James Lewis: 176 books

The completion of this book took a great many years out of my life to accomplish. It has been a source of healing, discovery and acknowledgment to the people and family I have written about. To their memory I hope they are pleased. As a boy in Indiana I would often sit on our porch of our home and...

A biographical history of the forefathers who shaped the identity of Alabama politically, legally, economically, militarily, and geographically.   While much has been written about the significant events in the history of early Alabama, there has been little information available about the people...

One night. In Las Vegas. No more work ... it's time to play. What's a married man to do, especially when he meets a super-fine Jamaican woman more than willing to keep the party going in his hotel room--despite knowing his marital status? And no one will know about it ... except the...

Winner of the 2011 International Book Awards! African-American fiction Finalist of the 2011 Global E-book Awards! Multicultural Fiction Finalist in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards! African-American Fiction People who date interracially are often...

Sometimes a wife can remain calm, cool, and collected–even when catching her husband in bed with a young girl over half his age. One possible response? Invite the bold bitch to dinner! That could’ve happened, but Eve chooses another route.

Everything we do and everything we interact with are individual steps in processes that are part of larger systems. Understanding how to see and identify Waste within each step is important, but you will realize the most effective and productive business transformation when the entire sequence of...

A three-month trip to Seattle is small beans for a young sailor and his girlfriend, considering its short distance from San Diego. The time away only makes the relationship stronger, right? At least, that was the plan … until the sailor called her home and a man answered. Damn. EXCERPT -...

The Good Life...According to God distinguishes between the secular perception of a 'Good Life' and the biblical reality of living 'The Good Life.' Do you remember when a husband and wife, mother and father were the tie that bound the family unit together? At one time God was at the center of the family...

How do you measure the success of your company? Are you measuring things that are important to you and the stockholders, or are you measuring things that will truly lead to improvement? If your measurements are not easily interpolated at the process owner level, they are probably the wrong measurements....

Do you know where all of the improvement opportunities are in your company? Do you know how the Seven Deadly Wastes are consuming your valuable resources and preventing your company from being the best it can be? If you don't know the Art of Going to Gemba (the place where work is done) you can't...

Readers of The Journey to Excellence will empathize with the plight of Allison Manufacturing Services (AMS), a small manufacturer struggling to survive global competition and specialization to the point where it is trying to be everything to everyone. Its board of directors is disheartened with the...

Identifying Waste is part of a series of eBooklets that provide the reader with a greater appreciation and understanding of the Lean Business Philosophy and how to effectively applying Lean Thinking across their enterprise. This is not intended to be a self-help series for implementing Lean in the...

If you are a business leader pondering whether the Lean business philosophy is right for your company, this book will put your concerns to rest. Improving productivity, processes, profits, and throughput by as much as 200%, or more, while reducing space and the reliance on large inventory can easily...

Around the seventh year of marriage, sex gets boring for many married couples. Sometimes, passion fades completely. To keep the fire burning, a couple must become somewhat adventurous--and partake in unusual activity. "Open House" is a short story about doing what it takes to spice up a marriage lacking that spark--even if it means the possibility of jail time if caught.