When Jason Wisniewski moves to Piggottsville, Arkansas, to start his teaching career, he never expected to find a town so much in need of a pick-me-up. Taking on the role of history teacher and football coach, Jason quickly realizes that he may have bitten off more than he can chew. Even the people in the community see the high school as a joke, and their attitude is rubbing off on the misfit students of Piggottsville High.But sometimes, it takes just one person to believe that a p...

What happens when speaking the truth becomes illegal?That is the question Pastor Pete Holloway faces when California implements the Hate Speech Reparation and Elimination Act. When the San Francisco pastor is threatened with fines, reeducation, and incarceration for violating the state's new hate speech law, he chooses to flee. But from what? Truth? Responsibility? God? Or his own sin?As he struggles to remain one step ahead of the law, Pete is forced to co...

Caleb Sawyer expects his senior year at Baxter High to go just as he planned. He’s a member of the football team, is active in his church, has a great job, and loves hanging out with his friends at the local diner. But then he crosses paths with Ellie Thompson, the mysterious new girl in town. Ellie has a fiery personality and a tragic past. Caleb’s obsession with her leads them both on adventures full of opportunities and challenges.As their connection grows, Caleb must wrestle wi...

How a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama’s environmental consciousness.A Movement of the People: The Roots of Environmental Education and Advocacy in Alabama is a detailed history of the Alabama Environmental Quality Association (AEQA). The AEQA helped to establish groundbreaking environmental protection and natural resource preservation policies for the state and the region and grew into one of the nation’s most progressive environm...

This book provides a basic understanding of democratic citizenship through use of case studies. These case studies illustrate the extent to which ordinary citizens are controlling their common future. The book provides theoretical and evidence based findings on the complexities of citizenship in a capitalistic-republican setting. It offers new theoretical frameworks on reparation and democratic citizenship.

What are the barriers and obstacles to adults learning? What makes the process of adult learning so fragile? And what exactly do we mean by Fragile Learning? This book addresses these questions in two ways. In Part One, it looks at challenges to learning, examining issues such as language invention in a maximum security prison, geography and bad technology, and pedagogic fragility in Higher Education. Through a psychoanalytic lens, Fragile Learning examines authorial illn...

In the most recent Democracy Index, the Economic Intelligence Unit downgraded the United States from a “full democracy” to a “flawed democracy.” Democracy, Civic Engagement, and Citizenship in Higher Education takes a hard look at the state of American democracy today through the lens of one of the nation’s most important actors: colleges and universities. Democracy is more than voting: it includes a wide range of democratic practices and depends on a culture of civic participation. Critic...

For 2000 years the Creator's language lay dormant; for all intents and purposes a Dead Language, a by-word associated with the forlorn plight of a People without an identity. Miraculously, following the pattern of the death, burial and resurrection of the Messiah, this "Living Word" rises, made to live again, on the 3rd day, our day, to become the standard to which the People of the Book must return in order to seek out and identify their Deliverer! The eternal stage has been set as t...

The First Epistle of Peter Bible study guide gives the full Bible text with verse by verse commentary, an examination of major themes, discussion questions with sample answers, and a “going deeper” section for those harder-to-understand passages. Faithbuilders Bible study guides will lead you to a deeper appreciation of God’s Word and its relevance for your life today! Challenging and relevant, whilst avoiding academic language, hundreds of pastors, home group leaders and Christians from a...

The First Epistle of Peter Bible study guide gives the full Bible text with verse by verse commentary, an examination of major themes, discussion questions with sample answers, and a “going deeper” section for those harder-to-understand passages. Faithbuilders Bible study guides will lead you to a deeper appreciation of God’s Word and its relevance for your life today! Challenging and relevant, whilst avoiding academic language, hundreds of pastors, home group leaders and Christians from a...

Our universe is a slow motion matter Factory. The matter that our universe continuously produces, is made from the matter that is continuously emitted into our universe, at the very center of our universe. This matter contains all of the internal information necessary to produce a larger version of its smaller self. As this matter travels from the center of our universe outward, it goes through a specific, continuously balancing amount of accumulation transformations. All of these accumula...

The instant New York Times bestseller about one man's battle to save hundreds of jobs by demonstrating the greatness of American business.The Bassett Furniture Company was once the world's biggest wood furniture manufacturer. Run by the same powerful Virginia family for generations, it was also the center of life in Bassett, Virginia. But beginning in the 1980s, the first waves of Asian competition hit, and ultimately Bassett was forced to send its product...