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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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THIS 30 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Men Who Have Walked With God, by Sheldon Cheney. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564592685. ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:CONVERSATIONSFIRST CONVERSATIONThe first time I saw Brother Lawrence was upon the 3i of August, 1666. He told me that God had done him a singular favor in his conversion at the age of eighteen.That in the winter, seeing a tree stripped of its leaves, and considering that within a little time the leaves would be renewed, and after that the flowers and fruit appear, he received a high view of the providence and power of God, which has never since been effaced from his soul. That this view had perfectly set him loose from the world, and kindled in him such a love for God that he could not tell whether it had increased during the more than forty years he had lived since.That he had been footman to M. Fieubert, the treasurer, and that he was a great awkward fellow who broke everything.That he had desired to be received into a monastery, thinking that he would there be made to smart for his awkwardness and the faults he should commit, and sohe should sacrifice to God his life, with its pleasures; but that God had disappointed him, he having met with nothing but satisfaction in that state.That we should establish ourselves in a sense of God's presence by continually conversing with Him. That it was a shameful thing to quit His conversation to think of trifles and fooleries.That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of God ; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.That we ought to quicken—i.e., to enliven—our faith. That it was lamentable we had so little; and that instead of taking faith for the rule of their conduct, men amused themselves with trivial devotions, which changed daily. That the way of faith was the spirit of the church, and that it was sufficient to bring us to a high degree of perfection.That we ought... ... Read more

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Green hardcover with gold trim and printing. Includes two author's works: With Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray - Murray's chapters are short, concise, and he fills your heart with a hunger for God's presence. While his writing style may be dated and his language archaic at times, Murray's passion for prayer shines through. He truly takes you to the school of prayer and leads you before the throne of Almighty God.If you love to pray, struggle with prayer, or want to learn the secrets of the saints of old who spread God's truth without technology but their voices and their Bibles then read Andrew Murray's classic works on prayer. The Practice of the Presence of God by Brother Lawrence - This remarkable collection of the thoughts of a 17th-century Carmelite friar records the simple wisdom of a man who constantly felt God's companionship. ... Read more

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Amazing.
This book is such a tremendous resource for ANYONE who wants to grow in their understanding and practice of Biblical prayer. I think that ANY Christian who reads this book can benefit greatly from its contents. I highly recommend it.

Excellent spiritual material
Andrew Murray was a South African minister who wrote numerous books in 1890s and early 1900s.They have been translated from Dutch to English many years ago (thank the Lord!) and published for 100 years...AND FOR GOOD REASONS:They are great, scriptural, from/to the heart studies.Easy reading and great lessons.

Brother Lawrence's book is a Christian Classic as well.A lot of good material, but not as practical for me as Murray's. ... Read more

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“To me, as a multi-decade, veteran Lehman investment banker, the breathtaking death of my firm appeared impossible as little as three days ahead of the bankruptcy filing.Not only did I consider our “master of the universe” firm invincible, but, like my colleagues, when it became clear we were in deep trouble, it was unfathomable that the US government could misstep so foolishly as to let any bulge bracket investment bank simply fail.The worst case seemed to be the Bear Stearns route.”
For the first time, Joe Tibman pulls back the kimono to share intriguing information and detail about Lehman Brothers and the economic meltdown that has never before been revealed:
• How Lehman Brothers almost went under 10 years earlier but was, in a lucky turn of events, rescued from the brink of disaster when the U.S. government bailed out Mexico before it defaulted on billions of dollars in bonds?
• How, in the most detailed and intimate account of Lehman after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack, when the firm and its people were ripped from their home, Fuld’s “One Firm” strategy finally took root, sweeping away the vestiges of internal war inside Lehman’s own halls, turning tragedy to triumph for a newly united firm where survival and success meant much more than a payday?
• What role did Paulson play?Cox?Bernanke? Greenspan?Geithner?Clinton? Phil Gramm?Congress? Summers?
• What role did George W. Bush and his posse play in creating conditions that toppled the financial markets?
• Could the current crisis have been averted?Read how SEC Inspector General David Kotz shouted to all who would listen that lawyers and a financial firm interfered and lost an opportunity to potentially head-off the crisis.
• How much does Congress really understand about the financial markets?How did PBFS – Post-Bailout Fatigue Syndrome – fuel the murder of Lehman and the resultant crumbling of the financial markets?
• No reporter has ever been able to uncover why the rating agencies rated subprime securities so high.These agencies have never come clean with a clear statement on this issue.They just fired subprime analysts.For the first time in this book, Tibman discloses the key facts behind the subprime rating disaster.

The author worked in finance, both in commercial and investment banking for decades.For most of his career he was employed by the now bankrupt Lehman Brothers, where, over the years, as a senior investment banker, he held several positions. Like many Lehman colleagues, he holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from two highly regarded, elite universities.
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An Unmitigated Disaster
This is a terrible book. It is badly written, badly edited -- if, indeed, it was edited at all -- and endlessly repetitive. The author was not a member of Lehman's senior management and thus was not privy to its deliberations. As a result, there is virtually nothing new in this book; it is simply a (bad) regurgitation of previously published information.

Reading this book was, quite literally, a struggle and I almost gave up several times. It reminded me of watching a bad movie on late-night TV. You know you should cut your losses and go to bed, but you persevere, convinced that nothing could be this bad, that there must be some redeeming features, somewhere. Not in this book, they're aren't.

Save your money and spend it on any of several alternatives. If you would like a really well written general account of the meltdown, you can't do better than I.O.U. by John Lanchester (250 pages). Too Big To Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin (600 pages) is equally well written and goes into much more detail. It is a prodigious piece of research.

Lehman's Story Told by an Employee far from from the Action
The Murder of Lehman Brothers is the story of Lehman's rise and fall as told by one of the company's partners in Investment Banking. The tragedy of the death of a company that the writer undeniably loved and a finance career that was foreshortened by the 2007-2008 credit crisis is described in detail.

The strategic failures of Lehman Brothers that led to the bankruptcy of the company were not caused by Lehman's Investment Bankers. Lehman's failure was caused by its over exposure to the mortgage market and a too large real estate investment portfolio. Combined with high leverage and a US credit crisis and Lehman Brothers faced a storm of its own making. Unfortunately for readers the inner workings of the Lehman Operating Committee are outside the realm of this author's experience and thus the book leaves readers with more questions than it provides answers.

This can be characterized as a personal story of loss and corporate disillusionment. It is not an inside story of Lehman Brother's Executive suite.

One of the worst books I've ever read.
It was verbal vomitus that was poorly written with no evidence of either editing or proofreading. It read as if the author had simply narrated his stream of consciousness into a tape recorder and had it transcribed and published without any review, editing or proofreading. It seemed as if he used the phrase "drank the Kool-Aid" at least once on every page. The author appeared to be enamored of adjectives and adverbs which he used extravagantly. As a result, his purple prose was painful to read. There were a few interesting nuggests, but it wasn't worth reading 250+ pages to find them. It was just awful!

The Murder of Lehman Brothers
If you've not yet overdosed on the demise of the Lehman Brothers Investment Bank, this may appeal to you. Although it's an insider's take on the course of events, the book's focus comes from a senior investment banker's perspective rather than that of an equities trader as in //A Colossal Failure of Common Sense//. "Joseph Tibman" makes clear that his choice of anonymity is intended to allow for the possibility of his future employment in the investment banking industry.

Tibman strives to convey the impact that the single-minded focus of the Lehman upper management team had on long-time employees like himself. He describes his emotional scars with awkward phrasing and a generous dose of profanity. The writing suffers from a lack of editing. While he does an excellent job of describing the valiant spirit exhibited by Lehman employees after 9/11, this sense of urgency and focus is missing from the rest of the book. In contrast, Lawrence McDonald's narrative in //Colossal Failure// placed the reader in the action. Tibman's anonymity sacrifices an opportunity for the reader to feel empathy and engagement with the writer. This book feels like a weak second-hand account.

Uninspiring.

Reviewed by Ruta Arellano

Superficial and disappointing
This book is poorly written, repetitive, superficial, and laced with needless profanity and F-words.The prose resembles a high school student's writing, and I am surprised others rate it highly.

The only merits are the descriptions of Lehman Brothers' history, investment bankers' obsession with annual bonuses, and the anxiety inside a dying firm. If you're interested in a banker's opinion of how lawmakers and regulators should avoid future bubbles and melt-downs, forget it.

This book is really just water cooler gossip interspaced with chronological headlines.Most of the author's opinions about what CEO Fuld and other executives were thinking are sourced from staff meetings, management announcements to employees, and some hearsay.In other words, the author was an ordinary employee without first hand knowledge of management's thinking.

I hoped to learn why Masters of the Universe were so confident in subprime lending/securitization, why their trusted models failed, and why this premier bank botched its asset valuations so badly a fatal run ensued.The author repeatedly mentions short sellers, but never explains what short sellers saw that made them confident to risk their capital to bet against Lehman, while the author himself admits ignorance of Lehman's balance sheet.The author makes, but fails to explain, an amazing assertion that Lehman bought a quantity of Alt-A mortgages in 2008. Obviously, it was a mistake to buy Alt-A mortgages 18 months after the subprime melt-down commenced: but what were they thinking?Was Lehman buying "safe" senior tranches it considered oversold and undervalued? Sadly, the author cannot answer such questions because he never worked in the departments that created "toxic" assets, and he probably does not know the difference in a Super Senior tranche and an IO Strip. (Read James Grant's "Mr. Market Miscalculates" if you want to know how and why the melt-down happened). Instead of explaining why investment banks trusted their models and made catastrophic blunders, the author merely recites the worn out cliché "we drank the Kool-Aid" at least 100 times.Even the politicians know that much.
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Originally published by Dujarie Press in 1961, this is a 2009 reprint by The Neumann Press. ... Read more

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An excellent way to be living our lives to believe and act as if we are in the Presence of God at all times, which we truly are for God is everywhere. Read by Protestants and Catholics alike, this is sure to inspire you and hopefully help you practice of being in the Presence of God.

Excerpt: Although death has carried off last year
many of the Order of the Carmelites
Dechausses brethren who have left in dying
rare legacies of lives of virtue, Providence, it
would seem, has desired that the eyes of men
should be cast chiefly on Brother Lawrence,
and has made his death the occasion of
showing forth the merit of this holy man, who
all his life had studied to avoid the gaze of
men, and whose saintliness is only fully seen
now that he is dead.

Several persons having seen a copy of one
of his letters, have desired to see more; and
to meet this wish, care has been taken to
collect as many as possible of those which
Brother Lawrence wrote with his own hand.

These letters are so edifying, so rich in
unction, and have been found so full of delight
by those who have had the joy of reading
them, that the first readers have desired not
to be alone in profiting by them. It is at
their wish that the letters have been printed, for
they judge that these writings will prove very
useful to souls who are pressing forward to
perfection by the Practice of the Presence of
GOD.

All Christians will find herein much that is
edifying. Those in the thick of the great
world will learn from these letters how greatly
they deceive themselves, seeking for peace
and joy in the false glitter of the things that
are seen, yet temporal: those who are seeking
the Highest Good will gain from this book
strength to persevere in the practice of
virtue. All, whatever their life-work, will find
profit, for they will sec herein a brother,
busied as they are in outward affairs, who in
the midst of the most exacting occupations,
has learnt so well to accord action with con-
templation, that for the space of more than
forty years he hardly ever turned from the
Presence of GOD. ... Read more

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Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 - May 12, 1963) was an American Protestant pastor,
preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker, and spiritual mentor. For his work, he received two honorary doctorate degrees. Hailing from a tiny farming community in western Pennsylvania, his conversion was as a teenager in Akron, Ohio. While on his way home from work at a tire company, he overheard a street preacher say:
"If you don't know how to be saved... just call on God." Upon returning home, he climbed into the attic and heeded the preacher’s advice. In 1919, five years after his conversion, and without formal theological training, Tozer accepted an offer to pastor his first church. This began 44 years of ministry, associated with the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA), a Protestant evangelical denomination; 33 of those years were served as a pastor in a number of churches. His first pastorate was in a small storefront church in Nutter Fort, West Virginia.

Tozer also served as pastor for 30 years at Southside Alliance Church, in Chicago (1928 to 1959), and the final years of his life were spent as pastor of Avenue Road Church, in Toronto, Canada. In observing contemporary Christian living, he felt that the church was on a dangerous course toward compromising with "worldly" concerns.

Living a simple and non-materialistic lifestyle, he and his wife, Ada Cecelia Pfautz, never owned a car, preferring bus and train travel. Even after becoming a well-known Christian author, Tozer signed away much of his royalties to those who were in need. Tozer had seven children, six boys and one girl. He was buried in Ellet Cemetery, Akron, Ohio, with a
simple epitaph marking his grave: "A. W. Tozer - A Man of God."

Prayer was of vital personal importance for Tozer. "His preaching as well as his writings were but extensions of his prayer life," comments his biographer, James L. Snyder, in the book, In Pursuit of God: The Life Of A.W. Tozer. "He had the ability to make his listeners face themselves in the light of what God was saying to them."


Brother Lawrence (1614 - 12 February 1691) was a lay brother in a Carmelite monastery, who is today most commonly remembered for the closeness of his relationship to God as recorded in the classic Christian text, The Practice of the Presence of God.

Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman in Hériménil, near Lunéville in the region of Lorraine, located in modern day eastern France. He received a revelation of the providence and power of God at the age of 18, but it would be another six years before he joined the Discalced Carmelite Priory in Paris. In this intervening period he fought in the Thirty Years' War and later served as a valet. Nicholas entered the priory in Paris as a lay brother, not having the education necessary to become a cleric, and took the religious name, "Lawrence of the Resurrection". He spent almost all of the rest of his life within the walls of the priory, working in the kitchen for most of his life and as a repairer of sandals in his later years. Yet despite, or perhaps because of, his somewhat lowly position, his character attracted many to him. He was known for his profound peace and many came to seek spiritual guidance from him. The wisdom that he passed on to them, in conversations and in letters, would later become the basis for the book, The Practice of the Presence of God.

C.M. Sheldon - (1857-1946), American Congregational minister and social reformer
Charles Monroe Sheldon was born on February 26, 1857, at Wellsville, New York. In the fall of 1896 the sermon story was entitled "In His Steps." It was a tale of a group of committed Christians who resolved to ask themselves whenever they had hard decisions to make, "What would Jesus do"" Their dedication led them to avoid the easy choices, instead opting for difficult but spiritually rewarding projects in service of others. ... Read more

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In this first full-length joint biography, the author traces the careers of the first British administrators of the Punjab. Their disagreements led to Henry's removal to Rajasthan and Lucknow, and subsequent death during the Great Revolt of 1857, while John stayed on to become Viceroy. ... Read more

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THE MISSING BALL GLOVE
IRONIC AND FUNNY (AN I CAN READ)READER.OLDER IS USUALLY BETTER. IT'S CUTE AND IT'S ANOTHER GOOD BOY BOOK. THESE OLDER BOOKS ARE JUST BETTER FOR THE OLD FASHIONED FAMILIES AND MOST HOMESCHOOLERS THAT I KNOW. THE MYSTERY WAS SOLVED, BY THE WAY. ... Read more