Blah, Blah, Blah: Making Sense of the World’s Spiritual Chatter
by Bayard Taylor (241 pages)

Bayard Taylor is a worldview and apologetics guy and the book is an excellent resource to prepare people for evangelism and engaging the culture around them. Taylor is correct when he points out to the reader that every person is a “walking billboard” for their particular worldview and that it would be advantageous for students to learn more about worldviews which stand in opposition (or even competition) to the Biblical belief and life system. The book is really about what Taylor describes as the six fundamental worldviews: The Haunted Worldview, The Biblical Worldview, The WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) Worldview, The Dueling Yodas Worldview, The Omnipresent Supergalactic Oneness Worldview, and the catch-all Design Religion category. Taylor spends the rest of the book exploring how these various worldviews address particular questions of life, noting similarities and differences and giving the reader enough ammunition to engage a person from any of the six schools of thought on a variety of topics. The book challenges Christian students to “take every thought captive to Christ” and begin to think critically and Christianly about the world around them.

What Color is Your Parachute?
A Practical Guide for Job Hunters and Career Changers
by Dick Bolles (382 pages)

In the last five years, the United States has lost 2.6 million jobs — the most in any five-year period since the Great Depression. In the 2006 edition of his legendary job-hunting book, What Color is Your Parachute? Richard Nelson Bolles offers hope and presents an inspiring and detailed plan for finding your place in this uncertain job market. What Color is Your Parachute? has been the best-selling job-hunting book in the world for more than three decades, in good times and bad, and it continues to be a fixture on best-seller lists, from Amazon.com to Business Week. It has well over eight million copies in print and has been translated into 12 languages around the world. With an extended preface that addresses job loss, vacancies, and outsourcing and updated references on how to use the Internet in your job-hunt throughout, the 2006 PARACHUTE addresses the top concerns of today’s job-hunters. In the words of Fortune magazine: "Parachute remains the gold standard of career guides." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.