Growth is imperative. Distributors that are not growing are essentially dying in slow motion. Achieving top-line growth is becoming increasingly difficult given today’s economic challenges and customer demands. That is why the path to achieving and sustaining profitable growth needs a systematic and dynamic approach.

Driving Profitable Growth: A Distributor’s Playbook to Generate–Manage–Sustain Competitive Advantage is the first research study in wholesale distribution to examine both public and private firms and uncover a roadmap that addresses the three dimensions—generating, managing, and sustaining—of profitable growth. At last, distributors have a growth playbook that is based on research and analytics instead of anecdotal information!

The research combines rigorous analytics that were collected from a decade of financial data with input from wholesaler-distributors from multiple lines of trade. It reflects the current environment and determines the roadmap to the future. This study speaks to the growth planning and execution issues all distributors face in leading and growing their organizations. There is no more important time than right now for distribution management teams to read this study!

April Michelle Davis spent a month copyediting this manuscript, preparing it for publication.

The idea of what’s important to us and what makes us happy too often gets lost. It can get lost in the daily work grind, in the demands made by others for our precious time, and in the fear that can come with change. How do you take back your life? How do you move past the challenges of being too busy and not having enough time in a day? How do you move past the nay-sayers who prevent you from getting to the life that you want? There always seems to be some reason, or some person holding you back, putting up a wall that is hard to get beyond. Do Small Things: Taking Little Steps Can Lead to Big Outcomes is a book written to help you take the steps you need to do more with your life. Whether the changes you want for your life are big or small, Do Small Things guides you past the potholes and to a place where you consistently and happily do the things that are important to you. Once you get into the habit of doing small things, doing bigger things becomes easier, and you will find it easy, fun and it easy, fun and rewarding to live a life of DO. It’s out there for you. YOU CAN DO IT!!

April Michelle Davis spent several weeks proofreading this manuscript, ensuring no egregious errors existed.

Learn to Eat Right, Think Right, Move Right, and Sleep Right.

The bad news: An epidemic of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and other lifestyle related conditions threatens both our quality and quantity of life – not only as individuals, but as a society. Yes, we’re living longer―but we’re not living better. What good are more years of life, if you don’t have the vigor and health to enjoy them?

The good news: You can turn it around, by making simple, easy-to-understand lifestyle changes that will bring you greater vitality, sounder sleep, better cognition, and a whole new outlook on life.

Dr. Douglas G. Pfeiffer―for more than thirty years, a respected educator, researcher and award winning Chiropractor―reveals the “Four Pillars of Health and Wellness” that form the basis of lifelong health and energy. He also spells out the steps you need to take today for the health and happiness you want for a lifetime.

April Michelle Davis spent a few weeks copyediting this manuscript, preparing it for publication.

Written with high school students in mind, The World of Musicals: An Encyclopedia of Stage, Screen, and Song encompasses not only Broadway and film musicals, but also made-for-television musicals, a genre that has been largely ignored. The two volumes cover significant musicals in easily accessible entries that offer both useful information and fun facts. Each entry lists the work’s writers, composers, directors, choreographers, and cast, and includes a song list, a synopsis, and descriptions of the original production and important revivals or remakes. Biographical entries share the stories of some of the brightest and most celebrated talents in the business.

The encyclopedia will undoubtedly ignite and feed student interest in musical theatre. At the same time, it will prove a wonderful resource for teachers or community theatre directors charged with selecting and producing shows. In fact, anyone interested in theatre, film, television, or music will be fascinated by the work’s tantalizing bits of historical and theatre trivia.

April Michelle Davis spent nearly four months analyzing the text and writing the index for this 2-volume encyclopedia.

Sexual Forensics: Lust, Passion, and Psychopathic Killers provides a fascinating examination of “neurotruths” that are relevant and applicable to 21st-century parenting and social relationships, and explains workplace “brainmarks” that enable predictive solutions to practical problems.

Author Don Jacobs, a researcher who has been studying psychopathy for over 25 years, describes how psychopathy has evolved as a brain condition, documenting how the vast majority of the spectrum represents normalcy, and only 20 to 30 percent of humankind characterizes corruptors or violent, pathological individuals. The book examines examples of individuals who have demonstrated significant achievement, influence, wealth, or corruptive behavior in differently abled profiles, and provides student autobiographies that enable rare scientific insights into the adolescent state of mind.

April Michelle Davis spent a month analyzing the text and writing the index for this manuscript.