This book, rather than being as serious as the first two in this series, is a funny basic story; girl falls for teacher, girl's older sister comes to visit, girl's older sister and teacher go on a date, girl is jealous. However, it works out well, meanwhile being a funny story, a break from the more serious other books in this great series.

When Rosie finds out her wonderful older sister is coming home for college she's soo excieted. She can't wait to show her the cute guy she's crushing on, except the guy she's crushing on is her student teacher and at least 25 yrs old! When Yovvone meets him they hit it off leaving Rosie jealous and ready to win him back. In the mistd of a huge science project and makeup trama Rosie is in trouble!

I was given this book as well as the second and third in the series (Mystery of the Magician and A Scent of Murder) as a birthday gift when I was eleven or twelve. I loved this series as I was very taken with the romaticism of it. It was very exciting to read about a sixteen year old American girl at the turn of the century, visiting France and solving crimes. I lost my originals long ago, and I recall that the books were not bound very well. Pages started to fall apart while I was reading them.

I work in a bookstore that deals in new books only so was unable to order these as they are (obviously) out of print. Imagine my happiness when I found 1-4 yesterday at a used bookstore, for 60% off of the cover price of $3.95. I came here to see if that was all of the series.

Very glad to have found these and surprised to find out what they're going for here, considering what I paid for them! The cover art is beautiful, and there are very nice pen & ink sketches peppering each book.

Would definitely recommend them for pre-teen girls...all of the elements of good reading for that age group. I'm enjoying re-reading them as well. :)

Scour the used sites/stores...you might get lucky.

I loved this book as a young teen, and I was hoping to let my children read it someday. Ms. Howard's descriptions of Paris were so real that I felt like I was the one solving the mystery with Paris. This book should be released again!

This book captures the unique qualities of a newborn baby. A fleeting moment that most new parents don't appreciate because they are too exhausted! It makes me want to have another baby just to experience those first few days and have a chance to take some pictures of my own.

Fantastic black and white photography of newborn infants ranging from 1 to 22 days old. The photographs are tastefully done and show the beauty of a newborn. Rather than bore the reader with words, Schatz allows the story to be told in photos. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in newborns and to all expecting or new parents.

This was the book that first introduced me to the world of fascinating cat breeds early last year. The other sections are excellent as well, with photos of wild felines you're not likely to see anywhere else. It also has sections on cats in literature, etc, and caring for your cat. A great book with heaps of reading to keep any cat lover occupied for ages. Highly recommended.

A very large, great! book on both wild as well as domestic cats. It has great pictures. It traces the evolution of the cat from prehistoric times. It talks about the behavior of the cat, the history of the cat, lore of the cat, the different breeds of cats, and caring for cats. It is a MUST for a cat library.

I first read the book when I was four. I am now, at the age of ninteen, a fully qualified obstrician/gynecologist, all because of this book. I have now, of course, read this several times, but it is still like reading it for the first time. As the title implies, my father is David Olive, the editor of this book. I fully recommend this book to anyone who is remotely interested in a profession as a gynecologist.

A comprehensive book, essential to every Ob-Gyn resident or clinician. Takes you from the basics of anatomy and physiology of the female reproductive tract to the management of complicated gynecologic conditions.

On the Complexities of the 'dipus Complex'DIPAL PARADIGMS IN COLLISION: A Centennial Emendation of a Piece of Freudian Canon (1897-1997)By Howard Covitz, 1997Peter Lang Publishers. 408 pp. $59.95Reviewed by Richard Peters, Ed.D.It has now been just more than one hundred years since Sigmund Freud introduced to a sometimes eager and sometimes belligerent audience a drama which he claimed was played out in the mind and behaviors of every toddler, exactly as it was acted out in Sophocles¹ 'dipus and Shakespeare¹s Hamlet. In support of his now famous arguments, Freud would frequently summarize his position with Diderot¹s comment that: ³If the little savage were left to himself, preserving all his foolishness and adding to the small sense of a child in the cradle the violent passions of a man of thirty, he would strangle his father and lie with his mother². Since that time, generations of practitioners and anthropologists, literary critics and dramatists, feminists and even religious scholars have done battle with this Freudian paradigm of human development. And Battle Lines were drawn. A camp of Orthodox Psychoanalysts developed. These students of the Old Doctor from Vienna came to view the 'dipus Complex as a membership-determining Shibboleth; those who failed to incorporate this thinking into their own models were deemed heretical and would find it difficult to publish their views in the journals of the Inner Circle. Others came to see belief in the 'dipus Complex as an indication of adherence to arcane or misguided thinking and, by 1938, Edward Glover¹s survey of British analysts showed that fewer than half of them considered the 'dipus complex to be of primary importance in the development of neuroses.More recently, however, volumes, journal articles and pieces in literary reviews have centered not on the 'dipus Complex per se, but rather on Freud the Man. Was Freud a confused Biologist (Solloway)? Did he lie about this or that to protect his professional image (Masson)? Was he a not-well and lost Soul (Crews)? Did he sleep with his sister-in-law (Swales)? ... Ad hominem Freud-bashing ‹ if one is to measure by popular articles in literary circles ‹ has become a sport for the intelligentsia. Into the fray steps Howard Covitz with his own lengthy investigation of the 'dipus Complex. In a work suitable for both the professional and the interested layperson, he suggests that one may best accept Freud¹s studies as one would the testimony of an unimpeachable witness. What Freud saw is unquestionable; his interpretations and conclusions, as is the case with any scientific claims, are ever open to scrutiny. And it is not only toward Freud¹s work that Covitz casts this skeptical eye. For even with his own conclusions, garnered from more than twenty years of practice and the training of others (he is Director of a Bryn Mawr, PA psychoanalytic training institution), he remains skeptical; he wonders, near the close of this volume, whether or not Freud could, after all, have been correct and he, Covitz, in error. This is, when all is said and done, a skeptical investigation that remains entrenched in a pragmatic view of Science that claims only to contribute, while making no pretence of canonical truth; this is, for that reason, a rare volume indeed in today¹s tabloid culture. While full justice will not be done to Dr. Covitz¹s argument or to his lively and freewheeling literary style, a summary view may be presented. Freud spoke of not only the often caricatured Positive 'dipus (the wish to kill the same-sex parent and possess the other-sex one), but of a Complete Complex in which the child alternates the identity of the parent he or she intends to kill and with whom he or she aims to incestuously connect. Can this two-way complex, Covitz ponders, be attributed to sexual Biology? After a clear and respectful review of Freud¹s work on the subject and a focusing on certain confusions that remain in Freud¹s writings, Covitz tentatively concludes otherwise.Three chapters follow in which the works of latter day contributors to the psychoanalytic dialogue are explored for their understanding of the OEdipus. Time and again, the author finds analysts noting the toddler¹s difficulty in accepting the inner thoughts and stirrings of another person ‹ a fact hardly surprising to parents! Could it be, then, that at the core of the 'dipal drama is some hardwired difficulty that we all experience in accepting the fact that there are relationships that exclude us? And if this is so, could it not also be that what Freud discovered was the toddler¹s introduction to this conundrum ‹ namely, his or her initial incapacity to accept, as Covitz notes, that parents, in their nonparental roles, are not ubiquitously preoccupied with discussions surrounding how best to raise their youngster? The volume tentatively accepts this hypothesis of early narcissistic disappointment.After an intriguing search for a literary leitmotif garnered from the Book of Genesis (with emphasis on the narcissism of Joseph son of Jacob), the volume offers a possible sequence of stages that each of us must, in time, transcend. These represent a progression from pure self-reference to the capacities necessary for love of another and for membership in, what Covitz calls, polities of mutual concern and interest. Central to these new capacities for the toddler is a beginning awareness that others have their own thoughts and relationships, and that others are subjects in their own right and not simply objects-to-be-manipulated in the child¹s world. And, finally the author claims, it is consequent to the development of this capacity that a sense of justice (which Freud attributed to the Superego) develops. These claims starkly reorder the psychoanalytical landscape.Two tasks close the volume. The first involves a scathing critique of the manner in which statistics has been misunderstood (Covitz had been a Mathematician before turning to Psychoanalysis) by Psychologists investigating the 'dipus. The second task brings Covitz to examine the manner in which his alternative view of the 'dipus might affect our cultural notions of the Good Life and our socio-political imperatives. Here, without severely criticizing the author, one might wonder whether the author¹s socially liberal views on the origins of prejudice would not have been better suited to another venue, or if they skew any of his conclusions?A brief comment is in order concerning the style of this volume. First, no where in this work is there evidence of a need to either idealize or to deprecate the basic paradigms of psychoanalysis or its founder. Covitz is neither an iconoclast nor an ancestor worshipper! In its place, we find an attempt to bridge theoretical differences by providing a deeper and integrative understanding of concepts that are often treated as self-evident in the prevailing literature ‹ and by taking nothing for granted. Secondly, the volume adopts an easy-going style that invites the reader into this difficult territory. He provides explanatory footnotes that are, in fact, quite helpful for the uninitiated. There are occasional self-revelations about the author and his views (what the author calls the Reader¹s Right to Know) ‹ sometimes with humor. The general appeal of the volume is notable in the testimonials that adorn its back cover: the first from a religion professor who views the volume as ³not only remarkably pioneering but visionary²; the second from a feminist author who proclaims in her reading of this study the discovery of a psychoanalytic framework that, at long last, allows her to read the ³'dipal and the feminine side-by side²; and the third from a Freudian analyst who lauds the author for rescuing ³the 'dipus complex from Freud¹s biological and non-developmental frames of reference.² Odd bedfellows, joining together to recommend this work!It has been some time since a volume appeared that made a significant contribution to a psychoanalytic understanding of human nature and did so in an inviting fashion and without hiding behind professional jargon. And while this volume is not for the intellectually faint-of-heart, the reader who is willing to follow its author on a hearty and vigorous trek into the netherworld of the life of the toddler, and a flight into the rarified strata of solid thinking and argument in the context of Psychoanalysis will reap appropriate rewards. Dr. Richard Peters, Psychologist, ex-Psychoanalyst, long-time director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Institute and Founder of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, practices individual and group systems-oriented psychotherapies in Paoli, PA and is co-author of ³The Visible and Invisible Group² and other works.

Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vPreface ix1.The 'dipus Complex: 1 Freud & the Birth of a ConstructLetters to a Friend: A Beginning ‹ Freud: The Years before the 'dipus Complex ‹ The Introduction of the 'dipus Complex ‹ The Phylogenetic Excursion & Other Pre-Ego Psychological Works ‹ Two 'dipus Complexes at the Time of Freud¹s Ego Psychology ‹ Freud¹s Specific and Final Formulations.2. Some Elementary Contributions from 33Ego PsychologyA Difference of Focus at the Changing of the Guard ‹ From Magical Thinking Towards a More General Theory of Structure: Hartmann et al. ‹ The Middle Generation: What to Do with the 'dipus Complex? ‹ Hans Loewald: A First Look at The Symbolic & The Elemental ‹ Some Brief Concluding Remarks on the Contributions from Freud & Ego Psychology.3. On the Road to Autonomy and Identity: 61Some Contributions from the Developmentalist, Margaret MahlerMargaret Mahler¹s Brush with the 'dipus Complex: Normal Autism through the Rapprochement Subphase ‹ A Babel of Definitions: A Lifelong Quest for Object Constancy.4. A World of Objects: 85Self, Others, Affects & DrivesA 1915 Model for Objects, Drives & Affects ‹ An Early Notion of Emotions vis-a-vis Internalized Object Relations ‹ A Congeries of Object Relational Models ‹ A Brief Polemical Excursion: Instinct Theory & Relational Theories.5.A Battle Against Narcissism? 127Personal Reflections on the Ethos of GenesisOn the Reader¹s Right to Know ‹ Why Genesis? ‹ Genesis in Several Pages ‹ Murder in Genesis ‹ Three Instances of Incest and Two Divine Executions ‹ Defying the Deity and Other Transgressions ‹ Defiance in the Garden ‹ The Generation of Noah & the Tower of Babel ‹ Abraham ‹ Joseph and His Dreams ‹ Some Closing Thoughts on Sin in Genesis.6. An Elementary Model of 'dipal Development 161Some Thoughts on Psychological Models ‹ A Brief Caveat to the Reader ‹ The 'dipus as Organizer ‹ Dyads on the Road from Narcissism to Socialized Object Love ‹ The Acceptance of An-other¹s Relationships: Transcendence and Intersubjectivity ‹ Components of a Model for 'dipal Development ‹ Concluding Comments.7.A Review and Initial Discussion of Constructs 217Anjous and Boscs or Apples and Oranges ‹ Where We¹ve Been: The Argument ‹ Some Methodological Pitfalls & the Analysis of Grouped Data ‹ Propositions and Predictions ‹ Attachments ‹ Sexual & Incestuous Fantasies ‹ Repression & Conscience ‹ Identification Processes ‹ On Terminating the 'dipus ‹ Duration of 'dipus ‹ 'dipal Gender Distinctions ‹ Some Trappings of the Resolution of the 'dipus ‹ Concluding Thoughts about a Wish List.8. Empirical Studies and Some Others 255Attachments ‹ Sexual & Incestuous Fantasies ‹ Repression & Conscience ‹ Identification Processes ‹ On Terminating the 'dipus ‹ Duration of 'dipus ‹ 'dipal Gender Distinctions ‹ Some Trappings of the Resolution of the 'dipus ‹ A Brief and Summary Chart of Our Progress.9. Conclusions & Recommendations 301Some Successes: Some Disappointments ‹Implications for the Continuation of Freud¹s Model ‹ Support for the Elemental 'dipal: Chapters 1-8 ‹ Concluding Thoughts on the State of These Two Models ‹ Deficits in the Arguments: Recommendations for Further Research.10.A Paradigm in Conflict Describing 317A Divided Mind in a Schismatic WorldA Paradigm in Conflict ‹ A Schismatic World ‹ A Taxonomic Gambit ‹ Closing Words and a Query: Is There an Homology between Pathogenesis and the Methods and Stages of Therapeutics?Glossary 341Bibliography 351

I was given this book yesterday, on Christmas Day. Tears weld up just reading the first paragraph in the forward and I was hooked by the time I got through the third page. I could not put it down. Start the New Year off right--do something tremendously positive for your family and read this book. It is life changing. If we want revival in our churches, our cities and in our nation, it's got to start with us in our homes. Change must come from within. Last night, I ordered multiple copies for pastors, family and friends.

No woman will ever think again of leaving her husband. (that is the easy way out you know). Men will finally discover their role of husband and Father.Children can again behave like children and the whole family can draw strength from each other to face the challenges of life. The Author has a passion for saving the family, the covenant of marriage and the preservation of future generation. We have built the foundation of our families on sand, and we are sinking in divorce and seperation from our children. Dennis Rainey shows you how to restor that family unit by going back to the basics. It may seem very radical to most, but it is a solution that will work. When I think of all the broken marriages and broken children that might be saved by the information in this book, I am inclined to mail one to every houshold I know. READ IT, YOU WON'T REGRET IT!

This short, inexpensive book contains the best collection of anagrams and palindromes I have ever seen. My copy is dog-eared from repeated use. The book contains an enormous amount of top-notch palindromes that are far from over-familiar. Some samples:

* A new order began; a more Roman age bred Rowena.
* A dog, a pant, a panic in a Patna pagoda.

Those samples may strike you as silly and meaninglesss, in which you are not a palindrome person, and this book is not for you. Or they may make you want to see more, in which case you should definitely buy this book. The palindromes by J.A. Lindon, which make up the book's grand finale chapter, are amazing tours de force.

Trust me -- this book has the goods. If you are a wordplay enthusiast, you'll love it. If you know one (perhaps a co-worker), it could make a great inexpensive gift. Strongly recommended!

Howard W. Bergerson, former editor of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, presents more than a thousand anagrams and hundreds of palindromes (with sources, where known).

This volume (an inspiration for many books including Michaelsen's "Words at Play" and Jon Agee's collections) is a must for wordplay enthusiasts, especially those with a penchant for these particular curiosities.

You will get your money's worth on this one.

Things were just not going Marshal J.D. Phips' way. First he was stuck in a job inherited from his father when all he really wanted to do was to raise horses. Then the mutilated bodies of tinhorns who had been on winning streaks began to appear around the town. Now there was all that trouble with the Gunderson family...

Bill Gunderson, his adopted Indian daughter and her horse all disappeared one wintry night. Autumn, the beautiful blonde daughter who had gone East to study dressmaking, had returned, determined to find out what had happened to her family. The ranch, now being run by her step-mother, Mattie, a former hurdy-gurdy girl, and a creepy hand named Lester, seemed strangely empty.

J.D. now needs to prove to the town and to himself that he is lawman enough to solve these mysteries. He better do it fast, too, before Autumn's own investigation gets her into more trouble than she can handle.

Palomita is a vibrant and innovative tale. Howard is a master at creating realistic characters. His heroes and villains are multi-dimensional, making his stories the most compelling and unique Westerns being written today. Each book is a masterpiece. It is hard not to read them in a single sitting. Lance Howard is THE author to follow in this genre.

An excellent Western involving a vicious killer, a missing little girl, a fiesty horse-trainer and a "ghost" horse. Characters are wonderfully drawn, settings vivid and action non-stop. I couldn't put it down! Mystery, the wild west, adventure and romance all in one book. I would recommend any of this author's books without hesitation.

beautiful, compelling...a great study of one of the most interesting rebel artists of our time. everyone should know who howard finster is!

Fans of the odd and eccentric will find Howard Finster's Paradise Garden fascinating and entertaining. The quality and selection of photographs of the garden is fantastic, and Finster's statments regarding the vision behind his creation are intriguing. This book is definitely worth examining for its unusual scope and content.