November 2012 | Self Reliance Summary

Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Author Joel Best, a professor of sociology at the University of Delaware, has written a very interesting book in which he addresses--but doesn't offer many conclusions about--a number of issues involving recognition and status in our modern society. His book, "Everyone's a Winner," is short (166 pages)...

The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is perhaps the best book ever published in the field of Leadership development. We have all heard that Leadership is Learning by doing. This CCL explains what makes an assignment developmental. It puts the findings of the CCL in one book and make it available to the public. The book explains clearly...

Jonah & Micah: Reformed Expository Commentary Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This by far is the best commentary that I have read on the book of Jonah. Richard Phillips brings out New Testament theology in an Old Testament book. His comparison to the death and resurrection of Jesus compared to the 3 days of horror in the belly of the great fish was outstanding. Reformed theology...

Races of Eberron (Dungeons & Dragons d20 3.5 Fantasy Roleplaying Supplement) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Despite being part of the "Races of" series, this is an Eberron book, but don't let that stop you from buying it because it does provide information on how to introduce these new races into other settings.The new Eberron setting introduced several new concepts to D&D, including several new races...

Dialectical Behavior Therapy in Private Practice Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I just received this book today, so I obviously haven't read it cover-to-cover yet, but seeing as it had no other reviews, I thought I'd provide a bit more information. The book seems very well written, with much emphasis on how to apply DBT to different disorders. It does not, however, focus much on...

Coming Home to Passion: Restoring Loving Sexuality in Couples with Histories of Childhood Trauma and Neglect (Sex, Love, and Psychology) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I highly recommend Ruth Cohn's Coming Home to Passion as an invaluable tool for couples searching for a roadmap out of the familiar but lonely lock-and-key patterns afflicting many pairings of adult children of trauma with adult children of neglect. Drawing on two decades of work as a psychotherapist...

With the Phoenix Rising: Lessons from Ten Resilient Women Who Overcame the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse (Jossey-Bass Psychology) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)My therapist gave me this book after I finished therapy and reading the book summed up my life as a resilient survivor. Until I read the book I really didn't realize just how resilient I was. I had always thought of myself as unsuccessful and not useful, but it is amazing to see in print just how successful...

The Transforming Power Of Affect: A Model For Accelerated Change Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In this most important work Dr Fosha describes in clear prose and with engaging case material an emerging trend in the practice of effective short term psychotherapy. Her understanding and honoring of the internal landscape of the patients subjective experience and affect regulation will be an inspiration...

Nothing Less than Victory: Decisive Wars and the Lessons of History Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Publishers Weekly writes many short blurbs for Amazon. And they usually do a great job. Unfortunately, their assertion that Lewis veers close to arguing that "might makes right" is completely wrong. Consider Lewis's take on the Third Punic War--which he says was not a war at all but rather a massacre:"Rome...

Handbook of Clinical Social Work Supervision Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Excellent handbook for Supervisors and Supervisees. Easy to read. Good food for thought and guidance how to be an ethical supervisor.Click Here to see more reviews about: Handbook of Clinical Social Work SupervisionGet 12% OFFClick here for more information about Handbook of Clinical Social Work Sup...

Eye Movement Desensitization &Reprocessing , Basic Principles Protocols &Procedures - 2nd edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This very readable book was written by EMDR originator Francine Shapiro to provide detailed directions for therapists using this approach. Beginning with descriptions of the historical development and theoretical model, the book provides a thorough overview of the treatment process. Several chapters...

CPRT Package: Child Parent Relationship Therapy (CPRT): A 10-Session Filial Therapy Model Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Dr. Landreth and Ms. Bratton have compiled decades of research, experience and practice into an outstanding book that enables any therapist (willing to devote the time necessary to learn and practice these practical skills) to teach parents to do play therapy with their own children. CPRT can help parents...

Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Joan Williams does a tremendous job of altering the terms of the public discussion about working, caregiving, and work-family conflicts. The book is packed with data about family leave policies in this country and others. It also carefully documents some of the disadvantages that men, particularly those...

Story of a Girl Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Imagine you made a mistake as a teenager. A big mistake. Now imagine you made this mistake in a small town when you were thirteen years old.Sara Zarr's moving "Story of a Girl" tells just this tale from the point of view of sixteen-year-old Deanna Lambert. At age 13, Deanna was caught "in the act" with...

Shug (Thorndike Literacy Bridge Young Adult) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Nope. I didn't want to read, "Shug". I just didn't. I took one look at its cool cover and thought it was a piece of YA literature. By and large, as a children's librarian I tend to avoid teen books. It was only when fellow children's librarians (4 or so) insisted that this book would be beloved by kids...

Food, Girls, and Other Things I Can't Have Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was completely absorbed by this book, once I picked it up I couldn't put it down! It is so well written, so funny, with such a wonderful message about being oneself in the face of the tremendous pressure of adolescence coupled with society's twisted love affair with food/war on fat. Given the recent...

Pig Enough Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I am a huge fan of Bynum's books and this, her latest is no exception! It's fun and funny and gave me the warm fuzzies.Willy is an adorable Guinea Pig who wants to join the Pig Scouts. All the oinkers tell him he isn't pig enough to be real Pig Scout but little Willy proves them all wrong on a Pig Scout...