This book is a collection of articles which cleave into three basic sections - a survey of academic research into the arts, a psychotheraputic slant on the life of the artist, and the beneficial uses of drama and music in healing the broken mind. There is a lot of territory covered, and the contributers have a variety of styles and background interests, but the tone is invariably professional, inquisitive and open-minded

Book is about the use of word Qur'an, kitab, mushaf in its various forms and in different context and locations. It is very interesting book for it pulls attention to very important details that you otherwise might have missed when you read the Qur'an or not recall how the same word was used in previous ayats.
Author also investigates the oral nature of the Qur'an and its written form and concludes that for Muslims the oral Qur'an was essential and therefore there was no push for written form.
Although it was more about if the Qur'an is the same as "kitab" or if it is part of it for author draws attention to both expressions used in Qur'an for me it was a reading lecture to catch the details.

Rachel's Cry; Prayer of Lament and Rebirth of Hope, by Billman and Migliore, seeks to recover the biblical tradition of lament and protest, and exemplify its importance in one's spiritual life, especially for those who grieve while facing irrational suffering. The biblical figure Rachel is seen as metaphor "of the wholeness of prayer and spirituality that needs to be reclaimed by Christians today." Rachel's cry, her laminations, "need to be reclaimed in Christian prayer, the liturgy of the church, and pastoral ministry." The prayer of lament is the "unsettling tradition of prayer that includes expressions of complaint, anger, grief, despair and protest to God," found throughout the Bible, most often in the Psalms. One who did not believe in God could not have written these laments; they are honest, open conversations with a living, listening, God. The prayer of lament can co-exists with the prayer of praise and joy; in fact, it must if those that suffer are to be honest with them and with God. "How can the prayer of lament be free and joyful if the realities of broken human life are not named and lamented?" Lament adds to the wholeness of Christian life, and has its place with praise and thanksgiving in a holistic understanding of prayer. I highly recommend this book for those that are grieving or are seeking to comfort those that are suffering.

This is a sourcebook for Werewolf: the Apocalypse, 1st edition. As such, many of the rules are a bit out of date. However, the source material stands up very well.

"Rage Across New York" provides everything you'll need to run a campaign set in NY state, with caerns for your characters to defend, figures for them to interact with, and an evil organization to combat. Though the Seventh Generation (the aforementioned 'evil organization') has been destroyed in the Revised version of the Werewolf setting, there's no reason you can't use them in your own chronicle, or use this information to start a campaign around the remnants of this evil faction.

Overall, "Rage Across New York" is perfect for any Storyteller who needs a setting with lots of potential conflict, intrigue and detail. Definately worth picking up... if you can find a copy...

This is a pretty good book that has stories about ghosts and things an roads and railroads, and it is pretty creepy. But this book has a totally stupid cover, a man is sticking his head out the window while a huge thing is flying there. That is the last thing I would do if I saw something like that!

Richard Boyatzis is the Chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western University; Annie McKee is on the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education and is cochair of the Teleos Leadership Institute in Philadelphia; Daniel Goleman is the cochair of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, based at Rutgers University's Graduate School of Professional and Applied Psychology. They are the authors of 'Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence' (2002). This article was published in the April 2002 issue of Harvard Business Review.

The tragedy of September 11, 2001, provided many of us with the impulse to take stock: "Am I really living the way I want to live?" This impulse to take stock comes up periodically for most of us in far less dramatic circumstances. In normal circumstances, most of us have a passion that drives us. But when that passion fades, we begin to question the meaning of our work. So what are the signals that it's time to take stock? The authors provide us with some traditional feelings: "I feel trapped."; "I'm bored."; "I'm not the person I want to be."; "I won't compromise my ethics."; "I can't ignore the call."; "Life is too short!" It does not necessarily have to be a world tragedy to set these feelings off. The most traditional one is probably the mid-life crisis. Once these signals/feelings are identified, it is vital to listen and respond to them. The authors also provide us with some tools for reflection. There is no one-size-fits-all solution, but there are various approaches available. Probably the simplest one is the call for a time-out. This can take the shape of a sabbatical, or holiday, or taking up a (new) hobby. The second strategy is to find a program. This is a more structured strategy, guiding people as they explore their dreams and open new doors. Others create a "reflective structure", or time and space for self-examination, which can take place a few hours a week, a day or two a month, or a longer period every year. You could also decide to work with a coach to provide you with an outside perspective. This can come from family, friends, and/or colleagues. For most of us, it's not possible to change job or move somewhere new, even if the current situation is undesirable. In those circumstances, you could make some small adjustments so that your work more directly reflects your beliefs and values. This, however, requires courage to take some risks. The authors use various real-life examples from the business world to explain the points.

Unlike Daniel Goleman's previous articles on leadership, this one is more a self-help article. It discusses a problem which we see more and more often in modern society - the classical 'burn-out' - and I mean not just within the business world. The aim of this article is to make us understand when and how we can take stock of our lives and, most helpful, how we can renew our passion. The subject reminds me of Stephen R. Covey's compass ('The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People'), in which we map our goals for our life. I also recommend Peter F. Drucker's 1999-article 'Managing Oneself', in which he advises us to prepare for a life after work. Although the article is published in the Harvard Business Review, it is useful for not just business people. The authors use simple US-English.

She-Wolf has a secret. She and her mate are on the move, traveling through wetlands and snow covered forests. The earth stands still to listen to their song as they howl beneath the moonlit sky. They hunt together preying upon rabbits or swamp crabs. They are in search of a den. As they near a farmhouse a farmer shoots at them and they lunge into a cold icy river to escape. Struggling to survive, they search for higher and more distant lands far from humans. In spring their pups are born and we are left hoping that humans will allow them to live in their world. Again, Jonathan London magnificently captures the spirit of these great creatures while Daniel San Souci's illustrations reflect the true beauty of the endangered red wolf. In 1987, red wolves were released into wilderness areas. Now over one hundred inhabit the lands of "Red Wolf Country": Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, Bull Island, Horn Island, St. Vincent Island and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Roland Smith, the former red wolf species coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service writes in an afterword an informative history about the red wolf. Red Wolves were plentiful in the southeastern U.S. until the mid-1960's when, through the destruction of natural habitat and thoughtless activities of hunters, trappers, ranchers and farmers, they became extinct. A few wolves were found in Texas and Louisiana and, for their own protection, they were placed in captivity and later released in N. Carolina's islands off the shores of Florida, Mississippi, and S. Carolina and , in fall 1991, in Tennessee's Great Smokies National Park. Now there are approximately 100 red wolves running free.

This book provides a really useful guide for organizations on how to manage small museums, as it covers basic topics such as the acquisition of items, accessioning, accession number systems and documentation. When doing research on how to manage our church's heritage exhibition, the book was one of the few books on the subject that we were able to find, and certainly the most up-to-date one. We have not followed exactly what was suggested in the book, but have found the advice given useful for adapting to our purposes.

So, you want to learn about Imperial and Pre-Imperial Russia? Good Choice. This book is also a good choice for that. Broken down into sections that cover the rise of the Imperial government from the first tribes of the Russian Steppe to the great reforms of the 1860s. The format is easily understood and allows quick reference. each section is composed of primary documents and then articles by various historians on the subjects raised in the primary documents. The disscusion is interesting, and brings together both Russian and Western Historians. THe primary documents are well chosen and run the gamut from childrens scratchings in birchbark from what is presumably a school room to the text of some of Alexander II's public statements on serfdom. Combined with a large selection of images from the periods, the book gives a good feel of what the time was like.

The primary sources also show a sensitivity to different ways of looking at and for history. there are some transcriptions of folk tales, and some law codes, (rather more of the latter than the former). For students interested in seeing what the big names in historical reaserch are using to write their learned texts, this is an excellent introduction to the world of primary sources from early history; and since the literature discusses the sources which have already been shown, the student can see how they were incorporated.

There are two reasons i gave this book 4 stars rather than 5. first, its hard to get a good grasp of history from the book, since it feels vaguely disjointed and eposodic rather than flowing. this is not anything that could not be solved with a good companion (i recommend Gregory Freeze's "Russia: A History") but it makes reading it on its own difficult for a person not well versed in the history, which is a pity since the writing is easy to read and would otherswise make a good book for the lay person. Secondly, (and this isn't a flaw for me, but some of my friends who read it with me in the class i took with this book as a text thought it was) was that the book spends a lot of time looking at law codes. i happen to like that, but some of my friends who are more interested in the "story" of history found it deadly dull. if you look at the rest of Kaiser's work, you will notice a certian tendancy toward law codes. so that is something to keep in mind. on the whole, this is definitely one of the best history books i have read on russia in general and on pre imperial russia it is one of the best.

This book is a wonderful introduction into systems design and analysis. It is fairly technical, but it has a wealth of information on failure modeling and prediction. A very good reference book, as well as a nice introduction to a soon-to-be very hot topic.