This is a completly silent tradepaper back which exclaims stan Lees old saying NUFF SAID

This book was the first to record the works of many artists through the ages on kinetic art. It has everything from paintings that appear to be moving to Lumina sculpture. It introduces many artists, but does not delve into depth on any one area of kinetics aka painting with light, etc.

This book is filled with color pictures, but as soon as you examine them closely you realize that they are pictures from different angles of the same three gardens -- most of them incomplete (as stated in their own captions) or violating the author's own rules of not planting your potager with poor-preforming, slow-growing plants. The introduction goes into detail about the first potager, and how she went to visit it in France, but there are no pictures of it! Also disappointing, is that all the potagers displayed are filled with annual vegetables. I didn't see any suggestions on what to plant, or what to do with empty potager beds once the growing season is over. This is a good book to browse in a book store or library but not for the hard-core landscaper or vegetable grower.

Considering the fact that more than 280 peer-reviewed articles on panic disorder have been published since 1997, when Zuercher-White released her excellent book A Step-By-Step Clinical Guide to Treating Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia, an update of the literature is welcome. Synthesizing the results of such a large number of research papers (Panic Disorder contains more than 600 cited references) is a formidable task that students and clinicians have no time to do themselves.

As the title implies the book deals with panic disorder from diverse clinical perspectives - psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, psychopharmacological, homeopathic, non-traditional, and combined treatments. It covers the nature and definition of panic, different theories of panic and the diagnoses of panic disorder, including differentiating panic attacks from other medical conditions producing panic-like symptoms. There is also an excellent overview of the assessment of panic disorder, including assessment of biological, cognitive, affective, behavioral and social factors. A very good overview of psychometric properties for 23 popular measurement instruments is given as well. Furthermore, a number of treatment strategies, including cognitive-behavioral techniques are discussed. The book closes with an in-depth case study illustrating a combined treatment approach for panic with agoraphobia, a model of an easy-to-follow treatment plan, and a review of various self-help strategies.

If you are looking for specific cognitive-behavioral techniques described in great detail A Step-By-Step Clinical Guide to Treating Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia is still the best choice. However, if it is an overview of treatment approaches to panic with an accurate and updated review of the professional literature that you want, this book is thoroughly recommended.

Reference: Zuercher-White, E. (1997). Treating panic disorder and agoraphobia: A step-by-step clinical guide. Oakland, USA: New Harbinger publications inc.

As an extremely amature musician I found this book very helpful. After working on scales and chord progressions this method helped me round out some of the basic jazz patterns. I found that the repetition of the patterns helped engrain them in my mind.

I would recomend this book for anyone who would like to learn improv.

Published in 1939 ,this is a sturdy Western from the prolific and reliable pulpster Frank Gruber who was proficient in both this genre and the crime novel.
It is set in the town of Broken Lance,Kansas and the eponymous character is John Bonnwell a feared lawbringer erroneously believed dead -gunned down by a gang in another Kansas town ,Haleyville.He is recuperating in a St Louis sanitarium where he is attracted to a young woman,Eleanor Summers who is about to leave for Broken Lance to stay with her uncle,Ollie Simmons.They set out for the township together .
The town is changing and is about to become a railhead and thus a magnet for troublsome ,trail weary cowboys and noted gunslinger /gambler Jeff Barrett and his financier brother Ferdinand are intent on using their advance knowledge of this to make a financvial killing.A conflict ensues between them and Bonnwell's friend Tom Waggoner and Olllie Simmons .
Bonnwell is drawn into the conflict in support of Waggoner and he becomes marshall of Broken Lance where events conspire to bring about a decisive confrontation between him and the Barrett brothers and their hired minions .
Gruber wrote solid workmanlike books and these adjectives are appropriate for this functional if routine Western.Recommended for genre lovers but does not have crossover appeal

While previous multi-author books have surveyed political parties in the Middle East (notably "The Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties", published by Facts on File, 2nd edition, 1987), none has attempted the detail and comprehensiveness of the volume under review. Still, the editor goes a bit far in trumpeting his volume as "an excellent reference work that is unique in its field." More accurate would be to say that with some exceptions (excellent analyses of Morocco by David M. Mednicoff and on Turkey by Jacob M. Landau), it provides a workmanlike and useful overview.

Fourteen chapters concentrate on single countries, ranging from Morocco in the west to Iran in the east, from the Sudan in the south to Turkey in the north. Predictably, the chapters on Lebanon and Turkey take the most space, given the complex political life in those places, followed by Algeria and Israel. Libya requires the fewest pages, followed by Tunisia and the Sudan. One chapter deals with all the Gulf Cooperation Council countries together (they get so little space on account of the rudimentary state of their political parties), and one covers the Palestinians. The book concludes with a particularly helpful genealogy of parties, making it possible to see how often one begat another.

Two commonsensical patterns emerge from the many details: political parties have greatly proliferated in the past six years, since the collapse of the Berlin wall; and fundamentalist parties have replaced nationalist ones as the region's most dynamic.

Middle East Quarterly, June 1995

I had high hopes for this book. It didn't meet them. For one thing, the book is not broken down into chapters, but consists of two sections with each section having one subsection. This causes a lack of consistency in the presentation of facts. The book seems to wander at times and doesn't really seem to get its point across.

Then, when it comes time to discuss the mystery of Lucifer, there is a breakdown. Some information, such as the pagan origins of Lucifer, which it would seem should be given are only vaguely footnoted with a suggestion of seeking another source for the facts. But they are key to the arguements of the book. All in all, a difficult read. There is a good amount of factual content, though.

This was a good book, it had enough info to pass a teacher, so i think if u want info on this subject then read this book.

The story reads clear and easy as water, but the impression lasts much longer. I found there to be several grammatical/punctuation errors, and overall, the style is somewhat limited. However, the story itself is brilliant, entertaining, and smart -definitely worth the short time to read. One gets the impression the story might even be true, for it looms larger than the storyteller's power. Also, I believe the work may eventually prove significant in the growing pages of African-American literature. A recommended read.