The Hales comprehensively present the medications used to treat mood disorders and the effects and precautions that a sufferer needs to know.

An excellent guide to psychiatric medications with brief descriptions of mental illnesses, this book should be within arm's reach of every patient and involved family member for constant reference. You will do both yourself and your doctor a favor by becoming familiar with the group of drugs relevant to your particular diagnosis. As your doctor briefly describes each possible drug and its profile (including side effects) during an office visit, you will be hard-pressed to remember this information or to hurriedly take legible and complete notes. For a modest price, you can relax and keep extensive information about a dizzying array of drugs at your fingertips. All drugs have side effects, from troublesome to dangerous, so become an educated consumer. You owe it to yourself and family members you care about. I have found it to be an invaluable reference which is readable and even fascinating, aimed at the layperson.

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The portraits in this book reveal a community of people who for decades had lived in a community cut off from the city around it. Because of the social services that the "mill community" offered until the later 20th century there was little reason or motivation for the residents of Cabbagetown to leave the community. When Oraien Catledge entered the community to photograph it, he found a place where time had seemed to stop. He has said it reminded him of the fifties, when he had visited impoverished families in rural Mississippi. These sensitive portraits took a decade to compile, and reveal the conditions of the area while also illuminating the pride and self will of the residents.

This useful intermediate reference work offers some fine introductory discussions of narrative themes in western art. It will be of use to docents and other students of western iconology. eastern and native conventions of iconology are only incidentally alluded to. It is the purpose of this encyclopedia to show the variety of uses to which general narrative themes and plots have been imaged in the history of art and to discuss some of the changing interpretations as the themes pass through different ages, cultures, and forms. This encyclopedia orders iconographic narratives in particular biblical, mythological, and literary texts according to actions performed by the characters, to situations in which they find themselves, and to concepts relating to these situations and actions.

Healthy Work is a classic--though currently under-appreciated--work on organizations. It is a book of great breadth and richness that deserves more than one reading. Healthy Work is a "must read" for those concerned with creating healthy organizations. It describes the demand-control model, which has had a huge influence on research on work and health. The model was prompted by Karasek's concern about the consequences of demand-control imbalances in the workplace. Karasek and Theorell provide a vision of humane organizations in which employees can master challenges and experience personal growth. Healthy Work is not an easy read, but it is a "must read" for OD practitioners, OB professors, and those concerned with improving life in organizations. It challenges us to improve the "psychic prisons" in which many employees--unfortunately--spend much of their waking hours.

I reckon the book gives a very good measure of Sir Isaac Newton's interests in philosophy. One shoulk ask why philosophy? Well we have to say that this writings contain some of the best arguments ever used in defense of God's existence. Moreover, the "Four letters to Mr. Richard Bentley" contain what should be considered the argument of "imperfection" for the existence of a Voluntary Agent in the Universe. Nobody before Newton dared to say that from the imperfection of this world it follows that God neccessarily exists. This argument will be, of course, a great subject for the criticism of Leibniz and Descartes' disciples. Then again, the book contains a very good paper on the natural and un-natural motion of celestial bodies, a very good treatise in itself on inertia and gravity, which makes us wonder whether our modern view on the universe is a Newtonian or a Cartesian one. After all the theme is very actual and it has not lost it's strenght.

This is an abridged edition of a more comprehensive collection and commentary on Chinul (1158-1210), whose writings and talks, as well as his personal practice, re-defined Korean Zen Buddhism during the Koryo dynasty. Disgruntled with the ecclesia of the time, he established a retreat society and set down a range of practice techniques which are still taught. He also did his best to address the schism between sutra study and meditation practice.

Robert Buswell, himself a practitioner and former monk, renders translations of Chinul's "Secrets On Cultivating the Mind," "Straight Talk on the True Mind," and excerpts from Chinul's "Dharma Collection and Special Practice Record with Personal Notes" that are accessible, challenging to the general reader, and - for the practitioner - a long finger pointing us to our own mind.

This is not, however, practice-oriented material, so the Zen student looking for encouragement in practice will not find much "dharma candy" here. With Buswell's extensive introduction, the book offers us a history of Buddhism in Korea, a biography and extensive critique of his philosophy and methods, in addition to the translations. This offers some edifying history to a Zen student with a scholarly bent, but with this caveat: these are dead words! They were set down at a certain time as medicine for the kinds of dharma sickness Chinul confronted. Don't let this old medicine become a disease!

This book is a terrific primer, not just about psychiatric drugs, but on psychiatric illnesses, their classification and symptoms. Additionally, the authors include a number of case histories, some successful, some not. Numerous questions are asked and answered in an easy-to-read, concise format. The first 363 pages are on these generalized topics and are extremely well done. The remaining 248 pages are on specific drugs, with two pages devoted to each medication. The glossary and index are complete and well done. My only disappointment is that the book was published in 1992. If the authors updated the book for newer drugs and increased knowledge of psychiatric illnesses, I would purchase the revised edition in an instant. Still, the original book is the best I've read on the subject and is "must" reading for anyone who wants a better understanding of psychiatric illnesses and medications.

"Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect?" edited by Saul Cornell and Robert E. Shalhope is a collection of essays and journal articles debating the interpretations of the Second Amendment by top notch historians on the subject. The book encourage debate and therefore has a well balanced assortment of articles covering the full spectrum of debate concerning the Second Amendment.

Books from the "Historians at Work Series" are designed to encourage debate and deeper thinking on a particular historiographic issue in American history. Books from the "Historians at Work Series" are designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate level American history courses. This being said, its not an introductory text. The authors of the articles go directly into their subjects, with little significant background information. Therefore, you need to have an historical base-level to work from. Nonetheless, it is an excellent tool for students, scholars and general readers of American history.

Editions in the "Historians at Work" publish the entire article or essay, introduce the author and most importantly: it includes all endnotes--a rarity for books that are collections of articles/essays on a related topic.

Overall, an excellent representation on early American historical scholarship.

ADDED NOTE: The final chapter in this book, writen by Michael Bellesiles and his book were later found to be full of misrepresentation and misconduct in research. He has since lost his award and has resigned from his position @ Emory University.

The information presented in this book is poorly organized, outdated, and incomplete. Sadly, it's the only book dedicated to OmniMark. The best way to learn OmniMark is to go to Canada and learn from OmniMark Technologies. This book covers OmniMark version 3. OmniMark version 5.1 is out now (July 1999).

This book does give a fairly good overview of the Omnimark programming(scripting) language, but the material is -way- out of date. Many of the examples given will not work correctly if at all with the newer versions of the Omnimark C/VM. Since the publish date of the book in 1997 there have been 2 major revisions to Omnimark (current version is now 5.2), and with these revisions many things have been added, deleted, or modified for one reason or the other. I do -NOT- recommend this book for those wanting to learn how to use Omnimark effectivly. I do however encourage the author to -UPDATE- this publication or discontinue it. Let us hope that the soon to be released "part 2" of this work is up-to-date and well structured.

This is a must-have book for anyone interested in learning about OmniMark. The OmniMark language is so large that a single book can't possibly cover the whole language. Travis mentions this up front, and says this book is a collection of tips and techniques he has collected over the years. It worked for us; we were able to get up-and-running quickly with the help of the first chapter, "OmniMark for the Impatient". This provided a very fast overview of the language, and provided plenty of pointers to concepts covered later in the book. The rest of the book explored the basics of the language, allowing us to use OmniMark in a production environment.

This is not a reference manual. The documentation from OmniMark provides technical documentation, but no real-world examples. OmniMark At Work is full of examples, which fill the void left by the vendor's docs.

Another unique aspect is that each of the program samples in the book was compiled and run as the book was typeset (Using OmniMark, of course!). Travis explains in the Colophon that every example in the book is guarenteed to work, because it is verified by the OmniMark compiler. This shows the power of the OmniMark language in being able to mix data and programs to create a useful output. Each of the two-hundred or so programs, along with the input data and the output created, are available on the included CD. The CD also contains a version of OmniMark that can run all of the programs.

The Introduction mentions that this is the first of a multiple-volume set of books on OmniMark programming from the author. We are looking forward to more in the series!