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Normally I'm not the world's biggest fan of Stacey, but in this book I liked her a lot. Stacey is in a bind; she feels if she decides to stay home and take care of her mother who has pnuemonia, she will disappoint her father, who invited her to a very important company dinner. She tries to do both, and even though it kind of fails, I feel she acted very responsibly.
The book itself is one of the most realistic BSC books. It focuses on some common problems for "divorced kids" and mostly highlights the fact that they constantly are choosing between their parents.

The sideplot is also great, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the main plot. It's pretty funny, actually, and in a way is kind of like comic relief.

The book is great and realistic. You will not be disappointed.

Stacey's parents are depending on her again! It's either she stays in Stoneybrook to take care of her mom with a desease or she will go to New York to celebrate his father's promotion job.

stacey has to choose between attending a promotion dinner for her dad in new york and staying home in stoneybrook with her mother who had pneumonia in this book. Stacey felt like she had to choose between her parents, and I know how she feels because my own parents are divorced too though just half an hour away from one another. Stacey seems a little too mature for thirteen in this book, it showed her maturity in handling the situation and standing up to her dad when she decided to go for the dinner but not stay the whole weekend. I guess being a single child and parents splitting up makes one grow up way too fast at times, it was a great read. I enjoyed reading about the shopping trip with the BSC at the beginning of the book too when stacey was choosing an outfit for the dinner.

I liked the book Stacey's Choice because Stacy was very mature and responsible. I liked the way she took care of her mom when she was sick and made the sistting chart for when she was in school. I think the neighbors were very nice to watch Stacy's mother. But in all the drama with her mom Stacy forgot she had to go to New York for a dinner in her dads honor. Stacy needed to choose between her sick mother or her vice president dad. I think her choice was very responsible.

Stacey has a choice. 1. She will go to New York and celebrate his father's promotion day, 2. She will stay in Stoneybrook and take care of her mother with a disease.

Some things never get out dated. This handbook/manual has surpassed the the test of time and will always be helpful to those in the ministry and or evangelism.

Excellent book. I also found The Minister's Crucible by Fred C. Rochester a great book for ministers, want to be ministers, and those already in ministry. Book books are a must read.

This is THE book to own of its type. Highly recommended to new and old ministers alike. It should be in every ministers library. I always refer back to mine.

The Star Book for Ministers is a wonderful reference guide. It is jam packed with information yet small enough to discreetly and easily carry with you. If you are new to the ministry or someone who has been in the ministry a while, it contains practical helps and information.

Topics covered include: Entering the Christian Ministry, Preaching the Gospel, Pastoral Care, etc. There are almost 100 pages of scripture one can refer to by topic (Confession & Forgiveness, Christian Love, Grief, Comfort, Beneditions, etc). This is most helpful when counseling someone.

Finally there are practical guidelines for dealing with others during weddings, funerals and baptisms as well as suggestions for ceremonies. Indispensible!

I have personally used and highly recommend the Star Book for Ministers. Filled with useful forms, ceremonial procedures, guidelines for different types of services, parliamentary guides for churches, and even ecclesiastical sample letters and blanks, I have found it a priceless resource. I highly recommend this book for all ministers, and especially for the newly ordained clergy or anyone starting a church.

There are few books that handle the subject of the spirit of Jezebel so skillfully as, "A Step Into Deliverance." It reads like a novel, informs like a text book and enlightens like a revelation from Heaven. Whatever you are reading now, put it down (except your Bible of course) and delve into this fascinating journey into the deliverance ministry. It is destined for the bestseller's list.

A Step into Deliverance was not at all what I expected it to be. I expected a how-to instruction book on deliverance. Instead I was immersed in an incredible journey into the life of one man is so willing to be humble, broken and poured out for the Lord, a transparency that is humbling in itself. It is apparent throughout his book that Pastor Pugh is a spirit-led man and seeks to live a life that glorifies God. With regard to deliverance, the book provided much of the information I sought. It was clear, concise and informative, but more than that, it is a journey for the reader. Because Pastor Pugh is so candid in sharing his life experiences, we not only see glimpses of ourselves in weakness, we see the life-transforming power of our Lord, Jesus Christ. While some are called to the deliverance ministry itself, deliverance is for all of us and it is a life-long journey. . . "from faith to faith and glory to glory." It is heartwarming, funny and challenging. I couldn't put it down-in fact, I read it twice! The body of Christ today needs to hear Pastor Pugh's message if we are to be victorious in these last days. His message conveys the unconditional love and amazing grace of Jesus Christ and how he can transform our lives so that we can love others as He commanded us to. Get the book, and let it wrap around your heart and soul and change your life!

I thought that the book was insightful. It was completly lead by the Holy Spirit of the Lord. The complete Revalation from this man of God is wonderful to see and feel that you are not alone in the fight to live your life for the lord. I am at complete ah with the book. It makes me think and taught me things that I never thought about. Thank You Pastor Pugh for the continuing lessons that God has given you to teach.

I thought this book was very informative and insightful in dealing with the spirit of Jezebel. As a prayer leader, this book gave me insight on how Pastor Pugh and his church dealt with this spirit and overcame it. I really enjoyed reading about Pastor Pugh's experiences in deliverance ministry. It was funny, insightful, and eye-opening. I now understand that the Jezebel Spirit is alive and active in trying to shut down ministries. Pastor Pugh, thank you for sharing your experiences and your life with readers, it was truly life-changing for me and will help me in my prayer ministry.

This book was really a great start in learning about self deliverance. Pastor Pugh tells things that most men of God wouldn't tell in this book. He talks a great deal about those things that are happening on the inside of men and women of God. I would recommend this book to any intercessory team as well, because it helps you to know what to look for when praying. WOW!!!! what a great book. It was very hard to put down.

I've always enjoyed the psalms - and this is a fresh look at 15 of them - with Beth Moore's diligent study and application. Excellent and rewarding to spend time in this study - it's short - only 6 weeks. Helpful to have the videos/mp3s for the listening sessions. Enjoy - I highly recommend it.

At fist I was unsure what I was going to think but, since starting it I'm truly enjoying the way we study each Psalm of Ascent. Her approach is fresh and enjoyable all in one. Highly recommend to do alone or with a group.

This was my first Beth Moore study and I loved it. It does have a video section each week so I think you need the video to accompany it. I ordered the Daniel study before realizing this and have yet to find the dvd to go along with it. Anyway, this was a refreshing study and the daily homework really adds to it's impact. Beth Moore is hilarious and really does her research on the topics. I just ordered two more of her books and look forward to receiving them.

This was a great bible study to do with a small group! I have enjoyed going through it in my quiet times as well!

I have enjoyed this Bible study. It is one of Beth Moore's best ones.

Written by Robert W. Drago (Professor of Labor Studies and Women's Studies, Penn State University), Striking a Balance: Work, Family, Life is not a self-help book for the individual, but rather a scholarly examination of the modern societal problems of the care gap (too many children, elderly, and disabled, particularly among the poor, are not getting the care they need), the gender gap (women are forced to choose between success in their careers and providing adequate care to their children, or any other form of care work for low or no pay) and the income gap (the rich get richer and the poor get poorer). At the heart of these problems is not just cold hard economics, but also societal norms - the "motherhood norm" that insists women should provide care for little or no pay; the "ideal worker norm" that conditions employers to expect their workers to put in long hours up to an inhuman level; and the "individualism norm", a society-infused belief that the government should not help those needing care. Striking a Balance prescribes society-wide remedies to these growing problems: paid family leave, early childhood education and child care financing, guaranteed health insurance, and a minimum wage increase indexed to inflation, and the simple importance of allowing men and women from all walks of life to have their voices heard. Extensively researched, Striking a Balance: Work Family Life is a persuasive academic treatise about the need for social change, and highly recommended for reading for not only college library shelves, but also anyone looking for a better understanding of why the government needs to pay more attention to minimum wage, health care, and paid family leave issues.

This excellent analysis of the current state of working and trying to live at the same time in America is a great wakeup call from the overwork hypnosis reining for too long. Unlike in other advanced nations, we've never had a real national conversation about the impacts of large numbers of caregivers in the workplace and skyrocketing workweeks. Drago makes those repercussions of work without end very clear, in imploding families, skyrocketing health costs and absentee lives. Armed with a trove of research, he shows us not only the downside, but also a way out, when we can see the unconscious norms that skew our value system and sanity--the ideal worker norm, the motherhood norm, and the individualism norm. This much-needed book should should be required reading for every exec, congressperson, and presidential-candidate policy guru in the land.

This is one of the best sociological books I've read in years--which is saying quite a bit, since the author is an economist! Bob Drago's latest book is both scholarly and eminently readable. He pulls together the best analysis of the challenges confronting women, families, and workers--which pretty much includes all of us, now doesn't it?--with the most enlightened thinking about what we need to do to change the structures that produce those challenges. The book is written in very clear prose and presents a persuasive argument that gets right to the point. I think just about any reader concerned with social problems (the working poor, strains on families, gender inequalities) will find plenty of cause for optimism here. And readers who just want to make sense of why life is so hectic for themselves, their co-workers, family members, and neighbors will come away from this book with a clearer understanding and ideas for action. I highly recommend this book.

Bob Drago has long been recognized as a leader in the work-life balance world through his work with Take Care Net and on the Work and Family Bill of Rights. After decades in the wilderness, many of us have reached a shared vision of what does and doesn't help us to lead balanced lives. Drago captures this new consensus, explains why it has taken so long for us to reach this point, and provides a blueprint for change. Anyone stressed about their own lives, and what to do about it, should read this interesting, insightful, wise, and humorous work, and then join with Drago and others to change things.

This book is for anyone who feels that life is complicated and getting more so all the time. In clear language Drago gives data to show that Americans are working more and defines 3 important gaps Americans face: a care gap, a gender gap, and an income gap. These are interrelated, of course, as Drago makes clear. And he contributes to our understanding of the gender gap by expanding it to include the gap between women who are involved in actual care work (whether paid or not) and those successful in professional jobs and hence not directly involved in care. He anchors his discussion in three norms, all of which contribute to these gaps: motherhood, ideal worker, and individualism, and supports his discussion with both data and stories. A particularly interesting formulation is his definition of balance, by which he means involvement in all three of paid work, unpaid work, and leisure. He describes the kind of social infrastructure necessary to support such balance for all people in our society and ends with a work and family bill of rights. A great discussion of the challenges we all face.

The author has done a very good job creating an engaging story that offers fathers and sons an entertaining framework for discussing what character and integrity mean in day to day life. Perhaps the best testimonial I can offer is that when I gave the book to my son he was very excited. He has read five chapters in two nights and loves it!

A brilliant blend of sci-fi and character boot camp! This powerfully woven story provides a starting point to tackle central issues with your son.Teknon is a real hero wrestling with the pertinent issues of the 2000's. Therefore "Champion Warrior" puts muscle into your desire to provide a strategy for mentoring your son. Practical,concise and achievable,mission possible!

It is a remarkable, high adventure story of a young man's initiation into courageous manhood, which includes high risk exposure to dark and evil characters and episodes. Brent Sapp has created a plot line which is compelling, convicting, and as large as the moral challenge that faces us in this complicated world. Young men profoundly need "rites of passage" to initiate them into the world of mature manhood. Teknon and the CHAMPION WARRIORS is both a challenge and an invitation to young men and their families to contract for the launching of a CHAMPION. Dr. Donald Joy, author and Director of the Center for the Study of the Family

It is a remarkable, high adventure story of a young man's initiation into courageous manhood, which includes high risk exposure to dark and evil characters and episodes. Brent Sapp has created a plot line which is compelling, convicting, and as large as the moral challenge that faces us in this complicated world. Young men profoundly need "rites of passage" to initiate them into the world of mature manhood. Teknon and the CHAMPION WARRIORS is both a challenge and an invitation to young men and their families to contract for the launching of a CHAMPION.

Dr. Donald Joy, author and Director Center for the Study of the Family

This book is more than an engaging science fiction novel: it's a way of having some heart-to-heart discussions with your son about critical issues like honor, overcoming anger and fear, respect of women, and life purpose. Along with the two accompanying guides, you have a ready-made three to six month curriculum for manhood disguised as something cool. I'm going through it with my twelve year old and highly recommend it.

This is the first book I read about 16 personality types. Easy to read and it makes sense.

Written by certified human resource professional and award-winning author and consultant Donna Dunning, TLC At Work invests heavily in the concepts of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator personality inventory and Dunning's twenty years of experience. "TLC" stands for "Training, Leading, and Coaching", in this excellent guide especially for human resource professionals and people seeking to improve their performance at work. Chapters address how to build relationships and establish credibility, rapport, and trust, how to facilitate development, enhancing the five basic workplace competencies of self-responsibility, communication, mindfulness, productivity, and proactivity, and more. Of especial interest is the recommendations for using coaching to help people who think and react in very different ways learn to balance and effectively fine-tune their gut responses to a given situation. A highly recommended and superbly useful guidebook; though intended for business use, its principles are also directly applicable to volunteers coordinating or managing smaller projects such as a community theater production or a charity drive.

One of the most powerful definitive works on what one needs to do when mentoring or helping others. Training, Leading and Coaching at Work answers the often raised questions about mentoring - a good idea in theory, but what do I actually do?

TLC at Work provides real situations and real responses that all can learn and put into immediate use in the workplace. This book should be required reading for all University Students no matter what field of study they are in. Used as a reference guide, it will help the professors understand the students and will help the students advance more quickly in their careers. A must read! TLC at Work will lead to people describing their workplace as one that supports a TLC attitude to the staff.

A nice blend of theory and practice. Filled with practical down to earth tools that can be implemented easily. Myers-Briggs afficinados will find it immediately useful and so will those without a background in type because it's written so that a deep understanding of type is not required for value to be found.

If you are responsible for training or developing other people, if you are in a leadership role or if you simply want to accelerate your career development, we recommend Donna Dunning's book as your personal study guide. The author utilizes her 20 plus years of experience in employee development to identify succinctly the five basic competencies everyone needs to succeed. Going a step deeper than the usual treatment, she recognizes that individuals who want to develop a particular competency may not understand what mastering that competency looks like. For example, what does "mindfulness" look like? Can you see mindfulness? Not really. But you can see the results of mindful behavior. Dunning focuses on identifying specific behaviors that demonstrate each competency so anyone who wants to develop a skill knows exactly what to do. Then she takes the process still further, identifying how personality types and preferences have an impact on the development of each of the five basic competencies. She shows facilitators how to work most effectively with each personality type to develop individuals to their full potential in a collaborative manner with the least amount of frustration and resistance.

Beth Moore Bible studies are the most interesting and easy to follow for any mixed age group. My church will going into this our second study and we have the older teen to the great grandmothers in out sessions.

This is a very deep, meaningful study about the Apostle Paul. If you enjoy Beth Moore this will be an insightful study of the book of Acts and also into Paul's spiritual strengths. "To Live is Christ" is one of her earlier studies but has been worth doing.

"To Live is Christ" not only sheds insight on the life of a great servant of the Lord, but has led me to a new level of understanding regarding the early church. As she takes the reader through the book of Acts/life of Paul, she cross references the episles Paul would later write. The cross references provide a greater context to scripture as a whole, which I have THOROUGHLY enjoyed. I highly recommend this book!

I really can't explain how helpful Beth Moore's workbook studies have been in my life. They've helped me to find a discipline with God that I never had before. I've learned so much about the Bible, and more specifically, about the real, true, loving God who cares so much for me and for you. If you're at all considering this study, please try it. I think you'll like it. Beth Moore seems to really try hard to keep her studies accurate, relevant, meaningful, and NOT shallow. They're as deep as you want to go with them. They're not fluffy stuff, they're studies that honor God and the women who love Him by assuming that you have a brain, that you love God, and that you want to be closer to Him, and frankly, that you're human with human weaknesses. Beth understands women, because she doesn't seem to be afraid to really be a real woman after God's own heart.

This study gives one a complete, Bibically sound look at the full life of Paul, including his struggles and his triumphs. As usual, Beth Moore reveals insights into our own struggles as how we too can triumph through the same Power than enabled Paul to.

« L'armée de l'air américaine essaie de rendre compte de sa performance en utilisant la méthode du Balanced Scorecard, mais j'aime la façon qu'a Hubert Rampersad de relier le Balanced Scorecard avec le tableau prospectif personnel. C'est presque comme si Kaplan et Norton rejoignaient Stephen Covey. »- Bob Marx, United States Air Force

« Hubert Rampersad utilise le tableau de bord équilibré et d'autres concepts de management pour les réunir en un cadre éthique. En unifiant changement organisationnel et éthique individuelle, il a écrit une synthèse remarquable qui répond aux défis posés par la gestion d'entreprise au XXIe siècle ». - Paul Bracken, Professeur de Gestion, Yale School of Management

«Total Performance Scorecard est une approche rigoureuse, systématique et intégrée, à la fois de la réussite individuelle et de celle de l'entreprise. Elle synthétise et prolonge les concepts de conduite du changement et de la réussite, du point de vue de la personne, du management et de l'organisation. Aux dirigeants, elle propose les outils pour établir un bilan complet de la santé de leur organisation, et à chacun un trésor de connaissances pour conduire sa réussite personnelle».Dave Ulrich, Professeur en Administration des Affaires,Université de Michigan

«Plus que jamais, les entreprises qui réussissent sont des systèmes à haute performance. Réaliser la concordance des intérêts et des objectifs de chacun avec les objectifs organisationnels, dans tous les domaines et à tous les niveaux de l'entreprise, est la condition de la performance. Total Performance Scorecard est un nouvel instrument qui produit cette cohérence. Il crée une base durable pour une action guidée par les valeurs et l'éthique. Hubert Rampersad a réussi, sur cette idée, une très belle et très convaincante performance». - Professeur Kuno Rechkemmer, directeur de DaimlerChrysler (chaire pour l'économie générale de l'entreprise) professeur à l'institut du management et des technologies de Stuttgart

«Trop souvent, on constate un décalage entre les objectifs poursuivis par l'entreprise, la manière dont l'individu fixe ses objectifs personnels et celle par laquelle il se fait évaluer. Total Performance Scorecard comble cette lacune. Il propose un système intégré qui établit le lien entre les efforts d'amélioration continue, l'apprentissage individuel et les programmes de développement. Si vous êtes à la recherche d'une boîte à outils pour améliorerles résultats de votre entreprise, voici le livre qu'il vous faut!» Philip Anderson, Professeur d'Entrepreneurship, INSEAD

Excellent book. Interesting read. Inspiring call to action.

I read a lot, but I almost never pin my husband down to read him sections of a book. When I was reading Totem Salmon, I couldn't help it. I kept saying, "Listen to this one." I owned a home in the Mattole River Watershed in the late 70's and early 80's. I was amazed at how well Freeman House captures the essence of the area and the people without caricaturing either. Over and over he writes a few sentences which really "get it right" in explaining the landscape, the weather or the people of the area. This is not an easy "how-to" book on bringing back the salmon, but it brings out why it is worth the effort for as long as it takes.

Briefly...as an environmentalist from both the non-profit, agency and barefoot,dreadlocked worlds I really appreciated this book. The author brings out the complexity and poetry of the technical, natural and spiritual mosaic involved in watershed work in the northwest (and eveywhere for that matter). For anyone who has ever (or even never) been through similar experiences that the author describes, it brings shivers up the spine with the descriptive imagery and his obvious intimacy with the Mattole. I highly recommend this book.

The book is a first-person account telling the story of a group of people who have dedicated themselves to rehabbing a river, a watershed, and saving some special strains of wild Pacific salmon stock. They decided to use salmon-hatchery technology (and other procedures) as a way to learn from the native salmon, rather than to introduce non-native species to their river. Freeman House is a truly impressive thinker and writer. His engaging intelligence is not just wide and deep, like a rockclimber his awareness gets into some unfamiliar and little-explored crevices of life - nature and human nature. House and his cohorts are questers who may ultimately discover something as important as did William Harvey or Sir Albert Howard. I'm tempted to call the book a riveting read, but the experience is warmer than that metaphor implies. It's hopeful. A strangely wise book.

From "Totem Salmon - Life Lessons from Another Species" by Freeman House -

"My straining senses slow down the sound so that each of its parts can be heard separately. A hiss, barely perceptible, as the fish muscles itself right out of its living medium; silence like a dozen monks pausing too long between the strophes of a chant as the creature arcs through the dangerous air; a crash as of a basketball going through a plate glass window as he or she returns to the velvet embrace of the water; and then a thousand tiny bells struck once only as the shards of water fall and the surface of the stream regains its viscous integrity."

"I flick on my headlamp and the whole backwater pool seems to leap toward me. The silver streak that crosses the enclosure in an instant is a flash of lightning within my skull, one which heals the wound that has separated me from this moment -- from any moment. The encounter is so perfectly complex, timeless, and reciprocal that it takes on an objective reality of its own. I am able to walk around it as if it were a block of carved stone. If my feelings could be reduced to a chemical formula, the experience would be a clear solution made up of equal parts of dumb wonder and clean exhilaration, colored through with a sense of abiding dread. I could write a book about it."

And here it is.

The Mattole River, where this story takes place, flows from the northwestern tip of California's Mendocino County, first a dozen miles northeast and then about sixty miles northwest through remote rural Humboldt County to its mouth at Petrolia. What keeps the river from reaching the Pacific Ocean any sooner is the King Range rising precipitously from the "Lost Coast", a stretch of beach frequented only by hikers and the occasional small plane.

Getting to the Mattole from the freeway is at least an hour's drive on winding country roads. This area, like much of Humboldt County, was logged in the fifties and sixties, and in the late sixties and seventies a substantial portion of it was sold to urban refugees, "reinhabitants". Over the next three decades, quite a few of them committed to the task of restoring the watershed to health. Two of these were David Simpson and Freeman House who together conceived and founded the Mattole Watershed Salmon Support Group. "Totem Salmon" tells the story of this work.

Salmon are an indicator species. Their health, as a population, closely tracks the health of the watershed to which they return. If you want to know how well a river valley is doing in the Pacific Northwest, look at the salmon runs, if there are any left. The principal enemy of the salmon is silt, produced by erosion usually from badly built roads and culverts, and from logging. Salmon need clean gravel in the streambed for eggs to survive and hatch. Well forested valleys with little erosion provide the best stream habitat for hatching and rearing salmon.

In 1950, before logging, it is recalled by the older Mattole valley residents, that, when they were running, "you could walk across the river on the backs of the salmon". In 1980, before restoration work began, the runs were down to perhaps 200 fish. More, those fish were the last wild salmon run in the state.

Looking back after reading the book, one could see the first phrase, "I am alone...", as a key to the work. Rooted in an explicit sense of self, spiraling out through sensory subtleties of immediate nature, to the larger cultural complexities, Mr. House melds what are usually seen as distinct worlds into a coherent portrait of a personal and multi-species reality. Like the salmon traversing the several worlds of ocean, river, air and creek, the personal, philosophical, cultural, historical, administrative, ecological, and cosmic threads are finely woven into a narrative yielding a shimmering presence of spirit and nature.

The book is a deeply enjoyable memoir of a long personal relationship with salmon. Along the way we see the history of the Euro-American relationship with this species, and that of the Native-American people who were here managing these watersheds long before. We learn of the state and federal administrative context of salmon management and the history of our, first, ignorance, and then, study of the anadromous species and their rivers. In clear and moving images, and with affection and humor, we see the people on the Mattole River who have joined hands for eighteen years to rescue this last wild run of salmon from extinction. Lastly we see the hopeful results and the tenuous circumstances of their work.

We might expect it to be a text for salmon restoration, and while the specifics are there they are widely scattered throughout the book. More attention is given to the wider question of how we got here, and how we can get through this to a more wholesome, rooted, and appreciative life in our particular place. If it is a text -- and Mr. House would say it is not -- it is a meta-instructional one, showing a way to become a people who will do the right thing for the watershed and thus for the salmon. The personal explorations in the book demonstrate by example the message beneath the text: by immersing ourselves in the reality of our local valley we can rescue both the health of our watersheds and our sense of ourselves. In the end, we see that they are the same journey; the salmon reflect to us our understanding of self and place.

The epilogue quotes Paul Schell, Mayor of Seattle, "Ironically, as we work to save the salmon, it may turn out that the salmon save us."