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Hints on Household Taste: The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration (Dover Architecture)
Restore your old Victorian era home to what it could have been like when it was first built.
Hints on Household Taste: The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration (Dover Architecture)
This book is extremely helpful in my search for proper design of this period. The service of the dealer was excellent.
Hints on Household Taste: The Classic Handbook of Victorian Interior Decoration (Dover Architecture)
It was nothing like I thought it would be. If I had an opportunity to see inside the book I wouldn't have bought it.Maria Gray
The Quest for Authentic Power: Getting Past Manipulation, Control, and Self Limiting Beliefs
When I first read this book in the Soring of 2002, I likened it to opening a window and filling my lungs with fresh air. I saw patterns, limits, stumbling blocks I had known and experienced as old style power and could detach from those power sources, even if they came from others.New possibilities, strengths and creative solutions followed with a new found intentionality for choices made. In 2003 I am convinced the book is invaluable for leadership in volunteerism, and work, and for personal life changes. Now I am pulling the book's ideas forward again to help do some difficult staff training and development.This is not a long book, but an important read for new perspectives.M.J. Franklin, Volunteer Leader, Adult Educator, Grandparent and Spouse.
The Quest for Authentic Power: Getting Past Manipulation, Control, and Self Limiting Beliefs
Authentic power comes from within, but such power is best demonstrated as personal strength and not a desire to impose one's will on others. The Quest For Authentic Power by G. Ross Lawford adroitly blends psychology, theology and business theory to outline a new view of power and how to achieve it - without manipulation.
The Quest for Authentic Power: Getting Past Manipulation, Control, and Self Limiting Beliefs
The author defines 'Authentic Power' as "the power to consistently obtain what we truly desire" (which is in itself a somewhat question begging definition, but strongly reminiscent of what Senge and others call 'personal mastery'). The book falls most closely into the growing field of books concerned with personal development, with a business audience in mind. It provides a useful review of mental models of power and how they shape our reality and a guide to building power and exercising power through self-empowerment.Though useful, it does not in my opinion replace Hillman: Kinds of Power: Guides to its Intelligent Uses. (1995)