In the course of ones life, there are always lessons learned. During my voyage, I have unfortunately discovered some things after the fact. Have you ever said, I wish I could see into the future? Well, thankfully, in Practical Wisdom, I have gone before you and have left some nuggets of wisdom to help you on your journey. Some of the topics shared are money matters, the power of words, family, health, and how to live like there is no tomorrow. I have found this treasure, and it is the principle thingwisdom.
In Grace - It's Still Amazing, I share some practical truths that will break the chain of lies that have kept many of us bound and not free to enjoy the fullness of our lives. Just because you have sinned, missed the mark, or not lived up to others' expectations does not mean that is your demise. If you fall seven times get up eight times and receive the cornucopia of God's sufficient grace. Some of the topics shared are Forgetting The Past, Time To Move On, God's Not Done, and Begin Again. I hope that you, like I, will discover this resounding truth about God's Grace - It's Still Amazing!
As the team debated who was the greatest, the answer was given - whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. The one that serves, he is the greatest. I have been honored and privileged to work alongside and serve with some of the most noted leaders in various industries. What got me there was simply my willingness to help and serve. I soon discovered it was a direct correlation to my personal success and achievement in life. In fact, it has become my epitaph. (The Helper) In Leading with a Servant's Heart (The Helper), I reveal some of the components that will help lead you to your next level in life, identify your leadership style, and substantiate your role as a leader. Some of the topics shared are The Gift of Helps, Receiving a Double Portion (Operating in the Favor of God), Serving From A Place of Honor and being a Servant Leader. When we Work Unto The Lord in any assignment the ultimate purpose is to hear Him say well done.
Cincinnati played a large part in creatng a refuge for escaped salaves and in the Underground Railroad movement. Nearly a century after the American Revolution, the waters of the Ohio River provided a real and complex barrier for the United States to navigate. While this waterway was a symbol of freedom and equality for thousands of enslaved black Americans who had escaped from the horrible institution of enslavement, the Ohio River was also used to transport thousands of slaves down the river to the Deep South. Due to Cincinnati's location on the banks of the river, the city's economy was tied to the slave society in the South. However, a special cadre of individuals became very active in the quest for freedom undertaken by African American fugitives on their journeys to the North. Thanks to spearheading by this group of Cincinnatian trailblazers, the Queen City became a primary destination on the Underground Railroad, the first multiethnic, multiracial, multiclass human-rights movement in the history of the United States.
From the author of Perils of a Silent Man comes a dynamic, thought- provoking, heart wrenching look into the lives of the fatherless. Issues and matters of the heart are addressed in such depth that it will virtually bring you to tears. Some of the topics shared are why did you leave me, trying to find my way, what do I tell my son, and how can I love him. Dr. Cooper states that if we do not know who we are; it will be virtually impossible to become that which we desire to be. Thankfully, with the practical applications shared in this presentation; help, peace, resolve and forgiveness are available. Success as a man lies not in how we started but how we finish. After reading Daddy I Miss You I am sure that you will finish strong.Dr. Eric Cooper is a native of Washington, DC. Author of Perils of a Silent Man, Covenant Relationships (Before You Say I Do, Oops I Already Did), Consider Your Ways (God's Financial Plan), Poor Man's Mind in a Rich Man's World and the children's book Nick and the Gweebles. Dr. Cooper is a featured writer for various periodicals including Anointed Pages Magazine and assists the board chair of Gospel Today Magazine. He is a guest speaker for conferences, seminars, churches and organizations across the country. He currently serves as a board member for several ministries including Family Empowerment Ministries Inc., SWIM Inc., Artist Owned Records and The Economic Empowerment Team. Dr. Cooper is the Assistant to the President and a member of the Fellowship of International Christian Word of Faith Ministries. The Cooper family resides in Maryland.
Annotation This important new work is a major analysis of the foundation of Eric Voegelin's political science. Barry Cooper maintains that the writings Voegelin undertook in the 1940s provide the groundwork for the brilliant book that is one of his best known, The New Science of Politics. At the time of that book's publication, however, few were aware of the enormous knowledge and accomplished scholarship that lay behind its illuminating, although sometimes baffling, formulations. By focusing on several of the key chapters in Voegelin's eight- volume History of Political Ideas, especially the studies of Bodin, Vico, and Schelling, Cooper shows how those studies provide the basis for Voegelin's thought. Investigating Voegelin's study of Oriental influences on Western political "ideas," especially Mongol constitutional law, and his study of Toynbee, Cooper seeks to demonstrate the vast range of materials Voegelin used. Cooper contends that, as with other great thinkers, political crisis, specifically the world war of 1939-1945, stimulated Voegelin's intellectual and spiritual achievement. He provides an analysis of Voegelin's immediate concern with the course of World War II, his ability to understand those dramatic events in a large context, and his ability to provide an insightful account of the causes, the significance, and the consequences of the spiritual and political disorder that was evident all around him. In Eric Voegelin and the Foundations of Modern Political Science, Cooper makes the connection between Voegelin's political writings of the 1940s and the meditative interpretations that began to appear with the publication of Anamnesis and with the later volumes of Order and History much more intelligible than does any existing discussion of Voegelin. Scholars in intellectual history and political science will benefit enormously from this valuable new addition to Voegelin studies
This is the first in-depth historical study of Byzantine Cappadocia. The authors draw on extensive textual and archaeological materials to examine the nature and place of Cappadocia in the Byzantine Empire from the fourth through eleventh centuries.
To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report identified and characterized China’s grand strategy, analyzed its component national strategies (diplomacy, economics, science and technology, and military affairs), and assessed how successful China might be at implementing these over the next three decades.
This volume of The Collected Works contains essays published by Eric Voegelin between 1929 and 1933, the period between the publication of his first book, On the Form of the American Mind, and Hitler's rise to power, as well as Voegelin's two books analyzing the explosive race issues posed by National Socialism. The essays herein reflect the intellectual and political tumult of the period and their author's maturing grasp of political reality as he moved away from positivism and Kelsen's "Pure Theory of Law" toward a more refined and open philosophical stance. The heart of this shift is signaled by his emphasis on philosophical anthropology and on the decisive importance of the moral substance basic to political communities." "The topics of the essays are grouped around major themes in sociological theory, political science, and the theory of law. They illuminate the theoretical and practical impact of Voegelin's experiences in America as he increasingly engages European theories of state, especially the social theories of leading French and German scholars. In content, these essays include such pragmatic concerns as American theories of property, economic transactions, due process of law, and Austrian constitutional reforms." --Book Jacket.
This is a first action adventure, sci-fi story about the area of Tulsa, Oklahoma that was named Black Wall Street aka Little Africa. Professor Simon Hicks along with his team of scientists and engineers embark on a journey to explore this area in Black History. As the team venture into the Greenville Triangle they discover that it is more than they had fathomed, and their efforts will be challenged by opposing forces that want to gain the power for the phenomenon for their own twisted purposes. This story's format is also unique which the author classifies as a 'Novic'. A novic is a full text story with illustrations in the beginning of each chapter to give the reader the sense of the events to come. To add to this format of the book there are also random comic book illustrated panels to give a fullness to the story being told.
In 1924, not quite two years after receiving his doctorate from the University of Vienna, Eric Voegelin was named a Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Fellow and thus given the opportunity to pursue postdoctoral studies in the United States. For the next twenty-four months, Voegelin worked with some of the most creative scholars in America and at several of the country's great universities, an experience that undoubtedly influenced his scholarly and personal perspectives throughout his life. A more immediate result was the publication in 1928 of On the Form of the American Mind, the young philosopher's first major work, in which his acute perceptions and analyses combine with a conceptual vocabulary struggling to find its own coherence and form. Voegelin begins his inquiry into the form of the American mind with a complex discussion of the concepts of time and existence in European and American philosophy and continues with an extended interpretation of George Santayana, a study of the Puritan mystic Jonathan Edwards, a presentation on Anglo-American jurisprudence, and a consideration of the historian, economist, and political scientist John R. Commons (Voegelin was particularly interested in Commons' views on the mental, political, social, and economic aspects of democracy in modern urban and industrial America). Although admitting that this diversity of themes seems only loosely connected," Voegelin demonstrates the actual overall unity of these various subjects: each concerns linguistic expressions of a theoretical nature. Analysis of On the Form of the American Mind indicates that Voegelin integrated the approaches of Lebensphilosophie into what Georg Misch called the "philosophical combination of anthropology and history," which characterized contemporary trends within the discourse of the Geisteswissenschaften and finally resulted in a theoretical paradigm of philosophical anthropology. Jürgen Gebhardt and Barry Cooper provide access to this brilliant study with their two-part introduction. The first part considers On the Form of the American Mind in the context of methodological debates ongoing in Germany at the time Voegelin was writing the book; the second describes Voegelin's American experience and compares his work with similar studies written during the post-World War I period.
Nearly a century after the American Revolution, the waters of the Ohio River provided a real and complex barrier for the United States to navigate. While this waterway was a symbol of freedom and equality for thousands of enslaved black Americans who had escaped from the horrible institution of enslavement, the Ohio River was also used to transport thousands of slaves down the river to the Deep South. Due to Cincinnati's location on the banks of the river, the city's economy was tied to the slave society in the South. However, a special cadre of individuals became very active in the quest for freedom undertaken by African American fugitives on their journeys to the North. Thanks to spearheading by this group of Cincinnatian trailblazers, the "Queen City" became a primary destination on the Underground Railroad, the first multiethnic, multiracial, multiclass human-rights movement in the history of the United States.
Part of a series of self-assessment picture tests in veterinary medicine, this volume focuses on exotic pets, an expanding area of small animal practice. Covering all the principal species groups commonly kept as pets, the questions test knowledge of not only diseases and their management, but also the less familiar, but often vitally important features of the basic anatomy of these species.
Nygel Spinner lived a normal life as a college student, until one fateful night he became something more than human. With advanced technology and superhuman abilities he suddenly became the ultimate hunter. As Nygel tries to balance his normal life with the dangers of being Knight Seeker, evil forces are at work attempting to dominate the world of the living. Join Knight Seeker as he battles Warlord Sage, a demon bent on opening the Gates of Hell and unleashing doom for all mankind.
In a time not so long ago, all was as it appeared or at least we thought so. No one knew what went on in Nick's room after dark. No one knew all of the things that went on in the park. Nick and The Gweebles are having some exciting times and they want you to join the adventures.
Our vision for The Weaponcraft Journal is to create a reference where topics related to the relevant use of firearms as weapons are explored without considerations for competition or other sporting uses. We have no criticism of these activities but rather choose to focus on the serious use of weapons. We cover all varieties of weapons both present and historic, firearms, edged and improvised as well as unarmed combat. This issue's guest authors include Tom Givens of Rangemaster, Steve Cooper of Paladin Training, Dr. Tom Griswold of Griswold Self Defense and Dalton Jantzen of Elizabethtown Community & Technical College. In addition you will find articles from AIM's leadership and cadre including Jim Higginbotham, Eric Dean and Kip Brandel sharing his knowledge of all things reloading.
Agriculture and Forestry Division, Volume 2: Agrarian Development in Peasant Economies: Some Lessons from Kenya tackles various areas of concerns in agriculture in the context of peasant economy. The title provides examples from the Kenyan agrarian development policies. The text first covers concern in improving agricultural production, and then proceeds to tackling post-war Kenya. Next, the selection talks about Kenyan agrarian revolution, along with the economics and features of peasant agriculture. The sixth chapter discusses government and agrarian development, while the seventh chapter details further problems of agrarian reform. The book will be of great interest to political scientists, economists, agriculturists, and sociologists.
Welcome to the newest venture in the Knight Seeker story realm which takes place in the rough streets of Los Angeles, California. Tyreek Solder is a high school teen who happens to be a talented computer hacker. While at school he secretly winds up breaking into the devious and sinister Diamond Corporation's mainframe computer which consequently places his life in grave jeopardy. As the forces of the Diamond Corp. give chase to Tyreek he is killed one fateful night and is mysteriously brought back to life by a strange alien technology. With his new emerging abilities Tyreek must learn to adapt to his new life as a superhero, and get through the school year while discovering the person he truly is.MERGE is a 'Caption Novel' containing over 40 illustrations.
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