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no other option: fix the problem: Patrick M. Lencioni, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, A Leadership Fable

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Following his success with The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive and the The Five Temptations of a CEO, management consultant Pat Lencioni turns his observant eye to the team and its dynamic interrelationship. The results are outstanding. (more…)

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Begin *here*!: Bernard Lewis, The Crisis of Islam. Holy War and Unholy Terror

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A first reader of this renowned Princeton Arabist might puzzle for a moment over whether he is a sympathist or an adversary of Arabs, Islam, and the Muslims. He is both. (more…)

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a contrarian must read for biblical scholars who assume too much: Jon D. Levenson, The Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament, and Historical Criticism. Jews and Christians in Biblical Studies

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These six collected essays from one of biblical scholarship’s leading thoughtful curmudgeons prove beyond doubt that unexamined assumptions corrode the core of the enterprise of biblical scholarship in the secular academy. That they come from the pen of a Jewish scholar teaching at one of liberal Protestantism’s foremost shrines (Harvard Divinity School) is only the first irony that Levenson explores here with contrarian zeal. Readers who believe in the craft—whether naively or upon reflection—will find Levenson’s articles an unsettling and necessary read. (more…)

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possibly Brueggemann’s best work: Walter Brueggemann, The Land. Place As Gift, Promise, and Challenge in Biblical Faith (Overtures to Biblical Theology)

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Though this may be the best of Walter Brueggemann’s many books, it is not a work for the faint of heart. Brueggemann’s prose sometimes seems to overtake his meaning. One wonders at times-Brueggemann himself might say-whether there is a surfeit of meaning in this text that eludes immediate penetration, or simply a surplus of words. (more…)

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memory and hope: Michael Fishbane, Biblical Text and Texture. A Literary Reading of Selected Texts

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Because it stands in the shadow of Fishbane’s monumental Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel, this little book is not so well known twenty-five years after its publication. That’s a pity, for it exhibits the art of Fishbane’s literarily sensitive readings of key biblical texts to a readership that will not labor through the massive methodological and typological argument of the larger work. If Biblical Interpretation is a four-movement symphony for full orchestra and a price tag to match, Text and Texture is a savory lunchtime string trio in the sun, offered gratis to passersby.

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an odd object, perhaps, but a beautiful one: Janos Starker, The World of Music According to Starker

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In terms of quality of writing, the famous cellist might have stuck to his principal art rather than venturing into autobiography. But then we would be without this odd little gem of self-reflection. That would be a pity. (more…)

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written with a light touch: Richard L. Sine, Stamp Collecting for Dummies

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This volume in the ‘Dummies’ series is written with a humorous light touch that makes it especially attractive to the Dummy who knows he is one and doesn’t need to be reminded that he is one by being frog-marched through impenetrable jargon. In addition, Richard Sine or his editor have had the foresight to break the topics he treats up into very small sections and subsections. (more…)

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the expectation of amity: Gordon P. Hugenberger, Marriage as a Covenant. Biblical Law and Ethics as Developed from Malachi (Biblical Studies Library)

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As an example of classical biblical scholarship on a topic of ongoing concern for pastoral care, there is no better exemplar than this revised 1994 PhD dissertation, helpfully reprinted in affordable paperback in 1998. The author serves as the senior minister of Boston’s Park Street Church and as Ranked Adjunct Professor of Old Testament at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. (more…)

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productive order: David Allen, Getting Things Done. The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

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As a guy with a high-demand life and job, I have a hundred reasons to need a book with a title like this. But as a natural skeptic regarding techniques—especially one that promises `stress-free productivity’—I have a million reasons not to read it. You see, I think wisdom and courage have a lot more to do with stewarding the high demands and attractive opportunities that come our way than do `how to’s’ and `tips’. (more…)

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cri du coeur: Edward W. Said, Orientalism

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Ironically, the great Palestinian-American humanist scholar Edward Said wrote this essentially inaccurate book as a bold and pained cri du coeur two decades before the events of September 11th and the fresh entanglement by the West in the Middle East would render obvious its stature as required reading. One must not attempt to understand our world from the West without a careful listening to the late author’s cry. (more…)

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