I bought this book because a women's group that I belong to decided to use it as a model. A few of us browsed and we *borrowed* a few ideas at the beginning..now a year later, the book is our *bible* and we wonder what we would do without the wisdom that the author share with us and their models for procedure that WORK. My admice is that if you are buying this book for a reference..that you consider trying the author's suggestion first, before you blunder as we did..for almost 8 months doing our best..to do our best..finally, in despair, we dug out the book again..and started following directions..smile.
IT WORKED...buy now and you wont need to worry later.

This book has some of the best information I have found on community building, self-awareness and friendship through small groups. If someone is interested in starting a Circle, this is the book. After reading two other books on the subject, I appreciate the thorough coverage and information on forming and participating in a Circle that this book offers.

Garfield's "Thousand Mile War" is an excellent historical account of the often overlooked battle for Alaska in which Japan occupied two Aleutian Islands. The campaign was costly for The Rising Sun and may have helped contribute to its defeat at Midway. Garfield presents the story as an epic clash, which in deed it was. This is a first rate military history book.

Easy to read, laced with humor and insightful anecdotes, this book is a must read for anyone interested in the inside story of the Actors Studio.

Starting with Stanislavski's contribution to the "impulse of art" which led to the formation by Lee Strasberg, Harold Clurman and Cheryl Crawford of the Group Theatre (still unmatched in American Theatre history as America's only true ensemble theatre company), and continuing through the development of the Actors Studio until 1980 (the year the book was published), writer David Garfield has revealed the "inner lives" of this astounding ensemble cast of characters with a wonderfully neutral perspective on their often publicized idiosyncrasies. This book will dispel, once and for all, much of what has been misunderstood about "method" acting.

Every serious actor or student of theatre should read and re-read this amazing chronicle... --Harry Governick, Artistic Director, TheatrGROUP

This is probably one of the best books I've ever read. Novels. It's very simple, from the speech to the layout, but it's dealt with so beautifully that even the macabre side isn't disturbing.

Set in the sometimes-seamy underworld of the 18th century, it starts with an odd-job boy who becomes apprenticed to a lamplighter after doing the man a favour. Then, as the year goes by, it's woven in with the tales of eleven other apprentices. From the undertaker's daughter on Valentine's Day to the wig maker's assistant charming girls for their hair, there are tales of love, either lost or won, of misery, or just the joy of being alive.

Like, when I like a book, it's hard to write about it lucidly, but please believe me -it's wonderful.

This book is excellent. I bought it at the exhibit of the same name, that was put together by the Phillips Collection. It was a great show and this is the only way to see it now. Dove was the first abstract painter, at the same time as Kandinsky but having never seen Kandinsky's work until several years later.

The late Australian lawyer Sir Garfield Barwick, who in a lifetime became the country's leading Queens' Counsel, then member of federal Parliament, Attorney-General, External Affairs Minister, Privy Councillor and Chief Justice of Australia, remains one of the most controversial figures in the nation's history. Combative by nature, he navigated such tumultuous events as the attempted nationalization of Australia's banks by a socialist government (he fought for, and saved, the banks), the attempted banning of the Communist party by a conservative government (he fought for the ban, but it was rejected as unconstitutional), a nasty political witch-hunt known as the Petrov affair (he helped hunt KGB witches), an equally nasty artistic witch-hunt known as the Dobell affair (Dobell never recovered from Barwick's devastating cross-examination) the Vietnam War (he was foreign minister at the time Australia fought there), the 1975 dismissal of an Australian prime minister (while Chief Justice, Barwick secretly counseled this) and the building of the new High Court building in Canberra. As Marr shows, Barwick scaled professional heights no other lawyer will match, and as an advocate was never equaled: as such, he has earned the respect and affection of a good many of his peers. However, he is most remembered for fostering the High Court's string of zealously pro-taxpayer decisions, virtually eviscerating the tax code, leading to an equally aggressive legislative counter-attack. This is not a sympathetic biography, and Barwick himself was furious when it was published, but neither is it the hatchet-job he claimed it to be. The definitive expose of Australia's legal institutions.

This is an excellent guidebook for practitioners. It includes a well-written chapter on the collaborative approach to assessing families and giving feedback. It also describes skills and strategies to help parents learn to handle their children more effectively. The authors have not only shown this approach is effective for aggressive and disruptive children, they have also pioneered the adaptation of the approach to anxious children as well as children with medical problems. For another good book, see Webster-Stratton & Hebert (1994): Troubled Families Problem Children: Working with Parents, a Collaborative Approach.

I THINK THAT EVERYONE WOULD ENJOY THESE BOOKS IF YOU ARE A COMIC STRIP LOVER!!!! I LOVE THEM!!!!! THEY ARE FUNNY, AND VERY ENTERTAINING!!!!! I ONLY WISH THAT BILL WATTERSON WOULD PROBUCE MORE OF THESE COMIC STRIPS. CALVIN AND HOBBES ROCK!!!!!!

Professor Donald provides insight into how the collective decisions of the past have led to so many of the problematic circumstances we face as a nation today. Professors Donald, Baker and Holt take the reader back to over twenty years before the beginning of the Civil War and continue through Reconstruction to examine the various factors and angles from which the entire history of the Civil War and Reconstruction is derived. The student of American History has everything needed in one concise volume to gain a working knowledge of the Civil war and Reconstruction era. This work is a well-documented, factual and detailed account of the most trying period of history our nation has seen to date. The work is accurate, comprehensive and concise. No doubt The Civil War and Reconstruction by David H. Donald will maintain a prominent place in any serious historical library for years to come.

Okay so mabye some of it you do, but this book is so packedwith toys, CD's, videos, and books you won't belive it. Not only doyou learn about a lot of Garfield stuff you probibly never knew existed (Like me), you'll also get the 411 on all the stuff you own that's probibly worth a fortune (Better tell your mom to hold on to those birthday napkins you used last year for your Garfield party). Plus a history on Jim Davis, tips and suggestions on how to get into the cartooning job, and many secrets on the Garfield cartoon itself. Belive me, this is the best Garfield book I've come accross in a LONG time! Have to wait a couple of months? Well it's worth the wait.