PRESCRIPTION FOR ANGER really is the best book on anger I have ever read! Everyone should read it! PRESCRIPTION FOR ANGER is a clean, concise and comprehensive guide to help everyone understand, appreciate and manage their anger. Being told about anger is one thing. Receiving tools to help learn how to keep from being consumed by it is quite a gift! I am actually using some of the Hankins' techniques in my own life, and THEY WORK! PRESCRIPTION FOR ANGER has given me some new tools and skills with which to improve my life, now that is quite a gift! Darcie D. Sims, Ph.D., CGC, CHT, author of: IF I COULD JUST SEE HOPE (1993)

Finally, a system that works, that treats the clients with respect and optimism! And, a client myself, let me tell you, it makes all the difference in the world.

This is the third time I've taught a SuperWrite class and the results are better each time. This is a quick, easy system for anyone who wants to learn to write notes or take dictation. I highly recommend the Notemaking book for students, Volumes 1 and 2 for secretaries and office professionals, and the Brief Course for Continuing Education and Staff Development classes. Not only do you learn an alphabetic writing system, you also learn from the interesting material, which teaches the system. All of these books are winners.

This book takes on the problems of taking on corporations.

The writer has a background in feminist theory, and writes with some depth about the problems of suing a company for such crimes as putting forth an exploding Pinto, or a Dalcron Shield.

In the hydra-headed monster of the contemporary corporate entity, there is nobody who claims responsibility, finally. A company can knowingly commit murder, and there is no one to be put in prison, or to fry in a chair. A company pays a monetary penalty, for which it can budget.

Wolgast carefully explains that we need a new language to understand corporate responsibility, and in her brief last chapter outlines what she thinks this language should be. In short, we have always used a single-subject model to discuss responsibility. What happens, however, when an army general commands troops over a radio to take a bridge within fifteen minutes, and then signs out, and the general didn't know that there were children playing on the bridge?

Wolgast argues for a return of the role of personal responsibility for everyone -- within corporations, within every institution. If an institution commits a crime, or if one's department within it commits a crime, each member of the unit is equally responsible.

Similarly, she argues that lawyers, and agents, are responsible for any crimes that they commit, or knowingly pass over, even if the result is to free their client. By this standard, Alan Dershowitz, in using his clever abilities to free people who he knows are criminals, is morally culpable.

It's an arresting argument, idealistic and yet powerfully and simply put together.

My only problem was that she didn't take on board many of the new theories of agency, and identity, which have been developed under the name of postmodernism. She resorts to a single subject theory which works, but leaves me wondering what she would do with a schizophrenic, or with the argument that almost everybody is schizophrenic. Wolgast claimed to be working out a new language for responsibility, but ultimately she argues for a return to the old model of a single subject left alone with her conscience.

The book raises the big question of responsibility -- to whom, or what, are we responsible? Wolgast claims to the community -- but a community has many constituents -- family, friends, colleagues, rivals, etc. and this is divided by race, gender, class, school ties, etc. Can we simultaneously and always be responsible to all of these?

The argument strains my belief in the philanthropy of humanity. How much good can one do or should one do in a dog eat dog world, if one does not want to be eaten?

If everyone acts as Wolgast suggests, the answer would be plenty.

I think the book does provide language and thinking for Greenpeace activists and others who want to take on corporations, but have a hard time with the hydra-headed structure. This book offers an understanding of corporate responsibility, and allows us to return to a single-subject model of it. Used in courts to argue that each member of a committee, or a department, or an organization, is responsible for the output of any crime by the organization, I think we would see some companies cleaning up their acts very quickly, and a lot less likelihood that young people would be willing to go to work for known corporate offenders.

-- Kirby Olson

Elizabeth Wolgast has written a short book on ethics that reads like a novel. It is a real eye-opener. It also helps the reader better understand mechanisms allowing "artificial persons" (organizations) to have rights without attendant responsibilities. It sheds much light on how the organization can ignore the rights of the individual person in disastrous ways and not bat an eye. This book is guaranteed to help you better understand many of the things that have gone awry in a world that is increasingly organizational.

It is obviously important to consider Wolgast's critique as it applies to business, but as someone in a clinical profession dedicated to helping others, I now better understand both how and why "artificial persons" like managed care organizations function in the ways that they do. This book should be required reading for ethics courses in professions such as health care, the helping professions, and education.

Seriously I have more books than I will every read and I love suspense, thrillers, World War II stuff. I bought this book because of the glowing praise and I wasted my money. There was no character development. Like a cheap vistorian novel, the author tells you something is going to happen and then goes into long boring detail. After 50 pages of nonsense, even speed reading didn't help. I gave up all the sadder and poorer. Where is a good Jack Higgins or Robert Ludlum or Daniel Silva Novel. If I could have given this 1/2 star it would be too much

WD: What Impressed you about this book? The crackling good "treasure hunt" aspect of the story. Neo-Nazis, gold stolen from Jews - kidnapping and murder - What more could a reader want? This is a "Zeroes" version of The Deep and might make a fun "popcorn" movie. Excerpts and additional Comments from WD: The author's obvious passion and love of the work comes through on almost every page. The author is to be commended for investing the time and money to make this book happen. It's often rare to find an author this dedicated to making their work a success. Kudos to you for finding the time, dedication and drive to produce your book. You obviously have a strong grasp on the mainstream/literary fiction genre, and I wish you the best and encourage you to write more books of this nature.

I read your Cayman Gold. Historical fiction is my favorite genre. You are really a gifted writer, who is able to describe and write a story with the different periods of history and the story is very smart and interesting. It is a realistic story, where an ordinary man at the same time can be kind and (cruel), (innocent) and guilty (like everyone, me or you). There happened some events which are similar to every periods of time and history. Thank you very much. I got a great pleasure in the process of reading.

Wish you all the best in your creative work.

I read this book in school and in my opinion the story may be good but the vocabulary was very difficult. You can't read without a dictionary. I had to read like five times a line because I didn't understand a word. It's a very dramatic and romantic play. I like tragedies but this play is very detailed and has a lot of scenes. I would like some day to read the same story but in actual English. If it weren't because of the literature teacher didn't help us understand I think nobody would have understood a thing. It's a very good story. I would recommend to read it but not in old English. Shakespeare's words are weird but romantic and may be too nice for his time. He is very creative and plays a lot with the characters.
It's funny how two different teenagers and from families who hated each other could have love one another. At the end they would have died if instead they had had hated each other because of the quarrel. This tragedy is weird and something different from all of the other plays, and I think that may be that's why It's still famous now a days.

Romeo and Juliet are the two most known lovers created by William Shakespeare. Their love story is one to be cried for, and it really shows the true meaning of what love is. Many people have claimed and agreed it is the most sad but romantic play ever written, and it really is.
They're a pair of star crossed lovers, who fall in love at first site. Their hopeless love is denied from the very beginning: their families have an awful hatred towards each other which has been everlasting. They go through many tests for them to prove they really love each other: Romeo's best friend dying; Romeo's exile after murdering Mercutio, Juliet's cousin; and finally Romeo learning his dear lover's "death".
Although it has a tragic ending, many people say this story is actually happy, for they both die at the same time, and their love is kept together, for eternity.

This book is a story tells a story about true love. The characters Romeo and juliet has been a role model for many people in their love life.This story includes all the elements to prove that love that Romeo and Juliet had was true love. William Shakespeare uses tragedy,love, hate, pride, and irony.

Romeo, from house the house of Montagues,is best described as a love. He does things for Juliet even though it risks his life. But no matter the consequences, he went with hs feelings. Juliet, from house of Capulets, is a lover at will. She had never loved a man as much a Romeo. But though they were from opposing families, she finds a way to marry him.

There were many tragedies. Two being Mercutio and Tybalts death. There were many more tragedies that happened and one main reason why they happened which was the fact that the two house were against each other. This caused all the tragedies because if they were not, both lovers would live happily. One thing that kept the family against each other was the pride in their name. If it were not for the name then all would not end in tragedy.

One ironic part in this story was when the two lovers got married. Getting married usually makes life better but in this marraige, it made thing worse and turned the story into a different direction.

This story must have been the best story i have ever read. It is love story that makes me think of how far i would go for a girl. Though it is hard to read, I enjoyed it very much and i suggest the book to all the lovers out there but could be enjoyed by all.

We wanted to try something new for passover and found the title very intreging, full of fiberfull recipes. As passover neared I looked through the pages to make a shopping list and found that it did not have much detail when it came to the preperation of the food. Yes, the recipes do sound very delicious but the author was under the impression that one knew exactly how certain vegetables should be prepared. For example, the asparagus-artichoke salad did not clearly state how long one should cook the asparagus and artichokes before immersing them in ice cold water. Other recipes suffer from the same lack of instruction. All of the above does not mean that the book has no value. It should be seen as a colection of possibilities instead of actual recipes and thus has the ability to inspire the read to create something new for passover.

Everything in the cookbook is delicious, especially the asparagus

The Italian philosopher Marsilio Ficino, who was renowned for his Latin translations of all Plato's dialogues, set out to prove that the tenets of Platonism, instead of Aristotelianism, were fundamentally compatible with Christianity. He attempted this not only by acting as the primary mover of the Florentine academy, but also through his magnanimous patron Cosimo de' Medici who apportioned Ficino the leisure to commence his monumental work, "The Platonic Theology," which is offered here for the first time in a long-awaited English translation. Marsilio Ficino's work--from what may be seen from the first of five anticipated volumes--is an artful, straightforward representation of the divine philosophy of Plato, magnificently garbed under a brilliant and definitive medieval synthesis. Of the work itself Ficino says, "the Platonic mysteries are set forth as clearly as possible...so that...we may reveal the Platonic teaching, which is in complete accord with the divine law." Like all Christian-Platonists, Ficino used Augustine as a model for his orthodox amalgamation of the teachings of Plato and Christ, and believed so strongly in it that he said, "the Platonic teaching...is related to the divine law of both Moses and Christ as the moon is to the sun." With this in mind, it may be said that the vision of Marsilio Ficino, so clearly manifested in this work, will come as a relief to anyone ardently devoted to the school of Plato and the religion of Christ. The translated works of Ficino are certainly a great benefit to those confined to the English speaking world, and the other up-and-coming volumes in new I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard) are likely to produce the same effects. The value of these newly translated masterpieces of western culture cannot be described.

As the title suggests the book discusses various approaches to program analysis and it discusses these approaches is pretty good detail, though purely theoretical with small WHILE languages. It would have helped to have used a real live example by considering a small chunk of any of the generally used languages. It has good appendices that covers on some mathematical concepts but be warned you need know your math, the kind described in Glynn winskel or John reynolds book, before you dig into this one.

I rate it as 4 star as it gives the information on how to approach program analysis from the theoretical side. Also, reading it made my life easy when working with some code on flow analysis. I would say it definitely requires 2 readings for the info to settle inside. The appendix on Partially Ordered Sets is much more comprehendable than in Winskel.

In simple words, if u r good at theoritcal math used with languages and are interested in implementing and understanding various analysis that can be performed on programs then this is book would be a great aid.

Ruth Hankins is a good poet, and she's also one you can understand. Her style varies--sometimes rhyming, sometimes not--but she writes about things the average reader will recognize and to which the average reader will relate, things like puddles and church ladies and clothes hanging on a clothesline. She sees metaphors for life in weavings, a flower, a hard disk, and a stack of six boxes. The poems are relatively short--one page or less, which means the average reader will find them more accessible. Hankins is also a very good graphic artist, and across from her poem about CELEBRATION is a pen and ink sketch of a horse laughing. The picture is worth the price of the book, even without the poem. This is a good buy, a book that will leave you feeling warm, most of the time, but at least feeling (instead of scratching your head and pulling out your hair and wondering what it's all about).