This was one of two books that made a big impact on me as a parent. (The other was "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen.") I was determined not to go down the path of screaming and smacking, but that is easier said than done. When I lose it, it's generally because I feel like I'm in a corner and have to do SOMEthing--even if it's wrong. With "The One Minute Scolding," I always knew what to do. I wasn't tempted to keep threatening instead of taking action, since it only took one minute.

You need to follow the directions--there's a joke around my house about the "10-minute scolding," because sometimes we would get carried away. But believe me, one minute is longer than it sounds--long enough to make a real impact on a child. It also forces you to pay attention and "catch" your kids doing something right, so you can mention it during the next One-Minute Scolding.

The best thing about the One-Minute Scolding is that it never makes things worse. Sometimes it works like a charm; other times, it has less impact. However, it never escalates things. That in itself is a blessing.

Buy a used copy if you can, and I hope this book goes back in print, because it's much needed. I see the author has some newer books out ("The One-Minute Mother" and "The One-Minute Father"). I haven't read them, but if it's by Spencer Johnson, how bad can it be?

Good luck, parents!

The message of this book, stated concisely, is reprimand the child first, then say something positive. It's hard to remember to do this when you are emotionally involved, but it works.

If you have a naturalistic philosophy, you might be interested in this book. I read somewhere that adult apes deal with misbehaving juveniles by cuffing them first, then hugging them.

This book is full of common sense skills for discipling children of all ages... all the while working to raise the self esteem of both child and parents. Helped me teach my out of control preschooler self-discipline. He is now a resposible adult. I thank Dr Nelson for writing this great book.

I am a college professor who just finished teaching ORGANIZED CRIME to twenty college juniors and seniors. I selected Abadinsky's book as the text because it is carefully and thoughtfully "choreographed." The information provided flows in a sensible and clearly written design. Some texts appear to be designed for Rhodes Scholars and are virtually impossible to read. This is not the case with this great book! I recommend it to teachers and those who have in interest in this fascinating subject.

If you (the reader, the researcher) is interested in Organized Crime, I strongly recommend this book (Howard Abadinsky's Organized Crime, 6th Ed.) This book is the only detailed book I have come across in studying Organized Crime. I am currently a criminal justice graduate student attending the University of Central Florida. RSB

In this revised edition of the classic text on organized crime Abadinsky provides a comprehensive overview of organized crime groups, traditions, operations and the impact on American society.

I love the paintings vibrant colors, the images of the 40's and 50's the use of shadows. Even with the vibrant color the images invoke a peaceful, time rememberd feeling.

These paintings are not so much a 'perfect world' as a figurative and simple-to-understand world that is saturated in light and color. If you grew up somewhere else and then visited California, the light quality may have astonished you. It did, me. Nelson gets the shockingly bright California light just right. It's mostly the suburbs of southern California. Nelson loves the '20's houses and their lush yards - bulbous shrubs and all. In addition, he has painted people and urban scenery - reminiscent of and deliberately and humorously imitative of Edward Hopper. But Nelson's scenes have a happiness about them -a little garish at times, and ironical perhaps, but cheerful nonetheless.

Nelson uses color to a variety of ends. A palette of moody greys and browns is used for "East, Coast 1990" (there is a comma between East and Coast - in the book) and again for "Years of Discretion, 1997," also the east coast. You get his point: a Californian in New York notices the greys, the browns, and would appear to feel the somberness of things. In fact, "Years of Discretion" begs the question - What, exactly, was going on that was represented by that bridge? You sense some sadness there.

Nelson's paintings wink genially at Rene Magritte, David Hockney, and many others. Nursery rhymes, too. (A grown-up Jack and Jill climb a hill, in one painting.) Their titles are often funny - but never cute. These are literate and extroverted paintings, and deserve to be seen by a wide audience.

This man is amazing. I cannot stop looking at his paintings. They are very smooth and linear. If you like good art, you'll like this...

I keep this little volume in my bedside table; I don't take it anywhere because I'm afraid I will lose it - and I have not been able to find an extra copy anywhere in my Web search! Its prayers, drawn from many sources, speak right to my heart and soul.

True to its title I carry this book (well, not in my pocket) but in my purse always. Prayer truly comes from the heart, but there are times when each of us could use a little outside inspiration. This little book truly contains a prayer or inspiration for every circumstance, including a number I have never seen elsewhere. A must for everyone who considers daily prayer a priority.

This is one of the books I cannot do without. The prayers collected here have ordered my thoughts, cleared my mind, given me words when my own won't come. Free of mere piety and prettiness, each selection seems to have been well road-tested through all kinds of weather and terrain. For those who have seen too many little pocket booklets at check out stands or who fear that "prayers" imply definitions that fit too tightly: fear not. This book is for all of us who galumph along and sometimes need a little help with the map.

This book is an outstanding reference for the primary care pediatrician in office practice. It is much better oriented to day-to-day pediatrics than Nelson's and its imitators. The CD-ROM is very useful and easy to navigate. As a bonus, the CD-ROM contains all of the excellent illustrations for Zitelli & Davis' superb Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis.

This book is an outstanding reference for the primary care pediatrician in office practice. It is much better oriented to day-to-day pediatrics than Nelson's and its imitators. The CD-ROM is very useful and easy to navigate. As a bonus, the CD-ROM contains all of the excellent illustrations for Zitelli & Davis' superb Atlas of Pediatric Physical Diagnosis.

This book was a great reference in residency and now in practice

I love this book. Twenty-four wonderful autobiographical essays by women writers, teachers, and literary scholars in which each one shows how her work and her personal life intersect and enrich each other. The essays are fascinating and so are the complex lives that produced them. No one should miss "Search and Rescue" in which Beverly Connor, tells how her grief over her murdered daughter found expression and a degree of release in her teaching and her reading of Anne Tyler's novel "The Accidental Tourist." Other favorites of mine are "Love, Work, and Willa Cather" by Ann Fisher-Wirth; "In Search of the Androgynous Self," by Nancy Owen Nelson; "Literary Criticism with a Human Face," By Elsie F. Mayer.

This fine collection of essays explores the effects of literature in women's lives. I was particularly delighted with essays exploring writers such as Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder. These authors have had an enormous impact on American girls for generations, but they have not yet received adequate scholarly attention. Nelson's volume continues the feminist literary project of recovering "lost" literature, as well as defining the ways in which women are affected and even changed by what they read.

Private Voices, Public Lives is exemplary of feminist literary theory in its rejection of an objective interpretive stance, frankly acknowledging the subject position of the interpreter. It is an ideal companion text for women's studies and women's literature courses.

Private Voices, Public Lives is one of those rare books that manages to cross the boundary between "academic" and "real world" writing with consummate ease. Each of the contributing authors has focused squarely on Nancy Nelson's subtitle, "Women Speak[ing] on the Literary Life," by demonstrating with both clarity and grace how the act of writing is not only part of life, but often *is* life when the ineffable must find expression. Beverly Conner's essay, "Search and Rescue," is wihout question the most devastatingly candid writing I have ever read, showing how writing to express can become, in our darkest moments, writing to survive---and each of Conner's co-authors rises to the same mark of excellence in contributing fresh and insightful takes on not only 'the literary life' but the ways in which women both live and write the events that define them. As a teacher, I find Private Voices, Public Lives magnificently suited for any course in Women's Studies, Narrative Theory, or Literature---but as a reader I find it an equally magnificent bedside reader in times when the overwhelming number of male voices still represented in canonical and even journalistic texts requires a set of refreshing counterparts and counter-voices to represent the other half of human experience.

En este pequeño libro se ve el internacionalismo en acción. Nelson Mandela y Fidel Castro explica en discursos dieron conjuntos en Cuba ( en 1991 ) como la ayuda militar, incluye combatientes voluntarios que Cuba dió a Angola combatir las invasiones de las tropas de sudafrica racista ayudó a la lucha independentista de Namibia y también a la revolución democratica sudafricana.. Más que todo, en este libro dos soldados de la revolución mundial plantean un punto de vista cientifica acerca del imperialismo, el capitalismo hoy día llamada " globalizado"que Fidel describe como la esclavitud de hoy en día, y - más importante que todo - ,la capacidad que la gente " común", los trabajadores y campesinos tomar el poder, hacer revolución, y empezar la historia humana. Como Mandela dijo en estas paginas, es el pueblo que hacen la historia - no los reyes ni los príncipes ni los generales.Es una lección indispensible por nosotros los obreros y campesinos en lucha en contra de la clase de superricos hoy y mañana.

Fidel Castro and Nelson Mandela together in Cuba, not simply celebrating the victory of the South African Freedom struggle, not simply celebrating the continued life of the Cuban revolution, but speaking the truth about how the oppressed of the world can fight,can struggle, can win. Just the idea that this little book exists, let alone its stirring, intelligent words, reminds me that though the battles have been tough, working people fighting like these two fighters can win.

Aquí hay dos discursos magníficos por destacados dirigentes revolucionarios: Nelson Mandela de Sudáfrica y Fidel Castro de Cuba, en ocasión de la visita de Mandela a Cuba en 1991.

Mandela acaba de haber salido de la cárcel en Sudáfrica, después de cumplir 28 años de una condena perpetua por su lucha contra el sistema racista del apartheid. Su visita a Cuba tuvo una importancia especial, dado en papel imprescindible de cientos de miles de voluntarios cubanos en la lucha militar contra la invasión de Angola por el ejército sudafricano. La derrota de los invasores en la histórica batalla de Cuito Cuanavale en 1988 abrió una nueva y exitosa etapa en la lucha contra el apartheid. También fue una experiencia importante que fortaleció la conciencia revolucionaria en Cuba, haciendo posible avances contra la presión del capitalismo y el burocratismo.

El título del libro "¡Que lejos hemos llegado los esclavos!" viene del discurso de Fidel, hablando de los raíces africanos de los pueblos de Cuba y de todo el Caribe. Una perspectiva internacionalista incomparable de la unidad de los intereses y las luchas de los pueblos explotados y oprimidos en todo el mundo!

I read this book every day and love it! Kevin Nelson gives practical, fun and whimsical advice to people who love (or want to love) to run.

This book was given to me as a gift. Being a "novice runner" of two years, I found this book to be very motivational. It is very intuitive on the thoughts of runners and some of the obstacles runners may encounter and how to get beyond those barriers. I have thought it such an excellent book that I am suprised it is not readily stocked and available for 24 hour shipping, especially during the holiday season. You know us last minute shoppers. Great gift idea for the novice or avid runner in your life if you can find a copy of it in time.

The Runner's Book of Daily Inspiration:A Year of Motivation, Revelation, and Instruction is most likely the best investment I have ever made. Last year, I made a resoltion to myself to get in shape, eat healthy, and basically be a fit person inside and out. This is not a very easy resolution to fulfill, as I soon found out. It was my plan to run at least 3 times a week, and supplement it with another form of aerobic exercise. Very quickly, I lost my motivation, and was not living up to my expectations. I came upon this book soon afterwards, and tried to regain my motivation. After restarting my exercise program along with reading this book, I am now running every day of the week, rain or shine, hot or cold, I run through it all, all due this very book. If you buy one book in your life, buy Catcher in the Rye. But if you buy two, buy this one too!

This book has a great selection of climbs from glaciered peaks like Mt Rainier to remote rock climbs in the North Cascades. The pictures of the routes and the graphics of the rock pitches are excellent. The histories of each climb add to the total enjoyment of doing a route. It is a pleasure to read and a real asset for the climber.

This book includes a great selection of climbs in the Cascade Mountains. From classic routes up Mt. Rainier and Mt. Baker to more obscure climbs in North Cascade National Park, it has it all. The descriptions are clear and contain all of the pertinent information to get you to the top! The pictures of the routes and the graphics of the rock pitches are extremely useful. The history behind each climb also adds to the overall enjoyment of the climbing experience. It is a good resource for the beginning climber as well as the advanced. Read it and hit the hills!

This guide thoroughly describes several climbs in the cascades of Washington, ranging from simple walk-ups to technical rock climbs. It gives detailed information on the best climbs. I have used it extensively on numerous climbs and find it informative, current, easy to read, and very helpful. The maps and pictures with routes are especially helpful. Almost every major climb in the North Cascades is covered and the history section preceding the description of each climb is very interesting. This is a great book and a must for any mountaineer in Washington, whether they be a beginner or a seasoned climber.