New Book Release: Innovating Innovation

Innovating Innovation: Leadership Tools to Make Revolutionary Change Happen for You and Your Business by David Morey

Innovation needs innovation: Innovation is broken. Business leadership and management struggle to find ways to crack through their own corporate politics or bureaucratic silos, to move from defense to offense, to nurture real breakthrough, to drive visionary creativity in ways that add new value to everything they do. In Innovating Innovation, David Morey, one of America’s leading strategic consultants, will teach, coach, and guide you across eleven concrete and pragmatic steps that unlock and drive day-to-day innovation in your business and help you gain a long-term competitive advantage in your marketplace.

Make change and innovation happen: Innovating Innovation synergizes what is best in classic innovation theories with an insurgent strategic model inspired by one of Morey’s first corporate clients, Apple founder Steve Jobs. It shows how to lead innovation that creates the products of visionary genius without the necessity for actual genius. It provides practical tools and guidance on building and leading the teams, working conditions, organizational structures, and cultures of market-made and market-making innovation. It illustrates a roadmap to the disruptive periphery, the organizational margins at which real innovation actually takes place.

Innovation can be taught: Innovating Innovation is a framework to counter failure. It directs you, the reader, to the consumer, the very person who will actually tell you how to innovate the benefits to create a future you can own. This book invites you to “think different,” to become a change leader, to go the “wrong” way to get to the right places. And it shows you how to apply the pragmatic lessons of Agile software development to absolutely everything and to accelerate your leadership career and your company’s success by stepping up from mere evolution to punctuated equilibrium, evolution as breakthrough.

Your business needs unique innovation: You and your business need innovation as never before and unlike anyone else’s. This is lesson number one. And in the space of eleven chapters, Innovating Innovation offers lesson number two: You don’t need to be a genius to deliver the performances, products, and services of innovation at genius levels in the most opportunity-rich and threat-intensive business environment in history. Your management and leadership skills will improve immensely, taking your business to a level of innovation success beyond what it has ever achieved before.

Innovating Innovation is a step-by-step handbook for teaching, and at times even tricking, your organization, your culture, and your company into real-world change. After reading this new battlefield manual for innovation, you will:

• Learn the Disruptive Periphery Concept and how it can give you the tools to help your business
• Discover a practical marketing-centric focus applied to innovation
• Reap the benefits of lessons developed from thirty years of real-world global consulting and training experience

New Book Release: Cooper Hospital

Cooper: The Story of Cooper Hospital 1887 to 2017

At 432 pages, Cooper: The Story of Cooper Hospital 1887 to 2017 is an impressive and comprehensive commemorative history. Cooper is one of the largest hospitals in the Northeast. Founded over 135 years ago as a hospital for the poor, it’s growth and renowned expertise has helped revitalize downtown Camden, New Jersey.

This fascinating history traces the Cooper story from 1887 to 2017. It incorporates historical research, personal interviews, medical milestones, and hospital records. It describes the dramatic transformation from its humble beginnings as a thirty‐bed hospital into today’s world‐class academic medical center and regional health care leader. The story documents how Cooper began as the dream of a prominent Camden family. It traces its growth and expansion through times of prosperity as well as challenges. Each chapter captures the essence of Cooper through its dedicated physicians, nurses, administrators, Board members, and health care staff. These people guided Cooper’s growth along the way. It is these compassionate, community‐minded and visionary men and women who ultimately created a thirty‐block Health Sciences Campus. Cooper is committed to outstanding patient care, medical education, and academic research that’s still anchored in the neighborhood where it began.

New Book Release: Area 51

Area 51: The Revealing Truth of UFOs, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups and Conspiracies by Nick Redfern

It’s no secret that, roughly 100 miles north northwest of Las Vegas, in the middle of a remote dessert, sits an extension of the Edwards Air Force facility commonly known as Area 51, but its clandestine purpose and operations remain shrouded in secrecy. It’s a highly classified, restricted area, but, cloaked in conspiracy theories, its history and true function remain a mystery. Is it only devoted to flight testing experimental aircraft and building black ops weapons systems as some contend? Or is it home to a dead alien, crashed UFOs, and extraterrestrial technology…? Or all of the above?

Taking a thorough review of the historical record, eyewitness accounts, whistleblower testimony, and deathbed confessions, Area 51: The Revealing Truth of UFOs, Secret Aircraft, Cover-Ups and Conspiracies peers behind the classified secrets to understand the nature, history, and scope of the most controversial base in the United States. Redfern investigates the Cold War years, U-2 spy plane, SR-71 Blackbird, and chemical and nuclear weapon research as well as the base’s link to an extraterrestrial presence on Earth, reports of alien autopsies, recovery of non-terrestrial spacecraft, and attempts to duplicate the fantastic, alien technology.

From UFOs to secret aircraft and the CIA, shadowy government programs and unexplained events surrounding Area 51 are illuminated, including …

The government’s Nevada land-grab at Paradise Ranch

The U-2, the Blackbird, and the A-12 tests, refinements, and flights

The Robert Scott Lazar revelations

Roswell Incident and Project Mogul

The development of “black helicopters”

The “Autopsies – Bodies Unknown Origin 47” file

Intelligence gathering through ESP, parapsychological, and mind control

Secret research on teleportation

Vast, hollowed-out chambers, tunnels, and hidden underground facilities

And much, much more!!!

New Book Release: Follow the Ink

The Undertaker Chronicles Book 2: Follow the Ink by Crymsyn Hart

Darria finally has her undertaking job under control. However, trying not to raise an army of corpses is getting harder and harder not to do. Omar, her mummified hand sidekick, is still trying to feel her up any chance he gets. Just when she thought she could get on with her life, trouble comes knocking at her door.

A traveling carnival sets up at the graveyard down the street and strange spirits are roaming her house. To top it off, Darria finds a mysterious journal that tells an ancient tale about banshees. While reading the diary, she finds herself bound to the mysterious fate of the one who wrote it. If she doesn't solve the mystery the previous owner tried to solve, then she'll suffer the same fate.

New Book Release: Native American Landmarks

Native American Landmarks and Festivals: A Traveler's Guide to Indigenous United States and Canada by Yvonne Wakim Dennis and Arlene Hirschfelder

From ancient rock drawings, historic sites, and modern museums to eco- and cultural tourism, sports events and powwows, the Native American Landmarks and Festivals: A Traveler’s Guide to Indigenous United States and Canada provides a fascinating tour of the rich heritage of Indigenous people across the continent. Whether it’s the annual All Indian Rodeo in Las Vegas, Nevada, a dog-sledding trek in Arctic Bay, Nunavut, or a rough ride to the ancient Kaunolu Village Site on Lanai, Hawaii, there is lots more to experience in the Indigenous world right around the corner, including… 

The Montezuma Castle National Monument

Trail of Tears National Historic Trail

The Red Earth Festival in Oklahoma City

The Autry Museum of the American West

The Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center

The Thunderbird Powwow

The First Nations Film and Video Festival in various cities and states

The Angel Mounds State Memorial

The Harvest Moon American Indian Festival

The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

Canada’s National Aboriginal Veterans Monument

And hundreds more!

Native American Landmarks and Festivals guides the traveler to 729 landmarks, sites, festivals, and events in all 50 states and Canada. Travelers not only read about the history and traditions for each site, but maps, photos, illustrations, addresses and websites are also included to help further exploration. This book lets the reader choose from a vast array of “authentic” adventures such as dog sledding, camping in a tip, hunting and fishing expeditions, researching the history with the people who made the history, making crafts, herbal walks, building and sailing in canoes, hiking along ancient routes, exploring rock art, and preparing and eating Native foods. 

Organized by region, Indigenous enterprises are included in state and federal parks, including federal and international heritage sites, public and private museums and non-Native events that include Indigenous voice. This convenient reference also has a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to its usefulness. Whether traveling by car, plane, or armchair, Native American Landmarks and Festivals: A Traveler’s Guide to Indigenous United States and Canada will bring hours of enjoyable discovery.

New Book Release: Handy Psychology

The Handy Psychology Answer Book by Lisa Cohen

Featuring more than 800 answers to questions of how the human mind and the science of psychology really work, this fascinating discussion gives readers the real facts of modern psychology in a fun, approachable way. Avoiding the entertainment fluff of pop psychology and the dryness of overly academic works, this exploration gives insight into the current science of the mind by answering questions questions such as What makes a marriage last? Why do toddlers have temper tantrums? and What are the benefits of getting older? In addition to the question-and-answer section, an overview looks at the psychology of money, sex, morality, and everyday living.

New Book Release: The Arrest and Liberation of R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi

The Arrest and Liberation of R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi by R. A. Chanoch Glitzenstein

The History of Yud-Tes Kislev Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad- Lubavitch Chassidism was arrested, persecuted, and imprisoned in the year 1798 for his selfless efforts to strengthen the Jewish people and to disseminate Chassidic teachings.

Rabbi Schneur Zalman's arrest imperiled not only his own life, but also the future of Chassidism. On the 19th of Kislev that year, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi was freed from his severe imprisonment in Petersburg, Russia, cleared of charges and with his teachings vindicated.

This book explores this noteworthy turning point in the Chasidic movement, and its importance as a milestone in Jewish History.