WWII Letters to My Girl Back Home: From Nigeria, Arabia and Turkey

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Candid, entertaining letters to his fianceé by an Air Corps sergeant who observed weather from the tropics of West Africa, to an Arabian desert island, to Ankara, Turkey, with visits to Egypt, the pyramids, the Holy Land and ancient Constantinople.

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A touching and eye-opening read.......2004-04-06

Compiled and arranged by Allan Robert Humbert, WW II: Letters To My Girl Back Home collects and publishes under one cover the correspondence of Sergeant Robert Humbert -- a member of the 19th Weather Squadron whose tour of duty during World War II took him to Nigeria, Arabia, Turkey, and elsewhere. Each night he wrote of the day's sights, events, experiences to his beloved fiancee back home in America. A touching and eye-opening read that shares a soldiers life in the midst of war from a closely personal point of view, WWII: Letters To My Girl Back Home tugs at the heartstrings as it reveals the lasting bond of cherished love in a time of global war, hardship and sacrifice.

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This digital document is an article from Southern Economic Journal, published by Southern Economic Association on October 1, 1993. The length of the article is 1024 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Joan Robinson Legacy. (book reviews)
Author: Robert W. Clower
Publication: Southern Economic Journal (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1993
Publisher: Southern Economic Association
Volume: v60 Issue: n2 Page: p508(2)

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A Powerful and Practical Guide to Overcoming Depression

Creating Optimism

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Simple Steps That Work

Creating Optimism : A Proven, 7-Step Program for Overcoming Depression
Alicia Fortinberry , and Bob Murray
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ASIN: 0071417850

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A POWERFUL BLUEPRINT TO ACHIEVE LIFELONG HAPPINESS

A revolutionary new approach to beating depression through lasting, supportive relationships

This breakthrough book describes a revolutionary new approach to overcoming depression that has proven far more effective (94 percent success rate based on follow-up questionnaires) than drugs, psychotherapy, or both combined. Based on the authors' more than 20 years of research and practice, and sponsored by the University of South Florida, this unique, seven-step program challenges the conventional wisdom that healing occurs from the inside out. It shows that real change comes from building healthier relationships with other people, our own bodies, nature, and spirituality. The program can be used either without medications or in conjunction with them. Drawing upon the latest research in neurobiology, psychiatry, and evolutionary psychology, the authors lay bare common myths about depression--what it really is and what causes it. They arm readers with:

Proven techniques for identifying dysfunctional behavior and changing it
A step-by-step process for establishing and maintaining healthy relationships
Valuable charts, questionnaires, and self-tests
Powerful mind-body healing techniques and exercises that restructure neural pathways in the brain and allow for new, healthier ways of thinking

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Based on the authors more than 20 years of research and practice, this unique, seven-step program challenges the conventional wisdom that healing occurs from the inside out. It shows that real change comes from building healthier relationships with other people, our own bodies, nature, and spirituality. The program can be used either without medications or in conjunction with them.

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Okay, but not great.......2007-08-01

The book had good tips, but I found it lacking in some areas. The gist of the book is that depression is perpetuated and enabled by our highly individualistic society. In a hunter-gatherer society, no one is allowed to get depressed; in our Western society it happens all the time. The premise of the book is fine and I applaud the authors for their innovative approach. Sadly we've become a therapy/medicine obsessed culture whereas we feel that all of our problems can be solved by going to a doctor or professional. As such, the authors rightly tap into the fact that humans have been healing themselves from depression - long before psychology and psychiatry - mainly through the power of spirituality and the power of healing relationships.

With that said, I have two problems with the book. One, while there were a lot of gold nuggets here and there, the Uplift program is a little hard to follow without a trained professional to help. I think the authors know that, which leads me to believe that they are using this book primarily to advertize their innovative treatment as opposed to using this book to help individuals like me who suffer from depression. My second beef is that not all the time are great fulfilling networks and relationships possible. Their prescriptions for creating satisfying relationships seemed a little cursory and superficial and not very realistic in all situations. Near the end of the book, I started to think the book shouldn't be called "Creating Optimism," but rather, "Creating Fulfilling Relationships with Yourself and Others," or maybe "The Joys of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Communication."

Other than that, I think "Creating Optimism" is a great companion book for many other self-help books out there.

A Powerful and Practical Guide to Overcoming Depression .......2005-03-09

I read this book when I was recovering both from heart surgery and major depression. I had been told by my doctors that the two were linked-that depression was one of the contributory factors in heart disease-but I never really realized the force of the link until I read "Creating Optimism."
Since my surgery I have been doing the easy-to-follow exercises in the book and have been looking at my life through a whole new prism. I have new and more positive ways of looking at my past, at my relationships, at my work, at my family. The book presents a veritable lifestyle change.
It is six months since I bought the original hardback edition and I have changed. I am a different person. I am actually beginning to like myself. Occasionally the depressive thoughts come back, but the book has given me the tools to prevent these becoming a full-blown depressive incident.
I have been buying copies of the new edition (the paperback) to give to my friends. I hope they read it. If they do they, too, will change.
I would thoroughly recommend this book to anyone who suffers from depression or anxiety, who has trouble-as I did-with forming truly supportive relationships or is faced with a serious health challenge.

Creating Optimism.......2004-12-11

This is a great book , it gives excellent insight into the base causes of depression and practical and easy to follow steps on how to go about overcoming depression . I can't recommend it highly enough for those who have found depression a reoccuring pattern in there lives. You can work through this with the help of this seven step program and you'll never look back. And it's on going with a website that you can visit to keep up with any new information , fantastic effort to Bob and Alicia you have given the world a great gift,

a happy customer.......2004-05-02

I had the pleasure of reading a truly wonderful book, and meeting the authors yesterday. I recommend that everyone who has or has had depression in some way,read the book. There were tons of new ideas that I have not received in ay type of therapy before. The book is truly revolutionary. By the way, my e mail address is pkh117@earthlink.net. My old address was not put onto this new computer.

I also as I stated to the authors yesterday, am helping to care for a terminally ill father. the authors were more than kind and supportive about my family situation,and shined a new light on how to make a cumbersome situation more tolerable. Kudos for the authors and all of their works!!!!!

With love and appreciation,

George M. Hoffmeyer

Simple Steps That Work.......2004-04-03

Because depression runs in my family (as well as myself), I've read just about every self-help book on the topic. "Creating Optimism: A Proven, Seven-Step Program for Overcoming Depression" helped me to see this insidious illness in a totally new light and gave me real hope that I--and other family members--can indeed overcome it. The seven steps make sense to me: 1. Identify and defeat the inner saboteur (I discovered aspects of my childhood "programming" that years of therapy hadn't uncovered)2. Reconnect to your body (Because the co-author, Alicia Fortinberry, is a trained Feldenkrais practitioner, she has a very practical approach to freeing the body from the trauma of the past) 3. Create healing relationships (This is the meat of the book, and offers a step-by-step program that is already working for me) 4. Elevate your self-esteem (What a surprise for me to discover that it's OK to get your self-esteem from others,we all do, and to learn exactly how to do that) 5. Uncover your competence (I found out how to identify what I am best at and enjoy most, and then how to enlist others in the process of making me shine at it)6. Access the power of shared purpose (This includes the three criteria for a successful life purpose and you'll never guess them) and 7. Deepen your relationship to the Divine (I always knew insinctively that part of the solution to depression had to be spiritual, but I didn't understand how to find the right way for me to use my own spiritualty to heal until I read this book.)

As you can tell from this brief run-down, the book is packed with unique information and really practical, "doable" (one of the authors' favorite words) actions you can take. They make sense to me. I suggest you check them out.

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The Power of the Mind Creating Heaven or Hell: (Self-Esteem, social Interest, and Optimism - Spiritual Components)
Bonaventura, Mutayob Balige S.J. Psy.D.
Manufacturer: Infinity Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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Why do we get mentally ill? Dr. Balige believes human beings can use their mind to create a hell or a heaven for themselves. He reveals in this book that low self-esteem, little social interest, and minimal optimism are common elements in most mental disorders. He proposes that without high social interest, sound self-esteem, and optimism, it may be harder to find meaning in life. It is in this sense that he considers self-esteem, social interest, and optimism as components of spirituality. This book defines spirituality as involving ones search for meaning and belonging.

Creating Optimism : 7 Steps to Creating Relationships That Heal Depression

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Creating Optimism : 7 Steps to Creating Relationships That Heal Depression
Bob; Fortinberry, Alicia Murray
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback
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I think its a great book

a great base

Love It

Love the recipes, hate the design

The title should be called low fat instead of fat-free

Secrets of Fat-free Chinese Cooking (Secrets of Fat-free Cooking)
Ying Chang Compestine
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I think its a great book.......2007-08-17

I first tried dry cooked green beans I had a load from my garden. My son is not a big fan. He loved these.
I made moo shui chicken big hit. To stay healthy we need more vegetables less fat and salt.
I need to enjoy my food. This book lends me a helping hand.
I didn't try the recipes that other reviewers said were tasteless. I am not a spinach fan.Its too hot for soup right now.
I think its a good book and I would definetly buy another of hers

a great base.......2007-04-24

I love the concept of this cookbook. Fresh, healthy chinese cooking. You will have to play with the recipes and add a bit of this and that. Also I recommend doubling the sauce recipes ( had to for the spicy eggplant to suit my taste). It was great making a healthy dinner from this book. I made the sweet and sour pork (really yummy), sweet and sour cabbage and spicy eggplant. A balanced meal, full of veggies. I was afraid the boyfriend wouldn't like it, I was wrong. And it looked and tasted great! If your creative, you can make it a lil mre tasteful and keep it healthy. Way healthier than the salt and oil-laden chinese takeout.

Love It.......2006-08-08

I love Chinese food... and these recipes are great... and great for you! For example, several recipes for steamed or broiled spring rolls... and so much more! Worthwhile purchase if you like Chinese but, want lower calories.

Love the recipes, hate the design.......2003-07-31

Okay...first the great stuff! While dieting, its hard to find many options at a chinese resturant besides steamed veggies and plain tofu without sauce and with a bit of rice (unless your low carbing..than you can forget the rice, even) This book has none of the typical sweet and sour heavy gloppy sauces and deep fried anything... And the food is better for it.

According to the author it is more *authentic* to the real cuisine and I can see that she is right. The recipes smack of healthful trasitional ethnic cuisine...with a bit less sodium and fat. In the beginning there are some general guidelines for reducing dietary fats as well as a glossary of asian ingredients...some familiar (green onions) some more esoteric (agar-agar)... and some helpful cooking hints.

The book is separated into chapters of soups, springrolls and dumplimgs, rice and noodles, tofu, veggies, meat, seafood, and desserts.

The soups that I have enjoyed from this book are the tofu spinich soup, the meatball spinch soup,and the chicken rice soup. All the soups were very low sodium, probably much lower than people are accustomed to. Adding a bit more might be necessary for some people.

The steamed shrimp dumplings are delicious! Sodium and fat on this is low as well but you are eating this with a dipping sauce of some kind so it is a highly flavored and delicious dish. The bai zai chicken is easy and wonderful and also makes a great wrap type sandwich. (plus you end up with a light stock after you have poached the chicken!) The steamed turkey cakes were a bit odd to me... I guess Im accustomed to a different texture on ground meat than steaming provides and I don't especially like the smell of ground turkey. There is a shrimp cake recipe that reminds me of a bit of shrimp toast...( the delicious deep fried shrimp on white bread thing)...Its great when I want a good subsitute for that fatty appitizer.

there is a resourse list in the back of the book to locate hard to find items. But the pulication date is 1997 so its hard to know how current that is. There are however many sites on the internet for delivery of these kinds of items if the ones in the book do not work out.

My only problem with this book are design issues. It didnt lie all that flat and so after several uses on the same page, and trying to get it lie flat the binding has cracked on my favorite recipe pages. Im afraid soon the pages will be all over. The pages also arent able to be wiped of spills and are a bit thin, so you can see the type of the other pages thru them. You cant read it, its more of a shadow, but its distracting to me. I would prefer a bigger font on recipes that have more, rather than less ingredients..and some of these do. Im not sure I understand the logic for taking up half a page with a recipe and half with a large cartoon of walking vegetables when a larger font would have made it much easier to read.

But....as i have said...overall this book has more plusses than minuses. It suits many diets as well as just generally tasting very very good. The recipes are simple and dont require complex cooking techniques or a whole host of difficult ingredients sometimes needed for ethnic cooking.

The title should be called low fat instead of fat-free.......2001-05-24

I was interested in buying this book. I read the previews of other readers, and I went to public library to check out this book before I invest money on this book. I am reaserching for the food combination from Suzanne Somers diet. For level one, one combination is that the veggies can combine with carbos but without fat (oil). In Chinese cooking, it is very hard to achieve bringing out the flavors from spice without oil. I am a Chinese housewife, and I have some knownedledge of Chinese cooking. Just by reading it, I can see these dishes might not be very flavory (especially Tofu dishes, which need some effort to get taste into this ingredient(tofu) through stewing or some heavy tasty paste).

In most of the receipes, cornstartch is used very often, which is the thing I try to avoid (refined carbos). This book uses many cooking spray (which is oil) in many dishes. It has some fat free dishes, but I consider they are not significant enough to be called such title as Fat-Free Chinese Cooking. A low fat title is more proper for it. This is a very American-Chinese cookbook taste.

Well, I'll keep looking for some other fat-free (or low fat) cookbook to see if there is some idea to replace oil in Chinese cooking.

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Secrets of Fat-Free Chinese Cooking, Over 120 Recipes fron egg rolls to Almond Cookies
Ying Chang Compestine
Manufacturer: Avery Publishing
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These charming mechanical contraptions will captivate anyone who operates them—and creative woodworkers will find them fun to make. “Quite impressive...[Frost] offers colorful drawings. Designs include a dancing lumberjack, an exercising couple, and many more, all powered by handcrank or wind. This title is a nice departure from woodworking titles that require expensive materials and measurements to 1/64". Recommended.”—Library Journal.

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Re-released with New Title.......2007-08-09

His new (2007) book, "Making Mad Toys and Merchanical Marvels in Wood", is exactly the same, word for word. Either book is terrific, you just don't need to buy both.

The only book on making automata with actual plans.......2004-11-25

This book features fourteen projects. Each project has a bit of text, a photo, and many nice vector illustrations detailing the project's construction. The artist's work is colorful, assorted, and playful. People determined to build an automaton are sure to find a project in this book that speaks to them.

For a visually oriented person who doesn't need every step spelled out, this book is a gem. The drawings are very clear and complete and there is some text to help you through the tricky parts.

In sum, if you have even a little experience working with wood and would like to build automata, this book will be invaluable.

A Beautiful Book.......2002-12-22

This is the best of the mechanical/whirligig books I've run across. Beautiful color photographs and detailed illustrations of Frost's very strange toys including dancing lumberjacks, boxing angels and demons, machine-gunning whirligigs, and the wonderfully painted 'houses' that hold the hand-cranks that give life to these creatures. An excellent resource for toy and wood-working ideas.

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Ocimum is an important medicinal plant with uses in food, perfume and therapeutics. This comprehensive book covers all aspects of the botany, phytochemistry, food uses, medicinal uses, pharmacology, cultivation and quality assurance, as well as the economic issues related to this medicinal plant Ocimum and similar genera.
In spite of numerous reports on pharmacological activities the main use of Ocimum plants is as aromatic plants and when used in foodstuffs it may have some antioxidative effect. It will be of interest to everybody involved in medicinal and aromatic plant research or related fields.

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Its Easy Yet It's Tough

overscheduled author

Great topic, but not too well executed

WOW!

Do it for Your Children

Hyper-Parenting : Are You Hurting Your Child by Trying Too Hard?
Alvin Rosenfeld MD , and Nicole Wise
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If you've just sat down after a day that included taking your very intelligent child to a Kumon math tutoring session, shuttling another to soccer practice and piano lessons, supervising the homework of both to make sure it's perfect, and making a midnight trip to the grocery store to pick up the organic grapes for tomorrow's nutritionally balanced lunches, then Hyper-Parenting: Are You Hurting Your Child by Trying Too Hard? is for you. According to authors Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D., and Nicole Wise, there's a lot of this kind of hyper-parenting going on out there. This parenting style can be loosely defined as one that attempts to control everything in a child's environment with the aim of achieving a perfect outcome. It's not realistic or healthy, say the authors. Chapter by chapter, examining everything from parents' reliance on "expert" opinions to the huge impact of media messages on parent behavior, Rosenfeld and Wise make a compelling argument for their premise. They encourage parents to turn the lens inward and ask themselves what messages they are sending--not with their words, but with their behavior. Hyper-Parenting is a book for parents at every stage in the parenting game. It's never too late, or too early, to try to tune out some of the noisy clamor around us and thoughtfully reflect on our values and what we really want for our children. --Virginia Smyth

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"An excellent book which should be read by every thinking parent. We don't have to over-schedule our children to help them succeed. Ironically, they are probably better off if we don't."--The Times of LondonDo you find yourself asking "Whose life is it anyway?" Parenting today has come to resemble a relentless To-do list.Even parents with the best intentions strive to micro-manage every detail of their kids' lives and live in constant fear that their child will under-perform in any area - academic, social, athletic.Lists and schedules, meetings and appointments invade every moment - and the need to be the best is a philosophy dominating - and undermining - our own sense of self as well as our children's.In this groundbreaking new book, renowned child psychiatrist Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D., and longtime family-issues journalist Nicole Wise combine personal and professional experience to take action against what they see as our overeager pursuit of perfection... The fact is, parenting should not consume very last bit of our time, money and energy.It's not good for us as parents, and it's potentially dangerous for our children. The clear, comforting steps they prescribe to attack this rampant phenomenon will promote healthier and happier children, and revitalize the parenting experienceAUTHORBIO: Alvin Rosenfeld, M.D., a graduate of Cornell and Harvard Medical School,has taught at Harvard and Columbia, and has headed the child psychiatry training program at Stanford. Currently, he divides his time between private practices in New York City and Greenwich, Connecticut. Dr. Rosenfeld has written four books and over 70 articles on issues including child abuse, foster care and psychotherapy. He lives with his pediatrician wife and three children in Stamford, Connecticut.Nicole Wise is an award-winning freelance journalist who has written about family life for more than a decade. Her work has been featured in a wide range of national and international publications, including Parents, The New York Times, Redbook and Cosmopolitan. Wise also lives in Stamford with her family.A researcher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard, Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Coles, M.D. has written numerous books and articles on the intellectual and spiritual lives of children.

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Its Easy Yet It's Tough.......2003-11-06

An excellent book for parents who have the time to slow down and seriously reflect life purposes before LIFE is living us instead of vice versa.

The information contained in this book is enlightening and true, but many parents just do not have the wisdom to get the truth internalised. Outside presure is strong and internal strength is weak in most parents. How to stay in mud and yet be clean? How to live in this chaotic world when the false sounds like truth and the truth looks like false and be able to make a distinction between them?

I thoroughly enjoy this book. It is one of the best parenting books that I've read so far. Children should be a source of joy and not a fountain of burden. Show them the way how we live a dog's life and they will duplicate it when they grow up. Show them the way we can live happily by being connected and contented and they will rub this wisdom and practise the same when they enter adulthood. It seems so simple but so few parents can exercise this simple wisdom.

Happy Parenting. God Blessed!

overscheduled author.......2002-09-05

While reading the book, one may get the feeling that the author may have been over scheduled. There are a few chapters that tell us to do just the opposite of what he just said in a previous one. The book is pretty good with ideas we all know but may need to be reminded of. It's a pretty good read especially if you do not get too caught up in the areas that seem to fall into Hyper Parenting and then find out what you thought he was talking about turns out to be not what he said in the first place. I agree with another reviewer, it's confusing in a couple of spots. It's not much different from other books on similar subjects. I like the guy and have heard him speak. I blame any discrepancies within the book on the editors. It amazes me how some books can cover the same thing over and over and still get 5 stars or as much publicity as they do. In the real world, within any family who have children in various activities, there's a couple of other books that cover similar behaviors and challenges that would be of further benefit, one of those being Mommy-CEO, Revised Edition, by family/parenting expert and syndicated columnist, of Parent to Parent, Jodie Lynn, and The Successful Child, by William Sears. Both books point blank tell parents how to help kids turn out well and to still take out time for ourselves but do not give conflicting advice about doing it. I am a fan of almost all of the Sears' books and find useful information in Lynn's books and columns. My suggestion is that some point in time The Over-Scheduled Child may need a small overhaul with maybe a different editor but same author.

Great topic, but not too well executed.......2002-06-30

Hyper-Parenting possesses the best of intentions, and is not lacking in insight and even, in places, eloquence. But the overall message is confusing and disjointed, and I was left unsatisfied in the end.

One big problem is that what "hyper-parenting" means precisely is never truly established. One chapter criticizes the perfectly natural tendency to cherish a child in the womb. Another chapter discusses stressed children being pressured to ???excel??? in status-laden endeavors. Are both these totally different situations "hyper-parenting?" In one spot we are rightfully reminded that "the important and meaningful connections [with our kids]defy scheduling." But in another place, we are apparently encouraged to schedule yet more time away from the kids "for the things we want to do." Why, so we can be sure to miss those important and meaningful connections? Can the reader be blamed for feeling a little confused?

The authors seem to assume that families are frazzled mostly because parents just take too much time doing things for the kids. Potential stress-builders, according to the book, include not only individualistic activities like music lessons and sports, but also family-building activities like nightly dinner at home. Unstructured family time is praised, but the book's assumption seems to be that this time will be suddenly abundant if we just quit karate. The possibility that Mom and Dad each take 50+ hours a week to work, and that this might be a big contributing factor, basically goes unaddressed. Such a one-sided view of the busyness problems suffered many families is not likely to be very helpful in the real world.

The book is plagued in several spots by poor philosophy. The authors talk sincerely of ethics, but then take an entire chapter decrying excessive "self-sacrifice" and "martyrdom". But the problems the book describes are based mostly on status seeking or an inadequate understanding of family life. The differences between these poor choices and authentic self-giving are not considered. The last chapter treats us to a relativistic essay about how we each need to figure out the fundamental questions of life based on "feelings." So objective reality has nothing to do with the fundamental questions of life? Was this shallow pop philosophy really necessary?

Fundamentally, this book doesn't succeed as well as it could because it combines too many topics under one umbrella without doing a sufficient job of defining terms, making distinctions and just thinking things through. What could have been a fine book ends up inconsistent and somewhat rambling. It needs to be re-written.

WOW!.......2001-08-06

I read this fantastic book while wearing many hats: parent of two, grandparent of six, teacher of 42 years, and currently an author of "Why Our Kids Aren't Learning the Basics." Dr. Rosenfeld (and associates) said exactly what I have been saying (only more succinctly) for the past fifteen years. His advice to parents is right on the money! If parents will heed what he suggests, they will find the word "boredom" eliminated from their child's dialogue. The "bored" child is the one who has never had the opportunity to plan his own day because it has already been scheduled for him! Thank you Dr. Rosenfeld and assoc. for a wonderful blueprint!

Do it for Your Children.......2001-06-28

This book had to be written! It needs to be read by every parent battling the loss of leisure. Setting limits defies the seeming perfect parent syndrom we have adopted. For those of us who have let the rat race control too much of our lives, it's not too late for change. Do you ever have one of those days when you just have to get away from it all, but can't because that unrelenting calendar is demanding every minute of your day? Do you have time to smell the roses, sit and enjoy your child chasing a butterfly, or find a quite romantic moment to spend alone with your spouse - talking about anything but the kids and who has to be where when? If the answer is no to any of these questions, this book is for you. If you have ever been seriously ill, as I have, you realize that it's the little things: the family time, the unscheduled time, the laughs and talks, that, above all else, create an atmospher our children can thrive in. Dr. Rosenfeld and Nicole Wise bring it all into focus, and make us realize that by "doing it all" and "being it all", we are not helping our family, we are breaking down the fabrics that holds the best part of it together. This book must be read by every parent with a busy lifestyle. It's refreshing to know that we can stop hyper-parenting and start learning again to have spontaneity, relaxation and a place we can truly feel at home.

Hyper-Parenting : Are You Hurting Your Child by Trying Too Hard?

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Hyper-Parenting : Are You Hurting Your Child by Trying Too Hard?
Alvin; Wise, Nicole Rosenfeld
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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The Life and Teachings of Rabbi DovBer of Mezrich.

Rabbi DovBer, known as the "Maggid of Mezrich," was widely recognized as one of the most extraordinary figures of his generation, yet the details of his life have long been a mystery. Among historians, his greatness has been overshadowed by that of his master and teacher, the Baal Shem Tov. Now, for the first time, Rabbi DovBer is the subject of a thorough scholarly account of his life and works.

Under his leadership, the excitement generated by the teachings of the Baal Shem Tov was consolidated into a structured, cohesive movement. Philosophically, too, the Maggid developed and elucidated the seminal wisdom of his illustrious predecessor, which was later further developed in the philosophic system of the Maggid's disciple, Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.

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