This story was written to see your enemies eyes. Melvin was the typical black teen that was raised to dislike whites for his own personal reasons. He lived his life on the edge until he was forced into a world that he had never dreamed of, and now he must choose life over love of his enemies.

A great designer offers you a virtuoso tour through the world of sailboatsBob Perry initiated the trend toward fast voyaging sailboats with his world-famous Valiant 40, which has been in production longer than any other cruising sailboat in history. But Perry is not only a leading yacht designer--he is also an accomplished wordsmith whose blunt, insightful, irreverent, and always entertaining boat reviews have captivated readers of Sailing magazine for 24 ...

"Robert Perry has given us a gift-a portrait of Jesus' teaching that is approachable yet rigorously argued, spiritually moving yet intellectually honest." -Brian Recker, Author of Hell BentFor centuries, Christians have focused on who Jesus was-Messiah, Son of God, Savior. But Jesus himself focused on something else: teaching people a radically new way to live.Drawing on decades of historical research, The Teacher reconstr...

HOW TO BENEFIT AND EXPERIENCE A LIFE DRIVEN BY PURPOSEThe Life inspired on Purpose is a powerful and inspirational book that offers the reader a better way of discovering his true life purpose. While giving significance to the personality, choices, events of life, with the ability to sustain oneself, being meaningful to others. Also, defining and exploring the human identity. Showing how to live a life driven by purpose, while embracing your imperfections. Daily we are fac...

Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religious camps have shaped their identities according to particular interpretations of their shared history. As such, any re-examination and revision of Irish history has the potential to have a very real impact upon wider society. Defining revisionism in historiography as a reaction to contemporary conflict in Ireland, this book looks at how intellect...

My wife, Ginnie, had a hip replacement which gave pause helping her. In this lull, about my seventy fourth birthday, I began to write. I found many wells to draw from: My childhood, in the South, with close family and friends was rich. I enjoyed camping, hunting, and fishing adventures with by brother, Wilbur, hound dogs and friends. A graduate engineer, I managed manufacturing in several factories staffed by smart, hard working people. Active duty; US Army Corps of Engineers, building air...

Don't stop what you are doing--make room in yourscrambled days, that often lose prospective, for the beautyand harshness of poetry.Here are thoughts to nudge the deeper ripples of purpose and humor in our overcrowded hours

Jesus was uniquely adept in the art of "reading" people. He fit his approach to the precise needs and interests of the person with whom he was dealing, and he spoke the cultural language of that individual. In this book, Robert Perry takes what Jesus and others have done intuitively-niche marketing-and provides a framework for applying those principles in everyday practice. Convinced that congregations can learn from the wisdom of secular disciplines and apply that wisdom to congregational...

This is a book of 108 poems that were transmitted through the author. They were created and communicated by a range of organisms, minerals and planetary bodies. They offer insights about humanity, thoughts about humanity's potential to live in harmony with nature, and how organisms are themselves created.

The Blitz is at its height. As the Luftwaffe bomb London, Cody McBride, ex-pat American private eye, sees a sinister silver sphere crash-land. He glimpses something emerging from within. The military dismiss his account of events – the sphere must be a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned in some way. What else could it be?Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Ace embark on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi agents, and encounter some very old enemi...

A collection of fictional narrative tales with a unifying monologue told by "Robert," an expat retiree from the United States living in a small beach townon the Sea of Cortez in Mexico, ending with a novella set in the same place.

This is an adventure story in its own peculiar way, a novelization of true stories, a small portion of the early years of a life of wanderings and musings and pain and passion in the southwestern deserts, and there were a few hard lessons learned along the way. This story is not a suggestion for others to follow, but a few nuggets may lie among the slag heaps and ruins left behind. And most of it is true. The time frame is the 1960s and 70s. The protagonist is a young man growing up in the...