"An astounding epic novel of J.R.R. Tolkien proportions!"- Steven Pressfield, Bestselling author of Gates of Fire and The War of ArtRaiders of the Lost Ark playing A Game of ThronesThe Sand Sea takes place on an alternative Earth roiled by war and conquest that mirrors our own Gilded Age. The treasure that ignites greed and folly in this parallel world is not petroleum, but beserite-a mineral of immeasurable value.Captivate...

Collaborative manufacturing is an interactive process with great potential, but without the direct input of the plant floor systems information, a significant piece of the management process is not available for consideration. Collaborative Manufacturing provides guidance and examples of how and why real-time events within the plant floor managemen

Lawrence of Arabia, The Miracle Worker, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Gypsy, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Longest Day, The Music Man, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, and more.Most conventional film histories dismiss the early 1960s as a pallid era, a downtime between the heights of the classic studio system and the rise of New Hollywood directors like Scorsese and Altman in the 1970s. It seemed to be a moment when the movie industry was flo...

Pivotal Leadership is a unique anthology that curates thought-transforming articles written by CEOs, entrepreneurs, and seasoned leaders themselves—no fuss and straight from the masters’ mouths! Discover their secrets on how to be effective leaders amid the toughest challenges wherein the toughest calls—the pivotal choices—have to be made, as well as gain refreshing insights on innovation and persuasion, all distilled from real-world experiences and business expertise and all pour...

Revised and updated, this long-awaited second edition provides a comprehensive introduction to what the most thoughtful Americans have said about the American experience from the colonial period to the present. The book examines the political thought of the most important American statesmen, activists, and writers across era and ideologies, helping another generation of students, scholars, and citizens to understand more fully the meaning of America.This new second edition of the b...

A survey of the innovative scholarship emerging at the intersections of rhetoric, and fieldworkA variety of research areas within rhetorical studies—including everyday and public rhetorics, space and place-based work, material and ecological approaches, environmental communication, technical communication, and critical and participatory action research, among others—have increasingly called for ethnographic fieldwork that grounds the study of rhetoric with...

This issue of Eric Flint's 1632 & Beyond is the first one in which all the stories focus on a single theme. That is Redbird Institute, a new STEM, arts, and vacation venue a few miles east of the Ring of Fire.State Library Papers(Non-Fiction)This is our first issue that opens with a non-fiction article. It's "What is Redbird?" by Bethanne Kim. It's background information for the entire issue.Redbird Reader(Fiction...

Winner of the Barondess/Lincoln AwardWinner of the Austin Civil War Round Table Book PrizeFinalist for the American Battlefield Trust Book PrizeThe fraught relationship between Abraham Lincoln and George McClellan is well known, so much so that many scholars rarely question the standard narrative casting the two as foils, with the Great Emancipator inevitably coming out on top over his supposedly feckless commander. I...

North San Diego County. A gifted pianist. A beautiful violinist. A multi-million dollar land deal. A story of intrigue, mystery, and murder in the comic-noir tradition.What is an Audio Movie? It's an image rich listening experience – a combination of narration, full-cast dialogue, music, and layered sound design created specifically for audio. Call it Cinema for the Mind.

Hekate and Diana. Odin and Apollo. Freyja and the Witch-Lord. Eternal Haunted Summer was born in the late summer of 2009. It was created as a place where Pagans and polytheists and witches (and non-Pagans with a love of the old myths) could feature their short stories and poems and essays with those of a like mind and similar beliefs and practices. EHS has grown steadily over the years, due entirely to the wonderful contributors whose works fill its digital pages. Without their creativity ...