New Releases by Richard Foster

Poucos livros sobre espiritualidade combinam verdadeira originalidade com integridade intelectual. Entretanto, foi exatamente essa a combinação que Richard Foster conseguiu produzir. Impregnado pelos clássicos devocionais, o autor apresenta-nos um estudo cuidadoso que será apreciado ainda por muito tempo. Classificando as disciplinas em três movimentos do Espírito Santo, o autor mostra como cada uma delas contribui para uma vida espiritual equilibrada. As disciplinas interiores levam os famintos de Deus a uma transformação genuína. As disciplinas exteriores são um reflexo das prioridades do Reino de Deus em seus filhos. As disciplinas comunitárias lembram-nos de que é na comunhão entre os cristãos que nos aproximamos mais de Deus. A presente edição comemora o aniversário de 30 anos de sua primeira publicação em 1978. Um clássico aclamado pela revista Christianity Today como um dos dez livros cristãos mais importantes do século XX. Desde seu lançamento, este livro ajudou milhões de pessoas a descobrirem a porta de entrada para uma vida espiritual rica, plena de contentamento, paz e profunda compreensão de Deus.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

I was on a flight to New York and the flight attendant was clearing the dinner dishes and offering coffee. Immediately folks started getting up and going to the bathroom. This struck me as funny. I had seen this scene a hundred times before, but this evening it struck me as hysterical. People go to the bathroom after eating and drinking. We all have to do it. Every day. But why? So I decided to ask God about it. This is the way God and I communicate. I just have this natural relationship with Him. So if I have a question or think about something, I ask Him about it and He gives me the answer, because He is God and He knows everything. And it was in this conversation that the Lord revealed to me the truth of Proverbs 4:23, that we have to keep our heart clean and eliminate bad things that get stored there.

“Scrupulously researched . . . An eloquent fan, Foster brings insight into Page’s recent revival as a sex symbol.” —Entertainment Weekly TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION UPDATED BY THE AUTHOR WITH A NEW EPILOGUE She has been called the most photographed model in history. From her modest beginnings in Nashville to her legacy as a cult figure, here is the true story of America’s iconic pinup queen, legendary Playboy centerfold Bettie Page—including her stormy marriages, her trial for attempted murder, and her decade-long isolation in a California mental institution. During the 1950s, Bettie set hearts ablaze with her killer curves and girl-next-door smile. Yet at the height of her popularity, with a promising acting career before her, she walked away. For more than thirty years, Bettie stayed hidden from the public eye, though she lived on in her fans’ memories, much like Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. Journalist Richard Foster became the first reporter to contact Page during her long absence, and the first to tell her full story. Using interviews with those who knew her, and filled with uncommon knowledge and insights, The Real Bettie Page reveals both the fun flirt and fashion-forward counter-culture icon whose style continues to inspire today, as well as the intriguing and complex, flesh-and-blood woman behind her smiling photos. Includes classic and rare color and black-and-white photos

Can you name the three World Cup winners who have also won the Golden Boot outright? What did Just Fontaine received for his feat of scoring 13 goals for France in the 1958 tournament in Sweden. Who went on to win the World Cup despite losing their first match? In which two World Cups have there been no sendings-off during the whole tournament? What was the significance of the black bands that appeared around the goal posts in Argentina in 1978? The World Cup is the greatest football show on earth. It is by far and away the most watched sporting event, attracting a global television audience of over 3.5 billion during four weeks of intense football action. There have been 20 tournaments in 16 different countries since 1930 and each one has its own unique stories and moments captured here in World Cup Nuggets. Richard Foster answers all of the above and provides you with some of the weirdest and most wonderful facts in World Cup history.

Modern football is brilliant, and yet it is also utterly rubbish. For every part of the beautiful game that reminds us why we love it, there''s another to drive us up the wall. Half-and-half scarves, designated singing sections, goal music and open letters - the list is endless. Football''s Flaws & Foibles looks at some of the biggest transgressions and dissects just what lies at the heart of our annoyance. Featuring contributions from Kevin Day, Daniel Storey and more, this book provides moments of catharsis and debate in equal measure. If you''ve ever paid for a plane to fly a banner over a football ground then this may not be the book for you, but for the rest of us this is a place to wallow in collective frustrations.So if you have ever been irritated, enraged, aggravated or exasperated by the game you love, this book is very much for you.

Auf Facebook gibt es "Likes", auf Instagram "Follower" - doch wie weit geht das Interesse wirklich? In dem christlichen Klassiker "Nachfolge feiern" geht es nicht um Oberflächlichkeiten, sondern um echte, ernsthafte und freudige Nachfolge. Richard Foster entdeckt verschollene biblische Tugenden wieder und haucht ihnen neues Leben ein. Er zeigt, wie Sie geistliche Disziplinen leben und feiern können - und wie sie unser Leben und unsere Beziehung zu Gott bereichern.

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Another thought-provoking collection of poems derived from the mind of artist, Richard Foster. Once again, he continues his hunt for the truth of existence. With questions and statements regarding life and being, this book of poems will throw your mind into a fascinating journey. *Classic cream color pages* *Matte cover*

A fascinating collection of poems derived from far outside of the box of normalcy. Artist, Richard Foster, continues his quest for finding the truth about existence. With questions of life and being, this book of poems will send your mind on a thought-provoking journey. *Matte Cover Finish

A comprehensive history of the Football League Play-Offs from their relatively troubled conception to the current day boom. Born in English football''s darkest hour, it has now become home to the richest match in sport. From the exquisite agony of losing to the unadulterated high of success, this is the Agony & the Ecstasy.

This is a comical short story detailing a situation in which an employee was to express their true opinion of their employer directly to their employer''s face. An idea that most employees share but would never really consider attempting, becomes a reality for the protagonist of this story. Enjoy this interesting journey as you find out what would actually push an employee into doing the unthinkable and what the results would ultimately be.

Nathan Foster has lived with the spiritual disciplines all his life, but has had to find his own unique path. As he sought - sometimes rebelliously - to develop habits that would enable him to live more like Jesus, he encountered problems both personal and universal. Gradually he discovered creative new ways to practice disciplines such as fasting, meditation and simplicity, to live as Jesus lived. With a foreword from Nathan''s father Richard, who provides a fresh introduction to each of the disciplines, The Making of an Ordinary Saint invites us to be formed into the likeness of Christ''s character.

From Agents to Z-list celebrities, everything you love to hate about the national sport.

First of all I am a born again christian. Called into evangelism by God. My name is Richard Foster and I am a retired businessman and evangelist. I have pastored over the course of my life and I feel that God has given me a mission. My questioning mind has inspired many original programs and teachings as well as the inspiration for this book. As a retired businessman I have had to make many decisions and choices over the years in my business. I can now look back with hindsight and ask myself all those, what ifs as they would pertain to my life today. That is really the core of our story. Its about the choices we make and how those choices affect us immediately and all along our life journey. The Loneliest Shepherd deal with choices and how making bad choices can effect just about every aspect of your life. At the birth of Jesus I wondered who it was among the shepherds that had to stay behind and watch the sheep. I wondered how that might effect that persons life, what his life might turn out to be like and where he might end up. While the story is purely fi ctional, I have taken true accounts from the Bible and created a what if story around them to help put into perspective just how criticle making the right choices really are. My prayer is that this encounter with David will cause you think more deeply about life than you ever have before.

Turning conventional wisdom on its head, a Senior Partner and an Innovation Specialist from McKinsey & Company debunk the myth that high-octane, built-to-last companies can continue to excel year after year and reveal the dynamic strategies of discontinuity and creative destruction these corporations must adopt in order to maintain excellence and remain competitive. In striking contrast to such bibles of business literature as In Search of Excellence and Built to Last, Richard N. Foster and Sarah Kaplan draw on research they conducted at McKinsey & Company of more than one thousand corporations in fifteen industries over a thirty-six-year period. The industries they examined included old-economy industries such as pulp and paper and chemicals, and new-economy industries like semiconductors and software. Using this enormous fact base, Foster and Kaplan show that even the best-run and most widely admired companies included in their sample are unable to sustain their market-beating levels of performance for more than ten to fifteen years. Foster and Kaplan''s long-term studies of corporate birth, survival, and death in America show that the corporate equivalent of El Dorado, the golden company that continually outperforms the market, has never existed. It is a myth. Corporations operate with management philosophies based on the assumption of continuity; as a result, in the long term, they cannot change or create value at the pace and scale of the markets. Their control processes, the very processes that enable them to survive over the long haul, deaden them to the vital and constant need for change. Proposing a radical new business paradigm, Foster and Kaplan argue that redesigning the corporation to change at the pace and scale of the capital markets rather than merely operate well will require more than simple adjustments. They explain how companies like Johnson and Johnson , Enron, Corning, and GE are overcoming cultural "lock-in" by transforming rather than incrementally improving their companies. They are doing this by creating new businesses, selling off or closing down businesses or divisions whose growth is slowing down, as well as abandoning outdated, ingrown structures and rules and adopting new decision-making processes, control systems, and mental models. Corporations, they argue, must learn to be as dynamic and responsive as the market itself if they are to sustain superior returns and thrive over the long term. In a book that is sure to shake the business world to its foundations, Creative Destruction, like Re-Engineering the Corporation before it, offers a new paradigm that will change the way we think about business.

Before the high altar in Westminster Abbey lies a priceless pavement which has been hidden beneath a protective carpet since the early 1900s. The author, in this book, has brought his knowledge as an art historian to bear on the problem of unravelling its secret message.

In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. For this special twentieth anniversary edition, Richard J. Foster has added an introduction, in which he shares the story of how this beloved and enduring spiritual guidebook came to be. Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the "classic Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that it is only by and through these practices that the true path to spiritual growth can be found. Dividing the Disciplines into three movements of the Spirit, Foster shows how each of these areas contribute to a balanced spiritual life. The inward Disciplines of meditation, prayer, fasting, and study, offer avenues of personal examination and change. The outward Disciplines of simplicity, solitude, submission, and service, help prepare us to make the world a better place. The corporate Disciplines of confession, worship, guidance, and celebration, bring us nearer to one another and to God. Foster provides a wealth of examples demonstrating how these Disciplines can become part of our daily activities-and how they can help us shed our superficial habits and "bring the abundance of God into our lives." He offers crucial new insights on simplicity, demonstrating how the biblical view of simplicity, properly understood and applied, brings joy and balance to our inward and outward lives and "sets us free to enjoy the provision of God as a gift that can be shared with others." The discussion of celebration, often the most neglected of the Disciplines, shows its critical importance, for it stands at the heart of the way to Christ. Celebration of Discipline will help motivate Christians everywhere to embark on a journey of prayer and spiritual growth.

Exploring the hidden meaning of five well-known pictures painted between 1433 and 1533; La Primavera, Botticelli; Madonna and Child, Van Eyck; St George and the Dragon, Uccello; Christ Crowned with Thorns, Bosch: The Ambassadors, Holbein.

An interestingly written, handsome and well-produced illustrated book of religious, social and architectural history.

The bug-bear of high-resolution stratigraphy in the deep sea is sediment mixing by animals at the sea floor. Here we address several theoretical and practical problems in removing the effects of mixing. The objective of 1-cm stratigraphy is to recover a record of earth and ocean history more detailed than that known today. The research reported here concentrates on foraminiferal ooze, in which 1-cm of accumulation usually corresponds to an interval of less than 1000 yrs. In a later chapter, we try to construct a 1-cm stratigraphy of box cores of ooze from Ontong-Java Plateau. The theory we use to reconstruct events recorded at 1-cm intervals has, in part, already been developed. It is based on Goldberg and Koide''s model of a discrete sediment mixed layer. This report develops a number of useful formulas to account for the effects of dissolution, winnowing, fragmentation and horizontal sediment influx. The problem of finite mixing rates is also accommodated by a simplification of some results from Guinasso and Schink. Dating the reconstructed record with C14 is a matter of knowing contemporaneous mixed layer ages. In this light, this report describes a number of properties of mixed layer ages and the C14 record in general.

"This volume contains new materials which include stratigraphy, sea floor stratigraphy and isotopic geochemistry including radiometric dating. The work retains the conjunction of two entities: systematic treatment of "glacial geology" involving process and strategraphic, environmental and historical discussion of the Quaternary."