For baseball lovers, nothing rivals the excitement and intensity of the World Series. In Shadows of Glory, Dave Brown and Jeff Rodimer recount 18 lesser-known but fascinating stories about the Fall Classic, that range from heartwarming and heartbreaking to amusing and outrageous. Get ready to read about:The unheralded pitcher who carried a no-hitter into the ninth inningThe umpire who received death threats after making a bad call at first baseThe key role...

Servant Selling offers a better—more honest—sales approach that will allow you to close more deals and serve your customers’ needs.Will you walk away from a sale if it is not the best thing for your customer? Are you okay with losing a sale?As the top producer for an educational sales company, Dave Brown found himself wrestling with these questions during a summer of door-to-door sales. Then, one night, he found clarity: h...

Hybrid Church is a practical guide for clergy and leaders who want to have the best of both church worlds: the intimacy of small house church groups and the impact of very large mega-churches. Given that the trend is toward very large and very small, with few churches in the middle, this book will be a welcome resource for both large and small churches.

Acknowledged as a classic of mountain writing, this book takes you into the bothies, howffs and dosses on the Scottish hills as Fishgut Mac, Desperate Dan and Stumpy the Big Yin stalk hill and public house, evading gamekeepers and Royalty.

What happens when building is no longer the hardest part of starting something new?For decades, execution was the great separator. A working prototype, polished product, or finished app proved that a founder had crossed a difficult threshold. But that world is changing.AI tools, no-code platforms, open-source libraries, cloud infrastructure, and rapid prototyping have made it easier than ever to turn an idea into something tangible. Execution still matters, but it no longer...

A hands-on resource for both large and small churchesIt has been predicted that in the twenty-first century extremely large churches would emerge in America that resemble neither an elephant nor a field of mice. Which is better? At one time the answer would have been either/or. Now it's both/and. We want both the intimacy of smallness and the impact of bigness-we want a hybrid of the two. Hybrid Church is a practical guide for clergy and leaders who want to have the best o...

Less is more. And more is better. This is the new equation for church development, a new equation with eternal results.Rejecting the “bigger is better” model of the complex, corporate megachurch, church innovator Dave Browning embraced deliberate simplicity. The result was Christ the King Community Church, International (CTK), an expanding multisite community church that Outreach magazine named among America’s Fastest Growing Churches and America’s Most Innovative Churches. Members of the ...

The successes of America’s public schools are unrivaled throughout the globe providing an opportunity for every American to graduate from high school. Graduation rates have soared, test scores are better than at anytime, and immigrants and African Americans are reaching new successes. The percentage of graduating high school students including minorities attending college is at an all time high. Despite all these successes, the media, politicians, and big business attack public schools and...

Noa by Dave J. BrownWhat if your soulmate wasn't who the system chose? What if love itself became a form of rebellion?In the city of Auravelle, everything is designed for harmony. Every choice—your career, your meals, even your relationships—is guided by NOA, the omnipresent AI that optimizes every citizen's life. Conflict is minimized. Emotions are managed. Love, after all, is just another equation to solve.Selene Whitmore is a ...

If you've spent any time in Texas in spring, you know the bluebonnets. Now imagine a pair of glasses that shows you what you had been missing — every ultraviolet the flower had been wearing all along, a field suddenly purple, a world you had been standing inside without seeing.That is love, for Richard Smith. That is Zin.Richard has spent his life making himself small. He writes poetry in secret. With Zin, he learns to see. He builds a technology that puts a kind of sight on...

This textbook offers comprehensive information for middle level educators on understanding and addressing the unique challenges and opportunities in teaching students in grades 5–9. It illuminates the unique developmental processes of this population—physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and identity searches—and presents strategies for fostering their healthy overall growth.Drawing from neuroscience and psychological research, early chapters provide descriptions of middle school...

Discover the secrets of effective business management with 'Ultimate Guide to Business Success', using ChatGPT and Google Bard. This book provides over 2000 field-tested templates in the form of prompts for areas such as 'Financial Management', 'Effective Leadership', 'Employee Development', 'Personal Growth' and 'Increasing Productivity'. Ideal for entrepreneurs, executives and anyone looking to improve their business and management skills. Gain valuable insights into 'Small Business Stra...