During the reign of Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, Fred Kopp's image, name and deeds were erased from all obelisks, temples and public monuments in Muscatine, Iowa. This book attempts to rectify that injustice.

Political pamphlets presents a curated exploration of influential political writings that shaped public debate and intellectual discourse across a transformative period in English history. The collection highlights how pamphlets served as a powerful medium for expressing dissent, shaping opinion, and engaging with urgent social and political issues, reflecting the evolving relationship between governance, authority, and public voice. Through a range of voices, the work illustrates the role...

Speeches are in themselves an art. Everyone cannot make speeches. They can of course address the people through words, but they cannot be called speeches. Moreover all the speeches that have been delivered are not good. What then is the quality required for the words to form a good speech.Great speeches are not time bound. They are eternal rather they have everlasting impact; very often excerpts from them are quoted by other speakers; thus making them timeless.

Use mission-driven leadership to create dramatic growth at your nonprofitIn The Five Truths for Transformational Leaders: How Nonprofit Organizations Thrive, Grow, and Make a Profound Difference, former chief strategy officer for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America, Ed Mishrell, delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to achieve extraordinary results when leading nonprofit organizations. The author explains how to use your organization's mis...

In Rube Goldberg’s Simple Normal Definitely Different Day Off, follow along with the young inventor in this wacky, STEAM-focused picture book.A “definitely different” follow-up to Rube Goldberg’s Simple Normal Humdrum School Day, written by Jennifer George, the granddaughter of Rube Goldberg, and illustrated by Reuben Award-winning artist Ed Steckley. In this collaboration, they imagine Rube Goldberg as a young inventor who builds complex machines...

From author Jennifer George and Reuben Award-winning illustrator Ed Steckley, Rube Goldberg’s Simple Normal Humdrum School Day is a picture book adventure following a day in the life of the famed inventor.If Rube’s inventions are any indication, “normal” means something very different in the Goldberg household. For Rube, up is down, in is out, and the simplest path to accomplishing an everyday task—like brushing his teeth or getting dressed—is a humorously...

Step into a world where every shadow hides a secret and every clue opens a new, darker mystery. Mystery PI follows ex-detective Kesia, now a private investigator, and her steadfast partner Jackson, as they navigate a labyrinth of sinister murders, hidden conspiracies, and eerie supernatural forces. As Kesia and Jackson peel back layers of truth in each jaw-dropping case, they find themselves entangled in a web of danger that challenges everything they thought they knew about reality—and ea...

In his introduction, Ed Gamble points out the intriguing relationship of political cartoonist and politician. It is a relationship that can range from downright antagonistic to one of mutual praise. While political cartoonists would have a hard time making a livelihood without politicians, politicians often do wish that they were living without editorial cartoonists.It is a sentiment one might infer from the forewords by former presidents George Bush and Gerald Ford. President Bush...

Beechwood is in trouble, but Rube may just have another machine up his sleeve …Evil Professor Zeero has disappeared, Superintendent Atwater has been put in his place, and all is right again in Beechwood … or is it? When Rube Goldberg discovers the Null Corporation is building a giant machine in his beloved junkyard, he suspects something nefarious is at play. Then anonymous messages appear from someone claiming to be an ally, and he knows something is up.With his best frien...

Staging the Amistad collects in print for the first time plays about the Amistad slave revolt by three of Sierra Leone’s most influential playwrights of the latter decades of the twentieth century: Charlie Haffner, Yulisa Amadu “Pat” Maddy, and Raymond E. D. de’Souza George. Until the late 1980s, when the first of these plays was performed, the 1839 shipboard slave rebellion and the return of its victors to their homes in what is modern-day Sierra Leone had been an unreco...

The central theological claim of Christianity, that Jesus is God incarnate, finds eager detractors across a wide spectrum—from scholars who interpret Jesus as a prophet, angel, or guru to adherents of progressive Christianity and non-Christian religions and philosophies. Yet thorough biblical scholarship strongly supports the historic Christian teaching on the deity of Christ. Authors Robert M. Bowman Jr. and J. Ed Komoszewski follow the approach of their landmark 2007 study on the same to...

The central theological distinctive of Christianity—that Jesus is God incarnate—has repeatedly come under fire from adherents to other religions and scholars who interpret Jesus as a prophet, angel, or guru. Putting Jesus in His Place is designed to introduce Christians to the wealth of biblical teaching on the deity of Christ. Using evidence from the New Testament, this book helps listeners appreciate the significance of Christ's deity in a personal relationship with Him, and giv...