In “Undeserved: Grasping Gods Grace”, Christopher invites you to join his journey of learning how to accept the grace of God into our lives. It is so easy to say that we are covered by His grace, but how do we live in it? How do we take this free gift that God has given us, open it up, and give thanks to our Father for it?

Oh No, It’s Story Time is a vibrant and beautifully illustrated book that puts a fresh and funny spin on one of the challenges parents face when raising young ones: telling a good bedtime story. This book is the first in a series that transports parents and children into original and imaginative places and experiences centered on relatable family life. Oh No, It’s Story Time puts an übercool, adventurous twist on bedtime antics in which an exhausted dad takes his restless children on an ou...

Each day a friendship is made. We have the choice what kind of friendship that is going to be. The friendship to be cherished above all friendships o yes even, greater still than family, friends, the friendship of the Master Jesus Christ Himself. What greater gift than this the one who; made it all laying down His life but even still we seem to grumble and complain. How can this be when there is a hand reaching out calling asking for a friendship! Still we continue on seemingly without a c...

What is it about those old cowpokes and gunslingers that captivate us so much? How the West Was Not takes a witty, myth-busting look at the classic TV Westerns that shaped America's idea of the frontier separating the "cold, hard facts" from the way the West was... not.From gunfighters who diagnose bullet wounds at twenty paces, to saloons packed with patrons but strangely empty of horses (and outhouses!), author and Western Magazine Digest senior editor Christopher Robins...

During the Second World War, the German military communicated via a supposedly unbreakable cryptographic device: the Enigma machine. Looking like an oversized typewriter, it scrambled plain text into gibberish using a series of rotating electromechanical wheels. Because the rotors moved after every single keystroke, the machine could generate nearly 159 quintillion possible settings. The German high command believed that this astronomical number made brute-force decryption physically impos...

As an African American, Staff Sergeant William Carver defies racial boundaries to gain entrance into the elite counter-terrorist unit, Delta Force. Thrown into the Iraq War, the hunt for Saddam Hussein is full throttle, and Will has made it his personal goal to capture or kill the notorious leader. He works hard to beat the odds and become top of his team.But his single-minded focus is complicated when he meets a beautiful bartender and starts a whirlwind affair. Torn between two w...

While scientific consensus on climate change is widely accepted, political responses to the crisis remain slow and inadequate. Current approaches often rely on incremental reforms or technological fixes, while the language of “sustainability” has failed to inspire broad democratic action. These limits stem from deep-seated assumptions—human exceptionalism, capitalist growth, and the idea that ecosystems are mere “resources.” As climate disruption accelerates, we need a new way of thinking ...

John Gunnell has compelled political theorists to rethink their relation to political science, the history of political thought, the philosophy of social science and political reality. His thinking has been shaped by encounters with Heidegger and Plato, Wittgenstein and Austin, the Berkeley School and émigrés such as Strauss and Arendt. His writings have challenged the idealist assumptions behind the idea of a Great Tradition of Political Thought and the philosophical claims about mind and...

Based on the bestselling book, Rivers of North America, this new guide stands as the only primary source of complete and comparative baseline data on the biological and hydrological characteristics of more than 180 of the highest profile rivers in Europe. With numerous full-color photographs and maps, Rivers of Europe includes conservation information on current patterns of river use and the extent to which human society has exploited and impacted them. Rivers of Europe provides the inform...

While visiting Japan, animation writer Chris Robinson gets lost. Drifting through Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Kyoto, he stumbles into a string of encounters―with mysterious figures like Bob Dylan, Haruki Murakami, sumo wrestlers, and Big Bird, and with Japanese animators both living and dead. Each meeting draws him into a deep, dark, uncanny current of Japanese animation―one that has nothing to do with Godzilla, Akira, anime, manga, or Hayao Miyazaki.The original book, Time Out of Mi...

Literary Onomastics surveys different methods of studying names in works of literature and offers representative works of literary onomastic analysis. Included in this volume are qualitative studies that examine select names as well as quantitative studies that examine entire systems of names. These studies of literary names straddle centuries, cross genres, and defy simple categorization. Leading and emerging scholars in this field provide insight into the namecraft of William Shakespeare...