I have read numerous books over the years on corporate culture and more specifically normative culture. Each time I have been left with many unanswered questions. For me, the whole concept of controlling something so esoteric has always been hard to conceptualize. Organizational Unconscious is the first book to give me a clear and easily understood roadmap for controlling the culture in any organization. 95% of all managers, in my opinion, are completely unaware of the power and influence culture has on any organization's programs and performance. After reading this book, they may wish to significantly redefine their priorities.

Marisol and her grandfather really caught my daughter's attention. My daughter is only 3 years old but was enraptured by the story because she could relate to Marisol and her love for her Abuelito and how he cares for her to let her have the dog in the end. My daughter loves her own "Ah Kong" (grandfather in chinese)and I think this easy to follow story lets her see into another child's love for their grandfather and value his guidance and how a grandfather cannot stand to see their grandchildren unhappy.

A somewhat-past middle-aged couple from New Englnd find love and adventure while travelling the canals of France on an antique barge. Amusing, well-written and completely enjoyable from start to finish. Highly recommended!

Peter Shandy and his advertures are always interesting, funny and time-consuming. It is very difficult to put the book down before it is finished. A very unique method of murder and a rather unique cast of characters but this author's typical great book.

I can't say enough about this beautifully written book. I't is perhaps the most honest and generous book I have ever read. David's story is compelling and extremely inspirational. His story has made a very large impact on my life. It's been a number of years since I read the book yet I still refer to it on occasion. Don't be misled by the title and think that only those with severe mental health problems can benefeit from the book. I feel that people from many backgrounds and differing levels of emotional and physical well being can create great benefiets for themselves with the help of this book. This is a book for those who want to take full responsibility for their health, who are not afraid to look honestly at there lives and who beleive that what they do in the present helps create their future.

If you do decide to read this book remember to be patient and take your time in the reclaiming of your health. Also please allow your self to make some (many?) mistakes. I wish to thank David for creating this gift to anyone who wishes to feel heathier, happier and to feel gratefull to be alive.

This book is very good, very creative and makes learning fun for your child. My daughter has enjoyed this workbook all year. She will choose it on her own to work in. The pages are very clear, creatively illustrated and presented in a manner so that the child can enjoy the challenge of "game" and really be learning fundamental skills for reading and writing.

We think it's been a great tool!

Fantastic reading of the OLD WEST. I always enjoyed the Anaconda Pintler Wilderness, and always wondered where it got its name. Now over a century later readers learn the answer in this catching book. The old photos and documents are an integral part as well.

This slender but concisely written study of the depiction of women in American fiction offers a unique thesis concerning a much broader concept, which is the way in which Americans have evolved something Charlotte Wright calls "the beauty system." For some time now, many voices (both staunchly feminist as well as non-sexually-politically aligned) have noted that contemporary American culture has in the past fifty or so years become almost maniacally obsessed with the notion of feminine perfection. That perfection seems to be represented as much in the manifestation of sexual and aesthetic qualities ordinarily associated with female beauty as it is a reflection of the character and personality of the individual herself. Wright points out thatthe bromides and aphorism about physical beauty being superficial and shallow measurements of an individual's nature belie a deeper and far more deeply ingrained notion that "handsome (or beauty) is as handsome (or beauty) does." But far from laying the blame for this "cult of beauty" at the feet of advertisers or even at the gate of one of Hugh Hefner's mansions or in the pages of Sports Illustrated's swimsuit issue, Wright delves much deeper into the cultural totems that have given rise to the notion that beautiful women are, by their physical presence, imbued with virtues and desirability-as people-that far exceed what might actually lie beneath the ideal figures and batting eyelashes, the flowing tresses and creamy complexions of so many heroines of our national mythology and popular culture. Beginning her study with early nineteenth century American literature, Wright starts from a premise that there is a common perception that there are no "ugly" American literary heroines. Indeed, she avers that the most common assumption is that female characters who are less than pretty have little or no appeal to readers. This, she avers, is both incorrect and misleading. "Judging from the number of published examples I found," Wright states, "readers have long responded to the less-than-lovely heroine; it has been the critics, the scholars, the literature professors, and the anthologists who have ignored her." This would seem to be a familiar lament of the feminist critics, except that Wright's discoveries as they are revealed through her study bolster the notion that "ugly," as a descriptive nomenclature for a heroine, is so often equated with some negative personality trait or character flaw-in women-that one might assume that, to reverse Keats' famous line, "ugliness is a falsehood and deception." She notes that spinsterism, divorce, widowhood, even merely a long life can be a contributing factor to a female character's ugliness, although there is no logical correlation between such situations and physical appearance. From this beginning, Wright divides her discussion into three parts. In Part One, she discusses the "Nature of Ugliness," examining the physical characteristics Americans have traditionally associated with feminine plainness and lack of physical appeal. Here, she establishes the precedence American fictional writers have given to feminine physical appeal. Part Two deals with the effects of ugliness, especially on the relationships female characters form with other people, their roles in the "community" of their fictional settings, and the ways in which a number of writers have used a woman's lack of physical appeal as an elemental tool in both character and plot development. In Part Three, "Ugly Women in Contemporary American Fiction," Wright homes in on the issue of beauty vs. ugliness in the works of a number of major American authors writing today. She discusses the ways in which the stereotype of the ugly or plain woman has been used to authorial advantage, sometimes in an ironic way by writers who have tried to emphasize the importance of character and personality over physical appearance. Her conclusion is that many American authors, "by use of the ugly woman character, are exploring the ironies and inequalities inherent in the beauty system." Wright's study is blessedly void of volatile sexist language and defensiveness that has marred so much of feminist critical theory. She examines both male and female authors, noting how both tend to operate under the same set of assumptions when presenting beautiful or ugly women to their readers. She spends a good deal of time with Hawthorne, Hemingway, and Faulkner, but she also examines Wharton, O'Conner, and Walker in her litmus tests of how these authors share a use of the stereotype. The primary value of this study is to provide a dimension to the interpretation of American literature that may well bring it to a closer relevancy to American culture. Wright has defined a significant American social totem here, one that has been manifest particularly the final decades of the twentieth century and has placed far more value on image than on substance not only in the depiction of women (and men) but also in the perception of almost every institution in American life.

This is so fun to read with my four year old daughter!! The book encourages you to bark when the word bark is used, and sniff like a dog, when it mentions sniffing... we laughed and laughed as we read this book and barked and sniffed! It's a lot of fun and she wanted me to read it again and again... and getting her to listen to books is quite difficult at times!!! This is a sure-fire pleaser!!! You'll love it, and have one happy and giggling child at the end!!!

This book is actually a pictorial book of a Nuclear Power Plant. It has a narrative that explains the nuclear power industry, and an overview of how the plant operates: Its key components, etc. However, this is not a scholarly work, and seems to be geared more toward a jr high student level. I used it to explain nuclear power to my children. The pictures are also excellent.