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Healthcare advocate Edward G. Rogoff's Scary Diagnosis is an essential resource which enables patients to navigate the medical system to achieve the best outcome in confronting their diseases.From his personal experience battling hemophilia for most of his life, Rogoff understands how challenging it is to cope not only with a life-threatening illness, but to receive quality healthcare in the United States' bureaucratic and complex medical system. With Americans living longer than ever before, the potential to develop chronic conditions, require surgeries, become disabled--and receive a scary diagnosis--increases. Learning you have cardiovascular issues, Parkinson's disease, or a form of cancer is life-altering, but Rogoff shows that you aren't just a patient defined by your illness. Armed with the right knowledge, a positive attitude, experienced doctors and a trustworthy team of family and friends, you can continue to live a life of dignity, purpose, and meaning while confronting your illness.Scary Diagnosis offers the strategies patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals need to work together while dealing with fearful medical conditions. From selecting the right doctors and building a support team, to untangling the red tape of insurance and dealing with difficult hospitalizations, to maintaining a sense of humor and optimism, Rogoff's indispensable guide will help you advocate for yourself, so you receive the treatment and empathy you deserve. Featuring true stories from people who have successfully managed both the medical system and their illnesses, Scary Diagnosis shows us that despite our vulnerability, we have the power and the agency to choose our best healthcare options to maintain our wellbeing and quality of life.

In Carol Hoenig's previous novel, Without Grace, it is believed that Grace Finley walked out on her husband and two young children to fulfill a selfish dream of becoming a famous singer, leaving behind rumors and questions among her family and townsfolk in the mountains of Upstate New York.Now in Before She Was a Finley, it is years later when Adele, a reluctant young journalism student is assigned to "get" a story from a local nursing home where she comes across elderly Grace Finley. Over time, Grace slowly takes Adele back to the 1930s and subsequent years that follow as she provides bits and pieces that eventually reveal the dark truth as to why she walked out on her family carrying only a guitar and suitcase. Adele knows that the class assignment was simply to write about a local person, and even though journalists aren't supposed to be a part of the story, she cannot shake what she discovered and wants to do more to set the record straight. But is there anyone still alive who would care?In reviewing Without Grace, North Country Public Radio said, "We need more North Country novels like Without Grace, novels with a keen sense of place. Before She was a Finley answers that call.

In HOW TO INVEST IN COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, authors Dowell and Stachenfeld have created the ultimate guide for anyone who would like to invest in the real estate asset class but doesn't quite know where to start. In an easy-to-read format, all aspects of commercial real estate investment are clearly and entertainingly described, including more complex deal structures. But this book isn't just for beginning investors. Even seasoned professionals will benefit from reading it, especially from the authors' insights into the more intricate elements of the market.The authors, a commercial real estate investor and a commercial real estate attorney, have over seventy years combined of invaluable experience with commercial real estate. Their love for their subject is palpable, and they pass along their passion and enthusiasm to the reader. Because the real estate market is viable and changeable, this guide includes a final chapter addressing current trends and the authors' predictions for the future. The three sections begin with an outline of real estate basics, followed by a deeper analysis of practical applications. Section three presents conclusions and commentary on the state (and the future) of the market.So whether you are taking those first steps into commercial real estate investment or want to upgrade your expertise, HOW TO INVEST IN COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE will prove to be a much needed and frequently referenced resource.

In Legal Briefs: The Ups and Downs of Life in the Law, editor Roger Witten takes us behind the scenes of some of the most fascinating court cases of the last few decades, while introducing us to the sometimes strange, and sometimes comical situations these lawyers have experienced during their long careers. This collection features twenty lawyers of varying backgrounds and expertise writing with pizzazz, humor, and passion about such significant events as the Watergate break-in; the 9/11 Commission; the Iranian hostage crisis, and more. They write of tackling issues concerning money in politics and Citizens United; same-sex parental custody rights; and the contempt charge against Martin Luther King Jr. And we are also treated to intimate portraits of some unique clients and towering figures in the legal world. This book will delight all readers, not just those with a specific interest in the law. As Roger Witten writes in the introduction, these stories "reveal the ups and downs of a life in the law by telling stories that are dramatic, moving, and/or amusing Some are tongue-in-cheek. Others are serious but never dull."

The most pressing question in these uncertain times may well be, How can we bring healing and protection to the Earth? It was this very question that Cynthia Jurs carried with her in 1990 as she climbed a path high in the Himalayas, to meet an “old wise man in a cave”—a venerated lama from Nepal. In response to her question, the old lama gave her a formidable assignment based on an ancient practice from Tibet: she must procure earth treasure vases made of clay and potent medicines, fill them with prayers and symbolic offerings, and bury them around the world where healing is called for.   Thus begins the journey of a lifetime—sometimes harrowing, but always shining with beauty at the threshold between urgency and the timelessness of the sacred. In Summoned by the Earth we accompany this passionate and creative Buddhist teacher, as she attempts to fulfill the daunting task. Ultimately, the path from the wise man’s mountain cave winds around the world, bringing Cynthia into relationship with elders, activists, diverse ecosystems and communities. One by one, as the humble clay pots are planted in the Earth, the power of an ancient technology of the sacred comes alive and a global community grows to protect the Earth and learn how to become vessels of healing.   Along the way, we come face to face with the troubles burdening our communities everywhere while encountering some of the people leading the way to unexpected solutions and surprising new visions. We meet survivors of the Liberian civil war, and an ex-combatant who puts down his AK47 to take up mindfulness practice in order to create lasting peace. There’s the Hero Women in Congo, who are resisting femicide and defending the sanctity of their bodies and the world’s second largest rainforest. And there’s the indigenous elders everywhere, from the outback of Aboriginal Australia to the Native pueblos of northern New Mexico, who, in keeping their lifeways alive, are stewarding their sacred lands and regenerating ecosystems vital to our collective survival.     Through all these cultures and communities, the path leads us to a cave above the Los Alamos National Laboratory, back to the cave in Nepal where it all began, and finally, to another cave high on Mount Parnassus in Delphi where the Oracle, in service to the Goddess Gaia, once divined how we may best live in balance. Over and over, we touch the heart of the world, only to discover by journey’s end that the heart of the world is everywhere and that our assignment now is to recognize we are a global family and wake up together.  As many of us wonder what we can do in this eleventh hour, Summoned by the Earth offers a riveting account of one woman’s response to the challenges we face, and is an irresistible invitation to become “sacred activists” heeding the call of the Earth.

In these 25 true stories, a widely published philosopher recounts 60 years of interaction with people in all walks of life ‿ some extremely famous, others complete strangers ‿ from hospitals to restaurants, concert halls to airplanes, in private conversations and nationally broadcast interviews. Stories can be heartbreaking, distracting, funny, shocking, inspiring, revealing, and sometimes unforgettable ‿ and all those attributes appear here. There‿s no substitute for learning what it‿s like to be someone else, to see the world as that other person does and reconsider our own views in light of that learning. These compelling and accessible stories motivate and enable us to do that, illuminating the unexpected relationships among all domains of human concern, the wellsprings of creativity, the elusive character of good judgment, and the pathways to social justice. They help us see more clearly what we care most about: deep features of human character and difficult choices, of social structures, of the power of imagination, of how to take account of the importance of what cannot be counted, and of bogus boundaries and assumptions that can repress clear thinking in any domain. These stories will make the reader more powerful in service of those values.

In Doing More with a Life, best-selling author Piasecki welcomes the reader into his home, revealing the heart-breaking early death of his father, and his deep respect and love for the women in his life, especially his mother, who devoted her life to her children, both foster and biological. He explores the life-shaping moments in his personal history and imagines what is to come next in a series of well-wrought vignettes.Piasecki’s upbringing was laced with poverty and trauma. He began reading at an early age, seeking out the wisdom and relevance from the “magical clan of writers” who helped him strengthen his writing muscle and feed into his creative hunger. Bruce’s journey to becoming a writer is spiritual and practical, as he discovers and uncovers what is truly valuable in a life. As well as being a writer, Piasecki is also an environmentalist, a speaker on climate and society, and AHC Group founder. He has also founded the family-endowed Creative Force Foundation. Doing More with a Life can be read as biography, or inventive memoir, or even as magical realism. Piasecki leaves that choice up to his reader. Readers and followers of Piasecki’s expansive career in environmental and community issues will be deeply moved by his tales of loss and his determination to make himself—and his world—into something profoundly better.

Becoming Forest openswith Aishling—the young Irish woman at the heart of this story—as she visitsher grandmother in California following her grandfather’s death. Aishling findsher grandfather’s journal and reads about a trip he made to India years ago tovisit the original Bodhi Tree, the place where the Buddha found enlightenment.  At the end of the journal, she finds a letter addressed toher from her grandfather asking for her help passing along his message of “deepsecurity” to her generation as they deal with the climate crisis and theuncertain future ahead. Aishling goes to India to follow in her grandfather’spath to find a way of responding to his request. There she meets and falls inlove with a young Buddhist monk, who is also on a quest. As they walk together alongthe roads of India, they gather unexpected and invaluable insights from eachother and come closer to the answers they both seek. Thirty years later, Aishling’s daughter Tara isvisiting her in Ireland. Tara is grieving the death of her father and also thedestruction of the forests from drought and fire. She is also searching for a wayto heal the burnout she and her friends are experiencing while working tocombat climate change. Becoming Forestweaves together threads of Native American and Celtic spirituality withBuddhist understanding and connection to the natural world, creating a tapestrywhich holds both the despair and awakening of Aishling

In a WholeNew Way is aphotographic self-portrait by New Yorkers who are serving a term of probation.The book also lifts the veil on this “second-chance” justice intervention that hasspread from its origins in 1841 Boston to most of the world today. If all Americansserving a term of probation were gathered in one locale, they would constitutethe third-largest city in the country. Yet few of us understand what thesanction involves. Nor do many Americans realize that the originallyrehabilitative practice became punitive following the 1972–92 crime wave. Inmany jurisdictions, it still is. Probation unfortunately has become a stagingarea for incarceration rather than its alternative.  In a WholeNew Way shows howhundreds of determined city residents on probation, along with neighborhoodallies, undertook to change this. Equipped with cameras and new artistic sensibilitiesprovided by the editors’ nonprofit Seeing for Ourselves, they set off ina whole new way to reform the sanction of probation, returning it to therehabilitative and positive program it was originally intended to be. In theprocess, they found themselves transformed. The result oftheir journey is this unique collection of stunning photographs, accentuated bydeeply personal captions and lengthier testimonies, that reveal the reality oflife in probation. The stories of these participants powerfully undercut theirown—and probation’s—derogatory popular image. The true goal of this book is toreform the entire justice system toward decarceration. In a WholeNew Way is both thesequel to the editors’ Project Lives (2015), the globally acclaimedvolume resulting from a similar effort with New Yorkers living in publichousing—a work catapulting Seeing for Ourselves to the front tier of“participatory photography” practitioners worldwide—and the source of today’saward-winning eponymous documentary film, airing on select public televisionstations in 2023.

When they first began working on this book, the authorsthought they would simply write the story of Linda Killinger’s grandparentswho, with seven of their thirteen kids, took a fifteen-month trip across thecountry visiting relatives and the national parks, in their brand new 1930Model A Ford. Very quickly, they realized this was not just a simplestory. Instead, they began to see it as a reveal of how this moment of historyaffected not only their grandparents’ family, but the generations to come, inthe same way these historic events have affected so many other families. Levi’sDream presents a living history of twentieth-century America.   All proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated tocharity via The Kerry and Linda Killinger Foundation. Visit our website,thekillingerfoundation.org.

A story that is as evocative of Americans in Paris as Hemingway's A Moveable FeastThe Paris Herald tells the story of the world’s most famous newspaper, focusing on the key years when the fates of the newspaper and the regime of Charles de Gaulle became curiously intertwined. The story centers on intrigue and rivalry among the New York Herald Tribune, New York Times and Washington Post. When the Herald Tribune ceased operations in New York in 1966, the Times, which had started its own European Edition in 1960, expected the Paris Herald to close, too, giving the Times victory in Paris as well as New York. But Herald Tribune owner Jock Whitney wouldn’t sell to the Times, preferring to join with Katharine Graham and the upstart Washington Post. Within months, the Timescame, hat-in-hand, seeking a minority interest in the new Herald/Post partnership. The Times neither forgave nor forgot its humiliation.The Paris Herald the most entertaining story of Americans in Paris since Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, is riveting historical drama, as relevant today as yesterday.

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered by many to be one of America's great novels. Richard Webb's Boats Against the Current is an essential document for anyone who has read Gatsby and wondered at the fantastic world whose story it tells.

Much more than a travel narrative 360 Degrees Longitude: One Family’s Journey Around the World is a glimpse at what it means to be a “global citizen”—a progressively changing view of the world as seen through the eyes of an American family of four.After more than a decade of planning, John Higham and his wife September bid their high-tech jobs and suburban lives good-bye, packed up their home and set out with two children, ages eight and eleven, to travel around the world. In the course of the next 52 weeks they crossed 24 time zones, visited 28 countries and experienced a lifetime of adventures.Making their way across the world, the Highams discovered more than just different foods and cultures; they also learned such diverse things as a Chilean mall isn’t the best place to get your ears pierced, and that elephants appreciate flowers just as much as the next person. But most importantly, they learned about each other, and just how much a family can weather if they do it together.360 Degrees Longitude employs Google’s wildly popular Google Earth as a compliment to the narrative. Using your computer you can spin the digital globe to join the adventure cycling through Europe, feeling the cold stare of a pride of lions in Africa, and breaking down in the Andes. Packed with photos, video and text, the online Google Earth companion adds a dimension not possible with mere paper and ink. Fly over the terrain of the Inca Trail or drill down to see the majesty of the Swiss Alps—without leaving the comfort of your chair.

A killer. A manhunt. The triumph of justice and of the wolf.The greatest event in Yellowstone history.Greater Yellowstone was the last great truly intact ecosystem in the temperate zones of the earth—until, in the 1920s, U.S. government agents exterminated its top predator, the gray wolf. With traps and rifles, even torching pups in their dens, the killing campaign was entirely successful. The howl of the “evil” wolf was heard no more. The “good” animals—elk, deer, bison—proliferated, until they too had to be “managed.”Two decades later, recognizing that ecosystems lacking their keystone predators tend to unravel, the visionary naturalist Aldo Leopold called for the return of the wolf to Yellowstone. It would take another fifty years for his vision to come true.In the early 1990s, as the movement for Yellowstone wolf restoration gained momentum, rage against it grew apace. When at last, in February 1995, fifteen wolves were trapped in Alberta and brought to acclimation pens in Yellowstone, even then legal and political challenges continued. There was also a lot of talk in the bars about “shoot, shovel, and shut up.”While the wolves’ enemies worked to return them to Canada, the biologists in charge of the project feared that the wolves might well return on their own. Once they were released, two packs remained in the national park, but one bore only one pup and the other none. The other, comprising Wolves Nine and Ten and Nine’s yearling daughter, disappeared.They were in fact heading home. As they emerged from protected federal land, an unemployed ne’er-do-well from Red Lodge, Montana, trained a high-powered rifle on Wolf Number Ten and shot him through the chest.Number Nine dug a den next to the body of her mate, and gave birth to eight pups. The story of their rescue and the manhunt for the killer is the heart of The Killing of Wolf Number Ten.+Read this book, and if you are ever fortunate enough to hear the howling of Yellowstone wolves, you will always think of Wolves Nine and Ten. If you ever see a Yellowstone wolf, chance are it will be carrying their DNA.The restoration of the wolf to Yellowstone is now recognized as one of conservation’s greatest achievements, and Wolves Nine and Ten will always be known as its emblematic heroes.

Originally published in 1973, when it won the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award, reprintedand revised several times since, They’re Playing Our Song is a classic oral history of American popular music. Now further updated with new material and new photographs, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in the Great American Songbook of the 20thcentury, these classic and timeless songs and lyrics are as popular today as ever.