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Sit at HIS Feet.......2007-01-17
Writing a review for a Madame Guyon book is a bit like submitting a critique of Shakespeare. Her writings are classic. Who hasn't read her? What can I add?
Personally, my moments with Guyon are treasured and vital. Like an aspirin for pain, a dose of Jeanne Guyon brings relief to the hurried, exterior western mindset. Radical in her day, her thoughts continue to challenge the religious. Her mystic writings cut through the fog of our present culture. Her words often pierce by surprise. Her truths are exacting and accurate in this collection of letters. The focus is clear: turn from self to Christ; abandon yourself to God. Trust His love and grace for all spiritual progress.
My only objection to this edition is its subtitle, "Sit at the feet of the greatest woman in church history." Although I might personally agree with that statement, if Madame Guyon isn't rolling over in her grave at that accolade, she has most certainly protested to her Beloved about it. Her key objective in this text, and in all her writings, is to lead others to sit at HIS feet. As she writes in chapter 30: "See God alone. Fix your eyes on Him and never put them on yourself." It is ironic that the publisher would so violate her vision in circulating her material. Having said that, I am grateful to the Seed Sowers for providing the text - and highly recommend it.
Intimacy with Christ.......2005-08-12
I liked this book so much, I bought several for members of my prayer group. We now have discussions on its contents. This is just what I have been looking for. After reading Jeanne Guyon first book on "Experiencing the Depths of Jesus Christ", I knew I had to read her other writings.
Simple and awesome.......2000-01-27
Madame Guyon used simple short words to speak out deep truth in different people's spiritual life. More than that, she gave appropriate medicine to the person in that situation. The book is awesome. Every piece of advice is precious pure gold. Thank God for this wonderful supply.
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Watchman Nee.......2007-03-22
WOW! This is the perfect companion for my studies on Song of Songs! Loved reading Nee again after all these years.
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Dittos.......2001-07-27
I am in complete agreement with the Portland reviewer. This book SHOULD NOT be out of print!
I served as a pastor for 4 years and recommended this book to everyone who I disclipled. It's required reading on my personal "Christianity 101" course.
A word of caution: This is no fluffy devotional. Like climbing a mountain where there are many who set out for the journey, but don't make it to the top, this book is life-impacting enough to scare many away from finishing. I know some who have been hit so hard by it, they put it down saying, "I want intimacy with God, but I'm not sure I want that much." Don't do it. Climb to the summit. The view is astounding.
If you love.......2000-04-16
C.S. Lewis and George MacDonald, then you will enjoy this book. Written in the tradition of the 2 authors above, this book is a beautifully written allegory about how God views us and how He would like us to view Him and of the intimate relationship He wants with all of us. This book totally turned my spiritual journey upside down! Phillips presents God as a loving Father in a way that anyone can relate to. A far cry from what has been presented from pulpits for many years. Every Christian and those who are searching for an intimate relationship with God, should read this book. This book should not be out of print!
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Come to Know God As He Knows You In the best-selling book Beyond the Veil, Alice Smith shared how consistent and persevering prayer will take you into the very presence of God. Now, in 40 Days Beyond the Veil, Alice once again invites you to go beyond the veil-but this time she gives you the framework by which you can delve deeper into understanding God's ways. Even during life's most difficult times, you can know His heart and abide in Him. Your 40-day journey beyond the veil begins with your understanding of the destination you were created for-fellowship with the Father-and progresses to the most important choice you will ever make-desiring His presence above all else. Each devotional contains a unique truth that combines with the others toward the goal of a passionate pursuit of God. When you go 40 days beyond the veil, your spiritual life will be refashioned, remolded and renewed!
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Inrich Your Relationship with Jesus.......2003-10-28
Do you desire a closer more intimate relationship with the Lord Jesus? Alice Smith's new book 40 Days Beyond the Veil is just the book for you. In Her first book Beyond The Veil, Alice shares with us how we can have a personal, intimate relationship with our Lord. In this book she leads us on a 40 day journey that teaches us how to develop that relationship and take us into a deeper more intimate fellowship with Jesus. Friend, take this journey with Alice; it will change your life for eternity!
A Book Filled with Nuggets of Gold!.......2003-10-21
I love to read books that impart to me nuggets of gold and wisdom that not only impact my life the first time I read it, but continue to impact my life as I meditate and re-read these words of truth! Each chapter in Alice Smith new book 40 Days Beyond The Veil gives readers profound insights how we can allow the journey of daily life to draw us into a closer walk with God and make a difference in the lives of those around us. This devotional book is one I'll continue to read in the days and years to come.
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The Prayer of Jesus: Developing Intimacy with God Through Christ's Example
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In Luke 11:2-4, Jesus gave his disciples, and every Christian to follow, directions on how to pray properly. Long known as 'The Lord's Prayer,' this framework for true communication with God forms the basis for The Prayer of Jesus, by veteran writer Mike Nappa (A Heart Like His, A Mind Like His). By breaking down this very familiar passage into its component parts, Nappa makes the prayer of Jesus fresh and new.
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Using the imagery of the Book of Psalms as a backdrop, author Calvin Miller explores our hunger for intimacy with our holy God.
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The Depth of His Love: Discovering True Intimacy With Christ
Tom Moye
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A must-read.......2007-08-14
This small book packs a powerful punch. It's a must-read for any Christian, especially the mature saints. From the handwritten note at the beginning to the review (conclusion), you can't go wrong. Be ready to wade deeply as Pastor Swindoll gives you a profound presentation of an essential topic. Just stand still and know!!!
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A book that will quicly capture the imagination of its reader.
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Filled cover-to-cover with vintage photos, drawings, exploded views, and excerpts from previously "secret" and "restricted" technical manuals. Emphasizes unique, groundbreaking, and technical characteristics. Includes rare pinball tech details, cockpit photos, laminar wing of the P-63, Russian export versions and P-39 tumbling problems.
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Hey Little Cobra Don't You Know You're Gonna Shoot Them Down?.......2007-01-11
Bell P-39/P-63 Airacobra & Kingcobra
Warbird Tech Volume 17
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By Frederick A. Johnsen
Reviewed by Ned Barnett
Hasegawa just came out with a 1/48th scale P-400 - the export version of the P-39D Airacobra - that is by all accounts (including my own) the best-of-breed. There are other good-to-great kits of the P-39 series by Eduard, Accurate Miniatures (re-released as a post-war air racer - and it's so good that it's hard to believe the Hasegawa kit is better) and even the venerable Revell/Monogram kit, which isn't too bad. And that's just in 1/48th scale.
That is reason enough to revisit the 1998-issued Warbird Tech book on the P-39 and P-63. This series of 100-page photo-and-text books are of uniformly high quality - interesting to historians and aircraft buffs and extremely welcome for modelers who appreciate seeing the details, as well as the overview. This one is a classic example of the breed.
This book begins with the development of the P-39, a radical and revolutionary aircraft that was largely robbed of its place in American military history by an "official" decision to build the plane without a turbo-supercharger. This lack of supercharging hamstrung the aircraft at any altitude above 15,000 feet - making it useful for ground attack and for aerial combat on the Eastern Front, where high-altitude combat was few and far between. However, for North African and Western European combat - and in air-to-air fighting against the Japanese - the plane was a pale shadow of what it could have been. American combat pilots - except for a relatively few ground-attack fighter units in the Southwest Pacific - were eager to transition out of the `Cobras and into something a bit more suited to all-altitude combat.
Fortunately, many P-39s and almost all P-63s - the upgraded redesign of the Airacobra - were Lend-Leased to the Soviets, who knew how to use it in both ground-attack and air-to-air combat. They appreciated the hard-hitting 37mm Oldsmobile-built aircraft cannon and the two .50 caliber Browning heavy machine guns - to enhance performance, the Soviets often stripped off the wing guns as unnecessary. Although this fact was almost a state secret until the fall of the Soviet Union, a significant number of the Soviet's most successful aces ran up their scores in Bell-built aircraft.
An interesting side-issue covered by this book is the US Navy's Airabonita - a tail-dragging fighter very similar to (but hardly identical to) the early-model P-39s. The book includes three rare photos and several pages of insightful narrative about the XFL-1 Airabonita, a fascinating "might have been" that never got beyond the prototype stage.
Except for the butt-ugly TP-39Q two-seat trainer, and a single one-off XP-39E (which was really a prototype for the later P-63) the P-39 seemed to stay the same from P-39D to P-39Q. However, the P-63 became the basis of a variety of interesting conversions. One P-63 was used by the Navy - post-war - to test both tricycle landing gear and swept wings on carriers. This paved the way for the FJ-2 Fury and other swept-wing carrier combat aircraft. Another was used to test a "butterfly" tail, such as later appeared on the Beechcraft Bonanza, and discovered that it offered no meaningful performance increase. I've built the Navy version - it was an interesting kit-bashed conversion - and have thought about the Butterfly Kingcobra as well.
However, for my money, perhaps the most fascinating conversion - and the only one that saw active service in the USAAF - was the "Pinball." This was a heavily-armored, sensor-laden but unarmed aircraft that was used to train bomber gunners. These gunner-trainees would use a light .30-caliber machine gun firing frangible bullets - and shoot at the brightly-painted (high-visibility) Pinballs, which flew pursuit-curve attacks for the gunners' benefit. Every time the target plane was hit, a light bulb in the nose flashed - hence the name. These aircraft saw extensive service in the Southwest US during 1944 and 1945 - and this book not only traces their operational career, but provides detailed drawings highlighting the areas of the Pinballs that were up-armored. If you want to build a Pinball, this book will be extremely helpful. It's not the only source on the Pinball, but it's got a lot of useful information - text, photos and line drawings.
Bottom line - you can't go wrong with Warbird Tech titles. If you've got an interest in the P-39 Airacobra or the P-63 Kingcobra - or the prototype US Navy Airabonita - this book is for you. The last time I was at my local Hobbytown USA, I saw one on the shelf, so I presume this book is still in print. And of course it's available here at Amazon.
The Bell Cobra's described.......2003-01-18
This is my 8th book about the Airacobra, and I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of -new or at least unknown to me- information and the quality of the photographs. Though modellers might probably prefer the Osprey "P-39 Airacobra Aces of World War 2"; the Squadron/Signal aircraft in action no.43 "P-39 Airacobra in Action" or even the Aircraft in Profile no. 165 "The Bell P-39 Airacobra" for the color sideviews and paint schemes or will value the Squadron/Signal "P-39 Airacobra in detail and scale" for it's description of the various kits which are available, plus the detail photographs.
This book however is more in the line of Rick Mitchell's "Airacobra Advantage: The Flying Cannon", one of the best overal books about the Airacobra. Compared to this book it is better illustrated and has a more pleasant layout, comparable to two books about the Airacobra who are sadly not easily available: the Polish AJ-Press "Monografie Lotnicze Nos. 58 and 59.
Amongst all these books this book still manages to offer me new facts, photographs, overviews and drawings, a remarkable fact considering that it is by far the cheapest book around for this plane.
A little Disapointing.......2000-06-12
The book is good only for engineers, lots of technical explanations, not many pictures, many drawings. Most of the pictures are B&W. I bought it thinking in use to get painting schemes for models, but it didn't work very well.
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In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update.
Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet.
Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth. While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes.
In many ways, the message contained in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a warning. Overshoot cannot be sustained without collapse. But, as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of its damage to Earth if it takes appropriate measures to reduce inefficiency and waste.
Written in refreshingly accessible prose, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a long anticipated revival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth and human development.
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Essential reading, but only part of the story.......2007-08-12
No one likes limits, but they're with us all our lives, from the restrictions our parents place on us as children to the limits that society and Mother Nature compel us to adhere to as adults. The authors do a clear and thorough job of explaining how physical limits affect the Earth and the human society evolving within it.
Updating their mathematical model and learning from three decades of experience since the original 1972 study, the authors reinforce their earlier finding that persistently overshooting the Earth's carrying capacity could lead to any one of a variety of unhappy scenarios for humanity. While expressing due respect for technology development and the effects of free markets, they emphasize that these are necessary but not sufficient tools for getting us through the 21st century.
The authors have been criticized as doomsayers whose predictions have proven wrong. Such criticism obviously has come from people who have not actually read their work. They have not produced just a single computer run of their model and then proclaimed, "This is what will happen." They have done hundreds of runs to attempt to illustrate how important variables - such as population growth, industrial production, technological development, and pollution - interact to shape future scenarios in a 100-year timeframe. A thorough reading of this book demonstrates that rather than being disproven, their original scenarios are looking ominously accurate.
Chapter 5 is the book's good-news story, providing a case study on how the world got together to tackle the ozone depletion problem over the last quarter century. This and the final two chapters demonstrate that the authors have not given in to hopelessness.
The most critical shortcoming of the authors' work is one they clearly acknowledge. They address flows of population, materials, energy, and emissions that can be mathematically modeled, but do not include factors such as military conflict, large-scale corruption, natural disasters, pandemics, or severe economic stresses like currency and debt crises. If these things are taken into account, one could view the Limits to Growth model as wildly optimistic. What would this study look like with a non-quantitative social futurist perspective added to it?
The authors have done a remarkable job of clearly explaining concepts such as positive and negative feedback loops and the Earth's sources and sinks as they apply to the model. But the 284 pages of text may be more than can be absorbed and digested by the wider audience this book deserves. Perhaps a condensed version is needed, one that captures the message and its urgency but is short enough to get even policy-makers to read it.
Here we go again..........2007-02-03
This book was required reading for me in my Political Science class over 20 years ago when I was in college. By this point in human history, humanity was supposed to be doomed. I agree with a previous reviewer who pointed out that the authors simply fail to take into account human ingenuity and the resilience of the planet and its inhabitants.
But hey, if you want to incessantly worry and fret, this book is probably for you.
limits to growth CD.......2007-01-10
I hoped the CD would contain more material but it didn't give me more than reading the book.
Please don't misinterpret the book.......2006-09-29
MG Phelps (below) misinterprets the work of LtoG by thinking it was a gloom and doom prediction. Quite to the contrary, we can place the research of Donella, et al within the context of the argument Phelps makes and see that its cautions and suggestions are phenomenologically healthy responses of a system attempting to adapt to changes. The books argues what must change, not HOW that change ought to occur. I wonder if Phelps even read the research at all, or just read reviews of it from the neo-classical economists that still believe growth is the solution to the problems that growth is causing us.
Others also point out that the original LtoG report was "inaccurate" because people (and our economy) DID respond to it proactively--but only to the point of delaying the inevitable. The fact of the matter is that human resource consumption is still rampantly (exponentially) growing, that we have exceeded our global ecological carrying capacity, and that our future is dimmer than it otherwise would be for the reason that we will have less clean air, soil, water, nonrenewable minerals, etc to work with. So tell me what the economy would substitute for clean mineralized water??
In this sense one might hope that humanity DOES NOT for its sake find another source of cheap low entropy matter-energy to exploit (like fossil fuels), because if it does, it makes the systemic collapse of global ecosystems (and the ecosystem services they provide us) that much more likely. Right now we are showing the collective maturity of a bacteria colony in a petri dish. Again, I ask, what does the author propose we subsitute for ecosystem services such as the cleaning of our air? A technological solution will not work because it is inherently reductionist, whereas the factors that are currently involved in cleaning our air are much more efficient, effective and multifunctional (trees aren't just air scrubbers).
Also, why wait until all wood becomes prohibitively expensive before stopping the rampant destruction of forests? By then, it will be too late. As the ecological economist Robert Costanza points out, those trees and forest ecosystems are more valuable as ecosystems than as "aggregates of resources for exploitation" within our economy.
Failed predictions.......2006-08-19
I admit to not ahveing read the latest edition of this work. But I have read the previous two and unless there have been changes of substance, which other reviews here suggest has not happened, I will not be wasting my money on the new edition. The reason is that the authors' work entirely fails to take into account the way in which human ingenuity, stimulated in part by price changes which scarcity should surely bring about, has made, and can be expected to continue to make, adaptations in how resources are used and extracted. Indeed things that were never thought to be resources can be made into resources; deposits that were uneconomic to exploit can become economic if prices rise. The issues were all set out very clearly by economists when the first great scare broke out in the mid 1970s (when we were told we were going to run out of crucail resources by the year 2000). I suggest googling two important papers by Yale's William Nordhaus in Brooking Papers for a comprehensive critique of the two previous editions. This is not to say that resources are infinite, they clearly are not. But nor is the life of this planet, which is doomed to end when our sun reaches later stages of its life cycle. The big question is when we run out of renewable resouces and how soon we can replace thenm by renewable ones. The sort of analysis in the work of the Limits to Growth team ignores so much of the possible adaptations that a well funtioning economic system can be expected to make that it is of no help in answering the big question.
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- Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest
- Letters from Burma
- Life Interrupted: The Unfinished Monologue
- Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse
- Lives on the Boundary: A Moving Account of the Struggles and Achievements of America's Educationally Underprepared
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