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Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters With Cultural Difference

7 reviews
Craig Storti

Intercultural Press, 1994

Great Training Tool
As president of a cross-cultural training and consulting company, I have found this text extremely useful for providing our clients, corporate managers and executives, a quick, easy-to-read overview of the types of communication challenges that can arise in daily cross-cultural conversations. Typically, the reaction we get is "That just happened to me, but I didn't know what was going on at the ...

SHADOW WORLD: True Encounters with Beings from the Darkside

7 reviews
Brad Steiger

Anomalist Books, 2007

A Journey into What Goes Bump in the Night
Have you ever experienced strange occurrences? Have you seen and heard things that go bump in the night? If not, have you ever wondered what may be behind such numerous tales down through the centuries? Once again, one of Brad Steiger's masterworks has been re-released, this one from 7 years ago. Again, in the style that has made Brad one of the primer researchers/writers on all things ...

The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers

17 reviews
Eric Hansen

Vintage, 2005

Barn Dance at Sea
This is the first book by Hansen I've read, and I enjoyed it. It is a very funny and quick read. There are not many travel writers who describe events like "It was like an all-male barn dance at sea." Or describe a man spitting his flaming dentures off a pier on Thursday Island.

The Owl and the Woodpecker: Encounters With North America's Most Iconic Birds

4 reviews
Paul Bannick

Mountaineers Books, 2008

Stunning!
What a beautiful book! The text is well-written and educational. It explains the connections and ecology and habitat needs of these species beautifully. And after reading it I clearly understand how these two families of birds are connected and how important the woodpeckers are to so many other species, as well as the health of habitats. I am an owloholic and I learned some new things about owls ...

Reunions: Visionary Encounters With Departed Loved Ones

12 reviews
Raymond Moody Jr., Paul Perry

Ivy Books, 1994

Surprisingly Informative!
I bought this book sight unseen, on the strength of one of Raymond Moody's previous books that I had read and loved, many years ago, Life After Life. I was hoping for more of the same, and was quite surprised to find that this book is not at all about reincarnation, but about mirror-gazing. This was not something I was initially interested in, but having liked his previous book so much, and ...

Encounters with the Archdruid

34 reviews
John McPhee

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1977

conservation or preservation
I have an environmental background but never bought into the religion. I am not a fan of Brower but I wanted to learn more about him. I gained far more from this book than I had bargained for: McPhee is an amazing journalist, Brower is an interesting guy, and Brower's opponents were just as convicted to their causes. This is my first McPhee book. In the first few pages, I watched him reveal ...

I Dared to Call Him Father: The Miraculous Story of a Muslim Woman's Encounter with God

24 reviews
Bilquis Sheikh, Richard H. Schneider

Chosen, 2003

A powerful and moving testimony of God's love and grace
Bilquis' story of her search for God and the way He found her shows the depths of his love for lost sinners and the powerful way he draws men to him. As the story unfolds, you can see how God is working out everything in the background, through dreams, events, chance encounters and situations to orchestrate the salvation of her soul. This is especially revealed in the Afterword written by ...

Running Through the Wall: Personal Encounters with the Ultramarathon

23 reviews
Neal Jamison

Breakaway Books, 2003

Great Book
I am just getting into marthathons, but see myself running at least a 50 miler. This book is great for giving you real people's experiences with ultras. You truly get a taste of the good, the bad, and the ugly. You begin to understand that you can do far more than you think you can. I also learned from this book that you must have dogged tanacity toward your goals. It also gave me a ...

Fall with Honor (Vampire Earth, Book 7)

17 reviews
E.E. Knight

Roc Hardcover, 2008

Adding depth and setting the stage for a lot more detail
If you've read the rest of the series you can almost start to see all of the subtle little plot hooks fall into place. Valentine is gaining command experience. His Rommel like running in this book may seem a little anti-climactic, but the ingenious nature of this entire story line is that the hero has to give up a lot of his humanity to truly defeat his enemy. He feels guilty about what he's ...

The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Healing Power of Hope

26 reviews
M.D., FACS, Allan J. Hamilton

Tarcher, 2008

a must drop everything now and read immediately type of book
i spent time after church sunday telling everyone i know about the book. i saw it on a local early morning talk with the author on the tv (i live in the same city as the author--tucson). ordered it the next day. amazing. brutally honest perceptive to the max. i cried more than once ( i usually only cry at funerals) an example of a man who is paying attention to the world and people around ...

God Stories: Inspiring Encounters with the Divine
Jennifer Skiff

Harmony, 2008

?The idea first came to me when a minister asked if I had any ?God Stories.? I asked her what she meant, and she explained that a God Story was a miracle-like experience that proves God exists. . . . I did have stories. I hadn?t dared to tell many people about them, but I definitely had had what I believed to be encounters with the Divine. I wondered if many other people had stories too. What happened next surprised me most. I realized that a ...

Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love

11 reviews
Daniel Odier

Inner Traditions, 1997

Deeper into life
It says a lot about the personal qualities of Daniel Odier that he was accepted by a skilful teacher from a true tradition of Tantra, and was also able to pursue the teaching, over years of practice, to its realization. Mystical sex is certainly a part of this book -- Odier makes no secret of this interest as he begins his quest -- but as his learning continues, he and his search grow beyond ...

Encounters With Silence

5 reviews
Karl Rahner

St. Augustine's Press, 1999

Rahner's Mystical encounters with Silence
"The quiet we seek for retreat ... is more often recalled in its absence than in its presence. When was the last time you witnessed a joyful silence, a rapturous silence? When have you heard some raconteur relay a congenial encounter with silence." Jane H. Kay "I am drawn more and more to the mystical Christ. I always was. There was always something much deeper than words for me. Much ...

Deliver Us from Evil: A Pastor's Reluctant Encounters with the Powers of Darkness

7 reviews
Don Basham

Chosen, 2005

A Pastoral Perspective!
This is the first book I think anyone should read regarding the subject of deliverance. There is no better introduction to this topic in print that I know of.

Sightings: Extraordinary Encounters with Ordinary Birds

5 reviews
Sam Keen

Chronicle Books, 2007

A lovely book
According to Sam Keen, the author of this fine little book, birders are, "unusually susceptible to the emotion of awe." Perhaps that is why I like it so much. It is a little book about a large subject. The book is a search for wisdom. Mr. Keen has collected many moments from his life when birds opened for him vistas into metaphysical realities. Occasional sightings of birds opened what he ...

The Kingdom of Infinite Space: An Encounter with Your Head
Raymond Tallis

Yale University Press, 2008

In this pathbreaking book, one of Britain?s most eloquent and original thinkers writes about the head, what happens in it, and how it is and is not connected to our sense of identity and consciousness. Blending science, philosophy, and humor, Raymond Tallis examines the extraordinarily complex relationship we have with our heads. His aim, as he says, ?is to turn readers into astonished tourists of the piece of the world that is closest to them, ...

Academic Listening Encounters: Human Behavior Student's Book with Audio CD: Listening, Note Taking, and ...
Miriam Espeseth

Cambridge University Press, 2004

This book develops students' listening, note-taking and discussion skills using a variety of recorded authentic interviews and classroom lectures. The Student's Book develops students' listening, note-taking, and discussion skills using a variety of recorded authentic materials. The text prepares high-intermediate students with an introduction to psychology and communications, and covers high-interest topics such as stress, intelligence, and ...

Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction

1 review

W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

Fantastic Book for Teachers
As a high school English teacher, I have been searching for a good collection of SHORT, contemporary examples of well-crafted non-fiction to share with my students because our curriculum is seriously lacking in this area. Providing a wide range of subjects written in beautiful prose with strong vocabulary, SHORT TAKES fit the bill perfectly.

Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776

9 reviews
Walter McDougall

Mariner Books, 1998

America's varied doctrines of dealing with the world
I first saw Walter McDougall on the C-SPAN Booknotes show discussing this book in 1997. He impressed me so much that I went online and ordered it from Amazon instantly. It is a great read because McDougall writes clearly, concisely, and with a rare vividness for a scholar. This is not a book of American History per se. It is a book about American's developing and changing doctrines of how ...

On the Road with Rabbi Steinsaltz: 25 Years of Pre-Dawn Car Trips, Mind-Blowing Encounters, and Inspiring ...

9 reviews
Arthur Kurzweil

Jossey-Bass, 2006

He truly got himself a teacher
We are instructed by 'Pirke Avot' to get ourselves a Rabbi, a teacher, a spiritual guide. Arthur Kurzweil took this teaching seriously and has for many years questioned, dialogued with and learned with his own chosen teacher. In this very rich and instructive intellectual and spiritual adventure story Kurzweil tells of his meetings and talks with his revered teacher, Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz. ...

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