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At a young age Mike Mathis, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, struggled with knowing his identity, which led to him being severely bullied as a child. As Mike grew into young adulthood, due to his desire to fit in, he started hanging out with the wrong crowd and making poor decisions. As a result, at the age of 20, Mike was incarcerated in Mississippi for eight years. On his third night in jail, Mike saw something that changed his life forever. As a result, Mike solidified his relationship with Christ and discovered his identity by focusing on his gifts, assignment and purpose. After being released from prison in 2009, Mike returned to Cleveland on a mission to turn his life around by not becoming a statistic and falling into recidivism by being incarcerated again. Mike did not allow his imprisonment to rob God's plan for his life. While the journey has not always been easy, Mike now finds himself gainfully employed by a global manufacturing company all the while speaking at schools and leadership conferences throughout the region empowering people to discover and embrace their true selves.
For one year after the tragic loss of a child, the author visited an ocean beach every day, took photos and crafted a story. Daily topics range from seagulls and sharks to God and life after death - concluding with one bona fide miracle. "The Beach" is both intelligent and inspiring. With a deep love for that magic place where the sea meets the sand, it's the ultimate beach read. Non-fiction. 376 pages with daily color photos.
For one year following the tragic loss of a child, the author visited an ocean beach every day, took photos and crafted a story. Daily topics range from seagulls and sharks to God and life after death - concluding with a bona fide, life-changing miracle. "The Beach" is both intelligent and inspiring. With a deep love for that magic place where the sea meets the sand, it's the ultimate beach read. Non-fiction. 376 pages with daily black and white photos.
Look at organizational transformation in a revolutionary new way that can help you promote a higher level of sustained performance. Author John L. Lee, a veteran business consultant and the president of Alpha Training and Consulting, provides inspiring and informative techniques that help you improve business operations. You can learn how to understand and modify bad behaviors, formulate a true definition of leadership, and create a model that leads to cultural change. This guide includes figures and diagrams and provides a mathematical argument for why organizations must change in order to further progress. It examines historical figures whose insights have changed the worldand what you can learn from them. Much more than a rehash of old ideas introduced in flashy new clothing, this guide seeks to revolutionize thinking for organizational needs. If youre interested in organizational and self-improvement, the Rising Above It All guidebook provides the case studies, tips, and strategies you need to produce results.
For most of their histories, Marple and Newtown Townships were farming communities on the western outskirts of Philadelphia. The thriving farms supplied local grocers, while the fresh air and clean water in Marple and Newtown attracted city dwellers seeking recreational opportunities. With the West Chester Pike linking the townships to other areas, they quickly became quintessential suburban communities. Marple and Newtown Townships captures the growth of the two communities from the early 20th century through the 1990s. A trolley line established early in the century provided transportation for commuters, but it was not until the 1950s that Marple and Newtown were transformed from sleepy outposts to sprawling suburbs. Housing developments such as Lawrence Park attracted thousands of new families to the area. Included in this collection are local landmarks which have long since vanished, including Bonsall's General Store, the old Marple-Newtown High School, Bessie Parker's, and the Bergdoll Mansion.
Friday, Aug. 15, 1975 began as a typical summer day in the suburbs. Young children played with their friends, adults prepared for work or planned for their vacation at the Jersey Shore... That all changed in the hours before noon, when Gretchen Harrington, the 8-year-old daughter of a Presbyterian minister and his wife, was kidnapped while walking to a vacation Bible school less than a quarter-mile from her house. Her body was found by a jogger in a state park nearly two months later. The crime forever changed the lives of the children who were near Gretchen's age and their parents, many of whom chose to live in Marple Township because they considered it a safe refuge from the crime-ridden streets of Philadelphia. Journalists Mike Mathis and Joanna Falcone Sullivan examine the kidnapping, murder and the nearly five-decade long investigation through rare access to police files in what is still considered an open investigation.
Long before shopping centers and housing communities were developed in Cherry Hill, farmers earned their livelihood working the rich soil that stretched between the Cooper River and Pennsauken Creek. Small hamlets such as Ellisburg, Colestown, and Batesville contained thriving businesses. A real estate boom triggered by the opening of the Delaware River Bridge (now the Ben Franklin Bridge) and the end of World War II led to the development of the township's first suburban neighborhoods. New homes, hotels, nightclubs, corporate parks, and one of the nation's first shopping malls appeared where tomatoes, peaches, and corn had grown just a few years earlier. Then & Now: Cherry Hill documents th...
Campbell soup is as American as apple pie and the Fourth of July. Cans of tomato, chicken noodle, and cream of mushroom soup, sporting the company's distinctive red-and-white labels have found places on millions of dinner tables around the globe. In 1869, fruit merchant Joseph Campbell and icebox manufacturer Abraham Anderson formed the Joseph A. Campbell Preserve Company, purveyors of canned tomatoes, vegetables, jellies, soups, condiments, and mincemeat. In 1897, general manager Arthur Dorrance decided to hire his twenty-four-year-old nephew, John T. Dorrance. It was on John Dorrance's ingenious invention of condensed soup in 1897 that the company's fortunes grew and expanded far beyond it...
The Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies comprehensively examines the topic of homicide from a diverse collection of perspectives and backgrounds. It brings together original contributions on homicide, with a focus on the broad range of impacts of homicide from a multitude of disciplines that evaluate and examine homicide in actual practice and theory. The editors have assembled a comprehensive collection highlighting the multifaceted causes and ramifications of homicide both across the United States and globally, with chapters exploring the current state of homicide, typologies of homicides offenders, causes and correlates of homicide, homicides and the criminal justice system, and a prof...