How to Read Your Child Like a Book

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Here is the first book that helps you interpret your children's behavior by letting you know what they are thinking.

Dr. Lynn Weiss, a nationally recognized expert on child development, has created a unique new book for parents. It explains why babies, toddlers, and preschoolers behave the way they do:

Why does your baby fuss, cry, and squirm when you try to hold him?

Why does your toddler act self-centered?

Why does your child misbehave?

Why does your child constantly test the boundaries of parental control?

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A good resource for parents.......1999-06-12

The emotional development of a child is often over-looked in parenting books. I had some reservations about some of the advice about the 1st (attachment) stage. There is better info. in the Baby Book by Sears. But the description of the later stages was right-on. I read it when my eldest was four and I was pulling my hair out and it provided great relief. I thought I knew quite a bit about child development but I was wrong! This really addresses the emotional development of the child and explianed what was behind those frustrating behaviors.

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Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women--members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps--who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the experiences they had while they were there, and how war affected them physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

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Women At War.......2006-03-16

Describes the feminine side of nursing in Vietnam War, a time "when people grew up fast", too fast. Gives personal accounts, factual,and enlightening and disheartening at the same time.

Disappointed..........2001-09-01

After reading a number of books regarding women who served in the Vietnam War, I was anxious to read this book as well. I expected more personal stories, perhaps a synopsis of the interviews of each of the 50 nurses studied. And the word "studied" is where my main problem with the book lies. It's written like a research paper or dissertation...I was unable to connect with any of the women on a personal or emotional level. I found myself paging ahead, hoping it would get interesting, but unfortunately, it never did. I much prefered "Women in Vietnam" by Ron Steinman or "A Piece of My Heart".

Another Gem from Dr. Norman.......2000-06-16

Being a veteran of the Navy Hospital Corps during the Viet Nam Era, I couldn't wait to read this account of the Viet Nam Conflict from the perspective of the nurses who served. I have had the honor to work with many nurse veterans over the years, and often marveled at the stories they had to tell. This book presents these stories in a format that holds the reader's interest. To me, the most enlightening section of the book was in the conclusion. The nurses were given an opportunity to reflect on their experiences and asked: knowing what they know now; would they go through the experience again? The second question they were asked: what advise would they give to young nurses who were going off to war? This is a wonderful book for nursing students as it gives an illustration of the values and heritage of nursing as well as a description of how nurses cope when under extreme stress. Nurse veterans will appreciate the photography and the anecdotes of how time away from the hospital units were spent. I highly recommend this book, as well as Dr. Norman's other book, "We Band of Angels".

Recieved it in the afternoon and completed it before bedtime.......1999-07-05

This compilation is a strong, touching insight to the pre, intra, and post nursing experiences of some of our country's finest military nurses. I can feel the excitement, the danger, the hopelessness, and the tragedy of the time. I feel almost guilty that I was in junior and senior high school during this war, that I wasn't able to be there to try to keep our guys alive and well. This is a book for ALL nurses, especially for the ones who are getting a little burned and/or jaded. Our bad days at work are miniscule in comparison.

A profound and emotionally moving experience.......1998-02-24

i had to put the book down on several occasions. it magnified the horrors of war to a point where despair and despiration,filled my soul.There is one line which sums the entire feeling of book "you reach out to someone and then they are lost". a remarkable documentation which makes vietnam, whether it be a hospital or a battleground look like a gateway to a graveyard.

Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam

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Women at War: The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam
Elizabeth Norman
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Volume 2 of Readings in the Western Humanities presents a wide array of primary source readings ranging from the Renaissance to the present day.

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Readings in the Western Humanities through the Renaissance.......2004-01-13

This is the fifth edition of "Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume I: Beginnings Through the Renaissance," which complements the first volume of the fifth edition of the textbook "The Western Humanities" by Roy T. Matthews and F. Dewitt Platt, which covers ancient Mesopotamia through the Renaissance (with Volume II doing the Renaissance through the 20th century, leaving it up to professors and institutions to decide whether the Renaissance gets covered first semester or second). When I took history classes in school I always thought it would be nice to read some of the great works of literature and famous speeches from history, because those are primary documents representing the times. Now I find out that in Humanities you can combine history and literature and have been looking at textbooks for a two-semester Humanities course. What attracted me to the Matthews and Platt volumes were these supplemental reading texts (and the CDs with representative music).

In terms of the selections included in this first reading the strategy is clearly to cover the basic texts. If you are only going to do one Greek tragedy it should be "Oedipus the King" by Sophocles and that is what is here, as is the section on Aristotle's "Poetics" that talks about the key elements of tragedy. Instead of choosing between Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey," they provide selections from both. The book begins with the beginnings of Western literature, with selections from "The Code of Hammurabi" and "The Epic of Gilgamesh." The Romans are covered in a bit more depth than the ancient Greeks but the section on the World of Islam is comparable to that of Judaism and the Rise of Christianity, which is certainly relevant in these times. You will find selections from St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dantes's "Inferno," Petrarch, Giovanni Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer, Baldassare Castiglione, and Niccolo Machiavelli. The result is a solid coverage of the West's literary and philosophical heritage, from "Beowulf" to the "Song of Roland." Apparently some of changes were in response to the requests of reviewers and those additions noted in the preface are certainly welcome, even at the expense of "Lysistrata."

Matthews and Platt note that the most substantive change in these readings are the footnotes that provide annotations for identifying difficult proper names, place names, titles, terms, ideas, quotations, and allusions in each selection that are either vital to a work's meaning or useful to know. Having taken considerable pride in doing this for the collection of great speeches that I co-edited many years ago, I certainly applaud this effort (although half the fun of teaching is standing up in front of your students and explaining all about Tiresias the blind prophet of Thebes and how Dante organized the circles of Hell. Now all I have to do is get these classes on the schedule so I can actually use these books.

Readings in the Western Humanities (Volume 2)
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Readings in the Western Humanities (Volume 2)
Julie; Hays, C. Lansing; Engelberg, Kat Wildhaber
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Readings in the Western Humanities: Volume 2

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Revised printing includes an extensive introduction to each reading.

Ethnobotany of Western Washington the Knowledge and (Publications in Anthropology Series: No. X)
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E. Gunther
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Angel Lombardi
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Opening with a powerful letter to former Tacoma police chief David Brame, who shot his estranged wife before turning the gun on himself, Norm Stamper introduces us to the violent, secret world of domestic abuse that cops must not only navigate, but which some also perpetrate. Former chief of the Seattle police force, Stamper goes on to expose a troubling culture of racism, sexism, and homophobia that is still pervasive within the twenty-first-century force; then he explores how such prejudices can be addressed. He reveals the dangers and temptations that cops face, describing in gripping detail the split-second life-and-death decisions.

Stamper draws on lessons learned to make powerful arguments for drug decriminalization, abolition of the death penalty, and radically revised approaches to prostitution and gun control. He offers penetrating insights into the “blue wall of silence,” police undercover work, and what it means to kill a man. And, Stamper gives his personal account of the World Trade organization debacle of 1999, when protests he was in charge of controlling turned violent in the streets of Seattle.

Breaking Rank reveals Norm Stamper as a brave man, a pioneering public servant whose extraordinary life has been dedicated to the service of his community.

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fuzzy-bunny liberalism breaks rank with reality.......2007-02-15

Although I agree with several of Mr. Stamper's recommendations (legalizing prostitution, decriminalizing drugs), many of his assertions are straight out of the "I-Hate-America" handbook. All white, male cops -and even many black ones - are racsist, homophobic, women-hating thugs. What we need is a kinder, gentler way of policing.
Mr. Stamper had a brief career as a police officer before his real career of supervisory bureacrat began. He "confesses" that in his rookie year he was on his way to becoming one of the bad cops before he was set right by a straight-shootin' DA. It was apparently then that his liberal sensitivities kicked in, and soon he was a supervisor (all the better to control the average Joe).
The unfortunate thing about this book isn't the stories he relates, or even his recommendations (some good, some not so good), but the haughty way in which he relates it. Conservatives, Republicans - BAD! Liberals, Democrats - GOOD! (except for unions - bad!) If this book were written with respect not only for the majority of rank and file cops, but for the other half of Americans that Mr. Stamper obviously disdains, it may have been worth the money. As it is, if you are to the right of Hillary, take a pass on this one.

Unique insight........2006-08-03

The book was extremely honest and forthright. More police officers should have the courage to write their own tell all stories to break down the "Blue Wall." The downside to the author is that he told this after the fact. However, the lessons learned will help new police officers coming on the job, realize that law enforcement is a different beast.

An Entertaining Read with some great insight.......2006-06-26

Norm Stamper, much like the late Seattle School Superintendant John Stanford was considered a cutting edge leader in the public sector during the '90s. This was an exciting period in Seattle history and featured the dot com boom and the rise of such businesses as Microsoft, Starbucks and this website.
Norm Stampers book offers his views of the problems faced by police departments, many of which were featured in the fictional 2006 Oscar winning movie Crash.
Norm present many of his ideas of reform, some of which I can agree with and some of which I cannot.
The book is hard to put down once you start reading it and I would recommend it to anyone.

Excellent Candid Insight into Modern Policing.......2006-04-02

Stamper doesn't hold back - he outlines his experiences, sucesses, and failures. The book is organized around issues that are important to Stamper, such as community policing, gun control, death penalty, and the like.

Even if you do not agree with all of his conclusions the book still makes for a great read.

Truely awful, almost a satire of itself.......2006-02-12

This book is promoted as being about policing from a 'top cop'. Actually, the book is about Norm Stamper from his own perspective.

The book contains a number of chapters on current topics of interest, such as the war on drugs. If you agree with his positions, and you like reading a book by someone who agrees with you, it will seem like a nice book.

There are other chapters about Mr. Stamper's experiences. These are potentially interesting, but since the descriptions tend to be more about Mr. Stamper and his feelings than about what actually happened, I find them not as interesting as they could be.

The book falls down on a number of points, and they all revolve around Norm Stamper.

As an example, consider newspaper reporting. The book starts with a strange chapter written as an 'open letter' to the former police chief of Tacoma, who killed his wife and himself. I usually don't find open letters very interesting, but this particular letter would never have otherwise been read, as the putative recipient was dead when it was written.

The open letter is a condemnation of abusive husbands. There is no information in the chapter that wasn't in the newspaper reports, and the chapter sounds like something written after watching television. There is no special information or insight in Mr. Stamper's chapter. There are many other such opinions in Mr. Stamper's book, passages that seem to be written after reading something in a newspaper or watching something on television. If you happen to have had the same feelings after reading or watching the same coverage, it could be nice to see that someone else wrote those same feelings down.

Personally, I prefer to read the original newspaper coverage about events, rather than opinions of other people after reading the same coverage. The newspaper reports are already distorted enough, without hearing about them second hand. Certainly it isn't worth getting Mr. Stamper's book for his opinions.

The book almost becomes a satire when, near the end, Mr. Stamper complains about newspapers. Apparently there was some unflattering reporting about his leadership in the Seattle newspapers. Mr. Stamper spends some part of the book describing the fall of the american newspaper, and quoting statistics about how the newspapers are losing readership.

Unfortunately, Mr. Stamper, unlike Mark Twain, fails to see the humor in making judgements about other people on the basis of newspaper and television reports, then pointing out how imperfect the reports are. The book would have been much funnier if he had organized it better, so the contrast was clear. I get the impression that Mr. Stamper is serious, that he judges people he never met based on newspaper and television reports that he knows from personal experience are inadequate at best.

Unfortunately, the inability to see the humor in his own positions carries through the entire book.

Mr. Stamper describes decisions he made as police chief in Seattle. Luckily for him, these decisions do not seem to have required any particular judgement on his part. Almost every decision is described as having a right answer. Conveniently, people who favor other solutions have only bad reasons, are racist, sexist, or unprofessional. Mr. Stamper seems to believe that his college education is a guarantee of better judgement, a conclusion that he unfortunately demonstrates to be false.

After reading the book, I am left without insight into his decisions. For example, there is a discussion about police officers needing shotguns. Apparently, there are only bad reasons for police officers not having shotguns. I would have appreciated him listing a few of the bad reasons so I could have had a flavor of them, or perhaps a few of the good reasons so I had an idea what he was talking about.

What I also find convenient about the world in Mr. Stamper's book is that people are so easy to judge based on their skin color, gender, and sexual preferences. Almost every person in the book is described only in those terms. I learn nothing about them as human beings: how they live their lives, and what makes them special. This is odd, because policing has mostly to do with people, and it is strange that a book about policing can avoid talking about people in any more detail.

It is hard to believe that this book was written by someone who managed a police department, indeed, by someone who managed people at all. Management is about choosing priorities, and Mr. Stamper's discussion is only about what is right and what is wrong, not about the best use of the resources available. Managing people has to take into account their interests and goals, yet what shows up in this book is only their skin color, gender, and sexual preference - and lack of a college degree, which seems to make them 'unprofessional'. Leading an organization has to be concerned about what institutions and arrangements can be made to work with the people in the organization, and this book only has meaningless phrases.

I have heard that a book is good if it changes your mind about something, and this book did. Before I read the book, I had no specific feelings about police unions, but a general sense that they were obstructive. After reading Mr. Stamper's book, I'm ready to sign up. I can't imagine working in an organization led by someone who bases decisions only on what he sees as right and wrong - you can't survive a marriage this way, much less run an organization when you respect the judgements of other people only when they agree with you. I can't imagine working in an organization where people are classified by skin color, gender, and sexual preference - I would expect the leader to see beyond that. I also can't imagine working in an organization where the leader uses meaningless phrases instead of trying to set goals and accomplish them. It would be like living in a Dilbert cartoon. I can see the need for a union for any protection it could offer.

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Swallowed Up in Victory is a narrative of the last year of the American Civil War. It follows the action surrounding the first attacks on Petersburg through the surrender at Appomattox. Swallowed Up in Victory traces the history of the siege through letters and journal entries of a group of fictitious participants. Their accounts highlight both the despair and triumph that the struggle over Petersburg provided in abundance, as well as the self-deprecating humor that managed to sustain both sides through the worst of the conflict.

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Engrossing novel of the final year of the American Civil War.......2002-10-09

Written with a meticulous attention to its historical background and context, Lee Passarella's Swallowed Up In Victory: A Civil War Narrative Petersburg, 1864-1865 is an engrossing novel of the final year of the American Civil War, centering on the bloody attacks waged on Petersburg through the surrender at Appomattox. The letters and journal entries of a group of fictitious people swept up by the turmoil of war make for a unique story that feels as real and vivid as if the writings had been rescued from forgotten family records. A compelling Civil War story, Swallowed Up In Victory is enthusiastically recommended for historical fiction readers in general, and Civil War history buffs in particular.

Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World
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Mosher not afraid to speak the truth

Mosher's personal vendetta against the PRC

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The Chinese keep threatening while their apologists keep denying

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Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World
Steven W. Mosher
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To understand modern China, writes Steven W. Mosher, one must understand that country's ancient sense of self. For 48 of the last 50 centuries, China has had the largest population and the most advanced economy in the world--and the Chinese know it. They have always viewed themselves as "culturally superior to other peoples," writes Mosher, an expert on China and author of A Mother's Ordeal. The Chinese also possess a self-identity dependent upon the concept of what Mosher calls "the Hegemon": "the non-Western notion that the premier goal of foreign policy should be to establish absolute dominance over one's region and, by slow extension, the world." All the feel-good talk coming out of Washington about "strategic partnerships" and "most-favored-nation status" are woefully naive, says Mosher. The Chinese, he writes, believe they are in "a worldwide contest with the U.S. to replace the current Pax Americana with a Pax Sinica." In other words, they want nothing less than to displace the United States as the world's sole superpower.

Mosher debunks what he considers to be the most pervasive and harmful myths about China: the notion that democracy is inevitably in its future, that market forces will advance freedom, that exposure to American culture will lead to change, and that technological developments such as the Internet will propel reform. In short, he firmly opposes all the rosy scenarios embraced by Congress and the Clinton administration. This is a provocative book--and one the Chinese government surely won't welcome, given its deep suspicion and frequent reference to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Neither will many American elites, who come in for a severe beating: "It is a scandal that most former secretaries of state (beginning with Henry Kissinger), most former national security advisors (also beginning with Kissinger) and most of their senior deputies have gone into the China trade subsequent to their government service, often without even allowing the passage of a decent interval before beginning to cash in." Mosher wants Americans to make a more cold-eyed assessment of a country he believes is not a friend, but a threat. --John J. Miller

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Hegemon is as timely as today's headlines about Chinese efforts to influence U.S. elections and steal U.S. nuclear secrets. But it is also a masterful work of scholarship that reinforces Steven Mosher's reputation as one of our most thoughtful and provocative China watchers.

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Mosher not afraid to speak the truth.......2007-09-18

In this book Mosher gives irrefutable evidence of the Chinese government's plan toward world domination. This threat is all the more dangerous considering how, especially since its forceful implementation of Communism, China has shown that it is willing to use any means, including Mao's genocide on the largest scale ever before seen in human history, to extend its absolute power over peoples' lives.
Mosher is far from a paranoid armchair thinker; he is an expert in Chinese culture who has lived in the country and speaks the language. Read the facts and see for yourself.

Mosher's personal vendetta against the PRC.......2005-10-06

Steven Mosher is concerned about China's human rights and he has good reason. However, after being arrested and expelled from the country for going somewhere the Chinese government barred foreigners from going, he now has a grudge. I'm not defending Beijing's policy of controlling where foreign researchers and journalists can travel in the country, but to extrapolate prohibitions on foreigners and authoritarian human rights practices is no means to condemn an entire nation. China's elites control the nation's population to avoid widespread famine. Their methods are less than perfect by far and their implementation at the village levels allows for improper actions, some of which would be illegal in the United States. If anything, this shows us how weak the central authority is in China, much like the late Ming and Qing empires before their collapse. The bottom line is Mosher is angry because Beijing made him persona non grata, thereby keeping him from futher exposing human rights abuses. When dealing with the Chinese government, nations must be careful, particularly when it concerns human rights, but this does not make everything the Chinese do part of a sinister plot.

hysterical nonsense.......2005-08-06

Mosher's central thesis, well documented with error, misunderstanding and paranoid bias, suggests China has been hell-bent on world domination since Mosher's ancestors were living in caves (possibly they still are). Fast-forward to the present, he finds a yellow menace in every teapot of the "Middle Kingdom" (which properly translated means, literally, "middle" or "center" "land", not "kingdom", a common misconception of non-Chinese speakers).

If you have a taste for right-wing paranoia, this makes an amusing read.

BTW, another reviewer, Chuck Devore, who writes a glowing review, happens to be the co-author of another of Mosher's paranoid fantasies "China Attacks" (Taiwan). No further comment.

The Chinese keep threatening while their apologists keep denying.......2005-07-20

The Chinese keep threatening while their apologists keep denying the threat.

Steven Mosher's Hegemon: China's Plan to Dominate Asia and the World is still relevant in the post-9/11 world.

The Islamofascist terrorists can hurt us, China can destroy us and actually aims to do so.

Chinese Maj. Gen. Zhu Chenghu warned in July 2005 that if the U.S. interfered in a Chinese attack on Taiwan it could lead to a Chinese nuclear attack on U.S. cities.

Gen. Xiong Guangkai, the Chinese Army's second highest ranking general, made the same threat ten years earlier in 1995, saying that Americans "care more about Los Angeles than you do about Taipei."

I'll believe the threats of Chinese generals over the self-serving denials of their stooges here in the West.

Utter speculative BS.......2005-03-13

Too bad for this guy, can't make much money off the China Threat scare these days. One of many retards who weren't very focused on the real threat back in pre 9/11 2001.

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A 'Must Have' for Interpreters.......2007-06-04

This fun-to-read, chock-full of useful ideas book should be in any Interpreter's library. In fact, if I could only buy one book for my interpretive library, this would be it. Several rangers I know (inc. myself) refer to this book as 'the Bible'. This was the book I chose for the required textbook for the Interpretive training course for docents at the Desert Botanical Garden. The chapters are concise and full of examples of interpretive theory IN ACTION. Lots of whimsical pictures to illustrate main points-- but don't think just because it has pictures that it is full of fluff. It's a reference book you will pick up again and again to review interpretive techniques. Definitely a 'how-to', hands-on book.

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