Bailey Books

This is a solid look at President Wilson and the failure of the Versailles Treaty in the U.S. Senate. Bailey examines Wilson's vision, his 14 points, and most importantly, his destructive rigidity and self-righteousness. ¨The Senate will take its medicine,¨ Wilson said about Senate passage after signing the Treaty in June, 1919. That line alone speaks volumes, given Senate opposition from the irreconcilibles (led by Bob La Follette), Henry Cabot Lodge, and perhaps most importantly, the nation's weariness for foreign adventure. The author also examines the effects of Wilson's stroke, when the ever-inflexible President deferred to his wife and probably should have resigned. All in all, readers come away with a firm understanding as to why the Versailles Treaty failed in the Senate, which many believe led to future disaster.

Historian Thomas A Bailey (1902-1983) has given us a very good, and surprisingly readable look at one of history's great IFs - What IF the U.S. had entered the League of Nations.

It's a shame this book is out of print because it's absolutely superb. It's a history book that is fast paced, written with all the drama of a novel and even has an elment of supsense. Great Betrayal tells the story of how the League of Nations treaty fell apart. It brings all the players from the proud and inflexible Woodrow Wilson, to Henry Cabot Lodge and Lord Grey. And it includes includes comments from editorial pages from around the country and Europe at the time. Woodrow Wilson was an extremely difficult man and particularly after his illness (the book makes it clear that Wilson should've resigned) he may have been one of the prime reasons why the treaty failed. I really enjoyed this fascinating look into a piece of our country's history that still affects us to this day.

The Zen of Groups is a handbook for effective group participation. It achieves this through distinguishing the elements of group dynamics.

The Zen of Groups is written in simple language and makes complex and subtile issues clear and easy to understand. This gives both the beginner and advanced facilitator or group participant alike access to understanding and making a useful difference in the dynamics of any group.

The Zen of Groups also has a section of tools and processes which can be applied to assist groups which are stuck or not acheveing their purpose to move forward.

I highly recomend this book to anyone wanting to develop a greater understanding of the the dynamics of groups. I use it all the time as a resource in my practice as a professional facilitator.

This group puts together a wonderful message of how to manage group meetings with heart. They give clear examples of activities that can be used to defuse conflict, enhance team effectiveness, and methods to monitor yourself and your team for leaving your baggage behind and achieving group synergy. If yours is a consensus-oriented organization, or you'd like to begin using consensus-based decision making, this is a great book. See also their book specifically for meeting facilitation, "The Art of Facilitation".

THIS GUIDE IS EXCELLENT FOR THE USE OF THE PRESENTATION OF GENERAL-PURPOSE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. IT GIVES DETAIL EXPLANATIONS OF HOW INFORMATION SHOULD BE PRESENTED. THE EXAMPLES GIVEN ARE WRITTEN IN A WAY THAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND WITHOUT HAVING TO READ INTO THE EXPLANATION. UNLIKE SOME OF THE AICPA BOOKS THAT ARE OUT THERE, WHERE IT READS LIKE IT IS IN SOME OTHER LANGUAGE BESIDES ACCOUNTING. IT IS A VERY PRACTICAL GUIDE TO INCREASE THE CORRECT PRESENTATION OF YOUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND ALSO AID IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CORRECT ACCOUNTING FUNCTIONS FOR YOU GOVERNEMTNAL SITUATION.

This book is filled with a lot of useful and helpful information in "easy to understand" language, especially for beginning freshwater fishkeepers.

Anyone who loves films will enjoy revisiting the ones GB's written about; he has a good eye, a quirky sense of humor, and a way with words. I enjoyed the combination of fresh insight and "aha!" moments, in which he articulated my own feelings and observations about a particular film much more efficiently than I could have. The reviews are a perfect length and I especially recommend this book for those times when travel, kids, work, and other life interruptions demand that you have enjoyable reading material you can sip from, put down, and come back to.

My boyfriend and I saw this book at my local Borders. I have been kind of a prude most of my life (being brought up by a religious mother and her crazy family trying to but in) so the book did make me blush somewhat. I ended up buying it on the Amazon site (I was kinda shy to pay for it in the store, with all the questions that could be running through the clerks' head : "you're only 19? why would you want a book like this?")When we looked at it together, we got a lot of new ideas that have helped inhance our love life and make it exciting. If your love/sex life is on the downlow, or you just like trying new things and for the sexually adventurous I suggest this book. But don't be shy like me!!!!

Perhaps no other American denomination is as synonymous with the idea of foreign missions as the Southern Baptist Convention. Founded as a denomination in 1845, the SBC has been at the forefront of the worldwide mission movement even prior to its inception. And much of the credit for the group's initial organization of foreign missions must be given to a New England born scholar and missionary named Adoniram Judson, trumpeted by Faith Coxe Bailey in her biographical work as "America's First Foreign Missionary." Though technically not the first American missionary ever knowingly sent to a foreign land - William Carey's sojourn to India preceded Judson's by more than fifteen years - it was Judson who painstakingly took the time and effort to translate the first ever Bible in the Burmese language. Born in Malden, Massachusetts on August 9, 1788, Judson's father was a Congregational minister who had studied with Joseph Bellamy, a student of the famous theologian Jonathan Edwards.2 Adoniram, addressed by his close friends as "Don," spent most of his youth near the rapidly developing city of Boston, a city soon to become a hotbed of philosophical and religious thought. Figuring his son was going to someday be famous and inspired by his inquisitive nature, Judson's father determined that he would have the best possible education in a variety of subjects. Thus at age ten, Don learned navigation from a Plymouth sea captain. He also learned Greek by age twelve. At only 16, he entered Brown University as an ambitious young man bent on learning and being famous. But instead of a small pulpit in the valley, Judson wanted to fulfill his dreams as a philosopher. At Brown, Judson graduated in only three years as the valedictorian. One of his classmates, identified by Baxter as E--- and by Tucker as Jacob Eames exerted strong influence on Judson, leading him to declare himself an atheist.3 Don spent one year as the headmaster of an academy for young ladies and published two textbooks, but he began planning a pleasure trip that ultimately changed his life.
Judson went home and informed his parents he was an atheist. The responses were predictable; the mother cried and the father first threatened then attempted to browbeat Don with logic. But no argument was persuasive, and Don left for New York City with dreams of becoming a playwright. Preparing to head "West," Judson entered an inn to spend the night. The host behind the counter warned him that he only had one room left, and the man in the room next to Don's was dying. Don didn't care as he felt that a man who was sick and leaving the world would not bother him. Yet this would be Judson's life-changing night. Though exhausted, Judson was suddenly troubled by the notion of a person dying next to him. After all, he thought, people die every single day. He was bothered by what his old friend, Jacob Eames, would have thought at his emotionalism. Trying to make sense of it, Don decided he would talk to the young man the next day, but the sick inhabitant died in the night. Inquiring about the young lad, the innkeeper told Don that the man who died was about Don's age and had also attended Brown University. The innkeeper looked at his records and told Don that the man's name who died was Jacob Eames!!
This experience seared Judson's conscience and forced him to dwell upon that most cumbersome of topics, life after death. How shocked was he? He returned home and announced his intention to attend Andover Theological Seminary!! But obstacles were in his way as they would be numerous times throughout his life. In this case, the obstacles were that he didn't want to be a minister, he did not qualify for advanced training since he was not a trained theologian, and he was not a Christian. But he was admitted to school and received Christ as Savior in December 1808.

His next life-changing experience came when he read "Star of the East" by Claude Buchanan. He then read "Embassy To Ava," the story of the gospel's adventure in Burma. He was now convinced that he was called to go to Burma as a missionary. There were only two major problems preventing him from immediately going to Burma, and they are two of the thorniest problems for modern missionaries: funding and group support.

God, of course, has His own ways as to how to take care of these problems. The latter was taken care of when four new ministers dedicated themselves to winning souls in India beneath a giant haystack and thus called themselves the Haystackers. The former problem was taken care of through a circuitous route that had Judson petition an American board for funds that were denied, a boat trip to England that resulted in his first prison sentence of a couple of days, and the funds granted by the London Missionary Society. The LMS promised not only to fund the half the missionary venture Judson and the Haystackers were asking, but also to fund every single cent with one stipulation: they must go forth as British missionaries and not as Americans. Willing to accept this stipulation, Judson gave the Americans an opportunity to match the offer.

Perhaps he did not expect it, but bowing to nationalism, the American Board suddenly decided they could fund the missionary venture after all.

Just prior to his trip to England, Judson married Ann Hasseltine. Ann was the daughter of a Congregationalist deacon, and this soon came to a tension point over the question of baptism. Scripture studies convinced Judson, himself a Congregationalist, that baptism was for believers only by immersion. He was also influenced by the fact that his co-workers included three Baptists, including the famous William Carey. Judson had enough foresight to see problems when he would be willing to baptize infants while Carey would not. Judson even took the unusual step of acknowledging this matter of difference with Carey upon his arrival in Calcutta. Carey, however, was kind enough to loan Judson some books that convinced him of Carey's position and ultimately convinced Ann as well. This solved one problem but created a larger one: how can you take money from the Congregationalists when you're teaching Baptist doctrine? Notifying the American Mission Board as well as Salem Baptist Church of their new problem, the Judsons now had a bigger problem: they were tossed out of India. But they landed in Burma and still sought to undertake the mission of giving the gospel to lost people.

Unlike India, who has long had a good portion of the natives who speak English, Burma was another matter altogether. As a matter of fact, it fell to Judson to learn the Burmese language before he could even begin to share the gospel. At that time, in fact, Burma had neither a dictionary nor a grammar. Judson painstakingly and patiently learned the language until he could communicate well enough to preach the gospel. It took three years, but Judson compiled a grammar and followed it up a month later with his first evangelistic tract. But at just about this time, Ann's health began to fail. But Judson's mission now faced an even bigger threat: persecution from the Buddhist government.

Were Jesus Christ and Buddha to meet in a cosmic battle for the universe, the fight would end before it ever began. In the realm of witnessing and salvation, however, God has chosen to work through human instruments, and Satan uses human instruments to fight against the gospel to the very last breath. Such was the problem that confronted Judson when he determined to go to Chittagong, win a Burmese soul, and bring that person back as an advisor of how to think Burmese. In his efforts to do so, however, Judson wound up going back to India due to a storm that misdirected his ship. Through one of the circuitous routes that seemingly dictated his life,
Judson took seven months to make what should have been a three month trip. Upon his return, he decided to build a Burmese-style schoolhouse known as a zayat. After building it, Judson would sit on the porch and shout to anyone who walked by about the offer of the gospel. Nearly six years after first setting foot in Burma, Judson led his first soul to Christ, a man named Moung Nau. As more were converted, Judson's success, though minimal, caused others in the local area to be suspicious of his motives and what exactly he was doing. In an effort at public relations, Judson's logical mind convinced him that he needed to talk to the ruler of Burma. Judson's logic went like this: they are bothering me now, and if I talk to the governor and get his endorsement, they will leave me alone; but if I don't get his endorsement they'll just bother me like they're doing now. Much as currently happens in Islam, the punishment for conversion from Buddhism, the official religion of Burma, to any other religion was a death sentence.

Needing the weather of her homeland instead of the tropical climate, Ann boarded a vessel and returned to the United States, leaving Adoniram Judson by himself in Burma. He decided to close the zayat. He was helped now in his missionary endeavor by a doctor who had come to Burma and with whom the king was enthralled. Thus, he gave Judson permission to buy a plot of land when an event of greater proportions occurred: Britain and Burma were at war.

Despite not serving as a soldier, Judson would ultimately be affected by the war as he was arrested and imprisoned for seventeen months on suspicion of being an employee of the British government. He was taken to a prison called "Hand-Shrink-Not" in English, and many times he anticipated that he was going to die there. Unlike modern America, the facilities were disgusting and unkempt. What Judson feared most, however, was that the soldiers would destroy the document he had been working on secretly for several years: a Burmese translation of the entire Bible. His wife, Ann, in fact, tried to `break in' to prison to be with him and ultimately opted to be confined with him. What she brought with her was his treasure, the Burmese translation of the New Testament, hidden in a pillow. Seeing the awkwardness of the pillow, the guards had no problem letting Judson sleep on it for whatever `relief' it provided. Interestingly enough, they never knew why the pillow was lopsided, an event that his ramifications even to this day.

Though his learning of the Burmese language was surely a blessing, Judson must have wondered if he was cursed - since his facility in both languages led to his being used a translator in the post-war negotiations between Britain and Burma. He was further disheartened by the notion that despite her non-prisoner status, Ann was not to be released when Adoniram was. And shortly after her own release, Adoniram was stunned that Ann, in poor health during much of their Burmese mission, had died.

In addition to Ann, Judson lost three children in infancy. And though this might have broken other men, it strengthened Judson's resolve. Gradually and slowly, he worked to complete the Burmese Bible and publish it. He worked from the texts of the original languages, Hebrew and Greek, and turned these into Burmese. Finally, in 1840, it was completed. A few years before its completion, Adoniram Judson married the wife of the now deceased George Boardman, Sarah. In ten years of marriage, Sarah Judson gave birth to eight children. But she wore out over time and died in 1845 while home on medical leave. During much of their marriage, Judson himself was afflicted with tuberculosis and developed trouble speaking due to
his illness. Sarah influenced another of Judson's works when she pressed him to write and publish an English-Burmese dictionary, a task he had refused to undertake in the earlier years. This only took four years as opposed to the 25 necessary for the translation of the Bible.

After Sarah died, Judson returned to the United States where people wanted to hear from the missionary gone for 33 years from his homeland. They were disappointed, however, when he opted to preach Christ instead of regale them with tales of Burma. Judson then read a fascinating fictional work by a female author using the pseudonym Fanny Forrester. He told her that she was wasting her talent and Fanny - whose real name was Emily Chubbuck - took his constructive criticism to heart, so much to heart that she wound up marrying Judson, who was more than twice her age.

They returned to Burma in 1846 and had a child, but most of Judson's last years were spent suffering from various illnesses. He died on board a ship on April 12, 1850, as he was returning to America to recover. His legacy continues through hymns he wrote such as "Come Holy Spirit, Dove Divine." One family in New Hampshire was so enamored with Judson that they named their son after him, and Adoniram Judson (better known as A.J.) Gordon became a prolific Baptist preacher and hymn writer, whose best known hymn is likely the music to "My Jesus, I Love Thee." Judson's legacy also continues through a college in Marion, Alabama named after his first wife, Judson College.6 But perhaps his legacy can best be measured by the
statistics of Patrick Johnstone who points out that 3,700 congregations with 617,781 members and 1,900,000 affiliates are the fruit of Judson's labor.

CHARACTERISTICS OF JUDSON'S LIFE

Adoniram Judson demonstrated great faith in God through all the trials he endured in his effort to win the Burmese. He was also very scholarly and committed to the task at hand as his authorship of the Burmese Bible, a grammar, and a dictionary show. He was a searcher who looked for God through evidences as opposed to presuppositions, and he clearly had an open mind willing to change theological views as demonstrated by his conversion to atheism and back to Christianity and then from Congregationalist to Baptist. He also was clearly settled in doctrine as there are no later recordings of him changing his position as he matured in the Lord. And most importantly, Judson had great love for people who were going to be lost unless he took action to give them the option of salvation.

My 8 year old boy read this and immediately asked for more like this! He loved these books. They take the kids into the Middle Ages with three fictional kids from our time. Plus they fill it with fun facts from that time period. A great book, for learning and for fun reading!

The book, Beauty Bound, written by Rita Freedman is a novel that will not only raise your self esteem, but also help to see life from another point of view. A lot of people can relate to this book because it deals with the number one issue in woman's lives. This issue is the constant obsession with trying to be beautiful and perfect.
Beauty Bound gives a variety of real life stores from real women who have had problems with themselves. If you were a woman reading this book, it could really help you get over trying to be beautiful and trying to impress others and make you feel like you're not the only one. It will help you to realize that all the material things and looking like models isn't the only thing that matters in life.
This book shows you the reality of all the beautiful woman on TV and in magazines. They aren't as perfect in the pictures and movies as they are in real life. The book makes you realize how dumb it is to care what others think of you when all you really should be doing is caring how you feel about your self.
The majority of all women have once in their life faced the issue of wanting to be beautiful. Whether you think you have or not, believe me, you have. The question is why? Why do women everyday spend hours upon hours putting on make up and doing there hair? To impress people that they don't even know? To impress people that they do know and who already love them for who they are? The answers to these questions are in this book.

Christie Scott is a successful businesswoman as well as a Certified Life Coach with specialized training geared towards coaching medical doctors. She also holds Advanced Certification as a Human Behavior Consultant and her presentations have helped the careers and practices of hundreds of medical doctors around the United States. Scott has now published a much-needed workbook manual focusing on the business side of operating a medical practice with her Against All Odds: Conquer The Healthcare Battle.

Scott begins with the premise that unfortunately many medical doctors suffer from exhaustion, burnout, and lack of quality time with their families-something that they did not plan for when they entered the medical profession. Part of the blame for this can be attributed to the fact that medical doctors are quite clueless when it comes to opening up and operating their practices, managing their employees, and maintaining profitability.

For the most part, medical schools devote very little or no time to the business of operating a medical practice and thus it is no wonder why medical doctors are very often poor business people.

However, with this excellent guidebook fear no more, if you are a medical doctor and are intimidated by the business side of running your practice, Scott's workbook manual has come to your rescue with concrete strategies and solutions that will provide you with an effective game plan, as long as you heed her advice, complete the various questionnaires and create action steps in order to implement the various suggested strategies.

Crammed with dozens of tips and suggestions, the book's compact 172 pages are conveniently divided so that each chapter presents an examination and exploration of a specific area of the business side of a medical practice.

Beginning with with one of the most important steps, taking stock or where you are now and how you plan to implement change, Scott explores focusing on one's ambitions. Her approach is that one should not ask why is something happening but what can be done to effectively improve the operation of my practice.

From here Scott next tackles fear, which is one of the great barriers to change. Scott provides solutions as to how to overcome fear when contemplating making changes. As is the case with all of the chapters, there is a series of questionnaires that are vital to complete even though they may feel uncomfortable or time consuming. Remember the old adage, no pain no gain.

Another section of particular interest to doctors is the one dealing with combating battle fatigue where, as Scott astutely remarks, "if you suffer from the symptoms of extreme stress or burnout, then the practice will immediately start to suffer!" Readers are presented with the top ten ways you know you are burned-out and what to do about it.

Employee turnover is always a factor in running a profitable medical practice, and as with the case of any business, these turnovers can prove to be very costly in time and money. Scott examines in this section the reasons for employee turnover and how to change the situation.

In the chapter devoted to effective communication, Scott reviews the ramifications of employees that exhibit poor communication skills and even sometimes rudeness. What does a doctor do about these employees? Does he or she fire them or does he try to have the work together as a team?

The final chapter is devoted to coaching and why one is important in the acceleration of personal and business development. As Scott points out, coaching focuses on moving you forward in your desired direction.

Refreshingly free of business jargon, clearly laid out, and well written, Against All Odds: Conquer The Healthcare Battle may not be the last word on profitably managing a medical practice, however it is an excellent starting point. Scott's presentation is informal with an easy to follow conversational text offering countless tips and sound advice. Probably the chief value of the book is its many questionnaires, which must be completed in order to reap the full benefits from the book. These aids are wide in scope and admirable for their practicality and relevancy to the abundance of material that is presented.

I may add that although the book is aimed at the medical doctors, there is no doubt that it will prove quite beneficial to anyone managing a professional practice as attorneys, accountants, dentists and others.

Norm Goldman, Editor Bookpleasures