In this book, Terence Watts and Georges Phillips share a wealth of information, based on knowledge acquired during years of experience in the fields of Hypnotherapy/Psychotherapy. Practitioners and students alike will benefit here. The authors empower the reader with both groundbreaking theory and down to earth practical information, all of which is applicable in the consulting room. An element of compassion also pervades this book, you can really feel a regard for both therapist and client. As a student, it is the closest to a professional manual of hypnotherapy I have come to. Straightforward and user friendly, it puts you at ease right from the start, containing many tried and tested scripts to apply to your (future)clients. A 'must' for any conscientious student of hypnosis/hypnotherapy.

This is one of the best collections of articles about contemporary philosophy of mind. Together with Lycan's 'Mind and Cognition' and Rosenthal's 'The Nature of Mind' Block's 'Readings' put together what one could classify as a minimalist library on the topic. Many articles that have already become classics are here. If you intend to get serious about the philosophy of mind, go for these volumes.

This interesting series of snapshots on the course of modern political theory, from Machiavelli, through Vico, Rousseau, to Marx and Rawls, also contains an important and useful essay, "Marx and Darwin Reconsidered", exposing the myths that surround the supposed letters of Marx to Darwin.
"For more than a century the names of K. Marx and C.Darwin have been linked in an apparently indissoluble union. That union, I shall argue is almost wholly chimerical. It dervies from a myth created after Marx's death by Friedrich Engels, disseminated by later Marxists as evidence for their theory's scientific status, and given considerable credence and suport by the discovery of two letters written by Darwin to Marx. As we shall see the first of these letters is authentic, so too is the second--except that the addressee was not Karl Marx".

History has forgotten the harm done to Marxism by Darwin's theory, as the disastrous equation of evolutionary mechanism, natural selection and class struggle collated in certain more degenerated versions of revolutionary thinking. Setting the record straight is important here, for all perspectives.

I was excited and grateful that this book is finally out. I am a therapist who often works with people from other cultural backgrounds and this book gives me some new tools to be more effective with my clients. It is well written and the research Mr. Williams did to come up with the culturally specific warning signs for African Americans made this book even more valid. This book is a must for therapists and counselors who have chemically dependent African American clients. It would also be beneficial for anyone in recovery, regardless of race.

This volume is unusually important because it contains for the first time a complete translation of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's botanical writings and a thorough, indeed excellent set of notes. The translation and the notes are the work of Alexandra Cook; she also co-wrote the volume's Introduction with Christopher Kelly. Rousseau has long been known to scholars as a philosopher of nature. Cook's work allows us to see for ourselves what Jean-Jacques actually knew about one great sphere of nature, i.e. plants and their metamorphosis (Geothe takes his term and his theory from Rousseau's inspiration). Rousseau was one of the fathers of field botany, a champion of Linnean terminology but also of the natural system of classification formulated by the Jussieus. Cook's will legitimately be the definitive translation for many years to come; her translation is an important event. I await her monograph on the subject.

"The Sacred Mushroom Seeker" has been selected for listing in "Religion and Psychoactive Sacraments: An Entheogen Chrestomathy." http://www.csp.org/chrestomathy

On retirement from a former career, Terence Grocott decided to do something about a lifelong ambition and began researching those ships lost during those Napoleonic and Revolutionary times. What followed was 7 years of painstaking work during which he read every single copy of The Times, the Sherbourne and Yeovil Mercury and the Plymouth and Dock Telegraph published between 1793-1815. He also read all the Annual Registers for those same years. This, in itself, was no mean feat and the result is well worth the enormous effort. I congratulate him for a job well done.

"Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras" is a hardback book measuring 9½in x 6½in and contains 441 pages of vital information (including a ten-page index with which I had no problems!) - all from a new perspective. The appetite is immediately whetted on page 1 where the author reveals the huge scale of British ship losses at this time in our history. Beginning with a chilling quote from a contemporary British historian of 1812 - who stated; "perhaps not less than five thousand natives of these islands yearly perish at sea", Grocott goes on to show the true scale of ships lost during the years under examination. Whilst, then concentrating on just 1,500 of these (both naval and mercantile), the author demonstrates how they were but a small proportion of overall losses.

The figures speak for themselves; During the years 1793-1799 alone, 2,385 British ships were lost at sea with a further 652 driven ashore and only 70 re-floated. At this same time an incredible 4,344 were captured by the enemy with only 705 being recaptured. Thus 3,639 ships were lost to the enemy and 2,967 met a watery grave of some form or other.

Having set the overall scene - right at the beginning!, the book then concentrates on 1,500 incidents - involving both naval and merchant vessels. These are listed in chronological form with each account based on contemporary reports. The book gives details of the shipwreck, location and the number of people lost or saved. In addition to major disasters, day-to-day accidents to small harbour boats are also included. This is a book which also provides a very realistic insight into the life of the ordinary seaman of the day and of the perils he faced.

Altogether, this is a work that belongs on any serious researcher's bookshelf. Who knows what snippet of information will get you reaching for this excellent product.

NM

This is a boxed set of two CD ROMs that are also sold separately: Software Process Assessment and Improvement (ISBN 1562523139) and Implementing a Quality Management System (ISBN 1853125938). Each CD ROM is described below:

Software Process Assessment and Improvement (ISBN 1562523139) contains nine articles that each deal with an aspect of software assessments or process improvements. It's main value is to consultants who specialize in general process assessment and process improvement (i.e., are more interested in best practices than a specific approach such as CMM or SPICE), and organizational SQA groups that are developing an enterprise framework.

Articles I liked best are: Chapter 3, which discusses assessment-oriented approaches and how they relate to various problem situations; and the software improvement model that is presented in Chapter 9.

In addition to 'nuts & bolts' articles, this collection also contains case studies, and also gives a good comparison among SPICE, the CMM and Bootstrap. This is ideal research material for the audience I cited above.

The material to be valid despite the age of the articles, most of which are over four years old. For the right audience this CD ROM represents a good investment in knowledge tools, but those who are interested in specifics should seek the appropriate book on the particular topic, such as CMM, SPICE, etc.

Implementing a Quality Management System (ISBN 1853125938) Is an excellent collection of articles on interpreting quality standards as they relate to software development, developing an implementation plan, and implementing and managing the system.

What I like is collection of experiences and lessons learned from implementation in real companies, and the two chapters that show that even small organizations can establish quality management systems. I also like the common theme, which is the competitive advantage that accrues from having a quality management system in place.

Much of the material is over four years old, but with the exception of ISO 9000 this isn't a problem because the implementation and management portions are still valid. The lessons learned are equally valid because the ones described in the various articles are the ones that will crop up in any implementation. This is a function of organizational change more than particulars of a particular quality management system approach.

The one article that I most liked described an industrial production approach to software and the parallels to manufacturing. Since this book was written SEI's product-line software engineering approach seems to incorporate many of the ideas expressed by the article's authors. I also found the article titled "Making Software Measurement Work" interesting and filled with advice on how to take this important element of a quality management system from theory to practice.

For both having the material on CD ROM is, in my opinion, an added bonus because it can be searched and is much more convenient to take as reference material on consulting assignments where much of this material can prove invaluable as cited work in findings and recommendations deliverables.

Terence Lapin has done a wonderful job in the translation of this, the original Mosin-Nagant manual as issued to Soviet troops in the WW2 and early post-war era. Lapin has tried to translate the text as faithfully as possible, and sometimes it is interesting to note the kind of language that greeted the young Red soldier as he learned about how to keep his Mosin-Nagant rifle in working order. (For instance, "Removal of the M44 bayonet, even when fully stripped, is FORBIDDEN!")

In addition to information regarding the parts of the rifle, disassembly and proper functioning, there are parts devoted to proper sighting, tips on proper shooting, cleaning, and troubleshooting. It is a thorough guide that allows someone who may have initially been entirely unfamiliar to the weapon get to know it inside and out. Of course, being a military manual, that is precisely what it was intended to do. But even a veteran collector already familiar with the Mosin-Nagant rifle will find tips and information new to him in this book.

Although Lapin is not the author, merely the translator, I felt he did a great job and deserves the five star rating.

book tells all the steps the mind makes in setting itsself up to use again. Has very descrptive and understandable charts of cycles of addiction and the disease.. I liked because I learned alot about the demons and how they operate to set you up for destruction through self.I gained very useful knowledge from it..