I had great hopes for this book. After I glanced at it, I purchased it immediately. It certainly does reorient you to the distinctions between goals, objectives and diagnoses, but after using it for a while, it just wasn't sufficient for those more complicated kids. I'll keep referring to it, not so much for information but to place me back on course when I'm stuck and blocked- (happens more than I'd like, when the stress gets to me,) yet I still would suggest, for more seasoned professionals, a higher level of diagnostic and prescriptive content.
If you are one of those good therapists who flounder when it comes to documentation; I'd say, "Go for it." But, if you're looking for a book to help with establishing a quality diagnosis and treatment plan for those true stumpers- sorry, this isn't the book.

If you work with adolescent this is a great aid to writing treatment plans for a beginner or a skilled clinician. It makes following this state regulations a lot easier. I would definitely recommend this book to all my colleagues. This book has helped me write treatment plans quicker and easier then I ever thought possible. I love this series of books.

I work in a mental health agency as an intake clinician, interviewing families and children and writing assessments to be used for case disposition and treatment planning. I see 4-6 families weekly and my work load has been eased enormously with this addition to my library. It sits right next to my DSM-IV and I use it daily. The language for long term goals and therapeutic interventions are clinically sound and there are a number of options in each to tailor for specific cases.

I found this to be a very helpful book for trip planning: when and where to go and getting an idea of what different kinds of safaris have to offer. A number of valuable charts regarding the best times to see certain wildlife, climate, etc. The book is a good way to narrow your choices before starting to collect brochures and get travel guides for individual countries. The coverage will not replace good field guides or travel guides---just get you ready for that stage. One caveat: I didn't care for Nolting's snobbishness about the best way to travel (I managed to see more than I might have on one of his "first class" safaris).

Now in its revised and expanded sixth edition, Africa's Top Wildlife Countries by Mark W. Nolting (who has spend more than twenty years personally exploring and researching the African continent) is a thorough and "user friendly" instructional guidebook to making the most of an African safari. Specific sections are devoted to each nation and cover top-rated or first-class accommodations, professional tours, and ecologically-friendly visits enabling the traveler to see and experience a wide variety of amazing and exotic wildlife. Enhanced with an extensively detailed planner offering the latest information on the best times to visit, what to pack, and which tours offer the most service, Africa's Top Wildlife Countries is enthusiastically recommended for anyone planning to embark on a "once-in-a-lifetime" safari adventure of their own.

If you are even thinking about embarking on an African safari, you must read this book! Not only did Mark's book convince me to go, I also used his travel agency to book my trip! This book gave me the best ideas of what countries and game parks would best suit my particular interests. It also provided many examples of different types of safari experiences: from "roughing it" to luxury. I chose to do a little of both. It was the BEST and most memorable event of my life. Mark has a way of making even the most timid traveler feel comfortable with such an adventurous trip before they even step on the plane. I even had two of my own photographs published in this edition of his book! I couldn't recommend this any more highly!

First off, no I didn't read the book, nor do I want to. So why am I posting a review you ask? I'll tell you why. This book is anti-Slipknot just because it even exists. For all the Maggots out there, we already know their story, and what they have to say. If we wanna know something from the guys, we can just ask and what we don't know, we wont know. They're people too, just like the rest of us. Everyone deserves personal space. This book is for people that can't fathom Slipknot. We get the message and that's all the matters. The Knot will reveal themselves when they're ready, a book isn't needed. To all the true Maggots, support The Knot. (SIC)

This is a great book about a stupendous "visual" rock band by a guy who is real rock 'n' roll writing legend, Mr. Mark Crampton (with a little help from his two worthy collaborators). What this guy doesn't know about rock'n'roll you could write on the back of a ukelele plectrum, so it's unlikely that Slipknot have slipped anything past his hawk-like gaze. I remember his incisive writing in the great early 90s rock mag, Riff Raff. Of course, he's toned down the style somewhat for the Slipknot fans, but this is still metal-to-the-pedal, hellbent-for-leather, turbo-charged rock'n'roll writing.

Barcode Killers is a great book to read, especially if you want to learn about slipknot. it offers info on previous bands, previous band members and how the band got started. i recomend this book if you are a true SliPKnoT fan. it also has some pics of some of the band members without their masks on, which is really cool.

First I bought Behind the Wheel German. Then I followed the instructions, using the tapes in the car whenever I had the chance (which means 'frequently').
In just a few days I was walking around the house saying nifty things like 'I want to eat' and 'I like to travel'. 'I'm hungry'
etc ...
Not bad for a few hours work, nicht wahr?

I am impressed with the amount of German I am now able to speak thanks to Behind the Wheel German. I listen to the tapes minimally during a fifteen minute morning and evening commute and I haven't had to look up one word yet.
The other day a friend of mine offered to buy me a German English dictionary and I declined because I really don't need to look up anything. All of the English meanings are on the tapes, making this the easiest way to learn German I know of. The course also came with a learning guide which includes a tapescript and sentences building techniques.
My only regret is that there is no sequel to this fabulous course.

'Language Dynamics courses are the only courses I know of that are truly dedicated to effective and immediate communication in the target language. Academic courses often reflect the literary interests of professors, many of whom never had the experience of learning the target language as a second language. With these courses, you can hit the streets after every lesson knowing you can say more than you could yesterday'.

this book was very helpful in many ways (including aquiring the gorons sword) but lacks much information on the songs

yeah -- great book -- too bad it defeats the purpose of PLAYING THE GAME. figure things out yourselves... it makes playing the game worth it. play to solve... not just to win.

I think the book is great and I had a lot of fun theres so much to do in this game you need a book like this I would like to say to the authors of the book NICE JOB GUYS ZELDA RULZ

Baker looks for (and claims to have found) the fundamental elements of all language that can account for the apparently enormous differences among languages. The fact that people are kept apart by language is a perplexing mystery. We all share so much of life's experience, it seems outrageous that we are Balkanized by language into almost mutually exclusive cultures. Any clue to overcoming that absurd fact of the human condition would be welcome. Baker distinguishes well between the surface expression of language and the Chomskyan "deep structures." I read with interest and anticipation until about halfway through when the author confessed that he treats language purely as a formal system. That means he looks at it as a closed set of rules, like the rules of chess or Morse code, so that understanding and explanation of languages are taken as mere logical puzzles. What a disappointment! As a psychologist, I am convinced that language is a cognitive process, an expression of our mental faculties and our experience in the world. Language is not a self-contained logical puzzle, and the only way we will ever understand it is to connect it to experience. In the end, Baker's book is an exercise in puzzle-solving for the sake of puzzle-solving. His concluding list of universal language parameters, while clever and impressive in their own right, lack "psychological validity" and leave us no more able to scale the tower of Babel.

This is really an excellent book, though it is a bit of work for the non-professional linguist. Still, I loved the challenge and would highly recommend it, esp. if you liked "The Power of Babel," and Steven Pinkers' books. Dr. Baker's book is wll worth the effort.

The title above refers to a form of the Mohawk verb "he likes."
Dr. Baker explains polysynthetic languages quite well.

One other excellent feature of this book is the last chapter, "Why Parameters?" At first I thought this would be
a summary, a mere rehash. But it isn't. Dr. Baker leads us through the plausible mechanisms of how a language changes and it was truly the most exciting part of the book. I never thought before that mere variations in style could be the engine that drives linguistic change. Fascinating!

One tiny thing Dr. Baker didn't talk about was the reason why English speakers can understand German word order. Is it because (I believe) we have vestigial understanding apparatus of German word order due to English's ancestry. I love the Germanic word order in a plaque that is in Buffalo here, "Here died McKinley."

What I refered to was why can we understand "Yesterday have I your mother seen." or "She said that Tom had her the book given." It is not completely incomprehensible, almost fun!

Anyway, thank you Dr. Baker!

This is a lucid, exciting introduction to the fascinating science of modern linguistics. With a minimum of technical jargon, the author shows us how different the languages of the world look - and how similar they really are. With the periodic table of the elements as a guiding metaphor, the author shows how languages form an intricate pattern, and lets us in on some of the discoveries he and other linguists have made about this pattern. The book teaches us about languages as exotic as Mohawk, and left me (at least) quite impressed with the wonders of the human mind. Some of the material towards the end of the book is less impressive, as the author speculates about what it all means, but by then the reader is well and truly hooked anyway, so the flaw is minor.

'Language Dynamics courses are the only courses I know of that are truly dedicated to effective and immediate communication in the target language. Academic courses often reflect the literary interests of professors, many of whom never had the experience of learning the target language as a second language. With these courses, you can hit the streets after every lesson knowing you can say more than you could yesterday'.

What I really liked about '3001 Italian Sentences' was the easy going easy to understand style. My wife is from Sicily where they speak a dialect of Italian and I don't really know alot about languages. We went to Italy to visit my wife's relatives and they said I spoke 'great' Italian. 'Parli benissimo'. That for a guy like me means a lot, and I owe it all to this course.

I am sitting in front of my Learning Guide and Tapescript for 3001 Italian Sentences and listening to the tapes in the background. What I see and hear are infinite possibilities for making much more than 3001 Italian sentences. For example, the native speaker and instructor give modal type sentence construction like 'voglio' for I want. To these you are given lists of practical and useful infinitives like 'mangiare' to eat. The listener or reader simply combines the two and makes sentences. The negative, interrogative, and negative interrogative structures are also presented here with great clarity. The 2nd person singular and plural forms of 'you' are also presented such as 'Lei piace' for you like 'Non piace' you don't like, 'Piace Lei? for 'Do you like' etc... It is my opinion that this course while EXCELLENT for most everyone, is not well suited to the dull individual who requires rote learning of 3001 Sentences spelled out in order 1,2,3,4 etc.. The approach used by Language Dynamics requires a bit of creativity on the part of the participant to create original sentences on his or her own. It couldn't be more simple since all the words and translations, exercises, and answer keys are all provides here on the tapes and in the booklet. In my opinion, THIS is the only REALISTIC way to learn a language. Let's see, I'm now up to 4002 Italian sentences!

Seriously I did. The first time I saw a Rothko painting was at the SFMoMA. It covered an entire wall of the room and was the biggest thing on canvas I have ever seen. I was hoping that Dore Ashton's book would give me an insight into the meaning and style of Rothko, but rather, it seemed to be a biography of the man rather than a critism of the work. I suppose that's partially my fault since I'm sure there quite a bit of art critism books out there on Rothko...unfortunately, the historical presentation of the book isn't really all that interesting. I guess in the end, the big picture is that Rothko was deeply influenced by his Marxist experiences because that's what I got from Ashton's book. On a side note, Dore Ashton writes for Modern Painter magazine, which is actually a good magazine.

The definitive book on Mark Rothko's work, by one of his closest friends. Ashton gets as close as she can to a very elusive, contradictory person. The book requires the same kind of sublime imagination that Rothko's paintings - his "children," as he often called them - require. Those without soul should pass this book by.

The most intelligent and sensitive writing on Rothko's painting and thinking. Dore Ashton continues to be the most perceptive individual representing painters and their concerns. She is an amateur in the true sense - L. amator - lover, fr. amare - to love. Would that more writers on painting share her imagination, enthusiasm and integrity.

The Kirkus review is far too harsh for this fast-paced terrifically entertaining romp through a sort-of possible but brightly imagined near-future. While the worlds of the drugged-out loser and the billionaire scion seem a bit contradictory, its worth it just to go along on Christensen's whirlwind tour of a possible, particularly lousy future.

No, this is not hyperbole. Ignore the near-sighted comments of those who didn't grok this book. It clearly passed over their heads. This brilliant, stunning novel starts in hyper-drive and never lets up. It simultaneously creates and inhabits its own unique, intoxicating realm, and cannot be judged by conventional literary standards. Its uncanny style is a savant-like feat, in my opinion. Not showing off. Not style disrupting story. Not even eccentricity. This is writing from the Zone. I was continually enthralled by the prose, I fell in love with the characters, the story gripped me from start to finish, and the mind-blowing denouemont was one of the most exquisitely beautiful and tragic I have read. This book cannot be overpraised. It deserves a wide audience. And I do believe one will catch up with it eventually.

Aloha is an utterly original, searing, brilliant masterpiece that transcends all genres. It stands alone and ranks with the best of William Gibson (which means Neuromancer)and William Burroughs (which means Naked Lunch. No kidding.) Aloha is breathtaking, poignant and outrageously funny by turns, with never a misstep or false note.What left-field galaxy Christensen pulled this one out of I don't know, but I read it in awe. (I can't believe the obnoxious review by Kirkus...what is their standard of excellence, Harold Robbins? Get a clue, Kirkus. Expand your minds a little beyond the conventional pap. This book clearly went over your heads.)Aloha is five stars by any standards. I'm reading it again for the second time and it still takes my breath away. (And no, I do not know the author personally.) Keep it up, Mark Christensen, there are people out there waiting for your next book. And even if the present earth population isn't yet hip to your work, it's surely being read in the next realm.

A Good technothriller from the days of the cold war, this book will keep the reader interested. Not Unlike Melville's Moby Dick, the captain of a U.S. Navy Destroyer plays a cold war game of cat-and-mouse with a Soviet submarine resulting in a tragic climax. It is a real page turner and my only problems with the book were the character of the journalist Munceford, who is too peripheral to the story and a little too annoying (see Sidney Poitier's performance in the movie for a better depiction); and the ending was not terribly believable considering the circumstances (again, see the movie for a better ending) Overall, I would recommend this book, but there are other, better titles that should be read first: Fail Safe; On The Beach; Trinity's Child and Viper Three

An excellent book that is fashioned on Melville's Moby Dick, it does not fail to keep the reader interested. The story of a cold war cat-and-mouse game between a U.S. Navy Destroyer and a Soviet submarine is a definite page turner. The only two problems I had with this book were the ending, which I did not find to be satisfying or believable (see the movie and you will see a different ending)and the character of Munceford, the journalist. I found him to be more annoying and peripheral than he should have been (again, see Sidney Poitier's performance in the movie for a better drawing of the character.) Otherwise, it is an edge-of-your-seat technothriller that I would recommend.

The "Bedford Incident" tells the tale of the titular ship, a US Destroyer during an epic hunt for a Russian submarine. The Bedford has the firepower to sweep the red sub away like so much dust on the sea. But cold war politics and some substantial realities require that the Bedford do no more than track the sub. More than mere politics, the Bedford's obsessed captain knows that the Russian sub, running on diesel-electric engines, can endure no more than hours submerged before it must surface to recharge. With the Red Navy soon to become nuclear-powered, the Bedford knows that its latest find may be its last easy catch. "Easy" becomes illusory as the Bedford fights a war of nerves against the Russian crew while battling cruel northern seas and endless ice. Rascovich never shows us the Russian crew, only the tensions faced by the Americans, and the seams that are quickly becoming undone.

"Bedford" recalls Moby Dick, but it actualy belongs to a small genre of war-thrillers involving hunter killer subs in cold northern seas, great books like Poyer's "The Circle" and "HMS Ulysses" by Maclean. The book was turned into a greta moview starring Richard Widmark as the Bedford's tormented captain and Sidney Poitier as the civilian photojournalist who quickly becomes his conscience. Both book and film are classics.