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  Fighting From Above - A Combat...

  Brian D. Laslie

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  The story of the United States Air Force (USAF) stretches back to aerial operations prior to the First World War and looks forward to a new era of airpower in space. Fighting from Above presents a concise account of this history, offering a new perspective on how the air forces of the United States created an independent way of warfare over time. 
   
   
   
  From the earliest battles of the USAF's predecessor organizations to its modern incarnation, Brian D. Laslie identifies four distinct ways of war that developed over four distinct epochs. Beginning with the development of early air power (1906–1941), he highlights the creation of roles and missions. An era of strategic dominance (1942–1975) followed in which the ideas of strategic bombardment ruled the air force; when such notions were unceremoniously proven false during the Vietnam-era conflicts, a period of tactical ascendancy (1975–2019) began. Finally, Laslie considers the current environment, where much of the story of the USAF remains unwritten as it grapples with the prospects and challenges posed by drones and the U.S. Space Force. 
   
   
   
  While detailing combat operations, Fighting from Above also pays close attention to technology, politics, rivalries, logistics, policy, organization, equipping, and training. It is an authoritative history of the development of American airpower.

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  The Heart-Centered Empowerment...

  Ph.D. Lauren J. Oliver

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  In this 2023 conversation with Justine Willis Toms, psychologist Lauren J. Oliver offers advice on how to start a circle of your own for honest, safe conversations and cooperation in a divisive world. She also provides examples of how to maintain integrity and mutual support in a circle: "You don’t need to go somewhere or pay someone to start your circle. You can do it yourself.”  
  Lauren J Oliver, Ph.D. received her baccalaureate degree from Harvard University and her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from UCLA. She currently provides coaching and organization development consultations for leaders, businesses, organizations, families, and individuals. She was co-founder with Dr. Robert Harrison Simmons of the California nonprofit Support Group Network. She is the author of: Circle Culture: Tools for Cooperative Work (Bonnie Burstein) (Circle Culture 2023) 
  Interview Date: 9/21/2023          Tags: Lauren J Oliver, special needs, Peer Counseling Program, circles, circling, circles, Social Change/Politics, Personal Transformation

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  Healing Leadership Trauma -...

  MEd Sheila Wise Rowe, PhD...

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  Countless books are designed to help leaders to become better leaders. But most resources neglect the underlying emotional struggles of both emerging and established leaders, who are often isolated and suffering in silence. Leadership professor Nicholas Rowe and counselor Sheila Wise Rowe offer their expertise in helping leaders process painful and traumatic experiences. Trauma contributes to how we lead others in either empowering or dysfunctional ways. Understanding how these experiences formed us is the beginning of the path to healing. 
   
   
   
  Woven throughout each chapter are five themes—invitation, attachment, remembrance, healing, and reconnection. Healing Leadership Trauma lays out the emotional challenges of leadership and offers encouragement, prayer, and therapeutic tools to help leaders face their pain and begin to heal.

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  Nature's Palette - Art...

  Janine Kloiber

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  This book offers open-ended, seasonal art explorations using natural materials designed to support skill development through child-led experiences. Each chapter focuses on specific artistic techniques—such as stringing, felting, marbling, and more—while integrating principles of the Montessori approach to nurture independence, creativity, and cognitive growth. It’s a guide for educators and caregivers who want to blend nature, art, and meaningful learning. 

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  American Justice On Trial -...

  Lise Pearlman

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  The award-winning film version of this "world-changing true story" was featured by PBS across country during Black History Month 2025. The film highlighted the startling relevance of a riveting trial more than half a century ago when a black revolutionary, Black Panther Party co-founder Huey Newton, faced execution for the death of a white policeman -- with totally unexpected results. This audiobook was narrated by Rua, the same actor who voiced Huey Newton in the documentary. It allows listeners to take a ringside seat at the case that transformed the traditional all white male "jury of one's peers" to a jury truly drawn from a cross-section of the community, including women and minorities. The book also provides a rare look behind the scenes into life-or-death jury deliberations and features comments from key trial participants and observers. Pioneering television journalist Belva Davis vividly described the participants in that historic trial: "The Newton trial cast of characters would be hard to put together for a Hollywood film --- the defense attorney, the prosecutor, the jury foreman, the makeup of the jury, Newton himself." Huey's older brother Melvin Newton captured the essence of that historic trial, inspiring the book's title: "The prosecution represents the state -- the People of California vs. Huey Newton was putting Huey Newton on trial. As it turned out, [my brother] Huey put the United States on trial." 
  Award-winning author Lise Pearlman (www.lisepearlman.com) is a retired judge and the country's leading expert on the 1968 Newton trial. She appeared in Stanley Nelson's top-rated 2015 documentary "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" and created the award-winning 2022 film project for which she served as co-producer, American Justice on Trial recently renamed "In the Crosshairs." www.justicemovie.com

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  The Signal First - The...

  Theo Whessler

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  A racing heart before you can name the reason. A tightening in the chest when someone smiles too quickly. An urge to step back that arrives before any conscious thought. These are not signs of anxiety or irrationality. They are signals â— and neuroscience shows they are often right. In The Signal First, Austrian neuroscientist Theo Whessler draws on decades of laboratory research, clinical case studies, and real-world interviews to make a compelling argument: the body detects danger before the conscious mind does, and learning to hear that signal is one of the most practical skills a person can develop. The tragedy is not that the signal is absent. The tragedy is that we are trained to ignore it. Building from Antonio Damasio's somatic marker hypothesis and the Iowa Gambling Task â— in which people's bodies begin avoiding dangerous choices before they can explain why â— Whessler shows how the nervous system performs rapid, experience-based threat detection beneath the level of conscious awareness. He traces this process through Joseph LeDoux's fear circuitry, through studies of first impressions and the Dark Triad, and through Gavin de Becker's behavioral threat assessment principles, weaving laboratory findings into a practical guide for everyday life. The Signal First covers the full range of situations where this knowledge matters most. How do predators conceal themselves behind charm and social norms? What verbal patterns signal coercion before anything overtly threatening has been said? How do physical environments shape opportunity for harm, and how can you read a room the way your nervous system already does? How does intimate partner danger develop, and why is separation often the most dangerous moment? What does effective refusal actually require, and why does the word "no" so rarely feel complete? How do fixated strangers differ from annoying ones, and when does digital behavior cross from awkward into dangerous? Each chapter translates research into concrete, applicable understanding. Readers learn how to distinguish genuine warning from anxiety and false alarm, how to recognize grooming in parenting and child safety, how to read behavioral leakage in workplaces before violence erupts, and how to navigate the legal and institutional systems that can help â— or sometimes fail â— when personal vigilance is not enough. The book closes with a vision of what awareness looks like at its best: not fear, not suspicion, not isolation, but disciplined calm â— a regulated nervous system quiet enough to notice what matters, open enough to live fully, and confident enough to act when the signal says it is time. After The Signal First, you will not simply know more about danger. You will know how to hear what your body has been trying to tell you all along.

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