You picked up this book because conflict has shrunk your prayers into sighs and the same fight keeps circling your home. You love the Lord and still use the same words, get the same hurt, and wonder whether your spouse even wants to try. Perhaps you are sleeping back to back while managing the house with polite efficiency, or you are the only one willing to pray at all. Whatever seat you hold, you share a hope this book exists to serve, that God can be woven back into the center of a coven...

There is more than a touch of 'The Emperor's New Clothes' in the way many organizations approach project management and the consequences are all too clear: project methodology inappropriately applied; little or no consideration of complexity or ambiguity; alienation of the stakeholders and a statistically poor record of performance for major business or infrastructure projects. Charles Smith's groundbreaking book Making Sense of Project Realities offers convincing explanations as to why pr...

My art came to me in 1970. Why it did…that’s the part I can’t figure out. It just popped up. When I was at Junior 5, an art teacher showed me how to do stars and that was that, but by the time I was 19 and trying to learn to read, I started scribbling and scrabbling. I learned to draw just by doing it.

James was beginning to see the similarity to what was occurring on Earth. Now, from what Carolyn and Pierre were telling him he could see that those people concerned for the wellbeing of such creatures as Elephants, Lions and Tigers were signaling the start of a potentially huge problem for Earths wildlife.

Harken back to the Golden Age of Piracy, an exceedingly brief but highly memorable epoch. Launched at the beginning of the 1700's, this unforgettable twinkling in time spawned such notorious and celebrated reprobates as Blackbeard, Calico Jack and Black Bart to name but a few. Glamorized and sensationalized by novels and the silver screen to an unrealistic and surreal level, these nautical hooligans have been cast in the roles of noble, gallant, misguided or misunderstood daredevils and pr...

Bilge Rat - Pirate Adventurer is a three part series drawn from the imagination and investigation of Kevin Charles Smith in this remarkable debut. Described as "Mutiny on the Bounty meets Pirates of the Caribbean with an Oliver Twist", this first volume is written with incredible detail and historical accuracy. William Eden and brother Toby are two helpless orphans in early 1700 London. Taken in by an aged clerical uncle, the boys are assigned specific maintenance duties in the cavernous S...

Understanding Addiction: Know Science, No Stigma is a must-read for those suffering from the tragic effects of drugs and alcohol.In Understanding Addiction: Know Science, No Stigma, doctors Chuck Smith and Jason Hunt bring a unique and important perspective to the subject of addiction. Experts in the field, Smith and Hunt have personal, firsthand experience with the humiliation and shame that accompanies substance use disorder. Bu...

Regarded as one of the most outstanding commanding officers on the Western Front, Wilfrid Abel Smith commanded an elite unit of 1,000 of the finest soldiers in the British Army. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, Smith was a career soldier who led his battalion of Grenadiers with distinction through the First Battle of Ypres and the winter trench warfare of 1914–15. He died of wounds received at the Battle of Festubert in May 1915.The letters and diaries provide a viv...

"Journal of a Trip to California" by Charles W. Smith is a captivating account of the author's journey to the Golden State. Through vivid descriptions and engaging narratives, Smith captures the essence of California's landscapes, culture, and the people he encounters. His observations reflect the spirit of adventure and exploration, as he navigates through bustling towns and serene natural wonders. The journal serves not only as a travelogue but also as a historical document that provides...

Have you ever sat through a terrible corporate meeting, assuming everyone else found it valuable, only to discover later that your colleagues hated it just as much as you did? This is not just a communication breakdown; it is a powerful psychological trap known as Pluralistic Ignorance. It occurs when a majority of group members privately reject a norm, but incorrectly assume that most others accept it, causing them to blindly go along with it. This psychological deep dive exposes how plur...

Navigating the Mortgage Modification Mess A Cautionary Tale takes the reader on a serious, yet sarcastically humorous, trip through Federal and internal bank programs for modifying home mortgages. It represents a 3-year timeline of the authors attempt to save part of the American Dream of home ownership. The process involved submitting, and often resubmitting, a large amount of paperwork to answer underwriter questions and justify a hardship request for mortgage modification. During the pr...

Based on a decade of first-hand experience and secondary research, this richly detailed study follows daily life in four villages in Tanzania. Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, this comprehensive account examines the regional economy, determinants of civil society and implications for democratization, AIDS, population growth, refugees, crops and goods and implications for development. Charles David Smith brings together well over 200 interviews and his own expe...