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McCartney, Bill: WHAT MAKES A MAN? 12 Promises That Will Change Your Life, Navpress Publishing Group 1992
0891097074

Hardcover Prompt delivery with tracking. Many satisfied customers. Satisfaction guaranteed; 0.9 x 6 x 3.4 Inches; 240 pages; YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. <P>More than any other thing today, our society needs men who are willing to stand up and make a difference. Men who, having counted the cost, are willing to reflect the character of Jesus Christ in a world of negotiable values, confused identities, and distorted priorities. <P>But what does it take to be such a man? How does one become fully Christlike and fully masculine? That's the question Bill McCartney, head football coach for the University of Colorado Buffaloes, asks a group of well-respected Christian men in What Makes a Man? <P>Their answers, drawn from a broad range of experiences, difficulties, concerns, and ideals, all point to three common elements-conviction, integrity, and action. <P>Men who make a difference are men of conviction. They possess unwavering belief. Having stepped across the line, they will not be dragged back for any reason. <P>Men who make a difference are also men of integrity. By seeking to live their lives with ever-increasing sincerity and honesty, and by avoiding all expressions of deception, they develop both personal confidence and public trust. <P>Finally, men who make a difference are men of action. Not settling for good intentions, they coose to make a positive impact on their families, churches, coworkers, and communities. <P>But life is composed of many different (and often conflicting!) areas of responsibility, including: 1) Your relationship with God 2) The development of your character 3) Your marriage 4) Your family 5) Your place in the community 6) Your duties as a citizen of your country 7) You place in the Church 8) Your vocation 9) Your friendships 10) Your responsibilities to those in need 11) Your contributions to the future <P>Taken by themselves, any one of these facets of modern life could easily require full-time focus. So how is it possible to demonstrate conviction, integrity, and action across the board? <P>That's exactly what you'll discover in What Makes a Man? As you read through the challenging insights and examples presented, you'll come away with more than enough practical ideas to help you become the man you were designed to be. Because when a man decides to make a difference, he becomes a different man. <P>12 Promises That Will Change Your Life. Every man makes promises. The mark of the authentic, Christlike man is that he keeps them. In What Makes a Man?, you'll discover what it means to keep the promises you make in each area of life. <P>What is a Promise? Learn the importance of promises from Gary Smalley and John Trent, Leighton Ford, and Gary Oliver. <P>Promises to God Discover what it means to be a godly man from Gary Smalley and John Trent, William Gaultiere, Luis Palau, Roger Palms and John Yates. <P>Promises to Yourself Learn what elements a man's character must include from Gary Smalley and John Trent, Ken Abraham, Jerry Bridges, Harold Bussell, Larry Crabb, Steve Farrar, Bill Hybels, Bill Sanders, and others. <P>Promises to Your Wife Explore both the problems and the joys of marriage with Gary Smalley and John Trent, Ken Brown, Don Harvey, Ken Taylor, Dennis Rainey, Charles Stanley, and others. <P>Promises to Your Immediate Family Weather the ups and downs of family relationships with Gary Smalley and John Trent, John E. Brown III, Steve Brown, Ken Canfield, Jay Carty, Jerry Jenkins, Don Osgood, Fran Sciacca, and others. <P>Promises to Your Parents Examine the importance of a relationship with your parents with Gary Smalley and John Trent, Harold Bussell, Ken Canfield, Don Osgood, Gordon Dalbey, and Dave Simmons. <P>Promises to Your Friends Benefit from increased accountability in friendships with insights from Gary Smalley and John Trent, Tim Kimmel, Ken Abraham, Jerry Bridges, Edwin Louis Cole, William Gaultiere, Robert Hicks, and Chuck Miller. <P>Promises to Your Church Discover what role you can play in your local church with Gary Smalley and John Trent, Olen Griffing, Jack Hayford, Robert Hicks, Andrew LePeau, Luis Palua, and Jerry White. <P>Promises to Your Business Look at what it takes to be a godly man while in the working world with Gary Smalley and John Trent, Jay Carty, James Dobson, Udo Middleman, and others. <P>Promises to Your Community and Nation Find out what you owe your communty and your country with Gary Smalley and John Trent, Gary Oliver, and Chuck Miller. <P>Promises to Those in Need Learn how to champion the cause of the needy, the rejected, and the fatherless with Gary Smalley and John Trent, Steve Diggs, Wellington Boone, Udo Middlemen, and Luis Palau. <P>Promises in the Future What promises can you make to the future? Find out from Gary Smalley and John Trent, Jay Carty, Bill Hybels, Dennis Rainey, and others. Good in Good dust jacket

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Harre, Rom.: Social Being. A Theory for Social Psychology. Oxford, Basil Blackwell. 1979.,
Umschlag leicht berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - The turning point in the growth of a genuinely scientific social psychology, marked by the publication of The Explanation of Social Behaviour, by R. Harre and P. F. Secord, was the realization of the pointlessness of most attempts at an experimental study of social action. Further development of the original insights has led to much deeper interest in the structure of social events and the meanings of which they are composed. This interest has led to both theoretical advances and novel empirical investigations. If social psychology is a nodal point for the sciences of man, it has been as singularly blind to the need for an explicit examination of the social conditions of action, and the methods by which they could be explored, as it has been to the need for a theory of persons in terms of which to investigate the ways an individual can act as a competent member of a collective. Social Being is an attempt to remedy these deficiencies in a systematic manner. But explicit attention to the social settings of human action brings to light the almost wholly neglected temporal dimension of individual lives and changing societies. A theoretical framework for investigating this dimension is laid out in detail, supported by wide ranging empirical observations. The work is rounded off with a brief exposition of the political consequences of taking the ethogenic approach to psychology, an approach in which men are seen as acting along two major dimensions: practical reason directs their actions towards the maintenance of life, while the demands of the expressive dimension prompt them to act in such ways as to promote in others images of the selves they hope to be taken to be.

Gr.8°. Titel, 5 Blatt, 438 Seiten. Originalpappband mit Umschlag.

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Silver, Jim: Kill Zone A Novel, Simon & Schuster 1999
0684842890

Hardcover No torn pages. Great Value. Prompt delivery with tracking. Many satisfied customers. Satisfaction guaranteed. ; 1.03 x 9.56 x 6.44 Inches; 320 pages; <I>Kill Zone,</I> a taut and suspenseful thriller by the author of <I>Assumption of Risk,</I> features a serial sniper bent on avenging his father's murder during the last days of the Vietnam War. His targets are the men guilty of, but never prosecuted for, the murder.<P>It begins in 1970. Nixon had just announced the massive withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. For the men and women in-country, getting out alive suddenly superseded merely surviving the war. But some, bound by duty and honor and patriotic pride, still continued doing the job. Such was the case with Major Ralph Longbaugh, the senior battalion operations officer within a brigade of the Fourth Division. Just months to go before he and his men would be returning to the World, he was preparing orders sending them back one last time into VC Valley, infamous as one of the most dreaded and dangerous places in the Central Highlands. But for squad leader John Linet, the war was already over.<P>Linet and his men are tired of the killing, of the blood, of worrying who's next to die. It's time to go home and no one had better get in their way. And the only way to stop Major Longbaugh is to kill him. The murder is executed in the guise of a Viet Cong ambush; despite the confession by a squad member, the facts of the murder are lost in a muddle of circumstantial evidence. Captains Jim Manos and Tony Husta of the Army's Criminal Investigation Division are told there won't be any prosecution. The guilty squad members are sent home as free men. Longbaugh's family is told the major died in action, and the case is closed. But Manos and Husta, convinced that the confession is valid and the men are guilty, vow to reveal the truth some day.<P>Time has a way of tempering the fury and vengeance of the past, and ten years later, Manos has all but forgotten his promise. That is, until he meets Aaron Longbaugh, the son of the long-dead major, now in the Army himself. He has been trained as a sniper, and is uncannily skilled and utterly ruthless at his craft. Manos grasps the opportunity to set things right and tells Aaron the truth about his father's death. Thus a tireless, years-long journey of revenge inadvertently is set in motion, as Aaron systematically and methodically hunts down and kills off each of the surviving members of the murderous squad.<P>Meanwhile, a carjacker turned hostage-taker is killed by a police SWAT-team sniper. Vanessa Tau of Transpatriot Insurance begins investigating the wrongful death claim filed by the family of the suspect. Business and pleasure mix when she meets Sgt. Nathan Samm, the handsome but reserved African-American officer from the Hostage Rescue Team. It's an attraction that Vanessa, a Vietnamese refugee, can neither imagine nor deny, and she soon finds herself falling in love with a man she barely knows anything about. And who intends on keeping it that way.<P>Combining the aftershocks of the Vietnam War with a killer hell-bent on avenging his father's brutal murder, <I>Kill Zone</I> expertly combines action, romance, and revenge. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

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Huston, James W. Balance of Power A Novel, William Morrow & Company 1998
0688159176

Hardcover Prompt delivery with tracking. Many satisfied customers. Satisfaction guaranteed; 1.25 x 10.25 x 6.5 Inches; 416 pages; Tom Clancy meets David Baldacci in this electrifying debut -- a blockbuster tale of terrorism, naval action, legal intrigue, and a historic showdown on Capitol Hill.<P><I>Balance of Power</I> opens with a bang when pirates hijack the world's fastest merchant ship in a ruthless plan to spark an international incident. Instead, the attack provokes a Constitutional crisis -- and splits the U.S. government down the middle.<P>Jim Dillon, Special Assistant to the Speaker of the House, discovers a long-forgotten clause in the Constitution that allows Congress to take military action without presidential approval, and his ambitious boss sees an opportunity to humiliate his rival in the Oval Office. Over at the White House, Dillon's old friend Molly is working feverishly on a legal strategy to block the Speaker's gambit; the case moves swiftly toward the Supreme Court -- and a trial drama that equals anything found in a Grisham thriller.<P>Meanwhile, in the Pacific, a "rogue" U.S. Navy battle group races toward a deadly rendezvous with terrorists. With H-Hour drawing ever closer, fighter jocks, Navy SEALs, and Marine assault teams prepare for action in a frenzy of activity that sweeps from the carrier's high-tech intelligence center to the high-tension cockpit of an F-14 to the Marines storming ashore on a tropical island. The author was a carrier pilot himself, and the military scenes crackle with authentic detail that outdoes Clancy.<P>Flashing between the political clash in Washington and the countdown to assault halfway around the globe, <I>Balance of Power</I> builds to a suspenseful crescendo that blends political battles, legal skirmishing, and naval warfare into a blockbuster that's sure to explode onto bestseller lists all over America.<P> Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

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