December 2012 | Self Reliance Summary

Assessing Adult Attachment: A Dynamic-Maturational Approach to Discourse Analysis (A Norton Professional Book) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)After reading "Assessing Adult Attachment" I have come to the conclusion that if we had perfect parents the world would be a much more pleasant place to live. This book covers many topics including anxiety, fear, aggression, withdrawal, depressive disorders, bipolar disorder and criminal behavior. Basically...

Gen BuY: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought Gen BuY to learn more about why my teenagers and their friends are so into shopping and what retailers are doing to try to get them to buy things. It's so much more than that. This is one of the best books on the psychology of today's teenagers that I've ever read. It's not only deep, it's clever...

Home Is Where the Art Is: An Art Therapy Approach to Family Therapy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I used this book as a supplemental text in a course I recently taught in a graduate art therapy program. I appreciated its contribution related to adding much needed information to using art therapy interventions with families. I would recommend it as an introductory text based on one professional's...

The Handbook of Coaching: A Comprehensive Resource Guide for Managers, Executives, Consultants, and Human Resource Professionals Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have read several books about coaching and generally enjoy them alot. This book however was a big disappointment. Really it only contains list after list of suggested reading. That is all it is. I would really estimate that no less than 75% of the book is made up of "Basic library suggestions". Terrible.Click...

Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought this book together the other two as recommended by Amazon.com. Well written to provide good description of the academic sources of the transformative learning. Highly Recommended!Click Here to see more reviews about: Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning (Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education)Transformative...

Double Standard: Social Policy in Europe and the United States Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a timely book that compares social policy in European nations with that in the United States. It offers a concise comparison of a number of specific programs, such as health care, education, family support, and income security, showing how citizens of European nations enjoy social support and...

Total Life Coaching: 50+ Life Lessons, Skills, and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice...and Your Life Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Unfortunately I purchased 7 copies of this book for a coaching program I was doing before I had read it. The cover information and introduction were intriguing.However, I found the content thin and failing to deliver on the promises laid out in the introduction of the book as well as the introduction...

School-Based Play Therapy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I ordered this book for a school counseling course at school. This book has rich content describing the benefits of play therapy in schools. I especially appreciated the emphasis on research-driven practices of play therapy.Click Here to see more reviews about: School-Based Play TherapyGet 25% OFFClick...

The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unbound Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I feel like I gained a lot personally from The Self Awakened. On a larger political and economic level, I think its guidelines fall short of its wonderful spiritual and philosophical message.Unger's basic spiritual stance is very compelling: that each person (and each society as a whole) can reach out...

Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book makes a pretty compelling argument that, for better or for worse, your online reputation IS your reputation. And with rapidly advancing technologies, Web 2.0 has put everyone's reputation on the line. Fertik and Thompson provide some sobering details about current risks to your online persona...

Invitation to the Classics (Masterworks) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a wonderful overview of classic Western literature from a Christian perspective. With a wide scope and a clarity of expression, there is likely something that any reader can enjoy and understand within these pages.More significant than any of this, however, is that the book has something that...

Injury and Violence Prevention: Behavioral Science Theories, Methods, and Applications Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book gathered useful information about injury prevention. it conceptualizes about injury prevention including Theories, Methods and applications.I am very enjoyed this book. It help me to understand about the injury problem and how to design the intervention for prevention, it is also easy to read...

The Therapeutic Community: Theory, Model, and Method Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have been working in the addiction treatment field for over 20 years, including in the Therapeutic Community setting. This book is the best overview of the model ever done. It provides a balance of the theory behind the philosophy and interventions of the TC, while also speaking to the specific activities...

Farm Together Now Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Through this book, you'll meet people from across the nation who are working at the grassroots level to improve our food system. The book is filled with portraits of twenty niche agricultural projects and interviews with the amazing farmers, social activists and environmentalists responsible for their...

This Violent Empire: The Birth of an American National Identity (Institute of Early American History & Culture) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The title, This Violent Empire, is somewhat of a misnomer, but the end result of this important study causes the reader to reflect not so much on the violence of America's heritage, but rather its conflicts and ambiguities. Author Carroll Smith-Rosenberg celebrates the contributions of early American...

The Tools of Government: A Guide to the New Governance Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Lester Salamon's edited book, "The Tools of Government," is an immensely useful work that identifies the various tools that government has today to effect its goals. Government policy-making has changed in recent decades. Now, problem solving by the public sector is not carried out by government alone....

Handbook of Theories of Aging, Second Edition Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a great choice and the book looks like it never has been used.Click Here to see more reviews about: Handbook of Theories of Aging, Second EditionGet 31% OFFClick here for more information about Handbook of Theories of Aging, Second Edit...