Many people who once thought of themselves as subject matter experts are now asked to be internal consultants. Regardless of your field, being a consultant means “using expertise, influence, and personal skills to facilitate a client-requested change without the formal authority to implement recommendations.” It’s not enough anymore simply to offer advice or to implement policies. Being an internal consultant requires you to provide real value to the business or organization in which you live and work. In their book, Consulting on the Inside: A Practical Guide for Internal Consultants, second edition, Beverly Scott and B. Kim Barnes discuss a set of internal consulting competencies.

As the copyeditor for this book, I worked with the authors for several weeks to prepare the manuscript for publication. In this situation, I worked with the lead author to finalize the manuscript and prepare it for publication. Working with multiple authors on the same manuscript can pose additional challenges, but these authors followed the guidelines I laid out, and as a result, the process moved forward efficiently.

This is most decidedly not just another book about generational differences, nor is it yet another “how to coach” book. Coaching Up and Down the Generationslooks at the key processes of transferring knowledge, developing teams, and collaborating and examines how different age groups can better learn from one another and even experience major breakthroughs that will improve their progress—despite disparate backgrounds.

Healthy eating is the foundation for long-term well-being and vital aging. Enjoying our food enriches our lives. The collaboration of three professionals—a “cooking cardiologist” dedicated to healthy eating, a foodie and former chocolate executive with a cholesterol problem, and a registered dietitian—bridges healthy and delicious into an easy-to-follow and flexible lifestyle.The Kardea Gourmet discusses how different foods and nutrients come together into well-matched meals to support heart health. Foods and flavors from around the globe provide new and exciting culinary options while you incorporate lifestyle improvements at your own pace. Plus, you can adapt food traditions from any culture to create a healthier diet for you and your family. It also explores the role of organics, raw, vegan, and the local-food movement for advancing health, while providing smart and delicious foods for those who eat most anything, in the home, on the run, or in restaurants.

In addition to writing the index for this book, I undertook the challenge of indexing the recipes that followed the book. While this was a new type of project for me, it was an enjoyable learning experience for me and one that I will share with my students.

In this updated edition of Solar Cells and Their Applications, feed-in tariffs are identified as the most effective approach for public policy. Reasons are provided to explain why pin solar cells outperform more traditional pn solar cells. Field test data are reported for nineteen percent pin solar cells and for ~500X concentrating systems with bare cell efficiencies approaching forty percent. Paths to bare cell efficiencies over fifty percent are described, and key missing program elements are identified. Since government support is needed for new technology prototype integration and qualification testing before manufacturing scale up, the key economic measure is identified in this volume as the electricity cost in cents per kilowatt-hour at the complete installed system level, rather than just the up-front solar cell modules’ costs in dollars per watt.

For this technical, 550+-page book, I was given one month to write and edit the index. In addition to providing the client a well-written index, I gave the client a document of errors that I noticed while writing the index. This allowed the client to have a light proofread of the manuscript free of charge, which furthered the near perfection of this product.

The Seven Fs, discovered by Paul Batz and Tim Schmidt, represent the key elements that bring satisfaction to life: Faith, Family, Finances, Fitness, Friends, Fun, and Future. But how do these elements work together to bring harmony? How can people achieve success in all of these areas?

Through thousands of surveys and more than fifty personal interviews, Paul and Tim explore funny, compelling, and powerful personal stories from real people like you about the Seven Fs in What Really Works. The result is an inspiring, crisply written book, digestible in one airplane ride or one beach chair sitting. Online at www.SevenFs.com, you can find specific success habits and access to online content. These stories will energize you to think about your own sense of satisfaction with the Seven Fs, and will help you build strategies to lead the life you imagine.

April Michelle Davis copyedited this manuscript for the authors. While she worked primarily with one author whom they appointed as the contact person, both authors were genuinely satisfied and unanimously approved the final manuscript.