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  From the MidWest Book Review's review of Mental Health Mayday (Gregg Bagdade): "...the quintessential self-help guide to dealing with the mental, physical, and emotional stresses of one of America's most dangerous, yet necessary professions. Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, "Mental Health Mayday: A Firefighter's Survival Guide from Recruit through Retirement" should be considered as required reading for anyone engaged in firefighting, and a part of every firehouse and community library Firefighting Psychology, Education, and Training collections." Read the rest of the review HERE .   Read more posts about Gregg and his book HERE . Read more book reviews HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter  here  or on our  home page . Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this

  As Women's History Month concludes, here are some books that may be of interest; they reflect hope in the aftermath of various kinds of violence against women. They also point out ways that women can manage violence when it appears -- survive it and recover from it. Healing from Incest ( Geri Henderson ) In speaking about Healing from Incest, Susan J. Lewis, Ph.D., J.D., Healing writes: “"Brave, profound, touching, healing. This well-written, honest book takes the reader inside the complexities of the therapeutic healing process from the patient and therapist's unique perspective. It is the story of hard work, hope, commitment and recovery!" Healing from Incest tells the journey of a victim-turned-survivor, working with her therapist to find healing. Readers are pulled into the therapeutic process as Henderson relates her conversations and feelings as a victim of child abuse and Emerton interprets those feelings and describes interventions. For those who recognize t

  Excerpt from Understanding the Analyst (Quinelle)  -   Introduction Do you ever think you were born into the wrong family? Ever wonder what on earth your gifts are? This book is one in a series of 16 books based on Dr. Ekaterina Filatova’s work, which was first made available to an English-speaking population through her opus , Understanding the People Around You: An Introduction to Socionics (2009). Each of the 16 volumes is dedicated to a different socion or sociotype (a personality type within the framework of a society—or in more familiar Western parlance, a psychological type, or psychotype); these terms are used interchangeably in this book. This particular book, the one you are holding in your hands, is dedicated to the Analyst personality type, the Introverted, Intuitive, Thinker, Rational psychological type. This book will help you understand the Analyst personality around you—and if you are an Analyst, it may help you understand yourself better. It begins where Dr.

" Arthur Yavelberg’s book,   A Theology for the Rest of Us , surprises us with its clarity and offers a personalized guide for readers on their own spiritual journey of discovery," writes Shane Anderson in the US Insider and concludes: " Yavelberg compares the findings and foundations that Western and Eastern traditions have arrived at and allows his readers to divest their own belief systems and ideologies into the narrative. This rare and open acceptance of our own subjective experience is like a balm against cynicism and despair and allows readers to immerse themselves in the narration." Read the entire review HERE . Read more posts about Yavelberg and his book HERE . BEST INDIE BOOK AWARD LITERARY TITAN BOOK AWARD: SILVER MEDAL Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy

  It is Tuesday. Monday's madness is over, and Wednesday will take us over the hump, so Tuesday it is--for some serious discussion with authors. Tuesday talks mean to address authors in waiting and self-published authors who would like to go a more traditional route or who would at least like to take their steps with a publisher by their side. Today's topic is one that you do not see discussed very often, and it should be . Authors are always faced with the question of when to release a book. Release does not have to happen immediately. It can come after a period of putting out an Advance Review Copy (ARC). Some publishers routinely put out ARCs, but that may not be the right answer for any given author. So, let's take a look at each option. ARC  As with anything else in life, there are both upsides and downsides to producing an ARC and waiting through a 6-month or so period prior to releasing a book. Here are some of them; you might be able to think of others (or have expe

  If only he had caught it earlier... If only he had done due diligence with screening options (he had the insurance; there was no excuse)... If only he had taken the colonoscopy seriously and not blown it off, thinking he was robust and cancer would never catch him... If only he had noticed the drop in his activity level... If only he had noticed his drop in interest in the daily tidbits of life... If only had a good doctor who knew how to read cancer indications in a blood test and not relied on lack of pain meaning lack of illness ... If only he had taken fitness training seriously and started losing weight... If only he had done fitness training homework so he could start losing weight... If only he accepted mortality sooner so he could get family and financial planning in hand, powers of attorney, last wishes, burial information--rather than leaving family scrambling and guessing... If only he had considered end of life possibilities so he could have been ready for outreach to res

Every week Julie Gentile, author of two award-winning books,  108 Yoga and Self-Care Practices for Busy Mamas  and  How to Stay Calm in Chaos , posts a word of the week and a thoughtful post, related to self-care, to go with it. This week the word is  now . Take five worthwhile minutes to read what Julie says about  now . For more posts about Julie and her books click  HERE . For more posts about self-care, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a written request to orders@msipress.com. 

  Perception Is Not Reality In nearly every liberal arts college offering psychology as a major, you can find an advanced course labeled something like “Sensation and Perception.” This course studies how the brain reads information sent to it from the five senses and how these data are recognized and converted into thoughts, sensations, images, sounds, and memories. To make the point that it is the brain that sees and hears and then interprets the information it receives, the instructor will often show a video of a famous video experiment [1] wherein a student is given a pair of glasses fitted with a prism in front of each eye, functionally inverting the image that is sent to the brain. Through the inverting prism glasses the world looks upside down. At first the student has difficulty knowing up and down, but then she successfully pours milk into a tea cup. After a day, the student walks about quite a bit more easily but still at times reaches up for something that is low down. How