I bought this book on the recommendation from a friend. I have been looking for a book that would give a theological framework to what is now called the "marketplace movement". I was also looking for a book to encourage bussiness people and university students that their "work" is of real significance to God. I have not been dissapointed.

What is significant about "The Other Six days" is it's approach. This is not a popular critque of the seperation between work and worship, mission and ministry, clergy and laity. Instead it reconstructs a unifying theology welling up out of scripture, flowing out of the Trininty providing a paradigm of vocation, work, ministry and mission as an intergrated whole. The outcome is all the people of God participate in the Trinities work, mission and ministry.

The book is broken into three parts. Part 1 A people without "Laity and Clergy" Part 2 Summoned and equipped by God and Part 3 For the life of the world.

Each part traces ideas down through the church`s history which now discolour our thinking and practice on the issues addressed. Secondly the contemporary context is explored. The author then gets under the skin of these issues through sound biblical exgesis and an applied theology of the Trinity.

What resulted for me is a dynamic new way of understanding "calling" , work, ministry and mission. It has revitalised my understanding of the church and its work in society.

I found the discussion questions at the end of each chapter to be excellent. There are readings to examine, contemporary case studies to explore, situations to evaluate and examples to analyse. These are excellent for group or individual study, reflection and interaction.

If you are wanting to explore further the issues the book has raised the author provides a fantastic selected bibliograhy, index of authors, biblical references and subjects. The footnotes also provde a rich source for further research.

Overall I'm deeply impacted by the thought, devotion and reflection which has gone into this book. I fully recommend it to anyone wanting to grapple with the intergration of faith and daily life.

Whereas once, say around the time of the Monroe Doctrine, the Western Hemisphere was more or less similar in development region to region due to its common background of having been colonized by European powers, there has ever since been an ever-widening gap due to the differing influences of the colonizers of the north contrasted with the south.
The north, primarily colonized by the British and the French, was viewed as place where individual colonists and their families could create a new homeland and work toward self-sufficiency, exporting valuable natural resources back to the home countries in Europe and provide, in return, a market for what Europe could produce. The southern regions, on the other hand, were primarily colonized by the Spanish and the Portuguese, who sought only to extract natural and agricultural resources for themselves (they wanted gold, mostly), and pay the native inhabitants back by converting them to their brand of Christianity.
So now that all the countries of the Western Hemisphere are nations independent of Europe, the gap between the north and the south has expanded to its ulimate polarity: the United States and Canada are global economic powerhouses with high standards of living for the majority of their people, whereas in Latin America the people groan under the yoke of their own exploitative governments, an impractical and hypocritical rule of the church, and by imposed agricultural economies that do not, on the whole, raise sustaining food for the people, but superfluous, non-food-items for wealthy nations elsewhere--chocolate, coffee, sugar, rubber, tropical woods, and, the most lucrative of all, coca, that is processed into cocaine.
The country of Columbia (interestingly, one whose name is the closest to "Columbus") is almost archetypal in this concept...coffee, cocaine, and Catholicism (the kind of Catholicism that, for example, continues to forbid contraception in a country where the population has completely overrun its viable economic opportunities), and "Our Lady of the Assassins" is a desperate, but powerfully human cry from deep in the heart of that situation in a country still struggling for survival and meaning.
Fernando Vallejo, in presenting this tragedy, seems to offer no obvious hope of solution out of the misery, but only torturously writhes around and around within it, reporting rampant gang killing after gang killing like the city of Medellin's (idiomatically renamed "Medallo" in reference to a sub-machine gun) own news media in a never-ending cycle of ever-avenging death and despair while eternally on its knees supplicating "Santa Maria Auxiliadora" or whatever other Saint also bled and suffered, unable to really provide much help beyond solace through sympathy and maybe a hope of spiritual liberation after death.
Yet, as long as there is humanity, there still can be hope in THIS world, and where there are tears and laughter, there is humanity. The book is actually very funny in parts, and certainly ironic, as if, better than even crying, all one can do is laugh and attempt to enliven the otherwise-too-horrendous-to-fully-contemplate journey to Only God Knows Where. I found it fascinating that in the prayers requesting a "blessing" of the assassin's bullets, their requests were that the bullets wouldn't miss and in their deaths, the victims WOULDN'T SUFFER...as if even in their killing the assassins retained some germ of love. In fact, in the distortions of their slang, to "be in love with" somebody is to be out to kill them. They're all angels...avenging angels.
Most importantly, this book is a love story, a love story between a youth whose fellow gang members had all been destroyed, and an older man whose family had all died, that in their aloneness and solitude, they found a place for each other in their lives. I cannot fail to see that this, too, is a metaphor for hidden forces on the side of survival, for when the departing elders and the emerging youth love each other, there is a knitting together of life's circle and the wheel will somehow find a way to keep spinning. Vallejo may see that wheel like a Buddhist wheel of karma, where the only hope of escape is to be individually snuffed out into nirvana, or else maybe like an ancient inquistion torture wheel upon which the bones of humanity are broken and put on elevated display to engender a fear of God, but I think in a culture that did not, industriously, invent the wheel, THIS wheel, an engine of love and humanity, will be, instead of industrialism, its strength and ultimate salvation. And the best expression of that is through the arts such as this one, now in translation made accessible to those of us who reside in the northern hemisphere and may have heretofore remained ignorant of just what was going on in the cultures of a people with whom we once shared a common beginning. This is either a dire warning or a prayer for assistance...either way, we can no longer practically or philosophically afford to remain so isolated.

"The Oxford Companion to the Earth" is one of the more recent titles to be published by Oxford University Press (copyright 2000). One of the defining characteristics of the "Companion" series is comprehensiveness and this volume is no exception. In 1,174 pages, closeto one thousand entries appear, from "Acid Rain" to "Zoogeomorphology." All the topics one would expect to find in an encyclopedia of the earth sciences are here: volcanoes, plate tectonics, earthquakes, glaciers, the weather and other such standard fare are represented. A pleasant surprise is the unanticipated subject matter, such as "Art and the Earth Sciences," "Geoscience and the Media" and "Wine and Geology." Think of it as a rounding up of the unusual suspects. This kind of inclusiveness is a double-edged sword. While many topics are touched on, many are given only superficial treatment. "History of Geochemistry," for example, is not particularly helpful, as it is litle more than an enumeration of dates and events, without any analysis or context. To be sure, this shortcoming is due partly out of necessity, as an in-depth discussion of every topic would result in an unwieldly tome. I found the longer articles more informative, such as "Mantle and Core Composition," which takes up better than four pages. On the whole, this book presents an overview of a particular topic, rather than an examination of it. While well illustrated,l the majority of visual material consists of line drawings. Photographs, what few there are, have been printed n black and white only and generally are quite small. One of the features of this series that I particularly like are the "extras" presented to the reader. In the case of "Earth," they include paleogeographic maps printed on the end papers and a number of appendices covering the gelogic times scales, comparatative data on the earth and other planets of the solar system, the periodic table of the elements and several pages of scientific units, conversion tables an abbreviations of scientific terms. All in all, I regard this as a worhty addition to the library of anyone who desires a "just the facts, ma'am" approach to topics in the earth sciences.

this books ont too bad as far as showing you great examples of the "mas of tone" technique. good for a broad general overveiw but needs more details such as color formula and the cool and warm tone theorys.

In the Everglades, a Florida panther searches for food to keep her strength up to nurse her kittens. The simple story of this picture book for primary students comes alive with Paul Morin's striking, vibrant illustrations of the lush vegetation and wildlife of the Florida Everglades. Jonathan London's concise free verse suggests the anticipation and secrecy of the scarce panther's mission. An educational postscript is above the reading level of the rest of the book, but teachers and parents will find it a helpful resource. This is an admirable addition to a collection on endangered animals for primary-age children.

Paul Harris's 140 page book is a serious tease. It is exactly what the archivists and enthusiasts want, although, as both, I would have wanted something ten times the size. How could we ever capture the ether of pantomime set pieces? Harris has done a fine job of putting these sketches both into print and into context. Without his work, we would certainly have lost the jokes at which 1,000,000 people per annum laugh. For your information, we are talking about some seriously old jokes here, including one from the 1670s. That's pantomime for you! His modest aim has been to take the unwritten humour of Dan Leno and Jack Tripp and capture it for those of us who have been brought up in and around pantomimes. The result is a series of sketches and comedy routines which look good on paper but, I promise you, look fantastic on stage. If ever you want to find a routine for a piece of slapstick, traditional pantomime or children's theatre, look no further. Paul, howzabout a second edition with lots more? Finally, I'd like to use the WWW to apologise publicly to my commuting companions who must have thought me two sandwiches short of a picnic whilst reading this book on the train each morning. I know, for sure, that it got me to work a happier and jollier person. Oh yes, it did!

I am the director of The Harvest Players, the drama department of Garden Valley Church in Kelowna Canada. We used this script for our first full-length play in November 98. It was very well recieved. It deals with life and growing up or old. People of all ages from 18 to 88 can realate and are impacted by this play. It has only two set changes that are easily done.

First of all, I gave this book 4 stars because I would buy it again and read it again if I had the choice. Above anything else, that is (in my opinion) the best way to score a book. Anything that I say below, should be weighed against the fact that I really did enjoy the book.

This book seems to have two audiences. First of all, there are the missionary kids, especially those of us that attended Murree Christian School (the school that the author writes about). I attended MCS for about as long as the author did (1978-87) and I appreciated the first half of the book with the stories of being a kid at MCS. For you MCSers out there, I think that you will appreciate his memories and find how similar they were to yours. However, I can't relate to a few of the things that happened to the author and at the point where he left MCS his life followed a completely different path that I can't even imagine. In the second half of the book, the author describes the hell that his life becomes and how with (maybe too much) self analysis and psycho-babble, he is able to see himself as healed again. To me, it is not clear at the end of the book if he is really healed or if he is just currently at a temporary point of emotional stability. He still seems plenty bitter to me. Anyway, I doubt if the MCS people that I knew would enjoy this much self-centered psycho-analysis. Also, I think that people who follow the religious beliefs that are generally held/taught at MCS would be offended by some of the conclusions that the author comes to in the end.

The second audience for this book will probably be the self-help, new age, "I'm OK, you're OK" types. I don't consider myself to be a member of this group, but I don't know if they will really find it all that inspiring (see above) and it is too bad that they probably won't understand all of the MCS specific stuff that we alumni understand.

Any way, as I said at the top, I did enjoy the book even though the last few chapters were a little hard to get through. I think the author did a good job of capturing some of the good things about MCS, while making it clear that it was not the ideal place that we were led to believe when we attended it.

The content of this book is good - but only if you don't already possess earlier Jackson books.

It is a sad fact of life that publishers are not above reissuing books under a changed name.

At a price of over $1,000, I had expected a very interesting look at one of my faviorite industrialist genuises. J.D. Rockefeller Sr. is one of the most interesting Captians of Industry both personally and professionally I have seen in my life. These published papers of his were a deeper insight into his mind and how it worked. This most fascinating man had class, style, intelligence, and logic. I can tell by these papers that he is not only consevative but also not, contratry to popular belief, an ultra malterialist. He beleived he needed to surround himself with such riches and luxuries to "meet the social image of a man of my stature". These papers are a must for any "fan" of John D. Rockefeller Sr., founder of the Standard Oil Trust and richest, in most all respectes, man of his time.