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This is a book that is devoted to helping inquiring spiritual thinkers find a path of genuine spirituality that leads them into spiritual growth and true harmony with the Divine.Three imaginary characters intensely and passionately debate questions concerning the reliability of Judeo-Christian scriptures, questions about whether the concept of original sin (in the Garden of Eden) is a viable concept for the twenty-first century, etc.Intense debates flare over questions about sexual morality, whether Pauline theology can be regarded as credible in our age of scientific knowledge, whether Heaven and Hell are real, and numerous other issues that are of vital concern to spiritual seekers.The three debaters in these dialogues are: 1) An independent spiritual seeker, 2) A Christian apologist -- devoted to a defense of mainstream Christianity, and 3) A devoted skeptic who questions all things religious or spiritual.If you are a spiritual seeker, one who finds that the materialist/secularist scientific paradigm for all reality leaves you cold, this book can engagingly point you in the direction of ever-deepening spiritual insights that will enable you to progressively advance toward genuine harmony with Ultimate Reality -- the Creator and Ruler of our wondrous universe.This book can show you that you need never to abandon intelligence, logic, science, or clear and rational thinking in order to attain a profound spirituality. True spirituality need not be imprisoned in the straitjackets of dogmatic or narrow thinking about reality. The Divine whom you can learn to serve faithfully and devotedly does not demand of you a repudiation of your God-given intellect, and God is never scared of humble and earnest questions. It was not stated flippantly nor erroneously that in regard to true spirituality, "Seek and you shall find; knock and the door will be opened to you".Many of the claims made in this book incorporate the conviction that one must not necessarily buy into the theology of any extant organized religion, but can have a "direct line" to the Creator, receiving thereby inspiration, encouragement, empowerment, inner peace, and growth toward spiritual perfection.For many in our "scientifically enlightened" age, religion is pushed into the "backwaters", and passionate devotion to spirituality is regarded as passe. This need not be so, because the Divine permeates every atom in this universe, and the energy that sustains the universe is also highly willing to inspire, direct, and guide your life. We need not settle for science as the "new god", because powerful though it is as a wonderful instrument, it is nevertheless constrained by the limitations of human powers and our relatively puny intellects.Your life can transcend what science has to offer, because science is bereft of powers to master the mind and the spirit of humanity.By availing yourself of the hints and guidelines offered in this book, you can discover a glorious path of growing inner peace and joys that transcend the powers of human understanding. Freedom of your will opens for you the door to genuine choice -- a choice that could (potentially) have the significance of Heaven versus Hell.

When negativity strikes, what will you do?Rashun Carter utilizes wisdom, life experiences, and scripture as an engine to drive positivity through negative circumstances. Stress, anger, addiction, phones, and envy are just a few of many topics touched upon.

A child lost on a journey to somewhere and found by a woman who was not only lost but hidden from a world she had escaped. On a dock in St. Louis, they found one another and as time continued, the friendship turned into a family structure that would last for decades. It is the story of this child and her life beyond being lost at eight years of age and the life found and lived in the mid-1800s. Of her love for a man, children, and desire to help humanity despite the stigmas of the time. She shares the lives of others that made her life complete in appreciation of family that surrounded her. There are happy times and sad days, but life was more then she had hoped for while standing alone and lost on that dock in St. Louis where her story and life actually begins.

En los últimos años, hemos visto como corporaciones consideradas "demasiado grandes para caer" fracasaron miserablemente, así como bancos de mucha importancia financiera, compañías de automóviles y otros gigantes necesitaron ser rescatadas por el gobierno. Aunque sin ninguna atención por parte de los medios, miles de empresas luchan cada día con retos costosos, requieren mucho tiempo y se desgastan atendiendo a los clientes, empleados y proveedores. Sin embargo, también están aquellas empresas que logran prosperar en tiempos buenos y en tiempos difíciles; cuentan con empleados felices y con legiones de clientes fieles. ¿Cuál es su secreto?Lisa Huetteman sabe cuál es dicho secreto. Basándose en más de 30 años de experiencia y trabajando tanto con empresas que pertenecen a Fortune 100 y con pequeñas empresas, Lisa ha descubierto y presenta los ingredientes esenciales para construir el éxito en los negocios a largo plazo, en su nuevo libro: El Tesoro de los Valores Corporativos: Cinco claves para el éxito organizacional; Liderazgo centrado en valores, Lisa muestra cómo las empresas que identifican y definen explícitamente sus valores fundamentales, contratan a personas que los comparten, trabajando así con una visión unida y un propósito común que conduce a la empresa a un rendimiento excepcional y a buenas utilidades.Resaltando la diferencia entre una cultura del mercadeo basada sólo en las palabras que conviene decir y una cultura de valores fundamentales que son verdaderamente integrados en la vida de una empresa, Lisa se basa en las experiencias de los líderes de éxito y las empresas para mostrar cómo funcionan estos valores fundamentales en la realidad, y ofrece medidas concretas para mostrar a los lectores lo que pueden hacer para obtener beneficios similares.Este libro desentraña los retos que enfrentan las empresas para integrar los valores claves, en las operaciones diarias de las empresas y muestra a partir de estudios de casos prácticos e inspiradores cómo lograrlo de manera exitosa. Lisa ofrece la implementación de cinco claves descritas en este libro, para que cualquier negocio pueda convertirse en una organización centrada en valores, donde el equipo de liderazgo impulsa un cambio en la cultura que lleva a un éxito sostenible y tangible. Más importante aún, los líderes empresarilaes al leerlo pueden reconocer y apreciar que el mayor valor de los valores centrales, es en última instancia, los propios valores.

The Last Wanderer. An unnamed young college professor goes on a summer adventure in northern Canada alone when the highly interdependent world comes apart and he is unable to return to find his sister and uncle after two years of fires and nuclear meltdown leading to nuclear winter and the death of almost all the inhabitants of the earth that he has known.The unnamed wanderer returns to the Indianhead country of Wisconsin and finds no trace of those who he has lost. While finding wildlife are making a comeback, he finds no one alive and begins salvaging supplies and vehicles to begin his search for a safe place to live and find other survivors of fire, starvation, radiation, and disease. Instead, he finds a new Peterbilt 579 tractor with a sleeper that provides not only a safe place to sleep at night, but a means of traveling the interstate highways in search of others, like him, who may have survived somehow, what had killed all of the others.The wanderer's lonely trip across country finds an unlikely old hermit, Charlie Weaver, and they bond in their effort to improve their lots and search for others, but Charlie is dying of lung cancer and there's nothing that the wanderer can do to save his life from ebbing to a close. The wanderer must go on alone.The wanderer's search for warm winter quarters takes him to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he happens on another survivor, a teenage girl named Lisa Adams who survived because her father took such care to save her that it cost him his own life. Lisa, immediately falls in love with the wanderer in her own, naïve way. It isn't long before they are expecting a child and have found another survivor, Oscar Bradley. But Oscar, like Charlie, is dying from radiation exposure cancer and meets the same fate. Lisa's fetus is also affected, resulting in a stillbirth. And the stillbirth of their daughter leads to Lisa's death from that ill-fated accident and hemorrhaging.Depressed and utterly alone, the wanderer is consoled by a capuchin monkey that the wanderer names Charlie after his friend and they travel the country looking for more survivors. Along the way, he saves a small German Shepherd mix puppy and names him, Rocky. Rocky and Charlie become helpful and loyal companions in the wanderer's travels. Twice, survivors are found, but they are hostile and the wanderer is unable to make contact. And then, like a miracle, the wanderer finds a commune with 47 people that have survived well, only to have them lost by a predictable, but tragic, natural disaster.Left alone without hope and with the southern United States becoming more tropical and uninhabitable, the wanderer retreats to northern Ontario where he stayed the first two winters and where he finally lives out his life to a surprising conclusion.

Have you have ever walked down a health store aisle, with thousands of supplements, and wished you could magically understand which ones really work?Do you want to quickly and easily figure out whether a new fad food or diet is really good for you - or not?If so, then this book is for you.Beyond Foods: The Handbook of Functional Nutrition is a true handbook-short and easy-to-understand. It introduces The 4 Building Blocks of Health, a uniquely simple yet comprehensive health model that explains Functional Nutrition in layman's language. With its clear communication style, Beyond Foods successfully takes the very complex subject of how nutrition creates health and breaks it down into logical building blocks.Each building block is explained, using scientific facts, but in layman's terms. There are no broad opinions, just verified facts about how nutrition is meant to support your body's innate good health. Common sense is the guideline used to explain how you can find your best diet choices. Tips ad quick fixes to common dietary problems make this book immediately useful in daily life.You are not just told what to eat. You are given a clear understanding of why foods are good for you, or not; and this allows you to make ongoing choices in the marketplace long after the book is read.Beyond Foods is award-winning for excellence in the health genre.

In the last twenty years, over ten million Americans have grown up in blue-collar families but have chosen to pursue white-collar careers. Changing Collars is a fascinating and instructional memoir focused upon helping and enabling these and future blue-collar Americans to succeed in their white-collar careers.Drawing upon his own experiences growing up in a blue-collar family, and in his 35 years of gradually learning the ropes and eventually climbing the corporate ladder in a white-collar world, Daniel Muller provides extremely valuable insights and lessons to help millions of 'blue-collar root' employees on their career journeys.The son of a locomotive engineer, Muller grew up in a typical blue-collar small town in Ohio. There he learned the importance of hard work, honesty, and ethics. He became the first in his family to attend college and graduated Summa Cum Laude in his undergraduate and graduate business programs.However, upon beginning his first job in the professional white-collar world, he quickly realized that his blue-collar background and ways of thinking were more obstacles to success than enablers. Unfamiliar with the expectations and social norms within the white-collar world, during the first decade of his career, Muller floundered in achieving the success he desired.Due to his ability to adapt and learn from self-study and from others, he was able to transcend his blue-collar background and achieve career success, albeit as a late-bloomer. He ended his career as a Senior Vice-President / CIO, and also held other executive roles such as leading corporate strategic planning, and P&L leadership roles as President of several operating divisions.Combining personal experiences and observations along with those of highly respected peers in his industry, Changing Collars provides deeply insightful and practical lessons about the significant differences between blue-collar and white-collar cultures and mores, as well as highlighting the common misunderstandings that blue-collar candidates have about the white-collar world. The lessons here are further enhanced by the organization of these lessons into early-career, middle-career, and late-career examples. This extensive set of lessons was gathered, researched, and peer-validated over a nine-year period.These examples and lessons are rarely discussed in college coursework, or in other texts, simply because many of these lessons are held dear and shared only with a select few, mainly others who have grown up in white-collar families and backgrounds, and those on the fast track to senior positions.The lessons shared here are meaningful, readily applicable and entertaining for anyone who is employed, or will be employed, in the white-collar world, and who is searching for keys to future white-collar career success.

Meredith Kendall is a graduate journalist student in Phoenix in the nineties. When a popular attorney/male model is arrested for killing his ex-wife, she decides to study it. She asks people closely connected to the case to contribute a written reaction. Each chapter is a submission to her project. Participants include attorneys, therapists, members of the media, and close friends of the victim and suspect. They each choose which part of the case to focus on. Her project results in a personal look at the secrets, lies, and speculation surrounding the couple's past and the suspect's future.

This book presents a personal non-religious philosophy of life inspired by the 4th Century BCE Daoist philosopher Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu). In the face of our irremediable not-knowing Zhuangzi suggests we abandon all supposedly definitive declarations of Truth and instead follow along with the trustful elan of life itself. This can lead to the deeply mystical experience of releasing oneself in trust into the Mystery that enfolds all things. Identified with Mystery, "hiding the world in the world", one is freed from all fear of loss. When life and death are taken as forming a single string, we can affirm our death just as we affirm our life. When no event or circumstance can happen outside the Great Happening our happiness depends on nothing and we can "wander far and unfettered" through life.If you feel the need for a guru, make one up. Who knows your needs better than your own heart? The author has written many sages and Xudanzi, the sage presented in these lectures, is but the latest. A dao (path) is made by walking it, and we all walk our own. Xudanzi's dao is only meant to inspire; your own authentic dao arises as you walk it.

Single-handedly, Lynn shatters the hopes and dreams of her close-knit family and severs the bond with her twin sister, Ruth. Each person fights to survive in the face of betrayal, deceit, loss, pain, even regret. An unexpected ray of hope occurs but it is only a prelude to more devastation and pain. When Lynn's parents think that things can get no worse, they realize just how wrong they are.Lynn wants nothing more than to be free of her past and is willing to abandon her parents, their rules and expectations, and all that she has known. With a friend's help, she escapes and begins a new life. But is she really free? She soon learns that her trusted friend is not the man she thinks he is and her dream becomes a living nightmare.Amy and Marlo's marriage is destroyed by a chain of unimaginable events that neither could have predicted. Left reeling from the aftermath, divorce appears inevitable. They begin the slow process of picking up the pieces and building lives with new love interests. When a tragedy occurs, they are forced to look within and beyond themselves. What they discover is life-changing but is it too late?A gripping story of self-discovery, surrender, spiritual awakening, faith and unexpected grace.

West along the River 3 is a five-year compilation of essays and musings on the nature and history of the middle Connecticut River Valley.These essays draw on the lore and oral histories of local characters in the many surrounding villages, including tales from the wild days of river log drives, several infamous and lingering memories of local witchery, a hometown hero from the early days of Red Sox baseball, whimsical observations of the earliest days on the New England frontier of the 1700's.The author recounts poignant adventures of summers in France and Brittany, wanderings through the countryside of Ireland and Spain, his return to his ancestral home on the banks of the Millers River in western Massachusetts.Several chapters record the renewal of Native American presence in this region, and serve as a source of record, describing the ground-breaking work undertaken by local communities and tribes to uncover the multiple perspectives on events that occurred in this region during King Philip's War.This eclectic anthology of nature writings, dwelling somewhere on the boundaries of poetry and prose, provides a calm and zen-like sanctuary for the reader. Some have chosen to read the essays aloud, and others, to escape the intrusive nature of the daily news cycle, choose to set aside time to read these stories during moments of quiet reflection.

African American Warrant Officers: Preserving Their Legacy chronicles the achievements and successes of African American Warrant Officers in the United States Military. The book provides historical information and biographies of outstanding African American Warrant Officers and their contributions to our country.Because Warrant Officers are known as the "Quiet Professionals", they are often overlooked in historical books. African American Warrant Officers, a subset of the Warrant Officers Cohort, are even more quiet. This book attempts to tell their stories and the significant impact that they have made to military history.African American Warrant Officers: Preserving Their Legacy is the third book in a series that highlights their achievements and successes.There is an ancient African proverb that says, "Until the lions have their own historians, then the hunt will always glorify the hunter".This book honors African American Warrant Officers and pays tribute and preserves their legacy in the history of the United States Military.

Conscious Love… 7 Relationship Truths for a Modern World will guideyou toward healthier love choices and deeper intimacies.Whether you are looking for a soulmate, reconnecting with anestranged family member, grieving the death of a loved one, or simplyseeking a greater connection with yourself, Jyl's late-in-life love truths willinspire you to consciously wake up and love stronger.This book includes:• Healing Mantras• 7 Relationship Truths• Love Medicine Recipes• Balancing Exercises"Still unmarried at 50, I had almost given up on love. Of course, this isexactly when my soulmate came tumbling in. One might say it was a lastminutemiracle. I say it was Conscious Love."

Incendiary Devices: Investigation and Analysis is the first book on this subject written by an actual arson investigator and profiler with decades of experience.Historically, there have been numerous myths and Hollywood exaggerations regarding the entire world of arson investigation. Chief among these myths is the notion that all arsonists are deeply intelligent, sinister plotters who sit around all day scheming and creating exotic incendiary devices. While there is the odd case of this exact type of offender, the bulk of the arsonists in the world are fairly mundane criminals not unlike a typical burglar.Nordskog combined his twenty-plus years as an arson/bomb investigator in Los Angeles with an intense three year study of actual incendiary devices found at arson events. He has separated the realities of his world from the myths of Hollywood and firehouse war stories. He has compiled a list of nearly 3,500 actual devices used in true cases and has provided comprehensive analysis of each item.Using his unique skills as a profiler of arson events, Nordskog has compared the incendiary devices in the book to the various sub-types of arson offenders. The entire purpose of this document is to use this unique information to identify, apprehend, classify and prosecute arsonists through the exploitation of their incendiary devices.Nordskog laboriously dredged up the historical use of incendiary devices in military actions, and followed the use of those items into the murky world of anarchists, Irish terrorists, animal rights movement extremists, anti-abortion fire bombers, and modern international terrorists.Nordskog explains the concept of learned behavior as incendiary device use expanded into the world of wild land arsonists, serial arsonists, and firefighter arsonists. He breaks down the mystery of Signature vs M.O. in device analysis and describes step by step how to exploit and analyze a device and its deployment by investigators, scientists, techs, and crime analysts.This book is a must read for any prosecutors, profilers, investigators, and crime scene specialists operating within the world of arson and bomb investigation.The details of this study and book have been culled from underground manuals, government documents, military manuals, and the case histories of thousands of arson attacks. The finished book was vetted and underwent technical review by several of the most experienced bomb and arson experts in the United States and the United Kingdom.

"Blessed are they that mourn:for they shall be comforted."-- Matthew 5:4When someone you love dies-especially if he or she dies young-the pain, sorrow, depression, and sadness you experience can feel like rising waters threatening to drown you. Even Christians can find ourselves battling a storm of chaotic questions. We wonder: How could God allow this to happen? Is something this awful really part of God's plan? How can I move beyond such pain and find life again? Now-in the new, God-centered chapter book Strong, Independent Sisters-Tracy Sams offers a poignant, unforgettable novel that bravely and compassionately illuminates these issues … and which points us to the pathway leading to genuine healing.When Grace Underwood's thirty-something sister, Emma, tragically dies from breast cancer, Grace feels as if her life has been torn apart. Battling the deepest sorrow and grief, Grace soon learns she has been given custody of her sister's sons … who themselves must deal with the most painful sorrow and sense of abandonment. As Grace struggles to deal with her own bereavement-and the emotional and psychological stresses wracking her nephews-she becomes aware of a possible pathway back to life … a faith-based group-therapy organization called SIS-Strong, Independent, Sisters. Can SIS offer Grace the support, compassion, and Scripture-based insight she needs to lift up herself and her sister's sons? What life-changing heart-wisdom will she receive from SIS?By reading Strong, Independent Sisters, readers will move to the heart of a story that will bring them close to God's never-failing love-even in life's darkest hours.

There aren't many things in this world Marco Arrigoni would kill for, but there are even fewer things he would die for. The package is one of them.-----Following an earthquake in Istanbul, all hell breaks loose when Marco, a jaded priest, unearths beneath the archives of his medieval church a long-forgotten tomb containing incontrovertible evidence of an explosive conspiracy stretching back millennia. He joins forces with his friend and secret love, Aysel Bigili, an archeologist, to authenticate his find. Before long, they find themselves on a collision course with a ruthless enemy in the Vatican who will stop at nothing to prevent his discovery from ever seeing the light of day. Wrenched into a world of violence unprepared, Marco and Aysel are forced to battle wits with a fanatical adversary in the cause of truth, a truth so shocking that, if revealed, will demolish the very foundations of his faith and alter the destiny of humanity forever. Bryan Quinn has painstakingly written a wonderful read and is recommended for anyone looking for a superbly crafted well researched story. -- Tawnii Maughan, author of AFTERMATH: THE ATLANTICORP CHRONICLES VOLUME ONETHE PACKAGE is a tightly woven story that flips effectively between past and present. The reader is often in for a treat with this well-structured story. -- James R. Stevenson, author of THE MEDUSA FILEA great read that sits right between your Dan Brown schlock and your serious crime thrillers and noir mysteries. I really love stories that do this. -- Ryk Brink, author of DIANA IN THE DARK

Thirty two years after the founding of Levnar, The young kingdom thrives. Yet a series of brutal attacks by the neighboring kingdom of batlike Talomay threatens to send the continent into war.The new king of Levnar aided by his mother, Gwynora, and Cador the Seer, attempts to keep his people safe while learning to fill his admired father's shoes. The Talomay king also sends an investigator to discover the true motive of the attacks on the humans as he believes someone is undermining his sovereignty.As more bloodshed occurs, the investigator teams up with two humans affected by the attacks, Bran and Katta, to bring the murderers to justice before the kingdoms are at war. However there may be more at stake than the fates of two kingdoms; clues to the origin of their world may lie at the center of the turmoil.

John Grove is a trauma surgeon who is living the American dream. A wife, son, dream home and car, he has everything he could hope for. There are times in life though, when we fall and fall so greatly that the way back up is much different than we could have imagined.John decides to take a journey to redeem what he has lost yet his journey is one that consists of much time, thoughts and struggles. It is a journey that we must all take at some point, a journey that will show us the worth of what we love and strive for most. A story of love, forgiveness and redemption, The Worth of Tears is what we are all searching for.

In ROCK THE POTOMAC author Mark Opsasnick provides a comprehensive history of popular music in the Washington, D.C. area from Colonial times to the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, with a strong emphasis on the emergence of rock and roll and its early development in the nation's capital. Offering a mix of cultural history, extensive night club information and detailed band and musician profiles, ROCK THE POTOMAC stands as a literary monument that will forever serve fans of Washington, D.C. area popular music.

The Private Investigator is a story about courage, persistence, and international intrigue; it's a thriller that opens in the nation's capital after the firm, Hutchison and Satterfield International Investigations (HSII) relocates to D.C. from Philadelphia. The main character, Allan J. Williams, who prefers to be called A.J., is smart, industrious, and passionate about his work. A.J. not only has to deal with his boss's quirky personality, but also has to interact with the likes of Phil Jacoby, a talented federal government contractor, who is arrogant and rash.Raymond Lee, a wily North Korean operative who portrays himself to Jacoby as a South Korean businessman, successfully recruits Jacoby and gets the government contractor to commit espionage against America. When Jacoby realizes he is headed for trouble for passing highly sensitive government information to Lee, Jacoby attempts to cover his tracks. Jacoby seeks out and hires his former high school classmate, Jerry Satterfield, to investigate the contrived story, and to reclaim the allegedly stolen government information.Satterfield assigns A.J. to investigate Jacoby's complaint, but A.J.'s success in sorting out the complicated case depends a great deal on his willingness to work harmoniously with Satterfield. In order to unravel the Jacoby case, A.J. travels to HSII's Hong Kong office where he first learns from a colleague that they both could be in some danger.After he obtains leads in China's autonomous territory, A.J. jets off to Seoul, South Korea, to track down Lee and attempt to solve the case. A.J. runs afoul of the Korean authorities when he and a fellow PI from HSII's office in Seoul disobey the KNP, and surreptitiously enter Lee's office to pursue more leads. Tensions heighten when the KNP catch A.J. and his colleague illegally searching Lee's office. Complications arise after the KNP arrest Lee and Lee escapes from a KNP secret interrogation facility. A.J. and his colleague redeem themselves by orchestrating a plan to join United States Army resources with a special South Korean spy-catching unit to recapture Lee. "Thank you for the honor of reading your book. I found both the characters, especially A.J., interesting, and I loved the setting in Korea, a part of the world that many Americans know very little about." - Andrea Cumbo-Floyd "... I think I know Satterfield better than any of the other characters. He's abrupt, rude, unskilled in social interactions and he's afraid that his lack of couth will hurt the firm now that Hutchison is dead. We see him being rude and unfeeling, which is how we know him ..." - Steven BauerThe Private Investigator was a very good read! A very well written book that kept the story constantly in motion, with enlightening additional information and descriptions and history. Prost!!!! - Carolyn W.This is my brother's first novel. It is an amazing page turner, full of high energy suspense. Treat yourself to an enjoyable read. Caution: you may lose some sleep as I did. It was difficult to put it down. - Matt H.Private Investigator contains all the elements of a good spy thriller. I look forward to reading more from this author.- Anna C.I was drawn in by the intrigue and the vivid descriptions of the many locations in which the story takes place. Moreover, it was an adventure in learning about cultures and espionage. The story provides an interesting glimpse into the world of intelligence operations. - R. Robinson

Frank Beacham's autobiography tells of coming of age in the turbulent 1960s and his compelling lifetime adventures as an independent media storyteller.Beacham writes behind-the-scenes accounts of the madness at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the Apollo 11 moon launch, the civil rights movement in Mississippi, his chilling arrest by military dictator Manuel Noriega of Panama and covering American presidents throughout the world.Beacham describes his topsy-turvy collaboration with Orson Welles, working with the major television networks and breaking new ground in video production. His work includes books, plays and stories that have been turned into film and television programming - all while remaining independent.

Five men and women in Ancient Greece are set on a dangerous journey of self-discovery during the bitter conflict of the Peloponnesian War.Fifty years after King Leonidas of Sparta and his brave 300 fought to the death against Xerxes' Persian hordes at Thermopylae, a long and bloody rivalry erupted between the new superpowers of the era. The world of Ancient Greece in 480 B.C. was evolving into a new landscape. The isolated, socialist regime that grew from their king's sacrifice soon found itself at a vital crossroads with the democratic empire of Athens. The Peloponnesian War was not just a battle for political ideology but a brutal military campaign pitting the world's strongest army against the most powerful navy that ever sailed the seas. The fallout from this consummate struggle would change the course of human history forever.Amidst the battlefields, ordinary men and women continue to work together behind walled cities and open farmland in order to survive. The Olympic festivals honor the gods with their renowned athletic contests and one woman finds herself in a deadly gamble when she must make an agonizing choice. A young helot slave longs for freedom while a new wife imperils herself to stand by her husband and home. When a wealthy aristocrat finds his world turned upside down, he must learn what true sacrifice and honor are all about. A Spartan officer who has lived by a strict code of tradition must discover new ways to cope in an unconventional war.Five people from different walks of life must adapt to their changing world while remaining true to themselves. Who will survive the war and what will their lives be like when it's over?