Why Children Misbehave and What to Do About It (The Illustrated Parent's Guide)

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A Modern Guide to Behavorial Modification in Children.......1998-06-12

As the Director of a Day Care Facility, this book offered the best guide to dealing with modifying aggressive behavior in children entering the world of other, differently backgrounded children that I've found...It is full of common sense approaches to achieving the desired cooperation of children at the earliest levels of inter-action with peers and adults.

This book is concise, easily understood, and makes sense........1998-06-10

As a grandparent, the easily understood guidelines for managing busy children makes the job fun....where were you 30 years ago when I was bringing up the parents of my grandchildren...A truly wonderful book...

What every parent should know about raising children........1997-11-21

This book provides practical, thoughtful guidelines about raising children. It discusses children's behavior in a very logical, helpful way. The title is unfortunate as it relates to all children, not just those who misbehave. This is one of the best books about children's behavior that I have ever read and, as a Professor of Pediatrics, it is an area in which I have great interest.

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First time in paperback: An incisive analysis of tactics and command during the Civil War-"a fresh approach" (John S.D. Eisenhower) to a topic of never-diminishing interest

In this original examination of Civil War leadership, W.J. Wood looks at the tactical and strategic problems faced by commanders by focusing on three decisive battles and the six generals involved in each one. The Charlotte Observer hailed the way Wood "has interwoven drama, anecdotes, humor, and human glimpses of these commanders" and called the book "gripping." Wood analyzes the campaign at Cedar Mountain, directed by Stonewall Jackson and Nathaniel Banks; the battle of Chickamauga, commanded by Braxton Bragg and William Rosecrans; and the battle of Nashville, where John Bell Hood engaged opponent George H. Thomas-deftly describing the art of war these men developed, an art that still provides paradigms for military leaders today.

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Stonewall, Banks, Old Rosy, Bragg, The Gallant Hood, and The Rock.......2006-04-01

CIVIL WAR GENERALSHIP is a treatise on the nature of military command leadership written for the popular market. To make his case, author W.J. Wood, an ex-Army war gamer for weapons system analysis, focuses on three battles: Cedar Mountain in August 1862 between commanders Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and Nathaniel Banks, Chickamauga in September 1863 between commanders Braxton Bragg and William "Old Rosy" Rosecrans, and Nashville in December 1864 between commanders John Hood ("The Gallant Hood") and George Thomas ("The Rock of Chickamauga").

In a prefatory Part One of the book, Wood pretty much establishes the lack of any formalized pre-Civil War military thought in the U.S. Army as to how battles should be fought and won. West Point, attended by all the aforementioned commanders except Banks, focused mainly on engineering; during the four-year curriculum, only nine hours were devoted to battlefield tactics. Thus, the army commander had to learn his skills through on-the-job combat experience during his ascent through the command structure.

As a reader possessing a casual interest in the Civil War history, I can find only minimal fault with this brief (245 paperbacked pages) treatment of the topic. Indeed, the concise and lucid summaries of the three selected battles, each one supplemented by more than adequate maps, were, for me, even more valuable than Wood's dissection of the leadership skills displayed by each of the six protagonists. After all, a century and a half after the War Between the States, the battles of Cedar Mountain, Chickamauga, and Nashville are sometimes lost against the backdrop of confrontations considered more pivotal to the final outcome, e.g. Vicksburg, Gettysburg, or Appomattox, or simply more high profile, e.g. Shiloh, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, or Cold Harbor.

At no point does the author explain why he chose these three particular battles and their opposing generals for his book. By definition, each commander had to be exercising independent field command of an army at the time. And perhaps his choice of battles was unconsciously limited to those not including Grant, McClellan, Lee, and Sherman, whose names pop up with consistent regularity in popular Civil War history and whose careers have been fields well-plowed by historians.

Wood's examination of the characters and personality traits of Jackson, Banks, Bragg, Rosecrans, Hood, and Thomas adds an endearing human element to the work as a whole. It also leads to my only minor criticism of the book, which is that no epilogue describing the post-battle careers of the six is included. Jackson, of course, was mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville, but the remaining five, as far as I know, survived the Civil War, and it would be nice to know what happened to them without having to resort to further research.

A good review of essential leadership qualities.......2005-08-15

Expecting to find another book on strategy and tactics, I was surprised that the major theme of this well-written book involved the personal characteristics that make a successful general.

At some point in the book, Wood emphasizes to the reader that the general is not a "manager." However, the graduates of business school programs will be quick to point out that the qualities surveyed in the book are also essentials in successful business leaders.

The generals are rated on such points as subordinate selection, ability to delegate but yet remain in control, clearly - defined missions but flexibility in attaining them, ability to view the situation within a "big-picture" context, efficient use of resources, clarity of orders and other communications, ability to work within the existing political environment, a firm but positive leadership style, and creative decisions within the constraints imposed by reality. All of the 6 generals come off with mixed reviews with respect to these criteria, although George Thomas receives a well-deserved favorable evaluation and some of Stonewall's flaws are pointed out. One thing that ran through my mind as I was reading this book was that all of the favorable traits exhibited by a great leader seem to be a composite of a man little-mentioned by the author - General Grant.

This book provides much insight into the human aspect of military leadership and is useful to the reader in better understanding any generals and their level of success.

For specialists only, but wonderful.......2004-09-11

This is not your usual Civil War History book. W.J. Wood is uninterested, here, in discussing the course of the Civil War itself, or its battles and capaigns. Instead, Wood wants to examine how Generals controlled their armies, or didn't, and the decision-making process that led to the battles came out.

The result is a book where the author studies three battles from the Civil War: Cedar Mountain in 1862, Chickamauga in 1863, and Nashville in 1864. The author spends much of his time laying out the military situation that confronted the opposing generals, and then briefly recounts the course of the battle, the decisions made, and the outcomes. The three battles involved some interesting personalities in command of the armies, and so the results are rather interesting, also.

Cedar Mountain involved Stonewall Jackson and Nathaniel Banks. The interesting thing here is that Banks doesn't come out as badly as you might imagine, nor Jackson as favorably. Chickamauga saw Braxton Bragg and William Rosecrans face off: both were unsuited for high command at some level, and are duly criticized. Nashville of course was the last hurrah of John Bell Hood, opposite the rocklike George Thomas. This one's not unexpected: Thomas comes out brilliant, while Hood turns out to be an idiot.

All three of these battles are interesting, and Wood advocates an analytical approach that favors what I call ruthless pragmatism. This works well, and I enjoyed the book, finding it worthwhile and the observations inside to be very interesting.

The War Within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship During the Civil War (Modern War Studies)

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The War Within the Union High Command: Politics and Generalship During the Civil War (Modern War Studies)
Thomas Joseph Goss
Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0700612637

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With Union armies poised to launch the final campaigns against the Confederacy in 1864, three of its five commanders were "political generals"--appointed officers with little or no military training. Army chief of staff Henry Halleck thought such generals jeopardized the lives of men under their command and he and his peers held them in utter contempt. Historians have largely followed suit.

Thomas Goss, however, offers a new and more positive assessment of the leadership qualities of these Northern commanders. In the process, he cuts through the stereotypes of political generals as superfluous and largely inept tacticians, ambitious schemers, and military failures. Goss examines the reasons why the selection process yielded so many generals who lacked military backgrounds and explores the tense and often bitter relationships among political and professional officers to illuminate the dynamics of Union generalship during the war. As this book reveals, professional generals viewed the war as a military problem requiring battlefield solutions, while appointees (and President Lincoln) focused more emphatically on the broader political contours of the struggle. The resulting friction often eroded Northern morale and damaged the North's war effort.

Goss challenges the traditional idea that success was measured only on the battlefield by demonstrating significant links between military success and the achievement of the Union's political objectives. Examining commanders like Benjamin Butler, Nathaniel Banks, John McClernand, John Fremont, and Franz Sigel, Goss shows how many filled vital functions by raising troops, boosting homefront morale, securing national support for the war--and sometimes even achieving significant success on the battlefield. Comparing these generals with their professional counterparts reveals that all had vital roles to play in helping Lincoln prosecute the war and that West Pointers, despite their military training, were not necessarily better prepared for waging war.

Whether professional or appointed, Goss reminds us, all generals could be considered political inasmuch as war is a continuation of politics by other means. He shows us that far more was asked of Union commanders than to simply win battles and in so doing urges a new appreciation of those appointed leaders who were thrust into the maelstrom of the Civil War.

This book is part of the Modern War Studies series.

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Overkill.......2004-01-18

The author takes 210 pages to come to a conclusion that is apparant after 50. The same information is repeated time after time until the reader can close one's eyes and know the next line (or at least the one after) will mention Banks or Butler or Logan, with nothing that has not already been said about any of them.

CIVIL WAR GENERALSHIP: The Art of Command

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CIVIL WAR GENERALSHIP: The Art of Command
W. J. (New copy) Wood
Manufacturer: Da Capo
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSNFXC

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Contents includes: The Ottoman Empire to 1774 Egypt and the Eastern Arab Countries in the First Three Centuries of the Ottoman Period North West Africa from the 15th-19th Centuries Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa, till the 19th Century Iran Under the Safavids and in the 18th Century Central Asia: The Last Three Centuries of Independence India Under the Mughal Empire

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reviews for Last Great Muslim Empires.......2006-06-20

"A high level of excellence. . . . The chapter on the Fertile Crescent and the Arabian peninsula is balanced and judicious, and . . . [t]he chapter on North-West Africa or Barbary is especially readable and full of insights. . . . Sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia are equally well-served. . . . A useful survey of this rather neglected transitional period between the decline of classical Islamic civilization and the revival of recent times . . . the editor is to be complimented on having brought so much unity of treatment and smoothness of style to a composite work of this sort."
-Middle Eastern Journal

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In Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait, Karen Holliday Tanner, a distant cousin, reveals the real man behind the legend. Shedding light on Holliday's early years in a prominent Georgia family during the Civil War and Reconstruction, she examines the elements that shaped his destiny: his birth defect, the death of his mother and estrangement from his father, and the diagnosis of tuberculosis, which led to his journey west.

Using previously undisclosed family documents and reminiscences as well as other primary sources, Tanner documents the true story of Holliday's friendship with the Earp brothers and his run-ins with the law, including the climactic shootout at the O.K. Corral and its aftermath.

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Great book and well written........2007-09-26

I really enjoyed this book. The author did a wonderful job on researching the family tree.

Very Shallow.......2007-05-26

I was very disappointed in this book. It is not well written nor does it have much, if any, depth. Tanner uses the word "probably" way too often. "Doc 'probably' shot Old Man Clanton" or "Wyatt 'probably' killed John Ringo." Doc "probably" did quite a few things, but Tanner does not quote any source information for much of this, although she does have several pages of notes.

Tanner races through many moments in Holliday's life, skipping over important details. A lot happened between the infamous gunfight in Tombstone, the attack on Virgil Earp and the murder of Morgan Earp; but Tanner tells of all three incidents within a matter of a couple of paragraphs. Tanner barely mentions Curly Bill Brocious and does not mention Fred White at all.

Tanner goes into great detail about how Holliday was born with a cleft palate, but many doubt he ever had such physical challenge. Also Kate Elder is a source for much of the latter part of the book, but Elder is not a very reliable source of information, having claimed to have married Holliday in the 1870's. (No record of Holliday ever getting married exists.)

Tanner is related to Holliday and that seems to have softened her view. Gary L. Roberts' biography is much better, much more detailed.

For the big Holliday Picture, April 11, 2007 .......2007-05-18

Doc Holliday: A Family Portrait is well researched and written. Karen Holliday Tanner draws on family history, papers, albums and oral stories to augment hard research.Through her exhaustive efforts, Ms. Tanner puts to rest some of the wild exaggerations of killings, life of a con man, and criminal schemes supposedly perpetrated by Doc during his life.
Young John Henry Holliday's early days were spent in Griffin, Georgia with his father Henry Holliday and mother Alice.
Henry Holliday was a prominent Griffin citizen, first clerk of the court of Spalding County, and was involved in real estate and land speculation. The elder Holliday had a military background and had fought in the Mexican War. Early in the Civil War he served in the Confederate Army in Virginia. However, camp life and cold weather conspired to damage his health and he was discharged and sent home. After Henry Holliday regained his health he purchased a large parcel of land in South Georgia near Valdosta and moved his family there in 1864.
Alice Holliday contracted tuberculosis and died in September of 1866. John Henry mourned the loss of his mother and felt that his father had betrayed her name when he married Rachel Martin less than three months after the death of mother Holliday. The marriage caused a schism between father and son that never quite healed.
John Henry was a bright student and eventually chose dentistry as a profession. He graduated from The Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery in 1872 and returned to Atlanta where he practiced dentistry until he contracted tuberculosis and traveled west in search of a dryer climate.
While in Dallas John Henry stayed with the dental profession, but added another to augment his income. He spent time at the gaming tables and eventually became a skilled Frontier Gambler. After several years in Dallas he joined the gambling circuit and traveled to Denison, Denver, Deadwood and points in between.
He became known as Doc Holliday and using his charm, wit and gambling skills Doc made a name for himself and collected an array of friends Kate Elder, Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Luke Short and Eddie Foy just to name a few.
While in Dodge City Doc saved Wyatt Earp from an angry mob of drunken cowboys and Wyatt never forgot it. Doc and Wyatt were both well known in gambling circles, but the incident that turned them into legends was the shootout at the OK Corral.
Doc stood with Wyatt and his brothers on the side of law and order against Cochise County's political ring muscle known as cowboys. The Earps and Holliday won the gunfight, but ring outlaws caused a bloodbath that eventually, in order to get out of the line of fire, Doc and Wyatt moved to Colorado.
Wyatt dug for silver in the Gunnison and Doc played the tables at Leadville. But due to failing health Doc eventually quit the games and retired to Glenwood Springs, Colorado where he died of tuberculosis on November 8, 1887.
A must read to get the full Holliday picture.

Tom Barnes author of "Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone."
Also "The Hurricane Hunters and Lost in the Bermuda Triangle."

The Hurricane Hunters And Lost in the Bermuda Triangle
Doc Holliday's Road to Tombstone: The Life and Times of John Henry Holliday

For the big Holliday Picture.......2007-04-12

Husband Loves the book.......2007-02-10

I bought this book for my husband. He loves to study information on Doc Holliday and Wyatt Earp. I have not read the book yet but I know it must be good as my husband has thanked me more than once over the past week for giving him the book.

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This is a comprehensive account of the behind-the-lines operations that preceded and supported the D-Day landings and the breakout from Normandy. The French resistance played a key role in undermining German resistance during the liberation of France in 1944.They destroyed vital railways, ambushed convoys and tied down large numbers of German troops in security patrols. Many attacks were spearheaded by British and American special forces, the SAS and US 'Jedburgh teams' (ancestors of the 'Green Berets'). From the early hours of 6 June 1944 to the destruction of the German army in France, this is the story of how small teams of SAS men fought their secret war behind enemy lines.

Fire from the Forest : The SAS Brigade in France, 1944

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Fire from the Forest : The SAS Brigade in France, 1944
Roger Ford
Manufacturer: Cassell
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OSNRM6

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Fire from the Forest: The SAS Brigade in France, 1944
Roger Ford
Manufacturer: Cassell
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ASIN: B000OSNRCQ

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For over twenty-five years, Debra Picchi has documented how the Bakairí Indians have addressed and endured change. This up-close portrayal of how a remarkable indigenous people of Brazil has managed to hold on to many of their traditions after years of contact with mainstream Brazilian culture is written in a down-to-earth, conversational style, yet does not avoid complex issues. The original edition represented one of the first ethnographies on South American Indians to espouse political ecology explicitly as a theoretical orientation. Expanded coverage in the second edition includes material on the theory of political ecology, different methodological approaches used to collect data on populations, the latest archaeological findings taking place in Brazil, how Bakairí gender constructs have changed over the last 100 years, and the effects of population increases, mechanized production, and wealth accumulation. Both accessible and rigorous, Picchi packs much information into a slim volume, which serves as a reminder of the value of long-term fieldwork and demonstrates that research is as much about process as it is about product. Text includes reader's study guide.

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writes how she teaches.......2004-07-18

I was lucky enough to have Professor Picchi for many a class back in college, and now have finished her book. it is well written and is very simular to her teachings. I enjoyed the book as much as her classes, always a good read!!

Don't judge a book by it's cover.......2001-04-19

I thought that this book would be a bit more wordy. Knowing that some anthropology books tend to get very in depth. I was suprised to find that it related to the non practicing anthropologist in all of us. It was an easy read with very little technical terms, all of which were defined. I enjoyed the fact that Picchi began with a description of fieldwork, not just jumping into the book. I thought that chapter listings at the end of the book makes this book a tool in the classroom as well. Overall this book is a well documented account of a native american group few people know about

Swift, Clear Read..........2001-03-01

I was required to read this book for a topics class at my university. So, of course, I thought it would be rather dull. However, many of my classmates and myself have found this book to be an easy, informative read; Picchi's look at the Bakairi culture is amazing! Personally, I was more interested in the anthropology aspect of this text, so the chapters on ecology and the long chapter about the definition of "fieldwork" did not interest me. For someone studying to be an anthropologist, however, this would be a very good book to look into. For anyone who doesn't know anything about native Amazonians-- believe me, you'll want to learn a whole lot more about them after you read this book! It is such a fascinating topic that I wonder why it isn't researched by more people and even more students.

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Over its previous four editions, Economics of the Environment has established itself as the standard student reader for environmental economics courses. A rich complement to other texts, this accessible reader provides a balanced selection of classic and contemporary readings to firmly ground students' understanding in the field's primary literature. The Fifth Edition has been carefully reorganized; over a third of the selections are new.

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