Wilson Books

Larry Wilson, a sales superstar in the Life Insurance business, was a champion of looking at your own attitudes about selling, your company, your products, your marketplace, your competition,your prospects, and your customers. You might think this may be nothing new, but at the time it was not the prevailing thought about selling and "salesmanship".

A good book to see the evolution of selling. Helps to empower salespeople to be more in control of their own selling success!

Larry Wilson was one of the best life insurance salemen the world ever saw. He could have sold anything. In his book, he shares his secrets of success. While some of his secrets may be nothing new now, he was one of the first to understand training people to be successful sales people. Out-of-print, this book will be a valuable addition to your library.

The service was very good. Sent me the book in good time. The book was just what I had ordered.

Anyone who is taking the Ap Chemistry course and is using the LeMay book must buy this book. This book will help you to figure out every type of question on the Ap Exam. I used this book and got a 5 on the Ap Exam.

After seeing a few half hour programs on T.V. about this guy, Bill Wilson, and his ministry in NYC, I decided I needed to read his book. Wilson is not an ordinary man. He's not the run of the mill Christian, either. He's driven by a calling to serve the Lord by serving the lost. He is the rare Christian who has actually submitted his own worldly ambitions to the will of God. This man's life is true Lordship salvation in action; and therefore, a man I should admire and learn something from about living the Christian life. This guy is a modern day apostle on a mission to bring in the Kingdom of God.

At first glance, this book might impress you as just another self help or motivational type book which crowd the shelves. But Wilson is not a writer or psycholologist or motivational speaker. He is in the trenches of street ministry and has paid the actual price of discipleship, having had several close calls over 35 years on his life. In spite of it all his determination is dauntless. He just doesen't quit. His vision of ministry is like the Apostle Paul; relentless unto the end.

This book isn't made up of proverbs and quaint platitudes. Wilson uses Bible expository to illustrate the principles to live by. The theme is always the same throughout the book, but is illustrated in various ways. This theme is a single minded pursuit of a goal for his life, which is to serve God through his ministry, relying on God to provide the means and the strength to accomplish His will. I am struck by the authors deep understanding of the apostle's call to encourage and admonish the bretheren to persevere in the faith; all the way to the finish line. Endurance, perseverence, and patience are recurring topics. Engaging in spiritual warfare is also referred to, but is not expounded upon.

The value I place on this book is the author's integrity. He doesn't ask for money and the Gospel is always free. His attitude is displayed by always giving humble thanks to the Lord for allowing him the privelege of serving the King of all creation, Jesus Christ, in whatever the calling. Now that is wisdom you won't find just anywhere.

Having met Bill Wilson on a few occasions and having listened to his compelling message of hope, vision and sacrifice, I thought I had figured him out. But after reading this book, I now understand in a greater depth why this man does what he does each week. His message should touch the heart of every children's worker across the world. His commitment to his kids, his bus, his ministry shows each of us what the phrase, "...unto the least of these." really means. After reading this book, I cannot imagine anyone who has a vision to see things change around them not feel compelled to get back on track. Our vision is all we have. To make a difference in one child. Each week. One child. We cannot all be "Bill Wilson", but we all can be who God has called us to be. Read this book and get ready to have the fire kindled again.

Will Greene, longtime National Parks historian in Virginia and currently the CEO and Chief Historian of the Pamplin Civil War Park at the scene of the Petersburg break through, writes a very well researched history of Petersburg giving the personal view. Through Greene's book you see the residents and the city before the war leading up to the political evolution of session. Petersburg, as noted by Greene, was an international City and as the war unfolds you see the excitement of the town folk even among the different classes with direct quotes from the people themselves as they prepare for war by drilling militias and companies that go forward to war. The book picks up military steam as the war progresses and the vulnerability of this vital link to Richmond and Lee's army slowly become apparent. From a military perspective you see Jefferson Davis' severe and complex nature of his many departments that result in overlapping commands particularly in Petersburg where there are numerous command changes even as Kautz and Butler arrive at City Point and the Bermuda 100. Pickett, Beauregard and then Lee finally take control. The book includes fascinating and little known details such as the economic fall out of the war on the population, the City Council's consideration in providing relief for families and AP Hill's parading of captured soldiers black and white from the crater intermingled to the derision of the populace. The limited troop dispositions by the Confederacy are almost the down fall as they resist enormous odds by the virtually unsuspecting or tentative union commanders. The final days of the war of course end with the draining siege that Greene provides an excellent and fast moving summary style detail and the gloom of the population is evident as the defense finally collapses. Heartening to know that the occupation was civil, respectful and charitable to the population, Of course race relations are traumatized by the sudden freedman and black units that occupy the City. But that is part of the uniqueness of the book, Greene addresses all the residents and soldiers along with race relations of the City such as the pre-war free blacks who work in the City and within the war effort maintaining their freedom but enduring more hardship due to the severity of war economics. This is a unique book that provides the civilian and military experience within the tragedy of war.

When you think of any aspect of the Petersburg campaign, A. Wilson Greene is clearly the expert historian in this venue. The importance of Petersburg during the Civil War was greatly illuminated and better undertood by me from reading this book. In conjunction with his previous book on the Petersburg Breakthrough Battle, this book adds dimension and texture to the battles fought, the people who lived there, and the culture and industry of Petersburg as the war progressed. The author's keen perspective brings those times to life in an entertaining and educational manner. I fully enjoyed the hours spent reading this book. For those of us who carefully read footnotes in history books, there is a wealth of information in this meticulously researched account. I highly recommend it.

If you are reading this review you are probably familiar with field theory and learned it in a quantum field theory class or book. If not go ahead and read THIS book, it is a must BEFORE a QFT a class. I wish I had it a few years ago, I would learn QFT much easier. Still it clarified a lot of things and recommended for every theoretical physics student. You will at least recognize what is related to quantum aspects and what is not.

This work, which is not so well-known, gives a good
introduction in gauge field theory. Starting from scalar
fields quickly more advanced subjects such as magnetic monopoles, the higgs mechanism and spontaneous symmetry breaking are discussed.
The work contains nice overviews of the mathematics of Lie groups and Lie algebras and has a number of useful exercises.

This is a wonderful publication showing Clementine Hunter's wonderful paintings of Southern black people's lives in the early part of the 20th century. I was very happy to find it still available.

It takes you to an unknown world...

Schaef has written many books on the subject of addictive behavior, and I've read most of them. This one puts forth her basic philosophy (which is that dysfunctional, addictive behaviors are part & parcel of our culture) in a slender volume that's easy to pick up & reread. Especially interesting is her theory that co-dependence is encouraged in our schools and churches. She presents her case with lots of examples, and with the kind of passion it would be easy for the unconvinced to laugh at, but I personally think she speaks a truth that many people might find uncomfortable to face.

In a hundred pages Scaef does something truly remarkable. She confronts the self-serving and dangerous side of co-dependency yet maintains a nonjudgmental perspective. Many, many books, of course, discuss the dangers co-dependents present to themselves. This one goes beyond to look at the less comfortable topics of co-dependents' tendency toward manipulation, promotion of disease in others, martyrdom, dishonesty, and pathological self-centeredness. As a professional who grew up in a seriously alcoholic home, I wish that I had read this book years ago to see the pay-off I was getting from organizing my life around the pretense that I was other people's answers. But despite the harsh realities Schaef points out (and simply and compellingly demonstrates), I was left with a sense that I was not being shamed or judged and that I had the freedom to do better. This book takes more character to digest than most books on the subject, and I suspect that its writing took manifestly more character than one assisting people to continue seeing themselves as victims. I recommend it without qualification.

If you don't know this poet...you will after you read her works!
I have never read a book of poetry so intense, funny, heartbreaking and to the point with real life vision.

Amazing how this author portrays life in the form of poetry> Pure genious!

It's the best Commander Toad book! I like them all. They all are great. The monster in this one was cool.

Commander Toad is a delight. He's "bold and bright", though not quite as bright as he thinks. His crew (an amalgam of loose takes on Star Wars and Star Trek characters) puts up with his prideful ways, because he is, after all, a good leader. Together with his mixed-gender crew he gets into and out of a wonderful series of scrapes. This book is the first in the series.

Jane Yolen writes for kids. For example, when Commander and crew are threatened by a sea monster who makes it clear that they're about to be lunch, I asked my 4-year old what he thought would happen.

"Shoot him with a ray gun," he answered.

"I don't know," I said. "I think that they'll find out that the monster's just lonely, and they'll make friends."

Turn the page, and BAM! Lt. Lily, Toad's female weapons master, is blasting away (to no effect). Thanks, Jane. Only you could make a story about a bunch of space-explorer frogs be true-to-life.

Jane Yolen also writes for the adults who read books to their kids. There's nearly a pun a page, and the Commander's ludicrous solutions to problems have a germ of genius unrestrained by the laws of physics that will have you shaking your head over his cleverness.

Buy this book, or regret the lost opportunity.

The Communitarian Persuasion by Philip Selznick is an absolutely wonderful masterpiece, providing the reader with deep, thorough explanations and flowing sentences. This is an absolute must-read for anyone studying or interested in socialogy.

This is an important work from a noted scholar for those reading in civil society, sociology, law, political theory, organizations, and related areas. It is a brief book but it deserves careful reading. Selznick is able to write in a very rich and deep style that can mimmick lightness if not taken seriously. It is not light, though it is elegantly straightforward. It is the sort of work that deserves very close attention almost sentence by sentence.

This will surely be an essential introduction to communitarianism for generations and offers a reader looking for insights on a coherent, engaged, moral way to live, a solid set of clues on how that objective might be realized.