Bookshelf: Catalog of our published books

Critical Masses:

Exposés of a Catholic Nuclear Physicist

Print and e-book

By Thomas A. Cahill

Critical Masses: Exposés of a Catholic Nuclear Physicist is the autobiography of nuclear and atomic physicist Thomas A. Cahill. During his 50-year career he left his imprint on an astonishing array of projects, including the Pioneer 10 and Voyager spacecraft, the battle for automotive catalytic converters, analysis of the Dead Sea Scrolls, protection of Mono Lake and preservation of visibility in national parks.

In this book, Cahill reveals the previously undisclosed truth about what happened — and didn’t happen — at the World Trade Center disaster. The double-meaning title Critical Masses pays tribute to Cahill’s “physical theology” philosophy in which he reconciles the Big Bang theory with his belief that the universe is the province of a caring creator.

Published: January 2018
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One Medicine War on Cancer

How Discoveries in Veterinary Oncology Led to Advancement in Comparative Medicine

By Gordon H. Theilen, DVM, DACVIM-Oncology

One Medicine War on Cancer describes the innovation of comparative cancer medicine that altered how veterinarians deal with malignancies. Gordon H. Theilen, DVM, DACVIM-Oncology, and his colleagues unlocked the mystery of how neoplasia develops.

Dr. Theilen documented the cause of acute developing tumors that he named reticuloendotheliosis. He was lead co-discoverer of feline sarcoma and simian sarcoma viruses. As a distinguished professor of surgical and radiological sciences, he helped enrich veterinary comparative cancer medicine as an essential discipline in veterinary education.

Wally’s Workplace Wisdom:

A Fly’s-Eye View of Ways to Boost Employee Morale and Stimulate Productivity

E-book only

By Gary R. Carini, Ph.D., and Mark G. Dunn, Ph.D.

I Can Breathe Clearly Now:

Protecting Yourself From Air Pollution

Print and e-book

By Thomas A. Cahill

Thomas A. Cahill, an internationally recognized physicist and atmospheric scientist from the University of California, Davis, applies the best current science in exploring serious, even lethal, health threats ignored by air pollution agencies. Written for non-scientists and spiced with humor and previously untold stories, this book also exposes other widely exaggerated threats that in fact are not serious.

Cahill gives readers the tools enabling them to reduce their risk of exposure to contaminants. No one but Cahill could have written this book, because he has been pivotal in environmental pollution for five decades. His groundbreaking research findings have influenced landmark health-protection policies — as well as rankled inflexible bureaucrats, corporate executives and even two U.S. presidents.

Published: January 2017
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The Boy with the Wounded Thumb

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By Gordon H. Theilen, DVM, DACVIM-Oncology

This book is about much more than the severe thumb laceration that turned out to be a life-changing event for a 5-year-old Minnesota farm boy growing up during the Great Depression. It is the autobiography of the world’s leading innovator in veterinary oncology and comparative cancer medicine. Gordon Theilen obtained his degree in veterinary medicine in 1955, inspired by the rural veterinarian who treated and saved his thumb. His path into veterinary research led him to participate in waging multidisciplinary “one medicine war” on cancer.

Dr. Theilen is among a handful of internationally renowned veterinary comparative scientists who founded the discipline of veterinary oncology in the 1960s. He made discoveries that contributed significantly to treatment of neoplastic diseases in humans. He has been a leader in combination cancer treatment, including chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy. With candor and humor, The Boy with the Wounded Thumb chronicles the eight decades of Theilen's eventful life.

Published: January 2017
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Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone?
Volume 3

By Marti Smiley Childs
and Jeff March

Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? Volume 3 celebrates talented singers and band members who reached the pinnacle of popularity between the 1960s and ’80s. Through conversations with performers and family members, we share fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses into the lives of these musicians and singers:

• ANNE MURRAY
  

• B.J. THOMAS

• BILLY JOE ROYAL

• the ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION
  

• the band LOVE
  

• the STANDELLS
  

• THREE DOG NIGHT
  

  
  

Jesus, the God Within:

Foundations of a Forgotten Faith

The Jesus most people think they know is not the Jesus of history, according to intensive scholarly analysis that international award-winning historian Daniel L. Wick has conducted. Jesus, the God Within: Foundations of a Forgotten Faith, focuses on the human Jesus of history rather than the divine Christ of faith. Wick reveals how people in that ancient time sensed, felt, thought and worshipped. Only in the context of that vanished world can Jesus and his followers be properly understood.

Jesus, the God Within presents presents a much-needed secular interpretation of the deep context of Jesus' emotional and intellectual world. After reading Jesus, the God Within, you will never be able to view the world in which Jesus lived and taught as you did before.

Published: January 2016
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Reckoning at Sea

Eye to Eye With a Gray Whale —

A 12-Year Circumnavigation

E-book only

By Max J. Young

with Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March

Max Young was sailing alone off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. He was bound for San Francisco, heading home with only 490 miles remaining on the final leg of a remarkably adventurous 36,600-mile circumnavigation of the globe. Young was contemplating the vastness of the sea and the expanse of the heavens as stars poked pinholes of light through the shroud of a dark, moonless night.

Without warning, a gray whale breached and landed with full force on the stern of the sailboat, causing irreparable damage. As the hours agonizingly ticked away while his sailboat, Reflections, slowly sank, Young had his reckoning at sea as he contemplated the nightmarish end of his lifelong dream of sailing around the world. Young describes his circumnavigation journey in detail in Reckoning at Sea: Eye to Eye With a Gray Whale.

Published: June 2013
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Within My Grasp

A Double Amputee's True Story

Print and e-book

By Mike Penketh

with Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March

Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone?
Volume 2

By Marti Smiley Childs
and Jeff March

Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? Volume 2 contains authorized true-life memoirs of musical soloists and band members whose songs hit the top of the music charts beginning in the 1960s. Through conversations with those performers, as well as producers, managers and family members, we share fascinating behind-the-scenes glimpses into the lives of these creative, talented singers and members of these bands:

• THE BUCKINGHAMS
  

• BOBBY GOLDSBORO
  

• THE MOODY BLUES
  

• DONNIE BROOKS

• SAM AND DAVE
  

• RAY STEVENS
  

• THE GRASS ROOTS

Published: November 2012
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Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? Volume 1

By Marti Smiley Childs

Where Have All the Pop Stars Gone? Volume 1 chronicles the lives of musical soloists and band members whose songs hit the top of the music charts in the late 1950s and in the '60s.

The book offers readers personal glimpses and new insights about seven popular musical groups and solo performers:

• THE ASSOCIATION
  

• HERMAN'S HERMITS
  

• THE KINGSTON TRIO
  

• CHRIS MONTEZ
  

• THE SPIRAL STARECASE
  

• BOBBY VEE
  

• THE ZOMBIES

Published: July 2011
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Echoes of the Sixties

E-book only

Echoes of the Sixties, the first book by EditPros co-owners Marti Smiley Childs and Jeff March, has been reissued in digital form. Preserving the original 1999 book manuscript, the e-book version of Echoes of the Sixties consists of 12 chapters, each focusing on a musical group or solo artist who first achieved popularity in the 1960s.

• THE FIREBALLS
  

•  GARY "U.S." BONDS
  

•  THE TOKENS
  

•  THE ANGELS
  

•  PETER AND GORDON
  

•  MIKE PINDER of the MOODY BLUES
  

• THE BEAU BRUMMELS
  

• SAM THE SHAM AND THE PHARAOHS
  

• THE LOVIN' SPOONFUL
  

• GARY PUCKETT AND THE UNION GAP
  

• COUNTRY JOE AND THE FISH
  

• IRON BUTTERFLY

Published: November 2011 (originally issued in 1999)
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The Testing Ground — Grand Celebration

Volume 3 of the Testing Ground Trilogy

By Louis Evan Grivetti and
Sargent Thurber Reynolds

The Testing Ground — The Journey

Volume 2 of the Testing Ground Trilogy

Reese and Travis Saunders, a married couple who had lived their childhoods during the fading years of the Dark Time, found themselves the sole survivors of a mysterious epidemic that had claimed the lives of everyone else in their isolated Montana settlement — and, as they later discover, throughout much of the North America.

In this continuation of the saga that began with The Testing Ground, Volume 1 — The Cave, the couple leaves their home in Montana to search for survivors. On their cross-country journey they encounter small groups of survivors who relate stories of survival hardships. Ultimately, the travelers are confronted with an unexpected reality: extraterrestrial inhabitants have settled in northwestern North America, and humans are not the only bipeds that occupy The Testing Ground.

Published: October 2016

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The Testing Ground — The Cave

Searching for an inhabitable planet, crew members of the KosMa ExPlorer discover an uncharted plente on which they find a cave containing materials documenting the history and apparent demise of intelligent bipeds.

All the planet's life forms were created by the Great Spirit Etowah, a cosmic force that assigns an Observer and Overseer team to impassively record, evaluate, and recommend continuation or extermination cycles. One memorandum chronicles a sequence of events when a computer-hacker terrorist implements a plan that succeeds far beyond his expectations to bring down the American banking and economic system. Subsequent events spiral wildly out of control, initiating hunger, thirst, and anarchy among survivors. Is the unnamed orb merely a "testing ground" on which life forms are created, managed, and eliminated? What is the future of the orb's bipeds: survival or extermination?

Published: July 2015
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Ark: Post-Asteroid Eden

Book 3 of the Ark Asteroid Trilogy

In the aftermath of a cataclysmic collision of an immense asteroid with the Earth, amid a decimated environment pummeled by the ravages of worldwide tsunamis, volcanic eruptions and impenetrable ash clouds, most forms of life succumbed. The rupture in the crust of the Earth unleashed a toxic acidic volcanic soup that had made the oceans inhospitable to sea life, destroyed much of the Amazon rain forest, and triggered a new ice age.

Yet out of the rubble of the scorched, scarred, frozen planet, a few groups of human stragglers managed to survive by seeking and improvising shelter. A decade after the asteroid impact, even those remnants of civilization appeared threatened when the world’s largest super volcano began smoldering with increasing ferocity, signaling an eruption that this time could annihilate the human race.

Published: March 2015
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Greenhouse Redemption of the Planet Kraal

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By Thomas A. Cahill

Cloning a human for the planet Kraal's cosmic zoo probably seemed like a good idea at the time. The members of Kraal's unscrupulous ruling elite masterminded the mission of duplicating a human from a DNA imprint to distract Kraal's citizens from a looming ecological disaster that their mismanagement of Kraal's natural resources had provoked. The resulting runaway greenhouse effect already had devastated most of their world.

Despite intricate planning, the human specimen, Rick, breaks away from his slanted psychological training and his powerful masters, and challenges the assumptions that are destroying the planet. The masses learn the dark secret about the looming planetary disaster. Kraal's attempts to recover something of its past ecology becomes, deliberately, a challenge to Earth, which is staggering closer to a tipping point in its own impending greenhouse climate collapse.

Published: January 2014
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Ark: Diaspora

Book 2 of the Ark Asteroid Trilogy

E-book only

By Thomas A. Cahill

Four years had passed since a massive asteroid collided with Earth and triggered a global environmental disaster that obliterated nearly all forms of life on the planet. The impact flexed the ocean floor, causing monumental tsunamis that demolished coastal cities throughout the world. Colossal volcanoes incessantly belched out a veil of ash and sulfuric smoke that girdled Earth and deflected sunlight, causing a new ice age in which billions of people perished. In this forbidding world, a small group of survivors managed to scrape out an existence from limited resources on the coast of California, as the first book in this trilogy, Ark: Asteroid Impact, describes.

In Ark: Diaspora, surviving Russian military personnel saw an opportunity to use thermonuclear weapons to assert world domination by reverting to Soviet-era dictums. On the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, the canyons of the Central California coast rumbled and the sky erupted in an excruciatingly brilliant flash of light that jarred the pathetically few American survivors from their sleep.

Published: September 2013
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Ark: Asteroid Impact

In this gripping story, a band of Californians take refuge and manage to survive the calamitous effects of the collision of a large asteroid with the Earth. The devastating impact shatters civilization and eradicates nearly all forms of plant and animal life on the planet. The book describes in vivid detail the survival struggles and ingenuity of refugees who find themselves marooned in the forbidding, barren, frozen environment that envelops Earth following the colossal impact.

The "Ark" in the title alludes to the quest of the survivors to rebuild civilization. Thomas A. Cahill, an imaginative storyteller with a fertile mind, conceived this chilling saga within the context of scientific possibility, based upon the firm foundation of knowledge he amassed during five decades as an eminent physicist and atmospheric scientist.

Published: December 2012
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Annals of the Omega Project — A Trilogy

By Thomas A. Cahill

This fast-paced thriller novel begins on an airline flight from Sacramento to Denver, when Professor Ken O'Neal discovers he has a telepathic and loving connectedness with flight attendant Michelle Kolberg. Believing that other " sensitives " probably exist in their midst, the two of them embark on the formation of a group of "like" minds they call the Omega Project at a University of California campus.

The Omega Project's benevolent communication is suddenly threatened by powerful people in San Francisco — older men in secret Covens who trap their telepathic victims and perform horrifically lethal "feedings" on their brains to enhance their own powers of domination. A "feeding" on the brain of a university student named Bonny ignites warfare between the Coven and Omega members, with gruesome fatalities.

Published: June 2012
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