New Releases by Bill Russell

Life isn''t just filled with flowers and sunshine. It''s raw, it''s messy, it''s real. And in the midst of life''s challenges, there''s a need for a consistent connection with God. In "Not Another Devotional", the reader is invited on a journey that transcends the superficial, delving into the depths of real-life struggles and triumphs with a God who meets us where we are. "Not Another Devotional" offers more than just a fleeting moment of reflection. Each daily entry is a deliberate plunge into the matters of the heart, grounded in a biblical approach that resonates with the complexities of modern life. Through relatable stories, practical insights, and timeless truths, this devotional seeks to challenge, enlighten, and foster a deeper relationship with God. Whether grappling with doubt, navigating relationships, or seeking purpose in the mundane, "Not Another Devotional" serves as a companion for the journey, providing a renewed sense of hope. It''s not just another devotional-it''s an invitation to encounter a real God in the midst of life''s beautifully messy moments. Prepare to embark on a transformative journey toward a richer, more authentic connection with God. "Not Another Devotional" invites you to embrace the reality of life-its struggles, its joys, and its possibilities-with the assurance of a God who walks alongside you every step of the way. Pastor Bill Russell is a captivating preacher, teacher, and presenter, serving as the establishmentarian and Lead Pastor of Harvest City Church in Greensboro, North Carolina. With a fervent commitment to the mission of loving God, loving people, and loving the city, Pastor Bill has led Harvest in impacting Greensboro and its surrounding areas through numerous initiatives that extend beyond traditional Sunday morning services. A native of Long Island, New York, Pastor Bill pursued his academic journey with dedication and passion. He holds a bachelor''s degree in social work from North Carolina A&T State University and a master''s degree in social work from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. In 2021, Pastor Bill achieved a significant milestone by graduating from Duke Divinity with a Master of Divinity Degree, specializing in Black Church Studies and Preaching. In every aspect of his life and ministry, Pastor Bill Russell exemplifies a commitment to excellence, authenticity, and the transformative power of God''s love. He continues to inspire and uplift those around him as a true shepherd of God''s flock.

The New York Times –bestselling memoir of a basketball legend''s relationship to his mentor and coach. "On the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, Russell is loud and clear. He might object to my use of the word ''love,'' but deny it though you will, Mr. Russell, that''s what sits at the heart of this beautiful book." — New York Times Book Review A poignant remembrance of a life-altering relationship in the tradition of Big Russ and Me and Tuesdays With Morrie, Red and Me tells an unforgettable story of one unlikely and enduring friendship set against the backdrop of the greatest basketball dynasty in NBA history. Red Auerbach was one of the greatest basketball coaches in sports history. Bill Russell was the star center and five-time MVP for Auerbach''s Celtics, and together they won eleven championships in thirteen years. But Auerbach and Russell were far more than just coach and player. A short, brash Jew from Brooklyn and a tall, intense African-American from Louisiana and Oakland, the men formed a friendship that evolved into a rare, telling example of deep male camaraderie even as their feelings remained largely unspoken. Red and Me is an extraordinary book: an homage to a peerless coach, which shows how he produced results unlike any other, and an inspiring story of mutual success, in which each man gave his all and gained back even more. Above all, it may be the most honest and heartfelt depiction of male friendship ever captured in print.

In recent years, many companies have realised customer experience (CX) is the new marketing battle ground. Substantial investments have been made to map customer journeys, identify pain points and improve CX to try and create cut-through. Using real world applications to introduce next generation design tools based on proven concepts from strategy, marketing, psychology and creative problem solving, Lean CX: How to Differentiate at Low Cost and Least Risk discusses how to use Lean Management approaches to innovate your customer experience. This practical book describes how the tools from Lean Management can be applied to the CX innovation problem. The authors draw on hundreds of CX design and strategic innovation projects across a range of industries, both B2B and B2C, from primary research through client work and secondary case studies available in the public domain. The examples include many different vertical industry sectors, including those involving hybrid business models. The cases included share what worked really well and where CX failed. The content goes beyond what actually happened to present an idea of what might be possible with the right design approach and committed resources. Presents the swarm algorithm which highlights what the next generation of successful organisations might become. Shows how to overcome the CX change risk and reduce the biggest waste in CX management. Includes numerous international case examples.

Back in print for the first time in decades, Go Up for Glory is the classic 1968 basketball memoir by NBA legend Bill Russell, with a new foreword from the author. From NBA legend Bill Russell, Go Up for Glory is a basketball memoir that transcends time. First published in 1965, this narrative traces Russell''s childhood in segregated America and details the challenges he faced as a Black man, even when he was a celebrated NBA star. And while some progress has been made, this book serves as an urgent reminder of how far we still have to go in the fight for human rights and equality.

Drawing on over a hundred years of research into innovation and an in depth research study, the book brings to life the reality of managing established firms to secure advantage through vigilant innovation approaches in disrupting digital era markets. Exploring how organizations manage new offering development focused innovation across a portfolio of core, adjacent and breakthrough environments, the focus is on the search and select phases of the innovation process, and how established firms identify and validate a range of opportunities. Companies face the paradox of how to establish search and select processes for focal markets, while also setting up routines to sense and respond to disruptive innovation signals from adjacent and more peripheral markets. The book builds on research into peripheral vision, and considers how organizations manage the crucial early stages of a vigilant innovation process. The research project at the heart of the book focused on 10 case companies in the publishing sector. The new frameworks developed by the author were informed by over 60 interviews, the innovation literature and the author’s experience as a researcher, consultant and practitioner.

In modern-day Cape Cod, Joy, a baby boomer and proud hippie, is holding a memorial concert for the other half of her popular musical duo, Jump & Joy. When her tightly wound, conservative daughter and her sweet, rebellious granddaughter arrive from Oklahoma, sparks fly as one family seeks to find the common ground in their different values, dreams, and goals. A heartfelt and hilarious story that celebrates diversity and acceptance, Unexpected Joy weaves folk-rock, pop, and blues in bringing together a family that hasn’t experienced true joy in decades.

This revised and expanded edition of mushroom expert Bill Russell’s popular Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic provides both novice and experienced mushroom foragers with detailed, easy-to-use information about more than one hundred species of these fungi, including twenty-five varieties not found in the previous guide. From the Morel to the Chanterelle to the aptly named Chicken of the Woods, mushrooms of the mid-Atlantic region can be harvested and enjoyed, if you know where to look. Each entry in this field guide contains a detailed description, current scientific classification, key updates and information from recent studies, and high-quality color photographs to aid in identification. Thoughtfully organized by season, the guide shows you how to locate and identify the most common mushrooms in the region and recognize look-alikes—and explains what to do with edible mushrooms once you’ve found them. Featuring over one hundred full-color illustrations and distilling Russell’s fifty years of experience in hunting, studying, and teaching about wild mushrooms, Field Guide to Wild Mushrooms of Pennsylvania and the Mid-Atlantic is an indispensable reference for curious hikers, amateur biologists, adventurous chefs, and mycophiles of all stripes.

In May 2005, Lieutenant Colonel Bill Russell Edmonds of the U.S. Army Special Forces, a decorated counter-terrorism expert, was deployed to the Iraqi city of Mosul, which was boiling over. His job was to advise an Iraqi Intelligence Officer on the art of interrogations, collect intelligence, and monitor the capture and interrogation of insurgents, while applying the brakes on more extreme tactics and torture. From a makeshift basement prison, he would witness a never-ending cycle of some of the darkest things humanity could create.It was a soul crushing minefield of mutually exclusive moral mandates. Edmonds'' training offered little practical guidance for the nuances of the Iraq War, so he had to draw his own red line: what level of torture he would tolerate and what level he would not. A year later he returned home morally and spiritually hollowed-out, with post-traumatic stress and acute moral injury. At first, he thought his distress was from the inevitable adjustment of returning home. In God Is Not Here, Edmonds has gone beyond a blood-and-body-count war memoir, revealing his emotional, psychological, and spiritual trauma—and the tortuous process of his reassembly—while providing a raw look at what happened overseas.

At times hilarious, oft times poignant and sometimes silly, most of the stories in this anthology will take you back to a magical time called childhood where we first tried to learn how to be people. From there, we will progress through the painful growing years with an occasional side trip into the minefield which is society. These stories appeared in our local newspaper, The Plainsman of Huron, South Dakota and now I''ve compiled them into a single volume for you to enjoy. Find the answer to such vexing questions as, do kids need dogs, should you get your pig plastered before she has her first litter, and how many post-holes can you dig with a model airplane? Chock full of valuable information, you can''t afford to be without this literary gem... especially in your bathroom.

"... a raucous, irreverent and unfiltered new musical comedy. Enter an America where the government is in your kitchen, sniffing for outlawed cigarettes! The extreme anti-smoking laws test the sanity of one suburban family. Pam is having an impossible time trying to quit. Her husband Ernie retreats to the basement to relive the rock star dreams of his youth, while their teenage son Jimmy only turns away from his videogames to explore his gangster rapper persona. Adding to the dysfunctional dynamic is anti-smoking fanatic Phyllis, the neighbor who can''t keep her nose out of everyone else''s business. "--Page 4 of cover.

What was so funny about boot camp? Nothing while you''re going through it. It''s only after that you remember situations in a different light. A wise Marine once said, "It''s impossible to see any humor in an ass kicking until the other guy stops kicking it." Events in this book took place in the early 1950s, right after the Korean War. The Corps, in fact all the services, have no doubt changed since then but I think the aim of what has to be accomplished remains in tact. It is not my purpose to poke fun at the Marine Corps. On the contrary, I have nothing but admiration and loyalty toward the Corps and I believe in the adage, "Once a Marine, always a Marine." As far as the drill instructors go, most were top-notch professionals doing a job that needed to be done. One or two appeared to enjoy the bullying a little too much but they didn''t seem to last. I don''t know where they went but they were usually out of our hair within a couple of weeks. The simple truth is, there would be no Marine Corps without boot camp to teach the willy-nilly how to be Leathernecks. That said, I freely admit I still thrill when they play the Marine Corps Hymn. Even today it makes me stand just a wee bit taller.

¿Remember, son, when bad things happen and life gets covered up in hurts and sorrows, just do the next right thing. Before long, life has a way of getting itself back in order and you¿ll find that the past is all behind you.¿ As nineteen-year old Travis Garrett begins his journey west in the spring of 1860, he is filled with the freewheeling excitement of working as a wrangler on a covered wagon train crew. But when devastation wracks the settlers, he must battle bandits, buffalo herds, and floods to save himself and his fellow survivors. Upon reaching the town of Ogallala, what Travis first envisions as a safe haven instead leads to his awkward discovery of first love, the brutal jealousy of a jilted suitor, and a showdown with the most notorious bandit of them all¿El Gato, wanted for murder in two countries. Travis, and those around him, soon learn that life in the 1860s can be tenuous and the path they set out on may not lead to the place they were expecting.

The original story of an unloved London boy who after being turned out of his home penniless and hungry has to learn about the harsh realities of life on the street. In this compassionate children''s story Chip finds friendship in an emotionally chilly world. With the help of his unexpected friend and good Samaritan Drago, Chip learns to live again. But will he finally discover love and safety in the warmth of a new home? In the unique ''two books in one'' format, fully illustrated throughout with cartoons and pictures, Chip Donovan and the Dragonfly is suitable for a variety of age groups. A tune accompanies this enchanting story. Chip Donovan and the Dragonfly is the magical concept of a team of unlikely talents; a property developer, a socialite, a cartoonist and an entrepreneur.

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"The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of mental imagery practice on the performance of selected psychomotor tennis skills of postsecondary students. The principal investigator/researcher conducted a quasi-experimental quantitative study involving a post hoc statistical analysis. The population included six beginning tennis activity classes, for a total of 138 subjects, who participated during the fall 2003 semester on the campus of a small, private midwestern university. The instrument used in this study was the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance Tennis skills Test authored by Larry Hensley. This instrument was selected due to its exclusive design for the testing of tennis skills as well as validity and reliability. An alpha level of .05 was used for all analyses. The principal investigator/researcher conducted a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and paired t-tests to examine the mean changes among and within the three groups studied. The results of the study were the following: (a) the control group, Group 3, showed a significant difference between the pretest to posttest, however, not as significant as either Group 1 or Group 2; (b) the group that incorporated the practice of mental imagery prior to physical practice, Group 1, demonstrated a significant difference between the pretest to posttest, recording the highest gains among all groups tested; and (c) the group that incorporated the practice of mental imagery after physically practicing, Group 2, showed a significant difference-- more than Group 3 but less than Group 1. These results are supported by previous research study investigations. The results that both experimental groups employing the use of mental imagery practice in conjugation with physical practice are superior to physical practice alone, are congruent with the literature reviewed. The results that indicated Group 1 using mental imagery prior to physical practice as superior to Group 2 using mental imagery after physical practice and Group 3 physical practice only, can also be found in the literature"--Abstract.

Bill Russell epitomizes innovation, teamwork, and leadership. Now the winner of 11 championships as a player and coach of the Boston Celtics and five-time NBA Most Valuable Player reveals the 11 essential steps to attaining success in your professional and personal life. In this invaluable book, Bill Russell shares the insights, memories, and most important, the essential “rules of success” that influenced him in every aspect of his life, from raising a daughter as a single father to becoming a successful coach and mentor to others. Filled with personal and professional stories of his days playing with Celtic greats Bob Cousy, Tom Heinsohn, Sam Jones, and coach Red Auerbach, Russell Rules offers inspiring lessons on commitment, personal integrity, teamwork, and success.