Senses Books

You cannot go wrong with Mr. Stuart Wilde's teachings. Each book he writes or tapes/CD he produces is a jewel. He's a great teacher and these tapes will really help the one who seeks knowledge in living courageously with awareness.

the booklet has nice bright colors, with the famouse disney characters. the idea is nice, the most common noises you hear around the house. parent has to use a lot of imagination. but for a 'starter' the book is fine.

Disney is making quite a splash with the Bambi spinoff series for toddlers - called Disney's Bunnies. This installment is a thick, sturdy board book that is filled with various things to touch. Smooth rocks, the bunny's big fluffy tail and many more, give a tactile feel to the book. The pages are of excellent thick quality that will take alot of abuse. The story is simple but cute, and the gorgeous artwork depicts all sorts of beautiful nature scenes from our forests.

A very beautiful Touch N Feel type book that will delight toddlers and even younger babes with its friendly animals and touchable sections.

I am a preschool teacher and needed some books to help support the learning of my Hawaii unit. While searching I came across these books, there are several, one about shapes, colors, numbers, and the touch and feel. I enjoyed sharing these with my children and I noticed that they would go back and pick these for independent reading. The back page has a glossary with pictures and the correct name underneath the picture. This book is a favorite because of the different surfaces for them to touch. I would recommend this one and the others for a fun and cute inforamtive book to teach skills.

What fun! Our 5-year old and 4-year old love this book, especially as they repeat the sounds from the animals.

This is a bedtime favorite in our house. Our children picked up a lot of vocabulary, too.

Written by a Catholic priest with insight and humor, an excellent book! Father Joe touches on many life situations with a Catholic view and with a touch of humor. Highly recommend as a gift book for anyone going through a difficult time. Alot of priests can preach but Father Joe writes from the heart and from faith in a manner and style which is easy to digest. Thoughtful sound advice and direction. Also pages that will have you rolling with laughter.

This book is a quick easy read, and a sure guide to financial growth. I think it is an excellent road map if you are trying to build and create your personal wealth. As a certified credit consultant I found this book useful for my clients as we dealt with financial issues and a plan for their financial well-being. I think the author is very knowleagable and truly has a grasp on money matters.

Mr. D Brown- Businessman

Written by a mother of three with a degree in economics and an MBA with a concentration in finance, Dollars & Sense: A Mom's Guide to Money Matters is a straightforward guide written especially for fellow mothers, packed cover to cover with practical advice for protecting against identity theft, understanding the basics of credit, controlling debt, managing money by, for, and of kids, and much more. Written in plain terms, Dollars & Sense emphasizes finding successful financial techniques for oneself and one's family, and warns against common frauds in an increasingly connected and technology-savvy world. An excellent one-stop resource for basic money matters information.

Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891), American showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.

In Brooklyn, New York in 1871, he established "P.T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan, and Circus", a traveling amalgamation of circus, menagerie and museum of "freaks", which by 1872 was billing itself as "The Greatest Show on Earth".

There's a sucker born every minute" is a phrase often credited to P.T. Barnum. However, when Barnum's biographer tried to track down when Barnum had uttered this phrase, all of Barnum's friends and acquaintances told him it was out of character. Barnum's credo was more along the lines of "there's a customer born every minute" -- he wanted to find ways to draw new customers in all the time because competition was fierce and people bored easily

Barnum wrote several books, including The Humbugs of the World (1865), Struggles and Triumphs (1869), and his Autobiography (first in 1854, and later editions including 1869).

Barnum is a treat to read and is never boring! I highly recommend his books.

BoardSource habitually produces short works for non-profit leaders that--once read--leave one wondering how we muddled through without knowing about *this* resource. This reviewer wonders how they keep up the pace.

Vogel and Quatt's badly subtitled book, however, is different than other BoardSource materials. Believe it or not, it's better. How? It delivers much more than it promises.

If you're a CEO or board member of a non-profit organization, chances are you spend too much or too little time thinking about the chief executive's compensation. It's a tough one to get just right. Dollars and Sense gives concrete, thoughtful, and hugely helpful guidance for edging or dashing closer to the mark.

Along the way it tosses off gem after gem on compensation issues that go far beyond the matter of retaining and rewarding a productive CEO and corralling or disposing of one who is not getting the job done. This is where these 100 pages deliver far more than they promise.

After an introduction in which the first sentence establishes that `(H)iring, compensating, and retaining the chief executive are some of the most important functions of a nonprofit organization's board', the first of nine nicely-sized chapters argues that boards must approach this priority as an investment rather than an expense and provides a handy checklist for such boards to follow as they do so (`Understanding the Board's Role in Setting Chief Executive Compensation', pp. 1-4).

Chapter two (`Aligning Compensation with Organizational Mission, Goals, and Culture', pp. 5-8) recommends the Balance Scorecard Approach pioneered and popularized by Harvard Business School's Kaplan and Norton. The BSA has generated a plethora of follow-up material, much of it dedicated to strategic implementation. The authors of Dollars and Sense lay the foundation in this chapter for compensation moves that are the product of careful delineation of the organization's mission and a path towards its accomplishment rather than an annual agenda item treated in relative isolation from the larger picture.

In `Outlining the Title, Job Description, and Profile' (chapter three, pp. 9-13), Vogel and Quatt argue that off-the-shelf boilerplate is not enough. Rather, the board or Executive Committee must craft a document that emerges from concrete mission and leadership needs of the organization at a given period of its history, taking care not to produce a profile that only a `divine being' could match.

A fourth chapter (`Developing a Compensation Philosophy', pp. 14-16) distinguishes between an organization's compensation philosophy, its compensation system, and its compensation structure. If these are to become part of the shared life of an organization's staff and board, ongoing training is required, a step that would move the mysterious and arbitrary qualities of compensation in many non-profits helpfully toward the margins.

How is a measure of objectivity to be injected into a project so similar to a minefield as establishing executive compensation? The authors argue that the committee entrusted with this task must analyze the non-profit marketplace in order to do so (chapter five, `Understanding the Marketplace', pp. 17-24). IRS scrutiny and the restraint that has been inherent in the non-profit sector must be balanced against a steady rise in demand for qualified non-profit leaders and the easy availability of data from commissioned surveys that demonstrate national and regional trends.

Nowadays more than just public opinion and executive performance figure into compensation decisions. The IRS is a third member hovering over the punch bowl in eager anticipation of malfeasance (chapter six, `Meeting the Legal Standards', pp. 25-31). Even if recent research suggesting that non-profit misbehavior is oversold, the evidence suggests that there is some reason for the IRS--but prior to that, the non-profit community--to act with vigilance before ethical norms, a somewhat skeptical body of public opinion, and legal/regulatory oversight. This receives further treatment in chapter seven (`Passing the Test of Public and Stakeholder Scrutiny, pp. 32-35).

Arguably the most valuable chapter in the book, `Understanding the Elements of Compensation' (chapter eight, pp. 36-48) moves on from the process that has been established to the components that comprise the executive's total compensation package: base salary, annual salary adjustments, bonuses, incentives, deferred compensation, sign-on and retention bonuses, and a surprising host of tax-deferred savings instruments, and other perquisites. Each has its place in a retention and/or incentive scheme that has been carefully thought through on the basis of the principles laid out in earlier chapters. An effective compensation package can be complex without being complicated.

A final chapter addresses `Term Negotiations and Final Contract' (chapter nine, pp. 49-57), stressing the value of good will, flexibility, and transparency for getting to a signed contract in shape to implement with enthusiasm. Four appendices provide BoardSource's signature templates and samples, along with the customary contacts and bibliography.

Quite simply, no non-profit organization with a paid CEO should do without this priceless and practical paperback manual.