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Healthy Congregations: A Systems Approach
Peter L. Steinke
The Alban Institute, 2006
Healthy Congrregations
Healthy Congregations: A Systems Approach
Pete Steinke takes the worrk o Edwin Friedman and helps a congregation and its leaders understand how to become a healthy church. This is valuable or any congregation or pastor. The book gives guidance in ways to become ...
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
Annette Gordon-Reed
University of Virginia Press, 1998
Very Skillful Lawyerly Presentation of History
This is a very solid and well researched book. The author makes a very thorough and logical presentation to prove her case. Much in the manner of a courtroom argument. It is effective. I came away from reading the book convinced that Jefferson, in all reasonable ...
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Sports in Society: Issues and Controversies with Online Learning Center Passcode Bind-in Card
Jay Coakley
McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2006
Sports in Society is the definitive text for the sport sociology course. Taking a global, issues-oriented approach to the study of the role of sport in society, this text encourages the discussion of current sports-related controversies and helps students develop critical thinking skills.
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Antagonists in the Church: How to Identify and Deal With Destructive Conflict
Kenneth C. Haugk
Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1988
Helps you keep your sanity when undermined
I attended an outreach conference. This book was the first to sell out on the book table. Pastors think they are called to keep everyone happy. They have no idea about dysfunctional antagonists who first put you on a pedestal and then tear you down later when you ...
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Statistics: Concepts and Controversies
David S. Moore, William I. Notz
W. H. Freeman, 2005
one of David Moore's excellent books on statistics
This was the first of many well written introductory texts by David Moore. It is now in its fourth edition and in paperback form it is very reasonably priced. Moore emphasizes the concepts and not the computational aspects and mathematics. This helps undergraduate ...
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Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies
Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney
Brooks Cole, 2005
Great Read
This book was required text for a nutrition class I had taken for my Bachelor's degree. I found the book to be a very easy read with lots of interesting information on health and nutrition. The book explained things in simple terms that were easy to grasp. I highly ...
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How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems
Peter L. Steinke
The Alban Institute, 2006
Helpful for understanding congregational dynamics
Peter Steinke is a Lutheran pastor and director of the Interfaith Pastoral Counseling Center in suburban Chicago. His career has been one of studying and advising the dynamics of disfunctional churches and counseling pastors who have been hurt by said churches. "How ...
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The Trinitarian Controversy (Sources of Early Christian Thought)
William C. Rusch
Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1980
Trinitarian Controversy
I bought this book for a seminary class on Christology. It was one of 3 books we had to read. The introduction was helpful in understanding the translated sources used in the book. I recommend this for anyone who is interested in an indepth look at the "Trinitarian ...
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Nutrition Concepts and Controversies
Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney
Brooks Cole, 2006
Great buy
I received the book as promised the NEXT day-which was perfect. It's exactly what I needed & when I needed it!
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Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies
Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney
Brooks Cole, 2008
Easy to Understand
My professor assigned this text for my first ever online course. I was worried that with out the lectures that I would have a hard time understanding the material and properly completing my assignments. I found this text easy to understand and very informative. I ...
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Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
David Kirby
St. Martin's Griffin, 2006
Well, Dr. Carley & Other Scoffers?!
Well, well! The US Government has fought tooth and claw against the heroic efforts of thousands of families to obtain compensation for injuries to their young children that they believe were caused by mercury contamination from vaccines. And now, very recently, we ...
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Making Peace: A Guide to Overcoming Church Conflict
Jim Van Yperen
Moody Publishers, 2002
Amazing!
This book is amazing! It will challenge you to grow. It will open your eyes to the underlying causes of conflict and struggle within the church. It is practical and full of wisdom and application. Heck, I don't even like reading, but I couldn't put this book down!
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Discover Your Conflict Management Style
Speed B. Leas
Alban Institute, 1998
Don't avoid this...
Speed Leas' book on conflict management is used in many settings, but is perhaps best known in seminary and church contexts. It is used at my seminary as part of the basic ministry class, to enable students to learn about their own conflict management styles directly ...
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The Death of Death in the Death of Christ: A Treatise in Which the Whole Controversy about Universal ...
John Owen
Banner of Truth, 1959
Christ?s Purposeful Death
John Owen's work, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, is the classic text defending the purposeful and actual procurement of salvation for sinners in the death of Christ. While characteristically portrayed as a polemical work on the Calvinistic understanding of ...
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Kill the Messenger: How the CIA's Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb
Nick Schou
Nation Books, 2006
The scary truth
As the editor of the Applegator Newspaper, I have many books crossed my desk. I was captivated from the beginning to the end. And the story confirmed many of my fears. If one has any interest on the CIA, I highly recommend this book.
J.D. Rogers
Editor of the ...
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