Separated into 10 subject matters, the book contains numerous poems and short stories reflecting how my life experiences and the hundreds of books I have read. The subjects are relevant to everyone; Passing, Man, Wisdom, Time, Personal, History, Life, Woman, Metaphysics, and Religion.

Separated into ten subject matters, the book contains numerous poems and short stories reflecting my life experiences and the hundreds of books I have read. The subjects are relevant to everyonepassing, man, wisdom, time, personal, history, life, woman, metaphysics, and religion.

Discover the fundamentals of human communication with this comprehensive and insightful resourceWritten in four sections, The Work and Workings of Human Communication identifies the underlying fundamentals that make our communication distinctively human. These fundamentals are the common ground that tie together the many topics and subject matters covered by the study and discipline of communication. They are also the basis of the unique contribution of th...

Howard Frank Mosher has spent the greater part of his career depicting a relatively isolated section of Vermont known as the Northeast Kingdom. Yet, even as he writes about that particular area in the Green Mountain State, he is investigating age-old themes from among the best English and American literary works. His first novel, Disappearances (1977), signaled the arrival of a master craftsman harkening us back to Melville's Billy Budd and Moby-Dick, in terms of...

In the mountains of West Virginia, chaos is never far away—especially when the Beechy Hollow Great Outdoors Club is on the trail!After getting fired from his big-city job, Rob Greenwood returns to his Appalachian hometown only to be swept up in the antics of a free-spirited outdoors club. From camping and fishing trips that go sideways to weird trailside encounters, these stories celebrate friendship, mischief, and the untamed spirit of Appalachia.Includes ...

This bookbrings together scholars from across a variety of academic disciplines to assess the current state of the subfield of popular geopolitics. It provides an archaeology of the field, maps the flows of various frameworks of analysis into (and out of) popular geopolitics, and charts a course forward for the discipline. It explores the real-world implications of popular culture, with a particular focus on the evolving interdisciplinary nature of popular geopolitics alongside interrelate...

Argues that impeachment may no longer be an effective check on overreach by American presidents.The Politics of Presidential Impeachment takes a distinctive and fresh look at the impeachment provision of the US Constitution. Instead of studying it from a legal-constitutional perspective, the authors use a social science approach incorporating extensive case studies and quantitative analysis. Focusing on four presidents who faced impeachment processes-Andre...

The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored. The engagement and tensions between modernism and tradition, and institutionalized religion and spirituality are inherent issues for many composers who have sought to invoke spirituality and Otherness through contemporary music.Contemporary Music and Spirituality provides a detailed exploration of the recent and current state of contemporary ...

A new revised edition of the classic study takes a fresh look at human consciousness and an exciting new view of the untapped potential of the human mind.What is consciousness and why do we need to know?In this new fourth edition of his revolutionary study, Robert Ornstein reexamines what is known about consciousness and why this understanding is so important at this time of enormous challenge, change and potential.He begins with an exploration of how the human brai...

Olympic gymnast and Cirque du Soleil acrobat Mary Sanders shares her incredible story of dedication and personal sacrifice that led to success and reinvention.Mary Sanders was handed an Olympic dream by her father from the moment she was born. Determined to follow in his footsteps, the young gymnast struggled through training setbacks, financial hardships, and personal rivalries, under a cloud of grief, to compete in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. But that achie...

A university professor goes out for a night on the town with his friends and gets irresponsibly drunk. At the end of the night he attempts to drive home, and is involved in a car crash. He awakes to find himself lying on a hospital bed with a beautiful nurse tending to his wounds. The level of healthcare she provides, however, was definitely not in his insurance policy!

What does it mean to go beyond our ordinary perception of reality? Why has almost all of humanity, throughout our history, had the concept of transcendence and connection to “the other” – to “the spirit world,” to “God,” or to “the One behind it all?”This remarkable work coalesces findings from the shamans of the Ice Age (God 1.0), to the first temples, priests and gods of the Neolithic era and Mesopotamia (God 2.0), to the Axial Age prophets and the three major monotheistic religi...