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Why unusual? You breathe freedom in his words. They soar high and reach into untold heights without carrying the weight of labels. Even though his poetry is infinitely spiritual, it is not linked to any religion in particular, but embraces the core of wisdom that resides in all of the different ways mankind tries to connect with the ultimate truth, God, the Creator. He finds Him in every dancing molecule, transforming into a dancing molecule himself in order to touch the Whole. It seems to me that his approach to the Divine is the fruit of an uncommon intimacy with what binds our human nature to our Source. He knows something about the reality of ONENESS. Reading Eric P. McCarty's poems means to travel far, to a higher level of consciousness, where the air is pure and where there are no limits to transparency. He gives emotions that convey purity, beauty, harmony, peace, LOVE. The Author, seeing the sacredness of life in all things and creatures, combines masterfully the yearning for Divine love and its fulfilment with our human exigencies of tangible earthly warmth and love, conferring an incredible touch of overwhelming sensuality to his poems. This amazingly appealing mixture of the Divine and the Human reaches results that I do not hesitate to define absolutely irresistible. I enjoyed the dance and my horizon of perception of the Divine has widened, thanks to this inspiring book. In my opinion Eric P. McCarty's poems are masterpieces and as such they will conquer the world.

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Although based upon a North American population (i.e. with its higher societal rates of violence generally) the size of the study, and the relationships it demonstrates suggest that this work has significant implications for other jurisdictions. The book illustrates tools clinicians can use to assist with identification of those with higher for risk of violence.
Although actuarial methods do not offer a panacea for problems associated with risk prediction, they nevertheless provide pointers for increasing the precision with which such assessments can be made. Monahan et. al. acknowledge the limitations of such methods, and point to the complexity of clinical risk assessment for violence potential. The authors also point to the broader contextual, and problematic issues associated with false positives and negatives, in terms of prediction.
Armed with the information contained within this text, clinical staff will have a thorough grounding in the most up to date evidence in the field. This should provide a solid foundation from which staff can approach the complex issue of considering risk assessment generally.

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The Companion tries to cover too many aspects of cultural history and its icons. As a result it sacrifices information on many important political and public figures. We get biographies of Michael Jordan and Marilyn Monroe but no separate bios of George Mason, William Borah, Hiram Johnson, Henry Cabot Lodge, Tom Watson, Joseph Cannon, Thomas Dewey, Nelson Rockefeller, Clarence Darrow, Sam Rayburn, Jesse Jackson -- and the list goes on and on. When they are covered it is often in snipets in subject area articles, which does not give a complete overview of their public careers.
What it does cover in cultural and intellectual history is often incomplete. The Companion has separate artices on the history of the blues, jazz and a weak article on rural country and folk music, but absolutely nothing on bluegrass or commercial country music and its pioneers. The index doesn't even mention the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe or Hank Williams. Yet country music far exceeds both the blues and jazz in popularity in terms of its fan base and are certainly deserving popular art forms for inclusion.
The selection of significant figures for separate biographies is often strange and arbitrary. The Companion offers a bio of physicist Eugene Wigner but not of Hans Bethe or Richard Feynman, like Wigner both Nobel Prize winners. Feynman is considered by many to be the most important theoretical physicist of the second half of the 20th century. This arbitrariness in selecting subjects for biographies can be repeated in many different subject areas.
The Companion contains 26 black and white maps, often of poor resolution, and follows the same arbitrary editing in terms of subject matter. You get a map of the properties of U.S. Steel, but no map on how the United States looked at the end of the Revolution or after the Louisiana Purchase, though there is a barely readable map of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. No reference tables and charts are included to tell the reader Presidential election results, who were the Chief Justices of the Supreme Court, or who occupied important positions in Congress or the military over the course of American history.
On the positive side there are many good articles here on political and social history. However the reader must use this book carefully and supplement it with other Oxford Companions and reference books. At $... I would examine this book in a library before considering a purchase.

