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The Couple Who Became Each Other: Stories of Healing and Transformation from a Leading Hypnotherapist
Published in Paperback by Bantam Books (1998)
Authors: David L. Calof and Robin Simons
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Master At Work
Rarely do we get a chance to witness a master healer at work. In this fascinating and well-written book you can begin to fathom how the mind impacts the body, how powerfully the events of our childhood mold our psyche and reverberate into every area of our lives. Here's a benchmark for good therapy - so whenever you might need some help navigating your life, you hope to find a gifted therapist like David Calof. This is a must-read for all who want to know themselves and others. P.S. Mr. Calof, when's your next book coming out?

Partnership is the essence of Calof's therapeutic approach.
The most striking single aspect of the therapeutic techniques David Calof demonstrates in these gripping case histories is the peer partnerships he creates between clinician and clients. It is this "at ease" stance which enables him to access the client's unconscious with such facility and enlist his inner resources in the healing process. May his tribe increase.


Hide-And-Seek Puppy (Hide-And-Seek (Little Simon).)
Published in Hardcover by Little Simon (1900)
Authors: David Crossley and Sally Chambers
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Wonderful interactive book!
I purchased both of Crossley's Hide-and-Seek books for my son when he was 6 months old, and he has always loved them! They're wonderful interactive books, and in this one, a frisky puppy "pops up" and plays with a bunny and a cat. My son loves to anticipate each page, even though by now he knows exactly what to expect. He loves to point out everything in each picture, down to the tiniest bees on the flowers! Very simply written and colorfully illustrated, I only wish that Mr. Crossley would give us more of these! I must add that this book has somehow managed to survive my son's every attempt to destroy it. It's a very sturdy board book, and the elastic that holds the puppy is extremely strong, but I'd *still* recommend putting this book away after the reading session is over.

my son's favorite book!
Hide and Seek Puppy is my 15 month old's favorite book! We read it often, and everytime I pull the string down to hide the puppy, he squeals with excitement time after time. This book is wonderful for toddlers because it is heavy cardboard and can withstand hours of "toddler reading". Hide and Seek Puppy is a very sweet book with cute illustrations of a bunny and a cat, and of course puppy! This will soon be a classic in our family. I recommend it for any toddler who loves to be read to.


Jenny Holzer (Contemporary Artists)
Published in Paperback by Phaidon Press Inc. (1998)
Authors: David Joselit, Jenny Holzer, Joan Simon, and Renata Salecl
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Jenny Holzer- Protect me from what I can't see
Have you ever stopped to think how many times we are bombarded by truisms everyday? Get this book and you will get a clue. In the Truisms series over exposure to banality reveals how numbed out we all are. Take a cliche like "Children are the hope to the future" and place beside "Children are the most cruel of all". We say and repeat these truisms but do we really realize that they are empty in themselves ? Do we perceive the contradictions ? How we mold reality to suit our needs ? Truisms sooth us with the cushioned feeling of the "generally accepted truth". Jenny Holzer literally splashes intimate thoughts, truisms, activist slogans over the landscape. These truths, half-truths and huge lies stare out at us in billboards, park benches like a conscience made physical. This is art made on the very border of reality and language.

Fantastic coverage of a fantastic artist.
The book listed on this page, a monograph on Jenny Holzer by Phaidon Press, is fabulous. It contains information on Holzer's wide and influential art career, from her Truisms posters of the 'seventies to her electronic LED signs, carved stone benches, and virtual art pieces of the 'nineties.

This book is also unique, within the Holzer bibliography, because of the "Artist's Choice" section where Holzer provides excerpts from books and writings that have influenced her, along with explanations of why she's moved by them.

If you're interested in modern art, or women artists, this is a must-read


Netpolicy.Com: Public Agenda for a Digital World
Published in Hardcover by Woodrow Wilson Center Pr (1900)
Author: Leslie David Simon
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An important title for any social issues class
From how digital commerce and democracy affects taxation, privacy and free speech to legal platforms for protecting and regulating property rights and documents online, Netpolicy.com provides a social examination of how the internet's capabilities are creating new public agendas for change. An important title for any social issues class.

Policies for an Interconnected World
This book is both scholarly and entertaining, for it describes the history, influence, and possible future of today's most fascinating tool, the Net, and does so through the lens of a person whose career was focused first on telecommunications and later on computers. Just as these have come together in the Internet and elsewhere, so does this story, which for Simon began in 1966. The Net itself is now over a quarter-century old, but for its first two decades was largely ignored by the public. Since 1995, however, an exponential growth in popular and commercial interest has created a similar, and continuing, explosion of the Net. It is difficult to think of any earlier technological development whose adoption occurred so rapidly or with such ease. And unlike most high-tech inventions, the Net developed organically, independent of any master plan or architecure, absent of security considerations or privacy concerns, hardly shaped at all by economic factors. Sharing was, and remains, its goal. Today, however, the Net impacts our everyday life and has become an enabler for business to expand its markets. It is hence now entrusted with private information of individuals and secret proprietary data of business, whose security may be essential to commercial survival. Ubiquitous as it is, the Net cries out for public, and private, policies that address such troublesome issues as equitable access,taxation, intellectual property rights, content regulation, privacy, security, first-amendment rights, and many others.

NetPolicy.Com defines the Net and its impacts and discusses "the bearable lightness of the digital world," the convergence not only within electronics, but the mega-convergence of businesses, e.g., financial services, commerce, and industry. It identifies difficult policy issues and their legal framework and suggests appropriate roles for the public and private sectors. Despite the importance of the Net to business and government, its essential issues have most to do with its potential effects on humankind.

We are reminded of the 1998 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, largely drawn from the French Declaration of Human Rights and our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, quoting from the former document the freedom to "seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Would that today's policy makers have the prescience of the author of those words!

NetPolicy.Com is recommended for readers with intellectual curiosity, anyone interested in modern technology, observers of contemporary customs, any person who surfs the Net or sends e-mail, indeed for all responsible citizens who wish to learn more about this new world in which we live, interdependent on each other and literally interconnected to everyone else.

Finally, NetPolicy.Com's technical title disguises a book that is an easy and important read.


A Picture Book of Simon Bolivar (Picture Book Biography)
Published in School & Library Binding by Holiday House (1992)
Authors: David A. Adler and Robert Casilla
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The simplest illustration of a wonderful hero
I think this book is excellent in drawing the picture about how much this South American means. More than a hero, and resemblance to George Washington is an inspirational character for children. Javier Florez (Newark, NJ)

Simon Bolivar, the George Washington of South America
"The George Washington of South America". Such comparisons are usually not pertinent. This one, and with this book, it is. It is, because Simon Bolivar would have liked it himself. He carried with him, always, until his last moment, the Yorktown medal of George Washington, with his miniature picture and a lock of his hair, given to him by Mrs. Washington via the General / Marquis Lafayette, the French hero of the American War of Independence. So this marvelous book brings Simon Bolivar to the hands and imagination of USA children and some adults! The man that with the help of Britain, personified in the mostly Irish British Legion, liberated six nations of South America. The man that conceived the union of the American Sub-Continents. With exquisite drawings, not always accurate but always kind and nice to look at, this beautiful book is a great homage to diversity in the Americas, and to the fact that success flows in both directions.


What's That Noise?
Published in Hardcover by Hodder & Stoughton Childrens Division (12 August, 1996)
Authors: Francesca Simon and David Melling
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Cute!
My daughter love's this one, she wants it read over and over again! She just loves all the noises harry hears, and reads them along with me! (hee-hawww, hee, hawww goes the fire engine) I would suggest this as the ultimate book to read to any child at bedtime, especially one whos constantly asking, "whats that noise?"

A great bed-time story for two-year olds. A favourite!
A lovely book to read aloud, with a simple story and opportunities to play with noises toddlers are familiar with. A slight taste of mystery, just right for two-year olds to follow. Illustrations are clear and attractive, characters are sweet and personable. My two-year old twins have me read it again and again. I very much recommend this book for children who are ready for short stories. Features dogs and noises of a plane, a fire engine, a hammer and a furnace, toddler favourites.


An African Experience: Wildlife Art and Adventure in Kenya
Published in Paperback by Cassell & Co (A member of the Orion Publishing Group) (06 September, 1990)
Authors: Simon Combes and David Shepherd
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an african experience:wildlife ar and adventure in Kenya
I bought this book as a present for my parents after they took a safari to Kenya. They love this book! It sits on their coffee table and they encourage all who stop by to view it. The story of the author/artists life is remarkable. The beautiful artwork which accompanies the tales of living in Kenya are so life like it's amazing.


Byzantine Coins and Their Values: Coins Listed 2250
Published in Hardcover by Numismatic Fine Arts Intl (1987)
Authors: David R. Sear, Michael O'Hara, and Simon Bendall
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Byzantine Coins and Their Values
This book is perhaps the best single volume reference on Byzantine coins currently available. It is a great guide for both the beginner and novice collectors as well as the advanced collector on a budget who doesn't want spend a small fortune on the Dumbarton Oaks collection of Byzantine coin references.

This book is well organized and illustrated with many examples on the same page as the listing, rather than having to turn to the back of the book to view plates in order to check the picture of the coin. Coins are listed by decreasing denomination within a seperate section for each mint for every emperor. This makes it easier to identify a coin if only the mint or emperor is known. Cross references to other catalogue numbers such as those in Dumbarton Oaks are given for each listing as well.

Prices are listed in two different grades in UK pounds and are closer to real market values than Sear's other references on ancient coins and their values.


Chapter Two
Published in Audio Cassette by L. A. Theatre Works (09 August, 2001)
Authors: David Dukes, Sharon Gless, Neil Simon, and L.A. Theatre Works
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This play touched me in a very special way.
This play is a very special play to me. I did a monologue of Jenny's for a class project and it really made me feel something. This is the first and only Neil Simon play that I've read and I can't wait to read more of his works. This is an emotional play that speaks from the heart and makes you realize that life is worth living. For anyone who is a big Neil Simon fan, read this book and I guarantee you will enjoy it.


Chickadees, Tits, Nuthatches, and Treecreepers
Published in Hardcover by Princeton Univ Pr (05 February, 1996)
Authors: Simon Harrap and David Quinn
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An excellent reference for beginner or expert
Chickadees,Tits,Nuthatches & Treecreepers is one of those outstanding reference books that are so rare to find. The first section contains extensive information on classification and biology of Chickadees,creepers, etc. It also contains magnificent color plates of the species covered with notes on identifying features of each species. The rest of the book contains detailed and comprehensive information on the range, habitat, breeding, migration, and distribution of each species. This is a must have book for the serious birder, ornithology students, educators, and researchers. What an indispensible reference book!!!!


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