Scott Carpenter: 9 books

In his engagingly written and original book, Scott Carpenter analyzes multiple manifestations of the false in nineteenth-century France. Under Carpenter's thorough and systematic analysis, fraudulence emerges as a cultural preoccupation in nineteenth-century literature and society, whether it be in...

Are you a disciple of Jesus? What does it mean to be one of His disciples? This Bible study will explore some behaviors and beliefs we, as Disciples of Christ, should emulate. The challenge of the study is to be a better person; more holy, more empathetic, more Christ-like at the end of the study than you are now. The 10 lessons will take about an hour each and are discussion oriented.

This book will shed some light on the often misunderstood world of organizational development (OD). Any manager who has successfully led a unit for more than a year has probably accomplished some amount of organizational development. Often, supervisors have accomplished organizational development...

This is a story about a corporate Board of Directors meeting. People often wonder what really happens behind the Board doors and why do they do the things they do. This story gives a glimpse of the dealings and why the meeting is secretive. The story gives an account of the Chairman of the...

This is an entreprenuerial story about a young man (the "Old Man") who started his own company and succeeded. He could not find a job after the Army; nor after completing an MBA. A friend asked him to help install equipment which led to other opportunities. The Old Man started his company...

We are most shaped by the things that we are ashamed of. Ronald Butcher Blake is The Man when it comes to high school football in 1988. With the other heroes of the undefeated Mims High School Mustangs he is one of the elite. The untouchable. That is until he takes it upon himself, while showing...

The latest volume of Fiction River Presents makes the heart race. From one woman’s desperate attempts to escape her kidnappers to another woman’s attempts to escape a doomed space station, this volume takes off at a pulse-pounding pace and refuses to let go until the very end. Including a short...

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...

The elderly represent the fastest growing segment of the population in developed countries, reflected in the patient population presenting to EDs and hospitals. These patients more often than not have greater co-morbidities, more complicated workups and utilize more laboratory and radiologic services. This...