books about: confronting

books about: confronting

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Confronting

Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

Jerry Bridges

NavPress Publishing Group, 2007

American Christian necessary reading
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R24W30IRMG8CDX Great Book. Excellent. Highly recommend any book by Jerry Bridges.

The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege

Robert Jensen

City Lights Publishers, 2005

Very Good Exploration of Racism
The author does a very good job of bringing to the attention of the reader one of the major sources of racism: white privilege. While it is understandably rejected by those who benefit from racist practices and beliefs, the book does provoke people (who are open about ...

Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church

Bishop Geoffrey Robinson

Liturgical Press, 2008

Inspirational, a must read
Bishop Robinson's book is full of history and ideas to mordanize the Catholic Church. It will help explain why the church got to where it is today and then how we can all (laity, clerical, religious) change the church. This book will change you and the way you look ...

Gut Check: Confronting Love, Work, and Manhood in Your Twenties

Tarek Saab

Spence Pub, 2008

Wonderful Rare Example of Manhood, but book is titled wrong...
I read this book after watching Tarek interviewed on "Life on the Rock." I wanted to give it as a college graduation gift but thought I better read it before promoting it. I think the book is wonderful, honest, and a much needed message today, but it should not be ...

Respectable Sins: Discussion Guide: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate

Stephen Sorenson, Jerry Bridges

NavPress Publishing Group, 2007

Love It!
This study guide and the book that goes with it is truly a great find. It got me form the first chapter and couldn't stop reading! It really makes you think and is food for the mind and spirit!Don't forget the book that goes with it..

Confronting The Controversies: Biblical Perspectives On Tough Issues: Leader's Guide

Adam Hamilton

Abingdon Press, 2005

Facing Up To the Issues--From a True Christian Perspective, One of Love, Care and Grace
Truly great study of the issues facing today's society and a Christian, a true Christian, response to those issues. This book is not, repeat IS NOT, for those Christians who claim to have and to know all the answers, those who are quick to judge and condemn, but slow ...

Winning: The Answers: Confronting 74 of the Toughest Questions in Business Today

Jack Welch, Suzy Welch

Collins Business, 2006

Another great book by Mr. Welch
Great book to complement his previous artwork "Winning". Every business person should read this great book.

No Other Gods: Confronting Our Modern Day Idols

Kelly Minter

David C. Cook, 2008

Please, KEEP WRITING Kelly!
This is the second book I read by Kelly Minter (the first was Water into Wine) and I absolutely LOVE her! It is appropriate that the Bible study she wrote, with the same title, is part of The Living Room Series, because that is exactly where you feel you are while ...

Confronting Jezebel: Discerning and Defeating the Spirit of Control

Steve Sampson

Chosen, 2003

Don't be Fooled
I bought the book to learn the tactics of this spirit to avoid them but I still fell prey. Don't be fooled by this demon. It is real and very cunning. Please pay attention to the signs written about and confront the Jezebel spirit. This book was head on and made me ...

The Skillful Leader: Confronting Mediocre Teaching

Alexander D. Platt, Caroline E. Tripp, ...

Ready About Press, 2000

RBT has created another indispensable tool for educators
I loved reading this book for all it taught me and for all the important things it reminded me of. . . . Arguing passionately and convincingly that supervisors must have competence, conviction, and control, the authors provide the information and the tools supervisors ...

The Skillful Leader II: Confronting Conditions That Undermine Learning
Alexander D. Platt, Caroline E. Tripp, ...

Ready About Press, 2008

This is a book for leaders who have advanced beyond basic teacher improvement strategies and want to tackle some of the hidden, stubborn blockers that are limiting what they can accomplish in schools. The Skillful Leader II places a major emphasis on finding and improving groups and school communities that are not functioning together effectively ...

Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem

David Blankenhorn

Harper Perennial, 1996

Wish My Father Would Read This
Wouldn't do any good. He didn't have a father either. Cycle ends with me.

Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education

Peter Sacks

University of California Press, 2007

It's about time! Read this.
It's sometimes easwier to talk about race rather than class--but this is a subject that's been unresolved since the very beginnings of American public education--and long before that. It's even part of the testing and NCLB debate. The author tackles it in ways that ...

Health Care Meltdown: Confronting The Myths and Fixing Our Failing System

Robert H. LeBow, C. Rocky White

Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc., 2007

American Health Care Dissected: Engaging and Informative
In more than 20 years teaching a course focusing on analysis of American health care history and policy, I have yet to discover a more persuasive diagnosis of our health care delivery system's ills or a more convincing case for how to cure them. Dr. Lebow brings to ...

Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right

Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan

Crown Business, 2004

Excellent Business Book!
Confronting Reality" is a gold-mine of perspective on how to get an organization properly focused - starting by confronting reality. It belongs on the bookshelf of every manager with bottom-line responsibility. Bossidy begins by stating that any plan for a business ...