An exceptional group of high school teenagers and college students has chosen to dedicate their summer to others. While most of their peers are spending summers relaxing and hanging out with friends, working a job at the mall, or cutting lawns, this unique group live in tents and work in a vast, remote, lake-filled valley in the Shenandoah mountains of Virginia.Poignant and often hilarious, The Extra Mile tells the inspirational stories of a select group of camp counselors at one o...

We Made A Pact is not a love story. It is a story of a promise made between soul mates who loved their entire life. The type of love that comes with maturity, in which each touched a part of the others mind that no words could ever reach. Beginning in Paris, crossing decades and ending in the small town of Oceanside, the story is carefully told to Leigh by Leonard, her mother’s lover, as he explains a side of her life, a side of her mother, that she never knew.

The Pope and the Professor tells the captivating story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Döllinger (1799-1890), who fiercely opposed the teaching of Papal Infallibility at the time of the First Vatican Council (1869-70), convened by Pope Pius IX (r. 1846-1878), among the most controversial popes in the history of the papacy. Döllinger's thought, his opposition to the Council, his high-profile excommunication in 1871, and the international sensation that thi...

Our late modern era is marked by the rapidity of change; waxing pluralism; focus on the future, not the past; the elevation of personal choice over communal obligation; and, for some, a sense of spiritual and intellectual disorientation that can lead to resentment, fear, nostalgia, and/or a disordered desire for absolute certainty and rigid authority. How can religious traditions be maintained and even thrive in such an environment? How do they negotiate the fluidity of it all and transmit...

Turning the Tide, first published in 1944 as The Jap was Thrashed: An Official Story of the Australian Soldier – First Victor of the "Invincible Jap", is a World War II account of the Australian Army's battle and eventual defeat of Japanese forces in portions of New Guinea (Milne Bay, the Owen-Stanleys, Buna, Gona, and Sanananda) in 1942-43. The battles were important as they represented the first defeats for the Japanese, and marked the beginning of a turn-around...

Before Evernote came into the picture, most people were annoyed with piles of paper. File cabinets and work desks used to overflow, and you would have to dig in every file to find a single sheet of paper. The messy surrounding at work and home has improved drastically and things have become a lot more organized with the amazing organizing tool known as Evernote. Well, if you haven’t heard about this application before, there’s nothing to worry about. This quick guide shows you how ...

You use the computer every day; otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this guide! If you are also into mobile devices, then you have two good reasons for trying out Windows 8, the latest OS offering by Microsoft. If you think you need to know more before making the switch, then you have come to the right place. Unleash the Power of Windows 8 is your ultimate guide to what this new OS is all about. In this guide you will find a step-by-step introduction to Windows 8 backed by lucid imag...

Who is this black man, with physical abilities unsurpassed by any other man?He can be the wisest king and the humblest servant. He can be the greatest architect, a builder, a military leader, and yet the most ruthless cannibal. A man feared so greatly, admired so deeply, loved so passionately, and hated so strongly.Where did he come from and where is he going?We will trace his steps and see.This book tells a story of a race of people that many have to look a...

Since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, the United States and Western Europe's paths to modernity have diverged sharply with respect to religion. In short, Americans have maintained much friendlier ties with traditional forms of religion than their European counterparts. What explains this transatlantic religious divide? Accessing the topic though nineteenth and early twentieth-century European commentary on the United States, Thomas Albert Howard argues that an 'Atlantic gap' in relig...

With the introduction of e-books in our daily lives, reading books has become a digitized trend and with the advent of the Kindle and other similar devices, users can now find many more services that are available for them through their e-book devices. With e-books being a widely purchased form of entertainment, retailers like Amazon have started offering special services for Kindle owners that allow them to get the best out of their devices. Services like the Amazon Prime Membersh...

The first intellectual history of interreligious dialogue, a relatively new and significant dimension of human religiosityIn recent decades, organizations committed to interreligious or interfaith dialogue have proliferated, both in the Western and non†‘Western worlds. Why? How so? And what exactly is interreligious dialogue? These are the touchstone questions of this book, the first major history of interreligious dialogue in the modern age. Thomas Albert Howard n...

Institutions are the channels of political power. This volume explores Arend Lijphart's life work--the design of political institutions. All the contributors to this volume share the fundamental insight that the design of political institutions matters in how democracies work.The essays in this volume offer both theoretical insights into the context and implications of Lijphart's ideas and empirical exploration of the ideas. Two chapters by Thomas Koelble and Andrew Reynolds examin...