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I found this book to be entertaining and useful to me as a father and a businessman.

I got Daddy @ Work as a gift and loved it! I read the book in two evenings and in my hectic life that says something. His writing style is down to earth and practical to the point of telling you how to sit at a table to 'connect' over a dinner/lunch conversation. I will reread it again and again to let it soak in to my thick skull. I bought two other books from Robert Wolgemuth within a week of finishing Daddy @ Work (Just Daddy and Me & Pray with Me Daddy - both great as well). Daddy @ Work is a must read for any man who wants to make a difference in his world at work and at home! A+ Robert, I wish you lived in my town!

Daddy @ Work Is a detailed synopsis of life in my world. The sucess, the failure, and the trying. In the work force I have an incredible predilection to exceed expectations at any expense. This leaves little room for much else. My family life began to suffer. I saw this and wanted to make things different. I started to study the scripture to find a Biblical portrait of a "reaL" Father. I also searched for a book. Finding Daddy @ Work was an answered prayer. There is indelible insight pouring from each page. "Real" life answers, To "real" life questions. Simple to follow outlines, that will lead in a new direction. To honor God, your family, and your buisness sounds impossible, but it's not. There can be success. I challenge you to read this book, dive into scripture and you too can find the medium. This is the key to a happy and fulfilled life. Daddy @ Work will help you find it!

Yes this book left me with the feeling I had heard words of wisdom from an experienced father and businessman. The book is unique in that it offers methods for dealing with both Work and life. The author is gifted in his use of examples and is very organized in his construction. I only removed one star because there is little research beyond his life's experiences. I expect facts or more statistical examples, when I read a book.

Still all in all this is a book filled with wise words. If heeded, I sure it will improve your life as it has mine.

Daddy@work is an amazing book that is easy to read with strong spiritual ethics that can be used on a daily basis at work and at home. This book has pointed out areas of my life that need work and areas that I need to understand more. I recommend to all fathers and managers of companies. Also to executive mothers.

If you work in the busy health care field, this is a must. It reminds us of why we do what we do.

The book is beautiful throughout. I read it, cried several times, and fell asleep happy/sad/fully alive. This book is a gift. Thanks for bringing it into the world.
Marty Kaplan, Ph.D.

This is a joyful book, revealing wisdom and compassion in the dailyness of life. The photographs are deeply evocative, and each story is a small prayer for deeper kindness and understanding, not just for health care professionals, but for all of us.

I have been a nurse for many years and my first love has always been psychiatric nursing. For the past couple of years I have been a clinical instructor for nursing students during their psychiatric rotation. Most students find the psych rotation difficult. They struggle with how to relate to patients with whom communication is at least bizarre, if not seemingly impossible. Much of my role as their clinical instructor is helping students find their heart as a nurse. Once they do, they find implementation of therapeutic communication skills to be much less onerous.

My philosophy of care over a forty year career in nursing resonates in this book. I will be giving a copy of Daily Miracles to every one of my nursing students as they finish their clinical rotation. Thank you for publishing Daily Miracles. Every nurse and nurse-in-training should read it.

Judy Ward, RN, MSN, MFT

This slender spriral bound book is filled with poignant and true stories plus gorgeous pictures and could be carried around in a pocket, which would be a good idea. It shows how healing really happens. Good care involves good systems and good education, of course, and yet is based on good people who go an extra mile to help or to hold a hand or to pay attention to intuition or to think deeply and connect with patients, with their own soul, and with each other. Daily Miracles, with its powerful vignettes, annotations, and masterful photography is both inspired and inspiring. Every nurse, nursing student, nursing faculty member, and family member should have one. Every physician, medical student, and medical faculty member and family member should have it, too. You, too. Linda Hawes Clever MD

Go ahead - try some fun in worship! There is enough here to delight all ages and involve all levels of worshippers.

I love this book! Packed with resources and real life stories, it leads the reader to consider ways to faithfully and sensitively lead the congregation into experiencing the word authentically and engaging with each other in ways that will build community and hope. Also check out their other book, Talking Faith, which is similarly well written and full of useful ideas.

This book is filled with fantastic ideas that will have you thinking about your church's worship in new and different ways. There is true depth to this pool--"Dare to Dive In" dares preachers and worship leaders to go into the deep end of encounter with an unpredictable God. The authors challenge those of us who usher others into the presence of God on Sunday mornings to engage mind and body, left brain and right brain, as we present our worship. There are terrific ideas here, presented with deeply faithful rationale. Let yourself be inspired by this book to find a new freshness in worship.

How can we communicate the message of our Christian faith in ways that can be deeply heard by all generations of people? Dare to Dive In answers this question by utilizing creative ideas for the parish that will both excite children AND engage adults. As a pastor of a small congregation, I understand the difficulty of communicating the word of God in a way that can be understood by all ages of people. This resource provides a creative and intergenerational approach to worship. It is neither "contemporary" nor "traditional" but simply "creative." Once again, the authors -- both pastors themselves -- have come through with ideas to invite all ages of congregants into worship. I highly recommend this book for pastors and worship leaders who are ready for a change.

Think of this as an idea book for worship planning. Dare to Dive In is exactly what's needed by worship leaders who want to lead experiential worship services. The authors are creative powerhouses and their book is packed with one great suggestion after another. Whether you're looking for liturgical season planning ideas or ideas for special worship services, this book is a great resource. Best of all, reading Dare to Dive In spurred my own imagination and creative thinking for worship.

This well-written and beautifully designed little book delivers a lot of surprisingly deep insights wrapped in wonderfully quirky humor that makes it much more accessible than most other books of this kind. What's more, while the focus of the book is on how to become involved in meaningful volunteer work, in fact it has much broader application: not just how to be a successful volunteer, but how to be a successful human being. It is one of those rare books that I know I will come back to again and again.

A thoughtful, *funny* look at service as a spiritual practice! How many authors would write about being "tenderized" after a total meltdown of mind, body and spirit? Or gently remind you to listen for the "call waiting" of service? No pious prose here. But lots of gentle, tender, thoughtful help along your own way-- from recognizing the beep from your higher self to making sure that service stays within healthy boundaries to tips to fight burnout. A great book for anyone exploring commitment or already involved with a cause.

WONDERFUL!! The world needs this now more than ever! Good stuff about boundaries, and levels of service, and how it figures in religious traditions, as well as how to figure out whether the alleged call is of the heart or of the mind.

Reading this has helped me sort out intriguing doubts and questions I've been having about some of the service I've seemed called to lately. I got both clarity and affirmation from this wise guidance that I'll not only use myself, but to help coach clients.

What's more, the material is beautifully organized, and expressed with the delightful, tongue-in-cheek irreverent and eminently readable wisdom that is Gould's trademark as a writer.

From the tzedakah of Judaism to St. Benedict to Buddhism's dana and Hinduism's seva, Meredith Gould highlights the significance of good works in all spiritual/religious traditions.

This is a very nifty--and practical--book! She holds our hands as she guides us along the journey of doing good--the upside and what she calls the "shadow side of service." She teaches us when and how to say yes or no, how to manage volunteer assigments, and even how to recognize burnout and what to do about it.

She writes with great and gentle humor, warning newcomers to community work of booby traps they may trip over while on the path to kindness and self-fulfillment.

This is a tips book for people who seek to aid their communities in any way they can and for people, already active volunteers, who wish to probe further into what they and their organizations can accomplish.

What a treasure.

And there's some stuff I want you to know about me and my book.

First, if you know anything about book publishing, you know that it's like elephant gestation. IOW, it normally takes at least two years before a book *idea* makes it into print. I'm telling you this because I happen to think it is very cosmically weird that I proposed this book *way* before the horrific events of 9/11/01.

This leads neatly to my next point: I'm a sociologist by education and training,which certainly led me to suspect that service would be the Next Big Important Thing after decades of unrelenting "Me" focus. Especially among aging Baby Boomers like moi.

As for identifying service as a spiritual practice, I credit years of traipsing the path to spirit and...well...I explain more in the "Foreword."

I hope you enjoy reading my book and that it inspires you to get involved in--or deepen your existing--service to others.

I highly recommend this book to anyone that is looking for ways to reach the unchurched youth in their area. More than just listing events and so forth, this book goes into great detail as how to actually develop a relationship with these kids. Go figure! I personally also liked the emphasis on things NOT to do. When I was younger I saw many people in my age range respond to the over-aggressive types exactly the way he describes in the book. Do yourself and your program favor and buy this book today.

I found this book to be very helpful in my youth work. I was asked to work with our middle school youth and did so willing. I had no experience or any idea what to do with these kids besides play games and feed them. These things still work well, but after reading this book and The Top 12 Resources Youth Workers Want, now I am more equipped to have discussions and learn together about Jesus and our lives as Christian people. I feel better about who I am, making me also feel better about who the kids are. Jonathan McKee is sharing his gifts, and for that I thank him.

This book is a wonderful tool for anyone who cares about people- especially kids... I am involved with urban ministry and this book was very inspirational and practical... I bought a few extra copies to pass around...
definitely worth your money!

McKee does something in this book that can rarely be seen in similar books: he gives great advice with simple instruction without a lot of fluff or extraneous material. The book is easy to read and packed with useful information NO MATTER WHAT AREA OF MINISTRY YOU HAPPEN TO BE IN. These tools will help you to develop relationships with anyone, from preteen to serior-aged adults. I highly recommend this book to you.

Working with junior highers and high schoolers both at camps and through my church, I'm always looking for great youth ministry material to keep me excited and on track in serving the students. I laughed when I first saw the cover for DO THEY RUN WHEN THEY SEE YOU COMING? but as I dived into the book, I found a very serious, very in-depth guide to reaching those students who aren't all that "churchy."

Jonathan McKee shares story upon story, driving home the different aspects of reaching unchurched teenagers. Some of them are sincerely heartfelt and emotional, and others are exciting to the point of shouting "Hallelujah!" McKee covers topics such as sharing the Gospel with love, help with ways to build relationships, not projects, and practical examples of what others have done to reach students on campus and off. I was very thankful that he included a chapter on follow-up, and drove home the point of sticking it out with kids, no matter what's going on in their lives or ours.

If you are involved in any sort of student ministry, this is an EXCELLENT resource to give you advice, help you get motivated, and be ready to love the students you are working with. Definitely add this one to your bookshelf.

Simply put, if you get this book and work through it, you will learn Kana.

I'm a busy guy and have had the book for a little over a month. I learned hiragana and am halfway through katakana. No flash cards neccesary, just write the characters over and over.

The reading exercises are especially excellent and will have your eyes tuned to reading speedily in no time.

A+.

Methodically works through all the charachters. good writing guide. if followed through, you will be able to read and write in hirigana and katakana, quickly and painlessly. includes translations of text.

This is a great book! Many people who learn the Kana. Think that once they memorize all the characters. They can fully read the Kana. Which is wrong!!!! This is why I love this book. It teaches kana grammar with kana writing, and has plenty of exerices.So by the end of the book you won't forget anything. I really recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn kana.
I never thought I could read and write kana, until I bought this book. Now it's off to kanji :(.

Also, don't be afraid of kana grammar. It is 100 times easier than english grammar.

This is a practical and useful workbook that teaches the hiragana and katakana characters. It uses a combination of learning by rote practice in tandem with self-test examples. The self-test examples have good variety and range from writing down sentences in kana to correcting sentences that have deliberate errors in them. I found the book's approach of practicing the kana along with reinforcement of what I learned to be an effective one-two combination. It helped me avoid that dreaded "I did it and then promptly forgot what I did" syndrome that some language students tend to have. I am glad that the authors recognized this. Of course, the authors have experience in teaching and their practical experience was reflected in the design of the book.

The book does have effective physical design. The lessons conveniently fit on each page and have enough space on them for you to write down the kana exercises. Each page can be easily photocopied onto another regular-size paper for repeated practice so that you don't damage the original book's pages. Each lesson also fits nicely on each side of a page so that you don't get a example that fits halfway on one side and continues on the other side of a page. That is very thoughtful of the authors.

Importantly, the book starts out by teaching hiragana as it is the most important of the two kana. I've seen other books start with the katakana simply because it had fewer brush strokes. I think that is a mistake. The brush stroke order is prominently shown on each rote lesson page which is a plus as it makes each lesson page self-contained and useful to practice if you are on a bus, in the library, or elsewhere so that you only need the individual sheets you are practicing with (no need for the rest of the book to serve as reference material).

If not for the additional thoughtfulness of the authors in providing an effective physical design of the book so that you can use it in versatile approaches, I would award FOUR stars.

Primarily, this book teaches the proper way to write hiragana and katakana. It excels at this because it gets you to practice, practice, practice and practice some more. Personally, I made photocopies of all the practice pages so I could more easily practice.

Secondarily, it covers basic pronunciation, reading, and writing sentances. Just the basics, concepts are explained simply and it provides a good platform for further study. I'm certain the authors intended readers to study other books for these skills.

Its one minor drawback is not including info on why machine-made characters sometimes look significantly different than hand-written characters.

purchasing through Amazon was breeze. Got product quickly. Purchased new. Product obviosly new and in perfect condition. Book itself is superb. All in all it's a 10 on a 0 to 5 scale, with 5 being best!

Eda Goldstein does a great job of describing, in detail, Ego Psychology from a historical, theoretical, and practical perspective. I was particularly fond of Part II dealing with the ego and its functions and defenses. She writes with a clarity that is difficult to find when reading books dealing with detailed theoretical perspectives. I would highly recommend this book to socials workers and pyschologists alike. It is a wealth of information that you will find yourself referencing again and again.

This book is an excellent primer for clinical social workers working with volatile populations as it addresses ego functioning and deficits in depth. It additionally provides invaluable insight into borderline and other personality disordered individuals, as well as a survey of other noted theorists, besides Dr. Goldstein in the areas of ego functions.

Hot-n-hulky Eda Goldstein has written a classic for mental health practitioners. A skillful integration of Ego Psychology practice and treatment.

Dr. Goldstein's book provides students with a survey of the major contributors to ego psychological theory. To her credit, she manages to effectively communicate sometimes difficult material without resorting to the complicated jargon that one often finds in similar psychoanalytic texts. Ego Psychology and Social Work Practice 2nd Edition enables beginners to appreciate some of the insights of the ego psychologists without having to read and interpret the original texts. This would be a daunting task and unnecessarily laborious for a beginning student. It also provides more experienced clinicians the opportunity to review material germane to clinical practice or as an accompaniment to more advanced reading.

Bashar Katirji has certanly done it. Neroligists every where should definetly get this book. With its detailed pictures and details in general, it would out come any old book. Please write some mor Katirji!!

This book is the result of more than fifteen years of teaching EMG to medical students, neurology residents first at the University of Pittsburgh and, lately, at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The objective of this book is to provide a practical discussions of the most commonly encountered disorders in the EMG laboratory, using typical and real case studies.

Excellent clinical book, covers most clinical cases in EMG. Amust to all neurologists and physiatrists.

I studied this book many times (resident, fellow, before exams), and every time I found myself learning from it more and more.
It is about 300 pages, with 25 cases. The first 16 cases deal with common entrapment neuropathies, radiculopathies, etc in upper and lower extremities (8 cases each). The last nine cases are oriented for generalized diseases such as Myasthenia, AIDP, botulism, etc. Each case starts with history/exam followed by few questions. The next 2-3 pages are the NCS/ENG findings. The next 5-15 pages (varies between cases) are rich with very informative discussion about the electrophysiological findings, anatomy with pictures and charts, clinical with few tables, then a lengthy electrophysiological explanations about the particular case and its differential diagnosis, with many tables( key EMG muscles, LEMS versus MG). The case ends with a follow up.
As I said above, I keep learning from this book, and I do not hesitate to recommend it.

Hi! I'm Linda Katirji, and Bashar Katirji is my dad. If you lived in my house in Ohio, you would know how long my dad worked on this book. Day and night he sat at this darn computor and wrote this book... he put so much hard work into it. Even though i cant understand half the "doctors lingo" as he calls it, (i'm only 13) i can see the effort he put into it and the satistfaction he got out of it. Even if only 10 people bought this book, he would be thrilled and i'm very proud of my dad. Dad, i applaud you.

This book is for my daughter who says it is a great help to prepare her for the Ntl. test.

Great product that has really helped me out alot in class and preparing to take the national registry exam! It comes with a detailed look at the skills you are required to complete as part of the exam, with common mistakes made on them, and a practice exam with answers.

This is the closest to the NR that I've seen (I haven't seen them all) but despite its small size it had the best content.

This book outlines the areas of EMT testing at both State and National Level. It's a sure way to review all the areas that will be covered on the exams. I highly recommend it for anyone just out of school or preparing for certification.

This is an excellent review for the NREMT exam for EMT-B certification. It is well organized, helps you pinpoint areas where you need to study more, and is written very much like the actual test.

The questions in these practice tests are much more difficult than those found in online practice tests, which tend to be over-simplified. Just as important, this book is from an authoritative source; I found some answers in the online sources which were just plain wrong.

The NREMT exam is as much about test-taking ability as it is about subject matter knowledge, and that's where this book really helps. In particular, there are many questions on the actual exam where the choices contain information which looks very simple at first glance, but which in fact contains very subtle differences. The questions in this book give you those types of choices, and train you to read each question carefully looking for those nuances which are the difference between a right answer and a wrong answer.

Your first time through the questions in this book may be a wake-up call if you don't really know your stuff. But it's better to get a wake-up call before the test, rather than during the test. I passed on the first try. Good luck!

This book has helped my research about religions tremendously ! I have to recommend this book to any one seeking a Greater knowledge!

I found this to be eye opening. I have had a hard time finding a book that could teach me about the different religions/denominations. This one was very comprehensive. I highly recommend it.

While I don't own it (yet) I've been impressed with it since first learning of it. While this is not a work on which most households would spend hundreds of dollars, there really is no substitute for Melton's masterpiece. Even defunct and/or oddball sects are included, such as Kennedy worshippers, the House of David, and schismatic versions of many faiths. The organization of this work is by theological classification (Holiness movement or Black Muslim for two examples), but the index is comprehensive.

In this mammoth work (which is regularly updated), Melton has provided clear and unbiased descriptions of virtually every religious body of any size operating in the United States today.

Every religious body is identified by the "family" into which it fits (or from which it came) eg. Western Liturgical Family, Eastern Liturgical Family, etc., and described in terms of date of founding, major beliefs, size, number of congregations, organizational structure, and, in many cases, contact information.

This book is a must in every university or seminary library -- regardless of religion or denomination. The serious scholar will also wish to have a copy.

J. Gordon Melton's "Encyclopedia of American Religions" is a reference work to which I turn, year after year, in my work as both a scholar and journalist. And I eagerly look forward to each new edition (I viewed the 6th edition as I prepared this review).

This mammoth work contains both a series of essays on major religious traditions and a series of profiles of individual denominations, fellowships, and missions. The profiles on individual religious bodies number well over 2,300 in the 6th edition. Mailing addresses and bibliographic references (when available) for each individual body further add to the book's usefulness.

Melton covers everything from the largest mainstream denominations to the smallest and most esoteric bodies. His broad editorial vision takes in nearly every conceivable religious tradition: Christianity in all its permutations (Anglican, Lutheran, Pentecostal, etc.), Judaism, Hinduism and other Eastern traditions, Neo-Pagan groups, "flying saucer"-related fellowships, Atheist and Humanist associations, and more. Each entry is written in an objective manner.

The latest edition of this book should be in every library in Canada and the United States. Furthermore, serious journalists and scholars of religion will find this to be a useful and fascinating edition to their own private libraries.