I just finish reading this book for my graduate course in developmental theories. I found this book covers all major developmental theories. The discriptions on each theory are very complete with the inclusion of the theory's strengths and weaknesses. Through the descussion of each theory, the author also occasionally inserts a comparison of the present theory with Piaget's or Freud's stage theories. This really helps me more thoroughly understand various theoretical concepts. The language level of this book is moderate; it should not be too difficult for most students. The only problem I have is that there is a little less clear in language when the author tried to describe some highly complicated concepts such as the Gibson's theory in Chapter 7. I think this problem can be overcome by having a good editor when preparing the next revised edition. Generally speaking, I should clap with applause for having read this book for my course. Thank you! Dr. Miller

This book covers major and emerging theories of lifespan developmental psychology in a clear, focused and critical manner. I use it in the undergraduate developmental psychology courses I teach as a main textbook, and I use it as a recommended supplement to the graduate developmental courses I teach.

While explaining each theory and how it applies to human development, Miller avoids jargon. When she evaluates each theory, Miller isn't afraid to shoot critical arrows at several sacred theories and theorists in psychology when it is appropriate; when she does so, she always backs up her arguments with data from other research and theorists, and always presents the strengths of each model. Unlike many texts, Miller's book includes solid coverage of several theories that are less well-known or that are emerging within the field.

Overall, this is a splendid introduction to developmental psychology.

I found this gem at the library, now I'm going to buy a copy for myself! There are so many great ideas in here! I've read other books on the subject but haven't been very impressed. These ideas are practical, inexpensive, and clever. It includes recipes for things like playdough, and instructions for making your own affordable alternatives. Karen Miller had spent over twenty years in the business when this was written and it really shows in this wonderful, thoughtful book.

This book and its sequel "More Things to do with Toddler and Twos" are full of great ideas for playing with and teaching young children (18 mos-3yrs). Most ideas are inexpensive and can be practiced with items around the house.

This book is set in the early 1900's and is a terrific glimps into life during that period of history. It is the wonderful story of two girls who are growing up without a mother. They move to a new town and have to go through all the ordeals of life with the love of only one parent. This story transcends time, and is an enjoyable read for young girls and grown women alike. Find out how "Those Miller Girls" deal with the forgetfulness of their professor father, and their desire to have a mother, as you follow their escapades in rural Kansas.

One of my favorite childhood books. Story of Lou Emma, Maddy and their matchmaking. A very idealized version of the early 1900s, but a lot of fun to read.

In With This Ring, Robin Miller and Sandra Browning editorially collaborate to draw together essays and articles by an impressive and varied collection of scholars and writers to form a coherent, expansive survey of marriage, cohabitation and divorce in various cultures around the world. From Cross-Cultural Psychiatrist Helen E. Ullirch's "A Thirty-Year Perspective on Hindu Marriage and The Law: Cultural Confirmation of Change", to Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences faculty member Barbara H. Vinick's "Sexuality Among Older Couples: Perceptions of Spouse and Self", to sociologist Susan De Vos' "Nuptiality in Latin America: The View of a Sociologist and Family Demographer", these are original works of seminal scholarship and insightful, descriptive, analytic commentary that render With This Ring an impressive benchmark publication in the study of human marital and pseudo-marital relationships.

In With This Ring, Robin Miller and Sandra Browning editorially collaborate to draw together essays and articles by an impressive and varied collection of scholars and writers to form a coherent, expansive survey of marriage, cohabitation and divorce in various cultures around the world. From Cross-Cultural Psychiatrist Helen E. Ullirch's "A Thirty-Year Perspective on Hindu Marriage and The Law: Cultural Confirmation of Change", to Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences faculty member Barbara H. Vinick's "Sexuality Among Oler Couples: Perceptons of Spouse and Self", to sociologist Susn De Vos' "Nuptiality in Latin America: The View of a Sociologist and Family Demographer", these are original works of seminal scholarship and insightful, descriptive, analytic commentary that render With This Ring an impressive benchmark publication in the study of human marital and pseudo-marital relationships.

This small and important book gives a timeless and cogent description of the dynamics between dominants and subordinates. Though the examples are specific to the relationships between men and women, the model offered stands up in an examination of dominant/subordinate relationships between any two groups or individuals. I discovered my own relationship with my sister (and vestiges of the dominant/subordinate in our relationship continue well into our adulthood). Continuously in print since 1976, Miller's little book is destined to remain in print as a classic, yet with a tiny bit of promotion from the publisher, it could easily become a current bestseller.

Jean Baker Miller has done a magnificient job of illustrating major developmental issues for men and women. The title is deceiving, because it doesn't express the power and depth of her thinking as it applies to both genders.

A major contribution, by the author, is her recognition of the roles of dominants and subordinates. This phenomenon appears in almost all aspects of our lives. People in either role learn, the important concept is to understand what they learn. Jean Baker Miller focused on the role of men and women as they fulfill this dominant, subordinate relationship and the learning that stems from these roles.

When I read her book it was like I was standing in front of a full-length mirror that reflected a picture of my emotional state. I was able to see that my emotional state was half empty. My feminine qualities had been forced from my being, and I was unhappily overrun by my masculine self. Her book allowed me a map from which to start to reintegrate the feminine into my being. It allowed me to cry for the isolation of my masculine self and welcome the strength of my feminine. The reflections I received helped me rearrange my values to allow myself to be both empathetic and strong. In one sense it allowed me to understand my own intelligence. I defined my intelligence as the energy created by the unbroken path between my heart and mind. Intelligence is the product of this synergistic connection. When this connection is blocked or broken my intelligence is not in force.

My work with leaders in organizations is strongly influenced by the discoveries I made will reading this book. I hope you take the time to reflect on these difficult, but crucial issues.

In the retail industry there is constant change. You must continually learn more to stay ahead of your competiton, and succeed with your business growth. I personally guarantee that this collection of shared success stories will teach you how to become a better retailer.

The retail industry needs any and all the help it can get right now and books like this are just what's needed. - President / Ames Stores (12 locations + 47 years of retail experience)

I've bought this book and it's excellent..I couldn't believe that someone thought to do this great work..Well you can find anything about being tenor in this book.From explanations of fachs(lirico,drammatic tenor) to general tenor problems,you learn lots of things..This is a must-have book for tenors...Lots of exercises,examples of voice analysis of great tenors and much more....

Richard Miller writes an excellent book on both the physiology and proper use of the tenor voice. Miller stresses the importance of good technique due to the strenuous demands of classical tenor literature. He provides plenty of supplementary diagrams and examples of exercises. At times Miller drags and may get a little too technical, but this more a minor nuisance that doesn't detract from the content. A word of caution: As Miller warns in his book, the vocal exercises should be used with extreme discretion by anyone with less than a fully developed professional voice.

This book addresses two principal issues: how people were governed (and perhaps increasingly come to govern themselves); and, within that context, how we might understand schools (where they came from, how and why they arose when, where and in the form they did, and their significance). It explores patriarchy (understood as rule of both father and husband, and as constituting both age and gender relations) as a mode of government within families, workplaces, and the institutions of state.

It is an ambitious book. It draws on an impressively wide range of scholarly literature, from religious, family, demographic, economic, social, political and military history.

It ranges widely over Western European societies and their colonial offshoots from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries (and beyond). It examines the complex impacts of demographic, economic, political, institutional and 'cultural' changes on patriarchal organisation, and the ways in which patriarchal understandings and practices mediated and shaped those changes, in institutions, and in everyday life.

It keeps a sharp eye out for similar tendencies across different situations and circumstances, for the unevenness of the developments it traces, and for the connections between between different aspects of social life, and between the different social and regional conditions which constitute 'uneven development'.

At the centre of its analysis are the sheer materiality of human existence and the ways in which the production of material life is conducted. But it is theoretically subtle and sophisticated, grafting onto its marxist heritage a qualified theoretical eclecticism and a concern with such things as the formation of particular personality characteristics in particular socio-political regimes.

It is roughly chronological in its overall organisation, but rather than a chronological narrative, it proceeds as what the author calls a 'patchwork' of 'case studies' to map important developments, to explore both what they have in common with what was happening elsewhere and their particularities and contingencies, and to note the diversity of conditions and practices across western societies. At the same time, it concerned to identify causes, and to make connections between seemingly disparate aspects and levels of social life.

The book is clearly written and well organised. I'd rate it as a useful book and important book. It is impressively scholarly. While it attempts synthesis it avoids any sort of singular, homogenising ('that's it in a nutshell') formula. And, third, because contemporary academic politics offers substantial inducements to turn out small, self-contained, 'do-able' bits - they get the publication points for a minimum of time and effort. But academic life needs, somewhere, works which assemble a breadth of knowledge and attempt the large-scale synthesis which that makes possible.

This book addresses two principal issues: how people were governed (and perhaps increasingly come to govern themselves); and, within that context, how we might understand schools (where they came from, how and why they arose when, where and in the form they did, and their significance). It explores patriarchy (understood as rule of both father and husband, and as constituting both age and gender relations) as a mode of government within families, workplaces, and the institutions of state. It ranges widely over Western European societies and their colonial offshoots from the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries (and beyond). It examines the complex impacts of demographic, economic, political/institutional and 'cultural' changes on patriarchal organisation, and the ways in which patriarchal understandings and practices mediated and shaped those changes, in institutions, and in the everyday life. This is an ambitious book. It ranges over a wide geo-political and chronological span, and draws on an extensive body of literature from religious, family, demographic, economic, social, political and military history. It keeps a sharp eye out for similar tendencies across different situations and circumstances, for the unevenness of the developments it traces, and for the connections between different aspects of social life, and between the different social and regional conditions which constitute 'uneven development'. At the centre of its analysis are the sheer materiality of human existence and the ways in which the production of material life is conducted. But it is theoretically subtle and sophisticated, qualifying its marxist heritage with a qualified theoretical eclecticism and a concern with such things as the formation of particular personality characteristics in particular socio-political regimes. It is roughly chronological in its overall organisation, but rather than a chronological narrative, it proceeds as what the author calls a 'patchwork' of 'case studies' to map important developments, to explore both what they have in common with what was happening elsewhere and their particularities and contingencies, and to note the diversity of conditions and practices across western societies. At the same time, it concerned to identify causes, and to make connections between seemingly disparate aspects and levels of social life. The book is clearly written and well organised. I'd rate it as a useful book and important book. It is impressively scholarly. While it attempts synthesis it avoids any sort of singular, homogenising ('that's it in a nutshell') formula. And, third, because contemporary academic politics offers substantial inducements to turn out small, self-contained, 'do-able' bits - they get the publication points for a minimum of time and effort. But academic life needs, somewhere, works which assemble a breadth of knowledge and attempt the large-scale synthesis which that makes possible.

(Adapted from History of Education Review 28 (1) 1999, 77-79)

THIS IS A VERY WONDERFULLY WRITTEN BOOK BY A NICE GUY BILL HALL OF BCFD RESCUE-1 I HAVE HAD THE PLEASURE OF MEETING HIM A FEW TIMES.HE RODE RESCUE-1 &STILL DOES FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS. THIS BOOK TAKES YOU TO THE FRONT LINES W/ BILL WHEN HE WAS A PARAMEDIC ON THE MEAN STREETS & TO BIG FIRES THIS IS ALSO COMPLETE W/ SOME GREAT FIRE PHOTOS. YOU WILL BE RODDONG SHOTGUN WITH BILL IN AN AMBULANCE &HIS PARTNER ON RESCUE-1. WHAT A GOOD BOOK.

Pull your helmut strap tight and hold on for your life as RESCUE 1 tears through the streets of Baltimore in a mad dash to save lives. This account of actual responces of RESCUE 1, will give you a feel for what the fireman of Baltimore City face on each tour of duty. Bill Hall spins a yarn in this exciting and very realistic narrative. It has many fireground and rescue scene stories that are written in a way to peak the interest of all-- from the fire buff to the veteren smoke eater. However, this is not your typical fire department book telling one fire story after another until they all run together in the readers mind. Writing such as this robs these accounts of their excitment and adrenaline. And that just aint Bill Halls style. "Turnout" instead chooses to highlight the "unusual" runs that fireman face everyday. Some are funny, some are downright sad, but thay are all extremely interesting and all are true.

What started out as a worthy effort by a small press to collect hard-to-find stories by one of the great American writers of this century results in bitter lawsuits, huge costs, a lesser book, and an unfortunate lesson in the realities of publishing today. Hooray for those intrepid souls like the Millers who toil in literary vineyards for the love of the art more than financial gain.

In 1987 an agent for Academy Chicago Publishers suggested it publish the Uncollected Stories of John Cheever. When his widow signed the agreement, it looked like a coup for this small publisher. But when the number of stories greatly exceeded what Mrs. Cheever expected, she and her children tried to call off the deal. A legal battle quickly began in Chicago and New York courts. Anita Miller does a superb job of recounting the behind the scenes legal wrangling and disastrous courtroom scenes, at the same time providing many insights into the publishing industry. A must read for fans of lawsuit accounts like Civil Action, and for those interested in publishing and publishing law.