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The writers' theory of the Demonic vs. Tragic perspective is a masterpiece of a simple yet comprehensive attitude in therapy and conflict resolution. This work can be considered both as a professional literature and a personal guide to the world of non violence. It gives even the uneducated reader an optimistic sight on some near-impossible real life situations and easy, practical ways to handle them. A must for any therapist, but also for anyone curious about some intelligent and creative ways of resolving crisis.

This is the best analysis of human conflict and relationships since Games People Play was written in the 1960s. the thesis of the book is so common sense and obvious that you almost can't call it a theory - it is simply a description of the way things are.

I am not a professional therapist, but since reading the book I have had two specific opportunities to apply the "tragic" approach to personal conflicts of friends who came to me for advice. In both cases, these friends said that the one hour conversation with me was immensely more helpful than numerous sessions of psychotherapy to deal with these same problems.

THE LAYOUT IS VERY CONSISTANT AND THE CONTENT MADE EASY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND EVEN FOR BEGINNERS STUDYING AT GCSE A'LEVEL. THE KEY AREAS: THE NATURE OF PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL, COMPARATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES AS STATED ON THE BACK PAGE. PLEASE DO NOT OVERLOOK OR NEGLECT THE AGEING,ADOLESCENCE AND ADULTHOOD, SEX AND GENDER,PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND TREATMENTS AND THERAPIES.THEY ARE INVALUABLE TOPICS.

Using this book to supplement studies in psychology at advanced level courses makes understanding key concepts easy. However, some high foluted language often makes the text confusing.

As a physician - inventor of surgical instruments and devices, I found this book an excellent basic reference as to engineering concepts and applications. I enjoy the author's wry sense of humor and efforts to make some complicated prosesses readily digestible. I think this would be an excellent text for a college -level course and believe it would influence students to enter the engineering world in a more formal manner.

Mr. Kamm's book is a collection of wisdom, ideas, and strategies for the engineer and entrepreneur. He shares stories of success, setbacks, and innovation. I read the book some years ago, but the reason I most enjoy it now is when considering difficuties I am going through in my own career. Like most professions engineering will bring you frustrations as well as triumphs, and I enjoy seeing how a fellow designer delt with close-minded managers, tight deadlines, small budgets, and took blows as well as wins. In issues both social and technical, the author has fun telling stories of his career, and may prepare you for challenges you haven't thought of yet!

This book is THE definitive work on the Angelic kingdom. The author speaks with authority, from the standpoint of direct perception and knowledge. The material is direct, informative and awe-inspiring. If you truly wish to learn about Angels in depth, this book is a "must-have."

As Angels have become more popular in recent years there has appeared a lot of books "about" them. Most appear to have been written by individuls who are interested and moved by angels, but who may not have actually percieved angels. Their books are often speculative, reverential, historical perspectives, telling of possible angelic encounters etc. This book, in contrast, is a simple description of various types of angels, their specific functions and activities etc by a woman who percieved them an a regular basis for a lifetime. It is like an enceyclopedia of angles by one who knew them through repeated direct experience. She writes from the perspective of a Christian mystic, but her spritual views are inclusive and loving. A very inspiring and entertaining book, suitable for aware children as well as adults.

As far as I'm concerned there are far too many biased books on this important subject of US foreign policy and the impact that the mass media corportation have on public and especially US opinion. The author shows with concise logical arguments and insightful examples how "news reporting" is done in the USA, especially with regard to anything that's considered Arabic or Islamic. Its interesting to find out for example that ever since the clash of the US government with the Barbari pirates back in the 1820s that the images constructed of that region and its people were extremely biased. Later when the US became a world and Superpower after the 2nd World War, the mass media outlets virtually began a tacit conspiracy to construct a image of Arabs and Moslems as weired, backward and irrational people, that blindly followed their "aggressive, and expansionist" religion: Islam. The cultural biased disposition can be seen anywhere in the US or for that matter in the West, whether on TV, in newspapers or on the radio. Only the Internet provided a somewhat more balanced account, due to its decentralized natured.
Pintak does an excellent job (especially as an American) who tells us vividly that the atmosphere and response to 9.11. was preprogrammed, since the US public has been conditioned, ever since the end of the Cold War to see everything islamic as alien, dangerous and subversive, if not downright terror bound. He calls this propensity and almost habitualized way of acting by Americans as referring to the Others. It was also thus, no coincidence that after the sudden demise of the Soviet Union, many government officials and especially the military industrial complex in the US was desperately looking for a new enemy to replace asap the former well serving enemy image of the S.U. and communism. It is also well known that the US economy ever since the 2nd World War has not only been dependent on the military industial complex (m.i.c.) but that it can actually no longer survive without it. Without the lucrative and massive orders that it places consistently every year, the economy would almost immediately spiral into a recession at the very least if not depression all together.
This book does an excellent job of explaining how the false and deliberate misreporting has implanted a new type of enemy in the minds of the US public. Similar to what occured during the Cold War, when Americans saw Russians as the enemy, they are now seeing anything associated with Islam or Moslems as the enemy. 9.11. and the War on Terror has only made things far worse, and created an atmosphere of fear and suspiciousness in the US and the West. Where the Bush administration has severely curtailed civil liberties and turned the country into a big brother surveillance society. It has been said that if people give up their freedom for the promise of protection, they'll lose both. This is precisely what is happening in the US, where a worse big brother state has been errected than what had existed under the McCarthy years back in the early 1950s when the Russians were turned into enemies, that had been the World War II allies of the US. Interestingly enough the same pattern or relationship existed between the radical Moslems and their Jihad movement against the Soviet's during the Afghanistan war that lasted from 1979-1989 because the Soviets had invaded Afghanistan in late 1979. Here also the soon to become new enemy was the ally of the US that even helped significantly to bring down the Soviet Union, that to many was the last empire in the world.
This book is very useful in showing how among other things a deliberate government and media policy has conditioned people in their views with regard to anything islamic. The successive US governments and the mass media have worked hand in hand to construct a false biased enemy image of the Others. This makes it on the one hand easier to surpress any dissent in the USA to the precarious US foreign policy that Washington has been following ever since the Cold War began with regard to the islamic countries. On the other hand it fuels the so called "War on Terror" that simply polarizes the world once again, as it had been during the Cold War, which benefits a few huge corporations of the big business establishment and the military industrial complex. If this "War on Terror" is not to become an "endless" war the US government as well as the mass media must change their dispositions toward the islamic countries considerably, or else in a worst case scenario we might really one day have something akin to the Crusades in the atomic age, that could lead to a disaster for humanity.

The actions and reactions of the U.S. before and after 9/11 has done little to improve its standing in the world, especially in Muslim-populated nations around the world, and Reflections In A Bloodshot Lens: America, Islam And The War Of Ideas probes the basic differences between perceptions of Americans and Muslims around the world. It comes from a veteran CBS news correspondent with strong connections to these world communities, reflects his journalistic experience, and proves a strong survey of not only American and Islam ideas, but how misreporting has emphasized differences.

This is a lovely piece of travel writing about the Island of Rhodes by a master observer of both the human character and the land- and seascapes with which Greece and its islands always delight us. It is a richly sensuous account of Durrell's years in the British civil service just after the end of WWII and just before the island is handed back to Greece. The eye is feted with descriptions of fields, hills, oranges and lemons, and flowers of every form and color. Sounds range from the rhythm of the sea (alternately savage and soothing) to Greek folk songs to sparkling conversation with Brit expatriates (including Gideon the half-sighted wonder). The author even offers a neat summation of a Greek picnic in tems of smells: petrol, garlic, wine and goat. Intermingled with these delicious attacks on the senses there is the play of light over the island as the sun moves across the sky and its rays are filtered through sea mist, mythology and the grim reality of having to rebuild a nation and an island after Nazi cruelty has left it a shambles. Like it or not, the reader is filled in on some mildly interesting points in the author's understanding of ancient history and the medieval Knights of St. John, who came into possession of the island for a time. The last section is about an enormous cookout in honor of a saint at whose shrine miracles have been know to occur, even raising the dead. It is a stroke of irony that during the festivities a young child is run over by a truck and dies the following day despite the best efforts of Mills, a good hearted but overextended British doctor. All in all, this is a delightful book, highly recommendable for those who enjoy travel writing. But Durrell is no Rebecca West, and this is not an example of the best Durrell. But it isn't bad Durrell, either.

Lawrence Durrell wrote this little book based on his life on Rhodes after World War II. This a more mature and settled Durrell than the young man who first brought us "Prospero's Cell" about Corfu or who wrote the "Alexandria Quartet" from Egypt during the war. Durrell's work is a time machine, taking the reader back to recovering Rhodes amidst poverty, sunshine, vibrant villages, and sparkling seas. His eye is fresh and clear, and his descriptions transport the reader to a place and time that are ageless and real. Another small classic!

Reviewed by David Lundberg, author of Olympic Wandering: Time Travel Through Greece

D.H. Lawrence's non-fiction is as good as his best fiction and these essays I would recommend for any curious and intelligent teenager (or adult if you missed them). They are about feminism, equality, democracy, art and travelling and every single one is worth reading. I read them when I was 20 and they have stayed with me ever since.

On the Title essay:
It is very fascinating to read a writer just narrating very common happenings that might happen at a ranch, like the unexpected meetings with porcupines and snakes.
Dropping the writer's role and just experiencing everything as a common man would. One work in which Lawrence is not doing, what he is famous for: theorizing every occurence, phenomena of life as a part of a huger complex thing, which can be comprehended by us ,only with him as the mediator.

Whatever questions you have about Reiki will be answered in this book. Suitable for the merely curious or the Reiki practitioner, and set out in an easy to use question and answer format. Especially good for someone who needs help to "explain" Reiki to others, and also full of handy tips for those practicing or hoping to use Reiki as part of a complementary therapy business.

I found this to be a loving and thorough guide to help people after they are attuned to the Reiki energy, and also for those who are thinking of getting more involved with this beautiful energy. The format with it's appropriate pictures placed throughout the book and the well planned and comprehensive chapters make this a wonderful how-to for the budding Reiki Professional.

The book is filled with down to earth advice and plain talk about how to set up your business, how to interest clients, what to say to a potential client, how to set up a space for Reiki Treatments, and even loving info on how to do a Reiki session.

I feel this is a truly inspired labor of love, and that the author left no stone un turned in bringing us this enlightened helper. It has found it's way to my spiritual tool box, and I expect it may make it's way to yours also.

I understand from this book is now out of print, but I am enjoying the library audio version. Carl Reinhart is a middle-aged man who never seemed to make anything of his life. He is divorced, not gainfully employed and lives with (and frankly, off of) his 25-year-old daughter, Winona, who is a successful model. So why do I actually LIKE this guy? Reinhart is very intelligent, philosophical and has a passion for cooking. He is not a professional cook, or professional anything else, of course, but as a self taught amateur has become quite accomplished at the art. The beautiful Wimona eats exceedingly little, but Reinhart is tolerant of that - it IS her job to be slim and gorgeous. He also very much rolls with the flow when he discovers this lovely and beloved daughter is gay.

Actually, "Rolling with the flow" describes Reinhart very well - he just seems to philosophize about life's surprises and mishaps and goes on rolling. The other women in his life include Grace Greenwood, a dynamic executive for a food company (and Winona's "friend") who manages to get Reinhart gainfully employed, first as a food demonstrator at a grocery store, then as a TV chef. In the cooking demonstration job he works with the loose but sweet Helen, who bestows upon Reinhart the same comforting gifts she generously bestows on a few (more than a few?) men. Reinhart, accepting people for what they are is, of course, tolerant of that. Then we have Mercer, his wellborn daughter-in-law who seems to either be "on something" or maybe just not connecting on all cylinders. Being marriend to Reinhart's unfeeling jerk of a son may be the reason. I'm not sure where he's going with Edie Mulhouse (I have a cassette and a half to go), a very large neighbor, but Reinhart has befriended the painfully shy and awkward gal. Is she in love with Reinhart? She seems to worship him. Or maybe she's in love with Winona; such indications are also hinted at. Equally puzzling is Genevieve, Rehihart's ex wife, who appears out of the blue after a decade of no contact with her ex-husband. Why did SHE show up? It appears her purpose in contacting our hero is for the purpose of loudly, embarrassingly and publicly cracking up.

This is, of course, the fourth Reinhart novel. That it is out of print is a travesty, an abomination, a devastating commentary on the sick state of humanity as a whole.

In this novel, Reinhart has become a cook. Writing a novel is like cooking with memes. It is done for much the same reasons; it is very difficult. But Thos. Berger make it looks easy. I don't know how he does it. It is genius.

Thomas Berger must feel that his characters are too interesting and entertaining to not return to, and he is right. Splendor Mainwaring's son is here, representing his father who is in cryogenic suspension, we hope. (It is my theory that *Robert Crews* is a sequel to *Regiment of Women* perhaps the funniest novel ever written, except for *Neighbors*.)

In a hundred years, surely it will be seen that Reinhart (not Rabbit) is the essential fictional human of the second half of the 20th Century.

I first read *Reinhart's Women* when I was about 34. Then I put it away, knowing--every week that passed in my life--that when I was in my early fifties, I would take it out again, and re-read it. It gave me something to look forward to. After waiting all these years, I have not been disappointed. I wish I could get amnesia so that I could read it again tonight.

Wrongly pigeon-holed by some as a "comic" novelist, or even "black humorist", Berger's themes are large, his fiction is true. He writes novels of imagination (*Changing the Past*, *Being Invisible*, *Regiment of Women*, of history (*Arthur Rex*) and of the human condition). That they are excrutiatingly funny does not mean that they are not excrutiatingly true.

I have read a lot of novels over the years. *Reinhart's Women* is my favorite novel. No one knows women better than Berger, except other women. If you want to know about women, read about Reinhart's.

On the chance that Mr. Berger might read these reviews, I would like to say to him:

Hey! How's Reinhart? Was his TV show a success? Did he marry Edie and give Blaine a kid half-brother or -sister? Did he revivify the restaurant? What about Mercer? What happened to her? Did Genevieve fare better in California than she did in Chicago, and did she ever raise her ugly head again in Southern Ohio (presuming that Reinhart remained there)? Or did everyone simply live happily ever after?

You brought back Jack Crabb. I love Reinhart more. I reallize that the out-of--print status of *Reinhart's Women* may not seem to be too encouraging, but how about this: Mr. Berger, if you write a fifth Reinhart, I will personally give you $100. I am not kidding. michaelbrown@mail.org

Has good in-dept discussion to the subspecialty. Compliments Ryans 3 volume Retina nicely. Very good pictures and the tables are nicely constructed. A must have for any general ophthalmologist with a keen interest in retina or any vitreo-retinal specialist.

This two volume set covers medical and surgical retina. It has many fine color photographs and is written on a high level. It seems to fill some of the gaps left by the Ryan Retina series. Drug coverage seems up to date, and treatment recommendations are current