To make the long story short, when I started to work as a CSR in a bank, I kept this book as a reference on my desk. Before that I tried to ask the branch manager - he didn't have a clue. In the end, I put it in bank's "Better Practices Manual" binder and used it it explain products to the customers.

I used this book for an online course that I took from BYU. It was very informative and interesting.

After taking a course in Business Math. using this book, I am better prepared for the Business world. Only error I can find is that they have on occasion given incorrect answers in both the work areas of the book and the self-check answers which are located at the rear of the book.

I highly recommend this book to those who are either in a business math course or those who merely want to learn at their own speed.

This is a wonderful book for anyone, of any age, to learn some traditional Austrian recipes. It gives you the "basics" that you need to know. In other words....Classic, easy, (and quite tasty) recipes that can be easily made in the American kitchen.

"Cooking The Austrian Way" is not packed with hundreds of recipes. However, it does contain a few classic recipes. It is a great start to Austrian cooking.

This book is said to be for "Ages 9 to 12".... I am 26 years old and highly recommend this informative and fun book to anyone of any age. If you want to try your hand at cooking "The Austrian Way", definitely get your hands on this book!

Can a textbook be delightfully written? This one is. Authors Richard L. Hughes, Robert C. Ginnett, and Gordon J. Curphy explore every aspect of leadership and smoothly weave research conclusions into the narrative. Examples abound, from Colin Powell to Walt Disney. The authors are all psychologists who specialize in leadership issues. They have written conversationally and intelligently, using plenty of sidebar material (even famous cartoons) to bring their reporting to life. We [...] recommend this classic (now in its third edition) to everyone interested.

I am about to start using On The Record in my Reading Course for advanced level. What makes me like the book is the fact that articles focus on current events and so will arouse students' interest, I hope. On the other hand, there are few vocabulary exercises. Certainly the students need more than what is presented. Also, I feel need for more consistent alternatives in the reading comprehension exercises.

Professors Aden and Hughes have successfully completed what few would have the courage to contemplate. Without blinking, they stared into the utter darkness of loss, illness, violence, fear and failure. Then, they applied the Gospel proclamation to each situation, thereby creating the possibility of hope in the midst of suffering.

Unlike earlier expository preachers, their work is not overly historical. Unlike the American "positive" preachers, of the last two centuries, their work is well-grounded and theologically sound.

What Professors Aden and Hughes have given us is a text that is relevant and profound. Any seminarian, deacon, elder, minister, pastor, priest, dean, or bishop who preaches to people in pain would benefit by keeping a copy of this book close at hand.

As a teacher of writing at the college level, I would recommend this book for students who are frightened of required research writing. In fact, each section has the proverbial "panic button" at its end. I intend to purchase a copy for my high school senior to take to college next year.

When reading the book it was filled with too many facts and not enough experiences. I fill that we could learn from peoples mistakes so next time I suggest to add a summary of where the case subjects are now and what they decided to do.

I finished this book a few minutes ago. I suppose you can guess how much I liked it by the fact that I'm now searching Amazon for more titles by Mr. Hughs. It was entirely readable--Hughs has a natural voice, one that speaks on the level of the reader. He kept the action going, made me really love the characters, and intrigued me with the world he created. Hope you give the book a try!

It seems that "Gifric" is being marketed as an exemplary instance of "clinical psychoanalysis," but I do not see why. Very little of the clinic is actually conveyed here. It consists mostly of very small little snippets of "patients'" dreams, memories and life stories, which are then commented on by the analyst.
The editors say in the introduction that "This is not a matter of the imputed classical view of an observing psychoanalyst qua scientist who 'looks' at the unconscious of another and then interprets it."
But yes it is: that is exactly what we get in this book and nothing more. The "traditional" psychoanalytic words are replaced with Lacanian jargon, but nothing else changes one bit.
Lucie Cantin narrates to us little snippets of a "case history", proclaims that "Myriam clearly doesn't have access to her own desire," and THAT is supposed to be the clinic! And that's all there is in this book.
My suspicion is that Gifric is currently fulfilling the fantasy of some intellectuals buried in academia that somewhere out there some people are doing serious work with "perverts and psychotics." We never actually hear from these perverts and psychotics. There are no analysands anywhere, just repetitive pronouncements from the mouths of the analysts about what they think the perverts and psychotics are saying.

This is the best book I have read in my field in many years because it is both deeply clinical and theoretically sophisticated yet, at the same time, very readable. It was written for an audience already familiar with some of the fundamental concepts in Freud and Lacan. In that sense it's not an introductory text. It's especially delightful to read if you're familiar with Freud because the writers at once return to Freud and Lacan and push them further. Also, the book would be a challenge to read in the absence of this knowledge - not because the writing is cryptic or obscure but because it may confront the reader with pockets of ignorance. Nonetheless, the book is a good starting place for the novice because the writing is so accessible, even as it honors complexity. In short, I highly recommend this book for clinicians and theoreticians at every level.

Many books claim to create a dialogue between theory and practice, but at best most just juxtapose the two. A huge strength of this book is that the authors actually link concrete clinical material with theoretical concepts. For example, Bergeron's clinical example on pages 65-67 of a psychoanalytic signifier is probably the clearest example I have ever read of this concept. Add to this clarity the poetics of someone who is also able to refer to the signifier as "the writing of a loss," (p. 61), and you will soon see that this book is a treasure.

There are gems embedded in the text amidst larger arguments, but these gems are presented so unpretentiously that they might well go unnoticed. For example, Cantin refers briefly to adolescence as, "that time of life where revolt feeds on the discovery of the arbitrary and which also supports the accusation brought against the other as the one who hinders satisfaction." This incidental comment, so beautifully phrased, appears in the midst of an elegant clarification of the concept of desire.

One of the great strengths of this book is the authors' clarity in presenting original ideas. My sense is that their ease in this regard results from two factors. First, the powerful and organizing introduction by Hughes and Malone points to three authors who do not work in isolation but rather in constant interaction with one another and with an entire school of analysts, students, and collaborators. Second, their thinking is grounded in their abundant experience in the clinic. As a result, their theoretical exposition feels embodied and vivid. Further, while the book is full of "understandings" that push my thinking further, it is also implicitly informed by a different kind of knowing: the "savoir" of the individual authors, that is, the particular knowing they have each articulated for themselves in relation to the things we cannot know. In a very immediate sense, this book prepares me to begin framing the question: how can we best succeed in living given the hardest human realities, namely, the inevitability of absence and death?

Finally, in remarkably few pages the authors manage to address most of the key concepts in Lacanian psychoanalysis beautifully. For example, the explication in Chapter 9 of Lacan's Graph of Desire is remarkably clear. Similarly, in Chapter 2, Apollon's clarification of the concepts of jouissance, drive, instinct, and the phallus is at once demystifying and brilliant - and in very few pages to boot. With precision and an economy of words, the authors address not only the link between individual theoretical concepts and the clinic but also something of the broader movement of a psychoanalytic treatment from symptom to fantasy. In doing so, the book makes explicit what is at stake in the Lacanian clinic. I could say so much more, but more to the point, I suggest you savor the savoir of the book yourself.