CONTROL

CONTROL is all around us - between husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends, parents and children, teachers and students, and bosses and employees. Even though LaMont Prospect earned a Bachelor's Degree in English, a Master's Degree in Social Work and a Doctorate in School Psychology, this book does not preach or tell people what to do or how to live their lives. It has no psychological jargon or textbook language. If someone was to say "you need to do A, B, C and D with your life," that would be controlling. Of the 44 chapters, thirty-four are real stories about real people and how the need for control ruined their lives and the lives of others around them. The other 10 chapters are about entities that try to control people. While some of these entities may seem rather obvious, most forms of control are very subtle. The goal is to help readers recognize unhealthy forms of control and how to deal with it. --- About LaMont Prospect LaMont Prospect was born in Racine, WI. After earning a BA in English (UW-Madison, 1981), he worked in the Racine Theatre Guild where he landed leading roles in "The Drunkard," "A Bed Full of Foreigners," and "The Three Cuckolds". Upon returning to Madison to complete a minor in Theatre/Arts, he was cast as William Shakespeare in an MFA production of "Dark Lady of the Sonnets." For a brief time, he worked professionally in the improv comedy group "The Ark" (Joan Cusack among its cast members) and subsequently appeared in three independent films: "Momma's Boy," "Tagged," and "An Addict for my Addictions." --- Prospect's acting career was side-tracked, however, when the demands of a family business took him to Florida to manage a 40-acre orange grove. Eventually, he moved to Milwaukee to work in the family travel agency which afforded him the opportunity to visit Japan, Taiwan, China, Italy, Greece, England, Portugal, Kenya, Canada, and the Netherlands. --- After leaving the family business, Prospect earned an MS in Social Work (UW-Milwaukee, 1993), and also co-authored the article "Behavioral Profiles of Pre-School, Latency, and Teenage Female Incest Victims" (Child Abuse and Neglect) with Professor Elizabeth Sirles. He completed his PhD in School Psychology (Loyola University of Chicago, 1999), with his dissertation-"Raising Math Scores on the Illinois Goals Assessment Test"-involving 1200+ children in the Chicago Public Schools. Licensed in both School Psychology and School Social Work, Prospect has been employed as a School Psychologist in the Milwaukee Public Schools for the last 10 years, where he has worked with hundreds of students, teachers, principals and parents both in regular and special education. --- In 2008, Prospect published CONTROL - A Book About People With An Excessive Need to Control Other People Or Things And About People Who Allow Themselves to Be Controlled By Other People And Things. Prospect has been exhibiting CONTROL all over the U.S. at such places as the NY Center for Independent Publisher's Book Fair, the LA Times Festival of Books Fair, and the Printer's Row Chicago Book Fair.

Self-Help

Prospect, Lamont

Happiness

Strategic Book Publishing

"Mark has been given twice the gift of life, and this book delivers for both. So doing his teachings justice demands us to think with our hearts as much as our minds and move forward with a passionate and productive life." Tyler Hayden - Author - Livin' Life Large & Chasing the Carrot In LIVE LIFE FROM THE HEART, Mark Black (Heart and Double-Lung Transplant Recipient, 3-Time Marathoner and Motivational Speaker), has created a definitive guide to creating the life you've always wanted. Based on twenty-nine years of battling illness and overcoming obstacles, LIVE LIFE FROM THE HEART, is chock full of real-world wisdom and powerful life principles that will change the way you look at your life and the challenges you face. In fifty-two easy-to-read chapters, you'll learn how to: • Release the powerful potential hidden within you • Set goals that will help you get what you really want • Alter your habits so that you can alter your reality • Recognize what's really important to you Mark Black has been inspiring audiences with his powerful presentations since 2002. He is the founder of his own speaking and consulting firm, Mark Black Speaks. Mark's powerful inspirational programs have impacted thousands of people across North America. Mark's presentations are in high demand by corporations, associations and educational institutions. His story of courage and perseverance inspires people to live their lives with passion and purpose. For information about booking Mark or to learn what he can do for your organization, go to his website: www.MarkBlackSpeaks.com

Live Life from the Heart

Black, Mark

Motivational

Keep the peace... by order of the Emperor, Tiberius Caesar More than fourteen hundred miles from the seat of government, under-manned and under-financed, a veteran Roman officer is assigned to maintain order and keep the peace in Judea. Roman Centurion Gaius Julius Comminus struggles to fulfill his duty against a madman who haunts the roads of Zion bent on the murder and plunder of Roman citizens. Complicating, possibly even compromising the investigation, is the political intrigue of the times and secret mutterings of rebellion spawned by the ministry of a young rabbi from Nazareth. Is he the Messiah, a son of David, prophesied to restore Israel? Peace, it seems, is not going to come easy. ".....You'll never be the same afterwards." "Who better to write the story of an ancient police officer than a contemporary one? In All Roads Lead to Zion, retired police Lt. Wm Edmunds uses his skills of today to research and write the gripping tale of Gaius Julius Cominus, the Roman Centurion who obeyed the order to crucify Jesus the Christ. March the streets of Jerusalem, taste the dust, see the agony, suffer with a man who lived his life in the military and was forced by duty to take part in the most cataclysmic event in history. Edmunds will take you there, and like Gaius, you'll never be the same afterward." Lauraine Snelling Best selling author of The Red River Series, Daughters of Blessing, Breaking Free and more

All Roads Lead to Zion

Literature & Fiction

Edmunds, Wm.

Contemporary

Originally written in forty consecutive days of fortunate inspiration, 'What is God?' asks some of the most basic and sobering existential questions of our times. These are the questions to which each of us, as human beings, attempts to attach some meaning during our brief lifetimes: Why believe, and why this or that belief? How are our notions of God used and abused by the religious and scientific mind alike? What motivates the recently popular critiques of religion, and how accurate are they? How can we come to know ourselves as beings who live within a history which is greater than each of us, but still shapes us intimately?

What Is God? Musings on Human Anxiety and Aspirations

Politics & Social Sciences

Loewen, Gregory

Sociology

A 3-year-old tells the story of her premature sister's stay in the hospital NICU. The readers will learn what it is like to have a sibling in the NICU, from the strange looking equipment on the baby to the emotions experienced by the family. This is perfect to help very young children understand what happens with premature babies.

The Littlest Sister

Edwards, Leigh Schilling

History & Criticism

The Blood Pressure Miracle is a unique, all-natural system for lowering your blood pressure that is not based on a single approach such as stress reduction, or herbs or special foods or exercise. It’s actually a combination of methods that have been scientifically proven to work, complied into one comprehensive lifestyle program. You will be surprised at how many options you have: Simple lifestyle changes, inexpensive natural supplements and even regular foods you can buy at your local grocery store have all been proven to improve heart health and reduce blood pressure. When you combine these strategies all together as in The Blood Pressure Miracle, the results are multiplied (and it probably explains why, if you tried a single natural remedy in the past, it did very little or nothing at all).

The Blood Pressure Miracle

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Frank Mangano

Diets & Weight Loss

This inspiring and true adventure story is about the author and her husband’s journey to find beauty and meaning on the little known Island of Lefkas. The realistic descriptions of the people and places in the evocatively Greek environment take you right there with them, sharing in this heart-warming venture. The text moves along at a comfortable pace, and the prose is vivid and full of memorable images that contrast the Island’s beauty with their traveling hardships. Follow them on their journey and find out if they found the secret of true happiness, or were they merely chasing dreams? Note from the author: I wrote this book because I wanted to share some unforgettable experiences with other dreamers who might not have had the opportunity to 'opt out of the rat race' the way my husband, Tony and I did in 1991. It was a way out of a depressing situation when Tony was made redundant shortly before his 50th birthday. When you have reached rock bottom there is nowhere else to go, but up. When you lose all material things sometimes if you are determined you can overcome all difficulties, but you have to have a dream and follow it. Then you can gain so much more. Because we live in a pre-planned society rare opportunities are often missed. It is only when we look back we wonder why we never saw them at the time. Why did we hesitate? Why did we lose our dreams? Maybe in the great scheme of things there is a reason for everything. Maybe the drastic change in our circumstances was an opportunity for us to find our dream and have the adventure of a lifetime... This is what I want to share in the hope that it will help people in today's economic crisis to take on a challenge, to find a dream and do something that they might never have done. Then they can look back and say, "I'm glad we had that recession."

Chasing Dreams in Lefkas

Travel

Griffith, Diane

Europe

Nick Lane & Toni Dietkus try to survive in a fantasy, "a cabin on a mountain in Montana." Finally broke and there not being local jobs, they jump into trucking-long hauling across the USA. From the passenger seat Toni writes of events and sketches scenes from the road in letters to a friend (who saves them all). These on the- spot letters become Riding Shotgun In An 18-Wheeler. Toni Dietkus raised her family in affluent Seattle, WA but always desired the simple life. Not publishing as a writer of fiction, she turned to writing and illustrating what she did know: daily life as a mountain woman/trucker. ]

Riding Shotgun in an 18-Wheeler

Biographies & Memoirs

Dietkus, Toni

Memoirs

The discovery of a grisly body lying at the bottom of a subway entrance in mid-town Manhattan, leads NYPD detectives Gordon Hodges and Carl Furillo on the path of a monumental serial killer. As their investigation leads them to discover similar crimes around the country, they engage the FBI to help them coordinate tracking and identify whoever is committing the murders. When the FBI calls in one of their youngest and sharpest criminal profilers to help unravel the perplexing case, Shane Roberts' insights lead them to the inescapable conclusion that a Major League Baseball player could be a vicious, deranged serial murderer! At the top of the list... Boston Red Sox mega-star, Willie Starmaker.

Starmaker

Bauckham, Jim

Genre Fiction

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