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#1 NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Joel Osteen uses his seven successful principles from YOUR BEST LIFE NOW to give readers an edge on new beginnings and to make their faith count most in important moments.
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It's good.......2007-09-27
I thought it was going to be a full novel however turned out to be something similar to a one page motivational daily reading. It is positive and colorful with accurate words of inspiration so I am not upset with the money spent.
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Kim Sheridan grew up with animals as her constant companions. Each time she faced the death of a beloved pet, along with the pain came the same questions, to which she could find no answers. Then, mysterious things began to happen that she couldn’t explain, which led her on an incredible journey to uncover the truth. Along with her own extraordinary experiences, she compiled heartwarming and meaningful true stories of everyday people around the world, and discovered compelling evidence that forever erased her own doubts about an afterlife for animals.
This book provides enormous comfort and reassurance to anyone who has ever cherished a pet, and food for thought for anyone who has ever questioned the place of these beloved creatures in the larger scheme of things, both here on Earth and beyond.
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EXCELLANT.......2007-10-03
Loosing a 'friend' is never easy....for some, as with myself....tramatic..it has been two months.....
but with Kim Sheridan.........and the stories.....it has helped, given me hope and some peace.
I DO NOT recommend Sylvia Browne's book 'Spirit of Animals"..it is a picture book with two minutes of reading time......and you do not feel any better for it.
This book gives you hope, peace, and that just maybe you and your friend will meet again on THIS side.............
Animals and the Afterlife.......2007-09-06
This book was so helpful in easing the pain of losing a beloved pet. Kim
Sheridan's writing is informative, compassionate and insightful. I would recommend this book to anyone who is grieving a companion animal.
Fantastic Book.......2007-09-05
Once I got started reading this book, it was hard to put down. After reading this book I have the comfort of knowing that the 2 pets I just recently lost are still close by. I was touched by the wonderful stories that were shared by other people. I would highly recommend this book.
Nice Read.......2007-08-24
Comforting book for anyone who has lost a beloved pet. I now even have a new outlook on the rat family. It is filled with many wonderful story the writer received from others who have lost there pets. Easy read, would recommend for anyone of any age.
an emtional warm blanket.......2007-03-18
kim's book has been answered prayers for myself and many family members and friends.i cannot imagine how she was able to pick and choose through so many broken hearts to help us. i shed tears while reading this book both from grief and joy and allowed myself a sense of peace and understanding of transition that i had not learned even after a lifetime of critical care nursing. i appreciate the authors' respect for all life, and the different ways it is celebrated,mourned and honoured throughout the world. i appreciate greatly the biblical referances and the beautiful quotations. even though i miss my family greatly, i rejoice in knowing they will meet me at the rainbow bridge....thankyou kim,bless you and your work...looking forward to the next book....hurry!!!
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An Inward Journey: A Guide to Living Your Best Life
Kelly M Canull
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Are you always doing and have no personal you time? Are you ready to be empowered and manifest your dreams in physical ways? Are you easily stressed out or angered by others? If you knew that your fears were not real, would you be willing to face them? Could you see yourself being peaceful and centered no matter what your life looks like? Are you ready to let go of all the unhealthy relationships in your life? Are you ready to fully embrace the magnificence of Who You Really Are? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this is the book for you. This book takes you through the steps on how to move out of the old paradigm based in fear and embrace the new paradigm founded in Divine Love. This book will show you how to stand in your innate power and live as your authentic self. Journey inward with me as we explore how you can live your best life by reconnecting with the guidance of your soul.
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Functions involved in new product development--including R&D, marketing, competitive intelligence, project management, and even corporate communications and HR--have both the advantages and challenges of being a primary focus of senior management's attention. Developing successful and innovative products is now a priority for many executives and, consequently, a strategic element of organizations' overall goals.
Why is new product development, or NPD, so important to an organization's key strategic goals? Driven partly by rapidly changing markets and technologies and partly by the more recent demands of the financial community for dramatically increased sales and profits, senior management is now faced with leveraging NPD performance to improve profits. Organizations are then prompted to accelerate their NPD processes, which results in decreasing NPD costs. Senior management is pushing the pace of new knowledge from experimentation and is significantly reducing the time line to develop products. Yet the huge amounts at stake coupled with the high odds of failure make NPD one of the most uncertain endeavors of the modern organization.
So what are senior managers expecting from the NPD process? Simply put, they need innovative products that get to market faster and then perform better. A superior and differentiated product: offers new and unique benefits that are important to customers, provides superior quality, and best meets customer needs.
How can an organization possibly meet these requests?
This Passport guidebook can help to: find areas for improved execution, integrate innovation throughout the NPD process, and learn from the best practices APQC has benchmarked at leading NPD programs since the early 1990s. Regardless of whether readers are seeking to re-engineer or simply refine their NPD processes, this book can help by spelling out core practices and key drivers to a successfully launched product. The chapters detail:
- how to create a well-thought-out NPD strategy as part of a corporate strategy;
- the NPD process and the specific activities within this process;
- customer research, market orientation, and strategic collaboration;
- how to select and prioritize development projects, as well as how to allocate resources to different types of projects;
- the way to organize projects; and
- how to cultivate an innovative culture.
The bottom line is that an adequate understanding of the NPD process must exist. Through a more focused execution, organizations can both cultivate an industrious, innovative culture and hasten the NPD process. The result is better products at a lower cost and a reduced time-to-market.
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Any Way You Want It * Be Good to Yourself * Don't Stop Believin' * Faithfully * Girl Can't Help It * I'll Be Alright Without You * Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin' * Only the Young * Open Arms * The Party's Over * Send Her My Love * Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) * Still They Ride * Suzanne * Walks Like a Lady * Wheel in the Sky * Who's Crying Now.
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The Best Journeys Have No Destinations
Gail Smith & Janet Hastings
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Burnt Offerings
ASIN: 141964629X
Release Date: 2007-03-30 |
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The Best Journeys Have No Destinations is an amazing, true account of Gail Smith and Janet Hastings' spiritual journey through sacred sites, visions and dreams, psychic phenomena and past-life encounters. As they peel back the layers of ancient knowledge, and follow the clues from old books, synchronicities and spirit guides, they are led on a fascinating quest to Glastonbury and Avebury, England. Here they meet a Druid master who guides them to a prehistoric cave and the mysteries of an ancient ceremony, and the crop circles that appear in the fields of Somerset. You are led into the distant world of alchemists, Knights Templars, Cathars, and the St.Clair's, to the revelation that what happened then is happening now, that the past flows into the present, and leads us irrevocably into the future. The reader is shown that there is no death, only the timelessness of life in the spiral of time. As science expands its understanding of the cosmos, and we stretch the borders of our minds, we will awaken to the "infinite possibilities" in this ever-expanding universe.
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I've become an expert and yet a very jaded authority on "spiritual" self-help books and its people but..........2007-04-13
I've become an expert and yet a very jaded authority on "spiritual" self-help books and its people. But I picked a winner this time.
I'm a truth seeker; I know there are so many mysteries and answers to the universe-yet to be discovered. So one day I closed my eyes picked this book "Burnt Offerings" randomly off a tall shelf from a book store and bought it a while back. At first I was hesitant because of the title.
But like most folks, I wrongfully judged it. It's not what's on the cover that counts, but what's deep inside the book that counts. You just have to be opened to it, have faith and be ready to get everything you need or want in life.
Finally, a simple-clear book on how to condition my mind/energy to focus and infuse the universe with my intent to draw in all my dreams and hopes. "Burnt offerings" gave me the tools to help draw in happiness, weight loss, unconditional love, good fortune and prosperity. Some people say magic, others miracles, tomato/tomoto the words have changed through time, but rituals to transform negative to positive are always the same.
Through this book I overcame allot of my self sabotaging ways and helped me over come the big bumps in my life. Then when Gail Smith and Janet Hastings new companion book "The Best Journeys have no Destinations" came out, I bought it and understood how both books go hand in hand.
"The Best Journeys have no Destinations" is a cross between Di Vinci code, Celestine prophecy, a Road less traveled, Chicken soup for the soul, all wrapped up in one fantastic journey right in your own home.
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For over a decade, The Journey Prize Anthology has been the premier showcase for Canada’s finest up-and-coming literary voices. In this eleventh edition, the anthology continues its tradition of presenting the best of Canada’s new writers. Among the twelve stories:
Over the course of a long, hot summer with her invalid grandmother and a free-spirited babysitter, a young girl becomes increasingly aware of the complexities and ambiguities that lie on the other side of childhood. In a wistful tale about the enduring strength of family ties, a young Eskimo boy is determined to take on the responsibility of finding a new home for his infant brother. The sudden and unexpected death of his father prompts a man to embark on a meditative journey through his own peripatetic life. The pretensions and hypocrisies of a small town are comically brought to the surface during a Sunday Mass. After a fateful encounter, a defiant teenage girl and a solitary backwoodsman forge an uneasy life together amidst the wilderness of the Yukon. The progress of a married man’s seduction by a student is coolly observed by his wife. In a moving exploration of the power of memory and the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s, a woman tends to her now-elderly foster father.
The winner of the $10,000 Journey Prize for 1999 was Alissa York for “The Back of the Bear’s Mouth.”
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The Innocents Abroad is one of the most prominent and influential travel books ever written about Europe and the Holy Land. In it, the collision of the American “New Barbarians” and the European “Old World” provides much comic fodder for Mark Twain—and a remarkably perceptive lens on the human condition. Gleefully skewering the ethos of American tourism in Europe, Twain’s lively satire ultimately reveals just what it is that defines cultural identity. As Twain himself points out, “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” And Jane Jacobs observes in her Introduction, “If the reader is American, he may also find himself on a tour of his own psyche.”
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The Hobo Philosopher.......2007-09-15
I think that I must be one of the few people who has read all of Mark Twain's non-fiction and practically none of his classic works of fiction. I think that Mark Twain is one of the cleaverst philosophers who has ever lived. There is more to be learned in reading Mark Twain than in reading Plato or Aristotle as far as I am concerned.
I think that this was the second Twain travelogue that I read. It is a laugh a minute. I just love this guy. When they say the "wit and wisdom" of Mark Twain they are not kidding. He is really too much ... and he is fun! How can you beat it.
Perfect Gift.......2007-03-05
If you don't know the person for whom you're buying a gift, well get them this. It's laugh-out loud funny even for someone who doesn't read much or who has never heard of Twain.
Review of INNOCENTS ABROAD by Mark Twain.......2007-01-15
In what must have been the first organized tour by Americans of the Old World, Mark Twain tells of his experiences as a member of a party of 150 taking a cruise steamer to tour the European mainland, the Middle East, and parts of Asia.
The "innocents" of the title applies to Twain and his comrades. It shows partly in their naivete such as being flattered by a French shopkeeper into buying a tawdry piece of apparel, and in their assumption that every native guide must be telling the truth. It shows partly in their attempting behavior that seasoned travelers would not attempt, such as riding a donkey all day, or making an evening foray to the shore of Athens--in violation of the quarantine--to observe the Parthenon under the moonlight. It shows mainly in Twain's sense of wonder at the monuments of civilization which tower over him in what seems the first confrontation of American culture with Europe and the East.
There are some memorable moments: Twain's audience with the Czar in the Caucasus; his arduous trek through the Syrian desert to the Holy Land; his measuring the blocks of the Baalbek temples and deciding they were as big as railroad cars; his being harassed by beggars in every town in the Middle East; his being made a virtual prisoner by his guide as he labors up the great pyramid in Egypt. And we realize that throughout this tour of the antiquities, some things remain as they were in 1867. Tour groups are still largely made up of the gray-haired, the Louvre with its miles of art galleries is still overwhelming, the sphinx remains inscrutable, and Arabs still hate Christians.
INNOCENTS ABROAD is typical Mark Twain, full of his humor, irony, and exaggeration. Brevity is not its virtue, however.
I found this non-fiction work useful for its travel information, but even more readable for its digressions: those anecdotes, legends, spoofs, and mini-essays that liberally infuse the book. Twain's reproduction of a fancied playbill for the Coliseum of 2,000 years ago is hilarious. His well-evidenced argument that Egypt is the wellspring of western culture is a startling one. His portrayal of his experience in the Tomb of the Holy Sepulcher shows a devoutness that we do not associate with this American iconoclast. In fact, he marshals a fund of knowledge of the Bible and Christian history in demonstrating that Ephesus, now largely in ruins, is really the most important city in Christendom.
I purchased INNOCENTS ABROAD after I read it. It is the only book of Twain's that I own, because I will want to read its passages again and again, to myself and to others.
As always a wonderful read.......2006-12-02
Twain is not only timeless but his observations may seem all the more timely. This excellent read follows him on a journey to Europe and then the Middle East in the 1860s. We learn much about the time period and his observations are helpful in learning about the past, we see the brutality od the slave market in Istanbul where European slaves are sold, we see the arrogance of the europeans and we see the true view of the 'Holy Land' as Twain puts to shame former romantic accounts of the land of the Bible and brings it to life in its brutal squalor. Twain is ever cynical and whitty and in this the read sheds light on a nascent quinitsential Americanism. The American culture of Twain is not taken in with old europe, he is not impressed by luxory and he is not easily taken in with romance, there is no Lawrence of Arabia in Twain, there is skepticism about religion, about the Catholic church. People are not inherently good or evil, but jaded, Twain has a sense of justice but he dares to challenge his contemporaries and ironically the way his contemporaries viewed say the European or the Arab beoduin, has not changed in 140 years. Twain dared to challenge popular thought and in that he was one of the first Americans.
Seth J. Frantzman
Timeless Twain.......2006-11-14
Journey to the east in 1860's with the best travel writer ever, Mark Twain.
Colorful descriptions of people, places and events abroad with Twain humor. If you love travel stories, this will delight you.
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Manfred J. Melcher shares the unique, as well as the universal, experiences he encountered as a master's level social work student. He reflects on his process of "becoming"--of transforming into not only a new social worker, but a new person.
In this book, which is an expansion of a series of articles he wrote for THE NEW SOCIAL WORKER magazine, the author encourages readers to reflect on their own journeys, and to be aware that "becoming" a social worker is an ongoing process.
This book includes "Suggested Reflections" and "Reflections" pages you can use to chart your own thoughts about becoming a social worker.
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For anyone considering a career in social work.......2002-05-11
Becoming A Social Worker is author and practicing social worker Manfred Melcher's personal account of his experiences in earning his certification as a master's social work student. Part memoir, part serious career study, Becoming a Social Worker offers the nuances of reflection in learning this demanding service profession, and encourages the reader to write down his or her own reflections and observations while following the path. Becoming A Social Worker is very highly recommended reading for anyone considering a career in social work, and a welcome addition to school and community library Jobs/Careers reference collections.
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Beyond a Joke: The Limits of Humour
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Release Date: 2006-02-09 |
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Humor is pervasive in contemporary culture, and is generally celebrated as a public good. Yet there are times when it is felt to produce intolerance, misunderstanding or even hatred. This book brings together, for the first time, contributions that consider the ethics as well as the aesthetics of humor. The book focuses on the abuses and limits of humor, some of which excite considerable social tension and controversy. Beyond a Joke is an exciting intervention, full of challenging questions and issues.
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- Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom
- The American Songbag
- The Beatles Anthology
- The Beatles - Complete Scores
- The Cider House Rules: A Screenplay
- The Complete Bluegrass Banjo Method
- The Cramps: A Short History of Rock 'n' Roll Psychosis
- The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953
- The Elements of Music: Concepts and Applications, Vol. 2
- The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties
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