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Think and Grow Rich Book Review

What if instead of wishing you were rich was as easy as instead having a strong desire to be rich?Think and Grow Rich is a book written for those who want to be rich but don't possess the right mental capacity or focus to obtain these dreams.

Review of Linchpin - Are You Indispensable? By Seth Godin

"Original thinker, provocateur, someone who cares, the person who can bring it together and make a difference. Someone who owns her own means of production, who leads and connects, and walks into chaos and create order" is a linchpin says marketing guru, Seth Godin in his book Linchpin: Ar

Review of Niels Lyhne-Jens Peter Jacobsen

Nothing at all worked in Niels' life. Not for Lyhne, his father, whose wife made him feel 'like a fish suffocating in hot air', or his mother, Bartholine, who continued to live in her befuddled world of dreams and fantasy while her marital ship sunk. Not even the birth of Niels could

An Inconvenient Truth Book Review

Al Gore has published a beautifully illustrated yet alarming work depicting the effects of, and clarifying the data accumulating, about global warming.With excellent graphs and pictures, the accompanying narrative gives the reader a comprehensive understanding of the dangerous and rapidly worsening

Stop! Drop and Roll

Don't run through life with your hair on fire. Neither let your head's thoughts overwhelm, nor overcome you with excessive desire. Just be calm and patiently push on through. Step by step, day by day, season by season. Steadily, courageously, and consistently continue.

Poetry Lives

Poetry is as alive as it ever was although its modern form seems a world away from its traditional arrangement of close rhyme and tightly rhythmic verse. With the general tendency towards shortened English (eg textspeak) in common use and with the perceived (although not by all of us) reduced import

The Liberation of Henry Belmont by Steve Godofsky

I thought The Liberation of Henry Belmont by Steve Godofsky was going to be a tearjerker. Instead, I was quickly engrossed in a fast-paced adventure that hooked me on page one.

The Great March to Babylon

"To Babylon, to Babylon!" The French Knights shouted. (While disembarking, Some 1800-ships) Vessels great and small; On Saint Nicholas's day-And thus, Started the Great March!

The Perfect Lady?

Just a simple poem about a tomato seller and his own version of a perfect lady.

Learning How to Overcome the 70 Hour Work Week

Though members of the clergy express a high level of satisfaction with their lives, they are also more prone to burn out than many other professions. This is especially true if the pastor has a co-dependent personality. Resources are available to help pastors overcome these tendencies and live happi

W's Memoir: Profiles in Choice

One thing supporters and detractors agree on is that Bush's unpopularity by the end of his second term was the result of choices he had made. His unpopularity was not proof he had made good choices, but it was evidence he had made tough ones.

The Doors of Dawn Chapter 1

As the stage was lit, the elegant and graceful cast danced and sang in front of him. Their eyes bright, and twinkling; so full of life and love for the adventures that they knew in their young hearts awaited them. They spun and clapped in time to the music that forever played for them, a soundtrack

Mother Nile

The river Nile has flowed for centuries. It's the source of the survival of Egypt. It Fertilizes its land and a healthy source of food for its people.

"Herstory" - Profiles of Women in History

I found the beginning chapters of "Herstory - Women Who Changed The World" edited by Ruth Ashby and Deborah Gore Ohrn (with an introduction by Gloria Steinhem), 1995, immensely interesting and, of course, maddening. Knowing that the suppression of women, after so many years of prehistoric

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Like many others, I rushed out last July to purchase the last book in the Harry Potter series. I remember finishing the novel feeling as though it was very well wrapped up, but not particularly ...

Visual Leaders

In Visual Leaders, David Sibbet examines the importance of visualization tools for leaders in the modern workplace. Sibbet shows how managers can use visualization actively during meetings to inspire, support thinking, and promote new projects and ideas. Visuals spark new ideas and increase engageme