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Americans are drifting away from the Church in record numbers. At the heart of this crisis is a failure in communication. With over ten years of experience working with over ten thousand churches as the founder of Flocknote, Matthew Warner offers church leaders a practical guide to leading their flock somewhere truly meaningful--no matter their church role! You'll learn: ▪ Why some people listen and others don't ▪ How to get them to open (and respond to) your messages ▪ Why most church websites and apps don't work ▪ How to ask for money (and why it should be fun) ▪ Mistakes most church leaders make ▪ Why people should even follow you in the first place ▪ Where to find the time for all of this ▪ And so much more!

"This important study explores the medicalization of alcohol abuse in the 19th century US” and its influence on American literature and popular culture (Choice). In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn examines the rise of pathological drinking as a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in 19th century America. At the heart of that story is the disease that afflicted Edgar Allen Poe: delirium tremens. Poe’s alcohol addiction was so severe that it gave him hallucinations, such as his vivid recollection of standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate his mother’s body—an event that never happened. First described in 1813, delirium tremens and its characteristic hallucinations inspired sweeping changes in how the medical profession saw and treated the problems of alcohol abuse. Based on new theories of pathological anatomy, human physiology, and mental illness, the new diagnosis established the popular belief that habitual drinking could become a psychological and physiological disease. By midcentury, delirium tremens had inspired a wide range of popular theater, poetry, fiction, and illustration. This romantic fascination endured into the twentieth century, most notably in the classic Disney cartoon Dumbo, in which a pink pachyderm marching band haunts a drunken young elephant. Rum Maniacs reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.

Today's college students face a difficult decision: how to choose the right college major. With so many choices, and a major job shortage across the country, it is hard to know which majors will help a college graduate find a job and build a lucrative career. This book provides valuable data on the top emerging fields that are set to explode with job opportunities over the next 5 to 10 years. It examines several sources of research and summarizes it all in a simple, easy to read format that gives the prospective student the information they need to decide on the best college major for them. The comprehensive book discusses the top 10 fields of study, and for each college major it provides: - Coursework and recommended electives - Top colleges and universities for each major in each region of the country - Estimated tuition for each school - Typical job titles in the field - Average salaries for the field, including high and low ranges - States with the highest employment opportunities for each field - Projected areas for advancement and research - Other interesting facts impacting the field - Projected job growth over the next decade - Why each field is considered a top emerging job field

In 1959, a film was released that would live in the minds and hearts of science fiction and horror fans for years to come. That film was Edward D. Wood, Jr.'s magnum opus, "Plan 9 From Outer Space," a story about aliens re-animating the dead in order to kill Earth's population. Genre audiences could not resist the exuberance and love for the art of filmmaking that showed in Wood's work, and the movie has become a cherished cult classic. Now the long awaited remake of the classic film is here! In this edge-of-your-set, visually stunning, re-imagination of the original story, "Plan 9" is a spectacular sci-fi/horror adventure with jaw-dropping effects and zombies galore! It's the film Ed Wood wished he made!

They knew it was wrong to purchase a kidney off the Chinese black market. But what the Taylor brothers didn't realize was that its unwilling donor was an executed prisoner-and an immortal being from Chinese mythology. Pursuing them to Washington, DC, this ancient king will stop at nothing to recover what was once his. This special 15th anniversary edition of Matthew Warner's acclaimed first horror novel includes nearly 7,000 words of new material, including the author's riveting account of his true-life encounter with China's illegal organ trade. "A classic of modern horror literature." - E.C. "Feo Amante" McMullen, Jr.

I advance a theory of sublime argument, an experiential, extrarational form of persuasion common at sites of public memory. Sublime objects at memory places are often curated in such a way as to make the grand, large, and incomprehensible legible. I examined Grand Canyon National Park using the method of participatory critical rhetoric and attended to the curation strategies deployed there. The curation at Grand Canyon isolates the canyon as an ethnographic object or object of ethnography and is placed in situ such that its meaning is taken from the larger context. The infrastructure, architecture, interpretive exhibits, museums, and gift shops are imbued with the cultural markers of Manifest Destiny and American Exceptionalism. The result is that the canyon is filled with meaning, which comes from the contextual clues of the built environment through which the canyon is experienced by virtually all of the 6 million annual visitors. By treating the canyon as an ethnographic object, the actual cultural history of Native ownership of the canyon is erased, which also erases the violence of settler colonialism. Ergo, the curation of Grand Canyon by the National Park Service re-enforces settler colonialism as Native representation is minimized and Anglo narratives are amplified. Finally, I critique the mission statement of the National Park Service and suggest a way forward that recognizes that National Park Service properties continue to be sites of contested meaning. I recommend that they be curated to represent the unfinished nature of the colonial and the American project.