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The material in this book is incredible. I cannot recommend it highly enough to both law officers and security specialists. Dozens and dozens of blueprints for homemde bombs. You need this knowledge.

The material in this book is incredible. I cannot recommend it highly enough to both law officers and security specialists. Dozens and dozens of blueprints for homemde bombs. You need this knowledge.

Carl Rogers dares to develop a non-hierarchical paradigm of human relationships. He explores key social structures and institutions, including marriage, education, parenting and administration, with the view that all persons in the relationships are inherantly of equal value. "On Personal Power" is refreshingly optimistic, with a tinge of "the dawning of the Age of Aquarius" flavor, which may motivate some baby boomers to ask themselves, "What ever happened to our hopes and endeavors?"

Books aren't always going to give people insight or truly cover the scope of their feelings, but no matter what your first inclination towards this book is, it will present some things that may even give you a hint of new insight or a new way of looking at things. What Rogers describes becomes almost a "mystical" sensation, one of the few life affirming attitudes that help us rule out logical paradigms and be comfortable with our feelings.

When one reads Langguth's HIDDEN TERRORS: THE TRUTH ABOUT US POLICE OPERATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA, one is struck with the similarities between what was happening there and then and what is happening here and now. As we shall see, that similarity is not coincidental. For instance, there is the same attempt to justify torture by using the "ticking bomb scenario" (pp. 141-2). But when one examines the actual behavior of Latin American police trained by American "advisors" and at times, the advisors themselves, one finds that the reality has nothing to do with any such threat to human life and very little to do with the quest for intelligence.
Take for instance the case of Jean Marc Von der Weid, a Brazilian activist whose father was a Swiss banker and whose mother was from a prominent Brazilian political family. He first became involved in politics in 1968 after a high school boy was killed by the police in the course of a peaceful demonstration. As police methods of quelling demonstrations became more brutal, he went into hiding. Eventually he was caught and taken to a local police station where six other suspect were waiting. "They were told to stand with their feet far from the wall, and then to lean forward and press their palms against it. For half an hour they were beaten on their kidneys with clubs. It was not a punishment for refusing to answer questions. No questions had been asked. It was a preliminary lesson, to impress upon them the consequences of being arrested." (pp. 162-3). Needless to say, no policeman stopped to wonder if they might not even have the right suspects-- a person who had done nothing whatsoever and was picked up by mistake would have received the same treatment. Afterwards, Jean Marc was shipped to a prison where he was beaten with clubs and shocked with electric wires for twenty-four consecutive hours. "At first, the torture was purely administrative, the first step in the prison's routine." Jean Marc's captors did not even discover his identity until the third day, yet they were torturing him from the start (p. 163).
Then there was Marcos Arruda, a geology student who had protested foreign control over Brazil's mineral wealth. Unable to find employement commensurate with his abilities because of his activism, he went to work at a Mercedes-Benz factory. In 1970, he began to get involved with trade union demonstrations against the deplorable working conditions in the factory. In the course of this, he became involved with a woman named Marlene Soccas, who was a member of the resistence to the US-backed dictatorship. Ultimately Marlene was captured and tortured continuously for four days. The police got her to point Marcos out to them. When they brought him to headquarters, they beat him for hours before they asked a single question (p. 211). Then they started using electrical torture. The torture went on until Marcos went into convulsions, which did not stop. "For the next month and a half, Marcos could not stop shaking." The police sent him to a military hospital. They had gotten no information from him, but they were sure they were justified in torturing him. As a policeman who appeared at his bedside said, "You are not a worker. You are a geologist. That means that you were in the factory to spread subversion. When you get better here, you'll go back to that place again." It was obvious that the goal of the police was to get him to confess to a crime he did not commit. When he was taken back to the prison, they used his girlfriend Marlene to torture him, beating her in the next room while Marcos was forced to listen (pp. 208-216). One wonders how a human being could stand all this, without going insane, and indeed, many did, making them entirely unreachable for intelligence purposes, something which did not seem to bother the police. Fernando Gabiera, a labor organizer, was sent to a prison where he was kept in an isolation cell for two months. "But he did hear occasional stirrings in the next cell.. Fernando tapped on the wall. At last he persuaded the man to put his mouth to a crack in the wall and speak to him. "I'm alive," the man whispered. It was the only thing Fernando understood. The man was mad." (p. 202)
To those who have read Alfred W. McCoy's A QUESTION OF TORTURE: CIA METHODS OF INTERROGATION FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE WAR ON TERROR, these methods are all too familiar. And indeed, it was the CIA who trained the Brazilian policemen who tortured the individuals mentioned above. They also trained an American AID official who has become famous through his capture and assassination by the Tupameros and consequent portrayal in a film I have reviewed, STATE OF SIEGE-- Dan Mitrione. Unfortunately, Langguth evidently did not know the full truth about this man, who looms so large in his narrative, until the book was ready to go to press. What he learned was from a book written by the Cuban Manuel Hevia Cosculluela is included at the end in "A Cuban Footnote". Hevia describes Mitrione personally preparing the basement of a house he had rented in Montevideo, Uruguay, for a torture demonstration, making sure that it was soundproof. As subjects, he used beggars including one woman, none of whom had committed any crimes. Hevia's book is not available in English, so I have to rely upon what I read in the English translations in Langguth's book and that of McCoy, who quotes him as saying, "The special horror of [Mitrione's torture class] was its academic, almost clinical atmospere." (McCoy, p. 72) Langguth quotes Mitrione as saying to Hevia (whom he thought was working for the CIA-- in fact, he was a double agent) that the object of torture is to humiliate the subject, to make him understand that he is completely helpless, to isolate him from the reality outside his cell," presumably including the reality of whatever activity he had been involved in, and which caused him to be arrested. Even after he had gotten information from a subject, Mitrione favored prolonging the torture session, "Not to get information now, but as a political instrument to scare him away from further rebel activity." (Langguth pp. 312-313).
Quite obviously, the object of the torture described in this book was not the acquisition of intelligence to save human lives, but the spreading of terror in order to prop up a totalitarian regime. What then are we to think when we read in NEWSWEEK that the CIA is presently torturing thousands of detainees in the so-called "War on Terror" who have no further use as sources of intelligence, simply because "they are scum and deserve to be waterboarded every day for the rest of their lives"? (NEWSWEEK, October 8, 2007).

"Langguth is a novelist as well as a newspaperman, and he must have realized before he began this book that he could not simply lay out the facts of our complicity in police terror in Latin America: he had to find a way to make us as angry as he is about the harm our government has done, or his book, like so many exposes, might be further used to inflate our old boast that the USA is a wonderfully free, democratic society to allow such publications. He chose to tell flatly, laconically, as if it were as early Sinclair Lewis novel, the story of Dan Mitrione, the American police advisor in Uruguay kidnapped and executed in 1970 by the Tupamaros, and to alternate this small-town Midwesterner's experience with what was going on in the more glamorous and various worlds of Washington, the CIA, the Brazilian and Uruguayan military commands, and the revolutionary underground. He succeeds in creating interest and suspense, and in making one share his moral repulsion; indeed, one wished, as naively as when one was young, that this book would make something happen." by Jose Yglesias, The Nation --from book's back cover

"We may well be grateful to Brown for this book on the condition of mankind as it appears to an erudite, clear-sighted, critically appraisng scientist...the latest phase of technical-scientific progress, with its fantastic increase of population, has created a situation fraught with problems of hitherto unknown dimensions, this objective work is of high value." Also recommended by Supreme Court Justice William Douglas, this is an early and still highly valuable contribution to "future shock"-type planning and anticipation, hmmm, hum a few bars.

I reread this book 35 years after college. It reveals amazing insight. Brown said in the 50's that we would pretty much go down the tubes when our resources ran out unless citizens of the world act intelligently together. So far, we have ignored his warnings and pursued narrow self-interest with great zeal. Though he did not anticipate the information revolution, he still could be right that a depleted world will one day support only a limited population living an agrarian lifestyle.
(You can read all his conclusions in the last 15 pages)

I found this book to the point, insightful and most of all practical. I highly recommend it to technology professionals in the field of Information management.

This book is the one place to get all the information you needed for Performance Management. The author outlines how combining the traditional role of CFO and CIO, into the Chief Performance Officer can increase business value.
If you try to get this information from other books or industry analysts (ie. Gartner, Meta, Giga) there is no clear methodology on how to implement a program like this. This book offered the one-stop shopping for perormance management.
I like the short case studies in each chapter, since they drive home how people are really doing this.
It is a detailed enough book to get the right information, but overburdened with academic theories which can never be applied in business.
I would love to see a follow-on book for more case studies and the CPO in action.

It was such a relief to read this book, to know that other women have experienced and share in the frustration and outright discrimination I've experienced. I have never wanted, and do not want, children. As I get older (and as this mythical "clock" is supposed to start ticking), the idea of having children in my home seems less and less appealing.

Yet, despite the fact that my insurance covers sterilization, I have yet to find a doctor willing to do it because I don't have children and will supposedly change my mind. Let me get this straight: I could think about my future with enough surety to get a Ph.D., buy a car, manage not to go into debt by working through grad school, make life-or-death medical decisions for my father, and - if I wanted - could adopt a child from just about anywhere on earth, but I am somehow not capable of making a choice about my own sterilization? Yet, if I were merely 16 and showed up at a doctor's office wanting to have a baby, I doubt any doctor would tell me to have an abortion because I might not know my own mind and may want a different life in the future.

I cannot express how refreshing it was to read similar - and worse! - stories from other women. This is an excellent book; it is well researched and clear, and focuses not just on personal stories but on bias in medical treatment. It also debunks some myths about women who very much want to be sterilized - as in, they actually don't regret it. Terrific read. My copy is dog-eared, and has been borrowed by many friends of mine who have been in the same position, and had no idea such a book existed.

This book was written as a collection of the experiences of a group of women seeking sterilization services in the UK. One has to take into account that there may be some additional resistance to the sterilization of British women as a result of the national health service system of managed care. That said, in my experience the UK population seems to be more comfortable with the notion of voluntary nulliparity and sterilization than that of the US.

US guidelines for voluntary sterilization are based on the "rule of 120". This means that a woman's age is multiplied by a factor of 2 and then by the number of children she has. If that result equals 120 then the woman is considered an acceptable candidate for sterilization. This means that a 30 year old with 2 kids would meet less resistance to a request to be sterilized while a person with no children would never be eligible during her childbearing years.

This book was an important part of the creation of my personal statement in the defense of my decision to follow the lead of the women in this book. In fact, in the end I was required to follow the lead of the women in this book literally. At 29 I successfully visited London's Marie Stopes Clinic and encountered [very gratefully] none of the resistance or disrespect that so often surrounds this process. Such experiences are detailed in the outrage expressed by many of those who tell their stories here. "Childfree and Sterilized" was a central resource in my understanding and planning for the issues surrounding this choice.

I finded this book an exellent source of the strenth and hope which helping me a lot to fight with my old enemy-chronic pain. I am rewreading some of the chapters of this book, when I feel down and exoughsted with pain. There's not just dry instructions but a friendly and competent advise. I feel much better as physically as phsychologically after reading this book. If you are one of those who is suffering with pain, this book is what you need. I highly recommend it to bue it and it will help you to win pain or at least be in control of it.

Unfortunately, I learned almost all the stuff in this book the hard way: through countless doctors, practioners, classes, friends, internet postings and searches, medical journals and books, library visits, etc. The information is pretty current and will give you a very good, balanced view of treating chronic pain, this most mysterious and frustrating of all modern ailments. It provides a wide variety of topics, including how to cope with the emotional stress that accompanies the pain. In an ocean of methods, information, and misinformation, this book is a convenient little tug boat to guide you through the harbor.

My heart goes out to anyone having to deal with chronic pain and it's insidious misdiagnsosis and mistreatment by the leading medical establishment. This book should help you battle against the big dogs and fight your way through the influx of information, and hopefully find you some relief.

I have used this book for nine years in working with individuals with chronic pain. It is skills-based, and it covers most of the important aspects of psychological treatment of pain. If you cannot get this book, try 10 Simple Solutions to Chronic Pain in addition to The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook.

The Chronic Pain Control Workbook is by far the best of its kind. It truly will walk a chronic pain sufferer through a step-by-step program that, if followed consistently, WILL improve the quality of the chronic sufferer's life. I have used it successfully with thousands of patients. HOWEVER, the book is now out-of-print (for some unfathomable reason that nether the publisher nor the authors care to explain) and I am seeing extreme price gouging! Don't fall for it and do not pay exorbitant prices for a book that's listed at $17.95. If you can't find a used one for a reasonable price, "The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook (2000, 5th edition, also by New Harbinger Publications) by M. Davis, Elizabeth Eshelman, and Matthew McKay - ISBN: 1572242140 covers almost all the topics just as well as the Pain Control Workbook does. What's missing are the chapters on medications, theories of pain, and vocational issues, but these are covered quite well elsewhere. The Relax workbook is available for list price of $19.95, but I have seen it used for as little as $10. A MUCH saner way to go!

I couldn't put this book down once I started it. It gives an account of how the military and CIA gained her trust, then used drugs and hypnosis to split her into two personalities to make her into a Manchurian-Candidate like person to do their bidding. This is the most readable book I have read on mind-control. I would recommend read this book FIRST to gain an understanding of mind-control, THEN read the other books.

I have books by two other people, though not as well thought out as this one. I believe these claims because it is so unlikely that these three got together. Besides, Candy Jones ran her own business and has a very logical, pragmatic, mind. She also had enough money to get to doctors who she trusted to help get her back to normal, or at lest function as normal.

I listened to her on the radio and remember her not wanting to tell this story because it is embarrassing and she was so afraid of the people who did this to her.

She warned people to take a tape recorder with them to the doctor's office. I respected Candy very much and was so sorry to hear that her patriotic motivations were turned around by the government to cause her harm.

I was Conservative at the time, the first two books I read, for entertainment mostly, were very disjointed, hard to read, and not organized properly. But the thought did occur to me that if these women had gone through what they claimed and did not get a lot of serious help, perhaps that is the way that they would write.

When I read about Candy, who I respect, it was the start of my entire political outlook changing because there is no way that I can deny her story.

It appears as though many of the things that we used to accuse the Soviets of are things that we are guilty of, too.

I recommend this book to everyone.

Steve Samuels, an expert in the field has done it again with this well written and easy to understand book on a very complicated subject.

If you are a newbie in CICS and want and want to get up to speed fast then this is the book for you! The book starts you off with the basics and get you started coding CICS programs. There are even some JCL examples that will help you to compile programs for CICS.

I used this book to make an online system Y2K compliant. I would recommend that you have some MVS background before using this book.