No other human-caused extinction event has been as spectacular and as pervasive in the literature as that of the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius). However, documentation of this event relies on personal journals, newspaper and magazine articles, and a few volumes that summarize some of the events after the passenger pigeons were extinct. The prevalent message from most of the articles is that passenger pigeons, once the most abundant bird on the planet, went extinct because humans...

The Children's Six Minutes by Bruce S. Wright is a collection of brief, thoughtful messages intended for children’s devotionals or short moral lessons, designed to be shared in about six minutes each. Wright, a pastor, created these messages to be engaging, meaningful, and accessible for young listeners, often using anecdotes, stories, and simple parables that relate to everyday situations children might encounter. Each entry is intended to convey values such as kindness, honesty, faith, a...

Eastern waterfowlers, who know the black duck best, regard this big dusky bird as the top game bird against which all other ducks are measured. In parts of the Northeast this feeling of affection is so strong that in some circles only the black rates the name of "duck." All other species, even the famed canvasback, are "coots," "fish ducks," or are known by even less complimentary titles. Much of this devotion is justified. Without the black duck, wildfowling in much of the thickly settled...

Thanks to this book, relevant and profitable thought leadership is now faster and easier. The questions, answers, and solutions found here can elevate individuals and companies into market prominence. Transcending the status quo and ambiguity that separates you from greater cash flow, equity value, and significance is possible. This book teaches you how to think and act in ways that transcend the competition and the baby steps that people mistakenly call innovation. Take a quantum leap. Re...

Thanks to this book, relevant and profitable thought leadership is now faster and easier. The questions, answers, and solutions found here can elevate individuals and companies into market prominence. Transcending the status quo and ambiguity that separates you from greater cash flow, equity value, and significance is possible. This book teaches you how to think and act in ways that transcend the competition and the baby steps that people mistakenly call innovation. Take a quantum leap. Re...

Our God deserves all our honor glory. The story begins with "To God Be the glory." It ends with the song "I Love You, Lord" and thus God gets honor and glory.

11 stories to explain why men feel the way they do about love. Take a peek into their hearts and worlds.

This modern classic in New Testament studies offers a compelling defense of the reliability of the Christian Scriptures. Christianity Today named "The New Testament Documents" one of the top 50 books that have shaped Evangelicals. "Our object," says F.F. Bruce, "is to find out what historical research reveals about the origin of the New Testament canon." Concise chapters explore dates and origin of various New Testament books, the formation of the New Testament canon, and examines the Gosp...

As smartphones, supercomputers, supercolliders, and AI propel us into an ever more unfamiliar future, How to Speak Science takes us on a rollicking historical tour of the greatest discoveries and ideas that make today’s cutting-edge technologies possible.Wanting everyone to be able to “speak” science, YouTube science guru Bruce Benamran explains—as accessibly and wittily as in his acclaimed videos—the fundamental ideas of the physical world: matter, life, the solar system,...

In late March 2015, ornithologist Bruce M. Beehler set off on a solo three-month trek to track songbird migration and the northward progress of spring through America. Traveling via car, canoe, bike, and on foot, Beehler followed woodland warblers and other neotropical songbird species from the southern border of Texas, where the birds first arrive after their winter sojourns in South America and the Caribbean, northward through the Mississippi drainage to its headwaters in Minnesota and o...

Some people find the Old Testament to be confusing, out of date, and essentially replaced by the New Testament. They are missing out. The Old Testament offers us a grand narrative that reveals God's work, God's purposes, and God's wisdom. Christopher J. H. Wright fits the pieces together and shows us the coherent whole. Using seven key sentences drawn straight from the Old Testament, he connects the dots and points us toward Jesus."In the beginning God created the heavens and the e...

Engage with the latest scholarship on the biblical theology of mission and missional hermeneutics with Christopher J. H. Wright's classic text.Most Christians would agree that the Bible provides a basis for mission. But Christopher Wright boldly maintains that there is a missional basis for the Bible itself. The entire Bible is generated by and is all about God's mission. In order to understand the Scriptures, we need a missional hermeneutic, an interpretive perspective in sync wit...