This is a highly intelligent book on one of the finest poems by the eighteenth century's most celebrated poet. Brilliantly written with wit, style, and a flair for interesting detail, Wall's book includes textual information and a wealth of carefully selected secondary material that makes this "one-stop shopping" for anyone interested in the work or indeed in the period. Because of its combination of lively writing and scholarly erudition, I would recommend Wall's book for a wide variety of interest and knowledge levels. Wonderful Bedford series idea and terrific book.

A great and easy book to find out mechnical solutions and definitions for the daily work of an engineer

For educators or people interested in how the Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church is elected, this is an excellent resource. Easy to read, with charts to inform what happens in the Church from the day the Pope dies until a successor is chosen. Also includes some of the "major players" and what is the criteria that will be used in choosing the next pontiff. Afterword includes the "Apostolic Constitution" written by Pope John Paul II.

Sexual Feelings in Psychotherapy has three parts and a total of 10 chapters. Part One is entitled Fundamentals of Exploration and Discovery. It consists of seven chapters.
Chapter One explains the purpose and plan of the book. One of the issues discussed in this chapter is discomfort with sexual feelings. The authors assert that most therapists experience sexual attraction or arousal to clients, and that this experience makes therapists uncomfortable.
The second chapter explains that "sexual feelings in psychotherapy" is a topic that is largely unaddressed in graduate training programs. In order for training programs to be effective, it is necessary to facilitate an environment that is conducive to learning.
Conditions for learning conditions are elucidated in chapter three. They consist of safety, understanding the task, respect, openness, encouragement, appropriate privacy, acceptance, sensitivity, frankness, and support.
A Self-Assessment consisting of over 75 questions is provided in chapter four. Two examples of questions on the assessment are: 1) "Under what circumstances would you hold a client's hand" (p.50)? And 2) "Under what conditions would you completely disrobe during a session" (p.55)?
In successive chapters, the authors provide insight into common reactions to sexual feelings relative to psychotherapy. Frequent clues to unacknowledged sexual feelings are discussed.
Part Two of the book provides 22 specific passages and 10 scenarios for sexual exploration. The passages were compiled from nearly a century of psychotherapy literature. One passage is entitled, "The Therapist's Attraction Causing Misdiagnosis and Mistreatment: A Passage From David Reiser and Hanna Levenson."
Part Three is entitled "Deciding What To Do." Consultation, among other solutions is suggested in order to confront an impasse.
Reviewer's Critique
The information in the text is presented in a logically progressive manner. It is difficult to decide what information is the least or most practical. Every chapter is beneficial to the reader. Areas of particular interest are the Self-Assessment, Disability Factors in chapter five under the heading of Awareness of Context, and Frequent Clues to Unacknowledged Sexual Feelings in chapter seven.
The authors endeavored to create a literary environment in which therapists and therapists-in-training can explore their sexual feelings. To that extent, they were successful. However, no concrete solutions for decreasing the incidences of sexual exploitation of clients by their therapists on a large scale are offered. The resulting implication is that dealing with sexual feelings in psychotherapy (or not dealing with them) is still essentially a private matter.

This book is one of the best I've read. Once you start to feel the adventure you just want the book to never end. I highly recommend this title.

This book is the best book of the year .I am a collector of his holiness. I had to back stage passes form when he came to New Orleans and pic clippions sence he was ordain Pope . I always highly admire the pope .Their was ever a time that this Pope let his people down . ... .

i think that this book is the best kids book of all time.

This exceptional book contains the Wednesday Catechesis of the Pope from 1989 to 1991. The Holy Spirit is the great unknown among many Christians. Here you have, divided in three sections, a great summary about the reality of the Spirit of God. The first part deals with the revelation, analyzing the main texts in the Holy Scripture. The second one studies the relation between the Paraclete (the Advocate) and the Church. Finally, in the third part, we have the life of the Holy Spirit in our souls, which is a brief treatise of spirituality. In this remarkable work, you will find pages containing a broad spectrum of themes: from the difficult matter of the Holy Trinity to very practical issues of our daily life, such as the role of the prayer, love, freedom and joy. All of them are supported with quotations from the Bible and the saints, especially of St. Thomas Aquinas, the great medieval thinker. Each catechesis, four to five pages long, is presented with the clarity and precision of one of the most eminent theologians of our time.

In 6 years he promulgated the decrees of Trent, issued the Roman Missal, Revised Breviary and the Catechism of Trent, chose 314 bishops; wrote hundreds of bulls, excommunicated Elizabeth I, and beat the Turks at Lepanto. Wow! One of the greatest popes in history. 100pp. PB. Forward by Cardinal Ottaviani.

Every year, Pope John Paul II selects a preacher for a course of Spiritual Exercises for himself and the Vatican's Roman Curia. For the Jubilee 2000, he chose Vietnamese Archbishop Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan.

I originally read Archbishop Thuan's exercises by way of Zenit - the News of Rome. As compelling as those accounts were, the book is even better. Archbishop Van Thuan's experiences, as a prisoner in Communist prisons for 13 years, and his insight on faith are true food for a hungry soul.

Testimony of Hope is the complete text of those Exercises. Archbishop Van Thuan's description of isolation and abandonment, and his secret for finding hope in despair makes for moving and uplifting reading.

I guarantee that readers will be moved by the 22 meditations. Archbishop Van Thuan offers light amidst the darkness. The book is a quick, easy, and inspirational read.