In 2003, Methodists celebrated the 300th anniversary of the birth of their founder, John Wesley. Today, there are more than 300 Methodist denominations in 140 nations. Covering the activities of this group that plays an important role in the ecumenical movement through its many social and charitable activities in world affairs, this book offers more than 400 entries that describe important events, doctrines, and the church founders, leaders, and other prominent figures who have made notabl...

Immigration has been a contested issue for decades. This distinctive volume of essays on Southern Californian immigration is inspired by Michael Burawoy’s call for academic consideration to be more open and accessible to people in what he calls “public sociology.” The essays in Scholars and Southern Californian Immigrants in Dialogue: New Conversations in Public Sociology bridge the gap between scholars and undocumented persons themselves in an interdisciplinary and vibrant dialogue. The c...

Baseball began in the New Mexico pueblos before 1900. The game was learned by watching soldiers and settlers and by playing in the Indian schools throughout the country. The first competition was with Albuquerque teams, mining teams, other pueblo teams, and the state penitentiary. Today, the game has evolved into a family and tribal tradition. The games are played on barren fields with enthusiastic spectator support. The players' objective is to win that game, with little thought of indivi...

Get better results from AI—starting today.AI Prompts for Everyday People is a practical, no-nonsense guide for anyone who wants to use artificial intelligence more effectively without technical jargon, coding, or overwhelm.If you've ever felt like AI should be more useful than it is, the problem isn't the technology—it's knowing what to say.This book gives you clear, ready-to-use prompts designed for real life: pla...

nner ClimateHow the State You Live In Shapes Everything That FollowsYou are not reacting to life.Life is responding to you.Most attempts at change focus on what can be seen: habits, goals, strategies, behavior. When those efforts fail, the explanation becomes personal—discipline, effort, mindset. But what if the problem is not effort at all?What if the results you experience are downstream effects of an invisible internal syst...

I CHOOSE: 180 Affirmations to Shape Your Life is a simple, grounding invitation to live from intention rather than reaction.At the heart of this book is a single idea: lasting change begins with choice. Not force. Not effort. Not constant motivation. Just the decision to turn in a new direction.The 180 affirmations in this book are intentionally structured to represent a complete shift—a 180-degree turn toward clarity, calm, self-trust, and alignment. Each ...

A history of the early days of Royal Navy destroyers, and how they evolved to meet new military threats.In the late nineteenth century the advent of the modern torpedo woke the Royal Navy to a potent threat to its domination, not seriously challenged since Trafalgar. For the first time a relatively cheap weapon had the potential to sink the largest, and costliest, exponents of sea power.Not surprisingly, Britain's traditional rivals invested heavily in the ...

One of the infinite rewards to continuously advancing technology is an increased ease and precision in organizational techniques. Online data collection and online instruments are vital ways to electronically measure and assess organizational areas relevant to management, leadership, and human research development. Online Instruments, Data Collection, and Electronic Measurements: Organizational Advancements aims to assist researchers in both understanding and utilizing online data collecti...

Do the religious affiliations of elected officials shape the way they vote on such key issues as abortion, homosexuality, defense spending, taxes, and welfare spending? In Religion, Politics, and Polarization: How Religiopolitical Conflict is Changing Congress and American Democracy,William D’Antonio, Steven A. Tuch and Josiah R. Baker trace the influence of religion and party in the U.S. Congress over time. For almost four decades these key issues have competed for public attention with h...

Not Your Standard HeroWe all know what heroes are like, right? Brilliant smiles, superpowers, above average beauty, love to pose for the cameras and bask in the limelight? The heroes found here are not your standard hero. Here you'll find shapeshifting (but ditzy) detectives, considerate sidekicks, avid romance readers, lunar garbage collectors, and more!These stories tell of heroes like Tom Grover, who was a hero of a different stripe in the Utah sf&f comm...

I have to tell you how the story begins, the story that is, of this book. One day Christine Baker posted a picture of a bottle of blood on my Facebook page. It was an incredible photo and all I could think of was:What a great book this would be!But then I thought some more. I thought, I wonder if other creative minds are looking at this image are thinking the same thing? What would they be thinking?So I decided to ask in my group on Facebook, would anyone be interest...

We have some wonderful short stories and novellas form steampunk to military science fiction. I hope you enjoy all the stories.