Thousands of families and individuals are attracted to the South Carolina coast each year, renting houses up and down the beach throughout the seasons. They bring their lives with them when they come to this magical place. In A Week at Surfside Beach, author Pierce Koslosky Jr. has crafted sixteen poignant short stories that paint a vivid portrait of the beach's diverse, temporary inhabitants: those people attracted to a landscape both beautiful and overwhelming in its ability to force int...

Boots Johnson, an unproductive young man, experienced a serendipity event that eventually leads to his invention of the Electric Highway. He launched his invention at a time of great anxiety and soring expenses for energy and quickly amassed a great fortune. Secure in this position of wealth, Boots turned his attention to politics out of a sense of over privelege and conceived a long-term campaign to be elected President of the United States.This book is the interview where ideas h...

One of a kind, is this book of poetry masterpieces by David Pierce Jr. It will help readers understand the principles of virtue and God-centered thought. The creative intelligence invested is sure to give readers a sense of internal richness and purpose in life. New and fresh, bringing back the spirit of poetry in a new age of reason.

Race, Labor, and Violence in the Delta examines the history of labor relations and racial conflict in the Mississippi Valley from the Civil War into the late twentieth century. This essay collection grew out of a conference marking the hundredth anniversary of one of the nation’s deadliest labor conflicts—the 1919 Elaine Massacre, during which white mobs ruthlessly slaughtered over two hundred African Americans across Phillips County, Arkansas, in response to a meeting of unionize...

How did Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger happen to meet? Where was David Copperfield born, and what is Pip's real name? The answer to every question about Dickens' characters and their fates are revealed in this remarkable book. Subtitled "A Key to the Plots and Characters in the Tales of Charles Dickens," it was compiled in 1872 by a leading expert of the era and updated at the turn of the twentieth century.Readers on both sides of the Atlantic hailed this master key to the belov...

Aspirations and Challenges for Undocumented Student Success offers a comprehensive review of rigorous, innovative, and critical scholarship profiling the scope and terrain on undocumented student success.Compiling the most significant work in the field in terms of its contributions to research and professional practice, the volume opens with an exploration the aspirations of undocumented students and the fight for equity, followed by an examination of the impact and influe...

Advocacy and Policy Change for Undocumented Student Success is a compelling exploration of the undocumented student experience in America, offering a deep dive into the advocacy, education, and systemic challenges faced by undocumented communities.Compiling the most significant work in the field in terms of its contributions to research and professional practice, this volume uncovers the historical struggles and triumphs of undocumented students and their families in their...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In the final book of his astonishing career, Carl Sagan brilliantly examines the burning questions of our lives, our world, and the universe around us.These luminous, entertaining essays travel both the vastness of the cosmos and the intimacy of the human mind, posing such fascinating questions as how did the universe originate and how will it end, and how can we meld science and compassion to meet the challenges of the coming c...

While everything appears to be collapsing around us – ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars – we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s feature documentary movie The Eleventh Hour and soon to be released HBO special Ice on Fire, Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to...

Using logic, common sense, philosophy, ethics, history, and science, the author rebuts every argument that claims to "prove" the existence of God.IS THERE REALLY A GOD?OR DOES GOD EXIST ONLY IN OUR HEADS?IS THE BIBLE TRULY GOD'S WORD?OR IS IT A JUMBLE OF FANCIFUL MYTHS?Atheist Universe details why God is unnecessary to explain the universe's dive...

In his celebrated previous book, Apocalypse 2012: An Investigation Into Civilization’s End, Lawrence E. Joseph appraised the likelihood of planet-wide catastrophe in 2012 by presenting convincing scientific evidence of looming chaos and even mass extinction. Now, in AFTERMATH: A Guide to Preparing For And Surviving Apocalypse 2012 he answers the most pressing question to arise from the investigation: What can we do to mitigate the coming cataclysm?Here Joseph prese...

Ask yourself the big questions, keep an open mind, and learn from some of the greatest thinkers of all time with Agnosticism.Famous martial artist Bruce Lee didnt believe that anyone should be indoctrinated into one specific style of fighting. The best fighter is master of many styles and has the skill to apply the right methods as situations present themselves.Agnostics take the same approach to philosophy and religion. Each religion, as each philosophy, has somet...