Conducting a Successful Capital Campaign: The New, Revised and Expanded Edition of the Leading Guide to Planning and Implementing a Capital Campaign

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"This book is highly recommended for development professionals, as well as board members and administrators who believe that a few million can easily be raised by development personnel in their spare time."--National Society of Fund Raising Executives Journal on the 1st edition

Conducting a Successful Capital Campaign has been the definitive resource on capital campaigns for a decade. Now, in the long-awaited second edition of the best-selling guide, Kent Dove offers an updated and expanded blueprint for planning and managing a successful capital campaign. He not only gives authoritative guidance to every aspect of a capital campaign but also provides new discussions on such important topics as linking strategic planning to fundraising, conducting external market surveys, defining leadership roles, establishing a campaign and solicitation process, and more. Other enhancements include:

A dramatically expanded resource section that includes samples of a strategic plan, market surveys, case statements, financial reports, pledge forms, newsletters, program brochures, a complete volunteer kit, and a post-campaign evaluation
New chapters on technology in fundraising, leadership gifts, and developing lasting relationships with donors
Updated examples and real-world lessons from diverse organizations that have conducted their own capital campaigns
The Dove Preparedness Index (DPI), a unique measurement tool that helps organizations simply and accurately assess their readiness to embark on a capital campaign
The new Continuous Lifetime Giving Program Model, including an analytical and segmented marketing approach to its implementation
A modernized version of the 80/20 rule, addressing the size and number of gifts that are needed to conduct a successful capital campaign

Packed with checklists, formulas, and tables, Conducting a Successful Capital Campaign is sure to make difference in your capital campaign.

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Solid Basics, a must for any Board.......2007-08-09

This book provides the fundamental outline to a successful Capital Campaign. It is not a how-to and will clearly state that a seasoned professional consultant should still be considered a vital part of any effort. But, short of that, any Board of Directors should have this book as a guide to understanding the depth of their own responsibilities, how to manage a consultant, the seriousness of the effort and planning ongoing giving programs. I did not give it a 5 only because it does not spell out oversite structures for committees. William

A must have resource for a Capital Campaign.......2007-03-21

I had a copy of the first edition of this excellent book but when I enbarked on a new Capital Campaign I bought the new edition. It is a book which anyone - experience and otherwise - must have if you have to venture into capital campaigning.

Even if you been there and done that, it is excellent as a check to see if you're on track.

The updated version has looked at Capital Campaigns in the light of the changing world of philanthrophy.

In Australia, our Capital Camapigns may not be as large as some in USA but never the less are run in just the same way.

A must have reference and the best one out there as far as I'm concerned.

Capital Campaign bible..........2006-09-21

Kent Dove's book is the bible for how to do capital fund raising. I have been asked as a development officer and consultant to do it other ways, and his is the ONLY way that works. I'm buying the updated book with joy that it has been published.

The Best Guide for Plannind Major Gift Campaigns.......2005-07-21

In the short time I've had this book, I've used it extensivly to plan a forthcoming $25 million campaign in a college within a university. After 15 years of experience in major gift fund raising, I've finally found the book that includes ALMOST everything we need to launch a very successful effort. I deeply appreciate Mr. Dove's efforts to update his work and provide this useful guide.

Useful but disappointing.......2002-11-30

Although there is useful information in this book, I found it disappointing compared with the recommendations that I read.

Part 1, which is about 200 pages, is the text of the book and covers planning and implementing your campaign. Part 2 which is about 300 pages is a collection of about 35 sample documents.

I found the text, which included chapters by other authors, rambling and verbose, giving lists of functions and lists of alternatives without reaching conclusions. I skimmed this part and found little worth reading carefully. (In contrast, I just read Tony Poderis concise and excellent "Its A Great Day to Fundraise" from cover to cover.) The author attempts an academic approach, with unhelpful citations. Examples of somewhat useful items were an outline of a case statement and examples of gift charts.

Particularly weak was a chapter entitled "Technology in Fundraising" which claimed that it was about the single most important support factor in fundraising. We learn that we need a broad team to select this technology; that we need to attend user groups of the system we are considering; that we need to meet current users; that we need to test the system at our site; that the system should be easy to support; that to install the system we need leadership, time, funding, involvement, communication, expertise, testing, training, defined reports, standards, process, etc.; and on and on and on with more generalities. We are NOT told what it is reasonable to expect such a system to do, what features have proved useful, or any other specific information that someone who had actually used such a system might provided.

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Larry McMurtry, in books like The Last Picture Show, has depicted the modern degeneration of the myth of the American West. The subject of Lonesome Dove, cowboys herding cattle on a great trail-drive, seems like the very stuff of that cliched myth, but McMurtry bravely tackles the task of creating meaningful literature out of it. At first the novel seems the kind of anti-mythic, anti-heroic story one might expect: the main protagonists are a drunken and inarticulate pair of former Texas Rangers turned horse rustlers. Yet when the trail begins, the story picks up an energy and a drive that makes heroes of these men. Their mission may be historically insignificant, or pointless--McMurtry is smart enough to address both possibilities--but there is an undoubted valor in their lives. The result is a historically aware, intelligent, romantic novel of the mythic west that won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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Bestselling winner of the 1986 Pulitzer Prize, Lonesome Dove is an American classic. First published in 1985, Larry McMurtry's epic novel combined flawless writing with a storyline and setting that gripped the popular imagination, and ultimately resulted in a series of four novels and an Emmy-winning television miniseries. Now, with an introduction by the author, Lonesome Dove is reprinted in an S&S Classic Edition.

Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, the author of Terms of Endearment, is his long-awaited masterpiece, the major novel at last of the American West as it really was.

A love story, an adventure, an American epic, Lonesome Dove embraces all the West -- legend and fact, heroes and outlaws, whores and ladies, Indians and settiers -- in a novel that recreates the central American experience, the most enduring of our national myths.

Set in the late nineteenth century, Lonesome Dove is the story of a cattle drive from Texas to Montana -- and much more. It is a drive that represents for everybody involved not only a daring, even a foolhardy, adventure, but a part of the American Dream -- the attempt to carve out of the last remaining wilderness a new life.

Augustus McCrae and W. F. Call are former Texas Rangers, partners and friends who have shared hardship and danger together without ever quite understanding (or wanting to understand) each other's deepest emotions. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no patience for weaknesses, and not many of his own. He is obsessed with the dream of creating his own empire, and with the need to conceal a secret sorrow of his own. The two men could hardly be more different, but both are tough, redoubtable fighters who have learned to count on each other, if nothing else.

Call's dream not only drags Gus along in its wake, but draws in a vast cast of characters:

-- Lorena, the whore with the proverbial heart of gold, whom Gus (and almost everyone else) loves, and who survives one of the most terrifying experiences any woman could have...

-- Elmira, the restless, reluctant wife of a small-time Arkansas sheriff, who runs away from the security of marriage to become part of the great Western adventure...

-- Blue Duck, the sinister Indian renegade, one of the most frightening villains in American fiction, whose steely capacity for cruelty affects the lives of everyone in the book...

-- Newt, the young cowboy for whom the long and dangerous journey from Texas to Montana is in fact a search for his own identity...

-- Jake, the dashing, womanizing exRanger, a comrade-in-arms of Gus and Call, whose weakness leads him to an unexpected fate...

-- July Johnson, husband of Elmira, whose love for her draws him out of his secure life into the wilderness, and turns him into a kind of hero...

Lonesome Dove sweeps from the Rio Grande (where Gus and Call acquire the cattle for their long drive by raiding the Mexicans) to the Montana highlands (where they find themselves besieged by the last, defiant remnants of an older West).

It is an epic of love, heroism, loyalty, honor, and betrayal -- faultlessly written, unfailingly dramatic. Lonesome Dove is the novel about the West that American literature -- and the American reader -- has long been waiting for.

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Absolutely magnificent.......2007-09-10

A phenomenal achievement, Lonesome Dove could well be considered the Great American Novel. Part road trip, part character study, this amazing novel should be on everyone's reading list!

Mr. McMurtry has succeeded admirably in creating a cast of characters that any writer could be proud of, and especially of absolutely nailing a complex relationship between the two principle characters. In August McCrae and Captain Woodrow Call, McMurtry has gifted us with two of the best and most complete characters ever written, let alone loosed upon the Western landscape. Add to them a host of other rich characters, and an understanding of the trials and dangers of a complete north-to-south transverse of America, and you've got Lonesome Dove.

Desperately moving, though often humorous, this is American writing at its very best. Despite its length, it's a quick read. That's probably true because, as other reviewers here have said, once you begin this beautiful book it will accompany you everywhere you go until it's finished.

Perfect!!!.......2007-09-09

Reading this book is was one of the best experiences of my life. Truely it soaks into your soul and becomes a part of who you are. Its is something that you never forget. How it made you feel. Each of the characters and how you still pull for them despite their fictional exsistance. Physically it has its effect on you as well. Especially since you have to put it down to wipe your eyes many times through out. Read! Experience! Enjoy!

New Favorite.......2007-09-05

My husband read this some 16-17 years ago and told me I should read it one day. Well, I just read it and Lonesome Dove is now one of my top 5 favorite books ever. I absolutely loved it. It was truly sad at the end, all those characters were with me for those wonderful days of reading and now I'm done. I'll just have to read it again....

One of great masterpieces of our time.......2007-07-30

I read this book about 15 years ago, and I never read another western since. Nothing can measure up to this masterpiece. Even though it started out slowly and I almost gave it up, I stayed with it and I am so glad that I did. This is a true classic.

Stunning!.......2007-07-15

I found this book a little slow at the start but I'm glad I persevered. This is a magnificent novel. One of the best I've read in years.

Conducting a Successful Fundraising Program: A Comprehensive Guide and Resource

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Comprehensive, Intelligent and Very Helpful
Current, creative, thorough

Conducting a Successful Fundraising Program: A Comprehensive Guide and Resource
Kent Dove
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ASIN: 0787953520

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The complete resource for fundraisers in any nonprofit organization!

Conducting a Successful Fundraising Program outlines a unique approach to successful fundraising and features an exhaustive resource section that includes actual organization publications, direct mail samples, model case statements, telemarketing scripts, special events check-lists, and more. This all-in-one resource covers all the traditional elements of fundraising--including annual giving, major gifts and planned giving, corporate and foundation relations, prospect research and management, and fundraising literature and promotions--as well as current issues such as gift administration, technology, and the use of consultants and paid solicitors in the solicitation process. Dove identifies the ten prerequisites that predict success in fundraising and then leads the reader step-by-step through every phase of the fundraising process, and provides specific advice on the elements crucial to any program's success.

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Comprehensive, Intelligent and Very Helpful.......2006-11-04

Dove's text surpasses the two other books I've read on fundraising in numerous ways. He provides a thorough, well-organized approach to fundraising in general and with extensive attention both to the various types of campaigns and to the many components that make up a successful program. Furthermore, Dove cites countless sources of research and practitioner experience, so that his admonitions about what to do and how to do it have a clear rationale and empirical evidence undergirding them. While I'm sure I'll continue to read other texts to delve deeper into details, I can't imagine I'll need to read another overview in the near future, because Dove's work has completely met that need for me.

Current, creative, thorough.......2004-12-30

A comprehensive resource guide to the many variables of nonprofit fundraising campaigns and events. Well-researched; well-written. Especially helpful was the resource section, which provided actual templates and word-for-word scripts -- very applicable.

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This book inspired me to go around the world...
Lone Sailor
Moving, motivating, and inspirational
Good to read this story again after so many years.
Not bad

Dove
Robin L. Graham
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ASIN: 0060920475

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In 1965, 16-year-old Robin Lee Graham began a solo around-the-world voyage from San Pedro, California, in a 24-foot sloop. Five years and 33,000 miles later, he returned to home port with a wife and daughter and enough extraordinary experiences to fill this bestselling book, Dove.

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This book inspired me to go around the world..........2007-08-09

My father gave me this book when I was 16 and I loved it. Totally inspired me to travel. I asked my father for his boat when I finished the book but helas he didn't hand it over! He did however buy me a ticket around the world at 22yrs old and I spent a year and a half traveling around the world alone... London to London west. While I didn't sail, it was still an amazing trip, an incredible education and now back at work now saving for my boat. :-)

Lone Sailor.......2006-10-30

Get ready for an adventure, because in DOVE, Robin Lee Graham
Will take you into the life of a young man who in his little boat
That he will use to sail around the world.

This goy was outgoing, and set out to look for
adventure and love. Little did he know, this boy from San Pedro,
California, was about to make history. He will have to make many
Sacrifices, which for a while was bad.

Many people doubted him, but Robin was serious about
this trip. He also had many people supporting him. This lone
Sailor will face many obstacles at sea.

Follow Robin to places like Tahiti, Ala Wia, Hawaii,
Tutila, Apia, Tonga Islands, Florida Islands, South Africa ect.

So grab your gear, because in this trip, you will discover
The good, the bad and the better of sailing.

So come on, you can experience the unforgettable true
Life story of Robin Lee Graham only when you read DOVE.

Moving, motivating, and inspirational.......2006-08-21

If you are looking for an example of courage to follow, this is it. I can think of no better account of what a single human spirit is capable of.

Good to read this story again after so many years........2006-05-09

I first read Robin Lee Graham's account as it was printed in installments in National Geographic at the time of his voyage more than three decades ago. I was a few years younger than he, and fascinated by the narrative and photos of his exploits.
It was very good to find this book recently and revisit his story. This book is of course an expanded account, a lengthier chronicle of his voyage. Also a more frank account; in those days, journalism observed proprieties, and Robin's relationship with Patti was portrayed by National Geographic as more G-rated than it was. (Not that the book is explicit -- Robin simply makes it clear that he and Patti lived together for periods during his journey, and considered themselves to be married before they had an official wedding ceremony).
The book ends with Robin's account of the newlyweds, with young daughter in tow, moving to the woods of Montana to live a "simpler life". I must confess that the cynic in me was certain that they must have run into reality at some point and separated. But I was pleasantly surprised to find some articles on the web that indicated they are still married, with their two children grown and gone, and still living in Montana. In fact, I sugggest you go to Google Images and search for "robin patti graham". You will find a photo, taken just a few years ago, of a grey-bearded but smiling Robin Lee Graham, and beside him Patti -- who, despite being middle-aged, retains the blonde good looks that attracted Robin to her when they met in Tahiti about 40 years ago. There is a passage in this book where Patti asks Robin if he will still love her when she's 64. This photo provides a wonderful postscript to that passage.

Not bad.......2006-02-23

Any book that someone writes about sailing around the world can't be bad. I thought it was a pretty good story but not the best. Later in his life he moves to the middle of the North American continent & is nowhere near the ocean. I think he doesn't love the ocean like most other circumnavigator's. That said it is still an incredible journey for someone so young to undertake. A better book is Maiden Voyage, by Tania Aebi.

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Epic, Classic, A True Romantic Tale... for ALL ages
WAAAAY BEYOND 5 STARS!
Somewhat disappointed
5 Stars BUT be warned...
This is a definite classic...worth more than five stars

The Wolf and the Dove
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
Manufacturer: Avon
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ASIN: 0380007789
Release Date: 2007-08-28

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When the Normans invade and sweep across Saxon England in 1066, lovely Aislinn of Darkenwald watches her father murdered outside her home. Wulfgar, the Iron Wolf of Normandy, arrives to rule Darkenwald, and one look at Aislinn leads him to claim her as his own. She hates the Norman conquering forces, but Wulfgar awakens a consuming passion in her that she can't deny. As she struggles with her growing love for Wulfgar, she does what she can to aid her conquered people and her bereaved mother. But a jealous lord conspires with Wulfgar's spoiled half-sister and Aislinn's very life is threatened before Wulfgar can admit that the woman he conquered has in truth, conquered his heart. This beloved historical romance deserves a special place on the shelves of millions of romance readers and shouldn't be missed.

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The Wolf

Noble Aislinn grieves as the Iron Wolf and his minions storm through her beloved Darkenwald. And she burns with malice for the handsome Norman savage who would enslave her. . .even as she aches to know the rapture of the conqueror's kiss.

The Dove

For the first time ever, mighty Wulfgar has been vanquished--and by a bold and beautiful princess of Saxon blood. He must have the chaste, sensuous enchantress who is sworn to his destruction. And he will risk life itself to nurture with tender passion a glorious union born in the blistering heat of hatred and war.

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Aislinn, the Saxon princess known as the Dove, burns with fury as Wulfgar storms through her beloved kingdom. But the Wolf isn't just satisfied with the Dove's land: he must have her as well. She has sworn his destruction...even as she aches to know the rapture of the conqueror's kiss. The Wolf. Noble Aislinn grieves as the Iron Wolf and his minions storm through her beloved Darkenwald. And she burns with malice for the handsome Norman savage who would enslave her...even as she aches to know the rapture of the conqueror's kiss. The Dove. For the first time ever, mighty Wulfgar has been vanquished--and by a bold and beautiful princess of Saxon blood. He must have the chaste, sensuous enchantress who is sworn to his destruction. And he will risk life itself to nurture with tender passion a glorious union born in the blistering heat of hatred and war.

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Epic, Classic, A True Romantic Tale... for ALL ages.......2007-06-13

Only thing I'd like to add, that I havn't seen ppl mention in few pages worth of reviews are:

Unlike the love scenes that are written these days, this book has none of that.. you'll see something like... hero is kissing, caressing the heroine, 2 sentences later " he has his way with her"... and thats it, hehe, or the chapter ends there... very G rated and tame for what most romance readers are used to. On the good side though, if you're a mother who wants to introduce romance novels to a young teenager this book would be perfectly OK. No kinky language/sex here ( personally I wished to see passion btw H/H, but I think we're just spoiled by media, Keep in mind this book was written in the 70s)....

Another factor to keep in mind, this is one LONG arse book! This author is amazing, truly a "romantic writer", her books are always thorough, vividly detailed about everything ( minus love scenes ), and I mean every single scene comes to mind when you read it. She truly does have way with words. Some may, if you're impatient say she's too wordy, sometimes I find it so. Nevertheless, I found this story well told, loved the plot( read other reviewers for plot )...

... best way to describe this book is to say, "its just charming".

WAAAAY BEYOND 5 STARS!.......2007-02-23

I've had this book for a very long time and have read it several times. I never dreamed it would be so good when I picked it up the first time and for me, it was the definitive page turner.

One of my greatest pleasures was to recommend "The Wolf and the Dove" to a friend who had never heard of Kathleen Woodiwiss. She has thanked me many times over for turning her on to this author. She told me she was supposed to be preparing dinner but her husband found her sitting at the kitchen table reading and he could not believe his eyes! Ha.

I have read many of Kathleen's books but the only keepers for me were
"The Flame and the Flower," "The Wolf and the Dove" and "Shanna." These three are SUPERB historical romances and have been read many times by me.

Somewhat disappointed.......2006-11-18

I'm actually okay with most of the novel. Yes, she's longwinded, and I pretty much skim most of her passages. 700+ pages is far too long for most novels, particularly of the bodice-ripping romance category.

*spoiler* For me, though, the biggest disappointment was at the end, with "Maida's Confession." Maida's confession took away all the humanity I had been feelin for these people. Wulfgar had made a very hard decision to accept Bryce as his own, and Aislinn had survived a great blow, making them both much stronger characters. As romantic as it might be for someone to think that a woman will give her love to only one man, whether voluntarily or otherwise, it doesn't always happen, and she can (gasp!) find true love with someone, even if she isn't a virgin when she meets him (or her). Besides-seriously? It is so implausible that Aislinn could not figure out that she hadn't been raped? If not directly after her night with Ragnor, certainly after Wulfgar had his time with her, she'd be able to figure out that something had been amiss on that first night. I think that particularly since she was engaged at the time, her mother would have been teaching her wifely duties and preparing her for the wedding night. She would have known at least in part what to expect. *end spoiler*

The main thing that I like in this novel above the others is that there are men that Aislinn comes in contact with who are not willing to rape her. It seems like Brandon and Ruark from The Flame and the Flower and Shanna, respectively, were forever trying to save Heather and Shanna from rape, and it got very old very fast. At least Aislinn was able to, say, walk into a public house without someone trying to kidnap her or get her alone and have his wicked way with her.

5 Stars BUT be warned..........2006-11-18

I LOVE Kathleen Woodiwiss' books but like most of them (except for A Rose in Winter), they are WAY too long. Like The Flame and the Flower, a lot happens in the beginning and then there are PAGES AND PAGES of the hero and heroine taking baths together and telling each other how gorgeous each other is. Fortunately, Kathleen Woodiwiss creates interesting characters and a setting that sweeps you away to another time and place and that is wonderful; it's what I love about her books. I just wish sometimes she would pick up the pace a bit. Also, Aislinn is a delightful heroine, but to we have to hear CONSTANTLY how beautiful she is? We get it, Kathleen: Aislinn is GORGEOUS, thanks!

I can never say anything too negative how KW's books however. I almost cried when it was over...maybe it was because at 500+ pages I never thought I would finish it. But it is worth the time...no one writes like her anymore and her books should be cherished and read again and again.

This is a definite classic...worth more than five stars.......2006-08-24

This is NOT a fast read. If you are tempted to skim through the story, you'll miss the richness of it and there is so much to this splendid tale. I can't say enough about how great it is. The writing is unsurpassed with just the right amount of detail to draw a perfect picture of the time period, each scene, each character, etc., but not too much as to be tedious. Its prose is just perfect and even the dialogue is fitting for the time period and not cheesy at all. The pace is just right, and the characters are memorable and enigmatic with many plot lines interweaving to make this a truly great tale to sink yourself into. I could not put it down.

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Navajo culture
Mourning Dove
Change of pace
Please, Once is Enough
Mourning Dove

Mourning Dove (Ella Clah)
Aimee Thurlo , and David Thurlo
Manufacturer: Forge Books
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ASIN: 0765350351

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What did the dead man know?

Jimmy Blacksheep, a Navajo member of the New Mexico National Guard recently returned from Iraq, is killed in what appears to be a carjacking gone wrong. But when Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah receives a mysterious package in the mail, she begins to suspect that Jimmy’s death is part of something larger.

Ella finds she must use Navajo lore, not FBI cryptography, to decode Jimmy’s message. Tantalizing clues link Jimmy’s death to his military service—but what could the medic have seen in Iraq that would make him a target for murder back home?

Ella’s personal life seems just as complicated as her case. Her mother, Rose Destea, marries her long-time beau, Herman Cloud. Then the father of Ella’s daughter, Dawn, asks for a change in custody arrangements that will reduce Ella to a weekend mother—a much easier fit with her workload but something that will take a terrible toll on her heart.

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Navajo culture.......2007-05-14

Well paced mystery as usual with the Thurlos. I like that they sprinkle in bits & pieces of Navajo culture into the story. The end of the mystery of the death of the soldier did not turn out as I thought it would. What happens with Ella's romance? I guess I will have to purchase the next book to find out.

Mourning Dove.......2007-04-10

This is another great mystery in the Ella Clah Series. I've read all the books in the series and enjoyed every one of them. I can hardly wait to get my hands on the next installment, (Turquoise Girl). I would recommend these books to all mystery lovers!

Change of pace.......2006-09-23

I've read most of the Ella Clah books by Aimee Thurlo. They're nice to read, different from the usual Raymond Chandler type detective. This gives a lot of details about Native American life. You could find that in a history book, but I'd rather read a novel, than a text book. I also like/read the Tony Hillerman books.

Please, Once is Enough.......2006-08-29

I found the book repetitive and boring. We were told many things over and over again. And the set up for the romance with the Reverand is nothing if not ridiculous. Not interested in reading any more of these for sure.

Mourning Dove.......2006-07-24

Another great book by Aimee Thurlo. Can't wait for her next Ella Clah mystery.

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Mary's book is awesome!
Some good points.
A rare treasure wrapped in simplicity
Terrific, Fast-Paced, Inspirational
Intriguing

The Sign of the Dove
MaryRose Occhino
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ASIN: 0425207315

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In this illuminating book, psychic MaryRose Occhino offers insights into deciphering psychic signs. As she explains, everyone is given messages; all one needs to do is recognize them, understand synchronicity and coincidence-and surrender to it. She also stresses the importance of dreams, revealing what one can learn from them, and the best ways to make them come true-whether it's choosing the right life partner or the right job, or finding one's true purpose in life. Just read the signs. In this illuminating, inspiring, and powerful book, MaryRose Occhino explains how.

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Mary's book is awesome!.......2007-07-22

This is a must-read if you are a fan of Mary's Sirius program or anyone interested in an easy to read, enlightening autobiography.
She writes in a manner that sounds like she is telling a story directly to the reader.
I will read this book again and recommend it to anyone that is interested in the read-life stories of a psychic.

Some good points........2007-05-29

I just finished reading Sign of the Dove and I have to say, it was a little hard to get through. There was some good advice such as the part about not giving up when looking for a job. However, I became so frustrated and depressed looking for signs in this matter. It made me crazy after a while wondering "is this a sign" "is that a sign" and in fact I "thought" I had several signs leading to a job I had applied for. It was located on the name of the same street I grew up on, the morning of the interview I pulled my ring out of my jewelry box and attached to it was an old pair of earings (from the 80's Valley Girl era that I held on to) that said the words "for sure" on them. Seems like quite a sign doesnt it. Also when I was arriving at my interview I kept seeing a yellow and black bird near me. All seem like signs???? Needless to say I did not get the job. I decided to stop making myself crazy looking for signs and just go forward and seek a job. I feel alot less stressed and let down now. Also, it amazed me that she was so shocked about her figurine playing music on it's own. I have had this happen to me a couple of times and even though I myself am not a psychic medium I smiled, thanked the spirit world, then went about my business. Why was this so shocking to her? Otherwise she seems like a nice lady and probably is right, I just can't seem to get the signs for myself. Anyway, I did finish the book so thanks for some good advice.

A rare treasure wrapped in simplicity.......2007-05-09

Ms Occhino, unlike bestselling novelists who would seem to follow the polls for every idea, is a person who has been there. She writes from the experience up, not from the fashion down. She is not ashamed to embrace simplicity if that is the path to a greater truth, and she 'gets it right' because she has learned the method of her spirits. It is refreshing to step aside from the wired, the sensational, the falsely complex, the misleading. This book is a blessing, and one can only thank Ms Occhino for having lived it.

Hello from Heaven: A New Field of Research-After-Death Communication Confirms That Life and Love Are Eternal

Terrific, Fast-Paced, Inspirational.......2006-09-22

MaryRose Occhino is an amazing woman. She has come through great adversity to become a leading psychic medium. In this book, she describes incidents in her life, both personal and professional, that have been influenced by intuitional and "otherworldly" messages, synchronicities, gut feelings, what-have-you, that have been common in her family's history, but accelerated and took prominence in her own experience when she developed multiple sclerosis. She believes the MS lesions on her brain did something to enhance her natural gifts.

This book, which is well-written, is full of episodes in Mary's life, in which she was influenced and guided by psychic forces. Mary asserts that if we pay close attention to the nudges and intuitional sense we have, it will never fail us. She takes pains to caution that things just do not happen for us, though. We have to work hard, and exercise free will to manifest the choices we are presented with through intuitional guidance.

Her account of her father's surgery and hospitalization was gripping and moving.

This book is not for everyone, of course; no book of metaphysics and psychic exploration is. But, for those who have had their own experiences, and look for others who can help explain them, this book is very helpful. For those who require scientific "proof," one might consider reading Gary Schwartz's "The Afterlife Experiments," where psychic mediums, including Mary, were tested under rigorous scientific protocols, such as double-blind experiments, and achieved astounding results. There are other such books, but that is a good one to start with.

I recommend The Sign of the Dove as a reader-friendly, stimulating book on the subject of psychic phenomena.

Intriguing.......2006-03-19

Mary Rose Occhino is such a fantastic life coach in addition to being a gifted psychic intuitive. Her book gives realistic, down to earth advice which makes one aware of their own inherent gifts and talents. This book is easy to read, uplifting and guaranteed to make you more aware of signs present in your life every day.

Dove Descending: A Journey into T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets (Sapientia Classics)

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Dove Descending: A Journey into T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets (Sapientia Classics)
Thomas Howard
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Throughout the world, many consider T.S. Eliot to be the most important and influential poet of the 20th century, and Four Quartets to be his finest poem and greatest literary achievement. Dove Descending is a journey into the beauties and depths of Eliot's masterpiece written by Thomas Howard, bestselling author, professor and critic. In this line-by-line commentary, Howard unravels the complexities of the sublime poem with such adept adroitness that even its most difficult passages spring to life. During his many years as a professor of English and Literature, Howard taught this poem often, and developed what he calls "a reading" approach to its concepts that render their meaning more lucid for the reader. Dove Descending reunites the brilliant insights of a master teacher whose understanding and love of Eliot's writings are shared here for the great benefit of the reader. "T.S. Eliot's greatest poem deserves the finest exposition. Few critics alive today are equal to the task. Thomas Howard is one of those gifted few. Lovers of Eliot will delight in Howard's understanding of the mysterious descending of the dove."

—Joseph Pearce

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The Negative Way.......2006-04-13

This is the first book I've found in the "Sapientia Classics" imprint from Ignatius Press (sapientia means wisdom), although at least one other title, Shakespeare the Papist is also out. T.S. Eliot, widely regarded as a (perhaps "the") modernist poet, was an anglo-Catholic. The anglo part has gotten much commentary; here the Catholic side comes into play.

Thomas Howard has essentially written a companion for Eliot's poetry cycle, "The Four Quartets," designed to be read alongside the poem(s)so one needs a copy of the poem to read along with this book. But many readers also find Howard daunting because of his large vocabulary (see On Being Catholic or Chance or the Dance), so one may also want a dictionary handy. Neither Howard's book nor Eliot's poem(s) are as hard to understand as George William Rutler's introduction, however, which is filled with brilliant insights and bon mots but--wink wink--assumes we have a lot of inside information on all things modernist and Eliotelian.

Thankfully Howard doesn't do that; rather he draws us in by drawing out the poem(s), which he finds is (are) about what Charles Williams called the via negativa or the negative way. You can find it in The Cloud of Unknowing or St. John of the Cross' dark night of the soul (an experience post-modernists readily relate to), but Howard finds it most of all in C.S. Lewis' friend and fellow Inkling, Charles Williams.

That's rather natural since Eliot and Williams were friends and Eliot wrote an introduction to Williams' novel, All Hallows Eve. Howard, who refers to Williams here and there throughout this book also authored The Novels of Charles Williams and took the book's title from Williams' The Descent of the Dove: A History of the Holy Spirit in the Church. Not that you need to read CW to understand Eliot or Howard, both of whom do a good job explaining and invoking the way of negation. But Williams also wrote of another way, the way of affirmation. Howard proves a faithful guide to both writers so that readers interested in both ways, having closed Dove Descending may move seamlessly to The Novels of Charles Williams.

LOOKING FOR A CHALLENGE?.......2006-03-24

Nothing anybody might say will prepare you for this book, a pilgrimage in itself--and most excellent Lenten reading. Eliot hated footnotes, so that's all I have to say.
Robert Bove
www.RobertBove.net

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DRAWING from the MODERN

Drawing From The Modern
Andre Breton , Paul Gauguin , Georges Bataille , Jodi Hauptman , Hans Bellmer , Constantin Brancusi , Paul Cezanne , Marc Chagall , Giorgio De Chirico , Robert Delaunay , Andre Derain , Arthur Dove , Alexandra Alexandrovna Exter , Arshile Gorky , Juan Gris , Gustav Klimt , Wilfredo Lam , Filippo Marinetti , and Joan Miro
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Release Date: 2004-11-02

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Many of the key achievements in art of the last 125 years have been worked out on paper. From pictorial investigations that expanded the possibilities of vision to the invention of entirely new kinds of media, drawing has been the perfect laboratory for avant-garde experimentation. Drawing from the Modern traces such groundbreaking innovation through the unparalleled holdings of the drawings collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Drawing has historically been understood as a mark or line on paper--the record of a bodily gesture, an inscription of the action of the hand, an expression of the mind. Since the 1880s, however, artists have sought to interrupt these seemingly unbreakable links between mark, hand, and imagination. Defying long-held definitions of drawing and rejecting traditional materials, modern artists invented a host of practices, altering not only the field of drawing but artmaking in general. Examining masterworks from the Museum's collection of nearly 7,000 works on paper in three chronological volumes beginning in the 1880s and continuing through today, Drawing from the Modern reconsider artists' repudiation of traditional drafting methods, assault on the use of the single sheet of paper, and introduction of new materials. Going to the heart of avant-garde innovation, all three volumes showcase new formal strategies, including collage, abstraction, chance, and the integration of text and image, as well as new subject matter, including the urban experience, the body, and identity. Volume I, presented here, spans the period from 1880 to 1940, and includes work by such artists as Jean Arp, Hans Bellmer, Paul Cazanne, Arshile Gorky, Georgia O'Keeffe, Odilon Redon, and Kurt Schwitters. Volume II, available in Spring 2005, will cover 1940 to 1975, and Volume III, available in Fall 2005, will bring us from 1975 to the present day.

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should have been better.......2007-09-13

I purchased book 1 & 2 from Amazon. The illustrations are far too small to be a professionally represented art book from MOMA I've decided to save my money rather than pay out for the 3rd edition. It sounds a good buy from its description but I don't consider this trilogy to be very satisfactory.

Don't waste your money!.......2007-08-09

This is not a good artbook. The images are way too small to be satisfying. This book could have been great, but falls way short of its potential. Don't buy it, you will be disappointed.

DRAWING from the MODERN.......2006-12-27

DRAWING from the MODERN is the first of a three part series published by MOMA as catalogue to accompany the chronologically arranged exhibitions of their drawing collection; in part, celebration of the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of the Museum.

This first book looks at the late nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. Care and preservation of these drawings dictate that they are displayed infrequently, paper being a delicate medium, subject to fading, discoloration and brittleness. The publication of this series then allows us to have at hand a history of drawings seldom seen, and a visual education demonstrating how problems of that era both evolved and worked themselves out.

The introduction by Jodi Hauptman is broad and well worth reading. Aside from her entertaining "end of art" stories, she addresses artists and process leading to the dissolution of prevalent notions: relationship of "mark" to "ground", took new form; spatial notions of an orderly page, questioned; the element of chance, explored as process; the ego relationship of an artist to work, dissolving. New imagery happened: collage, abstraction, grids, enhanced emotions, metaphors of feeling, the sublime re-imaged. New subjects explored brutalities of war, notions of "city", identity, the spiritual, and the abstract.

As perhaps with all process of art, the uncertainty of change brought forth much that is new. The 139 plates of drawings both demonstrate and give testimony by leading artists of the time to new era in process. Drawing as subject matter is fascinating. To be expected, the book is well printed. Of course, what is book one without book two and three?

Nancy Gutrich

Conducting a Successful Major Gifts and Planned Giving Program: A Comprehensive Guide and Resource (Dove on Fund Raising)

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Conducting a Successful Major Gifts and Planned Giving Program: A Comprehensive Guide and Resource (Dove on Fund Raising)
Kent E. Dove , Alan M. Spears , and Thomas W. Herbert
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Conducting a Successful Major Gifts and Planned Giving Program--the fifth volume in the groundbreaking Dove on Fundraising Series--is a complete guide to establishing and sustaining a major gifts and planned giving program in a nonprofit organization. Written by master fundraiser Kent E. Dove and coauthors Alan M. Spears and Thomas W. Herbert, this essential resource includes the information needed to build a viable major gifts and planning giving program and offers a clear understanding of the law as it pertains to a variety of planned giving options.

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