In America we are in an era when we willingly hand over our wills, intelligence and spirit to the guru du jour. Self-inflated pompous snake oil salesmen who proclaim they have all the answers to the problems that confound us all. They are usually odd numbered (the 7 habits, the 5 learnings, the only one that was even numbered was the ten commmandments) repackaging of recycled obvious knowledge. Stephen Michael Peter Thomas (cleverly borrowing the first names of all the leading gurus) mimics their posturings in this enormously witty satire. The best send up of business I've ever read. You'll never be able to sit through a motivational conference with a straight face again.

If you are a CEO or a business consultant or just an ordinary working schlumpf, you can read this book and find something USEFUL in it. Particularly if someone accidently leaves a winning lottery ticket in it as a bookmark. For instance, you could apply any of Stephen Michael Peter Thomas's Learnings or Teachings to your business situation and before you know it, you will be named in a major class action litigation or you will drive your business directly into bankruptcy. What this business genius has to say is that EFFECTIVE! I can honestly say that, by applying what I learned from this book, I have accumulated enough good time points that my sentence for malfeasance, fraud and impersonating a business person has been reduced by almost THREE WEEKS! Thank you, thank you, thank you Stephen Michael Peter Thomas

As a window into the life of a Native American tribe that has lived on Cape Cod since long before the Mayflower landed in Plymouth, this book stretches well beyond the Clambake. Beautifully told and photographed, it is the story of how Steven, a Wampanoag Indian boy, is instructed in the tradition of clambaking from his grandfather, Russell Peters. In the process, he learns a great deal about his people, as does the reader.

Wampanoag Indians are the original tribe that met the pilgrims and white settlers and it is about time that someone stepped up to the plate and told the truth. A fantastic book about the true Native Americans that are alive and strong today that white america will never embrace and accept the fact that they are beautiful people with a rich culture and heritage

This is the best summary of the need for Social Security reform ever written, and it makes the case in only 49 pages. It begins from the point of view of a young family trying to get by on too little. Their lives are complicated by the incredible bite taken out of their meager paycheck by FICA, the most unfair and regressive of all taxes.

This book exposes the inherent contradiciton of the welfare state that seems to cripple those it should help the most.

Knowledge is the most important tool we have when confronting injustice. No tax scheme is more unjust than the current Social Security System that takes proportionately more from those who can afford it least and gives most to those who need it least.

This little book on the Social Security system should be required reading for every secondary school child. That it isn't is testament to the National Educational System's need to keep disadvantaged people in the bottom half of asset owners. The political hypocrisy on this issue is staggering. Consider that if a black man had his FICA deductions invested in the S&P 500 average for the past 50 years he would have earned an average of 13.5% per year. Compound that out for any amount of money, not to mention 12.5% of one's wages, and it adds up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Contrast this with the current 1-2% return from social secutiry that said man gets if he lives past 65 years old. But,.. when you consider that the average black man dies at 64, and the FICA money that has been deducted from his paycheck doesn't go to his family, but back into the pot to support elderly white women, who live the longest, then from such facts tales of racism are spun. This is the truth. We need more of it.

"Coyote Wind" is a darn near perfect specimen of a mixed-genre mystery cum western. Gabriel Du Pré is laconic, honorable, and wise to the ways of the Big Sky Country---a throwback to the noble cowboy-hero of Zane Grey's novels. He is a vulnerable hero, a Métis descendant of the French Voyageurs and Plains Indians. He has problems with his teenage daughter, who has shaved off part of her hair and dyed the rest of it a weird color. His mistress won't marry him because in the eyes of the Church, she is still married to the sleaze who deserted her many years past. He is plagued throughout the book by an alcoholic Métis prophet.

Du Pré's voice is unique, and perfect for this story. His dialogue is short, punchy, flicked with mordant barbs---an arrow in your eye when you are least expecting it. Two chapters into the book, found myself talking, thinking like Du Pré.

The mystery of who killed whom in "Coyote Wind" is fairly easy to unravel once you get to know and care about the characters. It almost had to occur, considering the people involved. It becomes more important to see if Du Pré can help a friend stop drinking, rather than to figure out who murdered his friend's brother. As Du Pré keeps telling everyone who will listen: "I ain't a cop...I am a [brand inspector]."

Nevertheless, it is Du Pré who is tapped to solve a thirty-year-old murder. He goes about it in a style that is perfectly tuned to his character. Not a single false note from Du Pré or his fiddle.

"Coyote Wind" is a very satisfying read.

I'm hooked, Peter Bowen has made the characters real for me, he's given them life. He shares his knowledge of what it is like to live in rural Montana, the lifestyle, the love of the land, the selfish way the locals take care of their own and the country.

From infancy to adolescence, it is hard to find any medium-sized book that described developmental psychiatry (and psychology) the way this 640-paged "Current Diagnosis & Treatment in Psychiatry" did.
Generous information were given to both psycho-etiology (including psychiatric genetics) and psycho-pharmacology. Anxiety, eating and sleeping disorders, as well as impulse-control problems were explained in details.
The topics contained in this book are so captivating and well-arranged that you will never want to stop once you've started. The book is a masterpiece!

I'm a medical doctor in my country (Brazil)and I am a general practitioner with a large experience in treating people with psychiatric problems.When I was a medical student my coleagues of university indicated the current books series.At that time this books was very cheap and after read my first book , current medical diagnosis and treatment , I begin to acquire other books of current series.
The hallmark of this series is to be cheap,concise and easy to read ( a very important feature for people of other countries where english is not the official language ).
This book has two parts. The first part is about theory of psychiatry with chapters about psycology , neurosciences , etc.
The second part is a well-writed and pratical text explaining all-over diseases covered in DSM-IV.
Each disease explanation begins with the corresponding DSM-IV criteria of diagnosis and includes diferential diagnosis,treatment and outcomes in a step-by-step mode which every medical professional can understand.
This book is a cost-effective investment.
I recomend too the other books of current series.

I was also forced to read Power and Exchange as a graduate student at UCLA. In a Political Sociology course, perhaps the second best class I have ever taken, the Professor teased out the incredibly dense thinking of Blau. Let me note that I am applying the concept to resource sharing among libraries and believe that Blau did "win-win" thinking many years before the concept(and now cliche) gained cache.

I first read Exchange and Power in Social Life as a graduate student in the early 1970s. What amazes me is to reread it in 1999 to see how Blau explains the way in which power is legitimated through exchange. His insights of 30 years ago now help us understand how large organizations can gain even greater (legitimate) power through exchanges across their boundaries--like police departments opening themselves to community policing or universities learning how to manage their increasingly permeable boundaries. This is "must" reading for any students of organizations of the 21st century!

The best reason to get this book is not for the drawings or houses, but for the introduction. This intro is one of the late Colin Rowe's best writings, and clarifies the *difference* between the works presented inside and the works' inspiration from 1930's Modernism, and all the cultural/historical baggage that goes with it. Rowe's writing concerns itself less with form and visual/formal parrallels, which goes somewhat against the stereotypes of Rowe's clique of "Fingerlake Formalists" and presents Rowe as a more astute socio-political analyst than you might otherwise assume.

Buy it for the essay. Take the rest with a grain of salt.

This is one of the best books of its kind, showing why these men went on to be of the best in their field. It is worth buying simply for Meier's Smith house and Gwathmey's Residence and Studeo (1966) alone. These along with Eisenman's theories for both house 1 + 2, though rather OTT in real terms, is insightfull none the less, as well as an indepth review from the ever critical eye of K. Frampton, make this one of my most prized possetions.

I would like to congratulate Dr. Keith Robinson for his first published book, for the valuable information, and for the great effort being done to correlate dentistry with psychology, sociology and people communication. I advise not only the lay reader to read this valuable book, but also the newly graduated dentist for the best approach to communicating with the patient.

Growing Older With Your Teeth, Or Something Like Them! is the first book in a new series of books which will number fifteen when finished. The series is called An Anthology On Aging. In the first book, Dr. Keith Robinson uses a light-hearted and humorous writing style to deliver valuable health information about the mouth as it ages. However, the book is about far more than just your teeth, it's about the art of growing old as your body parts begin to show signs of wear. The book is filled with touching stories that give meaning to the concepts. Robinson uses humor and warmth to touch people on health. The book is an "easy read" with a big payload of information. It's not like reading most health information...it's fun. I'm looking forward to Dr. Robinson's next book called Growing Older With Your Brain, Batteries Not Included. All in all, Growing Older With Your Teeth Or Something Like Them! is a must for people who are old or hope to be some day. It is important because as we manage our dental health and its aging process, we keep our overall health in better condition. Robinson's book is an excellent source for this worthy pursuit.

My manager asked me to explain Java and JavaBeans. This book did the trick. It's well laid-out, with lots of colour pictures, and deals with non-trivial issues in an understandable manner. It also comes with a Java tutorial, along with a try-and-(maybe)-buy version of a tool from Sun. I use this book a lot, along with "Borland's JBuilder: No Experience Required" by Zukowski, and "JBuilder Essentials" by Cary Jensen, et al. IMHO, if you're using JBuilder, you can buy these three books and pitch everything else.

I really enjoyed this book. I found the material clearly written and concise, the projects helpful, and was thankful for the beautifully illustrated examples and colorized source code.

Unfortunately, due to the absolute "newness" of the Beans technology and the awkward transition point we are all suffering through as we slowly migrate to version 1.1.x of Java from 1.0.x, there are inherent frustrations with regard to browser support (or lack, thereof) and, more importantly, many of the discussed products' near-but-not-quite-there support of JavaBeans. I think the book handles these issues rather well, though.

If you are seeking expert coverage into this new and amazing area of the Java Language I can't see a better place to start.

This is THE book for residents. It's great for writing admit orders. The concept of all of their books (pocket-sized, brief and clear) is great for putting in a lab coat.

This book helps me remember all of the right things to do when I admit a patient. Drugs, labs, vital signs, everything. It makes sure I don't forget any important admitting orders. Don't start residency or a clerkship without it.