Looking Out From Under the Hat

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The rough, tough drill sergeant is an American icon. We have seen him in a hundred movies, turning new recruits into trained GIs. This book takes us behind the scenes and shows us the real world of the drill sergeant. These men are superbly trained athletes; they do everything they ask their recruits to do and do it better, faster, for longer, and they make it look easy. They know the "Army Way," and instill it into their men.

There is a human side to the drill sergeant also. These men are intensely competitive and have all the usual conflicts inherent in such a demanding job. Their training methods are harsh but effective. Slowly they build up competence and confidence in their men and a unique trust grows between sergeant and soldier. These are men you will not easily forget.

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A must read!!.......2006-08-11

This is a great book with a lot of good insight into the day to day life of a drill sergeant.

Great Insight to Drill Sergeant Duty.......2003-10-30

Great insight to what goes on with a Drill Sergeant in the day to day operations while training young civilians to become soldiers. Reading this one can see how this Drill Sergeant (and others) think about the job, mission, and others around him. I recommend this book for all former Drill Sergeants, soon to be Drill Sergeants, and soon to be recruits.

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This is a catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater collection of rare books dealing with 'popular medicine' in early American which is housed at the University of Rochester Medical School library. The books described in the catalogue were written by physicians and other professionals to provide information for the non-medical audience. The books taught human anatomy, hygiene, temperance and diet, how to maintain health, and how to cope with illness especially when no professional help was available. The books promoted a healthy lifestyle for the readers, giving guidance on everything from physical fitness and recreation to the special health needs of women. The collection consists of works dealing with reproduction (from birth control to delivering and caring for a baby), venereal disease, home-nursing, epidemics, and the need for public sex education. These books, covering areas largely ignored by the medical profession, made important contributions to the health of the American public, and the collection is a vital piece of medical history. The collector is Edward C. Atwater, professor emeritus of medicine and the history of medicine at the University of Rochester Medical School.Christopher Hoolihan is History of Medicine Librarian at the University of Rochester Medical School's Edward G. Miner Library.

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A superb resource for researchers in intrinsic motivation.......2003-04-20

For anyone researching or writing in the area of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation this is an invaluable resource. The first chapter gives a detailed overview of Self-Determination Theory and its sub-theories from the theory's originators, Deci & Ryan. Subsequent chapters by a range of distinguished researchers provide detailed literature reviews linked to theory in a variety of contexts, notably education and the workplace. This book has saved me probably hundreds of hours of searching and interpreting the research literature in this field the hard way! Although certainly an academic text, I didn't find it too dry. Most of the authors write well and their enthusiasm for the subject shines through, (although perhaps this was my impression because I feel the same way!). Highly recommended.

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Raising thriving, emotionally healthy sons does not require a man around the house! That's the conclusion of a groundbreaking research study that will open eyes, stir debate, and reassure nearly 10 million single mothers. As the number of single-mom and two-mom households has grown, so have concerns about the possible damage to boys caused by the lack of a male role model in the house. Peggy F. Drexler, Ph.D., listened to all the dire warnings; but her training as a research psychologist told her she had to see the evidence. So she embarked on a long-term study comparing boys raised in female-headed families with those whose fathers were present throughout their childhood. What Dr. Drexler discovered is as heartening as it is startling:

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Utter claptrap.......2007-10-01

This schlock was recommended by an acquaintance and I'm stunned. It's simplistic and often silly without really saying much of anything. It is a book of assumptions and common sense and the only people who would need to read it are those so out of the mainstream, such as a rich professor of psychology, and not those that are actually raising children without a partner. There are few if any citations to speak of, and essentially I found this book to be a complete waste of time.
Reader beware, you have been warned.

Hogwash.......2007-09-16

Absolute hogwash and drivel. The author projects her own unresolved issues with her father on to every case study and creates fantastic conclusions based on shoddy and inaccurate science

could we have a balanced review?.......2007-02-16

I'm more stunned by the reviews than by the book. I think the book has interesting information and a valid perspective that isn't heard often.

But to understand that, one needs to actually read the book and also to understand sociological methods of study - studying human experience is not like studying cause and effect in a lab. One also needs to hear and grasp the difference between studies on boys with fathers who have abandoned them - the studies most often cited and associated with stats about the negative effects of not having a father - and this study which is on boys who do not have a father in the picture and never have. In this way, this is new research.

The book doesn't, to me, say that men are not necessary to boys - in fact the author spends a great deal of the book talking about how boys who do not have fathers get access to (and are encouraged by their "maverick moms" to get access to) men and male role models. She finds this to be of benefit for the boys.

She does also say that, based on this research, she sees boys being raised in this specific circumstance (boys without fathers who have abandoned them and who are being raised by a mom or moms) doing very well and developing in a very balanced and healthy manner.

My issue with the book is two-fold. I'd like to see more research and a follow-up with the subjects of her research - I think that would lend itself to a stronger work.

I also just found the writing to be generally unorganized and a bit repetitive. This was very distracting to me as I read.

So interesting information - would like more research and more data - writing itself only so-so.

Shoddy research.......2007-01-15

Drexler seems to forget that anecdotal evidence cannot be used to justify the type of claims she's making in this book, which is riddled with biased sample and hasty generalization fallacies. Drexler makes sweeping statements about the efficacy of single mother parenting without even attempting to clearly define her definition, let alone establish a double blind study or make any other attempt whatsoever to compensate for her bias. Instead, she relies on anecdotal evidence supplied by individuals who were clearly selected based on whether or not their stories support her conclusions.

An Excellent and Much-Needed Book.......2006-11-17

It is inarguable that basic types of families in this country have changed drastically in the last few decades. Whether your politics are from the left or the right, whether you accept these new varieties of family with liberal openness, or reject them with conservative parsimony, you cannot dispute that they exist. As Peggy Drexler informs us in her book Raising Boys Without Men, "The U.S. Census Bureau recently reported that only 23.5 percent of households in the United States now contain...the Father Knows Best kind [of families], with a married mom and dad and their children."

For those of you who are math challenged, that means less than a quarter of all homes have what we used to think of as a normal (i.e. the classic nuclear) family. Drexler also mentions that half of all marriages will end in divorce, and forty percent of babies are born out of wedlock (an interesting word which has nothing to do with padlocks, but rather comes from the Old English wedd for pledge and lâc, a suffix expressing activity). "The number of families headed by single mothers increased 25 percent between 1990 and 2000, to more than 7.5 million households."

Plainly speaking, families are way more diverse than they used to be. Because advances in medicine and technology (artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization) have allowed for the role reduction of previously-thought-to-be-essential partners in reproduction (i.e. men), and because increasing numbers of women are either having children in lesbian couples; remaining as divorced and single parents; having children without getting married in the first place; adopting; or otherwise finding ways to have and raise children without men, an increasing number of families simply contain no male parent. Dr. Drexler refers to all of these kinds of mothers-without-men by the term "maverick moms."

The book is explicitly intended to challenge the "tide of opinion and the research arguing that boys need fathers in order to grow to manliness." It is a laudable goal, and mostly Dr. Drexler succeeds. Apparently there are lots of folks out there who believe that without men around, the sons of maverick moms will become warped, perverted, sissified, or (any contradiction here?) "violent, drug-using hellions...boys who present no positive maleness, all due to the combination of Mom's presence and Dad's absence." The idea that "two women could raise a boy to a man without warping his manhood...challenges the preconceptions of social scientists, health care professionals, judges, politicians, pundits, and parents."
One of my quibbles with the book is that too often, instead of citing actual and specific sources, Dr. Drexler cites vague things like "the tide of opinion," or "recent studies," or unnamed "researchers," which to my mind is too much like saying "people say that..." (or, only marginally better: "scientists say that"). I believe she does her thesis and her political position a disservice by being so fuzzy and nebulous with both supporting and opposing statements and data. It would have done this book great benefit had Dr. Drexler actually shown us some of these folks she is arguing with in absentia and told us what they actually said. Otherwise, they seem like straw men.

The mother is supposed to be responsible for everything her son is and will become. It's as if she holds all the cards. If she's a good mother, her son will turn out okay. If she's a bad mother, she winds up with a bad son. And, curiously enough, the father plays a minor role in taking the blame for the problems the children may have. It's a double bind for moms because fathers seem to carry much less responsibility for the problems their sons may have, but in the popular culture of today, they are considered absolutely essential to raising good sons.

Dr. Drexler is quite up front about her intentions and political viewpoint. She believes there is no reason boys cannot grow up to be terrific, balanced, successful (by any standard you might imagine) men, even in households that lack a paternal male presence. She points out that what is of basic and paramount importance is good parenting, and not the gender of the parent(s). She asserts that "The number of times you eat dinner with your kids is a better guide to how well they'll turn out than the number or gender of the parents at the dinner table." And further that parental socioeconomic status will be a stronger predictor of how well kids will do than "almost any other index of child welfare." Which leaves me wondering about that "almost." What is a stronger predictor?

In addition to doing extensive research of the literature on maverick mom childrearing--her doctoral dissertation was on whether and how sons of lesbian mothers developed moral character "without the presence of a moralizing father figure"--Dr. Drexler also did what anthropologists call "participant observation" and what Anna Freud called "direct observation" of children and their maverick moms. She spent several years observing, interviewing, spending time with a great many of these mothers and their sons. Her interactions and conversations with the boys are sprinkled throughout the book, and sometimes seem cute, funny, illustrative and true, but sometimes seem a bit forced and too much like filler, as though she needed to water down the more academic-y material in order to make this a more popularly palatable work.

One of her findings that should come as no surprise to anyone but the most sightless and bigoted of reactionary fundamentalists, is that children of maverick moms are overwhelmingly planned for in comparison with the general population of children with both a mother and a father. Their children "are thought about and brought into the world with care and preparation." Parents who make these kinds of conscious and deliberate decisions tend to be older than couples who merely become pregnant without forethought and planning. This in turn means that "lesbian mothers tended to be better educated and more financially secure than average moms." (Recall the paragraph above regarding the socioeconomic status of parents.)

What might come as a surprise to many is that not only do boys in such (no-longer-so) unorthodox families tend to do well, they actually seem to do significantly better than the average boys from so-called "normal" families! Let me state that again for those of you who missed it. Boys raised by maverick moms tend to do better, on average, than boys from so-called "normal" families. Really.

One of the contributing factors to the relative success of these boys is another counterintuitive fact: boys in fatherless families, tend to have a greater number of male role models than boys who actually have a male parent in the house. This is because both the boys themselves and their maverick mothers tend to look for other kinds of males to sit in for the missing fathers. The boys and/or their mothers tend to grab onto coaches, male teachers, neighbors, fathers of their friends, and so on. But the effect of this is that the boys seem to actually spend more time, and more quality time with the men they select as father figures than so-called-normal boys do with their actual fathers. "It has been reported that the typical American father spends, on average, only 11 minutes each day with his children." (See what I mean? Reported where?)

One of the things Dr. Drexler finds is that there is pretty much the same dynamic between children and their mom-mom dyads as between children and their mother-father dyad. The illustrative stories sprinkled throughout the book sound like regular kids and regular parents. I believe this may be her point. She is asserting that the gender of various members of a household is not nearly as significant to a child's successful upbringing, socialization and well-being, as the care, love, and attention the child gets, irregardless of the shape of the genitals possessed by the parent. And (not to take away from the book here) that seems pretty obvious.

Why then is it necessary for a book such as this? Mostly, it would seem, because there are so many people who believe otherwise. If you imagine that fathers are an essential sine qua non in order for boys to become normal, healthy, flourishing, adults, then this book will open your eyes. Apparently that is truly not so. Good parenting can come in all sorts of sizes and shapes. As Dr. Drexler says, "Gender is simply not a tidy way of organizing what we know about human beings." Nor what we are.

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Best of the best...

Disappointing

One of Euell Gibbons best, back in print

Review By Texas Gulf coast Herbalist, (hobby)

Stalking the Healthful Herbs
Euell Gibbons
Manufacturer: David McKay Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
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Best of the best..........2005-09-02

A hundred years from now, I believe, the Gibbons books will still be regarded as first-rate texts. The science is, if not impeccable, supportive of Gibbons' readable and magnetic approach to edibles. He's a charmer, but not self-consciously so. His charm is in his love for the subject, and his expertise. Too bad Johnny Carson made a bit of a clown out of him, because he was anything but a clown. "Stalking the Wild Asparagus" is the centerpiece of his output; indispensable for anyone with any level of interest in the subject.

Disappointing.......2005-07-13

This would have been much better with more illustrations. Only about half of the plants that he reviews are illustrated, leading the novice to wonder if the 'weeds' growing in her garden are actually the marvelous chickweed, or something else.

One of Euell Gibbons best, back in print.......2001-02-21

The original "Stalking the wild..." editions went out of print some years ago and that was a shame. Nobody but a character like Euell Gibbons could write such a downhome book that passed on folk wisdom and botany in a delightful way.

I actually prefer this book to "Asparagus" because it is a bit more useful. For example, if you live nearly anywhere in middle America, violet leaves pop up in your lawn and garden. They're readily available and easy to find. And he gives uses for cucumber-scented borage, which you can actually plant from seeds. This herb now is a top seller for its healthful oil-rich seeds that contain linoleic acid. If borage doesn't grow in your fields, you can put it in your herb garden. He gives great ideas for violets, borage, mint and other herbs either readily found or available to grow.

Careful however; some of the wild herbs look alike; most dangerously hemlock and parsley, angelica and other members of the carrot family look alike with their feathery fronds. Best to take a course in plant identification at the local community college if you are collecting these.

Review By Texas Gulf coast Herbalist, (hobby).......1998-01-15

I own the original. And am thrilled to see it reprinted. Gibbons was the virtuoso of the herbal heyday, and his stories of nature, and his naturalist outlook, will enthrall you as much as the herbs you'll learn about. He is, and will allways remain, part of this foragers life, even though I never knew him personaly.

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Stalking the Healthful Herbs
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Field Guide edition, how and where to find wild herbs, beautifully written, as always. Illustrated.

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Topics include Thos Green Things, what's an herb to do with?, wild horseradish as medicine, condiment and cosmetic, witch-hazel: most familiar of all herbal medicines, comforting composites:boneset, coltsfoot, and yarrow, wild lettuce: a vegetable tranquilizer, medicine and magic from wormwood, elecampane, horseheal or elf dock, for courage: borage, star-flower or beebread, comfrey, knitbone, or healing herb, nature's vitamin pill: the common blue violet, the fragrant wild mints, beating the cats to the catnip, those healthful heaths and much more.

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This book shows how the professionals care for their horses at home and in competition.

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If you Love Miniatures.......

A FANTASTIC BOOK ON MINIATURE ART

Incredible art!

The Art is Obvious

Not your average dollshouse book...

The Art of the Miniature: Small Worlds and How to Make Them
Jane Freeman
Manufacturer: Watson-Guptill
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0823003094

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For anyone who adores the art of creating small things, The Art of the Miniature provides a treasure trove of practical techniques and ingenious approaches. In this captivating guide, noted artist Jane Freeman shows readers, step by step, how to use modified kit components, and found and handmade objects to create intensely detailed miniature constructions. Readers will learn the entire process of creating a miniature room, structure, or landscape, from selecting a container to choosing the subject, approach, and style. Page after page of wonderful, full-color examples display painstakingly accurate "portraits" of interiors and buildings (such as a Hollywood studio and a trendy New York City retail store), imaginary opera sets (Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute) and even the studios of famous artists (van Gogh and Matisse), providing readers with hundreds of unique ideas for making and adapting found objects to meet the needs of their own miniature projects. The book also features the inspirational work of several other leading miniatures artists, including Susan Leopold, David Levinthal, Victoria and Richard MacKenzie-Childs, and Alan Wolfson. Packed with scores of tested tips, no-fail techniques, and expert pointers, The Art of the Miniature is sure to be a never-ending source of inspiration for dollhouse hobbyists, miniatures collectors, and fine artists everywhere.

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If you Love Miniatures..............2007-01-03

This is a wonderful book. There are lots of ideas for making beautiful rooms, the pictures are beautiful and clear enough to see each item, plus how to's and shopping lists. Many talented artists are pictured not just the author. I am enjoying this book very much.

A FANTASTIC BOOK ON MINIATURE ART.......2004-05-13

This is a book any beginner in miniature art should read. Its inspirational, informative and very interesting. There are many pictures in the book which also serves as a visual treat to stimulate and evoke the artist in anybody. The author, Jane Freeman of this book has not only elevated making miniatures as a pure art form but sanctified its stature with her amazing creations. While reading this book, I noticed one thing very special about this book, the author has a talent which lures us to look at everything in life with the creative eye.

Incredible art!.......2004-01-16

Even reading this book purely for inspiration and enjoyment, it's wonderful and fun. The ideas are imaginative and often breathtaking. I have given this book to many friends from all walks of life who are delighted with its spetacular prose and astonishing miniature worlds. Even for those who are "all thumbs," it's thumbs up, way up!

The Art is Obvious.......2003-12-23

I loved this book. I was inspired by the ideas of the author and her guest artists. Wow! A beautiful book, great photography, fabulous ideas! Creativity and imagination and just plain American know-how. A must read book for miniaturists (is that a word?) Wish I could have given it ten stars. Yes I loved this book.

Not your average dollshouse book..........2003-07-22

...and this is the true strength of the book. Jane Freeman's work reflects her classically trained background and does not sit well with the often twee world of miniature 'craft'. If anyone can bring miniatures out of its association with children's toys, Freeman can! This book showcases the work of Freeman and other artists who work in miniature form in brilliant photographic colour and quality on every page- not a single, irritating and pointless black and white among them. I turn to this book when I feel the need to be 'freed' from the conventions of miniatures, namely expense, scale, and realism in the traditional sense of the term. Freeman's talent for producing the essence of what is most important in life is second to none in the miniatures world, and her flair for finding alternative uses for rubbish is ingenious. My work took quite a different turn after the influence of Freeman, from heirloom creations of the Australian past, to scenes of my own life which actively engages the onlooker by requiring their interpretation. This was my most expensive miniatures book purchase, and one of the most valuable. Highly recommended.

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Exhaustive review of the once blooming roses.......1999-10-22

Brent Dickerson's announcement of this book preceded its release by far too long. This is an essential rose book for the serious heirloom rosarian. Like its illustrious predecessor the book is divided by class. Roses are recorded with a separate section of illustrations, not all roses are illustrated. Rose rustlers will find this useful in trying to identify once blooming found roses. With so many roses extinct, this tome gives the reader a sense if what has been lost. Hving covered the once and repeat bloomers, what is left for Brent to cover but hybrid teas from La France to Peace??

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Great book! .

Very informative and applicable to personal growth

I don't rate many things with 5 stars!

Understanding yourself in a new light

Provocative, Enlightening, and Engaging

What Mama Couldn't Tell Us About Love: Healing the Emotional Legacy of Racism by Celebrating Our Light
Brenda Richardson , and Dr. Brenda Wade
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Among the most damaging and unexplored legacies of the transatlantic slave trade are the negative, afrophobic mores and myths that have devastated black male/female relationships. This book by clinical psychologist and Essence magazine contributor Dr. Brenda Wade and coauthor Brenda Lane Richardson examines many of the so-called scarcity beliefs, such as: "There are no good men out there"; "Any man will cheat if he's tempted"; "I'll always be alone"; and so on. What the authors advocate is not only an acceptance of historical burdens but the willingness to express grief and delve into the deep, spiritual wells of one's ancestors. "The only way we can attain freedom," they write, "is by bringing our past into the light of understanding. What's required is a different sort of liberation movement, one that allows us to work through the shame and guilt that keeps us from embracing ourselves." Richardson and Wade offer several life-enhancing beliefs central to self-healing--"God loves me"; "I can make something out of nothing"; "I can make a way when there seems to be no way"; and "My heart will guide me if I listen." An enjoyable and uplifting reading experience, What Mama Couldn't Tell Us About Love offers words of wisdom that women of all hues can use. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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"Mama," writes Brenda Richardson, "you taught me how a black woman could survive and prevail in this world...but because you never learned yourself, you couldn't tell me how to make love work...I don't mean any disrespect, Mama, but...now I have children of my own. And in a loud revolutionary voice, I declare to the universe: the pain stops here."

Clinical psychologist Dr. Brenda Wade and coauthor Brenda Richardson ask their African American sisters to consider this question: "What lessons about love and intimacy were passed down from your foremothers to you?" In this provocative rethinking of the African American woman's experience, the authors suggest that African American women share an emotional legacy that began when their ancestors were dragged in chains to the "New" World and continued as their descendants suffered through the violence and humiliation of the Jim Crow period and later racism. Indeed, they argue, the long shadow cast by these historical events impacts romantic practice, lives can be transformed once there is a true understanding of the power of inherited beliefs.

What Mama Couldn't Tell Us About Love shows how important it is to grieve and make peace with this brutal history. As you will see in this remarkable uplifting book, it is possible to use the positive messages inherent in the African American experience to create a better life. Learn from the "Sisters Spirits"--well-known African Americans whose stories enliven these pages--as you move toward emotional freedom. Listen to the words of the spirituals interspersed in the text, enhance the coping skills and strengths your forebears harnessed to help them survive and prevail, and believe that emotional emancipation is your birthright.

Mama may not have told you all this in so many words--but there is no doubt that she would want to see you take these last steps toward freedom and abundant love.

Customer Reviews:

Great book! ........2007-06-27

I purchased several copies of this book to give to the women in our family, and friends. I feel it is a must read.

Very informative and applicable to personal growth.......2006-03-18

This is an excellent book and necessary for each one of us to read to better understand who we are and why we make the choices we have made and continue to make. If we want something different for our lives, this book introduces us to ways to examine the lives and choices of our mothers, grandmothers, etc., in an effort to make different choices......

I don't rate many things with 5 stars!.......2002-09-29

I really can't add nothing that hasn't been said but this book is
damn near perfect! Any black Women who reads this will find something here to identify with. A great gift to give to your Mothers, Daughter, Sisters, cousins, friend etc.

Understanding yourself in a new light.......2001-11-06

I have never read a book that revealed more about black male female relationships. I've read this book three times, and I've given as a gift to other sisters in the struggle just as many times. I recommend this book highly to anyone on a search to understand themselves intergenerationally.

Provocative, Enlightening, and Engaging.......2001-05-02

This book is an absolute MUST for any black woman (or man for that matter) who wants to deal with intergenerational scarcity beliefs which prevent us from truly experiencing love in our lives. Richardson and Wade do an excellent job of explaining how the slavery experience impacted every facet of black life and remnants of that impact are played out in our relationships with our family, friends, and mates. For instance, many of us can look back in our family tree to locate where different behavioral patterns (i.e. alcoholism, sexual abuse, obesity, etc.) developed and now play out in our own lives. The authors have you do a series of exercises, such as a genogram which lists the scarcity beliefs and self-destructive behaviors members of our families have developed and passed on to us, to help you begin to understand those internalized beliefs and behaviors which prevent us from experiencing real love. The book doesn't just focus on love relationships with mates but explores love relationships with ourselves, our family, and our mates. Personally, I found the chapter on anger to be the most provocative and enlightening. So much so that I have begun using the information I learned about my anger issues in my individual counseling sessions. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to deal with the pain of slavery and its reprecussions on our present day lives.

What Mama Couldn't Tell Us About Love: Healing the Emotional Legacy of Racism by Celebrating Our Light

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What Mama Couldn't Tell Us About Love: Healing the Emotional Legacy of Racism by Celebrating Our Light
Brenda; Wade, Dr. Brenda Richardson
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The Illuminating Mind looks at the ideas, images and lives of four major twentieth century American photographers: Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Paul Strand (1890-1976), Edward Weston (1886-1958) and Ansel Adams (1902-1984). Largely because of their efforts, Americans came to accept photography as a fine art. This book examines the lives of these four photographers within the context of their times, sketching not only their contributions to American modernism, but also their struggles with epistemological and representational questions that echoed throughout American culture. They were all interested in the relationships between the artist and his subject, the knower and the known, the mind and its objects. For them, photography was not passive transcription of the outer world; instead, it is an exploratory process in which the artist interogates and probes that world. Thus they regarded photography as a creative art in which the mind illuminates its subjects, and they believed that a photograph is constituted as much by the artist's contributions as by the subject's trace. Drawing upon rarely used archival manuscripts and forgotten publication, The Illuminating Mind uses a biographical perspective to reveal these artists' unrecognized psychological intricacies, as well as the interrelationships of their creative lives and expressive themes. David Peeler is in the Department of History, United States Naval Academy.

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Illuminating Mind in American Photography.......2001-08-09

I attended the seminar for this book before publishing and it is all that is has promised to be. Amazing photographs, plus an indepth look at each photographer's life as well as why the individuals took the pictures they did. Wow!

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