This is the story of the grandson of Jewish immigrants who came through Ellis Island in pursuit of the American Dream. After a childhood during which he felt there was a decided absence of purpose and explanation for our life on Earth, the author has spent a lifetime seeking, and finding, answers to three basic questions: “Where did I come from, Why am I here, and Where will I go when I die.” There was no single momentous instant of realization but rather a lifetime of continuous discovery...

“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson In Blast of Trumpets author Don Levin shared many of the quotes that have resonated with him throughout his life. In this new exciting collection of quotes, writings, observations, and life lessons, he shares a compilation of his own words that have been like a clarion blast. A life-long Chicago Cubs fan, attorney-at-law, senior...

November 10, 1938. Germany*. Kristallnacht. Night of Broken Glass.* Eleven year old Alex Lebenstein comes face to face with the Nazi regime that is determined to exterminate all Jews from the face of Europe. After witnessing the beating of his family, they escape to be hidden for a few days before being forced into the newly created Jewish Ghetto where he will spend the next three years. A six day cattle car ride during one of the coldest winters on record to the ...

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Health literacy addresses a range of social dimensions of health, including knowledge, navigation and communication, as well as individual and organizational skills for accessing, understanding, evaluating and using information. Particularly over the past decade, health literacy has globally become a major public health concern as an asset for promoting health, wellbeing and sustainable development.This comprehensive handbook provides a...

In this demanded sequel to The Advocate, former attorney and retired military officer Jackson Lee returns to continue his mission as an earthbound advocate. Having survived his own near death in the prequel Another Last Day he continues working with a host of heavenly beings who mentor him in an ever-expanding role on the meaning of Heaven’s Plan, and the various ways we all transition from this life to the next. Jackson is permitted to recruit someone with whom he can partner to change me...

A young US Army lieutenant, from a long and distinguished family line of soldiers, stationed in the Federal Republic of Germany, faces court martial charges of murder and of being involved in a black marketing operation that reach the higher echelons of the Division command. Rather than trusting his fate to a military lawyer, the family reaches across the sea to the United States, and retains the services of former Army officer turned civilian attorney Colt Donaldson. With links to unsolve...

Leaders today come in all shapes, sizes, colors, and creeds. It is also quite common to use the term manager and leader interchangeably.This book is about the person who strives to take the giant step to become the Leader Coach. While certainly still a manager and a leader, the role of Leader Coach is all about the special relationship that develops between Leader Coach and Player through the art of effective communication.By developing your team (players) through...

What if you woke up one morning and you were told that you were going to die that very day? You are free to do anything you want to do, talk to anyone you want to talk to, but you cannot tell them that you are dying, or you will lose the gift of knowing. What would you do? Who would you talk to, and what things would you do to make sure that your life was in order by the end of the day? Jackson Lee, a successful former attorney, retired military officer, and now successful real estate brok...

One Man, Two Codes. The dilemna: the moral code of his church and community in conflict with the Canon of Ethics of his profession.Doug Long is a husband, father of seven, an attorney at law, and respected elder in his church where he serves as an advisor in the youth program, enjoying popularity with the youth and their parents, while counting many friends among his burgeoning clientele.After many years of scraping by financially, he accepts the challenge ...

Even the best of parents with the purest and most idealistic intentions to provide a better life for their children can set them up for failure by confusing better with easier.So how do we provide our children with the opportunities and tools for greater success without spoiling them? How do we insure that we have positioned them for this greater standard of living without overly indulging them? No doubt it is a balancing act, and requires planning, foreth...

In Another Last Day, Jackson Lee was given the gift of spending a last day on earth… to say his goodbyes and to get his affairs in order…. and then not dying. Having put that special day behind him, six months later in the sequel The Advocate, he began an earthly ministry as a mortal angel. This experience continued on a grander scale in subsequent sequel The Healer. Readers have asked what happened during the six months between these first two stories. Why did he not die? What is the scop...

In this thought-provoking sequel to Another Last Day, it is six months after he diedand then didnt die, as he was given the opportunity to celebrate another last day with family and friends. Having put that special day behind him and making the most of this gift of additional time, Jackson Lee, a former attorney, retired military officer, and now successful real estate broker, is presented with an opportunity beyond his wildest imagination: a second chance to serve those around him, but no...