Leading Through Relationships explores the importance of building a productive and motivated team for your company and how to build long-lasting relationships with your customers. Using the HVAC company where he has worked for thirty-seven years as an example, Alan Davis explores every position in a business, from the maintenance person and CSR to the parts manager, billing personnel, and even the president. In the process, he offers insight into how to make everyone in your company into a...

This is my true story at the age of nineteen. The book tells how I was involved in a Top Secret mission from basic training to being hand picked by the US Air Force to go on the mission. My story tells how I almost got killed. The book has heroes and zeroes in it too. It tells how my team was transported for the missions to Taiwan. My job was a Quick Reaction Force team member assigned to scramble (launch) out and recover F-4 Phantoms to engage the Communist Chinese and defend Taiwan. The ...

Clouds Are the Mountains of the World is a suspenseful novel-in-stories set in a surreal, dystopian near-future. In beautifully written, spell-binding prose, it dramatizes the heroic quest of three women— mother, daughter, granddaughter— to reunite in a post-apocalyptic future filled with gun-toting bands of militias, corrupt police, crazy radio talk-show hosts, racism, and economic and political chaos. This is the story of their determination to survive with resilience, love, and...

Collects Tarot (2019) #1-4. An all-new epic teaming Earth’s Mightiest Heroes with Marvel’s premier non-team! A strange and impossible lost memory from World War II draws Namor the Sub-Mariner to his onetime compatriot Captain America — but the two heroes and their respective allies soon find themselves pulled into a labyrinth of madness, pain and destruction courtesy of the Infernal Ichor of Ish’lzog! Avenger must battle Defender as the alchemist Diablo casts cards from the deck of fate, p...

Collects Excalibur (1988) #59-75 and Annual #1. Phoenix faces her fate! The Phoenix-powered Rachel Summers is back, fresh from a battle with Galactus! Meanwhile, faces from Captain Britain's past resurface when the Warpies and the RCX return! But dark days lie ahead as the team joins Rachel on a trip to her own timeline: the nightmarish tomorrow of Days of Future Past! The secrets of Widget are revealed, and some surprising faces need help fighting for freedom against the Sentinels! Back i...

Collects Excalibur (1988) #42-58, Excalibur: XX Crossing (1992) #1, material from Marvel Comics Presents (1988) #110. Alan Davis returns to Excalibur! The legendary artist takes over the writing chores to steer Shadowcat, Nightcrawler, Phoenix, Captain Britain and Meggan to new heights of greatness — and madness! The troublesome Technet return to wreak havoc! The Captain Britain Corps puts Brian Braddock on trial! Meggan searches for her past! And Excalibur deals with the offbeat arrivals ...

Originally published in 1977, this book looks at medical sociology from the inside. Each chapter has been written by sociologists who themselves were patients – participant observers. Each experienced problems and sought solutions in the health services, at the same time bringing their training in social science to the analysis of experience. This is a unique contribution to medical sociology, bringing a directness to the recorded experiences.

The stories in Rumors from the Lost World, are about seeking and discovery, fall and redemption, memory and loss. The characters are all shattered products of a broken past. A grandson is embarrassed by his grandfather to the point of hatred; yet after the old man has died, the boy, now a young man with a family of his own, finds solace in recounting his grandfather’s life to those who never knew him. A husband, troubled by the state of his marriage, makes a desperate bid for emotional fre...

Collects Iron Man (1998) #50-69. Acclaimed writer Mike Grell takes the iron reigns! Weapons that Tony Stark once created and sold are now being used to kill innocents, and Iron Man’s past has returned to haunt him yet again. Can he stop the carnage before it’s too late? Meanwhile, at the top of the world, precious cargo is delivered to a remote monastery. And when the ornate box is unlocked, Stark’s most malevolent foe will be reborn! Then, Iron Man travels back to the age of knights and c...

Collects Fantastic Four (1998) #579-588 & FF (2011) #1-5. Superstar writer Jonathan Hickman revamps and redefines Marvel’s First Family! A sweeping and epic saga across time, space and reality begins when Mister Fantastic takes the future of discovery into his own hands! As the Fantastic Four fights the War of the Four Cities and Invisible Woman mediates between Namor and the long-lost tribe of Old Atlantis, Mister Fantastic assembles a band of genius youngsters to help him solve everythin...

The cosmic conclusion to Jim Starlin and Alan Davis’ epic trilogy! All hail Thanos, lord of all that is — including himself! In the far future, Thanos has become the most powerful being in reality. But it’s not enough to rule in his own time. The truly Mad Titan intends to command all of time and space — including his own past self! Now Thanos’ brother, Eros, his old ally Adam Warlock and the teleporting troll named Pip must find a way to free Thanos’ consciousness from his own future. But...

Collects Astonishing X-Men (2004) #25-30, Astonishing X-Men: Ghost Boxes #1-2. The X-Men are back to business -- with a new look, a new base of operations, and a mystery to solve that will take them into previously uncharted territory and test them to their core. It all starts on a spaceship hovering 300 hundred feet above the twisted wreckage of Chaparanga Beach. Its sole inhabitant: the mysterious Subject X.