This book tells the story of the Marines spearheading the thrust through the Japanese outer ring of defences and recounts the brutal and important island-hopping Pacific campaign at its most gripping following the bloodbath at Tarawa.Contains 97 photos and 16 maps and charts."As 1943 drew to a close, Marines had retaken Tarawa and portions of the Solomons from the Japanese invader, but the formidable enemy bases studding the vast Pacific, bases which had been built during the...

In this book, Shepherd Bushiri gives his readers an insight on how thought modification can play a vital role in human achievements. He takes an in-depth approach and reveals that the anointing of God can take over the way an individual perceives things, thus, bringing forth remarkable results. You can actually, "think" your way to your biggest dream. The interactive collection of revelations in this book will immerse you into a world where you can receive blessings you never thought possi...

The Secrets of Hickory Hollow revolves around the history of the lives of rugged Scottish pioneers that settle in an isolated southern Appalachian Mountain valley. Over the years their little settlement grows and establishes itself as an independent community complete with a church, a school, and government policies and laws of its own. As generations go by, the residents of Hickory Hollow are caught up in the changing times that lead their lives and the community into an intricate web of ...

Prosecutor Mike McCarthy had moved his family to Brisco, Montana to take the position as District Attorney after losing the election in Bison. His second week on the job a maid at the local motel accused a Crow Indian of rape. Franky Dalton had been released from prison less than 24 hours earlier. But was this really rape, or was it consensual sex? And why was a member of Mike's team seemingly trying to sabotage his trial?

Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure provides an important counterweight to the multitude of books that focus on entrepreneurial success. Failure is by far the most common scenario for new ventures and a critical part of the entrepreneurial process is learning from failure and having the motivation to try again. This book examines the various obstacles to learning from failure and explores how they can be overcome. A range of topics are discussed that include: why some people have a more ...

This book offers helpful insight and advice on how doctoral students and junior faculty can succeed as an entrepreneurship scholar. It invites them to think entrepreneurially to identify research opportunities, manage the publication process, achieve excellence in the classroom, secure a faculty position, and build a research record worthy of promotion and tenure. Drawing from his experience as a research scholar, editor, review board member, mentor, and reviewer of many promotion and tenu...

An organization operating in the twenty-first century is different from one that operated during the Industrial Revolution. Todays focus is on optimizing human potential; people are the enablers of most aspects of intangible value. People develop relationships with suppliers, customers, distributors, and other third parties through which work is executed. In Reflective Leaders and High-Performance Organizations, authors Nick Shepherd and Peter Smyth take an integrated view of orga...

Have you noticed? If you're a male, especially an adult male, I'll bet you have noticed. Here's the sad truth: it's becoming more and more difficult to know what it means to be a man, a good man in the world today.The problem stems from the fact our current culture has made it much more complicated and confusing than it should or needs to be. Specifically, what role(s) would you say today's male serves in our society and exactly how does one learn those roles? Ask 10 males and you'...

Over half of the total LGB population identifies as bisexual, less than a third as gay and less than a fifth as lesbian. Proportionally, it would not be unreasonable to rearrange the letters in LGBT to spell BGLT. Yet there is overwhelming silence in our churches around Europe on the subject of bisexuality, despite slow but increasing acceptance of homosexuality and same-sex marriage in many countries. This silence has a devastating effect on the mental health of bisexual people. In Bi: Th...

Lucille Mathurin Mair (née Walrond) made a mammoth contribution to women in Jamaica and across the world. In this biography, Verene Shepherd traces Mair’s evolving ideology through her roles as professional historian, wife, mother, mentor, diplomat, national and international civil servant, legislator, and women’s rights activist. Mair’s tireless commitment to the principles of justice and equality for women guided her work and she particularly sought to centre women of the Global South in...

Are you intrigued by the unexplained? Then look no further. This book is a compilation of mysterious topics that will open your eyes and expand your mind. For example, did you know there is evidence that man might actually be millions of years older than what is currently taught? Or that ancient cultures knew of, and possibly utilized, aviation? Or that there is evidence giants may have literally once inhabited the earth? This book covers all that is mentioned, and more!

Avenues of Faith documents how religion flourished in southern cities after the turn of the century and how a cadre of clergy and laity created a notably progressive religious culture in Richmond, Virginia. Famous as the former capital of the Confederacy, in Avenues of Faith Richmond emerges as a dynamic and growing industrial city invigorated by the social activism of its Protestants.By examining six mainline white denominations—Episcopalians, Methodists, Presbyt...