The iconic Sydney to Hobart Race, a 723-mile deepwater challenge—often called the “Everest” of offshore ocean racing—is considered one of the toughest in the world. Unpredictable weather and seas make each race demanding, but in 1998, an unexpected “weather bomb” hit the fleet, creating 80-foot waves and 100-mile-per-hour winds.Many bigger, better-equipped boats tried to maneuver around the storm, but the crew of the AFR Midnight Rambler chose to head directly into its path. After ...

A toolkit of strategies for postsecondary instructors to use to cultivate safe, inclusive learning spaces and improve teaching.Based on work conducted through the Instructional Moves project at Harvard University, Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education outlines the many ways in which good college and graduate school teaching is rooted in deliberate pedagogical choices that support active learning. Jeremy T. Murphy and Meira Levinson ...

Voices of Pineland: Eugenics, Social Reform, and the Legacy of “Feeblemindedness” in Maine by Stephen Murphy tells the story of the Maine School for the Feebleminded, later known as Pineland Hospital and Training Center. Based on an in depth analysis of annual institutional reports, newspaper clippings, legal documents, and other archival sources as well as interviews with former residents, their family members, and staff, Murphy traces the history of the Maine institution from its foundin...

With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell, from Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France. Initially serving with the French Foreign Legion as a soldier in the trenches, he soon became a founding member of the Lafayette Escadrille, a squadron made up mostly of American volunteer pilots who served under the French flag before the United States entered the war.On May 19, 1916, Rockwell became the first American pilot of the war to shoot d...

In the maze of trying to live a life worthy of the sacred calling runs parallel with the various trials and tribulations that often must be defeated if victory is to be experienced. Each Christian faces what I have defined as Jordan Rivers which often flows with the high currency that can sweep one under to drown in the sea of pain and frustration. Crossing Your Jordan is an exposition through the biblical text of The Book of Joshua as he leads the people of Israel across the Jordan River ...

Transform Your Heart Through God's WordThe Bible mentions the heart more than eight hundred times because the heart is where every real transaction with God takes place. It is the source of faith, obedience, worship, repentance, love, forgiveness, and spiritual transformation.The Heart Revealed in the Bible is a comprehensive 52-week adult Bible study that traces God's revelation of the human heart from Genesis to Revelation. Rather than fo...

The Bible teaches that every decision, every word, and every action begins in the heart.The Heart Revealed in the Bible takes readers on a Scripture-based journey through one of the greatest contrasts in God's Word-the perfect heart of God and the fallen heart of mankind. Through 1,000 carefully researched Bible questions, readers discover what God loves, what He rejects, and how He transforms hearts through His grace.Organized into ten maj...

You have more than one gift - and it has left you scattered instead of focused. Dr. Joe T. Murphy Jr. spent twenty-five years in military and government service with an artistic calling quietly buried underneath it, until a single verse cracked open a truth most believers read past a hundred times without seeing: in the Greek of Romans 11:29, "gifts" is plural and "calling" is singular. One calling. Many gifts. Both irrevocable....

God has always been present in the battlefield, the boardroom, and the broken places.From Moses at the burning bush to Joshua's final charge at Shechem, from Nehemiah's midnight survey of the walls to Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders - Scripture is saturated with leadership. Called leaders. Courageous leaders. Failing leaders who got back up. Military leaders. Prophetic leaders. Servant leaders. Visionary leaders. Builders. Kingdom leaders. And leader...

In the curricula of highly ranked MBA programs, two areas of discussion are conspicuously absent: International Trade, and Global Macroeconomic Policy. In this post-financial crisis environment, as the US and other advanced economies continue to experience sluggish growth, persistently high unemployment, and political agitation for increasingly protectionist policies, discussions pertaining to trade, currencies, and international capital flows are often fraught with emotion, tension, and h...

Unlock the profound wisdom of Jesus' parables with this definitive guide for understanding, interpreting, and teaching Jesus' parables in the Gospels.Interpreting the Parables remains the essential resource for anyone seeking to uncover the deep theological truths within Jesus' most memorable teachings. New Testament scholar Craig Blomberg offers a comprehensive exploration of methodology and analysis that has guided scholars, pastors, and committed Bible ...

Model-based clustering and classification methods provide a systematic statistical approach to clustering, classification, and density estimation via mixture modeling. The model-based framework allows the problems of choosing or developing an appropriate clustering or classification method to be understood within the context of statistical modeling. The mclust package for the statistical environment R is a widely adopted platform implementing these model-based strategies. ...