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Nutrition Concepts and Controversies
Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney
Brooks Cole, 2006
Great buy
I received the book as promised the NEXT day-which was perfect. It's exactly what I needed & when I needed it!
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Bowls, Polls, and Tattered Souls: Tackling the Chaos and Controversy That Reign over College Football
Stewart Mandel
Wiley, 2008
A glorious and uniquely American bar brawl
"(NFL) scouts are to football what the third base coach is to baseball - an excuse for a whole bunch of old-timers to stay a part of the fraternity and collect a paycheck to boot." - Stewart Mandel
There are two U.S. sport seasons: Football and No Football. As far ...
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Evidence of Harm: Mercury in Vaccines and the Autism Epidemic: A Medical Controversy
David Kirby
St. Martin's Griffin, 2006
A Bigger Concern Than Just Mercury in Vaccines
A must-read book for anyone who's interested in knowing what may cause autism in some children. Whether anyone believes Mercury causes Autism or not, the fact is it should never have been in vaccines where it's injected into tiny babies. Not only is mercury toxic, but ...
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Antagonists in the Church: How to Identify and Deal With Destructive Conflict
Kenneth C. Haugk
Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1988
antagonists
The book gives excellent ideas on how to identify an antagonist. It also gives suggestions on how to deal with and antagonist. Most of the book is directed toward a minister's point of view, but it can also help lay people deal with issues within a congregation in ...
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The Death of Death in the Death of Christ: A Treatise in Which the Whole Controversy about Universal ...
John Owen
Banner of Truth, 1959
Christ?s Purposeful Death
John Owen's work, The Death of Death in the Death of Christ, is the classic text defending the purposeful and actual procurement of salvation for sinners in the death of Christ. While characteristically portrayed as a polemical work on the Calvinistic understanding of ...
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Eric Bischoff: Controversy Creates Cash
Eric Bischoff, Jeremy Roberts
World Wrestling Entertainment, 2007
Un vistazo al negocio del prowrestling
Para aquellos que ven el pro wrestling como un negocio y un deporte, este libro muestra la vida de Eric Bischoff en el entretenimiento deportivo. Aunque en varios ocasiones muestra un lado muy positivo (no acepta sus errores) "Controversy creates cash" amplia el ...
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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
Annette Gordon-Reed
University of Virginia Press, 1998
Very Skillful Lawyerly Presentation of History
This is a very solid and well researched book. The author makes a very thorough and logical presentation to prove her case. Much in the manner of a courtroom argument. It is effective. I came away from reading the book convinced that Jefferson, in all reasonable ...
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From Lance to Landis: Inside the American Doping Controversy at the Tour de France
David Walsh
Ballantine Books, 2007
A Great Read
Walsh does a brilliant job of laying out the landscape of professional cycling. The stack of evidence that suggests Armstrong doped at some point in his career, may be circumstantial, but it's piled a mile high. The text message conversation between Frankie Andreu and ...
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The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton, Vol. 1: Heretics, Orthodoxy, the Blatchford Controversies (Collected ...
G. K. Chesterton
Ignatius Press, 1986
Chesterton's most famous work, and some oft-forgotten gems
This volume, the first in Ignatius Press's _Collected Works_ of Chesterton series, contains what is probably G. K. Chesterton's most famous work, _Orthodoxy_. What many people do not know is that Orthodoxy was written only at the end of a long debate in the British ...
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Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies
Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney
Brooks Cole, 2008
Easy to Understand
My professor assigned this text for my first ever online course. I was worried that with out the lectures that I would have a hard time understanding the material and properly completing my assignments. I found this text easy to understand and very informative. I ...
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Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health
Richard Rhodes
Simon & Schuster, 1998
First, Last and Foremost
When Richard Rhodes published Deadly Feasts in 1997 it all seemed doubtful and futuristic. His investigations followed the development of this horror from the first, to 1997, and predicted the future (now). Rhodes insisted that if practices weren't changed the US ...
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King James Only Controversy, The: Can You Trust the Modern Translations?
James, White
Bethany House, 1995
A great overview of the topic
This book provides well thought out answers for the issues raised by the KJO movement. It also provides ample documentation of sources, something that is solely lacking from the other side. If you want answers and not dogma read this book.
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How Your Church Family Works: Understanding Congregations as Emotional Systems
Peter L. Steinke
The Alban Institute, 2006
Helpful for understanding congregational dynamics
Peter Steinke is a Lutheran pastor and director of the Interfaith Pastoral Counseling Center in suburban Chicago. His career has been one of studying and advising the dynamics of disfunctional churches and counseling pastors who have been hurt by said churches. "How ...
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Firestorm: Preventing and Overcoming Church Conflicts
Ron, Susek
Baker Books, 1999
Simply Excellent!
Susek in this volume provides a simply excellent treatment of the vicious, destructive nature of church conflict. In the first part of his work he gives the account of an actual church, describing how the sparks of conflict were scattered, the flames were fanned, and ...
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Discover Your Conflict Management Style
Speed B. Leas
Alban Institute, 1998
Don't avoid this...
Speed Leas' book on conflict management is used in many settings, but is perhaps best known in seminary and church contexts. It is used at my seminary as part of the basic ministry class, to enable students to learn about their own conflict management styles directly ...
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