JESUS, INC.: The Visionary Path—An Entrepreneur's Guide to True Success
Laurie Beth Jones, . . Crown, $21 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-609-60717-6
Jones (Jesus, CEO
) believes in conducting business and simultaneously satisfying one's spiritual needs. Biblical and real-life stories advocate religious faith and bestow practical advice. For example, Jones recommends undertaking difficult activities with a fresh approach (she made the most of a tedious seminar by pretending she was a reporter). Past success and an extensive author tour should help win her considerable sales. Agent, Mary Ann Naples.(Apr.)
TEACH YOUR TEAM TO FISH: Using Ancient Wisdom for Inspired Teamwork
Laurie Beth Jones, Ken Blanchard
"When Jesus called out to the fishermen, 'Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men,' he was about to transform each one of them from someone who worked only for himself and a Continue reading »
Jesus, Career Counselor: How to Find (and Keep) Your Perfect Work
Laurie Beth Jones
She taught readers how to be Christians in business. Now Jones, business consultant and author of the bestselling Jesus CEO
, is helping readers find their ideal Continue reading »
Management consultant Jones draws on the leadership techniques of Jesus Christ to provide guidance tips on inspiring and managing others. Continue reading »
Jones, whose books Jesus, Life Coach and Jesus, CEO have sought to infuse spiritual values into the workplace, here offers a derivative journal that takes the four key principles of her Life Coach Continue reading »
Jesus CEO: Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership
Laurie Beth Jones
Jesus was able to motivate his staff of 12, ergo, there is much to be learned from his teachings, stresses California management consultant Jones, whose sentiments as expressed here ring with Continue reading »
The Power of Positive Prophecy: Finding the Hidden Potential in Everyday Life
Laurie Beth Jones
Having popularized her offbeat brand of Christian inspiration with Jesus, CEO and Jesus in Blue Jeans, Jones returns with a notion that nicely coincides with secular interest in intuition and psychic Continue reading »
The Path: Creating Your Mission Statement for Work and for Life
Laurie Beth Jones
Elizabeth Davis's first book, Heart & Hands, is often considered the bible for practicing midwives. Now Davis has teamed up with fellow midwife Carol Leonard to attend to all stages in a woman's Continue reading »
Don’t Build, Rebuild: The Case for Imaginative Reuse in Architecture
Aaron Betsky
“We should not construct new buildings from scratch,” argues architecture critic Betsky (Monster Leviathan) in this eye-opening treatise in favor of “adaptive reuse,” an Continue reading »
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
Richard Munson
“Science, rather than being a sideline, is the through line that integrates [Benjamin] Franklin’s diverse interests,” according to this electrifying portrait of the founding Continue reading »
Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
David Daley
In this disturbing exposé, journalist Daley (Ratf**ked) recounts conservatives’ decades-long plan to undermine the Voting Rights Act and disenfranchise people of color. His Continue reading »
Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
Emily Herring
This scintillating debut depicts Henri Bergson (1859–1941), the Belle Époque philosopher of “flux,” as a countervailing force against turn-of-the-century certainties about Continue reading »