Shifting Shadow of Supernatural Power: A Prophetic Manual for Those Wanting to Move in God's Supernatural Power
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  • How to move in God's supernatural power
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Shifting Shadow of Supernatural Power: A Prophetic Manual for Those Wanting to Move in God's Supernatural Power
Julia Loren
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5 out of 5 stars How to move in God's supernatural power.......2007-09-12

Wow! This book really satisfies a true hunger for God. If you are looking for truth, even if it hurts, read this book. What an awesome work. This book truly is a manual for moving in God's supernatural power. The power written about in these pages are for people seeking true change, and are willing to lay everything down to bring the Kingdom of God to earth though relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ.

5 out of 5 stars Becomming spiritual power brokers.......2006-12-05

This book really is chewey. Lots of people who are looking for another Christian MacBook, a quick read full of filler, will fail to take time to understand it. The book contains interviews with leaders who talk to leaders about the importance of discerning the times we live in and how the Church faces a huge clash between the powers of darkness and the power of light. The whole point seems to be this - if we Christians do not bask in the light of God's love, then radiate His love to all they meet and take His anointing into the streets, all that will be left is a vast spiritual wasteland, a habitation of the enemy. We need a global warming of our hearts towards the lost. We need to take our focus off our egos and greed and immediate self-gratification in order to move out in the love and power of God.

What is really of God, what is soulish power and what originates in the demonic is addressed in this book in a way that no other Christian writer has dared to expose. Many people are still confused by the abuses of charlatans in both the Church and in the world who scream flashy prophecies and tout miraculous healings. The book talks about a coming showdown between the prophets of Baal in the World - those who adhere to occult sources of power - and prophets of Baal in the Church...something no one really seeks to really identify or confront. It will take the Manifest Presence of God and the power of God's true anointing to confront modern Baalism. And that power is being seen as thousands of Charismatic believers are taking the healing and prophetic gifts of the Holy Spirit to the streets and winning thousands of unbelievers to Christ.

The book forces leaders to think about where they are going with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Are the gifts of healing and prophetic revelation meant for their glory or for God's glory? Should they be reserved for believers or do unbelievers need to see a demonstration of Spirit in order to accept the Word? Who is leading the way and showing us how to really seek and save the lost?

The book is for serious readers who want answers about where this present move of God is taking us, where we have come from and where we are going. It is less about the occult origins of the New Age and more about the glory and power of God to transform the world than most readers suspect until they get deeper into the book.

I am really challenged by it and I am the author. It makes me want to become one who radiates the Love of Christ and seeks to release the gifts of the spirit to everyone I meet. Those I write about in this book, not only tell me how - but model it for me so I know that it can be done.

3 out of 5 stars a bit disappointed..........2006-11-10

I bought this book because Bill Johnson's name was on it...I wasn't aware that Mahesh Chavda and Bill only contributed a chapter each until after getting the book.

Much of the book had a darker tone to it and then patted the backs of several of the bigger names in the spirit-filled ministerial world. Because I've been so hungry to "learn" more about being "spirit-filled", I was hoping to find good nuggets in this book.

I think if you've encountered people who were involved with witchcraft or other "magic arts" so-to-speak, this book will really appeal to you (which i believe is somewhat prevalent in the Pacific northwest). I haven't personally encountered that so this book wasn't really for me.
Life to Those Shadows
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    Life to Those Shadows
    Noël Burch
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    Noël Burch's singularly perceptive view of film and its origins will interest all who care about film theory and history. Life to Those Shadows presents a critique of "classical" approaches to film: the assumptions that what we call the language of film was a natural, organic development, and that it lay latent from the outset in the basic technology of the camera, waiting for the prescient pioneers to bring it into being. The view that film language was a universal, neutral medium, innocent of any social or historical meaning in itself, is also challenged here.
    Burch's major thesis is that, on the contrary, film language has a social and economic history, that it evolved in the way it did because of when and where it was constructed--in the capitalist and imperialist West between 1892 and 1929.
    From this perspective, the book examines the emergence of what it defines as cinema's Institutional Mode of Representation and the sociohistorical circumstances in which it took place. Central to the Institutional Mode are the principles of visualization--camera placement and movement, lighting, editing, mise-en-scène--that filmmakers and audiences came to internalize over the first three decades. Special emphasis is laid on the all-important change that occurred in the placing of the spectator, from a position of exteriority to the film image--implicit in both film-form and viewing conditions during the primitive era (pre-1909)--to the imaginary centering of the spectator-subject--completed only with the generalization of lip-synch sound after 1929. Burch contends that this imaginary centering of a sensorially isolated spectator is the keystone of the cinematic illusion of reality, still achieved today by the same means as it was sixty years ago.

    Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex
    Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
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    • Sex is not as simple as Hirshman makes out
    • An historical perspective on the subject of sex and bargains
    Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex
    Linda R. Hirshman , and Jane E. Larson
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    For coauthors Linda Hirshman and Jane Larson, sex is a matter of political negotiation. Focusing on heterosexual practice in four specific forms--rape, fornication, adultery, and prostitution--they trace the history and law of sexual regulation in the West from the ancients to the present day. In the final section, they lay out their "prescription for a new sexual order," proposing "that the touchstone for political legitimacy requires the recognition that women are political players, that adult heterosexuality is a political relationship, and that the goal of sexual politics is neither to be the handmaid of an antique morality nor the umpire in a free-for-all between unequal players."

    This is a wide-ranging, dense, and well-written book, blending political theory, historical detail, cultural critique, and sexology in discussing how our notions of sex have been formed and why we should acknowledge sex as thoroughly political--not just in the public realm, but in each individual sexual encounter. Hard Bargains provides an erudite and involving exploration of the classic feminist political adage: the personal is political. --Julia Riches

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    Men and women have always bargained for sex. In Hard Bargains, philosopher-lawyer Linda Hirshman and legal historian Jane Larson provide the first complete analysis of power in heterosexual relationships, combining an eye-opening legal history of sexual regulation with thought-provoking predictions of what the future might bring. Hirshman and Larson tell a riveting tale that spans the centuries--from early accounts of adulterers hanging from the gibbet, to the impact of the Kinsey Reports and Hugh Hefner's playboy philosophy, to the 1960s judge who argued in favor of sex with eleven-year-olds. The book examines the factors that have shaped our notions of sex, from Catholic teaching to the theories of Sigmund Freud, and it explores the Supreme Court decisions of the last few decades that revolutionized the politics of sex. And Hard Bargains not only provides a deep understanding of historical and current disputes, it also offers striking predictions of what sexual bargaining will look like in the future--rape laws replaced by laws of sexual autonomy, adultery subjected to breach of contract action, fornicators responsible for each other's rent, prostitution considered an unfair labor practice. These are a few of the surprising--and surprisingly workable--solutions the authors foresee in the 21st century. Hard Bargains takes a forthright and level-headed look at all aspects of one of the biggest controversies in contemporary American society--heterosexual sex--and delivers a radically new perspective on the sexual lives of women and men.

    Customer Reviews:

    2 out of 5 stars Over-reliant on a trendy but sterile methodology.......2000-05-06

    Hirshman and Larson, law professors at Brandeis and the University of Wisconsin, see a remarkable transformation in American politics: private sexual negotiations formerly dominated by men have become public negotiations with recourse to public standards of justice and fairness.

    Unfortunately, the authors' optimistic vision is distorted by an objectionable reductionism. Hirshman and Larson rely on game theory, the methodology of rational self interest beloved by economists and by political scientists enthralled with the celebrated "prisoner's dilemma."

    Much of their book is based on a variant of the prisoner's dilemma, namely "The Battle of the Sexes". Thus Hirshman and Larson conclude that the participants' bargaining positions structure consensual heterosexual sex: they argue that while both partners typically prefer sexual intercourse to masturbation, the male bargains for "her fidelity and his freedom" while the female holds out for "sex on terms of equal fidelity."

    Although Hirshman and Larson consider their attempt to propel game theory "beyond the bedroom door" thrillingly audacious, their theoretical enterprise cannot address the true emotional depth of either sex or love. The politics of sex encompasses so much more than hard bargaining over costs and benefits, but this fact cannot be accommodated within a game theoretical perspective.

    This is not to say that the analyses in this book are uninteresting. Nor are the authors slavish adherents to social science reductionism: at times, they introduce humanistic perspectives from philosophy (Aristotle's ethics, Michel Foucault's analysis of power), from history (ancient Greek law, Puritan sexual morality), and especially from political theory (Plato's Republic, Hobbes' Leviathan, Rawls' A Theory of Justice). Unfortunately, these refreshing interludes cannot overcome Hirshman and Larson's disappointing over-reliance on a trendy but ultimately sterile methodology.

    2 out of 5 stars Sex is not as simple as Hirshman makes out.......1999-05-02

    This book represents another step in the reduction of human affairs to legally arbitrated exchanges and misses the unique quality of sex. The very power of sex lies in its connection to a hoped-for reciprocity, a spontaneous and unstoppable expression of passion or love. Such an expression cannot be compared to, for instance, the exchange between a merchant and client. In such an expression there is no buyer and seller, personal walls break down. Hirshman's humorless account of sex does violence to the emotional and spiritual experience of the act, missing, in fact, that it is not an act at all, but an event.

    5 out of 5 stars An historical perspective on the subject of sex and bargains.......1998-10-07

    "Hard Bargains: The Politics of Sex" is an eminently readable and fascinating analysis of male/female sexual relationships from a new vantage point--bargaining theory. While there is plenty of research and scholastic documentation covering both historical perspective and fresh and daring contemporary isights, the book reads like a novel. The familiar paradigm of bargaining theory is surprisingly applied to the most personal and intimate of human relationships with logic and insight. The results are rigorous and very provoking This book traces the legal history of women and sex from ancient times forward to the present day. The middle chapters are fundamentally shocking as they show the pervasive extent of misogyny that legal scholars built into the very foundations of our Western legal system. With incredible quotations from the 'fathers' of our modern legal system the reader gets to see the systemic bias -- bordering on evil -- that has colored legal thought to this ver;y day. The combination and intertwining of bargaining theory with a vast historical perspective leads the authors to some dramatic suggestions for legal change. The goal is to give men the legal tools to more adequately negotiate their most personal lives from a more equally balanced bargaining position. This book is powerful in scope and dramatic in its implications for today and the future. Every young person, and not so young person, should read it. Their life and the law will never quite be the same!
    Hard Bargains : The Politics of Sex
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      Hard Bargains : The Politics of Sex
      Linda R. & Larson, Jane E. Hirshman
      Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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      ASIN: B000OKC716

      The Amateur Magician's Handbook: Fourth Revised Edition
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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      • One stop shopping for any magician
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      Henry Hay
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      5 out of 5 stars A classic for all.......2006-11-09

      I've had a copy of this book since 1975 and passed it on to my youngest son. This book as been part of our family since I was a teenager and will continue to be as long as it's avaible.

      5 out of 5 stars Amateur Magician's Handbook (AMH) by Henry Hay.......2006-08-03

      This one book will open the doors of magic for you. The first two chapters are essential for the reader to understand how to create magic in the minds of the spectators. Mr. Hay is an excellent teacher and motivator. Although his passion was coin magic (T. Nelson Downs was his boyhood hero), he teaches classic sleights for cards, coins, thimbles, balls, silks, etc. He gives wise counsel on buying apparatus, how to stage a magic show, performing for children, how to practice, and more. Although the AMH was originally written in 1950, the books listed in his bibliography are still recommended reading today. I had the rare opportunity to meet Mr. Hay in Germany and he was cordial and still proficient in his hobby. Do you want to learn magic? Buy this book.

      5 out of 5 stars Many have learned from this . . . .......2005-05-20

      Henry Hay (pen name for June Barrows Mussey, who was a journalist and translator as well as magician) was probably the best magical writer that ever lived. Several professional magicians have learned from his clear prose, including Johnny Ace Palmer, Gary Oulette (producer of the WORLD'S GREATEST MAGIC specials), and David Copperfield. If it was good enough for those guys, it's good enough for anybody. It was certainly good enough for me. I still refer back to it at times, and I've been into magic since I was twelve. I'm twenty-one now. Buy this book and learn all that it has to teach. Count yourself very lucky if you can find a good copy.

      5 out of 5 stars One stop shopping for any magician.......2004-07-16

      If you are interested at all in magic then this is the book to get. It lets you in on the secrets of a whole realm of different magic tricks (coins, cards, stage, close, etc....). Whats great about this book is that if you are new to the "hobby" then you can sample a little of alot and find what really interests you, then you can delve into another more specific book with deeper content.

      5 out of 5 stars The first and last step for a complete magician..........2004-02-16

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      Truly an amateur magicians' handbook... for a magician without a copy of this book is but an amateur!
      The Amateur Magicians Handbook
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        The Amateur Magicians Handbook

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        The amateur magician's handbook
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
        • Teaches Magic as entertainment, not just as puzzles
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        June Barrows Mussey
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        5 out of 5 stars Teaches Magic as entertainment, not just as puzzles.......1998-08-30

        This is one of the finest modern magic books available to the general public. It teaches how to entertain with magic, not just how the tricks are done. It is an all-encompassing book, with major sections on all types of sleight-of-hand, mentalism, self-working (head) magic, and apparatus magic. Couple this book with the Mark Wilson Complete Course In Magic and Bill Tarr's 101 Easy Magic Tricks for a comprehensive library for beginners and intermediates alike. I have dozens of other, more advanced fine magic books, and I have done magic for 30 years as a hobby, but I refer to Amateur Magician's Handbook regularly. Very Highly Recommended!
        THE AMATEUR MAGICIAN'S HANDBOOK
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          Henry Hay
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          Amateur Magician's Handbook
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            Henry Hay
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              THE AMATEUR MAGICIAN'S HANDBOOK, FOURTH EDITION
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                The Amateur Magician: A Handbook of Magical Tricks for the Amateur Magician
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                  The Amateur Magician: A Handbook of Magical Tricks for the Amateur Magician
                  George E Sheldon
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                  Teaches novices how to construct and carry out the classic magic tricks
                  Everybody's Guide To Conjuring: A Thoroughly Practical Handbook Specially Written For The Use Of Amateur Magicians
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                      Programming Windows, Fifth Edition
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                      • Good for pretty graphics, bad for anything else
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                      3 out of 5 stars Good for pretty graphics, bad for anything else.......2007-01-15

                      I have to say I was dissapointed in this book; not because of *how* the material was presented, but because of the *type* of material presented. It says "the definitive guide to the Win32 API" printed right on the cover, but the selection of topics seems limited only to those which deal with output and presentation (text, fonts, graphics, bitmaps, sounds, etc). Personally, i was looking almost exclusivly for the more "under-the-hood" API functions, which almost no mention is made of.
                      For example, there is no mention of memory management, manipulating files on the hard disk, serial and parallel ports usage, processes, debugging/kernel, and console-mode functions, just to name a few. Multi-threading, DLL files, and TCP/IP are included at the end, seemlingly only as an afterthought. To give you an idea, the chapter about the "Palette Manager" is over 170 pages long; the chapter on DLL's is only 30.
                      Also slightly annoying was the large amount of printed code in the book (my personal pet peeve). Many times, you'll find complete programs that span ten or more pages, with little explanation to accompany them. This seems completly unnecessary, especially considering the stout size of the book to begin with (1500 pages!), and the fact that all the code is included on the CD anyway.
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                      5 out of 5 stars Excellent programmer's guide to the beast that is Windows.......2007-01-12

                      This is truly a great reference book for all 'real' programmers that are capable of coding in c /c++, as it is assumed that you already know how to do so. There is no VB crap and other such slow and useless languages mentioned. The shear simplicity and power of low-level programming is demonstrated with clear concise examples that compile to 32k executables that are NOT dependant on 3rd-party dll and VB runtimes etc. Only assembly can produce tighter code. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who is serious about programming on the Windows platform. If you want a point and click solution - go use VB like the rest of the fools only to be disappointed in the end when you want to do anything outside of the box.

                      5 out of 5 stars Best Windows Programming Book.......2006-11-18

                      I have been developing Windows since 1992. He has continued to update this book for almost two decades. Before MFC, before Visual-pick-a-language.

                      No book will let you understand Windows better than this. Forget MFC, and all the Microsoft programming wizars garbage. This tells you how the OS functions, how it ticks, and you have a fundamental understanding of the OS.

                      This should be mandatory reading for all computer science kids. It lets you understand how event driven systems work, how GUIs work. Suprisingly, things have not changed THAT much since Windows 1.0. Look at all his old books and you will see this.

                      2 out of 5 stars Nothing more then a reference book.......2006-11-09

                      I have started to program in windows and was hoping this book whould help me with it. Chould I be more wrong?

                      The wrighter sure know how to wright mutch about little, you can read 1 A4 without problems without even see any code, atleast thats what it fellt like. The only thing you actually can use this book to, are as a reference. But then you might consider to check out hte win32 api bible for windows 95 instead, dont bi chocked that it is for win95, it is no big difference and both use C ( not C++), the only difference are that they use cod as example, this guy doesnt

                      5 out of 5 stars This is my best Win32 reference book.......2006-11-03

                      This book is considered as the windows programming bible by many. Sure, you can build applications without all this knowledge with frameworks such as MFC but if you are looking to build a Windows program that do exactly what you want, there is no workaround a deep Win32 API knowledge. This book is a must for all Windows programmers bookshelf.

                      Something you need to know before purchasing this book is that it is very unlikely that the author will update this gem one more time as Microsoft is slowly phasing out the Win32 API in favor of the [...] and this will be even more real when Vista comes out. However, since there is a huge codebase of existing Win32 programs, the Win32 API will certainly stay around for a long long time. This book is simply the best for learning Win32 programming. I still refer to it very frequently. If you are looking for a reference book on Win32 API, this is the one you were looking for.
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                      Illustrator 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide will give newcomers to Adobe Illustrator 8 a push in the right direction. Authors Weinmann and Lourekas demonstrate how to use this illustration package's user interface, tools, and palettes to create, save, and open illustrations.

                      The authors teach you how to create basic objects and show you the options and techniques for selecting, moving, reshaping, and transforming objects. Next you learn how to use Illustrator's Fill, Stroke, brushes, and pen options; add and manipulate type; work with layers; combine paths; and create gradients.

                      Later chapters teach you to apply filters, work with masks, create graphs, use precision tools, work with the Actions feature, change the program's preferences, create separations, and output your work for print and for the Web. A full-color section in the center of the book offers eye-catching artwork to help get your creative juices flowing. The book closes with a guide to those contributing artists and a quick reference guide to keyboard shortcuts. --Kathleen Caster

                      Book Description

                      Adobe Illustrator is the industry standard in desktop illustration programs, but it can be intimidating to newcomers. It's a complex, powerful tool. Illustrator 8 for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide is the ideal way for anyone to learn the newest version of the program. This step-by-step guide gives readers what they need to get right to work, without having to wander through menus or read a lot of text.

                      The book is an instruction guide to the newest version of the top-selling Illustrator program,written by two experienced computer instructors. Like the authors' previous Visual QuickStarts covering the best-selling QuarkXPress and Photoshop, the Illustrator Visual QuickStart Guide's unique easy-to-use format is specifically tailored for the beginning to intermediate user: step-by-step instructions, hundreds of illustrations with detailed captions, and special tips to help users avoid potential problems. Elegant, original artwork created in Adobe Illustrator by the authors and their colleagues will both inspire and illuminate.

                      Customer Reviews:

                      4 out of 5 stars Good Reference.......2002-01-16

                      This is a great reference tool to be used in conjunction with other Photoshop References.

                      2 out of 5 stars Not for beginners.......2001-02-06

                      This book is good, if you know the Illustrator already or are at least familiar with it. I was brand new to it and couldn't even find a place to begin. Any suggestions?

                      5 out of 5 stars A Newbee's Dream and Oh So Cheap.......2000-06-26

                      This is the Most Excellent Book that I have found to guide me through the intricacies of Illustrator. It is written in simple, understandable lingo and accompanied by illustrations of your desktop and tools and what they should look like when you perform a procedure. There are also comprehensive illustrations depicting, step by step, how-tos. Steps follow logically with a great textual and pictorial intro to the basics, then into other areas such as how to create and alter type to create a logo. Excellent and easy to read and grasp at such an unbelievably LOW price, this is The Illustrator Book To Buy, and believe me, I have them all!

                      4 out of 5 stars Illustrator for Windows & Macintosh 8.......2000-05-22

                      This book has exceptional value compared to other books on the same topic. I was able to get started with Illustrator 8 quickely, and it saved me a lot of money and time compared to other books. I only wish that this book had more practice exercises, but overall very good. Bottom line: get this book if you want to save and get a decent tutorial

                      5 out of 5 stars The only Illustrator book you need..........1999-04-17

                      If you want only one Illustrator (8) book, this is the only one you need. Quick, to the point, stuffed with visuals, easy to locate sections, tips, steps, exercises, etc. For the money, this beats those twice the price, hands down. Now if I can only return the one I paid $45 for...

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