Practitioners Books

An informative book for those pursuing an Advanced Practice Degree in Nursing. Practical, relevant information about many different aspects. Would definitely recommend.

A textbook for school, no matter what I say here... you probably still have to purchase it. No pictures in the whole book (all the pages are slap full of words), so get ready for a long semester!

No matter what type of APN you are, this is a good textbook to review the role of the APN as well as the history of our professions. Easy to read and understand, covers the topics completely.

What is a CNS? Well, the other advanced practice nurses are fairly easy to understand - but this book says it all. It has been the most used book (okay, well, besides my Rosen's for emergency care) I own. Dr. Hamric is very well respected and known and the respective authors in the book are nationally known and respected. This is THE book and highly recommended for anyone wanting to know about advanced practice nursing, where we came from, the theory behind what we do and why, issues that are facing us and outcomes and more and more. I've used it for EVERY core content class and see myself using it even when I'm practicing. I'm glad that our CNS professor had us purchase this book over any other role book. It really is an excellent resource.

We are using this book in my grad class. Helpful in understanding the CNS versus NP roles but later on it gets redundant and not very interesting. I know that lots of the information in it will show up on boards so I am keeping it. Just remember to keep a cup of coffee near when you are reading.

I know others have found this a good resource but I found it very dry and tedious to read. I returned the book.

Thorough, concise, easy to read and understand.
I like the real world examples.

To understand conflict, attention needs to be paid to the differences in ways individuals approach it. The way people handle conflict is definition of who they are and how they relate to others. People approach to conflict derives not only from their upbringing and how they have been taught to deal with conflict, but their culture plays a key role. Conflict often is generated when people feel disempowered. Power is the currency for conflict whether its exercise is intentional or not; when people are in conflict their power is in play. The choice in conflict is not whether to use power but how to use it. When people try to meet their needs in face of resistance, they are exercising power. The success of conflict depends on part on how much power they are able to muster and how wise they are in using it. The use of power can escalate or deescalate a conflict. It can create resistance or overcome it. People can employ their power to create momentum for constructive dialogue and collaborative negotiations; or they can use it to beat others down and to prevent co-operation. Everyone has a choice of how to use power or how to respond to power; the one choice participants don't have is not having any power at all.

This is a very theoretical study on conflict and its resolution. Unlike other texts this delves into the core of conflict and explains it to the detail.

A serviceable text for students and acolyte practitioners of conflict resolution. This was required reading for a Master's course, and I found it to be engaging, immensely readable, and applicable. Since it is an entry-level text, it covers broad approaches and does not offer much specificity to a particular field of conflict resolution (international diplomacy, social work, and business negotiations are all painted with the same brush). Still, it is a testament to the universality of Mayer's core concepts that his conflict resolution methodology loosely applies to all of these venues.

This book provides a practical, easy-to-follow explanation of conflict resolution. The author uses his practice experience and research knowledge to provide practitioners with a solid understanding of the dynamics of conflict resolution.

The book satisfies someone who is interested in alternative concepts on how whether widely accepted view of calculating the estimate of future project or ROA gives more precise estimation.

Good graphs, easy to read but good to know simple concepts like SML and CAPM model before reading the book

This book is a little confusing but if you have a background in finance, it is very helpful. It is also a valuable book for anyone, especially with the way the market is.

I'm feeling very frustrated with this book, and here's why. The text contains sample questions, and directs to a website for the solutions. The website requires registration in order to access the material. After filling out the necessary details, I received an email from the publisher stating that I did not qualify as I am not a lecturer. I pointed out that the text claims to be a practitioners guide, not a lecturers guide. After numerour emails back and forth I've given up - I'll return it instead.

Most curiously I was never offered to purchase the material, so I can't even feel conned - just pissed-off.

I regret not requiring this text for my students this semester. While there are a few typo's, that is not the point, as the problems are all easy to work out and solve.

A very, very good book. If you are teaching a senior level course that uses even just a few weeks of real options (like my engineering economy course) use this book! You can cover the whole book in 10 or 12 lectures. The end of chapter problems (while a trifle scant) are well done!

I use this book as a required book in a course on my graduate study. It is hard to understand and writen like a novel. However, it is very up-to-date. Readers should have a bit strong background on options, finance and investment.

Excellent condition of book, speedy delivery, and a fantastic content within the book.

Great book which provides definitions and state-by-state breakdowns of important concepts, such as collaboration, prescriptive authority and SCAs.

As a grad student interested in starting my own practice upon graduation, I found this book to be useless. It has been reprinted by another publishing company and its original copyright date is 1999. Between then and now - 2004 - a lot of things have changed. Therefore, I would recommend that anyone who requires current information should look elsewhere. This is a very expensive book as is not helpful at all!!!

I found Carolyn Buppert's second edition of Business Practice and Legal Guide to be very helpful. The additional chapters are useful for my practice and for research on a state wide level. I would recommend this book to nurse practitioners and students of the profession. It is proving to be a valuable resource for improving NP practice in Alabama. Be sure to get the second edition (2003/2004)as the first was published in 1995.

I had the pleasure of reading this book while finishing my last year in nurse practitioner school.

Ms. Buppert is a master in defining how to negotiate business contracts.

I met the author at a nurse practioner conference in Nashville Tn and she was very down to earth and truly magnificent in her knowledge of laws affecting nurse practioners.

I highly recommend this book.

I loved this book. I've read many trying to find someone who understands and can intelligently write on this subject. This book was incredibly helpful to me. I refer back to it often. It helped me to recognize myself in the words written and to see that maybe I'm not as crazy as I sometimes feel. The description and explanation of how it feels to live in two different worlds, the trauma world and the "real" world was very affirming. I knew I felt like I was on the other side of a glass wall watching life go by and feeling like I was by myself on the other side - the trauma side - with no way of getting out. I still haven't gotten to the other side but it was so helpful to read about someone else's experience of the same thing. Thank you for this book which now goes next to Herman's "Trauma and Recovery" as the books that have helped me most as I struggle to find a way to get through each day.

As a survivor myself, I can say that this book offers a good deal of affirmation and additional insight. The combination of viewpoints -- patient and therapist -- is most helpful, and the places where the authors really allow their personalities to shine through will warm your hearts. These are two Good Women (IMO). I wished that the personal style dominated more often, but in seeking to be a reference for practitioners as well as survivors, the book often takes quite an academic tone. There's an interesting tension between academia (replete with references), and self-help (the personal focus for the survivor). On the whole, I think it works.

There is one thing missing, however, and that is serious mention of mothers as sexual abusers (my reason for 4 stars instead of 5). In the book, the worst behavior of mothers is casting the blind eye at what dad is doing to little Wanda, but sometimes dad is the one casting the blind eye while mother playing doctor (or other things). I say this from personal experience. The avoidance of the idea of mother-daughter incest is due, I suppose, to the ultimate taboo that says mothers only go from a scale of 0 (blind) to 10 (warmly nurturing, apple pie and the flag). In fact, mothers can be right down there at -10, just like dads and uncles and grandpas can. And when a mother betrays your trust, it is really crazy-making.

I could tell you stories -- and I plan to, if I can ever get an agent and publish my memoir!

Sheri Oz and Sara-Jane Ogiers have written an important book. Their main contribution to the field, in my opinion, is that they enable the reader to get a sense of the actual experience of both client and therapist. Sara-Jane Ogiers has courageously, and generously, shared her beautifully written diaries. In this way, the reader can get a direct sense of both the psychological scars that can result from child sexual abuse, and the difficult work that is needed to recover. Sheri Oz has succeeded in conveying a real sense of what this work can be like for the therapist, in addition to providing a theoretical context highighting many aspects of the consequences and treatment of sexual abuse.
Y. Tauber, Clinical Psychologist

This book is remarkable for telling it like it really is..the therapists' ability to track the theraputic process, combined with the insights and understandings from the diaries of client make this book a personal and enlighting journey into the recovery process.I strongly recommend this book for therapists and for surviviors...it gives hope and shows the way.

This book is engaging from begining to end. Through the entire book chapter by chapter the reader will recognize the wisdom and insight that only a professional or a victim can bring to the subject. If you are an interested layman, professional or a victim, you will learn from the authors' perspectives on this cruel and unfortunately common phenomena of child sexual abuse. I highly recommend this book.

If you are doing infosec policy dev., this book is aweseome!

It saved me 10 hours this week alone.

I must agree with the previous reviewer, this book is lacking.
I bought a copy new and had the same problem where the
holes punched in the paper does not match the binder spacing.
What terrible quality. I had to force myself to even read
through the book after that.

And I found it lacking. The first part has some good info
about how to write a policy. Good but not great.

The second part was a sample policy/standard/procedure rolled
into one. I found it too thin and missing too much to be
really useful.

I haven't looked at the text the previous reviewer recommends,
but I have to say, given another book with similar content,
definitely stay away from this one.

My personal recommendation is Information Security Policies
Made Easy, by Charles Cresson Wood. It's pricey but oh so
worth it.

This is a useful book for me to reference, especially when I deal with challenges in security policy framework review. The most impressive pages include the tier 1-2-3 framework, proper wordings in policy, policy sample studies and analysis, complete checklist and questionnaire.

After reading this book or on-and-off reference, I always remember four major elements in a policy:
1. Topic
2. Scope
3. Responsibility
4. Compliance

In addition, I have shared this book with an IT supervisor, he always go for this book for the team reference. I do feel happy to recommend it. Moreover, it readily happens to me I could apply the hints and tips from this book to the revised policy. Meanwhile, compared with the company's policy, it is undoubted organized and logical.

Be honest, in reality, many people still always mix up policy, standard and procedures as well as guidelines and produce a "Spaghetti-like" document to deal with auditor and compliance once a year only, you could say, many companies treat it as a last-minute homework.

This is one of the best books available for information systems security polices. The book covers tier 1 and tier 2 policies. This book looks at policies as a business enabler where policies support management's organizational goals. Great samples!

While this is a good reference, it's value does not match its price. The entire book in not included on the CD and the book does not include a "complete" set of policies. It is certainly enough to get you started, but not enough to complete the task.

If you are considering buying a used copy from an amazon marketplace seller as I did, be careful. The pages did not fit the binder and the CD was missing its setup file. I had to return it.

If you need assistance with security policies and procedures, take a look at Thomas Peltier's other book, Information Security Policies, Procedures and Standards: Guidelines for Effective Information Security Management. It contains almost all of the same material, at a much more reasonable price.

I purchased this book based upon the reviews shown here, but have found the book to be full of coding errors and mistakes. It also reads like a text book written by a professor without any connection to the real world. It does have some value, but it certainly isn't worth the price. My recommendation is to look elsewhere.

Don't get me wrong. This book is an excellent one. I should know because I purchased his Java and Object Orientation: An Introduction which also is excellent. Dr. Hunt is an excellent writer and the clarity of his text is easy to absorb and gets you thinking OO. It is well worth purchasing. The one down side is that I bought it based on Amazon reviews without seeing it first. There was no mention that this new book contains many chapters from the previous book verbatim just layed out differently. If I had known that, I would have hesitated. It might have been a good idea to create a separate book. It's like getting a book full of API listings again. But like I said... If you are thinking about getting the previous book, don't. But this excellent volume instead.

This book is the book to buy if you want one book which will introduce you to Object Orientation, Java and the various aspects of the Java platform such as applets, servlets, rmi and JDBC. It also includes object oriented design based on the UML.

While I have the utmost respect for Eckel's Tkinking About Java and Meyer's O-O work, this book lays out just what you need to know. It is particularly helpful to those (like me) who have been exposed to a patchwork of methods and picked up wrong ideas. Hunt also wrote Key Java, which has been very favorably reviewed at Amazon.

I liked this book as it was clear, easy to read and didn't talk down to me. I found the explanations of object orientation and Java were well presented and well illustrated. I also liked the many "how to" style chapters which made it easy to see how to use RMI, Servlets, Sockets etc. I also really liked the Java self tester and the chapter on Java programming problems. The self test material was also provided on-line at the books web site, which also has all the source code form the book and lots of additional examples. This is a really great book with good support - the author also answered my questions by email!

This is a good introduction but not as good as the rave reviews would really have you believe. This isn't a five-star book. Some parts of the text could do with some illustrations. Much of the info in here is available in Jerry Alan Johnson's books so it would really need something new or a new approach or inspired layout to lift it into the five star all-time classic category. Still not to bad but not worth all the hoopla from her colleagues.

I am a graduate student in Traditional Chinese Medicine and have studied Medical Qigong under Dr. Suzanne Friedman for the past year. Suzanne learned her art in China and now trains Medical Qigong practitioners in one of the only Medical Qigong programs in the USA. As an instructor, Suzanne demonstrates adept expertise continually through lecture and clinic. She is both personable and professional while imparting valuable insight with illustrative stories from her personal experience and practice.

I highly recommend this book for any healer or self-healer. It is concise, organized, cohesive, practical, and informative. This book promotes holistic self-healing of the body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Spiritual seekers, and especially qigong practitioners, must be especially wary because books containing ancient/traditional knowledge often misguide the reader (slightly or blatently), in order to protect proprietary information. Suzanne is not such a teacher -- she cares deeply for healing and health. This little book is a good book to have and learn from.

If you want more knowledge about alternative medicine and qigong, I encourage you to visit the website for Dr. Suzanne Friedman's clinic (google search for "daoclinic").

Medical Qigong Exercise Prescriptions: This small book contains more valuable information about medical qigong than most books two to three times its size. It is concise, well-written, and accomplishes what it sets out to do, which is to introduce the reader to the theory and practice of medical qigong. Anyone who reads this book will be able to put it to immediate use and begin practicing exercises specifically designed for their particular health issues.

I am an acupuncture health care provider by trade and I often need to offer my patients Qigong exercises that they can do at home. I have several books with exercises, but you can never have too many.

It was not detailed enough or provided illustrations , both are needed to provide education for patients.

Before I accepted anything a "professional" said about children, adults or anything to do with mental health or the "helping professions," I would do a thorough background check on any and all of the writers prior to believing whatever may be written or said by a certain group of people who, after all, profit from other people's trauma and grief. Has anyone ever interviewed any of the people these authors "helped?" Buyer beware!

Having been trained differently than what this book discusses, it's a little hard to wrap one's mind around the concepts, especially since people in my profession are used to a certain way of thinking and training. However, when put into practice and when read with an open mind, the book makes absolute sense. I am in the beginning stages of MST and hope that it not only works out for the population in my area, but that I can one day be an MST expert.

Informative and educational and will certianly help me with my job.

I own this book. If you have a really troubled kid, you are a state or local leader, you are an agency person working with kids, your a poliician or someone who cares about the future. READ this book. Yes it's dry. Yes it's technical. So is reading about the new cancer medication that might save your life or the new HIV-vaccine research or or the new brain scan literature. Embedded insiide the methods of MST are strategies that really turn about the lives of kids, families and communities. What is inspiring is that the model presented REALLY works. What a concept! All across America-counselors, families, juvenile justice folks, school people are pulling their hair out on what to do about really difficult kids. Too, often the answer is: Throw 'em out, drug 'em out, and lock 'em up. Well, they get out eventially. MST can change all of that. It is cost effective. It has science. It has people who are doing it well all over the world.

Therapists working with adolescent delinquency problems have long lamented the paucity of effective treatments. Fortunately, the innovative researchers who wrote this book have developed a delinquency treatment with documented effectiveness - multisystemic treatment (MST). This manual presents the basic tenets of MST, which consist of nine principles. MST is a comprehensive treatment that targets not only the youth's behavior but also family and community factors. The treatment acknowledges that adolescents with delinquency problems are affected by factors in their environments, such as delinquent peers, parents who do not monitor their behavior, or poor educational opportunities. Thus, the treatment is usually conducted in the home and other relevant settings.

The goal of MST is to decrease rates of antisocial behavior and prevent the youth from being removed from the home; research has documented that MST meets these goals, as well as being a tremendously cost-effective treatment. I have used this treatment with a number of clients with great success (I was trained by Dr. Borduin). A prior reviewer pointed out that one should know about the authors of a psychology book before purchasing it; fortunately, the authors of this book come with excellent credentials. Drs. Henggeler, Schoenwald, Rowland, and Cunningham are on the faculty at the Medical University of South Carolina, and Dr. Borduin is a Professor at the University of Missouri. In addition, their research on the treatment has been published in many peer-reviewed journals, including:

Henggeler, et al. (1999). Home-based multisystemic therapy as an alternative to the hospitalization of youths in psychiatric crisis: Clinical outcomes. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. 38(11), 1331-1339.

Henggeler, et al. (1996). Multisystemic therapy: An effective violence prevention approach for serious juvenile offenders. Journal of Adolescence, 19(1), 47-61.

The manual is very well-written and easy to follow; the authors use many examples to explain the treatment implementation. Clearly this manual and MST itself have tremendous strengths. The basic tenets and principles are likely to be useful to any child/adolescent therapist, although some office-based therapists may not be able to use a pure MST model. A most highly recommended treatment guide.

James Montier's book is in fact a collection of articles and therefore has some redundancies by repeating the same things again and again. But...he really takes away many illusions about analysts, company meetings, portfolio management and every one's capabilities in beating the market. In short, he says that predicting the future is not possible and that we are very bad in forecasting, even more when we are "professionals", because of how our brain works. He shows how to at least try to avoid common biases and focusing on the facts (on the past).
It is easy to read and very entertaining, nevertheless with a factual approach. But be warned: as a PM you will feel the urge to stop taking calls from sales people ;-)

This is THE Investment book of the century, after Graham & Dodd's Security Analysis.
Clear, complete and rigorous, this is the definitve guide for wise and profitable investments.

This book is a collection of short notes about psychology, investment strategy and finance. Some chapters are original, but most of them were written as Equity Strategy weeklies for clients of James Montier's then employer (Dresdner Kleinwort Benson). I had already read a few of them, including the famous one about happiness and money, which everyone in the market has read, and which I preciously retain for consultation on the gloomy days when my portfolio loses more than 1%. The notes are unedited and presented thematically, not chronologically, which is sometimes confusing. There is some repetition between chapters, and several chapters assume prior knowledge not exposed in the book, which makes the discourse not very user friendly at times. You need to have some experience of investment to benefit fully from it.

Overall the book is well written: clear, clever, entertaining and unpretentious, as is appropriate from a broker writing to clients - unlike, for instance, the unsufferably arrogant tone of Nassim Taleb, who writes on similar subjects and who, incidentally, is favorably mentioned in this book. Both Montier and Taleb define themselves as skeptical empiricists (or was that empirical skeptics ?) It reads rather quickly despite the number of pages: each chapter is preceded by a caption and a summary, which means that everything is repeated three times, and charts and graphs take up a lot of space. The book covers a lot of ground in psychology, investment process, investment strategy and ethics, including commentary on the latest research in those fields and extensive quotations from the 30s, notably from "the Masters" Keynes and Ben Graham. However, it is not really "a practitioner's guide to applying behavioural finance" since Montier's (sound) investment advice is not really based on psychology. The last parts, on ethics and happiness, are particularly original in an investment context. A higly recommended alternative to Taleb's forgettable Black Swan.

Sent this book back as soon as i got it! It is to long, not very informative and there are so many better books of behavioral finance an economics.