January 2006 Archives

A new review of Logos Bible Software Series X (v 2.1b) and Stuttgart Electronic Study Bible from Ashland Theological Journal has been posted at Logos.com.

The review is authored by Dr. David W. Baker, who teaches Old Testament courses at Ashland Theological Seminary and is the editor of the journal. He is also the author of dozens of articles in Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, among others.

The upshot of Baker's review is a recommendation of both Series X and SESB for users at all levels. In particular, he seemed to appreciate Verb Rivers, Word Study Guide, Graphical Query Editor, and Sentence Diagramming. He also praises the text-critical apparatus in SESB.

You can read the full text of the review at Logos.com.

We also posted excerpts from a review of Scholar's Library Silver Edition that was published electronically in the January-February, 2006, Preaching Online. This review was authored by John Glynn, whose Commentary & Reference Survey (Kregel) has been mentioned before on this blog.

Glynn's review discusses KeyLinking between references, shows a sample graphical query, and praises the auto-footnoting feature that is a standard feature of all Logos Bible Software packages. He also appreciates the expandability of the Libronix DLS, citing some key commentaries that are available.

Excerpts from Glynn's review are posted at Logos.com.

Last week, I showed how every word in every Libronix DLS resource is a link. The focus of that post was interacting with English text in resources; today I want to follow up with some observations about interacting with text in other languages.

Just as you can double-click on an English word in a resource and jump to a reference work that has an entry on that word, you can also interact with Greek text in the same way.

Baker New Testament Commentary includes a section for each biblical passage discussing "Greek words, phrases and constructions." When reading the commentary you might encounter a page that looks like this:

Some of the Greek words here may be unfamiliar to you, or you might become intrigued by a word and want to study it further. To read more about ἀσθενής, for example, double-click it and a lexicon will open directly to the entry for that word. For me, BDAG opens to an in-depth article about the word, and I can take my study in any number of directions from there.

(Bonus tip: You can open more than one lexicon the same way; just go to Tools | Options | Keylink, select the desired Data Type (e.g., Greek) and change Number of Windows to Open on a KeyLink to a number larger than 1.)

If I double-click on the word κερδήσω, Analytical Lexicon of the Greek New Testament (included with Scholar's Silver) opens instead of BDAG. This is because κερδήσω is an inflected form of the word, not the dictionary form.

ANLEX, as it is called, is worth its weight in gold for this simple reason: it lists every inflected form in the Greek New Testament...so if the word is in the NT you'll get a hit in ANLEX. I can either consult the brief lexical entry here or double-click the headword κερδαίνω to dig deeper with BDAG or another lexicon.

Just remember...with Libronix, every word's a link!

If you liked this post, you might also enjoy reading Rick's discussion of KeyLinking between lexicons.

Proceed to Episode III >>

Logos has recently released Hagner's short and useful book, New Testament Exegesis and Research: A Guide for Seminarians.

At the recommendation of a friend, I've been using this book for awhile — since before Logos started working on the electronic edition. One of the places it has been most useful to me has been in its brief explanation of sentence diagramming. It is less of an explanation and more the simple templates and examples supplied. This is only a few pages of the book, but it has been immensely useful to me.

Hagner's guide provides concise and useful introductions to the exegetical process and also supplies bibliographies for each step. Several of the listed items (or acceptable alternatives) are already available in Logos Bible Software.

Libronix DLS, our digital library system, is based in no small part on linkage between texts. Today I want to introduce you to the quiet, unobtrusive links you may have overlooked.

You should care about this topic because links are one of the key features that make a digital library more than a pile of texts on your hard drive...and that sets Logos Bible Software apart from the competition.

Every user is familiar with the obvious links that appear in Logos resources: references to Bible verses, Josephus or Word Biblical Commentary; links to footnotes; or cross-links between articles in an encyclopedia.

These links are obvious because of their color. "Click me," they shout. They are elevevated to a special status in the digital library because the author of the book gave them special status: "Here's a pointer to the verse I'm discussing…it's Genesis 3:1." Blue text.

What many users miss out on—and it's a shame, really, because there's a great deal of utility here—is that every word of every Logos resource is a potential link to something.

Let me say it again…every word's a link!

These are the shy and retiring links that don't draw attention to themselves…but they may turn out to be at least as useful as their boisterous brethren.

These links are not visually distinguished in any way; they are just all the other words in a resource, set in normal black text. But double-click on one of these guys and cool stuff happens…even better, you get to control what cool stuff happens!

When you double-click on a word in a resource, the Libronix DLS knows what language the word is and seeks to open a resource that will tell you something useful about that word.

You can try this right now…open up a Bible to Genesis 3:1 and double-click the word serpent. What happens on your machine?

On my machine, the Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible opens to a fascinating article on serpents in the mythology and iconology of the Ancient Near East, its appearances in the Hebrew Bible, and in later writings.

Depending on how you have configured your machine and which books you own, you might see an equally fascinating article in A Dictionary of Biblical Tradition in English Literature discussing the serpent in Beowulf, Genesis B, Canterbury Tales and so on. Or maybe you'll see the entry for serpent in Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, or The New Bible Dictionary.

If what you see isn't as cool as you would like it to be, check out the tutorial article on English KeyLinking at Logos.com, which provides a strategy for configuring your preferences in this area. I think you'll find it well worth the ten minutes it takes to read the article and customize for your own particular interests.

Proceed to Episode II >>

Inspired by Vincent's work on product guides introducing the dozens of Logos products related to biblical languages, I decided to write a product guide on commentaries available for Logos Bible Software. We offer a lot of commentaries, it's a category of book that appeals to almost every user, and it seems like an area in which people would appreciate some guidance...

It soon became clear that I was sticking my arm into a hornet's nest.

In the first draft, I classified each commentary series in the areas of technicality, theology, and methodology. So a series might bear the labels "Semi-technical, Expositional, Evangelical," for example.

As it turns out, it's difficult if not impossible to come up with labels that are sufficiently descriptive yet accurate...and inoffensive. Labeling commentaries is always a subjective exercise and no matter what labels you choose someone will disagree. This I quickly learned.

I took some time away from the project and during that time re-visited a website put together by Tyler F. Williams, an OT professor at Taylor University College in Alberta. Williams offers an Old Testament Commentary Survey that seemed to me to strike the right balance of non-intrusive assistance. Its primary classification is by intended audience, with category descriptions that are somewhat elastic but still helpful.

Professor Williams graciously agreed to let us use his classification scheme, and the result is the Product Guide to Multi-Volume Commentaries.

The guide introduces more than 30 multi-volume commentaries available for Logos Bible Software, providing basic information about each one such as publisher, which Bible version is followed, how much Greek or Hebrew text to expect, and more. The accompanying brief descriptions come from each publisher, which lets the series "speak for itself" in terms of intended aim or purpose.

If you desire even more guidance in selecting and using commentaries and other reference works, you might be interested in F. W. Danker's Multipurpose Tools for Bible Study (a Logos resource) or print resources such as John Glynn's Commentary and Reference Survey or D. A. Carson's New Testament Commentary Survey.

Today’s guest blogger is Ken Smith, General Manager of Electronic Publishing Services at Logos.

(This is the next installment in a series of articles about our nearly 60 publishing partners who market their own electronic products using our technology.)

Liturgical Press

One of our earliest publishing partnerships was with Liturgical Press, the publishing arm of St. John's Abbey and University, a Benedictine monastery and college in central Minnesota.

In 1997, Liturgical published an electronic edition of the Vatican II Papers. This was followed in 1999 by The Rule of St. Benedict Library, an ambitious project that includes numerous primary and secondary sources relating to Benedictine study. This product is a significant beneficiary of electronic technology, as the various translations of and commentaries on the Rule are able to be scrolled in parallel and set as preferred targets for keylinking.

In February of 2001, Liturgical released a set of reference titles in a collection they titled The Collegeville Catholic Reference Library, which was updated in August of 2002 to the Libronix Digital Library System. The set includes the most popular reference works from Liturgical Press: The Collegeville Bible Commentary, The New Dictionary of Sacramental Worship, The New Dictionary of Catholic Spirituality, The New Dictionary of Catholic Social Thought, The New Dictionary of Theology, and Consecrated Phrases: A Latin Theological Dictionary.

While they are clearly a progressive organization, the folks at St. John's haven't lost sight of their roots. As evidence, take a moment to appreciate one of their newest and most ambitious print projects, The Saint John's Bible. "The first handwritten, illuminated Bible commissioned since the printing press was invented five centuries ago."

Next: Caribe-Betania Editores

Way back in the late '90s (I honestly don't recall which year ... 1996 or 1997?) Logos released the first electronic edition of the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary. This was a massive project, I can remember working on it at the end of the development cycle. It was one of the first large reference volumes we released outside of the main Logos Bible Software collections. And it has consistently been a popular volume for reference.

The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary is one of the most widely accepted, widely used modern published reference dictionaries. In print, it is six massive volumes (each volume is at least two inches thick, as I recall). Thousands of pages. But, of course, the print edition has no concordance, no topic index, and no Scripture index. And no index for references to the Works of Josephus or the Works of Philo. All of those things are tagged in the Logos Bible Software edition.

If you're looking for a solid, relatively recent Bible dictionary to supplement one of the Logos Bible Software collections, you should seriously consider the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary. I'm not saying you'll agree with everything inside of it; you'll likely take issue somewhere with something. But it is a good reflection of the state of modern scholarship and very informative as a result.

As usual, the product page on the main Logos web site has much more information. Be sure to check it out!

Two major, contemporary, theological works hit the prepub page yesterday: Berkouwer's Studies in Dogmatics (14 vols) and Pannenberg's Systematic Theology (3 vols).

You might be asking, "Are theologies really the kind of book that benefits from an electronic edition?" Absolutely.

Theologies are chock full of scriptural references, and as a Logos Bible Software book all those references get turned into hotspots...even if they're buried in a footnote. This overcomes a number of limitations of the print:

• It now takes zero effort to look up Bible references to confirm the author's interpretation.
  
• We effectively create a Scripture index for the entire series of books, not just each volume...no page-flipping needed.
  
• By creating a defined collection of books and adding it to the Passage Guide report [learn how], the software will remember to search your theologies for references to whatever passage you're studying...without you having to think about it!

That's just a few of the benefits of owning theologies in electronic editions. I could go on and on about searchability, links to other works, the ability to copy and paste, automatic footnoting...but instead I hope you'll check it out for yourself by pre-ordering Berkouwer or Pannenberg or both.

There's only one question left, and that's the inevitable..."Awesome...now how about Karl Barth's Church Dogmatics?" Which provokes our usual response..."Yes, we'd love to do that, too."

If you've been a Logos Bible Software user for a long time, or if you're relatively new to the software, chances are the Support area of the Logos web site has some training articles for you.

The articles are broken into four areas:

• Basic Usability
• Original Languages
• Reference
• Advanced

Articles from Getting to Know Your Library to How To Use Verb Rivers to Creating Your Own Timeline can be read, referenced and reviewed.

Check 'em out!

We've had a lot of folks ask us about Lewis Sperry Chafer's magnum opus Systematic Theology.

Logos has recently completed work on Chafer's most popular work and you can even purchase it today. Right now, even, through the wonders of that thing called "the internet".

And you might want to purchase it today. Logos has a special arrangement with the publisher and we are only licensed to sell a specific number of copies. That is, the Logos Bible Software version is a limited edition (no, I don't know how many we have, how many we've sold, or how close we are to the limit). But when we reach that limited amount, you won't be able to purchase it anymore. Our product page for Chafer's Systematic Theology describes it this way:

Many users over the years have asked for an electronic edition of this estimable work, but we were never able to secure a license to it. Now, for the first time, the publisher has agreed to a contract that enables us to bring you this resource, though in a limited quantity. When we sell out of our limited run, this title will be removed and we will be unable to take any more orders. We have no reason to believe that this title will ever be made available again electronically once all available copies are sold. We encourage you to place your order while you still can!

So if you're into Chafer, or find electronic access to systematic theologies valuable, you may want to check it out.

Today’s guest blogger is Ken Smith, General Manager of Electronic Publishing Services at Logos.

(This is the next installment in a series of articles about our nearly 60 publishing partners who market their own electronic products using our technology.)

Standard Publishing

One of the most rewarding aspects of our work at Logos is when we see our technology helping people to be more consistent and fruitful in their daily study of the Bible. When we partner with a publisher who values this as much as we do, great things can happen. Such is the case with Standard Publishing.

Beginning in the fall of 2001, Standard began issuing an electronic edition of their annual Standard Lesson Commentary using our technology. As you can see from the cover, the CD-ROM was considered a "bonus" and I'm sure both companies wondered just how many of the loyal purchasers of the print edition would actually use the CD-ROM.

In those days, we didn't really have any way to track that statistic, but Standard seemed pleased enough with the reaction to continue the following year. Because the 2002–2003 edition was based on the Libronix Digital Library System, we were able to gather some information about the number of people who made the effort to take the CD out of the back of the book, load it onto their computer and complete the activation process.

Were we ever surprised. Thousands of people activated the software and gladly embraced the electronic format. The following year, the numbers were nearly identical.

    

For the 2004–2005 edition, Standard took a big step and decided to launch an electronic-only product. The product was named The Standard Lesson eCommentary and included a small library of reference books as well.

If one of your New Year's Resolutions is to be more consistent in your daily Bible study, it's not too late to pick up the 2005–2006 Standard Lesson eCommentary and get started. And don't worry. Planning for the 2006–2007 edition has already begun!

Next: Liturgical Press

Avast, ye scurvy dogs, are ye ready to set sail fer Alaska with "Cap'n Moe" and the Camp Logos crew?

OK, I don't think it's going to be a pirate themed event. But still, what could be better than hanging out with other Logos aficionados aboard the Sun Princess while eating great food, seeing some seriously impressive sights, and sharpening your Bible software skills?

The 7-day cruise leaves from Seattle, Washington, on July 23, 2006, and follows the beautiful Inside Passage to Alaska with 5 ports of call along the way. You will see Victoria, Ketchikan, the Tracy Arm Fjord, Juneau, and Skagway.

You'll also benefit from a number of focused training sessions with Morris Proctor, certified trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris will lead group and individual sessions to take your Logos-assisted Bible study to the next level and ensure that you're using the tool with optimal efficiency. And, of course, spending time with other users will be just plain fun.

Get the complete details and sign up for the cruise at the Morris Proctor Seminars website. The registration deadline is coming up soon, so don't wait.

Chances are you have seen or heard about Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. The idea behind the Wikipedia is to allow creation and editing of articles by just about anyone. The underlying technology is something called a wiki, which is a simplified content management system that allows anyone to provide or edit articles.

For awhile now, Logos has hosted a wiki for its users. Ours is a bit more simplified than the Wikipedia, but it does the trick. The Logos User Wiki is a place you can go to for tips and even some detailed processes on reinstalling the software, compose feature ideas that others can contribute to or flesh out, or just browse around for ideas on different ways to use Logos Bible Software.

Check it out, and feel free to add articles or tips that you think might help the Logos Bible Software user community! We even have a newsgroup dedicated to questions about the wiki. So give it a shot!

UPDATE: The http://wiki.logos.com/">Logos Wiki has moved to a new location as of 11/12/09 http://wiki.logos.com/

I know, I know, I said I'd blog about searching the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament. And I will. Really, I will. But not today.

I've been working on a different aspect of the Lexham Syntactic Greek New Testament project recently: adding glossary information to just about everywhere a clause type or syntactic force note occurs. And wow, is it cool. Really.

Because syntactic terminology is at times confusing, and because different grammars and guides sometimes use the same terminology to describe different things and different terminology to describe similar things (got that?) we knew we'd need to include glossaries with our syntactic databases. And we also knew we'd need to provide links to further discussions of terms in standard grammar and syntactic references, so we've included (where appropriate) links to BDF, Daniel Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, and Smyth's Greek Grammar (a classical grammar not yet in LDLS format ... but give us time!).

We received this comment from a blog reader back in December and I thought it deserved a little longer response than I could give it in the comments:

It would be helpful in this series of articles to explain the justification for making certain books available only as a part of the set (i.e., ICC commentaries) and not separately. Thanks for the great work you are doing! - Paul

Paul, that's a fair question. Typically, you'll see new commentaries made available first as a series and only later will they be broken up into individual volumes.

Often, this is due to licensing issues but it can also be the result of the way the prepub program works (we want to digitize the entire series, not just individual volumes). The deep prepub discount makes up for the fact that you may be getting volumes you wouldn't buy otherwise.

A couple of years after publication, we often go back and split out the volumes for individual sale, if the contract allows. Many commentary sets are currently available as individual volumes, including Crossway Classic Commentary Series, College Press NIV Commentary Series, MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series, The Preacher's Commentary Series, and Word Biblical Commentary Series.

Of course, you'll always save money by buying the whole series instead of acquiring it piece by piece. But if you're focusing on a particular book of the Bible or want to own a volume that has garnered special acclaim, buying one volume at a time may be the way to go.

Today’s guest blogger is Ken Smith, General Manager of Electronic Publishing Services at Logos.

(This is the next installment in a series of articles about our nearly 60 publishing partners who market their own electronic products using our technology.)

Biblical Archaeology Society

From as far back as I can remember, customers were asking about making back issues of Biblical Archaeology Review (BAR) part of our electronic library offerings. We tried unsuccessfully for quite some time to license BAR from the Biblical Archaeology Society (BAS), but to no avail. (I guess they knew they had a good thing and wanted to do it themselves!)

Since we couldn't get BAR, we pursued other content from BAS, including a Biblical Archaeology Slide Set. That project never came to fruition and I think we've still got a box of several hundred slides gathering dust in our basement somewhere (which may be an interesting find for some 23rd century archaeologist).

After several years of discussion, BAS decided the time was right for them to enter the electronic publishing arena. In October of 2002, that same dust-gathering slide set was released as The Biblical World in Pictures CD-ROM, fully integrated into the Libronix Digital Library System.

Those customers who had been asking for BAR in Libronix format didn't have to wait long. In March of 2003, BAS published the first edition of The Biblical Archaeology Review Archive, containing every issue of BAR from 1975 to 2001. It has since been updated to include all of 2002 and 2003 as well.

We're happy to say that BAS has continued to expand their electronic offerings for the Libronix Digital Library System. In 2004, they released two additional collections of magazine back issues. The Archaeology Odyssey Archive and The Bible Review Archive make the BAS family of electronic products a compelling set.

    

If you have a particular author, book, magazine, or any other content you'd like to have as part of your electronic library, we want to know! Send an e-mail to suggest@logos.com. No guarantees, but we'll certainly consider any and all of your suggestions.

Next: Standard Publishing

The Logos Newsgroups are back up at news://news.logos.com/general. We are sorry for the inconvenience!

Our customers need no convincing. A hard drive full of electronic reference books trumps a stack of dead trees, no question. But from time to time, I read comments from a reviewer or blogger who seems to doubt the utility or legitimacy of amassing a large electronic library.

Stories like the following testimonial from a pastor in Hong Kong, however, only confirm my deep belief in the soundness of our vision to digitize thousands upon thousands of Bible reference titles.

I'll let the story speak for itself…

Brothers and Sisters in Christ,

I am a Filipino pastor sent by God to Hong Kong to help minister to Filipino domestic helpers in this city. There are about 160,000 Filipinos in this city.

I preach and teach almost everyday except on Monday. The way the church is set up is quite different from other churches. We don't schedule our church services. We open the church whenever the believers could come and met. If they are out on a Tuesday morning, then we have a church meeting on Tuesday morning. If it is Thursday evening, then the church meets on Thursday evening. Most of our church people have about 6 hrs each week for rest. They work 16-20 hours everyday. Some have just one day in a month for rest.

Ministering to this special group of people requires a lot of emotional and physical support. Our job includes fetching them frantically crying in the middle of the night, forced to leave their employer's house when they are terminated. It could be midnight or 3 am.

Here's where I get a lot of help from my Series X Libronix Library. I bought WBC the whole 58 volumes; Life Application; Handbook of the New Testament and other commentaries. They save me a lot of time when preparing sermons.

This is not to mention how much help I personally receive as I study passages to continue growing in the Lord.

And here's the best part: Whenever I go to visit our church friends in the underground church, to teach the leaders, I get so much help from these commentaries. I have over 150 volumes of fantastic, scholarly, and helpful books in my computer. It's like bringing a whole library with me.

Thank you Logos for offering such a gift to the Body of Christ. There's no help like these books on CD-ROMs.

Sincerely,

[Name Withheld]

At the end of December, we put 10 new titles into our Community Pricing System. It's fun to see which ones people latch on to and how fast (and how cheap they end up being)!

There are a few titles that are set to close today (Friday, January 6, 2006) at noon Pacific Time. Check 'em out to see if you want to get in on them at their cheapest:

• The Seven Deadly Sins by James Stalker
• R.A. Torrey Collection (15 vols)

History of Interpretation by F.W. Farrar just crossed the line yesterday and will move to prepublication next Friday.

There are some other titles that are getting close to the line:

• Imago Christi: The Example of Jesus Christ by James Stalker
• Selected Works on the Life of Christ (6 volumes)

Check out these (and all of the other titles we're considering) and place a bid if you'd like us to do them.

Today’s guest blogger is Ken Smith, General Manager of Electronic Publishing Services at Logos.

(This is the next installment in a series of articles about our nearly 60 publishing partners who market their own electronic products using our technology.)

Galaxie Software

Back in 1999, Galaxie Software approached us about using our technology for a very interesting project. They had been electronically publishing back issues of a number of theological journals (Bibliotheca Sacra from Dallas Theological Seminary, Grace Theological Journal and several others) using a different technology platform. In May of 1999, they released Version 3 of their Theological Journal Library utilizing our technology. Version 3 contained a total of 150 years of various journals. By March of 2002, they were up to 250 years of journals in their Version 5 release.

Galaxie has continued to expand the list of included journals and now has 400 years of journals in their collections. The first 250 are still sold as a collection, now designated as Volumes 1-5. Subsequent additions have been released in 50-year collections and are sold separately as Volume 6, Volume 7 and Volume 8), which was just released in September of 2005.

The journals have proven to be one of the most appreciated additions to the Libronix DLS family. Beyond the spectacular savings in cost and space to have 400 years worth of journals at your fingertips, a large percentage of these back issues are only available in select seminary libraries, not readily accessible to most of our customers.

     

Galaxie has produced a number of other products using our technology, including Dan Wallace's Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics.

Galaxie is also a partner with the Biblical Studies Foundation in producing electronic editions of the NET Bible.

Next: Biblical Archaeology Society

Even though I work at Logos, I like to check out the reviews that our products recieve. I just noticed a new review from the magazine Worship Leader. This review is a little different because it isn't a review of Scholar's Library or Scholar's Silver, it is a review of The Library of Christian Worship on CD-ROM.

I remember when we did the work on this set of books. I was impressed with the attention to detail in the printed editions and with the encompassing scope of coverage, both from a historical and theological perspective. The books aren't just about music, they're about worship. They're not about contemporary vs. traditional vs. "mixed" vs. whatever; they're about worship. As such, the series is a valuable resource to consult when considering issues of worship and praise in the church today.

The Logos web site product description has much more information, with descriptions and tables of contents for each of the eight books (seven volumes; vol. 4 was published in two parts).

One of the hardest lessons I had to learn about running a business is how important it is to fire people.

My reluctance to let people go (see how much easier it is to use euphemisms?) hurt the company and wasted a lot of peoples’ time. I thought that firing people was cruel and unkind. Over time I learned that not firing people, when firing is necessary, is really about selfishness on the manager’s part, and about a false sense of control and importance.

I could go on, and I did. Firing people is the first chapter in my new book about the lessons I have learned as an entrepreneur, and gives the book its title: Fire Someone Today. It starts with a short anecdote about John, an employee I went to great lengths to keep before finally realizing I needed to fire him.

I did not see John for almost ten years, but in the book I share what I heard about how being fired freed John to seek the Lord’s calling and to find his place in ministry, rather than the software business.

On Friday my wife went out of town, and I came into the office late and with my twelve year old son. I was surprised to find John visiting on vacation. After greeting me with “thanks for firing me!” John took a few moments to bring me up to date on his life as a pastor (and Logos user!) in Michigan, and then shared with my son how God used the difficult times in his life and career to humble him and turn him toward His purposes.

As a young boss I wanted to “be nice.” Firing John was terribly difficult for me, and I know it was far worse for him. And that is why I am so thankful that he took the time to visit last week and to provide my son and I yet another reminder that it is God, not friends or family or employers, who is in control and who works all things for good.

Fire Someone Today is published by Nelson Business (an imprint of Thomas Nelson Publishers) and will be released in April, 2006. For more information you can visit the web site at http://www.firesomeonetoday.com.