This is one of those rare books by a company founder written with honesty, humor, and the deliberate intent to teach a few important lessons learned by the author.

Before ServiceMaster was a debt-laden NYSE traded company managing its dividend to show ever-increasing results, even as its profits were challenged by "weather" (just like the old Soviet planners' perennial excuse), you had Marion Wade, baseball player and owner of a small moth proofing business that started the whole ServiceMaster empire.

Wade reveals the logical thought process that guided his actions as he segmented his business to include carpet cleaning in the home, and he shares the frustrations he had trying to work with other contractors. The same opportuny he saw to get beyond moth proofing and into carpet cleaning also guided the company when Ken Hansen (whose hiring is described by Wade in this book) guided SM into the management of departmental functions for hospitals, and then any kind of physical plant or service activity--now known as "outsourcing."

The title relates to Wade's Christian faith, which he also did his best to personally model and infuse into his company. Can this company, so many years since Wade has passed on, keep growing and still stay true to this simple faith and the logical business principles set down here? For a clue to the answer, check out CEO Bill Pollard's book "The Soul of the Firm," and keep an eye on the company's financials. As Wade says, if they don't live it, they don't believe it. And as Wade's book shows in eloquent simplicity, if they don't believe it, it's no longer the company he started and inspired.

i made a few teddy bears and still don't have enough. so many great ideas and possibilities and patterns for clothing. i can only recommend it. you will see that teddies are easy to make.

This is a richly rewarding, unforgettable book that will fascinate not only students of Jewish or German history, but anyone interested in modern history in general. Of the book's many virtues, the one I appreciate most is the justice it does to the extraordinary role of German-Jewish women in the development of social welfare and women's rights organizations in pre-1933 Germany. After I read this treasure, I reflected on another book I read entitled Great Jewish Women; unforgivably it profiled Goldie Hawn and Ann Landers but had nary a mention of truly towering figures like Alice Salomon, the founder of modern social work in Germany, and "Soup Kitchen Lina" Morgenstern, whose herculean, selfless and pioneering efforts on behalf of veterans, children and women were all the more admirable given the anti-Semitism of the times. Kaplan's book provides a sorely needed perspective on what really astonishing achievements are all about.

Marion Montgomery is a national treasure. He is consistently the most trenchant critic of literary and philosophical thought at work today.

Gerhart Niemeyer once wrote a piece called (if I remember correctly) "Why Marion Montgomery Has To Ramble", and he does (!) but what delightful places he rambles to.

If you want to see how "Thomism" can be a living philosophy, then you can do no better than begin with Montgomery's writings.

This book is one of those undiscovered treasures that really should have been more popular than it was. A lot of us know that Washington D.C.'s mayor was arrested for crack cocaine, but we really never got the inside story just from reading the papers. Agronsky dug deeper, and presents his findings in such a way that it makes for fascinating reading.

Marion Barry's behavior is presented in a non-judgmental manner, I thought. Indeed, Barry's actions spoke for themselves. We all saw the surveillance tape of Barry smoking the crack pipe, but Agronsky gives us the full story of what went on behind the scenes. Yes, it was disturbing to see the mayor of this country's capital city smoking crack cocaine; however, as Agronsky reveals, Barry at first resisted smoking the crack, because he wanted to lay off the pipe. It was only after a lot of prodding that Barry finally took a few hits.

...Was he set up? Judge for yourself.

To me, it was interesting how nobody was blameless in the whole Barry crack scandal. To be sure, Barry himself was a scumbag. (He went up to the hotel room to cheat on his wife, which itself is bad enough.) But the feds who busted him did not strike me as being much higher in character than Barry.

My only gripe with the book is that it was not long enough. Agronsky relates the story of the sting operation in rich detail, but by the end of the book, he fast-forwards through time, squeezing months into each chapter.

Agronsky is a superb investigative reporter, and I wish he would write more books!

This cookbook from the early '50s holds up remarkably well given changes in taste and diet over the years.

We particularly like the stuffing recipe but there's a wealth of palatable dishes here.

It's quite strange that this book, of all Trollope, is so hard to find. Reviewers didn't like it when it was originally published in the late 1800s, and it never shook its reputation as ultra-tedious. This mystifies me. The melodrama between politically radical Lord Jack Hampton and Marion Fay, a non-aristocratic young Quaker woman who's more of a lady than several of the "ladies" in the book, is flirtatious, accessible and fun (Hampton repeatedly teases Marion that he fell for her when she "poked his fire," i.e. tended his fireplace with a poker--a bolder play with innuendo than Trollope usually engages in). It then turns passionate when Marion won't marry Jack because of a secret trouble involving life-threatening illness. T. uses the situation to examine with great depth and sensitivity the desire to consummate the spiritual union of two souls via marriage. This is the most careful look at what marriage means in T.'s ideal world that I have read in his work yet. He makes it exciting and suspenseful, since we're waiting to see if Marion will really get to poke Jack's fire--or if an unthinkable separation will occur. As in all T., there is a hilarious cast of characters who toe the line that separates the comically pathetic from the dangerously antisocial--for example, will Jack's archetypical evil stepmom just grumble her way through life, or will she scheme to kill Jack? The multiple marriage and family plots are very well integrated, unlike in some other T. novels.

A must-have if you have ever spent time in Marion, or plan to do so. The text outlines the interesting historical aspects of Marion while 'walking you through' this beautiful village by use of photos and captions describing 200 historic houses in this small seafaring town.

The best vegetarian book I have found so far! The recipes are simple and totally yummie.

The author makes good use of herbs and spices and uses only natural ingredients.

Recipes range from sweet to savoury to snacks and store cupboard goodies... there's even a recipe for soya milk in there.

The writer offers suggestions on when to serve each dish (i.e.buffets,dinner parties etc.) and gives variations regularly.

Definitely worth buying!