A stirring, revelatory program for rethinking and reorganizing your life.
A step-by-step breakdown of key personal motivators and how they can be combined for individual—perhaps even global—fulfillment.
Campbell’s nonfiction debut is openly spiritual and Christian in its groundings. “[T]here is never a time you are not with God,” he writes. “God is always with you and you know it.” Yet in elaborating on his perspectives of personal responsibility and fulfillment, his approach is not only straightforward but almost entirely nondenominational. “What we are and how we behave affects our family, friends, and acquaintances,” he writes, adding that all of us from presidents to CEOs to street people have the potential to influence thousands of other people in the course of our lives. As he simply puts it, “[W]e shape our world.” Campbell identifies five “core drivers” in the human emotional makeup, and he views the perfecting of these core drivers as the essential ingredient in achieving what he calls “Oneness”—a kind of maximized potential, both individual and collective. Pointing out that “our collective vehicle has stalled,” he’s frank about how far modern society has fallen from any kind of Oneness, but his confidence in human perfectibility remains upbeat throughout the book. “Love is stronger than fear,” he writes, Campbell “joy is more attractive than misery.” In the book’s signature assertion, he says: “[O]ur best at any given time can be astounding.” Campbell compares these humanist declarations with the kind of cutthroat thinking prevalent in today’s business world, that winner-take-all attitude he views as empty posturing. “Deep within and beyond all the threats and bravado,” he believes, “no one is a mean and hard-nosed negotiator.” He returns frequently to accounts of his own personal religious faith, and although he says that “we have a natural connection with God at birth,” he maintains a flexible, fluid approach to personal growth, one that warns against dogmatism of any kind—an attitude that should appeal equally to nonbelievers. His explorations of human potential might be inspired by God, but they don’t require one.
A stirring, revelatory program for rethinking and reorganizing your life.Pub Date: N/A
ISBN: N/A
Page Count: 307
Publisher: Core Driver Press
Review Posted Online: April 7, 2014
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
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The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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