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  • The Integrity Compass

    The Integrity Compass

    In an era of AI, automation, cyber risk, and brittle infrastructure, technical excellence isn’t enough. The Integrity Compass is a practical guide to ethical decision-making for engineers, technologists, managers, policymakers, and students facing complexity and pressure. Blending lived experience with usable frameworks, it shows how to map risk, identify stakeholders, test assumptions, and spot “quiet” choices before they become headlines. Case studies and letters from real dilemmas make integrity actionable—especially when incentives and power push the other way.

    Amin presents a compelling argument, bolstered by global case studies and his remarkable personal journey.

    —Tariq Samad
  • The Long Surrender

    The Long Surrender

    In 1970s Alabama, Brian Rush McDonald becomes a “Jesus freak” and is formed by fundamentalism at Bob Jones University. He becomes a minister, husband, and father, then moves his family to Taiwan as a missionary—learning Mandarin and a wider worldview. Back in America, he pastors Chinese American churches while earning a Ph.D. After thirty years preaching, he leaves the pulpit. The Long Surrender chronicles losing religion to find freedom.

    still thinking about it weeks later

    —Random Reviewer, verified review on Amazon
  • The New Buffalo

    The New Buffalo

    The New Buffalo takes readers inside the rise of Indian gaming through Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux leader Leonard Prescott, from reservation poverty to high-stakes battles in Washington. His fight for sovereignty intersects with IGRA, the National Indian Gaming Association, and casinos like Mystic Lake. Drawing on extensive archives and testimony, the book reveals enrollment wars, corruption, federal failures, and states exploiting tribal divisions—framing gaming as modern self-determination.

    wonderfully readable, succinct yet superbly informed

    —Jim Lenfesty, author of Time Remaining
  • The Power of Positive Handwriting

    The Power of Positive Handwriting

    Graphotherapy teaches that changing your handwriting strokes can reshape the traits they reflect. Based on graphoanalysis, this practical “toolbox” offers exercises to retrain habits, replace negative patterns, and build more productive behaviors. Follow the program for thirty days and you may notice real personality shifts and new possibilities. It’s not a miracle cure, but it can deepen self-understanding—including the mental side of sexuality—and support success defined on your terms.

  • The Runaway Learning Machine

    The Runaway Learning Machine

    In The Runaway Learning Machine, occupational therapist James Bauer tells us what it was like to grow up with undiagnosed dyslexia. You will experience the pain and embarrassment this shy little boy felt as teachers and parents ignored his learning disability and simply encouraged him to “try harder.” The Runaway Learning Machine is a must-read for anyone who works with children in a learning environment.

    A great read for anyone who’s experienced learning challenges

    —Jon, review on Amazon

  • The Soul of Humanity

    The Soul of Humanity

    The Soul of Humanity urges readers to abandon blind faith and apply rational thinking to science, relationships, politics, and religion. Drawing on enduring insights from the world’s major wisdom traditions, it argues reason is the way out of superstition, prejudice, and recurring social upheaval. Without it, humanity remains divided; with it, the book proposes practical principles and values to guide civilization toward lasting peace.

    grabs your attention and makes you appreciate our God given… thinking power

    —Setar Heather, verified review on Amazon
  • The Space Pen Club

    The Space Pen Club

    This book offers an insider’s journey through the bewildering world of UFO researchers—and their debunkers—alongside encounters with media and government officials, astronauts, Native American medicine men, and a few eccentrics. From Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind in places like Mexico’s volcanic zone and a South Dakota reservation to “high strangeness” in his own home, Keller writes accessibly for newcomers and seasoned readers alike.

    Packed with deep, sound witness testimonies, lots of history, classic sightings amd lore, and a realistic view of the preachers in the skeptic church.

    —Dan Aykroyd, actor
  • The Sweet Spot

    The Sweet Spot

    If you align business strategy with positive psychology and faith, you can find your “Sweet Spot”—where integrity elevates everything you do. Shaped by lessons from the 2008 financial crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic, and Mike Ferrell’s work as an executive coach, The Sweet Spot offers principles to help leaders endure disruption, make values-driven decisions, and survive—and thrive—through any crisis.

    how best to integrate the timeless principles of faith into a winning leadership approach

    —Bob Keith Co-Founder, The Ciocca Center for Entrepreneurship
  • The Talent Thief

    The Talent Thief

    What if everything we know about developing talent is backwards? After fifteen years watching kids play in a gym in St. Paul, soccer coach Ted Kroeten discovered that talent isn’t about trying harder—it’s about making others do the work for you. The Talent Thief reveals why play beats practice, how movement functions as language, and what the forty-billion-dollar youth sports industry keeps getting wrong.

    Kroeten has provided the framework to revolutionize our sports development system if we have the sense to pay attention.

    — Brian McCormick, 20 Hacks for the 24-Hour Athlete
  • The Trumpet Blast

    The Trumpet Blast

    Religious prophecies anticipate a world redeemer, and this book reexamines Ṭáhirih—the Bábí movement’s heroic martyr—as a central herald of that advent. Through analysis of her symbolism of the “veil,” newly uncovered unpublished poetry, and authoritative writings of the Faith she died for, the author argues Ṭáhirih was more than a feminist icon. She is presented as the Trumpeter of the Day of Resurrection, lifting apocalyptic veils and announcing an imminent transformation of human civilization and the coming of the Promised One.

    beautifully highlights the life and station of Tahirih, a remarkable historical figure in religion and poetry

    —Jehan Rehayem on Amazon

  • This Sucks! I Want to Live

    This Sucks! I Want to Live

    When a seizure sent Nick Spooner’s limo-for-hire off the road, he lost both his livelihood and his life expectancy. The terminal diagnosis of glioblastoma multiforme turned him to his Facebook page where his voice is heard for two months until his last entry, “It sucks.” There read the extraordinary story of this strong, caring, spiritual human who made himself into the man he became.

    Fascinating… how he lived through things beyond my experience

    —Judy Handke
  • Tilt-A-Whirl

    Tilt-A-Whirl

    Tilt-A-Whirl hurtles from innocence to the darker edge of the baby boom. Set amid the 1960s–70s cultural revolution, these poetic stories bridge generations and the Mississippi, crossing borders of tradition, music, friendship, and love. From small-town hopes to psychedelics and rock-and-roll radio, they capture a boy’s trials, experiments, and coming of age.

    Excellent stroll through this guy’s imagination !!!

    —Steve Yeager
  • To the Front of the Bus

    To the Front of the Bus

    As American democracy faces existential threats, To the Front of the Bus: Movement toward a Fair Democracy revisits the “Mayflower moment” and the promise of self-government under equal law. It offers a sweeping, critical history of violence, racism, and elite power grabs—and the halting progress toward fairness. Tracing three overlapping waves of popular movement, the book argues that assembled majorities, willing and coerced, have repeatedly pushed the nation toward a more just, self-aware democracy.

    seamlessly weaves historical and current events, tying the two together in an effortless read

    —Lisa Brundage Gehm, verified Amazon review

  • Tragedy in South Lebanon

    Tragedy in South Lebanon

    Through history, research, and personal interviews, Cathy Sultan chronicles life in southern Lebanon and northern Israel during the brutal 2006 war. Centering ordinary people trapped by the decisions of Israel, Lebanon, and the United States, she depicts the lasting contamination of cluster bombs, the factional politics keeping Lebanon on the edge, and flashpoints from Shebaa Farms to militant-held refugee camps. Sultan also critiques media narratives, debunks regional myths, and provides timelines and maps.

    Tragedy in South Lebanon provides vital information about a topic often misrepresented by the mainstream media… This is an important book.

    —Reese Erlich, author of The Iran Agenda: The Real Story of US Policy and the Middle East Crisis

  • Transformed

    Transformed

    Transformed explores a transformative decision-making process built for the complexity of modern life—from individuals and families to organizations, communities, and nations. Introduced to the authors in 1968, it has guided their marriage, parenting, caregiving, health challenges, and service-centered careers as a coach/OD consultant and a psychotherapist. Applied with clients in crisis and conflict, the methodology yields wise, practical decisions while fostering healing, deeper understanding, spiritual growth, social advancement, and unity for all affected.

    filled with useful charts and consultation models

    —David W. Carlson on Amazon

  • Ultimate Breakthrough Planning

    Ultimate Breakthrough Planning

    Most business plans are static documents for bankers and investors. Ultimate Breakthrough Planning replaces that with Mike Ferrell’s Business Funnel Approach—a step-by-step system to build and execute real growth. You’ll analyze six key business elements, set priorities, create an actionable game plan and six-month framework, and align employees with your vision. Based on Ferrell’s workshops, it removes the guesswork so you know exactly what to focus on—and why.

    the right formula for making your business soar!

    —Connie S., review on Amazon