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Alan Sieler has done it again! In his second volume of Coaching to the Human Soul, he tackles emotions and teaches us that we can become emotional learners and learn to use our emotions to become more effective at work and in our lives. Sieler's work is grounded in the concepts of philosophy, psychology, and biology; he has taken difficult concepts of philosophers, like Martin Heidegger and Fernando Flores, and articulated them in a way that is practical and comprehensible. However, the book is not a theoretical or intellectual approach to emotions, it is participative; the reader gets the opportunity to experience his own emotional triggers through self-coaching exercises and reflective activities. Sieler provides "Ontological Coaching in Action" vignettes that drive home the learning as well as provide a road map for professional coaches. This book is required reading for those that are committed to producing profound change in their clients.

This is a work of honesty and humour. If you can get your hands on it and you are interested in travel in the east of Oz. you would be mad not to! I know some towns were pretty angry at the author but - well - he was just telling it like it is... Very witty and insightful!

The title "Coda", the elderly man racing in a wheelchair on the cover, and the newspaper articles preceding each section of the tryptich describing grannie and grandpa dumping, i.e. leaving confused elderly in public places, hoping someone will find them and care for them is how the book grabbed this reader's attention and it did not let up until the very end. Even then, the reader is dazed from the depth, complexity, and family relationships covered within 188 pages of the book. The subject is highly relevant. It is written with sensitivity, creativity, frequent humor, deep seriousness and wit.

Thea Astley describes the ordinairy life of the charming elderly lady Kathleen Hackendorf from the first person viewpoint. She is an Australian lady who raised two children, a son and daughter, who are successful in their respective fields and who married and had children of their own. Kathleen has an elderly good friend Daisy with whom she shares intimacies and has get-togethers for coffee and cake but who dies suddenly and unexpectedly. Kathleen is gradually becoming senile ... and forgetful. Her children have tried letting her live with them alternately but this option is fraught with problems. They are forced to make serious decisions on her behalf for her well being. Modern life is revealed in twisted complexity. This novel has wonderful imagery, ironic humor, and biting reality. It is highly worth reading and pondering.
Erika Borsos (erikab93)

If you've read some of my reviews or looked at some of my guides, then you know cooking is a big part of my life. My hubby Dub loves good food and I love to cook it. I am always on the lookout for a good cookbook, always looking for something different. I've got quite a cookbook library and I spend a lot of time poring over recipes, altering them, making them better, sometimes not. Cooking is an art.

So when I stumbled upon this book the other day I was really impressed. From the "Home Made Flower Tortilla" recipe on page 34 to the "Powwow Posole" on page 69, you'll find plenty of recipes your little chef can whip up.

Not only is there a nice little Cody Coyote story here, but the recipes will help your child become a pretty good Southwest Cook and who doesn't like Southwestern, Mexican and Native American cooking. If you've got a girl at home (or a boy) who likes to cook, then I can't recommend this darling cookbook for kids enough. Three cheers for Cody Coyote.

Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne

Published in 1932, this novel is a hysterically funny, tongue in cheek parody of the heavy handed, gloomy novels of some early twentieth century English writers who had previously been so popular. Tremendously successful when first published, "Cold Comfort Farm" caused quite a stir in its time.

The novel starts out innocuously enough, when well-educated Flora Poste finds herself orphaned at the age of twenty. Discovering that her father was not the wealthy man she believed him to be, she is resigned to the fate of having to live on a hundred pounds a year. Opting to live with relatives, rather than earn her bread, she seeks out a most unlikely set of relations, the odd Starkadder family who live in Howling, Sussex.

Therein begins what is certainly one of the funniest novels ever written. When Flora arrives in Howling, she meets her odd relatives, who live in neglected, ramshackle "Cold Comfort Farm", where they still wash the dishes with twigs, and have cows named Graceless, Pointless, Feckless, and Aimless. Headed by a seventy-nine year old matriarch, Flora's aunt, Ada Doom Starkadder, who has not been right in the head since she "saw something nasty happen in the woodshed" nearly seventy years ago, they are a motley and strange crew indeed. Confronted with their dismal and gloomy existence, Flora sets about trying to put things to right.

Peppered with eccentric, memorable characters, this book will take the reader on a journey not easily forgotten. It is one that is sure to make the reader revisit this novel yet again, like an old friend who is missed too soon.

Great book to share with children. It shows many diiferent aspects of Australia grouped by colors. Wonderful pictures!

Few geomorphology books provide adequate color pics to complement the text due to costs. This title is an exception. If you were disappointed as I was with READING THE EARTH by J. Wyckoff, consider this release.
And get a copy at around $12 before they're back up to $90.

The book above is only one volume of a five volume series. However, if you get this one you will probably want them all. If you are a designer or artist working with colored images on paper produced with printers ink, this out-of-print series of five Colorworks books, Red, Blue, Yellow, Pastel, and Black & White are excellent sources to quickly see how printed colors will interact without either guessing or a whole lot of time-consuming experimentation. The illustrations are systematically layed out to show how tints and shades of the primary colors in various mixtures of the standard colors used in four-color printing, CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black & White)actually appear in different quantities---in lines, stripes, circles, blocks, and dots and how they actually interact. Interaction with colored type is also shown. Additional illustrations show how the colors work in photographs and illustrations. Excellent instruction for using black masks to isolate and clearly see the book's color interactions is also included in each volume.
Three of the five volumes are each devoted to one of the primary colors: Red (Vol. 1), Blue (Vol. 2), and Yellow (Vol. 3), each of which is dominant in its own volume. The remaining two volumes, Pastels (Vol. 4), and Black & White (Vol. 5) use the pastel colors, and black as the dominant color showing how various mixtures of the dominant color interact against a spectrum of many other colors, like in the other volumes. The real value is that the colors shown are shown in percentages of each of the four color printing inks, which makes them reproducible. Unfortunately, all of the books are out of print, no doubt due to their limited audience and the original price of [money] per volume when originally published in 1990. Their production was truly an international effort. The books were designed in London, published by a Cincinnati firm, and printed in Hong Kong. They should be published in a new edition for the many new designers and artists who would benefit.

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Common Law Aboriginal Title is a highly specialised and impeccably researched book dealing with the origins and sources of land title. It would be especially useful for legal professionals preparing land rights claims on behalf of indigenous peoples, and anyone who better wants to understand the supporting role the law played in the dispossession of indigenous people during the age of Imperialism. This book's importance surpasses that of a mere historical curio, however. It has the potential to secure a more just future for fourth world peoples.

McNeil traces contemporary notions of land tenure and sovereignty back to their historical roots in feudal England. He intricately documents the way in which such notions were used, abused, twisted, perverted and ignored by colonialists in justifying the acquisition of 'savage,' 'unsettled' territory. He comprehensively deals with the international laws relating to conquest, cession and settlement, exposing the indisputable fact that many territory were miscategorised, almost invariably to the detriment of indigenous people. In so doing, he sets forth a radical challenge to the legal legitimacy of indigenous dispossession. He then proceeds to examine the limited recognition of indigenous title under various regimes during the 20th Century.

Common Law Aboriginal Title provides a battery of highly pertinent legal arguments for anyone wishing to challenge existing legal norms. The High Court of Australia borrowed extensively from this book in its ground-breaking Mabo judgment, in which it overturned 200 yeras of racist precedent. This scholarly book should play an important part in any future attempt to liberate indigenous people from the terrible historical hang-over of colonialism.