Manley Feinberg II is a business leader, motivational speaker and author of Reaching Your Next Summit www.VerticalLessons.com. Feinberg says the business leaders he often advises and anyone else looking to accomplish lofty goals can use their own belay system and reach beyond their comfort zone. He offers these six tips for doing just that: Get […]
While Hillary Rodham Clinton’s defeat in her run for the presidency may be a setback in the march toward breaking the ultimate glass ceiling, her candidacy—and her victory in the popular vote—can be celebrated as an historic milestone coming less than one hundred years after American women first got that vote. In her comprehensive survey […]
The City of Roses has a long and honorable history of crime and corruption, starting as far back as the post-Civil War frontier days, leading into the mobster-infused decades of the twentieth century when prohibition, prostitution, gambling, and hard drugs besieged the town. The so-called “Great Portland Vice Scandal of 1956-57” spilled into national politics, […]
Country singer/songwriter Jessi Coulter’s life with husband, Waylon Jennings, is explored in “An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and Faith that Brought Me Home.” The book covers Jessi’s musical career from singing in church to performing alongside Waylon, Willie, and Johnny Cash and becoming one of the most important females […]
This field guide features 318 of Washington’s most abundant or notable bird species. Each account includes a full-color and detailed illustration, along with information about habitat, nesting, feeding, voice, similar species, as well as a range map. A Quick Reference Guide organizes all species into color-coded family groupings. Also included are a glossary of terms, […]
In The Perfect Diabetes Comfort Food Collection: 9 Essential Recipes You Need to Create 90 Amazing Complete Meals (American Diabetes Association/October 2016), author Robyn Webb focuses on 9 favorite comfort foods and makes 10 variations of each to give home cooks new, healthy twists on the meals they crave. “Growing up I remember fondly the […]
Author Ron Fry’s explores his system for recalling memory in “Master Your Memory.” Fry’s book includes quizzes designed to pinpoint your specific trouble spots—as well as strategies for any memory-based task. Master Your Memory features explanations of each memory technique to help you understand why specific strategies work and how to use them to do everything […]
The George Medal, along with the George Cross, was instituted by His Majesty King George VI on 24th September 1940. His desire, that the many acts of bravery being performed on home soil, in a type of warfare never experienced before, and primarily by civilians for whom military awards were inappropriate, was the driving force behind their […]
Life is full of resistance seeking to sink your dreams. It takes hard work plus a daily dose of G.R.I.T. to overcome this resistance and reach your goals. Serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and speaker, Scott Petinga, says G.R.I.T. stands for Guts, Resilience, Initiative and Tenacity, the foundational ingredients necessary to get the journey started, keep momentum […]
This outstanding field guide features 318 of Washington’s most abundant or notable bird species. Each account includes a full-color and detailed illustration, along with information about habitat, nesting, feeding, voice, similar species, as well as a range map. A Quick Reference Guide organizes all species into color-coded family groupings. Also included are a glossary of […]
