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The Refractive Thinker Volume II: Research Methodology Second Edition

By Cheryl A. Lentz

Cheryl A. Lentz, Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership (DM) ’07, helps reinvent the way doctoral research is offered to the larger community through the The Refractive Thinker Anthology of Higher Learning Series. Realizing that few may be willing to wade through the complexity of a 400- to 600-page dissertation, the anthology model presents multiple ideas within one scholarly, peer-reviewed publication. The latest volume, The Refractive Thinker Volume II: Research Methodology Second Edition, is targeted specifically to doctoral students and recent doctoral graduates. Twelve doctoral scholars, including Lentz, contribute a chapter outlining unique applications of research methodologies.

Dr. Cheryl Lentz is a university professor and an award-winning author known for her writings on The Golden Palace Theory of Management and refractive thinking. She is a 10-time internationally published author who helps doctoral scholars publish their writings within the trademarked anthology series.

The Refractive Thinker Volume II: Research Methodology Second Edition is available as a paperback and as an e-book or e-chapters at amazon.com and www.refractivethinker.com.

That Tender Light

By Donald James Then

Donald James Then, Master of Arts in Organizational Management (MAOM) ’99, touches the heart, captures the imagination and explores the redemptive qualities of love and faith in his fictional novel That Tender Light. The story follows the nation’s top investigative reporter, Lockwood McGuire, in his search to find missing novelist Jack Taylor, a Medal of Honor recipient who disappeared in 1986 without leaving a clue as to his whereabouts.

McGuire’s search leads to a farm in Indiana where Missy Lee, a 98-year-old woman lives with secrets that could unlock the mystery, among them Taylor’s final, unpublished novel. That Tender Light blends the push and tug of human interaction with mystery, romance, adventure and redemption.

Donald James Then is the former owner and publisher of an award-winning Sunday newspaper, a 30-year marketing executive and a graduate of St. Bonaventure University’s Journalism School, where he received the 1974 Mark Hellinger Award as the top journalism grad. Then currently lives in Northern Kentucky.

That Tender Light is available at
amazon.com, djamesthen.com and at bookstores across the United States.