Is your life's scoreboard reflecting the champion you were born to be? In Champion in Life, legendary Hall of Fame coach Jack Johnson delivers a powerful "playbook for life" forged from over sixty years of mentoring elite athletes and everyday individuals. This isn't just a book about sports; it is a roadmap for building toughness, stretching your faith, and leading with unshakeable purpose in every arena from the boardroom to the kitchen table.Through 30 battle-te...

Classic Text on Prophecy Revised for a New GenerationBestselling author Cindy Jacobs, known internationally as a leading prophetic voice, brings a foundational book for the prophetic movement to the next generation of believers. In this fully revised and updated edition, Jacobs offers a practical, biblical examination of the gift of prophecy, showing how it can be the pathway for the powerful, life-giving work of God. Every reader can learn the basic protocols as w...

Essays by space scientists and engineers on the coolest ways and means to get humanity to the stars along with stories by an all-star assortment of talespinners abounding with Hugo and Nebula award winners: Ben Bova, Mike Resnick, Jack McDevitt, Michael Bishop, Sarah A. Hoyt and more.Some humans may be content staying in one place, but many of us are curious about what’s beyond the next village, the next ocean, the next horizon. Are there others like us out there? How will we reach...

Two realities are evident in today's broken world: our culture is in desperate need, and our God is a miracle-working God. How do believers answer the world's cries for help in a way that reflects God's heart of compassion?According to bestselling author Bill Johnson, we simply embrace two additional realities: God's wisdom and his power. With biblical insight and extensive experience of seeing God's hand at work, Johnson offers keys to helping believers have the greatest impact on...

In 1773, James Boswell made a long-planned journey across the Scottish Highlands with his English friend Samuel Johnson; the two spent more than a hundred days together. Their tour of the Hebrides resulted in two books, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), a kind of locodescriptive ethnography and Johnson's most important work between his Shakespeare edition and his Lives of the Poets. The other, Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel ...

Worlds of Byzantium offers a new understanding of what it means to study the history and visual culture of the Byzantine empire during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Arguing that linguistic and cultural frontiers do not always coincide with political ones, it suggests that Byzantine studies should look not only within but also beyond the borders of the Byzantine empire and include the history of Christian populations in the Muslim-ruled Middle East and neighbouring states like Ethiopi...

First published in 1927, Jack Johnson's autobiography, Jack Johnson: In the Ring and Out, remains the key source for information about his life. As he himself states in it: "I am astounded when I realize that there are few men in any period of the world's history, who have led a more varied or intense existence than I [have]."Jack Johnson, who became the first black heavyweight boxing champion in the world in 1908, was the preeminent American sports personality of his era, a man who...

Golf is one game that can be enjoyable but sometimes it can be the hardest game in the world. Being a single figure golfer myself I thought I'd write a book on the past 15+ years of experience that I have got. I talked to alot of people and I have had professional coaches that have coached me on my swing and also mind. I have had some amazing breakthroughs through my journey and would love to share the tips that have given me a significant edge over others.This book is great for be...

This book covers all aspects of the medicinal chemistry of the latest drugs, and the cutting-edge science associated with them. Following the editors’ 3 successful drug synthesis books, this provides expert analysis of the pros and cons of different synthetic routes and demystifies the process of modern drug discovery for practitioners and researchers.Summarizes for each drug: respective disease area, important properties and SAR (structure-activity relationship), and chemica...

The Art of Drug Synthesis illustrates how chemistry, biology, pharmacokinetics, and a host of other disciplines come together to produce successful medicines. The authors have compiled a collection of 21 representative categories of drugs, from which they have selected as examples many of the best-selling drugs on the market today. An introduction to each drug is provided, as well as background to the biology, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and drug metabolism, followed by a detailed acco...

Following Contemporary Drug Synthesis and The Art of Drug Synthesis (Wiley, 2004 and 2007), two well-received works, is this new book that demystifies the process of modern drug discovery for practitioners and students. An enhanced introduction covers areas such as background, pharmacology, SAR, PK/PD, efficacy, and safety. Focusing on the advantages of process synthesis versus the discovery synthetic route, Modern Drug Synthesis features authoritative coverage by distinguished ed...

In this recording, Johnson discusses his July 4, 1910, "Fight of the Century" victory over former undefeated heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries, in front of 20,000 people, at a ring built just for the occasion in downtown Reno, Nevada.