Downshifting: Reinventing Success on a Slower Track

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Fight Against the Cult of Busyness.......2000-08-06

In the first chapter, author Amy Saltzman says, "...as I have conducted my own extensive interviews with professionals across the country, the yearning for change has become more pronounced. While the fast track and its accompanying imagery of career achievement still has its appeal, there is a pervasive feeling that we have drastically overemphasized its importance; that as individuals and as a society we need to reinvent our notion of success."

Saltzman then identifies the five innovative "downshifting" strategies, and presents real-life stories for each: Back-trackers (who choose self-demotion in order to have more time and less stress); Plateauers (who intentionally stay in place and in control by turning down promotions); Career-shifters (who transfer their skills to less pressured fields); Self-employers (who go solo for more control over work hours and location); and Urban Escapees (who opt for more hospitable, less stressful environments).

Saltzman's book was one of the first books I ever read on the topic of living a balanced life and I found her research, insights, and real-life stories a great encouragement. I finished her book convinced that I wasn't crazy to NOT want life in the fast lane and success as society was defining it. I also had hope that taking risks and faith steps to live my life at a manageable pace would reap great rewards. As Saltzman said, "Reinventing success often comes down to accepting less, and realizing that by doing so, we actually gain more."

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Downshifting: Reinventing Success on a Slower Track
Amy Saltzman
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OAB5YG

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Plain Talk About Churches and Money

Plain Talk About Churches and Money (The Money, Faith and Lifestyle Series)
Dean Hoge , Patrick McNamara , and Charles Zech
Manufacturer: Alban Inst
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ASIN: 1566991854

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Plain Talk About Churches and Money .......2006-12-05

The authors tackle congregations' resistances, fears, and difficulties about money. Using extensive research for their earlier book (Money Matters), they turn their attention in this volume to providing insight and help with key topics perplexing church leaders and congregations today, including:

* Why are we so uneasy with the topic of money when it comes to the church?
* Is there a difference between stewardship and fund raising?
* Is there a "best" stewardship approach or program?
* How can we motivate giving?
* Should we invest church funds?
* Why is it so hard to make the connection between mission and budget, to develop a sense that what we do with money is ministry, not just bill paying?

Church leaders at all levels, seminarians, and adult educators will find this an important tool for understanding - and engaging congregations in discussion of - one of the most presing issues facing us today.
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ASIN: B000O6DUL6

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From the American Revolution to the Bush administration's "war on terrorism" and the invasion of Iraq, this volume examines how, and under what circumstances, the United States has decided to wage war. Four narrative chapters introduce readers to the history and impact of the legal issues involved in waging war, and examine the social, legal, and political forces that have shaped wartime policies at crucial moments in U.S. history.

An extensive collection of important documents is provided, along with a glossary of key people, events, and concepts; a chronology; a table of cases cited; an annotated bibliography; and a comprehensive index.

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Scholarly, unbiased recountings and insights.......2003-12-13

Waging War On Trial by Brian R. Dirck (Assistant Professor of American History, Anderson University, Anderson, Illinois) is an informed and informative study of how and when the United States, as a nation, opts to wage war. Examining landmark legal cases; American political and military history; the needs of military discipline; the shattering impact of the September 11th attacks; and a great deal more, Waging War On Trial offers a highly recommended compendium of scholarly, unbiased recountings and insights on crucial political matters as affecting just when and how the United States has gone to war from the American Revolution to the War on Terrorism.

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Curtis Machida and a panel of expert investigators present a comprehensive collection of modern molecular methods for analyzing adrenergic receptors and corresponding second messenger systems. These proven and readily reproducible techniques utilize genetic, RNA, protein expression, transactivator, and second messenger methodologies, as well as immunocytochemical, electrophysiological, transgenic, and in situ hybridization approaches. Each of the experts writing here details the use of their chosen method in examining the adrenergic receptor system, using aspects of the genetic flow of information as a guide: DNA ' RNA ' transactivator ' protein expression ' second messenger analyses ' cellular analyses ' transgenic whole animal approaches. Comprehensive and rich in practical detail, Adrenergic Receptor Protocols provides the first collection of readily reproducible methods for the study of these important regulators of CNS-mediated behavior and neural functions.

The Dynamic Synapse: Molecular Methods in Ionotropic Receptor Biology (Frontiers in Neuroscience)

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The Dynamic Synapse: Molecular Methods in Ionotropic Receptor Biology (Frontiers in Neuroscience)

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G Protein Pathways, Part A: Receptors (Methods in Enzymology, Volume 343) (Methods in Enzymology)

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Methods in Neurosciences: Receptor Molecular Biology (Methods in Neurosciences)

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Methods in Neurosciences: Receptor Molecular Biology (Methods in Neurosciences)
Michael P. Conn
Manufacturer: Academic Pr
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The volumes in this series include contemporary techniques significant to a particular branch of neuroscience. They are an invaluable aid to the student as well as the experienced researcher not only in developing protocols in neuroscience but in disciplines where research is becoming closely related to neuroscience. Each volume of Methods in Neurosciences contains an index, and each chapter includes references. Dr. Conn became Editor-in-Chief of the series beginning with Volume 15, so each subsequent volume could be guest-edited by an expert in that specific field. This further strengthens the depth of coverage in Methods in Neurosciences for students and researchers alike.

Methods in Neurosciences: Receptors : Model Systems and Specific Receptors (Methods in Neurosciences)

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Receptors initiate the means by which cellular regulators exert their actions on targets. Because of the central role of cell-cell communication and signal transduction, receptors are of intrinsic interest to neuroscientists. Receptor studies utilize both traditional methods of analysis and modern molecular techniques.

Nmda Receptor Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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Min Li and a panel of hands-on experimentalists detail state-of-the-art molecular techniques for studying NMDA ligand-gated ion channels and developing assays for nontherapeutic lead selection. The topics range from cDNA cloning to in vitro and in vivo investigation of the channel complex in the mammalian brain. Additional topics include the biochemical analysis of the channel protein and the construction of various heterologous systems for both basic research and high throughput screens (HTS) for pharmaceutical chemicals. Although the focus is on NMDA receptors, the methods are applicable to other ligand-gated ion channels and with some modification may be extended to related membrane signaling receptors. NMDA Receptor Protocols offers today's scientists powerful methods for basic research on NMDA receptor structure and function, as well as enormous opportunities for clinical investigation toward the development of novel bioactive compounds.

Receptor Signal Transduction Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology)

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Good laboratory manual on G protein-coupled receptor method

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Good laboratory manual on G protein-coupled receptor method.......2005-02-27

Laboratory manual edited by Gary B. Willars and R. A. John Chaliss. Maybe the most forthcoming limitation of this manual is it's "mission" to cover a vast array of protocols. This becomes a shortcoming because the space given for each technique and the theoretical backgrounds that substantiate them are very limited (short). Compare for instance the information on receptor binding given by Sebastian Lazareno on this book and the same author's chapter on the book edited by Tatsuya Haga. On the other hand, many of the articles are from experts in their fields and as an overall evaluation, the editors and contributors improved over the first edition witch was very limited in terms of coverage.

Receptors: Model Systems and Specific Receptors (Methods in Neurosciences, Vol 11)

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Receptors: Model Systems and Specific Receptors (Methods in Neurosciences, Vol 11)

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Methods in Neurosciences: Receptor Molecular Biology (Methods in Neurosciences)
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Canonical Gravity: From Classical to Quantum : Proceedings of the 117th We Heraeus Seminar Held at Bad Honnef, Germany, 13-17 September 1993 (Lecture Notes in Physics)
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A predecessor of both the nativist humor of Mark Twain and the exotic adventure stories of Washington Irving, Herman Melville, and Richard Dana, Royall Tyler’s The Algerine Captive is an entertaining romp through eighteenth-century society, a satiric look at a variety of American types, from the backwoods schoolmaster to the southern gentleman, and a serious exposé of the horrors of the slave trade. “In stylistic purity and the clarity with which Tyler investigates and dramatizes American manners,” the critic Jack B. Moore has noted, The Algerine Captive “stands alone in our earliest fiction.” It is also one of the first attempts by an American novelist to depict the Islamic world, and lays bare a culture clash and diplomatic quagmire not unlike the one that obtains between the United States and Muslim nations today.

The Algerine Captive: Or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill [pseud.] six years a prisoner among the Algerines. Two volumes in One.

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The Algerine Captive: Or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill [pseud.] six years a prisoner among the Algerines. Two volumes in One.
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The Algerine captive; or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill: Six years a prisoner among the Algerines

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The Algerine captive;: Or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, six years a prisoner among the Algerines. (1797) A facsimile reproduction of the London ed. of 1802, with an introd.,

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The Algerine captive;: Or, The life and adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, six years a prisoner among the Algerines. (1797) A facsimile reproduction of the London ed. of 1802, with an introd.,
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