Authors Den

#17 - David Geiger

Welcome to the Authors Den Podcast series "In the Matter of Edwin Potter: Mental Illness and Criminal Justice Reform" where we delve into the gripping true story of Edwin Potter (not his real name), a man whose life and the lives of others were ruined by serious mental illness – schizophrenia.
An autobiography written by David Geiger, a degreed and licensed professional, this book takes us on a journey of his life through the eyes of Edwin Potter, exploring the relationship between his mental health struggles and his involvement with the criminal justice system. The book is a compelling account of Potter's life, from his mid-20s in 1979 when he was arrested for the murder of his wife and attack on their then-infant son to his trial for that murder following his recovery. How his life develops subsequently is a major part of the story.In this podcast series, we will discuss the book's themes, including mental illness and its impact on criminal behavior, the criminal justice system, and the struggles those living with mental illness face. We will also have guests on the show, including criminology and mental health experts, to provide insights and further understanding of the complex issues presented in the book.Join us as we explore the fascinating story of Edwin Potter and uncover the essential lessons that can be learned from his life.
Purchase the book today: https://www.amazon.com/Matter-Edwin-Potter-Illness-Criminal/dp/0692797823

#16 - Salar Khan

Wars, rampant injustice, and political turmoil – these are the problems that the world is facing today. Seeing the destruction that global political leaders and international companies are causing, one might lose hope that the situation will ever change. If only our leaders were responsible, open-minded, patient, and fair! According to Salar Khan, this is not an unattainable dream. Khan’s Global Political Leadership and the Public reveals the secret of a peaceful world: the education of citizens, professionals, and leaders so that everyone can do their best for their community.
Immerse yourself in this original piece – find out how global leadership affects where our world is headed and acquire the skills necessary to become the best you in all aspects of your life. From Plato to Freud, learn what the greatest minds thought about leadership and the skills an ideal leader should be equipped with, and then test how much knowledge you have acquired with the help of the self-assessment tools incorporated in the book. Global Political Leadership and the Public is an essential read for everyone, as we should all learn how to lead better, since true leadership starts with leading ourselves through the challenges we have to face in life.
“You can do anything if you are dedicated to achieving your goals. Nothing is impossible.”
This has been Salar Khan’s motto since childhood, and this is the approach he is to instill into all his readers. Besides faith, insight, integrity, optimism, and open-mindedness, we all need dedication and determination to set goals for ourselves and make them happen. If we strive to become leaders, we will need something more – we will need to improve our leadership skills and develop our intuition. This is what Global Political Leadership and the Public has set out to help readers with.
Although leadership is partly genetically coded, we can all strive to do more and become better. By understanding the psychology of personality development and the neurological background of how our brain works, readers will be better equipped to tackle all the obstacles that have kept them from achieving their full potential as natural-born leaders.
Salar A. Khan, MD, MBA, has worked as director of research compliance since 2009. He’s served in a variety of roles including physician, chief of medicine, merit grant administrator, and interim director of a nonprofit organization in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Khan lives in Chicago with his wife and two sons. Global Political Leadership and the Public is his fourth book. To find out more about him, visit Salar Khan Books on YouTube.

#15 - Ira Williams

Dr. Ira Williams has had 3 careers.
US Air Force Retired Major – He is a Senior Navigator and private pilot. Wing Headquarters Squadron Commander & Summary Court Martial Officer 1956-57, South Korea 1954 & activated out of his Internship for the Cuban Crisis 1962. He was combat-ready in 3 different types of combat aircraft.Board-certified oral & maxillofacial surgeon and anesthesiologist. Dr. Williams is also an expert in medical malpractice litigation and medical peer review. Dr. Williams, acting alone, organized the first major surgery mini-residency of any surgical specialty in Madison, WI in 1970. Surgeons from five states attended, and oral surgery mini-residencies became available in several university residency programs.
Author of four books on the delivery of healthcare.Healthcare Warriors, Why and How to Become One is in print, eBook, and audio. Find The Black Box, Prevent Needless Hospital Deaths is in print and eBook. Misdiagnosed, Why Current Healthcare Change is Malpractice and First and Do No Harm, The Cure for Medical Malpractice is not available at this time except from the author.
 

#14 - Lisa Skinner

Truth, Lies & Alzheimer’s – Its Secret Faces by authors Lisa Skinner and Douglas W. Collins is a concise guide for caregivers navigating the heartbreaking challenges of having a loved one diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or other dementia. Everyone has a story about Alzheimer’s. It’s time to start the conversation about Alzheimer’s and stop treating it like it’s only “Family Business.” #starttheconversation
 
Through a rich trove of stories culled from her years in the eldercare industry, author Lisa Skinner offers insight into the difficult questions families face, including:
- How do I respond to a loved one's false belief?
- Am I abandoning my parent if I place them in the care of professionals?
- How do we make the best of our time left together?
Skinner's original thinking and counter-intuitive solutions provide family members, spouses, children, caregivers, and others with the tools they need to effectively manage the symptoms of brain disease.
Readers will feel empowered to work through the difficulties of the disease and return to what matters - enjoying their remaining time with their loved one.

#13 - Alexander Gall

Alex Gall settled his life with Anna at Garwood, New Jersey. They got married while he was still serving in the Army. He graduated in 1961 with a Mechanical Engineering degree in an industrial engineering/management course. His military deferment for six years expired upon his graduation in 1961. He was drafted and sent to Fort Dix, New Jersey for basic training in the military in the fall of the same year. Once he was assigned to the Human Engineering Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He was also a section chief, 28 years, of test technicians and engineers, Pilot program, Army Management Staff College with over 3200 class hours on many topics. He is presently retired and vegetating. Looking for Love at 82 was made available in 2020 but was presented anew in 2021.

#12 - Dr. Alvin Berger

Author's bio:Dr. Alvin Berger is a retired dentist who has written one book previously called Adama: A Mind of Her Own. He began writing at age eighty-one after he wrote a beautiful note to his significant other, Vera Getz. She urged him to continue to write. He lives in Boca Raton, Florida, during the winter and in Kirkland, Washington, during the summer with Vera. He is the father of two children, Randi and Gary; and three grandchildren, Lauren, Max, and Austin. He is an avid golfer who took up the sport late in life. He is a sculptor who has done works in bonded bronze, as well as plaster and leucite. He was also active in his profession as a member of the American Dental Association, as well as a fellow in the Academy of General Dentistry, the International College of Dentists, and the Pierre Fauchard Academy. He was on the Council on Continuing Education of the Connecticut State Dental Association and served as chairman for fourteen years.

#11 - Lucette Walters

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Lucette Walters grew up in Paris and later,Chicago. She moved to Los Angeles where she began a career in film. Shelives in Southern California and Hawaii.
 
About her book: Light of the Desert.
Noora Fendil, the favorite daughter of a very successful and influential Middle Eastern businessman, has the perfect life.
Until one night in London.
Just two months before graduating from a posh London Ladies college, and while planning her lavish wedding to her childhood sweetheart, Noora is framed by her sister who masterminded a plot to destroy Noora’s happiness.
Believing she has shamed him and in order to preserve his family name, Noora’s father attempts to drown her in an act of “honor killing.” Unbeknownst to him, she survives.
Barely clinging to life, she flees from her father’s mansion and is rescued by a tribe of Bedouins. Still in danger, Noora travels nearly half way around the world in search of sanctuary. All along her path she must hide her true identity, while hoping to return one day and prove her innocence. However, she is relentlessly stalked by her fundamentalist former bodyguard who discovered she is still alive and vows to bring her back to “justice.”
Follow Noora on this remarkable journey of courage and survival against all obstacles.
Light of the Desert shares the moving tale of a Middle Eastern woman’s remarkable journey of survival, courage, and the ultimate act of humanity.
“… A truly inspiring and engrossing novel…”—Connie Harris, MyShelf.com

#10 - Curtis Woods

Curtis Woods Bio:
Education University of Wisconsin, Madison, Majored in Psychology when that Department ranked #3 in Experimental Psychology. Those courses and other courses that helped in writing “One Percent Devils and their Satanic Tools” including: Experimental Psychology, Abnormal Behavior, Child Psychology, Learning Psychology, Political Science, Constitutional Law, Criminology, Sociology, Economics, Journalism and Mass Media, U.S. History and Military History.
American University, Washington, D.C., School of Administration of Justice, ranked #1 because Professors of Crime Prevention, Philosophy of Justice, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Police Science, Court Administration and Correctional Science were members of the National Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. Straight As and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society.
Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey, Law Review and Student Director of Legal Services Clinic representing poor people in Courts. Relevant courses included Criminal Law, Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law which focused on “Theory of Law” by St. Thomas Aquinas.
Work Experience and Publications
For Seton Hall Law Review wrote a Case Note on the Portier Case where New Jersey Supreme Court held that a mother who watched her son gradually die trapped between an elevator and elevator shaft was entitled to file a claim for Negligent Infliction of Emotional Distress,
Wrote first Draft of “Discrimination Against Women in Correctional Systems” (prisoners and correctional officers) for Seton Hall Law Torts Professor, Laurence Bershad who published it in the Boston Law Review.
Special Police Officer while a Student at American University and during first post graduate job, road with Police Officers to observe how they handled crimes, domestic violence, fights, gang wars and protest marches.
Wrote “Police Community Relations – 1975” for the International Association of Chiefs of Police and National Association of Police Community Relations Officer.
Wrote New Jersey’s Standards and Goals for Crime Prevention, Law Enforcement, Prosecution, Defense, Courts, Corrections and Victim Assistance for the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals.
Accident Defense Attorney for:
Methfessel and Werbal, Rahway, New Jersey;
House Counsel for Selective Insurance, Robbinsville, New Jersey; and
Lewis and Wood in Trenton, New Jersey;
In all three Accident Defense Firms Investigator Reports, Subpoena Responses and Medical Books were used to Cross Examine Plaintiff Medical Experts to defeat over 30 kinds of Fraudulent Orthopedic, Neurological and Neuro-Psychological Injury Claims.
Curtis A. Woods’ Legal Medical Consulting Firm taught Defense Attorneys in 26 States how to defeat fraudulent Injury Claims.
The Defense Research Institute in Chicago published 7 articles on how to defeat fraudulent injury claims in “For the Defense”, the leading legal periodical for Insurance Company Executives and their Defense Attorneys:
May 1993 “Discovering Records of Alternate Causes of Injury”;
August 1994 “Defending Against Knee Injury Claims”;
June 1995 “Defeating Injury Causation Claims with Medical Literature”;
March 1996 “Using Medical Literature to Defeat Shoulder Injury Claims”;
July 1997 “Defeating Lumbar Herniated Disc and Radiculopathy Claims”;
March 2001”Defeating Neck and Chronic Pain Claims”;
February 2003 “Targeting Plaintiff’s Personal Injury Claims” with Five Undefeatable Defenses to Fraudulent Injury Claims.

#9 - Dr. Yusuf Ajayi

Dr. Yusuf Ajayi was born in Lagos, Nigeria on May 1st, 1958, graduated from Ogun State University, Nigeria with a Master’s Degree (MBA) in Technology Management in the year 2000 and is also a Certified member of the Project Management Institute.
 
He has also conferred an honorary Doctorate and a Professorship after completing his tutelage under God Almighty for about 15 years from where he received his revelations and messages.His full name Yusuf Babatunde Ajayi Atanda Omoniyi implies divinely appointed Messiah (the reincarnated Adam, reincarnated Jesus) by God Almighty to save humanity and bring them to the next generation with that still voice “I have given you the key of life and everything that pertain unto godliness.”
I am the manifestation of the Son of God
I shall bring those who believe, obey and follow me to the next generation toward paradise
My first three books are:
- God’s Secrets: The Clues To Our Life And Existence
- The Great Revelation: The Book of Life, The Tree of Life 
- The Great Revelation: The Book of Life, The Messiah Is Here 
My books revealed God's Secrets as never been heard before as mandated by God Almighty.
Let it be on record that nobody has publicly acknowledged the anatomy of the spiritual process that takes place during sexual intercourse between a man and woman, as written in my books.
If you are really interested in the facts, the truth, and secrets about God, Evolution and Existence, then read my books.- Dr. Yusuf Ajayi
 
 
 
 
 

#8 - Donald Ackerman

The contentious debate about whether or not God exists has raged ever since man first gazed into the heavens and pondered the universe. But recent discoveries, coupled with what was already known, all point in the same direction: God exists.
This commentary strives to demonstrate this. The nature of things strongly suggests Intelligent Design. It is particularly noteworthy how many prominent physicists, cosmologists, and astronomers now accept the possible existence of God.