Present Future

In this provocative book, author, consultant, and church leadership developer Reggie McNeal debunks these and other old assumptions and provides an overall strategy to help church leaders move forward in an entirely different and much more effective way.

Read by the author with an audiobook-exclusive conversation between Christian and her husband Arden Bevere. Singleness can feel like...waiting. Like you're just hoping the right guy stumbles along while you stand by. But what if there was a resource that showed how you can move from passively...

29 Brand-New Sci-Fi Horror Stories. The future is now, and it's not what we were promised. The optimistic science fiction of old was wrong. Progress is not linear, technology creates as many problems as it solves, and the concept of a better tomorrow has become an abstraction that is in no way guaranteed. When looking at the future now, we no longer ask what is possible, we wonder how we'll cope. Contained within this anthology are 29 never-before-published works by supremely talented authors.

Learn from the past. Understand the present. Explore the future.

Built on the grounds of a former cotton plantation, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, offered agricultural and industrial education as a strategy for Black self-determination. There—and in many other communities in the U.S. South, the Caribbean, and Central America—Black people repurposed and regenerated what had been a place of enslavement into a site for imagining alternative futures.

An instant New York Times bestseller! They fell for each other in just twenty-four hours. Now Rowan and Neil embark on a long-distance relationship during their first year of college in this “achingly real…gorgeous” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) dual POV sequel to Today Tonight Tomorrow...

*Read by celebrated astronaut Leroy Chiao!* The inspiring journey of Leroy Chiao, one of the first Asian American astronauts in history, illuminating his remarkable path into space and the fascinating history of rocketry and space travel from its very beginnings Imagine if you could sit down and...

Before you spend a dollar on a truck, a permit, or a pound of brisket, know the food truck history. There are 92,257 food trucks in America competing for revenue that has stopped growing. The average truck earns a five percent margin. And yet the winners, the trucks with booked calendars and compounding followings, are doing better than ever. The difference is not the food. It is knowing the game you are entering. Dr. Paul Borosky, DBA, MBA, is a business consultant who has helped launch over 1,000 businesses, with more than $100 million in client projects funding-ready, and a fair share of...

For more than two decades, the rhythm of online information discovery has been dictated almost entirely by the search engine. The familiar dance of ranking for blue links has defined digital marketing strategy, with SEO experts focusing on climbing those coveted rankings. But a revolution is underway. The very paradigm of presenting links as answers is being challenged by AI systems that offer direct synthesis and conversation. Welcome to the Age of AI Answers – Where Being Visible Means Being in the Response, Not Just the Results Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Google's Gemini...

In the late 19th century, Father Charles Arminjon, a priest from the mountains of southeastern France, assembled his flock in the town cathedral to preach a series of conferences to help them turn their thoughts away from this life's mean material affairs - and toward the next life's glorious spiritual reward. His wise and uncompromising words deepened in them the spirit of recollection that all Christians must have: the abiding conviction that heavenly aims, not temporal enthusiasms, must guide everything we think, say, and do.  

Mexico is one of the world’s most important nations. It is the largest Spanish-speaking country, a manufacturing powerhouse tied closely to the United States, and home to more than 130 million people. Yet it is also a country where powerful criminal organizations control territory, influence politics, and operate with resources rivaling those of the state itself. How did Mexico arrive here? In Mexico: The Narco State, Donald Elton traces the long historical forces that shaped the country’s political culture and explains why organized crime became embedded within it. The story begins not...

A Wired senior editor and virtual reality expert presents a captivating, candid glimpse into the future ""realities"" of this emerging technology: how we will use it to form previously impossible relationships, explore new frontiers of intimacy, and how it will forever change human connection...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An empathetic and wise book that will guide you on a journey toward a deeper understanding of self.”—Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW, New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace A radically compassionate plan for turning inward and lifting...

Ancient, Present, and Future Alien Visitations takes you on a thrilling journey from mysterious petroglyphs and ancient sky gods to modern-day UFO sightings and classified government disclosures, all the way to what the future may hold for humanity’s cosmic destiny. Discover real accounts, artifacts, and ancient texts that may hold clues to past extraterrestrial contact Explore the psychological and scientific theories behind alien abductions and unidentified aerial phenomena (UAPs) Unpack what recent Pentagon disclosures really mean and what they’re not telling us Prepare yourself for ...

From the eighteenth century to the twenty–first, the surprising history and inspiring contemporary panorama of urban gardening: nurturing health, hope, and community. This manifesto for the next food revolution by acclaimed environmental historian Kate Brown speaks to nature lovers, food...

'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.' When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the present and future of a world that is changing dramatically. Following the Silk Roads eastwards, from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, The New Silk Roads provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected.

It is impossible to ignore Israel. No subject is more fascinating and inspiring, polarizing and confusing. Most people have prejudicial opinions of one kind or another, but the Word of God must be the final authority. The Bible describes the history of Israel as well as its future. But it is their present state that is often overlooked. The Scriptures have much to say on this subject. It is not always pleasant to listen to, but it is necessary to understand the heart and plans of God. In this book, Pastor G.

The Whitewashing of Christianity is informative, insightful, and inspirational, telling a history that's often hidden, ignored, revised, or unknown. Confrontational, but not combative, it details how the American church has helped create and maintain the false narrative that Christianity is a White man's religion and how it has presented almost every person in Scripture and most of Africa's theologians and martyrs as White men and women.

When a mysterious photograph leads to a shocking discovery at the Time Displacement Core, Spider-Man joins forces with the X-Men. Together, the heroes must make a perilous journey into the past to prevent Kang the Conqueror from destroying the multiverse and time itself. This audiobook omnibus edition collects the entire trilogy: Time's Arrow: The Past, Time's Arrow: The Present, and Time's Arrow: The Future.

The long-awaited first book by the founder of the enormously popular Bullet Journal organizational system. For years Ryder Carroll tried countless organizing systems, online and off, but none of them fit the way his mind worked. Out of sheer necessity, he developed a method called the Bullet...