In How to Invest in Commercial Real Estate, authors Dowell and Stachenfeld have created the ultimate guide for anyone interested in getting smarter quickly on the complicated world of commercial real estate.

In an easy-to-read format, the authors dissect nearly every aspect of commercial real estate investment, from the basic to the more complex, including asset segmentation, market analysis, deal structuring, promote mechanics, capital stack construction, commercial underwriting best-practices, risk assessment and mitigation, joint venture dynamics, and best-in-class investment processes just to name a few.

But this book isn’t just for beginning investors. Even seasoned professionals will benefit from reading it, especially from the authors’ insights into the more intricate elements of the market.

The authors, a commercial real estate investor and a commercial real estate attorney, have over seventy years combined of invaluable industry experience. Their love for their subject is palpable, and they pass along their passion and enthusiasm to the reader.

So, whether you are taking those first steps into commercial real estate investment or want to upgrade your existing expertise, How to Invest in Commercial Real Estate will prove to be a much needed and frequently referenced resource.

Even when you’re cooking for yourself, healthy, simple, and delicious meals are within reach. 

Ronald Johnson was a self-taught professional chef and caterer whose many cookbooks are among the best for home cooks with busy lives who need simple recipes that always work.

Even if you have always disliked cooking for yourself, in THE ART OF COOKING FOR ONE, Johnson’s helpful approach will allow you to discover the true joy of cooking for one. 

Why not treat yourself to a feast? Who better to serve than yourself? “Make culinary hay while the sun still shines down each day,” as Ron advises in the Introduction.

This delightful and insightful cookbook is full of wit and often playful opinions about cooking, eating, and living. Known as an extraordinary experimental poet as well as an accomplished chef, RJ’s personality seeps through every page and will keep you entertained as you dine by candlelight with just your shadow for company.

Each part of THE ART OF COOKING FOR ONE presents simple, wholesome, and delicious dishes, using readily available, affordable ingredients and reducing unnecessary waste. And he encourages us to cut corners as needed; if the season is wrong for fresh vegetables, for instance, the author suggests workarounds that will be equally satisfying. Johnson’s generosity and spirit shines through every page, reassuring us that we are capable of making great things to eat, and deserving of the bounty. 

“Go ahead and use a package stuffing mix,” he gently consoles us. “No one is perfect.” But the meals you cook from this collection will be.

Seeds and planting materials are central to the agricultural system that feeds us all. Yet there has been surprisingly little interest in seriously analyzing the legal and political processes through which intellectual property rights and policy are constructed for this all-important biological diversity. Concentrating on the American experience, Unnatural Selection offers a comprehensive history and insightful sociological analysis of the struggle to own, control, and benefit from agriculture’s plant diversity. 

Unnatural Selection elucidates the seldom-told story of how the United States acquired seeds of non-native crops from abroad in the 1800s and multiplied and distributed them to farmers to encourage experimentation and crop adaptation to local conditions, thus promoting the spread of agriculture on the continent. It was one of the largest and most consequential agricultural experiments in human history. 

In the United States it also gave rise to the modern seed and nursery industry which began to push for legal mechanisms to protect and advance their interests in the marketplace. Cary Fowler provides the most complete history to date of the origins of the Plant Patent Act of 1930 and the Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970. He examines how Congress and the Courts expanded these intellectual property rights, and then how and with what effect these issues of control and ownership became international controversies in the 1980s—controversies that continue, largely unresolved, to this day. 

Features a new preface by the author.

“AI won’t replace you, someone using AI will replace you.” 

You’ve heard this a hundred times, right? As a typhoon of technological advancement has descended upon us, this has become the anthem of tech CEOs and business pundits. Go all-in on using AI, and you’ll be fine. 

But here’s the twist: They’re wrong. The key choice you’ll make isn’t whether you’ll invest in AI skills or not. 

It’s whether you’ll invest in your humanity. 

As technology is able to do technical skills better than most of us, the future of work will be won by those who lead, persuade, influence, and build relationships with other human beings. And there’s one cognitive superpower that makes us better at all of those relational skills: It’s storytelling. 

We’re at a fork in the road, and you need to make a choice. Make AI your primary skillset, and you’ll find yourself an assistant to a machine that may not need you before long. Master storytelling and you’ll rule the world. The world is changing and the clock is ticking. Which path will you take?

In Super Skill: Why Storytelling Is the Superpower of the AI Age, Joe Lazer, best-selling author of The Storytelling Edge, reveals how to become a master storyteller, take control of their destiny, and win the age of AI. Through science-backed techniques, cutting-edge AI applications, and real-world stories of neuroscientists, neanderthals, founders, filmmakers, and psychedelic shamans, he’ll reveal 13 principles to hone your storytelling superpowers, build a following, and become more successful in business and in life. 

The choice is yours.

It was through control of the shattering of wild seeds that humans first domesticated plants. Now control over those very plants threatens to shatter the world's food supply, as loss of genetic diversity sets the stage for widespread hunger.

Large-scale agriculture has come to favor uniformity in food crops. More than 7,000 U.S. apple varieties once grew in American orchards; 6,000 of them are no longer available. Every broccoli variety offered through seed catalogs in 1900 has now disappeared. As the international genetics supply industry absorbs seed companies—with nearly one thousand takeovers since 1970—this trend toward uniformity seems likely to continue; and as third world agriculture is brought in line with international business interests, the gene pools of humanity's most basic foods are threatened.

The consequences are more than culinary. Without the genetic diversity from which farmers traditionally breed for resistance to diseases, crops are more susceptible to the spread of pestilence. Tragedies like the Irish Potato Famine may be thought of today as ancient history; yet the U.S. corn blight of 1970 shows that technologically based agribusiness is a breeding ground for disaster.

Shattering reviews the development of genetic diversity over 10,000 years of human agriculture, then exposes its loss in our lifetime at the hands of political and economic forces. The possibility of crisis is real; this book shows that it may not be too late to avert it.

This book was originally published in 1990 and remains as relevant today as it was then.