Glenn Bostock (Forbes Books)
Glenn Bostock’s A Human Business presents a revolutionary alternative to profit-driven corporate models, articulating a “people-first” philosophy rooted in the author's four-decade journey building SnapCab. Rejecting Milton Friedman’s doctrine that business exists solely to maximize shareholder value, Bostock argues that lasting success stems from creating “communities of usefulness” where caring beats competition. The book outlines five core principles: creating a foundation of caring, understanding one’s “ruling love” (core passion)...
Simin Cai (Forbes Books)
In a world where people chase success and happiness, which are always elusive, Making Sense of Life, by physicist Simin Cai, challenges our notions of happiness and achievement and introduces the “Individual Correlationism” as a framework that redefines happiness as the alignment between our lived and desired experiences. Drawing from optical metaphors, where reality is the “object,” our perception is the “lens,” and our understanding forms the “image,” Cai argues that contentment emerges from developing a self-consistent system of beliefs...
Elizabeth Fannin (Elizabeth Fannin Press)
Elizabeth Fannin's Letter to Caroline is a devastating epistolary memoir in which a mother reconstructs her past for her adopted daughter, tracing a path from childhood trauma to hard-won redemption. The memoir unfolds as Elizabeth “Liza” Stark recounts her violent upbringing, her escape to San Francisco, where she meets the magnetic Haitian nurse Genevieve, and their decade-long partnership. Their love story—intense, passionate, and fragile—crumbles under brutal fertility treatments and Genevieve’s unresolved childhood trauma, leadin...
Julian Lighton (Advantage Books)
Julian Lighton’s Navigating Your Next delivers a rigorous, experience-backed roadmap for professionals seeking meaningful career transitions. The book is specifically written for those seeking to find their ideal careers and the path to get there. The author taps into his tenure at McKinsey & Company and Cisco to draw timeless lessons for readers, developing a seven-step methodology —Initiate, Insight, Imagine, Investigate, Implement, Increase, and Inspire—that helps career professionals to rethink, redraw their path, and pursue i...
Peter D. Banko (Forbes Books)
Peter D. Banko’s The Necessary Goodbye is a candid leadership manual that reframes termination not as a managerial failure but as an essential, albeit underutilized, tool for organizational health. The author shares his experience that spans two decades as a CEO handling financial turnaround, and argues that firing—whether termed “freeing up futures” or “involuntary separation”—is often the most compassionate act a leader can undertake. Yet, this experience can come with a sense of guilt for many leaders. In this book, he teaches lead...
Ryan Normandeau (Forbes Books)
Ryan Normandeau’s Connective Tissue is a compelling memoir and business guide detailing his rise from a modest upbringing in New Hampshire to becoming a successful entrepreneur in the high-stakes medical device industry. Normandeau chronicles his journey from an athletic background to working as a medical device representative, described as the “caddie” in the operating room, before founding and selling his own distributorships. Blending personal storytelling with industry insights, the book provides a roadmap for handling this lucrative yet de...
Bill Harvey (The Human Effectiveness Institute)
In Powerful Mind: 12 Simple Keys, Bill Harvey offers a comprehensive guide to reclaiming mental autonomy in an age of overwhelming noise, what he calls the Acceleritis culture, which drives us all at top speed by giving us too many stimuli nearly all the time. This book addresses a question that every human being should consider, especially in this time of information overload: “What does it mean to use more of our mind, which is a tool we already have?” Harvey starts by arguing that we suffer from an accelerating information overload that forc...
Kimi Y. Bivins (Canoe Tree Press)
In From Broken Pieces to Peace, Kimi Y. Bivins’ psychologically grounded and motivating book, she writes: “It took me forty-six years of trial and error to realize I am not broken. I’ve just dealt with many broken men. I refuse to believe anything else.” This book is a raw memoir that is filled with practical Christian relationship advice. Drawing from her personal journey as a single believer at forty-five, Bivins recounts a life characterized by dysfunction, including being born to a married man, experiencing rape at the age of twenty by some...
Victor Chukwu (PeaceWord Publishing)
The Wedding Night and Beyond by Dr. Victor Chukwu is a groundbreaking Christian guide to marital intimacy that cleverly blends biblical wisdom with practical medical insight to show Christian couples the beauty in sexual intimacy. The book systematically addresses the journey of sexual intimacy in marriage, beginning with foundational chapters on the spiritual significance of sex and understanding one’s body, then progressing through foreplay, the wedding night experience, handling physical intimacy, post-coital connection, pregnancy preparatio...
Sherry McAllister (Forbes Books)
Adjusted Reality by Dr. Sherry McAllister is a groundbreaking work that offers a transformative vision of health, grounded in chiropractic philosophy and the concept of “whole-being” care, which views humans as integrated systems rather than collections of isolated symptoms. Structured around seven foundational pillars (Investment, Replenishment, Nourishment, Movement, Adjustment, Contentment, and Revitalizement), the book critiques the profit-driven practices of conventional medicine and the healing techniques that focus on symptoms and draws...
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