Publisher: Proisle Publishing Services
The challenging times adversely affecting our world are a reality, and there is a risk in being naïve, ignorant, or silent. It is important to watch as well as pray. Knowledge, spiritual and otherwise, is necessary for our safety and survival.
One man’s journey from doctor to patient to healer. Second Lives is a first-hand account of neurologist Ralph Lilly’s recovery from a traumatic brain injury and how the lessons of his recovery enabled him to help others with their own recoveries. “Discharged from a hospital just means you’re not dead.” These words of Ralph B. Lilly, M.D., describe his early struggle to recover from a traumatic brain injury. Lilly was a forty-four-year-old practicing neurologist sitting on his motorcycle at a red light when a drunk driver rear-ended him in 1980. In the ICU, after regaining consciousness and being told what happened, he asked, “What’s a hospital? What’s a motorcycle?” This tragic experience transformed his life and his approach to his neurology practice: doctors treat those with brain injury; but loved ones heal them. Second Lives: The Journey of Brain Injury Survivors and Their Healers is written by Dr. Lilly and Diane F. Kramer. After his death in 2021, Kramer completed the book with the assistance of Lilly’s wife, Joyce Stamp Lilly. This memoir weaves together Ralph Lilly’s experience with a collage of stories about his patients and their healers. After his recovery, Lilly retrained in the emerging field of behavioral neurology, which focuses on behavior, memory, cognition, and emotion after brain injury.Show book
Informed by years of research and on-the-ground reporting, Schools That Succeed is Karin Chenoweth's most inspiring and compelling book yet—an essential listen for educators who seek to break the stubborn connection between academic achievement and socioeconomic status. Chenoweth draws on her decade-long journey into neighborhood schools where low-income students and students of color are learning at unexpectedly high levels to reveal a key ingredient to their success: in one way or another, their leaders have confronted the traditional ways that schools are organized and have adopted new systems, all focused on improvement. In vivid profiles of once-embattled schools, Chenoweth shows how school leaders doggedly and patiently reorganized internal systems in order to prioritize teaching and learning, resulting in improved outcomes that in many cases exceeded statewide averages. From how they use time to how they use money, schools that succeed combine a deep belief in the capacity of their students to achieve with deliberate systems focused on student needs. As a result, they create vibrant places "where teachers want to teach and students want to learn."Show book
What should conversations about race look and sound like in the elementary classroom? And how can we build classroom communities that encourage these meaningful conversations about race? Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr take on these questions and more in We're Gonna Keep On Talking: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Elementary Classroom. This book focuses on the unique and powerful role discussions about race can play in the elementary classroom. Drawing its title inspiration from the freedom song "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around," sung by hundreds of children marching against segregation in the Children's Crusade of 1963, We're Gonna Keep On Talking is written for teachers who are willing to match children's courage and brilliance. Writing with the humility and honest storytelling of two career classroom teachers, Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr share: ● Strategies for building safe and supportive classroom and school spaces for productive discourse ● Dozens of practical teacher moves for facilitating race conversations ● Classroom stories that allow listeners to envision ways into the work through picture books, art, graphs, and current events.Show book
Discover the powerful story of Tūranga Health—an Iwi health provider in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa (Gisborne) dedicated to building family wellness for future generations. Serving Te Tairāwhiti with a dedicated team of 60, Tūranga Health works tirelessly to achieve Mauri Ora through holistic care for Ngāi Tāmanuhiri, Rongowhakaata, and Te Aitanga-a-Māhaki. This audiobook takes you on a journey of resilience, aroha, and community-led health care during one of the most challenging times in recent history—the COVID-19 pandemic. Hear how Tūranga Health stepped up, providing influenza vaccinations, hygiene kits, kai packs, COVID-19 testing, and administering over 20,900 vaccinations to protect whānau. Learn how they distributed over 750,000 RAT tests and offered supported isolation services, all while embodying the values of responsiveness, whānau-centered care, and resourcefulness. Through flexibility, quick action, and deep-rooted trust, Tūranga Health collaborated with whānau and services across the region, overcoming challenges like restrictive policies, healthcare barriers, and workforce shortages. The story reveals the high-trust, values-based leadership that enabled staff to embody mahi aroha—love and care for whānau—by adapting roles, upskilling, and committing tirelessly to their community. From drive-through vaccinations to manaaki like kai, entertainment, and koha, Tūranga Health made health care accessible and supportive, focusing on the most vulnerable. Their experience highlights the importance of local knowledge, innovation, and community-led solutions. In future pandemics, this audiobook argues, the expertise of Māori Health Providers must be recognized and empowered to innovate. This is the inspiring story of Tūranga Health—a testament to resilience, innovation, and the power of whānau. Join us on this journey of aroha and commitment to the wellbeing of future generations as we navigate the path to Mauri Ora.Show book
Don’t Get Disbarred is a must-read for every prosecutor in America. It teaches lawyers and law students how to stay out of trouble with state bar disciplinary authorities. As Warren Buffett says: “It takes twenty years to build your reputation, but only five minutes to lose it.” In this informative and often amusing book, veteran prosecutor and award-winning author Morley Swingle discusses hundreds of cases from all 50 states providing specific examples of prosecutors behaving badly and receiving everything from censure, reprimand, or suspension, to total disbarment. The misconduct arises from ethical lapses, sometimes occurring in a split second, and often resulting in catastrophic consequences for defendants. The misbehavior of these scoundrels, scalawags and screwups includes everything from intentionally putting on perjured testimony to practical jokes gone bad. Armed with 30 years of experience litigating criminal cases, Swingle, a former state and federal prosecutor, personally dealt with countless ethical choices faced by prosecutors toiling in the trenches of actual day-to-day litigation and case management. He knows the material as well as anyone in America. Reading this book will help prosecutors save their reputations. It will aid criminal defense lawyers and judges in recognizing prosecutorial misconduct when they see it. It will help prevent the tragedy of wrongful convictions. “Don’t Get Disbarred: Ethics & Professional Responsibility For Prosecutors is the best book ever written for prosecutors who want to follow the Rules of Professional Conduct and stay out of trouble themselves. Every prosecutor, no matter what level of experience or inexperience, should read it.” Stephen Sokoloff, Missouri Office of Prosecution Services (Retired)Show book
Describes some of the different kinds of tools that workers use.Show book
