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The author shares the highs and lows if his career as a college, then professional football player, as well as how his strong faith allowed him to experience the ups and downs without letting them define him, and advises reader on how they can achieve this type of resilience.

"This title shows how a group of European scientists, in the span of roughly one hundred and fifty years (early 1500s to the mid-1600s) and working through direct observation, overturned the centuries' old accepted view of a geocentric universe. Through their research and writings, they proposed and described a new order of things in which the Earth orbits the Sun. In so doing, these scientists--Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Galileo...

"Dr. Ben Carson may be a renowned neurosurgeon and humanitarian now, but growing up, he never had it easy. Abandoned by his father. The turbulence of life in inner-city Detroit. Being called stupid at school. A violent temper. In every aspect, Ben's tough circumstances seemed only to point to a harsher future and a bad end. But that's not what happened... Through gripping and inspiring stories, Ben illustrates how to think big - how to harness the...

"In 1999 in the Los Rios region of southern Chile, orthopedic surgeon, devoted wife, and loving mother Dr. Mary Neal drowned in a kayak accident. While cascading down a waterfall, her kayak became pinned at the bottom and she was immediately and completely submerged. Despite the rescue efforts of her companions, Mary was underwater for too long, and as a result, died. To Heaven and Back is Mary’s remarkable story of her life’s spiritual journey...