If you love words and you love God, this book is for you. Master poet Charles Brown will surprise you with words and turns of phrase that are heartfelt, meaningful, worshipful, and sometimes humorous. But these poems are much more than just words - they are worshipful, moving, and provide a depth of understanding and insight that anyone can learn from. Come find a quiet place and sit by the lantern's light. In the stillness of the moment, listen with your heart and let these refreshing words bathe your soul. Read with anticipation, knowing that God often uses ordinary thoughts and expressions to reveal extraordinary things He may want to do in and through your life. Experience a recreation, a renewal, a rejuvenation in your walk with the Savior. Or perhaps, begin that walk for the first time in your life. After attending California Baptist University in Riverside, Charles R. Brown worked in radio broadcasting, writing copy, programming, and announcing. His writing has appeared in Christian writing magazines and his devotionals have been published in Time Out! A Men's Devotional, Disciplines 1994, Take Five, God's Vitamin C for the Spirit of Men, An Expressive Heart, A Guide to Spiritual Discernment, Wounded by Words, and Too Soon to Say Goodbye. He is an active member of Bridges Christian Fellowship Church. "Charlie's words capture the imagination and inspire the heart. His words sparkle with a simplicity that can only be forged through a heart and mind that consistently engage God in the complexities and mysteries of life. When I read what Charlie writes, I lift my eyes from preoccupation with the minutiae of my own world and reorient my vision on God; I find hope for the journey." -Tom Allen, Regional Director, Southern California InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Many animal species live and breed in colonies. Although biologists have documented numerous costs and benefits of group living, such as increased competition for limited resources and more pairs of eyes to watch for predators, they often still do not agree on why coloniality evolved in the first place. Drawing on their twelve-year study of a population of cliff swallows in Nebraska, the Browns investigate twenty-six social and ecological costs and benefits of coloniality, many never before addressed in a systematic way for any species. They explore how these costs and benefits are reflected in reproductive success and survivorship, and speculate on the evolution of cliff swallow coloniality. This work, the most comprehensive and detailed study of vertebrate coloniality to date, will be of interest to all who study social animals, including behavioral ecologists, population biologists, ornithologists, and parasitologists. Its focus on the evolution of coloniality will also appeal to evolutionary biologists and to psychologists studying decision making in animals.
This work covers Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) detachments at historically African American colleges and universities throughout the United States from the inception of the Student Army Training Corps to the advanced programs currently in place. The armistices following World War I allowed for ROTC programs to be set up, World War II saw a push for recruits, and American participation in Vietnam made use of black soldiers more than ever. Despite African American participation in the military in war and peace, it took nearly 60 years for black collegiate education institutions (around 1973) to fulfill their need for Army, Navy and Air Force ROTC programs producing commissioned officers. The book discusses the beginnings of the ROTC programs at African American colleges with the Student Army Training Corps and the establishment, expansion and reorganization of the programs that followed. The acquisition of Air Force and Navy ROTC programs are discussed and all the revisions to the various programs thereafter, including opening them up to women.
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