An internationally recognized scholar highlights the important role the North African church played in the development of Christian thought. This accessible introduction brings Africa back to the center of the study of Christian history by focusing on key figures and events that influenced the history and trajectory of Christianity as a whole. Written and designed for the classroom, the book zeroes in on five turning points to show how North African believers significantly shaped Christian...

Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urban areas struck at will, and one lived on the knife’s edge regarding one’s health. Religion filled a crucial role in this environment, offering an option for those who sought cure and comfort. Following death, the inhumed were memorialized, providing solace to family members through sculpture, painting, and epigr...

Earth's Last Day is a dramatic, end-of-times story describing a species extinction event when a comet from the Kuiper Belt collides with Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the Asteroid Belt, and the resulting collision sends thousands of tiny meteorites and five planet ending asteroids hurtling toward Earth with no hope of escape for mankind.

Beth is a 22-year -old woman, who when she was 10-year-old, lost her entire family in a fierce snowstorm. She was the only one to escape her family's car that slid off an icy road into an ice-covered lake. When she escaped out one of the side windows of the station wagon, a small shard of glass embedded itself into her lake and after being rescued by a passer-by, Beth is taken to a hospital. Her surgeon visits Beth and, remembering the shard of glass in her leg, ask the surgeon if she can ...

La Cruz Del Corazon Rubi (The Cross of the Ruby Heart) follows the sea adventures of an old Mexican fisherman, Diego, who finds an old Spanish cross one day in the blue waters of the Sea of Cortez and discovers that the cross, although a rare and ancient treasure fashioned out of pure gold and encrusted with precious gems, is cursed and only brings tragedy and death to those who own it.

Jennie Ruth Lemieux is taking a few day off from her counseling job in Pendleton, Oregon to visit her father in California. On her driving trip at night through the backroads of Eastern Oregon and the Steens Wilderness Mountains, she disappears, seemingly into thin air, and then reappears a week later with a fantastic story of alien abduction. Was it an illusion, a dream, a past life experience? In a twilight dream, she sees images of a past life too incredible to believe.

A lonely Princess, looking into her heart one day, realizes that she is weary of being alone and decides to seek the love of a Prince. Finding a Prince, especially a charming one is not going to be an easy task. She has waited many years for a Prince to suddenly appear in her life and sweep her off her dainty royal feet. Still standing, it simply has not happened. So, frustrated, the Princess confides to herself, if she is to have the man she has always longed for in her life, her own Prin...

The cats are out of the bag: Shane Bookman's Radically Rearranged Ronin Ragdolls are coming to Broadway in THE LAST RAGDOLL: a violent, dark, apocalyptic fever-dream…and it's a musical! Now the only thing between his show and opening night are the lawyers, the gangsters, the FBI…and the fans!

My story is not unique. It reflects the generation of kids living in the 1950s whose parents fought in World War II and the Korea War, with battlefield scars still evident on their bodies and the nightmares of their friends dying and maimed still fresh in their minds. They came home from the wars seeking new lives in new places and just wanted to find a good job in a quiet town like Midland, in the middle of the Mojave Desert, where they could peacefully lay down their heads at night, forg...

Whispers to the Wind, (WᎯᏍpᎡrᏍ tᎣ tᎮ Ꮻnd in the Cherokee language) is the dramatic story of Jimmy Red Cullen, a young 17-year old man from the Shenandoah Mountains in rural Virginia, who joins the United States Army in 1941 when war was raging in Europe and becomes a deadly US Ranger sniper tasked with hunting down and killing Nazi SS officers in southern France who are capturing and executing French Jewish citizens. "Red" is the story of a true American Hero.

The Singularity is the hypothetical future creation of a superhuman artificially intelligent entity, in the form of a humanoid robot or cyborg, that possesses greater technological, problem-solving and inventive skills than normal humans and, through continuing self-replication, has the potential to attain human consciousness. These superhuman AI entities will have a greater intellect than humans, but will they be wiser? Will they feel pain or love like humans? Will they wage war or keep t...

The DNA of Designing a Winning Investor Presentation is a practical guide for Founders, CEOs and CFOs of startup life science, high technology, solar engineering, telecommunications, and manufacturing companies seeking guidance in how to present their business model and innovative product or service to venture capital investment firms or angel investors in order to win an investment. Designing a Winning Investor Slide Presentation will take you through the slides, strategies, content, visu...