Compassion and common sense

Ockert, Carl E

MCP Books

Are you setting yourself up for financial failure--disaster, really--even though you often think about money? Are you headed for the financial death zone? Every generation has trials and adversities to conquer. However, millennials today face a uniquely challenging environment. In this one-of-a-kind guidebook, veteran world traveler and financial planning expert David Rosell takes you on an international journey that will inspire anyone with an independent spirit. 
Through his unique combination of adventure travel stories and practical financial advice, Keep Climbing: A Millennial's Guide to Financial Planning reveals the foundation that's key to your long-term financial success while discovering the joy and experiences the world has to offer.

Keep Climbing: A Millennial's Guide to Financial Planning

Business & Money

David Rosell

Personal Finance

For many of us, the thought of work brings to mind a daily nine-to-five grind, reporting to disinterested supervisors, and ''working for the weekend.'' You probably enter the office feeling disenchanted, counting down the minutes until 5 p.m. Whether this approach to work is due to feeling unrecognized for your work, being a cog in a corporate machine, or the influence of apathetic coworkers, there is something you likely forgot along the way--you are the one in the driver's seat of your career. Making the switch from a passive observer to being the driver isn't easy and there are no one-size-fits all means of achieving this. Low Man on the Totem Pole offers various groundbreaking strategies to get more out of your work--including viewing yourself as a business owner and your place of work as the client. Whether you are a front-line employee or a manager, Low Man on the Totem Pole offers something for anyone and everyone trying to find some meaning in their work. Using real world examples, practical advice, and unapologetic straight talk, author and business consultant H.V. MacArthur lays out a clear and simple approach to personal success.

Low Man on the Totem Pole: Stop Begging for a Promotion, Start Selling Your Genius

H.V. MacArthur

Job Hunting & Careers

Smack in the middle of a crossroads in his life, Ty Sassaman embarked on a cross-country journey to find himself and come to terms with his past. He ventured into the world with a single question, one he hoped would help him uncover a fundamental truth of his own--not knowing it would continually reveal the honesty, humor, and thoughtfulness of the Americans he met along the way. 
Combining the intimacy of the PostSecret postcard project with the reflective candor of A Walk Across America, Ty Sassaman's Just One Question deftly weaves together a unique blend of memoir and travel writing. In their recommended review, Kirkus called Just One Question ''a compelling journey across the continent and into the author's own past.'' 
Forward author and explorer John Huston agreed, saying Just One Question is ''a wonderful book of many layers, a road story on one level, a portrait of a certain cultural zeitgeist and a spiritual journey all rolled into one.'' 
From Boston to Burning Man, into the wilds of Minnesota's Boundary Waters and out to the beaches of sunny California, readers are invited along on Sassaman's expansive, free-wheeling road trip, all in the pursuit of Just One Question.

Just One Question: A Road Trip Memoir

Politics & Social Sciences

Ty Sassaman

Sociology

Custer Went First. Based on soldier and Indian survivor accounts, much of the Battle of the Little Bighorn occurred while Custer was incapacitated. This book explores the battle with a different approach and perspective. The author uses Army reports, official Army testimonies, Indian recollections, and on-site evaluations and photos by the author to describe the battle. Custer did have a battle plan. Custer was implementing that attack plan when he was shot early in the battle. Subordinate officers made key decisions that ultimately ended in the annihilation of five companies of the Seventh Cavalry. This book is an important read to fully understand the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

Custer Went First

History

Lundmark, Kerry G

Americas

Unapologetically honest and unflinchingly emotional, CSI Old School follows the true story of the Illinois state police's first female crime scene investigator. 
In a time before such advanced forensic processes as DNA analysis and automated fingerprint comparison, crime scene investigators had to rely on their own cunning and professional skills with minimum help from technology. In the late 1970s, one of the few who made the cut into the Illinois state police's elite CSI team--and the first ever woman, to boot--was a relatively unknown deputy coroner named Jodi Orsini. When the opportunity of a lifetime presented itself, Jodi jumped at the chance to experience more than county death investigations--and once she accepted a job with the CSI, her life would never be the same. 
As Jodi's career progresses, so too do her personal challenges in a quickly evolving professional landscape. She must contend daily with overcoming fears of self-doubt, as a woman encroaching on a traditionally male-dominated field, while facing the relentless tragedies of strangers and the harrowing reality of some cases that, if she failed, may never be solved. If she is to survive in the field, Jodi must steel her resolve and learn to separate herself and her technical skills from the living nightmares occurring around her. 
CSI Old School is a callback to the days before the glamor, when investigators got their hands dirty, and one trailblazing woman's journey into the oftentimes dark world of crime scene investigation.

CSI OLD SCHOOL -- Reconstructing Nightmares

Jodi Barth

Science & Math

Find one or find them all! Search for the 7 hidden letters on each page. A great book for letter recognition and hand eye coordination. Read the engaging rhyme on each page--then let the hunt begin! It's never too early to introduce the Alphabet to growing, curious minds: let's get started!

ABC, Can You Find Me?

Children's Books

Tauer, Jakki

Early Learning

Capture the Sun chronicles first, the life story of an African young man growing up poor in his native third world land and second, getting an opportunity to improve himself by being educated in a first world country. It is about the difficulty of translating the culture and work ethic of a peasant farming family background into achieving success at one of the highest engineering institutions of learning in the world. After graduation, the author embarks on a successful award-winning career developing and building complex machines around the world. He rises to become a leader as an engineering executive in a global, industry dominating, company.

Capture the Sun: A Zulu Man's Story of Freedom through Hard Work and Education

Biographies & Memoirs

Joshua Zulu

Community & Culture

On March 11, 2011, overwhelming and incomprehensible disaster struck the northeast coast of Japan. Life for those in the region would never be the same. This book is about the awakening that follows disaster. About the minutes and months and years that come after now. It is about what happens when we're smacked on the side of the head and open our eyes, startled out of the trance in which we have been living our days. It is about the opportunities always present, often invisible, to create the lives we want, now. AfterNow chronicles the author's journey with the Japanese people over 6 years -- his own story of awakening after plunging into this disaster and the stories from people who found where to take their first step, and the next. It offers the tools and processes and worldview people discovered to create what comes after now. It is built around two big ideas. The first is that after disaster, we find our way forward, together. We come awake, together. Disaster obliterates the past, plunges the present into chaos and cocoons the future. We need each other to see and build the new. The second idea is that we don't have to wait for the tragedy of disaster to make the communities and lives we want. We can engage each other with respect, curiosity and generosity and begin to co-create what we want, now. We live in a period of precipitous, unpredictable change. The book is for those who want to make this time more livable and less insane. In Japan and all over the world, we are living in the messy middle where old forms are falling apart and new possibilities are in early stages. The ground is pulled out from under us on a regular basis. Our work right now is to learn to coexist with the messiness. We need to keep trying things, to keep learning. We need to remain focused on our purpose and follow the braided strand of intention and surrender as we find our way forward. embracing radical uncertainty, showing up as fully as we can each moment, each breath.

Afternow: When We Cannot See the Future Where Do We Begin?

Stilger, Bob, Ph.d.

Social Sciences

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