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Psychology/Self-Help

Do you dream of being more creative? Are you envious of gifted friends? Do you feel frustrated when you try to express yourself?

Source Imagery introduces a clear step-by-step process for unblocking your natural creativity.

One's own natural capacity to fantasize and dream is a grossly undervalued method for tapping into a wealth of dazzling unconcsious resources.

Images that attract and fascinate are at least a quick and immeadiate way to deal with and understand our complex inner life. At their best, images can actually teach and guide. They are packed with creative potential, and all images that occur to us, or that move us, have an evolutionary quality. Images are integrative, being literally 'beyond words' - one need not be especially articulate to beautifully express the past, or imagine and re-imagine the future.

The proof is in the students, and how they improve. As I developed my process, both me and my students were being transformed. In combining images and therapy, I had literally found my calling, and this book charts the beginning steps. SOURCE IMAGERY is about channeling that in-person workshop experience into book form. I am the author Sandra Shuman, and I also mantain a website.

In my opinion, Dr. Taha Jabir Al-Alwani does a beautiful job of introducing Usul al-fiqh-Islami to those interested in this subject.

Al-Shafi'i's Risala : Treatise on the Foundations of Islamic JurisprudenceMuhammad: Man and Prophet : A Complete Study of the Life of the Prophet of IslamAl-Maqasid: Nawawi's Manual of IslamReliance of the Traveller: The Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law Umdat Al-SalikEtiquette with the QuranParenting Skills: Based on The Qur'an and SunnahThe Muslim Marriage GuideTowards Understanding Islam (Wamy Studies on Islam)Let Us Be MuslimsThe Fundamentals of Tawheed (Islamic Monotheism)

A very well written book on the Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence by the learned scholar of the present time who had his learnig from the prestigous Al-Azhar Islamic University in Egypt, the oldest Islamic University in the world. This book helps the readers be they Muslims or Non-Muslims about how one has to understand the Fiqh in Islam (Fiqh means the science by which the right rulings are derived from the main sources in Islam viz, the Quran and the Sunnah of the Prophet of God Almighty, Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H). (The Sunnah in Islam means the actions, sayings and approvals of the Prophet of Allah, Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H).

He explains the terms used in Fiqh terminology. Its history as to the first book written on Usul Al-Fiqh was that of Imam Al-Shafii's Risala, and the period after the Shafii's risala, the developments made in this field uptill this day of ours.

Its an exellent reference work after Imam Al-Shafii's Risala. Both these books are complementary to each other.

Amazon is doing a good work, and giving good value for money service.

Must read and to be owned in a person home shelf.

This lady is good! (You gotta love that staircase scene). The last time I experienced twists like this was on a roller coaster at magic mountain. Kelli captures the spirit of the characters, grinds it up, mixes it with water, and uses it for the ink in her printer. If you like horror or dark fantasy, you will LOVE this book...

I got this book yesterday and couldn't put it down until I'd finished it this evening! Not only is this one incredible writer with a fresh voice and an entertaining story filled with atmosphere, but she's a she writing from a convincing male point of view. You don't see that too often. I kept flipping to the back of the book to see her picture to make sure it was a she.

The story is about a man, Bobby Desmond, arriving at his rental property where he's staying for six months in order to write a book. His sister Candy comes with him, and the back story between him and his sister and their team efforts at romance writing is really interesting not to mention even erotic, exploring a taboo subject in a sweet and touching way.

Bobby is soon attacked by a ghost and he is off on the adventure of his lifetime. I don't want to give things away because there's a twist or two or three, but he does comes up against an evil that is hard to resist and if he gives in it'll cost him everything, even his soul.

The ending more than satisfies and this is one horror novel that doesn't rely on gross out slashing and hacking just for the shock value, but on heart and emotion too. I really liked the erotica and even humor sprinkled throughout and the last paragraph made me laugh out loud. I was totally involved with these characters and would highly recommend this book if you're looking for more than blood and guts, but for a real plot that tugs at your heart at the same time it's giving you major goosebumps.

I am a new member of the Horror Writers' Association, the same as the author, and I see a bright future for this talented lady and eagerly await whatever her next novel may be. She inspires me to get my own novel finished! Congratulations, Ms. Campbell on a shining debut!

There are diverse voices from across the centuries that one can find nowhere else in this great collection by Leon McBeth.!

Leon McBeth adds his Sourcebook for the Baptist Heritage as a larger extension of footnote material for his "Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness" (Broadman, 1987) The student of Baptist history will certainly appreciate this extra volume because of the effort that McBeth has included in its pages to carefully illustrate not only the genuine scholarship that he has put into his work, but also the 'human' side of the people about whom he is writing. (There are some personal letters included within the Sourcebook to give the reader some glimpses into the lives of the people or the events connected with the materials presented in the BH.) Furthermore, this book gives the readers the chance to read the primary materials for themselves and to dialogue with McBeth's conclusions.

Now in a fully updated and expanded second edition, The Sourcebook To Public Record Information profiles more than 20,000 record keeping agencies including county courts, real estate recording offices, state agencies, and federal courts. Here detailed are addresses, phone numbers, fax numbers, web addresses, access procedures and restrictions, fees, turnaround times, and more. The Sourcebook To Public Record Information is an essential, core reference for librarians, background investigators, journalists, attorneys, genealogists, law enforcement officials, private investigators, policy makers, pre-employment screeners, and academic researchers.

I've worked with public records for some time and have bought many books . . . some good and some bad. This is the best I've come across. The information is current and the format is easy to use.

The depth of information provided, particularly in the county court and state agency sections, is very comprehensive. This book provides more locations and more details than anything else I've seen and I have them all.

If you work with public records, forget the other guides and put your money here . . . you won't be disappointed

This book is just excellent for all students of the Lutheran Confessions. All these fascinating and relevant sources for the Confessions were out of print, or never published in English before.

As now involved in teaching class on the Formula, fascinated by the Leipzig Interim and Chemnitz' "Judgment on Certain Controversies." He states things so plainly and is not politically correct at all, e.g. "it is of utmost importance to establish what limits are to constitute the defining elements of this harmony. Often in the church not only princes and political advisors, but even theologians have sought harmony on the basis of human judgment which led people away from the purity of the Gospel. Therefore, it is necessary in the church that the rule for such harmony be the Word of God."

Wingert's translation of Luther's catechetical material as well as Melanchthon's Disputation, The Catalog of Testominies, Luther's sermon on descent into hell, and the Saxon Visitation ARticles of 1592.

This is great collection of wealth of background info which we Reformation students will sink our theological teeth into and be well rewarded, having greater perspective on the Confessions.

Translated by renown group of Lutheran scholars. Highly recommended.

As indicated by the title, this book is a useful compilation of Reformation Era documents surrounding the Book of Concord. The writings include both Lutheran and Roman Catholic material, including several polemical pieces. Perhaps the most valuable in my opinion, is the Roman Confutation of the Augsburg Confession, which would enables you to sit down with this book and your Book of Concord and read article by article the Augsburg Confession (AC), the respective response by the Roman Catholics, and the subsequent counter by the Lutherans in the Apology. Also very useful is the Catolog of Testimonies, which demonstrated to the Calvinist objectors that the Christology of the Lutheran theologians was not novel to the Christian church, but in fact entirely in line with the confession of the Early Church Fathers and Councils.

The book also contains various precursor documents to the writings in the Book of Concord, as well as some of the religio-political compromises that were attempted in the years after Luther's death. Altogether this book is a valuable companion to the Book of Concord, both for its historical and theological interest.

It's such an old book - it's first ediotion is from 1922, but it's still so useful for all the history students and scholars dealing with early Irish history. There are two reasons for that. Firstly - Kenney gathered and made comments on a huge amount of ecclesiastical sources from the earliest times till 12 th century in one book. Without this book, dealing with Irish history would be extremely hard job. Thanks to this book, we know, what we are looking for in the archives. Secondly - Kenney's comments are extremely well written and still valid because they are based on these sources, not on the wild fantasies, as usually when you are dealing with early Irish history. I stronly recommend this book to all the people who seriously think about the subject and want to know everything about the sources. You won't be disappointed.

First published in 1929 and reprinted with revisions in 1966, The Sources for the Early History of Ireland were originally conceived as a two-volume work, one dealing with ecclesiastical sources, and the other with secular ones. Unfortunately, the second volume was never completed. The present publication is, therefore, the first volume of Kenney's original project. It covers primarily ecclesiastical sources dating to the period before the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland (1169), although one of the chapters is concerned with references to Ireland found in the writings of ancient authors.

The book is divided into eight chapters: I. History in Ireland; II. Ireland in the Ancient World (to about A.D. 700); III. The Irish Church in the `Celtic' Period; IV. The Monastic Churches, Their Founders and Traditions: The Primitive Foundations; V. The Monastic Churches: Churches of the Sixth to Ninth Centuries; VI. The Expansion of Irish Christianity (seventh to twelfth century); VII. Religious Literature and Ecclesiastical Culture (seventh to twelfth century); VIII. The Reform Movement of the Twelfth Century. Particular documents, or groups of related documents, are listed in entries giving their title, date, bibliographic information (manuscripts, editions, and critical works), and a short discussion of their character and significance. The 659 sources thus listed comprise such texts as saints' lives, letters, administrative documents, poems, monastic rules and penitentials, and many more.

Kenney's guide continues to be an essential reference work for historians and literary scholars alike, despite the fact that Irish studies have advanced considerably since its first appearance. The age of Kenney's work shows mainly in his dating of texts, and, obviously, in the bibliographic sections, which do not include publications less than forty years old. On the other hand, the meticulous scholarship and comprehensiveness of this work, as well as a very convenient layout - particular entries are numbered throughout for easy reference - make it impossible for a student of mediaeval Ireland to pursue their research without quoting Kenney at least once.

Anyone attempting to makes sense of events in the contemporary world is largely at the mercy of the media. What we see is what we're shown, and what we're shown is often laughably one-sided. Accounts of the war in Iraq, for instance, are so severely limited that we no longer have a compass by which to guide our understanding. In any democratic country, that can only be a recipe for disaster: we place ourselves at the mercy of demagogues and propagandists who use our ignorance to foster our hatreds. [In the current administration's parlance this kind of misinformation is cynically dubbed "public diplomacy."]

The study of History can save us from some of the worst excesses of this kind of media-spawned ignorance. But here too, for every story we are told or choose to read, our mantra must be: Consider the Sources! If we don't, we will simply fall prey to more sophisticated forms of manipulation. Since, in human affairs, no one person or institution has a corner on the Truth, we must be willing to read widely and ponder critically if we wish to dispel the Ignorance.

With all this in mind, I strongly urge interested readers to do more than simply read short introductions to the history of the Middle East or "the" Islamic World. Secondary works, no matter how scholarly or erudite, well-intentioned or informed, will only tell us what their authors think, and still leave us at several removes from the human face of historical change. This is so regardless of whether we choose Bernard Lewis' The Middle East, or Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.'s A Concise History of the Middle East as our guide. Reading these (or similar) surveys is a necessary first step, but it is only a first step. From them we can glean the outlines of "the" story, but to see the human actors (and to assess the judgments of historians) we need more works like Akram Fouad Khater's excellent collection of primary documents, Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East. Though intended for university and college students, it really deserves a much wider audience.

In Part One, Khater deals with the Political, Economic, Social and Cultural changes set in motion by the French and British "incursions" into the Ottoman Empire in the 1800s. The readings make it clear that there was a wide-ranging internal debate about the direction, desirability and nature of these reforms, and that they sprang as much from domestic concerns as from European "incursions." What will be abundantly clear to any Western reader today is the arrogant and condescending tone of nearly all "outside" commentators on the "situation" of Islam in the Nineteenth Century. Clearly, they were no less prone to sound-bites and self-congratulatory propaganda than we are today!

Part Two deals with the eruption of regional nationalisms in the Middle East and North Africa in the first half of the Twentieth Century. Khater's sources here provide an excellent base from which, for instance, to compare Arabic nationalism chafing under Ottoman control with later versions chafing under "Allied" control. Part Three deals with the "Post-Independence States" that have emerged since 1950. The foundations, both secular and religious, of these states are evident in the documents and provide a rich source for informative debate and discussion, especially given the "Cold War" meta-narrative that often clouds and/or distorts American perspectives on this period. Part Four on "The Middle East Today" deals with concerns with which most of us will be familiar (9/11, Israel/Palestine, etc). But the section on "Subaltern Groups" is superbly original and on its own will more than repay the reader's investment in this book. Not only is it highly unusual in itself, but it also provides an excellent source of information that will enable any reader to inestimably broaden the scope of inquiry and debate on a world that is routinely misrepresented in the "West." On its own, Akram Fouad Khater's reader offers a much-needed way out of our often self-imposed ignorance about Islam and the Middle East. In conjunction with a judiciously chosen survey text, it cannot fail to free us from our self-indulgent prejudices and our self-fulfilling prophecies of doom and despair.

AF Khater's collection "Sources in the History of the Modern Middle East" is a collection of many of the most influential documents in Middle Eastern history. As he writes in his introduction, there is no other collection like it, and as such it is essential for anyone making a serious study of the history of the region. Even were there to be other collections, this would remain the yardstick for quite some time.

All the usual suspects are represented here, dating from the Tanzimat era of the Ottoman Empire through to recent political developments and the rise of Islamist terrorism. Khater's terms of reference are sufficiently broad to warrant inclusion of some very illuminating documents from Algeria dealing with both the decolonisation period and the manifestation of a Berber national identity, the latter of which is an area of study which would benefit from much more scholarly attention.
As a result, the reader will be able to read the Hatt-i-Serif of Gulhane - arguably the most important proclamation in Ottoman History, as well as the Husayn-McMahon correspondence and the Balfour Declaration, often said to be the sources of the Israel-Palestine question in the modern history of the region. Writings of many leading Zionist intellectuals are included as well, demonstrating several of the nuances of the creation of Israel. For more modern interest, the full text of Osama bin Laden's declaration of jihad on the West is included, to say nothing of texts from his ideological ancestors such as al-Banna and Qutb.
Sources from the West are also included, particularly an astonishing series of diplomatic cables on the situation in pre-revolution Iran which manifestly get the situation wrong. While some readers might be surprised to see names such as Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini included here, this is actually a great strength of the collection, as these individuals have been particularly important historically - regardless of anyone's feelings about their actions.

Khater introduces each section and each document with a brief overview of its significance, but the main focus here is to let the articles, proclamations and speeches speak for themselves. While some of the longer documents are present only in edited form, this does not sufficiently detract from an understanding of the work.

As a result, this is not a book for the casual reader. The five stars awarded here are on the supposition that readers with a specialised interest in and knowledge of the history will derive great use from this book. While Khater mentions the significance of the documents and their authors briefly, anyone with only a passing knowledge of the region will be left confused as to what part some of these intellectuals and political luminaries played. For a casual reader, a general history of the region is much more advisable.

Steve Haefele provides zany, fun drawings to pair cartoon attraction with real science facts for picturebook scientists in grades 3-5. Here are excellent suggestions for having fun while learning about force fields and forces in science, from working with magnets to understanding attractions. Sources Of Forces is a fun book which includes many tongue-in-cheek jokes kids might find refreshing.

Steve Haefele provides zany, fun drawings to pair cartoon attraction with real science facts for picturebook scientists in grades 3-5. Here are excellent suggestions for having fun while learning about force fields and forces in science, from working with magnets to understanding attractions. Sources Of Forces is a fun book which includes many tongue-in-cheek jokes kids might find refreshing.

I was shocked that I am the first person to review this book because, by now, Prof. Eric von Hippel's book is a classic in the field of research into the causes of innovation. One of von Hippel's key arguments in this book -- as well as in subsequent research and publications -- is that a lot of innovation comes from users of products and services. As users find new uses or new needs for products and services, producers often innovate to meet those needs. While that may seem obvious, this book was one of the first works to verify it in a scientific and rigorous way. Much more surprising than the conclusion just presented is how von Hippel found that users themselves often made the modifications or created new products and processes that lead to innovation. This book belongs in the library of anyone interested in innovation: scientists, engineers, economists, and businesspeople.

This book is worth anyone's time to read. It is thought-provoking and mind-opening, especially in light of the repeated confirmations of the theories put forth in the book since it was published. Professor von Hippel's recent papers apply principles from this book to open-source software, high-performance windsurfing, and other areas. Almost prescient...