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 Can You Still Trust God?: What Happens When You Choose to Believe by Charles F. Stanley 2021 | ISBN: 078524753X | English | 352 pages | EPUB | 3 MB When things are going your way, trusting the Lord is easy. But when painful trials, unmet needs, or lost dreams assail, do you wonder if God can still be trusted? What do you do when facing a challenge that seems insurmountable? Do you believe God can be trusted? In Can You Still Trust God?, Dr. Charles Stanley reveals three essential beliefs for trusting God:  CEO: 7 Secrets To Unleash Your Inner Boss And Start Building Your Million Dollar Future Today by Jeremy McGilvrey English | December 2, 2019 | ISBN: 0578618737 | 578 pages | EPUB | 1.52 Mb You will not become rich on the outside until you become rich on the inside.  Building Communities, Not Audiences: The Future of the Arts in the United States By Doug Borwick 2012 | 370 Pages | ISBN: 0972780416 | PDF | 2 MB Building Communities, Not Audiences: The Future of the Arts in the U.S, written and edited by Doug Borwick, holds that established arts organizations, for practical and moral reasons, need to be more deeply connected to their communities. It serves as an essential primer for any member of the arts community-artist, administrator, board member, patron, or friend-who is interested in the future of the arts in the U.S. It also provides new ways of looking at the arts as a powerful force for building better communities and improving lives. "It is from community that the arts developed and it is in serving communities that the arts will thrive . . . Communities do not exist to serve the arts; the arts exist to serve communities." Building Communities, Not Audiences identifies the factors that serve to isolate established arts organizations from their communities, points out the trends that loom as imminent threats to the long-term viability of the artistic status quo, and presents principles and mechanisms whereby arts organizations can significantly extend their reach into the community, supporting enhanced sustainability. Included are case studies and examples of successful community engagement work being conducted by arts organizations from around the U.S. Twenty-three contributors, representing chamber music, dance, museums, opera, orchestras, and theatre as well as an array of arts administration perspectives provide breadth of coverage. "The economic, social, and political environments out of which the infrastructure for Western 'high arts' grew have changed. Today's major arts institutions, products of that legacy, no longer benefit from relatively inexpensive labor, a nominally homogeneous culture, or a polity openly managed by an elite class. Expenses are rising precipitously and competition for major donors is increasing; as a result, the survival of established arts organizations hinges on their ability to engage effectively with a far broader segment of the population than has been true to date." -------------------------- From the Foreword by Rocco Landesman, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts: "I think the days of the arts in ivory towers are behind us; the very best arts organizations are . . . connecting communities with artists . . . . Not only can the arts build communities, I think we must." From the Foreword by Robert L. Lynch, President & CEO, Americans for the Arts: "Doug Borwick calls for substantive rather than superficial efforts, authentic and systemic changes. . . . The challenge is not whether to build communities or audiences but how to build communities and audiences together." -------------------------- Contributors: Barbara Schaffer Bacon: Co-Director, Animating Democracy Sandra Bernhard: Director/HGOco, Houston Grand Opera Susan Badger Booth: Professor, Eastern Michigan University Tom Borrup: Principal, Creative Community Builders Ben Cameron: Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation William Cleveland: Director, Center for the Study of Art and Community Lyz Crane: Community Development Consultant David Dombrosky: CMO/InstantEncore Maryo Gard Ewell: Community Arts Consultant Tom Finkelpearl: Executive Director, Queens Museum of Art Pam Korza: Co-Director, Animating Democracy Denise Kulawik: Principal, Oneiros, LLC Helen Lessick: Artist, Civic Art Advocate Dorothy Gunther Pugh: Founder & Artistic Director, Ballet Memphis Stephanie Moore: Arts and Culture Researcher Diane Ragsdale: Cultural Critic, Speaker, Writer Noel Raymond: Co-Director, Pillsbury House Theatre, St. Paul, MN Preranna Reddy: Director-Public Events, Queens Museum of Art Sebastian Ruth: Founder/Artistic Director, Community MusicWorks, Providence, RI Russell Willis Taylor: President & CEO, National Arts Strategies James Undercofler: Professor, Drexel University; former President/CEO, Philadelphia Orchestra Roseann Weiss: Director, CAT Institute, Regional Arts Commission, St. Louis, MO SA  Zachary Carver, "Bug Out Bag List - Survival Gear You Must Have For Emergency Preparedness" English | 2013 | ASIN: B00DIFL02Q | 160 pages | EPUB | 1.9 MB Ignoring the Facts Doesn't Change the Facts...  Books do Furnish a Life: An electrifying celebration of science writing by Richard Dawkins English | September 1st, 2021 | ISBN: 1787633691 | 464 pages | True EPUB | 1.60 MB 'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times  Christopher Cameron, "Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism " English | ISBN: 0810140780 | 2019 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB Black Freethinkers argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, freethought has been central to black political and intellectual life from the nineteenth century to the present. Freethought encompasses many different schools of thought, including atheism, agnosticism, and nontraditional orientations such as deism and paganism.  Below the Edge of Darkness: A Memoir of Exploring Light and Life in the Deep Sea, UK Edition by Edith Widder English | August 14th, 2021 | ISBN: 1922330574 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 7.99 MB Edith Widder grew up wanting to become a marine biologist. But after complications from surgery caused her to go temporarily blind while at university, she became fascinated by light, and her focus turned to bioluminescence. On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental diving suit that took her to a depth of 250 metres, she turned off the suitʼs lights and witnessed breathtaking explosions of bioluminescent activity. Why was there so much light down there?  Avenging Nature: The Role of Nature in Modern and Contemporary Art and Literature (Ecocritical Theory and Practice) by Eduardo Valls Oyarzun, Rebeca Gualberto Valverde, Noelia Malla Garcia, María Colom Jiménez, Rebeca Cordero Sánchez 2020 | ISBN: 1793621446 | English | 258 pages | PDF | 1 MB [center]  Artificial Intelligence - Logic & Algorithms for problem solving Volume 2 (AI) by Edcorner Learning English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B096KYY5RX | 701 pages | EPUB | 6.94 Mb [b]Artificial Intelligence - Logic & Algorithms for problem solving Volume 2  Artificial Intelligence - Logic & Algorithms for Problem Solving Volume 1 (AI) by Edcorner Learning English | 2021 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B096BF11LS | 560 pages | EPUB | 7.24 Mb Artificial intelligenceis, at its core, a system that can perform a task using intelligence that mirrors (or is better than) human intelligence. Theoretically, any task that requires human intelligence to accomplish could instead be performed by artificial intelligence assuming the system has the adequate information and capabilities programmed. It accomplishes this by utilizing processes such as machine learning to scour sets of data and utilizing algorithms (instructions, or list of rules a computer should follow to solve a problem), to discover trends in data and provide insights for decision-making. |
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