This book is packed, without being written to intimidate. Sections are clearly headed, inviting use of the book as a reference.

As my understanding and interests in gestalt therapy evolve, so do different sections strike me differently.

Zinker is a coach, who leans over my shoulder as I consider my approach to helping others. The tone is unequivocal: encouraging and articulate.

Zinker has been been immersed in the field to such depths that his writing shows evidence of integration of his findings. He covers gestalt therapy; a difficult topic to write about. He spells out his findings about working with families and does so in an aesthetic, almost spiritual.

Yet, I also find the book written with an intellectual rigour that invites revisiting. It's written in a can-do, leading edge manner.

This book is a collection of four homilies that were given by Cardinal Ratzinger on the creation account in Genesis. It gives a Catholic understanding of the theological implications from the teachings of creation found in Genesis. Cardinal Ratzinger starts with the importance about the necessity of properly understanding this, and the problems with ignoring the creation account. He shows how you cannot answer the question of "What we do" without first addressing the question of "What we are".

From this he proceeds to give a brilliant understanding of what it means to be a human being. What kind of creature we are and our place in creation. His first homily is based on "God the Creator" and its relevance to the differences between our view of God creating the world and other religions views. He then goes to his second homily "The Meaning of the Biblical Account", which gives a more balanced understanding of creation, and its cultural significance at the time. His third homily, "The creation of the Human Being" gives an understanding of what it means to be human and our place and reasons for being. His fourth, and final homily, "Sin and Salvation" gives and understanding of our nature, and our responsibility in our decision-making. Also touches upon the resurrection and the way it addresses our innate struggles. The book ends with an appendix that briefly goes into certain other semi related topics.

It should also be mentioned that Cardinal Ratzinger addresses the scientific implications of the creation account very little in this book. He addresses the problem in proving that the creation account was never meant to be a strict fundamentalist scientific view of how the world was created. But an actual unfolding, with different aspects given all throughout the bible, that directly addresses certain misunderstandings in other religions at the time and, at the same time, giving us a deeper understanding of our place in the world. He also shows how each account, cannot be separated from the others. And only in looking at the bible as a whole can you get the real meaning of the creation account. With that said, there are certain scientific dimensions that are involved in the creation accounts that cannot be denied. Cardinal Ratzinger briefly addresses this. But does not get into too much detail.

Overall, this book is a short, easy to read, explanation of the Christian understanding of what it means to be a human being, our nature, and our limitations. It gives an often misunderstood understanding of the creation account. This book is highly recommended for anybody who is trying to understand the Christian view of man, and the biblical basis for that.

An excellent book about the possibilities of immortality and how one man can be the key to the future of the human race. This book is a true epic in one volume, spanning a storyline of thousands of years in the life of one extraordinary man.

There are so many reasons why you should buy this book. If you liked "Brother to Brother", you'll really enjoy its predecessor. So many of these talented brothers have succumbed to AIDS: Hemphill, Beam, Dixon, etc. This book is a testament to their greatness. The book ends with a list of black gay literary resources. He includes essays about black gay organizing. There's an interview with Richard Bruce Nugent, the Harlem Renaissance writer who was the first African-American to mention homosexuality in fiction. This book is priceless. Do all you can to get a copy.

Joseph Rossman was a patent officer charged with assessing patent applications. Rossman surveyed over 700 highly innovative inventors (holding an average of 33 patents each) with regard to their creative process. This resulted in a substantial body of testimonial material regarding their creative process, on the basis of which Rossman developed his model of the creative process.

Research into the creative process ( a subset of psychology of creativity research) has a long history. It started over 100 years ago with comments from the scientists Helmholtz and Poincare about their work processes and reached a 'golden age' in the first half of the 20th century with a string of stage models due to Wallas, Rossman, and Hutchinson and an alternative approach ('productive thinking') from the gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer. The models developed in this era have not been significantly questioned subsequently: instead, psychology since the 1950's has gone in a different direction, emphasising quanitative (psychometric) tests to measure creativity defined in operational terms rather than focusing on the creative process aspect of creativity. The Wallas stage model containing 'stages' of Preparation, Incubation, Illumination and Verification when working on a task or problem remains the most widely cited and accepted model for explaining illumination phenomena. Hutchinson's and Rossman's models remain significant contributions to the literature.

Rossman's book is a classic in creative process research. It is well written, contains a significant body of testimonial material, and remains current - it is not invalidated by later developments.

As the table of contents show (above), Allen's work is detailed and attuned to the life-giving tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy. As an Orthodox under the direction of a Father, I can attest to the reality of such an approach in tangible terms. Whatever tradition you come from, this book will give you insight into our collective tradition and hopefully encourage you to seek out someone with whom you can struggle and grow. "The man who chooses himself has chosen a fool."

Other books of interest in this regard are: "The Orthodox Way" by Bishop Kallistos Ware, "The Psalms", "A different Christianity" by Robin Amis, "Beginning to Pray" by Archbishop Bloom, and Colliander's classic, "The Way of the Ascetics". Pray. As Bishop Ware has said, the devil says 'tomorrow,' The Holy Spirit says, 'Today!'

Dr.Joseph Teskey in his book on Tabanidae gives strong descriptive drawings and instructions for identification of tabanidae in Alaska;allowing the scientist to notice or create statistical studies on variation and evolution of species

As an Internet investor and financial professional, I found this book very interesting on a lot of levels. Especially interesting is the way CFOs value other companies and decide how to allocate budgets for projects. Definitely worth reading....

I found this guide to be both thorough and user friendly. Loaded with great photographs, it made planning our activties as a family really fun. The suggested routes are very well explained and mapped, and we enjoyed following them around Martha's Vineyard. Next stop, Nantucket!

"Instructions on Psychological Skills" by Joseph Strayhorn, Jr., M.D. is an excellent self-help book as well as a valuable tool for psychotherapists and for educators who wish to help clients or students acquire the psychological skills that are essential for effective living in mutually satisfying relationships.
Dr. Strayhorn begins this book with an explanation of methods of influence, or ways in which people effect emotional, behavioral, and psychlolgical change in themselves or others. The remainder of the book consists of esays which explain multiple facets of the sixty-two skills which have been identified by Dr. Strayhorn. These skills vary from sustaining attention to tasks and purposefulness to courage, appropriate depending on others, and independent thinking. There are superb essays on kindness, feeling gratitude, fortitude and frustration tolerance, forgiveness and anger control, respectful talk, and discernment and trusting.
This is a serious book about serious matters. Yet it is refreshing in that Dr. Strayhorn illuminates a path on the way to mental health rather than focusing on mental illness. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, I frequently recommend this book (as well as Dr. Strayhorn's "The Competence Approach to Parenting") to adult clients, who consistently remark about its usefulness. I also use this book in graduate education courses: teachers are given the assignment of reading selected essays and then writing lesson plans to teach these skills to students with emotional disabilities. These graduate students usually rate this as one of the most useful parts of the class, and often indicate they have applied the readings to their personal lives as well. I've given this book to each of my young adult children, who will be able to use its wisdom to help them in their journey through life. I can think of no higher recommendation.