Americans are increasingly dismayed with a broken political system and the big institutions they blame for a Darwinian economy (in which it's getting harder to get ahead). What they've lost sight of is the importance of self-reliance and personal initiative in every individual's quest for prosperity. Liberty For All pushes past the usual go-nowhere policy prescriptions to probe what ordinary people can do to build their own self-reliance and enhance their odds of success. In a wry and ente...

Let’s face it: Setbacks happen, and failure is always a possibility. But here’s the good news: Amazing success has been achieved by people who once fell flat on their faces. The secret lies in how we respond to life’s bumps and pot holes and unwelcome detours—from getting fired or losing a business to enduring a professional rejection or pursuing a passion that fails to pan out. Misfortune, it turns out, can be a springboard to success.In Rebounders, U.S. News & World Report

Seamos realistas: encontraremos adversidades en el camino, y el fracaso será una posibilidad. La buena noticia es la siguiente: cosas extraordinarias les suceden a quienes en algún momento caen, tocan fondo y aun así… deciden resurgir. El secreto está en cómo ellos responden a los golpes de la vida —desde ser despedidos de sus empleos o perder un negocio, hasta enfrentar un rechazo laboral o perseguir un sueño que terminó en fracaso— disponi...

They had the most dangerous job n the Air Force. Now Bury Us Upside Down reveals the never-before-told story of the Vietnam War’s top-secret jet-fighter outfit–an all-volunteer unit composed of truly extraordinary men who flew missions from which heroes are made.In today’s wars, computers, targeting pods, lasers, and precision-guided bombs help FAC (forward air controller) pilots identify and destroy targets from safe distances. But in the search for enemy traffic on the elusive Ho...

Amid all the stories of tragedy and heroism on September 11, there is one tale that has yet to be told–the gripping account of ordinary men and women braving the inferno at the Pentagon to rescue friends and co-workers, save the nation’s military headquarters, and defend their country.Pentagon firefighters Alan Wallace and Mark Skipper had just learned the shocking news that planes had struck the World Trade Center when they saw something equally inconceivable: a twin-engine jetlin...

The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a changing environmental policy landscape because they present a contradiction of caution and innovation. This caution derives from the South's well-documented traditional culture while this innovation crosses geographical, pollution media, and inte...

Bring the beauty of Craftsman-style furniture into your home with these 17 stunning projects from the editors of Woodworker's Journal . Includes detailed plans, expert instruction, and helpful tips for building an immediate classic. Inspired by the Greene and Greene, Stickley, Arts and Crafts, and Mission styles and the trusted techniques, tips, and instruction for success.

This is to encourage others to remember that God’s sufficiency is always more than what is needed to get one through life. Have faith in God and trust him always in what you do. Your prayers will be answered. God will never leave you; he will always be there for you. This is a must-read book for all. Let others read it often, especially you!

College students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomerates.The contributors to Sport and the Neoliberal University examine how intercollegiate athletics became a contested terrain of public/private interests. They look at college sp...

2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender,...

This book I wrote delves into my life living with diabetes and navigating a world inhabited by people with disabilities. It touches on friends, family, loved ones, fame, fortune, riches, and the search for cures for all diseases--those naturally occurring and those man-made. It's a killer in a world created by God and complicated by human intervention. This book, a piece of my heart and soul, is offered to the world for reading, rating, loving, cherishing, laughing, crying, enjoying, and w...

This book was written in the hope that many sons and daughters of the king, who have been blinded, are asleep and who have fallen away. Double-minded people cannot make up their minds between good and evil. In Matthew 7:13-14, the gate that leads to eternal life is called narrow. This does not mean that it is difficult to become a Christian, but that there is only one way to live eternally with God and only a few who decide to walk that road. My hope and prayers are that this book will rea...