Bear and his motley group of friends take off on a raft to enjoy a quiet picnic on the water. Charming froggies oblivious to their irritating 'rrribbitting' want to join the picnic but the little raftful of partiers gently snub them. Soon the raft gets stuck on a sandbar and froggies come to a clever rescue, resulting in unexpected new friends. A wonderful allegory to children's own friendships. Should be reprinted.

Not only an excellent introduction to the treatment of patients with borderline personality disorder, but also an extremely lucid explanation of object relations theory and its application. Because the authors define "borderline personality organization" quite broadly, the techniques they outline are applicable to nearly all patients in long-term, insight-oriented psychotherapy. This is by far the best introduction to the murky world of object relations theory, and to the work of Otto Kernberg, that I have yet encountered. In spite of its cumbersome title, it is probably destined to become a classic.As Peter Fonagy says on the back cover: "It is a must have."

This book is a very useful manual that helps you to install the unevitable treating contract with bordeline patients which is a necessary frame. The manual provides you with clear instructions on how to set priorities when it comes to troubles (acting-out). And it helps you to develop the feeling when to interprete in terms of transference. Analysts who are used to wait very long until they react actively may be irritated; but no psychotherapist involved in the toil's work with severe borderline conditions can afford to ignore this modern, lively and considerate point of application. This work is the psychoanalytic counterpart, and challenge to Marsha Linehan's famous behavioristic studies on treating the self-destructive and acting-out borderline patient.

"A daring and entertaining book full of 'recipes' in the broadest sense; from getting out and staying out of debt and becoming financially independent, to tried and tested recipes for household items and life sustaining meals made from the simplest (and often free) ingredients. Some are highly unusual! Packed with essential information for anyone wanting to live a more independent, self reliant lifestyle. This book is genuinely radical in very beguiling ways; more than a mild-mannered 'green consumer' guide, John Yeoman questions very basic habits and assumptions, and does so in a way that is thought-provoking and audacious."

John Yeoman writes:

"This is not a 'black book' of survival. It is intended as an introduction to self reliance, showing tested, practical and often entertaining ways to escape the mindset of helplessness and the chains of habit forged for all of us by the consumer society. It guarantees not only an improvement in the odds but also, if you follow its suggestions and experiments, a vast improvement on your own self-confidence. Because in the worst scenario, you will endure - and endure well."

I think this book was a funny book with the dog trying to play all sorts of instruments.Michigan

This is kind of books PhD academy probably likes the most - lot's of talk, nothing practical.
What authors do is talk endlessly about different security aspects (both general and Java-related)
showing no working code at all (oh, sorry, they do - let me find those 2 pages ..)
I see this book as a bunch of security definitions ( "what is class loader, what is class file
verifier, what is SSL and what is firewall" ) and that's not too much, folks.

Authors even spend time describing some sophisticated security and cryptography packages
developed by IBM (they're naturally IBM-biased in the examples), but whoops - they're
not available for download, IBM internal usage only ! Who cares ..

To summarize, that's an outdated "security for dummies" book, 90% of which are pure theoretical
discussions and it only fits those who see much bigger challenge in writing technical
papers than in developing working code.

P.S.
"Java Security : Hostile Applets, Holes & Antidotes" was written in 1996 and
it's even more dated than this book but I guess I learned more from it.

The idea if making this book is good. The result is a disordered collection of tips. The structure is disordered and disappointing. I suggest the authors would follow a different structure like that of a "security services one". This book like it is is very disappointing. You have the impression that there is no start and no end to the arguments either.