Some journeys begin with a destination. Others begin simply with the need to leave.In The Long Way Home: Poetry of Love, Loss, and Return, John David Smith traces the quiet distances between restlessness and belonging, freedom and responsibility, departure and return.Across five poetic movements, these poems follow a wanderer who believes distance will loosen what binds him, only to discover that some things travel with us: love, memory, absence, r...

Build a business that is clear enough to understand, bold enough to notice, and valuable enough to remember.Many businesses are not overlooked because they lack value. They are overlooked because that value is not always clear, visible, or consistently experienced.The R.A.W. Approach: The Framework to Elevate Your Business from Overlooked to Unforgettable gives entrepreneurs, small business owners, consultants, creatives, nonprofit leaders,...

If you have spent any time with a modern coding agent, you know the strange feeling that comes with watching one work. You type a description of a feature, and the agent reads your repository, plans an approach, edits files, runs the tests, and reports back like a careful colleague. Then something changes. You notice the agent makes decisions you would not make, follows conventions that are not yours, and forgets constraints you explained 2 weeks ago. You also notice the whole setup belong...

A lively, accessible introduction to the asymmetrical relationship between the United States and Mexico, one of the most formative international relationships in geopolitics today.The border between the US and Mexico is the world's longest between a wealthy industrialized nation and a part of the Global South. The economy, society, culture, and politics of the two nations have become inextricably linked.As the United States continues to assert its considera...

Black Woman's Fire: A Poetic Voice to Resilience, Liberation, and Legacy is not merely a collection of poems-it is a witness.A witness to the sacred strength Black women have carried across generations.A witness to the quiet battles fought behind closed doors and the loud victories history often forgets to name.A witness to the fire that refuses to be extinguished.Through layered, soul-stirring verse, this collection journeys through identit...

The early days of Airbnb hosting, when anyone could throw a mattress on the floor and start collecting checks, are long gone. The hosts who treat this as a real business are pulling away from the pack. There are plenty of guides that tell you how to start an Airbnb, but there is no book that takes you from one property to ten, from a side hustle to a portfolio, from a host who does everything themselves to a CEO who runs a system. This book fills that gap with practical, battle-tested guid...

Exploring the complexities of individual and group behavior within dynamic, real-world environments represents an important evolution in sport science research. Especially in how perceptual action and motor behaviors are influenced based on their coupled relationship within the environment itself and relative to the task context. This book challenges the limitations of traditional, reductionist approaches to perception-action behaviors that have caused a notable "applied-research gap," whe...

How together we'll stop climate change, continue to meet our energy needs and all get richer at the same time.

Could America be the beast of the earth from Revelation 13? Is this beast's number the number of a man because the country is named after a man, Americo Vespuccio? And does Americo add up to the number of the beast? These questions are explored in context with the rest of Revelation 13, as well as Revelation 12-18 and Daniel 7.I've covered most of the same material in a video located on youtube at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NScqtMfo_xA&t=2170s

An in-depth look at the battle that saw the American Overmountain Men come together and defeat the British Loyalist army, turning the tide of the war.By 1780, the British strategy of subduing the South by mobilizing Loyalist forces appeared to be working following the capture of Charleston and the destruction of General Gates' Grand Army at Camden. Major Patrick Ferguson was appointed to raise forces and soon amassed a small army of more than 4,000 men, with which ...

LEARN HOW TO BUILD YOUR OWN BASKETBALL PERSONAL TRAINING BUSINESSDo you want to make money being your own boss? Do you have knowledge and passion for the game of basketball that you'd like to pass on? Are you tired of being told that it's not easy running your own business? Would you like a step by step strategy that actually works for aspiring basketball personal trainers just starting out? What if you could actually build a personal training business that offered high profit marg...

The Crown in Canada has had a profound influence in shaping a country and a constitution that embraces the promotion of political moderation, societal accommodation, adaptable constitutional structures, and pluralistic governing practices. While none of these features themselves originated through legislative or constitutional action, David E. Smith, Christopher McCreery, and Jonathan Shanks propose that all reflect the presence and actions of the Crown.Examining how a constitution...