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Nicholas Goedert tackles the controversies, litigation, and effects surrounding partisan gerrymandering of Congress. He contends that the appropriate actors to address the fairness of a map are nonpartisan commissions within each state, not the US courts. Goedert illustrates how existing measures and legal standards are too narrow—while they are well-adapted to evaluating maps in swing states in close elections, they fail to properly address states or national electoral environments that favor one party.

The Holy Spirit is changing the expression and understanding of Christianity in our generation. Like a caterpillar undergoes metamorphosis in preparation for its destiny as a butterfly, the Body of Christ is in the process of a Holy Spirit-inspired metamorphosis in preparation to enter into its God-given destiny as the Bride of Christ.

Nearing completion of the original draft for The Quotient (aka QTNT), Rick Gillis had an epiphany. For months he had been using the generally accepted phrase "Equal Pay for Equal Work" when writing about pay disparity. Then it struck him that based on everything he had written over the previous year; this was not correct. It was then he determined that for The Quotient to be more accurate, that statement should read: "The Proper Pay for the Best Work".

Road to Nowhere is the story of New York City baseball from 1990 to 1996, describing in intimate detail the collapse of both the Mets and the Yankees in the early nineties, the Yankees' then reclaiming of the city, and the Mets attempts to rebuild from the ashes. After the chaos of the 1980s, the New York Yankees finally bottomed out in 1990. It looked like New York would remain a Mets town well into the twenty-first century.

Government, industry, and academia need better tools to explore threats, opportunities, and human interactions in cyberspace. The interactive exercises called cyber wargames are a powerful way to solve complex problems in a digital environment that involves both cooperation and conflict.

Deception and murder flourish during the season of the Winter MoonIt was a cold morning and she was still alive. Golden Meadow prayed for the mercy of death but knew her punishment would be the severe guilt she would have to live with for the rest of her life. To escape Tahnie, her father, and the reverend, running away was her only option. And Meadow was good at it. Chief Gray Storm’s men joined forces with the warriors from the Blue Clan and followed the last wagon leaving the plantation.

Life is a mission. Each of us has been given particular skills, assets, opportunities, and relationships to fulfill that mission. We feel a unique passion for certain people or to respond to particular opportunities. When we live in the intersection of our skills, our passion and purpose, and the world’s need, then we are making a life, not just a living.

This book brings together leading organization scholars and business historians to examine the opportunities and challenges of incorporating historical research into the study of firms and markets. It examines the reasons for the growing interest in historically grounded research in management departments and business schools, and considers both the intellectual and practical questions the endeavor faces.

Anxiety is the most common mental disorder in the United States, with an estimated 40 million adult sufferers. The anti-anxiety drug Xanax is the nation's most-prescribed drug. But drugging anxious Americans is not a solution to the problem of anxiety. Taking Control of Anxiety shows that there are many other proven ways to treat anxiety. This is a self-help book in the best sense of the term, conversational in tone, supportive, and filled with simple tips and suggestions that can help people reduce their own anxieties.

Society has changed faster in the past hundred years than in any other period of human history. This change has profound spiritual implications that most of us are completely unaware of. In a unique way, The Last Believer exposes a conspiracy that starts from the beginning of time to the end of the world. It tells how Satan has slowly but surely groomed society to become what it is today, and how he has prepared it for the leadership of the Antichrist in the future.

This serves as a review and analysis of the history of immigration during the 20th century. It reflects the discrimination and prejudices that existed early in the century and compare them to some of the issues that occur during the 21st century.

In Powering Prosperity: A Citizen's Guide to Shaping the 21st Century, Dr. Indranil Ghosh brings together his decades of experience as a sustainable economic development investor, an entrepreneur, and an MIT-trained scientist to provide a new framework for understanding the world's challenges and the choices societies must make to address them.

I've shattered the barrier between time and space, I've been to the Axis of Time - the place where time itself stands still - and I've beheld the vastness of the great Multiverse, the roof under which infinite worlds reside. Now, having been thrust into time at the hands of a deranged madman, I must brave the perils of a treacherous dystopia if I'm ever to make it back home...and save the people I love.

Cole Adams is a successful commercial pilot who is deeply haunted by his memories. Teetering on the edge of reality, he attempts to quiet the voices of his past by seeking justice for victims of the present. His job gives him access. His compulsion makes him deadly. His uniform makes him invisible. After meeting an intriguing, sullen girl, whom he feels compelled to protect, Cole has to decide between the life he has worked so hard to attain and his soulmate in darkness.

This book will give you a head's up on all the defining moments you are guaranteed to experience as a parent. It'll warn you when your life is going to take a change of course and how your child is going to influence the choices you make, and it’ll give you some practical, knowing, sanity-saving methods of dealing with them. Each moment is headlined with a common scenario that dads have encountered down through generations - but that will still come as a shock to you for the first time.

Sweet Redemption is the amazing inside story of how Coach Gary Williams survived devastating defeats and overwhelming odds to build a championship basketball program at Maryland and win the 2002 NCAA title. In a series of exclusive interviews that take you into the huddle, into the locker room and into his head, Gary Williams, for the first time, pulls back the curtain and tells his incredible story through best-selling author David A. Vise, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The Washington Post.

Millions of people profess to being religious. And a large percentage of those people profess to be Christian. With so many people claiming to belong to a Christian religious order, why are so many people living defeated, empty lives? The primary reason religions fail is because they have no power. Religious doctrine is based upon man’s effort. It is mankind asserting our will and desires upon the standards set by God.

You too can be blessed by God while prayerfully enjoying this volume. Taking steps toward Christ is truly rewarding.

Former PGA Golf Professional and USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith walks you step-by-step, club-by-club from your car to the first tee and beyond in a laugh-out-loud style that not only teaches, but entertains. Any golfer recognizes the fears, the patterns, the downright horrors of the first shot of a round. Ever topped that first shot just off the front edge of the tee box? Or worse yet, whiffed it completely? Come on, admit it. It happened.

In Hunter Murphy's follow-up to Imogene in New Orleans, the indomitable senior sleuth and her outrageously endearing Alabama family find themselves in hot water while on a family vacation at a mermaid convention in sunny Florida. When Imogene and her brood, including Goose the bulldog, encounter a dead body floating in the freshwater springs beneath their glass-bottom boat, the local police immediately arrest one of the Alabama visitors for the crime.