An image-rich history of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, known as the Century 21 Expo.

Keucher's primer on sound asset management encourages leaders of congregations to remember the future when they're making decisions so that the needs of the present are balanced against what's best for the long term.

Explore together how congregations can change to become more fruitful for the purposes of Christ. Remember the Future: Praying for the Church and Change prepares leaders of congregations and conferences for courageous new conversations with readings that draw us toward renewed vision, cultivate hope and keep us attentive to the mission of Christ. Read together as leadership teams, boards and covenant groups to understand more clearly the “why” of congregational ministry and the internal resistances and external challenges to the mission of the church.

Three protagonists face existential threats across time, space and continents—Showana (5,500 B.C.), Marla (2008 C.E.) and the Undercover Mother who takes down a bad-boy billionaire (Ten Years from Now). Bravely leading against murderous invaders, discovering secret powers, engaging animal allies, resolving affairs of the heart, protecting family members, exploring spiritual practices and battling climate disruption, Showana, Marla and the Undercover Mother traverse mythical lands as well as twenty-first century Los Angeles, Coastal Texas, Tahiti and New Zealand. They'll rock your world and inspire your vision. Author of this standalone short story, JJ Sprowl (jjsprowl.com, fiction pen name for JR Sproull), attended FSU (B.A.), UVa Law (J.D.) and CSU ("Sac State") for project management, as well as independent theological studies for non-denominational credentials. People along the way taught the richest lessons. In that spirit, join in for Remember the Future's visionary saga of all of us alone in this together.

Philip K. Dick was a writer who drew upon his own life to address the nature of drug abuse, paranoia, schizophrenia and transcendental experiences of all kinds. More than 10 major Hollywood movies are based on his work including Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly, Total Recall, Minority Report and The Adjustment Bureau. Born in 1929 just before the Great Crash, Dick's twin sister died when she was a month old and his parents were divorced by the time he was three. In his teens, he began to show the first signs of mental instability, but by then he was already producing fiction writing of a visionary nature.

This is the story of Distortions Unlimited, the company that started with one man making Halloween masks in his one bedroom apartment and became a leader in the haunted attraction industry and the focus of the reality show Making Monsters. This first volume focuses on the years where the production of Halloween masks was the focus of Distortions Unlimited. Thanks to unprecedented levels of access to Distortions and the full cooperation of owners Ed Edmunds and Marsha Taub-Edmunds, author Lee (The Illustrated History of Don Post Studios) Lambert brings you a peek behind the curtain at the evolution of an American icon.

Shares with us some musical experiences that 'invite us to revise or suspend our relation with the past and to rediscover it as part of a future trajectory'. This title provides insights on Luciano Berio's own compositions. It explores themes, such as transcription and translation, poetics and analysis, 'open work', and music theatre.