Shyamalan's "Everyday Hero" NEW by Chris Broodryk

The Power of One: Heroes Forging America's Civic Reawakening from Sea to Shining Sea There's a new civic trend in America. The best estimates are that it began in the early eighties, but it's been growing even stronger in the new millennium. After a fifty-year stretch of less than effective, government-supplied social programs, unsung citizen heroes are now challenging the conventional wisdom, applying common sense to the country's social problems and creating more effective solutions! The Power of One uncovers the true stories behind some of the country's most fascinating grassroots innovators. They range from businessmen to teenagers and housewives to the clergy. Crime, welfare dependency, and housing shortages are motivating these people to give up their high-paying jobs, their personal lives, and even personal safety to pursue their passion for coming to the rescue of their fellow human beings. Thanks in large part to the Internet, the inventions of these grassroots organizers are being replicated and "civic-franchised" across the country, even around the globe. How effective are these new ideas and why haven't we heard more about them? How are they financed? The Power of One explores these and other questions about America's new civic culture. Those skeptical about the health of the nation's cities might be surprised to learn that social change is possible, even without a high price tag. The only challenges are ways to give these successful civic solutions broader exposure, a financial boost, and a speedier route to replication into more neighborhoods and cities. Can an ordinary person pioneer a social cure? Absolutely! The 26 accounts in this book are the proof. America owes a great deal to its unsung "civic architects.' Their altruism, ingenuity, and compassion are restoring lives and saving millions in taxpayer dollars as they revitalize neighborhoods, support troubled youth, and liberate those going through life transitions. These secular and faith-based solutions are soon to become the social templates for restoring America's twenty-first century towns and cities from sea to shining sea!

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Everyday Hero's Guide to Leadership by Dave Urso Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New The Everyday Hero s Guide to Leadership is designed to help readers get the most out of the leadership opportunities that they are face-to-face with right now! Focusing on offering REAL (really easy applications to life) tips to its audience, the text sets out a journey that starts with understanding the core foundations of le

The critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling new biography of John F. Kennedy, by Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball.Chris Matthews, who has been following and studying the Kennedys most of his life, has interviewed President Kennedy's closest confidants—family, friends, and those who served with him—to create a moving portrait of a man many loved but few really understood. Matthews evokes JFK’s days at prep school, his heroism during World War II, his political career, and, always, his devotion to the Kennedy family.     Jack Kennedy took surprising risks, struggled with chronic illness, and repeatedly confronted “the thin membrane between life and death.” As Matthews describes it, Jack Kennedy was a rebel, an adventurer, and a great enjoyer of life precisely because he understood its fragility.      By getting closer to the man than any book before has, Chris Matthews’s Jack Kennedy will be a touchstone for those who wish to remember his heroism and his inspiration now and for years to come.

Free Worldwide Delivery : Shooting the Curl : Paperback : Orca Publications Ltd : 9780952364689 : 0952364689 : 10 Nov 2010 : Surf photographers are the unsung heroes of surfing. They do crazy things to get the shots that fill the pages of the world's top surfing magazines. This book showcases the work of 15 top surf photographers and gets the inside story on the surfers and waves that inspire them. It is loaded with images.

Since the early 1950s, Chris Marker has embraced different filmmaking styles as readily as he has new technologies, and has broadened conceptions of the documentary in distinctly personal ways. He has travelled around the world, tracking political upheavals and historic events, as well as unearthing the stories buried under official reporting. This globetrotting filmmaker testifies to his six decades on the move through a passionate devotion to the moving image. Yet from the outset, his filmic images reveal a fascination with stillness. It is at this juncture of mobility and immobility that Sarah Cooper situates her comprehensive study of Marker’s films.  She pays attention to the central place that photographs occupy in his work, as well as to the emergence in his filming of statuary, painting and other static images, including the film still, and his interest in fixed frame shooting. She engages with key debates in photographic and film theory in order to argue tha

Brave New Bass offers an in-depth look at 30 visionary players in styles ranging from pop and rock to world music and experimental jazz. Each chapter includes revealing interviews by Chris Jisi and other top bass writers, as well as private lessons in standard notation and tablature, and up-to-date gear lists and discographies. Packed with insights and opinions from bassdom's standout stars and behind-the-scenes heroes, Brave New Bass deepens your knowledge of your instrument and its history. Covers bass players such as Marcus Miller, Flea, Will Lee, Tony Levin, Jeff Berlin, Les Claypool, Christian McBride, Doug Wimbish, Darryl Jones, Me'Shell NdegeOcello, Jonathan Maron and many others!

A new home. A new life. To have both, she must outlast a bitter storm. Once Chris fought for her country. Now she's fighting for her faith. And she's about to fight for her life. This is no mere storm. It's a deluge of catastrophic proportions. Swollen by record rains and a ten-inch snowmelt, the Willamette River is hammering Portland, Oregon, with the flood of the century. In Chris McIntyre's heart, a different kind of flood---a rising torrent of emotions---threatens to sweep her away from the community of Kimberly Square. Her newfound faith keeps her from running. But how can she stay? Her push-the-limits personality may have made her a perfect soldier, but it sets her apart from the people at her church. And it sets her at odds with Scott Mathis, the husband of her closest friend, Erin. Fearing for Erin's safety, Scott resents his wife's high-risk friendship with Chris. But when Scott and Chris are forced together to help Kimberly Square residents ride out the storm, a different, equally lethal danger descends on them. Death or redemption rest in the hands of one person---a woman with a warrior's heart.

A new portrait of John F. Kennedy based on interviews with those who knew him best, by Chris Matthews, bestselling Kennedy expert and host of Hardball . By following the journey of Jack Kennedy’s life from his school days to the White House, through war and illness and his greatest triumphs, Chris Matthews brings us much closer to the man Jack Kennedy really was. We know so much about President John F. Kennedy, yet even his wife Jacqueline described him as “that elusive man.” To MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews, Kennedy has long been both an avatar and a puzzle, a beacon and a conundrum. “Whenever I spot the name in print, I stop to read. Anytime I’ve ever met a person who knew him—someone who was there with JFK in real time—I crave hearing their first-person narrative.” For years, Matthews has been collecting those stories. In Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero, the bestselling author and Kennedy expert has woven those firsthand encounters with JFK into a great American Bildungsroman, telling the tale of how Kennedy grew from a child of privilege into a war hero and finally President of the United States, all the while coping with a life-threatening disease. “In searching for Jack Kennedy my own way, ” Matthews writes, “I found a fighting prince never free from pain, never far from trouble, never accepting the world he found, never wanting to be his father’s son. He was a far greater hero than he ever wished us to know.”

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Power of the Valkyrie by Chris Studabaker Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Philosophic action and adventure continue in this new saga starring Bluewater #039;s Norse hero and written by Day Prize-nominee Chris Studabaker. Suzanne Bancroft is going to die, and the end of the world will be her fault. A relentless demi-god has declared he will murder Suzanne and her death will begin a chain of events culminating i

This book is part of the Townsend Library, a collection of high-interest paperbacks published by Townsend Press to promote reading among today s students. Acclaimed by educators nationwide, the Townsend Library is helping millions of young adults discover the pleasure and power of reading.