Mr Murphy starts off his book with a sort of amusing story - he is asked to spy on the second shift employees to see if anyone punches out early. He prays he won't find anyone punching out early as he did not want to spend his career spying on other employees.
From this experience, he begins to build a "principle-based" work culture, one that cultivates and rewards teamwork. He gives various suggestions on how to make people come together and work as a team instead of being "me-opic".

This is a very good book for managers or folks who want to be managers to learn how to motivate your crew to do the best thing for the greater good of the team. I particularly like how he suggests that working together brings a greater reward for the team than pulling in opposite directions. The suggestions seem sound and based on a real working environment as opposed to some management books use such bizarre examples that you're sure the writer never really worked in an office.

By it and cultivate your management skills.

This book gives insight to the foundational doctrine of the laying on of hands (Heb 6:1-2). The author explains the four purposes of laying on of hands (promotion, gifting, releasing and deliverance) and that laying on of hands is foundational and necessary in building strong churches.

This book, which includes viewpoints of authors from England, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the U.S., is a valuable contribution to an understanding of resistance and power in the context of labor process theory and subjectivity. Moving from the thought of writers including Foucault, Braverman, and Marx; the authors deconstruct dualistic thinking to explore the relationship of power, resistance, and compliance. Most of the chapters examine actual cases of resistance in specific organizational and socio-cultural settings. While eschewing grand theorization, the book does look for conclusions about sources, strategies, and effectiveness of resistance. It also provides a model of outflanking strategies employed by organizations, Finally, resistance is discussed in relationship to a typology of consciousness of power.

I am the registrar of a small educational institute that teaches courses on, among other topics, world religions. _Scriptures of the World's Religions_ is one of the two central texts that we use because of the high quality of the text.

One of the most amazing books by a Western Orientalist on the subject of Kundalini and the Tantras. An indepth study for the serious student of the Tantras and the Yogas.

"From its modest beginnings as... a minor, infrequent almost inconsequential participant in the great wars that ravaged sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe... Britain emerged in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries as the military Wunderkind of the age.... [B]y the reign of George III Britain had become one of the heaviest weights in the balance of power in Europe [and]... was on the threshold of becoming a transcontinental power..."

The above quote is the opening of War, Money, and the English State. There have been many histories of Britain's military successes in the century after the expulsion of James II Stuart--biographies of the first Duke of Marlborough, histories of the British navy, narratives of the Seven Years' War, and so forth. There have been many histories of Britain's economic growth--and even attempts to explain why Britain saw such mercantile and then industrial success in the eighteenth century. But the connection? John Brewer takes on the task of filling in the gap: how was Britain's economic success translated into massive military power?

This question is especially interesting because Britain appeared to successfully mobilize its resources for eighteenth century wars in a manner very different from the continental "absolutist" powers. The apparatuses of royal secret police, lits de justice, the co-option of the middle nobility in the centralization of power and authority, and the ideology of a king "freed from the duty of observing the laws" are in large part absent from British military mobilization. It followed a different pattern--one that may have had decisive consequences for human history...

John Brewer handles his topic superbly, making The Sinews of Power one of the best books I read in 1991, and making it one of the best books I read in 1995, when I re-read it.

I thought this book spoke well to the non-technical persons who might be involved with utility cost management in a commercial or industrial environment. The information was new and in depth where it needed to be. The author is abviously an expert in the field and has a knack for clearly explaining its complexities to those who arn't. I recommend this book to any person interested in their bottom line.

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Provides insight on how an electric meter works. Nice idea for a science project. Shows how inaccurate a meter can be.

I read this book, tried it on my hard-headed 16 year old son, and wow, was I pleasantly surprised at the results. To this day my son remembers some of those stories I told him. Then I used it on my teenage daughter, with similar results. Now I am buying it for a friend who is going through what I went through. This book helped turn Mom the Enforcer into Mom the Communicator. Thank you John Alston!