In 1937, prior to the 1948 inauguration of the World Council of Churches, Karl Barth challenged the churches to engage in "real strict sober genuine theology" in order that the unity of the church might be visibly realized. At that time The Salvation Army didn't aspire to being formally known as a church, even though it was a founding member of the WCC. Today it is globally known as a social welfare organization, concerned especially to serve the needs of those who find themselves at the m...

"The greatest entertainer who ever lived..."Judy Garland faced plenty of problems on her way to superstardom—her height, her age, her appearance—but she also had something audiences loved: one of the best singing voices in Hollywood history.Judy Garland: Little Woman, Big Talent tells the true story of everything Judy Garland had to tackle in landing the role of a lifetime: Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Young readers will love learning how this lit...

Pete Seeger, The People's Singer is the first children's book about the legendary folk singer and civil rights activist. Young readers can learn about this man of the people who encouraged his audiences to sing along and became a hero to millions of them. Help them discover the life of the man who:• Taught Martin Luther King We Shall Overcome• Cleaned up the Hudson River• Fought for the rights of workers everywhere• Wrote many songs kids st...

The first and only book for collectors of cast-iron Bundt pans. Includes pans from both the US and Germany.Many of the cast-iron foundries in Germany were converted to support the German military during WWI and WWII. Unfortunately for these foundries, this made them prime military targets. The result was many of the foundries were destroyed, along with all their records, catalogs, patterns, and molds. Little information was left behind for collectors to research and...

The co-author of Looking Glass Universe probes the nature of creativity and reveals the strategies and tactics of some of our greatest creative minds.What makes geniuses different from the rest of us? What is the difference between a prodigy and a genius? Are geniuses born or made? What is creative vision and where does it come from? What are the secrets of talent? And why do great creators seem to have so many oppositions in their personalities?In t...

Forget the grind. We can create sustainable success without exhaustion—in fact, we’re more likely to succeed if we know when to stop working.We’ve been sold a broken version of work-life balance—one that assumes that busyness is the same as productivity and that resting is a weakness. In Take Breaks, Work Better, John Briggs teaches small business owners how to break free from these toxic myths, using a science-backed approach to mastering efficiency. Draw...

This survey of crime in ENgland from the medieval period to the present day synthesizes case-study and local-level material and standardizes the debates and issues for the student reader.

The works of William Shakespeare vividly represent for our admiration and study a pageant of souls with longing in whose wake we ceaselessly follow. Through some of his most memorable characters, Shakespeare illuminates the nature and character—as well as consequences—of our distinctively human passions and ambition, in particular our desire for and pursuit of both honor and love. The contributors to this collaborative volume (scholars in English Literature, Political Philosophy, and the H...

Curtains is a dizzying photographic foray into the hidden realities lurking in the folds of puddled curtains that the photographer, John Briggs, found in windows of a central London office building. The photographer puts the curtain folds though simple transformations that result in strange creatures and eerie landscapes that suggest to him that everyday reality might be unreal.World-renowned black and white photographer Paul Caponigro has called the 32 pages of the curtain series ...

In the last twenty years, more than five million American workers have lost their jobs in the manufacturing sector in this country. But you and I can put a lot of those Americans back to work by making some very simple changes in how we shop. By making products manufactured by American workers our default choice when we go shopping, we can usher in a renaissance of American manufacturing employment. Simply American tells the story of how our nation’s consumers evolved from buying mostly Am...

The colonies know. And the powder keg is ready to blow.Human colonies have learned a dark secret about the United Planetary Coalition's mortal enemy, the Jaari, and have violently revolted. Joaquin Lafontaine and his fellow "super soldiers," the Avatars, are thrown back into the action. Their mission is to take the fight to their foes and to find a way to quell the raging colonial rebellions before the UPC fractures and falls apart.However, Joaquin must prove himself agains...