Michael R Cooley

Making Choices: Reading Issues in Context

Making Choices Reading Issues in Context

The Inventive Writer: Using Critical Thinking to Persuade

The Inventive Writer: Using Critical Thinking to Persuade

Making Choices Reading Choices Reading Issues in Context

Obstetrics: Normal and Problem Pregnancies Pocket Companion

Goin' Extinct: Tales From the Edge of Oblivion

Who can come up with a dozen or more different ways to end the world? We can! This collection of apocalyptic short stories explores the myriad ways in which life as we know it could end. From the traditional nuclear apocalypse to cosmic events, zombies, mysterious alien substances, evil corporations...

Joshua and the Magic of Baseball

Creepies 2: Things That go Bump in the Closet (Volume 2)

From the twisted minds of Writers, Poets and Deviants: Prepare for terror… and a few laughs as well. - An exterminator meets his match in a family’s attic… - A cuddly toy with a disturbing origin is all the rage… - A boy’s survival of a deadly accident turns out to be more curse than miracle… - A ma...

Rock Bottom

When Michael Cooley returned to his childhood home in St. Louis, many of his old friends offered him this greeting: 'Cooley, I thought you were dead.' And by many accounts, he should have been dead. Michael Cooley was a member of two dysfunctional families. His mother in St. Louis was an alcoholic. ...

Jimmy's Stories: Preaching What I Practiced at Chick-fil-a (Creative Followership)

Jimmy’s Stories are Jimmy Collins’s own stories, from his personal experiences. Retired president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, Jimmy tells these stories at speaking engagements and on his website, creativefollowership.com. They are now conveniently packaged together. Jimmy’s stories c...

Applied Creative Followership

Applied Creative Followership is the companion workbook to the book Creative Followership: In the Shadow of Greatness. Creative Followership is designed to offer you a process for achieving success in your career. Written from the perspective of a follower instead of a leader, you will learn princip...

Making Choices: Reading Issues in Context

This thematic reader for freshman composition contextualizes the important personal, professional, and civic choices students face in college and beyond. An opening chapter discusses the fundamental connection between critical reading and writing. The five core units each begin with three "Context" ...

Creative Followership: In the Shadow of Greatness

A good story-teller, Jimmy Collins is well known for his common-sense style of communication. In Creative Followership: In the Shadow of Greatness, Collins uses personal illustrations and stories to tell how he discovered and used his "Creative Followership Principles" for a successful and satisfyin...