In Growing Your Pastor, Ron Gordon offers a solution to the burnout, depression, and frustration facing today's shepherds. Dare to embrace the responsibility of serving those who minister, challenging those who lead, and growing those who are called to shepherd God's people.
On a frosty day in February 1862, hundreds gathered to watch the execution of Nathaniel Gordon. Two years earlier, Gordon had taken Africans in chains from the Congo -- a hanging offense for more than forty years that no one had ever enforced. But with the country embroiled in a civil war and Abraham Lincoln at the helm, a sea change was taking place. Gordon, in the wrong place at the wrong time, got caught up in the wave. For the first time, Hanging Captain Gordon chronicles the trial and execution of the only man in history to face conviction for slave trading -- exploring the many compelling issues and circumstances that led to one man paying the price for a crime committed by many. Filled with sharply drawn characters, Soodalter's vivid account sheds light on one of the more shameful aspects of our history and provides a link to similar crimes against humanity still practiced today.
Integrals and sums are not generally considered for evaluation using complex integration. This book proposes techniques that mainly use complex integration and are quite different from those in the existing texts. Such techniques, ostensibly taught in Complex Analysis courses to undergraduate students who have had two semesters of calculus, are usually limited to a very small set of problems. Few practitioners consider complex integration as a tool for computing difficult integrals. While there are a number of books on the market that provide tutorials on this subject, the existing texts in this field focus on real methods. Accordingly, this book offers an eye-opening experience for computation enthusiasts used to relying on clever substitutions and transformations to evaluate integrals and sums. The book is the result of nine years of providing solutions to difficult calculus problems on forums such as Math Stack Exchange or the author's website, residuetheorem.com. It serves to detail to the enthusiastic mathematics undergraduate, or the physics or engineering graduate student, the art and science of evaluating difficult integrals, sums, and products.
The Taliban and ISIS insurgencies in the Middle East conflict zones threaten to spread worldwide fear, enveloping Russia, America, and NATO forces. An unassuming antihero contractor is drawn into this conflagration of atrocities with a tough NATO soldier, Anje, mutilated by terrorists’ intent on spreading fear to the very nations combating the fanatical insurgents, destroying the ancient fabric of surrounding Middle East nations to subjugate and to impose a lifestyle of fanatical Islamic sharia laws.
—IS support to detonate a nuclear device in a Russian-allied country —IS driven from Iraq to Afghanistan —IS to subversively involve NATO to retaliate/attack Russia —Russian Security race to stop IS on Barguzin Train. —Russia to install nukes at Kaliningrad and along the Russian border —American troops sent to reinforce NATO in Baltic region
When Pulp Worlds Collide! The Moon Man and Doctor Satan, hero and villain of their own pulp magazines, meet here for the first time ever in the cross-over that will leave you spellbound and begging for more. Written by Ron Fortier ("The Green Hornet," "Rambo," "The Terminator," etc.) and Gordon Linzner. Illustrated by Rob Davis ("Star Trek: The Next Generation," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," Malibu Comics, etc.) and Bradley Walton, with an eye-popping wrap-around cover by Tom Floyd. This edition also includes 2 short stories by Ron Fortier: "Lady Arcane - Mistress of Magic" and "Angel In His Sights" as bonus pieces in this pulp fiction masterpiece.
Stress FreeTM Work Process Solutions addresses three types of work and provides organizational guidance to enable a zero loss, flexible, growing environment. There is knowledge work that is done with computers. There is handwork that is done in assembly and service type work. There is equipment tending and operation work. All contribute to specific business goals. In each of the work types, people aspire to be good at what they do. Most often they desire to do good work and to contribute to the business. Peoples skill growth is directly linked to an increased business success and organizational flexibility and positive response to change. Documenting and flow-charting repetitive work creates the work production process. This is akin to building a physical production line. It provides the basis for continuous improvement. Once work functions are flow charted, shared work such as art development where different organizations do separate elements and have it all come together or assembly work where there are multiple assembly steps that build on each other, the step-by-step product transformation can be tracked. Visualizing the work process on the screen or on paper and tracking specific projects on an hour by hour basis or a day by day basis creates an environment where issues become apparent and improvement action taken. This is done using output tracking. On the assembly line, in the office, on the production floor, visualization of the condition of the work enables the person doing the work and allows for immediate support when problems arise. The person doing the work, the support person and the enabling leaders all need to be operating on the same work-flow chart and the same support enabling signals. The growth of skill and improved performance of everyone will be recognized in improved attendance and reduced regrettable departures. When this occurs work will flow smoothly and the production area, whether in the office, on a manual assembly line or on a physical production line will stabilize. Imagine being able to walk into a work area and immediately being able to know that everything is as it should be. Apply Stress FreeTM Work Process Solutions and achieve it...
On a frosty day in February 1862, hundreds gathered to watch the execution of Nathaniel Gordon. Two years earlier, Gordon had taken Africans in chains from the Congo -- a hanging offense for more than forty years that no one had ever enforced. But with the country embroiled in a civil war and Abraham Lincoln at the helm, a sea change was taking place. Gordon, in the wrong place at the wrong time, got caught up in the wave. For the first time, Hanging Captain Gordon chronicles the trial and execution of the only man in history to face conviction for slave trading -- exploring the many compelling issues and circumstances that led to one man paying the price for a crime committed by many. Filled with sharply drawn characters, Soodalter's vivid account sheds light on one of the more shameful aspects of our history and provides a link to similar crimes against humanity still practiced today.
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