First Crisis

As an educator and avid learner, I set out to understand the complex issue of homelessness in America. After watching hundreds of interviews with people living on the streets, I wrote this book to share their stories and perspectives. Across twenty heartfelt chapters, you will meet individuals like Bruce, a lawyer-turned-beggar in D.C.; Penny, a young woman selling her body for drug money in Detroit; and James, an entrepreneur in Columbus still holding onto hope. Each person describes in their own words how they wound up homeless, whether through job loss, addiction, childhood trauma, lack ...

Sandra Lindsay immigrated to the United States from Jamaica with ambitions of becoming a nurse and living the American Dream. In December 2020, she became the first person to receive the COVID-19 vaccine and was subsequently honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In First in Line Lindsay lays out her triumphs and setbacks as a single mother and working student who overcomes barriers. Her beginnings as a four-dollar-an-hour grocery store worker fortified her with the resilience to persevere over decades to become an executive at a globally recognized nationally known healthcare system.

The RSD Emergency Toolkit: Crisis Management for Intense Episodes Your Lifesaving Rescue Kit for When Rejection Hits Like a Tidal Wave Do you feel emotional pain from rejection so intensely it's physically unbearable? Does criticism send you spiraling into shame, rage, or despair within seconds? You're not overreacting—you're experiencing Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD), and this emergency toolkit will be your anchor in the storm. Finally, rapid-response strategies specifically designed for the overwhelming intensity of RSD episodes. Unlike traditional RSD resources that focus on ...

Maya Davis is living in paradise until her apartment, her career, and her dreams fall away in a horrible and dramatic fashion. Suddenly she’s packing her life into two suitcases and heading back to her parents’ home in Maryland, scrambling for a plan B. Happy thirty-first birthday, Maya. Right beside her is Ant, Maya’s best friend. While she’s returning home, Ant’s leaving his for the first time. Even though he moved away to start his own adventure, Ant can’t seem to separate himself from Maya—and he’s not sure he wants to.

In Behold, America, Sarah Churchwell offers a surprising account of 20th-century Americans' fierce battle for the nation's soul. It follows the stories of two phrases - the "American dream" and "America First" - that once embodied opposing visions for America. Starting as a Republican motto before becoming a hugely influential isolationist slogan during World War I, America First was always closely linked with authoritarianism and white supremacy. The American dream, meanwhile, initially represented a broad vision of democratic and economic equality.

When a “neutral” United States becomes a trading partner for the Allies early in World War I, the Germans implement a secret plan to strike back. A team of saboteurs - including an expert on germ warfare, a Harvard professor, and a brilliant, debonair spymaster - devise a series of “mysterious accidents” using explosives and biological weapons, to bring down vital targets such as ships, factories, livestock, and even captains of industry like J. P. Morgan. New York Police Inspector Tom Tunney, head of the department’s Bomb Squad, is assigned the difficult mission of stopping them.

In The Day Wall Street Exploded, Beverly Gage tells the story of a once infamous but now largely forgotten terrorist attack. On September 16, 1920, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of America's financial center into a war zone. Based on thousands of pages of Bureau of Investigation reports, this historical detective saga traces the four-year hunt for the perpetrators, a worldwide effort that spread as far as Italy and the new Soviet nation.

Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick stables kills six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far more to the "simple" fire than initially meets the eye...for a start, human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim?

Caregivers need clinical training so they can triage mental health problems in ways that promote post-traumatic growth. In this audiobook, the concepts of moral injury, religious coping, and crisis intervention are discussed with the aim of equipping caregivers to engage with mental health issues. A guiding light is personal, pastoral experience as an emergency room chaplain.

The year was 1922: World War I had just come to a close, the Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Asa Jennings, a YMCA worker from upstate New York, had just arrived in the quiet coastal city of Smyrna to teach sports to boys. Several hundred miles to the east in Turkey's interior, tensions between Greeks and Turks had boiled over into deadly violence. Mustapha Kemal, now known as Ataturk, and his Muslim army soon advanced into Smyrna, a Christian city, where a half a million terrified Greek and Armenian refugees had fled in a desperate attempt to escape his troops.

Two scenes extracted from SweetSpot, a novel in progress, set at the iconic Santa Barbara Writers Conference where my protagonist, a brand new SBWC attendee, gets her first taste of what could be instead of what has been. Though SweetSpot is a work of fiction, the feelings inspiring Sweetspot are rooted in fact. For almost 25 years, author Marla Miller has been in association with the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, SBWC, first as a 'newby writer' and then as a workshop leader where she continues to present her workshops. SBWC, the brainchild of noted author and raconteur, Barnaby Conrad,...

The 72-Hour Rule: Surviving the First Three Days of Business Disruption A Tactical ISO 22301 Playbook for Crisis Management, Fast Recovery, and Business Continuity Under Pressure In a world where business disruptions can strike without warning, the first 72 hours are critical. The 72-Hour Rule: Surviving the First Three Days of Business Disruption is your essential playbook for managing crises and recovering fast using ISO 22301, the global standard for business continuity. This tactical guide offers a clear, step-by-step approach to navigate the chaos in the first three days of disruption ...

¿Qué pasa cuando una pareja se reúne para revivir las experiencias de su adolescencia que marcaron sus vidas? En Sociedad Anónima, Alex da el primer paso para enfrentar sus errores del pasado buscando a Sofía, su amiga de la adolescencia. Sofía claramente afectada por este reencuentro, duda un poco, pero acepta esa primera cita. Veinte años de distancia y más de treinta años de conocerse. ¿Qué pesa más? ¿La distancia, los errores, el dolor y el drama del pasado? O... ¿La profunda conexión y el cariño que surgieron entre ellos? Una serie de conversaciones entre dos ex-amigos ...

Fleeing from the vengeful King Gerard and his allies, Ron Marlboro takes a desperate gamble. The half-finished, sabotage-plagued armada is unprepared for either fight or flight. With supplies of everything running dangerously low, they stop at an abandoned space station to salvage anything they can find. The Exactas Meridias mining facility has a secret no one could have guessed. With his best troops locked in a deck-to-deck battle for survival, Ron and his allies will encounter an alien presence while simultaneously defending against the vengeful assault of the Gildain fleet.

In a shocking, never-before-told story from the vaults of American history, Tonight We Bombed the US Capitol takes a close look at the explosive hidden history of M19 - the first and only domestic terrorist group founded and led by women - and their violent fight against racism, sexism, and what they viewed as Ronald Reagan’s imperialistic vision for America.

In How to Manage in Times of Crisis, you will learn how to prepare for inevitable approaching challenges in life and business and how to navigate them with the best results. Released as a written version of his presentation to the Russian Academy of Economics in 2009 (just after the 2008 financial crisis), where Dr. Adizes is an honorary scientific advisor and recipient of an honorary doctorate, this audiobook version of Dr. Adizes' speech gives us hope, and an appropriate strategy, to prepare and rebuild.

This book is for all first responders (law enforcement, fire, or other emergency personnel) who are or want to be supervisors in their agencies. It goes through all facets of being a good supervisor. Being a supervisor in any occupation is seldom easy and quite often frustrating. Being a supervisor in a first responder agency is hardly ever easy and too often it is downright frustrating. What is this book about? My goals for you with this book are: 1. To help you to understand what leadership is all about 2. To help you to lead those who are under your care 3. To help you to motivate those ...

Here’s a system that works to build mental fitness, resiliency and toughness, even when facing the worst events imaginable. Burnout becomes impossible when prepared to deal with the high-risk situations often met by public safety personnel and those in related high-stress occupations. This unique yet common sense approach for effectively coping with challenges so PTSD or other trauma reactions don’t take over is worth every minute spent practicing the stress-reducing A-to-Z exercises.

Martin Luther with preached and written word unleashed the unconditional and uncompromising gospel of God's love for sinners in Jesus Christ, crucified and risen. He exposed both man's lost condition and Christ's unfathomable love with unrelenting persistence and unmistakable clarity. An Uncompromising Gospel highlights Luther's key theological teachings, details the controversies that broke out over them after his death, and provides important lessons for our own day, as Christians still struggle to grasp and hold forth the love of Christ for sinners dead in trespasses and sins.

This book provides information about training for mental health professionals and first responders who work with victims of disaster related stress and trauma. It helps prepare them to relate with disaster victims and co-workers. Warning signs and symptoms are explored together with stages, strategies and interventions for recovery. The book will introduce you to disasters, the community response, the roles of first responders, Disaster Mental Health Services and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) responders and teams. It provides a brief overview of these and their roles in ...