Practitioners Books

This is well organized, practical book. I am using it to help train new hospice nurses in Mazatlan, Mexico. The case studies illustrate practical ways for meaningful discussions on symptom management. Great book!

This book is an excellent resource as a study guide with focus areas as well as questions that arte diagnosis specific. It also is a great tool to have on the clinical site as a resource.

Pharmacology for Respiratory Care Practitioners is up to date, educational, and easy to read. It really is a "Complete Pharmacology" for practical application, education, and referance.

This was a purchase for my NP program pharm class. However, it is turning out to be one of the most current and helpful books I have purchased. It goes into detail about trending medications and breaks down the underlying problems and drug mechanisms clearly.
Might seem expensive but it is compatible to three prior books I have purchased all wrapped up into one!

Nancy Boyd Webb's work is considered essential reading in the field of play therapy by most professors and professional therapists alike. This is a practical and accessible book giving in-depth information on children in crisis and how to therapeutically intervene on their behalf through play. The case studies are invaluable in bringing together the material in the first part of the book with application to clinical situations. Excellent work and highly utilizable for practitioners.

I never knew that LD issues could be so interesting. I was entranced by the literary stylings of Dr.Brinckerhoff, as he not only assesses but also breaks down the intricies and effects upon college students with LD. The collaberation of McGuire, Shaw, and Brinckerhoff results in one of the most informative books of my lifetime.

This is a great reference for PNPs and PNP students. The most common entities seen in pediatric primary care are here, with signs and symptoms, diagnostic tools, and treatments, all in outline format. I used this book a lot as a PNP student and plan on using it when starting in practice. Highly recommended!

Convoluted stories of master criminals whose devious and clever schemes hoodwinked people for centuries. Sounds like a good plot for a novel, but it also accurately describes those 'stranger than fiction' types of stories to be found in Rosenblum's book.

Focusing on literary forgeries, he enlightens us to both the motives and the methods used by nine talented if devious men: George Psalamanzar, James Macpherson, Thomas Chatterton, Willim-Henry Ireland, John Payne Collier, George Gordon Byron, Vrain-Denis Lucas, Thomas James Wiese and Mark William Hoffman. While Rosenblum acknowledges that most of them worked for financial gain, the other complicated motives, fooling colleagues with whom they had grudges, manufacturing evidence to support a critical thesis, and just seeing if it could be done, make for interesting reading. I was especially fascinated with the first story in the book as George Psalamanzar manufactured 'information' about China and Formosa at t time when little actual information was available in Europe.

As a Sinologist by training, I have been much fascinated by early travel accounts of Europeans in the far East whose worldviews limited them interpreting the evidence before them in very peculiar ways.like the British who compared the 'red Indian's' to the Irish in the 18th and 19th centuries. George must have seem just as valid to his readers and auditors as many of those actual travelers, even though he had never left England. Rosenblum's introduction places these rogues in the context of other famous forgers, "From Antiquity to 1700", and reminds us that the current, financially-motivated reasons for forgery are time-bound. We think of literature too much as a financial property to really understand historical views of this activity such as 1) that it takes a great deal of talent to forge Shakespearean dramas such as did Ireland and Collier or to forge something in Ancient Greek or Latin that will be convincing to educated scholars. 2) That for many eras and civilizations plagiarism and forgery were considered a kind of compliment and the literary text was not separated from history, philosophy and other 'belles lettres' until very recently in the history of civilization.

While entertaining to read, then, Rosenblum's book is also extremely interesting and full of insights on the nature of authentication and the literary text. It should be required reading in library schools and graduate literary programs, and, I think, would be more useful and educational than many of the critical works that make up reading lists for MA's and Ph.D.s in our universities.

Jan Bogstad, Reviewer

y Jeffers "CFP" (New York) - See all my reviews
If you are looking for a complete and easy to use "bible" for the financial planner or are a student of financial planning this book is probably my favorite. It is COMPLETE. I used this book years ago as an instructor and found that I kept it as a reference to use in my practice.
I recently received the latest edition as a gift to replace my shopworn copy and find to it to be up to date, easy to use and still the first book I grab when I need to reference something that I have forgotten over the years or simply don't know.
I appreciate the depth of this book and recommend it to my fellow planners as the best book to own for good, quick answers or to students who really want to know the subject matter in a complete way.
Before you order keep in mind this isn't a quick read, it's a BIG book and full of information.

I am writing this review because I see from the lack of any previous reviews on this site, and from the apparent lack of availability of the field guide, that this treasure has been somehow lost. I obtained my copy of the field guide from Ms. Powell in the summer of 1994 at an NLP training in Colorado. It is simply the best single resource for my day-to-day practice of NLP, summarizing in simple terms all the key aspects of NLP and providing these in a very user-friendly package, about 30 laminated pages that can be annotated with a dry marker for each client, each use, and than wiped clean and used again. The narrative summary of the NLP presuppositions at the beginning ties these together beautifully. This is followed by a series of interview and diagnostic check lists (well-formedness conditions, outcome statements, present state, meta model violations, intervention choice) and then a series of short, step-by-step descriptions of the major, tried-and-true NLP interventions (collapsing anchors, new behavior generator, change history, fast phobia cure, six step reframe).

This is a treasure and any serious NLP practitioner would be lucky to find one. If Ms. Powell is still in the business, I hope she has some on hand, or will produce another printing. It would be great if Amazon could bring this item into it's tremendous store of books!