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The shelf is the evidence.

These books began as bodies of knowledge, working methods, research, and persistent questions. The studio’s job was to help each one find its clearest durable form.

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Professional practice

Dynamic Mediation

Practical strategies for complex disputes and high-conflict situations

A practitioner’s method developed into a clear, usable book for mediators and leaders working in difficult conflict.

Studio contribution

Concept · Manuscript · Editorial · Cover · Production

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Workplace leadership

Dynamic Mediation at Work

Managing workplace conflict when walking away isn’t an option

A focused follow-on title that carries a tested framework into realistic workplace cases and decisions.

Studio contribution

Book architecture · Writing · Editorial · Design · Production

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Translation and commentary

Dao De Jing 道德經

A new translation through pictographic roots

An eighty-one-chapter translation shaped into both a quiet printed edition and an explorable online companion.

Studio contribution

Research · Translation · Editorial · Cover · Print & digital

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Illustrated edition

The Dao De Jing in Eighty-One Paintings

The illustrated edition — one painting for every chapter

A companion to the complete translation, built as a facing-page sequence: each chapter distilled to a single page opposite a full-page painting, eighty-one spreads in all.

Studio contribution

Art direction · Illustration · Layout · Cover · Print & digital

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Personal growth

Let It Go

A guide to the pain you won’t put down

A structural, case-led approach to what people can’t seem to release — six intertwined stories shaped into one coherent, unflinching book.

Studio contribution

Concept · Manuscript · Editorial · Cover · Production

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Cover in design The Anatomy of Viability Ali Soleymaniha

Management and systems thinking

The Anatomy of Viability

How Stafford Beer saw what management science still can’t

A fifty-year-old model of organizational survival, one invented industrial company carrying the whole argument, and a full apparatus of notes and sources standing behind it. The studio’s work here is the architecture — sixteen chapters and three interludes sequenced so a practitioner can read it straight through and a sceptic can check every claim.

Studio contribution

Book architecture · Manuscript · Research · Editorial · Production

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02professional-practice titles
81translated chapters in the Dao De Jing
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