Team Topologies offers a practical, pattern-led approach for structuring business and software teams to enable fast flow of change. It presents clear team types, interaction modes, and principles for managing team boundaries and cognitive load so organizations can evolve delivery capabilities and optimize collaboration.
A Praying Life offers a practical, story-driven approach to prayer, teaching readers how to turn prayer into an ongoing conversation with God amid the distractions of daily life. Paul E. Miller blends biblical insight, personal anecdotes, and simple practices to help believers deepen their relationship with God and make prayer a natural part of everyday living.
From the author of Enlightenment Now, a short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker. Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should any of us care? In The Sense of Style, the bestselling linguist and cognitive scientist Steven Pinker answers these questions and more. Rethinking the usage guide for the twenty-first century, Pinker doesn’t carp about the decline of language or recycle pet peeves from the rulebooks of a century ago. Instead, he applies insights from the sciences of language and mind to the challenge of crafting clear, coherent, and stylish prose. In this short, cheerful, and eminently practical book, Pinker shows how writing depends on imagination, empathy, coherence, grammatical knowhow, and an ability to savor and reverse engineer the good prose of others. He replaces dogma about usage with reason and evidence, allowing writers and editors to apply the guidelines judiciously, rather than robotically, being mindful of what they are designed to accomplish. Filled with examples of great and gruesome prose, Pinker shows us how the art of writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and a fascinating intellectual topic in its own right.
Donald S. Whitney's Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life is a practical guide to cultivating the habits that sustain and deepen Christian faith, covering disciplines such as Bible study, prayer, worship, fasting, solitude, service, and stewardship. Rooted in Scripture, the book explains the biblical basis for each discipline and offers concrete, accessible steps for integrating them into daily life.
