How Children Become Violent
Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D.

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300 Pages | ISBN: 1-933631-48-1

Violence is an age-old phenomenon. War, genocide, and death are cornerstones that define history. Yet in the 21st century, we are experiencing violence in ways never seen before. It may be in worldwide terrorist organizations, inner city and suburban gangs, or the disturbed teenager next door who takes his rage out on innocent classmates.

Those who commit violence today, as Kathryn Seifert, Ph.D. explains in this book, are likely to be adults or adolescents who themselves witnessed violence as children or were abused or neglected in their early years. Childhood is a time when bonding with caregivers stimulates the formulation of behavioral regulation, interpersonal skills, moral development, brain development, and problem solving, and when it is interrupted Disrupted Attachments Patterns (DAP) can form. This means that today's violent, neglected, psychologically unbalanced, and traumatized children are likely to be tomorrow's dangers to society-that is, unless we can intervene to assess DAP and offer them appropriate therapy.

Dr. Seifert offers personal insights from her over 30 years of experience in mental health, addictions, and criminal justice work to help other therapists, victims, and parents understand not only how children become violent, but illuminate the pathway to a violence-free future. 

Memories & Milestones
Irwin E. Thompson

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55 Pages | ISBN: 978-1-933631-63-9

This is a collection of deeply personal poems and paintings based on the origins of life on this planet, related natural phenomena and the ecological impact of Homo sapiens. Included also are works derived from personal experiences of the vicissitudes of our own existence and how we react to them.

Dr. Thompson has published many articles in medical literature during nearly three decades as a member of the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School and as medical director of Boston IVF. Since his retirement, he has resurrected his interest in the creative arts and has publisheed a number of poems, while also exhibiting his paintings in and around Boston, MA.

Fresh Customer Service
Michael D. Brown, MBA

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205 Pages | ISBN: 978-1-933631-64-6

Treat the employee as #1 and the customer as #2 and you will get customers for life. It goes against all you were taught in business school … and many of the books you’ve read … and it’s the key to turning customers into loyal customers. Not only will they faithfully return to you, they’ll become brand ambassadors who spread the word about your products and services far and wide. Fresh Customer Service® proves that if you treat your employees with respect and kindness, if you motivate and equip them with the tools they need to do their job, and treat them like they’re #1, they, in turn, will unleash a passion to serve your customers like they have never been treated before. Your employees will offer a World-Class Customer Service Experience to everyone who enters your place of business. Implement the 6.5 Steps of Fresh Customer Service® in your organization and see how fully engaged, totally committed employees equal return customers who spend their money on your products and services again and again. Not only does this increase retention and sales—it means a bottom line that reflects sustained and profitable results.

As a successful professional speaker, coach, and trainer, Michael D. Brown, MBA draws upon his own life experiences and highly successful corporate career to deliver unprecedented results that enhance the bottom line. Michael has a BBA in Management from Jackson State University, holds an MBA in Global Management, and earned the honors of summa cum laude graduate. With 15 years of technical and functional leadership experience, Michael delivers his message on Fresh Customer Service™ through keynotes, seminars, workshops, and executive retreats. He has worked with and advised a number of Fortune 100 companies, global teams, entrepreneurs, and non-profits on Fresh strategy development, implementation, execution, and follow-up, and has spent the last 10 years working with the fourth largest Fortune Global Company in the world.

Life is Short, Art is Long
Michael Mendelsohn

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460 Pages | ISBN: 978-1-933631-31-8

Life Is Short, Art Is Long is a must-read for collectors, their heirs, the charities they support and the professional advisors who plan their estates. First edition reviews describe the book as the definitive guide for collectors, showing them how to use their art and antiques to free up cash for retirement, avoid the loss of value caused by a poorly planned auction sale, or create a fair distribution plan for their children. Michael Mendelsohn and co-author Paige Stover Hague, Esq. have amassed a team of experts, including art dealers, financial advisors, appraisers and estate planners to show collectors how to answer that difficult question: What is going to happen to your stuff when you are gone? This book is the only resource written for collectors and other art and antique enthusiasts that illustrates estate planning strategies that maximize the value of art assets. Michael Medelsohn's innovative art succession planning techniques show art and antique lovers how to plan for the future of their collection as they would any other asset-and reclaim as much as 70% of the asset value over conventional planning methods. All collecting enthusiast, whether they collect impressionist paintings or PEZ dispensers, will profit from Mendelsohn's insights. Similarly, anyone who works for, or wants to attract new high net-worth clients, will open new doors by implementing the concepts written for financial advisors. With prolific media attention and skyrocketing prices for major works at the premier auction houses, collectors and advisors need to be aware of the other side of the spectrum-transferring this wealth and planning for the ultimate disposition of the art. Medelsohn offers specific solutions for collectors who want to free up cash for retirement, benefit the causes that are important to them, or create a fair distribution plan for their children. 

Michael Mendelsohn is Founder and President of Briddge Art Strategies Ltd., the premier art succession planning firm in the country. He is an art collector, philanthropist, lecturer, and writer on inheritance planning and preservation of assets. As philanthropists, Michael and his wife Gael have gifted select pieces to some of the most highly esteemed museums in the country. Michael is a sought after speaker on the artistic, tax-planning, and philanthropic needs of collectors and has presented at some of the nation's finest art and financial institutions. Michael's company has created innovative family philanthropic opportunities, helped fellow collectors become aware of their ability to keep collections intact, and advocated the development of more tax efficient art distributions to heirs and art institutions. Application of this strategy to their own private collection is a key reason why Michael and Gael were recognized by Art & Antiques as among America's Top 100 Collectors.