It just doesn't get any better than this!

Working as a counselor with proposition 36 clients is a tedious and fast paced job, dealing with monthly progress reports for probation and courts. This has just solved alot of the difficulty and saved loads of time!

Treatment planning is a pain and this makes life easy. The Addictions Planner expands the best selling Chemical Dependence Planner by including other addictions such as gambling, sexual addiction etc...I can do a plan using this book in 10 minutes. That used to take me over an hour. Thanks.

The twenty-sixth volume of "The Annals of the American Society for Adolescent Psychiatry" (first launched in 1971), Adolescent Psychiatry is the latest collection of peer papers and scholarly contributions exploring, challenging, and discovering new ideas concerning the working of children's and young adults' minds. A diverse selection of insightful essays by a variety of learned authors cover such topics as the minds and lives of male homosexual adolescents; community interventions for reducing youth violence; therapy for inpatient and outpatient suicidal adolescents; matters pertaining to ADHD and Conduct Disorders; and much, much more. A fascinating compendium delving into the latest thoughts and wisdom concerning young minds and psyches, Adolescent Psychiatry is a seminal contribution to professional and academic research library collections.

This book, written in 1980 - is the ONLY Nostradamus book that I know of to ever incorporate the four languages of the original quatrains with the original French text and signify the use of Kabbalah and Numerology in its interpretation. Forget Cheetham and Hogue - that's amateur hour.
Now - the scary part, the interpretations...
This author, DR. BOYER, is the only one (again, that I am aware of) to correctly employ Nostradamus' quatrains to predict several major events of the last two decades. This book was written in 1980 and the first prediction of significance that I discovered was that it identified the fall of the Soviet Union and nailed the year - 1991. The author uses the events of WWII and their respective quatrains as a starting point for interpreting the future - specifically the Millennium.
This is not a ... "special", i.e. - no flashy cover, in fact most people have never even heard of this book and can't even find it for that matter. (It does appear to have disappeared off the face of the Earth - save for these internet listings) It is a thesis text - and a good one at that. The thesis: that quatrain X-72 directly relates to an event where a "King of Terror attacks from the sky on/about July of 1999" and that a possible "contemporary" designated by the anagram and riddle "Mars" will reign for "good cause/with luck". The most terrifying part is that the author illustrates how this event will preceed WWIII. When 1999 came and went I shelved this startling, but a bit over-the-top tome. Then 9-11. I dug it back out and took another look. Funny how 1999 is really 9-1-1-1- inverted. Actually not funny at all.
If Dr. Boyer's prediction of this terrible event is interpreted correctly - and this attack does in fact preceed a third world war - then this may very well be the most important book ever written - after the various religious texts used by modern religions.
And Dr. Boyer will go down in history (or at least my opinion) as the greatest interpreteaur of Nostradamus ever.

Thank You, before this book Progress notes were like pulling teeth, normally articulate, somehow blank in front of those clinic forms. Thanks.

I read the Adventure of the Speckled Band in 8th grade in English class, and I was plesently surprised to see how good it is. The stories I usually read in class are boring but this was very intresting. Holems is once again faced with a confusing mystery. This time a young woman's sister has just been murdered, and Holmes and Watson must find the killer before he kills again. This was the first Sherlock Holmes mystery I've ever read but it most definatly won't be my last!

Though not necessarily the best Sherlock Holmes stories, David Timson does a wonderful job bringing flavor and color to stories of our favorite Victorian "consulting detective." Picturing the flat at 221B Baker Street and 19th century London is easy through Watson's naratives and Timson's excellent voice characterizations. David Timson does the best readings among all the Sherlock Holmes audio books I own. I highly recommend any Holmes story read by David Timson.

AELBERT CUYP is an art book developed in conjunction with the exhibit of Cuyp's work currently on view at the National Gallery in Washington (10/01-1/02), the National Gallery in London (2/02-5/02), and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (6/02-9/02). If you want to get a head start on your visit to the exhibit (and avoid dragging home a heavy book afterward) you may want to buy the book beforehand. In addition to photographs of the paintings and drawings in the exhibit, the book contains five essays. My favorite is entitled "Pigments and color change in the paintings of Aelbert Cuyp" by Marika Spring.

Unlike many contemporary painters, Aelbert Cuyp died a wealthy man. He married well and he amassed a fortune in revenue from his patrons. He was frequently commissioned to paint family gatherings such as 'Portrait of a Family in a Landscape' which he may have developed in collaboration with his father Jacob.

Cuyp's patrons were conspicuous consumers who wanted their wealth noted in portraiture. Cuyp addressed this by painting their horses and clothing with exquisite detail. In an essay entitled, "Cuyp's horsemen: what do the costumes tell us?", Emilie E.S. Gordenker traces the origins of the Hungarian-Turkish influence on the clothing Cuyp's models.

Many Hungarians attended school in the Netherlands in the 17th Century. These young men were heros because they had driven the Turks from the doors of Europe and saved Hungary for Protestant Christianity (much to the delight of the Protestant Dutch). Following their victory, the Hungarians adapted Turkish elements of clothing such as linen undershirts, hip-length tunics, and turbans. The Dutch upper classes made this remarkable new dress the latest fashion. (Recall the oriental aspects of clothing in Rembrandt's paintings? Cuyp literally followed suit).

Cuyp (pronounced as "cowpt") is best known by his bucolic landscapes filled with farm animals, particularly cows--cows in the river, cows in the barn, cows in the fields, cows in the woods, cows with herdsmen, and herdsmen with cattle. However, he was also a master horse painter (plenty of gentry and aristoi on horseback), and his maritime scenes are gorgeous. According to Spring, he introduced the "yellow light" of the Italian Renaissance to Dutch landscape painting. His views of lakes, rivers, and harbor scenes exude a peaceful, serene, and almost other worldly beauty. I particularly like 'Dordrect Harbor by Moonlight'.

The last part of the book contains an essay and reproductions of Cuyp's many realistic pen and ink drawings from the area around Dordrect. These are beautiful sepia pieces you won't want to overlook.

Aesop's fables are fun! I enjoyed the short stories when I was young, and my children are enjoying them now. I like the book because it is easy to pick up and just read a short story or two when I am pressed for time (or tired!). Each story is accompanied by a wonderful illustration and a short moral at the end. The stories teach compassion for others,the value of hard work and perseverance, honesty, and so much more. Our children need to be taught right and wrong, and these stories do it in a fun way.

Arthur Cyr, who is the former President of the World Trade Center in Chicago, puts his years of experience and perspective to good use in this book. Dr. Cyr's views on the influence and impact of Ronald Reagan in shaping the post cold war world is a topic that is often overlooked by political writers. Although I do not fully agree with Dr. Cyr's views on the utility of multinational organizations and NATO expansion, he is correct on these type of organizations playing an important role in the future. My only real critisism of the book is that the book is somewhat dry. This is a good book to assign to a graduate level academic class but it is above much of the general population.