I just graduated from a high school very similar to Faircrest High. I must say that my own experiences from it compared to the students' in "Doing School" were nearly identical. I kept wondering throughout reading it if Pope had been secretly at my school instead of Faircrest. Truly a must-read for anyone involved in high school curriculum: teachers, administrators, board members, parents, etc.

I am a sculpturess, I have a project to do a bas-relief. I like his works a lot. I need this book as soon as possible, I wish. Thank you give us a change to read and find this book.

This work contains key names, battles, and machinery of the second world war. It gives the reader more than just "the basics". The biographical sketches of various characters of the war are informative. It gives the significance of various battles and weaponry as well. All in all, a very thorough work.

Escapo is a good illustration of when comics live up to their potential and deliver serious themes in a fresh artistic tapestry. Paul Pope uses the escape artist to examine several different types of escape and our flirtation with love, death and life. Plus Escapo shows that circuses and escape artist can still be cool!

Pope's defining masterworks, "Essay on Man" and "The Rape of the Lock", are crystalizations of the 18th Century's defining impulses. The "Essay on Man" proselytizes on behalf of the deistic belief in an ordered, rational universe where humankind is no divine favorite but can understand its place on the Great Chain of Being and find happiness through knowledge and acceptance. Most will join with Voltaire in his hearty rejection of the doctrine "Whatever is, is right," yet it is impossible to deny the ennobling quality of Pope's optimism:
"Grasp the whole worlds of reason, life, and sense,
In one close system of benevolence:
Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree,
And height of bliss but height of charity."
Where "Essay on Man" expresses the rational principles of the Enlightenment, "The Rape of the Lock" exemplifies the love of the frivolous, the fashionable, and the feminine which gave such light and warmth to an era famed for its elevation of the intellect. The poem exemplifies the Rococo, that most playful of styles in literature; nowhere else in English lit does so much of the spirit of Boucher come through. Pope's verse swirls and sparkles in melodic luxuriance, his creamy couplets smooth and shapely as a woman's legs.
This compact edition also includes the "Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady", one of the most beautifully severe (and overlooked) poems in the language-- a rare triumph of Neo-Classical lyric. Here also are the famous "Essay on Criticism", the galloping satire of the "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot", Epistle IV of the "Moral Essays", the "Ode on Solitude" and "The Dying Christian to His Soul", and the famed little epigram from a dog's collar-- all magnificent, all of them compact and gracious in expression, articulate and penetrating in thought. The serious devotee of Pope will want to go on to the treasures (and scholarly annotations) of the Twickenham edition, but this is a terrific anthology of some indispensable works from this controversial and indispensable genius.

ENDORSEMENTS FROM THE BOOK'S COVER:

"A wonderfully insightful and unique book for all therapists, supervisors, and students-an affirmation of our rich scientific and professional heritage and values."


JACK WIGGINS, Ph.D., President (1992), American Psychological Association

"A wise and useful book which should be in every practitioner's library and be required in all clinical and counseling training programs."


DAVID MILLS, Ph.D., former Director, American Psychological Association Ethics Office

"A splendid book.... This is essential reading for all those in psychotherapy and related fields."


CLIFFORD STROMBERG, Esq., Partner, Healthcare Law, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC

"It should be part of every therapist's basic library."


ALLEN WEBB, Ph.D., ABPP, past President, American Board of Professional Psychology

"Drs. Kenneth Pope and Melba Vasquez whose previous writings...have earned the authors great respect have written a lucid and comprehensive treatise that will become a valuable resource for practitioners and students."


HANS STRUPP, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University

"An invaluable book written by authors who are experts on professional ethics. It is an excellent source for professionals and should be required reading for all psychology students."


ERIKA FROMM, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago

"At last the working clinician has concrete, down-to-earth help to resolve issues of ethics and professional responsibility... This book is a must for faculty...should be required for all clinicians in training."


JEROME SINGER, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor & Clinical Director, Department of Psychology, Yale Univ.

"An excellent resource for the practitioner as well as for the academician."


LILLIAN COMAS-DIAZ, Ph.D., Executive Director, Transcultural Mental Health Institute

"No mental health professional who ever has contact with a client should begin without first reading this entire book."


LENORE WALKER, Ed.D., Clinical Diplomate in Independent Practice; author, The Battered Woman

"Useful to every psychologist. I expect it will land on everyone's bookshelf as a well-thumbed source of important information on such topics as working with suicidal clients. We will use it in training at our Center."


NORMAN FARBEROW, Ph.D., ABPP, Co-Founder and Co-Director, L.A. Suicide Prevention Center

"An excellent, well-written blend of scholarship, common-sense, and wise counsel."


GERALD KOOCHER, Ph.D., ABPP, Harvard Medical School

"A very down-to-earth guide to many issues which are not typically covered in books on ethics -- from suicidal clients to nonsexual dual relationships to working within different cultural contexts. I'd highly recommend it."


KAREN KITCHENER, Ph.D., Professor & Counseling Training Director, Denver Univ.

"An excellent analysis of the meaning of ethics in the everyday life of practicing therapists."


PATRICIA KEITH-SPIEGEL, Ph.D., former Chair, APA Ethics Committee

"An outstanding book. The chapter on testing, assessment, and diagnosis is heartening; it identifies the ethical responsibilities as well as dilemmas and pitfalls we face as practitioners."


PHILIP ERDBERG, Ph.D., ABPP, President, Society for Personality Assessment

"A splendid book.... This is essential reading for all those in psychotherapy and related fields."


CLIFFORD STROMBERG, Esq., Partner, Healthcare Law, Hogan & Hartson, Washington, DC

The authors of the Notre Dame Sympsium in the summer of 1999 worked toward the goal of helping people understand and appreciate a profound document from the Holy Father in Rome.

Pope John Paul II introduces the 1998 encyclical "Fides et Ratio" with a question. He wonders whether philosophy makes people feel sick and queasy? The immediate answer is to say, Yes, philosophy does make people feel sick, because of a "widespread distrust of the human being's great capacity for knowledge" (paragraph no. 5).

The conclusion that philosophy makes us queasy receives support from the following induction. Try a simple test and read the following questions: "Who am I? Where have I come from and where am I going? Why is there evil? What is there after this life?" (no. 1).

Do these questions of John Paul II bring about feelings of sickness and light-headedbess? Are the questions heavy and confusing? Do they produce repulsive, clammy feelings in one's nervous system? If you are like some college students in philosophy class, then your anwer may be affirmative.

Philosophy and the above question should be attractive to us and should cause us to relax. "These are questions which we find in the sacred writings of Israel, as also in the Veda and the Avesta," writes John Paul. "We find them in the writing of Confucius and Lao-Tze, and in the preaching of Tirthankara and Buddha." These questions have been confidently addressed in every place and every time history. "They appear in the poetry of Homer and in the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles, as they do in the philosophical writings of Plato and Aristotle."

Unfortunately, we do not find these questions at Disneyland or Las Vegas. Disneyland in Anaheim has 60 major rides among eight themed lands: Main Street, Tomorrowland, Frontierland, Fantasyland, Adventureland, Critter Country, Mickey's Toontown and New Orleans Square. However, Philosophyland is excluded from the park. Las Vegas ignores the tough questions and provides "escapist fun" with colossal hotels and casinos: Excalibur, Luxor, New York-New York, Circus Circus, MGM Grand and Treasure Island. As the AAA Tour Book says, "Las Vegas became a city that thrived on illusion and fantasy" (California/Nevada 2000, p. 262). However, there is no Philosophy casino in Vegas.

After visiting Dineyland and Las Vegas a person might ask, "Where can I find answers to the tough questions on page 9 in the encyclical?" The Pope replies by saying that "the Church is no stranger to this journey of discovery" (no. 2). The Church is good place to investigate the philosophical questions, because the Church "received the gift of the ultimate truth about human life" from the Lord, and the Lord is "the way, and the truth, and the life" (John 14: 6).

This was my first book that got me started with fast food toy collecting. Its got hundreds of full-color pictures of many of the entire series of fast food collectibles from all the major restaurants, as well as plush toys, a foreign toy section, and index. It comes complete with price ranges, manufacturer markings, restaurant, name, and year (from the late 70s to some of 1996) as well as a spot to annotate the toys you own. This book is a must for any collector! John Gaska, Prattville AL.

This is a completely new reptile/amphibian field guide to Florida (its about time!) by one of our favorite author teams: R.D. Bartlett and Patricia P. Bartlett. This book covers all the amphibians, lizards, turtles, tortoises, crocodiles, and alligators. It complements Alan Tennant's authoritative Field Guide to Snakes of Florida (by the same publisher). Dick Bartlett's photography is superb! Highly recommended.

Excellent! Flag 4 is a well written account of British coastal forces operations in the Mediterranean. Dudley Pope has done an excellent job of blending the overall history of CF operations with the individual accounts of MTB captains and crews. The reader journeys through the dark days of 1940 & 1941 to final triumph in 1945 with gripping stories along the way. The book includes information on how British & US forces operated together to overcome the S boot. Flag 4 stacks up with 'Night Action' By Peter Dickens. Excellent read for any one interested in British MTB & US PT Boat history.