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The focus of this book is to provide information about many different religious and spiritual cultures worldwide. There are many places of worship that people may not know about. Objects you might not be familiar with. Interesting traditions that are done. The multiple-choice options are wide-ranging and challenging, so you should learn a lot.

In this book, there are a variety of things that are true or false about the 2024 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games. Either way, most people will still be able to learn about someone or something they didn't know about. You can do this by yourself to see how much you know. Or you can do this activity with others to see how much they know.

This edited collection provides an in-depth ethnographic study of faith-based development organizations in the United States, shining a much needed critical light onto these organizations and their role in the United States by exploring the varied ways that faith-based organizations attempt to mend the fissures and mitigate the effects of neoliberal capitalism, poverty, and the social service sector on the poor and powerless. In doing so, Not by Faith Alone generates provocative a...

In Chicago in mid-twentieth century amid the haze and smoke of urban renewal and the sounds of the wrecking balls and bulldozers, there lived two men, both street-savvy, one Black, one Irish, one young, one old and both leaders of their clans. Each ruled with an iron fist. Each embodied the fighting spirit of the turbulent 1960s. One was David Barksdale, the Black Disciples leader, a Black youth club that would give birth to America's largest street gang; the other was Richard J. Daley, th...

Are the terms "The Great Replacement" and "White Genocide" really just conspiracy theories concocted by the paranoid and radical fringes of society as the left-wing politicians and pundits in the mainstream media suggest, or does the mainstream media only want to make these ideas look foolish, a bit crazy and even dangerous, so that the mere suggestion is simply blown off?In reality one does not have to delve too deeply into this idea to see that these terms are not just theories b...

In the summer of 1998, two of baseball’s leading sluggers, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, captivated the nation in a race to break Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record. Sosa hit 66 home runs, while McGwire finished with 70. Three years later, San Francisco Giants star Barry Bonds surpassed McGwire by hitting 73, in what was perhaps the greatest offensive display in baseball history. Over the next several seasons, as Bonds regularly launched mammoth home runs into San Francisco Bay, play...

The complete inside story of the shocking steroids scandal that turned the sports world upside downFor years, in the shadowy reaches of the world of sports, there were rumors that some of our nation’s greatest athletes were using steroids, human growth hormone, and other drugs to run faster, jump higher, and hit harder. But as track stars blazed their way to Olympic medals and sluggers brought fans back to baseball, sports officials, the media, and fans looked past...

Something About Ann is a historical fiction novella with eleven short stories*.* The novella and the short stories follow a group of soldiers who faced a traumatic experience in Vietnam but remained close after returning to the States*.* Violence and turmoil continue to haunt the soldiers as they try to normalize their lives. Sometimes relying on the help of each other, and sometimes relying on the skills they’ve gained in combat, most prevail.

A young boy calls on his loving uncles for a much-needed boys’ day in the wake of his father’s death in this touching debut picture book about grief and healing that’s a heartfelt homage to strong men who step in as loving role models for the children who need them.Lil’ Kev is the only boy in the house now that Daddy is gone. Momma and his sisters try to fill the void as best as they can, playing video games, racing cars, and even shooting hoops sometimes. But it’s...

William Kitchiner's "The Cook's Oracle; and Housekeeper's Manual" serves as a quintessential guide to the culinary arts of the early 19th century, deftly marrying practical cooking methods with domestic management. Written with an engaging and instructional tone, Kitchiner's work reflects the burgeoning interest in gastronomy during the Regency era, marked by a shift towards more refined culinary techniques and diverse ingredients. This authoritative manual offers an extensive collection o...

The state of Iowa is named for the Ioways, but most Iowans—and most Americans—know little about them. In This Is the Route of My Forefathers, William Green elevates an understudied history by synthesizing oral traditions, written records, and archaeological data to decode the 1837 map drafted by Ioway leaders. Spanning Indigenous settlements from Missouri to Wisconsin, this map was created to depict tribal history and defend tribal land claims at the height of the Indian removal e...