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This book is the shiznit. I am 19 and remember reading it in elementary school. I have this book memorized in my head. It has this pimp little bear working in his uncles pizza shop. (not your typical story huh) and something about barney stayed in my head all of these years. I dont even think about the 3 little pigs like I do this bear. My brother loved it as well. A must read for lil kids. :P

Barney Bear's Pizza Shop was the favorite book of many students in my (Pre-K) classes. Now I am retired and it is a favorite of my grandson. It is funny and written in a way that the children begin to help tell the story, while it is being read. Barney tries lots of jobs at the Pizza Shop, with disasterous results, but is only successful as a waiter. It confirms the idea that everyone is not good at everything, but everyone is good at something. It is definitely a book to be rated 5 stars!

Great book! I liked how the book goes through each step of the consulting process. Follow the steps and you can't go wrong. Probably the best feature is the practical advice given in each of the chapters. For example, the authors tell you what questions to ask in the first meeting with a client, how to write a successful proposal and contract, how to conduct interviews, how to collect data, how to present your results, and a ton of other very helpful information. I also liked the brief pieces of advice given by expert consultants that appear in every chapter. No question in my mind that if you follow the process and advice in this book you will have a very successful consulting practice. This one's a keeper!

I am in agreement with the review written by Margaret Neale of Stanford University in that this book is able to effectively travel the distance between novice and experienced consultants alike. This will certainly prove to be an excellent consulting tool for everyone and anyone who reads and embracing the lessons within The Basic Principles of Effective Consulting. I would highly recommend this book.

Lawrence Hansen compiles The Basics Of Scale Modeling, a step-by-step photo guide to scale modeling for bare-bones beginners. The best models are tiny museum-quality replicas of the real thing: the art lies in capturing the element of realism of the real thing, and it's an art presented by The Basics Of Scale Modeling's techniques culled from FineScale Modeler magazine articles covering the basics. From setting up the initial work area and assembling the tools to planning a project for smooth success, this is a 'must' for any who would start on their first scale model.

Lawrence Hansen compiles The Basics Of Scale Modeling, a step-by-step photo guide to scale modeling for bare-bones beginners. The best models are tiny museum-quality replicas of the real thing: the art lies in capturing the element of realism of the real thing, and it's an art presented by The Basics Of Scale Modeling's techniques culled from FineScale Modeler magazine articles covering the basics. From setting up the initial work area and assembling the tools to planning a project for smooth success, this is a 'must' for any who would start on their first scale model.

Frankly, I was stunned. I found this book at bloatedtoe dot com, and it is incredible. It's fun, informative, and educational. This Lawrence Gooley is one heck of an author. I would strongly suggest you visit bloatedtoe dot com to see more of his books. He's the best-kept secret in northern New York!

This is a great book, but Amazon does not and will never have it new. It will only be available here new through the Marketplace if the publisher decides to list it. I personally know the author/publisher. He does not deal with big book vendors like Amazon because they demand huge discounts. This and all other Lawrence Gooley books are only available new from the publisher's website (bloatedtoe dot com), or through a few select stores in northern New York (the list of these stores is also available at the website). Amazon simply lists any books they find are in print. They get their information from large book listing services, or even by stealing content from publishers' websites.
Amazon claims it is perfectly legal for them to list items they do not carry and have no chance of ever carrying. Their strategy is to lure you here with the promise of obtaining the book for which you were searching. When you see it isn't available, you will likely shop around and buy something else. So either way, Amazon gets your money. In addition, they are stealing traffic away from the publisher's website, and not telling people where they can actually obtain the book.
If you see any Lawrence Gooley books available in new condition from Amazon or any other big booksellers, the seller is lying about the true condition of the book or about having the book available at all. If you want this book in new condition (and signed by the author), don't waste time checking back here repeatedly, go to bloatedtoe dot com.

Introduced to this book a few years ago by a friend's rabbi during a children's sabbath celebration, my husband and I were quite impressed. The art is so inviting to look at. But more importantly, the content is worth sharing with children you want to share a positive image of faith with very early on -- whether they are children who share your own religion or are in another religion that you respect.

We are Christian and have now shared this lovely book with children in our congregation, children in other Christian denominations (both Catholic and Protestant) and children being raised with Jewish traditions. We hope it will be a blessing to many -- adults and children -- as it has been to us.

I've looked many years for a book that is spiritual, but doesn't talk down to kids, to share with my many grandchildren. There is another: "God's Paintbrush" but we have read it so many times that I needed something new. This is it! A wonderful, delightful exploration of who God is, and what God does in the world through us. Cuddle up to your grandchildren with this one.

Bedford is an amazing piece of work from a man who deserves to be recognized in his lifetime as a great, gifted writer. He lays out a textured story in deadpan which is airtight, entertaining, without one misplaced word or idea. I look forward to future work from this Pat Lawrence character.

A Quite remarkable first Novel.. imaginative and very Different from a regular book.... i found it To Be An overall enjoyable book... I am Sure Lawrence Will find a place in the literary world with his fresh and insightful voice.

Beginnings: The Art & Science Of Planning Psychotherapy by Mary Jo Peebles-Kleiger (a psychoanalyst, clinical psychologist, and board certified clinical hypnosis expert) is a thoughtful and informative guide drawn from the author's years of experience in the outpatient department of the Menninger Psychiatric Clinic. Individual chapters address a wide range of psychotherapy topics, including enhancing the patient's ability to form an alliance, reality testing and reasoning, trial interventions and feedback, and much, much more. Advising an integrative approach and offering its resources as a primer and sourcebook, Beginnings is highly recommended and an invaluable addition to any professional or academic Psychotherapy Studies or Clinical Psychology reference collection.

"The voyage of discovery lies not in finding new landscapes, but in having new eyes"--Marcel Proust

"Beginnings, the Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy" by Mary Jo Peebles-Kleiger, is a tremendous resource not only for working with clients in therapy, but equally in my opinion, for conceptualizing clients based on test findings. Those of us who teach assessment have long needed a text like this. In beautifully clear and compelling prose, Dr. Peebles-Kleiger combines meticulous scholarship with deeply thoughtful and provocative analyses to create a truly integrative framework for understanding those we wish to help.

I am a faculty member in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Kansas. My specialty is personality assessment. I teach two required courses to our clinical graduate students, one on the "mechanics" of administering, scoring, and interpreting several widely used instruments (e.g., MMPI-2; Rorschach), and a second course on the integration of test findings. In 10 years of teaching assessment and report writing, I have consistently found that gaining expertise in instruments such as the Rorschach and the MMPI-2 is quite challenging for students. However, the greatest difficulty students encounter (and in my experience this is true of even the brightest students) is in developing the ability to integrate and contextualize test findings in a way that creates an accurate, rich and meaningful understanding of "a person."

This process is as fundamental in assessment as in therapy. However, unlike the therapy context in which this often occurs over a series of sessions in which information about a client is accumulated and digested, in the assessment context an examiner must integrate a great deal of information in the form of test findings that comes all at once. To do this sucessfully requires having a broad as well as deep and also flexible understanding of psychological disturbance, and this is just what Dr. Peebles-Kleiger provides in this remarkable book.

I began this review with a quote from Proust because I believe it speaks to the essence of Dr. Peebles-Kleiger new book. This is a text that can give us and our students new eyes.

"Beluga: A Farewell to Whales" is definitely one book I wish the title for was not so apt. In this work Pierre Beland does an amazing job in bringing to life a remarkable animal, the beluga whale, and in particular one population of this species, those that inhabit the immense St. Lawrence estuary in Canada. He also brings to life in a sad and sometimes sickening way the plight facing these animals, cetaceans that even though legally protected in the St. Lawrence since 1979 do not seem to be showing any signs of signifcant population increase.

Beland's book in part reads like the current popular medical and forensic autopsy shows, as the author, a dedicated and highly trained biologist, seeks to determine what is killing the whales of the St. Lawrence. Ready at a moment's notice - even on holidays, the dead of winter, or in the middle of the night - to retrieve whale corpses found ashore or adrift, Beland and his colleagues probe each whale carcass for the secrets of its life and its death. With dedication and skill worthy of a criminal forensic team they uncover the truth of each whale's demise, which are often untimely as young whales or even newborns are almost as common in his lab as much more mature adults.

What Beland finds is chilling. The whales appear to be dying from pollution, a case he boldy and definitely makes in this book. Examintion of the tissues from the deceased whales reveal staggering amounts of industrial and agricultural chemcials, including polychlorobiphenyls or PCBs, DDT, dieldrin, mirex, chloradane, and more. Even though some of these chemicals haven't been used in the region for decades, their use banned, they continue to wash into the St. Lawrence, a vast river system that drains almost the whole of the Great Lakes region. Beland writes that beluga whale milk in the estuary has been found to contain as much as ten parts per million of PCBs and six parts per million of DDT; a lot considering fish containing fives times fewer PCBs are considered unfit for human consumption. Ships carrying waste with more than fifty milligrams of PCBs per kilogram (or fifty parts per million) require a special transit permit; sadly, the average male beluga roaming these waters already has that concentration of PCBs in his blubber by age nine. Without suprise, this massive concentration of pollution within the whale's bodies has lead to a host of ailments. St. Lawrence belugas boast the dubious honor of the highest incidence of cancer in any marine mammal, perhaps even a higher rate than that found in man. Beland discusses not only the cancer but also the other health problems that are affecting this population of whale's very survival.

Beland clearly is in love with the beluga, a beautiful white whale that he writes wears that "peculiar beluga smile," a feature that gives the species "the look of an enigmatic wise man or, rather, of a happy imbelice." Remarkable animals, the author spends a great deal of time discusses the biology and behavior of belugas, particularly in a very concise and fact-filled appendix. Among the most vocal of all whale species, their repertoire is more varied than that of dolphins and extremely complex. Highly social creatures, they may surpass dolphins in their potential for social communication. They also according to Beland clearly surpass dolphins in terms of their echolocation capability; in fact this ability is so sophisticated that the belugas have been held for many years by both the United States and the former Soviet Union for studies to aid in the development of sonar technology. Beland discusses this at some length, including the remarkable story of a beluga that escaped from such a facility in the Ukraine and ended up in of all places the Turkish coast, very far indeed from the species usual haunts.

The book is also valuable for its history of the interaction between the beluga whales and the people of the St. Lawrence. Hunted for centuries - from the days of the earliest European settlers and by native peoples before that - Beland discusses the use of weir fisheries to trap whales and of the odd, bizarre, and cruel war fought against the beluga between 1928 and 1939 which even involved bombing the poor whales from the air! Also discussed is the history of the beluga in captivity, covering everything from the early futile attempts involving the likes of P.T. Barnum to today's more sophisiticated modern oceanairums, which although Beland has some misgivings about them, may play a vital role in trying to save the species.

Finally the book is a good one to get for those interested in the St. Lawrence estuary itself, an impressive body of water and ecosystem in its own right. As much a sea as a river, the St. Lawrence flows downstream only half the time, it main current reversed every six hours by the tide in a never ending war between the light brown river waters flowing from the Great Lakes and the green salt water alive with seaweed and all matter of marine animals. Home to a variety of seabirds, fishes, crustaceans, molluscs, and four species of seals - many of which are more charaterstic of arctic climates and are not found as far south anywhere else in the world - even without belugas the river and its life are remarkable and need protection.

A charming, heartfelt book concerning a species not often written about. The sad toll the animal's own environment takes on it's health, and the dawning inevitability of the whale population's demise is shocking. The novel made me not only want to find out more, but it woke me up and made me want desperately to help.

The Best of Growing EDGE is a collection of the best articles, by twenty four different authors, from the first five years of Growing EDGE magazine. It covers hydroponics, greenhouses, nutrients, lighting, and other new and innovative techniques to use in high tech gardening and horticulture. Since the articles are from the first five years of Growing EDGE magazine, each chapter is a comprehensive compendium of cutting edge horticulture without going over the edge! New and innovative seems to be the keyword here. The mainstream gardening magazines and books cover the tried and true techniques of gardening; The Best of Growing EDGE covers the new and innovative. The information can be used by both hobby home gardeners and large commercial growers. The techinques are the same, it is just the scale of the operation that is different. Gardening is possible year round with the information contained in this book

The Growing Edge is a magazine designed and published for readers with an interest in gardening, horticulture, and hydroponics. The Best of Growing Edge II: Popular Hydroponics and Gardening for Small-Commercial Growers and Hobbyists is a compilation of the best of the magazine's articles originally published between 1994 and 1999. The various articles are grouped into chapters: Introduction to Hydroponics; The Basic Elements of Hydroponics; Building Your Own System; Plants You Can Grow Hydroponically; Breeding and Propagation; Pest & Disease Control; Greenhouse Management; Organics and Hydroponics; Beyond the Basics; Small Commercial Growers; Hydroponics in Education and Public Service. The Best of Growing Edge II is an essential title for personal, professional, academic, and public library hydroponic gardening and horticultural reference collections.

Lawrence Squeri has written a book that is educational and enjoyable on many levels. As a former resident of the Pocono area, I found the local history fascinating, especially considering the paucity of other worthy books on this subject. It also works on a larger scale since Squeri ties in the history of recreation in this area with the changes in the country at large at the same time. In this way, Better In the Poconos serves as a case study for the nation as a whole instead of just a small-niche local interest book.

Better In The Poconos: The Story Of Pennsylvania's Vacationland by Lawrence Squeri (Professor of History, East Stroudsburg University) is an original slice of regional American history, offering the reader an inside look behind the glamour of the tourist industry. Focusing specifically on the tourism trade in the Poconos area of Pennsylvania, from the opening of the first hotel in 1829, to the many industries who ruthlessly compete for tourist dollars today, Better In The Poconos is an amazing story of clashing economics, evolving trades, and more, highlighted with black-and-white photographs from a variety of eras in history. Better In The Poconos is very highly recommended for academic and community library American Popular Culture and American History supplemental reading lists and reference collections.