The mainline church in the past few decades has witnessed a ghettoization of youth within the church, segregating them off to a particular room, perhaps in the basement, where they engage in ministry in isolation from the rest of the congregation. They are assigned a “youth minister” or “youth director,” often the staff person with the least experience, freeing up the “real” ministers to serve the adults in the church. They seldom serve on church boards or governing bodies in anything othe...

Now in its second edition, this book introduces an approach to active system control. This approach, when applied through design and development improves our technological systems. It extends concepts of system control using data accumulation, state and structural dependencies. The authors define these properties in terms of reliability, performance and energy-efficiency, and self-adaption. They describe how they bridge the gap between data accumulation and analysis in terms of interpolati...

***Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in the Anthology category***Want to see something weird?Embrace the odd? Satisfy your curiosity? Surrender to wonder?From Crystal Lake Publishing and the Bram Stoker Award-winning co-editor of the smash hit Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories comes Behold! Oddities, Curiosities and Undefinable Wonders.Sixteen stories and two poems take you into the spaces between...

A disturbing journey into the beauty that rests inside the very heart of darkness.From the Bram Stoker Award-winning Crystal Lake Publishing and the editing duo who brought you the critically acclaimed small-town Lovecraftian horror anthology Shadows Over Main Street, comes Gutted: Beautiful Horror Stories.Awe meets ache.Terror becomes transcendence.Regret gives way to rebirth.Fifteen short stories and one poem span nearly every twisted corner of the h...

Bram Stoker Award-winner for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction!Nightmares come to life in this comprehensive how-to guide for new and established authors…Book two in Crystal Lake Publishing's The Dream Weaver series picks up where the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Where Nightmares Come From left off.It's Alive focuses on learning the craft in order to take your story from concept to completion.With an introduction by Richar...

Book one in Crystal Lake Publishing's The Dream Weaver series...Where Nightmares Come From focuses on the art of storytelling in the Horror genre, taking an idea from conception to reality—whether you prefer short stories, novels, films, or comics.Featuring in-depth articles and interviews by Joe R. Lansdale (Hap & Leonard series), Clive Barker (Books of Blood), John Connolly (Charlie Parker series), Ramsey ...

A perennial bestseller, the Digital Avionics Handbook offers a comprehensive view of avionics. Complete with case studies of avionics architectures as well as examples of modern systems flying on current military and civil aircraft, this Third Edition includes:Ten brand-new chapters covering new topics and emerging trendsSignificant restructuring to deliver a more coherent and cohesive storyUpdates to all existing chapters...

"Drone Systems and Operations""Drone Systems and Operations" provides a comprehensive and forward-thinking exploration of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), laying out the foundational architectures and design principles that power today's advanced drone fleets. Targeted at engineers, researchers, and industry professionals, the book systematically covers the classification of UAV platforms, intricate avionics and propulsion subsystem design, reliability engineering, and the intricat...

READ THE BLOCKBUSTERS THAT STARTED IT ALL!Take it from the top in The New York Times #1 bestselling author Sue Grafton's knockout thrillers that introduced detective Kinsey Millhone—and a hot new attitude—to crime fiction…**“Exceptionally entertaining...an offbeat sense of humor and a feisty sense of justice.”**—San Francisco ChronicleA IS FOR ALIBIA tough-talking f...

This comprehensive textbook/reference provides an in-depth overview of the key aspects of transportation analysis, with an emphasis on modeling real transportation systems and executing the models. Topics and features: presents comprehensive review questions at the end of each chapter, together with detailed case studies, useful links, references and suggestions for further reading; supplies a variety of teaching support materials at the book’s webpage on Springer.com, including a complete...

From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg comes the Bram Stoker Award- and International Horror Guild award-winning collection The Nightmare Chronicles -- packed with spine-tingling tales of dark mystery, supernatural thrills and twisted horror that "can chill the spine so effectively the reader should keep paramedics on standby, " says bestselling author Dean Koontz.“Clegg brings his stories together with a chilling fictive conceit.......

The key principle of systems engineering is that an aircraft should be considered as a whole and not as a collection of parts. Another principle is that the requirements for the aircraft and its subsystems emanate from a logical set of organized functions and from economic or customer-oriented requirements as well as the regulatory requirements for certification. The resulting process promises to synthesize and validate the design of aircraft which are higher in quality, better meet custom...