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This book is wonderful. I hope everyone that can't understand why they can't change the things they want to change, can't figure out why they are compelled to do some of the things they do, feel disgusted and unhappy with themselves for their lack of "self-control", etc. finds this book. Highly recommended!
The warmth, humanity, and intelligence of the Pieper's approach shines through in the many examples drawn from their work over many years. While acknowledging that the origins of inner unhappiness lie in the parent-child relationship in early childhood and adolescence, the Piepers firmly refuse to blame parents for their inadequacies. Rather, they suggest that parents are most often motivated by the desire to do what is best for their children, but that their actions or lapses may result in an experience of inner unhappiness for the child. Because the child assumes the parent as the ideal caregiver, he or she interprets the experience of inner unhappiness as the relationship ideal, and comes to associate that inner unhappiness as a "natural" or pleasurable condition of ideal caregiving. This understanding extends and amplifies into adulthood and creates a "filter" by which all experience comes to be interpreted. Meanwhile, however, our healthy self with its innate motive for genuine pleasure maintains a parallel existence with this addiction to unhappiness. These two motives, the motive for genuine pleasure and satisfying relationships and the motive for preserving our inner unhappiness are fundamentally in opposition. The good news is that we can choose to gratify one or the other.
The Pieper's book explains how we manage to restore our familiar inner unhappiness when faced with success or genuine pleasure. Such aversive reactions are quite different from the genuine unhappiness that meets a loss or disappointment. In this book, the Piepers explain clearly how to distinguish these two forms of unhappiness, how to recognize whether the cause is within you, in others, or in the situation. They provide clear, workable strategies to help you develop a plan to overcome your addiction to unhappiness, how to deal with hindrances and obstacles, and how to recognize successes. (A hint: "backsliding" should be recognized as a temporary reaction to the successes you are enjoying as you make progress.) Whether you are having trouble taking off a few pounds, enjoying your closest relationships, or finding satisfaction in your work, you can immediately benefit from this book. Yet you will find the transformational effects far reaching, as your life becomes much more deeply satisfying and meaningful. These insights will be with you for the long haul.
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I have to admit that the title first confused me. I was afraid that I would end up with a whole book of wonderful songs I didnt know. Wrong on all accounts! This is a great hymnal book for ALL people who love and treasure these precious hymns. Thank God for the people who had the gift of putting together this wonderful hymnal.
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It makes me laugh out loud every time I read it!
Not to be confused with the horrid movie starring Burt Reynolds.
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Highlights include:
- A structured quality cycle based on Plan-Do-Check-Act. This cycle is the foundation of continuous improvement, which is the theme of the book.
- Complete description of testing techniques - in this respect the book is an encyclopedia for software test professionals and a definitive reference.
- Comprehensive resource for forms and checklists (I wish these were also provided in soft copy on a CD ROM or author's web site, but they are not).
- Full view of metrics across every aspect of the development life cycle. In the same manner that the testing techniques are encyclopedic, the metrics are also an encyclopedia for SQA professionals.
I've used this book as a reference, and it had a heavy influence on a reference chart a colleague and I developed for depicting life cycle key metrics. It does not confine itself to testing alone, and in fact, has something for production services and service delivery professionals, as well as project managers involved with large scale development and implementation projects. You would have to buy at least a dozen books or download thousands of documents off the Internet to get the information contained between the covers of this book.
All you need to add is the ability to think. If you can do that you'll be able to transform the incredible amount of information in this book into action. If you do that I guarantee you that you'll be able to develop a world class quality organization.
Of course, you can mine the publicly available resources and sort through them. Before you do, think carefully about how much your time is worth and just how much you can absorb. If you're intelligent enough to understand this book, you'll quickly see that you'll save thousands of manhours. If not, you still need this book because approach will make you think in terms of cost/benefit.
The forms and checklists in this book alone are worth many times the price.
Mr. Lewis' book is particularly relevant those of us who must reduce development costs while meeting our customers' maturing expectations. Times have changed; financial restrictions prevent using development resources to correct software defects. Initiating the prevention processes outlined in Software Test and Continual Process Improvement will boost project efficiency and product value.
My suggestions for improvement: If Mr. Lewis left out the vendor references (in Sections IV and VI), then his book would be less vulnerable to obsolescence. More emphasis on how requirement and test management tools map to each other would strengthen the same sections.
It's naive to assume that a book on software test and quality can describe all the components and nuances of thorough testing. Software Test and Continual Process Improvement comes closer than any other book I've read to describing effective end-to-end software quality interventions. It's the software test compendium to hold on to.
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Excellent read!
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I loved reading about the methods he used for farming, building, and general survival with none of what we consider the amenities of life. I found myself feeling very calm as I read this book....a sure sign that the conveniences of modern life bring stress with them!
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I picked it up thinking that it would be a somewhat disinterested look at theology, historical events and so on, and an even-handed look at Judaism and Christianity.
It isn't. It's a book for believers, specifically, Christians, which is fine if that's what you want. The author, Henrietta C. Mears, is clear on her own beliefs and what she and the reader should believe. She's a little more fond of !!!!! than I care for, and there's a kind of a see?-I told-you-so kind of tone to it. Have you ever seen those bumper stickers that say something like, God Said It/I believe it/That's It! ?
That's how this book reads. Now, having said that, here's the general direction of the book.
Mears analyzes every book of the Bible. Every single chapter of her book starts out with the word Understanding, then names that book, from Genesis to Revelation. She reels off details and assessments of each book, with the underlying assumption that the reader agrees with what the Rev. Billy Graham says in the foreword to this book: "The Word of God is the only real authority we have."
So, for example, in her chapter on Genesis, she writes: Satan appears to have special enmity for the book of Genesis. No wonder the Adversary has bent his attacks upon it. It exposes him as the enemy of God and the deceiver of the human race; it foretells his destruction; it depicts his doom." A few pages later, we get this sentence Remember, Jesus Christ is the center of the Bible.
She also gives us such tidbits of information as this: there are 31,102 verses in the Bible, using 775,693 words*; Psalm 119 is the longest chapter; Psalm 117 the shortest. Ezra 7:21 contains all the letters of the alphabet except J (I don't know how well this fact stands up in translated versions and a conspiracy theorist could have a field day with the source J!); the longest book in the Old Testament is Psalms, the longest in the New Testament is Luke.
This book is probably best used in an adult Christian education class or something similar. I don't see it helping much on an ecumenical or evangelical level. Perhaps it works as a self-education tool, for someone who's arrived at Christian belief and wants a wider understanding of the sense of the full Bible.
*In English, I assume.
But all the information I gather was not complete.
Especially those Ops for 20-30 years.
But this book really makes a difference.
Every detail of the Op that you want to know was in it.
Location. situation and planning...results
I think this is a wonderful book for those
who want to study Spec Op Cases!!!