End of the Trail is an autobiographical account of Route 66 enthusiast Dan Rice's eight-year struggle with Traumatic Brain Injury. His Hollywood life and high-paced track to a Ph.D. in Psychology was abruptly derailed in 2002 when he suffered severe brain injuries in a near-fatal car accident. A long and painful road to recovery began only after a desperate period of depression, anger, sadness, insomnia, vertigo, suicidal ideations, and an increasing inability to understand the world around him. The book, written about the accident and struggle to recovery is told from the vantage point of Route 66, intertwining Rice's journey to recovery with his lifelong passion for the historic Mother Road that is in its own struggle for survival. The book's title refers to a historic sign that once marked the western end of Route 66 in Santa Monica. To Rice, the sign represents a milestone in his recovery when he overcame all odds and replaced the missing historic sign at the Santa Monica Pier with other Route 66 advocates demonstrating that he is living the life of his dreams in full recovery. Rice explores the desperate conditions he and his family lived in before the injury was diagnosed and as he began his recovery tells also of the story of Route 66. The historic Mother Road's own struggle for survival mirrors Rice's and is used as a metaphor to demonstrate the path of recovery and the importance of raising awareness for the victims and their families. End of the Trail was written to bring needed information, warning signs, and insights to victims and their families, but is also about providing hope and demonstrating that the trail's end is well worth the journey.

End of the Trail

Rice, Dan D.V.M.

Biographies & Memoirs

The Way Things Are Publications

Green Morality, renowned environmental columnist's Edward Flattau's fourth book, is a thorough and timely exploration of mankind's moral obligation to create an environmentally sustainable global society. Along the way, he confronts moral hypocrisy, failed environmental movements and policies, globally disastrous scenarios, and reckless endangerment of the world's species. The exploration of destructive and immoral environmental behavior includes coverage of numerous often little publicized actions that have adversely affected humanity and lower life forms. To avoid ultimate wholesale, permanent environmental destruction, Flattau advocates a major realignment of our value system and economic infrastructure, all in the name of creating an environmentally, economically sustainable society. Crossing political and cultural boundaries, Flattau portrays environmentalism as a universal moral imperative that every person has a duty to uphold, not only for the salvation of the modern society, but for the entire planet. Flattau presents an analysis of environmentalism's current situation and its history throughout the twentieth century uncovering the devastation committed by individuals, corporations and governments to the world's species and fellow humans. In the process, he demonstrates how these destructive actions conflict with the very values that the offending parties espouse. Flattau delivers starkly eminent solutions to avert environmental destruction that require a re-alignment of modern society's value system and economic structure, transcending historical, political or institutional obligations.

Green Morality

Politics & Social Sciences

Flattau, Edward

Sociology

Melting Down

Set in the not-to-distant future, Melting Down is an environmental thriller about an international terrorist plot conceived by aging nationalists high up in the Russian government. The Arctic sea ice has melted because of rising temperatures. Now, the world's largest untapped reserves of oil and natural gas are accessible under the Arctic. Since Russia has the largest landmass in the Arctic, these terrorists seek one last change to fulfill Russia's destiny of world domination. Blackmailing the world, they place suitcase nuclear devices on the world's glaciers and hold them hostage. As the plot unfolds, US President Charley Breen is in the middle of a photo-finish election campaign. He enlists his life-long friend, Tex Cassidy, who is a former Army Ranger and Pulitzer-nominated reporter. Tex's assignment: uncover the pattern of Russian activity in the Arctic and evaluate the United States' national security interests. Along the way, Tex teams up with Zavia Jansen - the world expert in storm surge barriers and coastal protection. Together, they piece together information about covert Operation Noah, and come face-to-face with the terrorists. Melting Down takes place in many locations from equatorial Colombia to Arctic Greenland, including Washington/Moscow centers of power. The novel follows a host of characters, who represent the full spectrum of viewpoints in regard to energy systems, economic interests and environmental activism. It also highlights a system of thinking that simultaneously addresses social, economic and environmental problems.

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Stone, Harvey

Thrillers & Suspense

Mason Burnside was the number two man at Splendid Oil, a company with a budget larger than most countries. His top spot came from years of leaving a path of personal and ecological destruction in his wake while fighting to meet market demand. Long time rival, CEO Jack Masterson, finds a way to topple Burnside as his signature project in Ecuador turns into an environmental disaster. Now Burnside is demoted and head of the company's token and toothless sustainability department.After his idealistic new assistant, Ellen Greenbaum, convinces him to attend a global sustainability conference in New Orleans, Burnside finds himself in a struggle for survival amidst a category four hurricane, eventually stranding him on a rooftop with Diana Mars, one of the conference keynotes. Enthralled with Diana's moral clarity and the power of her vision, as well as her beauty, Burnside begins to question his win-at-all-costs existence.Returning to Houston, he learns how his predecessor, John Pennington, a man truly dedicated to the cause, has disappeared mysteriously somewhere in Asia after having stumbled upon an internal intrigue so damaging, that Masterson would stop at nothing to keep it secret. Burnside, recognizing the catastrophic possibilities, agrees to lead the rescue party, but only after he has faced his demons in a secretive and dangerous trip to the wilds of Ecuador, where a fateful decision he made years earlier doomed an entire region. What he discovers in Asia is a shock to everyone involved.This sweeping story, that crisscrosses the planet at a feverish pace, is grounded in carefully researched science. Written by two authorities in both the environmental movement and the energy industry, it is as informative as it is entertaining. Roger Saillant, a former Ford Executive and CEO of Plug Power is a frequent international speaker on energy and sustainability. RP Siegel, is an award-winning inventor, freelance journalist and environmental advocate. The culmination of their experiences delivers a commentary on how the treacherous waters of environmental destruction can be navigated by individuals and corporations alike.

Vapor Trails

Literature & Fiction

Saillant, Roger

Siegel, R. P.

Genre Fiction

Rise a Knight is a philosophical exploration of the urgent need for humanitarianism. A collection of personal stories, essays and speeches by Sir Michael Douglas Carlin, an knighted member of the Knights of Malta and established humanitarian, Rise A Knight works to inspire others to do selfless and good deeds in order to promote social good. The book passes the tradition of knighthood onto all people, men and women, who are willing to make a commitment toward improving the world and take a modern oath of knighthood that will empower the modern person to make a more peaceful world.

Rise a Knight

Carlin, Michael Douglas

Philosophy

In his fifth book, the nation's longest running national environmental columnist and Washingtonian Award recipient, Edward Flattau, shines the spotlight on the GOP's desertion from its environmental origins. This polemic and scathing editorial unmasks a decades-long regression away from sensible conservative environmentalism to a new platform of vilifications, mistruths and corporate greed that currently pervades the party. Flattau unveils the party's idealogical paradoxes and the path that led to the current state of obstructionism and smear jobs. While relentless in his critical exploration of the GOP's journey to environmental failure, Flattau presents solutions that can turn the party around and produce a new culture of cooperation that need not betray conservative ideals.

From Green to Mean

Politics & Government

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