Again another Tour de Force from Stevens. The author describes the duality of the human perception and its role in illness and welness. The healer archetype is so beautifully analyzed and defined. Highly recommended.

The incredible Billy Doyle has published a followup to his now legendary "Ultimate Directory of the Silent Screen Performer." This time, Doyle covers births and deaths for over 9,000 behind-the-scenes personnel, both silent and sound and not only the obvious -- directors, producers, screenwriters -- but hair dressers, art directors, cinematographers, editors, etc., etc. As everyone familiar with Mr. Doyle's tireless approach knows, the directory is as "ultimate" as humanly possible. In his foreword, Doyle modestly allows that the book is incomplete -- many film workers died in complete obscurity and have thus proven impossible to trace -- offering the fervent hope that "some future film historian can accomplish [a complete directory]." Some may try but the film history community will owe Mr. Doyle its gratitude for a great many years to come.

In the spirit of fairness, I should begin this review by mentioning that my name appears in the book's acknowledgments. That said, however, this, Billy Doyle's final book in his trilogy, is indeed indispensable for everyone researching past film personalities. An indefatigable necrologer, Mr. Doyle has left no stone unturned in order to deliver the facts -- birth and death places and dates for more than 15,000 performers. Doyle has spent a lifetime collecting and updating his material and is the foremost authority in his field. Naturally, a great deal of the names are unknown to even the most ardent film buff, but THE ULTIMATE DIRECTORY ... can settle any argument concerning the true age of anyone from Jean Arthur to Blanche Yurka. And Doyle did not stop there but has included a wealth of foreign actors -- from Hans Albers to Milivoye Zivanovic. As an added bonus, Doyle has included corrections and additions to the first two books in the trilogy, THE ULTIMATE DIRECTORY OF SILENT SCREEN PERFORMERS and THE ULTIMATE DIRECTORY OF FILM TECHNICIANS.

This book is like Harold and the Purple Crayon on mood-enhancing drugs. The bear has a pencil and uses it to get himself out of scary situations in the forest. He encounters all the stereotypical dangers (wolf, witch, giant) and draws his way hilariously out of danger. The drawing of the wolf realizing the bear has outsmarted him is priceless. The text is simple and easy to understand (my edition is in Spanish).

This book is the best guide to transcending the ego that I have come across. It's a guide and friend for all occasions and I have given it to many friends, who, not surprisingly, find it to be one of their favorites also. I can't recommend it enough if you're a seeker. I have the English version and my husband and other friends use the Spanish version. Ms. Anthony never leaves you feeling helpless or hopeless, on the contrary, one always feels inspired and capable to be and do her/his best. Use it and enjoy it.

Read this book. If you embrace it, get your MBA and get into the Game. If you are bored or find it difficult to read, do yourself a favor and go into marketing.

This book gives you time-life guidelines into sucessful living!

An immensely interesting collection of essays on a topic that is often neglected from the pulpit. The first few chapters are devoted to the history of both Christian and secular thought on the subject of angels. The next few deal with our concepts of heaven. Then, several more treat the topic of daimons (demons), and the last essay attempts to tie them all together into a cohesive doctrine.

The section that was by far the most interesting to me was Peter G. Bolt's essay on "Jesus, the Daimons, and the Dead." The writer argues that unlike today, where almost none of us would think of interpreting the word "daimon" to mean the spirit of a deceased person, to a first century audience, this would have almost automatically have been interpreted to mean just that.

Mr. Bolt cites numerous examples of this concept in Greco-Roman literature from before, during and after the New Testament period. He also shows how the view fits well when interpreting passages involving daimons throughout scripture. The exorcisms in the book of Mark are then analyzed from this point of view to show us what the implications would have been if the audience had indeed viewed daimons as the spirits of deceased humans. The ramifications of course would be far-ranging to say the least if Mr. Bolt's thesis is indeed correct. A lot of thought provoking reading here.

This is a wonderful book. The authors are clearly excellent clinicians who have made the DSM-IV accessible to mental health providers. Their critique of the history and development of the DSM is suberb, and their chapter on cross-cultural assessment is a gem. A must read for all mental health providers.

First published in 1966, I read this book many years ago now when I found a tattered paperback copy in a second hand bookshop.

This is a beautifully written novel set against Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812. It is the story of Valentina, the Countess Grunowska, a Polish patriot trapped into a marriage with a vindictive and violent husband. She meets a French officer, Colonel de Chavel (we never learn his first name) at a ball and they fall in love with a passion that I have rarely ever seen equalled in fiction.

He joins the march to Russia although he is an independent thinker amongst the political intrigue and espionage at the Polish Court - a true French patriot and not just one of Napoleon's minions. She follows him, fearing the wrath and sadism of her husband and, incredibly, she finds him during the freezing, snowy and tragic retreat from Moscow. Wounded, de Chavel has lost his right arm and is near death when Valentina finally locates him in a scene of such emotion that I have always remembered it. She nurses him tenderly, joining the French army as it retreats back to Poland.

Finally, they settle quietly and blissfully happy on one of her properties in rural Poland until she becomes pregnant with his child. Despite the handicap of his lost sword arm, de Chavel challenges Valentina's husband to a pistol duel in order to kill him and thus make her free to marry him. However, fate intervenes and one of Valentina's old and faithful retainers murders Count Grunowski before the duel can take place. And so de Chavel returns to Valentina, now heavily pregant and fearful for his life, in a shimmer of summer light and poignant, tender love.

I shall NEVER, EVER, forget this book, reread it from time to time and guard my two tattered copies well. Do try to find a copy and read it - it is magical. I would give it 10 stars if I could.