Discover of a lost Los Angeles from an era before the freeways in this beautiful coffee table book from iconic architectural photographer Arnold Hylen.Los Angeles Before the Freeways: Images of An Era 1850-1950 gives a lush, visual tour of a Los Angeles that no longer exists—one of elegant office buildings and stately mansions that were razed in the name of “progress” to build the city’s famous freeways. Featuring stunning black-and-white photography from ...

Over 400,00 copies sold of Ytreeide's beloved family read-aloud seriesJoin thirteen-year-old Eliana in a New Testament adventure that follows the events of Acts 15-18. This compelling read-aloud book brings biblical locations and characters to life through the eyes of Amon's daughter. A certain influential boy in her life wants to marry her, but Eliana has other ideas!To escape her fate, Eliana jumps at an opportunity that will take her miles away from the ...

Join thirteen-year-old Eliana in a New Testament adventure that follows the events of Acts 15-18. This compelling read-aloud book brings biblical locations and characters to life through the eyes of Amon's daughter. A certain influential boy in her life wants to marry her, but Eliana has other ideas!To escape her fate, Eliana jumps at an opportunity that will take her miles away from the unwanted marriage. As she is a dyer by trade, traveling to new regions to network with the make...

If you were summoned by an angel to a distant land, would you go?In the triumphant finale of the Christian fiction angelic suspense thriller, ARMOR OF LIGHT III : A Trilogy Story ( 3rd Book in the Series ), Michael and Kristen receive an urgent summons to Mexico City to prevent the Sons of Darkness from stealing a sacred cloak with the miraculous image of Blessed Mother Mary at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Will guardian angels and archangels intervene to ...

Essential to a proper understanding of the Old Testament is a knowledge of the political, historical, and theological environment of the ancient Near East. While there is an abundance of material explaining this environment, primary source texts are often unavailable or inaccessible to beginning Old Testament students. Even as sources have become more widely available online, introductory students still struggle to know where to begin and how texts contribute to an understanding of the Old...

Prim, proper Amelia Potts tries to keep her rowdy sister Mary out of trouble, a nearly impossible task. When Mary finds herself in big trouble—arrested for displaying an obscene sculpture in the front window of her art gallery—Amelia races to town to bail Mary out. But Mary has already hired a fiery civil rights attorney, Patrick Levine, to fight her case for her.Patrick is principled. He’s determined. He’s brash. He’s also the sexiest man Amelia has ever encountered. When he meets...

This book tells the inside story of the US Army’s transformation from an outdated personnel system to a cutting-edge talent management approach.It provides an authoritative account of how talent management can directly enhance organizational readiness, innovation, and long-term effectiveness. Written by the very leaders who drove these reforms, the authors describe the bold initiatives they designed and implemented to modernize how a million-person force is recruited, developed, em...

The Forgotten Girl meets Hide and Seeker in this terrifying MG horror that returns the Zombie to its homeland, the island nation of Haiti.Lena is a descendant of a long line of Mambos -- Vodou priestesses. She's basically been raised to stir things up. There's no mess she can't wriggle out of, even when she's the one who made it in the first place. But there are problems that even Lena can't fix... She can't bring her father back from the dead. Sh...

The Forgotten Girl meets Hide and Seeker in this terrifying MG horror that returns the Zombie to its homeland, the island nation of Haiti.Lena is a descendant of a long line of Mambos -- Vodou priestesses. She's basically been raised to stir things up. There's no mess she can't wriggle out of, even when she's the one who made it in the first place. But there are problems that even Lena can't fix... She can't bring her father back from the dead. Sh...

It doesn’t matter how sexy Ben Strother is; he’s Stephanie Webb’s boss at the ad agency where she’s an assistant creative director, so they can never have a relationship. Besides, they’re a poor match. She’s a working-class woman, stubborn and quirky and a free spirit. He’s polished, wealthy, and a bit starchy. But that doesn’t mean they can’t plot to set Ben’s widowed father up with Stephanie’s widowed mother.The problem is, Ben’s father and Stephanie’s mother believe Ben and Step...

Future Build exposes the devastating environmental impact of modern construction while offering a bold vision for change.Construction shapes the world we live in, but also leaves one of the heaviest footprints on our planet. From the relentless heat of cement kilns to the towering steel and concrete skeletons of our cities, Future Build reveals how our dependence on five key materials has led to soaring carbon emissions, waste and ecological destr...

Future Build exposes the devastating environmental impact of modern construction while offering a bold vision for change.Construction shapes the world we live in, but also leaves one of the heaviest footprints on our planet. From the relentless heat of cement kilns to the towering steel and concrete skeletons of our cities, Future Build reveals how our dependence on five key materials has led to soaring carbon emissions, waste and ecological destr...