How We Communicate offers an integrated perspective exploring the history of communication and man's need to make contact with others. Practical information on face to face and other personal communication techniques, the telephone and business systems is examined. We communicate through our use of language, our clothing, our manner and bearing. We exchange information through our telephone and business systems. Our messages are the sum of these diverse channels — conveyed to the minds of our associates, friends and family. 

    Barrack investigates intriguing new frontiers and leads the reader far into the future. How we Communicate, a unique and insightful book, draws together the many aspects of the art of communication and the growing importance of what has become mankind's Most Vital Skill.

Reviews

    "Barrack presents a much broader definition of communication methods and effectiveness than traditional approaches offer making this an important contribution to understanding the new multi-disciplined approach to communication. . ."

Midwest Book Review

    ". . . an excellent synopsis of the linguistic properties of several modern and artificial languages . . . Barrack has a knack for narrative prose and a sense of humor. . . Business communication receives exemplary attention. . . . . it is to the author's credit that he treats precognition, telepathy, clairvoyance. . . and even prayer as legitimate fields of inquiry into the phenomenon of communication. . . recommended to a general readership and to the business community in particular. . . . "

Dr. Howard Kalwies,
Department of Communication,
Western Illinois University

    ". . . fascinating new book. . . intriguing. . . Barrack is able to transform complex ideas into accessible terms. . . a book filled with information valuable to people of all ages and interest. . . a well-crafted overview. . . ."

Book Break,
Chicago.

About The Author

    MARTIN K. BARRACK is a retired telecommunication specialist formerly based in Washington, D.C. He holds a B.A. in English Literature from Hunter College and an M.A. in political Science from the New School of Social Research. He has been a licensed amateur radio operator for more than twenty-five years and has testified as an expert in that field before the Federal Communications Commission. 

Cloth, 203 pages, 6×9
$18.95 $14.22
Communication/Sociology
ISBN 0-944435-02-5
LC 88-81231

    Capturing the Magic of Fiction Writing introduces the reader to a careful examination of prose fiction, its genres and categories. Classifications of novels including plotting, setting, characterization, and patterns are defined and explained. Creed analyzes supportive elements and techniques including style, development of flashbacks, dialogues, and much more.

   Symbols, symbolic plants, and symbolic references, skimmed over or ignored in most books, are introduced, discussed, and defined with original passages and excerpts drawn from published sources. Relationships, descriptions, and dialogue are all generously discussed in addition to characterizations, atmosphere, conflict, theme, plotting, and sup-porting elements.

    Capturing the Magic was developed to provide a practical guide for aspiring writers and teachers to ease the transition from analyzing the basic story to discovering and applying the essential tools of the writer's craft. 

Review

    "This book will take you on an enjoyable, clearly-marked pathway to effective fiction writing that is enriched throughout with excellent examples from great writers and great writing. . .[there is] great clarity with which the author provides the down-to-earth advice, [and] realistic guidelines for you to follow in becoming a knowledgeable and conscious artist. Those examples alone make this book worth-while. . . . "

Dr. Tom Parks,
Associate Professor of Education and Director,
Office of Extension and Public Relations,
Clemson University

About The Author

    JACK CREED began his professional writing career in 1948 when he became a correspondent for the Augusta Chronicle. He attended Augusta Junior College and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a degree in Secondary Education. He taught English in Columbia, South Carolina, and later taught history, social studies, and worked with deprived children in southern Louisiana. Returning to South Carolina to teach English, he participated in the program Project Succeed. Creed served as a state consultant for high school teachers of English and Composition for under-achievers and developed a text, A Writing Workshop. He is currently writing another book, and serves as a volunteer reading teacher for adults. 

Cloth, 300 pages, 6×9
$24.95 $18.72
English, Writing
ISBN 0-944435-10-6
LC 90-80208
Selection-Writers Digest
Book Club

    Charles Hamilton recognizes a faked signature and believes it to be easily identified, and so will the reader of this book — once he knows what to look for. This is information of immense value to the collector and historian. Well-executed forgeries and fakes have fooled dealers and collectors for more than a century. This thoroughly documented book, containing hundreds of examples that show how to identify the best that the most skillful forgers have produced, will provide the expert and the amateur with tools for self-protection. Great Forgers and Famous Fakes is also a chronicle of the careers of America's most adroit and colorful manuscript forgers, telling who they were and how they swindled their victims. 

    The fascinating stories of forgers and their works include: 
-the poet who forged hundreds of Robert Frost manuscripts
-the multimillionaire industrialist and founder of RCA who got his start as a forger — and years later got fooled by his own fake
-the American Nazi who forged John Howard Payne's "Home, Sweet Home"
-a round-dozen forgers of Abe Lincoln's handwriting

    "There is a darkling romance in the crime of literary or historical forgery. To fabricate the handwriting and thoughts of another person requires much more than adroit penmanship."

    "No European forgers ever put quill to foolscap who could equal the ingenious fabricators of America."

About The Author

    CHARLES HAMILTON, world's foremost handwriting expert, forensic document examiner, and literary historian has made full use of his more than half a century in the manuscript field to detail the secrets of forgers and famous fakes using over 400 illustrations. Hamilton is the author of eighteen books, passed away in 1996. His recent books are William Shakespeare & John Fletcher, Cardenio or The Second Maiden's Tragedy, The Hitler Diaries, and In Search of Shakespeare.

Cloth, 310 pages, 8 1/2X11
$42.00 $31.50
History
ISBN 0-944435-40-8
LC 82043

    For three centuries lovers of Shakespeare have searched vainly for the Golden Fleece of literature — a lost play titled Cardenio, by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. The lure of this missing play about Cardenio, a bizarre character in Cervantes's Don Quixote, has led lovers of Shakespeare on a chase through libraries and archives, into attics and ancient barns, and even abandoned privies.

    The manuscript of Cardenio is entirely in Shakespeare's Own hand — the handwriting is identical down to the very dots on the i's with the script in Shakespeare's holograph will — and in every other way the play fulfills the requirements of the lost Cardenio. It is undeniably a superb play, one that leading critics usually ascribe to such outstanding dramatists as Cyril Tourneur or Thomas Middleton. Written with John Fletcher in 1611 but likely not produced until 1612-13, Cardenio may have been the great dramatist's last tragedy and penultimate play. 

    This chilling drama by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher may have been suppressed by the poet's first editors in 1623 because it dealt with taboo subjects. Full of terrifying suspense and horror, it is a beautifully written play about love run amuck — seduction, swordplay, grave robbery, suicide, madness, murder-and featuring a beguiling ghost and the uncontrollable passion of a powerful king for the corpse of a beautiful woman.

Review

    "Charles Hamilton . . . is calling attention to one of the great achievements of the English dramatic imagination. The [Royal Shakespeare Company] or the National [Theater] should produce it. If they do, go see it; if they don't, go read it. . . ."

Welton Jones,
The San Diego Union-Tribune

About The Author

    CHARLES HAMILTON's experience as a handwriting expert extends over sixty years. Since the age of nine, Hamilton has searched for documents in Shakespeare's hand. His ambition was realized in 1983 when, as the first forensic document examiner ever to study Shakespeare's will, he discovered that the entire three-page will was in Shakespeare's hand. Later, Hamilton was amazed to discover that the handwriting in the play, popularly known as The Second Maiden's Tragedy, was identical, precisely matching in minute detail, to the script in Shakespeare's will. Hamilton is the author of eighteen books. His recent books are The Hitler Diaries and In Search of Shakespeare. 

Cloth, 310 pages, 7×10
$27.95 $20.97
English
ISBN 0-944435-24-6
LC 93-73354

    Writing: Getting Into Print is a marketing and business guide for writers. It will teach you how to turn your dreams into reality, how to sell what you write, and how to develop a writing business. This book will direct you through the process of generating ideas, creating marketable products, identifying appropriate buyers, and making sales of manuscripts to publishers of both periodicals and books. It describes the process of combining writing skills with marketing expertise for maximum effectiveness and profitability. You will discover that getting manuscripts published is not a procedure shrouded in mystery and dependent upon luck but a process based on implementing a straightforward marketing plan. You will learn to approach the writing and selling of your work as a business venture, using methodologies similar to those used by others to promote their business careers.

Reviews

    "Why one million readers take [Frohbieter-Mueller's] advice on getting published!"

Radio-TV Interview Report

    "Anyone who can write can get published, according to Jo Frohbieter-Mueller    . . . Do these things, and the odds of breaking into print are on your side."

Sandra L. Toney,
Creativity Connection

    "This is a book to help you become a published author."

Carrie Blanchard,
Books for Writers

About The Author

    JO FROHBIETER-MUELLER has perfected the methods described in her book in over two decades of a successful writing career. She is the author of Stay Home and Mind Your Own Business, and Your Home Business Can Make Dollars and Sense. She has had over 700 articles published with more than 69 in scholarly publications. Her columns about small business appear in Income Opportunities and Small Business Opportunities with over one million monthly readers. She is also a literary agent representing textbooks and other educational works and is continuously in demand at writers' conferences, giving lectures and seminars. 

Cloth, 287 pages, 6×9
$21.95 $16.47
English, Writing
ISBN 0-944435-23-8
LC 93-79254
Selection-Writer's 
Digest Book Club

    Like no other medium before it, the popular movie presents the potential of a new power for illuminating the depth of human experience. E-Motion Picture Magic employs that power as a tool to increase consciousness.

    Cinema therapy offers more perspective on life, prompting the viewer to step back from his or her problems in order to feel less insecure, worried, or discontented. Using films for self-improvement allows a shift in perspective when viewed with conscious awareness.

    The use of movies for personal growth and healing carries forward a long-standing connection between storytelling and self-reflection that may date back to the beginnings of spoken language. The movie experience used in very specific ways can have significant benefits for those who are willing to apply themselves using E-Motion Picture Magic that can be both beneficial as well as enjoyable.

Reviews

“Imagine! Using the power of movies to discover and explore your important life issues. What a creative and enchanting way to gain perspective and make the changes you yearn for. Birgit Wolz’s innovative E-Motion Picture Magic effectively guides you through this process, throwing in generous doses of fun as well.”

Elayne Savage, Ph.D.
Author of Don’t Take It Personally!The Art of Dealing with Rejection
and Breathing Room —
Creating Space to Be a Couple

“Clearly a love of movies and the desire to help people have inspired Dr. Wolz. Read E-Motion Picture Magic and you will never watch movies the same way again. Entertainment fueling personal growth is an intriguing path to enriching one’s life and hopefully to creating a better world.”

Frank G. Sommers, M.D., FRCPC
Psychiatrist and Filmmaker

About The Authors

    Dr. BIRGIT WOLZ has lived in the United States since 1989. Her love for motion pictures led her to a psychotherapy practice using the power of movies as an adjunct to traditional therapeutic methods in her work with individual clients, couples, and groups.

     Dr. Wolz has published articles on this subject in numerous periodicals and journals including the International Academy of Family Psychology, The Therapist, and Viewpoint. She is in demand for media interviews and presents workshops worldwide. Her popular web site is widely recognized as being the most accessible and all-encompassing site on the subject of cinema therapy. She writes a column for The Therapist on therapeutic movie reviews and has served as a visiting faculty member at JFK University in Pleasant Hill, California.

Cloth, 230 pages, 7×10, $23.95 $17.97
ISBN 0-944435-55-6
LC 2004104793
Psychology

    America has faced and met the challenge of September 11, 2001. Its citizens have banded together in thought and ideals with strength and resolution. Americans were moved from rivers of tears to resolve, standing together to protect our way of life.

    In a democracy the protection of human life comes above all else. The impossible sadness and disbelief at the events of September 11 have inspired the best from the people of the United States of America — caring, compassion, and the giving of aid to their fellow men and women whose losses are unimaginable.

    Let Freedom Ring is a collection of important quotes, words that represent the feelings and beliefs of the nation.

    Pride and patriotism have always been in our hearts. America has shared its love of country and has become a stronger nation from the mending hearts of its citizens. They reach out and stand ready to help neighbors and to help families who have lost loved ones. The people of America are united as never before.

Cloth, 101 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
$13.95 $10.47
Patriotic, Quotations
LC 2002-190250
ISBN 0944435-51-3

    Syndicated columnist and grammarian, Don K. Ferguson is an inveterate note-taker, recording mistakes in grammar or word usage and when observing an incorrect punctuation mark. Accumulating a small mountain of short, cryptic notes, Ferguson wondered how they might be made useful. Out of these thoughts, Ferguson's column "Grammar Gremlins" was born and now this book. 

    Ferguson's work should not be confused with a "school lesson," nothing boring or schoolteacherish, in a nineteenth century stereotypical sense of the word. The reader will find this book interesting and charming; and consistent with our age of sound bites and demands for brevity, the segments are mercifully short but energized with useful, interesting, and thoughtful information.

    Ferguson's material comes from snippets of conversations overheard on the street, from correspondence that crosses his desk, from public speakers, and from brochures and pamphlets, among many other sources. It seems that no one is exempt from grammar and usage problems. Ferguson reminds us that there are no laws of grammar that you must obey, only rules. Our use of the English language is one of the key standards by which we are measured—socially, professionally, and academically.

    Grammar Gremlins can help us. Read some of it each day. Better still, keep it handy for quick reference. It will help you resolve those nagging little grammar questions you encounter. 

Reviews

    "The book's excellent index . . . makes looking up questionable forms very easy. . . so if you're wondering where to put that comma or whether it is ever correct to end a sentence with a preposition, this book is for you."

Chattanooga Free Press

    "Don Ferguson's columns have been collected and published in a book under the same name by Glenbridge Publishing Ltd., providing a handy, easy-to-read, easy-to-use reference for the most common grammar and usage problems all writers face. . . believe it or not, he has figured out how to make grammar fun."

The East Tennessee Catholic

About The Author

    DON K. FERGUSON is a former city editor of The Knoxville News-Sentinel and previously served as a News-Sentinel and UPI reporter for fifteen years. His newspaper column "Grammar Gremlins" is published by nine newspapers in four states. He has presented programs at both state and national meetings in Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, Maine, Massachusetts, and Tennessee. He has taught grammar courses at the University of Tennessee. Ferguson is currently chief deputy clerk of the United States District Court in Knoxville, Tennessee. 

Cloth, 268 pages, 6×9
$22.95 $17.22
English/Education
ISBN 0-944435-32-7
LC 94-79511
Selection – Writer's
Digest Book Club