5 Fundamentals for the Wholesale Distribution Branch Manager is the classic step-by-step guide to helping branch managers improve their business and leadership skills. The branch manager is the key to success for every wholesaler-distributor according to author Jim Ambrose: “If winning means profitable market share and profitable market share growth, then developing the branch manager is essential to a company’s success.”

Ten years after the successful first edition was published, so much had changed in distribution branch management. This second edition is completely revised with vital new information that today’s branch manager needs to read to succeed in today’s very challenging economy!

One of the biggest trends related to branch business is the even higher expectation for branch manager performance today. The traditional advancement of a person going from inside sales to outside sales to branch manager is no longer the assumed track. The branch manager who comes up that track with no business and leadership skills has really struggled as companies push even harder for improved performance at the branch level. Regardless of organizational structure, the branch manager — the CEO at the market level — must possess the 5 Fundamentals in this book if the company is to remain profitable and provide the best value for customers in today’s new market landscape.

April Michelle Davis worked with the author in preparing this manuscript for the publisher. April Michelle provided developmental editing and copyediting. She reorganized sections of the book and modified sections according to the desires of the publisher’s board. In addition, April Michelle coded the manuscript to ease the layout process for the book designer.

The Journal of Church and State is concerned with what has been called the “greatest subject in the history of the West.” It seeks to stimulate interest, dialogue, research, and publication in the broad area of religion and state. JCS publishes constitutional, historical, philosophical, theological, and sociological studies on religion and the body politic in various countries and cultures of the world, including the United States. Each issue features, in addition to a timely editorial, five or more major articles, and thirty-five to forty reviews of significant books related to church and state. Periodically, important ecclesiastical documents and government texts of legislation or court decisions are also published. Regular features include “Notes on Church State Affairs,” which reports current developments throughout the world, and a list of “Recent Doctoral Dissertations in Church and State.”

April Michelle Davis copyedited an issue of this journal while the regular editor was on leave. April Michelle has been a professional copyeditor since 2001, continually refreshing her knowledge of grammar via professional development courses, books, and seminars. She will tell you what keeps her up at night are the errors that she thinks about, and she can’t sleep until she jots them down in her notebook, which lives on the nightstand.

A Caring Community, a compelling story of The Retreat, told by Damian McElrath and John Curtiss, should give us all hope that recovery from alcohol and drug dependency can be affordable, accessible, and effective for all who need it. This time-tested caring community approach to recovery has become a standard of care that has helped thousands of individuals and their families access a life of recovery.

This book provides a historical perspective of the Minnesota Model of treatment, the impact of managed care on the treatment field, and chronicles the step-by-step process this group of dedicated addiction professionals and recovered individuals undertook to change the way people access a life of meaningful and productive recovery.

April Michelle Davis worked directly with one of the authors to copyedit this manuscript while preparing it for publication. During the copyediting phase, April Michelle reviewed the manuscript at the clause level, checking thematic organization at paragraph and sentence levels and checking for consistencies, errors, and omissions. April Michelle‘s attention to detail proved beneficial to the outcome of this manuscript.

As Bob Hines imbued his wildlife subjects with vitality in his artwork, John D. Juriga brings life to Hines’s remarkable talent and career in his captivating biography, Bob Hines: National Wildlife Artist. Hines, a gifted self-taught artist, found his calling during the darkness of the Great Depression, turning to art as a means of sharing the richness in nature’s beauty.

His career brought him from designing the 1946 Federal Duck Stamp to joining the US Fish and Wildlife Service where he managed the competition for over thirty years, earning him the nickname of ”Mr. Duck Stamp Contest.” His collaboration with Rachel Carson and other luminaries placed him on the cusp of the environmental movement in the United States.

Celebrating the centennial of Hines’s birth, this richly illustrated volume will appeal to wildlife enthusiasts and Duck Stamp collectors alike, as well as those interested in the history of conservation in the United States.

April Michelle Davis copyedited this manuscript, preparing it for the author to be self-published. The manuscript was reviewed at the clause level, checking thematic organization at paragraph and sentence levels and checking for consistencies, errors, and omissions. Included was basic spelling, grammar, punctuation, syntax, and word usage.