Jesus told us to be His disciples and to follow Him. This begs the obvious question, "What does a disciple of Jesus look like in character, in speech, and in action?" Jesus gave His disciples the answer in one definitive message. This message is found in the Gospel of Matthew chapters 5, 6, and 7 (commonly called the Sermon on the Mount). Yet these chapters are often discounted, overlooked, and misunderstood. For 40 days we will sit at the feet of the greatest Teacher, Savior, and King our world could ever know.
Higbee is a fictional town in Colorado. It's a place where good people prosper; it's a place where all the rules we learned as children are proven true; it's a place where cause and effect are seen and understood; it's a place where those (who accept things greater than themselves) begin to experience the utopia that everyone has always believed to have existed. Those who live, therein, benefit; those who don't live, therein, live in awe at the accomplishments that the community and its creative minds continue to produce. Yes, Higbee seems too good to be true. But, with the right state of mind, and with the right heart, what seems to be too good to be true will come to pass--not only in the fictional town of Higbee, but in our own lives--but, only if we believe and, then, practice what we believe. To believe, we must first buy the premise that it exists. Logic and experience will lead us to our own Higbees, (which we can call our own). Struggle with Larry as he comes to terms with his girlfriend's pregnancy; Marvel at the mentorship of Vernon, Larry's dad. This novel explores the values that lead to resolving a person's ""True Nature." It's a delightful, positive read!
The American colonists solidified their independence from England with the conclusion of the Revolutionary War in 1783. However, the new citizens of this new country called the United States of America still had to figure out their own way forward. Students will hear from Founding Fathers including John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin about how the government was formed. Students will also learn about how the United States handled international and domestic affairs, about explorations of new territories, and about the day-to-day lives of early Americans, including Native Americans and enslaved Africans, through letters, speeches, legal documents, slave narratives, newspaper articles, and more. Students will gain a rounded understanding of the foundations of America.
Ranging from "Apple Butter" to "Zimmerman, Zeager, and Zook," an alphabet book explores the distinctive culture, lifestyle, customs, and heritage of the Pennsylvania Dutch people.
We are not a despot. We simply aspire to become one. Health. Politics. Parenting. Education. Coffee. Bamboo. These are just some of the serious problems that plague each of us every day. But aren’t we all too busy to deal with these issues? Wouldn’t we like a friendly monarch to take over and solve all of them for us? This book covers a plethora of deep societal problems along with reasonable solutions, if only we would elect the author as King. Or at least allow him to take power in whatever way was most appropriate. Kingship: It’s not just for princes anymore!
Organizing his book according to the monastic hours of prayer, Chet Raymo examines the strength of scientific language to encounter the divine in the natural world.
Many cultures around the world have records of ancient aliens who visited them, gave them knowledge and left. Who are these aliens? This book will identify these ancient aliens and describe a coming day when these aliens will return to the earth. The day of the aliens return to the earth will be integrated into the idea of the Rapture and the Return of Christ.
Shopping in a Roman market, praying at Jerusalem's Western Wall, and reading the Acts of the Apostles in Ephesus were all part of the five month sabbatical journey of Father Chet Snyder as he followed in the footsteps of Jesus, Saint Peter and Saint Paul. A Sabbath Shared is his spiritual travelogue written in Italy, Israel, Turkey, Greece and England. The ruins of the Roman Forum, Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the ancient temples of the Acropolis in Athens provide the setting for Father Snyder's reflections and questions on the nature of faith, the mission of the church and the mystery of the human person. With wit and wisdom he shares his experiences and encourages us to rejoice in our dignity as children of God and accept Jesus' invitation to have life, and live it to the full. Whether he is praying on the Mount of Olives, conversing with a Jerusalem tour guide or bargaining with a carpet salesman in Istanbul, Father Snyder draws lessons from the experiences of everyday life that invite his readers to travel with him and share the blessings of an extended Sabbath in places ever on his mind and close to his heart.
At the insistence of an influential black state senator and a lack of evidence, Joan Cardwell, an elected prosecutor, amidst racial tensions, brings a murder charge against a white police officer for the death of a black burglary suspect. In return, the prosecutor is promised a judicial appointment. Shortly after that promise is fulfilled, the senator’s son is charged with murdering his girlfriend and the case is assigned to now Judge Cardwell. Jonathan Felbin, the police officer’s former attorney, is hired to represent the senator’s son and quickly suspects that the fix is in. When the trial ends, will Felbin’s suspicions about the judge be verified? Will the real killer be identified or will Felbin search for answers that will lead down a dangerous path filled with twists, turns and dead ends? In the end will the guilty be identified or will politics define the criminal justice system?
When I am King... this book will be required reading. Until then, consider it important background reading on future social policy. And an excellent beer coaster. With life comes life's many critical problems, such as: Why are wedding ceremonies so very long, often outlasting the marriages themselves? Why are we forced to celebrate wedding anniversaries, inevitably leading to stress, forgetfullness, guilt, anger, recriminations, and alimony? We're constantly making mistakes in life and have no one to blame but ourselves. Why can't we hire someone to take the blame? Why are women's showers so packed with bottles and substances that there's no room left for the people? Why aren't newborn babies clearly labeled with their sex to avoid awkward assumptions by strangers? Why are newborn stats reported in weight and length, like fish? Fortunately, this manifesto exists to deal with these and other pressing problems that we all face in work, relationships, parenting, eating, and life overall.
This text offers an in-depth case study of the development of an experimental community college established by City University of New York with the aim of increasing two-year completion rates. By detailing academic and administrative reforms undertaken at Guttman Community College since 2007, the text illustrates the implementation of innovative practices in developmental education, advising, and experiential education and offers critical commentary on why reforms failed to bring the expected results. In a series of comprehensive and insightful chapters, Jordan maps the process of implementation and reform at Guttman Community College. In doing so, he explores the shortcomings of the Guttman enterprise, and offers in-depth analysis of the causes and implications of a failure to account for the local context and student population in planning and implementation phases. This unique, historical narrative thus offers important insights into pitfalls and best practices around issues of racial inequity, governance and leadership, curriculum development, student support services, and data-driven decision making. Each chapter concludes with a section focusing specifically on implications for the post-secondary system more broadly to inform effective, appropriate, and inclusive college reform. This book will be of interest to postgraduates and researchers exploring the history and governance of postsecondary education in the United States, as well as academic administrators, faculty, and policymakers. Jordan speaks to the myriad lessons that can be valuable for a higher education landscape that is hungry for innovation and reform.
Take a walk with a man named Ben C. Benson as he travels down the old, winding, dirt road of life and death. Mr. Benson has thirteen appointments that he must arrive at on time. He meets a man named Mr. Parks, and together they travel a road that nobody knows about; a road of life vs. death, a road of creation vs. destruction, a road of love vs. hate, a winding road of GOD vs. Satan. Walk down the same road that leads you from antiquity and into the future. Will Mr. Parks escape from his past and does Mr. Benson hold the key to his future? Together they walk down the old, winding, dirt road; all the way from the Garden of Eden, onto the Great Pyramid in Egypt, and into the futuristic Earth in the year 2020. Some people say, The past will repeat itself. If this is true, then what does the future hold for Mr. Benson and Mr. Parks? Take a walk down the old, winding, dirt road with the thirteen appointments in time. Sojourn with Mr. Benson and Mr. Parks to find out the truth of what lies upon the road of life. The question is my friend: Do you want to know the truth?
The binary stars Ti and Silan are hosts for the Kovalen planetary system. The ruling monarchy of the system employs Royal Security to handle the problems of subversive or militant elements on the other inhabited planets in the system. Their methods are swift and ruthless. Their director, Mr. Detu, controls the specially trained assassins that are at his disposal. One of his agents, Jaan Larin, is among the best he has ever trained. Larin grew up a ́presumed ́ orphan on the streets of Kovalen ́s capital city. His hardened mentality and incredible aptitudes make him an ideal recruit for the work that Detu needs done. Larin, now heavily experienced in the field of covert ́terminations ́ is hand-picked for a mission that is vital to the very existence of the the "Order"; the Kovalen royal family that rules the system. His mission is to return to his homeworld, a place he has no memeory of ever being on, to conduct a search and recovery of stolen tech-manuals for the most dangerous weapon of mass destruction ever developed and used. The implosion warhead device can annihilate a whole planet; reduce it to rubble. A tattoo given to him at birth is his key to infiltrating the society of his homeworld. The planet Damirius is but a frontier planet with its own ideas of independence. The ruling regime wants the matter of the stolen plans to be solved quietly. The only clue that has been found has traced the stolen plans to Damririus. That clue is a woman ́s name: Jaquin. Before setting off on his assignment, Larin ́s street-hewn suspicions lead him to the discovery that he is meant to accomplish his mission, but not live to tell the tale. He is to be the pawn in a cover-up that will ensure the ́quiet solution ́ that the royal family wants. His mind begins to bound from one vision to another in a manner he can ́t understand. All he can do is cling to the realization that he must survive. The visions he sees are that of a woman. A most beautiful and seductive woman that torments his very soul. The Damirian mysticism begins its work and Larin is driven by his passions in what turns into the self-realizations and discovery of who he really is; the kidnapped heir to the throne of Damirius. Spiritually bound together by the unexplainable phenomenon called the ́wait ́, he and Jaquin are pulled together in an alliance to foil the plans of the Order. Hunted and haunted, Larin is first driven away from Jaquin into the frozen wild of Damirius. The struggle that ensues brings them together and sets a new course for the history of the entire Kovalen solar system.
NEWLY REVISED AND UPDATED The bestselling business playbook for turbocharging any organization, updated for modern audiences with new and never-before-seen material Every single day 3,076 businesses shut their doors. But what if you could create the finest, most profitable and best-run version of your business without wasting precious dollars on a thousand different strategies? When The Ultimate Sales Machine first published in 2007, legendary sales expert Chet Holmes gave us the key to do just that. All you need is to focus on twelve key areas of improvement—and practice them over and over with pigheaded discipline. Now, a decade later, Chet’s daughter Amanda Holmes breathes new life into her father’s classic advice. With updated language to match our ever-changing times and over 50 new pages of content, The Ultimate Sales Machine will help any modern reader transform their organization into a high-performing, moneymaking force. With practical tools, real-life examples, and proven strategies, this book will show you how to: • Teach your team to work smarter, not harder • Get more bang from your marketing for less • Perfect every sales interaction by working on sales, not just in sales • Land your dream clients This revised edition expands on these proven concepts, with checklists to get faster ROIs, Core Story Frameworks to get your company to number one in your marketplace, and a bonus, never-before-revealed chapter from Chet, “How to Live a Rich and Full Life,” that will put you in the best possible mindset to own your career. For every CEO, manager, and business owner who wants to take their organization to the next level, The Ultimate Sales Machine will put you and your company on the path to success—and help you stay there!
In Apocalyptic Cartography: Thematic Maps and the End of the World in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript, Chet Van Duzer and Ilya Dines analyse Huntington Library HM 83, an unstudied manuscript produced in Lübeck, Germany. The manuscript contains a rich collection of world maps produced by an anonymous but strikingly original cartographer. These include one of the earliest programs of thematic maps, and a remarkable series of maps that illustrate the transformations that the world was supposed to undergo during the Apocalypse. The authors supply detailed discussion of the maps and transcriptions and translations of the Latin texts that explain the maps. Copies of the maps in a fifteenth-century manuscript in Wolfenbüttel prove that this unusual work did circulate. A brief article about this book on the website of National Geographic can be found here.
The first biography of the general’s complex, often contradictory military service in the US and Confederate armies and his postwar British exploits. Roswell S. Ripley (1823–1887) was a man of considerable contradictions exemplified by his distinguished antebellum service in the US Army, followed by a controversial career as a Confederate general. After the war he was active as an engineer/entrepreneur in Great Britain. Author Chet Bennett contends that these contradictions drew negative appraisals of Ripley from historiographers, and in Resolute Rebel Bennett strives to paint a more balanced picture of the man and his career. Born in Ohio, Ripley graduated from the US Military Academy and served with his classmate Ulysses S. Grant in the Mexican War, during which Ripley was cited for gallantry in combat. In 1849 he published The History of the Mexican War, the first book-length history of the conflict. While stationed at Fort Moultrie in Charleston, Ripley met his Charleston-born wife and began his conversion from unionism to secessionism. After resigning his US Army commission in 1853, Ripley became a sales agent for firearms manufacturers. When South Carolina seceded from the Union, Ripley took a commission in the South Carolina Militia and was later commissioned a brigadier general in the Confederate army. Wounded at the Battle of Antietam in 1862, he carried a bullet in his neck until his death. Unreconciled in defeat, Ripley moved to London, where he unsuccessfully attempted to gain control of arms-manufacturing machinery made for the Confederacy, invented and secured British patents for cannons and artillery shells, and worked as a writer who served the Lost Cause. After twenty-five years researching Ripley in the United States and Great Britain, Bennett asserts that there are possibly two reasons a biography of Ripley has not previously been written. First, it was difficult to research the twenty years he spent in England after the war. Second, Ripley was so denigrated by South Carolina’s governor Francis Pickens and Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard that many writers may have assumed it was not worth the effort and expense. Bennett documents a great disconnect between those negative appraisals and the consummate, sincere military honors bestowed on Ripley by his subordinate officers and the people of Charleston after his death, even though he had been absent for more than twenty years. “A vitally useful addition to the Civil War Charleston literature.” —Civil War Books and Authors “[A] deeply researched and closely argued study. General Roswell S. Ripley emerges from the margins of Civil War history thanks to the able pen of Chet Bennett.” —A. Wilson Greene, author of Civil War Petersburg: Confederate City in the Crucible of War
In Walking Zero, Chet Raymo uses the Prime Meridian-the line of zero longitude and the standard for all the world's maps and clocks-to tell the story of humandkind's intellectual journey from a cosmos not much larger than ourselves to the universe of the galaxies and geologic eons. As in his highly praised The Path and Climbing Brandon, Raymo connects personally with the story by walking England's Prime Meridian from Brighton through Greenwich to the North Sea. The Prime Meridian passes near a surprising number of landmarks that loom large in science: Isaac Newton's chambers at Trinity College, Cambridge; Charles Darwin's home at Down, in Kent; the site where the first dinosaur fossils were discovered; and John Harrison's clocks in a museum room of the Royal Observatory, among many others. Visiting them in turn, Raymo brings to life the human dramas of courageous individuals who bucked reigning orthodoxies to expand our horizons, including one brave rebel who paid the ultimate price for surmising the multitude of worlds we now take for granted. A splendid short history of astronomy and geology, Walking Zero illuminates the startling interplay of science, psychology, faith, and the arts in our understanding of space and time.
It was a time of wonder and excitement, a time of beginnings: The British have just signed the surrender at Yorktown, and Charles Dupree, uncertain even of his age, has walked away from a French ship and into a new country. Here, no one will care about his background here, in America, all things will be possible for the French street urchin. All he will have to do is work, and that does not frighten Charles. Growing with the nation, Charles moves west, and it is in the rough river town of Nashville that he finds his place and realizes his dream: Bon Marche, an estate devoted to the breeding of race horses. With a scope as broad as the country it portrays, Bon Marche is an epic novel as exciting as its time, filled with grand passion and abiding love. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
This specially compiled volume contains contributions from Wolf Prize laureates. In agriculture, there is no higher prize than the Wolf Prize. The book includes a list of publications and the most important papers in plant and animal breeding, genetics, biochemistry and plant protection, biotechnology, as well as chemistry and the physics of soils.
Charles Dewey is dead. His beloved daughter, Alma May Dewey, runs Bon Marche. Under her firm control, the stud farms and racing string are even more successful that Charles could have hoped. But the 1850s are an unsettled time. Even the illustrious Deweys cannot ignore the debates over states' rights and slavery--especially when the stories are carried on the front pages of their own newspapers. The fires of the Civil War will reach even the pillared portico of Bon Marche. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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