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A Field Negroes Handbook is the first work from author Napoleon Wells and takes a hard look at issues of manhood, fidelity, responsibility and survival within the African American community. Written in prose, poetry and essay formats A Field Negroes Handbook has the feel of a journey on a winding road where hard questions are posed, difficult observations are made and answers are offered. How does a young Black man view the world around him an...

This book explores the tensions surrounding national turmoil in family life and new divides in political life. Christensen warns that continued reliance on government to compensate for family failure will make matters worse in the long run.

Proof of God is the true diary and testimony of a Christian minister's near-death experience and extraordinary, spiritual life spanning over many years. It includes her beliefs today concerning the Bible and the return of Jesus Christ. This book is for anyone confused or searching for answers concerning life after death, God, Jesus, Heaven, hell, the two Marys, and the meaning of life. It is one of the most important books to read before one d...

The Bible is the most quoted book in the western world, and likely the most misunderstood. It is often thought to be little more than religious mythology, or a collection of moral and ethical guidelines, or a series of quaint but irrelevant legends. But what if the Bible were read on its own terms, as a highly personal and unbelievably passionate love story? What if the Bible is really a wild tale of relentless pursuit, the diary of a God who ...

A happy man thrills a group of farm animals when he takes them for a joy ride in his dump truck. This book is a true classic illustrated by the inimitable Tibor Gergely.

HOW DO WE VERIFY THE TEACHINGS? These Teachings are as old as Man, and according to them, man has been in physical embodiment on Planet Earth for 18 million years, since Lemurian times or the last third of the 3rd Root Race. There has never been a time on Earth when the Teachings were not available somewhere. All books that claim Great Antiquity including the Bible are a Translation or a Distillation of a previous Work. The Higher Teachings ha...

Kinship Patterns is a full length collection of poetry by Terrance Oberst. It is a series of biographical sketches or "tribute" poems divided into 4 sections: "Family, " "Friends, " "Elegies" for those who have passed on and "A Final Poem For A Friend, " a long recollection of an individual met while hitchhiking up the coast of California. It is a book of poetic memoirs, people the poet has lived with, laughed with, cried over and loved.

Aaron Sorkin is one of the most notable voices in Hollywood, attracting millions of weekly viewers with his television series The West Wing and scoring box office success with films like A Few Good Men and The American President. With a musician's sense of rhythm and writing skills honed in the theater, Sorkin crafts dialogue that brings characters to life. His crisp, tight language is both exciting to listen to and poetic in its beauty and po...

Drawing on his multicultural experience, William Johnsson offers us new insights into the Gospel of Mark.

The heart is the spiritual mind. Through it we have a map for how best to fulfill our innate potential, the primal urge to be all that we can be. With this paradigm-shifting book, Ellen Solart challenges the traditional way for making decisions and encourages us to become our own authority, to take action based on internal factors rather than the externally induced "shoulds". She shows us that by giving credence to our desires without judging ...

The heart is the spiritual mind. Through it we have a map for how best to fulfill our innate potential, the primal urge to be all that we can be. With this paradigm-shifting book, Ellen Solart challenges the traditional way for making decisions and encourages us to become our own authority, to take action based on internal factors rather than the externally induced "shoulds". She shows us that by giving credence to our desires without judging ...

Natalie Devereaux, mother, paralegal, avid bookworm, still reels from the unexpected slings and arrows in her "paltry life." She can't quite see where she is headed. Natalie's haze of anger isn't helping matters and neither is the blinding Pennsylvania snow.Nick Richards, an overeducated, has-been action actor with hazy private problems and surplus time to ponder them, isn't doing any better. Nick thinks he knows what his future will bring-it'...

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I lied, a follow up of my first book of collected poems "let me be, your absent friend". It was designed to push further, the walls of self-correction and conscience that was set in motion by the former. The difference here is that, the fate of the subject in nature, as epitomized by Kantian Blues and as a follow-up from the first book, becomes more important that the thing it's own self was supposed to be, within nature itself. Thus making th...

August Mansker has been involved in the self-improvement field for over fifty years. That experience can provide the reader with helpful insights on how to take their own life to the next level. He opened his first fitness center in 1957. Desire to succeed was elusive until he made a few changes in his life strategies. When these changes were made, everything opened up. He believes the main key to get what you want out of life, is first decidi...

August Mansker has been involved in the self-improvement field for over fifty years. That experience can provide the reader with helpful insights on how to take their own life to the next level. He opened his first fitness center in 1957. Desire to succeed was elusive until he made a few changes in his life strategies. When these changes were made, everything opened up. He believes the main key to get what you want out of life, is first decidi...

Based on the premise that "leadership is an acquired skill" Sullivan's The Common Sense Guide to Leadership challenges both current and potential organizational leaders to identify their weaknesses as well as their strengths and to design a program to reinforce the useful skills and eliminate those that are self-defeating. This book teaches the aspiring leader to discern good leadership from bad leadership, to develop a basic leadership philos...

Based on the premise that "leadership is an acquired skill" Sullivan's The Common Sense Guide to Leadership challenges both current and potential organizational leaders to identify their weaknesses as well as their strengths and to design a program to reinforce the useful skills and eliminate those that are self-defeating. This book teaches the aspiring leader to discern good leadership from bad leadership, to develop a basic leadership philos...

About the Book: A sweeping saga of historical significance including ethnocentricity and the philosophy of the struggle to attain a lifetime dream. A man's life and times from the years 1870 to 1961 is narrated. Charlie Stevens, an Anglo-Saxon, persuades an African-American friend to join him on his journey to California to escape the poverty and prejudice of East Tennessee. For five years they work their way westward, the journey often humoro...

Described by one reviewer as a book which "evoked images that haunted me for days after I read it, Perish by the Sword is the story of young police officer "Shooter" Evans and his descent into a self-destructive world of violence, alcoholism and despair. While struggling to rebuild his life as a private investigator, Evans becomes involved in the search for a missing eight-year-old girl. After discovering the true nature of her disappearance, ...