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Want to know about George Jeffreys?
If you want to know about the life of George Jeffreys, do not buy this book. Instead of being called "George Jeffreys: A Ministry of the Miraculous," it should have been called "Elim: A Ministry of theMiraculous," because instead of telling anything about Mr. Jeffreys,all it does is recount the first 14 years or so of the Elim PentecostalChurch in the UK.

The book is not a biography. Rather it is a historybook regarding the Elim Church: it's founding in Belfast, Ireland, and it'ssubsequent growth and move to Wales and England.

I'd say that the onlyredeeming quality of this book are the eyewitness and personal testimoniesof salvation and healing, and newspaper accounts of various crusades.

Ifyou want to read a good history book about early Pentecostalism in the UK,then purchase this book. If you'd like to read a biography about GeorgeJeffreys, you'll have to find another book...then please tell me about it,because I'd also like to read it. ... Read more

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Beautiful pen and ink sketches by renowned artist Jeffrey Jones, with a sprinkling of his painted work interspersed throughout. Interior is black and white, with rich color dust-jacket. Compiled with the help of George Pratt and David Spurlock, with an intro by Michael Friendlander. Includes a conversation with Jeffrey Jones and George Pratt. ... Read more

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Mainly For Jones Collectors
Jeff Jones is one of my favorite fantasy artists.I especially love his impressionistic oil paintings shown on the cover of this Sketchbook.However, all of the art inside the covers is rather sketchy pen and ink work interesting mainly to collectors of Jones.The real plus of this one is the long interview (2000) with George Pratt , a 20-year friend.A much better buy, in my opinion, is THE ART OF JEFFREY JONES, as it contains more of his better works. ... Read more

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A bit wonky, a bit okay, preferred him on C-Span
Feldman can be vitroilic and say dumb things when he is not breaking his arm patting himself (and fellow "progressives'") on the back, but his book has a point and it makes it well.The point is that how you say something is as important, perhaps more, as what you say.Take the issue, change the focus, keep it on your turf, make your the issue work for you.For anyone interested in politics and in speaking pursuasively in groups, it's a fair exercise.But just fair.When Mr. Feldman applies it he can be very effective like when, on C-Span, he turned the discussion on the war on "what should be the constraints on the powers of the executive?"I thought it well played and articulated.Then he can get silly like in his written defense of the Move-On "Betray-Us" ad (it's a conspiracy, see, the conservatives just want you to believe that applying the word "betrayal" to a general implies treason because normal, fair-minded, people can't/won't make such a link on their own).But, those are asides.The book makes good points. Most people are less interested in HOW to make a point and more interested in what the point itself is.Me, I like the mechanics so I score it three stars but I think the audience will be limitted to wonky types.

Contrived and not worth the time
This book is a bit contrived, quite formulaic, and in the end neither useful or particularly interesting.I thought the premise was quite interesting, and the cited speeches were for the most part stirring.However, the subsequent analysis was contrived, with a strong feeling of trying to force history to conform to modern values.The recommendations weren't really apt or useful.

I'm a big fan of George Lakoff, and found his first book (Don't Think Of An Elephant!/ How Democrats And Progressives Can Win: Know Your Values And Frame The Debate: The Essential Guide For Progressives) intriguing, and his most recent book (Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision) both empowering and useful.For someone who hasn't read Lakoff, this book may be interesting and useful, but I'd suggest your time would be better spent with Lakoff instead -- in particular, the most recent one is great reading.

Communicating Progressive Principles
Progressives have been less effective than consevatives in communicating political ideas.Progressives have focused on dryly presenting policies and programs without laying out the underlying values or principles with which voters could more readily identify.Feldman's book helps to remedy this shortcoming among progressives.

Feldman analyzes how 15 presidents have used frames in major speeches to convey big ideas.In so doing, he advises progressive politicians, activists and ordinary citizens how to use framing to persuasively communicate progressive principles.This book should be welcomed byprogressives and all those interested in effective, genuine political communication.

Smart book, changes how you see things
Every once in a while, I find a book that changes how I see things completely--and this is one of those books.If you've ever watched a TV newscast or listened to a radio broadcast or read a newspaper--this book will suddenly open your eyes. By walking us through some amazingly cool speeches by U.S. Presidents, Feldman turns every reader into what he calls a "framer" of ideas--ordinary people who "drive the debate" by engaging what they hear and then speaking back.Easy to understand and easy to put to use.Everyone should read this.

A fresh perspective on a bit of history
This is a must have book.Jeffery Feldman offers new and creative insight into famous speeches of our country's Presidents.Even more than fascinating to read, it opens your eyes to what you hear on the TV and read in papers.Politics and Issues in general are looked at in a new way after reading just part of this book.Democrats and Republicans alike gain new insight into our Presidents. ... Read more

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John Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD. Text sheds light on the role personality factors play in the genesis and treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Provides insight into this challenging disorder, discussing personality factors that can help protect against stress or increase vulnerability to stress. For all mental health professionals. ... Read more

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Trends in the Know-how of stress-related disorders.
This book is part of a series of personality-guided psychotherapy manuals having an editor such as Theodore Millon. Millon has received the 2003 Award for Distinguished Professional Contribution to Applied Research from the American Psychological Association. This information may appear tangential. However, those who are familiar with the extensive and prolific research of Millon are aware that much of the intelligentsia produced in the domain of Personality Disorders has been most enlightening, and often therapeutically helpful, although some clinicians may disagree with his viewpoints, conceptualizations, and treatment procedures.

The book's authors have cogently and proactively adopted Millon's personality-guided approach, and have treated us with a sublime work on stress-related conditions and disorders, PTSD, and interactions between stress and traumas. This is a very hot topic since APA has recently published new guidelines on the best treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder. There are people and patients who have a very pessimistic view of the nowadays' world, which they describe as unsafe, and dangerous.History teaches us that it has always been like this, and often times (unfortunately) even worse. As clinicians we cannot do much to change the events. However, what we can do is to help our patients to better deal with them. In light of the above, this book is an excellent tool because it offers a broad view of the topic, starting with an accurate conceptualization and ending with a choice of treatment plans and actions.

The book is very well-written, very informative, and sometimes fascinating because of its broad views, and the links to Hellenic and Hellenistic classical, philosophic, and epic accounts.
The senior author, Dr. George Everly, Jr. is a leading expert in stress-related disorders. His wealth of research is astonishing. Thus, as critic as you might be, you will have a hard time trying to find something which is not covered in this work at the time of publication (2002). In fact, the theoretical overview is so broad and tantalizing that you will be surprised how much there is we still didn't know.

I did learn much from this book in the past. It is my wish that other clinicians (and non) will profit from it as well.
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Comments on China Diary by Bush
Tis is an account of George H.W. Bush as American reoresentative in China 1074-5. It is of significant hisrorical value

The China Diary of George H.W. Bush: The Making of a Global President
George Herbert Walker Bush was an amazing President from many perspectives but he is particularly known for his diplomacy and brilliance in foreign affairs.This book will give you insight into the development of this man who eventually led the free world as well as some fascinating perspectives on the recent history of China on its way to becoming a super power. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Here is the classic respiratory text -- completely revised and updated for the fourth edition! Now featuring an even stronger clinical focus, this standard-setting reference reflects the latest research findings, therapies and equipment, providing the reader with the most up-to-date information available anywhere. The larger format of this latest edition reflects a wealth of changes. Each chapter in this resourceful text now begins with an outline, providing an overview of the material to be covered and alerting the reader to the most important information. Clinical Skills in clinical chapters, based on the RRT and CRTT exam review matrices, provide learning objectives and prepare the reader for these exams. Professional Skills, provided with the non-clinical chapters, serve as learning objectives and offer opportunities for personal growth. Numerous boxes -- including equation boxes -- emphasize key information and reinforce its importance. Guidelines for treatment from the American Association of Respiratory Care are highlighted in boxes, acquainting the reader with essential standards of practice. Therapist Driven Protocols are presented in the form of flow charts, defining the procedures for treatment in the clinical setting. A greater number of illustrations highlight and enhance key respiratory care concepts. Many new chapters offer the most current thinking on: the future of respiratory care; cardiopulmonary monitoring; bronchial hygiene therapy; volume expansion therapy; bronchial asthma; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; interstitial lung diseases; industrial, environmental, and self-induced pulmonary diseases; and acute adult respiratory distress syndromes. ... Read more

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A Lost Treasure
What a pleasant surprise to find this book.I have had an interest in black conservatives ever since discovering Thomas Sowell, who was an intellectual life preserver while I was drowning in the muck of political correctness in higher education.I discovered that George Schuyler was a pre-eminent black conservative and journalist of the early to mid-20th Century and wondered why I had not seen his name more frequently.I read his novel Black No More and was fortunate to find his out of print autobiography Black and Conservative at a used bookstore in Columbus.I thought then that someone should put together a collection of his essays and was pleased to find out that this was subsequently done.

This collection spans all of Schuyler's career and shows him at various stages of his intellectual and ideological journey.Although ending up on the right side of the political spectrum, Schuyler took a circuitous route to get there.The essays in this collection highlight Schuyler's sharp wit and rhetorical flair whether arguing from the left, right or somewhere else of his own making.

Schuyler's most well known and controversial essays are included.These include his attack against the concept of a specifically Black-American art style, his argument against the civil rights acts of the 1960s as interfering with the natural positive progress of race relations, his intense criticisms of Malcolm X and, perhaps most infamously, his equally intense criticisms of Martin Luther King, Jr.

As ignorance of history is the foundation for ignorance of the modern day, there is much to gain from reading Schuyler to place the present into proper context.For instance, it is simply ridiculous to hear Malcolm X being lauded as a "civil rights leader."In fact, Malcolm X was openly hostile towards civil rights and considered true civil rights' leaders to be sellouts.Although he later changed his tune, it was only after his period of influence was largely over, after he had left the Nation of Islam and after he changed his name from Malcolm X to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.Schuyler does a good job of reminding us that perhaps Malcolm X does not deserve the good will, let alone the warm fuzzies, with which many would remember him.

Schuyler also does a good job of demonstrating that pre-1960s America was not a land of relentless racial hostility and that, while certainly a long way from utopia, much progress was being made towards the ideals of equality without the need for governmental interference.Even with respect to MLK Jr., while Schuyler may not have given King his proper due, Schuyler does make legitimate points regarding King's association with communists and reminds us that many times King's presence at protests had the deleterious effect of promoting rather than deterring violence.

My five star rating, however, should not be taken as a wholesale acceptance of Schuyler's positions.His conservatism often took a rather kooky turn and led him down some extreme paths.When William F. Buckley started to clean up conservatism to make it a more mainstream movement, numerous ideologues became marginalized and it appears Schuyler was in this group.Rather, my high rating is a tribute to Schuyler's independent thinking as well as his ability and courage to express controversial and unpopular ideas in a very articulate manner.

My rating also should not be extended to the editor of this volume.Jeffrey B. Leak's introduction does make some good points, such as suggesting that Schuyler's hard ideology and in-your-face manner might have actually slowed the development of black conservatism by making things more difficult for moderate black conservatives.Also, Leak makes an exceptionally good point that Schuyler's upper New York upbringing may have caused him to underestimate the anger and frustration of Southern blacks.

But for every hit Leak makes, there is a miss.Leak speculates that Schuyler repressed a period of incarceration for being AWOL from the military.Yet I think it is clear that Schuyler never mentioned this incarceration because, unlike the civil rights' protesters with whom he later disagreed, he considered incarceration to be a badge of shame.There was nothing repressed about it.

Perhaps most laughable is a comparison Leak makes between Schuyler and modern black author Shelby Steele.In a footnote regarding this comparison, Leak questions criticisms of affirmative action by stating that we never hear upper class whites bemoan their inherited wealth.What is this dude smoking?One only needs to step a single foot on a modern college campus to encounter white liberals suffering massive palpitations over exactly the financial class into which they were born.In fact, such white liberals argue that their own white guilt applies not only to themselves but also to me, even when they know my economic upbringing was worlds away from their own.This alone makes me seriously question Leak's analyses of other issues.(Though, on a note of fairness, Leak's position is somewhat true in that white liberals never seem willing to give up their own jobs to "promote diversity" but are more than happy to advocate that I should lose my job instead, usually done with a tone dripping with patronization.Apparently upper class white liberals feel so bad about their privileged positions that they are willing to discriminate against working class whites to assuage their emotional pain and thereafter point to the racial characteristics of the parties involved to justify their actions to themselves.)Finally, as a strictly academic matter, it is hard to take an editor seriously when one checks his footnotes only to discover that one of them, footnote 47, is simply missing.

Of course, no one is going to read this book for the editing.One will read it for the writing of George Schuyler.Agree with him or not, Schuyler will make a person think.It is a shame, and a statement of our times, that his name is not much better known. ... Read more

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The world's smallest and most widely reproduced work of art, the postage stamp was an official vehicle for extraordinary visual work for more than 100 years before twentieth-century artists and activists began to appropriate the format as a potential venue for their own unsanctioned expressions. From the stamp experiments of Fluxus mail artists like Robert Watts to fantasy stamps issued by fictional countries, this humble canvas has been home to all manner of free expression. The Book of Stamps is at once an homage to and continuation of this tradition. Sumptuously designed and printed, this cloth-bound volume features 15 detachable, perforated and gummed full-page sheets of limited edition, artist-designed stamps by Walead Beshty, Emily Jacir and David Shrigley, among others. A must-have for collectors of artist multiples and stamps alike, the edition also includes a text by author and journalist George Pendle. ... Read more

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For undergraduate and graduate courses in Systems Analysis & Design where an object-oriented approach is taken.

This text focuses on a business rather than a technology perspective. As such, it emphasizes the mind-set of the systems analyst and project manager as opposed to that of the programmer. While this text focuses on object-oriented systems analysis and design and adheres to UML 2 standards, it also contains elements from other approaches, such as relational database system design, that remain a part of systems development in business organizations today. ... Read more

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Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design
I don't know how to comment this book because I feel boring when I read this book. There are many repeat information in different chapters. However, you have some practice exercises after each chapter.

Good Introductary Book
This is a good book to learn the basic and fundamental concepts behind Object-Oriented System Analysis

Informative and useful, but could be better
This is quite informative text on OOSAD. I did not read it from cover to cover, but as much as I have, it seemed dry at times, and I think it should employ more diagrams and more colors ;)
The only three colors you can find in this text are black, white, and blue. That's it. If you're a visual person (like me), you would want some colorful diagrams and screen shots - sort of like used in System analysis and design by Shelly, Cashman, and Rosenblattt.
Anyways. Brief content as follows:

Part 1: Foundations of object-oriented systems development.
-ch 1. The OO system development environment
-ch 2. Introduction to object orientation
Part 2: Project management and planning
-ch 3. Managing the OO information system project
-ch 4. Selecting and planning projects
Part 3: System Analysis
-ch 5. Determining OO system requirements.
-ch 6. Structuring system requirements: use-case description and diagrams
-ch 7. Conceptual data modeling
-ch 8. Object-relational modeling
-ch 9. Analysis classes
-ch10. Selecting the best alternative design strategy
Part 4: System design
-ch11. Physical database design
-ch12. Design elements
-ch13. Designing the human interface
Part 5: System implementation and operation
-ch14. OOSAD implementation and operation

Good things about this book (if you're a student) are for example:
-it uses bold font to designate key terms. It is possible to find books out there which use italics, and it is hard to find key terms if you need them.
-it lists key terms and page numbers at the end of each chapter. I happened to use "New Perspective" series some time ago (for Excel 07 and Access 07), and they don't have page numbers where to find key terms. That's can be a hassle.
-it explains UML diagrams used in OO quite well (to my limited understanding).

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This is Volume Two in the series Innovations in Disaster and Trauma Psychology. This volume describes the CISM approach to crisis response and offers it as a new era in provision of the crisis intervention services. For the first time the essential question of CISM as a standard of care in crisis intervention is adddressed. This second edition represents the most advanced and updated resource available on the topics of CISM and crisis intervention. An annotated review of research highlights this valuable text. ... Read more

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CISM
The book was described well by seller, and was delivered to me sooner than expected.
Amazon provided a high quality transaction.

Critical Incident Stress Management: A New Era and Standard of Care in Crisis Intervention
The author's use of this book has set the new standard for crisis care and disaster preparedness.The principles and tools contained inside Critical Incident Stress Management are global and innovative. The only drawback is the author's use of diagnositic terminology that demands that the reader have at least a rudimentary mental health background.Inspite of this, I highly recommend this book to crisis workers and other helping professionals.This is an excellent choice for textbook material in the classroom. ... Read more

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George Wallace & Alabama's State Government
George Wallace dominated Alabama politics for a quarter century. Consider the six elections Alabama held for Governor between 1962 and 1982. Voters elected Wallace four times and elected his wife once (when he was ineligible to run for re-election).

Wallace has been the subject of many books (such as Dan Carter's The Politics of Rage and Stephen Leshar's George Wallace: American Populist). But previous books focus on Wallace's impact on national politics. In Stand Up for Alabama, Jeff Frederick examines Wallace's impact on Alabama.

Stand Up for Alabama is a success. Frederick portrays Wallace as a governor who spent his time campaigning instead of trying to run Alabama. The book shines when Frederick explains how Wallace and Alabama's legislature interacted; the relationship was contentious and the relative power of each side shifted as voters' opinions of Wallace shifted.

The book has a few drawbacks. Conservative readers won't like Frederick's steady criticism of Wallace's opposition to tax increases. At times, the narrative bogs down when it cites reams of statistics comparing Alabama's government programs to those of neighboring states.

At 400 pages, Stand Up for Alabama requires a commitment from its readers. But politics junkies with an interest in state government and civil rights will want to read Stand Up for Alabama.
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Sessions examines the work of five young designers from the South California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) who are having an impact on architectural practice and discourse. In each of the projects featured here, it is evident that software and hardware are only the beginning of the design process, and that architectural practice is, perhaps, moving on to another level of exploration. Designers George Yu, Marcelo Spina, Marta Malé-Alemany, Benjamin H. Bratton, and Hernan Diaz-Alonso engage in a series of discussions with Jeff Kipnis. These discussions, or "sessions," reveal strengths and inadequacies in the works, and place emphasis on the ideas with which the designers are struggling, rather than focusing on their finished designs. Joe Day contributes an essay which situates the various practices within the current discourse of architecture. ... Read more