Behind many of the challenges facing us today is a failure of leadership. This is not a new problem. Yearning for wise guidance and effective authority is a perennial human longing. We need leaders who are credible, competent and committed. But many leaders seem to be caught up, even consumed, with their own power and agendas. Some see the leadership crisis as an intellectual problem, believing we lack a clear theory of leadership. Others view the breakdown of leadership as a result of inc...

Ginny Beauchamp joins the Women’s Land Army in 1940. Posted to Essex, she gets in trouble for meeting pilots from a nearby airfield, including Piotr, a Polish airman to whom she feels some attraction, being part-Polish herself.Sent to work on a farm with a final warning, she finds herself in the middle of an emotional storm because another Land Girl, Anna, has fallen in love with the farmer’s son.In August after the Luftwaffe attack the airfield at North Weald Ginny discove...

Spies, Lies, Genetic Manipulations, and WarThe year is 3,748 AD. The Lord, Jesus, sits on his throne in New Jerusalem. Earth has peace, prosperity, renewed climate, soil, air, water. The human body and mind have received the full potential of God's intent in health and physicality, in thought processes and gifts.Eternal life stretches before God's chosen like the stars above. But is that vast star-scape simply a bland curtain around the stage of Earth? Has ...

This compelling story is the result of many hours spent recording the memories of Fred Henley. His life at sea is at the centre of his being and his own words are at the heart of the book. At the age of 14 Fred worked on a Thames sailing barge, then after his training at HMS Ganges, he joined his first ship which took him from the icy Arctic Ocean to the heat of West Africa where the Bismarck and her support ships were hunted. His experiences included visiting Archangel, sailing on Arctic ...

The never-before-told story of the Peppermint Lounge, the famed 1960s Manhattan nightspot and mobster hangout that launched an era."True crime meets pop-music history in this history of the Peppermint Lounge, the Twist and the Mafia's unwitting role in starting a national craze. . . . A fun and fascinating read." — Kirkus ReviewsThe Peppermint Lounge was intended to be nothing more than a front for gambling and other rackets but the ...

The great tribulation is soon coming upon us. The four horsemen are described in the Bible: the white horse represents the false prophets, red horse represents war, black horse represents famine, and the pale horse, death, and Hades represents pestilence. All prophecies about the great tribulation thousands of years ago, approximately two thousand years ago or more, and some Bible prophecies have come to pass and some are in the process now right before our eyes.For instance, now t...

With nothing but a sword and a gritty determination to live, Woden, the son of a Germanic ex-slave from the land of the steppe, stumbles into the far reaches of the eighth-century empire of Byzantium. He quickly learns that a soldier’s skills and the right blend of ruthlessness, cunning, and luck will win him women, wealth, status, and power.His quest for worldly rewards propels him through primeval forest lands, vast empty deserts, the great city of Constantinople, Saracen hordes,...

His name is Santa Claus. Every Christmas, he is everywhere, and his name fills the mind with visions of sugar plums and presents under the tree.But have you ever wondered what it was like to be him?Hop in the sleigh and take a ride with John Johnson, a real-life Christian Santa who has been spreading good cheer over four decades.In Simply Saint Nick, he shares his experiences, reveals historical and spiritual truths, and spreads a message of faith. As you join the auth...

Although many books have been written about T E Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, none before has fully explored the pivotal role of the Royal Navy in the Red Sea at the time. This is the first book to be written about the Navy's role in the success of the Arab Revolt in the creation of the legendary figure of Lawrence of Arabia. Following extensive and detailed research into the activities of the ships of the Red Sea Patrol by the author, a maritime historian and former Merchant Navy officer,...

"There is something good in having less than you want but enough for your needs..."A young man's journey across the United States during the 1970s-on a quest to find the meaning of life-is shared in this beautifully written memoir.The coming-of-age story explores the questions many ask while in their youth: Do I fit in? Am I loved? Do I have true friends? What is my calling in life? The storyline is the highway's allure: adventure, the American peo...

“A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John Johnson has delved deeply into a rich and eventful life, and produced a rollicking account of how Fritz Zwicky split his time between picking fights with his colleagues and discovering amazing things about our universe.”—Sean Carroll, author of The Big PictureFritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic scientists ...