Book marketing ideas are so numerous as to populate a city, overrunning books, booklets, articles, offers, bargains, come-ons, even a few scams. But which will sell your book? Every book needs its own sales strategy. There is no universal silver bullet for bestsellerdom. But excellent sales tools and resources, some obscure and others well known (but often misused), are available. You'll find them, and how and when to use them, and learn about what approaches actually have helped to sell b...

America's health care system is bankrupting its people, businesses and society while it both over-treats and under-treats, with poorer results than in most of the industrialized world. Its ills are so many there is no single cure. But there are many things we can do, and this book includes 50 of them. American health care can be better than it is now. This book was written before passage of the Affordable Care Act, and includes a few ideas which were built into it - and many others that we...

In 1988 journalist Randy Stapilus wrote and published Paradox Politics, a history of the last half-century of Idaho politics. As in many other places, politics in Idaho has changed a great deal since then, and now Stapilus has published The Stuck Pendulum, a sequel to the book from the 80s bringing the story of Idaho politics up to date.

Randy Stapilus, the editor and publisher of the Idaho Weekly Briefing and author of four earlier lists of influential Idahoans, has based this one on levels of overall influence in the state – and freedom of action and ability to influence development of the state – as of the start of 2015. The list was compiled chiefly in December 2014 and relied on input from a wide variety of publicly-involved Idahoans from the state.Stapilus noted that the list is not an “honor roll” as such, b...

As an adjunct to the book A Pathway of Dreams, On the Greenbelt is a travel guide to the Boise Greenbelt path system, a system much-loved by users but one that is not always as easy to navigate as it may appear. The Greenbelt, after all, is part of a growing and changing Ada County. In the course of its construction and expansion, accommodations had to be made – and continue to be made – for such things as the course of the river and its channels, existing property uses, construction proje...