Robert S. Bryan, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at North Carolina State University, shares his personalized take on the elements of a life worth living.

'In this remarkable collection of essays, Holton and Turner demonstrate that Parsonian sociology addresses the most central problems of our time – issues of sickness and health, power and inequality, the nature of capitalism and its possible alternatives. They develop a mature and original perspective on Parsons as the only classical theorist who avoided crippling nostalgia. Holton and Turner not only talk about Parsonian sociology in a profound and insightful way, they do it, and...

Addresses recent advances from both the clinical and technological perspectives to provide a comprehensive presentation of m-HealthThis book introduces the concept of m-Health, first coined by Robert S. H. Istepanian in 2003. The evolution of m-Health since then—how it was transformed from an academic concept to a global healthcare technology phenomenon—is discussed. Afterwards the authors describe in detail the basics of the three enabling scientific technological...

I hope the title of this book is not misleading. If you are expecting an entire volume of spinoffs from Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time, complete with consciousness-swapping across the aeons, cone-shaped scholarly beings compiling their archives while dinosaurs roam outside their cities and some nameless doom threatens them from below, this isn't it. I did indeed include a few stories of that sort, as such titles as Robert Guffey's "Toward a General Theory of Yithian Psychology" and Rob...

Since his boyhood days watching test pilots roar through the sky over his Long Island, NY, home, Robert Bryan was fascinated with flight. Add to that his love of a good story and his vocation as an Episcopal priest and you have the three great themes of his life.After his graduation from Yale Divinity School—where he met Marshall Dodge and the two created the immensely popular storytelling duo “Bert and I”—Bryan became a minister to the remote settlements of Quebec’s North Shore. In...

ARE YOU ALL IN?What would your life look like if you held nothing back from God?In All In, Robert Bryan takes you on a transformative journey — from lukewarm belief to full-hearted surrender. Drawing from Scripture, personal revelation, and years of ministry, this book challenges you to examine your commitment, deepen your devotion, and live boldly for Christ.Each chapter provides practical tools and spiritual insights on faith, prayer, humility, heart tran...

A collection featuring the New England fishermen characters' classic humor stories adapted from the popular recordings.Introduction by Rebecca Rule, author of N is for New HampshireBert and I . . . The Book features more than sixty classic stories from the legendary storytellers Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan, the godfathers of Down East humor, who together created the now-iconic "Bert and I" stories sta...

It's 1964...An American family is crossing the Atlantic Ocean to start a new life in a foreign place called the Panama Canal Zone. It's a land of majestic jungle and teaming with tropical life just ripe for a boy to explore. This is his story of growing up 9 degrees from the equator. Many have heard of the Canal Zone, but few have ever experienced it's magic. These stories help bring to life an age of innocense and discovery. After landing on this Carribean shore, their lives would never b...

The situation was not uncommon. A teenage boy takes up with the wrong crowd and begins running wild on the streets of New York City. His behavior degenerates from petty thefts and vandalism to much more serious crimes. His frustrated parents believe that the only solution to save their son is to send him to live with his uncle. The only problem is that this is the 1930s and the uncle lives in Germany. Seventeen year old Willie Kuhn is about is about to take up with the wrong crowd again. T...

A nuclear threat. A race against time. Can NYPD's finest save Manhattan from annihilation?Bobby Moylan wishes this shift wasn't his last. Years after a drunk driver killed his family, his life-saving distraction of work with the NYPD is coming to a close. But when he discovers an Islamic terrorist plot against his city, his final hours on the job could turn explosive.Joey Galeno misses the days when he could count on his partner. Years removed from working ...

Was it an attack or a naturally occurring event?The government still didn't know. The only thing certain was the results. 130,000 Americans were dead, and if not for the heroic efforts of medical science in producing a vaccine, the United States would likely have ceased to exist as a functioning nation. More disturbing was the new term that became a part of every citizen's vocabulary – Post-life Reanimated Entity, or PRE – the government's effort to clinically label the undead....

Is an unholy alliance of terror raining death and destruction on New York City?Newly promoted NYPD Deputy Chief Ellen Tomlinson, Lieutenant Joey Galeno, and FBI Agent Jimmy Craig are forced to battle the potential annihilation of the city. Several ISIS claimed attacks have brought the NYPD and the Joint Terrorist Task Force into action to find those responsible for the bombings. The investigation takes an unexpected twist when the trail leads to a splinter group of the Irish Republ...