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On the 40th anniversary of Neil Postman's prophetic book Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985), Scrolling Ourselves to Death gathers today's most incisive writers to think critically about the shaping power of contemporary technology. This book explores Postman's insights, connects them to the challenges facing Christians today, and turns difficult challenges into life-giving opportunities for the church. Stepping back from their screens, listeners will be equipped to live faithfully, and grow spiritually, in a "scrolling ourselves to death" world.

Marrying the practical and emotional aspects of family wealth, this book provides a hands-on primer that focuses on fostering positive relationships, and structuring the trust appropriately for the situation and the people involved. It tackles difficult topics with frank and honest discussion, from the first beneficiary meeting to working with addictions, and more. Written by a team of experts in family wealth, this information is becoming increasingly crucial to the successful execution of a trust.

Complete Family Wealth: Wealth as Well-Being provides proven tools and best practices for families of means to use in maturing, maintaining, and managing personal and legacy wealth long into the future. The book is divided into three parts: the "what" - what is meant by family, wealth, and enterprise; the "who" - the persons crucial to family enterprise flourishing; and the "how" - specific practices families can use to enhance and grow family wealth.

Decades of GMing experience! Whether it’s advice from grognards who were running games at the dawn of RPGs, or suggestions from the new generation of game designers, these 21 essays by experts are here to help you improve your GMing skills and create fun, amazing, memorable campaigns that’ll be talked about for years. In this audiobook, master GMs and storytellers give you advice about solo campaigns, shy players, cell phones, and making rulings on the fly.

Twenty-four of the greatest science fiction stories of all time in this fourth sci-fi short story collection, including works by Jerry Dunham, Emmett Dowell, James Causey, Gordon Randall Garrett, James A. Cox, Phyllis Sterling Smith, Richard A. Sternbach, Robert Sheckley, E. G. Von Wald, Keith Laumer, Jerome Bixby, Frederik Pohl, Roger Dee, Arnold Marmore, James H. Schmitz, Lester del Rey, Cordwainer Smith, Ray Bradbury, and Philip K. Dick.

Growing up in a family with significant wealth or a family business can often feel like an exercise in silence. What should you ask? Whom should you ask? When? Is it ever right to talk about such things? The Voice of the Rising Generation speaks directly to those who find themselves living in that silence, the so-called "next generation". Great wealth or a family business can act like a "black hole", sapping the dreams and aspirations of future generations who feel that they can never measure up to the fortune's founder.

Unimaginable creatures are rising and mankind’s only hope is run...or die. Join the adventure of this three book series featuring vengeful gods, ravenous monsters, and murderous beasts from the depths.

Giving is at the core of family life - and with current law allowing up to $5,120,000 in tax-free gifts, at least through December 2012, the ultra-affluent are faced with the task of giving at perhaps largest scale in history. Beyond the tax saving and wealth management implications, giving to family members opens up a slew of thorny questions, the biggest of which is, "How do I prepare recipients of such large gifts?"

Thirty years ago, Chuck Berry starred in the seminal music documentary Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll, which profiled the legend during a star-studded concert celebrating his 60th birthday. Now comes the complete story behind one of America's most enduring and embattled icons. Compiled as an oral history by the film's producer, Stephanie Bennett, Johnny B. Bad combines interviews from the film's participants, including its music director - Keith Richards. These unique interviews and accounts paint a vivid and multifaceted picture of the artist.

Is God still doing miracles today? Absolutely! These real-life, credible stories of miraculous experiences, gathered by the authors of Miracles Are for Real, reveal that God is still very active in the world. Each gripping story is sure to encourage and inspire, offering hope and a sense of wonder. When Steve rolled his car, he should have been killed. Why didn’t he die that day? Caleb and Penny moved to a poor part of town to serve their community. But when one group of neighbors makes and sells drugs, will God’s angels protect them?

The 5th volume of Great Sci-Fi Stories includes stories by Lester Del Ray, Robert Silverberg, Harry Harrison, and others.

When health care workers call a Code White, it’s an emergency response for a violent incident: a call for help. But it’s one that goes unanswered in hospitals, clinics, and long-term care homes across the country. Code White exposes a shocking epidemic of violence that’s hidden in plain sight, one in which workers are battered, assaulted, and demeaned, but carry on in silence, with little recourse. Researchers Margaret M. Keith and James T. Brophy lay bare the stories of over one hundred nurses and personal support workers, aides and porters, clerical workers and cleaners.

After a shocking revelation Inspector Bronson is unsure on how to proceed. He takes advice from Detective White, who is now back on the case. Officer Swanson assists the men on their investigation, hoping to come face to face with the perpetrator and take justice into her own hands. The investigation leads them to an old warehouse in the industrial estate, where shock revelations wait in store.

Alone in a settlement after the death of her grandparents, Maddy strives to know more about her past. Then one day, a trader brings a letter to her claiming to be from her father. Maddy, who believed she had lost her father in the war, has found her purpose. Embarking on an adventure across a barren country, she has one thing on her mind...to find out if her father is still alive.

Hell has come to claim the last mortal universe. A bleeding tower has burst through the 24-Hour Fitness parking lot. Demons circle the city of San Diego. One name is called to challenge Lucifer's Champion: Greg Maxwell. Who is Greg Maxwell? Imagine the person you would want to fight for humanity's survival. Now think of the opposite person. Now think of that person's dad. Cocaine. Talking animals. Weekend trips to Cape Cod. Secret JFK sex videos.

Catherine and her friends are enjoying a girly evening together at home when lightning strikes. The girls embark to see the damage the strike had caused.... However, their worst fears come true when something much darker and much more powerful has landed in their quiet little town. The evil right-hand man of Lord Dromos, Ratifi has left the underworld of Mytherios to claim souls for his master, so they can rule all of the dimensions.

On the day George was born in 1897, no one knew of the true hero he would become. With the death of a loved one on an ill-fated ocean-liner, to losing his mother to a horrible addiction, and war tearing his world apart - each harsh tragedy will help mold him into the man he is destined to become. Yet this journey is not one he will face alone. With his best friend by his side, the pair will embark on adventures that will cross continents and cut through the stifling smoke of war.

After suffering an injury at the lighthouse, Detective White is taken to the hospital. Inspector Bronson, now working alone, has to double his workload to solve the investigation. An unlikely alliance is soon formed when the work is far too much for Inspector Bronson to manage on his own. Officer Swanson’s temper starts to get the better of her and a huge revelation leaves Inspector Bronson wondering what he is going to do next.

A shocking crime spree sweeps the city with a steady stream of bodies turning up and no answers in sight. Missing limbs and, sometimes, only a few bones bring mass hysteria to the otherwise quiet metropolis. Liam and his partner are handed the task of solving the gruesome murders that have been wreaking havoc upon the citizens.

Deep in the far reaches of the universe, there is a tale of two species attempting to survive in a harsh environment, where the days are covered in light, but the night brings severe cold. Sophie and her people are fighting to belong and thrive on their new home (planet?) after the destruction of their homeland. Now they are sharing this new world with the Calypsans, whose technology is highly advanced, and their world steeped in the folklore of the stars. Their leader, Ziven, wants nothing but peace, yet their civilisation is destined for war.