Every church has a unique culture that serves as the soil where its ministry occurs. A church's culture is the somewhat nebulous and complex blend of norms, beliefs, attitudes, traditions, and practices that define the congregation. The culture establishes the environment that often predetermines the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of God's Word within that body of believers. It influences a congregation's potential impact more than techniques, programs, or pragmatic changes. Dirt Matters explains and illustrates the importance of church culture, connecting it to a simple analogy that anyone can understand. It also shares how it's possible to cultivate and nurture a healthier church environment that can put you and your congregation in a better position to bear fruit for God's glory. http://www.youtube.com/watchv=BXPTuQjrIR0

Product Description: A ghost in a deserted log cabin and an Indian spirit lurking in the surrounding woods are not what the four Plumroy cousins expected to encounter during a two-week summer vacation at their grandparents' home. They become amateur detectives as they investigate how the ghost, the Indian spirit, and three mysterious totem trees are related...read more

Product Description: In a review of Jim Powell’s first book, Thom Gunn praised his poetry for tapping “a subject matter that is endless and important . . . achieved in the poem, so we grasp it as we read.” Substrate gathers three new collections of Powell’s poetry, the work of a dozen years...read more

Product Description: For thousands of years, slavery went unchallenged in principle. Then in a single century, slavery was abolished and more than seven million slaves were freed. Greatest Emancipation tells this amazing story, focusing on Haiti, the British Caribbean, the United States, Cuba and Brazil, which accounted for the vast majority of slaves in the west...read more

Franklin Delano Roosevelt is widely respected for having supposedly saved America from the Great Depression. But actually, his New Deal policies prolonged and exacerbated the economic disaster.

Looks at Woodrow Wilson's decision to draw the United States into World War I and the repercussions, including millions of casualties and paving the way for Adolf Hitler and the rise of Lenin and Stalin in Russia.

A study of the Great Depression argues that Roosevelt's flawed economic policies had a profound and dangerous impact on America and that the New Deal actually prolonged the hardship rather than provided a lasting solution.

Today, thousands of years after her birth, in lands remote from her native island of Lesbos and in languages that did not exist when she wrote her poetry in Aeolic Greek, Sappho remains an important name among lovers of poetry and poets alike,. Celebrated throughout antiquity as the supreme Greek poet of love and of the personal lyric, noted especially for her limpid fusion of formal poise, lucid insight, and incandescent passion, today her poetry is also prized for its uniquely vivid participation in a living paganism. Collected in an edition of nine scrolls by scholars in the second century BC, Sappho's poetry largely disappeared when the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204. All that remained was one poem and a handful of quoted passages . A century ago papyrus fragments recovered in Egypt added a half dozen important texts to Sappho's surviving works. In 2004 a new complete poem was deciphered and published. By far the most significant discovery in a hundred years, it offers a new and tellingly different example of Sappho's poetic art and reveals another side of the poet, thinking about aging and about the transmission of culture from one generation to the next. Jim Powell's translations represent a unique combination of poetic mastery in English verse and a deep schlolarly engagement with Sappho's ancient Greek. They are incomparably faithful to the literal sense of the Greek poems and, simultaneously, to their forms, preserving the original meters and stanzas while exactly replicating the dramatic action of their sequences of disclosure and the passionate momentum of their sentences. Powell's translations have often been anthologized and selected for use in textbooks, winning recognition among discerning readers as by far the best versions in English.

In a provocative study of Theodore Roosevelt and his political contributions, the author of FDR's Folly reexamines his record in terms of its questionable repercussions for the United States, arguing that his emphasis on big government, interventionist precedents, trust busting, taxation policies, and more had long-term consequences for ordinary Americans. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Of humankind's great achievements over the past 2,000 years, one towers above all the rest: the arduous, painstaking process of wresting liberty from tyranny's iron fist. The Triumph of Liberty chronicles this inspiring story through sixty-five biographical portraits...read more

A narrative history of the pursuit of liberty features biographical profiles of sixty-five heroes and heroines who have advanced the cause of freedom in the world, from ancient times to the present day. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Offers a new translation of the approximately one-twelfth of Sappho's total writing that has survived to the present, and includes brief essays on her life, writing style, and work

Offers a new translation of the approximately one-twelfth of Sappho's total writing that has survived to the present, and includes brief essays on her life, writing style, and work

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Poems deal with creation, nuclear annilation, the past, nature, myth, poetry, love, and the seasons

Offers profiles of the top real estate brokers in the country, explains why large deals involve so much risk, and shares an inside look at major real estate deals and power plays