For good reasons, Americans are growing concerned about the cost of health care and housing. There are many reasons why people need care-the addiction of a teenage child or spouse, an elderly relative in need of nursing home care, a psychological disorder, or a chronic medical condition--but even moderately successful institutional solutions for these problems are often too costly to be truly helpful. The cost of healthcare is so high it can result in homelessness. Leonard Jason and Martin Perdoux show us a relatively low-cost and effective solution growing in neighborhoods across the country: true community. People are moving in together to meet each other's needs and, in the process, create a much higher quality of life than they would find in an institution. People living together in these healing communities include the elderly, recovering alcoholics and drug addicts, and people suffering from mental illness, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, AIDS, or Multiple Chemical Sensitivity. These communities offer them a way to recover the caring, structure, direction, and respect that a strong family can provide. The authors of this work show us how communities created out of necessity by their members constitute a more sustained, natural means to healing.

In his foreword, Thomas Moore points out that the communities described in this book are not only physical homes, but also shelters for the soul, places to find the deepest kind of security. Here you will see concrete ways imaginative leaders help those in trouble find themselves rather than become dependent on institutions. It is a new and promising imagination of how social healing works: not by setting up more programs, but by treating people in trouble as human beings, with certain emotional and social needs. This book teaches how to re-imagine this whole process, and now, in an increasingly technical and lonely world, we need this precious wisdom more than ever.

In order to protect company s information assets such as sensitive customer records, health care records, etc., the security practitioner first needs to find out: what needs protected, what risks those assets are exposed to, what controls are in place to offset those risks, and where to focus attention for risk treatment. This is the true value and purpose of information security risk assessments. Effective risk assessments are meant to provide a defendable analysis of residual risk associated with your key assets so that risk treatment options can be explored."Information Security Risk Assessments" gives you the tools and skills to get a quick, reliable, and thorough risk assessment for key stakeholders.

Based on authors experiences of real-world assessments, reports, and presentations
Focuses on implementing a process, rather than theory, that allows you to derive a quick and valuable assessment
Includes a companion web site with spreadsheets you can utilize to create and maintain the risk assessment"

Information Security Analytics gives you insights into the practice of analytics and, more importantly, how you can utilize analytic techniques to identify trends and outliers that may not be possible to identify using traditional security analysis techniques. Information Security Analytics dispels the myth that analytics within the information security domain is limited to just security incident and event management systems and basic network analysis. Analytic techniques can help you mine data and identify patterns and relationships in any form of security data. Using the techniques covered in this book, you will be able to gain security insights into unstructured big data of any type. The authors of Information Security Analytics bring a wealth of analytics experience to demonstrate practical, hands-on techniques through case studies and using freely-available tools that will allow you to find anomalies and outliers by combining disparate data sets. They also teach you everything you need to know about threat simulation techniques and how to use analytics as a powerful decision-making tool to assess security control and process requirements within your organization. Ultimately, you will learn how to use these simulation techniques to help predict and profile potential risks to your organization.

Though different from Volume I of my poetry, this installment digs deeper and delves into an even darker past that I had failed to recall living through. I guess in time the desolation within these writings only has a face that a mother could love. JM

Rhetorical Malignancies Vol. I is collection of archives and short stories from the author of Berserk Machines and The Ripening of Narcissism. J. Martinez explores the abtract side of textual story telling which is autobiographical, comical, and outlandish in its purest heartfelt form. "Enjoy the lighter side of my mind"- J. Martinez

This procession of screw-ups, I cannot shake off. It's stuck on me like the color of my skin, only visible to those I have put in dismal positions. Who in their right mind wants to be remembered as being the person who fouls up all of the time or the guy that wallows in his worries, bathing in his filth of lies and greed? Therefore I engage these problematic revivals into word form for all such as yourself to view. Is this cerebral masochism really worth it? Well is it? I'll let you be the judge of that. The Originator: Jason Martinez

Unlike my prior volumes, this one is about as "streamline" as it is going to get. The "well-mannered" side of my multiple complexity has an aim, motivation and a simple directive as this time around I wrote something while under the influence of prescribed sedatives. Everyone likes a good murder mystery, with a pinch of psychological thriller and a dash of unexplained phenomena. JM

Berserk Machine is a textual culmination of abandonment, wrong upbringings with a hint of cheekiness. Written during a complete manic high, J. Martinez unleashes his war mongrels onto virgin eyes that have yet to lend him a hand or an ear since his arrival. "These words, this novel, my writings as a hole are not therapeutic, they more like animalistic jottings of being left out from the pack, deserted and tried to find my way back since day one of my desertion." "Enjoy this gem of interpretation; I sure took the pleasure in living through it." Jason Martinez

J. Martinez presents a demoralizing case of offspring retaliation, parenting mishaps, and government sectored rulings in this novel of "an understudy's guide to retribution," as he calls it. These textual tangents are that of a higher ground iand should be interpreted in jest.

Karin Gustafson's first book of poetry moves across a wide emotional and formal range, from playfulness to nostalgia, villanelle to free verse. The poems, evocatively illustrated by Diana Barco, are "reminders that nights sown by fireflies" are "going on somewhere, sometime."

Author Jason Martin won’t tell you how to be a leader. In fact, that’s not the point of his book. Instead he’ll give you a roadmap and the tools to find it out for yourself, guiding you to discover why you want to lead, how you can best lead, and what your own unique leadership practice looks like. Activities will both allow you to explore your leadership identity and develop your leadership practice. Signposted with prompts for self-reflection, workshop discussions, and mentoring conversations, this guide’s topics cover core issues like discovering why you want to lead; research findings on the five most desirable traits in library leaders; wrestling with the constraints of organizational culture; a tour of practical leadership models such as Theory Z, Situational Leadership, Transformational Leadership, and emotional intelligence; how to develop habits that will bolster your confidence through inevitable moments of doubt; cultivating a “people first, mission always” mentality; self-care for leaders; and living out your unique leadership vision through goal setting, self-evaluation, and other key steps. By following the activities in this book and using them to inform your leadership practice, you will add value to your leadership and to your library. As Martin demonstrates, it all starts with asking yourself, “What can I do today to make myself a better leader?”