books: a quest for

books: a quest for

books:

A quest for

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
Daniel Yergin

Free Press, 2008

Now with a new epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world's most important resource: oil. Daniel Yergin's timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades and that continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and ...

Being Catholic Now: Prominent Americans Talk About Change in the Church and the Quest for Meaning

Kerry Kennedy

Crown, 2008

A breath of fresh air.
As a Catholic, I've grown tired of relentless monotone stereotyping of Catholics. Being Catholic Now has been needed for a long time. Kennedy brings a more honest look at the rich spectrum of Catholic experience. The book affirmed that my experience growing up ...

Wife for Hire

Janet Evanovich

Harper, 2007

Who would have thought I guy would hire a wife
You could sort of figure out some the plot but the characters did not seem to understand what was happing. You just knew if the guy hired the woman to pretend to be his wife that he would evently marry her. But the author kept that the story going.

Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God

Elizabeth A. Johnson

Continuum, 2007

Quest for the Living God
Quest for the Living God is the kind of excellent, inspiring, illuminating writing we have come to expect from Elizabeth Johnson! A wonderful book that merits a slow, reflective read and, ideally, discussion with others.

The Prize : The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

Daniel Yergin

Free Press, 1993

A Must to Read!
This book was published in 1992 so it doesn't contain information beyond the Bush presidency and into the 21st Century. What it contains is the history of the use of oil as a means of energy and light. While Oil does appear in the background of many history ...

Crafting and Executing Strategy: The Quest for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases

Arthur Thompson, A. J. Strickland III, ...

McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2007

For a text book, it's great!
As mentioned in the title, it's a text book, but it's very informative. Gets down in the weeds and is very thorough. Was a good read and great for the class we were required to have it for! There are a few chapters that I didn't read thoroughly, and now that the ...

Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World ...

Edward Kritzler

Doubleday, 2008

Great Book, one I actually lived through...
I can't believe how great is Ed Kritzler's book. Why you wonder? Reader, I married him long ago. He worked so hard on this book and it's wonderful, readable, a must for anyone interested in Jewish history. As his ex-wife you might find it strange that I think so ...

The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics

William R. Easterly, William Easterly

The MIT Press, 2002

A Partial Answer to the Question of Why the World is the Way it is
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists' Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics by William Easterly is an honest answer to part of the question, "why hasn't the world improved like we thought it would?" Easterly conducts a post-mortem conference on western aid ...

The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

Brian Greene

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

The Elegant Universe - Highly recommended, highly readable
In this age of rapidly changing theories of cosmology and physics The Elegant Universe explores the shortcomings of quantum physics and classical theory and the emergence of Super String Theory as the possible Great Unified Theory. This is a very well written book; ...

The Field Updated Ed: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe

Lynne Mctaggart

Harper Paperbacks, 2008

Scientific proof of The Truth/How the Universe Works/the "paranormal"
This book covers a small band of scientists from various parts of the world that broke the mold and bravely did research where others, wanting the funding, would not dare to go. Their discoveries were considered heretical, but their passion for truth was more important ...

Radical Forgiveness, Making Room for the Miracle, 2nd Edition

Colin C. Tipping

Quest Publishing & Distribution, 2002

To Live a Fulfilled Life, We All Need to Know How to Forgive.
This book has helped me many times over. We all know that we need to forgive, many times over in our lifetimes. I loved learning how to "radically" forgive, at a time that I need to just "let go and forgive" in order to move on. I loved the individual stories that ...

Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance (American Empire Project)

Noam Chomsky

Holt Paperbacks, 2004

A Must Read
Direct, blunt and confrontational. Chomsky has started me on a new search for truth, first fo myself, then hopefully for others.

The Myth of a Christian Nation: How the Quest for Political Power Is Destroying the Church

Gregory A. Boyd

Zondervan, 2007

Sanity at last
An extremely important book for all Christians, not just Americans. Carefully uproots an age old deception and leads you to the true kingdom of God. A must read!

Brain Quest for Threes

Chris Welles Feder

Workman Publishing Company, 2005

Great flash cards
We have had a lot of fun doing these with my 3 year old daughter. We do these before bed and that is all she wants to do know, she looks forward to it

Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand

Gail Carson Levine

Disney Press, 2007

We LOVE this series!!!
We love the whole Disney Fairy series. These larger books are wonderful for reading to a 5-7 year old! My daughter and I read them every night, and it takes about 3 weeks to finish one of the big ones. I only wish there were more in the series, we are almost done!