If You Can Keep It : The Forgotten Promise of American Liberty

This book offers a bird's-eye view of the recent development trends in photovoltaics - a big business field that is rapidly growing and well on its way to maturity. The book describes current efforts to develop highly efficient, low-cost photovoltaic devices based on crystalline silicon, III-V compounds, copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) and perovskite photovoltaic cells along with innovative, cost-competitive glass/ flexible tubular glass concentrator modules and systems, highlighting recent attempts to develop highly efficient, low-cost, flexible photovoltaic cells based on CIGS and perovskite thin films. This second edition presents, for the first time, the possible applications of perovskite modules together with Augsburger Tubular photovoltaics. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas comes If You Can Keep It , a new book that is part history and part manifesto, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America. Two hundred and forty years after the Declaration of Independence, it examines how we as a nation are living up to our founders' lofty vision for liberty and justice. If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness, and a sobering reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we truly understand what our founding fathers meant for us to be. The book includes a stirring call-to-action for every American to understand the ideals behind the "noble experiment in ordered liberty" that is America. It also paints a vivid picture of the tremendous fragility of that experiment and explains why that fragility has been dangerously forgottenand in doing so it lays out our own responsibility to live those ideals and carry on those freedoms. Metaxas believes America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based upon liberty and freedom. It's time to reconnect to that idea before America loses the very foundation for what made it exceptional in the first place. #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a critical analysis of our founding fathers' original intentions for America. In 1787, when the Constitution was drafted, a woman asked Ben Franklin what the founders had given the American people. "A republic," he shot back, "if you can keep it." More than two centuries later, Metaxas examines what that means and how we are doing on that score. If You Can Keep It is at once a thrilling review of America's uniqueness?including our role as a "nation of nations"?and a chilling reminder that America's greatness cannot continue unless we embrace our own crucial role in living out what the founders entrusted to us. Metaxas explains that America is not a nation bounded by ethnic identity or geography, but rather by a radical and unprecedented idea, based on liberty and freedom for all. He cautions us that it's nearly past time we reconnect to that idea, or we may lose the very foundation of what made us exceptional in the first place. From the Hardcover edition Eric Metaxas Offers A Thrilling Review Of America's Uniqueness, And A Sobering Reminder That America's Greatness Cannot Continue Unless People Truly Understand What Their Founding Fathers Meant For Them To Be. The Book Includes A Stirring Call-to-action For Every American To Understand The Ideals Behind The 'noble Experiment In Ordered Liberty' That Is America. It Also Paints A Vivid Picture Of The Tremendous Fragility Of That Experiment And Explains Why That Fragility Has Been Dangerously Forgotten - And In Doing So It Lays Out Our Own Responsibility To Live Those Ideals And Carry On Those Freedoms. Metaxas Believes America Is Not A Nation Bounded By Ethnic Identity Or Geography, But Rather By A Radical And Unprecedented Idea, Based Upon Liberty And Freedom. The Promise -- The Idea Of America -- The Golden Triangle Of Freedom -- The Wonder Of The Age -- Venerating Our Heroes -- The Importance Of Moral Leaders -- The Almost Chosen People -- Loving America -- This Is America. Eric Metaxas. Includes Bibliographical References (259-260).