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Bringing Progress to Paradise
What does it mean to bring progress—schools, electricity, roads, running water—to paradise? Can our consumer culture and desire to “do good” really be good for a community that has survived contentedly for centuries without us? In October 2008, climbing expedition leader and attorney, Jeffrey Rasley, led a trek to a village in a remote valley in the Solu region of Nepal named Basa. His group of three adventurers was only the third group of white people ever seen in this village of subsistence farmers. What he found was a people thoroughly unaffected by Western consumer-culture values. They had no running water, electricity, or anything that moves on wheels. Each family lived in a bea...
GODLESS -- Living a Valuable Life Beyond Beliefs
"Godless -- Living a Valuable Life beyond Beliefs begins as a memoir reaching back into the author's Puritan family history and the Salem witch trials. Rasley's worldwide travels, spiritual quest, and intellectual journey took him far from his small town roots in the Presbyterian Church and Republican Party. Fascination with cultures very different from his Hoosier homeland developed during adventure travel breaks from studies in London and the University of Chicago. A successful law practice eventually allowed him the freedom to combine ethnographic research with mountaineering expeditions and philanthropy projects. A special bond with the Rai people of Basa village developed during Rasley'...
False Prophet
False Prophet is a gritty insider's confession and rant against the corruption of our legal system. The author practiced law in Indianapolis for 30 years. It's also a love story about healing wounds and redemption. Jack Ross loses his soul but finds redemption representing an evangelical African-American preacher. Jack's downward spiral begins with his idealistic but doomed defense of his best friend and colleague. It becomes an existential crisis. His wife leaves. His partner is in alcohol rehab. Jack's struggle to reclaim his professional standing and self respect is aided by a petty criminal and a hot young reporter. Jack sets out to right the wrongs done to his Christian prophet-client. ...
Polarized! the Case for Civility in the Time of Trump
In the US, our body politic is sick. Political polarization has become violent and even spawned a new psychological condition, "post-election stress disorder." Instead of lowering the temperature, the media, politicians, and political action committees (PACs) stoke the angry passion of extremism. In a culture of outrage and siloing, social media is the go-to place to attack and to hide. Users rant and vent, and they huddle in like-minded silos. Social media encourages impulsive and angry responses to tweets or posts that irritate us. It also allows us to avoid challenges to our conventional wisdom. We can block, unfriend, and hunker down in private groups. Social media has so far aggravated,...
You Have to Get Lost Before You Can Be Found
Jeff Rasley's latest book is an adventure travelogue through the Himalayan region in prose and photos. This memoir traces his transition from an adventurous trekker and mountain climber to a committed "philanthro-trekker". The flatlander from Indiana fell in love with the Nepal Himalayas trekking the Mt. Everest Base Camp Trail in 1995 after his wife told him to "go take a hike" as therapy for a mid-life crisis. He came back home but left again to learn mountaineering skills in Ladakh, India, from one of America's greatest mountain climbers. After several Himalayan expeditions and resolution of the mid-life crisis Jeff began leading trekking and mountaineering expeditions in Nepal. He return...
Island Adventures
An island can be a place to be alone and to come to know your self more deeply. An island can offer intimate encounters with natural wonders. A visitor to an island may discover a culture and people so different from the familiar that the traveler feels like a stranger in a strange land. Islands beckon us to slow down and experience life with more intentional awareness; to "be here now". The stories in this book are about temporarily disconnecting from ordinary life to experience islands, strange creatures, and different cultures. There are encounters with whales, strange two-legged creatures, a mystical experience of super-human strength, and reflecting on whether that was or wasn't the grace of God. The stories are not so much a travelogue as an island-hopping adventure and spiritual journey. The stories in this little book are intended to take the reader out of the busyness of daily life to experience life at a slower pace, yet more consciously.
Monsters of the Midway 1969
From 1892 until the 1930s the legendary Monsters of the Midway dominated college football. But in 1939 the University of Chicago killed off its varsity football program. But now, it's 1969 and football is back. The resurrection of Chicago football hasn't brought the Monsters fully back to life. The team plays more like the lab mice of the Midway. The new Maroons are called "the worst team in college ball" by People Magazine. Players refuse to attend mandatory practices and flout NCAA rules. They lose game after game. Yet, guys who have IQ scores greater than their weight eventually commit to the goal to win one game for their old coach, Wally Hass. Coach Hass is the rare coach that truly bel...
Deep Learning at Scale
Bringing a deep-learning project into production at scale is quite challenging. To successfully scale your project, a foundational understanding of full stack deep learning, including the knowledge that lies at the intersection of hardware, software, data, and algorithms, is required. This book illustrates complex concepts of full stack deep learning and reinforces them through hands-on exercises to arm you with tools and techniques to scale your project. A scaling effort is only beneficial when it's effective and efficient. To that end, this guide explains the intricate concepts and techniques that will help you scale effectively and efficiently. You'll gain a thorough understanding of: How...
Civic Intelligence Empowering America’s Youth
American democracy is at risk unless we change the way we teach civic education in K-12 schools. This book will inspire educators and communities to transform schools by teaching democratic principles, systems thinking, and civic values, with opportunities for community problem-solvng. It describes 53 years of experience with many examples of youth civic engagement. We lack shared values and the political will to cooperate on implementing changes. We lack “civic intelligence,” which will guide us to transform schools and create a new path for America and humanity.
Ecuadorothy
This is a true story of travel with my indelicate progeny--two daughters of vastly different temperaments. And I, a shallow person, bitter and envious of all I see, lacking in courage but with delusions of grandeur, reluctantly agree to go along. Follow the drama of our insignificant sparring, dueling squabbling, and trivial ponderings from northern Ecuador's Otavalo markets, to the coastal city of Puerto López, to the southern Sierra's Cuenca. No huaca (sacred rock) left unturned. (You learn cool new words too.) Ecuadorothy will transport you to another world. Travel with us day and night on adventures, such as: one crabby all night bus ride through Ecuador's hinterlands, riding horses in a coastal tropical forest (okay, we lasted only ten minutes), a whale-less whale tour, not to mention the sudden onset of market madness (there was no vaccination for this particular fever), and a plethora of hideous hikes from hell. You will not be disappointed--like we were. And in the end, through it all, I truly love my experiences in Latin America.
