Burns Books

This wonderful book is an exceptional aid for anyone seeking a more complete realization of what it means To Burn with the Spirit of Christ! For each and every day of the year a passage from the documents of the Second Vatican Council is given for meditation, discussion, or personal application. A truly scholarly undertaking, and surprisingly easy for anyone to use!

Great Books for e-commerce people, all content make me have Fighting Spirit and Empowerment. Thanks Peter Burns and God Bless You. Tamakoo

What a breath of fresh air! With all the reform legislation currently being enacted at the state level, I find this book to be extremely timely and informative. As educators we are always looking for ways to make our work more positive and meaningful, especially in terms of improved student achievement. Of course, parents are too. This book offers many practical ways to help parents join us in making sure that their children learn.

Educators are fully aware of the key role parents must play if we are to be successful in educating every child. Ms. Burns has managed to capture the essence of their role offering hundreds of ideas to parents on how to be top parents for top students. The belief that all children can be successful is the basis of this book.

I recommend this book to anyone looking for resources to help parents with the education of their children. Every parent and every educator should read this book.

Thomas Shevory (Professor of Politics, Ithaca College) presents Toxic Burn: The Grassroots Struggle Against the WTI Incinerator, the environmental true story of East Liverpool, Ohio, which has suffered from a massive hazardous waste incinerator located in the eastern Ohio River Valley since 1993. The incinerator burns 60,000 tons of hazardous waste each year, has encountered dozens of accidents, and is only 100 yards away from an elementary school. Toxic Burn tells of the grass-roots movement against the incinerator. Interviews with key members of the movement, copies of official documents, and more spell out how the incinerator came to be, and the obstacles and victories that the counter-movement faced. An in-depth case study of how ordinary people are a necessary counterbalance to the power of corporations, and how new environmental models devoted to protecting the life and health of those at greatest risk is desperately needed.

Burns has a unique way of weaving the events of History and Leadership Theory by presenting a logical praxis. It is in this unique capability that the reader will find him or herself finding not only a fair and balanced articulation of the events as they occurred but the leadership ramifications incurred as a result. Not shy being a professed liberal he makes the strong argument that the Democratic Party has drastically missed the leadership boat due to the party representative's purpsoseful diluting the message of the liberal stance by having Presidential Leadership for the Democratic Party run alone, basically severing ties with party affiliation while maintaining a clear centrist positon not only through the campaign cycle but throughout the President's Administration.

This should come as no surprise as many Americans sense a leadership void in our country which is the result of nothing less than centrist politicians attempting to appease all parties simply in an effort to clinch their respective nominations.

Still Burns makes the compelling argument in this volume that transactional leadership (Leading by Dealing: the phrase being mine) is simply not enough to carry through the transformation so needed in our current political landscape.

The book is dead on and exposes the dangers involved in this practice while Burns argues the essentiality of leading at a higher level and how these changes take place only through transformational leadership.

A caveat pre-emptor is in order here: For those of you seekig a formula for leading at this higher level you simply will not find it. Perhaps this is because Burns believes in the empowerment of people by providing hard core examples throughout the entire landscape of history and perhaps it is for other reasons. However, the end result is the reader comes away with the clear distinctions between transactional and transformation leadership, those in power who utilized such a leaderhip style and the net effect of such leadership.

Finally, I found Burns'insistence on conflict being an essential component to real lasting change coupled with this transformational leadership to be quite persuasive and helpful. In addition, Burns consistent focus on the essential interplay berween leaders and followers demonstrates how one as a leader can supercede simplistic and standardized methodologies all pointing to the clear difference between transactional and transformational leadership. One final thought: Be prepared to make a change if your main operating belief is to be a simple broker, horesetrader, or anything of the sort and be prepared to become acquainted with the path least travelled which is longer lasting and influenttial in leader-follower dyadic interactions.

Mark Bear

The beauty of this collection of essays is its rare combination of depth and diversity, profoundly addressing many topics including (as a subset only) time, culture, science, criminality, sado-masochism, animal psychology, egotism, femininity and seekers and priests.

Containing a psychoanalysis of the criminal mind even Freud could not have written, it delves into equally fruitful analyses of the insane, the artist, scientist, egotist, psychologist and even those who mentally parallel animals (primarily the dog or horse types).

For the reader there is a perfect mix of aphorisms with long, intertwined essays combined with short fragments touching on major themes without excessive development. Weininger's ability to unite such diverse themes and concepts into a single coherent Weltanschauung (not without its very true-to-life paradoxes) is sheer genius.

A master debunker of myths and popular conceptions, Weininger is both ruthless and compassionate, scathingly critical and worshipfully reverential, certain beyond all doubt and open to all possibilities.

A must for the free thinker. Excellently translated.

This book offers up a great inside look at Trinity. It's filled with student quotes on a wide variety of topics that might factor into your decision on where to go to school (academics, local atmosphere, campus dining, nightlife, greek life, career info, etc.). It really gives you a feel for how the kids who go to Trinity view the university. Highly recommended.

These are three very simple basic quilt blocks with some interesting uses. I find myself going back to this book often as a reference.

This book caught my attention & has been checked out as soon as a student returns the book by another student.

This is an amazing book, and I am happy to own it. The bookseller really went the extra mile to package the book and send it along to me quickly. Thanks!