Arnold Books

This book is top-notch reading and food for the soul. I found it always put a positive spin on my day and is an excellent way to keep your mind and attitude headed in the right direction. A real "difference-maker".

Inspiring, uplifting, soul provoking, sets tone for the day!

Excellent resource for educators, parents, or anyone trying to guide young people.

Rosewood Elementary

The nature, purpose and contents of the epistle Ephesians have been variably hypothesized . Beare , Martin and Goodspeed , theorize Ephesians as a comprehensive summary of Pauline theology. Dahl understands Ephesians to be addressing disunity in the church, calling the church back to its beginning to remind them that they share in the privileges God has granted to them all. Many regard it as an anti-heretical tract against Gnostic tendencies, with the author employing Gnostic language and thought to provide a point of contact with the readers. Others point out parallels to the language and theology in the Dead Sea Scrolls of the Qumran community. Ephesians has also been suggested as a liturgical document, perhaps for specific events like baptism, the Eucharist, or Pentecost.

In contrast to the above, Arnold suggests that the "life setting" or circumstances behind Ephesians was the need of "a group of churches in western Asia Minor needing help in developing a Christian perspective on the "powers" and encouragement in their ongoing struggles with these pernicious spirit-forces." (p. 167). Ephesus bore the reputation of being a center for magical practices widely influential in Greco-Roman culture, with its patron goddess Artemis (a.k.a. Diana) being claimed as a "cosmic" goddess of the underworld superior to the alleged power of any other deity, astrological fate and evil spirits. This "life situation" would sufficiently explain the prominence of the power-motif in Ephesians - that God's power working on behalf of the believers is juxtaposed to the might of the "powers" of evil working against believers -- as a primary theme to address its recipients' strong belief and fear of the demonic realm.

This theme has six key points:

First, God's power's superiority and Christ's supremacy have been demonstrated especially in Christ's resurrection from the dead and his exaltation to a preeminent position. , , This message would bring great comfort to the Christians. There is no longer any reason to fear the tyrannical evil "powers" in light of the superior power of God the Father, who brings about all things in accordance with his will through Christ.

Second, the believer now has access to God's power , through having been transplanted from one sphere of power into another.

Third, God's people are brought onto the closest-possible union with their resurrected and exalted Lord., such that the believers are already co-resurrected and co-exalted with Christ. Christ and the Holy Spirit indwell in each believer, providing him/her with strengthening and making them sharers of the divine power to be appropriated through faith.

Fourth, There exists an evil spiritual order led by "the prince of the authority of the air" (Ephesians 2:2), who wields an enslaving influence over the pagan world , leading people into disobedience and sin . While all these evil forces still retain a large measure of their power, their authority and sway has been effectively broken by Christ's resurrection and exaltation. Hence, all who are "in Christ" need not succumb to the authority of the "powers". At the consummation, these powers will be completely subjected by Christ.

Fifth, Believers are admonished to take up a resistant stance, by appropriating God's power to withstand these forces' vicious attacks.

Sixth, God's supernatural power imparted to believers has others in view, whereas the pagan magical practices have almost exclusively the practitioner's self-centered interest in view. God's power strengthens the believer to love, after Christ's pattern. This love's rigorous responsibility requires divine enablement.

The above perspective suggests that Ephesians needs not primarily be a response to cosmic speculation such as an anachronistic and dubious first-century Gnosticism. The cosmic "powers" can be better explained by the folk-religion's evident involvement in the demonic realm. Ephesians could be addressing the felt needs of common people in churches of western Asia Minor, who perceived themselves as oppressed by the demonic realm. Ephesians' distinctive accentuation of cosmic Christology" and "realized eschatology" was thus motivated by the author's pastoral intention of admonishing the readers to depend completely on Christ in their struggle against the forces of evil.

Excellent book. There are a lot of flaky books out there on spiritual warfare, and this is not one of them. Arnold presents a framework for understanding spiritual power from a biblical perspective. He uncovers the intense interest in spiritual things prevalent in the first century. Magic and the worship of the goddess Artemis (or Diana)were central to life in Asia Minor in biblical times (just check out the book of Acts!). These practices were connected to demonic power, says Arnold. The apostle Paul writes the book of Ephesians into this milieu in order to equip the believers to "stand firm" in the power of God against the dark influences. Arnold does an excellent job of unpacking this message in a scholarly fashion.

Machen Macdonald is a masterful business coach and author. In this book he brilliantly lays out the nuts and bolts of personal effectiveness - Managing the Time of Your Life. Drawing on the wisdom of renowned experts, this book is packed with specific tools and ideas for mastering proven principles of personal leadership. Machen has pulled together an acclaimed group of experts and created a powerful self-development, leadership guide that I expect to read over and over.

This book is packed with excellent tips and strategies for leveraging your time effectively to get done what you must get done to achieve mega success. Various co-authors including Stephen Covey, Brian Tracy, Denis Waitley share their wonderful wisdom so you can add hours to your day, get done the most important things and have time left over to enjoy your life. This book is a must read for any leader looking to get more out of their team and themselves. Each chapter is succinct and loaded with wisdom and specific "how to" information.

This adorable story was enjoyed by the entire family! We laughed out loud when we first saw the book and we laughed out loud when we shared it with the children. It is clever and beautifully presented. Smiles lingered long after the story was over. Everything is marvelous: the title, the message, the text, and the illustrations. It has quickly become a favorite at our house and we were inspired to try out many of the dances, expecially the Conga Line. This book made a charming addition to our home library. In the Fall, Lily will be taking another trip...to my elementary school classroom! Applause, Applause for PRANCING DANCING LILY!!!

"Prancing, Dancing Lily" is bound to become a picture book classic. A perfect marriage between Marsha Arnold's charming text (complete with rhymed messages from her unsinkable cow heroine) and John Mander's laugh-out-loud illustrations, this book will have children prancing and dancing right along with Lily. And they'll even pick up a little geography along the way!

A very detailed book, the best I have read on the subject and one of the best books I've Ever read. It was very hard to put down. An Incredible book!

Great book that the author poured heart and soul into through ten years of research. He states in the Preface that he spent this time investigating the link between mental illness and exceptional creative achievement. However, it's also about the characteristics--life histories, personality traits, etc--of people who achieve historical eminence in general. What are the characteristics of those who achieve the highest level of eminence? I'll name just two of them and not spoil the rest of it for you: the personality trait of contrariness, and the tendency to be a loner. What's most impressive about this book is the sheer volume of biographical information that the author read through in order to write this. He read extensively on about 1000 eminent people who lived in the 20th century, and then summarized the information in a concise and highly readable fashion. Overall, a great read for anyone remotely interested in the subjects of creativity, mental illness, and high achievement, as well as their relationship to one another. Author of Adjust Your Brain: A Practical Theory for Maximizing Mental Health.

I read this book to my daugther Manda in 1987 when she was in kindergarten. We loved it and had a long discussion afterwards about how important it is to be a nice person. Finding a notation of this in my old journals, prompted me to purchase this book today for my grandsons. I look forward to reading this book again - with them!

prince bertram was a bad kid ever since he was a baby. one day he sat in the tower shooying bids witha sling-shot.then he saw a "long nosed black bird" and hit it too. but it wasn't a black bird at all, it was a witch! she turned him into a dragon! i can't tell you all of it so you'll have to read it your self!

A must have for any environmental sciences student or any scientist. Very complete and at the same time very straight forward.

Okay, so this is not a great beach read, page turner, or anything you want on your coffee table. But it is nice book to have on your shelf in your office if you do work in environmental or climate science. In all honesty, I will probably never use 99% of the stuff that this book contains, but when I need an equation for heat or mass transport, radiation, etc., I usually find it in this book. It probably is most useful for those in satellite remote sensing and image processing or in environmental or climate modeling, as it contains a considerable amount of information on the effect of difference surfaces on radiation and wind patterns. The last two chapters contain detailed equations for crop micro-meteorology and sum up most of the principles in the book.

The objectives of this text are very similar to the objectives in the Kotz and Johnson treatise of 1993. Written 5 years later this text can be looked at in part as an update to that volume.
However, that book was more of a reference manual for process capability whereas this book reads more like a course text including many more illustrations and examples. Also there is an attempt here to include both the theoretical and applied aspects of capability indices.

It covers the available distribution theory results for processes with normal distributions and non-normal as well. The effect of non-normality is carefully analyzed and alternative methods including the bootstrap are considered. This has all the attributes of Kotz and Johnson book but is more current, more detailed and has more references.

The objectives of this text are very similar to the objectives in the Kotz and Johnson treatise of 1993. Written 5 years later this text can be looked at in part as an update to that volume.

However, that book was more of a reference manual for process capability whereas this book reads more like a course text including many more illustrations and examples. Also there is an attempt here to include both the theoretical and applied aspects of capability indices.

It covers the available distribution theory results for processes with normal distributions and non-normal as well. The effect of non-normality is carefully analyzed and alternative methods including the bootstrap are considered. This has all the attributes of Kotz and Johnson book but is more current, more detailed and has more references.

If you think psychoanalysis is dead... boy, are you wrong! Cooper and his collegues explain to us how this is still the most profound and clear path to the human mind. A must for anyone who has a mind that is not analysed. Those who have been analysed might also find this book mesmerizing!

Dr. Cooper continues to amaze us with this most thorough journey of contemporary analytic thinking. He shares his view on how psychoanalysis has evolved and the influence that has had on civilization. He gives an opinion that could only be conceived by one of the most influential clinical minds of this century.

THE LAYOUT IS VERY CONSISTANT AND THE CONTENT MADE EASY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND EVEN FOR BEGINNERS STUDYING AT GCSE A'LEVEL. THE KEY AREAS: THE NATURE OF PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL, COMPARATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES AS STATED ON THE BACK PAGE. PLEASE DO NOT OVERLOOK OR NEGLECT THE AGEING,ADOLESCENCE AND ADULTHOOD, SEX AND GENDER,PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND TREATMENTS AND THERAPIES.THEY ARE INVALUABLE TOPICS.

Using this book to supplement studies in psychology at advanced level courses makes understanding key concepts easy. However, some high foluted language often makes the text confusing.