Brings to light many once famous but now overlooked figures of Black musical theater history from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Black Voices on Stage collects ten diverse case studies of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century African American singers and actors—names that have been largely left out of our general musical history books—whose lives and performances address questions of race, identity, musical expression, and audie...

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...

This insider's account of CIA operations in the Vietnam War is "a major contribution to scholarship" on US counterinsurgency programs (John Prados, author of Lost Crusader).Vietnam Declassified is a detailed account of the CIA's effort to help South Vietnamese authorities win the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasantry and suppress the Viet Cong. Covering the CIA engagement from 1954 to mid-1972, it provides a thorough analysis of the agency and its p...

Gary Thomas, a popular speaker and the bestselling author of Sacred Pathways, invites readers to reinvigorate their faith journey as he sheds light on refreshing perspectives about prayer, hope, purpose, and the thirst for God and His love.With insight from Gary’s personal journey, readers delve into classic Christian writings from John of the Cross, Teresa of Avila, Thomas à Kempis, and others, and emerge with practical and unexpected ways toknow God more in...

#1 New York Times Bestseller • Los Angeles Times BestsellerOne of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now • One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the YearShortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award and Longl...

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...

Field service technicians are the foundation of every service organization. What you do every day, diagnosing problems, fixing equipment, managing customers under pressure, determines whether your company wins or loses. Yet most technicians learn on the job with no structured guidance, no framework for handling the hard situations, and no roadmap for building a long career.This guide changes that.The Technician's Guide is the first book in the Ultimate Guide to Field Servic...

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...

This revised edition of the number-one bestseller and winner of the 1989 National Book Award includes the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's new, updated epilogue.One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman drew upon his ten years of experience reporting from Lebanon a...

A brilliant investigation of globalization, the most significant socioeconomic trend in the world today, and how it is affecting everything we do-economically, politically, and culturally-abroad and at home.As foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman crisscrosses the globe talking with the world's economic and political leaders, and reporting, as only he can, on what he sees. Now he has used his years of experience as a reporter and columnist to...

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 ...

America is in trouble. We face four major challenges on which our future depends, and we are failing to meet them—and if we delay any longer, soon it will be too late for us to pass along the American dream to future generations.In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, offer both a wake-up call and a call to collective action. They analyze the four challenges we fac...