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at last some one has written a really through and deeply felt book about this most toxic of emotions. This is a genuine contribution to help people get to grips with the shadow, and really know and understand it.. Absolutely essential for any one serious about their spiritual and analytic work.

I have a prince charming and am not with him ! I am a therapist and in therapy, I really recommend this as a tool to enable you to look at relationships in a very different way. It is a good read for those who have experience of psychological terminology . I think I would have found it hard going if I were to pick it up without any prior knowledge of psychology.An excellent buy for relationship counsellors.

I highly recommend reading "The City of Baraboo". It is the story of a circus that takes the star road. Never before has an author researched and captured the soul of the circus like this before. It makes me cry because the circus has died. All the big circuses have long since surrendered their souls to the devil of the almighty buck. Sacrificing the high art and the heart of the circus for no better reason then to make money. Longyear has captured the soul of the circus and brought it back to life.

Longyear has given us a funny and dramatic look into what a circus on the star road would have to face. All the troubles and all the fun a company of fools would have to deal with. For S/F fans, cicus fans and for the child inside of everyone don't miss this book. Write to the publisher and demand a reprinting. It's worth any effort one has to go through to read this book.

Barry B. Longyear with his Circus World Trilogy has done more to preserve the history of the circus than any writer since Chappie Fox - and if you know anything about circus lore at all, you'll realize what high praise that is.

The basic premise: O'Hara's Greater Shows, Terra's last circus under canvas or otherwise, is in the cart (circus slang for 'in deep trouble'). They are a subsidiary of the Arnheim & Boon Conglomerated Enterprises (hereafter A&BCE), a soulless omnicorp that does not understand what they have; all they can see is a dismal return on their investment. The Governor (slang for the owner of the circus), John J. O'Hara, learns A&BCE plans to disband the show. He goes to A&BCE's Board of Directors with a novel proposal: He will take O'Hara's Greater Shows off their hands and off Earth, and assume its debts. Despite the howling objections of Arnheim, the Chairman of the Board, the Board goes for the deal. O'Hara then takes his circus to Ahngar, a world that appreciates showmanship, and in short order makes enough money to pay A&BCE completely off.

The Governor returns to Earth with the money and an idea: That A&BCE build him a circus starship so he can take O'Hara's onto the star road. A&BCE accepts the contract, and the future looks rosy.

However, Arnheim and his Board of Directors have a scheme of their own. While the circus starship City of Baraboo is being built (she was named by O'Hara for the birthplace and former winter quarters of the five Ringling Brothers and their famous circus) A&BCE secretly contracts with the Nuumian Empire, an ambitious alien government in the Ninth Quadrant, to sell the City of Baraboo to them. As she is built on the lines of a Terran regimental assault carrier complete with detachable landing shuttles, she would be a valuable addition to the Nuumian fleet. How O'Hara, his kinkers, joeys, spangle prats, canvasmen, windjammers and roustabouts manage to hijack their starship - and get to keep her - makes up the first story of the novel, which is a series of connected stories.

The rest of the novel is told in the main through the eyes of a First of May (circus first-time employee), "Warts" Tho, a Pendiian, who signs on with the show its second year in space to keep the route book, the daily log of the circus's travels and stands. Through Warts, Longyear leads the reader through many aspects of circus life, providing us with an insider's view of the circus. We meet the Advance Team responsible for advertising, flying a baby starship with four landing shuttles named for the old Ringling Brothers advance cars of centuries before; and watch them duke it out with other shows that have taken to space and planets far away. We get a look at the artistes (they used to be called freaks) and life on the Midway as opposed to the Big Top. We get to see, on two different planets, what happens when circus justice intersects planetery justice. We find out about circus nicknames - the story of how Stretch Dirak got his is priceless. We get to see the Governor help out his friend/patron, the King of Ahngar, by ridding Ahngar of a plague of gamblers, and without contaminating his show with them as so many dishonest shows of the 19th Century were tainted. We learn why every traveling show carries a fellow known as "The Patch," and how important The Patch is to helping th show to run smoothly. (It's worth mentioning that Robbie Robertson got the job of The Patch almost exactly right in the movie, Carny.) And finally,we see the circus having to cope with a catastrophe unlike anything that other chronicler of circus life, Cecil B. DeMille, could ever have imagined.

As Spider Robinson said, Longyear projected the circus into the future and thus gave it immortality. He makes us see just what the circus meant to the pre-television, nay, pre-motion pictures, world. And he gives those of us that love the Big Top and the daring performers hope that this art form will survive and even thrive in the future.

Of the three books featuring the Old One, as O'Hara's Greater Shows is known in that time's entertainment industry, this one is probably the best. Elephant Song because of its very nature is melancholy and the only one of the trio written as a novel; and while I am fond of the third book, Circus World, in my opinion only two of its stories meet the standard set by City of Baraboo.

By all means read all three of the Circus World novels. However, I think that as I do, you will as it were come again with the young 'uns and the old folks, back to City of Baraboo.

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The book was in great condition. By mistake I purchased a class room activities Manual instead of the book needed for the school class I am enrolled in. I need to return the book for a refund. Sorry, Patrick

I found this book very imformative and full of colorful and illustrative pictures. It gives detailed and easy to follow imformation on how to propagate, hybridize, control diseases and many other tips concerning the clematis. This is a great book to add to anyone's collection of gardening books. A must have keeper!

I found this book very informative and full of colorful and illustrative pictures. It gives detailed and easy to follow imformation on how to propagate, hybridize, control diseases and many other tips concerning the clematis. This is a great book to add to anyone's collection of gardening books. A must have keeper!

Despite Barry Commoner wrote this famous essay thirty years ago , you will be surprised about the fact these reflections have not aged a bit . Commoner is not only a worried investigator about the environment but also too a smart thinker , and when these two qualities join the result is the sum of all your satisfied demands and requirements .
Commoner makes a careful study of the first effects of the radioactive clouds , and clarifies the cycle in one of the chapters . His pen is clear sugestive and powerful .
This book is a must for all those are really worried about this unfinished and still present serious concern around the world conversation motive .
This text appeared just several months before that famous Rome Club Report of 1972 when the first voices of warning and alert were raising all around the globe .

Written over thirty years ago and now dated, The Closing Circle was one of the early important books on the environmental crisis. As a neophyte to this issue, one who was interested in gaining a better understanding and perspective, I still found this book profoundly useful.

First off, this is an excellent book on an exciting modern offense.

Secondly, the title is very misleading. It should be "Coaching Football's Flexbone Offense". This is not the 4- or 5-wide shotgun Spread in use at schools like Purdue, Clemson or West Virginia, nor is it the Spread Option-from-the-shotgun that Florida and others have popularized.

Rather, it is the triple option run from a Flexbone/Run-and-Shoot formation with two wide receivers and two slotbacks, with a single back behind the quarterback, who is under center.

This book is full of invaluable insights from Coach Stowers's days at Georgia Southern University, where the Flexbone attack won six Division I-AA championships. He breaks down the running attack, based on the triple option but with a small and powerful supplement, and includes his sprint-out passing attack and some play action passes as well.

In my opinion, it would be possible to install an effective Flexbone triple option attack from Coach Stowers's book alone.

Highly recommended.

THIS BOOK IS AWESOME BABY, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT FOOTBALL WAS, THEN I READ THIS BOOK FROM MR. STOWERS. WOW HE REALLY KNOWS HIS STUFF, HE TAUGHT ME THE WHOLE GAME!

In the course of my career as a research statistician particularly during my graduate school Ph.D. research I considered a number of multivariate or time series models that had specific marginal distributions. These models had some unpleasant properties (particularly the ones with exponential marginal distributions). Arnold, Castillo and Sarabia show here that the situation is much better when dealing with conditional specifications rather than marginal specifications. They provide an up-to-date treatment on the vast and scattered theory of conditional specification and characterization of multivariate distributions.

These results appear to have a variety of applications. It also appears to be a fertile area for interesting new research.

Chapter two on near and exact compatibility helps with problems in Bayesian solicitation of consistent prior distributions. There also appears to be many applications to bivariate and multivariate extremes, survival models and simultaneous equation models.

In the course of my career as a research statistician particularly during my graduate school Ph.D. research I considered a number of multivariate or time series models that had specific marginal distributions. These models had some unpleasant properties (particularly the ones with exponential marginal distributions). Arnold, Castillo and Sarabia show here that the situation is much better when dealing with conditional specifications rather than marginal specifications. They provide an up-to-date treatment on the vast and scattered theory of conditional specification and characterization of multivariate distributions.
These results appear to have a variety of applications. It also appears to be a fertile area for interesting new research.

Chapter two on near and exact compatibility helps with problems in Bayesian solicitation of consistent prior distributions. There also appears to be many applications to bivariate and multivariate extremes, survival models and simultaneous equation models.

"Confronting Abuse" is an excellent resource for all manner of abuse, also solutions... the SOLUTION part is the best. Many books reveal types of abuse and how to recognize, but no solutions. This one teaches Godly principles for LDS members and gives excellent guidance in seeking help in resolving issues for the victims as well as the offender. It addresses issues that many of us may not be aware are abusive habits...to habits that are entrenched and need serious therapy and how to get professional help. It is one of the best self-help books I have found on the subject, as well as a resource for professionals. I recommend it to anyone, but especially LDS members who have issues of abuse that need to be confronted.

Locking secrets behind closed doors, many L.D.S. members try to ignore abuse ... they're told to pray harder, talk to their bishop then the situation will change, right? Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Utah has the highest spouse/child abuse in the United States. Why? This book takes a penetrating look at the problem. It's an LDS perspective on understanding and healing. Although I do not agree with many of the solutions, it's a valuable guide for anyone who has been physically, emotionally, intellectually, or spiritually abused. One significant chapter on Elderly abuse was particularly interesting. The Church MUST face the problem squarely and this book suggests answers.

This small book is an excellent, accessible introduction to Jesuit spirituality. The authors, both highly respected Jesuits with vast experience of the Spiritual Exercises, have written a work intended for a general audience. Containing only 80 pages of text, the book is organized according to what the authors describe as "a set of lifegiving and creative tensions" inherent in Jesuit spirituality. Their approach is both innovative and clever. They cover some of the historical circumstances which called forth the kind of responses from the earliest Jesuits that have come to characterize Jesuit spirituality. I cannot think of a better, more compact introduction to Jesuit spirituality for the novice. Especially good for those working with Jesuits or in Jesuit apostolates who want a quick, helpful primer.

One of the greatest challenges of responding with a life-giving "Yes" to the call to become a living reflection of Christ's presence in the world is dealing with the seemingly conflicting pulls. Do I spend time in prayer or in service? Do I want to join a religious order or become involved in a ministry where I live? "Contemplatives in Action" shows how these paradoxes can actually become a creative tension in our lives. It's wonderful!

Completely demolishes many of the myths that are commonly perpetuated in the west by both the propaganda spewing, neferious factions and the ignorant but good-intentioned elements on the contentious issues relating to China and Tibet. Especially good are the sociological study by Goldstein, Beall, Jiao, Tsering and the two articles by Barry Sautman and Debyesh Anand. The Goldstein, et al study gives a glimps of the current economic, political and social situations of rural Tibetans through a survey conducted independently by these world renowned Tibetologists. The most interesting result for me is that they found that nearly 90% of all rural Tibetans 60-79 years of age considered their lives to be better than the lives of their parents who had lived almost entirely before Chinese "liberalizaton" policies first introduced in 1959. The study also showed that religion is an esential aspect of most of the lives of the Tibetans studied and that few religious restrictions were in place that prevented them from practicing them. You can read more of prof. Goldstein's papers about Tibet at the Case Western Researve's Center for Research on Tibet's site:

http://www.case.edu/affil/tibet/CollectedArticles.htm

Sautman's article exposes the genocide hoaxes perpetuated by the pro-Tibet faction. Sautman is a political scientist and a expert on international law and human rights law.

The artcle by Debyesh Anand provides us with a outstanding vision of how the Tibet issue may be resolved. Anand shows that the traditional discourse has been western dominated which tended to distort the historical actualities of sino-tibetan relationship and that a solution that is truly just and fair to all sides might be one that must be supplied and grounded on an entirely new (non-western) framework.

Other articles also show how complex the current situation is in Tibet and just how difficult it will be to come to a satisfactory solution. Those who are open minded about the "Tibet Question" will likely find this work indispensible as a reference work for further substantive dialogue.

If you are studying Tibet, you CANNOT go without reading at least a few of the essays in this collection.

Sautman's "'Demographic Annihilation' and Tibet" is worth the price alone. 20 pages with 8 pages of bibliography. The bibliography is almost half the length of the essay itself!

Since it is a compilation the views in the book will vary, sometimes widely, but ALL of the essays are worth reading, and they are presented in such a way that the views in one will often compliment the views in the previous essay. While the views in the book may vary, none stray into the area of polemic, propaganda, or other such genres which would only detract from the overall scholarly tone of the works included. The book includes works from nearly all of the heavy-hitters in the academic world who deal with Tibet (Goldstein, Sautman, Barnett, Lixiong, Grunfeld).

You may not agree with every author in here, but you will at least understand and appreciate their position, and understanding is what is needed most.