This publication is a must have for anyone dealing with pest of native conifers of California! It is the perfect size to carry in the field while looking at the health of your trees as it fits into your vest or pocket. The photos are excellent, and the guide is one that most anyone can use to determine just what is wrong with your conifers.

With the current catastrophic pest outbreaks in Southern California this is a book that everyone living in the forested areas should purchase, read, and follow up with the other references. It lists which agencies are involved and how to contact them.

A long overdue publication!

Brian Barrette, Staff Chief
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
Retired

Enhanced with an informative essay by Lucy R. Lippard, Peter Gourfain: Clay, Wood, Bronze, And Works On Paper by features Russell Panczenko's interview with Peter Gourfain and is a remarkable photographic showcase of the unique and extrinsic drawings and sculptures of that minimalist expert. Some of the images are in color, but most photographs are black-and-white in this extensive and recommended collection in celebration of Peter Gourfain's artistic achievements and contributions as exhibited at the Elvehjem Museum of Madison, Wisconsin.

The Photographic I Ching is one of those books that had a lasting effect on my life. This is due to the fact that I am a photographer and found the prints incredible. Gary Woods inspired me to make more ethereal images and to get back into older photo processes. The text was my first introduction to the I Ching and I found it fascinating. I was very disappointed to find that this book is now out-of-print. I can recommend it highly to anyone who appreciates Eastern thought and/or great photography. I myself am doing more research to find more of Gary Woods' photos on the internet and elsewhere.

The Piggle is an account of a child analysis, a case history. That child is Gabrielle, nicknamed "the piggle" and she was two and a half years old at the onset of her treatment. The Piggle is a delightful book to read. Though it is a professional psychoanalytic text, it is not stuffy or full of jargon. This book is a very good starting point for learning about how children's minds work and the role that fantasy and play have in healthy psychological development. Reading it is like learning your A. B. C's as a song rather than having to learn by rote.

Gabrielle's parents brought her to Dr. Winnicott's office because she had trouble sleeping, anxiety problems and because she was not herself. Other symptoms included nightmares, difficulty controlling her temper, difficulty in concentration, and listlessness. When she was first seen, she seemed to withdraw from relationships with people. This flight from other relationships and premature independence caused alarm her parents. Gabrielle's sister was born when Gabrielle was 21 months old. The Piggle exhibited jealousy and regressive behaviors (acting more childishly than she was developmentally). Gabrielle presented what some people might call alarming fantasies. They were fantasies gone wild and they consumed her so that she seemed to live inside them somewhat like an adult psychotic might do. The fantasies Gabrielle presented have a "through the looking glass" quality at times. She had trouble telling reality from her dreams. Verbally, a complex story emerged full of "babacars," "yams," "sush babies," "moo's burrr's" and "bryyyyyh babies." These were her made up words for things or people in her world.

Because the child lived far from Dr. Winnicott's office, her parents had to travel a long way by train to be seen. For this reason she was seen on demand or whenever it seemed necessarily. There were only 14 sessions during the whole course of treatment which began when she was two and a half and ended when she was aged five.

During the beginning of the treatment Gabrielle was having frequent nightmares. She would not admit to being herself saying rather that she was this or that imaginary person. She would often say that "the piggle" had gone away. She was full of aggressive feelings. Many of these fantasies appeared to relate to her mother's pregnancy. The "Sush Baba" was her sister Susan. Her parents suspected Gabrielle had tried to become prematurely independent when Susan was born but could not sustain this because she did not have the emotional skills and resources to do so. They are quoted as saying, "when Susan was born, Gabrielle seemed somehow thrown out of her mold, and off from her sources of nourishment (p. 20).

Gabrielle is concerned with "nastiness" (p. 99), her own and that of others. About this issue, Winnicott shows us how people, even children symbolize their experiences in interlocking images, ideas, and feelings. Strange and complex mental representations occur in even two year olds.

Winnicott is showing us through direct case history how the oddity of psychoanalytic child therapy plays out. For example, Winnicott says, "Here she was eating the plastic man. I said she was eating the man because she wanted to eat me." Then he says, "If you eat me that would be taking me away inside you, and then you would not mind going" (p 105). This is said to three and one half year old Gabrielle who is playing with a plastic toy. Winnicott is speaking metaphor to her and what he is saying is that Gabrielle misses him (the plastic man represents him) when she is away. If she could internalize a symbolic representation (a memory) of him she would not mind going home so much and would be able to tolerate the separation because she could evoke her memory of him to comfort herself. Gabrielle speaks metaphor also and she understands what he means when he makes the interpretations of her actions. When psychoanalytic people talk of this they say internalization, introjection, incorporation, or transmuting internalization to refer to phenomena in this general ball park. This is the technical language of metapsychology and Winnicott does not need to refer to it to explain the situation. It makes reading him much more accessible and much less tedious.

As the treatment progresses, both Winnicott and Gabrielle's parents agree that "Gabrielle showed growing confidence now in my ability to tolerate muddle, dirt, inside things, and incontinence and madness" (p. 105). (That's a good thing.)

As the treatment is nearing termination, Winnicott receives very high praise from the patient, 'Dr. Winnicott is a very good maker-better of babies.' (p. 107).

All in all, this book is a very good read containing a startling amount of information despite the relaxed tone and jargon-free language. It makes a good starting point for acquiring a professional understanding of psychoanalytic treatment methodology and is understandable with a little help by most parents.

Marilyn Graves, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist in private practice who sees children, adolescents, and adults. She also writes book reviews and parenting articles.

My 2.5 year old daughter and I have read this book at least once a day since she received it for Christmas and she just loves this book. It is a beautifully illustrated pop-up book that introduces very young children to the wildlife of Asia as it tells the story of little Ping Ping looking for bamboo with the assistance of the friends she meets along the way. Every child who picks up this book at our house has been immediately enchanted with it. When we actually saw the Fairy bluebirds and pandas at the San Diego Zoo recently my daughter was SO excited to see her book come alive. This book has been a wonderful addition to our already BIG toddler/preschooler collection.

Dr. Wood is the quintessence of the philosopher who thinks the thoughts comtemporaneous to his own era and his personal "appearance" in history. At the same time, Wood engages the entire philosophic tradition, thereby exposing his Hegelian sensibility while concurrently flushing out the aesthetic perspective of the mainstays of that tradition. To one not tuned in to the aesthetic, Dr. Wood's "Placing Aesthetics" enlivens it and forces it into one's psyche. For those already aesthetically inclined, Wood's treatise repositions the aesthetic to its rightful place of centrality relative to Western speculative thought and to man's very existence. Wood's identification of the "heart" as the ground of the aesthetic, as that space between the Now of sensation and the inextricable reference to the Whole thru the notion of Being, cleanses the doors of one's aesthetic perception from Plato to Heidegger, and major thinkers in between. Wood's insistence that one attend to the Whole, while not neglecting the nature of each within the Whole, is a clarion call to all of us to strive harder, to pursue longer, to delve deeper into the meaning of It All. In the concluding section of "Placing Aesthetics", Wood surpasses Nietzsche's "woman's aesthetics" by incorporating an intriguing presentation and analysis of his own sculptural efforts in a critical yet illuminating fashion. Dr. Wood's "Placing Aesthetics" is a must read and re-read for both the professional Philosopher and the novice thinker.

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A really excellent selection by Diane Wood Middlebrook, includes almost all the important last poems ('Letter in November' is missing), and a good selection of the 1950s stuff. There is even some juvenilia and some of Ted Hughes' notes.

This is an excellent comparititve study of what the founding fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution and how much we have deviated from their intentions. It is prophetic! I purchased the book from the publisher nearly two months ago. On my recomendation, my attorney, who sees the American Constitution as one of the most brilliant documents for freedom ever written, purchased ten of them for his group to use as a reference.

In Aemilia Lanyer's only volume of published poems, SALVE DEUS REX JUDAORUM, this Renaissance author uses beautifully crafted poetry to defend women against prevailing negative female stereotypes of the time. In "Eve's Apology," this portion of the poem is spoken from the point of view of Pontius Pilate's wife, who is begging for the life of Christ. She explores who really bares the guilt in original sin. She is passionate, yet uses reason in her argument (something women were not thought cabable of doing) and makes her point that any guilt all women may bear in original sin will be far overshadowed by the guilt men, in turn, may bear for Pilate's order to execute Christ.

In addition, in "To the Virtuous Reader", Lanyer states that her purpose in writing is to praise women, and to make it known that they are not all lazy, gossiping, lecherous, deceitful, or stupid as most men of the time supposed. She includes a list of virtuous women to encourage and praise other women to use them as exemplum. If you are interested at all in a female writer's perspective on Renaissance ideas, I highly recommend Aeilia Lanyer's beautiful poetry.