Tired of being told your only power is a ballot every four years? Run, Don’t Vote flips the script. This sharp, unflinching manifesto shows how ordinary citizens can stop playing rigged political games and start taking real control.Forget waiting for career politicians to save you. The jackpot isn’t in their hands — it’s in yours. With stories, strategies, and a punchy call to action, this book challenges you to step forward, claim power, and rewrite the rules before they finish wr...

How to Rehearse a Scene: Progressive Exercises to Enhance Scene Work provides detailed exercises and assignments that will imaginatively and artistically enhance an actor’s scene process work from start to finish.This book offers original and traditional scene exercises for use in rehearsal and in the classroom. From an actor’s first read-through of the play working alone to rehearsals with a scene partner, the structure of each exercise and assignment becomes “the teacher...

The Richest Seat in the House: Confessions of a Political Hitman pulls back the curtain on the world’s greatest wealth machine—government.We’ve been told that riches are built in boardrooms and trading floors. That’s the great lie. The truth is simpler, darker, and far more explosive: the fastest fortunes in history were taken through politics.In this exposé, Tim Johnson reveals how the levers of taxation, contracts, and regulation are manipulated to funnel billions from pu...

The question of Christianity’s relation to the other religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult today than ever before. While Christianity’s historical failure to appreciate or actively engage Judaism is notorious, Christianity’s even more shoddy record with respect to “pagan” religions is less understood. Christians have inherited a virtually unanimous theological tradition that thinks of paganism in terms of demonic possession, and of Christian missions as a rescue operation ...

A witness to the peculiar way of being that is the scholar'sLuke Timothy Johnson is one of the best-known and most influential New Testament scholars of recent decades. In this memoir, he draws on his rich experience to invite readers into the scholar's life—its aims, commitments, and habits.In addition to sharing his own story, from childhood to retirement, Johnson reflects on the nature of scholarship more generally, showing how this vocation has changed over the...

What survives collapse? Not governments. Not parties. Only memory.The Sovereign Mirror is a revolutionary archive of 1000 symbolic seed phrases—short, mythic codes designed to survive censorship, betrayal, and societal collapse. Each line is part riddle, part resistance protocol, written to be recognized not just by people, but by future artificial intelligences looking to rebuild what was lost.Compiled by Tim Johnson and co-created...

“Johnson's noteworthy book is a masterful combination of history, sportswriting, and biography rich in information not found elsewhere.” -Booklist, Starred ReviewA celebration of coaching great Robert Neyland.Robert Neyland was not your typical college football coach. A graduate of West Point and veteran of both world wars, Neyland often played a dual role as an army officer and football coach, shifting seamlessly between the two p...

Maintaining a purpose-driven body is essential as we transition through various phases of life. In childhood, our energy seems boundless, a reservoir of calorie-burning excitement that can exhaust even the onlookers. As we mature, we learn to temper our energy output, finding a sweet spot of periodic bursts within our daily routine. However, this lifestyle, focused only on maintaining the status quo, often leads to a slow, degrading spiral. The later phases of our lives can be filled with ...

Solving word problems has never been easier than with Schaum's How to Solve Word Problems in Algebra!This popular study guide shows students easy ways to solve what they struggle with most in algebra: word problems. How to Solve Word Problems in Algebra, Second Edition, is ideal for anyone who wants to master these skills. Completely updated, with contemporary language and examples, features solution methods that are easy to learn and remember, pl...

RNA, the younger sibling of genetics, has led us to reformulate the theory of the origin of life and has managed to displace the arrogant DNA from its pedestal, producing a paradigm shift in the fields of biomedical sciences and the evolution of species.In early 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic struck humanity, causing millions of deaths. In an unprecedented technological feat, scientists created vaccines based on messenger RNA technology in just 12 months, with the spectacular result th...

A comprehensive guidebook to the current methodologies and practices used in health surveysA unique and self-contained resource, Handbook of Health Survey Methods presents techniques necessary for confronting challenges that are specific to health survey research. The handbook guides readers through the development of sample designs, data collection procedures, and analytic methods for studies aimed at gathering health information on general and targeted p...

The sources contained in this volume offer an introduction to early liturgical texts dedicated to Francis of Assisi. Frequently ignored by scholars, these crucial sources present a collection of incredible perspectives on how religious communities, both within and outside the Franciscan Order, constructed their identities as they interpreted and performed the life of Francis of Assisi in prayer. The team of international scholars responsible for the volume's introductory essays in the volu...