In a future world where babies who fail to meet a certain criteria for "social contribution" are eliminated, a committed resistance force seeks to save as many babies as possible while working to change social attitudes. Original.

A Perfect Persecution: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Lucas, James R.

United States

B & H Pub Group

People speak today of making it harder to get divorced. While saving troubled marriages is an admirable feat, as a prescription it is working from the terminal end of the relationship disease.James Lucas takes a very different approach to this crucial life decision. Instead of beginning with questions of dating, courtship, compatibility and relationship “tools,” Lucas starts with you. Who are you becoming? Are you taking the steps to become a person worth marrying? In order to find the right person, you have to first be the right person. Then, and only then, can you make clear decisions about the rest of your life.

Am I the One?: Clues to Finding and Becoming a Person Worth Marrying

Lucas, J.R.

Parenting & Relationships

B&H Books

Building on the image of God's refining and purifying fire, this book explains God's purpose for pain in a Christian's life. It lists 10 purposes of discipline and seven purposes of punishment, explains the crucial differnece between discipline and punishment, and identifies the right response to discipline and the right response to punishment.

Walking Through the Fire: Finding the Purpose of Pain in the Christian Life

Religion & Spirituality

Addresses management attitudes about quality, communication, and employees that can damage an organization's earnings, customer relations, and morale

Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization from Success

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Amacom Books

Everyone's heard about companies that seem to have everything--great products, enormous capital resources, reputation, skilled employees, "advanced" planning--and they still fail. Why? Perhaps they lack passion. 
Emphasizing "big vision," mutual trust, and deeply held core values, Jim Lucas demonstrates how to win and keep the competitive edge by thinking with the heart as well as the head. He shows how a committed, passionate workforce can: 
* make shifts and leaps that strategic planning alone cannot envision * fight to achieve the organization's mission * bring continuous improvement, creativity, and innovation to their work * enjoy a more fulfilling life, personally and professionally, by committing to something greater than themselves.

The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment

Business Culture

Everyone's heard about companies that seem to have everything--great products, enormous capital resources, reputation, skilled employees, "advanced" planning--and they still fail. Why? Perhaps they lack passion. Emphasizing "big vision," mutual trust, and deeply held core values, Jim Lucas demonstrates how to win and keep the competitive edge by thinking with the heart as well as the head. He shows how a committed, passionate workforce can: * make shifts and leaps that strategic planning alone cannot envision * fight to achieve the organization's mission * bring continuous improvement, creativity, and innovation to their work * enjoy a more fulfilling life, personally and professionally, by committing to something greater than themselves.

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Why do our best efforts at change always seem to stall? What stops us from moving forward? As individuals and as organizations, we lay the blame on a lack of time, information, money, or motivation. However, our own illusions are usually the true culprit. As this insightful book will quickly convince you, getting real is the only way to get ahead."We labor under fatal illusions," says author Jim Lucas, "when we base our behavior on what we wish to be true about our business, or about the marketplace, rather than on what is actually true. We treat our symptoms while core problems fester unchecked. The syndrome is all too common, but there is a remedy. Fatal Illusions shows us how to dig out the truth and free yourself for positive action."The book analyzes 12 major illusions with significant power to harm you and your organization. The illusions involve too-comfortable beliefs about mission statements, teamwork, incentives, and other big issues that soak up time and resources - and they may startle you by hitting so close to home.

Fatal Illusions

AMACOM

1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids is a book for Christian parents who want to "connect" with their kids on a deeper level but lack specific ideas for doing so. The primary purpose of the book is to establish parents as the source of understanding and to help their kids through intentional and consistent actions. It contains creative and insightful ideas for parents to build up and reinforce relationships.

1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids

Parenting

Tyndale House Publishers

As parents, we often find it diffcult to maintain a balance between being an authority figure and being a nurturer and friend. But it is possible if we look to God as our example. The Paradox Principle of Parenting highlights eight key principles of parenting, based on the way God parents us, and provides plenty of practical advice to help parents raise great kids.

Paradox Principle of Parenting: How to Parent Your Child Like God Parents You

Christian Books & Bibles

Tyndale House Pub.

Why do our best efforts at change always seem to stall? What stops us from moving forward? As individuals and as organizations, we lay the blame on a lack of time, information, money, or motivation. However, our own illusions are usually the true culprit. As this insightful book will quickly convince you, getting real is the only way to really get ahead. We labor under fatal illusions when we base our behavior on what we wish to be true about our business, or about the marketplace, rather than on what is actually true. We treat our symptoms while core problems fester unchecked. The syndrome is all too common, but there is a remedy. Fatal Illusions shows how to dig out the truth and free yourself for positive action. This book analyzes 12 major illusions with significant power to harm you and your organization. The illusions involve too-comfortable beliefs about mission statements, teamwork, incentives, and other big issues that soak up time and resources--and they may startle you by hitting so close to home. For example:
"Of course our people understand what's important"
"Everybody knows what quality is"
"We don't need passion if we have a good plan"
"Just give people a chance and they'll work together" Throughout the book, self-tests help you pinpoint which fatal illusions are lurking in your organization. Then you'll learn proven, specific techniques for correcting the misperceptions, one by one. You'll discover how to uproot the fallacies that prevent successful implementation of benchmarking, employee empowerment, and other management initiatives. Deeper and more far-reaching than virtually any other management book, Fatal Illusions is your guide to becoming "unstuck" in business and in life. By helping you squarely face "the things you know that just ain't so," it will propel you from your current plateau to brand-new heights of success.

Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization From Success

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A Perfect Persecution: A Novel

Am I the One?: Clues to Finding and Becoming a Person Worth Marrying

Walking Through the Fire: Finding the Purpose of Pain in the Christian Life

Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization from Success

The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment

The Passionate Organization: Igniting the Fire of Employee Commitment

Fatal Illusions

1001 Ways to Connect with Your Kids

Paradox Principle of Parenting: How to Parent Your Child Like God Parents You

Fatal Illusions: Shredding a Dozen Unrealities That Can Keep Your Organization From Success