Practitioners Books

Please kindly add some items to book introduction as listed below, I think it is more important for a customer to make decision for his choosing a new book:

1)year of publishing 2)summary of the book or content list 3)price of the book

Thank you very much

Frank CK Wang from Taipei,Taiwan

Of all of the books currently published in English on the subject of Butoh this contains the least unique information. It also contains the greatest editorial slant, from Sondra Horton, who extensively quotes from her own, slightly better, "Dancing Into Darkness", and seems ideologically hostile to one of the gentlemen in the title (Hijikata Tatsumi). Furthermore, it features the worst editing of any academic text I have read.

Redeemable qualities include passable biographies of both Hijikata and Ohno, excerpts from other, better books already published in English, and some exercises at the end from a range of contemporary butoh performers, which in contrast to the rest of the book are quite good.

I consider this book suitable reading for masochistic Butoh scholar completists and fans of Sondra Horton Fraleigh who want a quick, comprehensive and perhaps skewed overview of Butoh. All others can probably skip this one, and instead go straight to the sources, such as "Kazuo Ohno's World", "Ankoku Buto: The Premodern and Postmodern Influences on the Dance of Utter Darkness", or, for Hijikata fans, the Spring 2000 issue of The Drama Review.

The book appears to be written from a sociological perspective and may be a difficult read for a novice educator - without the benefit of a more experienced educator or facilitator to help with understanding how to process many of the concepts discussed in the book and how they even relate to education.

Only buy this book if you know very little in regards to controls and control systems. It won't help you wire a control box if that is what you are looking for.

This article, all $5.95 of it, is only 379 words long. It does NOT include statistical data. It is a news brief about a lecture given by someone else. It doesn't tell you anything you don't already know: eat less, move more, keep at it, monitor yourself, and get support. That is hardly worthy of Amazon.

Since I am interested in learning about obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), I decided to do some research into various treatment methods, and I stumbled upon this book. At first glance, the book seemed promising; it included some case studies, an overview of different treatment methods, and commentary on success rates. About half-way through the book, however, I began to detect a bias and a narrow-mindedness in the writing that led to a negative view of the book.

The authors wrote this book with the intent of educating people about OCD and its treatment, but they tend to emphasize their own methods of treatment which primarily consist of flooding and response prevention. While this treatment has been shown to be effective, the authors barely touch upon other forms of treatment like cognitive and pharmacological therapies, which have both shown moderate success rates. The book also suffers from being outdated (published in 1986), before the onset of many new anti-anxiety drugs like MAO inhibitors and SSRI drugs. I do not personally agree with drug treatment, however, and was interested in behavioral methods of combatting OCD. The book was a disappointment with its narrowminded views and limited treatment, repeatedly focusing on flooding and response prevention, or variations thereof. Although many different case studies are mentioned, all of the treatment approaches boil down to the same strategy, which is not very helpful for someone who is exploring their options. I also noticed that a fair quantity of the references made by the author S.M. Turner were to articles that he had written himself; I am a little wary of people who tend to quote primarily their own work.

A more objective approach to the treatment of OCD, covering a number of different treatment methods, would have been a welcome addition to this book. Being outdated and somewhat biased, I suggest it be used only for background about OCD. I encourage people who choose to read this book to read other books about OCD to get a broader knowledge base of treatment opportunities currently available in the present day.

If you went to an accredited WHNP program, you could write a book that is much better than this one. The company does not give any information about who is writing the book and why they are qualified.
WHNP candidates don't need a review of a SOAP note, we learned that in nursing school, we need a book that a) brings to mind the materials that we might not use daily and b) knows medications (and spells them correctly) that we need to prescribe once we've assessed and diagnosed a patient.

Also, the stapled paperback book was NOT worth $50...

While this book contains brief descriptions of clinical findings and treatments for many of the common illnesses seen in adults, it is poorly edited and full of errors that could make a great difference in your clinical practice. For example, cranial nerve I is checked with the Snellen chart - I don't think so! I would be fearful of basing my practice on this book since you could never be totally sure if you are following the appropriate practice or making an error because of a typo.

A number of the practice guidelines in this book are outdated and do not conform to current practice guidelines.

While this book contains brief descriptions of clinical findings and treatments for many of the common illnesses seen in adults, it is poorly edited and full of errors that could make a great difference in your clinical practice. For example, cranial nerve I is checked with the Snellen chart - I don't think so! I would be fearful of basing my practice on this book since you could never be totally sure if you are following the appropriate practice or making an error because of a typo.

I was very disappointed when I got this book. There are so many mistakes in this book. It is useless!I would not waste my money. Buy the Barbara Todd book instead.

This is not a Nurse Practitioner Review Book. The book is a RN certification review book. The book was unbelievable, there were questions on sterilizing hypodermic needles and checking them for burrs. No disposables? My favorate question reads: A needle that was used to draw blood should be rinsed immediately after use in: A) disinfectant B) hot water C) cold water D) hot soapy water. I called the company to report many errors. They do not know the difference between an ARNP and RN-C nor do they care. They said they write 100's of different kinds of review courses and are not concerned with the technical issues. There are no nurses on staff- Need I say more.