I was disappointed when I received my book. The first time I needed to use it I had to buy a NIC and NOC book in order to understand their NIC and NOC references. This book would be good for a practitioner with a good knowledge of the interventions and the outcomes. If you are a student, as I am save your money now and go ahead and buy the NIC and NOC, and not this book, because I found I could not use it at all.

This book is very user-friendly. Content is placed logically, and the diagnosis, interventions, and outcomes are specific. It also provides nearly all of the interventions for specific dianoses so that none are missed. This book contains a wealth of information that gives nurses evidence that nursing care is unique and results in measurable outcomes! I recommend this book for students and practitioners.

On Not Being Able To Paint would perhaps be better title, Why One Should Paint. Trained as Freudian psychologist, Joanna Field all too painstakingly analyzes her rudimentary drawing and painting efforts in an attempt uncover what ultimately transpires in the process. An ancient quest for sure but depending upon one's knowledge in either the art, education or psychological fields, the road thus traveled is relatively interesting. As a professional artist, I found her all too subjective diatribes tiring, boring, even stretching the limits of believability in the sense that she was able to draw such cataclysmic conclusions from the bad visuals she produced. Her analytical training was obviously taking the upper hand as she "read" so much into own work. However, at the end of each segment, she manages to pull her rantings together for some thoughtful and genuine insights as to what took place throughout her process. Midway through, she departs from her dependence upon the sketches, begins to analyze in a broader, more universal context and salvages the book. She then rather clearly and poetically takes us through dreams, visions, both disillusion and illusion, realizing that, "the inner subjective and outer objective aspects of reality are in a continual state of change and development" and feels that a painter beautifully solves the problem of navigating these (constructed) worlds by inventing a "half-way house between the dream receiver and the external one". She then offers rather keen insight as to how the artist has to "pay" in communicability for this navigational privilege for with others able to share his/her dream, s/he is more "absolved from the guilt or defiance of common sense reality". Of course then, there is the psycho-analytic relation of visual symbols to our sexual development but here her training shines and I found myself thinking of parts of my visual practice in a new light. A colleague, well versed in the history of psychoanalytic development made the astute comment that considering the limited scope of the practice at the time, (she comments on just finishing a drawing at the precipice of WWI), the relationships she manifests are insightful and progressive. Her final strength is her exploration of how this new found knowledge should be boldly carried forth into the classrooms as it would all but revolutionize not only our thought process on the role of visual creation, but our perception of our reality as well. One is deeply saddened however as we realize how we have seemed to regressed rather than progressed in that area in our society's educational role. One absolutely maddening fact however, is the that this current edition omits the a crucial drawing to which she constantly refers on its cover; something the publisher should be taken to task for sure. She ends on a phenomenological note, finding it a pity that the word 'reverie' is no longer a part of the language of psycho-pathology for painting, like analysis, provides a safe setting where one can be indulged in its grace and produce the same subsequent and ultimate effect for the person who looks at it. Great for an educator interested in the arts, probably a bit stale for the professional analysts of today and a bit too naive for those in the professional arts.

This is one of my all-time favorite books. Reading it slowly, I learned to see the interplay of relationships in which no firm line is drawn between objects, and so to see beauty. I learned that wrapping my imaginative body around my experience is essential to loving and knowing reality. The author sees her struggle to paint symbolized in her key painting of a parrot, that part of us taught in schools to regurgitate, as it angrily fights to protect the treasure of imagination which lives within us.... She compares the eagle-eye view--wide and expansive-- with the narrow focused view emphasized in our schooling.

Professor Soards has presented a well-written book. However, he plows familiar ground in his treatment of pertinent passages of the Bible. In his favor, I should say he is very kind and compassionate. If the book does anything, it illustrates what is at the heart of the gay debate in the Presbyterian (and other) church: the nature of the Bible. What we believe the Bible to be will dictate what we believe it to teach on homosexuality. All in all, as a gay reader, I was pleased, though not overly impressed.

Dr. Soards has provided a concise, straightforward exposition of the Bible's teaching on homosexuality. He does so without condemnation or polemics, presenting a reasoned analysis of both Old and New Testament passages. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to better understand the Biblical perspective on homosexuality.

So many times crafts are, well, "craft-y." This elevates the basic craft book from so-so, (quilt-top-in-a-"day", take 3 years to quilt it, paint-the-international-coffee-can-silver-type crafts,) to something more pleasing to the recipient, as well as more satifying for the crafter to execute. Overall, the crafts tend to be for the more experienced crafter, (I did not learn how to do counted drawn work from the pictures provided,) but Wood states that basic dress making skills are required early on in the overview, and suggests trying out patterns and new techniques prior to starting a project. An advanced beginner shouldn't have a problem. (Book needs a "Sources" section. )Some of the crafts themselves are breathtaking. I especially liked the silk-fringed organza scarves, the soap, the pressed copper project, and gift tags. I also liked the ribboned throw and the ribbon roses. Very updated feel to these, and a very nice selection. The woman is talented. Start *early* for holidays and go for it!!

Even if I had not tried many of the projects included in this book, I would have considered it an excellent investment. The photographs are quite nice and the book is an interesting read.

The projects are useful and tasteful objects. The instructions are adequate and allow for easy, minor, personalizing changes. I would have appreciated more information about the materials used and sources for them. In several instances I spent more time searching for raw materials called for than in the project itself.

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Jake Brown has woven a web of interest and intrigue when penning this nonfiction masterpiece. Come one and all...you won't know what you're missing..until the last copy is gone.

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This book explained points of view that I never thought I'd consider. Thank you, Jake Brown, for writing an great book. I'd recommend it to anyone and everyone!

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The NIBC series is intended to give the generalist reader a good sense of the book and of current scholarship. An educated layperson or non-Christian could read this with profit. Soards keeps the technical matters of lexicography, archaeology and grammar to endnotes. In the text itself he gives a careful, if conventional, verse-by-verse commentary. This volume surpasses Morris in the Tyndale series.

It had some very good ideas and I got my science fair project out of it

I think this book has a lot of information on ancient egypt and i think that it was laid out very well!This is a must read book and i would reckamend it to anyone in need of a little info this knows his stuff.I have been a great fan of egypt and i was very impressed with this book.It has made me get into reading hieroglyphic's which i am very proud of as i am only 12!I am a egypt expert!This book is one of my favorites and i think this is a very cool book,you would too if you read as well!I was very interested with the pictures in this book they were very interesting to look at!

This is an amazing book by means of child linguistics. I am a college professor at Florida University where I teach child phsycology. Not only does Rescorlo look beneath the surface of development from One to three, she goes beyond to inform the reader of other linguistics. I want to see Rescorlo write a popular press book in the near future. I recomend this book to anyone interested in the milestone of language development

The whole Let's Investigate series (including books on angles, numbers, triangles, quadrilaterals, circles, time, rate, statistics, and others) are very well put together. They appeal to upper elementary through junior high ages. Interesting diagrams and pictures, along with succinct narrative. I've given these books to students to peruse while fellow students were working. The books effectively engaged them. They can also be used well for whole class extension activities. Good gift for a kid who has a math bent, or possibly for one whom the schools have left behind.