlicki
2021

Eighteen-year-old Minerva lives in a city of repurposed shipping containers, dependent on a hydroelectric plant for light and heat, while a nuclear winter blankets the world in snow. Hemp powder meals and patchwork clothes are a fact of life, as is human evolution. An unparalleled Empath, not only can Minerva sense emotions, she can read minds and influence thoughts.

Edith Pawlicki
2021

The meeting of four lonely immortals will change them, and the world. Book #1 in the Immortal Beings series.

Edith Pawlicki
2021

Are the worst demons within or without? Book #2 in the Immortal Beings series.

Caeli Ennis
2022

Earth: 2220. The human population is scarce from environmental atrocity and no one can go outside or else they instantly perish into a pile of ashes. The President of the United States is the only hope for survival and he secretly seeks assistance from peculiar lifeforms across the universe. When these otherworldly creatures decide to host all of Earth's humans on their various planets, the story unfolds into an interstellar adventure.

Allison Goldstein
2022

Based on interviews with dozens of leaders, organizational psychologists share how modern businesses are using data to unlock DEI success. Employing a combination of case studies, practical examples, and step-by-step instructions, they guide DEI practitioners through developing a robust, data-centric approach to DEI.

Tim and Deb Smith
2019

Whether you know this story really well, or not very well at all, the Smiths will take you right back there with them.

Tim and Deb Smith
2020

A veritable “magical mystery tour” of the world of Tim and Deb Smith through their weekly “Life With The (Word) Smiths” columns in the Mendon-Honeoye Falls-Lima Sentinel.

Tim and Deb Smith
2022

A masterful and lovingly written book on two distinct threads of Black culture in America.

Shail Rajan
2022

A peaceful small town and the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a world-famous musician set the stage for unforseen and explosive violence, dark truths, and a secret that could change everything.

Gloria O'Toole Ulterino
2022

Do you long for a more life-affirming, enriching faith life? Are you eager to encounter inspiring models of faith? If so walk the pages of this book to be inspired and encouraged for your own life's journey.

Carl Filbrich
2021

Mike Ramsey takes on the dangerous mystery of finding a woman named Emily Bright, who disappeared after being arrested for something few people would consider a crime: kissing another woman in public.

Kevin McDermott
2022

A modern manual for the 21st century, "Paragraph 3" illuminates the how of guiding organizations and institutions in what promises to be a long era of uncertainty, of which the upheavals of the pandemic were only a taste.

Joy Wiltenburg
2022

With its study of laughter in relation to power, aggression, gender, sex, class, and social bonding, Laughing Histories is perfect for readers interested in the history of emotions, cultural history, gender history, and literature.

Edith Pawlicki
2022

An immortal who can't remember the past, and a god who'd do anything to forget it…(Book #3 in the Immortal Beings series)

Monica McAlpine
2021

The latest collection of poems from Monica McAlpine.

Kevin Carr
2022

Practical, actionable, and detailed digital marketing strategies for musicians of any background. Designed for DIYers with an indie spirit, this guide helps elevate online brands with step-by-step strategies and starter templates for content creation, paid ads, campaign conversions, streaming, and more.

Tamraparni Dasu
2022

The Greatest Telugu Stories Ever Told spans almost a century of work by some of the finest writers of short fiction in the language.

Victoria Korth
2022

A collection of first-person speaker poems, of a daughter, sister, and helper grappling with her aging mother’s decline.

Terry Walters
2022

NOURISH features 200 all-new plant-based recipes organized by season in an easy-to-use format that lays flat and stays open as you cook! With an entire section on Fermentation and Gut Health, including how-to information and recipes, you will be inspired and empowered to start making your own probiotic-rich fermented foods.

Robert Hesselberth
2022

This first-of-its-kind book is required reading for small business or non-profit board members, entrepreneurs, owners, and management teams. It explains in clear steps how to project, control, and plan positive cash flow for any small business or nonprofit.

Randall Flores
2022

Follow the true story of Randall Flores, an intrepid explorer who, by chance, studied Mandarin in 1987. This book will give you a front-row seat to the fast-paced rise of a global superpower while detailing one man’s odyssey as he navigated his way to the top before succumbing to health issues.

Cindy Rizzo
2021

Judith Braverman, Jeffrey Schwartz, and Dani Fine navigate the dangers of the polarized and ungovernable United States of America separating into two nations—the God Fearing States (GFS) and the United Progressive Regions (UPR). Book 1 in the Split series.

Cindy Rizzo
2022

The story of three teens, members of the first generation to come of age after the United States splits into two countries, continues. Joining the Minyan Resistance, nothing that’s come before can prepare Judith, Dani and Jeffrey for the challenges they now face as their futures appear more and more uncertain. Book 2 in the Split series.

Gwen Olton
2022

Conflict is everywhere: our living rooms, our streets, our community organizations, and every corner of the internet. But few of us have the training to successfully intervene or resolve these conflicts. In these pages, professional peacemaker GwendolynOlton shows you how to use your existing skills and intuition to transform a wide variety of conflicts from insurmountable impasses to working relationships where everyone's needs are met.

Lisa Gochman
2022

t the Altar of the Appellate Gods traces the arc of a violent, racially motivated crime by white supremacist Charles C. Apprendi Jr. in rural Vineland, New Jersey, through the New Jersey state court system, and all the way up to the Supreme Court, where Gochman defended the constitutionality of New Jersey's Hate Crime Statute before a very hot bench. Gochman went head-to-head with Justice Antonin Scalia, fielded tough questions from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and strolled down memory lane with Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

Tamika Nurse
2014

The It Girl Rules: Get Hired & Stay Hired reveals the keys to success for women who aspire to enter and ascend through the ranks of Corporate America. In this book, you will discover an invaluable roadmap for the shortest path between “Hello” and “You’re Hired” as well as effective strategies for job hunting, networking, positioning yourself for promotion, handling a bad manager, transitioning between jobs, and much more!

Tamika Nurse
2012

The It Girl Rules offers advice for every woman who is striving to become her own superwoman. With guidance on everything from Power Shopping to Tailoring Tips, this volume of The It Girl Rules is focused on fashion and style. This handbook will be an invaluable asset for those who want to stir up their creativity, improve their aesthetic, and become their best selves.

Marcia Mantell
2022

This retirement "cookbook" walks you through steps to create you own recipe for retirement. From your kitchen table, simply follow the sections to plan your retirement much like you make a lasagna — by putting together layer by layer of delicious ingredients.

John Longhurst
2009

This hardcover book by John Longhurst, retired Senior Tabernacle Organist, covers the concept, approval, design, and construction of the magnificent organ seen by millions during general conferences of the Church.

Pamela Poulin
2019

In the Footsteps of Mozart's Clarinetist is the first in-depth study of the achievements of Viennese clarinetist Anton Stadler in English, inlcuding his five-year tour of Europe taking him as far away as St. Petersburg, and, of paramount importance, his friendship with W.A. Mozart, resulting in Mozart's monumental works for clarinet, the Clarinet Concerto, K. 622 and Quintet, K. 581, written for Stadler's unique Bass Klarinet

Ron Gordon
2023

Instructs computation enthusiasts in techniques for using complex integration to evaluate integrals and sums, looks past existing texts to expand the use of such techniques beyond the usual small set of problems, and appeals both to undergraduate and graduate students in math, physics and engineering interested in the evaluation of integrals and sums.

Ed Hajim
2023

The Island of the Four Ps is a modern fable about a young man, Marketus, who leaves home for the first time and travels to an island on a quest to answer some of life’s basic questions. The book, a conversation with the hero's inner voice, is divided into four fundamental sections—passions, principles, partners, and plans—the key ingredients to making a successful life.

Cheryl Field
2023

Prepared! A Healthcare Guide for Aging Adults is written for anyone who is or has a senior parent, spouse, or loved one with changes in health. Being prepared before, during, and after entering the healthcare system is vital to one’s overall healthcare experience. Prepared! A Healthcare Guide for Aging Adults promises to simply and swiftly arm readers with strategies for thriving through the transitions brought on by changes in a health status.

Cheryl Field
2023

You Can, You Will is written for people whose lives have been affected by mental health, grief, and difficulty. Nineteen sacred stories of overcoming experiences that could have destroyed the very lives of these women are shared to provide inspiration that life can and does change, that there are solutions to every struggle, and wholeness and happiness can be found. After reading this book, the readers will have strategies to make the changes in their life for healing and joy.

Chul S Hyun
2023

A Korean American Doctor’s Discoveries about Culture, Identity, Running, and Patient Care Chul Hyun’s charismatic memoir inspires us to keep pushing toward our goals, even later in life. In relatable anecdotes and heartfelt stories, he encourages everyone to take control of their lives and pursue their passions with purpose and determination. He offers a refreshing perspective on the power of introspection, emboldening others to ask themselves the tough questions and reflect on their growth and persistence.

Alexsandra Sukhoy
2023

In Madame Defarge's Needles, we revisit our protagonist Esti, this time as a young wife and mother. Esti is simultaneously grateful for the family she's built, while also dissatisfied by her marriage. Madame Defarge's Needles showcases how one event unravels a woman, a family, a community and an entire city. It answers the frightening question of, "What does a mother's rage look like?" And the even more terrifying, "What horrible chain of events has led her to this place?"

Letha Dawson Scanzoni
2005

By advocating marriage for all, What God Has Joined Together affirms the conservative call for marriage renewal and a more marriage-supporting culture. It also supports the liberal affirmation of everyone's right, regardless of sexual orientation, to seal love with commitment and to fully participate in the life of the church.

Letha Dawson Scanzoni
1984

Discusses women's sexual self-image, rape, child abuse, divorce, sexual values, the sexual revolution, the Biblical view of marriage, sexual equality, and the longing for intimacy

Letha Dawson Scanzoni
1976; 3rd edition 1988

Organized around the unifying theme of gender roles and social change in contemporary society, Men, Women, and Change, 3/e examines what such changes mean for childhood socialization, relationship decisions, the expressive and instrumental dimensions of marriage, child-rearing, divorce and remarriage.

Letha Dawson Scanzoni
1978; revised and updated 1994.

A classic revolutionary work on the Christian and biblical case for the full acceptance of LGBTQ community into the church by two leading pioneers and scholars. This revised and expanded edition includes updated information on topics such as the AIDS crisis and genetic research. Looking at homosexuality from scientific, psychological, and biblical perspectives, Is the Homosexual my Neighbor? is the ideal resource for Christians on our culture’s hottest social debate and a powerful wake-up call.

Letha Dawson Scanzoni
1974: 3rd revised edition, 1992.

Now, All We're Meant To Be offers readers even more - a 20-page study guide. Discussion groups, church groups, women's groups - everyone will find this a useful tool which combines questions and suggestions for further study with new material and directions for conducting a successful discussion. Add careful biblical study and interpretation, scholarly research, a readable style, a study guide, and a commitment to tru liberation for every human being - and you come up with an unqualified success.

Ryan Pitterson
2021

Just as the book of Genesis prophesied that the Messiah would one day be born of “the seed of the woman,” so too was “another seed” predicted to come to earth – the Antichrist. While many have portrayed him to be a charismatic, military genius, the Antichrist will be something far more sinister. He is the Final Nephilim, a fallen angelic-human hybrid who will use occult power to lure most of the world into the greatest deception in human history. And the only thing that can stop him is the return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Philip Silvey
2023

Commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Eastman School of Music, this celebration of creativity is a recognition of the vision and commitment as well as the vulnerability that accompanies the life of an artist.

Dave Chisholm
2023

With narration adapted from Davis’ own words and an innovative visual style that shifts to reflect Davis’ constant musical changes, this 150-page graphic novel follows Davis through four decades of musical innovation, all centered around his quest to find a mysterious sound he heard on a moonlit country road as a child. Meticulously researched and expertly crafted by writer/artist Dave Chisholm—a doctorate holder in jazz trumpet from the Eastman School of Music—Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound deftly explores the often volatile journey of Miles Davis and his world-renowned music.

Jacek Blaszkiewics
2023

Fanfare for a City invites us to listen to the sounds of Paris during the Second Empire (1852–1870), a regime that oversaw dramatic social change in the French capital. By exploring the sonic worlds of exhibitions, cafés, streets, and markets, Jacek Blaszkiewicz shows how the city's musical life shaped urban narratives about le nouveau Paris: a metropolis at a crossroads between its classical, Roman past and its capitalist, imperial future. At the heart of the narrative is "Baron" Haussmann, the engineer of imperial urbanism and the inspiration for a range of musical responses to modernity, from the enthusiastic to the nostalgic. Drawing on theoretical approaches from historical musicology, urban sociology, and sound studies to shed light on newly surfaced archival material, Fanfare for a City argues that urbanism was a driving force in how nineteenth-century music was produced, performed, and policed.

Lauron Kehrer
2022

Notions of hip hop authenticity, as expressed both within hip hop communities and in the larger American culture, rely on the construction of the rapper as a Black, masculine, heterosexual, cisgender man who enacts a narrative of struggle and success. In Queer Voices in Hip Hop, Lauron J. Kehrer turns our attention to openly queer and trans rappers and positions them within a longer Black queer musical lineage. Combining musical, textual, and visual analysis with reception history, this book reclaims queer involvement in hip hop by tracing the genre’s beginnings within Black and Latinx queer music-making practices and spaces, demonstrating that queer and trans rappers draw on Ballroom and other cultural expressions particular to queer and trans communities of color in their work in order to articulate their subject positions. By centering the performances of openly queer and trans artists of color, Queer Voices in Hip Hop reclaims their work as essential to the development and persistence of hip hop in the United States as it tells the story of hip hop’s queer roots.

Douglas Lowry
2023

How would you write if there were no tomorrow? How would you see the world differently? The elegance of Douglas Lowry's writing is testimony to the intertwining of all the worlds of arts and music, including poetry, and is a curated gift to those who love the arts, whether philosophers, wits, or anyone who loves a good read.

Stanley Kingsley Day
2023

Though few details are known of 11th-century Benedictine monk Guido d’Arezzo, he is widely recognized for inventing the language of music. Music's Guiding Hand offers a fictional account as to how an unlikely friendship between two medieval monks might have inspired one of the most important and enduring innovations of the Western world.

Regni Albert
2022

Al Regni has been a featured player in symphony and philharmonic orchestras, saxophone quartets, and bands of famed singers. He has played most major venues in the world, from a solo concert in Carnegie Recital Hall to Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow, and the immense concert facility in Pyongyang North Korea. Enjoy this musical odyssey to learn about his career, amusing anecdotes, and his marvelous experiences.

Adrian DiMatteo
2023

Elements of Sound explores the relationship between sound and consciousness at the intersections of science, spirituality and music theory. DiMatteo's approach draws inspiration from ancient and modern thinkers, scientists and indigenous wisdom-keepers, relating sound as both a primal mystery and a practical tool for communication, healing and transformation. 

Maria Cristina Fava
2024

Maria Cristina Fava explores the rich creative milieu shaped by artists dedicated to using music and theater to advance the promotion, circulation, and acceptance of leftist ideas in 1930s New York City. Despite tensions between aesthetic and pragmatic goals, the people and groups produced works at the center of the decade’s sociopolitical and cultural life. Fava looks at the Composers’ Collective of New York and its work on proletarian music and workers’ songs before turning to the blend of experimentation and vernacular idioms that shaped the political use of music within the American Worker’s Theater Movement. Fava then reveals how composers and theater practitioners from these two groups achieved prominence within endeavors promoted by the Works Project Administration.

Renée Fleming
2024

World-renowned soprano and arts/health advocate Renée Fleming curates a collection of essays from leading scientists, artists, creative arts therapists, educators, and healthcare providers about the powerful impacts of music and the arts on health and the human experience

Brett Kinsler
2024

SHOWING UP is a humorous, irreverent, introspective work of fiction about love, loss, and low-stakes poker. It follows the story of Mason DuPont who must deal with his distant mother's descent into dementia and his search for peace. It's a difficult journey for Mason, but he finds a neighborhood poker group, whose silly game variations, good natured teasing, and constant jokes sustain and support him. At the same time, he falls for a spitfire artist who opens his eyes to his creative side. When a member of the group becomes ill, Mason must confront demons from his childhood and reprocess old wounds. The reader will alternate between laughing out loud, and wiping away a tear.

Max Stern
2024

This book attempts to illuminate and define the many criteria of music criticism in their aesthetic, social, historical, and cultural contexts. Music criticism is an art that balances perception with knowledge – intuition with understanding, critical analysis, and judgement. It is an aesthetic pursuit directed to the varied worlds of sound experience, and it is distinct from its more highly profiled cousins: art criticism (which focuses on the many aspects of the visual), and literary criticism (in relation to language and the word). Because music criticism is a subjective art, opinions and facts often interact and overlap. Nothing is ever absolute or unequivocal. Nonetheless, let us move forward in search of objective paradigms for evaluating the vast and wondrous phenomenon known as the ‘World of Music.’

Edward M. Luby
2024

While new directors learn how to manage and lead museums as part of their professional training and career development, the skills and knowledge required to work with boards—which are instrumental to a museum director’s work—must somehow be acquired on the job as one’s career progresses. What Every Museum Director Should Know about Working with Boards is designed to empower new and aspiring museum directors by equipping them with the skills and knowledge to work with boards.

Alexsandra Sukhoy
2022

A city. A woman. A crime. A young generation cursed with the sins of their parents. A family narrative spanning four generations. A truth long overdue. The Girl From Cleveland City takes its readers through the alleys, into the pubs and under the bridges of Cleveland - the most contemporary city of grit built on a river that set fire. Where the East Side vs. West Side divide still holds power and where which high school you went to carries weight long into your career. Cleveland is a city of contrasts holding itself together with a sense of local pride not seen anywhere else. It also mistrusts outsiders, even the ones who arrived to help the city prosper. With the days of The Theatrical and Danny Green long gone, and a youth movement determined to reinvent the 216, the past begins to clash with the present. At the center of the chaos is Esti, an influential and wealthy woman who has seen it all, lived it all and now lives immune to it all. Then one day, when she's prepared to close on the biggest real estate project the city has seen in 50 years, involving the most powerful men from all over the world, her universe implodes. As the secret she's kept buried risks visibility, she has to redefine survival, for herself, for her family and for all of Cleveland City. Part short stories, part essays, part screenplay, part photo album, The Girl From Cleveland City throws the reader down an irreversible rabbit hole of questionable characters making bad decisions, and the comeuppance they each must face.

Alexsandra Sukhoy
2024

In the third and final episode of THE GIRL FROM CLEVELAND CITY trilogy, we begin to connect the proverbial dots of the protagonist's journey. Esti, a Cleveland real estate heir and a mother of two grown sons, begins to unravel as the secrets pierce through of this rust-belt old-school city of many cultures, ethnicities and traditions. Cleveland has always held its own court and the rules that follow. John, the longtime detective enforcing some of those rules, and also a recovered alcoholic, begins to put together the pieces of a crime that took places three decades ago. Is this a case he actually wants to solve? As the old guard rationalizes its decisions, the new generation reexamines their own lives, facing choices that will either propel them forward into an uncertain but free future, or keep them fully entrenched in the quicksand of their ancestors. Regardless of generation or situation, the characters in this series pursue their own truths, through negotiations, through sex and even through violence.

Jeff Sigel
2024

Are you in management and looking for a way to work smarter, become more successful, and be happier in your career? This book is for you! The Middle Matters: A Toolkit for Middle Managers offers a new take on the often-underappreciated realm of middle management. Author Jeff Sigel draws from over two decades of firsthand experience to inspire middle managers to embrace their unique position as a powerful platform for influence and impact. Through vivid anecdotes and practical insights, this book explores the three essential roles of the middle manager: Doer, Leader, and Influencer. Each chapter provides actionable strategies to help you succeed in each role by teaching you a variety of skills including: Building credibility with your manager by mastering the details, fostering a can-do attitude, and effectively managing up; Expanding your team’s capacity to deliver results by providing purpose, feedback, and a supportive culture; and, Fostering commitment from employees, peers, and leaders to you and your ideas by taking ownership, clearing away obstacles, and skillfully navigating organizational politics. Whether you're a seasoned professional seeking fresh perspectives or an aspiring leader looking to thrive in the heart of the corporate hierarchy, The Middle Matters equips you with the tools and mindset needed to find success while embracing the journey along the way.

Tim Schum
2023

Soccer players may get all the glory, but behind every great player is a great coach. And behind every great coach today stands a deep fraternity who dedicated decades to supporting soccer’s long climb from obscurity to become one of the major sports in America. It was an uphill battle, fought persistently and creatively to overcome a public perception of soccer as “foreign,” “aloof,” “snobby,” or simply “odd.” Relentless: The Story of American Soccer and the Coaches Who Helped Grow the Game is a story of individual and collective action, of coaches coming together to improve the sport and expand its reach. From coaching methodologies to standardizing rules, improving the play on the field and the perceptions beyond it, persistent coaches were instrumental in creating the game played and watched today. Relentless tells the landmark and previously untold stories of resolute coaches, their love of the game, and how they transformed the sport in the United States.

Brett Kinsler
2024

SHOWING UP is a humorous, irreverent, introspective work of fiction about love, loss, and low-stakes poker. It follows the story of Mason DuPont who must deal with his distant mother's descent into dementia and his search for peace. It's a difficult journey for Mason, but he finds a neighborhood poker group, whose silly game variations, good natured teasing, and constant jokes sustain and support him. At the same time, he falls for a spitfire artist who opens his eyes to his creative side. When a member of the group becomes ill, Mason must confront demons from his childhood and reprocess old wounds. The reader will alternate between laughing out loud, and wiping away a tear.

Jill Groubert
2022

Spend the next 8 weeks overcoming relationship obstacles and building a stronger connection Every relationship has challenges, but learning to listen, communicate, and get in sync can help you move through the tough times quicker and spend more time enjoying each other. The 8 Week Couples Therapy Workbook is full of expert guidance and simple exercises that show you and your partner how to work through anything that comes up, so your relationship stays healthy, strong, and happy. What's going on?―This therapy book includes straightforward explanations of how intimacy and interpersonal connections work, the ways they can break down, and how to get them back on track. Advice that works―Find techniques from a licensed psychologist that are rooted in communication therapy, but simple to understand and implement in your daily lives. An 8-week timeline―These activities are spread out over 8 weeks, so it's easy to find time for them in your busy schedules, and to get in the habit of using your new skills in the long-term. Every aspect of life together―Focus on a different theme each week: communication, intimacy, conflict, money matters, social styles, relationship patterns, values, and love languages. Pick up this relationship workbook for couples today and create a better future together!

Charles Courtsal
2021

Revolutionary Girl is the true story of a teenager that served as a spy for General George Washington at the start of the American Revolution. Closely based on her family’s diary, this is the first time the story of Elizabeth Wilson has ever been told. She was a dynamic, brave and smart young woman sought out by General Washington . The charming illustrations by Kitty Forbush spark the imagination in this book for 5th grade readers and up. The book includes a family tree, questions for further exploration, and links to the actual diary. These are meant to encourage the reader to explore the stories of their own families.

Joseph Sargent
2024

From the 1920s to the 1940s, Leo Sowerby created popular secular works while his sacred compositions led admirers to call him the “dean of American church musicians.” Yet in time, Sowerby’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Canticle of the Sun and the rest of his corpus lost favor with the A-list symphonies and prominent musicians who had once made him a fixture in their repertoires. Joseph Sargent’s biography offers the first focused study of Sowerby’s life and work against the backdrop of the composer’s place in American music. As Sargent shows, Sowerby’s present-day marginalization as a composer relates less to the quality of his work than the fact that today’s historiographical practices and canon-building activities minimize modern church music. Sargent’s re-evaluation draws on a wide range of perspectives and composer’s music and writings to enrich detailed analyses of musical works and a career-spanning consideration of Sowerby’s musical language and aesthetic priorities.

Kevin McDonald
2025

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., was founded in 1911 at Howard University to cultivate and nurture a generation of leaders who would work toward racial uplift and influence American society. In an unprecedented two volumes, Judson Jeffries brings together original works on 21 of the fraternity’s accomplished and influential members. Written by a diverse group of scholars, these profiles highlight the national importance of these figures in their chosen fields of endeavor, as well as the enormous impact of this great fraternity. In volume 1, Jeffries presents a prologue and introduction that outline the story of the fraternity’s founding in the context of the racial, social, political, and educational history of the period. This volume spotlights scientists Ernest E. Just and Percy Lavon Julian; civil rights lawyers Fred Gray, Oliver Hill, Spottswood Robinson, and Oscar W. Adams Jr.; sports legends Robert Lee Elder and Clarence Gaines; and musicians Count Basie, Max Roach, and Roland Hayes. Including both widely recognized and little-known individuals and featuring people who were on the front lines of the struggle for racial equality and those whose work took place behind the scenes, these volumes show the contributions of Black leaders in the areas of science, civil rights, athletics, the arts, the military, politics, education, and more. Leading Figures in the History of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. is a testament to the significance of Black Greek-letter organizations, whose members have made history through lives of struggle, accomplishment, triumph, and uplift.

Gregory Denaro
2015

Thanks to the killer’s handiwork, Tony’s partners were also dead in Manhattan. The killer needed to finish his business in Westhampton tonight, so he could make his flight to Italy before any of the bodies were discovered. From his neck down he dressed like a surgeon with cotton coverings over his clothes and shoes that were specially made to fit although they were two sizes too large. He also wore latex gloves and a ski-mask to ensure that his entire body was protected against leaving even a cell of his DNA behind. Looking into the eyes of his victims in their final moment of life did not faze him. In fact, it gave him pleasure. The sound of Tony’s head smashing into the door disturbed him only because the success or failure of an assignment might hinge upon an unknown factor – variables that were his job to minimize. He never left anything to chance, carefully tending to the crime scene, making sure there was no evidence to assist law enforcement. Satisfied all was in order, he silently exited the master bedroom, gun in hand. Amanda tried the light switch in the kitchen, but it didn’t work. She opened the refrigerator door, found a pitcher of water, and poured a tall glass for her and Catarina to share. She replaced the pitcher, closed the refrigerator, took a step into the hallway and immediately noticed a large shadow of a person, obviously much taller than Tony. She shrieked in surprise and dropped the glass, which shattered. The killer reacted without conscious thought. He instinctively raised his gun and fired. Amanda made a loud moaning sound as she crumpled to the floor. Suddenly there was another scream behind him. He turned and aimed at the sound, not realizing that his gun was pointed at a forty-five degree angle toward the floor. He fired again and there was silence. It took only a split second for him to realize that the voice had screamed “Mommy.” Born to kill, bred to kill - he is the perfect weapon. A soulless assassin and master of disguise until a fatal mistake. Now he is hunted by a father for killing his wife and children. An eye for any eye. A continent away, another family slaughtered. A beautiful daughter teams with a Mafia enforcer on her own quest to find him. A story of revenge and redemption, hunter and hunted, good vs evil. An assassin game of cat and mouse, trust and betrayal. An international thriller. The tale of the Scorp