Best Selling Books by Mark Young

An introduction to basic helping skills and advanced helping techniques with step-by-step instructions and practice exercises.

Police gang detective Tom Kagan sought justice for more than ten years, leaving him a broken man. His only reason for living—the woman he loves and the badge he swore to uphold. When a man is brutally killed in a vineyard on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, California, it sparks a series of events that test what’s left of Kagan’s resolve to protect and serve. Secrets from the past thwart Kagan’s efforts to unravel a series of killings sanctioned from within the walls of California’s highest security prison. From the lush vineyards of Sonoma County to the shores of beautiful Lake Tahoe, the detective must outsmart a killer who is moving in for one epic killing spree. Leaders of the notorious Nuestra Family prison gang are fighting for power, a struggle that spills out onto the streets of California. Kagan joins forces with Special Agent Hector Garcia, a feisty supervisor of the Special Services Unit for the California Department of Corrections; Diane Phillips, a beautiful and hard-charging prosecutor; and Mikio Sanchez, a former gang member marked for death. Through the eyes of cops and gangsters, readers are able to glimpse the seldom seen workings of the gangster underworld. Broken Allegiance is about treacherous lies, broken promises, and shattered lives—about life, death and a man’s honor.

When a trained killer threatens ex-cop Travis Maysand those Travis loveshe finds a skilled adversary and an unexpected fight. After a high stakes gamble ends in personal tragedy, Travis walks away from years of training and a highly successful law enforcement career. Determined never to look back, he starts a new life and a new career, teaching criminology at the university and building a cabin in the idyllic Idaho Mountains. He hires a beautiful river guide, Jessie White Eagle from the Nez Perce tribe, to guide him safely down the Lochsa. The turbulence of the whitewater, however, is just the beginning of Travis troubles. Travis finds himself in the crosshairs of a killercalling himself Creasybent on revenge.This fast-paced thriller takes readers on a wild ride down Idaho''s whitewater rivers, along the historic Lolo Trails once tread by the Nez Perce nation, and onto the city streets of California. Tighten your helmet. This ride never stops until the last shot is fired and the final body falls.

The face of entertainment has changed radically over the last decade—and dangerously so. Stars like Britney, Paris, Lindsay, Amy Winehouse—and their media enablers—have altered what we consider "normal" behavior. According to addiction specialist Dr. Drew Pinsky and business and entertainment expert Dr. S. Mark Young, a high proportion of celebrities suffer from traits associated with clinical narcissism—vanity, exhibitionism, entitlement, exploitativeness—and the rest of us, especially young people, are mirroring what we witness nightly on our TV and computer screens. A provocative, eye-opening study, The Mirror Effect sounds a timely warning, raising important questions about our changing culture—and provides insights for parents, young people, and anyone who wonders what the cult of celebrity is really doing to America.

It takes a lot to stand out at a school for mad scientists—but Newton Warp is unlike anyone (or anything) else at Franken-Sci High in this first book in a wacky series created with The Jim Henson Company. Franken-Sci High is the only school in the world for aspiring mad scientists and it’s located on a craggy island in the Bermuda Triangle, of course! While some mad scientists are power-hungry maniacs, the school was founded in 1536 as a refuge for generations of brilliant—and yes, eccentric—young minds. Students are encouraged to use their brainpower for good, but the teachers accept that some kids will still want to take over the world…and the school cafeteria. In the first book in the series, What’s the Matter with Newton?, Newton Warp is a mystery, even to himself: He wakes up one day in the library with no idea of who he is, how he got there, or where he came from. Newton is quickly assigned to a dorm and makes a friend: Shelly Ravenholt, who creates living, breathing monsters for fun. He’s eager to find out who his family is, but this is high school after all, and he soon has other problems: Newton has to create a last-minute project for the Mad Science Fair and Shelly’s friend Theremin (a robot) is really jealous of him. And that’s not all: the other students at Franken-Sci High soon realize that Newton has a few useful, but surprising quirks. Wherever Newton came from, they start to suspect that he’s not entirely human! TM & © 2019 The Jim Henson Company

Seven years ago, U.S. Marine Gerrit O’Rourke returned from Iraq after learning of a family tragedy. When a manhunt turns up empty, Gerrit joins that city’s police department to find those responsible and bring them to justice. Gerrit travels undercover to a European city on what he believes to be a matter of national security. Contacted by a mysterious woman, Alena Shapiro, Gerrit discovers his life is in danger. Gerrit returns home only to find people close to him wind up dead. Gerrit and Alena combine forces with others to live Off The Grid while uncovering a conspiracy that reaches to the highest level of government. Against overwhelming odds, they seek to expose a breach in national security. Time is running out—for Gerrit, for Alena…for the nation.

A supplementary reader for all levels of Cost and Management Accounting courses. This reader contains thirty-nine recent business press and academic articles all representing state-of-the-art thinking and examples on a wide variety of management accounting topics in many types of service and manufacturing contexts. The articles parallel the contents of Management Accounting 3/e (Atkinson, et al.), but can be used with any core management and cost accounting text. While this book can be used to supplement any management or cost accounting text, the readings have been designed to accompany Anthony Atkinson, Rajiv Banker, R. S. Kaplan and S. Mark Young''s textbook, Management Accounting, 3rd Edition (Prentice Hall, 2001). In addition, the Instructor''s Manual keys the readings to other textbooks so that the casebook can also be used with these entries.

The fun continues at Franken-Sci High in this third book in a wacky series created with The Jim Henson Company. Franken-Sci High is the only school in the world for aspiring mad scientists and it’s located on a craggy island in the Bermuda Triangle, of course! While some mad scientists are power-hungry maniacs, the school was founded in 1536 as a refuge for generations of brilliant—and sometimes eccentric—young minds. Students are encouraged to use their brainpower for good, but the teachers accept that some kids will want to take over the world…and the school cafeteria. When his robot friend, Theremin Rozika, aces a test that he was really nervous about, Newton Warp is surprised to see that his friend looks sad instead of happy. Theremin’s father programmed him to never be smarter than his dear old dad: If Theremin begins to do well in one area of study, he immediately fails every other subject. So Newton and his friend Shelly Ravenholt attempt to reprogram Theremin, with disastrous results. Instead of making Theremin smarter, they accidentally make him speak in Pig Latin! They’re forced to contact Theremin’s father, Dr. Rozika, to repair their friend’s code. Can they also convince him to give Theremin the freedom to succeed? TM & © 2020 The Jim Henson Company

Of the Argument -- Negotiation Dilemmas -- Received Philosophical Assumptions -- Considered Economic Rationality (CER) -- Application to Business Negotiations -- What Is Economic Rationality? -- Objective versus Subjective Rationality -- Why Be Rational? -- Theoretical versus Practical Reason -- Monological versus Social Reason -- Economic Rationality and Its Assumptions -- Summary: Connection to Decision and Game Theory -- The Problem: Opportunity Lost -- Some Practical Dilemmas -- Theoretical Foundations: A Primer on Game Theory -- "Intuitive Correction": Will "Irrationality" Solve the Problem? -- The Roots of the Problem -- Philosophical Foundations -- Applications to Decision and Game Theory -- Conclusion: The "Dead End" of Prescriptive Economic Rationality -- Gauthier''s Proposal: A Strategic Bargaining Solution -- Gauthier''s Bargaining Solution -- Omissions and Problems -- Limits of This Approach: Can Strategic Rationality Be Corrected? -- Elements of Considered Economic Rationality -- Requirements of a New Theory -- Considered Economic Rationality: A Brief Sketch -- Four Elements of Considered Economic Rationality -- Summary and a Way Forward -- Negotiating on the Basis of Considered Economic Rationality -- Can We Draw Practical Lessons from Philosophy? -- Elements of a CER-Based Negotiation Strategy -- How Has Considered Economic Rationality Been Applied? -- Case Studies: The Privatization of Electricity Distribution -- Privatization of the U.K. Electricity Distribution Industry.

The hilarious madness at Franken-Sci High continues in this second book in a wacky series created with The Jim Henson Company. Franken-Sci High is the only school in the world for aspiring mad scientists and it’s located on a craggy island in the Bermuda Triangle, of course! While some mad scientists are power-hungry maniacs, the school was founded in 1536 as a refuge for generations of brilliant—and sometimes eccentric—young minds. Students are encouraged to use their brainpower for good, but the teachers accept that some kids will want to take over the world…and the school cafeteria. In the second book in the Franken-Sci High series, Monsters Among Us, Newton Warp’s friends notice he’s being followed around by a strange new professor, Dr. Flubitus, but have no idea why. Newton wonders if it has something to do with the barcode on his foot. He doesn’t have much time to dwell on it, though, because soon there are reports of a giant monster loose on campus! Shelly assumes a school for mad scientists would have top-notch security against monsters, nosy tourists, and other invaders, but soon she and her friends Newton and Theremin discover a gaping loophole in the system. If a marauding monster can find its way to the school’s secret location in the Bermuda Triangle and figure out how to open a portal to the campus, anyone else could get in, too! Then Shelly finds out she might be the reason the monster is there in the first place… TM & © 2019 The Jim Henson Company

Can Newton save Franken-Sci High? Find out in the sixth book in this wacky series created with The Jim Henson Company. When Franken-Sci High’s strangest teacher tells Newton Warp that they are traveling to the future, Newton thinks it is a joke…but he should know by now that in a school for mad scientists, anything is possible. Before he knows it, Newton teleports forward by twenty-five years, and everything at the school has changed. His monster-loving friend, Shelly Ravenholt, has grown up to be against making monsters and has a plan to keep the school from making new monsters when there are so many that need help already. Her intentions are good, but she is becoming accidentally evil, and it’s up to Newton to stop her! TM & © 2020 The Jim Henson Company

Only the truth will set Tom Kagan free. Suspicion is cast upon police intelligence officer Tom Kagan when a protected witness turns up dead. Caught in a Circle of Lies, he frantically searches for two witnesses who might clear his name—but they are murdered. A deadly trap, built by unseen hands, begins to tighten around Tom’s life, endangering everyone he loves and his own freedom. This Kafkaesque nightmare begins when an out-of-state detective tells Kagan his good friend has been killed in an armored truck heist in Seattle. Kagan—working for the Santa Rosa Police Department in California—offers to investigate a lead in his own county. As Kagan peels backs the layers of lies, trouble erupts at every turn. An FBI agent with questionable motives shows up to exert pressure on Kagan’s investigation. A shadowy figure, calling himself Paladin, zeros in on Kagan as a conspiracy unfolds. A beautiful female prosecutor tries to help, but her relationship to Kagan creates suspicion in his own marriage. Disturbing questions begin to surface as Kagan unravels facts about the case. Everything hinges upon finding out the truth but a Circle of Lies turns his world upside down. Who can he trust? Will he survive? Kagan must risk everything to save those he loves and gain his own freedom in this race-to-the-finish mystery thriller.

The hijinks continue in the fourth book in Franken-Sci High, the wacky series created with The Jim Henson Company. Franken-Sci High is the only school in the world for aspiring mad scientists and it’s located on a craggy island in the Bermuda Triangle, of course! While some mad scientists are power-hungry maniacs, the school was founded in 1536 as a refuge for generations of brilliant—and sometimes eccentric—young minds. Students are encouraged to use their brainpower for good, but the teachers accept that some kids will want to take over the world…and the school cafeteria. Odifin Pinkwad exists as a brain in a jar, and when he sets his mind to something…watch out! He finds out about a special Franken-Sci High event: A Mad Scientists and Brilliant Brains Trivia Night, and he is determined to win the special prize for first place. His plan to win? Plug into the jars holding famous brains in the school library’s Brain Bank and transfer their knowledge to himself. Odifin thinks he has Trivia Night in the bag, but as he gets greedy for more and more brainpower and figures out how to connect to all the brains at once, he starts to grow, and grow, and grow. Soon he’s a giant brain who exists in a shark tank instead of a jar! He’s smarter than ever, but being a massive brain has some downsides: He needs more and more challenges—like doing the homework of every student in school for fun and making the lights flicker every time someone says “Odifin”—just to keep his brain busy. The strangest thing of all, though, is what happens next…when Newton Warp finds out a surprising detail about Odifin’s past that could change everything! TM & © 2020 The Jim Henson Company

The science at Franken-Sci High gets even madder in this fifth book in a wacky series created with the Jim Henson Company. There’s a school field trip coming up, and most Franken-Sci High students can’t wait to venture off the school campus. But Newton Warp’s roommate, H.G. “Higgy” Vollington, only wants to go if he can find a way to look human. Higgy usually flaunts the green goo he is made of, but when he lived out in the real world, regular people always stared at him. Newton, Shelly, and Theremin try various ways of making him less green, but nothing works. They need to go to the enemy for help: Mimi Crowninshield is a genius when it comes to inventing creepily-realistic cosmetics. She agrees to help Higgy if the friends tell her Newton’s big secret. Newton doesn’t know the answer to the mystery of where he came from, but now he has more reason than ever to figure it out! TM & © 2020 The Jim Henson Company

Mark Young''s playful and allusive new book of poetry engages words as both sources and objects.

"Taut with drama and suspense, Fatal eMpulse is a must read!"—Aaron Patterson, Bestselling author of Sweet Dreams Gerrit joined the Seattle police department seven years ago after his parents were killed in a car bomb in that city. The case is still open The killers still at large. Mysteriously recruited to retrieve information vital to the U.S. interests, Gerrit discovers the murdered body of a scientist in a Vienna, Austria hotel room. This discovery—coupled with an intercepted message about a mysterious operation called Project Megiddo—hurls Gerrit into an international thriller that forever changes his world. Others emerge to aid in Gerrit’s fight. Alena Shapiro, a mysterious Russian Jewish woman—whose parents fled their homeland to resettle in Israel—has been watching over Gerrit ever since his parents died. Joe Costello, a cyber security specialist who may be able to unlock the secrets about the murder of Gerrit’s parents. Hank “Redneck” Riley, a reformer Aryan racist—making amends for his past—uses his unsual skills to give these crusaders as edge against a formidable enemy. And finally, Willy Williams, a former banger from San Francisco’s Hunter Point who elevated his street skills to become a formidable computer hacker. Consultant Richard Kane emerges from the gray world of intelligence, finance and business, whose goals include recruitment of Gerrit to help in a matter of national security. Commanding worldwide resources, Kane stands as an implacable enemy to those who resist his goals. The lines are drawn when Gerrit backs away from their deal. In this game, winner takes all. Facing overwhelming odds, Gerrit and his small band of fighters move within the shadows of a global conflict in which trust becomes a matter of life and death for his team. Gerrit’s past as a former combat U.S. Marine and his special scientific skills are matched up to opponents whose resources seem unlimited. Advance technology are the tools; global supremacy the goal. Gerrit must learn to fight and survive in an Orwellian future that begins today.

Implementing Management Innovations: Lessons Learned from Activity Based Costing in the U.S. Automobile Industry is the result of a long-term study of the implementation of activity based costing (ABC) inside two of America''s largest automobile companies. The research advances our theoretical and practical understanding of the implementation of management innovations by tracing the evolution of ABC from the corporate level down to its eventual rollout at the plants. Another distinguishing feature of the study is the blend of field research methods and hypothesis testing to determine the factors that led to implementation success for managers and ABC development teams. Many of the findings of the study have implications for the implementation of other types of management innovations.

Always wanted to learn how to swim Backstroke? Do you find basic backstroke technique difficult? How To Swim Backstroke is your perfect guidebook, with over 20 simple exercises containing top tips and key coaching points. Fully illustrated and concise, you will discover: How to learn basic Backstroke in easy steps How to swim with smooth relaxed technique How to isolate and correct your bad habits The perfect aid for any complete beginner to learn, understand and practice and for any swimmer to adjust, correct and improve.

Always wanted to learn how to swim Breaststroke? Do you find basic breaststroke technique difficult? How To Swim Breaststroke is your perfect guidebook, with over 20 simple exercises containing top tips and key coaching points. Fully illustrated and concise, you will discover: How to learn basic Breaststroke in easy steps How to swim with smooth relaxed technique How to isolate and correct your bad habits The perfect aid for any complete beginner to learn, understand and practice and for any swimmer to adjust, correct and improve.