Books by William

Its time to grab your baton and lead your organization by implementing effective leadership strategies.William Stieber, PhD, an internationally recognized leadership development trainer, educator, professor, and business consultant, shares a blueprint that will help you drive meaningful change at your organization. But progress can only begin after you answer questions such as: How are you benchmarking external forces? How would you characterize your distinct sound to your customers? What changes in the organization need to be made to ensure alignment? Are there improvement opportunities in your processes that merit review and change? Asking questions like these are a key first step in applying tips to preserve harmony and ensure your department or organization is operating with a similar focus and maintaining a rhythm to sustain profits, customer satisfaction, and employee retention.Stieber also shares guidance on retaining best-in-class employees, assessing organizational vulnerabilities, and establishing a workplace culture where learning and teamwork is valued.As a musician, it can be tough to play high notes while staying in tune, and organizations face the same challengeespecially after achieving some initial success. Get the insights and strategic guidance you need to succeed in an increasingly competitive environment with The Final Score.

THE ARENA "Poetry dedicated to his antagonist? Courage and compassion, that's what this work is all about." - Theresa Kastner "Artistic work of high quality." - Michael Barney; Editor: Gravity Press "Encompasses a world view with impressive sensitivity." - Michael McGrinder, Associate Editor, The Smith "I've enjoyed the talent of William H. Davis Jr. for many years. I'm amazed at his diversity of subject matter. I consider it a privilege to be part of this man's literary accomplishment in 'The Arena'." - Vicki Hawkins, Pres. Jesus Wept Ministries ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ ¿ After forty years of reckless behavior, William let his life get completely out of control. While suffering an emotional collapse during the breakup of his 22 year marriage, he was involved in a most unfortunate shooting incident with a partially out of uniform police woman. This resulted in a prison sentence. There he discovered the power of higher education. He earned a degree at Lamar State College. While there he began competing in the Lamar State College annual Expressions Literary contest and became the most winning student in their 23-year history. His writing is a blend of his life experiences, his learning and his bizarre imagination. He crosses all lines and wields his pen like a mighty sword. With psychotic intensity he seeks new fields to invade. But beneath his rough exterior, behind the gnarled mask, hidden by the neurotic gesticulation lies a hopeless romantic, a patriot and a captivating character on an endless search for truth. William Davis is proof that every form of genius is rooted in some form of neurosis.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

In The Plumber, Lee W. Hickok, MD, an alcoholic urologist, is faced with case after case of patients from the skid row of Galveston, Texas, who have had one or both kidneys removed by a surgeon who calls himself the Plumber. These victims are from the dregs of society and drug addiction. Together with law enforcement, he must solve the mystery and stop this butcher. Suspects range from a local urologist to a mysterious Russian emigrant and his esoteric wife to one of his own residency staff. Lee W. Hickok is the protagonist in this series, which goes by his name and includes the novels 606 University and Sweet Amber. He is continuously plagued by resisting his desires for alcohol, which he has given up after sustaining a course of D/Ts in Sweet Amber. The Plumber is a fast-paced who-done-it novel that will leave the reader wanting more.

This collection of micro didactics is dissimilar to all collections that have come before it. It is the product of competing in two college literary contests and the taking of a writing course. The contests were at Lamar State College in Beaumont Texas and Eastfield College in Mesquite Texas. Also a writing course offered by the Long Ridge Writers Group. These were the reasons these works were created, but what of the sources? Its sources are as diverse as random chance will allow. They are life experiences that have merged with the learning experiences in the bizarre imagination of the author and tempered with elements from deep within. Two Faces of Beauty may well be called a multigenre work, but still major differences exist with this work. Not just being microdidactic, that is, the most possible information and instructions compressed into the fewest possible words, but the common threads that run through the entire book from work to work regardless of the genre. No matter, short story, essay, autobiographical, or poetry, the threads are there, the threads of duality, justice, poetic or otherwise, and truth. This truth transcends mere research, though research is critical in any story, fiction or nonfiction. I speak here of truth reflected by the world in which we live. These works are wide-ranging and will take the reader from the mountaintops of the human experience to the depths of despair with many stops in between the two.

Dr. William Glasser's bestselling theories of Reality Therapy and Control Theory are put into action in a series of fascinating case studies. Each case shows successful resolutions to help therapists learn how these treatments compliment each other.

In 2002, a researcher for The Harvard Crimson came across a restricted archive labeled "Secret Court Files, 1920." The mystery he uncovered involved a tragic scandal in which Harvard University secretly put a dozen students on trial for homosexuality and then systematically and persistently tried to ruin their lives.In May of 1920, Cyril Wilcox, a freshman suspended from Harvard, was found sprawled dead on his bed, his room filled with gas--a suicide. The note he left behind revealed his secret life as part of a circle of (cut "young") homosexual students. The resulting witch hunt and the lives it cost remains one of the most shameful episodes in the history of America's premiere university. Supported by legendary Harvard President Lawrence Lowell, Harvard conducted its investigation in secrecy. Several students committed suicide; others had their lives destroyed by an ongoing effort on the part of Harvard to destroy their reputations. Harvard's Secret Court is a deeply moving indictment of the human toll of intolerance and the horrors of injustice that can result when a powerful institution loses its balance.

I carried a rifle in VietNam and a stethoscope in Afghanistan as an Army Reservist. I kept diaries from both conflicts and have factually reported all that I saw and experienced from the mundane to the absurd. With a thirty three year pause in between combat tours, I nonetheless noticed many similarities and opportunities lost in the two conflicts which discredits the current arguments that Afghanistan is not VietNam. In both conflicts the United States military fought to preserve the lives and countries of our allies yet despised them. Operations went on in both conflicts without heed for the expected results and in the process effectively isolated the vast bulk of soldiers from the populations that they were trying to defend. Both conflicts were severely underestimated by our leaders, both civilian and military. The VietNam veteran suffered the price of his unpopular war and now the Afghanistan and Iraq veteran is coming home to a growing public indifference to their sacrifices.

School teacher Anthony Millers life is turned upside down when the verdict in a murder trial comes back with a resounding not guilty. As the only witness to an unspeakable crime he decides to follow his moral obligation and go to the authorities. This begins a twisted game of murder, deception, and betrayal that spans from San Francisco to a small New England beach town, forever changing the lives of those involved.