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There is a glory to life that most people-including believers-never see. In this insightful new book, John Eldredge presents the heart as central to life. Not only is the heart essential; the heart God has ransomed is also good. Building on these foundational truths, Eldredge shows readers why real Christianity is a process of restoration, where the broken parts of our hearts are mended and the captive parts are set free.
Waking the Dead leads listeners to understand how to live from the heart, care for their heart like the treasures of the kingdom, and give from fullness instead of emptiness. This message also shows how living from the heart can energize people to love God and others in a way they've never experienced, revealing to them life's purpose: fighting for the hearts of others.
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"There is a glory to life that most people-including believers-never see. In this insightful new book, John Eldredge presents the heart as central to life. Not only is the heart essential; the heart God has ransomed is also good. Building on these foundational truths, Eldredge shows readers why real Christianity is a process of restoration, where the broken parts of our hearts are mended and the captive parts are set free. Waking the Dead leads listeners to understand how to live from the heart, care for their heart like the treasures of the kingdom, and give from fullness instead of emptiness. This message also shows how living from the heart can energize people to love God and others in a way they've never experienced, revealing to them life's purpose: fighting for the hearts of others."
Customer Reviews:
Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive.......2007-08-09
This is one of my favorite all-time books. It is uplifting, encouraging, and a wonderful read. I have read it 3 times already, and look forward to going over it again. Every time I read it I get something new out of it. I have given many copies to friends and family, and recommended it to many others!
Awesome Book! Very Deep!.......2007-07-31
This book was really an eye opener. John Eldridge really hits on things that we all already know as Christ followers yet he puts things in perspective by using examples such as movies to make us aware that the glory of God is man fully alive!
A very deep book, I had to read a couple of chapters over again to get what Eldridge was saying, but I didn't mind at all because the chapters are short and it allows the reader to take in what Eldridge is trying to get across. "You are not what you think you are. There is a glory to your life that your Enemy (Satan) fears, and he is hell-bent on destroying that glory before you act on it." "The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it."
Warning! This book could change your life!.......2007-07-23
John Eldredge's "Waking the Dead" is both eye opening and soul changing. I've never heard or read this bilical perceptive and my heart was certainly ready to receive this wonderful message of God's love, hope and purpose for our lives while on earth. I'm buying extra copies soon to give to all of my friends and family!
Mandatory Read.......2007-07-23
Eye opening and crucial reading from John Eldridge. I have read Captivating, Journey of Desire, and Sacred Romance. I have loved them all, but this one is the best. I am recommending it to all my friends. The workbook that goes along with it enhances the experience and helps you to truly apply what you are learning to your life. I highly recommend you buy it!
Lifechanging.......2007-05-17
Respectfully, I simply don't care about all the 'analytical' criticism of John Eldredge, nor do I pay attention to all the overly legalistic slamming of his books. Simply put, God used this book and John to change many things in my life. I recommend this book as one of John's best! And a must read for those that are ready to step out beyond religiosity and into the "Kingdom" life that God wants us to abide in!
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Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, Harriet Tubman dreamed of following the North Star to freedom. When she did escape, she risked her life many times to lead 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. This is the dramatic biography of a woman whose faith, courage, and intelligence have carved her a place in history.
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One of the best children's biographies I've found!.......2007-10-08
My 3rd grader likes fantasy and adventure, but I've been adding some non-fiction books to his reading list. I didn't know if Harriet Tubman would interest him, I wanted him to learn about her, so I gave this one a try.
It's WONDERFUL! It kept his attention and made him really care about what would happen to her. An adult could tell the author had done a great deal of research. There were direct quotes from Harriet herself and from what I could tell, every event in the book really happened.
The book was so good that after reading it with my boy I ened up telling my wife about most of the amazing events it chronicled.
Does your child have reading required for school each week? Get this one!
"Wanted Dead or Alive".......2006-04-24
"Wanted Dead or Alive" The True Story of Harriet Tubman is a facinating book and may prove useful in a classroom setting. Ann McGovern's writing style is a mixture of narritive and expository and makes the book both engaging and educational. "Wanted Dead or Alive" is comprehensive and covers Harriet Tubman's entire life and her contributions to the Underground Railroad.
Follow the North Star to freedom!.......2004-02-23
I had this book when I was a child and I treasured it. This book introduced me to the life of Harriet Tubman, conductor on the underground railroad (she was so successful at helping people escape slavery that she had a price on her head), Civil War spy (an extremely dangerous undertaking when you consider that captured spies were executed), and servant to the poor. She instantly became my hero. The book is instructive without being preachy, and gave me a sense of Harriet Tubman's incredible strength of character, determination, and courage. In the pages of this book, I found a Great American. She has been a role model for me ever since I read this book. Consider giving this book as a gift to a child you love. The writing is easy to read, the illustrations are gripping, and the main character is a bona fide, real life, honest-to-goodness hero.
One of the Best Children's Books of All Time.......2003-02-18
I don't remember why I first picked this book up, but once I did, I couldn't put it down. I introduced the book to my teacher, and he became so interested in it that he read it to the class. The next time the class went to the school library, they borrowed all the copies of this book - 10 copies in all.
The author has a way of making the reader feel like he or she is in the story - if not as Harriet Tubman, then as someone close to her.
With all the junk being fed to kids nowadays, putting a book of this quality in front of them could pique their interest in reading.
Wanted dead or alive.......2002-05-10
It was in the year 1820. A babygirl was born. Her name was Harriet Tubman. She was born in Maryland. She was born in a cabin. The book is about slaves that are negros. And that they all lived in Maryland because there slaves. All the slaves were mistreated. The slaves needed freedom.
The message is that you you should help other people that need your help. You should never give up on what you want. Like the slaves wanting to be free.
My opinion, it was cool because the slaves were given called diffrent names. When they were older they were given another name. My opinion is that it is not good to have slaves. It was a good book.
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Wilkie Collins's The Dead Alive: The Novel, the Case, and Wrongful Convictions
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On the evidence of The Dead Alive, Scott Turow writes in his foreword that Wilkie Collins might well be the first author of a legal thriller. Here is the lawyer out of sorts with his profession; the legal process gone awry; even a touch of romance to soften the rigors of the law. And here, too, recast as fiction, is the United States' first documented wrongful conviction case. Side by side with the novel, this book presents the real-life legal thriller Collins used as his model-the story of two brothers, Jesse and Stephen Boorn, sentenced to death in Vermont in 1819 for the murder of their brother-in-law, and belatedly exonerated when their "victim" showed up alive and well in New Jersey in 1820.
Rob Warden, one of the nation's most eloquent and effective advocates for the wrongly convicted, reconsiders the facts of the Boorn case for what they can tell us about the systemic flaws that produced this first known miscarriage of justice-flaws that continue to riddle our system of justice today. A tale of false confessions and jailhouse snitches, of evidence overlooked, and justice more blinkered than blind, the Boorns' story reminds us of the perennial nature of the errors at the heart of American jurisprudence-and of the need to question and correct a system that regularly condemns the innocent.
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For my part, I did the little I could to make myself useful. With the silent sanction of Mr. Meadowcroft and his daughter, I went to Narrabee, and secured the best legal assistance for the defense which the town could place at my disposal. This done, there was no choice but to wait for news of Ambrose, and for the examination before the magistrate which was to follow. I shall pass over the misery in the house during the interval of expectation; no useful purpose could be served by describing it now. Let me only say that Naomi's conduct strengthened me in the conviction that she possessed a noble nature.
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AS ALIVE,SO DEAD.......2007-06-10
I LOVED THIS BOOK, IF YOU WATCH THE SHOW GHOST WHISPER THEN YOU MUST
READ THIS BOOK. SOMETIMES I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN. I AM ORDERING HER NEXT
BOOK AND I HAVE SEASON ONE OF THE T.V.SHOW. GREAT BOOK!!!!
THANKS,
ANNETTE
FROM LORAIN COUNTY,OHIO
One of the best reads I've had in some time!.......2006-03-10
You have got to read this book. I finished the entire book in two days--simply for the fact that it is so interesting! Mary Anne is fantastic--her experiences will leave you laughing, crying, and at times--scared. The only reason I gave it four stars instead of five is because of the editing. There are misspelled words and some incorrect grammar, but that is on the publishing company. The subject material will entertain even skeptics. No matter how you stand about ghosts and the paranormal, you will enjoy this thought provoking book. Truly a great read!
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The Swiss psychiatrist Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig examines marriage with his customary vigor and deceptively facile prose against the background of individuals and their search for soul. This brilliant book questions and radicalizes our conventional notions of what constitutes a "happy marriage," or even if happiness is necessary for a marriage to be successful. Guggenbühl-Craig understands marriage as an expression of human fantasy and imagination rather than merely as a social institution. He concludes that marriage is a place for individuation, for that difficult process of deepening one's own self.
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wonderful working about marriage.......2007-05-28
it`s interesting working about matters of marriage from a very good psychologist
Creative, Counterintuitive Look at Marriage.......2007-01-11
A very insightful and thought provoking look at marriage as a challenging but promising vehicle through which one might eventually achieve what Jungians call individuation, i.e., the integration of apparently opposite polarities--male and female, anger and love, good and evil. Nicely written, demonstrating the author's broad sophistication in terms of his grasp of literature, anthropology, theology and, of course, clinical psychotherapeutic experience. His critique of the at times excessive emphasis on procreation as the aim of sexuality is something that the Vatican might benefit from reading with an open mind and heart. Meanwhile, his discussion of marriage as a source of salvation through sacrifice rather than just the pursuit of superficial wellbeing is a challenging message for the prevailing feel-good culture.
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Gorgeous, bouncy, fighting action is back this fall in DEAD OR ALIVE 3 with new characters, a new story line, and incredible fighting graphics, exclusively for the Xbox! DEAD OR ALIVE 3: PRIMA'S OFFICIAL STRATEGY GUIDE includes all the features you expect, including complete moves lists, crucial combo strategies for every fighter, blocking tactics, more countering techniques, and tips on environment destruction. You also get adversary tables, damage totals, and special tag team tips. Don't miss out on the action get Prima!
Customer Reviews:
good game.......2003-08-29
Dead or alive 3 is a very good fighting game. The graphics are realistic. Kicking fighters off clifs, through glass windows, into electric gates, and fighting in water or while it's snowing is really cool. The reason I rated it 4 instead of 5 is because the only thing I don't like about it is the amount of fighters in this game. You beat the game too fast. If it had like 20 to 25 fighters like mortal kombat 4 or tekken tag then It will probaly be known as the 3rd best fighting game ever. Right now #1 is still the tekken series and #2 is still the mortal kombat series.
Honest Review.......2002-05-08
Lets face it a Strategy Guide for DoA3 is very lame. BUT it is insightful. Another reviewer said that it's as useful as a guide for Pong. Well they have a point, DoA3 is a fighting game whos objective is to bash the other player. Play long enough and you learn how to do just that. What this guide shows you is how to do it in style, how to take out the other guy with that rare combo, and with some practise do it everytime. If you are like this Gamer, who is NOT 14 and can NOT spend 12 hours in front of his XBOX (though I wish I could), then this guide is for you. Enjoy it.
PS Rember Pong was the #1 selling game for a long time back in the day.
It's worth it just for the pictures alone..!.......2002-04-23
I dont know why "nightmarecow1" didnt like it.. I thought it was amazing... I loved it and thats all that matters....
useless and stupid..........2002-01-02
Strategy guides are horrible. Why use one ESPECIALLY for DOA3? ITS LIKE A STRATEGY GUIDE FOR PONG!!!!!!!
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Excellent introduction to the subject.......1998-08-05
Wanted Dead or Alive is an excellent overview of the American West in popular culture. While the conclusions within this anthology are all similar and reflect a revisionist (New Western History) slant, the vast array of topics covered, represent the only overview of the subject I am aware of.
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Prima Keeps You ALIVE
* Expert lessons take you from the basics to the advanced techniques.
* Full move lists for all characters!
* The Art of Fighting--strategies to bring your fighting skills to a whole new level.
* Extensive character analysis: best juggles, best/worst match-ups, offensive and defensive strategies.
* Online play info to get you into the worldwide community, and keep you competitive!
Customer Reviews:
Avoid purchasing this DOA4 game guide.......2006-03-19
I disregarded the previous review by LB on January 25th and i sorely regret it. This game guide does not tell you how to counter properly, guard breaks, and character strategies. On the back cover it says it shows you the best/worst match-ups but its nowhere to be found. Doesnt give you any tag combos at all, or online play instructions.
PS For goodness sake, learn to play a character other than Ryu Hayabusa, Jan Lee or Brad Wong. Everyone plays these characters online.
Don't waste your money.......2006-01-26
The back cover of the guide promisses "expert lessons". Where? It's just more general suggestions. I already know I need to learn the counter system to be effective at this game. The booklet with the game tells me that. HOW PRIMA? HOW DO I DO IT? There's no lesson. There's no how to. I'm still looking for the promised "gaurd breaks" list in the "character strategies" section. Sounds like it's something I'd really like to try. This guide makes it seem like an effective tool. Too bad that other then a general description of what a guard break will do for me, there's no actual instruction on the technique.
Great I know all the character moves that you can't possibly hope to accomplish while the computer has you in a 99999 punch juggle. I can get that info for free on gamefaq.com. I was actually better as a button masher at this game than I am armed with this worthless guide.
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For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the 'most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century' (The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. Dick, whose work inspired such films as Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Minority Report, dedicated his life to solving one ultimately unanswerable question: What is real? In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrre follows Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely end in 1982, beset by mystical visions of swirling pink lights, three-eyed invaders, and messages from the Roman Empire. Drawing on interviews as well as unpublished sources, Carrre traces Dick's multiple marriages, paranoid fantasies, and vertiginous encounters with the drug culture of sixties California. He vividly conjures the spirit of this restless observer of American postwar malaise whose more than fifty novels subverted the materials of science fiction-parallel universes, intricate time loops, collective delusions-to create classic works of contemporary anxiety. As disturbing and engrossing as a book by its subject, Carrre's unconventional work interweaves life and art to reveal the maddening genius whose writing foresaw-from cloning to reality TV-a world that looks ever more like one of his inventions.
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French guy gets it right - again!.......2007-03-17
What's going on with these French novelists seeming to re-invent biography with their love letters to American weirdos? Michel Houellebecq wrote my favorite (non S.T. Joshi anyway) appreciation/bio of H.P. Lovecraft ever, and now here comes another in much the same vein, only more so. This is part biography, part literary criticism, and part attempt at doing just what the title suggests: inhabiting, for a short while, the mind and imagination of Philip K. Dick. I say it succeeds at all three, beautifully. Finishing it, I immediately wanted to start it again.
Carrere provides non-judgmental look at Dick's life.......2006-11-15
I Am Alive and You are Dead by Emmanuel Carrere has been on my books to read list for awhile. I have a weakness for biographies and autobiographies of writers, and if it's a writer who I all but worship as a god, well, all the better.
Philip K. Dick is one of those writers who, once I discovered all those years ago with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, felt compelled to read every book I could get my hands on. There are a few here and there that I have missed, but I have read the vast majority of Dick's works, and perhaps none was more haunting than Valis, particularly the author's introduction to the novel. Not having any use for religion myself, I felt a bit betrayed that a writer I idolized could have written something so strangely spiritual. It seemed like it had to be all a joke. I know exactly how those French fans felt at that science fiction conference,Carrere describes in I Am Alive and You are Dead because I have been there. If anything, though, it was Valis that made me want to read more about the life of Philip K. Dick.
Carrere calls the biography he's written "a peculiar book," and says he has attempted to portrary Dick from the "inside." I can't say whether this is the result, but the book chronicles Dick's life with an empathy that seems born of a true fan, who wants to understand this writer and share his story with the world.
He tells the story of Dick's decent into madness with honesty, and yet avoids passing judgment. It is a tragic story and a dark story, all the more disturbing because it is a true story and not a work of fiction.
I have seen what madness can do to a person firsthand, and I'm always the last person to classify what others call crazy as insanity. Sure it sounds crazy that Jesus could appear in some girl's toilet bowl, but then millions of people go off to church each Sunday, many of them believing in things that look a whole hell of a lot like insanity - a virgin that gives birth to a semi-divine child, a person turning into a pillar of salt, a dead person disappearing from a tomb. When it comes right down to it, The Bible is full of as much weirdness as say, The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. I appreciated the fact that Carrere never tried to paint a caricatureof Dick, but presented the man as he was, and showed the way he struggled to understand the seeming insanity taking over his life.
Carrere also does his best to link the different epochs in Dick's life with the books he was writing at that time. He doesn't cover all his novels, but a fair number. The result is that the reader can see the inspirations behind some of the themes, and in some cases the outright autobiographical nature of the works.
I have read no other biographies of Dick's life to date, and so, have nothing to compare this book with, but found it a solid and well-rounded effort. It may not be quite as page-turning as one of Dick's novels, but it is written in a way that is engaging and entertaining.
A fascinating look at the mind of a really strange person.......2006-10-20
This book is not just a biography of Philip K. Dick, famous science fiction writer; the movies Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report are based on his stories. It is also an attempt to find out what made him tick, to get inside his mind. And that is a strange place to be.
Dick was born in 1928, near Berkeley, California, half of a set of twins. Evidently, his mother knew little or nothing about child rearing, because Jane, his twin, died at 6 weeks of age, possibly of starvation. Her death affected Dick for his entire life.
He was a big lover of classical music, and a voracious reader, especially of psychology, philosophy, and later in his life, religion. Dick never achieved his dream of becoming a "serious" novelist, though not for lack of effort. Writing science fiction simply paid the bills, until he became successful at it.
His first wife was a Communist sympathizer (having an FBI file in 1950s Berkeley was practically a badge of honor), he got his second wife sent to a mental hospital, and his third wife left him, and took their young daughter, when he objected to her getting a job outside the home. Dick had a fear of being alone. Dick was a paranoid agoraphobic who was subject to panic attacks. He was, shall we say, well acquainted with the world of prescription drugs, taking them for all sorts of physical and mental ailments. On speed, he could write a novel in two weeks, without sleeping, though he knew that he would physically pay for it later. In later years, he was perceived as some sort of LSD guru, even though he took it only once. There were a couple of stints in drug rehab.
As a youngster, during one of his rare trips to a movie theater, Dick was suddenly convinced that nothing existed outside the theater. The four walls and the pictures on the screen were the sum total of reality. Another time, he wondered if he was really alive, or if he was simply an android who was programmed with false memories so that he would think that he was alive. In later years, Dick turned a couple of innocent fan letters from Eastern Europe into a plot to get him behind the Iron Curtain, and keep him there.
Anyone who has ever read one of Dick's novels, or seen one of the movies based on his stories, needs to read this book. For those not familiar with Philip Dick, read this as a look into the mind of a very strange person.
Heavy on interpretation.......2005-11-20
Overall, this is a nice work, but it seems to be an interpretive biography, with emphasis on interpretive.
Some may love it, depending on what kind of biography one is looking for. I would describe Emmanuel Carrere's PKD bio as melodramatic.
This is the first PKD bio I've read. Emmanuel Carrere uses PKD's books as the timeline, without much emphasis on years, which can be frustrating to some (like me). Also the author's style is somewhat flowery and heavyhanded. I almost stopped reading it in the beginning because I wanted something more straight forward.
The kicker is, PKD's life is so interesting to me, I got caught up in it and eventually appreciated Emmanuel Carrere's style.
The book is appropriately titled, A Journey into the Mind of Philip K. Dick. Emmanuel Carrere was looking for motivation, not just describing events.
Fortunately there are other PKD bios, which I intend to read.
Is this Review a Manifestation of Ultimate Truth or a Figment of Your Imagination?.......2005-11-19
What a fascinating journey through a bizarre and brilliant mind! I had always wanted
to learn more about Philip K. Dick, but had been turned off by other articles and
books that had drained the life from Dick's story with overly dry and pedantic prose.
In contrast, Carrere offers psychological insight and philosophical speculation
that can only be described as "Phildickian." As one who had read all of
Dick's better-known works, Carrere seems to have reanimated Dick's spirit in this
compelling, partially novelized tale. What the reader sacrifices in footnotes and
verifiable fact is more than made up for by the sheer human interest of the story.
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15 months worth of your favorite DOA hotties in their sexiest swim wear.
....'nuff said.
Customer Reviews:
WONDERFUL.......2007-04-05
I loved this calendar and all of the games of this serie.It shows all the girls of the DEAD OR ALIVE extreme beach volleyball(2)game. It is beautiful, big and came with a large poster of TINA. Isn't great?
Dead or Alive Beach Volleyball Calender.......2007-02-13
This calender was a gift for Christmas. I was very happy to recieve it because I own all the Dead or Alive games.
Beautiful girls!.......2007-01-16
I saw this callender on a forum for Dead or Alive, I knew I had to have it. It is so difficult to find posters of the girls, I've never been able. When I recived this callender it's a little smaller than regular calenders, but the photo's are amazing! They are so crisp and clear. Every girl has at least a month, some have two. I wish they did a group shot with all the girls on one month, but they did not. Another issue is that the pictures are bigger than one page, so the photos are just not only on the top page, they also go on to the bottom page with the calender. This isn't a big deal for using it as calender, but if you wanted to take it apart and use the pictures, some of the lower parts would be lost. It also comes with a bonus poster of Tina, not my favorite girl, but she is pretty. It's a huge poster, but the pic they chose of Tina, her pose dosen't fill out the entire page. So there's a lot of free area around her. I guess I wouldn't complain if the poster was Kasumi! Another fun feature is that the girls bithday's are listed in the calender.
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