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Chief Coleman has been a prolific writer over the last 20 years and his topics are alway timely and accurate. I have had the fortune of meeting him on several occassions and respect him very much. This book is excellent it covers a lot of topics from your basic run of the mill situations to those that require significant finesse. Chief Coleman handles them all very well and adds his considerable experiences to help the reader understand the issues. I am still reading this selection and keep it at work to use as a reference source.

As a busy new mom, I'm finding that I no longer have oodles of time to linger over menus for the week. This book has easy & nutritious meals already laid out for four weeks. I enjoy not having to think through what we're going to have for the next week. All I have to do is write down my ingredient list & head out to the store. I can only think of 2-3 recipies in the book that aren't tasty... if you have your own Fajita recipe, I would use it instead of the one listed in the book. Also, the apricot muffin recipe just doesn't seem to work as listed; the result is too wet. Our top picks from the book are the bagel/tuna melt and the chicken stir fry recipe.

This is the Bible of working with school-age children of alcoholics and addicts. It was written by Jerry Moe, currently Director of Betty Ford Clinic's Children's Program. Jerry is one of the most positive and energetic child therapists in the country. This is his grab bag of about 150 group activities to do with COAs. It's positive, upbeat, and helpful in restoring children to normalcy. I use this daily in running a community program for children of alcoholics and addicts. We have groups in schools, treatment centers, the juvenile detention center, and anywhere we can find folks that can benefit. The Kit is available free from SAMHSA in unlimited quantities.

When Cassy the clumsy crocodile gets a job at Everglades Department Store, she certainly makes things happen - but not in the way she hopes. Toys, food, china.....she leaves a trail of destruction behind her in every department she visits. But in the end, Cassy's clumsiness saves the day and turns her into a hero.

This charming new series is designed for yhoung children who are just beginning to read alone and are looking for lively stories to tackle.

"Subpart A---General
Section 36.101 Purpose
The purpose of this part is to implement title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12181), which prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability by public accommodations and requires places of public accmmodation and commercial facilities to be designed, constructed, and altered in compliance with the ACCESSIBILITY STANDARDS ESTABLISHED BY THIS PART."
[from the book]

Robert Newman not only leads up to his highly praised history of the Owen Lattimore story and the influence of the "China Lobby" with this account, but gives much denied credit as well to the history of the left which had been censored, denied, and castigated... Included is a little-known quote from Lillian Hellman in her opening remarks to the Waldorf Peace Conference in 1949, which she co-organized. The Waldorf Conference was a credit to the post-WWII anticolonialist peace movement fueled by the activism of the radicalism of the 30s. This social/political/cultural movement included among others Hellman and W.E.B. DuBois, who founded the Peace Information Center in 1950 and circulated the Stockholm Peace Petition at a time when the Soviet Union was allegedly running a "peace offensive" and at a time when anyone who promoted peace or who criticized U.S. policy must therefore be viewed as being an agent of a foreign govt. in the McCarthy hysteria. Not only was anyone associated with those promoting peace at risk of suspicion, but also anyone who showed any independent thinking regarding foreign policy, no matter how extensive the institutional experience (as in Melby's case) or how well-founded the logic. This was the case with John Melby, chief editor of the China White Paper which acknowledged the inevitable failure of the KMT and the subsequent "loss of China." Just as anyone associated with the Waldorf Conference was eventually brought before HUAC and/or blacklisted, so anyone associated with authorship of the China White Paper was subjected to loyalty security board hearings and their careers ruined, but for different cause. The irony of this book is that it illustrates how the relationship of Melby and Hellman resulted in a collision of these two very different worlds of thought, intellectual culture, career, and experience.

It's got to be great! How much is it to replace?(See #2 qustion

This book is a lifesaver, complete with flowcharts of possible problems, descriptions of illnesses, what to do for your child and when to call the doctor. Most helpful of all are the many pictures of what rashes, etc. actually look like. I heartily recommend this for anyone with children.

Experience has shown that psychiatric disabilities are a major problem in a modern army. While training attempts to get a feeling of realism of the modern battlefield it is at best a week simulation of the first experience of combat when people are actually getting killed, and furthermore getting killed in very messy ways.

The amount of psychiatric problems being experienced by a unit is also an indication of the overall effectiveness of that unit. As such, the incidence rate should be carefully monitored by line officers at all levels.

This book is the result of studies made during operations in North Africa and the Mediterranean Theater of Operation during World War II. The book consists of a series of articles written by serving officers of the Medical Corp and relates their actions and observations during the actual treatment of individuals.

While the time period of this book is now many years ago, this was the last time that huge numbers of American soldiers were engaged in combat. While there are differences in today's more professional, smaller Army, the experiences described here should not be ignored.