The problem with using advoates as authors is that you only get one side of the story. In the case of EMDR, for instance, there is research that says a) the eye movements are unnecessary and b) its effects do not last as long as Cognitive-Behavior Therapy based exposure procedures. This really undercuts the second part of the title of this book "for Long-Term Change". Stories and anecdotes are often entertaining but for true treatment help see a professional who reads the scientific research and is not a cheerleader for every fad that comes along.

I found this book to be a remarkable and consise description of a complicated topic. The authors summarized the state of the field of short term dynamic therapy. They held no information back and identified the areas of controversy, particularly conflicting opinions and data on the use of confrontation in the Davanloo approach versus the approach preferred by McCullough and Alpert. Furthermore, the inclusion of EMDR as a dynamic treatment was inovative and exciting. Neborsky and Solomon's chapter on "Changing the Love Imprint" explained how EMDR and the STDP's may have a common therapeutic action, which was helpful to me as was their integration of attachment theory. Finally, David Malan's chapter on the science of outcome evaluation and what we might learn from his career was an inspiration to read. I hope this group continues to write and create more material for clinicians like this!

The recent no-name reviewer from Atlanta who attacked Short-Term Therapy for Long-Term Change's lack of research must have bought some bootleg copy that omitted its hundreds of endnotes and citations. Its dozens of pages of transcribed therapy sessions will hardly be dismissed as "anecdotes" by any mindful reader. The book's six contributors are tops in their fields. Calling them "cheerleaders," as no-name does, is a whooper bordering on delusion. This book is the best available overview of the latest breakthroughs in short-term psychotherapy available.

To the dba, this book joins the plethora of useless bound material available on the subject. Did you purchase Sybase? Well, use the vendor doc. This book is practically a verbatim copy of Sybase's own documentation.

Nice cover though.

It is an excellent book i can say proudly.Because it isgiving screen by screen explanations.easy examples and exercises.how to take backups and restores the huge databases.

Excellent checklists that pullout for quick reference. Easy to read and find things for reference. However, it is version SQL Server 10 but version 11 is available - see Sybase 11 DBA Survial Guide

Among others, I purchased this book along with "SYBASE SQL SERVER 11 UNLEASHED". I was amazed to find that both books contain largely the exact same text. Not almost the same words but EXACTLY the same text. Either book is useful by it's self however, there is no point in purchasing them both. While I am a dedicated follower of the "UNLEASHED" series, I was very disappointed in the publisher this time.

Good book for beginning Sybase DBA.

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Excellant reference book to have during upgrade from Sybase 10 to 11.

Sybase Sql Server 11 Dba Survival Guide is now the one book I take with me instead of the 4 or 5 books I have carried before. All of the essentials are here. I also like the tips and tricks that the author has put in. Much of this info can be found in the product manuals but is very hard to extract. This book has it right where I need it -- all in one place.

It did take me a couple tries to get through this book, but it was worth it. This commentary has everything I looked for. It explained the book in its historical context as well as its spiritual and contemporary importance. Some of the writing is a bit bombastic and difficult to wade through, but I learned a lot from it.

Hubbard's commentary is in-depth and accurate. He quotes the New King James Version but corrects mistakes such as Proverbs 30.1 where he correctly states that "Ithiel and Ucal" should be tranlated as phrases rather than names. Amazon's catalog lists the release date as January 1991 but the copyright in the book is 1989 (it came out initially as paperback which is now out of print). Biblical archaelogy and scholarship has made significant progress in the last 10 years. For a more up-to-date in-depth commentary on Proverbs read THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS by Cody Jones. It features numerous drawings and photos which give the reader a sense of the culture of the time. Six translations in parallel aid understanding of more difficult passages. Jones reveals for the first time in any commentary the secret identity of the overall editor of King Solomon's wise and witty sayings.

It gives a good grasp on the old testament period between the first deportation and the second deportation of Isreal to Babylon. It gives a good understanding of the people and culture at that time.

This book claims to be a scientific/ philosophical treatment of the mind-brain barrier. The author begins by posing problems in the mind-brain barrier. The body is finite and physical and cannot, even by application of the Uncertainty Principle, explain the known properties of the mind.

The author therefore posits a form of soul as the solution to the mind and the mind-brain barrier. The form of soul is able not only to explain the mind-brain barrier, but evolution itself follows logically from what has been posited.

Philosophically however, the author commits the equivalent of the mathematician's crime of dividing by zero. Firstly I am not convinced that all of his problems with the mind-brain barrier are real or, if they are, are insoluble in terms of conventional science. Secondly his solution is one of a number that could be posited on the same evidence. Furthermore his solution extends far beyond what is required for the original problem. His form of the soul, though not conventional, would be familiar to students of the kaballah.

In summary, the book fails as a work of philosophy and cannot be said to represent a scientific approach. However, at the end of the day that is not what the book is about. What it is about, and in this it possibly succeeds, is that it is an attempt to take Kaballistic theory regarding the soul and tie that in with current knowledge of the body and mind.

Recently, I decided that I needed to learn a good bit more about the workings of J2EE. Especially about its implementation using BEA's Weblogic Server. This also requires implementing a database for object persistence. I have had the CD for SQL Server 7.0 for a couple of years and never used it. 'Now is the time,' I told myself.

In very little time, I managed to get the database installed and updated. I brought it up and started to create a couple of users and suddenly notices that the little server icon in the Enterprise Manager had a red squiggly mark next to it that had not been there before. I did the usual magical acts, waved the cursor at it, right clicked on it, tried help, but nothing explained what it meant. I even resorted to reading the documentation. 'Aha!' I said, 'Time to buy a book.'

There was not much choice at the bookstore, and I was in a hurry, so I grabbed this book and went home. Moreover, promptly, I discovered that nowhere in 'SQL Server 7.0' was the red squiggly thing explained. In fact, after reading a good portion of the book hoping to find and off-hand explanation, I realized that this particular book was a representative of one of my pet technical book peeves, the 800-page rehash of the manual. Well, since the manual is online, and it is nice to have something you can make notes in it is not a complete loss. However, actually, I would just as soon have the money.

Keep in mind that my objective was not to master the software, but to do a competent enough job to get on with my real agenda. I bought this volume to be a handy extensive reference, not a paperweight. The book's arrangement is a bit haphazard, the writing is simple enough but lacks and depth, and the index is little better than the table of contents. It claims to be about database management, performance and architecture. But, it does not really provide enough meat to be a good learning resource.

By now, I should know enough to be suspicious of anything using marketing like 'unleashed,' or 'comprehensive,' or 'authoritative.' But, faced with the dreaded red squiggly, I did not quite know what else to do. The good news is that squiggled or not, every thing seems to be working so far. Hopefully there is a world where technical books are about what the say they are and manuals are easy to read. And, hopefully, I will get there before my time runs out.

This was my first Unleashed series book. I was studying for my MCP in SQL Server 7, Using the Microsoft Official Curriculum. I decided to purchase this book in order to fill in the gaps. I a great book. No doubt about it. Chapters on Transactions, Locks, Indexing, VLDBS etc.. were great. I think I am an MCP in SQL Server today because of this book. Even though this book is written by many authors, you don't feel it. Buy it now.

Does this book have every answer to every question about SQL Server 7.0? No. However, if you need more information than the Books Online provide on just about any topic, this book delivers.

This book is good for the absolute beginner to TSQL (or SQL). But there are several glaring omissions in this book. How can you leave out ALTER TABLE in a SQL book? I am still miffed by that. If you are serious about SQL, do not use this book as a "reference"; rather, use it as an introduction. And it is an excellent INTRODUCTION, suited to the complete novice. But after you graduate from this book, go buy "Inside Microsoft SQL Server 6.5" by Ron Soukup - which is the best book I have read on the subject (if you're using MS SQL server, that is..)

All in all, "Teach yourself tsql" is worth the money - but as you learn more you will say to yourself, "Why wasn't that in the book?"

I knew absolutely no T-SQL before reading this book. It did a solid job of covering the basics aspects of T-SQL necessary to write Stored Procedures. The main reason I did not give it 5 stars is that it missed some important, but to my mind, basic aspects of SQL programming. For example, how do you program an SP to check for a version of itself and drop it before creating itself again. If you don't run this check, you will end up with some ugly errors.

However, I would strongly recommend this book for anyone with no T-SQL experience.

As a relatively new database administrator with no SQL experience, this book was EXACTLY what I needed. It is written in an easy-to-read and easily comprehended style. It takes me everywhere I need to go with confidence that the code I now write will perform the necessary functions...and perform them efficiently and effectively. Thank you, Sam!

As a die hard Redskins fan, I was very sorry to see this excellent concept so badly muffed. The idea behind this book is to cash in on the Washington Post vault, providing great photos and articles combined with new pieces by long-time Skins beat reporters to tie it all together. Sadly, whoever edited and proofread this thing reeeally dropped the ball. Sentences at the bottom of the page are repeated at the top of the next, photographs are mislabeled, pieces of sentences are missing, words are chopped off in the middle. Probably still of some value for the die hard Skins fan, but a real black eye for the Washington Post. If their newspaper were produced as shoddily, Richard Nixon would have finished his second term.

Yes, there are some typos and such in the early chapters but the book isn't as lousy as described in the 2-star review. Most of the problems are hyphen-ated words that are not at the end of a page or line. It is like the typeset was changed but the book was not reproofed.

Still, there is a lot of good information in the book. I think it covers items that Loverro's book (very good as well) ignored or glossed over-- how Gibbs wanted to sign and trade Riggo and how Joe Jacoby ended up sticking around in that first camp. The Times summary makes it sound like Gibbs and Beathard were geniuses building a team. This book shows that they were also lucky geniuses. If you are a Skins fan, you should own this book.

I see there is also a newer edition out with the Synder years (ugh).

Of all the Apocrypha, I must say the most forgettable may be the Wisdom of Solomon. The Platonizing of Judao-Christian religion was VERY detrimental to it's spiritual growth, and sadly; this document was a big contributer. However, it's influence on the Catholic Church and Mariology is VERY interesting and so it deserves a look. Many points to the scholars who devoted great time and effort to getting to the bottom of this much misunderstood text.