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Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul

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Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
John Eldredge
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0785268839

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If Christian men are going to change from a pitiful, wimpy bunch of "really nice guys" to men who are made in the image of God, they must reexamine their preconceptions about who God is and recover their true "wild" hearts, writes bestselling author John Eldredge in Wild at Heart: Discovering a Life of Passion, Freedom, and Adventure. Eldredge throws down the gauntlet--men are bored; they fear risk, they refuse to pay attention to their deepest desires. He challenges Christian men to return to authentic masculinity without resorting to a "macho man" mentality. Men often seek validation in venues such as work, or in the conquest of women, Eldredge observes. He urges men to take time out and come to grips with the "secret longings" of their hearts. Although the book succeeds best in its slant toward a male audience, it also strives to help women understand the implications of authentic masculinity in their relationships with men. Eldredge frames the book around his outdoor experiences and appealing anecdotes about his family, sprinkling the text with touches of humor and overlying everything with heartfelt passion. Even as he mixes eclectic ideas about masculinity from popular movies such as Braveheart with classic words from Oswald Chambers, and lyrics from the Dixie Chicks with stories from the Bible, he points to only one answer for men searching for their true wildness of heart. Writes Eldredge, "The only way to live in this adventure ... with all its danger and unpredictability and immensely high stakes ... is in an ongoing, intimate relationship with God." --Cindy Crosby

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God designed men to be dangerous, says John Eldredge. Simply look at the dreams and desires written in the heart of every boy: To be a hero, to be a warrior, to live a life of adventure and risk. Sadly, most men abandon those dreams and desires-aided by a Christianity that feels like nothing more than pressure to be a "nice guy." It is no wonder that many men avoid church, and those who go are often passive and bored to death. In this provocative book, Eldredge gives women a look inside the true heart of a man and gives men permission to be what God designed them to be-dangerous, passionate, alive, and free.

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a good book in spite of its flaws.......2007-06-27

This is a good book--even a great one--in spite of its flaws, some of which have been mentioned here.
I will counter the most obvious ones:

+ Type B males are as manly as types As
(This blind spot leads to more flaws like the ones below.)

+ In praising type A manliness, Eldredge comes across as dismissing Mother Teresa

+ He leaves us with the impression that he sanctions violence uncritically, which concerns me

Other than these and a couple of other lesser ones, I still believe that this book is a necessary corrective.
We, the men in this culture, have been domesticated out of noble passions and
thus becoming vulnerable to lesser, trivial and destructive ones.

Both men and women misunderstand men.......2007-06-25

When a man sets out for adventure, whether through hunting, sailing, mountain climbing, dog sledding, or any other traditionally masculine enterprise, the age-old "battle between the sexes" often rears its head. Many women simply don't understand what makes a man tick - and even though men might know what winds their clocks, they often don't know why. The result is that both men and women misunderstand men. Whether you're a man or woman, this book offers insight into why men are the way they are, and assure us all that it's not only good, but necessary.

Eldredge says, "For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion... and a man no longer believes he is a man." The lesson is that men must relearn what it means to be alive and true to their inner selves, including the individual's right relationship to the woman in his life. This book will do some good toward those ends. It will also help the hunter to understand his passion for the hunt and its proper place in his life. It's worth reading, and it's a small price for what it teaches you about yourself.

books.......2007-06-23

this book i gave to my daughter to read before givign to her husband to read. it is a great book

One of the few good books for men.......2007-06-22

Most Christian books for men tend to focus on the sensitive side of the male; the caring, compassionate, loving kind. Nothing wrong with that, but we know as men there is something in our souls that long for adventure. That is where "Wild at Heart" shines. You will not be sorry buying this book for yourself, or if you are a wife, buying it for your husband. It has been an "eye opener" for me, to say the least.

Great Book, a Man's Book!.......2007-06-18

If you are a man or even a woman trying to understand a man... read this book!

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Frustrating Read..The General's Daughter was better.
Not Wild About Wild Fire
What has happened to DeMille?
Up to Par
Predictable, but a pretty fun ride.

Wild Fire
Nelson DeMille
Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
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ASIN: 044657967X
Release Date: 2006-11-06

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Welcome to the Custer Hill Club - a men's club set in an Adirondack hunting lodge whose members include some of America's most powerful business leaders, military men, and government officials. Ostensibly, the club is a place to relax with old friends. But one fall weekend, the club's Executive Board gathers to talk about 9/11 - and finalize a retaliation plan, known only by its code name: WILD FIRE. That same weekend, a member of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force is found dead. Soon it's up to Detective John Corey and his wife, FBI Agent Kate Mayfield, to unravel a plot that starts with the Custer Hill Club and ends with American cities locked in the crosshairs of a nuclear device. Only Corey and Mayfield can stop the button from being pushed, and global chaos from being unleashed... More chilling than yesterday's headlines and as prophetic as tomorrow's, Wild Fire will challenge you to question everything you thought you knew about your leaders and your country while thrilling you with suspense that builds with every page.

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Frustrating Read..The General's Daughter was better........2007-06-21

I have read one other novel by DeMille, "The General's Daughter" and I thought that it was a terrific mystery story. However, in my opinion this book was a real disappointment for me. There are lots of detailed synopses of this story already posted and I won't create another, so I'll be brief.

The book was entertaining but not a super story. The plot is thin and the main character John Corey, the brazen detective, has no depth and is totally unbelievable. His wife, Kate, an attorney, is almost on the same level as Corey except that I thought she was mixed bag of personalities and talents. I had wished that both characters were developed better by the author at least I could root for one or the other or both. By half way through the book I really didn't care if they both took a wrong turn and never returned to the story.

There are lots of subplots with fast-paced activities that kept my interest, but overall I found it frustrating to finish reading the story. It's not a terrible book, and if you enjoy DeMille's works I'd say that it's a good chance that you will enjoy "Wild Fire". And since I had enjoyed one of DeMille novel's I'll probably try his next release, (via the library and not my cash) because I just know he can do better.

An author that has never left me disappointed in his refreshing stories is Robert L. Saunders. His wonderful mystery, The Monopoly Factor, is a must read for every mystery fan and his novel "Gathering of Cans" is a real stunner of a women's fiction story.

Have a good day!

Not Wild About Wild Fire.......2007-06-21

Nelson DeMille's The Lion's Game is one of the best thrillers ever written, but Wild Fire lags far behind. If you are a DeMille fan, this may be exactly the thing you like, but it put me to sleep. First, there is no plot. From the book's dust jacket and early pages, you know that a wealthy oil man wants to wipe out the people of the Middle East by exploding black-market, nuclear bombs in two American cities, triggering a massive nuclear response onto the Middle East from the United States (Project Wild Fire). We know that it won't happen, so we already know that someone will stop it. Second, the book has endless conversation that drags on forever. Third, we again have Detective John Corey and FBI Agent Kate Mayfield investigating the case, but this is not the capable John Corey that we saw in The Lion's Game. This John Corey is a wisecracking buffoon, and an entire book of his one-liners becomes really tiresome. The story's end is exciting and ties up loose ends nicely. This is the first time that I did not like a DeMille book, but I suspect that his next will create the usual excitement.

What has happened to DeMille?.......2007-06-18

This is not the usual DeMille - here he has written a ridiculous plot and silly, trite dialogue. Very, very disappointing!

Up to Par.......2007-06-12

If you love DeMille, you'll love this book. Up to his usual high standards - well crafted, a good story, and a piece one can always learn from!

Predictable, but a pretty fun ride........2007-06-09

I've read all four of the John Corey novels in the last two months. This ranks at the bottom, but is still about a 7.0 out of 10. For me, Lion's Game is top of the heap, followed pretty closely by Plum Island, then Night Fall.

I have liked Corey in the novels, but the most dramatic changes have occurred in his superior/wife/partner Kate Mayfield. She's become more jaded and Corey-esque in the Post-9/11 world. She used to be a nice "straight man" to his antics but now is creeping toward his female alter-ego.

Bain Madox is a decent villain but not nearly as well-done as the antagonists in the first two Corey novels. DeMille has a tendency to go into long narratives which can bog down his books in a major way. But I always learn something, so there is some redeeming value in the ramblings. And it all pays off in the end.

It was a fun read, like a good season of "24" on television. DeMille can definitely write a page turner. But how many times is he going to tell that "moderate Arab" joke?

Fundamental Accounting Principles w/2003 Krispy Kreme AR, TTCD, NetTutor, OLC w/PW

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Accounting Book
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Fundamental Accounting Principles w/2003 Krispy Kreme AR, TTCD, NetTutor, OLC w/PW
Kermit D. Larson , John J Wild , and Barbara Chiappetta
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Comprehensively revised, Fundamental Accounting Principles uses the 2003 annual report of Krispy Kreme to help make accounting concepts and precepts both interesting and understandable. NetTutor provides you with live, personalized assistance via the Internet, while the accompanying Topic Tackler CD features video clips, slide shows, and more for two key topics within each chapter.

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Accounting Book.......2006-02-23

Not all of the information is updated that I thought could have been updated from the last edition.

Easy to follow and gives good examples.

Wow...What'll They Think of Next?.......2005-10-29

This book is great. Use the online resources! My professor is old school and made no mention of those resources. Had I not taken the time to figure them out and make use of them, I may not have passed the class. The narrated PowerPoint's were particularly helpful.

Best accounting book ever........2005-09-15

This book has helped me so much over the past year. Great book.

Missing part of it.......2005-09-08

There was supposed to be a CD, and a work book with this product. I can totally understand why the work book was not there but there is no excuse for the CD.

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Into the Wild
A young elitist fool plays footsie with nature and ends up dead
Decent book, but kind of meandering...
Well enough for what it is...
I'll read anything by Krakauer

Into the Wild
Jon Krakauer
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Release Date: 1997-01-20

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"God, he was a smart kid..." So why did Christopher McCandless trade a bright future--a college education, material comfort, uncommon ability and charm--for death by starvation in an abandoned bus in the woods of Alaska? This is the question that Jon Krakauer's book tries to answer. While it doesn't—cannot—answer the question with certainty, Into the Wild does shed considerable light along the way. Not only about McCandless's "Alaskan odyssey," but also the forces that drive people to drop out of society and test themselves in other ways. Krakauer quotes Wallace Stegner's writing on a young man who similarly disappeared in the Utah desert in the 1930s: "At 18, in a dream, he saw himself ... wandering through the romantic waste places of the world. No man with any of the juices of boyhood in him has forgotten those dreams." Into the Wild shows that McCandless, while extreme, was hardly unique; the author makes the hermit into one of us, something McCandless himself could never pull off. By book's end, McCandless isn't merely a newspaper clipping, but a sympathetic, oddly magnetic personality. Whether he was "a courageous idealist, or a reckless idiot," you won't soon forget Christopher McCandless.

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In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter.  How McCandless came to die is the unforgettable story of Into the Wild.

Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir.  In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his  cash.  He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and , unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented.  Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away.  Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild.

Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life.  Admitting an interst that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the dries and desires that propelled McCandless.  Digging deeply, he takes an inherently compelling mystery and unravels the larger riddles it holds: the profound pull of the American wilderness on our imagination; the allure of high-risk activities to young men of a certain cast of mind; the complex, charged bond between fathers and sons.

When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris.  He is said  to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity , and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding--and not an ounce of sentimentality. Mesmerizing, heartbreaking, Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

Customer Reviews:

Into the Wild.......2007-06-26

John Krakauer's novel "Into the Wild" is both a chronicle of the life and time's of American college grad turned Luddite drifter Chris McCandless, and a reflection on people whose somewhat anti-society type views lead them to embrace exploring the outer limits of Nature's dangerous boundaries. Krakauer's own experience climbing in the rugged terrain of the North, as well as accounts of various other people shown in the book is a visage which shows that many, many people who have been there are forever changed from their experience of it, and most long to return. I myself can personally attest to this, having worked there on a fishing boat and gotten the opportunity to experience hiking and exploring some of the mountain ranges within its interior. It truly feels like you are in another world, and although that world is wrought with a beauty and frontier mystique like no other, it is also a world that can present challenges so great that one might not overcome them in the end.

Krakauer chronicles the adventure of Chris McCaddless, a college graduate who for years has his eyes set on a goal of both personal and spiritual definition as well as outcasting himself from the very society he often loathes. Although the text on the front of this book already spells Chris's fate, the harrowing, chancy and sometimes exhilarating journey that took him there is not lost on this reader. As the saying goes, life is a journey not a destination, and for Chris it is the friendships he accrues as well as the things he learns within himself that make his story so memorable.

There is a time that you may feel this book wavers from Chris as the author tends to veer off for a couple chapters about his own Alaska adventure. This I felt, was still good because the author does a good job of showing his own insight into some of the things that led Chris to hitchhike the American landscape and eventually get to his dream of reaching the Alaska wilderness and live in the wild. He draws several parallels with regards to others who have had a similar adventure, whether it be an old expedition or a hike or climb in recent times. The author also presents a plausible answer to what might have been Chris's demise that somewhat debunks his original theory that presented itself in what first brought him to and his adventure's end, which was an article he wrote in Outdoor magazine.

There are many who are critical of Chris and feel perhaps that he was out of his element when living in the wild, and some of those outlooks are presented as well. The book also chronicles his final days that were spent around his campsite area, which was an abandoned bus left from a halted mining operation decades earlier. Journal entries as well as noted passages in books by Louis L'amour and Leo Tolstoy are also presented throughout the book, coupled with passages from Thoreau and others as well. Whether his story is told through etching on a leather belt, through this book or through the ghosts that linger on the Stampede Trail, I find his story to be an intriguing one. It still amazes me, however how many people are so judgmental of Chris and his decisions. They say you should never judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes, but from what I can tell from people often times ignorant and cynical approach to their own life, most people could not have filled his shoes in the first place. Chris did not do the things he did that led him to Alaska to die, he did them to live.

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." -Mark Twain

A young elitist fool plays footsie with nature and ends up dead.......2007-06-22

Please...enough with the gushing reviews, this book doesn't deserve them. I'll admit it is well written, but in the end, an empty experience. This is a book about searching for revelation, instead of actually having one. It is typical of the over thought, overwrought, self-searching school of writing that has become the center of the publishing business of late. The writer obviously nurses a strong fascination with the "wild" but only as something to be overcome, to challenge oneself against. He also appears to think the only noble or worthy death is one dealt by "nature." There is a strong vein of arrogance toward nature in this stance, one that is hard to stomach. The narrative itself tries to shoehorn meaning from the act of a confused elitist child who thought the wild was just something to overcome in his march toward dominating the world. Read The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic by Edward Beauclerk Maurice, for a book about what it really means to be a man among nature.

Decent book, but kind of meandering... .......2007-05-28

This is worth the read if you are into the outdoors and/or like true stories. The first half of the book traces events leading up to Chris'(AKA Alex)travels prior to his fateful trip through the Alaskan wilderness. You can see that Alex was challenging fate many times by making many mistakes along the way. Was it youth, was it a death-wish? I think he just thought what alot of people think... that bad things happen to other people, but it's not going to happen to me. If you read this book and then read Deep Survial (I read them in reverse) then you will see how misfortunes like Alex's occur.

If you are into the outdoors and participate in extreme sports, I also suggest you also try Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales. Touching the Void is also good (I only saw the DVD though and have not read the book it was based on).

Well enough for what it is..........2007-05-25

This book is a great way to kill time at an airport, bus station, or insurance seminar. It is essentially an extended magazine article, sweatily manipulated in order to get to the Cibola of two-hundred pages. Krakauer is a decent writer, with a decent vocabulary (despite misusing the word "enormity" to mean "vastness"), and a spiritual kinship with Chris McCandless, the silly man whose naivete, idealism, and, let's face it, pretension, led to his starvation.

Ironically, you won't find "meaning" here...but you will find a page-turning, entertaining little book.

I'll read anything by Krakauer.......2007-05-19

You know the ending at the beginning; Krakauer does not hide how the story turns out. Still, you can't help but hope that Chris is going to get it together and make it through. Krakauer pieces together the young man's story with empathy, producing a character you grudgingly admire for his uncompromising standards. You think about Chris for a long time after you've put the book down.

The Way of the Wild Heart: A Map for the Masculine Journey

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Unfinished Men
Willing to risk offending in order to stay true to what he believes is God's purpose and design for biblical manhood
Heartful Writing for Men and Parents of Boys
Wild at Heart II
Great followed up to Wild at Heart

The Way of the Wild Heart: A Map for the Masculine Journey
John Eldredge
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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I can fix it. I don't need directions. I can figure this out on my own. These thoughts that erupt from a man's bravado, from his deep urge to be a real man. Yet underneath this, there is a louder voice countering, You can't. You're not capable. You're weak. Many men-possibly all men-face two looming questions at some point in their life. What does it mean to be a man, and am I one?

The Way of the Wild Heart reaches out to "unfinished men" trying to understand and live their role as men and fathers. Exploring six biblically based stages, John Eldredge initiates men into a new understanding and ownership of their manhood and equips them to effectively lead their sons to manhood.

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Unfinished Men.......2007-06-27

This book and workbook is an essential tool for men growing up as sons and fathers of sons. It explains some rights of passage that men require, but few ever receive to become mature men. It talks about how to pass off these rights to your sons one on one, or as a group of men mentoring young men and boys. It helps you look back on your own life and identify those men who mentored you (or maybe didn't) as you grew to maturity. It helps me whose growth through the different stages of life has been stunted or stopped because there wasn't a mentoring male influence. It shows the need and guides men of all ages through satisfying that need from either your father or other male influences in your life. The book points out that even though well meaning, a single mother cannot provide certain key elements that all boys and young men can only receive from other men. The book is very insightful and thought provoking and will help men of all ages. I am 61 and still learning a lot from this book and workbook.

Willing to risk offending in order to stay true to what he believes is God's purpose and design for biblical manhood.......2007-06-06

John Eldredge has made it his mission to assist men in discovering a Christ-honoring, biblical roadmap to living out manhood as designed by God. Eldredge, author of the bestselling WILD AT HEART, now presents a companion title (with an optional workbook) on equipping men and their sons for the challenges of living in a technological, post-modern society. He cautions readers that this book is a map and as such "...is a guide, not a formula. It offers freedom." So saying, Eldredge highly recommends stepping back and reading WILD AT HEART first, as this new text builds upon the precepts offered in the earlier volume.

Eldredge opens this new book with a frustrating account of feeling totally inadequate at fixing his sprinkler system. Even with written instructions and an online video for some measure of guidelines, he confesses that it's not enough. He realizes he needs another guy to help him, and he's "hacked off" because he can't do it himself. Eldredge comments that men frequently face that sudden terror of recognizing that they're being called upon to "play the man" and yet have no idea how to go about it successfully. And, asserts Eldredge, life is constantly pressing the message that there is "no room for error," so a man better get it right. He calls this the "unfinished man syndrome," or the fatherless condition so many men know far too much about. This is why Eldredge hungers to lead other men in the way of "bestowing" masculinity upon their sons before it's too late.

In a six-stage, sometimes overlapping, pilgrimage, Eldredge lays out the masculine journey as he sees it: Boyhood to Cowboy to Warrior to Lover to King to Sage, all within a typical 80-year life span (or thereabouts). According to Eldredge, each stage must have its allotted time for learning appropriate life lessons so that the man grows deep in his foundations; otherwise, the scarring of an underdeveloped soul might result and assert itself when strength is most required.

In his chapter on raising the Cowboy, he expounds upon the strength of adventure, allowing it, encouraging it and experiencing it. Christian men and boys need something "epic" for which to fight, something beyond themselves worth giving their lives for with abandon. Eldredge is all for offering initiation opportunities that mold and invite males into a fellowship of men where commonality, hard work and deep soul sharing can flourish. No matter how differing the circumstances may be, living intentionally is key, writes Eldredge, for much is at stake.

As is true with his other works, brief discussions of worthy films, books, poems and music are referenced as additional sensory life markers. And, as always, Eldredge writes from the heart, shooting straight with his reading audience and willing to risk offending in order to stay true to what he believes is God's purpose and design for biblical manhood.

--- Reviewed by Michele Howe

Heartful Writing for Men and Parents of Boys.......2007-03-30

John Eldredge writes from the depths of his rich spiritual well to speak to the heart of men. Eldredge conveys meaningful insights about the stages he perceives men going through in healthy life transitions. He labels the stages as: "Beloved Son," "Cowboy," "Warrior," "King," and "Sage." These stages seemed right on for men. He writes about each one and follows the theme of the stages throughout the book.

Eldredge's writing appears more mature and refined with each new book he writes, as does his precision in targeting the experiences of men. This book offers myriad insights into the soul of men.

Eldredge continues his fascination with certain movies and books that speak to him about men and relates many tales of adventure in the great outdoors. In both cases, he succeeds in emphasizing the points he is trying to make using these tools and tales.

Some readers may weary of the emphasis on "manly" things like climbing mountains, guns, hunting, fishing, and blowing stuff up. I think Eldredge uses these to make good points but also has come to an understanding that not all men share these passions.

God has blessed Eldredge with a quiver of sons, and he shares his experiences with fatherhood. The lessons learned from him in this book make it valuable reading for parents of boys. I recommend it to mothers of boys because it will share with you ways to help your son be all the things God has designed him to become.

Wild at Heart II.......2007-03-27

Having read the first half of the book, I was starting to think it was more of an in-depth work book of 'Wild at Heart'. But then I started learning new things that made the whole book worth while reading.

It only takes one paragraph from a book like this to help a man bring parts of his life into perspective that he has been struggling with. 'Wild at Heart' did this for me and now 'The Way of the Wild Heart' has also enlightened me on certain subjects that I was not getting answers on from elsewhere.

Thank-you John Eldredge for stepping out and publishing a very personal book like this. I know your books have touched many a man's heart, and have also shown them what it takes to raise their son's to become men of God.

I would urge you to overlook the negative reviews of this book. I really don't think the negative reviewers understand what the author is trying to get across. This book is not the definite guide book to being a man, nor does the author want you to feel that way. Even though he heavily explores an important aspect of being a man, he does not leave out the other ones. In fact he does a good job of covering all the different aspects that the negative reviewers are saying he rejects!

The readers are not only shown how to implement what is shown in this book into their lives, but into their sons lives.

I would encourage all men, religious or non-religious, fathers or not, to read this book.

Great followed up to Wild at Heart.......2007-03-09

My husband loves this book and shares some of the insights with me almost daily. Not everything may be relevant to every man, but every man will get something relevant out of the book. John Eldredge desires to help men know themselves better and live life the way they were designed to live it. He is a Christian, but any man will benefit from reading "Wild at Heart" and "The Way of the Wild Heart".

SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea

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Camping must have
Second one I bought.
Amazing!!!
SAS
Ok for the price

SAS Survival Handbook: How to Survive in the Wild, in Any Climate, on Land or at Sea
John Lofty Wiseman
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ASIN: 0060578793
Release Date: 2004-03-02

Book Description

The SAS Survival Handbook is the Special Air Service's complete course in being prepared for any type of emergency. John 'Lofty' Wiseman presents real strategies for surviving in any type of situation, from accidents and escape procedures, including chemical and nuclear to successfully adapting to various climates (polar, tropical, desert), to identifying edible plants and creating fire. The book is extremely practical and is illustrated throughout with easy-to-understand line art and diagrams.

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Camping must have.......2007-06-12

If you like to travel off the beaten path, you should take this book with you. From interesting things to look for on a day hike, to ways to survive in any climate, and location this book is a must have. Hunting, gathering, shelter, fire, and first-aid. Things you must know to survive in the wilderness.

Second one I bought. .......2007-06-12

I sent my first one to my mom, this is a great book for anyone interested in anything outdoors. Particularly Scouts. Some of those idiots on Survior need to read this. Damn fine man book.

Amazing!!!.......2007-06-09

I had to look for a book to improve my knowledge about outdoors activities like camping, hiking and survival skills. This book is THE book to have in hand. It is very comprehensive, have a lot of details, and it's written by a guy that really had to use the methods and tips described in the book.

Probably the book goes a lot far in survival skills for a lot of us (like surviving to an atomic accident) but no one knows when it will come handy to know what to do in those cases. Like having a water shortage in your house for a week could lead you to know some survival skills to "create" water from the elements.

The book is well written as well as very comprehensive. I don't recommend this book to newbies because it describe a lot of techniques that require a minimum of knowledge.

I can't wait to test my learning this summer!
Thanks Lofty!

SAS .......2007-06-01

John "Lofty" Wiseman, Ex SAS, if you ever wanted someone who knew what he was talking about, this is the man. The book is full of info for literally every point and circumbstance on the planet. It is a book that you will use, demolish while using it and you will buy another copy because you used this one too much. The only regret I have of this book (and why I give it 4 stars) is not the content but the book itself. It is not sturdy enough. The content itself is a mini library to survival around the globe. You're a serious survivalist or camper? This book should be yours.

Ok for the price.......2007-05-23

This book had a lot of information that was useful in survival. Some of it takes a lot of practice in a safe setting, like a backyard, before you try to rely on it. Using the bow drill for fire making is an art and the hardest workout I ever had. There is a lot of technique on it that wasn't covered in the book that will make or break it. It makes me wonder how much other stuff I don't know is like that in this book.

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excellent desk reference
Immunoassay Experts

The Immunoassay Handbook, Third Edition

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Book Description

Immunoassays are biochemical tests that rely on antibodies (a special type of protein) to bind to specific molecular structures (antigens). They have become the most commercially successful technology in diagnostics, from home pregnancy testing kits to AIDS testing.
Highly illustrated and clearly written, The Immunoassay Handbook provides an excellent guide to this fast-growing industry.

Revised and updated, this third edition offers a balanced review of practical information and clinical applications in the field of immunoassay technology.

Comprehensive and expertly written, The Immunoassay Handbook will be invaluable for a wide range of users from researchers developing immunoassay systems to developmental and marketing staff who need an excellent overview of how immunoassay principles, systems and applications work.

With 68 chapters covering a wide range of topics, and new chapters looking at: surface plasmon resonance in kinetic, concentration and
binding site analyses, and the foundations of immunochemistry, this handbook is a must read for all laboratory researchers and academics who
use immunoassay as a tool including: pathologists, clinical and veterinary chemists, biochemists, students and researchers in immunology,
biochemistry and medicine.

* This third edition contains updated and new information on advanced technology, including micro- and nanoscale immunoassays.
* Provides a unique mix of practical information coupled with a review of clinical applications, and practical examples
* Include contributions from world experts including Robert Ritchie and Professor Colin Self.

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excellent desk reference.......2001-06-13

This book was obviously written by scientists actually working in the field and allows the reader to gain from the writers' actual experiences in development, application and trouble-shooting of various assays. This book will serve as an excellent teaching tool for lab managers to train their staff in the complexity of developing, optimizing and using immunoassays.

Immunoassay Experts.......2000-06-21

If you need any help with the latest technology of immunoassay, this is teh book for you. It answered all of my questions and even allowed me to finish my project weeks in advance.

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CP Estes: Women Who Run With Wolves
Women Who Run With The Wolves
A book that should resurface again and again as great feminist lit
My favorite book - my favorite author.
Running with the Wolves

Women Who Run with the Wolves
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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Women Who Run With the Wolves

ASIN: 0345409876
Release Date: 1996-11-27

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UPDATED, WITH NEW MATERIAL BY THE AUTHOR"WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows."--Alice WalkerWithin every woman there lives a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. She is the Wild Woman, who represents the instinctual nature of women. But she is an endangered species. In WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES, Dr. Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, and stories, many from her own family, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature. Through the stories and commentaries in this remarkable book, we retrieve, examine, love, and understand the Wild Woman and hold her against our deep psyches as one who is both magic and medicine. Dr. Estés has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul."This volume reminds us that we are nature for all our sophistication, that we are still wild, and the recovery of that vitality will itself set us right in the world."--Thomas Moore Author of Care of the Soul"I am grateful to WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES and to Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The work shows the reader how glorious it is to be daring, to be caring, and to be women. Everyone who can read should read this book."--Maya Angelou"An inspiring book, the 'vitamins for the soul' [for] women who are cut off from their intuitive nature."--San Francisco Chronicle"Stands out from the pack . . . A joy and sparkle in [the] prose . . . This book will become a bible for women interested in doing deep work. . . . It is a road map of all the pitfalls, those familiar and those horrifically unexpected, that a woman encounters on the way back to her instinctual self. Wolves . . . is a gift."--Los Angeles Times"A mesmerizing voice . . . Dramatic storytelling she learned at the knees of her [immigrant] aunts."--Newsweek

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CP Estes: Women Who Run With Wolves.......2007-05-20

This is prolly the best book I have ever read. Brings me to tears, has me laughing, and everything in between. VERY good for women and men, as what she touches on relates to both sexes, although she focuses on women. Excellent book.

Women Who Run With The Wolves.......2007-05-14

I love this book. Great for any woman struggling to know and feel comfortable with the real self living in her skin. Great to know you're OK!

A book that should resurface again and again as great feminist lit.......2007-05-11

Each time I move and pare down my bookshelves, I immediately set aside as untouchable those books without which my personal library would be less rich. "Women Who Run with the Wolves" is one such book. I pick it up in good times and bad ones, and I'm always grateful for the experience.

My favorite book - my favorite author. .......2007-04-16

I first read this book 10 years ago with a group of women who met weekly, and I continue to refer to it often as a reminder of the insights that are recounted so well through the amazing storytelling talents of Clarissa Pinkola Estes. She has a way of speaking directly to my soul through her words and thoughtful analysis. A beautiful, life changing book!

Running with the Wolves.......2007-03-13

Every women should read this book ! Very insightful, extraordinary 21 century take on Hans Christian Andersen.

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Sweet Fun Story
Classic Children's Story
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A Must-Have

Where the Wild Things Are

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Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it's been too long since you've attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder.

The wild things--with their mismatched parts and giant eyes--manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they're downright hilarious. Sendak's defiantly run-on sentences--one of his trademarks--lend the perfect touch of stream of consciousness to the tale, which floats between the land of dreams and a child's imagination.

This Sendak classic is more fun than you've ever had in a wolf suit, and it manages to reaffirm the notion that there's no place like home.

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The 1964 Caldecott Medal Winner for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year by Maurice Sendak. Brian O'Doherty of The New York Times said the Mr. Sendak's work "disguised in fantasy, springs from his earliest self, from the vagrant child that lurks in the heart of all of us."

Customer Reviews:

Sweet Fun Story.......2007-06-19

A magical story with a little bit of lesson built into it. The best part is saying the fun-to-pronounce words and looking at the detailed pictures.

Classic Children's Story.......2007-06-13

I don't know why, but kids LOVE this book. My daughter and step children have me read a few books to them every night before bed, and this has become the book we always include.

I loved it..........2007-06-13

as a kid. The pictures take me back. I still love this book, but the writing is very remedial and the pacing is poor. Regardless I'd recommend it to anyone for the creativity it spawns.

A classic.......2007-05-25

Such a classic book. I love the illustrations and the short story format.

A Must-Have.......2007-05-25

If you are a good parent you must get a copy of "Where The Wild Things Are". This is a story of a very bad boy's day of imaginative roll playing and final acceptance of his place in the real world. I love reading it to my children and watching as their little faces lit up in recognition of adventures they had endured during their own periods of bad behavior... Check it out and get it for your little "darlings". Another MUST HAVE for your children is the series Why Some Cats are Rascals ( Book 3) by Nowiki. Very captivating and touching stories showing the world with cats eyes. Other great titles: A Giraffe and a Half, Dragon Rider,
Why Some Cats are Rascals, Book 1, Why Some Cats are Rascals, Book 2

Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul

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Excellent Resource
Wild at Heart
A whole new perspective
wild at heart
Most Powerful Book Next To the Bible!

Wild at Heart Field Manual: A Personal Guide to Discover the Secret of Your Masculine Soul
John Eldredge
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The Way of the Wild Heart: A Map for the Masculine Journey

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Book Description

Abandoning the format of workbooks-as-you-know-them, the Wild at Heart Field Manual takes men on a journey through which John Eldredge encourages them to be dangerous. Simply look at the dreams and desires written in the heart of every boy: To be a hero, to be a warrior, to live a life of adventure and risk. Sadly, most men abandon those dreams and desires, aided by a Christianity that feels like nothing more than pressure to be a "nice guy." It is no wonder that many men avoid church, and those who go are often passive and bored to death. In this provocative book, Eldredge gives men permission to be what God designed them to be -- dangerous, passionate, alive, and free. This book is filled with questions, exercises, journaling ideas, and guided exploration of the arts that will lead men on a journey to discover the masculine heart that God gave them.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Resource.......2007-01-28

This is the field manual for the book Wild At Heart. Mine is very worn from having been worked through 4 times. This is a great resource if you are working through Wild At Heart, either by yourself or in a group. It will help you really examine and work through the book.

This workbook is well laid out with lots of room for answers, and a number of little sections to help you on your journey as you work through it. Some of these supplemental sections are:
· A Break in the Clouds
· From the Map
· Warning!
· Dispatch
· Getting Your Bearings

Each chapter which parallels the book, begins with a 'Gut Reaction' - what is your first take on that chapter in the book? This helps set the bearings for where you will go in that chapter. As you work through it you will be drawn deeper and deeper into the masculine journey.

Eldredge begins each chapter with quotes that span church history and denominations. He must be one of the most widely read men I have encountered. He draws from that breadth of knowledge to show a variety of views on topics and tries to help you see where God is wanting to work in your life.

The one drawback, if you use it in conjunction with the DVD curriculum, is that the DVD does not follow the book exactly, and with 12 chapters in the book and field manual that follow each other exactly, and 8 in the DVD, it doesn't seem weighted evenly.

The Field Manual is indispensable if you are going to work through the DVDs and is a great supplement to the original book. For you, or other men in your life, this book will be a great tool on your journey to authentic Christian manhood.

Wild at Heart.......2006-03-11

it was a great support of the book, Wild at Heart. It took the book into a deeper level.

A whole new perspective.......2006-01-31

This book answered many questions I have had for years: about myself, about the church; about Christianity. It launched me on a search for these things that has been very enlightening. I highly recommend getting the Field Guide to Wild at Heart which will help make the things in the book a very personal experience.
Pure theolgists and members of churchs that think they have the only way will probably be very upset by this book. For those who want to open their minds and hearts, it is an unforgetable journey.

wild at heart.......2005-10-07

I have not finished this book as I am writing this. I can say the first 40 pages are worth the purchase price. Eldredge really seems to know how a man is to relate to Jesus. Its fairly obvious he enjoys a healthy relationship with our risen savior Jesus--and shows that we all can. Read it......if you dare.

Most Powerful Book Next To the Bible!.......2005-10-04

Wild at Heart is a must read for any man. Especially for the fathers. It is the most powerful book I have read and used next to the Bible. I taught a men's group on the book at a church and now have set up a men's study group at work. Fathers, you owe it to your sons, no matter what their age, to read this book and be honest with yourself.

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