Reel Fulfillment: Transforming Your Life Through Movies, by Dr. Maria Grace
(McGraw- Hill, 2005)

Reel Fulfillment: Transforming Your Life Through Movies responds to many of the demands present in current American society, incorporating meditation, weekly and daily exercises, and elements of popular culture. Dr. Grace's approach is to use popular films to help people face the elements in their lives that impede the experience of joy. Grace employs her background in classics and myth in the application of film. Her Ph.D. - also in counseling - is from McGill University in Montreal. Dr. Grace has taught Transforming Your Life Through Movies: A Modern Method for Self-Discovery to large audiences in both New York and Austin with positive results. She appeared in Oprah Magazine in June 2005.

Test Pilot, by Stanley Kaplan
(Simon & Schuster, 2001)

Stanley Kaplan has been the world leader in test preparation for the past sixty years. In a time when it was thought impossible to improve scores on standardized tests through tutoring, Kaplan started out as a tutor in his home in Brooklyn, New York. From there, he built a mega-educational testing business known throughout the world which he sold to The Washington Post 20 years ago. He provides insights into standardized tests and testing issues and is considered one of the leading experts on education today. The book sold in Canada and other foreign countries.

Uncommon Voyage: Parenting a Special Needs Child, by Laura Shapiro Kramer
(Faber and Faber, 1996)

This book chronicles the saga of Laura Shapiro Kramer's struggle with her son Seth's cerebral palsy and her search for alternative treatments in the face of an uncomprehending medical establishment. Uncommon Voyage went into a second edition in 2001 (North Atlantic Books) to redefine the complementary treatments as well as discuss new solutions to dealing with this debilitating disease. It has sold in Canada. Hardcover and softcover editions.

Predictions for the Next Millennium, by David Kristof & Todd Nickerson
(Andrews McNeel Publishing 1999)

More than 250 world celebrities offer their insights for the next one thousand years. With contributors such as Oliver Stone, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nadia Comaneci, George Harrison, Norman Schwarzkopf, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Predictions for the Next Millennium combines fascinating messages with brief celebrity biographies and professional photographs. The authors appeared on Good Morning America and were featured in exhibitions in conjunction with the Empire State Building and the Trump organization. The book has sold in Canada and other foreign countries.

Tackling College Admissions: Sanity + Strategy = Success by Cheryl Paradis and Faren R. Siminoff
(Rowman & Little, 2008)

Every year millions of parents and teens begin the arduous college admissions process. For parents, the path to the college admission's finish line is littered with obstacles and hurdles of all kinds—some anticipated and some completely unforeseen. These may include a child's uneven academic record, some disciplinary problems in high school, or a simply unproductive or oppositional approach to the college admissions process. Tackling College Admissions: Sanity + Strategy = Success empowers parents to effectively partner with their child to secure acceptance at an appropriate high-quality institution despite any of these setbacks. Dr. Paradis is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at Marymount Manhattan College and teaches courses in Child Development and Abnormal Psychology. Faren R. Siminoff, is an attorney and historian and she regularly counsels students about college transfer options at a community college.

How to Hug a Porcupine, by Julie A. Ross
(McGraw Hill, 2008)

Ross addresses the concerns of parents during the tricky “tween” years. Middle School is a minefield of changing bodies, values and attitudes, and parents of these millions of children are often desperate for practical advice on how to navigate the murky and sometimes turbulent Middle School years. Drawing from real life cases during her 18 years as a parenting expert, counselor, author (and the mother of two teenagers), Practical Parenting Skills for the Middle School Years offers many humorous and moving anecdotes, focusing on time-tested and practical skills that parents need as their children move through this tumultuous time. Julie Ross is the author of Practical Parenting for the 21st Century: The Manual you Wish Had Come With Your Child, and Joint Custody With A Jerk: Raising a Child With an Uncooperative Ex Now What Do I Do?, and A Guide to Parenting Elementary Aged Children. Reviewed by: Publisher’s Weekly and featured in The Wall Street Journal. Appearanceson Oprah & Friends Radio and the Dr. Alvin Jones show.

Hardwiring Behavior: What Neuroscience Means for Morality, by Dr. Laurence Tancredi
(Cambridge University Press, 2005)

This book introduces recent breakthroughs in brain research to significantly further the age-long debate about whether criminality is biologically determined or is a failure of socialization. Proponents of both sides of this "nature/nurture" debate have agreed that criminal behavior results from some combination of the two. Recent discoveries in neuroscience lend credence to the idea that man's capacity for moral responsibility has genetic and biological antecedents, with revolutionary consequences for criminal law and public policy. MD JD Psychiatrist-lawyer Dr. Laurence Tancredi, a Clinical Psychiatrist at New York University School of Medicine, has also written Dangerous Diagnostics (Basic Books 1989, 1994) and Legal Issues in Psychiatric Care (Harper Collins, 1975). As a forensic psychiatric consultant, he has worked on a wide variety of psychiatric issues including criminal trials for assault, rape, and homicide. Hardwiring Behavior: What Neuroscience Means for Morality is a groundbreaking book aimed at a popular audience with varied interests including biology, criminology, law, philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Japanese rights sold, 2008. The Evil Mind - available.