This Independence Day edition of The World is Flat 3.0 includes an an exclusive preview of That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, by Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, on sale September 5th, 2011.A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller"One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certai...

Memory and the Digital Manuscript reveals how the digitisation of medieval texts goes beyond mere replication to fundamentally reshape our spiritual and monumental engagement with history through a digital lens.By engaging with this work, readers will discover that digitisation acts as a bridge rather than a barrier, deepening our connection to the ritualistic and material essence of the Middle Ages. The book delivers these insights through an amalgamation of theory and practical c...

A Star-Crossed Romantasy of Fate, Forbidden Power, and Enemies-to-Lovers RomanceNova Castaneda was never supposed to touch fate.A Drifter in a world ruled by cosmic algorithms, Nova survives by keeping her head down—working impossible hours, paying impossible medical bills, and pretending she doesn’t see the cracks in reality that everyone else ignores. The stars whisper to her. She refuses to listen.Until one night, the universe listens ba...

As a young boy, Matt Sayman dreamed of playing pro basketball. His family believed in his vision, even agreeing to move to Texas when one of Matt’s favorite coaches left Pennsylvania for the Lone Star State.Matt eventually received a full athletic scholarship from Baylor University. He was only six-feet-four but what he lacked in height, he made up for in skill and positive attitude.Then the summer before his senior year, the bottom fell out of Matt’s world. A player went m...

Seventy to eighty-five million people died in six years — and almost none of them died as a statistic. They died as someone's father, someone's sister, someone's whole world.Most world war 2 history books hand you troop movements and dates and call it done. The War They Won does something different. It walks you from the Treaty of Versailles to the surrender aboard the USS Missouri — through the Blitz, Stalingrad, D-Day, Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and the quiet...

Picking up a fresh metaphor from the field of urban planning, Wayfinding with Dietrich Bonhoeffer applies a "wayfinding" lens to consider how Bonhoeffer might be a wayfinder for followers of Christ today. Wayfinding provides an accessible entry point into Bonhoeffer's biography and body of work for any reader desiring to learn from the historical witness of a thoughtful, dynamic, and focused German pastor-scholar who took a courageous, early, and long-suffering stand against the powers of ...

Healthcare in the United States has evolved over the last twenty years, including more holistic models of patient care. Chaplains have been an important profession in the evolution of healthcare delivery. But few people know or understand the years of preparation required to become a professional board-certified chaplain. In his book, Bedside Manners: Best Practices for Effective Healthcare Chaplains, certified clinical educator John L. Thomas Jr. draws on his over thirty years of experien...

If you want to make an impact, you need to play every down. Every Game. Every Season.For ten seasons, Matt Forté was one of the NFL's premier running backs. During his tenure with the Chicago Bears and the New York Jets, Matt made two Pro Bowl appearances and racked up more career rushes, receptions, and yards from scrimmage than any other football player in the league, a feat made possible in part, because—as an every-down back—Matt never left the field.

Don’t Be Rude, Let’s Include! is about love and inclusion through enlightening/reinforcing the fact that the disabled are people too. Everyone has a purpose. Everyone is welcome. Everyone deserves love. Change your mood, don’t be rude, let’s include! This story shows the creative methods one could use to enlighten/reinforce life morals that are as basic as saying please and thank you to your children. Treating people with dignity and respect is a relevant life skill that needs to be used e...

Superman came to Earth for DC Comics on March 1, 1938: "It's Superman!... strange visitor from another planet, who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men." Little Ginny Polkadot was not born with superpowers. Her powers were a gift from her father embodied in a crystal lattice. As Little Ginny grew older and experienced more of her life, she discovered how the powers were held within the polka dots that were worn on her clothing and linked directly to the my...

This manuscript was written to serve as a guide for finding, selecting, and keeping the "right" partner/mate. It is for those who desire and demand a highly functional "union"―with the aim of achieving a very specific set of goals and aspirations on various levels within a partnership. In other words, a partnership in a union of marriage ought to have an enduring and meaningful purpose, rather than a bucket of undefined dreams and desires. My intention is to deliver a framework to find, se...

With X-rays, doctors detect problems human eyes can't see. X-rays are a form of invisible radiation. This powerful medical technology helps experts look inside the body and even treat illnesses. But early on, X-rays caused harm too, as people used them without enough protection.This graphic history covers the discovery of X-rays, the development of safety standards, and the rise of more powerful and precise X-ray machines. Find out how modern doctors create digital ...