Barry Books

Father Barry succintly describes prayer as a personal relationship with God. This in fact is the focus of Part I of "Paying Attention to God."

As we progress through the chapters, we discover the various aspects involved in developing our own relationship with our Creator. It is an eye opening experience.

Upon completion of his explaination of the variuos stages, he proceeds to correlate prayer with personal descernmnet, then deals with issues of communal discernment and finally death and ressurection.

At each of the stages there are explainations, which can be applied to our own prayer lives.

Father Barry assists us as we learn more about the centralitly of God in our prayer and how it applies to our lives.

William Barry's PAYING ATTENTION TO GOD was first published in 1990 and over the years has become a popular and respected work. It contains Barry's insights about discernment based on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. It follows the basic principal of Ignatian discernment (consolation/desolation) and discusses ways in which discernment is not a once in a lifetime experience but something we do just about every time we pray. Since discernment presupposes a relationship with God based on prayer, Barry begins with prayer then leads the reader into the wider arena of discernment, helping the readers see that God does in fact have a plan for each one of us and when we choose to live according to God's desire for each of us to have life and to love, we are participating in God's plan of creation. The book also discusses some of the pitfalls and challenges of discernment and concludes with two chapters that are reflections on death and resurrection. As is the case in many of Barry's writings, he is aware that he has readers who are at varying levels of the spiritual life so people new to his writings and people familiar with Ignatian prayer methods alike will find this book has much to offer. Barry also provides plenty of examples and stories which make the book inviting.

PAYING ATTENTION TO GOD is a readable book that is a wonderful introduction for a person who wishes to take prayer more seriously and is looking for insight into God's will. It has the potential to lead a person to deeper prayer and helps people see the ways in which God's works in our lives and in the world on a continual basis.

This book was unbelievably perfect for my pen loving/wood carving husband. While he had purchased several tools and supplies for making pens, this book inspired his creative side. The photos are beautiful, the instructions are clear, and this is the perfect book for those "hard to please" craftsmen on your list.

As a newbie to pen turning, I was looking for a book that would give me a step-by-step explanation of how to set up the pen blank for turning on the lathe. I also wanted an explanation of the parts/pieces used in turning a pen such as what a mandrel is and how it is used to turn the pen, what bushing are and what they were used for, what stains and finishes were the best to use and some project ideas.

The book begins by explaining which lathe (in case you don't have one) to buy for they type of project you plan to turn. Lathes can be used for turning other projects than just pens and the author provided that information as well. He continues with which tools and materials are good to work with and he even explains how to "approach" the wood with the tool while it is on the lathe.

He has a section on stains and finishes which I plan to try. I knew about dyes but not which one(s) to try. The author cleaned that up for me for which I am grateful. Then we come to the first project, a Slimline pen. While the photos were very good in showing what was being explained in words, this project didn't explain how the bushings were used or even what they were for. Never having turned a pen, I was lost but I kept reading.

In Project Two, in Step Six, how to place the bushings on the mandrel was finally explained. Yippie, now I can give turning a pen a try because I know how to "load" the mandrel. Maybe putting this explanation in Project One might be a good idea when the book gets a rewrite.

There are nine projects and six material types shown so I shouldn't run out of ideas on what materials to use or what style of pens to turn. He even provides a section on how to market what you turn.

This book was everything I was looking for in a pen turning tutorial book. If you are planning to turn pens, I would definitely recommend this easy to read and easy to understand book.

I flipped open this book in the bookstore and easily found pithy, direct, clear ideas about how to approach creating postcards, flyers, website, radio and more. What a life saver for promoting my business this book has been to me! I found it to be a cut-to-the-chase, instantly useful guide full of great examples as well and easily understood reasoning behind the ideas. This book feels like a life preserver in the sea of choices of marketing options - I will keep it within reach of my desk from now on!

Why We LOVE This Book

You can join 100 guru marketing groups. You can buy 100 Get Rich books. You can attend 100 marketing seminars.

Add them all up, and you may have a condensed version in this little book for under $10. It's craziness. For under 10, Barry Callen gives you ALL the tools you need to sell and promote successfully.

The price is priceless... the brevity is key, the knowledge is prodigious, the presention simple, the direction straight forward, no nonsense and to the point.

It's more than just phases. It's a super comprehensive Cliff's Notes of steps to take to sell your product. Just do every chapter, and that will be that - Success City! Wow... I bet some people will think I'm a bit over the top on that one... but, oh no! : )

Each chapter is clear and concise, brief yet detailed. He writes in a very conversational style - easy-easy to read. Chock FULL of info in every nicely worded sentence.

Some goodies:
8 Principles for More Effective Communication
"Look through your customer's eyes, not your own..."

23 Creative Approaches to Naming a Business
"Your single most important word and phrase is your name."

18 Approaches to Writing a Headline
"What's your most important point?"

Tactics for Print and Display Media
9 Steps to Creating a Print Ad - the best photo to choose

And a whole plethora more. Like, Tactics for Website Advertising. Very condensed - yikees, add effort (Do-ism), stir and serve! Fabulous!

I don't know about you, but when someone condenses (crams) a lifetime of incredible marketing "secrets" into one little extremely readable (he follows his own advice - "Write to express, not impress") how-to manual, you got to have it. And the author, Barry Callen, is TRULY an industry great having worked with Ogilvy & Mather, Nabisco, Coca Cola, United Way, etc.

I wish Barry Callen was my Dad. Oh, but then I'd be really rich and successful, and I'd be on some wonderful tropical island, or the top of Mt. Everest, or going to an Ivy League school thinking about running the world. And then, I wouldn't have written this little review to you from my humble little heart! : )

This book is more than a book. It is a TREASURE.

Excellent -- a replacement for one lost in a flood several years ago...now I can sing again.

I began playing guitar in the early seventies, when the hippie generation had helped to bring folk music to the forefront of the popular music scene. The major forces behind the success of folk music at that time -- finally reaching all across America on the radio waves -- were Peter, Paul and Mary. They sang songs that they loved, and became part of our lives; these are the songs you will find in this book. The ones you remember, half-hummed snatches of tunes for every mood and moment. The book features both piano and guitar accompaniment. If I were to find fault with the book, it would be that there were still so many songs I wanted which were not included here, and that it did not have a spiral binding, and so my first copy split and finally needed to be replaced after many well-loved years. This book is the right place to start as you begin learning the best songs to know in the folk tradition.

We've all seen the 3D pictures where you wear red/blue 3D glasses to see them - kind of interesting. But this is like same process on steroids. Never seen 3 D pictures that pop off the page in full color like this. I can't stop looking at them. There's also websites where you can see more 3 D images, and guess what, if you're wearing your red-blue glasses, on line 3D images are just like being there. You also learn how they make them (you can do it with Photoshop and 2 cameras, but there's some interesting twists in the process),

This book is full of amazing close-up nature photographs to be viewed through the enclosed 3-D glasses. This book is a good choice for children of all ages to encourage them to appreciate nature. It is a good choice for adults because the pages literally leap to life in such an intriguing way. You don't have to be a nature lover to be fascinated by these pictures.

If one accepts the theory of Jean Piaget, the Swiss Psychologist, as I and many other Professors of organizational behavior do- that all endeavors of human learning has some kind of order and logic. Similar to a drum major leading a marching band, he/she must know which route to take and what signals to give, but above all to stay ahead of the band.

When one as a leader start to view workers or groups as needing instructions much like young students,two main findings will emerge. First, no longer will leaders underestimated as to what followers know or why they do a task a certain way. Nor will the leader fail to spend a fair amount of training. Secondly, there will be one dominant way to expose, correct and teach them if one analyzes them first. No question leaders will lead differently, but more importantly,they will do it more effectively. This in short is the Piaget's theory.

While Piagetian theory has been used in child development and education for decades, I started using it as a basis for teaching the principles of leadership in 1995. With executive training, there is backround literature lecture given first and mini case studies later. But in the classroom,I require my students to explore, study and discuss the literature. This expose them to how leadership evolved over time by culture, religion, etc ..(This is Piaget's principle in believing the way to understand anything is to understand how it evolves). I start off with Gilgamesh epic of Homer to the teaching of leadership from a host of thinkers (such as Erasmaus,Tyndale, Shakespeare, to Caryle's heroes essay as well as Max Weber's model of charismatic leadership). Then my students are able to discuss how one become a leader or a hero and why they fail ... using myths, fables and legends of well know leaders. Then we apply the modern theories of emotional intelligence(Goleman et al)to classic leadership models, wow what a difference.

This book on Piaget Theories taught us that when humans are learning something new, they tend to divide the task or experience into one of two schemes- assimilate it based on old experiences or create an entirely new scheme to deal with it. Piaget suggests that all new tasks have some emotional aspects to them and they are divided up in the mind of a follower/worker. Thus,the leader must learn to educate his subjects either by using acts of training, rewarding or inspiring his/her followers around these emotional realtiies. Once the leader/teacher understand the range of emotions a new direction or a change will cause, and they go from fear, distrust to reckless acceptance. For example, an emotion (hope, trust) may assist in the follower learning something new or if there is a negative emotion (fear, distrust, anger, etc), it becomes a barrier. Situationally, leaders must know, anticipate and act accordingly. If one practices that we humans are life long active builders of knowledge rather than just receivers of information then, it can be incorporated into techniques for mastering the concepts of group leadership.
Errol D. Alexander, PhD, TAGACO Research

This book has evolved out of the first two editions of Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development. It's aim remains the same: to introduce the education and psychology student to Jean Piaget's theory in an undistorted conceptual manner...While the earlier books focused primarily on Piaget's work on cognitive and intellectual development, this volume also examines his extensive studies on affective development, a rich body of work that has largely been overlooked by psychologists and educators. I have also incorporated the most important developments in Piagetian theory of the last ten years. My goal is to show the reader that there are many rewards in understanding Piaget's work.
--- excerpt from Preface quoted on book's back cover

I used this book as my primary source in an independent study I did in my Junior year of High School, entitled "Issues in Modern Urban Planning". It was absolutely indispensable. The case studies and the clear, logical, empirical approach to the matter broadened my perspective of the very real issues facing the modern world tremendously. I cheer Mr. Cullingworth for this fantastic tome.

A comprehensive review of the policies and problems of planning in the USA. Also of interest to studies of comparative politics. An excellent read.

One of the only books available that contain theoretical and practicle information on ECR etching. A must for any etch engineers working in the semiconductor industry.

Gives a detailed physical understanding on the fundamentals of plasma processes including Inductively Coupled Plasma and current advancements in etching processes.

This book gives the best break down of the political and economic thoughts that are currently being used in academia. This book gives a general synopsis of all the current thoughts that are out there, as well as those that were prominent in the past. This book does not take sides nor does it argue for a specific ideological path, it just gives the main arguments that each discipline promotes. The book then applies each of these discipline's thoughts to major areas such as labor. This is the perfect book for those that want to learn more about political economy without having to wade through the propaganda of the different ideologies.

Easy to read one does not need a college degree to understand the concepts in this book. The author breaks down these complex ideologies and theories into simple to understand descriptions. Important for all to read, and even the layman can understand fully the key terms that are being thrown around on the nightly news.

A truly superb book! Clark is kinder to economists in the Introduction to the 2nd ed. than he was in the 1st ed., though his criticisms of economists for their pretense of being "value free" and "objective" probably was more accurate in the 1st ed. We'll find unicorns grazing in the flower bed before we find value free and objective economists, or value free and objective science for that matter.

The 1st 2 chapters read very much like a text book and may be difficult to wade through for those with minimal backgrounds in economics and political science. But this should not discourage readers as Clark's discission of the 4 major schools of political economic thought--Classical Liberalism, Radicalism, Classical Conservatism, and Modern Liberalism--is excellent. Though relatively succinct and written at an "introductory" level, Clark does an excellent job of laying out the fundamentals of each of the 4 schools of thought as well as the evolution of thinking within each school through summary discussions of the "architects" of each school. He then offers a brief and very fair critique or each school of thought. For those unfamiliar with the diversity of political-economic thought, which is most people (and, sadly, certainly includes virtually everyone who majored or minored in "business school" economics in college), these 4 chapters alone make the book worthwhile reading .

But for most readers, the real forte of the book comes in Part III in which Clark examines the major issues in political economy today; such as, inflation, unemployment, poverty, inequality, labor, minorities (to include women within the political-economic arena), education, culture, the enviornment, and international trade. Within each of these areas, Clark identifies the arguments of each of the 4 schools of political economic thought in terms of what each sees as the roots of the issue, the nature of the issue today, and what should and/or should not be done about it.

For someone looking for a relatively brief examination of these issues, which gives a genuinely fair presentation of diverse and competing views, there simply is no other book published today. One important strenght of Clark's work is it does explode the myth of economics as a "science", as well as the myths of the discipline of economics being value free and not grounded in ideology, and the myth there is some kind of general consensus among economists.

Regardless of a person's political-economic ideological orientation, readers will become more aware and more appreciative of alternative and competing points of view. And they will be able to see more easily what passes for "economic" reporting and analysis in the news media and by government officials is little more than propaganda--the promulgation of the favored econmic world view as truth. This is extremely important because, even (especially) for those who agree with "mainstream" economic analysis, there are numerous dangerers in falling into the trap of believing the fundamental ideological/value questions of economics and the relationship between the economic and political system have been asked, answered, and agreed upon. Such tunnel vision is a prescription for disaster which Clark's book can help us avoid. So put on the hip boots; wade through the 1st two chapters (heavy but necessary); and then enjoy.

This is a must have for any postharvest researcher especially when dealing with students that have not necessarily had any posharvest training. It gives the basics of postharvest physiology and technology in a simple, non-complicated way. I am an experienced postharvest physiologist but still look things up in it in areas I am less familiar with. There is only one comment I have about it and that is that it is not using SI units throughout the book.

It would be cool is they removed the barcode sticker from the back of the book so that we could read it.