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When the light is void, it is called darkness, and when the darkness is void, it is called light. So explains the poetry collection of Anthony W. McElroy. The poet says his life was truly in darkness, until writing this book led him into the light. Trained for the theater, McElroy was never "fortunate or lucky enough to use my theater training the way I wanted to use it." Instead, he dug deep into his life experiences to write soulful poetry from the heart. McElroy graduated in 1977 from Wesley College in Dover, Delaware, with a degree in theater arts. He continued his theater training for another two years at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and further studied theater at Point Park University in Pittsburgh in connection with the Pittsburgh Playhouse from 1979 to 1981. "May peace and blessings be with those who buy, read, learn and debate the poems in this book."

Want to become a better manager? Want your business to hum with efficiency and your employees to be happy and productive? Then Stop Fixing, Start Leading! ®In this wise, unorthodox book, business and executive coach Jack Needham shows you how to avoid the usual knee-jerk solutions to problems and instead truly transform your workplace. Jack reveals secrets gleaned from years of working with businesses, from huge international operations to small local companies. This short guide, long on insights and best practices, shows you:¿ Why it's better to listen to your employees than to tell them what to do¿ How asking simple, direct questions can lead to inspiration and change on the job¿ How being "in the moment" can have great benefits for the manager/employee relationship and the business as a whole¿ Why a leader needs to regularly step back from the hubbub and breathe¿ And much more!The old ways of ordering employees around just don't work anymore. Let Jack show you how to get the best out of yourself and your employees with Stop Fixing, Start Leading!®

A combination of travel, work, education and research in Anthropology, human cultures, and Ecology afforded João Pedro Galhano Alves the opportunity to visit the few remaining untouched oases on this planet, where people live in harmony with nature. This was his inspiration for The Artificial Simulacrum World.In The Artificial Simulacrum World, author João Pedro Galhano Alves analyzes the historical benefits of communitary land use systems-one being self-sufficiency and its power to transform lives and create communities. He also discusses how humans evolved to the less than desirable current day position of mass dependence, production, and over-consumption.This in-depth study of land use systems allows any reader to understand why our present ecological and socioeconomic disasters point to a global need for change in social production and consumption systems.Author João Pedro Galhano Alves is a fulltime researcher working on his third Post-doctorate at the Universities of Montpellier III (France) and Nova of Lisbon (Portugal). He resides in Porto, Portugal, but has traveled to over half of the world-from Burma to the U.S., from Norway to South Africa, and from the Polar Regions to the desert lands of the Sahara.

Vernadine A. Merrick's And the Walls Came Tumbling Down is the riveting story of two twin boys' climb out of poverty to power and the sacrifices made to get there. Jack and Joe were raised by their father in the Cleveland ghettos. Their mother died in childbirth, but the boys had plenty of aunts to give them motherly guidance and a father devoted to their success. The two boys' lives go in separate ways - Joe turns to life on the streets and running with gangs, while Jack excels in school, eventually going to Yale. Then fate deals one a hard hand, a tragedy occurs and their worlds collide in a way that forever changes their paths. From the seedy underbelly of gang life on the mean streets to the political and powerfully elite, the unimaginable secret that one has to bear will reverberate throughout his life and set in motion a chain of events that can save or destroy him as he aspires to the most powerful office in the land.Merrick has written a breakthrough novel that encompasses the precariousness of family relationships and the lengths a father will go to save his child. It paints a compassionate picture of how a tragic mistake can test the limits of a family's survival yet still reach the other side of forgiveness and redemption. Joe Baker is a tortured spirit, torn between truth and deception, self-awareness and self-deprivation...and many wrong choices. Jack Baker is the mirror image of Joe and can only be described as his better half. He is devoted to his father, fiercely protective of his brother and the voice of the unheard. Suzanne Montgomery, glamorous, gorgeous and rich. Her larger-than-life, Hollywood looks, mask the vulnerable woman still desperate for love. Nicola Patricks while enormously seductive, her intelligence, decency and achievements are her pride. She is now thrust into a web of lust, love and deceit. John Baker is the father of identical twin boys that he deeply loves, but begrudgingly admits to liking only one. Dirk Patterson is amongst the upper class African-American elite. Yet he is intricately connected to two brothers from the other side of the tracks. Detective Ridder Jones smells blood and goes for the jugular. The case of the high-powered Senator is no exception.Vernadine A. Merrick is a writer and marketing consultant. Ms. Merrick is currently writing a fiction novel and lives in Atlanta, Georgia. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down is her first book.

In 1926, with the world still licking its wounds from a devastating war, a young man stands at the gates of San Quentin, hesitant at the thought of employment in this grim setting. But he walks through the gates into the bowels of the prison, where he remains for the next thirty-five years. He soon realizes that insanity reigns in the cell blocks and medieval practices of discipline are still enforced. He dreams of taking the prisoners out of their cells and onto a field playing ball, relieving growing racial tensions-because when men are engaged in sports, skin color disappears."Doing Time is a fascinating and compelling story that reveals the depths of madness, hope and compassion that exist behind the walls of the infamous San Quentin Prison. Athletic Director Dan Coughlin touched the lives of thousands of prisoners through his innovative sports' programs and his belief that hardened prisoners can be rehabilitated. Today our nation's failed policies continue to breed violence and recidivism so we can learn a lot from this man's high standards of human decency." -Jeff Adachi, San Francisco Public Defender. Author Margery Ada McAleer is the daughter of Lt. Dan Coughlin, Founder of the San Quentin Prison Athletic System, whose life was the inspiration for this story.