I found Doing Psychotherapy Effectively to be a most readable discussion of the history of psychotherapy, and the research related to its effectiveness. The authors, who have extensive clinical knowledge, write in such a way that a broad audience can understand the place of psychotherapy in the contemporary care of patients. In addition, the book can be seen as a useful guide to those considering psychotherapy for themselves, as it presents objective findings in an easily digestable manner.

This book is in no way a polemic about psychotherapy. It is factual, clear and objective in the presentation of findings. For those interested in knowing more about the process of psychotherapy this book details the critical components of the psychotherapeutic process. I know of no other book that presents as clear a picture of the psychotherapeutic process. The book will have an appeal to both the lay person and the professional interested in psychotherapy. It can be used for training purposes as well for it presents interesting clinical material illustrative of the authors' findings.

The book reads quickly and you come away feeling that you have grasped a topic which can too often be difficult to comprehend.

Weissmark and Giacomo's book is an important step in bridging the gap between practicing clinicians and scientists researching psychotherapy. It recognizes the differences between these groups and provides an excellent synthesis of each perspective. The authors successfully convey a more complete understanding of the dynamics of psychotherapy and of the interpersonal relationship between therapist and patient. This works makes clear that successful elements in the therapeutic process are far from intuitive but can be identified and quatified. The book is an accessible and pragmatic work that offers a framework for measuring and understanding effective psychotherapy. Required reading for anyone practicing, researching, or attempting to better understand psychotherapy. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

I loved this book! I loved Luvalwayz too, but this was topped it by far. The story was one I got so caught up in that I finished it in two days. My favorite character of course was my girl Nicky! She had spunk, attitude, but most of all, courage. Many women go through rape and don't realize that it doesn't have to be the end of their being, but she taught that lesson and its one we all can learn from. OH, can I get me a piece of Antoine, on the rocks please? Yum!

I was a huge fan of LuvAlwayz, but I was blown away at just how much better Draw Me with Your Love was! This time, the authors stick with one couple and flesh out the couple's trials and tribulations, as well as their hot and sizzling sexual interplays. The authors deal with serious issues such as rape, prostitution and abuse in a way that enlightens. If you're looking for a book to read that entertains, makes your heart quicken and teaches you a thing or two about how life can be, you owe it to yourself to check out DRAW ME WITH YOUR LOVE!!!

A FAN

This is the first book I've taken the time to write a review for. This is a WONDERFUL book! I highly recommend it. The insights that it provides are invaluable. No horseman's book shelf should be without this one. Thank you Dominique Barbier.

Dominique Barbier takes the reader to an almost spiritual place in his expansive explanation of the sport and art of dressage. Almost certainly, the reader will come to understand the horse and the human connection to the horse through this reading. Barbier's explanation of the movements is clear and often brilliantly basic. A compassionate rider of any level will benefit from this work. It is also the kind of book one would want to read again and again for inspiration.

In this book (the twelfth edition) every economic subject is very well explained without difficult mathemayical concepts. People who like the mathematical approach can find something in the appendix. There are a lot of examples about real facts happened to real companies (Microsoft,...) or organization (OPEC...). The logic approach and the examples are very usefull for a beginner that first of all has to understand the main concepts rather than struggling in a difficult language or math.

The authors have explained all principles with remarkable ease taking numerous to the point examples.

I work as a DJ at a country radio station and I produce and host a weekly classic country program. I needed a book that provided a good bit of general information about a wide variety of singers and groups without a lot of useless information and what not -- this book has exceeded my expectations! As an "encyclopedia," this isn't something that you read cover-to-cover, but anyone who has ever belted-out a note of country music can be found with just the right amount of information. If you are looking for a country music reference book, this is it!

After hearing about this book, I was anxious to find it. I am pleased to report that it is indeed "the real deal" and not only met but exceeded my expectations. Well organized and easy to read, this encyclopedia provides just enough information in each entry to fill your plate. It is not too sketchy, nor too long in any areas (but I would have liked to read a bit more about Hank Williams and George Jones!) As an encyclopedia, it is not something you "read" per se, but rather "explore"...over and over. The names of familiar artists jump off the page and every scan can lead you to learn either something more about someone you know, or perhaps introduce you to someone or something totally new. Numerous illustrations (and it could use a few more)break up the mountain of text; the pictures provide enough rest for your eyes before scouring the pages for more well-researched documentation. This compilation is just awesome; the years of research have paid off in my humble opinion. What makes the book so wonderful is its scope -- suitable for a newcomer and also detailed and informative enough for the country music veteran. I highly recommend you buy at least two. One to enjoy as often as you want to and the other to offer as a special gift. Whoever you give this book to will NOT have another like it on the shelf. My "gift volume" will be going to my Dad as a tribute and thank-you for being weaned on the music that is country. If you love country music or think you want to, add this book to your library. There is enough interesting history and data collected here to satisfy even the largest musical appetite for the better part of year. ENJOY !!!

I keep this book nearby at all times in my job. The chapter on configuration management provides a concise guide to formalizing and implementing a change control process.

Most organizations have lots of forms, but invariably lack a clearly articulated software process (that is easy to follow!).

This book is an excellent desk reference and should be the bible for any IT Manager.

I needed information about process improvement fast! I bought this book and read it over a long weekend. By Monday I felt like an expert in strategic software process development and improvement. This is definitely the one book any manager can use to improve their operation and their own skills.

This book is really friendly for a novice in composites. It contains a lot of theoretical and experimental data, solved problems and problems for the reader to solve and also lots of enlightening illustrations and figures. Chapters 7 and 8 nicely cover stress and failure analysis and characterization and testing subjects. Overall a very good book and up to date.

I like this text book for my under graduate students it has a lot of materials informations.

In The Esoteric World Of Madame Blavatsky: Insights Into The Life Of A Modern Sphinx, Daniel Caldwell has collected a wealth of biographical information on one of the most influential metaphysical thinkers and writers of her day. Arranged in chronological order, we are treated to Madame Blavatsky's travels beginning in Russia and spanning the entire world including her years in New York, and sojourns to London, Bombay, Allahabad, Sri Lanka, Lahore, Adyar, France, Germany, and Italy. A "must" for students of Madame Blavatsky's writings and metaphysics, Caldwell's informative text is wonderfully enhanced with a number of illustrations and photographs.

Here for the first time is the story of H. P. Blavatsky's life in the words of her contemporaries. Although not a biography per se, this collection tells the story of Madame Blavatsky's eventful career with a special look at the "Esoteric World" in which she lived. These reminiscences by her relatives, acquaintances, friends, co-workers, critics and enemies allow the reader to enter into the historical milieu of HPB's time and give a vivid portrayal of Madame Blavatsky's personality. The narratives are arranged in chronological order and include (1) striking word portraits of HPB; (2) reminiscences giving insight into HPB's enigmatic character; (3) incidents that are sometimes humorous and witty; (4) accounts of psychic phenomena performed by Madame Blavatsky; and (5) descriptions of encounters with HPB's Masters. These personal reminiscences of HPB by more than seventy of her contemporaries give a vivid portrayal of one of the most extraordinary and controversial figures of modern times. Here is a sourcebook of rare original material on HPB illustrated with forty-four photographs and drawings.

I must confess, I've only read three of the essays so far in this book, but it's the introduction that I'm most grateful for. Daniel W. Smith does a magnificent job of explicating many of the concepts that have perplexed and confounded my poor artistic mind. I feel that Deleuze had a special understanding of literature, and I was interested to see what he has to say about some of the writers I also love (Beckett, Kafka, Melville). But I've mostly had this experience of wishing I could get what it was he was saying. I felt all along like I was just-this-close, until Smith cracked it open for me. Lots of "Aha" experiences. For people with an artistic bent and with an attraction to philosophy, Deleuze is perhaps a kindred spirit whose words and thoughts about literature, painting and music can give hope and faith to whatever projects we work on at the foot of the capitalist mountain. I've also read his book on Kafka, and I selected that one because I want to understand more, and based on a review here on Amazon where someone said "this was the one to start with." I would say, that Kafka is definitely the one to start with, but Smith's intro to this book gives a very helpful overview of what one can expect. So Start with the Intro, go to Kafka, then come back to the essays. My .02.

Deleuze follows Nietzsche in asserting that literature, at its strongest, plays a *clinical* role in our lives, providing us with a technology to discharge blockages, to liberate the penal colonies of our overcoded neuroses. Literature is a vector of disease, the writer a physician of the spirit, the world a dissoluted Body without Organs shimmering between the escape-routes of Life and the leprous snares of a doctrinal judge-mentality. Sickness and disequilibrium on a world-historical scale, a delirium far beyond the personal and the individual, the great authors (in this anthology: Melville, Whitman, Carroll, Lawrence, Jarry, Masoch, Beckett) struggling to plot the epidemiology of these terrors, groping for an escape-hatch that may redeem the years of incarceration, both psychical and political. Illness is defined as the *stopping* or interruption of the writing process, the exhaustion of the literary machine, when the schizo-author feels abandoned by the world's epic Traverse and wills her own destruction. Where once the literary agent had all her powers engaged in the machinic exploration of her own narrative Immanence, there now remains only an outmoded cyborg husk, having lost "the spontaneity or the innate feeling for the fragmentary, and the reflection on living relations that must constantly be acquired and created. Spontaneous fragments constitute the element through which, or in the intervals of which, we attain the great and carefully considered visions and sounds of both Nature and history"(60). These essays show how every great writer is also a master aetiologist, a "holistic pathologist" trying to identify and dissolve the negative forces which separate Life from what it can do, that keep Immanence from exploding against its world-historical targets. As a supplement to *Capitalism and Schizophrenia* (that immaculate Public Health textbook), these discourses are outstanding.

For anyone who used the AAOS's "Orange Book" for their EMT-B course, this book is an excellent choice because it gives you a different perspective on the same things. Of course, the Brady series is solid reference material anyway.

For anyone who used the AAOS's "Orange Book" for their EMT-B course, this book, under the Brady name, is a good book to have because you get a different perspective on the same things. Of course, the Brady series has always been solid anyway.