McKenna has an amazing command of topics including: UFOs, mycology, James Joyce, entheogenic botany, psychopharmacology, comparative religions, art history, quantum physics..,and the list goes on. For what he lacks in accuracy, he makes up in the interconnectiveness of his perspective.

A truly compelling public speaker.

In this 11 hour rap Terence Mckenna covers all of his favorite topics of discussion, From the self transforming machine elves in DMT hyperspace, Ayahuasca, the gaian mind, the world as language, to his own unique blend of philosophy & social commentary. This workshop encompasses on the whole much of Terence's entheogenic musings. On a side note, in the Q&A spots many questions from the audience are sometime hard to hear, but Terence's answers usually straigten out any confusion. Highly Recommended!!!!!!!! I'd give it 6 stars if I could.

I read this book within 24 hours. Once you start you can't put it down. Just knowing that it is a true story and being told by the person who lived it is fasinating. My 13 year-old son is going to read it as a history book for World War II. What better way to read it than from a first-hand account. If you don't like the truth , don't read this book. If you want to read about history in a way you will never forget, read this book NOW!!

A chronicle of four years imprisonment as a Japanese POW. North China Marine captured the first day of the war, Dec. 8 1941-1945. Contains Authentic photos taken with a pin-whole camera, the original glass plates are now USMC archives Wash.DC Raw, not for faint hearted.

This collection of seven short stories set in Iran reveal the author's deep understanding of the country and their people. O'Donnell's stories present both issues of Western interaction with Persians, as well as cultural divides within Persian culture. The collection is subtitled "Stories of Old Iran" as they portray an Iran of 20-40 years ago and have a certain reserve to them. "The Tree and the Pool" is perhaps the least successful of the stories, portraying a somewhat stereotyped "ugly American." Another featuring Americans, "The Women and the Ladies" is also somewhat awkwardly executed. The concluding "Mrs. Cahn" is a more even piece, as an old American woman transcends her background to connect with local tribespeople. "The Duck Hunt" works well as a sketch of the tension in a Norwegian family on vacation in Iran. "The Price and the Baker," "The Stone of Love," and "The Old Men of Isfahan" are more fablistic, and enjoyable on that level. As a whole, the stories are a good glimpse into a passing time and place. The story titles are presented as two page spreads with lovely black and white photos that perfectly capture the mood of the book as a whole.

As a person who also lived in Iran in the 1970's, I was particularly interested in the stories in this book. However, it would be of interest to anyone because the stories are evocative and the prose style is simple yet stunningly beautiful. This book is an absolute gem.

the sports marketing guide has been a tremendous help to me when calling on companies to sponsor the baseball team i work for. it also gave me some fabulous promotion ideas to generate more fans. the price was well worth it! and i can't wait for the 2001 edition to come out.

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Until this book, the technology to treat repeated relapse into alcoholism and drug addiction did not exist at worst, and was haphazard at best. What the authors did was study relapsers and notice patterns of relapse. These patterns could then be codified and used in a program to identify 'triggers' or situation that lent themselves to relapse, and could thus be avoided in the future. In addition, some tools can be developed to help recovering persons deal with unexpected triggers if and when they arose in the future.

It is a lot of work, both for the counselor and for the client, but the payoff is long term sobriety.

As someone who has worked with substance abusing
individuals (and, as a master's student,
having comoderated a DUI therapy group), STAYING
SOBER is an invaluable resource for therapists and
clients alike.

Basically, Gorski & Miller outline a way in which
the addicted individual can learn to avoid relapsing
in the future - basically, by examining the "triggers"
(usually emotional & situational) which can
potentially lead to relapse. By examining these

triggers, and then creating a "relapse prevention
plan", the addicted individual can
usually find a way to avoid relapse.

However, my summary does not do the book justice.
I _strongly_ urge everyone who can to pick up this
book. It is one of the best books I have read
about the subject of relapse prevention

They call it "Successful Manager's Handbook". That is correct. But one thing you should know about this beautifully structured text is that it benefits anyone who seeks knowledge from it. Thus, I would not advise you to wait until you become a 'successful manager' before paying attention to it.
Even if you are the most unsuccessful messenger around, the valuable productivity guidelines in this book would go a long way in defining and improving your status. If diligently applied, the principles of this book would enhance your overall potentials: be it official or domestic.
This book is a handbook for all. It is an asset for matured dealings.

I just picked up a copy in an airport bookstore. I looked at one suggestion, and used it when I got back to the office. My productivity has skyrocketed. I think a lot of the suggestions here are commonsense. But do any of us have enough commonsense?

I was introduced to this text in a seminary class on Biblical theology and found Fretheim's discussion challenging and provocative. Fretheim demonstrates that the notion of a omniscient,omnipotent God simply is not borne out in the biblical narrative. Rather, we have a portrayal of God as one in a loving relationship with God's people. A loving relationship, by its very nature, implies give-and-take and no one party is allowed control or dominance. Fretheim demonstrates example after example in the scriptures where God is portrayed as influenced, persuaded, surprised,and even confused by the behavior of the people. This is a God who suffers when the people suffer, not a God who is above all and beyond human experience. I have had the privilege to hear Dr. Fretheim speak in person and he is an engaging and challenging theologian with much to offer both the professional student and the arm chair theologian.

Terence Fretheim's _The Suffering of God: An Old Testament Perspective_ is an outstanding book, particularly for those concerned with the long-neglected subject of Divine pathos. It is an excellent corrective for two equally disturbing trends in much of the currect thought about God: First, the view of God as a grandfatherly, essentially innocuous figure--Niebuhr's "God without wrath Who sent a Christ without a cross into a world without sin"; second, the view of God (especially prominent in certain Christian circles) as an omnicausal, impassive Unmoved Mover. Fretheim's book masterfully navigates between this latter-day Scylla and Charybdis.

The last five chapters of the book ("God in Human Form"; "God Suffers Because"; "God Suffers With"; "God Suffers For"; "Prophet, Theophany, and the Suffering of God") are especially insightful, beautifully complementing Abraham Joshua Heschel's thoughts on Divine pathos in _The Prophets_.

The concluding chapter--"Prophet, Theophany, and the Suffering of God"--is especially powerful. Today, the Prophets are mined primarily for eschatalogical and/or apologetic insight-- oftentimes, sadly, to the detriment of other, no less vital matters, such as the pathos of God. So very much may be learned from these remarkable souls, in whose words one cannot help but hear (i.e., apart from any prior philosophical convictions!) God weeping and raging, and not only for His chosen people, the Jews, but for all mankind and even the earth itself, its very flora and fauna (see, for instance, "God as Mourner" [pp. 130-36]).

The very idea of such intense Divine vulnerability is staggering, not to say liberating: No longer is one faced with an impassive God Who sits on high, micromanaging every last detail of history to His chosen ends; one sees how very _gracious_ God is, how He has entered into dynamic relations with the world in such a fashion the He, too, may suffer pain, rejection, abuse. As Fretheim makes abundantly clear, though, the ways of God are not the ways of man: Where a human would become bitter or callous or simply remove himself/herself from such suffering, God remains ever faithful, ever merciful. Even when judgement ultimately falls, one cannot divorce God's wrath from His pathos. Truly, His compassion fails not!

I cannot recommend this book too highly. It is essential reading for any who wish to enter into genuine intimacy with God.

Excellent, Norten is really building a new trend in architecture: the creation of spaces full of pleasure: light, functionality, metal and glass combined to greatness.

It's surprising to see how actual the architecture in Mexico is nowadays.

this book will really make you think about yourself as an american man. i am a 25 year old man who lives just 6 blocks from the "Dixieland" of Thomas Wolfe's childhood and his work can truly be a remarkable thing to read while you are sitting in the surroundings of the novels "Look Homeward, Angel" and "Of Time and the River". It is very surreal because his prose is like poetry which perfectly captures this little spot of america. i love mr. wolfe and will be reading him when i drop dead!!

Thomas Wolfe, never at a loss for words; in fact in he has used the entire English language to evoke what is now the lost soul of The American Male. Melancholia bathes the pages and streams into the heart of the reader, urging one on to find the forgotten spirit which blessed America before this country succumbed to its death of Soul in the latter half of the twentieth century. This is The novel, and Thomas Wolfe The writer of America's heart and soul

This booklet assists the bereaved in accepting loss and experiencing that loss utilizing their rich resource of faith. It is a booklet written for the recently bereaved. Funeral directors, pastoral ministers and friends have given this booklet for supporting the bereaved. It is special approach to grief which gives sensitive ways for coping.

This is a spiritual self-help approach for the bereaved. They are able to ritualize loss through joining their journey with the Lord. The art work done by Sr. Angelica provides a meditative tone for the booklet. This way of the cross may be prayed all at once or in stages. It is a one of a kind book for the bereaved.