This is the most complete book on the subject of some twenty I've read. It is also the most even-handed. It carries enough up-to-date statistics to be an almanac. The bibliography covers all of the most popular and the best books yet written, and his brief comments on them are a guide to which are worthwhile. The scholar will appreciate the thorough index. All this and it remains very readable. He covers the entire war, from the French prelude to the MIA fiasco. The book has so much history laid out in plain English, it amazed me that it was only 391 pages, including excellent maps. It is complete enough to be a text-book but it should be read by everyone who lived thru that era, veterans, protesters and bystanders.

Written for those who already understand the causes of the War of 1812, this slim volume offers a balanced examination of the most significant naval action of the war. When Oliver Hazard Perry, commodore of the Lake Erie fleet, defeated the British on the water he prevented His Majesty's Forces from mounting a serious threat against U.S forces west of the Niagara. Without drowning the reader in a mass of details, the author provides the best descriptions of naval warfare and naval terms that I have ever read. Visitors to the Oliver Hazard Perry Peace Memorial at Put-in-Bay, Ohio, one of the lesser known national parks, would be wise to pick up this book as would anyone interested in life aboard a wooden ship during wartime.

As usual this board book has wonderful illustrations. The graphics are beatiful. The story is cute. I really enjoy reading this with my son. In each book there is one hidden pokemon to find.

This is nothing short of a spectacular book. While the color reproduction is not perfect, it is generally very good. The coverage is remarkable. I have not read the complete text, but my unsystematic perusal finds it scholarly, interestingly organized, and well written. If you want just one book on Orientalist art, or if you already own ALL the other books on Orientalist art, you MUST have this one!

Paratexts (titles, epigraphs, notes and the like) add dimensions of meaning and effect, theme and rhetorical power to literary works; yet, oddly, before Genette, they were taken for granted, that is: mis-taken. Like his other major works, Narrative Discourse, and Palimspestes, Paratexts is a clear, well supported, and coherent encyclopedia of sub-forms defined and illustrated in a series of brilliant analyses. Genette's insights improve the reader's, not only into works both know, but above all, perhaps, into those as yet unread by either. Of all recent French theorists, Genette is closest in spirit and method (as well as accessibility) to mid-century American formalists. And though his work can be exploited by cultural studies and even gender theorists, it remains sharply focused on the alpha and omega of literary study: the text. David Lee Rubin

Gerard Hogarty's new volume, Personal Therapy for Schizophrenia and Related Disorders, is a groundbreaking work which presents an empirically-validated psychotherapeutic approach for schizophrenia based on a contemporary biopsychosocial understanding. Hogarty, a Professor of Psychiatry at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, has a long and distinguished career as a clinician/researcher with schizophrenia.

For over 30 years, Hogarty and his colleagues have developed a series of psychososcial interventions (major role therapy, family psychoeducation, social skills training, personal therapy , and, most recently, cognitive enhancement therapy) and submitted each to rigorous empirical trials. After each trial, he carefully examines the data and formulates new approaches which incorporate his prior research findings and empirical data from other sources.

In the volume, Hogarty presents an approach to individual psychotherapy which he entitles "personal therapy" (PT). He describes his prior research efforts, most notably his two-year study of family psychoeducation which demonstrated a dramatic reduction in relapse in the first year of treatment, but a reduction in therapeutic efficacy as time passed. While observing that ameliorating family stressors reduced relapse, he also observed that family psychoeducation had no significant impact on the personal or social adjustment of schizophrenic patients.

Based on these prior experiences, PT uses a three-phase approach, the first focusing on clinical and environmental stabilization, the second on symptom management, and the third on developing new social and vocational initiatives. Throughout all phases, all patients were maintained on antipsychotic medications which were carefully titrated to minimize side effects. The progression of patients through these phases was determined by each patient's rate of progress, not by a prearranged protocol. Until the goals of one phase were accomplished, the goals of the next phase were not initiated. The research protocol followed patients for three years, an unprecedented duration for any intervention study in schizophrenia.

Before describing the three phases of PT, Hogarty devotes a chapter to outlining "essential prerequisites" for this intervention in considerable detail noting "that for decades are program has been guided by a silent mantra: innovative psychosocial treatment is for naught unless the fundamentals of good care are firmly in place (Hogarty's emphasis). His definition of "good care" includes psychological support (attentiveness, empathy, and encouragement), material support (financial support, stable housing, case management) and skillful medication management. Unique in the treatment literature, Hogarty addresses both the oft-ignored subject of obtaining government disability benefits and the intricacies of medication management. While the details of the former will be of little interest to most British readers, his attention to such seemingly mundane, yet essential, matters is impressive. (The clinic spent over $6000 annually for transportation subsidies when these costs were an impediment to clinic attendance.)

With these prerequisites in place, the first "basic" phase of treatment is initiated as a therapeutic team continues medications, "joins" with the patient and family, and educates patients about their illness using a stress-vulnerability model. In the second "intermediate" phase, patients examine their own illness is greater detail, exploring the precipitants of relapse, and finally coping strategies for symptom management are taught. Finally, in the third "advanced" phase, patients maintain stability and apply these coping strategies as they undertake new social and vocational initiatives.

Besides outlining the essential elements of PT, Hogarty describes the three-year controlled research protocol in considerable detail. In his discussion of the data, he carefully explores the considerable improvement of the control "supportive treatment" group, examining the therapeutic effects of "good care" and clinical management enjoyed by both experimental groups. However, while there was little significant difference between both treatment groups in both symptomatic presentation and functional adjustment at the one year mark (both groups improved significantly), the control group's progress leveled off while the PT group made impressive gains over the next two years.

However, examining patters of relapse, Hogarty observed that a subgroup of PT patients who lived alone actually had a far higher rate of relapse than did patients who received "supportive treatment" only. He commented that "we wondered whether these historical negative effects of psychotherapy might have had less to do with the intervention per se and more with cognitively overwhelming life experiences" (p. 64). Not surprisingly, patients with strong family support had much better outcomes.

This sort of multidimensional data analysis is perhaps unprecedented in the field of schizophrenia research, whether involving biological or psychosocial interventions. Hogarty sifts through his research data with a refreshing deftness and honesty; when the data does not support the efficacy of his intervention model, he straightforwardly acknowledges this and attempts to learn from negative as well as positive findings. In doing so, he briefly notes his most recent attempts to enhance the cognitive functioning of schizophrenic patients, an approach which is yielding impressive results.

In spite of this impressive empirical data, many psychotherapists may reject Hogarty's embrace of biological psychiatry and his neglect of psychoanalytic conceptualizations. He has little patience with intriguing metaphors or sophisticated interpretations. Yet, among the impressive array of data, Hogarty writes with a passionate concern for the well-being of persons with schizophrenia that is so often overwhelmed by statistical analysis. Researchers of schizophrenia would do well to learn from his sophisticated, yet readable, analyses. At the same time, psychotherapists treating schizophrenic patients will emerge with a better appreciation of the interplay of the biological, psychological and environmental dimensions of this complex disorder.

My toddler makes me read this book on an estimate of 25 times a day.his favrite part is when they go in the "secret cave" all i'm saying is that it's a great book for kids 3 and under.

I read this book after having just visited Plymouth, Massachussets, and studying about the Pilgrims. Even though the story is fiction it is woven into factual history and gives the reader an awesome look into the personalities and qualities of the people who lived this historical event. This book barely makes it back home before someone else asks to borrow it. I love history/fiction combinations and this is one of the best I have read.

Hopkins, a Welsh monk, was nearly lost to the public when he renounced his own work, burned a large portion of his creations and sunk into relative obscurity around the turn of the century. Oh, what a tragedy would that have been! Thanks to T.S. Eliot and other astute cultural advocates, this pioneer in the realm of confluence of sound and meaning has received more of the respect he deserves.

Hopkins' style is unique--a combination of Anglo-Saxon alliterative stress patterns, and a truly modern consciousness of spirituality and doubt. Although he draws heavily on Mediaeval techniques of versification, the poet's language escapes the flatline of the archaic through an energetic dynamism. The result is what he terms "sprung rhythm", wherein phonemes reach a level of excitement through rhythmic juxtaposition of stressed and unstressed syllables in an at times choppy, at times smooth pattern.

What I believe "Wreck of the Deutchland" is a masterpiece of Hopkins' language. This poem, like much of his work, is extraordinarily well suited to reading out loud. The ebb and flow of the paced alternation of syllabic and intoned stress gives the reader an intuitive feel for the thematic material of the poem. When the boat is tossed by rough waters, so tosses the reader's voice. When the narrator trembles with fear or faith, so trembles the reader's tongue. However, the sonic force of "Wreck of the Deutchland" is only one aspect of this multi-layered tapestry. The language of sound is a kind of precondition or foreshadowing of the meaning contained in the semantic and symbolic language of the text.

The thing perhaps that I love most about Hopkins is that he seems to incorporate all facets of expression in his work, but certainly not in a pedantic fashion. He is a metaphysical poet in the most honest and unassuming manner. The different textual layers arise and intermingle organically in the medium of the very accessibly, very human voice of a humble poet.

oh no the ship is sinking by team rocket.
ekans&weezing .v.s. yellow hypno&slowpoke .v.s. Yellow
&voltorb & eletrode .v.s. yellow
what is yellow going to do?
find out when you read this book readers