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Organized by complaints, this book is great for how to work through most presentations to the ER, from when the patient arrives all the way to dispo. Good student reference, came recommended to me by a resident.

I have found this work an excellent introduction to emergency medicine, and should be first reading for any new student interested in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Madhaddevan and Dr. Garmel should be applauded for this work. Strong work Gus and Maha.

As a fourth year med student interested in EM, this is a great text. You can't finish it over one rotation at over 700 pages. But if you're taking 2-3 rotations with externships, this is a great text plod through.

I'm only about halfway through, but I like to read a chapter and then review the material in Secrets or Pocket Emergency Medicine, sometimes adding to the latter (in VERY small print) from the great material in this book.

This book is concise enough to actually be readable. It is, in my opinion better than Tintanelli because it is more straight forward and you don't need to have 2 Vol. with you at all times. Overall a great buy.

This book is great and I love the pictures. I am studying for my 10-year recertification and have looked at quite a few of the other books out there, and this book wins, hands-down. The chapters are well-written and the illustrations are great.

I am still withholding judgement on this seller. It has been a month since I order a book that I am yet to recieve.

Excellent for the nurse practitoner. Extremely comprehensive and presented in a systems format. Definitely recommend.

This book is a wonderful reference for any medical student or professional. I keep one in my medical jacket (that is always with me) and one in my office (in case I misplace my other book). I have shown this book to several colleagues and their consensus is this book IS A MUST FOR ANY MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL OR STUDENT!

There is so much info in this little book, you will not be disappointed! This looks like it will be a great reference for any medical rotation. I was very pleased to see that it had a section on how to systematically review & interpret chest x-rays. Very helpful!

Mr Hancock, time and time again I have spread word as to how efficient your text is for PA's across the country. I have used this book, and given copies of it out to others. Everyone has given it high praise. Thanks for the hard work!

This is one of two of Michael Beitler's books I recently read, the other being Strategic Organizational Change. In the most successful organizations, both learning and change must always be "strategic" to ensure that they support initiatives which achieve and then sustain continuous improvement in all areas and at all levels. In fact, as Michael Marquardt among others correctly insist, learning and change must not only be interdependent; they must occur simultaneously. That is essentially what "action learning" is all about and is most valuable when in alignment with an organization's strategy. In this volume, Beitler explains how to do that.

He has carefully organized his material within two parts: Foundations of Organizational Learning (Chapters 1 and 2) and Organizational Learning in the 21st Century (Chapters 3-10). In 2004, the estimated direct costs of training in North American companies (alone) exceeded $60-million and continue to increase substantially each year. When factoring in all costs (including waste), the adjusted total is probably incalculable. Re waste, I am again reminded of what Peter Drucker said in an article which appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 1963: "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all." One of Beitler's most important points is that before formulating and then implementing a strategic organizational learning program, it is first necessary to decide (a) what needs to be learned, (b) why it needs to be learned, and (c) which specific objectives such learning will achieve. Otherwise, worth repeating, "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."

As Beitler clearly indicates, learning without then taking appropriate action demonstrates what Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton characterize as the "Knowing-Doing Gap"; similarly, action without learning demonstrates what they characterize as the "Doing-Knowing Gap." Many senior-level executives make bad decisions because they do not know what they need to know, or because they are convinced that they know what they need to know...but don't.

Some of the most valuable material in this book is provided in Chapter 6, "Management & Professional Development," as Beitler explains how to use a variety of valuable tools for assessment, development, and performance management. They include the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI); FIRO Element B which reveals an individual's preferences for inclusion, control, and openness in human interaction; the Kirton Adapter/Innovator Instrument (KAI) which reveals potential problems between extreme adapters and extreme innovators; the Self-Directed Learning readiness Scale (SLDRS) which helps in designing a customized learning and development plan for an individual; and the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Index (CCAI) which helps to prepare and support expatriate managers and professionals for foreign assignments.

It remains for each reader to determine which of these and other "tools" are most appropriate to her or his own organization's needs in terms of strategic organizational learning. Most organizations probably need more than one of various tools now available. Beitler can help decision-makers to determine which to select, how to use each, and how to coordinate use of them. In this context, I presume to offer two caveats: For those whose only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail; conversely, if every available tool is used indiscriminately, the results are certain to be unsatisfactory.

Those who share my high regard for this volume are urged to check out Beitler's Strategic Organizational Change as well as Pfeiffer and Sutton's The Knowing-Doing Gap and their more recently published Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense, Carla O'Dell and C. Jackson Grayson's If Only We Knew What We Know, Thomas Davenport's What's the Big Idea? and his more recently published Thinking for a Living, and other sources provided by Beitler in his Annotated Bibliography, especially Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline which I think should be read in combination with his later work, The Dance of Change.

Mike Beitler did it again!! If you have not already read his first book, Strategic Organizational Change, you need to order it immediately. It is one of the best, most practical books on the subject that I have ever seen. It is one of the few books that divulge the secrets of how to actually make a change process happen.

His new one will also will not disappoint. Again Mike treats what could be a boring, stuffy subject with a down-to-earth, entertaining style. I have used both books as part of my PhD program in Organizational Development and have learned more from them then I did from a dozen others. Both books will stand on their own, but I suggest that you buy both now!

This is the second of two related books by the same author, the first being Strategic Organizational Change (This review applies to both books). Strategic Organizational Change seeks to cover all aspects of change management, of which organizational learning is one aspect. Strategic Organizational Learning was written essentially as an expansion of the learning aspects of the first, but was designed to stand alone. In consequence, there is substantial overlap, and some repetition between the two. As the titles indicate, the first book treats organizational learning as one aspect of the wider process of organizational change, while the second focuses on learning, training, and knowledge transfer and also covers issues of cross-cultural operation and learning.

Both are exactly what they claim to be: clear and comprehensive guides for practitioners, whether these are consultants (the primary audience) or managers. They are written in simple and direct terms and bring together summaries of the theories and practice of well-known authorities in the field (Lewin, Schein, Maslow and others) with a distillation of the experience of the author. The emphasis is on the universal basics and there is merciful freedom from hype and faddism. The structure of each book makes for ease of reference and the content will be useful as a memory jogger for experienced consultants as well as being a valuable guide for the less experienced.

In summary, both books are good `foundation texts' and sources of reference in their respective fields.

Anyone with experience in the field will have their quibbles about what is not included or only touched on. My list of useful additional sources include:

* while Beitler mentions systems thinking and its importance, he does not either expand on this or provide guidance to further detail (On organizational change the best sources are Senge et al: The Dance of Change and a range of articles from the Pegasus Communications magazine The Systems Thinker). The Dance of Change gives an extremely detailed analysis of the various forces that reinforce and inhibit effective change. (It is unfortunate that citations to Senge are nearly always to his original The Fifth Discipline and not to the much more directly managerially useful successors The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook and The Dance of Change);

* a related gap is the failure to identify the issues of complexity and the associated importance in change management of so-called `wicked' problems - problems to which there is no final solution so that the choice is between several partial solutions, each of which has a substantial downside. This sort of problem is common in organizational change and a frequent mistake of consultants and managers is to treat such problems as if they were `tame'. Lewin, R. and Regine, B. The Soul at Work provides particularly useful practical examples of managing with complexity;

* I would have liked to see some reference to the use of narrative techniques as a data gathering tool. There is rapidly increasing recognition of the value of these techniques in diagnosis - as well as of story-telling as a fruitful tool for promoting desired culture change;

* while many of the best authors are referenced, other important sources are not referenced. Among my favourites are Howard Gardner (Leading Minds and the later Changing Minds), Peter Vaill (Learning as a Way of Being) and, for an approach more directly based on psychology, Hultman (Making Change Irresistible).


As indicated, these points do not detract from the value of the books as a practical guide. They are very useful, with comprehensive coverage of the basics and a lot of valuable practical experience encapsulated in the text.

If you're really into organizational learning, defined as the growth of an individual to the benefit of the organization, you'll love this book. It's chock-full of discussions of a wide variety of aspects of the field. If Beitler missed anything in his broad survey of the field, I don't know what it might be. The reader is taken on a virtual encyclopedic tour of the topic.

The book reads like an academic treatise. The pages are filled with annotations and references so the reader can find additional references for further learning...or at least know the author's sources. For the specialist in the field who wants all that, it's there. I found the heavy use of references and abbreviations to be distracting, taking away from the flow of my reading. That's why I use the word "confusing" in my title for this review.

Perhaps the best use of this publication is as a text and reference book. The student entering the field-through a university setting or coming from a specialty area in the corporate environment-will gain a thorough understanding of the what and the how of organizational learning. The doors to further learning will be opened, with abundant connection to opportunities to gain depth in any of the topic areas.

General readers of business books seeking to expand their knowledge and acquire new ideas probably won't be happy with this book. It's designed more for people who are already in the field and want to become more conversant, as well as for those who seek to be practitioners but need to enrich their understanding of how organizational learning supports corporate strategy.

The reviewer is a Certified Management Consultant.

After working in the field of organizational learning for many years, I can predict that Beitler's book will soon be the new standard in the field.

"Strategic Organizational Learning" has been researched as well as any of the academic books I have ever read, but it is very easy to read. I really enjoy Beitler's writing style. And I appreciate the years of research that made the book possible.

Chapter 4 on Self-Directed Learning is the best summary on the subject available anywhere. Beitler cites the work of every leader in the field (Lucy & Paul Guglielmino, Long, Hiemstra, Brockett, Confessore, Durr, Knowles, and Piskurich). Beitler also cites his own work at Forune 100 companies.

Chapter 5 on Knowledge Capture & Transfer is worth the price of the book alone. Beitler gives you everything you need to know about knowledge management in one well-written chapter.

There are also valuable chapters on leadership development, succession planning, expatriate training, and corporate universities.

As a Practitioner I have been looking for a new perspective in Anger management and I have found it in this book. The book was delivered when promised. I am very pleased with my choice and have been using it in my Anger Management groups for the last 3 weeks, with good results. Thank You, Amazon for the wonderful service you provide. Diane McKinley

I had the great pleasure and experience of having Dr. Raymond Chip Tafrate as my professor at CCSU for the course 'Controlling Anger and Aggression.' This dynamic course was complemented perfectly by this book. Whether you are a student, therapist, or individual who is interested in controlling anger, this book is for you. There are worksheets, handouts, and personal logs to track and control anger and aggression.

To sum up, this is THE book on anger and aggression, unparalleled by any others.

Anger Management: The Complete Treatment Guidebook for Practitioners proved to be an excellent resource for teaching veterans anger management skills. The authors'Anger Episode Model clearly explains that anger does not "come out of the blue" but follows a clear sequence of cognitive appraisal, experience, and emotional expression. The inclusion of both short-term and long-term outcomes of anger expression highlight the notion that anger has long-term consequences on physical and emotional health as well as obvious short-term consequences. The sections on Fostering Cognitive Change and Forgiveness make this book unique and particularly helpful with this population. The inability to forgive self or others and an inflexible view of the world, if not addressed as part of an anger management model, can be a major obstacle in learning and applying anger management skills.

Collaboratively written by Howard Kassinove (Chairperson of the Psychology Department at Hofstra University) and Raymond Chip Tafrate (Associate Professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department at Central Connecticut State University), Anger Management: The Complete Treatment Guidebook For Practitioners is a straightforward and thoroughly practical guide designed to substantially assist professional psychologists and caseworkers of all fields to help their patients and clients deal with a condition of unhealthy, counter-productive anger. Individual chapters address a model and plan to help people increase their awareness of anger and change their responses, and to police themselves to in order to maintain an emotionally healthier way of life. Anger Management is highly recommended reading for anyone charged with a professional responsibility to deal with and assist angry clients whether the setting is in private practice, an outpatient clinic, a hospital setting, or within the criminal justice system.

Anger Management by Howard Kassinove and Raymond Tafrate is by far the most complete and up to date text for therapists. It is a must read resource for all environments, children, adults and families, as well as the workplace. The authors break down anger episodes into understandable segments in order to assess the client's anger intensity and frequency.

Then they rebuild with techniques that include life skills, problem solving snd step by step ways to change thinking. Among the communication skills the motivated client will learn is how to give and receive criticism without becoming defensive. There is also emphasis on non-verbal communication, including body language and direct eye contact.

The model presented for problem solving skills is very important, because it encourages the client to seek alternative solutions, thus reducing anger and frustration.

Ultimately, Kassinove and Tafrate examine forgiveness as part of anger management. By forgiving, eith within or outside of a religious conviction, a person gains the ability to move on. Anger Management is a MUST have for every practitioner's bookshelf--only after a thorough reading!

This is a great practical implementation guide for HR Practitioner. For every steps in setting up a talent management and succession management process in the organisation, it provides factors to questions, management decisions to be made and points to take note of. A great resource.

Thanks to Doris and Matt for their great work! I found this book especially helpful in two areas: a) addressing key issues an organization should think about relative to its readiness for a succession planning process; and b) the detail on the talent review meeting process. I also like the "Terms and Definitions" section since many different terms within organizations are used to describe this process. My only wish is that the book spent more time discussing what should happen during the year (between talent review meetings).

This book is an outstanding resource for any HR Business Partner and any business leader who understands the importance of identifying and building individual and organizational capability. The book contains very practical ideas and suggestions that will help an organization build maturity in talent management and succession planning. This is one of those books that all HR practitioners in HR Business Partner or Organizational Development roles should have!

I purchased this book in preparation for several Talent Reviews that I was due to plan and facilitate within my organization. To say the least, it was a tremendously helpful and useful resource every step of the way. Not only did it provide me step-by-step guidance on preparing all the details of my sessions, but the checklists and templates were instrumental in helping me facilitate effective and meaningful discussions for my clients.

I am now using this book to help me in preparing next steps following the Talent Reviews to ensure momentum is not lost. And once again, I am delighted by the insight and practical tools the book offers to support me in this process.

My favorite part of this book is its "just-in-time" nature. I have read it on planes, in the office, at home and at stop lights on my way to work. In fact, I've even had it by my side in the actual Talent Review discussions in case I need to refer to it during breaks.

I highly recommend this book to anyone involved with Talent Management and Succession Planning in their organization. It offers new insights, as well as reinforces concepts and ideas you've heard before, and packages it all in a practitioner-friendly way to ensure effective application.

The collaborative work of human resource specialists Matthew Gay and Doris Sims, "Building Tomorrow's Talent: A Practitioner's Guide To Talent Management And Succession Planning" is a superbly organized and articulately presented compendium of practical advice, ideas, tips, techniques, and planning tools designed to create and implement processes for the accurate assessment of a leadership team within any sized business organization from newly launched entrepreneurial enterprises to established multinational corporations. "Building Tomorrow's Talent" features numerous checklists, 'FAQ' sections, charts, slide presentation ideas, and an applicable project planning template adaptable to any business organization. Of special note is the 'to tell or not to tell' question with respect to high potential notification decisions. "Building Tomorrow's Talent" is a unique and highly recommended instructional reference for anyone charged with the responsibility of developing and managing the human resources of a business operation of any size or scope.

This terrific book covers ground I haven't seen elsewhere in the consulting field, including: umbrella brands, brand equity, establishing your name as the brand, tying-in products, using the media, and a great deal more. There is one reviewer who has posted the identical, negative review in all of Dr. Weiss's books: they are "repeats" of his classic "Million Dollar Consulting." There is no way this lengthy explanation of branding receives more than cursory mention in "Million Dollar Consulting," as good as that book may be. I doubt the negative review is based on actual reading of the book. For consultants who are rushing from "fire to fire," this is a great resource to slow us down and tackle the longer-term marketing which will result in business pursuing us rather than the other way around. There is nothing revolutionary here, just solid, pragmatic advice to use tomorrow.

More fantastic consulting practice advice from Alan Weiss.

Eight months into building my leadership influence consulting practice, Mr Weiss has given me the gift of branding. He has shown me how to build the "gravity" to draw prospects to me, how to get more specific about the value I offer to clients, and what actions I need to take now to build the brand that will build my business.

I have seen some of these elements before, but this book wraps it all up in a neat template for action, and it has got me moving. I keep this book on my desk, not my shelf.

Not just for the individual but also for the person in firm. I have applied Alan's ideas in selling professional services and differentiating my "products" from in-house work and competitors. The book is packed full of ideas. Implement two and it may take awhile to see the results - but it comes. As the other editorials write - it's not about cold calling - it's about the client(s) coming to you. Sound impossible. Read the book, it will be the best investment you ever make!! And I do mean investment - it'd take you take years to think of some of these ideas - if ever.

Alan Weiss tells it like it is. If you want to learn from one of the best...read EVERYTHING Alan Weiss writes! Alan's insights and experience are second to none. I personally own just about every book Alan Weiss has written. He is not only a consultant's consultant, but he is also a gifted writer as well.
Alan Weiss's advice, insights and knowledge will take years off your learning curve. This book is a must for your library.

Lenny Laskowski, Author of National Best Selling Book:
"10 Days to More Confident Public Speaking"
President of LJL Seminars(tm)

This book establishes a strong case for branding very early. It then goes on to show you several techniques for creating your brand.Some of these include isolating patterns from your previous successes, writing books, speaking, creating marketable products to reinforce the brand etc.

The pay off of successful branding is that it creates an attraction that draws business your way, helps with client retention in the face of competition, and provides you with a guidance system for your practice.

Excellent reading for all. This book was well put together and truly helped me understand what a nurse working on the front line during times of war is exposed to both mentally and physically. Page after page the author, Deanna, shows us what the true definition of what a nurse really is and what all nurses should strive to achieve. If you want to read a book that's impossible to put down till it's finished If your a nurse looking for inspiration. Even if you're not a nurse. Most of all, if you are looking for that, "written from the heart kinda book", this books for you.
By far the best book I've ever read. 5 stars plus more!!!
Well done Deanna, well done...

This book was so good, I could not put it down. It shows humanity in the face of war.

Lt. Col. (Ret.) Germain said about this book that she hoped "to put a human face on war, showing that it affects us all, no matter what side we are on." She also helps families of returning soldiers to understand some of their loved ones' re-entry issues. The story of Germain's Abu Ghraib experience is important reading, and Lounsbury has done a masterful job of professionally writing the narrative.

Lt. Col. Germain in her memoirs spoke of great values that are easily lost in the battle field. She cared for her Iraqi patients and treated them with respect and dignity. She lived by a strict code of conduct when humiliation and torture of prisoners was taking place so close by. She made us all proud Americans by demonstrating our true values to those who disagree with us and certainly won their hearts and minds.

Great reading. You really have to admire her. News coverage what a bunch of BS.

Appreciative Leader In the Eye of the Beholder

Book review by Dr. Elaine Sullivan, 1998 National Principal of the Year

In this very readable book the editors present the theory and practice of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) for the practitioner to immediately use. The fruitfulness and promise of AI come to life in the unfolding stories from a wide range of organizational fields. The stories each had various aspects that resonate for me in how to lead from the positive frame. For me, the Appreciative Leader creates clarity of theory, principles, and concepts while strongly anchoring and grounding them in the real life work of leading and following from the positive and strengths-based approach. The success and flow of AI as a way of life and leading and doing jump out at you even when the stories get you in the trenches and even into the day-to-day minutiae of work and the hard stuff that drags you down and can move you to that negative place. In reading and re-reading the book, I find myself saying "Oh, I've seen someone do that" or "I do that" which connects the reader to the theory and principles written about in the Appreciative Leader.

The sections on the AI Principles provide one of the strongest explanations of what the Principles are, how they work, and how they relate to the research. The editors' thorough descriptions and explanations of the principles establish a foundation for making them more meaningful. The AI Principles are much clearer to me through reading this section.
The Appreciative Leader is a must have book for your AI library! This book sets the big picture of leading through appreciative inquiry. As a high school principal this book set me on my journey of intentional appreciative leadership and an affirmation of my leadership strengths. I just wish that I had discovered it earlier in my career and met sooner the colleagues who are also on the same journey.

It was inspiring to read the compiled interviews of appreciative leaders. The stories which emerge portray not lofty idols on a pedestal but quite the opposite. The leaders are remarkably human and the kind of people you would like to engage in a conversation. Their authenticity provides a resource for those who wish to develop strengths and abilities as a leader. The editors expand on the interviews by including additional data and developing a Model of Appreciative Leadership which captures characteristics of appreciative leaders.

A fresh concise readily readable book on the management paradigm of appreciative leadership. A thorough discussion of this management model with a visual construct on page 159, a chapter linking theory and practice, and inspiring interviews with both renown and unsung appreciative leaders from a variety of organizational arenas. Use it to inspire , to train, to teach ,to motivate managers,staff, studentsand others. This book has both wisdom and vision for the future, edited by women of wisdom and vision, themselves appreciative leaders .,

I have to admit that the appreciative inquiry movement is new to me. "Appreciative Leaders: In the Eye of the Beholder" was recommended by a friend and, after reading it, I am eager to learn more. Is this book the best place to start for anyone who wants to get up to speed fast on this exciting process beginning to transform organizational life? I can't imagine why not.

As a member of the Washington Ethical Society, whose mantra is "Elicit the best," I am naturally intrigued by the repeated promise of appreciative inquiry to bring out the best in human beings and their organizations. In this book, a number of leaders achieve this goal with what means are available to them. Apparently they all seek, consciously or not, to join and enhance their associates' strengths while rendering their weaknesses immaterial.

Marjorie Schiller, one of the book's three editors, points out the three core elements of appreciation: acknowledging what is special; recognizing the ordinary or expected; and appreciating what is painful and difficult in many of life's experiences. How these are used by appreciative leaders is examined again and again in the book with leaders whose habitat ranges from large industrial corporations to health care and community support organizations.

The editors invited 110 people to propose stories for this book and chose 15. Each author interviewed and wrote a rich profile of men and women who demonstrate appreciative leadership in action. Appreciative leaders, the book suggests, are a new breed for a new era. We all have the opportunity to be leaders in some fashion; but effective leadership is "in the eye of the beholder." The relationship of leaders to others -- and their mutual appreciation -- define its reality.

As human institutions become more organized operationally from within and from the base to the top, rather than the opposite, successful leaders are those who are and must be appreciative.

Since Forbes Magazine has chosen Bob Stiller of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters as Entrepreneur of the year, I think the authors, in choosing him as an appreciative leader, were right on the money. The leaders they describe are inspirational people who are enjoying success in business using simple but effective relational skills. These important ideas which support positive and authentic interactions should help shape the leaders we need for the future. I found this book to be a very accessible introduction to the field of Appreciative Inquiry. I'm excited to have discovered this beneficial little book and I've already recommended it to several people. It was well worth my precious reading time.

Mary Lee LaBay provides past life regression techniques helpful for both the novice and expert to understand and eliminate the stresses and hardships experienced in everyday life. The book is loaded with riveting examples. It also contains past life regression scripts anyone can use.

Mary Lee tackles the tough issues like false memories, belief systems and reality vs metaphor. She also discusses fascinating concepts like life between lives, and souls that can step in to lives already in progress.

Simply "head and shoulders" above other books in this field. An easy read too.

What a pleasure to find a book that covers all areas of concern with regard to Past Life Regression Work.No mumbo jumbo here, just an easy to follow overview and advice on the Topic.
I really get sick of books that waffle on....if you want to know about Past Life Work, this is it.5 out of 5 Mary Lee.
Coming from a critical Aussie thats not bad at all. I look forward to the next book.

I recently purchased this book. This regressionist is local to me in Washington State, and she used to be on the AM radio quite frequently at KKNW AM1150 in Bellevue, WA.

In fact, I "won" a group regression session by calling the station at the appropiate time. I attended the session and was able to quite clearly visualize a former incarnation in Russia that seems to always surface in group sessions such as this one, probably because it might be quite relevant to my current situation this lifetime.

She has quite a local following and it seems she has been featured at national and international symposiums on reincarnation related topics. Actually, I have only casually read parts of the book, but I can attest to her abilty as a practitioner.

I have read a lot on past life regression. This book has good case examples for the beginner!

I'm not a past life regression practitioner but I'm trying to access past life memories by working with a hypnotist and doing my own meditation.

Even so this book was fascinating for me.

It goes far beyond just the mechanics of hypnotizing someone although that is covered for the professionals who regress others for a living.

It looks at past life memories and the time between lives from a broad perspective as far as how they relate to each other and to this current life.

The author seems to have certain psychic abilities and be able to travel in other dimensions such as the 'astral' plane of existance.

There are many strange topics in this book which will be almost revolutionary to people who have strict beliefs. These are too numerous to list in this review but suffice it to say these might fall under the category of 'new age' ideas for some people.

This is a great book. It keeps coming out with amazing ideas right on through to the epilogue which offers a wonderful message of hope.

Jeff Marzano

Meditation Music of Ancient Egypt

Lives of the Master: The Rest of the Jesus Story

Same Soul, Many Bodies: Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives through Progression Therapy

The Lives of Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce's Egypt: Psychic Revelations on the Most Fascinating Civilization Ever Known

Initiation

Initiation in the Great Pyramid (Astara's Library of Mystical Classics)

The book was extremely well written and clear. If I had to pick one Reiki book to learn from, it would be this one.

As a Reiki master and one of Tina's former students we did not have this book but rather we learned right from the teacher herself. The Reiki Teacher's Manual is a wonderful teaching and technical tool for everyone who is thinking about learning more about Reiki.
As one of Tina's former students, I can say that it is her personality that makes learning so much easier. This book is the most informative I have read about Reiki and I have read many.
This woman knows what she's talking about and practices what she teaches. I'm so excited about this book and know how helpful it will be for anyone.
Go Tina!

Nita Seabaugh

Tina's "The Reiki Teachers Manual" for me is a refresher course I can use whenever I have time. She presented the reicki material in a language all can comprehend from students to teachers. The hands on techniques were outstanding. Thanks Tina for being "you" for so many of us. Lovingly, Anita K. Carter

The Reiki Teacher's Manual: A Guide for Teachers, Students and Practitioners I read Tina Zion's new book from cover to cover. The organization and the text are so clear and concise that this is an excellent manual for a Reiki teacher or student. I am a college professor so I admire an author who can present her material in such an understandable and easy flowing manner. If I were teaching a Reiki class, I would most certainly use this book for myself and my students. I learned a great deal about energy and Reiki from reading the manual and I look forward to other offerings from this author in the future.

Comprehensive in its coverage of Reiki and clear in its design, this book is a priceless step-by-step guide on how to conduct Reiki classes. All you need to know as a Reiki teacher is right here -- including handouts! It also contains more in-depth information for those of us who have already been trained in Reiki. A fun and enjoyable read, the author's writing style reflects her wisdom, reverence, and vast experience with Reiki.