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The problems of work [videorecording] : Scientology applied to the workaday world / by Hubbard, L. Ron(La Fayette Ron),1911-1986.Problems of work : Scientology applied to the workaday world.; Hubbard, L. Ron(La Fayette Ron),1911-1986.Problems of work.; Ramon, Monica.; Golden Era Productions.(CARDINAL)553529; L. Ron Hubbard Library.(CARDINAL)558654; Religious Technology Center.;
On what does success depend? -- Confusion -- The anatomy of control -- Affinity, reality and communication -- A-R-C and the tone scale -- The eight dynamics -- Exhaustion -- The one who succeeds.Monica Ramon.Outlines the principles and laws of Scientology that apply to every problem of work.Not rated.DVD ; Dolby digital 5.1 surround ; Clearsound.
Subjects: Video recordings.; Job satisfaction.; Scientology.; Work;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Struggles : following Jesus in a selfie-centered world / by Groeschel, Craig.(CARDINAL)342386;
Devices and desires -- Recovering contentment: the struggle with comparisons -- Restoring intimacy: the struggle with likes -- Revealing authenticity: the struggle with control -- Resurrecting compassion: the struggle with desensitization -- Reviving integrity: the struggle with secret impurity -- Remembering encouragement: the struggle with constant criticism -- Reclaiming worship: the struggle with idolatry -- Replenishing rest: the struggle with constant distraction -- Keeping technology in its place -- The ten commandments for using social media to grow your faith and share God's love -- Safeguards.
Subjects: Self; Christian life.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Raising grateful kids in an entitled world : how one family learned that saying no can lead to life's biggest yes / by Welch, Kristen,1972-author.(CARDINAL)417542;
Includes bibliographical references.From a Christian perspective, Welch "shares the ups and downs in her own family's journey of discovering why it's healthiest not to give their kids everything. Teaching them the difference between want and need is the first step in the right direction. With ... tips and anecdotes, she shares how to help kids become hardworking, fulfilled, and successful adults"--Amazon.com.Welch helps readers discover why it's healthiest not to give their kids everything. Teaching them the difference between want and need is the first step in the right direction to creating a Jesus-centered home. You and your children will actually mean it when you say "thank you" for everything you have.Introduction -- Launch. Wants vs. needs ; Times have certainly changed -- Undertow. Seven ways we parents miss the boat (and how to get on board) ; The selfie society ; Making smart choices about technology -- Resisting the current. Cultivating obedience ; Living out God's love in your home -- White water. Gratitude is a choice ; Where the rubber meets the road ; Dear parents.
Subjects: Child rearing; Parenting; Gratitude;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 7
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Screens and teens : connecting with our kids in a wireless world / by Koch, Kathy.(CARDINAL)469073;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-246).Foreword, by Jill Savage -- Technology and our deepest human needs -- Truths about today's teens -- Less and more -- Lie #1: I am the center of my own universe -- Lie #2: I deserve to be happy all the time -- Lie #3: I must have choices -- Lie #4: I am my own authority -- #5: Information is all I need so I don't need teachers -- The ultimate connectivity."Technology is one of the benefits of living in today's world. It is a non-negotiable for success in our educational, vocational, and social cultures. Yet, with all the advantages there are inherent dangers, deceptions, and abuses. Teens often look to their digital tools to make them happy, when you set boundaries or take them away they feel frustrated and incomplete. Unhealthy habits formed in this stage of life easily carry over into adulthood and addictions to technology make other addictions more likely. This book applauds the good aspects of the digital age, but also alerts parents to how technology contributes to self-centered character, negative behaviors, and beliefs that inhibit spiritual growth, prescribing manageable solutions regardless of the level of their teen's involvement. Unmasking the lies teenagers tend to believe, like "I must have choices," the book majors on truth, acknowledging that Truth alone brings contentment, freedom, and success"--
Subjects: Internet and children.; Social media.; Interpersonal relations in adolescence.; Self-actualization (Psychology) in adolescence.; Social media; Social media.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The grace of enough : pursuing less and living more in a throwaway culture / by Stewart, Haley,author.(CARDINAL)803976;
Includes bibliographical references.Throwaway culture and its revolutionary gospel antidote -- Return to our roots -- No turning back: trading security for togetherness -- Simplicity, the path to authentic freedom -- Nurturing a wondrous love for the land -- Rediscovering beauty by attending to the transcendent -- Making home a priority, a school of love -- Reconnecting with what makes us human -- The five-hour dinner: redeeming the table with slow food -- Holy hospitality: welcoming Christ in the stranger -- Rebuilding our broken communities -- The Internet: isolator or community builder? -- Centering our disconnected lives at home -- Generous love: discovering authentic intimacy -- Living the gospel, Molly Weasley style -- Choosing hope in a dark world -- Beyond the shire.Do you ever feel caught in an endless cycle of working harder and longer to get more while enjoying life less? The Stewart family did-and they decided to make a radical change. Popular Catholic blogger and podcaster Haley Stewart explains how a year-long internship on a sustainable farm changed her family's life for the better, allowing them to live gospel values more intentionally. When Haley Stewart married her bee-keeping sweetheart, Daniel, they dreamed of a life centered on home and family. But as the children arrived and Daniel was forced to work longer hours at a job he liked less and less, they dared to break free from the unending cycle of getting more yet feeling unfufilled. They sold their Florida home and retreated to Texas to live on a farm with a compost toilet and 650 square feet of space for a family of five. Surprisingly, they found that they had never been happier. In The Grace of Enough, Stewart shares essential elements of intentional Christian living that her family discovered during that extraordinary year on the farm and that they continue to practice today. You, too, will be inspired to: live simply, offer hospitality, revive food culture and the family table, reconnect with the land, nurture community, prioritize beauty, develop a sense of wonder, be intentional about technology, seek authentic intimacy, center life around home, family, and relationships. Drawing from Pope Francis's encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si', Stewart identifies elements of Catholic social teaching that will enhance your life and create a ripple effect of grace to help you overcome the effects of today's ٢throwaway٣ culture and experience a deeper satisfaction and stronger faith.
Subjects: Catholic Church; Simplicity; Contentment;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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Soldiers of God : with Islamic warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan / by Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-(CARDINAL)740442;
Includes bibliographical references (257-259) and index.Introduction -- Prologue : Walking through a minefield -- 1. Frontier town -- 2. A world of men -- 3. Going up Khyber -- 4. Noble savages -- 5. The growth of a commander -- 6. Haji Baba and the Gucci muj -- Epilogue (to the original edition) : something only I imagined -- 7. The lawless frontier -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index.The author returns to Afghanistan a decade later and brings to life a lawless frontier. What he reveals is astonishing: teeming refugee camps on the deeply contentious Pakistan-Afghanistan border; a war front that combines primitive fighters with the most technologically advanced weapons known to man; rigorous Islamic indoctrination academies; a land of minefields plagued by drought, fierce tribalism, insurmountable ethnic and religious divisions, an abysmal literacy rate, and legions of war orphans who seek stability in military brotherhood. Traveling alongside Islamic guerrilla fighters, sharing their food, observing their piety in the face of deprivation, and witnessing their determination, he offers a unique opportunity to increase our understanding of a people and a country that are at the center of world events.
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Personal narratives.; Kaplan, Robert D., 1952-; Journalists;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Magic in Islam / by Knight, Michael Muhammad,author.(CARDINAL)541097;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-228) and index."Magic in Islam offers a look at magical and occult technologies throughout Muslim history, starting with Islam's earliest and most canonical sources. In addition to providing a highly accessible introduction to magic as it is defined, practiced, condemned, and defended within Muslim traditions, Magic in Islam challenges common assumptions about organized religion"--"The progenitor of "Muslim punk rock" and one of today's freshest spiritual voices pushes back against the common assumption that the historic faiths have no occult or magical tradition in this richly learned historical and personal journey through the practice of magic in Islam. Magic in Islam offers a look at magical and occult technologies throughout Muslim history, starting with Islam's earliest and most canonical sources. In addition to providing a highly accessible introduction to magic as it is defined, practiced, condemned, and defended within Muslim traditions, Magic in Islam challenges common assumptions about organized religion. Michael Muhammad Knight's deeply original book fills a gap within existing literature on the place of magic in Islamic traditions and opens a new window on Islam for general readers and students of religion alike. In doing so, the book counters and complicates widespread perceptions of Islam, as well as of magic as it is practiced outside of European contexts. Magicin Islam also challenges our view of "organized religions" as clearly defined systems that can be reduced to checklists of key doctrines, texts, and rules. As a result, Magic in Islam throws a monkey wrench into the conventions of the "intro to Islam" genre, threatening to flip popular notions of a religion's "center" and "margins.""--
Subjects: Magic; Islamic magic.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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Theft! : a history of music / by Aoki, Keith,1955-2011,artist,honoree.author.; Boyle, James,1959-author.; Jenkins, Jennifer,(Attorney)author.; Akin, Ian,illustrator.; Garvey, Brian,1941-illustrator.; Smith, Balfour,illustrator.; Duke University,Center for the Study of the Public Domain,publisher.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-259).This comic lays out 2000 years of musical history. A neglected part of musical history. Again and again there have been attempts to police music; to restrict borrowing and cultural cross-fertilization. But music builds on itself. To those who think that mash-ups and sampling started with YouTube or the DJs turntables, it might be shocking to find that musicians have been borrowing--extensively borrowing--from each other since music began. Then why try to stop that process? The reasons varied. Philosophy, religion, politics, race-- again and again, race--and law. And because music affects us so deeply, those struggles were passionate ones. They still are. The history in this book runs from Plato to Blurred Lines and beyond. You will read about the Holy Roman Empire's attempts to standardize religious music using the first great musical technology (notation) and the inevitable backfire of that attempt. You will read about troubadours and church composers, swapping tunes (and remarkably profane lyrics), changing both religion and music in the process. You will see diatribes against jazz for corrupting musical culture, against rock and roll for breaching the color-line. You will learn about the lawsuits that, surprisingly, shaped rap. You will read the story of some of music's iconoclasts from Handel and Beethoven to Robert Johnson, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Ray Charles, the British Invasion and Public Enemy. To understand this history fully, one has to roam wider still into musical technologies from notation to the sample deck, aesthetics, the incentive systems that got musicians paid, and law's 250 year struggle to assimilate music, without destroying it in the process. Would jazz, soul or rock and roll be legal if they were reinvented today? We are not sure. Which as you will read, is profoundly worrying because today, more than ever, we need the arts. All of this makes up our story. It is assuredly not the only history of music. But it is definitely a part and a fascinating part of that history. We hope you like it.Title from cover.
Subjects: Comic books, strips, etc.; History.; Graphic novels.; Copyright; Quotation in music; Plagiarism in music; Copyright; Plagiarism in music.; Quotation in music.;
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Sister, sinner : the miraculous life and mysterious disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson / by Hoffman, Claire(Journalist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages [329]-351) and index."On a spring day in 1926, Aimee Semple McPherson wandered into the Pacific Ocean and vanished. Weeks later she reappeared in the desert, claiming to have been kidnapped. A national media frenzy and months of investigation ensued. Who was this woman? America's most famous evangelist, McPherson was a sophisticated marketer who used spectacle, storytelling, and the newest technology-including her own radio station-to bring God's message to the masses. Her innovations brought Pentecostalism into the mainstream, paved the way for televangelists, and shaped the future of American Christianity. Her Angelus Temple in Echo Park, Los Angeles, can be called the first megachurch. Her Foursquare Church continues, with more than eight million faithful around the world. But after her disappearance, as crowds gathered at the water's edge, people asked: Was McPherson everybody's saintly sister, or a con-artist sinner? The story of what happened next-sex scandals, religious persecution, legal shenanigans, the seemingly unshakable faith of thousands of followers, and the race to cover it all-runs through the center of Claire Hoffman's thrilling Sister, Sinner. A riveting journey into the rise of popular religion in America and life in early Hollywood, and told with the flavor of the period's noir mysteries, this is an unforgettable story of an iconic woman, largely overlooked, who changed the world."--
Subjects: Biographies.; McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944.; International Church of the Foursquare Gospel; Evangelists; Evangelists;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 12
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The siege of Tyre : Alexander the Great and the gateway to empire / by Guenther, David A.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-212) and index.The Siege of Tyre: Alexander the Great and the Gateway to Empire by David A. Guenther is the first book-length treatment of this critical and fascinating campaign, featuring catapults, triremes, religious invocations, close combat, and marvels of engineering, including a massive manmade causeway from the mainland to the island. The siege is thoroughly analyzed from the standpoint of what is plausible given the nature of the technology of the time and what we now know of the geology and physical fortifications of ancient Tyre. The book begins with the background leading up to the siege: Alexander's army, his invasion of Asia Minor, the sieges of Miletus and Halicarnassus, and the battles of the Granicus and Issus. It also describes the culture, people, cities, and economy of ancient Phoenicia to place the story of the siege in a broader context. Critical to the siege were the evolving technologies in the ancient Mediterranean world, including innovations in catapult design, military engineering, and naval architecture. Guenther also takes into account recent scientific discoveries about the geology of the ancient seabed around Tyre and its effect on the siege. Finally, the book points out possible gender-biased views on topics such as sacred temple prostitution among the ancient Phoenicians and the fate of women in besieged cities of the ancient world. An engrossing blend of ancient wonder and historical and technological analysis, The Siege of Tyre is the remarkable story of Alexander the Great's "masterpiece."
Subjects: Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.; Sieges;
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