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Everything For Sale is an erudite reprieve from the deluge of books written in praise of free markets. Robert Kuttner fires back with a book that documents relevant, real-world examples of market failure and makes the case for intelligent intervention to attain more desirable outcomes. His exhaustive litany of successful (some, even cherished) government interventions in the market--from National Public Radio to the Internet--creates a persuasive case for a mixed program of political and market-based approaches in the shaping of public policy. When Kuttner pushes his argument for a culture with less commercial emphasis, his preferences exhibit an anti-market bias. But overall, his argument is clear and compelling, exposing blind adherence to market outcomes as largely arbitrary, ideological, and often, an affront to democracy. Academic economists who ignore the political desires of the people in order to protect the purity of their mathematical models draw Kuttner's fire in particular. He writes about ideas and economic details with great verve and ability. Kuttner's book is certain to be a touchstone of debate, if not reform, among public policy makers.
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Zeroing in on such realms as health care and the workplace, the commercialization of sports and the arts, the chaotic deregulation of airlines, S&Ls, and telecommunications, and the buying and selling of public offices, Kuttner shows how markets can fail precisely those whom they are supposed to serve. Asking the crucial question, "What should not be for sale?", Kuttner shows why a society conceived as a grand auction block would not be a democracy worth having. 416 pp. Author tour. 25,000 print.
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Excellent Explanation of Market Impefections and How to Resolve Them.......2007-07-28
The marketplace has it advantages, yet it is unable to be perfect. It is foolhardy to believe that all economic solutions will eventually emerge from the marketplace and with just market corrections. Robert Kuttner explains where market imperfections exist and how to correct them.
Unions are presented as a positive economic force, as the organization of employees and prevention of employer abuses is shown to raise productivity. Often these productivity increases surpass their bargained wage increases. Employers resist unions, even with they are advantageous to them, because they don't wish to share concede managerial powers. Plus, increased wages are sometimes paid by with reduced profits. Yetl, the overall effect of unionization has created a better wage distribution that helps the overall economy.
The growing service economy is less unionized. In part, this is the fault of unions who expelled their more radical members, who were in fact their best organizers. The resulting lower wages of service employment in general is contributing to an increase in national wage disparity that is creating economic imperfections.
Robert Kuttner calls for greater civil vitality and government actions designed to work as allies with the market in strengthening the economy. Failing to do so, we will continue to experience such market imperfections as in wage and wealth disparities and a poor allocation of health care services. The health care system lacks free market competition, fails to provide perfect information to consumer, and consumers have little mobility to choose their health care providers even if they had better information.
The economy is one where people do not always act rationally or with stable economic optimization strategies, as a free market requires. There are forces in financial markets and businesses that often seek to take unfair advantage of market systems, which further diminishes the ability of the market to operate efficiently. There is a need for government regulation of the market, unions, fair trade with common international standards, and policies such as strong education systems and social support systems to keep the economic system operating as well as it can. The book is an excellent explanation of the true workings of our economic system.
well argued and well documented critique of "free market" religion.......2007-07-21
Kuttner is not a "leftist", he's pro-capitalist. But he is aware of the destructive consequences of laissez faire policy.
The virtue of this book is that it discusses clearly in detail a wide variety of areas where market failures are rife. He shows how laissez faire market governance doesn't work for health care, or electric power, how it leads to greater oppression and inequality for workers. He gives many concrete examples from the real world that falsify the theoretical assumptions of "neo-classical" (laissez faire) economic theory. He shows how the assumptions laissez faire makes about people -- "we're all self-centered maximizers of our own self-regarding wants" -- are wrong, how humans are more complex in their actual motivations.
When a theory -- neo-classical economics in this case -- is held to despite its being falsified by reality over and over, it begins to take on the character of a religion. Since the explanation for its hold can't be its scientific credence -- in fact it's a pseudo-science -- we need some other explanation for its hold. The fact that it is an ideology that has been extremely beneficial to the rich and powerful seems the best explanation.
Kuttner is an old-fashioned liberal and a particularly intelligent one. His book is thus in part a defense of the liberal approach that wants to use state regulation of the economy and he provides various arguments to show how efficiency and other human benefits can be secured through government action.
Since capitalism has always depended on the state to support it, I don't think this is a different economy from capitalism, whereas Kuttner calls his proposal a "mixed economy". Kuttner thus doesn't consider any alternatives that would go beyond the hierarchies of the state and corporations or go beyond a society based on private appropriation of profit. However, Kuttner's evidence of endemic market failures can provide good ammo for those who have a more anti-capitalist viewpoint.
Democracy not for Sale: a Fair and Balanced View of Markets.......2006-11-06
Everything For Sale is a powerful response to the wave of ideologically motivated free market boosterism that passes itself off as works of sophisticated scholarship. Notice the subtitle: The Virtues and Limits of Markets. Kuttner does, in fact, praise markets for their strengths. He has little patience, however, for the abstract ideal of a pure market, which is as illusory as Kant's thing-in-itself. He asks that discussions of markets and regulations bearing upon markets account for the way things really work, with conclusions supported by actual case studies.
Instead what Kuttner finds is the scholarship of those questing for the grail of a pure market relies primarily on deductive reasoning, tautologies, abstract models and unlikely presuppositions (the rational maximizer, for example), rather than sound historical analysis. Of course, it is easy to cherry pick regulatory failures, but ideologues that ignore or misrepresent counter examples of regulatory necessity and success disserve the cause of democracy -- they see only the virtues, not the limits of markets.
Kuttner effectively argues for a nuanced view of markets and regulation in his discussion of health care and money markets, in his discussion of democratic, human and environmental values, none of which can be reduced to market values, but all of which appropriately rely on markets to varying degrees to achieve communal and individual good. Kuttner does not argue that regulation is always the solution for market limits and failures, but he decisively rejects that dogma that no matter how bad things are, government involvement will always only make it worse. He rejects the market vs. regulation dualism, and the cynicism that says market values are all that matter.
Everything For Sale presents a well reasoned and well written case for reevaluating the public institutions upon which our democracy (and markets) depends. If anything, it is a more important book today than it was when written in 1996.
An excellent refutation of classical liberal misunderstandings.......2006-08-09
Free market zealots will find this book impossible to understand, because the author has a sophisticated ontological understanding of the human being that they can never have. Kuttner, like Freud, Veblen, Polanyi, Galbraith, Packard and many others before him, understands that the human is a vulnerable, emotional being driven by anxiety and susceptible to manipulation by a business class whose ruthlessness has never been in question. This contrasts starkly with the simple-minded utilitarian view of the individual as a free-willed rational calculator programmed to maximise his or her economic interests in a market system that circulates information purely and transparently. This view of the human being as an autonomous hedonist-rationalist has become a self-fulfilling prophecy amongst those who subscibe to it, and they have become in their everyday lives the narrow, simple, unethical and anomic creatures that the belief constructs. Tediously and predictably, all critiques of work such as Kuttner's are grounded in this one-dimensional depiction of the human being. Consequently, all the apparently sophisticated mathematical models constructed by the pseudo-scientists who call themselves 'free-market economists' - even though their internal logics seems to make sense to the simpletons who construct and apply them - are thus spectacular examples of mumbo-jumbo based on a single and catastrophically false ontological assumption. To me, books such as Kuttner's make a strong case for temporarily disbanding economics and reformulating its fundamental metaphysical assumptions under the guidance of more sophisticated social scientific and philosophical disciplines. Well done indeed, Mr. Kuttner, and someone now needs to take up the baton and write a comprehensible book that instructs these Hayekian-utilitarian simpletons about the psychological vulnerability of the emotional human being and the moral complexity of human intersubjectivity in its economic, political, social and ecological contexts.
The grail of a perfect market is a dangerous fantasy.......2005-07-13
In this mightily important book Robert Kuttner attacks frontally and defeats by KO the utopian view of 'laissez faire' of the Chicagoans, who hold that regulation is never warranted because all private choices are free of coercion.
He adopts the Schumpeterian view that the real economy rather than aggregating to a single optimal 'general equilibrium' is constantly in disequilibrium. 'Perfect competition is not only impossible, but inferior.'
He turns the 'Revealed Preference' (markets serve free choices and aggregate welfare) into Bertrand de Jouvenel's 'Revealed Ignorance'. Corporations have the power to set prices, not to take them passively.
What we need is a mixed economy: a balance between market, state and civil society. In fact, the US has a long history of governmental interventionism.
The author illustrates his credo forcefully by examining a whole range of all important industries and markets.
Free markets and/or deregulation are not a solution for
- the health care sector (the most efficient way to make a profit is to avoid sick people and to limit care)
- the money market (the S & L disaster)
- the labor market (is a reflexion of the relative power between the capital owner and the salary worker. After loosing his job, the latter is three months away from destitution)
- the airline industry (deregulation has degraded service in multiple ways)
- the environment (global warming, acid rain and deforestation cannot be solved by market forces)
- telecommunications (major sectors are natural monopolies)
- electricity (the final sale remains a true natural monopoly)
- education (a paramount source of long-term economic growth)
- safe and health in the workplace (that's why Congress wrote OSHA).
He cleverly explains the motives behind 'laissez faire' policies. As Robert Heilbroner said 'Ideology is part of economics'.
'Wealth buys among other things power and power resists income distribution.'
The champions of false evangelism are for the author the Public Choice cynics. He unmask them as fundamental anti-democrats, because they believe that 'politics is hopelessly self-defeating'.
However, he notes that its representatives are very congenial to the most powerful and poses the rhetoric question: Who looses when society pursues political mobilization of propertyless voters, a broad welfare state, substantial economic regulation and redistributive taxation?'
On the contrary, we need a reinforced democracy as a bulwark against tyranny, for the expression of selfhood, for the cultivation of civic skills and norms and to keep markets in place and to limit their sometimes destructive mechanism.
This is a very important political book written by a superb free and unbiased free mind.
Nevertheless, the political pendulum is actually close to the far right: after giving mighty tax breaks for the wealthy, the actual US government declares that pensions and medical aid have to be cut for budget reasons!
I also recommend Peter Temin's work 'Did monetary forces cause the Great Depression?' where he destroys Friedman's explanation of the most important economic disaster in the US history.
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Most analysts of corporations and industries adopt the focal perspective of a single prototypical organization. Many analysts also study corporations primarily in terms of their internal organizational structures or as complex systems of financial contracts. Glenn Carroll and Michael Hannan bring fresh insight to our understanding of corporations and the industries they comprise by looking beyond prototypical structures to focus on the range and diversity of organizations in their social and economic setting. The result is a rich rendering of analysis that portrays whole populations and communities of corporations.
The Demography of Corporations and Industries is the first book to present the demographic approach to organizational studies in its entirety. It examines the theory, models, methods, and data used in corporate demographic research. Carroll and Hannan explore the processes by which corporate populations change over time, including organizational founding, growth, decline, structural transformation, and mortality. They review and synthesize the major theoretical mechanisms of corporate demography, ranging from aging and size dependence to population segregation and density dependence. The book also explores some selected implications of corporate demography for public policy, including employment and regulation.
In this path-breaking book, Carroll and Hannan demonstrate why demographic research on corporations is important; describe how to conduct demographic research; specify fruitful areas of future research; and suggest how the demographic perspective can enrich the public discussion of issues surrounding the corporation in our constantly evolving industrial society. All researchers and analysts with an interest in this topic will find The Demography of Corporations and Industries an invaluable resource.
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A worthy companion piece.......2002-01-26
I read Jung's Answer to Job and then moved on to this book by Edinger and found it really helpful in "unpacking" some of the information from Jung. I definitely recommend getting the two books together. I have some issues with Edinger, who remains at heart rather conservative. He also falls into a bit of hero worship with Jung. Still, his intellect is keen, and he is much easier to grasp than Jung (though Answer to Job is one of Jung's least obtuse). The lecture format is a blessing and a curse. It succeeds in drawing you in and imagining yourself there in Edinger's presence, but also results in the flow of the text being kind of loose. Beyond all this nitpicking, the topic covered is powerful, pressing, exciting, and challenging. It is the Jungian approach at it's best. Common sense and intellect are applied to the Western God-image without killing off that which is being studied. Very few authors seem interested or capable of engaging the God archetype at this level. Most revert to reconciling humanity with God's mysterious ways or decrying the limits of the Judeo-Christian archetype. These books are babysteps towards why God has progressed the way "he" has.
Excellent in-depth treatment of Jung's most famous book.......1999-12-25
Jung has said that Answer to Job is the one book he wrote he wouldn't change.
Answer to Job covers more than psychology, it is a book of poetic dimensions. It is notoriously hard to understand.
Edinger's work opens up the contents of Answer to Job. Every page of this wonderful little book is brimful of insights taking one from appreciation of Answer to Job to understanding.
Edinger has a gift for expressing complex ideas in simple concrete terms. He is a master educator. Jaffe has done a masterful job of converting Edinger's lectures into a book.
The book will give you a greater understanding of Jung, his spirtual quest, and Jungian spirtuality.
Jung is one of the twentieth century's greatest scientific, spiritual and cultural forces. Edinger helps one get more from Jung's rich mythopoeic and psychological insights.
The book is a paragraph by paragraph discussion of Jung's Answer to Job with additional material drawn from other writings of Jung and additional authors.
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Cricket Explained offers the sports enthusiast a user-friendly introduction to baseball's British cousin, a game that shares with America's national pastime the common ancestor "rounders".
This is the definitive beginner's guide to the game of cricket, written by a world authority on the sport, the co-inventor of the Coopers & Lybrand World Cricket Ratings System. Cricket Explained takes the reader from the game's fundamentals -- basic rules, terminology, equipment -- to the finer points of strategy, individual playing styles, and cricket lore.
The book includes a combined glossary/index for easy reference and is illustrated throughout with the lighthearted drawings of British cartoonist Mark Stevens. So even if you don't know "short leg" from "silly mid off" or a bowler from a batsman, you'll come away from Cricket Explained with an understanding for this truly international sport which, like baseball, is loved both for its elegant simplicity and its vexing complexity.
Among the topics covered in Cricket Explained's concise, user-friendly entries are:
-- Cricket's history
-- Making sense of the action on the field
-- Batsmen and the batting order
-- Fielders and fielding positions
-- Fielding and batting tactics
-- Scoring and statistics
-- Bowling strategy
-- How many players are required
-- How runs are scored, outs are made, and a game is won
-- Umpires and the rules
-- Bowlers and their individual styles
-- Different types of cricket played throughout the world
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A great book for the novice.......2007-03-15
I caught the cricket bug recently, but didn't really know what the game was all about. This book covers play, rules and general information about the game in an entertaining manner.
Nice and Quick Reference.......2006-11-02
This book can be both used as a reference and an introduction to Cricket. It explains some of the more difficult concepts and terms in a quick and easy-to-understand manner.
Cricket is NOTHING like baseball!!!.......2006-07-05
For years, my West Indies friends have said "Cricket is just like baseball" and I just couldn't get it. Mr. Eastaway does a fantastic job of explaining the terminology and the rules so that I can now watch a match and understand fully what's going on. Mostly I learned not to ask "why they call it that" because, as he says, for some words, there is no logical explanation.
A fantastic guide for the recently initiated.......2003-10-15
I had the pleasure of catching two of the five days of an England test match against South Africa at the Oval during a recent holiday in London. As an American and an avid baseball fan, all I had ever heard of cricket was "boring", "incomprehensible" and, yet again, "boring". I found my two days at the Oval fascinating and was fortunate enough to not only have the patience to pay attention to the game during those two days, but also to stumble upon this great book at a bookstore on Fulham. I was even more fortunate to find the book between the two days I attended, read it from cover to cover, and have become a bit of a pest now to my American nonbelieving friends. Cricket is a great sport and if you want the quick and dirty, well here it is. From Googly to Howzhat, it's all here. Now I know enough to pester my Indian neighbors during the next test match. I wish I had this book last year during the World Cup. Great read.
Informative and amusing at the same time.......2000-11-27
This book is best suited to somebody who has witnessed some cricket without having a clue what was going on. The book is filled with answers to questions typical of the ones a novice might ask (why do they all wear white? don't they all get bored? who's WINNING???). Fun cartoons throughout. I understand that the UK edition of this book is called 'what is a googly?'.
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Here at last is a witty and revealing book that demystifies cricket jargon and answers all the questions you've always wanted to ask. Illustrated with pithy and instructive cartoons, it explains where cricket came from, what happens on the field, what the tactics are, and the dos and don'ts of being a spectator. If you've ever made a fool of yourself in the pavilion or wondered how to tell who's winning, then Rob Eastway, co-inventor of the Coopers & Lybrand World Cricket Ratings, has written just the book for you!
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Entertaining and clear!.......2007-09-27
With ex-pat family in Britain, I had to find out why they'd be so hot for cricket after years of baseball. This well-illustrated guide takes one carefully through the complexities of the game, along with classic British witticisms and acknowledgement of its idiosyncracies. After reading it, I called family and said, "I now know what a googly is." They didn't, so I sent the book on. I also can read sports articles on games and understand them. You too can learn about mid silly and off leg. Have fun!
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In response to the high demand for a comprehensive Arabic program, Living Language proudly introduces the ALL NEW Ultimate Arabic course. The latest addition to the celebrated Living Language Ultimate Series, Ultimate Arabic Beginner-Intermediate comprehensively teaches Modern Standard Arabic as well as the four most commonly spoken colloquial dialects—Egyptian, Iraqi, Lebanese, and Saudi. The customized instructional approach helps students prepare for any situation—from the home to the marketplace, the restaurant to the classroom or office, and much more!
With 35 lessons and eight audio CDs, it’s the most complete Arabic course available. It teaches students not only how to speak the language, but also how to read and write it using Arabic script. The multifaceted language learning kit responds to the modern student’s need for a practical, flexible course, and it allow for study at home or on the go.
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Brilliant!!!.......2007-06-08
As a serious linguist I use all the materials I can get in order to break the language and I was quite impressed when I saw this title. I have experienced other Ultimate courses, such as RUSSIAN and it was a wonderful learning experience.
Arabic is not one, but many: There are many dialects, but the ones I am interested in are covered on Ultimate Arabic. You have the Eastern dialect (as spoken in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine), you have Egyptian Arabic, Iraqui Arabic, Gulf Arabic, etc... apart from the dialects there is MSA (Modern Standard Arabic). The latter is only used in literature and on newscasts, and on official speeches. It has a resemblance to Saudi and Gulf Arabic, but many words change. So much that the differences can be compared to those between Spanish and Italian, and or Portuguese. Same origin, but the languages have evolved according to geography.
With this course, you will get a deep understanding of MSA and you will be introduced to four major dialects. You will learn how to read and write the Arabic script's 32 symbols and you will get ample practice from the beginning. There is no transliteration, so you will be reading and writing Arabic in no time and believe you me, this is one thorough course of Arabic!!! I have checked everything there is out there and this is in the top 3.
My sincere appreciation goes to the team that developed this product.
Shukran Kteer!!!
Excellent, but............2007-05-10
I have learned over the years that I can count on Living Language to produce a quality product, and I wasn't disappointed here.
This course is designed for people who are serious about acquiring skills in Arabic grammar, vocabulary, and reading (distinguishing it from the innumerable courses that don't even introduce Arabic script.) The pace of the course is not too fast, not too slow, but just about right. If you follow the text and recordings diligently, you will find yourself starting to understand Arabic---a highly satisfying experience for most of us.
My only complaint is that roughly half of the course focuses on local Arabic dialects. The regional dialects of Arabic have their place; but not in a beginner's course on Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Once the basics of MSA are grasped, students can then depart in the direction of whichever dialect is the most useful. (My guess is that most students will be interested in only one or two.)
This is the only factor that prevents me from giving this course a five-star rating. But don't let this factor dissuade you from buying it. The MSA material is well worth the cost of the course.
Learning Arabic in Baghdad.......2007-03-09
This is a detailed and complete text. Its complexity is much greater than other books by Living Language (I use their French and Spanish as well) and it has a better layout than other styles of texts I have used. Specifically, this text has a detailed primer for learning the Arabic script (don't use transliterations- go for the real thing!). It also has helpful audio for pronunciation. Once again, this is useful for learnign Arabic the right way- in the script, no in the romanized alphabet.
Also, being in Baghdad has helped me to hear native speakers. I have noticed that the colloquial phrases that this text describes as 'Iraqi Arabic' are not actually used by that many Iraqis. I wonder if it is a bit outdated. Nobody here uses Modern Standard Arabic, as far as I can tell.
Not as good as other Ultimates.......2006-11-05
This product was disappointing to me as I have studied other Ultimate language programs and they were very good. This product is just not helpful in developing a full and useful vocabulary. The dialect cds are too limited to be of much use. Overall I do not recommend the Ultimate Arabic.
Loaded with errors........2006-10-10
I am suprised at some of the reviewers that gave this program good reviews. The text is loaded with errors and for the beginner, this is a real disservice. If you buy this program, be prepared to be confused when some words and phrases are written several different ways.
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On-the-go Instrction Because your time is valuable... All Audio All on the go! Beginning level instruction is presented in an all-audio format on 4 digitally-recorded CDs. You have the opportunity to learn on the go, taking advantage of time normally wasted. Study in your car, while exercising, doing yard work anywhere you can safely listen to a CD player. No accompanying books are needed to help you complete the lesson activities. Why can t learning be fun? It can! Linguaphone has chosen to present the allTalk series in an entertaining, soap-opera format. No dry old teacher with a monotone voice putting you to sleep, you follow the adventures of a visitor to a Spanish-speaking country as she interacts with individuals in a variety of interesting situations, learning the language and beginning to understand the culture. Actually learn the language Tired of spending money on language courses that don t work? Did you ever think the problem could be with the course and not you? With Linguaphone s unique learning sequence: Listen, Understand, Speak, you will find yourself actually using the language in no time at all! You are presented with a unit of the language, it is then broken down and explained to you, then you put it back together with greater understanding than just repeating what you may not have understood in the first place. . . . and learn it well! The all Talk methodology not only teaches well, but will have you speaking and understanding basic spoken Spanish in no time at all. Other popular all-audio courses require four times the cds, four times the money and four times the time to do what Linguaphone s allTalk Basic does with 4-one hour CDs.
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We live in a time when things are tough for a lot of folks. The boomers are beginning to feel anxiety as they move toward retirement. Many people are facing financial pressure and are up to their ears in debt. We are having to care for both our kids and our parents.
The pace of life, and the demands of life, just keep getting more intense. And for many, these tough times bring life crises. This is a book of encouragement, hope and freedom... an invitation to meet Christ at the crossroads of our lives and move beyond the tough times.
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Thank You, Chuck!.......2007-03-21
No one has impacted me more in the early years of my ministry like Chuck Swindoll. I read everything he wrote. He writes like a pastor who cares for his readers. His readers are like his congregants.
This volume is no different. It reflects the heart of a pastor and the mind of a teacher. Buy it! It will help you through some tough stuff.
This is the kind of book Christian authors should be writing!!!!.......2005-08-06
I've always liked Charles Swindoll's books. He writes in a conversational, warm style but uses a lot of biblical references and anecdotes from his personal life that resonate with me. He seems to be speaking my language and telling my life story with each book!
By way of contraste, some contemporary Christian authors (such as Rob Bell, author of Velvet Elvis) gloss over the Bible (or outright undermine it) and offer nothing but more questions, doubts and concerns. (See my review of Velvet Elvis for more on that kind of Christian author's efforts to speak to a "new generation.")
By way of contrast, Charles Swindoll attempts to answer questions and heal wounds. He's not divisive or offensive in his efforts, either. He seems to be a wise, compassionate man who truly cares about those in his church -- as well as those reading his books around the world.
I've been through a few tough times in my life, and I usually gain strength by reading books like this one from Charles Swindoll.
Thank you, Pastor Swindoll for doing so much to touch the lives of those around you.
A book providing biblical answers to contemporary problems.......2004-12-11
Charles R. Swindoll has been through a lot of tough stuff. As a pastor, college chancellor, radio host and author, he has experienced firsthand many of the troubles that life has to offer. From "Anxiety" to "Temptation" and from "Confrontation" to "Shame," the fourteen topics he covers provide a model for the reader to use when life blindsides him. Thus it is with the authority that comes from experience that Dr. Swindoll generously offers to help those who are struggling with their own particular pile of tough stuff.
GETTING THROUGH THE TOUGH STUFF explores two basic premises that are built on an underlying theme. First, if you are alive on this planet, you will have problems. The second premise is that God has provided us with the original self-help manual, the Bible. The underlying theme is the adequacy of God's love and grace to see us through even the toughest of stuff.
Dr. Swindoll has the gift of knowledge when it comes to the Bible, and he deftly identifies the roots of our "troubles" as well as the solutions to them by referencing biblical stories and passages. In each short, focused chapter, even seasoned believers will wonder anew at the omniscience of God. He knew just what kind of problems we would face, how we would try to solve them according to the wisdom of the world, and how sadly we would fail. Then, as Dr. Swindoll demonstrates, God in His loving and benevolent way provided us with the wisdom of the ages if only we would use it --- not only when things get tough but even before they get tough.
Often, when people have problems, they feel guilty and shamed or angry and resentful. But the problems themselves have been around since the beginning of time. And, more importantly, Jesus Himself experienced them. So when the Word of God offers answers, it can be trusted because the Word Himself did what His Father told Him to do...and it worked. We cannot be exactly like Jesus because, though He was tempted, He never sinned; often our problems are compounded because we do sin. Yet, through God's grace, the same solutions are available to us, and if we truly repent, we won't have to go through the same tough stuff again.
GETTING THROUGH THE TOUGH STUFF is not a simple "take two verses and call me in the morning" book of platitudes. It provides biblical answers to contemporary problems in a loving and gentle way. Charles Swindoll is a man after God's own heart.
--- Reviewed by Maggie Harding, a substance abuse counselor in Phoenix, AZ who wanted to be Brenda Starr before life intervened. She also reviews www.bookreporter.com and www.womenonwriting.com. To contact Maggie, e-mail Magster2@cox.net.
Book Description
We live in a time when things are tough for a lot of folks. The boomers are beginning to feel anxiety as they move toward retirement. Many people are facing financial pressure and are up to their ears in debt. We're having to care for both our kids
and our parents.
Getting Through the Tough Stuff Workbook is designed specifically for those who find themselves within "the tough stuff". It will guide participants to the encouragement, hope and freedom they are in need of as well as offer an invitation to meet Christ at the crossroads of their lives and move
beyond the tough times.
Book Description
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