Passion The Books

Great Audio Program! As the student President of UC Santa Barbara's Chapter of The National Society of Leadership and Success, which has a membership base of 1000 students, I understand first hand the struggles that most college students face everyday. I wish every one of our members could listen to this program! The question and answer format is extremely helpful and offers further detail than a typical book. The ideas are realistic and easy to implement. The resource CD-rom offers examples and step-by-step directions on how to take action. Regardless of where you are in your personal journey - from a high school student to a graduate student - I truly believe this audio program will bring you value and significantly change the way you approach school. I would also strongly recommend their book The Power of Focus For College Students, How to Make College the Best Investment of Your Life by Les Hewitt, Andrew Hewitt, Luc D'Abadie, and forward by Donald Trump. The book offers additional insight and stories from the authors' lives, as well a few strategies for college success. The two products combined are the perfect receipt for college success!

This booklet is so pastoral, and even though it takes the child through the most painful experience of the crucifixion of Jesus, the tone is gentle and compassionate. Basic values of love, obedience, caring for those who are suffering are interwoven in a style that is easy to read and understand. I was thrilled to find this after reviewing several others written for young children.

"I also, wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for the wonderful book you gave me -"Stoking the Creative Fires". The book has been so inspirational to me. Ever since I read it, I can't stop painting. I've learned so much from it. This was just what I needed to open up my horizons."
- Isabel Roberts, Rio de Janiero, Brazil

Our pastor used this as a source for children's sermons and for our church's preschool chapel services - it was a real hit! In addition to the pictures in the book, he had stuffed animals that he passed around to the children which represented the animals. The pictures are colorful, and the depictions of Jesus are very warm and tasteful. You have to get past a bit of fiction in the idea that these animals "witnessed" the events, but if you're willing to do that, you'll find a wonderful teaching tool.

I love this book! I bought it around 15 years ago and I've reread it many times. This book will be around for many years because it speaks to our hearts. If you have ever loved, you know how tempting it is leave ourselves on the doorstep. This book is a reminder that love for others must be mixed with love for ourselves. I still remember the excitement I felt when I first read it - I experienced a shift in my way of thinking!

In my opinion an excellent historical romance, well written, with excellent historical detail; an entertaining and compelling story of enduring love and passion without being overly repetitive, inaccurate or repugnant. For lover's of actual historical events mixed with a great love story, you will really enjoy this book.

Please do not listen to the other review of this book: it is clearly written by someone who hasn't read Glynn's carefully argued, very interesting examination of "trash" television. "John Q. Public," as he calls himself in the review, seems to make it sound so simple -- networks play things because they get ratings. But what Glynn answers in a way that all of John Q's love for PBS can't is WHY they get ratings. The answer to this question has so often been astoundingly shortsighted and downright insulting: "People watch trash TV because they're stupid, don't know any better, and never will" or something as asinine and simplistic as that.

But Glynn digs into the populist in a very interesting way, and what he finds is that these shows frequently validate everyday experiences and knowledge of everyday, working class viewers in ways that many instances of "high culture" on television don't. Glynn's point is not at all about aesthetics or artistic value (as John Q. Public assumes, having not read the book, that it is), as he largely leaves this question for the reader to answer: his point is about not just disregarding all these programs AND all their viewers because one has made such artistic judgements. In "trash" TV, Glynn finds many democratic tendencies.

At times, Glynn can overdo it, and at other times, his enthusiasm to defend overlooks, or rushes through, disturbing political content of the shows (such as inherent racism or sexism), but most of the time he is remarkably careful to balance such tensions.

This is an academic text, and so may not be ideal for everyone, though it is reasonably accessible. So, if you want to go beyond complaining that such television shouldn't exist, and if you're actually interested in why it does, and why so many people turn to it, I highly recommend this book. I share the reviewer "John Q Public's" regard for PBS, though I feel it has turned its back on many Americans, and on the real John Q Publics, so to speak. Glynn's book looks at what those John Qs are watching and starts to ask the reasons why. (For more on PBS and "the masses," though, I'd highly recommend Laurie Ouellette's *Viewers Like You?*)

This is a fantastic book. It should be an acknowledged classic in the literature on decision making and organizations. It has been around quite a while, but hardly anybody seems to know about it. Maybe author F.G. Bailey is one of the many victims of the limited promotional talents of the university presses.

Everybody knows that the actions of organizations of all sorts are largely shaped in meetings. How people relate to each other in meetings is thus a crucially important determinant of the fate of the world. Bailey wonderfully expounds and illustrates an important part of this story, the role played by "passion," i.e., influence by emotional appeals -- sincere and/or calculated as they may be.

This is a classic book about creativity development that is worthy of reading many times. I first read it when it was published in 1986 and have read at least a few chapters from it yearly since. My copy is well worn and well marked/accented with my thoughts and highlighting in many colors. Several aged Post-Its stick out of my copy in all directions reminding me of many places to revisit and re-read often.

One section I have read and paraphased often over the 21 years is the Chapter titled THE LINE: A Fable.

Absolutely mind blowing; Talk about the Passion and Rattlesnakes are plays to stimulate the mind and the tongue! I love the way the author is able to say so much with the economy of words. Talk about the Passion made me cry, made me think and made me want to pick up a pen myself. Bravo!