Brilliant, insightful
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Brave the Wilderness and read this book. The instruction manual for humanity. Right here. Brilliant, insightful, healing. As our world continues to change in frightening ways, this book teaches and reminds us how to be what is right in this world. Civility, respect and positive action. Lets be it and be part of bringing hope, love and belonging to our communities.  Read. This. Book.
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Brilliantly Written..Insightful and thought provoking!!!! Heard about this book from a good friend. Would love to attend one of her leadership programs. If I ever travel abroad..will definitely book a reservation. Highly recommended for a better understanding about diversity,equality and inclusion in the workplace and everyday self awareness.
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Kreiling tells his journey from outraged runaway street kid, to arrogant drug dealer, and through a series of realizations that are both humiliating and liberating. His writing is direct, clear, and obviously honest. The way he talks is equally appropriate for his conferences with corporate executives or his seminars with prison inmates. He tells his story, not chronologically, but in jumps between mental links, which naturally connect the dots of anguish, reflection, and insight. Some moments you'll never forget. It's stunning how inner realizations can hit so hard, and the quest for insight can be so consuming.  If I compare this book to "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," this is more dramatic, more emotional, and intellectually it's more focused. It's not great literature, but it's effective for it's purpose. I'd like to see this in every library. I'd like to see it as a text for psychology students, to stimulate real discussion of how people want to change themselves.

--author of Correcting Jesus
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Big fan of Ravi Zacharias. Have read almost everything that he has published and for some reason, I found this one to be the most enjoyable. I originally read this book after checking it out of the local library. After reading and returning it, I "missed" it and actually purchased it for my collection. There are so many brilliant things in this book, I almost wore out my highlighter trying to notate the most insightful. I HIGHLY recommend this book.
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As an executive in a major financial services institution, I found Dr. Rosen's book to be engaging, enlightening, and incredibly insightful.  His keen observations, unparalleled wit, and well-grounded perceptions make Grounded enjoyable and significant.  Dr. Rosen is especially adept at articulating core principles and then conveying them in a manner that is useful, completely understandable, and practical.  I especially treasured his CEO conversations, which layers this extraordinary book with entertaining and engrossing stories to which everyone can relate.  This truly is an exceptional book and I am looking forward to referring to it over and over again.
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The Wisdom of Stability is thick with story and packed with real-life practical application. It's grounded in the ancient practice of stability, embodied and legitimized by monastic and cloistered communities that lived the value of staying put. At the same time, Jonathan avoids a formulaic tendency to reduce stability to merely staying put in a specific location, and he re-narrates a fuller vision of stability as an orientation--one grounded in faith, vocation and community.

The book is well thought through and brilliantly organized. Jonathan's reflections meander through the complexities of rooting in a time and cultural context that seems to avoid making commitments. It's confessional, inquisitive and beautifully honest. The book is an invitation into a conversation that we must find the courage to engage.

I've appreciated this book more than any other I've read this year. The Wisdom of Stability couldn't be more timely.
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Falk's first stab as a writer hits the mark brilliantly. With a delightful, almost naive, self-deprecating voice she is able to, in one moment bring the reader to tears and then, in the next sentence, have you belly laughing. I gave it to my 17-year-old to read and she couldn't put it down. This book speaks to all of us. It speaks about how love looks when it isn't Valentines Day (or the paper hearts have been set on fire). It speaks about how love feels when it causes more pain than you thought you could bear. It speaks about the power love has to make the impossible possible. This is not a fairy tale. It's better. It is real and true. It speaks profoundly to the hearts of those of us who have loved when it wasn't easy to do, but were made better for it. You will want to read it again and again. I will be looking for the sequel.
1280393
A brilliant and authentic must read, that offers insight we all need to consume, voraciously.good stuff.
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Definitely one of my favourites. Brilliantly written, this is also a wise book, which quite successfully communicates the message that not just material goods but also culture is a necessary ingredient of human happiness and quality of life. The book shows, step by step, how the production of a play by Shakespeare transforms an entire community and, also step by step, brings the hero and the heroine to mutual understanding and love. In addition, the author plays very cleverly indeed with literary allusion, gradually replacing the somewhat trivial love story of Romei and Juliet into a much more complicated Taming of the Shrew. Simply loved it.
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This is a brilliant, historically informed, first person observation and analysis.
The partnership of Hedges and Sacco works beautifully to describe and portray the disintegration of the US, as it shovels more and more Americans into third world, even slave status.

They start with the history of the way the US treated Native Americans, showing how that has become the template for how the corporate state is processing the poor, minorities and the middle class as it "harvests" the resources of the US.

The book shows, with heart-wrenching personal anecdotes, how this template of despoilation and destruction is hitting people of all races and cultures, rural and urban.
Finally, the book discusses the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon, from the perspective of revolution and the need for change that does not happen by people casting their votes.

Chris Hedges is a visionary who has seen through the corporate veil of congress, the White House and the justice system. If America is to survive to continue serving the nobler, democratic, freedom visions of the founding fathers, he is one of the few who see and speak about the way.

This is indeed an extraordinary, must read book.

In my interview with Chris Hedges, on my radio show, about this book, he told me that he does have some hope, that even semi-pro boxers, like he was, 30 years ago, sometimes defeat ringer pros, and even average citizens can sometimes achieve victory over the biggest corporate opposition.
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In his second novel, ON BETRAYAL, Reuben Vaisman-Tzachor once again asks us to look beyond beyond stories of characters drawn so vividly that we virtually hear their whispers in our ears, beyond their ideas, and perhaps beyond the conclusions of the author himself. When we do, we find a universe rife with unwitting betrayals of everyone and everything, from our relatives, friends and spouses, to our bodies, minds and convictions. Betrayal is omnipresent, it is at the very core and essence of life: so states Vaisman-Tzachors brilliantly reasoned introduction, in which his training as a clinical and forensic psychologist illuminates the creation myth in a completely unique and yet so wholly obvious way, we wonder why it took this long to be said.

And yet, this book could benefit from a skilled red pencil. In fact, ON BETRAYAL betrays the author himself as a non-native English speaker. Footnotes that elucidate brilliantly for mother-tongued English speakers the subtle nuances of perfectly chosen Hebrew words, clash with those that talk down to any reader capable of reading English at a US high school level. That, coupled with some serious editing faux pas  grammatical, structural, or where Viasman-Tzachors brilliant mind runs a little too far away with itself and could use to be reigned in  make this reader long for a time when publishers found worthwhile manuscripts  of which ON BETRAYAL most assuredly is one  then invested time and money needed on an adept editor.

Reuben Vaisman-Tzachors ON BETRAYAL is a better edited read than his Freshman effort (the nonetheless significant and ingenious THE BOOK OF TERRORISM), and clearly shows Dr. Vaisman-Tzachors progress as a writer growing fast and strong.  As long as his exceptional mind keeps functioning, his books will be worth reading, and the writing eventually catch-up with the powerful concepts that he conveys.
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This is beautifully written book, composed of short penses or insights on an astonishing range of topics from language to music to mathematics, all brought into some revealing and suprising connection with the way lawyers think and listen and talk when they are acting in total good faith.  Far more interesting than a non-lawyer could ever have imagined.  Lyrical, profound, enlightening.
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This is a brilliant expose on race in America. For me there was a lot of new territory on how non-American blacks relate to African Americans and the white community. The writing is superb, insightful, full of humor and wit.
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Great read, insightful, well thought out. Author explains game theory, using the famous prisoners dilemma. A must read for the non- Indian businessmen, so no surprise dealing with Indians and their government. Many intriguing habits of Indians are explained with a deep understanding of history, heritage, and culture if India and it's people. Author explains why and how of observation made in VS Naipaul's book, The Wounded Civilization.  I highly recommend this treasure in your library.
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This is a great, insightful book that is written with a different perspective. The journey that all of us make through childhood is important for self discovery and personal development and many, many books have been written on the topic, but this one is great because it brings humor, insight and experience to the mix. I enjoyed the book because I found myself constantly identifying with the 'shared' experience of each situation. I'm pretty sure my parents were trying to 'kill' me, as well. Definitely recommend.
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Excellent, insightful, and full of truth. So glad I was lead to this book. Great hints, tips, and practical ideas for all.
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Excellent read. Substantial insight and a keeper. I highly recommend this book.