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Nursing Research
This text is a very good review for those who are just entering into the world of nursing research. It is however a little wordy. Very difficult to understand at times, but over all a good purchase.

Good book, but no CD.
This is a good book that I was glad to find since my nursing research class is one of the few masters degree courses that has exams and quizzes (most of the classes just have a ton of papers) that determine your grade.The problem was that the first time I ordered the book it came without the CD.I figured some smart nursing student scammed Amazon out of the useful CD, then sent back the book for a full refund minus the CD.I returned the book for a new one and the same problem occurred.I kept the book because even without the CD I figure the teacher probably plagiarized some of these questions for the quizzes and exams.I am disappointed that twice it came without a CD, even when I identified the problem to Amazon.

Good luck.

poor
Book is defunct missing - it goes from 214 to 231 through 238 then repeats 231 onward again. Also CD rom ismissing. The book is essential for my learning and was costly

Emailed the dealer requesting a new book but they want me to remove poor review and send damaged book.By Faith I bought this book online and I am not receiving the same courtesy

I want a new book then I will return the old

Informative and simple to understand.
Very informative book-great for research basic course; excellent condition, I recommend it for anyone taking a research course.

Great resource!
This book was required for a graduate-level statistics course.It is readable and helpful.I highly recommend it. ... Read more

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As “Mormon royalty” within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Martha Beck was raised in a home frequented by the Church’s high elders in an existence framed by the strictest code of conduct. As an adult, she moved to the east coast, outside of her Mormon enclave for the first time in her life. When her son was born with Down syndrome, Martha and her husband left their graduate programs at Harvard to return to Utah, where they knew the supportive Mormon community would embrace them.

But when she was hired to teach at Brigham Young University, Martha was troubled by the way the Church’s elders silenced dissidents and masked truths that contradicted its published beliefs. Most troubling of all, she was forced to face her history of sexual abuse by one of the Church’s most prominent authorities. The New York Times bestseller Leaving the Saints chronicles Martha’s decision to sever her relationship with the faith that had cradled her for so long and to confront and forgive the person who betrayed her so deeply.

Leaving the Saints offers a rare glimpse inside one of the world’s most secretive religions while telling a profoundly moving story of personal courage, survival, and the transformative power of spirituality.Amazon.com Review
When graduate student Martha Beck’s son Adam was born with Down syndrome, she and her husband left the chilly halls of Harvard for Utah and the warm, accepting embrace of the Mormon community. Determined to assimilate back into her childhood faith after years of atheism, Beck’s disenchantment resurfaced when censorship from the church heavily influenced the curriculum at Brigham Young University where she taught part-time. More disturbing was Beck’s eventual belief that her father, a virtual celebrity in the Mormon Church, had sexually molested her as a child.

Beck frames her narrative around a conversation with her aged father, dipping in and out of stories of her childhood, marriage, third pregnancy, and teaching. She contrasts her perceptions of the leadership of the institutional church as controlling and patriarchal with stories of the warmth and generosity of her Mormon community. Beck unfolds her search for identity, forgiveness, and a personal faith in competent prose, punctuated with surprising dark humor and glimpses into her anorexia, suicidal obsessions, and alleged abuse. Although she leaves readers with many unanswered questions after the last page is turned, one thing is clear: Beck believes that "no matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth." --Cindy Crosby ... Read more

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A very good book
I am a fan of Martha Beck. I have been reading her articles in O magazine for years and had gotton a lot out of her two life coaching books: Follow Your North Star and Steering by Starlight.She is a generous and insightful author. Leaving the Saints is much more personal and disturbing but I found the account of her self-realization to be such a gift.

Memoir: A synonym for Nonsense
The author, a journalist who has written columns and articles in several women's magazines, is a daughter of the late Hugh Nibley, LDS scholar and professor emeritus at Brigham Young University.She calls the book a "memoir," but in reality it is an obvious attempt to discredit and ridicule the Mormons, their leaders, and their beliefs and practices -- while utilizing little in the way of factual accuracy.

It also contains troubling contradictions in the author's own beliefs.For example, on page 3 she says: "The God to whom I pray is all parts unconditional love, no part vengeance or retribution."On page 194, comparing her belief in God to that of her father, she states: "My God is more amorphous, more of a universal constant, like gravity or magnetism."

In her efforts help readers understand the culture (LDS/Utah) in which she was raised, she continually misrepresents LDS doctrine.For example, in describing Joseph's Smith's translation of the Book of Mormon, she says he used "a magical pair of spectacles" [p. 4]; Joseph Smith and LDS historians have never said such a thing.In describing the contents of the Book of Mormon, she says the "populations...operated mines, smelted metals,...none of which existed in North America prior to their introduction from Europe several centuries after the people described in the Book of Mormon allegedly arrived" [p. 5]. This sweeping revelation by the author flatly contradicts the historical and archaeological evidence of pre-Columbian production of precious metals that even the Smithsonian and National Geographic accept without question.

She offhandedly references a "flyer printed up for Mormon homemakers when I was a girl [that] specified that making cakes from scratch was more likely to result in salvation than whipping up boxed alternatives, which I suppose were by definition devil's food."This is a cute and clever statement, but is a strawman - aimed at placing a ludicrous image in the reader's mind with no basis in fact.

Another example of her wit (minus factual basis) - quoted on the book flyleaf - was that her Temple recommend was a "scrap of paper certifying that I had been thoroughly interviewed by two Mormon leaders to ascertain that my past contained no flirtation with serious sins, such as committing murder or drinking coffee." No LDS priesthood leader in good standing in the Church would ever consider murder and drinking coffee to be of equivalent severity - which is clearly the author's implication.

Another offhanded statement - foisted on the reader as indisputable fact, but with no cited basis - is her description of the LDS view of marriage [p. 13]: "...Mormon couples who wed outside the temple are generally assumed to have fallen prey to devilish lust, probably due to bad parenting."

She also perpetuates and refuels non-Mormons' worst fears - that blood oaths are central to Temple "secret" rites.On page 14, describing her participation in the Temple "initiatory" ritual, she writes: "I won't describe this ritual in detail, because I think maybe I agreed to have my entrails carved out if I ever did such a thing, and there's nothing like a blood oath to put the old kibosh on one's natural chattiness."Those who have undergone the "initiatory" ordinances know that there is no such oath or implied oath - but how could non-Mormons know this?And to add to the mystery (and horror she attempts to depict), she describes the ceremony as involving "muttered incantations."This is patently false and absurd.But is highly effective in leaving horrific impressions with the reader.

The book cover broadcasts that the author wrote a "New York Times bestseller" previous to this book - which clearly speaks for the attraction this book should have for the masses-- but in no way validates her patent falsehoods, half-truths, and innuendos.But then, she never claimed it the book to be factual - it is, after all, a "memoir," and memories don't have to be accurate.

Read this first
Any one believing Beck's book should read this first.
[...]
I have been a member of the Church for 46 years and have read anything and everything I could get my hands on including a fair share of anti-Mormon literature, all of which I have found to be intellectual garbage. Many disagree with what the Church teaches without being "anti." That is their privilege and I respect their belief. Trying to disparage the Church with lies and slander is a different issue.

There is no secret "Mormon mafia" running trying to run around controlling what people believe and think. People inside and outside the Church are welcome to read, discuss and accept or reject. If Church leaders condemned this book, it would be the best advertising Martha Beck could get!

It has been my experience that most people who study the Church with LDS missionaries do not become members of the Church, but usually end their study with positive feelings. Anyone can leave the Church at any time without retribution. The door is always open for their return. Any one buying the notion that men control the women of the Church with an iron hand and the women are subservient do not know LDS women!

Before you buy into Martha Beck's view of the LDS Church, take some time to look deeper into more positive sources.

We should be asking...
We should be asking ourselves why the Mormon Religion/LDS do not want you to leave their church? My ex-husband was a non-practicing Mormon and I was a non-practicing Christian when we got married. After our marriage, he had the missionaries come over for "lessons" at our house to try and get me to convert. Well, I had so many valid questions that were scripturally-based that the missionaries would simply reply, "Let's just get through tonights lesson." Many times they simply change the subject. One night, we watched a video instead of doing our lesson. During a six-week period, we had four different sets of missionaries come to our home. We even had the pleasure of the elders coming over for a visit one day! They wanted to discuss my dis-belief in God. You should have seen the look on their faces when I pulled out my King James Bible and showed them the last page of Revelations. They tried to point out that LDS doctrine was a "new revelation" from God. They never came back and I never converted to LDS. My marriage was a horrific time in my life. My ex was abusive, lied, acted out his sexual immorality and all the while he was backed by the elders and I was condemned on multiple levels. So I go back to my original question... Why do they want to control you so much so that you will not leave? I was taught that if you are a part of the body of Christ, a scripturally accurate church, then you are truly a part of the body of Christ. It is a miracle when anyone leaves the LDS. I thank God that I was never seduced by "their family values" and incredible hypocrisy. Thank you Martha Beck for giving other women hope.

Interesting, but...
I found "Leaving the Saints" to be a very interesting take on a former Mormon's decision to leave her faith and confront her high-ranking father with allegations of child abuse. Beck's descriptions of Mormon practices (special underwear, the requirement of a wife to have a password in order to get into heaven) are spot-on, if slightly dated. Like many religions, Mormonism evolves with the times -hence the ban on polygamy, for example.

What I didn't find interesting about the book:

*Beck's "spiritual journey" - her insistence on talking about "the light," "the power," "the person," etc., was off-putting, as were the references to the camel phase and "The Buddha." She appears to exchange one train of thought/belief for a mish-mash of another and, really, it was boring.

*Her description of this totally wonderful experience in birthing Adam made it seem like he was her first child. Poor Lizzie wasn't a source of inspiration or a channel for Beck's ball o' light; she's barely mentioned until the end of the story.

*Beck's intellectual disdain is familiar and monotonous. At various points, she ridicules her Harvard colleagues who urged her to abort her Down Syndrome baby, then ridicules the Brigham Young University professors. Some passage smacked of intellectual elitism (I have a "real" degree from Harvard, aren't you BYUers lucky to have me teach here?) and others don't ring true (the women's panel near the end of the book just doesn't sound right).

Was Beck abused by her father? It's entirely possible - the LDS world is one of insular protection. Was her phone bugged? Did her mother and siblings acknowledge the abuse and later claim Beck might suffer from mental illness? All of these scenarios are entirely possible, but Beck does herself no favors in focusing on her winding spiritual journey to the great ball of light - which sounds just as ridiculous as Joseph Smith's great plates. ... Read more

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So much fun!
This book, and the first one, are just fabulous. I used them to make a "vocabulary" unit for my 1st graders, based off of the first Magic Treehouse book.The students have latched on to the new words so much that anytime I read one in another context, say a read aloud, the kids shriek with glee-- no kidding.My first graders are happily using words like "muttered", "glance", "peer", "boldly", "cautiously", and more.

I love that the vocabulary instruction has made a huge impact, yet most days I didn't spend more than 5-10 minutes a day on it. (I mixed in some longer days here and there as well.)The instruction is SO FUN and not dull at all.

The only negative thing is that the lessons take a long time to plan and are implemented so quickly.In other words, it takes way longer to write a lesson than to implement it.That being said, these are lessons I will use year after year.If you've read this book and could use my Magic Treehouse Dinosaurs Before Dark unit, leave me a comment with your e-mail and I'll get it to you.

It would be ideal do have a few teachers write a few different unit studies and then share them.

Anyway, if you couldn't tell already, I just love this book, as it is one that REALLY HAS made an impact on my classroom teaching instead of just sitting on my shelf.(I have way too many of those!)

Oh, last thing-- while I am writing from the perspective of a 1st grade teacher, this book is relevant all the way up through high school.

Cutting Edge
If you want to know how to make your vocabulary instruction effective, regardless of age level, this is the book you need to read and use.Examples included. ... Read more

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The "slyly ironic, frequently hilarious"(Time) memoir about angels, academics, and a boy named Adam...

A national bestseller and an important reminder that life is what happens when you're making other plans.

Put aside your expectations. This "rueful, riveting, piercingly funny" (Julia Cameron) book is written by a Harvard graduate--but it tells a story in which hearts trump brains every time. It's a tale about mothering a Down syndrome child that opts for sass over sap, and it's a book of heavenly visions and inexplicable phenomena that's as down-to-earth as anyone could ask for. This small masterpiece is Martha Beck's own story--of leaving behind the life of a stressed-out superachiever, opening herself to things she'd never dared consider, meeting her son for (maybe) the first time...and "unlearn[ing] virtually everything Harvard taught [her] about what is precious and what is garbage."

"Beck [is] very funny, particularly about the most serious possible subjects--childbirth, angels and surviving at Harvard." --New York Times Book Review

"Immensely appealing...hooked me on the first page and propelled me right through visions and out-of-body experiences I would normally scoff at." --Detroit Free Press

"I challenge any reader not to be moved by it." --Newsday

"Brilliant." --Minneapolis Star-TribuneAmazon.com Review
Expecting Adam is an autobiographical tale of anacademically oriented Harvard couple who conceive a baby with Down's syndromeand decide to carry him to term.Despite everything Martha Beck and herhusband John know about themselves and their belief system, when Marthagets accidentally pregnant and the fetus is discovered to have Down'ssyndrome, the Becks find they cannot even consider abortion. The presenceof the fetus that they each, privately, believe is a familiar being named Adamis too strong. As Martha's terribly difficult pregnancy progresses, oddcoincidences and paranormal experiences begin to occur for both Martha andJohn, though for months they don't share them with each other. Martha'spregnancy and Adam (once born) become the catalyst for tremendous lifechanges for the Becks.

Focusing primarily on the pregnancy but floating back and forth between thepresent and recent and distant past, Martha Beck's well-written,down-to-earth, funny, heart-rending, and tender book transcends the cloyingtone of much spiritual literature.Beck is trained as a methodicalacademician. Because of her step-by-step explanation of her own progressfrom doubt to belief, she feels like a reliable witness, and even the mostskeptical readers may begin to doubt their senses.When she describes anout-of-body experience, we, too, feel ourselves transported to a pungent,noisy hawker center in Singapore. We, too, feel calming, invisible,supporting hands when she falls.Yet, whether or not readers believe inBeck's experiences is ultimately a moot point. There is no doubt thatAdam--a boy who sees the world as a series of connections between peoplewho love each other--is a tremendous gift to Beck, her family, and all whohave the honor of knowing him.--Ericka Lutz ... Read more

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An excellent, postive, heartening read
I would never want to disparage someone else's religious/spiritual experiences, so what Martha calls the "Bunkaru puppeteers" and "everyday magic," I would chalk up in my own life to being the guidance of Jesus, the Blessed Virgin Mary and guardian angels, so whether that makes me (as a devout Catholic) and Martha both crazed, I don't know. But I don't believe so. I've experienced enough odd and coincidental moments of signal grace myself to write Martha off as a head case or a liar.

I just accepted the book for what it was: a thoroughly readable story about a family who got some unexpected and unwelcome news about their unborn baby. Along the way, Martha and John had some experiences that let them know that everything was going to be all right: Adam was going to have Down syndrome, but he was going to be a valuable, loving and amazing person, even if he wasn't "perfect." Those experiences amazed and bewildered them, but also gave them courage.

And to me, that's what made this book one of my favorites: The Becks' courage. This book, in spite of the serious subject matter, was lighthearted and funny. I highly recommend it over The Year My Son and I Were Born: A Story of Down Syndrome, Motherhood, and Self-Discovery, which was a thoroughly depressing and morbid story. Choose this book and be uplifted in the midst of questioning one of life's rockiest moments - a frightening diagnosis about a child.

Take it with a grain of salt
I am giving this book two stars because it was highly readable.Did I want to keep turning the pages?Yes.But on the whole, I felt betrayed by the author.

First of all, although initially touching, the incidents of "other-wordly" communication soon became difficult to believe. I have no problem with the existence of a higher power or the serendipity that we find in our relationships with others, but as Beck's experiences became more frequent and more bizarre, I became convinced she was embellishing a little.Or a lot.

Secondly, the relationship with her husband John was portrayed as a deep, intense, boundless love.They were soulmates; they had telepathic experiences with one another when they were apart.Beck wrote in the acknowledgements, "I will never be able to fully express my love and appreciation for my husband John Beck, who is as indispensable to me as breathing." At best, Beck was delusional, and at worst, dishonest:She and John Beck divorced in 2004 after both came out publicly as gay.

"Expecting Adam" is a captivating story, but there are too many false notes for it to be accepted (or respected) as a "memoir."

LOVED this book!
I almost didn't read it because I thought it would be depressing, but I love Beck's coaching books which are funny and down-to-earth. I'm SO glad I didn't let my preconceptions stop me. I started reading and couldn't put it down.

This book isn't about learning to cope with an imperfect life, nor is it some hippy-dippy rhapsody about flowers amid the ruins. Beck and her husband had mystical experiences (similar to ones I've had) that point to a much deeper order in life. I think the part I liked best was when (not to do a spoiler) a Presence says to him something like, "You just don't understand how it works."

I'm a little mystified by the reviews that say it's too much about Beck herself, since what she chose to write about is what she chose to write about. (The title is not "Adam", after all.) Nor do I find the tone "whiny"; it's humorous and somewhat self-mocking. (I get the impression that some of those who said this think that those who go to Harvard aren't allowed to claim to have problems.)

If you have even the slightest bent towards believing in a greater Life behind life, READ IT.

Expecting Adam - Bursting with Anticipation on Every Page!
My wife had read this book & suggested I read it, too.Okay - I'll try a few pages.I was hooked from the forward on.Martha Beck has a style of writing that is so expressive, so packed with feeling and emotion that even a thinking man like me could feel it; I was brought to tears several times.This book documents a journey in life that few people take note of: Martha Beck has given a terrific, compassionate, informed and informing account of just what it is like to be expectant of a 'special' child.We bought copies to give to friends.

Simply Beautiful
Thank you Martha Beck for sharing your deeply moving and inspiring story of your journey with Adam.I have 3 children similar ages to Martha's children and from the very first page I was captivated with a world so different from mine (the challenges of Harvard, the pressures of being perfect, coming from a large competitive family and what it might be like to be told the fetus you are carrying has a disability - especially a disability so misunderstood).

Yet, at the same time, Martha's extraordinary writing provided me with a lens into that world.I was physically moved by her spiritual awakening and disgusted by the insensitivity shown by so many "smart" people. Quite simply, this is a book I didn't want to end.I look forward to recommending Expecting Adam to my friends who have not yet read this masterpiece. So many conversations can come from this book - parenting, societal expectations, spirituality, friendship, prejudice, special needs, loneliness and kindness. Expecting Adam has to make anyone who reads it pause (smell the bushes) and think about what is really important.
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Awesom
Product arrived in two days and was in mint condition. Very happy with this purchase.

This is on my must-read book list
This is the seventh one of these I've bought for a friend. It is a must-read book for those trying to figure out life. I love the book and Martha Beck's humor and insight make it easier to go through what can be sometimes difficult exercises for people.

steering by starlight
I have become a follower of Martha Beck's books after coming across a copy of Finding Your Own North Star in my local library.I decided to purchase my own copy through Amazon.com as there weren't any copies in my part of the world at that time.
While looking for Finding Your Own North Star on Amazon.com, I discovered Steering by Starlight and decided to get that from the library as well and after reading found that it was also a book that I wanted to own.
This book is sucintly written.It is humourous, warma and challenging.Martha Beck most definitely has a connection into the human and spiritual psyche and with her profound ability to translate her knowledge into words, makes her books a powerful transformational tool.
I recommend to anyone who is stuck or looking for a new way to think and be to read her books without delay.

Magnificent Book
This is one of the most amazing books I have ever read. Everyone has different things that they are attracted to, that work for them, and I feel like Martha Beck met with me for five years every day to find out exactly the book to write so that she could assist me via words in my evolution into incredible magnificence.

There are a wide variety of techniques, so you can pick and choose as you like. Many stories made me laugh out loud. Fun, wise, lighthearted, authentic. It is powerfully likely to inspire you to begin experiencing voluminous amounts of miracles in your life.
:-D

A Life Coach in my purse
I had originally read this book from the library but needed my own copy so that I could highlight, make notes and carry with me. ... Read more

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"Hello, you sick, twisted freak. My name is Glenn Beck. I'm glad you're here." Thus begins a typical day on the Glenn Beck Program. His spirited commentary is broadcast to millions of listeners every morning, making him the third-most popular talk radio host in America. He dominates in the realm of cable news as well, where his Fox News show is the third-most watched program. Glenn's detractors assume he is a typical Republican - perhaps a recasting of Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. If they listened or watched his show for just 15 minutes, they would quickly realize all their assumptions are wrong. Glenn Beck breaks the mold. He is one of the most unique participants in the political process.Glenn's personal story is remarkable. It includes tragedy at an early age, redemption at the brink of death, and success against all odds. He is an inspiring figure whether one agrees with his politics or not. ... Read more

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Good read, highly recommended!
A very insightful book about an interesting man. Short, concise and to the point. If you read this book, you will never again believe the nonsense being thrown around about Glenn Beck. At less than 100 pages, this book will only take a few minutes to read, but it contains enough information about what makes Glenn Beck tick that it should have a place in everyone's library. Beck does not fit in a neat little box, he is not against Democrats, nor is he for Republicans. As he says, he is for common sense.

Waiting for a better book
It appears that the author is summarizing the DVD "An Unlikely Mormon - The Conversion Story of Glenn Beck".Given the choice, I would only purchase the DVD.The book itself is less than 100 pages, and in rather large type.From the tenor of the writing, there is no interaction between the writer and Mr. Beck.In the final analysis, one is left with little insight into Mr. Beck's redemption.

A Man Who Made it Big Through Faith and Hard Work
Glenn Beck is a radio and television host, author, Mormon, conservative political commentator, and wealthy entrepreneur. He is the host of "The Glenn Beck Program," a national radio talk-show that airs throughout the USA on many major radio stations. Beck is also the host of a self-titled news and information show on Fox News TV Channel. Everything he touches turns to media gold. He's unique, humble, and compassionate.

Glen Beck is a deeply devoted member of the LDS church (Mormon), thus holds to their basic beliefs that faithful men can become gods and women can become goddesses as well as the core doctrine of Mormonism that God the Father is a progressed physical man. Beck says his LDS faith has changed his life and helped form his views. Beck has written five #1 New York Times-bestselling books. He has become a well-known public figure, whose provocative views that reflect a deep and abiding love for his country. He communicates in sincere, yet sometimes comedic manner and even at times combined with heart-felt emotions

This is a fine book if the reader desires a short introduction about Beck's:

- Start and success in Radio
- Hard-fought victory over addiction
- Rocket-rise of his nation impacting career.

This is a quick and easy read aimed at Beck's audience and his critics alike.
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Unauthorized biography?
It was pretty evident that the author didn't speak directly to Glenn Beck in order to put together this biography. He relied on interviews and writings by Beck.This book has little real information about Glenn Beck and not much substance.It was not worth the money it cost me.

hello America
This is a wake up call. This guy is humble and ferocious when it comes to saving our great nation ... Read more

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Adapted from the original bestselling novel, The Christmas Sweater: A Picture Book is the story of a young boy who finds the true meaning of Christmas in the most unlikely of places. Eddie wants a bicycle for Christmas, but his mother knits him a homemade sweater instead. His disappointment is obvious, but a magical journey makes Eddie realize that the sweater is far more than it seems. Ultimately it teaches him that the true meaning of a gift is that it is given with love. ... Read more

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WONDERFUL story!
I wasn't aware this book was out, and stumbled upon it last Christmas.I bought it for my 1 year old daughter, even though she's too young for it right now.It is truly a very great story, and the illustrations are wonderful.If you're looking for a book to buy for a child, this one is IT! I highly recommend it.

My son loves this book
My 4 year old loves this book. I don't know if it's the pictures or the story but he just sits there silent when we read this (which is rare for him). I also love Mr. Beck so it's a win win for us.

Excellent book for Children.
This is an excellent book for young children. It is a very interesting story with a good moral which is lacking in many books for children these days.

the best
Got this for my boys for christmas, they are great books every child should have one and my kids love it, shipping time ok.but worth waiting for.

Beautiful
I gave this as a gift to my grandhildren. It is their favorite book. Beautiful illustrations and what a gifted writer Glenn Beck is. Inspiring!! Beautiful gift to give any child as a keepsake they will treasure! ... Read more

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A detailed look at the technical pattern simply referred to today as the Gartley Pattern

Gartley patterns are based on the work of H.M. Gartley, a prominent technical analyst best known for a particular retracement pattern that bears his name. In recent years, Gartley patterns-which reflect the underlying psychology of fear and greed in the markets-have received renewed interest.

This definitive guide skillfully explains how to utilize the proven methods of H.M. Gartley to capture consistent profits in the financial markets. Page by page, you'll become familiar with Gartley's original work, how his patterns can be adapted to today's fast moving markets, and what it takes to make them work for you.

• Examines how to identify and profit from the most powerful formation in the financial markets
• Discusses the similarities, differences and the superiority of the Gartley Pattern compared to classical chart patterns including Elliott Wave
• Shows how to apply filters to Gartley patterns to improve the probability of your trading opportunities, as well as specific rules where to enter and exit positions

Gartley's pattern is based on a unique market position where most traders refuse to participate due to fear. This book reveals how you can overcome this fear, and how to profit from the most consistent and reliable pattern in the financial markets. ... Read more

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AWESOME TRADING BOOK!
Ross Beck did a great job to uncover how to profit from trading the gartley - a masterpiece!

Gartley Trading Method
After waiting for some 3 months to get this book after it release I found it a very light publication and from that perspective somewhat disappointing.

It fails to really get across the Gartley Pattern in its bullish and bearish forms.There are better explanations for free elsewhere on the internet.

Profitable Gartley Techniques
Ross Beck does a great job explaining everything you need to know about profitable Gartley techniques in his new book, The Gartley Trading Method. From comparing different Gartley Patterns to using Fibonacci, Ross covers it all. The case studies alone in Chapter 7 are worth the price of this book!

WowI Wish this book had been available when I started trading!
I could have done so much better if I had
had this book when I started trading.

Hopefully it will catch on and people
can save the kind of time and money
I wasted, until through Ross Becks teachings,
I was finally able see the bigger picture of
how the market works.

I took forex trading classeslast year
from Ross and I am happy he has made this
book available with his old and newest tips in it.

Most people who teach trading
give you bits and pieces. Listen to Ross Beck.
He is a real trader and is dedicated to teaching
forex with integrity and ability.

His work and teachings will put you on solid
ground. I am writing this reveiw because it
might help someone move ahead and bypass all
the useless detours I endured caused by lousy incompetent
forexteachers who just want to show off and
get your money. These peopledont teach enough of the
whole picture to keep you safe from bad mistakes.

Ross Beck book gives a good solidsafe map to follow.

Interesting but why such boring presentation?
In this day 'n' age and for this price, the book would really benefit from a bit of colour.Why is it all grey?Other than that it is an interesting read so far. ... Read more

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“I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling — quite literally a dead man walking — into camp and the shaky start of my return to life....”

In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. Rescuers who reached Weathers saw that he was dying, and left him.

Twelve hours later, the inexplicable occurred. Weathers appeared, blinded, gloveless, caked with ice — coming down the mountain as a “dead man walking.”

In this powerful memoir, Weather describes not only his escape from hypothermia and the murderous storm that killed nine climbers; he describes another journey, a life’s journey. This is the story of a man’s route to a dangerous sport and a fateful expedition, as well as the road of recovery he has traveled since.

In Left for Dead, we are witness to survival in the face of certain death, the reclaiming of a family and a life, and the most remarkable adventure of all: what we can do when we’re offered a second chance.
Amazon.com Review
Left for Dead is a deeply personal story, told in first person by a variety of people who contributed to the survival of Beck Weathers during the Everest accident of 1996 that left nine climbers dead. It goes past the tragedy to discuss why Weathers got involved in climbing in the first place, his lengthy and painful recovery, and the all-important relationship with his wife, Margaret (commonly referred to as Peach). Without Peach's hope and tenacity, it's likely that rescue efforts would not have been continued, and Weathers may never have recovered from the hypothermic coma and its dreadful results. The story of their relationship--they were estranged at the time of the accident--is told from both perspectives, and his obsession with mountains seems almost like another family member. The overall tone is straightforward and conversational: children, pets, and clothing feature as prominently as reconstructive surgery and heroic rescues. But no matter how plainly they are told, the events of that climb are sure to bring tears. Rob Hall's last conversation with his wife, climbers disappearing into the storm, Anatoli Boukreev's rescuing three people, and Weathers and climbing partner Yasuko being left for dead are just a few from a long list. Still, you'll find yourself laughing just pages later, when Weathers gets his rescue team to sing "Chain of Fools" while hiking back to safety--you can imagine Peach being in full agreement of that song's appropriateness. The Everest deaths affected people around the world, and this chronicle of one survivor and his family is a hopeful reminder of the good that can result from such tragedies. --Jill Lightner ... Read more

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Raw emotions and some climbing
The book isn't too bad and an easy read if you are bored for a weekend. I have read several mountaineering books and I was eager to get this one. I was somewhat less impressed with the account of the May 96' disaster on Everest in this book. Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, did a much more detailed job of this. But, I don't think that was Beck's purpose in writing this book. I think this was an attempt, a very good one I might add, to describe his emotions and feelings towards climbing and in particular how it affected his family. I appreciated the rawness of his writing. There are no hidden messages in the book, his life was falling apart and it took a near death experience at twenty some thousand feet to help put it all in perspective and he could then work to put it all back together. All in all good book and a descent author.

Amazing what the being is capable of!
Beck describes the unimaginable--a true inspiration from one's soul!Murder on Everest (A Summit Murder Mystery)

If you are looking for a good Everest book - THIS IS NOT IT!!
After reading Into Thin Air and The Climb I was anxious to find another viewpoint about the Everest disaster so I turned to this book.That was a mistake.I suffered through the family history at the beginning which is extremely dull.I felt cheered when I began to get to the part about Everest which was fine and going well until he began to malign Anatoli Boukreev.Many of his objections (climbing without oxygen - coming down the mountain quickly) I felt were just parroting what Jon Krakauer was saying.One wonders how Beck Weathers honestly had any idea what Anatoli was doing considering he spent most of his time sitting in one spot, snowblind, waiting for Rob Hall.It's interesting that he and Krakauer (both complete amateurs in high altitude climbing) feel the need to criticize someone that was considered one of the foremost experts in high altitude climbing.But let's get past that.After Beck complains about Anatoli not using oxygen (which actually would have left them even more short of oxygen than they already wore and more than likely would have caused at least one more death) claiming that, in effect, he was not properly caring for his clients, he then goes on to complain that Anatoli did not rescue he and Namba when he was rescuing the others.He puts it basically like this:Anatoli rescued Pittman, Fox and Madsen "(Mountain Madness Clients)" and left me and Yasuko "(Adventure Consultant clients)".So now we are to believe that Anatoli did not care properly for his clients by not climbing with oxygen but should have left his clients and rescued Beck and Yasuko?What sense does that make?

I wonder that Beck was not annoyed that Mike Groom (who had actually been with them for some time) walked off back to Camp IV without EITHER him or Namba??I wonder that Beck commended Rob Hall for staying with Doug Hansen knowing that he was likely to die also.I wonder that Beck doesn't come to the obvious conclusion (as anyone else should that has read anything about the Everest expedition) that Rob Hall should never have gone up to the summit with Doug Hansen at all and that in doing so, he chose to forego the well being of all his other clients (and guides!).But that obviously is not as big a crime as climbing without oxygen when oxygen was in short supply.

The real question should be:why did Beck even NEED to be rescued?When he realized he was snow blind he should have been returned to camp by one of the guides or the Sherpas.What kind of client care is it to tell your client to sit and wait while you go up to the summit and back down again (likely a period of possibly 12-16 hours) while your client cannot see and has no way to go up OR down the mountain????And then when you know you have a snow-blind client waiting for you to sit just under the summit with another client who is clearly not going to make it and refuse to leave??Rob Hall had 3 clients and one guide who desperately needed help and he chose to remain with only one client and leave everyone else to fend for themselves - causing the death of two and severe injuries to the third.What kind of client care is THAT??

Anyow, after I read that I could not in good conscience continue with the book.Beck Weathers probably needs to keep his opinions to himself regarding who did the right thing and the wrong thing on Everest and remember that the Mountain Madness team had all of its clients survive and with very little injury thanks mostly in part to Anatoli Boukreev.

Left for Dead whould be Left on the Shelf
I have read several books and many articles relating to the 1996 Everest disaster and was looking forward to reading Beck Weather's account.
Instead, we get a whiny, pathetic tale of poor little rich man who needs to indulge his every obesession and whim at the expense of his family and friends. Although his tale of survival on Everest is amazing, in the context of this book the reader will be amazed that Mr. Weathers lasted so long as to get to Everest in the first place.
The writing is horrible and self-serving, with interludes from various people in his life, including his wife and friends, many of which seem to have nothing nice to say about him.
Conversely, one may find it tough to relate to Mr. Weathers or those who interject themselves into the narrative, in particular his wife Peach whose life seemingly revolves around the gossip of other North Dallas housewives and standing a top a high perch of revolting moral righteousness [at one point, she acts like a divorce is akin to cold blooded murder]. About two-thirds of the way through the book I was hoping that somehow Mr. Weathers and his wife would both find themselves trapped in a hopeless cold, this time without such a happy ending.

disappointed
I was a little disappoined in this book.If you have read "Into Thin Air", you know how riveting it was, and it gave lots of details of the tragedy on Everett.Beck Weathers, in his autobiography, does not provide much more detail about what happened to him and how he survived.Worth reading, but i was looking for more. ... Read more

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A detailed look at the technical pattern simply referred to today as the Gartley Pattern

Gartley patterns are based on the work of H.M. Gartley, a prominent technical analyst best known for a particular retracement pattern that bears his name. In recent years, Gartley patterns-which reflect the underlying psychology of fear and greed in the markets-have received renewed interest.

This definitive guide skillfully explains how to utilize the proven methods of H.M. Gartley to capture consistent profits in the financial markets. Page by page, you'll become familiar with Gartley's original work, how his patterns can be adapted to today's fast moving markets, and what it takes to make them work for you.

• Examines how to identify and profit from the most powerful formation in the financial markets
• Discusses the similarities, differences and the superiority of the Gartley Pattern compared to classical chart patterns including Elliott Wave
• Shows how to apply filters to Gartley patterns to improve the probability of your trading opportunities, as well as specific rules where to enter and exit positions

Gartley's pattern is based on a unique market position where most traders refuse to participate due to fear. This book reveals how you can overcome this fear, and how to profit from the most consistent and reliable pattern in the financial markets. ... Read more

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AWESOME TRADING BOOK!
Ross Beck did a great job to uncover how to profit from trading the gartley - a masterpiece!

Gartley Trading Method
After waiting for some 3 months to get this book after it release I found it a very light publication and from that perspective somewhat disappointing.

It fails to really get across the Gartley Pattern in its bullish and bearish forms.There are better explanations for free elsewhere on the internet.

Profitable Gartley Techniques
Ross Beck does a great job explaining everything you need to know about profitable Gartley techniques in his new book, The Gartley Trading Method. From comparing different Gartley Patterns to using Fibonacci, Ross covers it all. The case studies alone in Chapter 7 are worth the price of this book!

WowI Wish this book had been available when I started trading!
I could have done so much better if I had
had this book when I started trading.

Hopefully it will catch on and people
can save the kind of time and money
I wasted, until through Ross Becks teachings,
I was finally able see the bigger picture of
how the market works.

I took forex trading classeslast year
from Ross and I am happy he has made this
book available with his old and newest tips in it.

Most people who teach trading
give you bits and pieces. Listen to Ross Beck.
He is a real trader and is dedicated to teaching
forex with integrity and ability.

His work and teachings will put you on solid
ground. I am writing this reveiw because it
might help someone move ahead and bypass all
the useless detours I endured caused by lousy incompetent
forexteachers who just want to show off and
get your money. These peopledont teach enough of the
whole picture to keep you safe from bad mistakes.

Ross Beck book gives a good solidsafe map to follow.

Interesting but why such boring presentation?
In this day 'n' age and for this price, the book would really benefit from a bit of colour.Why is it all grey?Other than that it is an interesting read so far. ... Read more

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“I can tell you that some force within me rejected death at the last moment and then guided me, blind and stumbling — quite literally a dead man walking — into camp and the shaky start of my return to life....”

In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on the mountain, ripping the team to shreds, forcing brave men to scratch and crawl for their lives. Rescuers who reached Weathers saw that he was dying, and left him.

Twelve hours later, the inexplicable occurred. Weathers appeared, blinded, gloveless, caked with ice — coming down the mountain as a “dead man walking.”

In this powerful memoir, Weather describes not only his escape from hypothermia and the murderous storm that killed nine climbers; he describes another journey, a life’s journey. This is the story of a man’s route to a dangerous sport and a fateful expedition, as well as the road of recovery he has traveled since.

In Left for Dead, we are witness to survival in the face of certain death, the reclaiming of a family and a life, and the most remarkable adventure of all: what we can do when we’re offered a second chance.
Amazon.com Review
Left for Dead is a deeply personal story, told in first person by a variety of people who contributed to the survival of Beck Weathers during the Everest accident of 1996 that left nine climbers dead. It goes past the tragedy to discuss why Weathers got involved in climbing in the first place, his lengthy and painful recovery, and the all-important relationship with his wife, Margaret (commonly referred to as Peach). Without Peach's hope and tenacity, it's likely that rescue efforts would not have been continued, and Weathers may never have recovered from the hypothermic coma and its dreadful results. The story of their relationship--they were estranged at the time of the accident--is told from both perspectives, and his obsession with mountains seems almost like another family member. The overall tone is straightforward and conversational: children, pets, and clothing feature as prominently as reconstructive surgery and heroic rescues. But no matter how plainly they are told, the events of that climb are sure to bring tears. Rob Hall's last conversation with his wife, climbers disappearing into the storm, Anatoli Boukreev's rescuing three people, and Weathers and climbing partner Yasuko being left for dead are just a few from a long list. Still, you'll find yourself laughing just pages later, when Weathers gets his rescue team to sing "Chain of Fools" while hiking back to safety--you can imagine Peach being in full agreement of that song's appropriateness. The Everest deaths affected people around the world, and this chronicle of one survivor and his family is a hopeful reminder of the good that can result from such tragedies. --Jill Lightner ... Read more

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Raw emotions and some climbing
The book isn't too bad and an easy read if you are bored for a weekend. I have read several mountaineering books and I was eager to get this one. I was somewhat less impressed with the account of the May 96' disaster on Everest in this book. Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, did a much more detailed job of this. But, I don't think that was Beck's purpose in writing this book. I think this was an attempt, a very good one I might add, to describe his emotions and feelings towards climbing and in particular how it affected his family. I appreciated the rawness of his writing. There are no hidden messages in the book, his life was falling apart and it took a near death experience at twenty some thousand feet to help put it all in perspective and he could then work to put it all back together. All in all good book and a descent author.

Amazing what the being is capable of!
Beck describes the unimaginable--a true inspiration from one's soul!Murder on Everest (A Summit Murder Mystery)

If you are looking for a good Everest book - THIS IS NOT IT!!
After reading Into Thin Air and The Climb I was anxious to find another viewpoint about the Everest disaster so I turned to this book.That was a mistake.I suffered through the family history at the beginning which is extremely dull.I felt cheered when I began to get to the part about Everest which was fine and going well until he began to malign Anatoli Boukreev.Many of his objections (climbing without oxygen - coming down the mountain quickly) I felt were just parroting what Jon Krakauer was saying.One wonders how Beck Weathers honestly had any idea what Anatoli was doing considering he spent most of his time sitting in one spot, snowblind, waiting for Rob Hall.It's interesting that he and Krakauer (both complete amateurs in high altitude climbing) feel the need to criticize someone that was considered one of the foremost experts in high altitude climbing.But let's get past that.After Beck complains about Anatoli not using oxygen (which actually would have left them even more short of oxygen than they already wore and more than likely would have caused at least one more death) claiming that, in effect, he was not properly caring for his clients, he then goes on to complain that Anatoli did not rescue he and Namba when he was rescuing the others.He puts it basically like this:Anatoli rescued Pittman, Fox and Madsen "(Mountain Madness Clients)" and left me and Yasuko "(Adventure Consultant clients)".So now we are to believe that Anatoli did not care properly for his clients by not climbing with oxygen but should have left his clients and rescued Beck and Yasuko?What sense does that make?

I wonder that Beck was not annoyed that Mike Groom (who had actually been with them for some time) walked off back to Camp IV without EITHER him or Namba??I wonder that Beck commended Rob Hall for staying with Doug Hansen knowing that he was likely to die also.I wonder that Beck doesn't come to the obvious conclusion (as anyone else should that has read anything about the Everest expedition) that Rob Hall should never have gone up to the summit with Doug Hansen at all and that in doing so, he chose to forego the well being of all his other clients (and guides!).But that obviously is not as big a crime as climbing without oxygen when oxygen was in short supply.

The real question should be:why did Beck even NEED to be rescued?When he realized he was snow blind he should have been returned to camp by one of the guides or the Sherpas.What kind of client care is it to tell your client to sit and wait while you go up to the summit and back down again (likely a period of possibly 12-16 hours) while your client cannot see and has no way to go up OR down the mountain????And then when you know you have a snow-blind client waiting for you to sit just under the summit with another client who is clearly not going to make it and refuse to leave??Rob Hall had 3 clients and one guide who desperately needed help and he chose to remain with only one client and leave everyone else to fend for themselves - causing the death of two and severe injuries to the third.What kind of client care is THAT??

Anyow, after I read that I could not in good conscience continue with the book.Beck Weathers probably needs to keep his opinions to himself regarding who did the right thing and the wrong thing on Everest and remember that the Mountain Madness team had all of its clients survive and with very little injury thanks mostly in part to Anatoli Boukreev.

Left for Dead whould be Left on the Shelf
I have read several books and many articles relating to the 1996 Everest disaster and was looking forward to reading Beck Weather's account.
Instead, we get a whiny, pathetic tale of poor little rich man who needs to indulge his every obesession and whim at the expense of his family and friends. Although his tale of survival on Everest is amazing, in the context of this book the reader will be amazed that Mr. Weathers lasted so long as to get to Everest in the first place.
The writing is horrible and self-serving, with interludes from various people in his life, including his wife and friends, many of which seem to have nothing nice to say about him.
Conversely, one may find it tough to relate to Mr. Weathers or those who interject themselves into the narrative, in particular his wife Peach whose life seemingly revolves around the gossip of other North Dallas housewives and standing a top a high perch of revolting moral righteousness [at one point, she acts like a divorce is akin to cold blooded murder]. About two-thirds of the way through the book I was hoping that somehow Mr. Weathers and his wife would both find themselves trapped in a hopeless cold, this time without such a happy ending.

disappointed
I was a little disappoined in this book.If you have read "Into Thin Air", you know how riveting it was, and it gave lots of details of the tragedy on Everett.Beck Weathers, in his autobiography, does not provide much more detail about what happened to him and how he survived.Worth reading, but i was looking for more. ... Read more

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Fantastic introduction to CBT
This was the first book I read for my first therapy practicum as a doctoral student and it provided a rock-solid foundation for cognitive-behavioral case conceptualization and treatment planning. Provided that you already have good basic clinical skills (or are learning them elsewhere), this book is all you need to get started doing CBT.

book
This is more of a text book than anything.Not a book for self help.It is a bit wordy and is sometimes needlessly convoluted.

Gives cause and cure for depression

Cognitive Therapy of Depression by Beck, A., A. Rush, B. Shaw, and G. Emert
1979. Guilford Press, NY This rather long, very detailed book is meant for professionals. However, many who suffer from depression can relate to much of what is described, especially in several chapters. This book was written in 1979 and many ideas we read about in self-help books originally came from these authors. It is widely accepted that Cognitive Therapy can control depression at least as good as antidepressants, and without all the chemical side effects that often occur. A recent study in the American Journal of Psychiatry revealed that many people stop taking their meds due to side effects and that medication often does not work especially the first time. Cognitive Therapy is a bright light for us depressives who do not get relief from medication or who suffer terrible side effects.
In a chapter entitled "Focus on Target Symptoms" we are given methods that can quickly alleviate the disabling parts of depression. Contrary to what many believe, prolong discussion of feelings can intensify the feelings. Such excessive "ventilation" of feelings often strains relationships with friends and relatives. To deal with "overwhelming problems" the patient could be asked what solutions he would offer to another person in a similar situation. Although depressed patients do sleep less than other people, many patients exaggerate the extent of the insomnia. If a person said he was awake all night, he was probably in a light sleep for a good part of the time. Depressed persons tend to make broad categorical judgments and show a typical all-or-nothing response to bad events. A good exercise is to try to list some possible benefits.

Of particular help is the chapter entitled "Depressogenic Assumptions." Depression is mostly a thinking disease. Cognitive therapy aims to correct negative thought patterns. This chapter goes to great depth explaining the many faulty beliefs that depressives cling to. Everyone with depressive moods will find themselves written about here. People who suffer frequent bouts of depression often hold high expectations for themselves; they believe that to be happy they must never make a mistake, must be accepted by all people at all times, and/or must be successful in whatever they attempt. These beliefs were acquired from childhood experiences or from the attitudes and opinions of peers or parents. A part of cognitive therapy is to identify the chief assumptions that lead people into depression. The patient must be actively involved in discovering these depression-producing ideas, simply pointing out dysfunctional thought processes is not effective. It must be noted that sometimes people have periods where their expectations are working; for example they may make the starting football team or make the cut for cheerleader. When experiencing success, the person is exuberant and becomes bonded to the idea of seeking high levels of success in order to be happy. To ensure high performance, that is to be larger than life, the depressive often develops many shoulds and rules of living.

Many people have belief systems organized around "justice" and "deserving." These sometimes work well, but the depressive goes overboard. One might believe that if one worked hard one should always succeed. However, how hard should one work? Also, what exactly is success? What does it mean to be good? One series of thoughts to understand this is given as: "When someone says, 'Dr. So-and-So is good,' what does that mean? Does it mean he is good in all realms of a medical doctor, or in special areas? Does it mean that he is a good clinician? Is he good with patients? Is he good at research? Is he good at emergencies? Or does it mean he is a good husband, father, neighbor, church member, and bridge player?"

Depressives need to train their minds at looking for alternative ways of viewing situations. Fairness is often a matter of personal opinion or bias. "The employee believes, 'I do the work around here. I produce the product. I should receive more money. It's not fair.'--while the owner believes. 'I produce the capital. I invested it. I took the risk. I should get more money instead of having to give it to workers.' In nearly ever case, fairness can be looked at from two or more points of view."

This book is not a quick, easy read. Rather, it is detailed and thought provoking. Some of us people with depression need thought-provoking ideas instead of simple instructions. If you worry and think a lot, you will love this book--but it might cause you to change your opinions and lose your depression.

Thinking Through Depression
Beck's approach to treatment of depression is both innovative and of long standing value. Opening the book to any page I find examples readily useable for group and individual therapy. Clearly written and easily understood. Excellent for all psychiatric related professionals. Readily able to be used by all levels of caregivers.

Keeps on ticking...............
I bought and read this book many years ago and found it very helpful. I read it again a few weeks ago and was again able to appreciate it's value. Aside from the dated research, and some of the debate regarding the use of anti-depressants, it remains as fresh and powerful and relevant today as it was when it was published. It is definitely a giant step in taking the mystery out of depression and I would recommend it to anyone who wishes to learn more about the nature and treatment of this illness. ... Read more

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Quite simply, test-driven development is meant to eliminate fear in application development. While some fear is healthy (often viewed as a conscience that tells programmers to "be careful!"), the author believes that byproducts of fear include tentative, grumpy, and uncommunicative programmers who are unable to absorb constructive criticism. When programming teams buy into TDD, they immediately see positive results. They eliminate the fear involved in their jobs, and are better equipped to tackle the difficult challenges that face them. TDD eliminates tentative traits, it teaches programmers to communicate, and it encourages team members to seek out criticism However, even the author admits that grumpiness must be worked out individually! In short, the premise behind TDD is that code should be continually tested and refactored. Kent Beck teaches programmers by example, so they can painlessly and dramatically increase the quality of their work. ... Read more

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TDD
The book was well written and used examples effectively to demonstrate the main concept.

I started out as a skeptic, researching only because my company stated that it was headed in that direction. I am a believer that this is a good methodology that can produce reliable results. So far it has saved me from some grief, although I am still learning the process.

An excellent introduction to TDD
Before this book, I was doing unit testing - test-after - and had not done any TDD. As a result of reading this book, I am now writing new code in a test-driven fashion - writing my tests first, as a sort of spec, then writing code to pass the tests. It's a great feeling, writing code and knowing that it is correct.

Test-Driven Development by Example is an introduction to the practice of test-driven design. The book explains the what, when, where, how, and why of TDD. Through some running examples, Kent Beck steps through the thought process of adding code and changing functionality after writing tests. The steps are explained clearly along the way.

Now for some minor nitpicking. Kent regularly shifts into mentioning things that aren't related to the subject matter; this gets a little annoying, since you're reading about TDD, not personal antics. Also, this book is very slim, and reads quickly. This is in some ways a good thing, but from another viewpoint it ends too soon. I was left wishing for more chapters. That makes this book an introduction to TDD, not an in-depth exploration of the subject.

The nitpicks aside, the book is a great read, an easy one, and it is a success in my view. I recommend it for anyone looking to start with TDD.

2 pages drawn out to 200 pages of bs
Remember back in college when you would come up with 2 pages of good material then bs it into 5 to meet the length requirement?This guy does it to make a 200 page book.
Test-Driven Development is not very complicated.You can fully understand it just reading the wikipedia article on it.This book doesn't explain much more than that.There are a ton of examples for just about any situation you can think of inside this book, but any decent programmer could just look at an example or two online and be just as well off.
This book would be most helpful to someone who has just started learning programming on their own (no degree or job experience), but this book is mostly just a waste of time.

Really not that good.
I was expecting quite a lot from this book, because it has been recommended so many people and organizations. However this was a disappointment. I feel TDD is important topic and way to go, but this book is not the one I would recommend to anyone. It's kind of reference book, but quite poor one.

Another silly development fad...
TDD "By Example" is a book that tries to persuade you to write tests before writing the code the tests test.In the first six chapters, the author takes you through an example of generating code through this method.Along the way, he makes several pertinent points:

1. His method has never been empirically studied to see if it helps or severely hurts the efficiency of the software development process (though the author is very interested to hear from anyone who finally DOES study his method, since he didn't have the time to do so himself, being too busy dreaming up new development processes to inflict on us).

2. His tedious, non-linear, haphazard, time-wasting (ed: my words) method is not meant to be followed precisely, but only meant to allow you to say you CAN do it that way.He makes this point numerous times.Fantastic dude, thanks. :/

I predict that this book will be purchased by software project managers both actual and wanna-be all throughout the software industry, and inflicted as a requirement on otherwise productive and smart engineers for several years to come.The final result will be projects woefully behind schedule, leading to inevitable 24-hour/7 day crunches, thereby twice punishing the engineers, and resulting in the whole silly process being dropped in the end.

Having said all this, I give the book two full stars: the english grammar is correct, and the punctuation well placed.The book is easy to understand, making it quite simple to dislike the content thereof.
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Much as Gail Sheehy did in Passages, Dr. Beck articulates a common signpost in women's lives, explaining the five stages which characterize how women arrive at their breaking point, how their age defines their experience, and how they can transcend crisis and move on to redefine their lives. ... Read more

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Excellent!
Excellent book!Well written!Well worth reading!Also read her book/bio expose of the Mormons...it is excellent as well...she is/was a professor & writes very well!

Paradoxed in NY
This book is fantastic--I've never read anything that explained so clearly why women feel so miserable about their choices in the land of infinate choice.It explains why feminism has never resolved basic life issues and why the alternatives to feminism are so unsavory.This book is for any woman who finds herself confused about life choices.Martha, you're the bomb!

The book I wish I had 20 years ago
I came up against conflicts and obstacles in my life as a 20-something woman--smart, good-looking, well educated, successful. I had no idea what kept hitting me. There were the reasons everybody cites, but there was something deeper that was insoluble, it seemed to me. I couldn't figure out why I was the only woman I knew who was stopped in her tracks, overwhelmed by the horror of people's expectations and everyone's acceptance of the fact that these expectations all contradicted each other. It was even worse in my 30s. Late 30s, I gave up.

Yup, this is it. This sidesteps all the quick-fix, superficial explanations about how to feel better and be more successful at X, Y, Z as a "modern woman". Most people who write those books have no idea what that is, even though they think they do. This book is funny, smart, honest, well-researched. It sidesteps the typical cliches and categories used by 99% of all who write about women's lives. For that alone, she should get a medal.

A lot of money, time, effort, and grief wasted over the decades in trying to come to the very conclusions Martha Beck describes, but at least that means I know the real thing when I see it. I'm so grateful I came across it. When you've identified the real problem, the solutions you come up with have traction. They work. What a gift, to be pointed in the right direction.

A woman's working manual
Apparently this book did not have the success that Martha Beck's subsequent books have had - perhaps the reason why it is out of print.I have read most of her books, but this one, in my view, surpasses them all; I regard it as a superlative working manual.I agree with previous reviewers that Beck is both scholarly and humorous, but I think the book's greatest strength is the way the author brings together so many women's stories - the rites of passage that we all need to know about for our own sanity.I go to this book not only for validation, but also for much needed refuelling.Beck's analogy of the chrysalis (although other authors have used it) is especially lucid, and is sufficiently empowering on its own.If, as a woman, you are on a personal "vision quest" this book is a great map.Find a second hand copy, and never let it go.

Awesome Beck!
I've read her most recent works and have immensely enjoyed the bright and kind wit of Martha Beck.This book is scholarly, hard-hitting and wise; I found myself nodding deeply more than once with a deep "Aha!" of recognition.She is nothing short of wonderful and her books are excellent! ... Read more

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The definitive, unauthorized biography of Jeff Beck! This well-researched, enlightening book positions Jeff Beck's astonishing achievements - like the pioneering of feedback - within the musical climate of the times. Chronicling his incarnations before and with the Yardbirds, the Jeff Beck Group and beyond, the book describes in detail: Beck's favored Fender guitars; passion for hot rods; relationships with Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy and other artists; love of rockabilly; recording collaborations ranging from Donovan to Tina Turner; landmark solo and instrumental work; and much more. Includes a wealth of personal, musical and historical detail, great photos, and a comprehensive discography. ... Read more

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A decent career review through the 90's
"Crazy Fingers" is a no-frills kind of biography. Focusing mostly onJeff's career and gear, as opposed to an obsessive character study, the author gives a nice overview of the artist and his work. If you are a long time fan of Mr. Beck, there is probably not a ton of new material here regarding his playing, although some of Carlson's speculative narrative is interesting regarding Jeff's career choices. The best aspect of this book is the detailed discography included at the end and a very enlightening documentation of Jeff's guest appearances on various sessions throughout. Be that as it may, it is the best text that I know of about one of the true giants of electric guitar.

Jeff Beck What Can I Say? He's the BEST of the REST....
Excellent read. Jeff Beck I discovered thru the group The Yardbirds. There is no better guitarist on the planet as far I'm concerned. The only thing that keeps him back from exceeding the Claptons and Stevie Ray Vaughan's is his recorded output and the fact he really doesn't sing; but he really doesn't have to.... He plays like no one else and he is what guitar is all about! He is an original and is very, very versatile to boot.

Sweet Beck Book
I was very pleased with this book, great reviews and insight spanning Jeff Beck's glorious and creative career. I could not put the book down and the unknown facts that I learned are priceless. It's a great tribute to one of the great real axmen of the guitar.

Crazy Fingers and More..
What an excellent book. I actually started it over as soon as I finished it the first time, it's that good. Having just seen the "Live at Ronnie Scotts" DVD I was absoloutely enthralled with Mr. Beck's style. I've played guitar for over 40 years and have never seen anything like his style. I've owned Blow by Blow and Wired since they came out but never realized just what he was doing until I saw him in the DVD. The book gives great insight into why he's not more of a household name and a zillionaire, he is who he is and what he wants to be. Seems like he's made some poor decisions on management and producers and sometimes just walks when he should have stayed, but then, he wouldn't be Jeff Beck would he. My only wish is that the book went past the early nineties but since that is when it was published it would be hard to include the future in the book. Quite intresting to me is the fact that Clapton, Page and Beck all grew up in a 12 mile radius of each other..must have been something in the water. Also quite intresting is the description of him building his first two guitars himself and the fact that to make the second one play in tune he just bent the strings till the chords sounded in tune to him. That's quite a feat for a beginner to understand and be able to do.
GET IT, you'll enjoy it.

All you need to know about Jeff Beck is here
If you are a fan, a musician, or only moved by sheer curiosity, I strongly recommend this book. Jeff is unique, and so is this excelent book."Crazy Fingers" covers with accuracy Jeff's life and career: the post war boy that listened to Buddy Guy ("Mr.Crazy Fingers" of the blues, himself),Chuck Berry, Scotty Moore (Elvis),Cliff Gallup (Gene Vincent)and Merle Travis; the precocious teenager creator of hard rock with The Tridents; the young Yardbirds' member that paved the way to the creation of Led Zeppelin; the experimental musician that messed with feedback, effects and oriental sounds even before Hendrix or George Harrison did; the mature jazz-rock player and today's genteel and restless guitar craftsman who reinvents his art everyday.A must have! ... Read more

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“Kent is a master at creating code that communicates well, is easy to understand, and is a pleasure to read. Every chapter of this book contains excellent explanations and insights into the smaller but important decisions we continuously have to make when creating quality code and classes.”

–Erich Gamma, IBM Distinguished Engineer

“Many teams have a master developer who makes a rapid stream of good decisions all day long. Their code is easy to understand, quick to modify, and feels safe and comfortable to work with. If you ask how they thought to write something the way they did, they always have a good reason. This book will help you become the master developer on your team. The breadth and depth of topics will engage veteran programmers, who will pick up new tricks and improve on old habits, while the clarity makes it accessible to even novice developers.”

–Russ Rufer, Silicon Valley Patterns Group

“Many people don’t realize how readable code can be and how valuable that readability is. Kent has taught me so much, I’m glad this book gives everyone the chance to learn from him.”

–Martin Fowler, chief scientist, ThoughtWorks

“Code should be worth reading, not just by the compiler, but by humans. Kent Beck distilled his experience into a cohesive collection of implementation patterns. These nuggets of advice will make your code truly worth reading.”

–Gregor Hohpe, author of Enterprise Integration Patterns

“In this book Kent Beck shows how writing clear and readable code follows from the application of simple principles. Implementation Patterns will help developers write intention revealing code that is both easy to understand and flexible towards future extensions. A must read for developers who are serious about their code.”

–Sven Gorts

“Implementation Patterns bridges the gap between design and coding. Beck introduces a new way of thinking about programming by basing his discussion on values and principles.”

–Diomidis Spinellis, author of Code Reading and Code Quality

Software Expert Kent Beck Presents a Catalog of Patterns Infinitely Useful for Everyday Programming

Great code doesn’t just function: it clearly and consistently communicates your intentions, allowing other programmers to understand your code, rely on it, and modify it with confidence. But great code doesn’t just happen. It is the outcome of hundreds of small but critical decisions programmers make every single day. Now, legendary software innovator Kent Beck–known worldwide for creating Extreme Programming and pioneering software patterns and test-driven development–focuses on these critical decisions, unearthing powerful “implementation patterns” for writing programs that are simpler, clearer, better organized, and more cost effective.

Beck collects 77 patterns for handling everyday programming tasks and writing more readable code. This new collection of patterns addresses many aspects of development, including class, state, behavior, method, collections, frameworks, and more. He uses diagrams, stories, examples, and essays to engage the reader as he illuminates the patterns. You’ll find proven solutions for handling everything from naming variables to checking exceptions.

This book covers

• The value of communicating through code and the philosophy behind patterns
• How and when to create classes, and how classes encode logic
• Best practices for storing and retrieving state
• Behavior: patterns for representing logic, including alternative paths
• Writing, naming, and decomposing methods
• Choosing and using collections
• Implementation pattern variations for use in building frameworks

Implementation Patterns will help programmers at all experience levels, especially those who have benefited from software patterns or agile methods. It will also be an indispensable resource for development teams seeking to work together more efficiently and build more maintainable software. No other programming book will touch your day-to-day work more often.

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Good Extra Credit
-Motivation-

The author is Kent Beck. That alone merits at least a thumb-through of any book. Beck's self-described premise of this book is that "good code matters." He goes on to state his goal of showing us how to communicate ideas better in code.

-Cons-

This book tackles a subject that is not quite as crucial as some others. Beck says, "This book fits somewhere between Design Patterns and a ... language manual." I agree with him, but need to slide a few more in there after Design Patterns, and before this one. It's almost like a coding standard on crack. This doesn't make it bad, but it's basically in the back of the line of books that a good software engineer should read and understand.

-Pros-

As with most patterns books, this one shines a light on things that experienced developers have done for years, but maybe without thinking about why. Sometimes just being forced to think about these habits is valuable, even if you may not agree with the author's conclusions. Beck does a good job of giving us technical bits (the actual patterns) with values and principles used to guide the decision making.

One example of a pattern is Parameter Object. Here beck describes the practice wrapping parameter lists in objects and passing the composite object instead. This is something we've all done at some point for a few possible reasons. Beck just brings the issue to the forefront to make us think about when exactly to do this.

An example of one of the principles Beck uses as a guide is Symmetry. He tells us, "Symmetry in code is where the same idea is expressed the same way everywhere it appears in code." This guides us from naming variables to, say, consistently applying patterns like Parameter Object when our method parameter lists get too long.

-Summary-

This is a good book. But if I liken my bookshelf to shelf of different grit of sandpaper, this is a very fine grit: you should only use this after you've completed the coarser stuff.

Much Fluff little Stuff
I agree with boththe reviewer who said "An experienced programmer has already figured out this general advice by himself, but the level of abstraction and detail is too terse to be useful to a beginner." and the reviewer who thought the title of the book should be "how to write readible, maintainable code".Buy a good java book instead.

Good book on how to communicate effectively with the code
The book contains a number of low-level programming techniques for improving design of a program. Kent Beck is grand master of programming and a great communicator. If there is one thing you can learn from this book is to communicate design effectively with the code. The book is fairly concise and consists of ten chapters and 130 pages.

Due to his pioneering work in design patterns, Kent uses patterns to identify common programming techniques and similar to his extreme programming style for agile development he divides those techniques into values, principles and patterns. The values focus on high level goals such as communication, simplicity, flexibility. The principles focus on local consequences (minimize side-effect), DRY, keeping data/logic together, symmetry, decalartive (annotations), rate of change (Reuse/Release Equivalency Principle).


The chapter 5 describes different ways of organizing the code using classes, interfaces, versioned interface, abstract class, value object, etc. Kent shows importance of dependency inversion principle of coding to interfaces. He provides trade-offs between interfaces and abstract class such as change in implementation and change of the interface itself. One of the hardest thing in real world is progression of interfaces with new behavior and Kent describes versioned interface for it. Kent also encourages use of value or immutable objects to make the program side-effect free as in functional languages. He bemoans procedural interfaces due to temporal depdency they impose. Inheritance is also most difficult to get right, so Kent gives a lot of advice on that to make sure subclasses follow Liskov Substition Principle. Kent describes discourages use of conditional logic and encourags delegation technique based on polymorphism. He also shows pluggable selector briefly to implement plugin like behavior. Finally, he discourages of use of library classes with static methods and encourages use of instance methods.

The chapter 6 describes patterns for state such as access, variables, parameters, initializations, etc. Unlike functional languages that don't allow mutable state, imperative languages have to manage state that changes over time. Kent prefers indirect access to the state rather than direct especially when there is dependency between multiple pieces of data. Kent prefers keeping scope of variables local. This chapter also gives good advice on naming variables and parameters. Finally, this chapter describes techniques for eager and lazy initialization.

The chapter 7 describes patterns for control flow, methods and exceptions. In object oriented languages messages are fundamental mechanism for controlling workflow and communicating with the objects. Kent also describes technique for double dispatch (similar to visitor pattern) that provides polymorphic behavior but at the cost of additional coding and maintenance overhead. Other topics include providing guards, naming method and exception handling.

The chapter 8 describes how to divide logic into methods. The chapter describes composed method for calling other methods. It encourages use of symmetry and having same level of abstraction for called methods. Kent also shows use of Method object or Function object that mimics functional style of programming. This chapter also describes conversion methods, factory methods, getter/setter methods and advice of returning copy from the methods instead of internal references.

The chapter 9 describes collections such as arrays, lists, sets, map.

The final chapter describes how to evolve frameworks without breaking the applications. Kent borrows a lot of his experience from JUnit framework and Eclipse (his buddy Eric Gamma). One of interestic topic is how to use objects and the chapter provides three styles including instantiation, configuration and implmentation. Kent shows how implementation technique allow clients to implement a framework interface and extend behavior. Kent also describes trade-offs of extending interfaces and using specialized interfaces as used by AWT (LayoutManager2). The chapter also offers advice on use of internal classes by clients and how they can be instantiated using constructors, factories, etc.

This book shows a lot of techniques and patterns that most experienced programmers knowingly or unknowningly use on daily basis. Nevertheless, it helps to review these techniques and some trade-offs for them. Though, I wish the book gave a lot more examples and described antipatterns as I often found most of the topics a bit dull.

Principles for Maintainable Code
The title is misleading, as the book really isn't "Patterns."This is a good terse summary of principles to apply when writing code that others will need to work with.

While the book is light on details or examples, reading it can help you consider what coding and micro design conventions to apply to make your code more readable.

This is a good companion to Bob Martin's Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series), as Martin and Beck, excellent coders both, sometimes make opposite recommendations about the same situations. These contrasts drive home the point that rules for good code need to be considered, not just accepted without thought.

A mandatory reading for all software developer
Most of the patterns are just common sense but in this case you will also get a practical explanation of its importance. The content's structure is very appropriate; each pattern is explained in concise way, with real world examples and some code snippets. ... Read more

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As an animal-talent fairy, there’s nothing Beck likes better than speaking Bird, or Chipmunk. So when a conflict breaks out between the hummingbirds and the chipmunks, she steps forward to act as a mediator, but nothing she says seems to help. Will Beck be able to bring peace to the animals? ... Read more

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War And Peace in Pixie Hollow
Beck And The Great Berry Battle"
Written by Laura Driscoll
Illustrated by Judith Holmes Clarke
(Random House, 2006)
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The first book in Disney's Tinker Bell-related Pixie Hollow series to feature Beck, an "animal-talent" fairy with a heart of gold.Beck, who can speak to animals, gets in the middle of a turf war between the hummingbirds and chipmunks, practicing shuttle diplomacy as they critters pelt one another with berries. The anti-war message is simple, but soft -- no blood is shed, but everyone in Neverland is shocked by the bad behavior on each side. Although this isn't the best dramatic narrative in the Pixie Hollow series, it could be a good springboard for conflict resolution-oriented discussions, and talking about how misunderstandings can lead to big problems if left unchecked. Worth checking out. (Joe Sixpack, ReadThatAgain children's book reviews

Beck and The Green Berry Battle
A very good read for the personj it was bought for. She, my Grandaughter, was pleased with the book.

We LOVE this series!!!
We own all of this series!Started reading them when my daughter was 4 (she just turned 5 now), and they are age appropriate.Not too scary and always a happy ending.One book only takes us about 4-5 nights worth of reading together.The longer ones are good too "Fairy Dust and the Quest for the Egg" and "Fairy Haven and the Quest for the Wand", but they are a little bit scarrier than the short books (more appropriate for ages 5-7 I would think).

A Lovely story
My girls (3 and 4) LOVE these fairy books - my 4 year old reads them over and over and both love for me to read them out loud!

Beck and the Great Berry Battle review by StoryMaker
Never Land is a magical island very far away from this planet. You probably have heard of it before. You probably have seen movies about it or read books about it or both. As you should know, in Never Land you never grow old. And you probably have heard something about fairies living there, or something of the sort. Well, now you can learn more about the mystical Never Fairies. Learn their talents, abilities and personalities in the Disney Fairies chapter book series!

So far this is the first and only Disney Fairies chapter book I've read. However, I plan on reading as many as I can! Usually books don't hold my attention span very long and after the first few chapters, I stop and forget it. However, this was very captivating! I read it in a single sitting! Lots of things happen in the plot. Speaking of plot, I think I'll summarize it.

Beck is an animal-talent fairy. She understands the twitters, chatters, squeaks, and wimpers of animals and recognizes them as a language. She is one of the best animal-talent fairies there is, in fact. One of her friends is a hummingbird named Twitter. Twitter has a frantic personality and often calls for Beck, saying it's an "emergency". Almost always it turns out to be nothing alarming. However, not this time. A nest disappears - and the birds suspect the chipmunks nabbed it. Soon, every time a chipmunk walks by a blackberry bush, hummingbirds are flinging juicy berries everywhere and splatting everyone (not just chipmunks!) with dark purple juice. Finally the chipmunks decide to fight back. A huge war broke out! Can Beck help them to be at peace once again?

Pretty exciting, huh? Well that's not even the half of it. Lots of other things happen - you'll just have to read it yourself! The illustrations are also quite splendid. The animal pictures are touching and the expressions are great! This book is really good and even if it's not selling for cheap, it's worth the price! Signed, StoryMaker. "Gotta trust the kid's review!" ... Read more

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World-renowned psychiatrist Dr.Aaron T. Beck, widely hailed as the father of cognitive therapy, presents a revolutionary and eye-opening look at destructive behavoir in Prisoners of Hate.  He applied his established principles on the relationships bewteen thinking processes and the emotional and behavoiral  expressions to the dark side of humanity.  In fascinating detail, he demonstrates that basic components of destructive behavoir-domestic abuse, bigotry, genocide, and war-share common patterns with everyday frustrations in our lives.  A book that will radically alter our thinking on violence in all its forms, Prisoners of Hate, provides a solid framework for remedying these crucial problems.

Customer Reviews (10)

Had Some Problems With This Book
The author discusses (p.182-3) the psychological factors that led to the Holocaust, but he does not mention Stanley Milgram's "Obedience To Authority" experiments/explanation, instead he (note 20, p.309) writes that the "Obedience To Authority" experiments are probably not valid because they utilized deception. He cites a study "Probing Suspicion Among Participants in Deception Research" American Psychologist (1996). The author (Beck) implies that Milgram's subjects actually knew that they were not inflicting any harm on the "learner." However he presents no evidence to support this conclusion. He just cites the article, which refers to another experiment. Neither the author (Beck) nor the study examined Milgram's "Obedience To Authority" experiments to determine if any of Milgram's subjects realized that they were being lied to. This is pretty thin gruel. Incredibly the author relies on other studies that utilize deception, for example (note 25, p.319) "The Robbers Cave Experiment: Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation." This study utilized deception, yet the author (Beck) writes nothing about it/doesn't question its validity. Why? Is it possible that the author dislikes Milgram's "Obedience To Authority" experiments because they contradict his ideas?

The author writes (p.52) that some people have "shaky self-esteem," a (p.53) "vulnerable self-image," and (p.47) "fragile self-esteem." He writes that people should/can have a "stable positive image" of themselves (p.54). Throughout the book, the author seems to demonize people who have self-esteem or self-image vulnerabilities, but doesn't everyone have some kind of vulnerability of this type?

The author writes (p.33) that people "unwittingly construct a phantom world" composed of people "poised to dominate, deceive, and exploit us." He implies that domination, deception, and exploitation are relatively rare. In a capitalistic, competitive, self-interested, individualistic, somewhat sadistic culture like our own, these things are common, not rare.

The author writes (p.38) that psychological harms such as "disparagement, domination, and deception" do not "constitute dangers to [our] physical well-being or survival." It seems to me that repeated/prolonged psychological harm/stress can cause massive physical damage to our health. I believe that many studies have demonstrated this. I entered "psychological stress and disease" into Google and got an article from the Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 298 No.14, October 10, 2007), which maintains that psychological stress does indeed damage people's physical health. Many of the other articles listed say the same thing. Did the author do any research on this topic before he wrote this book?

The author writes (p.67) that people can have stable, positive views of themselves & stable high self-esteem that need not fluctuate according to life events. This seems like self-delusion/unlikely. Everyone's self-esteem & self-image fluctuates according to life events. People can't go through multiple traumatic events without their self-esteem & self-image being affected. Throughout the book, the author postulates the existence of people who have no psychological vulnerabilities at all. This seems like reification, turning an abstract concept into a rock-solid reality.

I do agree with the author that cognitive issues have to be addressed, if hate, anger, and violence are to be diminished.

Terrible Condition
This product was not even close to the same condition that it was advertised. Seller also not very helpful.

A Solid Philosophical Underpinning for Anger Management
Court-mandated anger management courses for first-time offenders deferred from imprisonment for law-breaking aggression became a necessary safety valve for overloaded court and incarceration systems in the late 1990s. It's taken a decade to move from loose notions of what to do in such group work through various suspect methodologies towards empirically verified methods.

If deferees are to move through denial to more than mere contemplation or identification and on to committment, behavioral change and relapse prevention, they will pretty likely have to confront the issues addressed herein. Any effective rage-reduction program will require psychodynamic, group dynamic, self-confrontation and emotion-recognition techniques, of course. But if, as Beck has asserted and researchers have agreed for a half century, man's beliefs, values, ideas, attitudes, evaluations, interpretations and appraisals are the drivers of emotion, a cognitive strategy for anger management is mandated.

One of the other reviewers is correct to note that other books (including those by Beck himself) address the specific methods more directly, but having read a good 20 books on CBT, REBT, ST, CAT and other cognitive therapies, I'm forced to go this far: Any therapist who conducts anger management courses without reading this book at least twice is going to be well short of his or her potential. In fact, I'd say PoH should be mandated for certification in this specialty.

Psychodynamically- and sociologically-oriented therapists will not be displeased. Beck invests plenty of time and effort in ego defenses and groupthink. He also addresses the concerns of the interpersonal school when it comes to reciprocal reactivity and parataxical integration, as well as who the triggerable select for intimate relationships and why.

From passive aggression all the way to paranoid delusion, Beck misses darned little in a treatise that ranges from intrapsychic all the way to macro-cultural. This a -great- book for the psychotherapist, sociologist, business or government leader, diplomat, and sophisticated lay reader alike.

Amazing
This book has given me a new perspective on my life.Being a person who has often spells of intense anger.I have managed to refrain from physical violence for a long time now.This book helped me take the "edge off".It has also helped me with border line personality disorder and depression by highlighting, what I interpreted, as causes of both.I highly recommend this book to anyone who gets angry or would just like a good book to read.

Micro and Macro Effects of Hate
Very good book with respect to personal struggles resulting from hate.The Macro issues of nation against nation, while informative, were not the reason I purchased the book. ... Read more