Interviews Books

Katreena Hayes-Wood offers a practical, easy to follow, simple to utilize book for the job hunter who is weary and discouraged.
Her material is uncomplicated, straight forward, and immediately useful.

This book deals with the Interviewer's current need to provide applicants with a good interview experience. It teaches interviewer to properly interview individuals. It also gives the interviewee an insight in the interview process from the Interviewer's side to enable him to do better in his interview process. This book works well for interviewers/interviewees in all kinds of professions - school and college counseling, social casework, rehabilitation, counseling, much of medicine and psychiatry. Interviewer's learn how to make the interview a helping relationship to the job applicant. In the Interview Process today there may be some communication of information, but the focus is now upon the growth process in the client. I believe there must necessarily be a healthy by-product of growth and change in the interviewer as well if the relationship is truly an open and creative one.

This book breaks the interview down into topics:
Interview Conditions, Interview Stages, Interview Philosophy, Recording the Interview, The Questions, Communication, Responses/Leads. Each of these topics have sub-topics which breaks each topic down into workable steps.

Henry J. Degenkolb was an interesting indiviual, from being a prominent structural engineering firm owner to a dedicated profession in organizational activities. I liked this oral history because it gave me a feel for who Mr. Degenkolb was and what he did. I recommend this and the other Oral History books available from the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute.

Henry Moore is a wise man and it is nice to know that his words do justice to his talent as a sculptor. Musings is too light a term to use for the warm, down-to-earth essays that Moore provides us as he shares his thoughts and experiences with life, art, and aesthetics. With the words are page after page of photos of Moore, his work, along with images of things that have been his inspirations. This is a book about art appreciation, but grounded in the practicality of a working, master artist who is humble and thoughtful. It is hard to imagine how any sculptor who hopes to create works of lasting greatness could not profit and indeed be inspired by knowing this book. But Moore's basic, fundamental philosophies about art and life make this a book of vital inspiration for just about anyone who likes to think of, and operate in the world, along artistic terms. It is a warm, friendly unimposing book grounded with the weight of deep truth and careful observation.

An exhibition solely devoted to Northwestern California Indian caps has never before been assembled, nor have the greatest accomplishments of several generations of cap weavers been assessed. There are only a few cap makers among the younger generation of weavers and most senior basketmakers are no longer weaving caps. Many weavers never become sufficiently accomplished to weave caps. The theme of this exhibition, the woven cap, is the result of the need to examine the most challenging of twined baskets and to accentuate their significance. Woven basket caps are the pinnacle of closed-work twined basketmaking. The love of caps and the exchange of ideas between art historian Ron Johnson, basketmaker Susan "Tweet" Burdick, and basket expert Coleen Kelley Marks inspired this exhibition. Tweet commented to the author last summer at a Karuk Flower Dance that there are so few weavers of basket caps that in the future there may not be enough for the ceremonial dances. Coleen Kelley Marks and Ron Johnson chose the theme of woven caps and limited the exhibition to known weavers. Each weaver's accomplishments are emphasized through introductions and interviews in which their caps and the processes of weaving and gathering are discussed.

HERBAL VOICES, by Kathleen Dougherty is the book to read if you are looking for a way to familiarize yourself with herbalists as well as their practices and history. Dougherty interviewed dozens of American herbalists, asking them salient questions such as "How did you become a herbalist?, What is the nature of your remedies?", and "How do you think science enters into the equation?" The first 100 pages of this book form a summary of her findings and conclusions, and the remainder is a distillation of 20 selected interviews.

I found Dougherty's book enlightening because it discusses the role of science (experimental) in conjunction with the traditional use of herbs for healing and/or preserving health (experiential). Holistic herbalists deal with areas science cannot address because science is linear and never proves anything. Science can only suggest with a certain degree of confidence that such and such is "likely" to be connected or that selected events are correlated - and do this only if the thing being observed or studied can be subjected to a clinical trial or something equivalent.

Holistic practitioners, on the other hand, do not view the Body-Mind-Spirit as three distinct entities that can be analyzed separately. They also generally follow the guidance of a particular tradition handed down from `wise elders' who preserved the cumulative wisdom of the ages. Along with what to obtain and how to use it, these wise elders have passed along shamanistic rituals that work with the whole person.

The Holistic herbalist considers the role of the individual human spirit in health. Holistic practitioners also practice a "hands on" approach, that involves touching in the form of massage or healing hands. Furthermore, herbalists generally do not use their herbal products like medicine dispensed at a pharmacy. For example, if you take Echinacea to do it in the most effective way you must take it in a certain manner, which does not necessarily mean popping denatured tablets purchased at a Natural Food Store in your mouth every day. The naturalistic viewpoint suggests that whole herbs you grew and processed yourself with love are the best way to go, and these products must be handled with care. Growing your own herbs and learning to make tinctures, salves and other products is the best way of all - and don't forget to give thanks to the Source.

This is an excellent, well written book and a must for anyone who seeks to understand these healers and their practices.

If you have any interest in the bygone era of old showbiz and old comedy, you will love this book. There are so many great anectdotes that only an insider like Joey Adams would be privy to. You will wish that you could have been a part of it. On the other hand, this book wouldn't be for someone who doesn't recognize any of the names from this era, because you wouldn't appreciate the personalities if you're reading without any reference point.

This book was an entertaining and valuable resource as I delved into the "mad, bad and dangerous to know" world of LB. It's got its dry spells but the little gems are worth it for anyone interested in one of the original pop icons. Oh, did I mention that he wrote poetry too? The fact (and legend) is usually just as good if not better than the fiction.

Fred Schultz has put together an eclectic collection of interviews for the book, History Makers: Interviews. The different subjects represent different aspects of naval history--some professional, some personal. This is what makes the book a good read! Not only are we able to glimpse into the world of naval policy making, but also we get to see into the experience of some veterans who participated in the actual events. The interviews and addresses work well together to form a picture of the importance of naval history to our nation, of individual experiences in the Navy, and of the future of the Navy.

The questions asked by the interviewers are perceptive and sometimes pointed. The interviewer's experience is evident in the easy rapport with the different history makers. I found that many times I wished I could have been present at the interviews to hear what was not included in the published interview.

An impressive body of work that includes a compilation of thirty-one interviews impressive, author Harvey Kubernik draws upon his years of experience and expertise as a former West Coast director of A&R for MCA Records and as a former TV music and talk show host in "Hollywood Shack Job: Rock Music In Film And On Your Screen" to chronicle the role rock and pop music have played in films and on television in terms of their esthetics and influence on commerce and culture. A kind of oral history spanning sixty years of film and television production, Kubernik includes observations by and on directors, music supervisors, musicians, historians, screenwriters and others. A unique and strongly recommended contribution to music fan, film buff, as well as professional and academic music history, in addition to film history reference collections and supplemental reading lists.