In the 1960s rock stopped being background noise and became the main event. British groups took American blues and pop and sent them back louder and sharper. The Beatles made the album a work of art. The Stones made it dangerous. In the U.S., folk went electric, psychedelia blew the studio open, and festivals turned crowds into a single audience.The 1970s raised the volume and the stakes. Led Zeppelin and their peers built rock for arenas. Pink Floyd and the Who treated records as ...

Loss is hard. The death of someone we love can be painful, traumatic, and even devastating.Loss hits us on every level. It impacts our emotions, our minds, our bodies, our souls, our relationships, and our future.Grief wells up within us. It can be intense, relentless, and overwhelming. Like ocean waves, grief just keeps coming.Thankfully, we are not alone. God is with us in our grief, in our pain.In the Bible, the word walk pops up again and again:...

The Vatican City, the spiritual and administrative heart of the Roman Catholic Church, has long been a magnet for conspiracy theories, legends, and historical misconceptions. Beneath its grand architecture and ancient archives lies a web of lore that captures the global imagination. Examining the 25 most common myths about the Vatican reveals a stark contrast between sensational fiction and mundane reality.Among the most persistent myths are those ...

Evolution is just one in a list of educational and social influences drawing people away from a relationship with God through Christ. Is it possible that evolution is an erroneous theory? In a thoughtful examination of Darwin’s theory of evolution in terms of scientific facts and Christian beliefs, Gary Hasson begins by leading others through his initial hunch that incremental changes in a progenitor of a chimpanzee to a walking, talking human being is an impossibility, and then dives deep...

Originally written in 1980 by the Lorenzo J. Greene, Gary R. Kremer, and Antonio F. Holland and revised and updated in 1993 by Kremer and Holland, Missouri's Black Heritage, now in a greatly expanded third edition, remains the only book-length account of the rich and inspiring history of the Show-Me State's African American population. With more than one hundred photographs, most of them new to this third edition, Kremer and Holland incorporate the latest scholarship as they descr...

An insightful, searing and clear-eyed account of Taoiseach Brian Cowen and his time as leader of the country during Ireland's greatest crisisFrom the author of the bestselling Haughey, Gary Murphy returns with a major reassessment of Ireland's most turbulent political era. In this richly textured account of Brian Cowen's inexorable rise to the office of Taoiseach and his dramatic fall, Murphy offers a ground-breaking portrait of a man and an era that defin...

Running a business alone can feel overwhelming when every decision, email, client request, marketing task, financial responsibility, and administrative duty depends on you. Fortunately, modern AI tools can help entrepreneurs reclaim their time, reduce burnout, and build systems that keep their businesses moving forward even during challenging seasons.The Entrepreneur's Revival Guide with Claude and ChatGPT is a practical handbook for solopreneurs, freelancers, cons...

The United States has a complex tax system that funds federal, state, and local governments. Taxes finance national defense, Social Security, Medicare, infrastructure, education, public safety, healthcare programs, courts, and numerous other government services. The federal government collected approximately $5.3 trillion in gross taxes during fiscal year 2025, including about $2.9 trillion in individual income-tax collections before refunds.The federal individual income ta...

Meet Layla and Franklin Bishop. They're a married Los Angeles pair in their late thirties whose twelve-year relationship began like a house on fire-but now all that's left are the dying embers. When a maddening incident involving a fender bender, a gushing Hydro Flask, and their back-seated dog, Betty, becomes the last straw for the teetering spouses, they impulsively separate.Money, work matters, and property issues quickly complicate things. But when Layla and Franklin each deman...

When Sarah's exciting prom night suddenly turns into heartbreak, it seems her special evening is over before it has even begun. But someone in the house has other ideas. Curious, the clever cat with mysterious magical powers, knows that true kindness always deserves a happy ending. With the help of a little enchantment, an unforgettable glass coach, and a sprinkle of wonder, Sarah discovers that confidence shines brighter than any tiara. Filled with friendship, humour, magic, and h...

The Sonoran Desert has many marvelous and well-known creatures such as the javelina and the coyote, often found on postcards and lawn ornaments. But what about the lesser-known creatures—the ones that are underfoot yet unseen, that lurk only in the shadows and in our imaginations? In this collection of essays, prose poems, and illustrations, naturalist Gary Paul Nabhan and artist Robert J. Long team up to celebrate these unsung beings of the Sonoran Desert.This desert bestiary incl...

Science has given us tools and methods that allow us to observe things that were once imperceptible—and this book shows what we can learn when we use them to look at ourselves.Written by science journalist Gary Wolf, co-founder of the Quantified Self movement, this book teaches readers how to use proven scientific methods to answer their own health questions. At a time when trust in expertise is fractured and people are divided not just politically but over how to ...