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Selling Today: Creating Customer Value, Ninth Edition

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Selling Today: Creating Customer Value, Ninth Edition
Gerald L. Manning , and Barry L. Reece
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ASIN: 0131009524

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Selling Today: Creating Customer Value, one of the most popular sales information books on the market, offers readers a blend of time-proven fundamentals and new practices needed to succeed in today's information economy. It emphasizes the need for salespeople to be guided by the new principle of personal selling: establishing partnerships that are maintained by customer value, created by the salesperson. This edition stresses the need for sales professionals to cope with new forces shaping the world of sales and marketing, and emphasizes the strategies for long-term success. It provides comprehensive coverage of consultative selling, strategic selling, partnering, and value-added selling. Sales force automation is also a major theme. For sales and marketing professionals.

The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

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The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out
Brennan Manning
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ASIN: 1576737160
Release Date: 2000-06-08

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Brennan Manning wrote The Ragamuffin Gospel "for the bedraggled, beat-up, and burnt-out," the marginalized folks to whom Jesus ministered: the children, the ill, the tax collectors, the women. In other words, the ragamuffins. Manning understands better than most that behind our facades of order and self-assurance are inadequacies that can find healing only in Jesus. While the powerful and religious elite challenged him, Jesus embraced and healed and fed the needs of the ragamuffins. Jesus delivered love, healing, and, most of all, grace.

Grace is defined as "the freely given and unmerited favor and love of God." But, as Manning points out, we have "twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted the image of God into an eternal, small-minded bookkeeper." In reality, God offers us grace immeasurable. Brennan Manning gently encourages us to embrace that grace in the face of our greatest needs. And Manning certainly knows whereof he speaks, having taken a journey from priesthood and academic achievement through a collapse into alcoholism. Manning came face to face with his need, finally abandoning himself to grace. And he invites us now to join him in a life of grace.

Manning is without doubt one of the most eloquent writers on the subject of grace because he openly shares his own pain and struggle to help readers deal with failure and inadequacy. And he sweetly challenges them to do the same. --Patricia Klein

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Many believers feel stunted in their Christian growth. We beat ourselves up over our failures and, in the process, pull away from God because we subconsciously believe He tallies our defects and hangs His head in disappointment. In this repackaged

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This book acts as a bounty on self-righteousness and anal-Christianity. .......2007-06-08

Let's clear a few things up before I proceed with a review:

* Brennan Manning is not a universalist.
* Brennan Manning believes in hell and believes that those who reject God's grace will invariably go there.

Are we okay now? Everyone feeling better about their day? Great, let's move on. In 'The Ragamuffin Gospel' Manning tackles the issue of grace for what it is and describes it as something both infathomable and tangible. He acutely attacks the smug idea of grace through works - which many may condemn verbally but practice physically or intellectually. He makes great points, and while some may attack his stance as watered-down or too easy, Manning backs his points with scripture, wit, and common-sense.

He also states...

* God is not a score keeper on good works.
* God's love for the broken is not predicated upon our reciprocation.
* Repentance as a believer doesn't come from wanting to be forgiven, but from already being forgien and understanding that we are already healed.
* God's love is not dignified, and His love breaks our worldly rules of what can and should be.
* How trusting God is essential to Christ-like living.
* How understanding the necessity for grace will change our world view.

At the end of the day, your God-view and world-view will determine whether you enjoy this book or not. If God, to you, is someone Who keeps score and checklists of rights and wrongs, you will hate this book. If you are someone seeking grace and mercy from God and would like to change your view on those around you, Manning's book is just what you need.

This is not Manning's "take" on the Goodnews. It is Manning showing us what the Goodnews was intended to be from the beginning - as other writers and pastors have seldom done before; and that - go figure - is that grace is good news for any who are willing to stand beneath it and open their eyes to it.

To all of those out there who hate the idea of God giving grace to us without condition when we fall at His feet - please get a life and wake up to the fact that your world of "theology" is smaller than God's attributes of grace giving.

Awesome gift book.......2007-06-02

We gave this as a graduation gift at our church. Kids loved it. It is not the entire text of the original book but it is so beautfully done and Brennan's writing pulls people in.

Be warned - get the original.......2007-05-17

I was very disappointed when this book arrived and I learned that it only had 15% of the orginal text. Very edgy, for a target audience. But I strongly reccommend you get the full version of the book. It is wonderful.

A Must-Have book.......2007-02-16

All Ragamuffins will find their place here, at the Master's table, no pretentions needed. We ragamuffins know that we need grace to get through every day, we are poor in spirit, but rich in love for Jesus who is our ALL. Strip yourself bare of legalism and churchiosity and come drink deeply from Brennan's masterpiece of love.

Expanding my knowledge of Grace.......2007-02-08

Author users repetition and plain, everyday examples to encourage knowledge of Grace as it is given in the Bible. His examples apply to so many situations and truly make one examine their reactions to life experiences . I have not finished the book yet. It is packed with so much learning material, no chapter is read just once, most are read several times.

Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises

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Keep Your Brain Alive
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Keep Your Brain Alive: 83 Neurobic Exercises
Lawrence Katz , and Manning Rubin
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No more punch lines that just slipped away. No more names on the tip of your tongue. No more senior moments! Drawing on cutting-edge neurological research, how to keep your brain alive: 83 neurobic exercises brings help to everyone whose memory is starting to slip. Devised by Dr. Lawrence Katz, a professor of neurobiology at Duke University Medical Center, and Manning Rubin, author of 60 Ways to Relieve Stress in 60 Seconds, here is a regimen of mental cross-training that can be done anywhere, by anyone, at any time of day. The premise is simple: When you exercise the brain, you release natural growth factors called neurotrophins, which in turn enhance the brain's level of fitness. And nothing so easily stimulates the brain as breaking routines and using the five senses in new and unexpected ways. So if you're right-handed, wake up tomorrow and brush your teeth with your left hand. Or close your eyes before you get into the car and then get the key into the ignition. Every time you open a new circuit in your brain, it's like doing a round of mental sit-ups, without the pain.

68,000 copies in print.

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Keep Your Brain Alive.......2007-06-28

This is a really quick read...
Full of practical information. If you want actual exercises to do to increase your memory, this is it.
You can read it today and start working on your brain capacity tonight!

This is your brain on stupid pills...?.......2007-04-24

Might well be a recipe for ulcers , heart attacks and strokes:
reminds me of the latest fad diet.The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet: Plus Dr. Tarnower's Lifetime Keep-Slim Program
Taking advantage of an aging generation of baby boomers who worry
about their future is somewhat reprehensible.
In my psychology class we had to study
a case history of monkey's that psychologists gave ulcers by " shaking things up a bit".
Stone age hunter gathers mostly lived to a ripe old age of 25:
so emulating them is probably very bad advise.
Point by point the book's prescriptions can be one for an early death
for people who haven't already taken good care of themselves.
The most important thing in keeping your brain alive
is not believing you are too old to think.
Distrust doctors trying to get rich by publishing
a cheap popular book without much real substance that you can read in 10 minutes.

Interesting but a bit impractical. . ........2007-03-08

"Keep Your Brain Alive" offers some fairly standard advice on how to keep the mind agile as one ages. You've heard it before--be social, learn new things and new ways of doing routine tasks, use all the senses. The unique aspect of this particular book is the suggested exercises, but here the author veers away from the practical a little too strongly for my taste. He's big on exercising the sense of smell, and recommends driving around with a bunch of bottles with fragrance soaked pieces of sponge. Then uncork a particular one when you pass a specific place to fix it more firmly in your mind. I think if I did this my husband would begin having serious doubts about my state of mind--with good reason! I thought some suggestions could be dangerous, such as wandering around your home with lights off to activate the other senses--not a good idea for an older person, just as "uncork bottle while driving" is not a good idea. The scientific explanations are excellent--very clear and easy to understand--but I'd take the exercises with a big grain of salt!

Rip.......2007-02-14

I'm very disappointed with this book. It's based on fundamentally solid brain science and offers the following to strengthen your brain (i.e. build and activate new neural connections): "1. Involve one or more of your senses in a novel (new) context, 2. Break a routine activity in an unexpected, nontrivial way."

Basically, by breaking the routine and forcing yourself to learn new things or different ways of doing old things, new connections will develop within your brain and create thought processing and longevity benefits. If you're right-handed, start forcing yourself to use your left hand (I was taught this aspect almost 30 years ago). Take different routes to work. Start using other senses to take in data. You see a widget. You normally recognize it as such and move on. Here, it is suggested to pick it up, feel it, examine it, smell it, listen to it and more connections will develop. Go out and socialize. Nothing challenges the mind more than interacting with new people.

O.K. This is all good, valuable information. But the proceeding paragraph pretty much sums it up. The other 100 or so pages in this book are fluff, with examples of achieving novelty. This is appropriate for a magazine article, not a nine dollar book. In fact, it seems suspiciously similar to a recent Time article on brain science. Wow, this was churned out fast.

Keep You Brain Alive:83 Neurobic Exercises.......2007-01-19

This is a silly, stupid book! Save your money.

Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

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Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
Brennan Manning
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ASIN: 1576833348

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Exposing the impostor that lives in all of us, Brennan Manning helps readers accept their belovedness as a child of God.

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Once Again, Brennan Manning delivers!.......2007-06-03

I have to admit that I was skeptical in beginning this book. Could this really measure up to 'Ragamuffin Gospel'? Or would I be left disappointed? Surprisingly, I was not at all disappointed. In fact, I would even go as far as to say this book surpasses "Ragamuffin Gospel!" Manning beautifully describes the intense and fierce love of Jesus for us, and states the necessity of teaching the Church today this truth. I recommend, like Manning, to read this book slowly, meditatively, and prayerfully.

Abba's Child - Balancing the Criticisms.......2007-05-23

"Abba's Child" is, in my opinion, the quintessential Brennan Manning, though I recognize some may feel that is not necessarily a positive. I do understand and give merit to a few of the criticisms, especially of his use of Merton. However, I believe that Manning is writing here to a very real and very deep spiritual need, foundational to most other understanding of God. Something that Merton, regardless of other points of personal conviction and practice, understood well--something that many would-be theologians often overlook. Lest we forget, the Apostle Paul (likely educated under a Greco-Roman system as well as in Jewish theology) was a master and proponent of using secular philosophy and non-Christian religious writings to illustrate his points and to share the truth of Christ's love. If I am not mistaken, his contemporaries were critical of him for the same reasons many today are critical of Manning. Paul's use of what amounted to first century pop-psychology and non-Judeo-Christian philosophical elements did not, in any way, compromise the truth of his message. He used these things to illustrate truth in relevant and engaging ways; to break through cultural and intellectual barriers; and to single out truth.

So I say, before you make your case, test Manning. Test the truth, gentleness--the audacity of Father's love. Meditate on it. Take it in. Not necessarily following Manning's personal path, but certainly exploring some of the ways he suggests one might... can... should discover such love in truth. There is one way to God, through Jesus. But biblically speaking, I believe there were many ways in which people made their way to Jesus. Manning eloquently, passionately, poignantly speaks to the barriers that have kept many from Him.

By the way, "Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes" is a student adaptation of "Abba's Child." While, in general, I am not a fan of audience adapted works, I found it to be equally as powerful-- not the least watered or dumbed down.

Great book.......2007-05-21

I have read nearly all of Brennan Manning's books. This is a great book about grace in our lives. It is definitely a good read.

Abba's Child.......2007-03-17

This book was purchased for a friend since she cannot order online. It came in good time and was as had been represented in the listing for it. I had a chance to glance through it before getting it to her and found it to be very interesting. My friend is very pleased with it. It had been recommended to her by a teacher. Thank you for presenting such great books for sale and for the good service in getting them to us.

Life Changing.......2007-02-12

Abba's Child is a life changing piece of art. The depth and passion with which Brenan Manning writes is amazing...the insight he is able to deliver into the human desire to be with God is incredible. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a more intimate relationship with God our Father...Abba.

Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing

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Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing
Christopher D. Manning , and Hinrich Schütze
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Statistical approaches to processing natural language text have become dominant in recent years. This foundational text is the first comprehensive introduction to statistical natural language processing (NLP) to appear. The book contains all the theory and algorithms needed for building NLP tools. It provides broad but rigorous coverage of mathematical and linguistic foundations, as well as detailed discussion of statistical methods, allowing students and researchers to construct their own implementations. The book covers collocation finding, word sense disambiguation, probabilistic parsing, information retrieval, and other applications.

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fastest delivery.......2005-07-04

I have never received anything so quick buying off the internet. Few days and I had the book in my hand. I was pleasantly surprised.

very definitive, really a must read.......2003-09-16

this is an import pre-req to any research/inquiry into this field.

Very technical.......2002-08-23

Only buy this book if you want a very technical book about this subject. I bought this book because I was generally interested in this research field... and I never read it. If you are a researcher or a student studying this field, then this might be a good book. Otherwise, there are books that you will probably enjoy more.

Self-contained and instructive, read the TOC first!.......2002-05-26

Compared to the slightly overrated Jurafsky and Martin's classic, this book aims less targets but hits them all more precisely, completely and satisfactory for the reader. That is, just to give you an idea on what to expect, instead of attacking 200 problems on 2 pages each, this book attacks only 40 problems on 10 pages each.

So, read the TOC before you buy the book: if you find your topics there, you're done, you are saved, buy it and be happy. In contrast, you can buy Jurafsky's book without caring to read the TOC: your problem is likely to be mentioned there but it's quite unlikely to be detailed enough to satisfy you.

Some introductory chapters take too much space and some advanced topics are missing. But the book is actually named "Foundations of..." so it seems to deliver precisely what it promisses, which is a precious and rare accomplishment by itself. I recommend this book.

Perhaps looking somewhere else might help.........2001-12-28

I was likely spoiled by some great course notes (courtesy of Jan Hajic). So when I found Manning and Schutze to be of little help, it was likely because it was too much of an introduction and didn't have the full discussions that I needed. Yet, later on I found that the text by Jurafsky and Martin succeeded in ways Manning and Schutze failed. Therefore, any individual interested in getting a good (and full) introduction to NLP should perhaps look at the Jurafsky and Martin, along with Manning and Schutze. But the breadth of Manning and Schutze and its place as a standard warrants at least 4 out of 5 stars (its not a terrible or mediocore book)

Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You (TH1NK)

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Fr. Manning preaches a false gospel - don't be fooled!!!!!
Dripping with Wisdom, Solace
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Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes: Unmasking the Real You (TH1NK)
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Well done adaptation of a great book.......2007-04-29

"Abba's Child" is, in my opinion, the quintessential Brennan Manning. Though I have thoroughly enjoyed all that he has written. I have read and reread the book many times over as there is too much to process at first pass.

"Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes" is a student adaptation of "Abba's Child." While, in general, I am not a fan of audience adapted works, I had heard good things and purchased a copy to give away to a younger friend of mine. Of course I wanted to peruse it before giving it away and found myself reading it through, enthralled by the original content with new language. I found it to be equally as powerful-- not the least watered or dumbed down.

If you have read any other Manning, or if you are an avid reader and contemplative thinker, go ahead and buy "Abba's Child." But, regardless of who you are, "Posers, Fakers, and Wannabes" is a well done adaptation of a great book. I don't believe you will be disappointed.

Fr. Manning preaches a false gospel - don't be fooled!!!!!.......2006-09-13

Fr. Brennan Manning is a Franciscan priest who attempted to marry without being dispensed from his vow of celibacy in 1982. He has since peddled a false gospel that is built around the idea that God's pardon is unconditional - a euphemism for saying that you can be forgiven for your sins without repenting and amending your life. This is a lie, and a defense mechanism Fr. Manning has evolved to assuage his guilty conscience. If you really want to seek the Mercy of God, I suggest you read "Divine Mercy in my soul", the diary of St. Faustina, avaulable here on Amazon.com. God's Mercy is endless, but you cannot be pardoned if you are not sorry; Fr. Manning's false gospel will do you no more spiritual good than it has done him. He needs your prayers and your pity - not your money or your reading time.

Dripping with Wisdom, Solace.......2005-10-05

This wonderful book reinforces the notion (absurd to many) that "God loves us exactly the way we are - but that he loves us too much to let us stay like this." A true shot in the arm for anyone seeking the truth about God and self, and wondering what's next in life.

Despite the disarming title, Manning has not written a "self-help" book, he's written about divine help, found through surrender and brokenness before God. Every page drips with trenchant observations, amusing anecdotes, quotes from notable thinkers and philosophers (Carl Jung among them) and quotes from the Bible (using the wonderfully direct and earthy translation from "The Message").

"Posers, Fakes & Wannabes" is so full of wisdom, humor, and "Big Ideas", I found myself savoring the opportunity to spend time with this book, reading, and rereading many passages, thinking about my own life and about God.

And, no, this book is not "heady stuff" for academics. Written in plain spoken prose, this book is appropriate for anyone, from teenagers to geezers.

A must-have for "the seekers" among us.

Manning focuses on what's real, and what's an act........2004-05-08

If you have even a passing interest in Christianity, but struggle to know what to do with the often conflicting behaviors exhibited by many who claim to all be following the same basic belief system, then this book is an excellent look at what it could and should be. How is it that the message of the Gospel is often acted out on a stage for the benefit of our own ego?

Brennan Manning has an uncanny ability to sift through the surface, and dive straight into the places we often do not want to acknowledge exist within all of us. In this book he tackles the "image conscious" Christian, more concerned with how they look, than what they are doing. In it he exposes just how far off the message of love and peace we have often gone. With all of our masks, pettiness, vanity and ego we consume ourselves with, where is our focus on our true cause; to love God and love our neighbor as ourselves?

Of particular interest is how he manages to be blunt and direct in many very personal ways, yet all in his usual self effacing style which leaves one motivated not judged. When reading Manning, one is left with the overwhelming sense that they are simply in a conversation with someone who is speaking on their level. While I know a few too distracted with dogma and doctrine to understand his perspective, he writes about the very real struggle to let go of ego and image, and focus on what is really important. His looks into the problems of racism, homophobia, and neglect of the poor among Christians are especially powerful considering they contrast so much with loving and reaching out to others as Jesus did.

Although the editing and copy itself is at times a bit distracting with its multi-type fonts on every page, it does allow you to take bite sized bits of information and ponder the meaning behind it. Rarely have I stopped so many times while reading to reflect on my own issues. An excellent read and good insights!

Ruthless Trust: The Ragamuffin's Path to God

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We suffer from the disease of melancholy, the sickness of self-hatred, the darkness of doubt. Yet, author Brennan Manning sees the place of our worst despair as a tangible starting point for the remedy: a ruthless trust in God. In his sequel to The Ragamuffin Gospel, Manning pries us loose from our shame, our mistakes, and our doubts and encourages us to let go and trust God--ruthlessly.

It's been 40 years since author Brennan Manning was "ambushed by God" and on the far side of despair himself. As a gutter-alcoholic who was completely broken, he found an unshakable trust in the love of Christ for him as he was then, not as he could be or is now.

Authenticity with God is critical in developing this trust relationship. In his own inimitable voice, Manning tells us, "Raw honesty with Jesus about our doubts and anxieties, our lust and laziness, our shabby prayer life and stale religiosity, our mixed motives and divided hearts, is the risk we take in the certainty of being acceptable and accepted. It is the full and mature expression of invincible trust." Over the years, this trust ripens into confidence and bears certain fruit, such as gratitude to God. But it's not always easy, he admits. "Ruthless trust is hanging tough in the dark nights, when we are plunged into desolation but know that absence of God is only apparent."

For author Brennan Manning--and for us, if we choose--ruthless trust is not just a concept, it's a way of life. As Manning observes, "Ill winds may blow, more character defects may surface, sickness may visit, and friends will surely die, but a stubborn irrefutable certainty persists that God is with us and loves us in our struggle to be faithful." Now, that's ruthless trust. You won't fail to be moved. --Cindy Crosby

Book Description

In his sequel to The Ragamuffin Gospel bestselling author Brennan Manning shows how true and radical trust in God can transform our lives

Customer Reviews:

Brennan Manning.......2007-03-11

While I like to read a great number of Christian authors, Brennan Manning is an author I like. I always go back to his work.

Great Book!.......2007-01-16

As always Brennan Manning has delivered another masterpiece. His books are to be read and studied for the wealth of material in them and Ruthless Trust is no exception. From the first pages until the very last the reader is challenged, in a very positive way, to examine their trust in the Lord. Brennan shows us how we, in this modern world, do not really trust God in the way that Jesus asks us to. He then goes on to demonstrate practical ways to achieve that level of trust. I would recommend this book to all unhesitatingly!

Goes Further.......2006-08-09

This book is a great follow up to Manning's best book: The Ragamuffin Gospel. This book picks up where that one left off and goes even further. So if you like his earlier work, then I recommend this book as well.

Also recommended: Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

Chapter 11.......2006-03-18

A great and easy to read book on trust and learning to live in the "now." I recommend it.

thought-provoking.......2006-03-09

This book is easy to read, and profound to dwell on. If you are searching for a deeper relationship with the Creator who made you, Brennan Manning is a gentle but uncompromising spiritual guide. I liked how he used anecdotes from his own experience to illustrate the things he has learned about God. I also liked his humble teaching style - it's a "We're all in this together" approach rather than lecturing or preachiness.

Everything and the Kitchen Sink: Remodel Your Kitchen without Losing Your Mind

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Your Perfect Kitchen
Great Design Ideas (and a Fun Read, Too!)
Not much substance and not fun to read
More of a design and idea book
To the rescue!

Everything and the Kitchen Sink: Remodel Your Kitchen without Losing Your Mind
Daina Manning , and Janice Costa
Manufacturer: Andrews McMeel Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0740750194

Book Description

As Americans hunger for home improvement, Lowe's and Home Depot have risen to the status of weekend hotspots. Home-design shows like Trading Spaces are flourishing up and down the television dial, mirroring the national nesting craze. And the most-remodeled room in the nest is the kitchen.

While remodeling can be a stressful experience, Everything and the Kitchen Sink demystifies the kitchen design and remodeling process with a humorous, down-to-earth, and candid approach that lets readers know exactly what they're in for-and how to triumph.

Savvy homeowners really need to be involved in every step of a kitchen remodel, whether they're leaving the labor to the pros or rolling up their sleeves to tackle the project solo. Planning and foresight are crucial to a successful and (relatively) painless remodeling project.

Researching design options, hiring contractors, budgeting, making smart purchases, cutting costs, financing, surviving the chaos of installations, and effective problem-solving are explained in straightforward, user-friendly detail.

While learning how to successfully navigate the process, readers will also explore hundreds of exciting and innovative ideas for creating a dream kitchen at any price point. Floor plans, diagrams, and beautiful four-color and black-and-white photographs help readers visualize their own finished projects.

Customer Reviews:

Your Perfect Kitchen.......2007-04-04

Compare materials before you start your remodel, and also get some cost-cutting tips for creating your dream kitchen.

Great Design Ideas (and a Fun Read, Too!).......2007-02-12

This charming, clever and extremely user friendly book was a Godsend during our kitchen remodel. There are lots of helpful comparison charts so you can see the pros and cons of different materials before you buy them (not just what they tell you when they're trying to sell you stuff, but the honest truth, like how granite stains if you don't seal it regularly, or how painted cabinets crack over time). There's great advice about design styles, and about designing your kitchen to fit both your budget and your family's lifestyle (even including the dos and don'ts for families with small kids, families with pets, people who are neatness challenged, etc.).

There's also a lot of nice extras, like cost cutting tips, advice about financing, how to interview installers or designers so you don't end up with a lemon, how to budget realistically, and everything you wanted to know about product, from cabinet wood species to faucet finishes to flooring to high-tech appliances.

It's clear that the writers know their stuff, and I would suggest anyone even thinking about remodeling their kitchen read this as part of the starter package! You won't find better. One caveat: This is not the book that's going to walk you through doing the job yourself from A to Z. It doesn't teach you how to do your own electrical, or give you a crash course in laying flooring. But then again, as the authors will tell you, if you're going to do this yourself, you need more skills than what you can get just reading a book (and it could be dangerous to think otherwise). Skilled do it yourselfers will find this most useful for the product information (of which there's plenty), design style info and insider tips.

Overall, we found this to be enormously helpful, plus great fun to read. Many of these books are dry as dust, but this was engaging and very funny in parts -- yet still very informative. If you have designs on a new kitchen, be sure to read this book first! We highly recommend it!

Not much substance and not fun to read.......2007-02-12

I read this book quickly and probably won't use it again before we remodel the kitchen. This is the fifth book I've read on kitchens and I purchased this one based on the reviews here. Like another reviewer said, this book is a handy companion if you are needing some design ideas and plan on working with a designer in the future. I guess I was expecting more substance.

The authors try really hard to be funny. They are also assuming their audience is female. I didn't enjoy this approach and found the writing boorish. There are some useful things in the book, but these things are far and few between.

My favorite book so far is "Great Kitchens: Design Ideas from America's Top Chefs".

More of a design and idea book.......2006-09-19

If your looking for a how to book on remodeling your kitchen this is not it. This is more of a book from a idea and design standpoint for remodeling.

To the rescue!.......2005-05-14

I've been waiting since February 1981 to do something about my kitchen. That's the month we moved into our house. Everything and the Kitchen Sink has come into my life -not a moment too soon! - to move me from mere contemplation to actual accomplishment. It is a thorough guide to redoing this most important room in the house. (I mean, think about it. Without food in your life, there'd be no need for any other rooms.) But wait! There's more! It's Readable. In fact, downright amusing.

A few highlights for me:

The Introduction. How many times do you even read the introduction to a book, let alone enjoy it, let further alone find a personal message to you in it? The Introduction reminds me of the centrality of the kitchen in my family life and most emphatically assures me that I should not have to wait decades to make my kitchen functional and aesthetically pleasing.

The quizzes. Little quizzes and questionnaires throughout the book helped me articulate not only our personal style (Busy Slobs, or words to that effect...) but also what's been keeping us from getting a start on this kitchen. We've been of two minds (my husband's and mine) about how long we're likely to stay in this house. We know when we sell a developer will probably just knock it down and start over. That argues for not bothering, or at least for not putting much money into what we do bother with. But something clearly has to be done. For one thing, the original designer of our house obviously thought that a woman's place was not only in the kitchen, but alone down a hallway. Yes, the sink is in an "L" away from everything else that matters. The passageway is so narrow that cooperating in cooking or washing dishes becomes a clown routine in blocking, waiting, bumping, squeezing by. Then there's the fact that two-thirds of the cupboards assume the person using them is pushing six feet tall. (I'm short.) Add to that two dogs of various shepherd (i.e., stick CLOSE to the herd) persuasions - a factor no other book or magazine I've ever read on this subject has even acknowledged - and you've got a recipe for daily frustration. Not good.

Here's where Everything and the Kitchen Sink comes to the rescue. There are marvelous pictures. And useful budget charts. And constant encouragement to figure out how we really use our kitchen, and plan from that base. And other helpful hints sprinkled throughout the book. I can feast my eyes on the fancy stoves and state of the art refrigerators and duplicate dishwashers, but I can acknowledge that I am destined to be a "rustic" gal. Paint will be my friend. Shiny stainless steel is out (expensive and not good for slobs anyway), "distressed," folky, and mobile is in. I'm having great fun figuring it out. Carts and drawer units on wheels will replace the built-in cabinets. (We'll take the old ones to the basement and "improve" our laundry area - following another suggestion in the book about how to recycle and minimize waste. And if/when we move, we'll take the new ones with us.) It's more important to us to share the kitchen and the tasks in it than to have an immense sink, so the double-deep behemoth that fills the hallway will come out and a sink sized for mobile homes will replace it. This will enable us to get by each other without having to take time for a minuet. Heck, maybe even stand side by side to wash the dishes.

I've taken samples of the ancient earthquake-cracked plaster and dog-water-warped floor tiles to the lab (one of the book's very helpful suggestions). They'll tell me if there's asbestos in either so I can proceed safely. I've calculated the costs (with the help of worksheets in the book) and strategized the financing. I've measured it all out and drawn my plans to scale. I've pondered the traffic flow, factored in the canines.

After twenty-four years, I'm ready to start. Thanks to Everything and the Kitchen Sink.

The Importance of Being Foolish: How to Think Like Jesus

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very good
Another Manning Classic
Puts into words my own view
Excellent
Power packed

The Importance of Being Foolish: How to Think Like Jesus
Brennan Manning
Manufacturer: HarperSanFrancisco
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060751657
Release Date: 2005-06-28

Book Description

A guide for how to become mature, passionate fools for Christ who are willing to do the kingdom work God has called us to do and so change the world, one soul at a time.

Customer Reviews:

very good.......2007-01-01

there isn't one chapter that does not leave the reader unchallenged. i truly admire the way the author makes sure that he does not cut corners or water down the gospel. the author makes sure, by the grace of GOD, that no human excuse or lie is left unexposed. it is essentially a book about repentance and Truth, because true repentance of sins and the heartfelt acknowledgement of Jesus Christ as LORD is the only way for us humans to think like Jesus. Without these two things, you can learn about Jesus in an intellectual way, but not the way we ought to, the way He desires us to and it will always be jampacked with untruth. this book, by GOD's grace, will exhort, encourage and convict.

and as I always say, read it with your Bible in hand.

Another Manning Classic.......2006-10-24

Brennan Manning forever secured his place as an important theologian with The Ragamuffin Gospel. If he never wrote another book, he has served Christianity well with one of the most important books ever written about the faith.

But in his book The Importance of Living Foolish, Manning continues his quest to promote a belief in Christ the recognizes the folly of the modern world and its preoccupation with foolish, fleeting things.

At the same time, as in The Ragamuffin Gospel, Manning presents the unvarnished Jesus, who was loving, tender, kind, and gentle, but who spoke truth to power, was brutally honest, and was not dismissive of sin.

The Importance of Being Foolish stands on its own merits, and Brennan Manning continues to grow as one of this era's greatest standard bearers of Christianity.

Puts into words my own view.......2006-09-17

I've always thought the Christian message to be a radical rejection of worldy values. But what's generally preached is a watered down version of this message. Manning boldly and in his familiar style asserts that what the world views as foolish is the wisdom of God. It's a tough message but a wonderful one.

Excellent.......2005-09-18

Once again Manning calls us out beyond the darkness of pharisaical competition for heavens gate. Where the light of gods unbounded LOVE cradles us and reminds us that because we are so loved, we must love as well. Bless this guy, he has stood up after many falls, and I pray he will continue to enlighten us.

Power packed.......2005-08-25

Although my first Manning book, I can see why he is so well respected.

This is a very personal and challenging presentation of spiritual growth that differs from sanitized Christianity. This is not the prosperity gospel.

He doesn't pretend to have all of the answers. He also doesn't spell out many of his points. The title for example is never explained. At least not directly.

A book that would challenge anybody. Can't wait to read it again.

One Size Does Not Fit All: Traditional and Innovative Models of Student Affairs Practice

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One Size Does Not Fit All: Traditional and Innovative Models of Student Affairs Practice

Manufacturer: TF-ROUTL
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0415952581

Book Description

In the day to day grind of higher education administration, student affairs professionals know that different institutional types--whether a small liberal arts college, a doctoral intensive institution, or a community college--require different practical approaches. Despite this, most student affairs literature emphasizes a "one size fits all" approach to practice. In this book, leading scholars Kathleen Manning, Jillian Kinzie, and John Schuh advocate a new approach by presenting thirteen possible models of student affairs practice. These models are based on a qualitative, multi-institutional case study research project involving 20 institutions of higher education varying by type, size and mission. By accessibly presenting different types of intuitions that have all experienced high levels of student engagement and graduation rates the authors set out to discover the policies, practices, and programs that can contribute to student success.

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