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drilling down: Michael Linenberger, Total Workday Control Using Microsoft Outlook. The Eight Best Practices of Task and E-Mail Management

September 4, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

This book is best used after working through one or two more generic workflow systems like David Allen’s Getting Things Done and Sally McGhee’s Take Back Your Life! The reason is that Linenberger’s approach tends to assume mastery of those core skills and then take its reader deeper into somewhat technical aspects of Outlook’s impressive capabilities. Continue Reading »

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getting there: Craig Groeschel, Chazown (khaw-ZONE). A Different Way to See Your Life

September 4, 2007 by David Baer

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If author Craig Groeschel’s dustcover picture makes him too young too have written such an urgent book, the football-field exhortations and postmodern layout of the book seem to line up perfectly with his youthful pose. I must confess that Groeschel had overcome my reservations about his style by about the fifty-yard line … I mean, the halfway point of this highly-focused book. Continue Reading »

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fitness to go: Harley Pasternak, 5-Factor Fitness. The Diet and Fitness Secret of Hollywood’s A-List

September 4, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

Harley Pasternak thinks you can stay fit on 25 minutes per day and he backs up his confidence with quotes from celebrities who say he’s right. Halle Berry leading the list of enthusiasts. This reviewer thinks most of us lack the genes and the circumstances to manage that. Still, I think Pasternak’s program is a great supplement to gym-based fitness disciplines. I travel half the time and take 5-Factor Fitness on the road. This works if you stay in a hotels that have a cardio machine (stationary bike, treadmill) and a set of dumbbells and will actually go there before settling into ESPN and your in-room minibar. Perhaps G.P. Putnam’s Sons should work out a strategic alliance with the Gideons. Continue Reading »

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Mary M. Hunt: Live Your Life for Half the Price. Without Sacrificing the Life You Love (Debt-Proof Living)

September 4, 2007 by David Baer

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Mary Hunt is a woman on a mission.

This book—best read as a follow-up to Hunt’s Debt-Proof Living—breathes with a passion and encouraging spirit that go beyond technical advice on how to live on the cheap. Continue Reading »

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rather like plumbing: Stephen Hawking: A Briefer History of Time

September 4, 2007 by David Baer

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When I mentioned to my friend Carver Yu that I was reading this book, he scrunched up his face in the way that only a man who knows the field well can do and commented, `Well, of course, that book contains a fair bit of metaphysical speculation.’

Precisely. Continue Reading »

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a thesaurus of good examples: Lisa Collier Cool, How to Write Irresistible Query Letters

September 4, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

This literary agent’s guide for wannabe’ writers is meant to help mostly novice authors persuade people just like her. The book’s success is due largely to the plentiful examples of successful letters written by her and other authors. Templates abound, a happy state for any craftsman, not least beginning or intermediate writers. Continue Reading »

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antiquity’s secrets: Martin Hengel, The Septuagint as Christian Scripture. Its Prehistory and the Problem of Its Canon

September 4, 2007 by David Baer

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Like Jacob wrestling with the nocturnal angel, the reader will be repaid by a tenacious reading of Martin Hengel’s highly compacted rehearsal of the Greek Bible’s origins and use by Jews and Christians. Continue Reading »

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take a breather: Kensington 62348 Contour Roller Carrying Case

September 4, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

I have a colleague who travels even more than I do and proclaims his travel doctrine at every opportunity: ‘Don’t carry it if you can drag it.’

I finally caved to his advice and bought the Kensington Contour Roller based on Kensington’s good name and the attractive price. Continue Reading »

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solid value for the multi-handset family: Uniden TRU8885-2 5.8 GHz Digital Cordless Phone with Dual Handsets and Answering System

September 4, 2007 by David Baer

Full product information for this item, together with my review, my ranking of the product, and any reader comments, can be found at http://www.amazon.com.

I tend to trust the buyers at Costco on products like this. Their judgments rarely fail, and they’ve certainly put good value for money into their warehouse store with the Uniden cordless phone. You can of course buy this phone at lots of other places too, but the Costo endorsement means something. Continue Reading »

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recommendation letters: 2 Corinthians 3

September 4, 2007 by David Baer

When one’s goal is the wider celebration of God’s glory in creation and society, how does one measure success?

What are the proper metrics? How does one arrive at the decision to keep going or, alternatively, to throw in the towel and try something else? What credentials does one accrue? Continue Reading »

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