Books by John

DIVINE ENERGY or the Efficacious Operations of the Spirit of God upon the soul of man, in his Effectual Calling and Conversion, stated, proved and vindicated. Wherein the real Weakness and Insufficiency of Moral Suasion, without the addition of the exceeding Greatness of God's Power, for Faith and Conversion to God, are fully evinced. BEING AN ANTIDOTE AGAINST THE PELAGIAN PLAGUE. "I heartily recommend this work to the perusal of every serious Christian that is desirous of knowing the nature of true Conversion, and of answering to himself that important question, Am I born again or am I a converted person? And I doubt not, with the blessing of God, but he will find the reading of it pleasant and profitable to him." John Gill {Preface}

Two neighboring West African countries, Liberia and Sierra Leone were caught up in nasty civil wars: Liberia in 1989 to 1996 and again in 1999 to 2003 while Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002. Both civil wars caused displacements of over four million people. Warring factions attacked villages, towns and cities, causing people to lose their homes and their lives as dreams and families shattered forever. John Davies grew up in these two countries. Coming from a dysfunctional family and left to cope on his own at a very young age, his life was filled with turmoil. John was no stranger to hard work and difficulties. But when the two countries were caught up in civil wars, his resolve and faith was tested to the core in the midst of it. Coping with the oddness of a deeply dysfunctional family - and striving for survival from the slums of refugee camps to the heights of the political scenes in Freetown and Monrovia, to the plights and challenges faced by English speaking West African refugees in francophone Senegal, John treads on slippery slope tides in a bid to protecting and keeping his family safe. Did he fail, succeed or triumph? Strangely, the answer to the question is left with you (the reader) to determine. Join John Davies as he recounts his life from the conflicted lands of Liberia and Sierra Leone to the free states of the United States.

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

Description:Cosmic Commons explores terrestrial-extraterrestrial intelligent life Contact. It uses a thought experiment to consider the ecological-economic-ethical-ecclesial impacts of Contact, analyzing incidents around the world described by credible witnesses (two of whom are interviewed for the book), including Roswell and the Hudson River Valley. It discusses government and academic efforts to use ridicule and coercion to suppress Contact investigations, supports a scientific method to research ETI reports in a field that should excite scientists, and calls on academics to publicly disclose their Contact experiences. It traces Earth ecological and economic injustices to the European Enlightenment and the Discovery Doctrine by which European nations rationalized invasion of distant continents, genocide, and seizure of the territories and natural goods of native peoples. It advocates a change in humans' Earth conduct to avoid replicating in space the policies and practices that wrought economic injustice and ecological devastation on Earth, provides an innovative cosmosociological praxis ethics theory and practice toward that end, and develops a Cosmic Charter, based on UN documents, to guide humankind in space and in ETI encounters. Permeated by a profound sense of the sacred, Cosmic Commons explores a positive relationship between religion and science as humankind ventures into space.

The Baby Boomers and the Queen is a short, easy-to-understand story in a fairy-tale-like setting that provides clarity on how the United States became what it is today. A lot of history is missing in common history books on the different trade policies and financial shenanigans that left what was once the world's greatest republic as a very difficult place to grow up and live. Before 1971, the average cost of a car was $2,500 dollars and a house was $10,000. The cost of education and living was much lower, along with stress levels. Life generally was much easier; people could work and have a twenty-year retirement. Today, about 60 percent of Americans are not going to retire but will work until their last day. The baby boomers are really the last generation of easy living in the United States. They sold out their children and their grandchildren for monetary profits earned on Wall Street. They shipped 80 percent of all the living-wage jobs overseas to profit from the same people that they sold out, raised the price of education to profit from usury, and legalized pornography and drugs in order to maintain their sex, drugs, and rock-and-roll lifestyle. The narcissism of the baby boomers is unparalleled throughout history; there has never been another generation in the history of the world that has taken the most prosperous, easy-living country that has ever been created and destroyed it for self-indulgences in the name of satisfying their need for instant gratification.

"This book is intended to be an 'operator's manual for faith' that will encourage you in your Christian walk. It will help you clarify your understanding about faith, how it works, and how it can be used to live a victorious life every day." the author. "Faith is important. It is the way God has chosen for us to live, and it is the way He enables us to live victorious Christian lives. To live any other way not only displeases and dishonors God, but it relegates us to misery and ineffectiveness." the author. "Christians will gain a deeper sense of their walk in faith and in God in reading this "manual of faith". John Turpin discusses the importance of living a faith-filled life, the Biblical and material definition of faith, and provides many sound examples and personal anecdotes..." Krystina Murray, Xulon Press. "The author includes a host of stimulating questions to engage the reader on faith... The author's passion about Christ, along with the awareness of Biblical events gives the author a strong sense of credibility in the reading. Readers will value the author's insights and Biblical knowledge while further illustrating points with engaging examples..." Krystina Murray, Xulon Press.

John Stribling was born in Chicago, IL on February, 1925. He grew up in the slums of the city and by the time he was old enough to attend school, the country was in a Great Depression. He learned to make the most of what he had. He graduated from Wendell Phillips High School in 1942 after 3 1/2 years. He was a member of the National Honor Society and the student conductor of the 100 piece school band. He also wrote the school song. He was "selected" from the entire study body to work as a "General Office Assistant" at the University of Chicago in a program that was later known as The Manhattan Project (which developed the atomic bomb). He holds the distinction of being the only U.S. citizen to have a "Top Secret" clearance at age 17. This position deferred him from military service until May of 1944. He was then drafted into the army where he was trained in several specialties. He graduated 2nd in a class of 250 students at the Ordnance Parts Clerical School after matching the course. The No. 1 student was the only other African-American in the class, but whose name came first alphabetically. Stribling was sent to Europe after the Battle of the Bulge and assigned as an Information Specialist to the Headquarters Detachment 514th QM Group, which was the management team of twenty-seven black enlisted men and ten white officers who managed the Red Ball Express under General George S. Patton. The army sent him to the University of Paris in France where he studied Librarianship and he then organized three mobile libraries for the Third U.S. Army. He created a weekly newsletter call the INFORIENT (Information & Orientation), and he wrote the first article about the liberation of Buchenwald Concentration Camp. Copies were sent to all the Chicago newspapers but no one believed such atrocities had actually happened. He rose to the position of Sergeant Major before he was redeployed to the United States. When he returned to America, he was "selected" at age 21 to work as an Assistant (night) Cashier in a hospital, while attending Roosevelt University. The hospital then had him tutored by a Senior Vice President of A. T. Kearney, Inc. as a Management Consultant and when the training was completed he became the Chief Operating Officer of the hospital, at age 23. He has spent over sixty years as a consultant to Medical Institutions, Law Enforcement, Fortune 500 companies, governmental agencies, and as a pioneer in the Computer industry. Many detractors, through-out his life, frequently told him that certain tasks were "impossible." His answer was "Says who."