Where can we find a wellspring of inspiration to raise us out of our doldrums, rekindle our enthusiasm about everyday events, and encourage us to explore untested possibilities? Maybe we can find it in familiar places: within ideas and examples of people we know that illuminate higher values to aspire to; among simple interests and pleasures that we take for granted and never fully recognize; and connected to unresolved problems that cry out for innovative solutions.Being motivated...

“Professor Larry Bell’s Thinking Whole is a profound book on living life to the fullest, following passions, and seeking out curiosities with drive and vigor. Thinking Whole is about not allowing yourself to be pigeonholed by the constrictions and pressures of conformity in society today.The underlying message explores the power of using intuition and letting your mind flow with free thinking, boldness, and awareness. Through this mindset, we can move forward into action and execut...

Probing life’s eternal mysteries … Why are each of us here? Is this our first and last time around? If not, what aspects of our true “selves” will follow present mortal experiences? Such fundamental questions have fascinated philosophers, theologians and scientists over thousands of years. Cosmic Musings author, Professor Larry Bell explores a literal universe of possibilities revealed through his provocatively thoughtful and highly readable lifelong tour ...

Our greatest and most immediate national and personal security threat…State-sponsored cyberattacks move at the speed of light to infiltrate information networks, disrupt vital energy grids, extort money from banking systems and perpetrate disinformation campaigns.America’s extensive electronic infrastructure dependence comes with the disadvantage of being the glassiest house in a low-cost stone fight.Not just a field of military engagement, the cyberspace battlefiel...

Science museums are in the business of making science accessible to the public-a public constantly bombarded with new information and research results. How the public understands this information will affect what they expect and take away from a museum's exhibits and programs. Creating Connections looks at the public understanding of research (PUR) and how it affects what science museums do. What are the opportunities and critical issues in PUR? What strategies are working and what are som...

Health Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications, and Opportunities aggregates sport and health communication into a collective resource that advances scholarly inquiry at the intersection of these two fields. Through bringing together a collaborative of scholars and practitioners who are doing work in areas ranging from mental health, to media, to youth sports, and social media, this volume evaluates health communication issues in sport contexts and inspires work that will answer...

In the summer of 1985, the small town of Lugoff, South Carolina, was shattered by a series of heinous crimes that left the community reeling. Larry Gene Bell, a seemingly ordinary man with a dark past, kidnapped and murdered two young girls, Valencia Williams and Sharon Faye Smith. As the town united in a desperate search for the missing girls, the horrifying truth emerged, revealing a man capable of unimaginable evil. "Small-Town Terror: The Larry Gene Bell Story and the Crime That Stunne...

In this fascinating historical memoir, W.D.M. Bell recounts tales from his life as the premiere elephant hunter at the turn of the twentieth century. Bell’s daring exploits in Uganda and other African countries earned him widespread notoriety and a modest fortune. He knew elephants inside and out, and he used this knowledge to make the most of every shot. This memoir is a must-read for anyone interested in big game hunting or African safaris.

The full story of the infamous double murder featured on Discovery's FBI Files—includes photos.In this book, former South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) forensic photographer Lt. Rita Y. Shuler recounts twenty-eight days of terror and shocking developments in one of the most notorious double murders and manhunts in South Carolina history.Shuler shares her own personal interactions with some of the key players in this famous manhunt and in...

The First Counterspyis the pulse-quickening and traumatic story of spy, counterspy, and an American family unwittingly caught in its web. Until this case, the FBI had never recruited civilian counterspies to catch a Soviet agent. The first two were Larry Haas, a leading aviation engineer at Bell Aviation, and Leona Franey, head librarian at Bell’s technical library. The FBI pitted them against a Soviet agent, Andrei Ivanovich Schevchenko, operating legally as one of the highest Soviet offi...

A dark speculative fiction anthology of ecological delights and nightmares. In each piece, Nature prevails, it triumphs, one way or another, with teeth, claws, vines, tentacles, or more over human exploitation. Prose and poetry are equals here, giving you decadent, violent, and elegant delights. Dark humor and dark tales for dreams of a better tomorrow. All speculative subgenres are included, from literary horror, extreme horror, psychological horror to dark science fiction and new weird. ...

The full story of the infamous double murder featured on Discovery's FBI Files.In this book, former South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) forensic photographer Lt. Rita Y. Shuler recounts twenty-eight days of terror and shocking developments in one of the most notorious double murders and manhunts in South Carolina history.Shuler shares her own personal interactions with some of the key players in this famous manhunt and investigation. Als...