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A Championship Life Forever
A Championship Life Forever: The Chesterfield Community High School Story 2005-2006-this story is about a group of high school basketball players who learn the understanding and key principles of pride, education, and winning life through the teaching at a small high school with the help, love, and passion of the founder, teachers, staff, and basketball coaches. The story will show you how young men from different walks of life came together by setting goals that enable them to activate their God-given gifts and be successful on and off the basketball court for the rest of their life. This story was seen through the eyes of the author, Derrick J. Copeland Sr., whose two sons, James and David, were a part of that great team. The story will show how young boys turn to men and brought a change to a school, basketball program, and community forever. You will learn the blueprint for living and winning a successful life.
Strawman Returneth!
In the year 1900, Colonel Cavendish and his allies came upon a powerful voodoo king from Haiti with strange origins. They called him “Strawman,” due to his evil transformation into a monstrous huge Voodoo doll. They were not able to kill this evil entity, since they could not find and destroy the source of its invincibility. Its captors could only restrain it, hoping it would never be set free. Strawman, once trapped, was frozen in the basement of White Hall Manor in Jamaica in a large metal box. Seventy-five years later, the monster escapes! It is 1975, and James Ambrose Sullivan—great-grandson of Colonel Cavendish—has become custodian of the family secrets, including Strawman’s dangerous legacy. Now, Strawman sets out on an insane revenge quest is on the man who captured him. Once the monster realizes the year, his immediate quest is to destroy the seed and everything related to the Cavendish family. He travels to St. Louis, Missouri, to fulfill his gruesome revenge. The vile creature returns, but who will stop him this time?
Perplexing People
Describes various famous pretenders in history, including those individuals who claimed to be Joan of Arc, Anastasia, the French Dauphin who would have been King Louis XVII, and the outlaw Billy the Kid.
The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama
Surveys important Greek and Roman authors, plays, characters, genres, historical figures and more.
The Ancient World
Containing 250 entries, each volume of the Dictionary of World Biography contains examines the lives of the individuals who shaped their times and left their mark on world history. Much more than a 'Who's Who', each entry provides an in-depth essay on the life and career of the individual concerned. Essays commence with a quick reference section that provides basic facts on the individual's life and achievements, and conclude with a fully annotated bibliography. The extended biography places the life and works of the individual within an historical context, and the summary at the end of each essay provides a synopsis of the individual's place in history. Any student in the field will want to have one of these as a handy reference companion.
The Eye Of God
Simon, later named Peter, is a common fisherman in Galilee. A carefree braggart, Simon is devastated when his wife dies in childbirth. His call to follow Jesus changes his life. The Eye of God: A Fisherman’s Tale takes place during forty years of Roman rule by four successive Emperors. Simon Peter, now a “fisher of men,” is determined to save Jesus from a Roman crucifixion; but when he fails, he spends the rest of his days preaching Jesus’s startling new belief system. What did it take to draw followers to the dawning of a better world? The Eye of God: A Fisherman’s Tale seeks to answer that question.
Great Women of Imperial Rome
A lively and engaging account of the leading ladies of imperial Rome from the foundation of the Empire to the third century AD (and a postscript on the fourth century). It is illustrated by 416 Coin Photographs as well as a dozen striking portraits by the author, and will thus be an indispensable resource for historians, art historians and numismatists in addition to its wider appeal.
Jesus in a World of Colliding Empires, Volume One: Introduction and Mark 1:1--8:29
At the time of Christ, world politics was an ebb and flow of colliding empires and forces. The world knew only dynastic succession and rule by force. Israel was swept up in this world. Her expectations of deliverance, while diverse, had in common the anticipation of violent liberation by an alliance of God, the expected one (Theo), and Israel’s forces. Her vision included the subjugation of the world to Yahweh. Any messianic claimant would be expected to fulfill this hope. Mark’s story of Jesus must be read against such expectations of military power. Mark knows that Jesus’ plan of salvation differed radically from this. Rather than liberation through revolution, it involved deliveranc...
