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They Thought They Were Free - The Germans, 1933-45 by Milton Mayer; Richard J. Evans (Afterword by)
Category: Military | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
"When this book was first published it received some attention from the critics but none at all from the public. Nazism was finished in the bunker in Berlin and its death warrant signed on the bench at Nuremberg." That's Milton Mayer, writing in a foreword to the 1966 edition of They Thought They Were ...Show more
Think Bigger - How to Innovate by Sheena Iyengar
Category: Business, Economics and Law | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
In Think Bigger, Sheena Iyengar-an acclaimed author and expert in the science of choice-answers a timeless question with enormous implications for problems of all kinds across the world: "How can I get my best ideas?" Iyengar provides essential tools to spark creative thinking and help us make our m ...Show more
Trigore Labyrinth by Matt Furie, Skinner, Will Sweeney
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Once you flip through this mix-and-match menagerie of busts - depicting monsters, aliens, creatures, organisms and more - you won't be able to stop. By flipping through the wirebound pages, cut into thirds, readers can create hundreds of iterations of 90 mythical beasts depicted by legendary artists Mat ...Show more
Uncharitable - How Restraints on Nonprofits Undermine Their Potential by Dan Pallotta (Introduction by)
Category: Business, Economics and Law | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
Where other texts suggest ways to optimize performance inside the existing paradigm, Uncharitable suggests that the paradigm itself is the problem and questions our fundamental canons about charity, Uncharitable goes where no other book on the nonprofit sector has dared to tread. Author Dan Pallotta arg ...Show more
Vincent's Arles - As It Is and As It Was by Linda Seidel (Contribution by)
Category: Travel | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
A vivid tour of the town of Arles, guided by one of its most famous visitors: Vincent van Gogh. Once admired as "a little Rome" on the banks of the Rhône, the town of Arles in the south of France had been a place of significance long before the painter Vincent van Gogh arrived in February of 1888. Awa ...Show more
What I Learned about Investing from Darwin by Pulak Prasad
Category: Business | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
The investment profession is in a state of crisis. The vast majority of equity fund managers are unable to beat the market over the long term, which has led to massive outflows from active funds to passive funds. Where should investors turn in search of a new approach? Pulak Prasad offers a philosophy o ...Show more
Why Art? by Davis, Eleanor
Category: Art and Design | Series: Emersion: Emergent Village Resources for Communities of Faith Ser.
What is "Art"? It's widely accepted that art serves an important function in society. But the concept falls under such an absurdly large umbrella and can manifest in so many different ways. Art can be self indulgent, goofy, serious, altruistic, evil, or expressive, or any number of other things. But how ...Show more