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PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING FORGIVENESS Chapter 1: The Importance of Forgiveness Chapter 2: The Possibility of Forgiveness Chapter 3: The Necessity of Forgiveness Chapter 4: The Difficulty of Forgiveness PART TWO: FACILITATING FORGIVENESS Chapter 5: The Role of Forgiveness in Pastoral Care Chapter 6: Case Study I Chapter 7: Case Study II Chapter 8: Case Study III

The authors help pastoral counselors present God's grace in healing forgiveness issues, especially for those who have built a wall of bitterness from past pain. They examine the complex emotions of unforgiveness. They address the problems of an inability to forgive, an inability to receive forgiveness, and an inability to forgive oneself.

I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE SPENT MOST OF MY MARINE CORPS WITH BOB BOARDMAN AND I CAN TELL YOU THAT HE WAS GREAT MARINE AND HIS STORY IS VERY WELL REASEARCHED AND ABSOLUTELY TRUE D I BAHDE

I am a current EMT-B student and currently use this book as text. The book is indeed easy to read, and has a lot of features to help a student prepare for that dreadful exam. I reccomend buying the workbook as well, to really solidify the knowledge gained by reading. In my class the tests are easy in comparison to the questions in the workbook, this is why I recommend buying the workbook. Also, using all of the features incorporated in this book will, with out any doubt, prepare you for the test. The assessment chapters are mangled as the instructor's review says, but there is a great graphic in the front of the book and being how assessment is SO VITAL, one should visualize it on their own and practice till its like tieing a shoe. All in all a quality well thought out book, with tons of features.

I am a student interested in becoming an EMT. I know the people at the local fire station so I asked them for a resource book and they gave me a 6th edition of this manual and it is proving to be an excellent resource. It has many pictures and at the beginning of each chapter, it gives a real life scenario for you to focus on for the chapter and explains objectives you should know by the end of the chapter. I've found it very informative and hope that the 8th edition follows in its footsteps. Well done Brady!

Excellent book, and extremely informative; I just completed the EMT-Basic course and the National Registry exam. The book was a wonderful source of knowledge, and reference. What I would like to see is perhaps a cheaper, paperback version of the book come out; we completed the course and had to return the book, and I just think that if it was more accessible, more students would have purchased it, instead of signing it out.

I teach a philosophy of Mind and Body course and my students will use this as the text for the Tai Chi class they must take as a co-requisite for my philosophy course. The author, a Ph.D. in physics, offers clear examples of what Tai Chi looks like but wisely refraines from trying to teach a full course in Tai Chi. He offers a sustained discussion of the philosophy behind Tai Chi, what it is and what it is not. It is not exciting reading but purposeful and organized. It will prove helpful for my students and anyone wishing an introduction to Tai Chi.

This is THE book. It's absolutely fantastic. I have read many books on Tai Chi, and own quite a few, but this is the one I am always coming back to, again and again. When practicing Tai Chi, when reading other books on the subject, and sometimes even in the shower after a day's practice, Robert Chuckrow's words come back into my mind, broadening and deepening my understanding of this great art. Many books claim to present Tai Chi Chuan in a manner "accessible to Westerners", but only this one truly delivers. Dr. Chuckrow's presentation is sober, encompassing, and respectful of the philosophy of Tai Chi Chuan. He is open-minded and fair, despite the fact that some of his experience are beyond his ability to explain. A Doctor of Physics and a Tai Chi instructor, Robert Chuckrow truly finds new ways to elucidate stances, double-weighting, and alignment, and never in all the book does he cease to be a person one can relate to, just another Tai Chi player sharing his (vast) experiences for the reader's benefit. The chapter on being a student is the jewel of the book. It really gives the reader pointers and references for actual, everyday relating to a teacher. It helps the reader understand his/her own practice from a broader, more realistic perspective. I strongly recommend this book to everyone who already practices Tai Chi and to all who are wondering if Tai Chi is for them. It is a rare pleasure to find, among the many books on this subject, one which is so well-balanced, down-to-earth, and complete.

Detailed descriptions of concepts and terms and explanations of difficult concepts are what set this book apart from other T'ai Chi books. The author has researched thoroughly and writes well and clearly. Covers among other subjects, breathing, stances, eating, alignment, ch'i, warm ups, stretching, how to be a good student as well as push hands and the CMC form. This is not an all inclusive list. I would place this near the top of the list of internal martial arts books. This could easily function as a textbook for a college course on T'ai Chi. I don't agree with everything in it, but I could always be wrong. :) Buy it, you won't be sorry.

Hard-core comics nerds might be familiar with the writing of Robert C. Harvey through his eloquent and interesting columns in The Comics Journal magazine. That style carries over well to this book. His commentary is refreshingly brief, preferring instead to let the work of a century's worth of creative genius speak for itself.

Rather than give us a straightforward, linear (hence boring) history of comics, Harvey treats them as the masterpieces of art they are--just as there are various fine art "movements" (Surrealism, Cubism, etc.) the same holds true for the comic strip. Harvey divides comic-strip history into five such movements--the formative years, standardization of genres, the adventure strip, the gag strip, and the socially conscious strips of today.

We learn some things that may seem surprising at first, but on reflection are perfectly logical. First, even the most talented 'toonists weren't perfect--we see the strips in their original form--pasteovers, glue stains, pencil marks, and blobs of white-out litter the work. It's akin to seeing an X-ray of a painting by a Renaissance master--even Leonardo and Michaelangelo made corrections, sometimes painting over whole figures.

Second, the supposed decline of the quality of comics (and the rise of artistically bankrupt strips like "Dilbert") isn't the fault of the artists or the syndicates. (Despite sentiments to the contrary by "Calvin and Hobbes" cartoonist Bill Watterson, whose scathing diatribe against modern comics is reprinted in the book). Paper shortages during the Second World War, Harvey tells us, forced editors to cut the size of newspaper pages to save newsprint, which in turn shrank the comic strip. The advent of television immediately afterward forced newspapers to stick to the wartime standard permanently--and they have shrunk even more since. Such developments spelled the end of the lavishly drawn adventure-continuity strips (the detail could no longer be seen) and paved the way for strips like "Peanuts". Harvey doesn't talk about the role of the computer in perhaps reversing this trend, which is one of this book's few flaws.

Harvey, like other fans, pleads for the acceptance of comics as a "legitimate" art form, but does so without attributing to them any more significance than they deserve. No obtuse Freudian interpretations about what the comics "mean"--to Harvey, they are a unique form of art, driven as much by commerce as aesthetics. They are a throwaway medium for the general public, but as he shows us, that's more than OK.

Curated, with helpful annotations, by a leading expert, this is a beautifully produced exhibition catalog of the original art for American comic strips since 1896. Especially wonderful is the reproduction of cartoon originals in full color (not just black and white line art) so that preliminary blue pencil drawings, glue stains, and pasted-over changes are all clearly visible. (Copyright © by Roy R. Behrens from Ballast Quarterly Review, Vol. 14, No. 3, Spring 1999.)

At the time of William Harvey writing this book he was laughed at and riduculed for his beliefs of circulation of the blood. The people at this time were so intwined with Galenic medicine that there was no way Harvey could have been right with his discovery. If you want to see how the thinking was with this subject at this time of civilizations then this book will be wonderful. If you just want some basic history of medicine then this book will be outstanding to you. I highly recommend it.

A modern reader of Harvey's most famous and important work, "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals," cannot help but be amazed at the methodical, precise way he goes about demonstrating his thesis. His method is not purely "scientific" in the sense we know it today, but it does represent a great step toward the scientific method. Harvey himself would disagree on this point--he viewed the then-current crop of scientific theorists (Descartes, Bacon, et al.) with disdain. He considered himself a philosopher, and judging by his remarkable adherence to Aristotelian principles, one might be willing to grant him that. History, of course, has judged him to be a scientist and a physician, however, and we have learned to think of him exclusively in those terms. Not that this is a negative or even largely incorrect judgement; it just fails to take into account the full extent of William Harvey the man, and his motivations for inquiry. I think the only proper way to view him is as a transition point between Aristotelian natural philosophy and the scientific method. This book is a remarkable document because it is both a crucial turning point in the history of ideas and proof that those ideas were not so far apart as we have been led to believe.

As a native Liberian, a history major in college and a complete bookworm, I was delighted to find this book on Amazon.com. It covers what our ancestors experienced prior to and after their arrival in the "Dark Continent". The authors have cleverly woven into their story how and why current Liberian customs and cuisine have evolved. This is also an interesting read for non-Liberians to find out about this lost chapter in the history of slavery in the United States.

I only gave it 4 stars because it was slow in places, but it was worth it in the end.

The story of African Americans leaving the United States in the 1800s to find a better life else where seems quite unreal, but this historical novel uses that base to make a wonderful story. The use of character description and the creation of a new frontier give this novel a great base for developing into an interesting novel that will make you suggest this to your neighbors and friends. The cross-over of people and locations gives the chronological story a great way of how time passes by and people still move towards the ultimate goal, freedom in their own country of Africa. This story has the opportunity to become a great school-oriented novel if given the right direction. All-in-all, this novel would be great for anyone interested in history, African culture and/or Southern and Northern attitudes in America before the Civel War.

Freedom Ships is an exciting and informative historical novel about African Americans who managed to go back to Africa in 1820 to find the freedom denied them in America decades before the Emancipation. Based on a neglected chapter in America's history, elements of the Freedom Ships narrative are reconstructed from emigrant letters, diaries, official reports in the Library of Congress, and U.S. Navy and Congressional archives. A highly recommended and engaging novel, Robert Carey and John Furbay have successfully collaborated to write an epic story of freed slaves who dare to risk all dangers in a vast and unknown continent so that their children could escape the inhuman bondage and overwhelming racial prejudice of slave era America.

This biography makes too much of the "enemies" that Cochrane made in his career, and how they brought him down. But frankly, I was left thinking that like many heroes throughout the ages, he too had feet of clay - fabulous at sea, and an idiot on land, (and undoubtably a crook too).

As the title of the book is the "life and exploits of a fighting captain" I would have appreciated more of the exploits (and flavour) of his expeditions than were laid out.

However, it did introduce me to someone besides Nelson (and his Captains etc) who was lionized (then forgotten at home) and who may be more famous today in Chile and Brazil than England.

Worth the read, but don't expect too much depth.

Thomas Cochrane must be a fasinating person, but you will not discover it from this book. It is deadly dry--just like a thesis. The man does not live and leap from these pages. The author gives us a recitation of his accomplishments but not any detail behind the man. He does not come across as a living, human. I have a feeling that the author did not do a very good job researching this man--surely there are diaries from his wife Kitty or Cochrane, himself, that can give us insight into how he thought. I am still looking for a good biography on this complex man.

What an excellent book, both the content and the delivery! This reads more like a novel than a biography, understandably, as it is the basis for almost all of the Aubrey/Maturin series.
The descriptions of the naval exploits almost defy belief, if they weren't so patently true - and the land-based politicking, double-dealing and chicanery are incredible, only to be corrected half a century later in the Great Reform Act.
The intuitive brilliance of Cochrane as a sea-commander is totally at odds with the gullible naivety of his political career; his devout moral ethics made it very difficult for him to ignore wrongs or slights against himself or any defenseless group (specifically Jack Tar), and he carried his attempts to redress the balance to extremes, putting himself in very real danger, both physically and financially.
His moral stance was such that he was abstemious, never had a man flogged, never lied, never used his position to personal advantage and never philandered (although counter claims have been made in that direction, but it is hard to believe that a man made of such high moral fibre would cuckold another man or his own wife).
This brilliance also extended to inventions, all (I believe) of which he failed to patent, leaving the kudos to others; the Admiralty failed him in ignoring his suggestions and it was only off his own bat that the advantages were seen (explosive ships, steam vessels etc).

Mr.Harvey covers all this in a very readable style, elaborating in detail on some of the more important episodes in Cochrane's life, but never boring us. He includes snippets from Cochrane's autobiography, where we see his droll, laconic prose used to great effect (particularly in antagonising the Admiralty against him).
In contrast to Nelson, whose claim to fame was by some very suspect naval maneuvres with huge losses of life and parading himself round Britain & Europe, Cochrane stands out head and shoulders higher, in terms of naval brilliance, invention, support for the underdog, attacking jobbery, and humility.
He deserves to be re-instated as the finest sailor EVER. *****

As a Venezuelan, I was looking for a book on the independence struggle free of the tedious hero-worship that pervades Venezuelan historians' writing on Miranda, Bolívar, Sucre and the rest. This book is a good choice in that regard, full of fun annecdotes and interesting insights.

What's inexcusable are the dozens of little mistakes, place-names that are misspelled (Guiria?!? Guatiré!?!), dates that are plainly wrong, etc. etc. At one point, Harvey screws up the name of one of his main characters! After writing an entire, and very entertaining chapter about Francisco de Miranda, he finishes it off with a stylish, perceptive passage about...Fernando de Miranda! Did anyone copy-edit this thing?! Can they be summarily executed, pretty-please?

The thing about such inexplicable gaffes is that they don't do anything for your faith in the rest of the guy's narrative. If he gets simple things like that wrong, why should I believe the rest of his story? It leaves this nagging suspicion in the back of your head, you're never quite sure whether you can trust him after that.

Still, the overall narrative is gripping and fun, and it's just a puzzle to me how he could've been so careless with the easy stuff.

I am still reading the book, so I will not give a review as such, just a couple of comments. So far, about 150 pages into the book, I find it extremely interesting and quite informative, Harvey manages to keep you turning the pages and the way he presents history already familiar to some of us is like we are seeing it for the first time. There are many facts (about Bolivar) that are new to me, and present the man for what he was, a human being, rather than the god we were taught about in school in South America. My main complain is that the text was not very well edited prior to publication, there are quite a few names misspelled ( Atanasio Girardot, Ricaurte, and others) as well as obvious errors in some dates. Hopefully such mistakes will be corrected in future editions. Overall I can overlook such silly errors and enjoy a truly great book, I am looking forward to Harvey's book on Captain / Admiral Cochrane which is already in my home library shelves.

After reading this extraordinary book, my opinion of it can be summarized in just one sentence: if you need to understand South America, you ought to read this book. I agree that better editing was needed but that's minor compared with the amazing skills of this author. He gives us enough background information, narrative and details to present a complete picture of this historical period and not jus a partial one as is normally the case. I recommend it for everybody but especially for Americans who always seem to have a perception of South America which is more based on their "Hollywoodesque" upbringing than in real history.