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Foreword by U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar"Vijay Dixit's book is an important contribution toward raising awareness about the dangers of distracted driving. For the Dixit family, the issue is personal. Vijay lost his daughter, Shreya, to a distracted driver on November 1, 2007. She was only 19 years old. Such tragedy would sideline many, but Vijay pushed forward and made it his life's mission to end distracted driving and prevent other families from going through what his family has endured. Drawing on the expertise from those in the field, including safety professionals and researchers, the latest facts and figures, and personal stories, Vijay has created a comprehensive guide to distracted driving and potential solutions. He explores how technology, education, and laws can change our behavior and improve safety. He offers an original framework for student-led distraction-free driving advocacy clubs in high schools to help teens learn responsible driving behaviors. I commend Vijay for launching clubs in three Minnesota high schools in 2015 and setting them up to achieve measurable goals. Over the years I have met with families across the country-including the Dixits-who have lost loved ones when a driver took his or her eyes off the road. Their heartbreaking stories remind us that distracted driving is a matter of life and death. Whether it is texting with a friend, searching for music files, or typing directions into the GPS, distracted driving is putting drivers, passengers, and pedestrians at risk. It only takes a moment of distracted driving to cause a tragedy. Five seconds is the average time a driver's eyes are off the road while texting. For a driver traveling at 55 miles per hour, that's like covering the length of a football field blindfolded.No text message is worth dying for.In the age of smartphones, distracted driving is playing an outsized role and endangering everyone on the road. Every day, nine people are killed and more than 1,100 people are injured in the United States in crashes involving distracted driving. Nearly half of all U.S. high school students aged 16 or older admitted to texting or emailing behind the wheel. More must be done to quell this epidemic that is sweeping the country. That is why I worked with U.S. Senators John Hoeven (R-ND), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) to introduce bipartisan legislation to crack down on distracted driving in Minnesota and across the country. In 2014, millions of dollars in federal grant money that was designated to reduce distracted driving went unused because of overly stringent qualifications. Our bipartisan legislation would make it easier for states that are taking steps to curb distracted driving to qualify for these federal grants to support their efforts.We've pushed this legislation for years, and finally our hard work paid off. Our legislation was included in the long-term, bipartisan transportation bill-the Fixing America's Surface Transportation (FAST) Act-that Congress passed and the President signed into law on December 3, 2015. The FAST Act moves us ahead by investing in our infrastructure, creating jobs, and improving safety. It only happened because many people-from different backgrounds and political beliefs-were willing to work together to get it done. This is also what it will take to make distracted driving as taboo as drunk driving. We need to join forces to let every current and future driver know that someone who texts and drives is just as impaired as someone who drinks and drives. I believe that drivers of all ages, especially parents, teenagers, teachers, school administrators, driving instructors, and agency officials, will benefit from this book. The title, One Split Second, says it all: Our lives can be changed forever or lost in the blink of an eye if we drive distracted."

This is the story of how the author's German ancestors coped with life since the time of Julius Caesar. Why was so much of the Germany we know today never absorbed into the Roman Empire while much of Europe was? The book answers intimate questions about how Germans lived; everyday things like how they heated their houses and what they wore to bed (if anything) in the so-called "Dark Ages" of the sixth century. When did Germans start brewing beer? How were such a stubborn people converted to Christianity and then large proportions of them to Lutheranism? There are several charming surprises, including the radical changes that resulted in their lives when they rediscovered how to make bricks and what became a staple part of every meal. Many Americans have German family names; here, you will find out how those names were chosen. Enjoy a delightful historical discovery read along the lines of what we might expect from authors like Bill Bryson.

Award-winning teacher Steve Cwodzinski was never content just imparting the assigned curriculum to his students. He saw in them the need to learn important life lessons as well about values, self-motivation, relationships, inquisitiveness, adventure, and so much more. Using his own struggles with growing up and overcoming a life-threatening accident, he began to weave his personal stories and questions about life into his classes.Over thirty-three years, Steve developed these sometimes quirky but always tantalizing mental excursions into a list of thirty-three provocative questions that could help guide his students' lives. The results were often magical, and he discovered that these questions could benefit everyone no matter what their age. Now they are yours. Never stop striving to find your own answers.

After suffering depression following a catastrophic event at 17, Sharon Greenwald knows she'll commit suicide one day. But she never considered what would happen if she survived. Not even a lifelong eating disorder stemming from an abortion, watching her father and best friend take their last breaths, or postpartum depression that ruins her experience as a new mother can lead her to suicide. But then, when the depression comes back after her divorce, inconsequential events set her plan in motion. When she awakens from a 5-day coma, Sharon must deal with the effects of her decision, including the stunned reactions of her loved ones. As Sharon and her family try to cope with what happened, her family keeps asking "Why?"SIXTY-NINTH STREET SUICIDE is a candid, raw story that explores Sharon's every destructive thought and feeling that adds to her why. The answer may surprise you.

From the cold, lonely streets of 1970s Britain to the sun-soaked opulence of Malibu in the 1980s, Janine's life is fraught with dangerous exploits-outrunning the law, sordid relationships, and a drive to self-destruct. Abused and neglected by her once socialite parents, Janine's material possessions are replaced by alcohol, and the life she once knew becomes a distant memory. Manipulative, envious, and cruel, her mother is a drunken nightmare and Janine's desperation to get away only leads her down an even darker path.Decades later, their own relationship fractured by the blows of addiction, Janine and her daughter Katie struggle to reconnect as they work on this memoir. Traveling through her mother's tumultuous childhood, Katie witnesses how it all began, and Janine realizes that she was simply struggling to survive. Together, they find the bridge that leads them back into each other's hearts. This book is a testament that forgiveness is powerful, and every relationship has the potential for salvation.

From Vladimir to Vladimir is about the long and complicated relationship between Russia and Ukraine. It begins with Prince Vladimir of Kiev, who established the Kievan Rus' Empire (879-1240 CE), one that expanded and contracted over four centuries-longer than the United States has existed. The book ends with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022.Vicchio explores little-known or understood connections between Russia and Ukraine, including a period where three separate powers attempted to conquer Ukraine: the Mongols, the Polish Lithuanian Confederation, and the annexing of Ukraine by the Russians in 1792.Other sections trace Russia and Ukraine in the two world wars, the relationship of Russia to Ukraine in the Soviet Era, and the fate of Ukraine since the dissolution of the Soviet Union on Christmas day, 1991.

This is a book about a transformative decision-making process designed to address the conditions and complexities of modern life for individuals, pairs, families, neighborhoods, villages, cities, organizations, states, nations, and the world community. This process not only fosters wise, just, and practical decisions, but spiritual and social advancement for both the people using it and those impacted by the decisions. Our previous book1-about the purposes of life; the spiritual, intellectual, and social growth patterns designed into life by an all-loving Creator; and how to act in alignment with these purposes and patterns-described this decision process briefly and promised an in-depth exploration in our next book. This remarkable process came to our attention in 1968, and we began trying to use it in all areas of our lives. This process has helped us navigate our personal development, cultivate a lasting marriage, raise enlightened children, guide and nurture our grandchildren, assist our aged parents, deal with chronic illnesses, find and practice professions that allow us to be of meaningful service to others, and build responsible, spiritually centered communities that are the hallmark of an emerging global civilization. Working respectively as a professional coach and organization development consultant and as a psychotherapist, we have also applied this methodology with our individual, group, and organizational clients. Whether working with a depressed and anxious individual, a married couple on the verge of divorce, an individual seeking a more meaningful life path, a work group in the midst of conflict, an organization seeking to design its future, or a community trying to take responsibility for its own social, material, and spiritual development, this methodology has provided the guidance needed to make transformative decisions that foster healing, deepened understanding, spiritual growth, social advancement, and unity.

McDowell characterizes the spiritual life as a captivating dance. Sometimes the steps are easy to follow; other times they become confusing or lost from view. In a clear and compelling voice, McDowell guides the reader through the steps of the dance. Each chapter offers a rich description of one step to spiritual realization and ends with open-ended self-reflective questions for the reader. These steps include experiences of bewilderment, detachment, renewal, awakening, illumination, dark night of the soul, and finally divine union or Self-realization. Drawing upon the wisdom of ancient traditions, contemporary spiritual teachers, and the author's own experiences, Dance of Light offers practical wisdom for contemporary spiritual seekers. Whether beginner or advanced, readers will receive guidance on the dynamics of the spiritual journey, learn how to further develop their inner life, and find ways to move forward when unmotivated, stuck, or lost.

When Jackie M. Stebbins had reached the pinnacle of success as a young trial lawyer, she desperately tried to hide her anxiety and depression. But her shaking hands, endless insomnia, and white noise in her ears told her it was true: she had burned herself out. After she pleaded to be committed to a psychiatric ward, her world went black. She awoke a month later to learn that she had a rare and debilitating brain illness that stole her career and nearly ended her life. The twists and turns of her journey to a diagnosis, recovery, and new life takes readers on an emotional and psychedelic rollercoaster ride. You will feel her terror and devastation and be moved by her will and hope. Unwillable makes you laugh, cry, and cheer for Jackie in this fast-paced story of a woman whose persistence burdened her, but also equipped her to survive.