An award-winning biography of a man whose faith and resilience continues to inspire.On July 19, 1924, Eric Liddell was on top of the world. He was the most famous Briton at the time, having just won the gold in the Olympic 400-meter race. The story of that race―and the one he didn't run―was told in the popular movie classic Chariots of Fire.But what most of us don't know is what became of Eric Liddell in the years after the credits rolled. ...

Under the sun of the Oregon High Desert, members of the West Spirit Reservation struggle to survive. As global warming intensifies, their lives become so fragile that the elders feel they have no choice but to allow outsiders to bail them out. That's when the trouble begins. The novel opens dramatically in 2039 with James Hokama Byrne, grandson of Chief Tahoma-Kiche, leading a team to steal water trucks and take them to the Chekesuwant Reservation, where his grandparents live. The plot chr...

JUDY EICHINGER WAS TWO AND A HALF when her beloved sister Ruth was born with one kidney shriveled and the other severely damaged. She died at age fifteen. For many years, Judy couldn’t mention Ruth’s name or talk about her loss. Events finally forced her to confront her feelings and work through her grief, anger, and loneliness. This book movingly captures, moment to moment, that journey from a life of despair to one of fulfillment—in the hope of helping others who lost a sibling growing u...

The Center for Creative Leadership's continuing studies of executives have found that learning on the job is the best way for a person to develop. Often people are given new positions in order to provide them with developmental experiences. But what if such a transfer is not possible? This report contains eighty-eight assignments that offer individual development opportunities on a current job.

Many new managers rely too heavily on the technical or problem-solving strengths that have propelled them upward and fail to understand that new skills are required to continue to be effective as managers. The problem arises for both individual and organizational reasons and results in many managers failing to make the transitions required to deal with the increasing complexity they face. When this happens, many managers whose careers have been full of promise stumble and derail. This titl...

Take a look at the political and educational landscape of the 1960s to understand what led to the rise of the hands-on education movement. Discover the challenges and successes as Marilynne Eichinger shares her story and those of eleven passionate but inexperienced museum directors, board volunteers, and National Science Foundation directors who revolutionized the teaching of science. In response to the latest research on child development and how people learn, they developed interactive, ...

The Water Factor, a Rightfully Mine Novel, is a 2024 International Firebird Book Award winner for best dystopian novel and a Literary Titan Gold Award recipient for best thriller. The book is a confronting eco-thriller showing environmental devastation that will surprise and engross readers until the final page.The novel opens dramatically in 2039 with James Hokama Byrne, grandson of Chief Tahoma-Kiche, leading a team to steal water trucks and take them to the reservation where his...

Patients often seek advice in the doctor's office whose complaints are of a functional nature and cannot be directly assigned to an organ disease via laboratory or imaging. Many of these disorders such as pain, dizziness, tinnitus, lumpiness or the "heel spur" originate from the fascial organ, which is only now slowly being understood as such.Fascia connects all parts of our body mechanically but more important, all our receptors for intro-and extroception and for the regulation of...

Over the Peanut Fence asks one question—Is eliminating youth homelessness a hopeless endeavor? The search for an answer began when Marilynne Eichinger and her partner, Ray Losey, invited a twenty-year-old street youth into their home. The book tells the story of Zach and the trauma he experienced as a result of childhood abuse and neglect. Raised in poverty, he was the fifth of nine children in a family plagued by drugs and alcohol. He left home at sixteen to seek a better life on...

A person who works exclusively in staff jobs throughout a career is less likely to develop important leadership competencies than a person who works exclusively in line jobs. This report shows why and offers several specific ways to increase the leadership potential of staff managers.

On July 19, 1924, Eric Liddell was on top of the world.He was the most famous Briton at the time, having just won the gold in the Olympic 400-meter race. The story of that race―and the one he didn’t run―was told in the popular movie classic Chariots of Fire. But what most of us don’t know is what became of Eric Liddell in the years after the credits rolled.As the storm clouds of World War II rolled in, Eric Liddell had already made decisions in his life th...

You give feedback every day, even if you aren't realizing it. Whether it's with a spouse, your child, a co-worker, or an employee, or if you are a trainer or group and learning facilitator, it will be a rare day if you aren't helping someone learn a task, or just learn a little about themselves.It's time to sharpen your feedback skills, and abilility to work with someone to help them learn, formally, informally. We know from research over fifty years that feedback is THE key to lear...