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Here is wisdom for the workplace from the husband-and-wife team of the nationally syndicated public radio series New Dimensions, which airs each week on more than 300 stations and is often described as "Bill Moyers on radio."
Some people are consumed by their work, others simply endure it as they anticipate the weekend or retirement, and hardly anyone enjoys it anymore. If we could find a way to transform how we view what we do so that it becomes a source of enjoyment and refreshment, it would be a cause for celebration. And indeed, this is exactly what Michael and Justine Toms provide in their remarkable book--the fruit of their own twenty-five years of practical experience.
According to the Toms, the bottom line is: Has our compassion grown with our business? Has our wisdom expanded with our budget? And has our laughter increased with our staff? Their book looks at work as service and as a spiritually sustaining activity that promotes healing. It is brimful with stories and helpful techniques culled from their radio interviews with Joseph Campbell, Buckminster Fuller, the Dalai Lama, Alice Walker, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Marsha Sinetar, and many others.
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Doesn't just apply to work; applies to life: A MUST READ!!.......2005-09-06
Bought for a friend who was searching for work. Ending up keeping it myself when I started reading it (bought another copy for friend.) Poignant and relevant to more aspects of life than just work. A must read for anyone who is spiritually-oriented and committed to making a difference in life; for themselves, their family and friends, and the world. Extremely relevant to the changes we are currently and will be faced with. Truly uplifting, inspirational, and worth reading again and again. A MUST READ.
Profoundly Spiritual and Profoundly Practical.......2001-09-21
I want to give a copy of this book to everyone I know: I kept having that thought while I was reading the book and moreso now that I have finished it. Which means to me, that I should not give it to anyone but to apply the ideas contained in the book in my own life.
"True Work" is as important as anything that Joseph Campbell has written. It comes from Michael and Justine Tom's own life experience and contemplation of that experience.
The book shows how to integrate work into one's fabric of life, because work is one of life's threads, but it is not the whole cloth. Again, it is a profound work.
Not just another "how to" book.......2000-07-25
I found this book very insightful in a personal way. It has many real life stories and examples of people finding true meaning in what they do, as well as practical advice on how one can apply some of these lessons. Though it's not presented in a multi-step "follow these rules to success" manner, this book contains many pertinent insights on how we the reader can apply new points of view in our daily lives.
It's not about finding a job, it's about finding a life........1999-06-21
Other than finding true love, finding true work is just about the most important thing we can do to feel fulfilled. True Work helps you discover your passion, look for synchronicities along the way, and realize that the path to true work is a journey, not a destination.
offers a compendium of deep spiritual insights about work.......1999-05-26
Much more than a "how to" book on finding what you really want to do, True Work offers a compendium of deep spiritual insights which provide the inner foundation from which one's true life work may flow.
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As the pioneer of global investing, John M. Templeton has confounded the skeptics with his consistent performance and profound insights into the world of investing. Global Investing reveals his principles for achieving superior results and provides readers with: John Templetons story in his own words; The principles and techniques of the worlds leading global investor; An enlightening book that will help you achieve above-average, long-term investment results.
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Wall of Money.......2007-05-23
Global Investing: The Templeton Way was written at the time when the "wall of funds," now flooding emerging markets was just a trickle. Global Investing explains how Templeton originated a way to help the capital-starved developing economies dip into the global pool of capital to help all of the world's populations prosper.
The book was a series of interviews with Sir John at his home in the islands. The interviewers go through extensive teaching just to get the reader to the place where we can understand the question. This gives a broad comprehensive understanding of what Templeton is trying to teach us in that moment of time when just about everyone invested at home.
The root of global investing opportunity lies in understanding the course of world events. It is the existence of market inefficiencies that can lead to abnormal returns. The U.S. had the most efficient markets, Emerging economies the least.
This book is about global investing as practiced by John Templeton, at a time that international investing was yielding to and even broader, more flexible holistic world view that includes the undeveloped countries.
"We are bargain hunters and we only buy if we calculate that something is undervalued."
"It makes sense that you will find better investment opportunities when you search everywhere in the world instead of just at home."
"Replacement book values can be purchased cheaper outside of developed countries.. Earnings fluctuate around these values. In the long run, the stock market indexes fluctuate around the long term upward trends of earnings per share."
Look at the share price relative to sustainable future earnings.
Risk is measured by the variance variability of return, not gain or loss on original capital.
" If you hold a large number of different funds, you may earn only the average return earned by the mutual fund industry. "
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Warren Buffett
Another interesting thing, there is a comparison between John Templeton and Warren Buffett. Both investors are students of Benjamin Graham's value investing techniques. In selecting stocks investors need to focus on values. Part of the trick was determining value in so many different places. A low p/e is one yardstick of a bargain because in the long run, the stock market indexes fluctuate around the long term upward trend of earnings per share.
Both Sir John and Warren are long-term investors who want to own securities that produce the greatest consistent gain over the longest periods of time. In Sir John's capacity as a fiduciary, he has looked all over the world to find undervalued securities, in undervalued markets for his clients. Warren buffett on the other hand who invested primarily for his own account was satisfied until recently investing only in the US?
Now twenty years later we see Buffett's closed end fund, investing in emerging markets with "PetroChina," precious metals like "silver bullion," as well as trading in currency futures. Warren says investing should be looked at as though you "own a piece of the business." He goes on to say that when you purchase a security "it should not bother you if the market was closed for five years."
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Templeton empathizes the "importance of price."
"Purchase only when you can pay less than it is worth today, and only if you believe that it will be worth more tomorrow."
"The time to sell is when you have found a much better bargain to replace it.
Risk is measured by the variance variability of return, not gain or loss on original capital.
If you are going to invest in stocks, buy a bunch of different issues and be sure they are not stocks that rise and fall in unison. Global investing can reduce portfolio shrinkage in asset values.
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Highly Recommended !.......2003-10-05
In the pursuit of lofty concepts, such as justice and fairness, activities of courts in adjudicating constitutional issues seem to be held sacred. But constitutional decision-making is not above the rough and tumble of politics with courts, interest groups, and other institutions pursuing self-interests. Such is the case with respect to Canada's Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, according to the ten well-established scholars contributing to this volume. Their premise is not especially surprising. After all, where there are people, there are politics. It is, however, surprising to be presented, in one tome, with essays of the same breadth on the Charter; they focus on various judicial actors and interests, sometimes in relation to specific cases, to illustrate that judicial politics is not the realm of the sacred. It is also exceptional, in the context of Canadian judicial literature, to be presented with analyses of such depth, attached, as they are, to the theme of Rawlsian paradox in which justice-seekers, advancing fairness, actually promote an agenda of redistribution over fairness. This theme, analyzed from political philosophy and rational choice perspectives, is thus indispensable reading for philosophers, political scientists and legal scholars. Summing up: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. Upper-division undergraduates and above. - A.F. Johnson, Bishop's University. From CHOICE.
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This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .
In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing river. The house has been the scene of a horrific attack by guerrillas, and when Lauren's family settles there, a chain of events is set in motion that will change her life irrevocably.
Rainbow's End captures the overwhelming beauty and extraordinary danger of life in the African bush. Lauren's childhood reads like a girl's own adventure story. At the height of the war, Lauren rides through the wilderness on her horse, Morning Star, encountering lions, crocodiles, snakes, vicious ostriches, and mad cows. Many of the animals are pets, including Miss Piggy and Bacon and an elegant giraffe named Jenny. The constant threat of ruthless guerrillas prowling the land underscores everything, making each day more dangerous, vivid, and prized than the last.
After Independence, Lauren comes to the bitter realization that she'd been on the wrong side of the civil war. While she and her family believed that they were fighting for democracy over Communism, others saw the war as black against white. And when Robert Mugabe comes into power, he oversees the torture and persecution of thousands of members of an opposing tribe and goes on to become one of Africa's legendary dictators. The ending of this beautiful memoir is a fist to the stomach as Lauren realizes that she can be British or American, but she cannot be African. She can love it -- be willing to die for it -- but she cannot claim Africa because she is white.
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Life in Rhodesia.......2007-09-19
I grew up in Rhodesia and can relate to all the animals and the terrorists and see the Rhodesia troops know someone who was in the army. Fortunately for those who grew up in the Rhodesia Era, have a better understanding of the meaning of life. No computer games, but real life. One thing that I hope to pass on to my kids is the love of animals, and how to survive without all the time spend in front of the TV and computers and be a real kid. Living in Bannockburn, traveling to Bulawayo, or Salisbury, stopping in Gweru, the Victoria Falls, Kariba, and buying mealies cooked on the side of the road, the braais, Renaults, the food, the wildlife, the smells of freshly rain on ground, elephants crossing the road on the way to Victoria Falls, and Matopus, all the baboons and monkeys running around, the rhino, giraffe, the lizards stealing food. The good life.
Growing up in Rhodesia makes me live life, like it were overflowing. The good times, the best of times, the real times.
Been there, done that........2007-08-23
I lived in Rhodesia in the time period this book was written. Although some minor facts are not quite correct, it gives an excellent feel for what it was like to live there and experience the multitude of changes.
Rainbow's End.......2007-08-14
This book is very good. I was a teenager in America when this was happening in Rhodesia. I remember it changing names and I remember there being some type of war, but I don't remember much else. I was shocked at some of the things that happened, but I really enjoyed the book. It should be required reading for anyone studying histories. I have passed this book on to some one who was born in that country and was just a few years older than the author and she has other memories, but she also said it was good. I definately recommend this book for anyone who likes books about history. It was very personable. The author made you really visualize the scenes as she described them.
Another Farm in Africa..........2007-07-30
Lauren St. John's tale of family life, strife and growing up in Rhodesia during "the War" -- the guerrilla war that lead to the creation of Zimbabwe and Mugabe dictatorship, is beguilling and frustrating. She talks several times about her unprounouncable Dutch name, but I'm not sure if I ever saw it in the book. She says that the entire family changed names by deedpole, but they all took different surnames, hers being what she now uses, St. John. Wha? Everybody in the family changes their names and no details? After black rule is established, St. John undergoes an eleventh hour realization/guilt trip about her previous life. She feels sympathy toward her black African compatriots and understands some of their excesses after "liberation." But the book glosses over the real twists in the plot. Something is going on between mom and dad, Mom is always getting on a plane and flying around the world, but we dont find out until almost the end of the book. Even then, she doesn't do more than hint until the last few pages. Dad was unfaithful. Why all the secrecy? She tells us anyway, but makes us roll our eyes first. For all her tiptoeing around family disputes, St. John is ultra-descriptive about her daily life, from the vanilla-licious Cerelac she had for breakfast, to her particular preferences in biltong. The book is a fascinating look at a white paradise that, in later years, became more threatening, but still pampering to those fortunate enough to be white. As Lauren undergoes her sudden realization about the Realities of Black Life in Rhodesia, she sees former heroes as less than noble...the Selous Scouts, honored soldiers during the war, are revealed to be something else indeed. The glitter comes off a lot of the gold, but the book is still a entertaining insight into a life, a lifetime, and a lifestyle. This book holds its own among the recent spate of books about the end of Rhodesia and its impact on white farmers and citizens.
Rainbow's End review.......2007-07-17
An excellent memoir of life during troubled times during the bush war in Rhodesia and birth of Zimbabwe.
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From the supplier: Two African American insurance agents from Ohio attending the Association of Black Insurance Professionals National Conference charged that State Farm and its agents practiced redlining in Ohio's inner-cities. Columbus, OH-based agent Howard Tyler claimed that State Farm agents frequently avoided doing business in inner-cities by referring consumer inquiries to other agents. J.L. Tillman Insurance Agency (Cincinnati, OH) owner Jerald Tillman said State Farm would not allow one of its agents to take over his office lease because his office was located at a downtown location.
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