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This exceptional new ethics book is one I share with friends and students at Baylor University who are or wish to become, professional therapists, coaches, or psychologists. The book's wisdom, advice and research go way beyond any professional ethics code in existence. In a fun, engaging style peppered with colorful case histories, these highly trained and experienced authors tell us how to chart the ethical minefield that is counseling, coaching, therapy, family therapy, social work, psychiatry, or clinical psychology. But their approach is positive rather than defensive. That is, we strive to be ethical as part of our pursuit of excellence. We strive to be ethical in order to express our caring and compassion to those we help--people we care for and encourage in the same way we would like to see a loved one cared for and encouraged. Only the best will do. The best therapy or coaching is intertwined with the best ethics like stripes on a peppermint stick. Buy this book. You will not be disappointed.

This is the classic work on how to practice ethically for psychologists who engage in clinical work, teaching, research, administration, or any other domain of professional activity. Not only does if offer a thorough review of the literature on ethical behavior, it provides a truly detailed analysis of how the ethics code applies to a vast range of contexts, client types, and vexing clinical dilemmas. What's more, the book is filled with interesting, and sometimes entertaining case vignettes--many of them based on actual ethical complaints. No other book on the market for psychologists offers this combination of clarity and thoroughness. It is a must for the library of any serious psychology graduate student or psychologist. When I teach Ethics at the graduate level, it is the only text I require.

Ethics in Psychology is a graduate level textbook on the subject of ethical dilemmas in counseling. The authors definitely meet their goal in exploring the APA's Ethical guidelines and applying them pratically to the practicing therapist and academic. Their use of humorous "psuedo-psychologists" illustrate well the problem of many counselors who get themselves into ethical dilemmas each year innocently. I believe every therapist and academic should read this book at least once a year in order to minimize the ethical issues that are a part of everyday practice. Non-APA practitioners may find the book slanted toward doctoral-level therapists being the minimum for competence but there is great wisdom in this book.

As another reviewer notes below, Dutt's case was made to the Seventh World Congress of the Comintern. He was arguing the question that only the reds then really understood: What is fascism and what shall we do about it? He was met by competing ideas from Georgi Dimitrov, and, from a distance, Trotsky. Dutt's analysis, that fascism is a logical and necessary extension of the development of capitalism, was largely correct--or so I think. Dimitrov and Trotsky both failed to match Dutt's presentation, but Dimitrov met Stalin's social fascist needs and so the line of the Comintern suddenly changed, to building alliances with good capitalists. While the USSR was probably not salvagable by then, having adopted the New Economic Policy (capitalism led by a benevolent party) and implemented it with a vengence, fully restoring class rule while declaring class struggle at an end, the Dimitrov line finished off any pretense of real leftism in the USSR, and the Comintern. Today, we face an emergent form of fascism, world-wide, and Dutt's book serves as a challenge to anyone who wants to try to answer the question at the outset of this review.

THe quality of this book's analysis became crystal clear to me when I realized that it answered one of the lingering questions regarding fascism that I had had despite three years worth of being a political science major; why was fascism murderous on the mass scale that it was in Germany but not in Italy?

Dutt reveals the economic function that fascism served for those in power in Germany and Italy at the time of its emergence; the economic crises that lead to the Great Depression and World War One resulted from the inability of capitalist social forms to manage the enormous productive power under its belt. The alternatives offered themselves: production for need rather than profit, or the forcible scaling back of capitalist production so that capitalist relations to the productive forces (which fascism maintained) could once again manage them.

Germany, and advanced industrial country, had much more productive power to reduce; hence industries had to be put into service of making more war material (i.e. products meant to be destroyed rather than consumed), soliders were put into the armies to die for the Fatherland at horrendous numbers, and entire cross sections of the productive populations were murdered en mass. The pathological antisemitism, it turns out, only justified the necessary extermination process to those who would never support it if it had been general rather than targeted.
Explainations that focus on Hitler's charisma or "innate" german racism cannot hinge on empiricle data like Dutt's does.

Fascism and Social Revolution may open your eyes to what you can see on the evening news or read in the newspapers everyday. Dutt's analysis of the economic, social and political events in Germany provides a wake up call. Reading this book can educate political activists. The movement to the political right in this country is running full speed ahead. Awareness is the first step towards action.

Students of fascism cannot understand the phenomena without reading R. Palme Dutt's classic, Fascism and Social Revolution. Dutt's genius was his ability apply the basic principles of Marxist political economy to the European economic and political crisis of the late 20s and early and mid-30s, when the book was written.

Dutt was prescient enough to understand the crisis of overproduction which propelled the growth of fascism in Europe, including Germany and Italy. He also understood that the resolution of the economic crisis would inevitably lead to war, and that war would not only lead to the destruction of the capital responsible for excess production, but also of "excess" population.

When the book was written, in 1936, he noted that the crisis of overproduction was responsible for the destruction of food, but would eventually escalate to the destruction of people. More precisely he noted that "Now they are burning food, soon they (capital) will be buring people."

His comment may actually be one of the earliest and most precise predictions of the Holocaust.

Dutt also must be seen in relationship to Georgi Dimitrov, the Bulgarian Communist leader who developed the concept of the popular front, in which working class parties ally with liberal bourgeois parties in opposition to fascism based on a common denominator of high-minded nationalism (e.g, Woody Guthrie's anthem, "This land is your land, this land is my land" is the best known example of the CPUSA translating the Dimitrov line into popular culture.)

In contrast, the Dutt line called for a united working class front, in which all working class parties would unite together to oppose fascism on an anti-capitalist, not liberal nationalist plank. The struggle between the Dutt line and Dimitrov line was resolved in the 1936 7th party conference which adopted Dimitrov's position. It has continued to dominate left-wing movements from then to the present, and signficantly contributed to such unanticipated outcomes as the collapse of the Soviet Union.

In the intervening 60+ years Dutt's towering work has been largely forgotten, except by Marxist scholars and communist groups arising out of the new left. Although these groups tremendously respect Dutt's achievements in understanding fascism, they also acknowledge his weakness. He incorrectly subscribed to the dichotomy that capitalism neatly rules through either a liberal democratic facade or through a direct dictatorship in times of crisis. In retrospect we now know that most parts of the world have never had a serious democratic facade over direct capitalist rule and that dictatorship is probably the norm, with liberal democracy the aberration.

Finally someone has written a book we can all understand! The real value of this book is that it makes you realize other fathers have gone through the same process of getting old, getting fat and getting lost in the search for our former selves. Fat Daddy has given me some fresh ideas for improving on the progress I have already made and compiled a list of references to expand my knowledge base. I recommend this book to any father looking to get healthy, single guys who need to know what awaits them ( stop the Fat Daddy process before it starts) and women who want to understand and help their husbands with serious weight problems.

I finished the book over the weekend - it's a really good book -probably the best fitness book that I've read (and I've read Atkins, Zone, South Beach and that Blood Type Diet book). What's amazing is that I dropped about 70 pounds after divorce number 1 (only to gain it back after divorce #2) - and the diet that I followed back then is pretty much the "reality diet" you describe in your book. I was also walking running 3 miles every other day as well (I'm sure that had nothing to do with the weight loss;-). Anyway - your book inspired me to get serious about getting back into shape - for the sake of my son. I'll keep ya posted on progress!

I loved Fat Daddy/Fit Daddy. Funny, easy to read, and easy to remember. It's about time that someone other than a fitness freak can write a fitness book that speaks to the common man. I highly recommend Schwartz's book.

Finally someone has developed a lifestyle guide for the "real man," the father, husband and busy professional. Schwartz' book focuses on the three keys to the "game": food, fitness, and family. And it works. The book starts by describing, in entertaining detail, the situation that most men find themselves in once they begin life as a husband and father. It then takes "fat daddies" step-by-step through the process of becoming "fit daddies" using a football metaphor. The use of sports anologies makes the core concepts easy to understand and, more importantly, easy to remember on a day-to-day basis. And his Reality Diet is a perfect match for busy fathers. It's a practical approach that blends the science of nutrition with the reality of fatherhood, making it fairly easy to integrate within a father's fast-paced lifestyle. This is definitely a males-only book that will make you laugh outloud at times but will also leave a lasting impression on fathers who strive to be "fit daddies" for their families.

Highly recommend this book great to use if one is renovating a period house or likes period decorations.

The book is well illustrated and true to the topic. I thought a little too much time was spent on the dimensions of the illustrated work in how the book need to be adjusted for the size of the book and not any time spent explaining how the woodworkers of the time accomplished the work, Example how was a flute cut with the top end round and the bottom end flat. How are tongues added to a fluted column? There are no explanations of the wonderfully illustrated woodworking just where the work is located and how to measure the work.

"Federal Style Patterns 1780-1820" is the culmination of an astounding research project. The detailed drawings are based on design elements from homes built during the Federal Era in the New England region, and include detailed images of cornices, door and window casings, chair rails, baseboards and more.

All drawings are captured in a variety of formats on a CD-ROM that comes with the book, which is a helpful tool for modern day designers hoping to faithfully reproduce the elegance of Federal Style architecture.

For some time now, I have been fascinated with the Federal Style, so much so that I decided to decorate and furnish my new office as if it were a page from history, circa 1815. I was a bit confused how to adapt a door arch to my particular circumstance, so I e-mailed the authors of this book, MaryBeth Mudrick and Lawrence D. Smith, for advice. I was most pleased with the prompt and professional reply I received from them. Throughout the duration of my project, which stretched out for many months, MaryBeth and Lawrence provided invaluable guidance at many critical junctures, always with patience and a friendly touch. With my copy of their text close by at all times, these pros led me toward a Federal Style look that far exceeded my original expectations. Thomas Jefferson would have felt right at home!

Oh, this is an elegant book, with highly detailed drawings of every molding, mantels, doors, room designs, etc. that you can imagine, all in the beautiful American Federal Style. In this book, you can 'invade' historic homes and 'walk out' with measured detailed drawings of all of the best features -- without anyone catching you in the act.

This book is a cruel masterpiece of cynical and nasty slapstick humor. The protagonists, the Bullards and the Beelers, are both families of barely sentient wit who behave in ways that are competely understandable, completely human, and completely stupid. Berger's writing and plotting, though, are first-rate-- I laughed out loud throughout this thing, and I've read it three times over the last 25 years (time to read it again). You've met people like this before in the works of Flannery O'Connor, Faulkner, Charles Portis, and Erskine Caldwell, but Berger's light touch makes "The Feud" a real find.

Memorable characters, a fun story, and insidiously amusing throughout. I can't believe someone hasn't made a movie of this great book.

I picked this book up in the bargain rack at a mall bookstore in South Carolina while on a road trip in college. It is still one of my favorite books of all time. I read everything else Berger ever wrote because of this novel. It will make you laugh out loud. The characters are great and the plot is hilarious. As for the previous reviewer- it was made into a movie- a low buget comedy filmed in North Carolina in the late 80's. It went straight to video. Berger is a wicked writer.

A great book. Hilarious. Offensive. Subversive. It is like "Mayberry on Acid". Coincedences and misunderstandings abound in Berger's best.

This is a very expert guide in a very accessible form. It has great information in a friendly easy to access format that is very helpful for clarifying complex issues. I think this is a good tool for anyone who owns their own business or is a marketing professional who deals with intellectual property issues.

This makes it easy to understand the difference between trademarks, registered trademarks, copyrights, and various patent types.

When does a great idea turn into a personal fortune? How about when you hit the "send" button? Whether you're a novelist, inventor, a blogger or someone with the best chili in your town, today's technology makes it possible for the innovator toiling away in a kitchen or a garage to become an international marketer. It's also the perfect opportunity for your idea to become someone else's fortune. And that's where Mostert and Apolzon come in. They are two of the world's top intellectual property lawyers and, without a sentence of legalese, they define the major forms of intellectual property, dispel myths and tell you what you can do to register and keep your idea your own. The book is also colorfully illustrated with case histories of how products from Coca-Cola to Velcro became household words and how they stay that way. If you're thinking maybe your recipe or poem or song should be shared with the world, save yourself a lot of aggravation and put this book on your shelf.

This was a really great read. The book doesn't lay out a step-by-step method for filing patents or trademarks, but I think it is a lot more useful than a book like that.

The book gives a great detailed look at what each creative protection (patent, trademark, and copyright) can do for you. It does a really good job of explaining the protections, the requirements, and when each is appropriate. It also has a lot of great pointers on how to maximize your benefits and what to do when your rights have been infringed upon. I highly recommend it to somebody who does not know much about these areas and would like to know more. It is a great start into the world of idea protection. A quick read and really easy to understand.

I really love this book! It explains in plain English how to protect your creations, whether they are artistic or useful. I sent it to a friend, whose brother invents all sorts of handy little gadgets, and he uses it. I sent it to my mother, who is a painter, and she uses it. I also sent it to a friend who writes how-to manuals, and he uses it! The book is easy to understand, and it's full of wonderful photographs and entertaining examples of the use of trademarks, copyrights, and patents. I never thought learning how to protect my work could be so interesting!

Lawrence Marsden does a great job of recalling emotions, anecdotes, and observations from the holds to the gun turrets to the bridge of the U.S.S Doyen throughout WWII in the Pacific. What better way to get the feel of what it was like off Leyte, Luzon, Iwo Jima, and a hundred other landings during those dark years. This one is a must for WWII history buffs and for serious students of the Pacific Theater. Attack Transports such as the Doyen often got in close and often stayed in close to the beaches where their crews could observe the initial phases of the battle taking place on shore. Their observations can add much to the historical accuracy of these events.

Unless you are an avid viewer of the "History Channel", the average person would think that World War Two, was Pearl Harbor,
Normandy, Gasoline Rationing, the Atom Bomb and it was over.
For America, the war started with the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Then there were grueling days that turned into months. There were invasions in the cold and the snow. Invasions of islands, that if you were not paying attention, you could sail right by. Invasions involving thousands of men, thousands of pieces of equipment, mountains of munitions. The list of invasions in World War Two, numbers in the thousands.
But we are familiar with only a few. What we get in reading
"Gemini Ship" is a chance to experience, every invasion
involved "Real Guys". Guys that bitched about everything, were
anxious about getting the job done and doing a good job, wishing the days would go by faster, hoping the mail would keep up with them. Hoping the entire War would be over the next time they heard Revellie. They were the "Greatest Generation" earning their stripes on the Pacific Ocean. In the 3 years and 10 months
America was fighting, we have been told 40 percent of the stories
about the prosecution of the war. This book tells us about the men who were there. You will enjoy yourself reading this book.

I was a member of the Massachesetts Maritme Academy that took the USS Doyen APA-1 out of the moth ball fleet to prepare it for a training ship. Reading Larry Marsden's book made the ship and its accomplishments in WW11 a real person. It truly had a dual purpose in life. The men that served during the war and the cadets that trained in later years joined spiritual forces and lived in those passageways and on those decks in a strange symbietic way. A great tribute to the Amphibious Fleet and a great linkage to a nautical educational experience.

Board the U.S.S. Doyen with the author. Sail into the cool, misty waters off Kiska. Carouse with your shipmates during the journey of a lifetime. Engage the enemy at Iwo Jima. Reflect on how it all affected you. A must read for WWII scholars, all Armed Servicemen, and anyone interested in the human side of the last great war.

Gods and Generals: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler rivals its previous companion book to Gettysburg. Kunstler tells the story leading up to the battle of Gettysburg using his masterful brush to translate history into color paintings. The text and the paintings weave the tale of how America eventually tore itself asunder in the Civil War. Its an excellent collector's piece and great introduction into the Civil War.
I also found Kunstler did not paint as many movie scenes in this book, instead capturing the actual historical looks of these "Gods and Generals" of the Civil War. Any lover of history or military art will appreciate his attention to detail and riviting scenes. Enjoy!

Never have I seen half as much life breathed into the Civil War as in the paintings in this book. It is a visual feast, and I savor every page every time I look at it. The appearances of the soldiers and civilians alike portrayed in this book are accurate, and the colors and poses and emotional expressions are captivating and hauntingly beautiful. This would make a great coffee-table book or a guide for an artist, Civil War buff, or student.

This book is worth 5 stars!! My 8 year old son is just beginning to discover what it means to be born in the south. I want him to have an accurate picture of what the civil war was all about. It is hard to find civil war books with enough pictures to keep him interested. This book has plenty of high quality art for him to see and includes text that we can read together! I highly reccomend it based on those gorgeous paintings.

Mr. Kunstler has provided us with another book of his arrestingly beautiful paintings. Art, of course, is largely a matter of taste and proverbially in the eye of the beholder. Mr. Kunstler, however, even from as objective a standpoint as possible, has no peer as a chronicler of the Civil War. I have been interested in that period of history for about half a century, but it has been Mr. Kunstler's paintings over the past dozen or more years that have brought that war to life for me, and, I am sure, for many others. Although he is a prolific artist, he never compromises with quality, and the quality of his work is unsurpassed.

The subjects of Mr. Kunstler's paintings are invariably interesting, and he does not like to paint scenes or events that have been done previously by other artists. This book is the companion to, and illustrative of, the events and people of the novel "Gods and Generals" by Jeff Shaara, soon to be made into a motion picture of the same name. It follows four exceptional soldiers through the first two years of the war: Robert E. Lee, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson, Winfield S. Hancock, and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

In this book, there are many new paintings not yet published elsewhere, but whether you are an old Kunstler aficionado or newly introduced to his work, you will find this book unequaled. The reproductions of the paintings are eye-catching, displaying each painting in vibrant, striking colors, true to Mr. Kunstler's originals. I say above that his paintings are educational, and so they are. I urge you to look closely at every work of art. If you do, you will not only see an astonishing amount of detail, but also learn much about the people, the times, the objects people used, and the war. Again, we have Mr. Kunstler's constant striving for perfection to thank for paintings which are correct in every detail. He is the quintessential perfectionist, who painstakingly researches every detail, no matter how small, to provide his audience with true, as well as beautiful, depictions of people, places, and things. He consults with knowledgeable historians, such as Professor Robertson, who wrote the text for this book, on even such matters as the weather on the particular day that he wants to depict in a painting. All of the accouterments are true, as well as the animals, the uniforms, the weapons, the landscapes, the battlefield situations, the lighting -- everything. Rarely does one find, in one individual such as Mr. Kunstler, artistry to the point of genius coupled with an unceasing demand for perfection in all of the details of his art.

I admit that I am no connoisseur of art and that I can claim no expertise or experience in art. Even someone such as I, however, can at least partially appreciate the artistic techniques used by Mr. Kunstler. His positioning of people, animals, buildings, and other objects to lead the observer's eye to the main subject of the painting, his extraordinary use of light to play on this or that subject in the picture in greater or lesser brilliance in order to accentuate or subordinate that subject, and his use of color, always precise, to delineate bright sunshine or dark shadow, or to emphasize or minimize, are all techniques that even such as I can note and admire. His paintings are so life-like as to defy the observer to differentiate them from photographs. But no photographs could depict such wonderful color and the precise instants in time which Mr. Kunstler so deftly chooses to picture.

Mr. Kunstler has, with every book he has introduced, been able to obtain the very best in historians/commentators to draft the texts. He has obtained the services of, for example, Henry Steele Commager (for the book "The American Spirit: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler"), James I. Robertson, Jr. (for "Jackson and Lee: Legends in Gray," "The Confederate Spirit: Valor, Sacrifice and Honor," and the current work), James M. McPherson (for "Gettysburg"), and Dee Brown (for "Images of the Old West"). Dr. Robertson's text in "Gods and Generals: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler" is, as always, the perfect complement to the paintings. As with Mr. Kunstler's art, so also with Dr. Robertson's narrative, one can learn much, whether one is a novice or an experienced hand.

Thus, whether you are a "Civil War buff" or simply interested in exceptional art and edifying prose, you will enjoy this book (and you would do well to consider obtaining Mr. Kunstler's previous books, named parenthetically above). You cannot go wrong with the team of Kunstler and Robertson.

Gobo won the Best Book in Education Award this year from Independent Publisher.

GOBO rocks. It's that simple. Baines' approach to learning hasn't waivered since I sat in a classroom listening to his varied theories all those years ago at Berry. The lessons and activities found within GOBO will keep students excited about learning and will push them further than ever before. Baines is the best. Pure and simple.

I am not a neutral reviewer. I am Lawrence Baines' brother. I am also not a teacher, though education has long been an intense passion of mine. For ten years now I have been a member and officer of SEAL (Society for Effective and Affective Learning). I have always admired Lawrence's many creative pursuits in music and art, and have long wondered just why he had decided to lend his great passion and enthusiasm to traditional education. The answer is that the field of education in which he works is a long way from traditional education. He is a revolutionary who continually seeks to bring that, perhaps, childish delight and joy of learning back into the classroom. Going Bohemian is a delightful collaboration of a group of very competent and passionate people who are all committed to empowering education and to making it more efficient, effective and fun for all concerned. There is no dry education theory in this book. It is a collection of very compelling ideas to fire and hold the attention of student and teacher alike. As I read it, I got excited as I turned page after page which I could vividly see transforming the boring thing which I have long considered traditional education to be. You can't go wrong. Buy, read, and use this book. Robert Baines

Going Bohemian is an excellent resource for the classroom teacher. Its innovative suggestions for enhancing the writing assignments in English class are state-of-the-art and will excite both students and teachers. I have tried several of the writing projects with my students, and I enjoy the enthusiasm with which they have been met. The variety, freshness, and appeal to adolescent interests of Bohemian's writing assignments should make it a staple in language arts classrooms.

Just checking Kindle selections and this must certainly be one of the best electronic choices out there currently. A superb piece of writing that I have been through several times. Family interactions that are acutely real. Scenes that will make you feel you have experienced them visually. Try all the other non-electric Nova's out there as well.

I am in awe. Mr. Nova has written a magnificant book. The story is coursing with testosterone, adult peer pressure and the constant demands to abide by those spoken and unspoken social expectations. Though these events take place during the time around World War Two, the basic aspects of human nature are still applicable today. The three female characters' first-person accounts help to give a counterweight to the primarily male-driven tale. The first person narrative of each character gives divergent perspectives of the person's desires, frustrations and motivations, but never slows down the development of the story. The mother's intermittent remarks about different animals which inhabit their estate is a nice touch. The metaphor of the goat is pure genius. This story will resonate with me for years to come. Well done, Mr. Nova.

and I read it in the fourth grade. It still gives me chills.

I think this is the book I read, anyways.

It's about this boy who's mother dies, and his father has to make business trips, so the boy goes to live with his aunt, uncle, and cousins.

His cousin, Henry, is about the same age as he is, and Henry is evil.

If you can find a copy of this book, you really should try it, but it truly is frightening.

Do not confuse - as some other reviewers have - Craig Nova's stunning novel, The Good Son, with the not-so-stunning movie of the same title starring Macauly Culkin. The two are completely unrelated, although Nova's novel would certainly make an excellent film.

At a basic level, The Good Son tells the story of Pop Mackinnon, a wealthy country lawyer, and his son, Chip. On another level, The Good Son is the closest and most capable literary understanding of the human condition that I have read in recent memory.

Pop Mackinnon is a man with grand and masculine ambitions for himself and his sons. After his eldest son John is killed in World War II, Chip is the only son Pop has left. Having returned from the war as POW, Chip is expected to follow in Pop's footsteps - to become a lawyer and to marry well. When Chip's relationship with Jean, a 'lower class' woman, gets in the way of his engagement to the pure-bred Carolyn, the battle between father and son escalates to an emotionally and physically dangerous height where the bond of love between a father and son becomes that which each can use to hurt the other the most.

Nova tells the story through the eyes of several different narrators, all characters in the story, whose subsequent roles as character and narrator add depth and clarity to the novel. To punctuate the events of the story, Nova takes several short excursions into the natural world, through the diary entries of Mrs. Mackinnon - Pop's wife, Chip's mother, and a soft-spoken overseer of the battle lines drawn between father and son. In these short passages, Nova demonstrates a profound understanding of the ebb and flow of life, the intermingling of the forces that create, unite and destroy us all.

Craig Nova exterts a masterful control over his work: as you read it, you come to realize the volume and intensity of thought that is required to produce prose so deliberately spare, that each word, each sentence, resounds with delicate roar.

The Good Son, like Nova's other works, is virtuoustic stuff. Not everyone will enjoy it or understand it, but I suspect that those who read it will be as richly rewarded as I have been.

I highly recommend this novel, Nova's fourth and perhaps his best. I'm in good company recommending it, too: John Irving (of The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp) wrote an excellent review of The Good Son in the New York Times Book Review in 1982 that you ought to read