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its a general guide for the managment and abreedin of horses

Very insightful and helpful. Pick this up.

As a budding weather hobbyist, I found this book to be good -- if you are interested in accuracy of forecasts and want to apply your mathematical and statistical aptitude to it. Otherwise, it could be a dry book. The book is more for the application of verification than it is for analyzing past experience of weather verification. For example, I know many weather forecasters that I cannot trust their 24-hour forecast, let alone the 10-day ones they project. I highly doubt that they have applied any of these verification techniques to their forecasts. That kind of historical perspective is not in this book, but if you want to improve your own forecasts, this book will get you started in a sound direction.

John Berger is know around the world as a Renaissance Man, one who can write criticism, plays, novels, short stories, and can even paint the occasional work of art. But I humbly submit that this may be his best work, one that examines the relationship between a country doctor and his community. Sadly the time period of the piece, the 1960s, are gone and the entire institution of the general practitioner, complete with house calls and lollipops for the children. But the questions he asks are searching ones that hinge on the very fundamental human relations that modernity is radically changing.

What is a human life worth? He won't give you any answers, because he trusts you to think about all this for years to come. An exceptional work.

FROM ANOTHER ANGLE is for teachers and parents--brothers, sisters, aunts, and uncles--for any person who knows and loves a child--for anyone invested in helping that child reach his or her full potential as an ethical, creative, intellectual, spiritual, physical being. Pat Carini's compassionate vision of how we might begin to understand and teach our children shines through this collection on the Prospect School and the process of "Descriptive Review."

Margaret Himley has done an exceptional job of editing the volume, juxtaposing detailed descriptions of children and their learning styles with illuminating essays on the guiding philosophies of Prospect's processes.

The Descriptive Review of a Child is based on phenomenology, on the belief that all possible facets of human experience are valuable and important, worthy of inquiry and respectful contemplation. As Margaret Himley says, "Through description the person becomes more visible and real education begins, and it is, finally, this *taproot value of the person* that characterizes Prospect's particular ethical stance and that gives meaning to the descriptive processes. It is the ethical insistence on the hard work necessary to accord others--*all others*--the status of person, with all the complexity, capability, range of emotions and desires, and possibilities that we know ourselves to have."

Indeed, the actual Descriptive Reviews of Three Children--Gabriel, Victoria, and Nile--are at the heart of this remarable volume. Pat Carini and her Prospect colleagues believe curiosity is the core of all passionate learning. Students who are given the opportunity to pursue their natural interests are more inclined to take risks, to challenge themselves to work well beyond the expectations for their ages and grade levels."....

This thoughtful, cyclical work is the core of Prospect processes, a means of discovery that is neither singular nor static. In her lucid essay on the value of "Oral Inquiry," Margaret Himley reminds us that language must remain fluid, that we must resist the tendency of words to "fix" ideas in our minds or to "explain" things in terms too reductive to be helpful. By participating in dialogues with others, by pooling information, we keep ourselves alert and flexible, willing to interrogate our own biases and perceptions, able to see and celebrate the unique spirits and the limitless potential of our children, our parents, our friends, ourselves. The joyful work of description is an explosive affirmation of life itself, the never-ending miracle of creation.

For twenty-six years, the work of Pat Carini and her colleagues at the Prospect School in North Bennington, Vermont transformed the lives of children and their families. Though the school closed in 1991 when the fragile financial base finally gave way, the work at Prospect continues, and the bold vision of Pat Carini continues to fire the imaginations of all who have ears to hear, voices to describe and encourage, hands to help, and minds to remain forever open and alive and curious. We cannot love our children unless we know them; we cannot nuture their unique interests and gifts unless we allow ourselves to watch them with absolute attention and wonder. Teachers and parents who visit the Prospect School, who read Carini's and Himley's work, who embrace the difficult and rewarding endeavor of Descriptive Review, will be forever changed. There is great hope in this--for all of us.

Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing: A Clinical Approach, Fifth Edition (Foundations of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing)

Table of Contents: 1. The three types of garlic products. 2. Cardiovascular risk reduction. 2.1 Blood lipid lowering. 2.2 Anti-clotting. 3. Tumors and cancers. 4. Free radicals, oxidation and radiation protection. 5. Immune modulation. 6. Anti-virus properties. 7. Protection against pollution. 8. Anti-inflammatory properties. 9. Pharmacology. 10. Safety, efficacy and claims. 11. Use of garlic in traditional medicine. 12. How to take garlic. 13. Some myths about garlic. 14. Conclusions. About the Author: Dr. Robert I-San Lin studied biophysics and nuclear medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and earned a Ph.D. degree. He then continued with post-doctoral training at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Lin is a life member of the New York Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi/The Science Research Society (an honor society of American scientists), and The Nutrition Society (Taiwan). He is also a member of The American College of Nutrition, The American Chemical Society, American College of Sports Medicine, American Society of Hospital Pharmacists, and several other professional associations. Dr. Lin is well versed in both modern clinical sciences and traditional Chinese herbal medicine. His expertise in Chinese herbal medicine is a result of his family's heritage and his decades of research and clinical practice. Well respected in these fields, Dr. Lin has lectured at leading universities, and at many professional conventions, including The 7th World Congress of Food Science and Technology (on Lipid Nutrition & Cardiovascular Diseases).

I'm a gestalt therapist, and I first read this book as a graduate student learning gestalt therapy (when I was even younger than I am now ;-) I still refer to it, and re-read it from time to time and always learn something that didn't stand out to me last time. Give this a try if you're looking to learn about Gestalt (it's a GREAT introduction), or to deepen your knowledge of the Gestalt theory and practice from someone who 'gets it'. Pat Korb (the author) is, I believe, a true 'master therapist' if there is such a thing!

Group Work is full of information to help with youth experiencing a traumatic death of a friend or family member. Even a chapter on how parents can help their youth. Gave me all the information I needed and then some.
Definitely a great help in planning a workshop or seminar.

In Group Work With Sexually Abused Children: A Practitioner's Guide, psychotherapists and private practitioners Lynn Grotsky, Carel Camerer, and Lynn Damiano collaborate to provide a definitive, easy-to-follow manual for professionals helping children to work through the traumas and aftermath of sexual assaults. Group Work With Sexually Abused Children shows how to break down a child's feelings of isolation, build social skills, set appropriate boundaries, and most important of all, realize they are normal and not at fault or to blame for what had befallen them. Group Work With Sexually Abused Children is an essential, highly recommended, invaluable core title for professional and academic mental health and counseling reference collections.