title: A Life With Purpose: The Story of the Man Behind The Purpose-Driven Life
author:  George Mair 
description: "It's not about you." That is the now-famous depersonalization that opens Rick Warren's self-help guide <i>The Purpose-Driven Life.</i> Unfortunately, they are apparently words that his biographer took to heart, because despite its promising subtitle, this portrait tells readers almost nothing about the man behind the bestseller. Mair spends most of the book superficially exploring the phenomenon of megachurches and introducing some of Warren's role models for ministry. What information he does give us about Warren's life is sparse and blandly hagiographic: the son of energetic, saintly California church planters, Warren appears to have realized his pastoral calling early on. Because he's depicted as both pious and entrepreneurial from childhood, readers don't get to see him grow or evolve as a leader. Moreover, the book says almost nothing about his family lifefor example, Mair tells us that when Saddleback Church was founded, the Warrens had an infant daughter, but she's never named or even mentioned againnor is the fact that the Warrens went on to have two more children. If these perfectly basic elements to include in a life story are missing, it goes without saying that Mair also reveals no conflict, no difficult struggles and no rough edges to Warren's personality that could make him a real person instead of the smiling, guitar-playing, Hawaiian shirtwearing cardboard cutout depicted here. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # The Human Machine
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### E. Arnold Bennett
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  This page formatted 2004 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  I. TAKING ONESELF FOR GRANTED
  
  
  II. AMATEURS IN THE ART OF LIVING
  
  
  III. THE BRAIN AS A GENTLEMAN-AT-LARGE
  
  
  IV. THE FIRST PRACTICAL STEP
  
  
  V. HABIT-FORMING BY CONCENTRATION
  
  
  VI. LORD OVER THE NODDLE
  
  
  VII. WHAT 'LIVING' CHIEFLY IS
  
  
  VIII. THE DAILY FRICTION
  
  
  IX. 'FIRE!'
  
  
  X. MISCHIEVOUSLY OVERWORKING IT
  
  
  XI. AN INTERLUDE
  
  
  XII. AN INTEREST IN LIFE
  
  
  XIII. SUCCESS AND FAILURE
  
  
  XIV. A MAN AND HIS ENVIRONMENT
  
  
  XV. L.S.D.
  
  
  XVI. REASON, REASON!
  
  
  
  
  
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  THE HUMAN MACHINE
  
  
  BY ARNOLD BENNETT
  
  
  _First Published November 1908_
  
  
  Second Edition September 1910
  
  
  Third Edition April 1911
  
  
  Fourth Edition August 1912
  
  
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  ### I. TAKING ONESELF FOR GRANTED
  
  
  
  
  
  