"Bell and Cortese clearly articulate the central importance of leadership to achieving high value, patient-centric health and wellness . . . compelling."—William B. Rouse, PhD, author of Understanding and Managing the Complexity of HealthcareHealthcare in America is wildly inconsistent and uncomfortably close to bankruptcy, and the only way it can be rescued is with leaders in all the different areas of healthcare stepping up with the right kind of leaders...

This book is your ultimate Safety and Health resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Safety and Health's whole picture right away. Get countless Safety and Health facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Safety and Health Handbook is the single and largest Safety and Health reference book. This c...

When Aufero gets punished in Heaven he discovers a side of Heaven he never knew existed. In his attempt to get back in the good graces of God, he discovers love, an awkward partnership, and his dark side. Satan has discovered a new way to defeat the guardian angels and is eager to take the throne of God for himself. Determined to change the course of battle Aufero guides his fellow angels into a battle meant to change Satan's mind about attacking the Gates of Heaven. The battle doesn't go ...

Teen, Young Adult, or Adult FictionSynopsis: a man is beaten to death by three prison guards on the 15th anniversary of the day he met the one love of his life. He had written a letter to his lover with a poem, and an investigative reporter finds the woman and sends her the letter…we go back to the beginning and relive their story in the woman's memory.This is a short story inspired by a real event that occurred on August 26, 2015, National Cherry Popsicle Day, in the Santa C...

This is a self help book for speakers of other languages to help them to improve their English, and in doing so improve their probability of personal and professional success. This book is for teenagers, young adults, and adults with any level of English, including lower levels who desire a way of learning on their own and at their own individual pace which is not traditional, i.e. not a language center or school. The understanding level was set at Pre-intermediate, in order to be able to ...

Paul Jerome Barry is an American artist who attended the Chase School in Manhattan in 1901 and 1902. He fell in love with another student in the school, they married, and moved to Paris in 1903. His wife died in a fatal accident shortly after their arrival, but not before he had painted the best work of his life, her portrait. He found comfort and remarried. He struggled with disbelief in his own ability, an obsession with perfection, and the loss of his wife.His fate was forever ch...

The story is based partially in the island of Jamaica and in America. It traces the life of a family from the 1970s into the future and explores the relationship between individual behaviour, greed, selfishness, societal violence, organized crime, tribalism, gang and urban warfare, science and genetics as a consequence of the impact of the global village and ambitions of geo-politics and world domination. It explores how the thirst and thrust for world domination impacts on the lives and r...

Adult Fiction based on real events in the author's lifeSynopsisA 50-year-old man struggling with beliefs, identity, and poverty sees an opportunity and moves from Paris to the Land of the Setting Sun to live and work. He lives in the Red City (Marrakesh) for a year, the most difficult year of his life. On what seems like a life-saving proposition from a philanthropist, he moves to another city, White House (Casablanca). The philanthropist turns out to be a misanthropist and o...

Fiction based on real historical eventsAnthony Bannister, Investigative Journalist for NPR, interviews people who were witnesses to horrible crimes, human injustice, human suffering, and events which have been hidden or covered up. His reason and purpose are to incite compassion and care in the world and to make people aware of the true (hidden) face of America. He never talks politics or religion, never makes accusations, or blames anyone, using only the witness of suffering and in...

Adult Auto-biographical FictionA young white American boy, the son of a preacher, experiences an enormous culture shock when his family moves from the Blackfeet Native American Reservation at the foot of the Rocky Mountains to join a religious sect in the inner-city Black ghetto on the West Side of Chicago in 1969. The main message of the story is that every single life experience is necessary to make us the unique individuals we are. The story is set between 1964, when the boy is 4...

Adult Fiction - Biographical - Based on real events in the author's lifeA 23-year-old American "starving artist" has had an obsession with France since early childhood. His one lifetime goal is to get to Paris. This story starts in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul) Minnesota, in 1983, where he finally achieves his goal though his endeavors in experimental film making. In the meantime, and completely without his knowledge, he also inadvertently sparks the title of one of the big...

In the biographical fiction novel "1983-1984 Surfing the Purple Waves" Anthony arrives in Paris on September 7, 1983, shortly after he joins a rock group in Paris as the lead singer. This is the original recording of the song "Turnin' in Circles" which is mentioned in Chapter 10 "Gentle Blades" including a short excerpt from the novel before and after the song.