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Communicates ratio standards for label printers by sales size and manufacturing process.

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Where are the 1001 ways to inspire?.......2007-03-24

I expected to find 1001 ways to inspire my team, organization and self, as the title indicates. Normally, such books have numbered suggestions and creative ideas, usually adding up to 1001.

What was strange for me is that this book presented, not 1001 ideas, but 4 personality types and suggestions on dealing with them. I am not sure if the title was the author's idea or the publisher's suggestion, but it is somewhat unfortunate, as it is misleading to the reader.

However, the writing style is clear, and many of the points made on working with different personality types are valid and helpful. If looking for information on personality types, this book would be somewhat useful, but if looking for a list of creative tips or ideas to inspire, this book does not really fit the bill.

Helps in Low Morale.......2006-06-27

I am tasked to manage an extremely low morale team in a high tech environment. It is very difficult to find the motivating triggers for my employees. I picked up this book and found it very helpful. I actually had each of my employees do a personality assessment and it not only helped me to work better with them and their development, but also allowed me to identify ways to motivate each personality type. I enjoyed the book. I agree, it is not a complex subject and will most likely not be used in a philosophy class, but that is what I enjoyed. It took the concept of personality assessments and streamlined it to find the basic, common result (a better working relationship with myself and my direct reports.)

Psycho-Babble.......2000-02-28

I was very disappointed with this book. The author implies that his theories are based on Meyers-Briggs but the Meyers-Briggs type inventory is based on 16 personality types. What psychological principals Mr. Rye based his book on is a mystery.

I found "The Situation" examples more a work of fiction than of real life business problems. His motivational examples were repetitive and lacked insight into human behavior.

All in all, reading this book was irritating rather than helpful.

Solid attempt - Difficult to apply.......2000-01-25

Although I'm only halfway into this book, I'm compelled to review it as I may not make it to the end. The book appears to be based on the Meyers-Briggs Personality Inventories. I've read and reviewed this well-known information several times in the past and have found it extremely useful, especially with respect to self-assessment. Mr. Rye's attempt to take the more complex Meyers-Briggs information and cyphon it into 4 distinct workplace personalities is an admirable and meaningful goal. The problem is, that while it serves as an excellent tool for the the reader (me) to understand his own personality type in the workplace, it has done little to help me identify the different personalities types of my subordinates. Just as the reader learns that he has a prodiminant personality trait with lesser traits of other types, so do his subordinates. It became increasingly difficult for me to identify the prodiminant personality types of the my subordinates. Mr. Rye's logical method of describing real and challenging work situations, and then precribing the correct remedies/approaches for the appropriate personality type of individual, just didn't work for me. The advise was good, except that I couldn't peg the majority of my employees into their prodiminant personality traits and thus apply the correct solution. The case-study situations themselves seemed to be a likely occurrence with only one or two of the possible personality types and therefore applying it to all four did not fit with my own experiences as a manager. However, if it does serve to help me better understand and resolve even a couple of employee situations (which it has already done), then it will have been worth the read. Each day of life teaches us to be better leaders, and this book will (to some degree) help me to recognize the lesson.

A cornucopia of creative ideas for motivating people........1999-03-05

Beginning with a self-administered test and a discussion about understanding yourself in terms of four personality types, this book presents ways to motivate yourself and others, including your boss and folks outside of the company, under a variety of circumstances. The author addresses personality and situational challenges. Here is a book that provides you with very applied guidance and an abundance of ideas; the type of book that should stimulate your thinking and motivate you to action.

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This is one of the most important studies in decades on Johannes Kepler, among the towering figures in the history of astronomy. Drawing extensively on Kepler's correspondence and manuscripts, James Voelkel reveals that the strikingly unusual style of Kepler's magnum opus, Astronomia nova (1609), has been traditionally misinterpreted. Kepler laid forth the first two of his three laws of planetary motion in this work. Instead of a straightforward presentation of his results, however, he led readers on a wild goose chase, recounting the many errors and false starts he had experienced. This had long been deemed a ''confessional'' mirror of the daunting technical obstacles Kepler faced. As Voelkel amply demonstrates, it is not.

Voelkel argues that Kepler's style can be understood only in the context of the circumstances in which the book was written. Starting with Kepler's earliest writings, he traces the development of the astronomer's ideas of how the planets were moved by a force from the sun and how this could be expressed mathematically. And he shows how Kepler's once broader research program was diverted to a detailed examination of the motion of Mars. Above all, Voelkel shows that Kepler was well aware of the harsh reception his work would receive--both from Tycho Brahe's heirs and from contemporary astronomers; and how this led him to an avowedly rhetorical pseudo-historical presentation of his results. In treating Kepler at last as a figure in time and not as independent of it, this work will be welcomed by historians of science, astronomers, and historians.

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Voelkel has done it again!.......2001-11-15

As the world's leading authority on Kepler, James Voelkel has once again demystified the oft misunderstood astronomer. While not nearly as accessible to the layman as Johannes Kepler : And the New Astronomy (Oxford Portraits in Science), it is a brilliant analysis of Kepler's work. It is not enough to read Astronomia Nova (1609), but to truly appreciate it one must look at the story behind it. And Voelkel takes us on that journey.

A must for all Kepler-philes and anyone else interested in seventeenth century astronomy!

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This review is focused on controlled/living radical polymerization methods for the preparation of various copolymers. A brief introduction to the subject of radical polymerization, and early attempts to control it, is followed by a detailed examination of the literautre on controlled/living radical copolymerizations from the mid-90's until 2001. The topics covered include statistical/gradient, block, graft, and star copolymers and the polymerization methods used to produce them. These copolymers were prepared using three major controlled radical methods (either nitroxide mediated polymerization, atom transfer radical polymerization or degenerative transfer) and a combination of polymerization techniques, including transformation chemistry or the simultaneous/dual living polymerizations, to achieve the desired chain architecture or topology. An evaluation of the current state of the field is also presented.

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Having survived the wrath of the Lamb--a global earthquake in the 21st month of the Tribulation--pilot Rayford Steele and reporter Buck Williams now embark on a journey of absorbing adventure and Christian triumph. Soul Harvest is book four in the enormously popular Left Behind series (seven books are planned in all), based on those who are left behind in the Rapture. Written with the same gripping pace of Tom Clancy and John Grisham (film rights have already been sold for the first two books), the authors take us to Iraq, America, underground shelters, and the bottom of the Tigris river as Steele and Williams search for loved ones. Meanwhile, biblical prophecies are fulfilled at every turn, including the great soul harvest. For many Christian followers, this series has become a tangible and thrilling testament to the Book of Revelations. --Gail Hudson

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The fourth book in the popular Left Behind series from Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins is now available in trade softcover. In Soul Harvest the world is reeling from a great earthquake. As Nicolae Carpathia begins a worldwide rebuilding campaign, his rage is fueled by an evangelistic effort resulting in the greatest harvest of souls the world has ever seen. Meanwhile, Rayford Steele and Buck Williams search for their loved ones who haven't been seen since before the earthquake.

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Slow......Again.......2007-09-27

Ok the first book was good, the second slow, the third one picked up for me and now, I'm having hell (pardon) getting thru this one. Last book we spent a lot of time trying to figure out where Buck and Rayford were and now we are looking for Chloe and Amanda. I think it's becoming a bit repetitive, but hopefully it speeds up again.

Just one more book in the all-encompassing, enthralling, and utterly absorbing Left Behind Series.......2007-09-14

From the very first letter of the alphabet that my eyes looked upon inside this series of books, until the very last period of the very last sentence, I was hooked. Each one of these books absorbed my attention like no other book has ever done in my life. Biblically sound, theatrically entertaining, and brilliantly written, the Left Behind books will inspire you to dig into God's word and take the pieces of news from your T.V. screen and match them right smack-dab up with the prophecies of the Bible. Your hair will stand up, your heart will race, and you will find yourself helplessly caught in the suspense. Once you finish one of these books, you will desperately race to your computer screen or your local library to pick up the next one!

Carrie Lynn Jones
Author of It All Began... When Jesus Gave Me Sneakers

Soul Havest:: The World Takes Sides .......2007-07-29

Soul Harvest was in good condition and had little damage. The pages were a little worn and the cover was worn.

LaHaye/Jenkins' Guide to Christianity: An Immoral Morality.......2007-06-03

Alright, so, if you're here, then I don't have to tell you how poorly written this series is. The characters are cardboard, there is no pacing, there is no sense of style and the plot is cliched, repetitive and completely devoid of real tension. But, you might reasonably respond, none of that is the point to this series. This series is meant to convert the masses, and therefore, we might posit that we ought to judge this series based on its religious and moral content.

If so? Then this series is even worse off than judging it on its artistic merits (and it has practically none).

First of all, to re-establish the fact that this is a poorly written series, allow me to quote this choice segment from near the end of the novel. The context is that Ray is investigating an airplane that has crashed and now rests underwater, a grave for dozens of people. He's searching for his missing wife, whom he fears is one of the dead (p. 402): "All he saw in his fading light were the backs of five heads and the heels of ten feet. Seven shoes had come loose. He had never understood the phenomenon of the contraction of human feet in the face of violent collision...."

Truly, genuinely dismal. Just awful. Here, you can tell that the authors decided to do a few minutes worth of research, and, finding some tidbit about contracting feet or somesuch, they just couldn't leave it out. You know, for verisimilitude. The fact that, while scuba-diving in an underwater airplane, searching desperately for his wife, and suffering from a bad head inury, this is a really lame thought for Ray to be having, pulling us completely out of the suspense of the scene? Well, the authors don't quite get that sort of thing.

But, like I say, perhaps we should concentrate our critiquing efforts on the presentation of theology and ethics found here. After all, that's obviously what's most important to the authors. And so, let's have a little bit of theological conversation between two of our Tribulation Saints (210):

"'God has proven personal to us, Mac," Rayford said. 'He doesn't always answer our prayers the way he we think he will, but we've learned he knows best. And we have to be careful not to think that everything we feel deeply is necessarily true.'

'I don't follow,' Mac said.

'For instance, I can't shake the feeling that Amanda is still alive. But I can't swear that this is from God.' Rayford hesitated, suddenly overcome. 'I want to be sure that if it turns out I'm wrong, I don't hold it against God.'"

See? Rayford gets this deep feeling about Amanda's still being alive. If she turns out to be alive, then Rayford knows that the feeling came from God, and he praises God for "assuring" Ray or something like that. However, if Amanda isn't alive, then Rayford knows that his initial feeling wasn't from God, after all, but just his own hopes overblown...

No wonder Mac didn't follow. It isn't followable.

But my big problem here isn't the authors' lack of logic. Oh, sure, they haven't even been *introduced* to logic, but no, my bigger concern is the morality. Throughout this series, they've been inspired to use the series as a pulpit for preaching against what they feel are society's ills. Fair enough, except, rather than making anything resembling an actual case against any of these things, they've been content to merely smear them through association (i.e. the Antichrist supports it, ergo it's just as evil as Fundamentalists always said it was). In this way, the authors look to tarnish organizations like the United Nations and hot-button political issues like abortion, cloning and fetal tissue research. Look, there are several good arguments to be made against things like the United Nations (and also good arguments for it)... but, that the Antichrist might use it for world conquest? Is not a good argument. (Also, it's not even a good Christian argument, for God's will is obviously that the Antichrist have dominion for a time, yes? Therefore, arguing against the U.N. appears to be attempting to thwart God's plan...)

Not always preaching against, sometimes the authors preach for things. For instance, in the character of Chloe, they preach for the "natural" submission of women to men (307):

"Don't parent me, Buck. Seriously, I don't have a problem submitting to you because I know how much you love me. I'm willing to obey you even when you're wrong. But don't be unreasonable."

This is not the independent woman the authors introduced us to in the first couple of books. After almost disappearing from the narrative altogether, Chloe has re-emerged as a caracature of what the authors believe is the ideal Christian wife. That is: obedient. And here, they try to make such obedience sound reasonable because it's done "because I know how much you love me..." but ask yourselves this: does Chloe love Buck any less than Buck loves Chloe? No. Yet the authors would *never* give Buck a speech about how he obeys Chloe and submits to her (even when she's wrong). They give Chloe this speech because she's a woman, and the authors believe that it is a woman's duty to submit to her husband, and obey him.

Apart from social observations, let's take a look at the character--and morality--of God as presented by this series. As a good starting point (and the central plot element of the end of the last novel, and most of this one), the "Wrath of the Lamb" earthquake that devastates the earth.

What I find interesting about that quake is: according to the authors, it's God's work. Now, in chronicling the 'End of Times,' the authors have been quick and clear to lay a lot at Nicolae Carpathia's doorstep. He's the Antichrist, after all; a bad, bad man. Yet, come to it, God has managed to wreak more destruction than Carpathia. I know that the authors, and most readers, would sift these acts of destruction into "good" and "bad" camps, but for someone who isn't Christian (like myself) it's a bit hard to come to that conclusion, just based on what I've read in this series. God's earthquake doesn't seem to be any more discriminatory than Carpathia's nuclear attack--they both wind up killing people both moral and immoral, Christian and other, right? They're both launching their attacks on the populace in an effort to gain better control of people, right? Win more people to their side, right? Honestly, other than the titles we've bestowed upon them, how is someone expected to figure out which is the force of good and which is the force of evil, when, for all I can tell, they employ the same tactics and have the same goals?

The big difference seems to be: God is *more* powerful, is *better* able to massacre people, and therefore we'd be wise in backing him up. Do you know what argument LaHaye and Jenkins have yet to make? That God is more moral in some observable way, and therefore worthy of love, respect or admiration. So far, the only thing that they've proven about their deity is that he's not afraid of murdering millions of people to make a point. God seems to be "good" and "moral" in LaHaye/Jenkins' world because he says so, and will slap you down hard if you disagree.

Of course, this is my beef--my personal point of view--I get that. I only wish the authors had some recognition of their own point of view, and how it colors their writing (and how it limits it). For instance, a good portion of the early part of the novel is Buck's trying to find Chloe (seems that girl is always gone missing), who they're worried has been killed by the quake. Had the quake, somehow, been the work of Carpathia, Buck would be burning with all sorts of anger at the cruelty and inhumanity of the Antichrist--at how casually the Antichrist could butcher people. Instead, Buck is filled with a sort of quiet resignation, because the quake is the handiwork of a "loving" God. Surely the kind of God that can cause these sorts of horrors must give a moral person pause...? Yet...

"The chopper lights illuminated an area of twenty feet in front of the craft. Mac suddenly unclipped his belt and leaned forward. 'What is that, Ray? It's raining, but it's red! Look at that! All over the snow!'

'It's blood," Rayford said, a peace flooding his soul...this show, this shower of fire and ice and blood, reminded him yet again that God is faithful. He keeps his promises." (410)

Yikes! Christians of LaHaye and Jenkins' stripe I find a bit... disturbing. They have no problems in upholding a God as being moral and loving, even as he slaughters millions (and condemns untold amounts of them to Hell, as he arbitrarily limits their opportunities for conversion/salvation through their early deaths). Yet they condemn as evil a man who kills a lesser number, even though that man is conforming to God's plan for us every bit as much as the earthquakes, comets, etc. They find comfort in raining fire and blood, but are troubled by independent women and embryonic research that could wind-up curing diseases and thereby saving lives.

If LaHaye and Jenkins are right--if this series really does reflect Christianity and the character and morality of their God--then God is wicked, and a truly moral person would have to take a stand against him, even if it were futile. There is nothing loving about this "loving" God, no matter how many times we assert it is so. And anyways, even if they're right metaphysically, this series is still incredibly poor in terms of writing, characterization, plot, etc. Being religious and being right doesn't make a person a competent author.

Great religious fiction.......2007-05-21

The authors again take us on a journey in the lives of the Tribulation Saints after the rapture. Nicolae Carpathia is the anti-Christ and more of his evilness is displayed. The 3rd and 4th Horseman are unleashed and calamity strikes the earth and those left behind.
These books are a great work and those who believe or aren't sure what to believe begin to understand the bible and the point of the books, to prepare yourself and make a decision to follow Christ and accept him as the Messiah. I enjoy them because they make the rapture and the prophesies of what is to come so real, the meaning of the prophesies are intrepreted by the authors but they make sense. The characters are real and are flawed, they make mistakes, they fight for what they believe, they experience pain and agony, happiness and joy. You want to be there with them, helping in the cause, at the same time you hope to never have to be there, that you're taken in the rapture and not left behind.

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Soul Harvest The World Takes Sides
Tim LeHaye , and Jerry B. Jenkins
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Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides

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Soul Harvest - The World Takes Sides, Book Four, The Continuing Drama Of Those Left Behind

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Soul Harvest - The World Takes Sides, Book Four, The Continuing Drama Of Those Left Behind
Tim; Jenkins, Jerry B. Lahaye
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Soul Harvest The World Takes Sides Unabridged Audio Book on 9 CD's (Left Behind, 4)

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Soul Harvest The World Takes Sides Unabridged Audio Book on 9 CD's (Left Behind, 4)
Tim LaHaye , Jerry B Jenkins , and Performed by Richard Ferrone
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Editorial Reviews Amazon: Having survived the wrath of the Lamb--a global earthquake in the 21st month of the Tribulation--pilot Rayford Steele and reporter Buck Williams now embark on a journey of absorbing adventure and Christian triumph. Soul Harvest is book four in the enormously popular Left Behind series (seven books are planned in all), based on those who are left behind in the Rapture. Written with the same gripping pace of Tom Clancy and John Grisham (film rights have already been sold for the first two books), the authors take us to Iraq, America, underground shelters, and the bottom of the Tigris river as Steele and Williams search for loved ones. Meanwhile, biblical prophecies are fulfilled at every turn, including the great soul harvest. For many Christian followers, this series has become a tangible and thrilling testament to the Book of Revelations. --Gail Hudson From Library Journal: The fourth book in the "Left Behind" series (Nicolae, Tyndale, 1997) brings back Rayford Steele and Buck Williams, staunch members of the Tribulation Force, an evangelical group fighting evil Nicolae Carpathia. An earthquake has left both men searching for their loved ones while they attempt to bring about Nicolae's downfall. Readers of the earlier books should be thrilled at the return of their heroes, and the action and intrigue here certainly matches that in the rest of the series. Characterization, especially of the female characters, is thin, but that shouldn't dull fans' demand. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides
Tim Lahaye , and Jerry B. Jenkins
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Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins
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ASIN: 0786256613

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Book Four in the Left Behind Series

English New York Times Bestseller

The spine-tingling sequel to Nicolae opens immediately after a devastating earthquake that has wreaked havoc on those left behind. Rayford Steele and Buck Williams frantically search for their loved ones among the survivors, while Antichrist Nicolae Carpathia rages against a sweeping evangelistic campaign. Will the Antichrist succeed in crushing the greatest revival the world has ever seen?

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Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides
Tim; Jenkins, Jerry B. Lahaye
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Soul Harvest: Left Behind, Volume 4 (Unabridged)
Jenkins, Tim, Jerry B. LaHaye
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Soul Harvest: The World Takes Sides (Left Behind No. 4)
Tim F. LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins
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