Best Selling Books by Richard Ross

In this book, Professor Ross has provided interesting information about West Virginia Senator Henry Gassaway Davis''s private life & friends as well as a careful & impartial study of his public career in business & politics. Henry Gassaway Davis was one of the more prominent & significant secondary political & business leaders of the country a century ago & his contributions continue to enhance our lives today.

Describes the history of gladiators, including types of armor, use of animals, amphitheaters, and how the practice fit into Roman society for almost 700 years.

A family court judge in the Bronx, New York, chronicles a typical day in the nation''s busiest family court, describing the adoption, paternity, child abuse, and other cases that threaten to overwhelm the system.

A book of interviews with the figures responsible for the establishement of modern fly fishing in America.

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"Calls attention to a present-day imperative that a full orbed ministry with youth must include parents."--Foreword.

Reign: Awakening a Young Generation to King Jesus is a student ministry curriculum designed for use in youth camps, youth retreats, DiscipleNow Weekends, church Bible classes, discipleship groups, and family studies. The curriculum includes four small-group Bible studies and four personal devotionals to accompany the studies. Reign immerses teenagers in a study of a facet of Jesus Christ that has received little attention. That facet is Christ''s majestic glory and preeminence as He reigns from the throne of heaven. Through this study many teenagers will see and embrace Jesus in a way that is entirely new for them. They will reflect on His preexistence with triune God, hear Him speak creation into existence, see announcements of His glory in the Old Testament, observe the cross as the high watermark of Christ''s supremacy, watch Him rise from the grave and ascend to heaven, celebrate as God the Father enthrones the Son at His right hand, and join the heavenly throng in singing, "King of kings and Lord of lords!" The Reign study directly confronts what many leaders believe is the primary shortfall of teenagers in the church today--a me-centered faith some call Moral Therapeutic Deism. Church teenagers do love Jesus, but they tend to see Him as a nice friend or even a mascot. They keep Him in the background of their lives, with one exception. When they face some problem or obstacle, they fully expect Him to show up and poof their troubles away. He is relevant only when He is making their lives happier and problem free. The antithesis to "It''s all about me" is the truth "It''s all about the glorious King Jesus." Teenagers who understand, embrace, and follow Christ as supreme move from "Jesus is my mascot" to "Jesus is my Monarch." Titles of the Four Small-Group Sessions Session 1: Little Jesus in My Pocket Session 2: Who Jesus Is Today Session 3: Christ Enthroned Changes Everything Session 4: Waking Up the World to Christ Reign: Awakening a Young Generation to King Jesus is a study that could not be more timely. For the glory of the Father and by the power of the Spirit, it is time to rivet the eyes of teenagers on the majesty of their King.

This book is based on 18 years in the field creating photo and audio journalism in and around the juvenile justice system. This is my world, my issue, my passion. The book is written from the perspective of someone whose primary medium was photography but I believe the ideas work for activists and artists across multiple fields.Many of the notes are punctuated by my experiences with and information about the juvenile justice system. However, I hope you find that these experiences and concepts also translate to your passions, your issues, and your worlds. The successes and failures I have experienced might have relevance for you.These notes are not meant to make me look or sound heroic, but they do require a certain amount of perseverance, dedication, and determination- to the point of compulsion. Sometimes the words seem contradictory; situations evolve and are nuanced. The path to change is often circuitous and non-linear.Forgive some of my personal anecdotes. I lived a life as an artist, photographer, documentor, and finally (or most recently) journalist and activist. I hope I don''t seem pretentious. I offer some history in the hope that the reader has the will and tools to shape the future.This book is for you to use, modify, quote, change, borrow and steal from. These are suggestions and ideas, not rigid paths to follow. I hope these translate enough to the field you have chosen to explore, work in, and impact.Not everything here will be applicable to your work. I hope that it is both ASPIRATIONAL and PRACTICAL.Perhaps there are one or two notes that resonate, that give you a kernel for an idea.Take, think, change, alter... It matters.Your willingness to do SOMETHING is important.