Debbie Aliya has 35+ years experience in the development and use of applied critical and creative thinking skills in failure analysis, materials selection / characterization, and specification preparation for structural applications. Her book, Constructing Competence in Failure Analysis: A Technical and Human Factors Guide, is a preeminent technical guide detailing a comprehensive and new six-step method for performing fractography. It powerfully revisions the Failure Analysis (FA) Process detailing modern approaches for visual inspection, NDT, specimen selection, cutting and more.

A technical, epistemological view of failure investigations and analysis with a focus on metal alloys and polymers for professionals, college students and the experts who intersect with investigations. Attorneys, manufacturing engineers and quality engineers should be able to understand 90% of the content. Yet, long time practitioners of forensic engineering will likely build a few new skills.

Safety Under Construction explains how to make safety the Key to construction profits and schedule performance. Although there are bright spots, the prevailing safety condition within the construction industry is bleak because people continue to be injured or killed in the workplace. The attitudes and hidden mindsets that create this condition are: (1). Safety is seen to slow down and even interfere with production; (2). People believe that everything reasonable that can be done is already being done; (3). People behave strangely; don't think ahead; don't always do the right thing. The fact of the matter is you can get to zero-harm if you approach the goal scientifically, systematically, using problem-solving skills, and persisting until you get what you want. This book offers new tools and introduces the behaviors and mindsets you need to solve the most challenging safety related issues within your organization. See what other have to say

" 'Safety Under Construction' is your must-read for this year. They have delivered a practical approach to make safety the focal point of your business [and] They have clearly diffused the myth that safety is in theway of profits and performance" - Dana W. Clarke Sr., CEO of AIA, LLC; Certified TRIZ Specialist; Certified Organizational Engineer ALSO SEE: "I have managed many construction crews and sometimes you face a critical moment where the quality of your field-call affects lives and a successful project outcome. So much is riding on what decision you make in that moment! 'Safety Under Construction' addresses this important but almost never discussed topic of split-second decision-making. Crew supervisors and managers will appreciate this valuable information. 'Safety Under Construction' raises the bar to an entirely new level of expectation for worker safety." - Ophir Orr, Construction Industry Mechanical Engineer, P.E.

Meet our author, Coy F. Cross II. He has written a profound book about how to find meaning in life’s worst tragedies. Between the pages of The Dhance: A Caregiver’s Search for Meaning, Coy documents his journey through confusion, grief, transformation, and grace in assessable language and with an honest heart. If you question, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” this book will support you in your quest to find answers.

“Within these pages you will read of a man’s journey, begun and ongoing in search of a relationship to God that would sustain him through all the challenges of his lifetime.” – Carol Martha Cross

I see this book as part of a life-long search for “what life is all about.” As a boy, growing up in the hills of Kentucky, I seldom received satisfactory answers to my questions about God and life and why bad things happened to seemingly good people. I became convinced I needed to conduct myself as Jesus had if I was going to ever please God. By the time I was seventeen, I felt so guilty for not being able to achieve my near-perfect standard, I gave up trying. For the next twenty plus years, I used my quick wit and sharp tongue to keep any talk of God at least an arm’s length away from me. About age forty, a growing emptiness that I couldn’t fill convinced me to start again searching to “figure life out.” I found no satisfactory answers until I met Reverend Carol Ruth Knox three years later…” Her teaching helped me structure my search for meaning. “…

“This book is a story of life at its best in the worst of experiences in the human journey…” Rev Beth Ann Suggs, PCC; Unity Minister

In 2009, my precious wife Carol was diagnosed with Stage 3, Level C ovarian cancer. This wasn’t the path I’d expect on my way to God, but this is the path I’ve been given. These past three years have been my “graduate course” in deepening my relationship with the Divine.

“More than a powerful love story, “The Dhance” serves as a Spiritual Practical guide to courageously work through a major life crisis.”  Greg Finch, Licensed Teacher, Unity Worldwide Ministries