Bradford Books

I'm sorry, but I really wonder what the motivating factors were when the "Independent Publisher" wrote the above review. I hear "bias" of some sort (of several sorts, actually) throughout.

Let's get to the meat of the matter...

This is a very (emphasis on that word) thorough book. True, it could perhaps give the reader the mistaken impression that he or she is supposed to be able to read it and be an instant therapist. But I don't get the impression that that was the intent behind the book. No, what it does is describe an eclectic approach to "energetic healing", that goes way beyond most approaches to energy work...

It describes an integrated approach to looking at "Why" and "How" a person's discomforts originated and progressed. Furthermore, it describes a model that works on every available level to unravel those causes.

The authors have obviously studied many areas and combined them into a resulting approach that leaves no stone unturned in the process of helping the client. Drawing upon other approaches, including NLP, past life therapy, entity releasement and others, the results can indeed produce immediate and permanent results.

Although I haven't met either of the authors, I have seen a similar approach at work first- hand, and found it to be very effective. Does it work in one session every time? Nothing does. Does it succeed every time with every client? No, and neither does any approach that I have seen.

But what this model does do is give the therapist an extensive toolbox to work from, which is much more than using one tool for all applications, and does, much more often than not, produce remarkable results.

I recommend this one heartily.

A fascinating look at a member of the celebrated Sitwell family. I enjoyed learning more about this writer, poet and adventurer and about his friendships with T.S. Eliot, William Walton, Diaghliev, Harold Acton and Evelyn Waugh, etc. Extremely well written, lively account of the Sitwell family and of a literary circle in the 1920's. The photo sections were also fascinating, showing "Sachie" as a schoolboy, with his family and with Cecil Beaton,among others. Recommended book!

Although the term stratification is something of a misnomer, which each of the authors of this edited book feel compelled to repeat (often in a tenous manner), this book represents a clear account of consciousness research from a primarily cognitive science perspective. The main focus is consciousness as conceptualised within the cognitive domains memory and perception. Each of the chapters is lucid, and in addition to providing consolidation of the extant research, several novel approaches/modifications to the 'problem space' are introduced. Consequently, this book moves beyond the typical critical review status that similar texts can be relegated.

Glymour sets out to provide a one-volume reference to the history of attempts at formal reasoning, starting with the preSocratics and ending with recent topics in Cognitive Science. The book is thoroughly readable, covers all of the bases, and has superb (and very challenging) study questions assigned to each subsection of the text. The reference lists are good, and the illustrations are simple and make their point well. A good, but very challenging, book.

The islands of the Okinawa chain were forcibly annexed to the Japanese Empire in 1879 and were the site of the last major battle between Japanese and American forces in the Second World War. The native Okinawans were reluctant warriors on the side of the Japanese and there was a great deal of destruction of the fundamental infrastructure. After the war was over, the United States maintained a large military presence, but the purpose of this book is to showcase the people of Okinawa and how they live their lives.
Over 180 photographs display the people engaged in their daily activities as well as their holiday rituals. Written in 1954, it shows the people of the island in a non-industrial mode. Everything is being done by hand, clothes are being washed in the stream, crops are being planted and harvested by hand, wood is wrapped in bundles that appear to be backbreaking and glassware is blown by hand. There is no question that most of these activities are now relegated to history, so this book is an opportunity to see how Okinawa used to be. That makes it of historical significance and well worth reading.

Wood presents a monograph on the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, during its early years under British rule. We see how it was settled by different groups of immigrants. Including, it must be noted, African slaves imported to work in the plantations. The lure of cheap or free land was used to get European settlers, and not just from Britain.

The governance was changed during the period under consideration, so that it was placed under direct Crown rule. The appointment of executives from London is also studied, with the effects given on settlement patterns and behaviours.

Wood presents an impressive level of detail, indicating extensive research.

This is a solid book with useful information on a horse with colic. It has technical information as well as practical guidelines to follow.

I purchased this book to understand some aspects of secured transactions and related matters of the Uniform Commercial Code. While I am no lawyer, I have some knowledge of law as a banker. I found this book to be useful and well designed. The coverage is quite broad in scope and deep in time as well. Stone explains the impact of each provision in terms of the latest UCC revision as well as previous versions. He also provides several examples and the text is very well cross referenced with UCC provisions and related cases. The language too is simple without being condescending. I don't know about professional lawyers or law students but as a manager with some knowledge of the law, I found the book helpful in answering my questions. At the very least, it helped me build up some basic knowledge and better prepared me for the ensuing legal consultations.

The United States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point, New York, is unique in several respects, one unfortunate one being that it has had to justify its continued existence in ways the other four federal service academies generally have not. This fact is one of the central themes in C. Bradford Mitchell's surprisingly interesting 1977 look at the first two decades of the Academy.

I say "surprisingly interesting" because while this book necessarily includes more than a few descriptions of bureaucratic battles, academic politics, and the like, the USMMA story is told in a broader context. That context includes not only federal maritime training but also, for a good part of the book's time frame, the challenges and heroics of wartime. Indeed, Mitchell notes that although the school song is not precisely correct in describing the school as "strife-born" -- its foundations were laid before the start of the war -- the achievements made and losses suffered by the school and its graduates during World War II are an essential part of the Academy's ethos.

Mitchell's work seems to cover all the relevant bases -- not only bureaucratic and academic, as noted, but also the physical construction of the Academy, the personalities of many of its key leaders, the development of the distinctive sea-year program, the various ships to serve as Training Vessels, and even the rise of Mariner athletics and a history of the school's mascots. An interesting chapter also covers the history of the two other former merchant officer-training establishments at Pass Christian, Mississippi, and San Mateo, California.

The book's narrative ends with the passage of the 1956 Permanency Bill, a long-awaited and hard-fought-for measure officially establishing the USMMA *de jure* as a permanent federal academy. Kings Point had succeeded in convincing relevant parties of its value to the nation and the quality of its instruction. Bradford Mitchell has done much the same in recounting these battles. While the USMMA remains the most obscure service academy, readers interested in the school's history and the context of its current mission and relevance would probably find it worth their effort to track down a copy of this book.

Considering how difficult it must be to study how the different areas of the human brain are used to process language and more specifically sign language I think the authors did an admirable job. I would have preferred a full-page drawing of the human brain showing by location which aspect of sign language seemed to specialize for which area. Since this was the goal of the research it would have made it clearer to follow the author's conclusions. I came away with a renewed sense of wonder for the marvelous resilliancy and redundancy of the human brain that even after something so devestating as a stroke for some people other areas of the brain eventually adapted and retrained itself to take over jobs that it would not normally do. If you want to learn sign language and exactly how it works this is not the book for you. This book excells in a rather narrow, but fascinating field.