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This is the most informative book about Amway that there is. It covers Rich and Jay's beginings and how their visions transformed into an opportunity that can enable the common person to realize their dreams. There are many rare pictures and illustrations that aren't printed anywhere else. If you are a distributor, this should be required reading, it's good to know Amway's remarkable history. It will instill a sense of pride when the going gets tough, as it occasionally does.

This is an odd little book, but a very good one, filled with hundreds of ink drawings and with handwritten explanations of their meanings. It essentially describes architecture with a anthropologist's understanding of human motivations to build. It describes problems humans have had across cultures with their environment, and what they have built to solve these problems. I picked it up to learn some about basic architecture, and ended up learning a good deal more about...well, everything!

College-level libraries strong in business and global communications won't want to miss COMMUNICATING GLOBALLY: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS. It provides an interdisciplinary review using different business and communication sources to analyze and contrast viewpoints on world communication processes, global leadership, and processes that affect international business. From understanding the processes of communication and miscommunication to insights into how to do business abroad given differing cultural perspectives, COMMUNICATING GLOBALLY offers many important, key concepts essential for global business success.

This is an excellent book, with a really clear argument and analysis. If you are interested in rural politics, comparative political science, or social movements and rebellions, it is worth checking out.

Dr. Atwood writes a great work on this part of the Reformation involving Zinzendorf and the Moravian Church's struggle to discern their own faith issues during the Lutheran and Pietist period in Germany and Pennsylvania. Very honest and informative historical read for Christian and non-Christian reader alike.

I haven't researched the details of the ESV translation, but in general use I love it. Of course, the size and cover are what sold me on this Bible. It fits in my jacket pocket, and the Celtic cross simply adds an aesthetic quality that I find endearing. I came online to order my adult son one and was disappointed to find in unavailable. I hope it will make a comeback.

During the American Civil War two soldiers died of disease for every one killed in battle. Thousands died from scurvy, typhoid, diphtheria, and pneumonia. Boys from farms, crowded together with men from the cities for the fist time in their young lives proved to be especially susceptible to the onslaught of diseases. On both sides of the conflict medical care was, at best, primitive.

When the war began in 1861 Clara Barton was a clerk in the Patent Office at Washington. She started out collecting and distributing brandy, tobacco, lemons, soaps, sewing kits, and homemade jellies to the troops from her native Massachusetts. She was only five feet tall and she was unmarried at the time, which made the nursing work she did during the war an "unnatural" occupation for a woman, but she declared, "while our soldiers stand and fight, I can stand and feed and nurse them." In the bloody aftermath of the First Battle of Bull Run Barton realized that much more was needed and she declared her place was "anywhere between the bullet and the battlefield."

"Compassion: The Story of Clara Barton" by Deborah Woodworth gives evidence of much more than the titular quality. The Barton story begins with Clara's First Patient, her brother David, whom she nursed for two years after falling from a barn roof. She opened up a public school for poor children, exhibiting all of the qualities she would evidence during the Civil War when she insisted on going to the front lines to help. After detailing the fine work she did during that war Woodworth goes on to cover the tour of Europe she took where she found out abut the Red Cross and then her efforts to create the American Red Cross when she returned.

This book is illustrated by Leon Baxter and the part I like the best is how Woodworth provides commentary on Barton's life and quotations from the woman herself. In the back of the book there is a Study Guide that focuses not on the facts of her life but the lessons that can be learned from her achievements and her setbacks. The first question asks what qualities we think are important and the list that is provided are all positive qualities (e.g., kindness, courage, perseverance) and then follows up by asking which qualities were most important to Clara Barton. Woodworth even provides the answers to the Study Guide questions (how many books do not?), although there is not a strict notion of what would be "correct." You will also find a nice photograph of Barton on the last page.

As you might suspect, "Compassion: The Story of Clara Barton" is one of a series of similar volumes that use the biographies of famous people, mostly Americans, to emphasize an important value. Other books include: "A Life of Love: The Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning," "Forgiveness: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi," "Perseverance: The Story of Thomas Alva Edison," "Bravery: The Story of Sitting Bull," "Curiosity: The Story of Marie Curie," and "Dreams: The Story of Martin Luther King." When you look over this list note that only one of the subjects is one of those Dead White Males that are currently the bane of the study of history.

This book is a great resource for sports enthusiatsts. It explains, in a very understandable way, why the training which we do works and how the muscles and body work with regard to sports. It also gives an informative but not too lengthy guide to how to train for the best results.

Overall, very good for anyone who is enthusiastic about training for sport or fitness

I stumbled upon this little gem at my local bookstore and was immediately blown away at how well-constructed the durned thing is. I'm not talking about the physical characteristics, although I must say that I do like the fact that it is a spiral bound paperback, and slightly larger than a pocketbook. What I mean is that it is chockablock full of inumerable nuggets of vital RPM and mintmark Variety information such that it seems to leave no aspect unexamined. What is really cool about it is that the b/w photographic blow-ups are of Extremely High Quality so that, unlike in most coin books, one can actually see what the author is attempting to point out. (Note: For an impossibly bad example, I mean excellent example of the impossibly bad, see 'the best of the jefferson nickel doubled die varieties....only thing unfunny is the high price that you will pay to get the lavishly photographed book whose beautiful pictures almost never show what the author purports to be pointing out). Also, the book has a delightful feature titled the 'Most Wanted' which dedicates a whole page each of information and photo to a number of particularly good and rare varieties. The book also has broken down the varieties into varieties so, for instance, there is a section on 'Over and Dual Mint Mark Varieties' and one on 'Non Doubled Mint Mark Varieties' both with heaps of excellent information. Plus there are population reports, comparative raritiy charts, and all kinds of other great info that will leave the unbelieving reader in awe of the authors/editors. I highly recommend this book even if you don't collect Lincolns: I don't and I think this is a Super Book and an ESSENTIAL to own.

This is an awesome collection of articles published by outstanding scholars in the field of self and cognition. It represents leading thought on the construct of self, with particular attention to multi- and cross-cultural constructions of self and identity. A must read for scholars interested in self concepts.