July 2012 | Self Reliance Summary

Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach: Use Your Knowledge, Experience, and Intuition to Help Leaders Excel Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A book for those concerned with leadership and management change. This is important as the largest weakness in companies is execution. The book uses numerous examples to explain concepts, plus providing many samples and templates for the practitioner. Having a committee write a book means it come with...

Child Development, Second Edition: A Practitioner's Guide (Social Work Practice with Children and Families) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a clinical psychologist and professor in a Clinical PsyD program I thoroughly endorse this book. This is a graduate level text and I can say with certainty that professors that utilize this book will produce students grounded in the topic. I have used this text in eight consecutive semesters and my...

A Work of Heart : Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Most books for Christian leaders I have read lately deal primarily with skills. I recommend many of these to pastors in my work as a church consultant, because leadership skills are critical to effectiveness.But McNeal in this book deals with something more foundational than skills--how God shapes the...

Eleven Self-Empowerment Protocols: New Paradigms for Our New Civilization Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I borrowed this book from a friend after seeing Neville at the Virginia Beach IANDS meeting. He is an entertaining speaker, and I wanted to see what he had to say in his books. I fully expected to read the 105 pages in an hour or so, but quickly saw that this little book is one of those you could study...

Jung (A Brief Insight) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Let me start to mention that I am not a social scienticst myself; my impression was that Jung is considered as someone who introduced many breakthrough concepts in psychology, but is also being 'hyped'. Therefore I was looking for a few books that would give me a proper (= not too appreciative, but scientifically...

Full Recovery: Creating a Personal Action Plan for Life Beyond Sobriety Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is a life changer! Real life testaments of alcoholism and addiction will bring the reader's personal addictions, struggles and battles to the surface, making these negative issues easier for each and every reader to grasp, understand, and work to resolve within themselves.READ THIS BOOK WHETHER...

The Knowing-Doing Gap: How Smart Companies Turn Knowledge into Action Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a consultant working with various companies, I found the content of this book very useful in providing a framework for strategic planning sessions. One of the biggest challenges for executive leadership teams is to move from smart talk to action. Using the principles from this book, I've found leadership...

The Nonprofit Sector: A Research Handbook, Second Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The Nonprofit Sector is an essential resource for anyone studying nonprofit organizations and how they operate. It is a compendium of the latest research on the core aspects of nonprofit organizations -- the things that make them unique in terms of their purpose, structure and tax status. The handbook...

The Optimism Advantage: 50 Simple Truths to Transform Your Attitudes and Actions into Results Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have read and loved a couple other books by this Author. I mean I really liked them so when I saw this new work I snapped it up. I'm very disappointed. I can't say it is an awful book obviously other people on here love it. But what I found was chapter after chapter of the same message packaged in...

Gerotranscendence: A Developmental Theory of Positive Aging Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Just the best thing I have seen on understanding the developmental possibilities of old age.Click Here to see more reviews about: Gerotranscendence: A Developmental Theory of Positive AgingGiven the 2006 GREAT GERONTOLOGY AWARD for outstanding contribution to gerontological research by the Swedish Gerontological...

The Velveteen Principles for Women: How to Shatter the Myth of Perfection and Embrace All That You Really Are Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I picked up this book by chance at BEA, and discovered it really defied all my expectations. This book does not give you permission to lower your standards or fail to meet your goals--rather, it encourages you to make your OWN standards and make sure the goals you're aiming for are truly YOURS. It allows...

The Nightly Book of Positive Quotations Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I gave this book to someone who just had surgery - what a up-lifting and positive gift idea!Click Here to see more reviews about: The Nightly Book of Positive QuotationsGet 28% OFFClick here for more information about The Nightly Book of Positive Quotati...

Family Therapies: A Comprehensive Christian Appraisal Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Written for students, therapists, and pastors, the textbook Family Therapies is designed to provide intelligent content about psychotherapy topics, while not losing readers with less clinical inclinations. The book accomplishes this goal.Students reading the textbook will receive an ample review of major...

Trauma and the Avoidant Client: Attachment-Based Strategies for Healing (Norton Professional Books) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Dr. Robert Muller has provided psychotherapists with an extraordinarybook! It is impressive in both its presentation of therapeutic strategies and its insights into the experiences of clients who are known to be very hard to treat.This book integrates attachment theory and recent advances in thetreatment...

The Indwelling Life of Christ: All of Him in All of Me Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As in his other books, Major Ian Thomas challenges us to go beyond the fire-insurance type of salvation into a deep abiding relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. A relationship that acknowledges "I can't" but also embraces "Christ can".Herein is the key, we cannot live the Christian life in the power...

Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Michael Hogan, National University of Ireland, Galway: michael.hogan@nuigalway.ie This review is based on my reading of all 4 of Ellen Langer's books, which I was inspired to read after meeting Ellen in Harvard recently. --Ellen Langer is one of the most vivacious women I have ever met. Upon arriving...

Abounding Grace An Anthology Of Wisdom Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a powerful book. I loved it. I would also recommend An Encounter With A Prophet and Conversations with God. All three books helped me.Click Here to see more reviews about: Abounding Grace An Anthology Of WisdomClick here for more information about Abounding Grace An Anthology Of Wis...