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Cooperative Discipline
Published in Paperback by American Guidance Service (June, 1996)
Author: Linda Albert
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Great book
This is a great book to use. The approaches uses the techniques from Adlerian concepts as well as reality therapy and REBT. It is used for techniques in the classroom. Eassy reading like a workbook and inexpensive. Great Job Linda. Looking fiward to your next addition

Reader friendly
I am a teacher. I found this book very easy to read. The coverage was comprehensive and well-organsied. The content was informative and useful. This is the best textbook regarding students' behaviour problems I ever read. I borrowed this book from library. Now, I would like to buy it. It is a good reference for teachers.


The Northwest (American Design)
Published in Hardcover by Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub (Trd) (October, 1989)
Authors: Linda Humphrey, Fred Albert, and Michael Jensen
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Fantastic photos & design ideas!
This book covers 16 homes designed by noted and not so noted architects in the Northwest. I personally liked one of these homes so much, I built one just like it as a weekend retreat. The styles vary, as do the materials and locations. Most of what you'll see in here is rather comtemporary and timeless -- it worked then, and it still works today!


The Semantic Tradition from Kant to Carnap : To the Vienna Station
Published in Paperback by Cambridge Univ Pr (Pap Txt) (April, 2003)
Authors: J. Albert Coffa and Linda Wessels
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Magisterial, Eclectic, Warm and Human
Coffa's book (completed by his partner Linda Wessels, from a very nearly completed manuscript he left at his death in 1984) is the best source I know for insight into how interest in Kantian philosophical problems of the intuition transmuted to interest in language. This book tracks post-Kantian thought across its development into very different territory: Bolzano and Frege on logic; Russell's early logical atomism; Wittgenstein's Tractatus, and his transition to his later very different philosophy of meaning; Tarski on truth; Schlick, Popper and Reichenbach on the significiance of 20th Century developments in science; and Carnap, on the true significance of philosophical claims.

This book is a teriffic antidote to dry presentations of logical positivism which focus on the "verification principle" and thereby seek to dispatch it in one lecture in an introductory philosophy class. Instead, Coffa shows how logical positivism arose out of a living tradition and forms an important part of the history of contemporary philosophy. The questions we consider today are formed in part by the conceptual shifts of a century ago. It's good that we have a guide like Coffa to show us some more of our own history.

That, and the jokes (read the footnotes for some of the best ones, especially his love/hate relationship with Wittgenstein!) make this a delight to read.


Strengthening Your Stepfamily
Published in Paperback by Random House Trade Paperbacks (March, 1987)
Authors: Elizabeth Einstein, Linda Alberta, and Linda Albert
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Strengthening Your Stepfamily
As a marriage and family therapist I find this boook to be of enormous benefit to stepfamilies. Using humor to express common difficulties, the authors have done an outstanding job of offering concrete suggestions for parents who have remarried. This is a very user-friendly book that offers practical, useful information.


Who Is a Stranger and What Should I Do? (An Albert Whitman Prairie Book)
Published in Paperback by Concept Books (April, 1993)
Authors: Linda Walvoord Girard, Linda Walvoord Girard, and Abby Levine
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Recommended for family, school, and community libraries.
Most children art taught at home and at school not to talk to strangers. In Who Is A Stranger And What Should I Do?, Linda Girard takes the idea further by explaining about "kind" strangers, the stranger who is not a child's friend, strangers in public places, "doorbell" strangers, and others. Girard's practical, well presented text is illustrated with the artwork of Helen Cogancherry to provide young readers ages 6 to 12 with visual reinforcement of sound and sensible narrative. Who Is A Stranger And What Should I Do? is enhanced for the reader with ten "what if" situations and topics for discussion with parents, teachers, and caregivers. Highly recommended for personal, school, and community library child safety collections.


Shoes
Published in Hardcover by Victoria & Albert Museum (September, 1999)
Authors: Lucy Pratt, Linda Wooley, Sara Hodges, Linda Woolley, and Victoria and Albert Museum
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Informative, a good read.
An interesting, informative book, full of historic details and colourful pictures. From court shoes of Henry VIII's time to Vivienne Westwood's famous 12-inch platform shoe of the 90s, this book is full of description and history of the item we cannot live without. Features the shoes exhibited in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Reading the book is almost as good as going there to see the shoes yourself.

Fascinating and Informative
I have always been interested in costume design and role playing. Footwear is an area that seems to be the most neglected when attempting to re-create a costume from a past era. For those who strive for accuracy in putting together the perfect historical outfit, or even if you just have an interest in shoes in general, this book fits the bill. Wonderful, colorful photos, a highly readable text detailing the history of the crazy world of footwear--the book covers everything involved with shoes and answers most questions the reader may have. From the grotesque to the mundane, we are presented with styles that run the gamut from shoes of leather and iron (ouch!) to platform soles of 12 inches or more. What is surprising is that some styles are still with us today, modernized but still very recognizable. We also learn the painful lengths that people will go for the sake of fashion. Time has changed nothing in this regard, as we still wobble around on stilleto heels and end up with bunions, corns or worse--but we still look marvelous, darling!!! Seriously, if you love to learn about footwear, like to dress in period attire, or are simply a "shoe freak", don't hesitate to buy this book. You won't be disappointed.


You Were Born on Your Very First Birthday (An Albert Whitman Prairie Book)
Published in Paperback by Albert Whitman & Co (April, 1992)
Authors: Linda W. Girard, Christa Kieffer, and Kathy Tucker
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A birth-focused description - good for new siblings.
A very pretty and sensitive book about pregnancy and birth (does not deal with conception). It is told from a second person point of view, as though the child being read to was the infant. The author focuses on the feelings of the mother while she was carrying her baby: what it felt like when the infant kicked, how the infant was fed, etc. Includes good in utero descriptions and drawings. Lacks multicultural drawings.

My children were as enthralled as I was!
This adorable book on how we all came about, is one of my favorites when it comes to children's books. My kids never get tired of hearing the story, I think partly because they love to be talked about, and because the author and artist really convey those special moments of pregnancy and birth that "speak" to children-(as well as the adults!) The first time I read it to my boys, ages 2 & 5, I had to make a real effort not to cry! It's a beautiful-TRUE story, and makes a wonderful gift for an older sibling-when there's a new addition to the family! It brings back wonderful emotions for Mom and Dad, and helps the older child realize that the love Mommy and Daddy have for the new baby is exactly the same as it is for them. Great book!!!


Deranged
Published in Paperback by Pocket Books (October, 1990)
Authors: Harold Schecter, Harold Schechter, and Linda Marrow
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Bizarre subject matter, tedious reading
Deranged is Harold Schecter's true crime history of the fascinating, horrifying life of Albert Fish. The reader must be prepared for graphic detail, which is often scatological and consistently perverse and disturbing. On the surface, Schecter falls short of creating a suspenseful nonfiction novel. His arbitrary historical anchors and tedious inclusion of irrelevant details detract from the coherence of the story. Even so, the extremity and depravity of Fish's behavior create an original, unforgettable glimpse into the workings of a criminal sexual psychopath. I recommend this book to true crime buffs who have not yet heard much about the case of Albert Fish because there are no other books on this subject that I have yet located.

Great book to eat...I mean Read!!!1
Albert Fish is one of those characters, that no matter how many times I read about, I can't seem to believe that such an evil person existed outside the walls of mythology. Along with the likes of the Ottis Tooles, Ted Bundys, and John Wayne Gaceys, Albert Fish was (as the book so adequately describes), deranged! The author of this book,Harold Schecter, does an excellent job on the research. Not only does Schecter tell the tragic story of Fish's kidnapping of little Grace Budds from her parent's home on West 54th street in New York City, but he tells of the horrific child abductions that took place in Staten Island at the hands of Fish. This book even takes into account of a trolley drivers observation of the old pervert Fish trying to calm a terrifiedchild while taking him to his death. Please read this book with caution. It is not for the faint in heart, and it will open your mind to the evil that is out there in this world.

Unbelievable, but true.
Mr. Schechter pens yet another true-crime story that is worthy of a reserved spot for any true-crime buff. As the late author Robert Bloch said: "People are only into Ed Gein because they haven't heard of Albert Fish."

So, here is Fish's book. It is unbelievable. One has to remind oneself that this is actually TRUE. This really did happen. I couldn't believe it. A person who indulged in a numerous variety of perversities, sexual fetishes (some way, way too bizarre to mention here!) the unspeakably ghastly aftermath of Grace Budd was reminiscent of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale classic "Little Red Riding Hood". In my previous review of a Schechter novel I said had found myself sympathizing (in a very awkward way) to Gein and actually saw a motive for his madness. In Fish's case I could not sympathise with him whatsoever. He was possibly the most deranged man to ever walk on Earth (in my opinion)...but contrary to what others may think, he was aware of the fiendish nature of his crimes. He planned Grace Budd's abduction with a cool cunning, and killed her in the most outrageous way possible... This makes for possibly the sickest yet most compelling read in the genre ever.

Hats off to Mr. Schechter once more for providing impeccable research and a story with no boring moments in it whatsoever.


Intuitive Light: An Emotional Approach to Capturing the Illusion of Value, Form, Color and Space
Published in Paperback by Watson-Guptill Pubns (February, 2003)
Authors: Albert Handell, Leslie Trainor Handell, Linda Gottlieb, and Lee Boynton
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exhaustive coverage of one artist's work
I bought "Intuitive Light" to learn more about techniques in pastel media. I thought the book is useful in this regard. The book could have been much better if other work was also displayed and discussed. The entire book shows nothing but Albert Handell's paintings. In my own opinion I like to see painting instruction show lots of different artist's work.

The Best
I have always wanted to attend a seminar given by Mr.Handell, however due to allergys, it has not been possible. I am so pleased that his book is available and it is all that I had hoped for and a treasure to review again and again.

Teaches how to "see" and "feel" light.
Not a workshop-type paint-by-numbers book, the book is more a photo-gallery packed with colorful, clearly rendered paintings. The text illustrates how the artist "sees" light under different conditions, for "light" itself is the subject matter Mr. Handell's paintings. The artist/author is very cognizant of the emotional effect that light conditions create in a viewer, and extremely gifted at translating this response through pigment. The paintings in this book show the success of Mr. Handell's emotional approach. Gives insight into "seeing" and "frame of mind".


We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo (An Albert Whitman Prairie Book)
Published in Paperback by Albert Whitman & Co (May, 1992)
Authors: Linda Shute, Linda Walvoord Girard, and Abby Levine
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Story of Korean adoption rings true
As the parent of a boy adopted from Korea, I find this story follows ours quite closely. The process and the issues are the same for many adoptive families. The only thing missing from this book is any mention of a birth father. The birth mother's role is handled well, but there is no reference to a birth father. This book starts when Benjamin is nine years old. That's when the real questions about adoption can begin.


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