This dramatic science fiction story is based upon an imaginative mixture of real-world facts and reasoned scientific and religious speculation. It begins a decade before and mostly takes place over the past four years of the present day.A new organization's activities--some call them miraculous while others think they are blasphemous--have literally changed the whole world. The story may inspire a reevaluation of one's fundamental beliefs and perhaps even require one to contemplate...

What was the significance of community action to the Labour movement in Britain during the 1980s? Ray Lees and Marjorie Mayo explore this question in Community Action for Change (first published in 1984), arguing that the Labour movement needed to revitalize its strength in response to the growing dominance of the New Right. They propose that this renewal could be achieved by developing social values rooted in the social needs often expressed through community action.Throu...

Applied social research has long been recognised as essential in the field of social work and welfare, though its value is not always immediately apparent. The Seebohm Report and the reorganisation of personal social services in the 1970s emphasised the importance of identifying social needs before designing programs and evaluating their effectiveness. In response to these priorities, social workers, local authorities, and academic researchers sought practical guidance on the challenges of...

"It's beautifulYour life, the overwhelming happiness and excruciating painThe disappointments and hurt you've hidden behind a battered heartThe beauty is that despite it all, you're still here"- Ray Lee GabrielsAre you or anyone you know currently in a dark cloud of depression?Depression and suicide are conversations less discussed in social circles and is the causeof thousands of deaths per year.At times hope might seem far off an...

A Sample Meditation: Loss on the Way to Enlightenment Avoidance, rationalization, religion, reality, projection, distraction Acknowledging that we often grow tired of the painful truth about poverty, illness, racism, discrimination, environmental ruin, and warfare, we confess that we have escaped through distraction using food, entertainment, alcohol, and personal isolation. We regret most deeply that we have fashioned religions to mask reality, often blaming our cruel indifference on a di...

After a generation of being a leading progressive voice both in the pulpit and in the print media of Springfield, Missouri, Roger Ray has collected one hundred of his essays on topics of social justice, religion, sex, economics, warfare, and race as a collection for use in college classrooms, in adult discussion groups, and as an enjoyable collection of thought provoking articles that once appeared on the opinion page of the Springfield NewsLeader.

A vision in history of Jefferson Texas as it were in the early 1900,s this legend gives the caddo Indians; the caddo river and caddo lake some exsposure of those times.; and also in the times of president Thomas Jefferson back in the middle 1800,s Where did the city of Jefferson get its name from?, where did the caddo river and caddo lake get its name? The river and lake were created in the early 1900's; inside this book you will read about the java man meeting the big southern monsters ma...

The Tie takes place in a small mid-western town. The two main characters, meet in college and begin a love affair that spans their lifetime. The couple go through many wonderful, yet sometimes trying times. These unique characters and their families will hopefully be remembered for many years to come as a love that would withstand times watchful winsomeness.

The RayLee Powers team, Theres and Jen, has branched off into a novel of their shared love of sci-fi/fantasy. Although they have this love of the genre, they have different tastes when it comes to reading materials. This novel will hopefully take the reader on a journey of two symbiotic planets that will have the reader enthralled in the richness of characters and plot. The journey begins with a local band striving to work their way toward success. Follow these characters and many others t...

First published in 1975, Action-Research in Community Development discusses experiences of people who worked on the central government sponsored Community Development Project (CDP).Announced with a flourish in 1969 as part of Britain’s ‘Poverty Programme’, CDP represented a new initiative in British social policy. It was described by the Home Office as ‘a radical experiment in community development involving central and local government, voluntary agencies and the universi...

The Scud missile was developed as the centerpiece of Soviet plans to fight nuclear war in the heart of Europe.However, it was never used in its intended role and has instead become a symbol of the changing nature of warfare in the aftermath of the Cold War. Saddam Hussein's Iraqi armed forces were almost helpless in the face of the Coalition forces in the 1991 Gulf War; the only weapon that Iraq could use to injure the Coalition forces was its arsenal of Scud missi...

During the Vietnam War, the Viet Cong (VC) main forces and North Vietnamese Army (NVA) were forced to hide weapons and supplies underground and to dig protective shelters to counter massive US firepower.Their field works defended villages, hidden base camps, and fortified complexes, and took the form of trench systems, individual fighting positions, crew-served weapon positions, bunkers, caches, and extensive tunnel complexes. Camouflage and deceptive measures, and...