I bought this book way back in 1995. At that time, MTG wasn't as hot as now. As a MTG player and collector back then, I love this book so bad that I rarely flip through it (as I was worried that I could damage the book). I planned to buy an extra copy without success as it was sold out right away. This was the best book around for MTG collectors back then, it has photos of every card in MTG at that time. The Official Encyclopedia is better, but it didn't come out after 2 years (1997).

Grab one if you have a chance.

Touch and emotion in manual therapy, by Bevis Nathan, Churchill Livingstone, 1999, £17.95, paperback, 222 pages, illustrated, ISBN 0443056579

In this astonishingly original and thoughtful book, Bevis Nathan, a practising osteopath, studies the therapeutic and psychological meanings of touch. He explores touch as communicative and expressive, and proposes a 'more ethical, realistic, empathic, human' approach to manual therapy based on a holistic concept of the body. He opposes the orthodox medical rationale that types of touches are procedures and techniques, based on a concept of the body as essentially mechanical.

He first explores the existential meaning of touch, and its potent effects. Touch is the ground of all our other senses. It is not limited to a single organ: the whole body is the organ of touch. He emphasises the mother's key role in infant development: her touch is "supremely important in influencing the existential, psychological and physical development of the fetus and newborn infant." Touch deprivation leads to poor physical, social and emotional development, failure to thrive and even death. Flesh is both subjective and objective; it is lived, "but it is also of the earth and therefore willingly succumbs to a certain degree of material analysis."

He then explores what happens when the manual therapist touches the patient. He asks us to "realise the extent to which my body reliably reflects my attempts to integrate my environment, my relationships, my thoughts and feelings." Mind and body form a unity; psychology is indissolubly intertwined with physiology. He shows how over-emphasising either element of this unity leads to a polarised duality, of a disembodied psychotherapy and a mindless body therapy.

Touch contains the potential for the most powerful blend of physical and emotional healing processes; manual therapists can help to resolve psychologically and emotionally generated bodily disorders. He concludes that shattering the belief that manual therapy is only a mechano-physiological discipline opens up extraordinarily creative possibilities. This book presents a powerful and well-grounded rationale for osteopathy, but it should also prove most valuable to all who use manual therapy to care for people.

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I have read other books on mental disease and found this one easy to read and understand without all the psychiatric jargon. The book was concise,clear,and gave both a psychosocial,as well as a psychopharmacological perspective. I recommend this book without any reservations.

When I happened across a copy of this book recently, I was pleasantly surprised by the beautiful illustrations which, for me, blended spiritually with the time-honored tradition of the original twelve steps. This is also true of the additional quotes from famous people that are included in this very simple, yet precious volume.

expert analysis and told factually (not the politically correct way)by an expert on gen nathan b. forrest.great analysis on the fort pillow controversy.i know the author personally and this man is one of the most knowledgeable minds on u.s. civil war history.

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I would have thought that to be an expert on early Chinese science was enough to occupy at least one lifetime, and the same can be said about expertise in early Greek science. Only amateurs would claim to know enough to write about early science in both civilizations and make comparisons. And yet, in this slim work, a leading authority on ancient Greek science and an equally knowledgeable China expert have talked and corresponded and shared drafts with each other and with other scholars at conferences over a ten-year period resulting in a truly pathbreaking work. Geoffrey Lloyd (now Sir Geoffrey) is emeritus professor of ancient history at the University of Cambridge and author of definitive works on early Greek science. Nathan Sivin is professor of Chinese culture and of the history of science at the University of Pennsylvania. He is probably the world's leading expert on Chinese science and has written extensively on most of its aspects. He is the author of the section on the theoretical background of Chinese alchemy in volume V part 4, and edited the medical volume, volume VI part 6, of Joseph Needham's monumental Science and Civilization in China. The dustcover begins our education depicting an ancient Chinese character for tao, the Way, and the Greek ëïãïò, logos, the Word. The Way carries with it the sense of process, of change, which is not implicit in the Word. The chapter headings give us pause for they suggest, though erroneously it turns out, that the book is assembled from individual writings by the two authors. The chapters are: Aims and Methods; The Social and Institutional Framework of the Chinese Sciences; The Social and Institutional Framework of Greek Science; The Fundamental Issues of Greek Science; The Fundamental Issues of the Chinese Sciences; Chinese and Greek Sciences Compared. Although the headings suggest sharp separation, every chapter includes significant comments regarding corresponding characterisitics in the other civilization. There is no change in style when a Chinese chapter gives way to one on Greece, a truly remarkable achievement. If readers are looking for a description of early Greek and Chinese scientific and technical achievements, they will be disappointed. The three classic Chinese innovations of gunpowder, printing, and the compass without which, according to Francis Bacon, the modern world would be unthinkable, cannot be found in this book. They all came later than the period 400 B.C. to 200 A.D. that the book discusses. Bacon of course had no idea those novelties came from China. Nor can one find more than a mention or two of some of the many dozens of innovations known to the Chinese centuries before the West as described by Joseph Needham. No, the purpose of this book is not to summarize what is already well known. Rather The Way and the Word tries to understand how two independent civilizations managed to create scientific worldviews whose basic approaches, presuppositions, and concepts were fundamentally different, and yet which ordered their awareness of the natural world in ways that led to major advances we would still call scientific. We can no longer ask which of the two is superior. In fact, the authors inform us, historians today trace the ancestry of modern natural science to "the cosmopolitan blend of Syriac, Persian, ancient Middle Eastern, Indian, East Asian, and Greco-Roman traditions that formed in the Muslim world" (p. xiii). Long before the book reaches the concepts of the sciences, the authors ask about the social, political, and institutional aspects of the two cultures and these not as separate entities. The authors realized that the interactions that united these aspects into a single whole had to be studied also. The authors speak of a cultural manifold as the context of the emerging sciences. This is cultural history at its best. Within that manifold they place those individuals who chose to devote their time to scientific questions. They ask what social strata these persons came from and how they earned their living. One fascinating and unexpected emphasis is the fact that in Greece thinkers kept on thinking of new alternative ways of looking at natural phenomena because only in this way would they gain recognition, students, a following, a livelihood. In China, controversy tended to be avoided and new views, although equally frequent, were carefully tailored to look like essential consequences of classic formulations. We can no longer say that the Greek view of nature was a particulate view, the atomistic, granular picture of Leucippus and Democritus, because the alternative continuous picture of nature also had its proponents. And wheras Plato's Timaeus builds nature from a few defined triangles Aristotle's concept of nature is qualitative rather than geometric. Still there is a fundamental divide between Greek and Chinese conceptions characterized by the tao and the Word. Helpfully an appendix outlines the evolution of the Chinese consmological synthesis showing how, within the tao, the cycles of yin and yang and of the five phases (often mistaken for elements) became ways to characterize the activity of ch'i. The Chinese cosmology turns out to be enormously appealing, as it unites macrocosm and microcosm, seeing the heavens, earth, society, and the human body as existing in or straining towards harmonious resonance. It is the underlying worldview of the modern ecologist. Until I read this book, my own picture of Chinese science was granular, staccato, disjointed. I had dipped into numerous books and articles that gave me insights into the astounding achievements of Chinese thinkers and doctors. Never did an overview of the Chinese world emerge. This book finally gave me that overview not only of the Chinese but also of the classic Greek world. To help the reader, a chronology of Chinese and Greek historical events covering the book's six-hundred year timespan is included. It is a book that I strongly recommend. It will greatly enlarge our understanding of the world we live in.

After "Blood Rubies", Michael McDowell presented this, the second [and last]of the "Axel Young" novels, which were parodies of the suspense thrillers created by the likes of Sidney Sheldon and which were so in vogue in the early 80s.

In this, he creates the evil and greedy Louise, (you just can imagine Joan Collins pulling it off flawlessly)who won't stop at nothing to achieve her dreams of financial security, even marrying and then killing an old millionaire, and then playing musical beds with his lawyer.

Enter the three children, Verity, Jonathan and Cassandra, who will have to choose between saving their family inheritance or just saving their lives.

Total, all-out camp in the most Johnwateresque style, with a memorable punk-rock subplot and lots of the tepid themes that made Jackie Susann a classic (drugs, sex, tacky dialogue and cheesy settings) served with hardly a straight face, makes this book a real hoot (and a real find).

A book to read for leisure and revel on the many talents of his author (also responsible, as McDowell for such great horror books as "Katie" and the "Blackwater" chronicles, and as "Nathan Aldyne" for the estupendous "Provincetown Murder Mysteries" -- Cobalt, Canary, Teal, and Vermilion-) who has earned a cult status and, sadly, doesn't seem to be in print anymore.

Let yourself be hooked... you won't regret it! And if you can, make it a double feature with anything else he has written.

Whether you're hen-pecking through the book for specific topics, or plowing through beginning-to-end, this "dictionary" of the wireless industry and regulating bodies is both informative and easy to read. Although I've previously had little interest in wireless applications, the advent of wireless internet service fascinates me; this book touches on wireless internet, but primarily seeks to tackle breadth instead of depth (on one particular subject). If you're worried that this book will be outdated within weeks/months, rest assured that a good portion of the text is covers history, progress, current systems, and projected advances--pretty all-inclusive. Extensive section on Blue Tooth interactions. I recommend it.

Nathan Chapman doe an excxellent job relating to nature and hiking to God's word. Each passage begins with a short scripture. Next, he incorpoates a personal story relating to the trrail and concludes with a short prayer.

I use his devotional for every hike I take on. They help me focus my time in the woods on God and his plan for my life. These passages give me encouragement and helps motivate me to keep going, on the trail and in my walk with the Lord.

I only hope his work encourages others as it has me and also, to create more Christian works related to the outdoors and nature.