Cognitive Therapy for Bipolar Disorder: A Therapist's Guide to Concepts, Methods and Practice (Wiley Series in Clinical Psychology)

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Bipolar disorder or manic depression is a serious mental disorder attracting increasing interest and could represent the next major area for the wider application of cognitive behavioral therapy. The authors have treated manic depressive patients on a routine clinical basis and have included in this book a detailed description of the techniques and issues in working with this client group.

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This book was immensely helpful in my practice. Dealing with affective disorders can be trying, but this book lays out different methods for those with bipolar disorder to cope effectively.

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The Colour of Angels: Cosmology, Gender and the Aesthetic Imagination

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The Colour of Angels uncovers the gender politics behind our attitude to the senses. Using a wide variety of examples, ranging from the sensuous religious visions of the middle ages through to nineteenth-century art movements, this book reveals a previously unexplored area of womens history.

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Scholarly, evocative, fascinating read. This is one of my favorite texts addressing art, gender, and our sense of senses.

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Combinatorial Theory (Classics in Mathematics)

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This book offers a well-organized, easy-to-follow introduction to combinatorial theory, with examples, notes and exercises. ". . . a very good introduction to combinatorics. This book can warmly be recommended first of all to students interested in combinatorics." Publicationes Mathematicae Debrecen

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Along with statistics, combinatorics is one of the most maligned fields of mathematics. Often it is not even considered a field in its own right but merely a grab-bag of disparate tricks to be exploited by other, nobler endeavours. Where is the glory in simply counting things? This book goes a long way towards shattering these old stereotypes. By unifying enumerative combinatorics under a strong algebraic framework, Aigner finally bestows upon the humble act of counting the respect it so surely deserves.At first, it may be somewhat trying to make sense of his presentation as he reworks familiar results in this algebraic view. Often, I was left wondering why it is necessary to go through the trouble of all these high-powered techniques just to obtain results we've already obtained through much simpler means. However, as I progressed through the chapters, it became clear that the only consistent way to tackle the truly difficult problems in enumeration was with these algebraic tools. If you are serious about combinatorics or merely interested in what combinatorics has to offer, this volume is certainly a valuable addition to your library. Help other customers find the most helpful reviews� Was this review helpful to you?�Yes No Report abuse | PermalinkComment Comment

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A Companion to Tragedy

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A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture.

• Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity
  
• Features 28 essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy
  
• Broad in its scope and ambition, it considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history
  
• Offers a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy and demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades

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It is an excellent collection of essays, and very helpful for the student of tragedy. I've been using it as a guide in my study of tragedy and the chapters have proven reliable and judicious, particularly the ones on theories of tragedy. The editorial effort is impressive. I would have liked greater uniformity in the bibliographies--some are commented, some are not. I personally prefer them to be commented. I think it serves better the purpose of a companion volume.

The one thing I find objectionable is the Anglocentrism (but I must admit that in this volume, it isn't nearly as bad as it usually is even in the most serious scholarly volumes). To take an example, there are three chapters dedicated to English Renaissance tragedy and none to neo-Latin and Italian Renaissance tragedy. The true cultural center in the Renaissance was Italy, not England, no matter what Hollywood will have us believe, therefore it is basically silly to do away with the neo-Latin and Italian models for European tragedies, including those of Shakespeare.

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Computers, Teachers, Peers: Science Learning Partners

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Linn and Hsi show how computers, teachers, and peers can serve as learning partners--helping students build on their ideas and become lifelong science learners. They invite everyone interested in improving science education to build on their experiences, share insights on the Internet, and create instruction.

Computers, Teachers, Peers:

* offers case studies to bring the ideas of students learning science to life. *Join Sasha, Chris, Pat, and Lee as they try to make sense of experiments using computers to display data in real time;*
* provides principles to help teachers improve their instruction, use technology better, and inspire more students to love science. *Find out how to use visualization tools, online discussion, and more to make science relevant;*
* gives researchers and instructional designers a model for effective research and curriculum design. *Linn and Hsi report that the partnership approach to research resulted in a 400% increase in student understanding of science;*
* helps schools develop technology plans that continuously improve science instruction. *Find out how schools can design better ways to use technology for learning;*
* describes a partnership inquiry process where science teachers, science education researchers, discipline specialists, and technologists consider each others' perspectives and jointly design instruction. *Boys and girls are equally successful in the resulting science courses;* and
* features practical tools for learning and instruction, including "Points to Ponder"--to encourage reflection on the ideas in each chapter (partnership groups or classes might use the points as discussion starters or assignments), and "Ask Mr. K."--an interview, in each chapter, with the classroom teacher who was a founding member of the CLP partnership (in these interviews Mr. K. adds insights from his own classroom experiences).

This book is supplemented by a CD-ROM (included in each copy) and a Web site (www.clp.berkeley.edu) with the Computers as Learning Partners curriculum, lesson plans, a Quicktime virtual reality visit to the classroom, copies of assessments, opportunities to join partnerships, and more. For readers who wish for more information, Related Readings are cited, including works by authors mentioned in each chapter. Additional works by other authors who inspired the authors appear in the bibliography, on the website, and on the CD-ROM. An annotated bibliography of papers by the members of the CLP partnership also appears at the website and on the CD-ROM.

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From my role as a science teacher, it is encouraging to have a book which is informed by years of classroom research. My experience with the Computer as Learning Partnership project has greatly changed my understanding of how kids learn and what it takes to change the way they perceive the world around them. This book provides a pedagogical framework that has worked very successfully over several years and narrows the gap between academic research and classroom practice. I hope that my responses to the "Ask Mr. K." questions will be useful to teachers in reflecting on their own practices.

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The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young (American Folk Music and Musicians Series)

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Israel G. “Izzy” Young was the proprietor of the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The literal center of the New York folk music scene, the Center not only sold records, books, and guitar strings but served as a concert hall, meeting spot, and information kiosk for all folk scene events. Among Young� s first customers was Harry Belafonte; among his regular visitors were Alan Lomax and Pete Seeger. Shortly after his arrival in New York City in 1961, an unknown Bob Dyan banged away at songs on Young� s typewriter. Young would also stage Dylan’s first concert, as well as shows by Joni Mitchell, the Fugs, Emmylou Harris, and Tim Buckley, Doc Watson, Son House, and Mississippi John Hurt.

The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel ��Izzy� Young collects Young� s writing, from his regular column �Frets and Frails � for Sing Out! Magazine (1959-1969) to his commentaries on such contentious issues as copyright and commercialism. Also including his personal recollections of seminal figures, from Bob Dylan and Alan Lomax to Harry Smith and Woody Guthrie, this collection removes the rose tinting of past memoirs by offering Young� �s detailed, day-by-day accounts. A key collection of primary sources on the American countercultural scene in New York City, this work will interest not only folk music fans, but students and scholars of American social and cultural history.

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In his introduction to the Swedish audio edition of Bob Dylan's 2004 memoir 'Chronicles, Volume One,' the writer, folklore enthusiast, and promoter Israel "Izzy" Young states, "All I wanted in life" was "to be a part of American folkmusic." He was specifically referring to the Folklore Center, his Greenwich Village shop that served as a de-facto headquarters of folk-related activity in New York City from 1957 to 1973, which--as editor Scott Barretta points out--placed Young at the heart of the national folk revival as well. Both an active participant in and an astute observer of the activity around him, Young documented the scene in various personal journals, self-published writings, and magazine columns that Barretta has collected in 'The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young,' the latest edition in Scarecrow Press' American Folk Music and Folk Musicians Series.

A blues writer and researcher familiar to longtime readers of 'Living Blues' as a former editor and frequent contributor, Barretta met Young when he relocated to Sweden in 1992. Young himself has resided there since 1973, where he operates the Folklore Centrum and promotes concerts of indigenous and international folk music, much as he did during the American folk revival while living in his native New York.

Young's most famous association during those years was with Bob Dylan, who became a frequent visitor to Young's establishment soon after arriving in the Village. Young also promoted Dylan's first formal concert in New York City, held at Carnegie Chapter Hall in 1961. Along with Young's own writings on Dylan--fond, yet critical and clear-eyed in turns--the appendix includes Dylan's handwritten manuscripts of two unrecorded songs, "Go Away You Bomb" and "Talking Folklore Center."

Besides Jewish roots and a passion for folk music, Young also shared with Dylan a refusal to be pigeonholed. Young's own folk music initiation came via his involvement with the local folk dance community, and he chose the name "Folklore Center" for his business by virtue of his varied cultural interests: "I think Pete Seeger at the time said it should be called Folk Music Center or Folk Dance Center, but I felt under the strict term `folklore,' I had complete freedom. I could do whatever I wanted."

Likewise, Young was liberal politically without being an ideologue. Possessing a dislike of communism rooted in his working-class upbringing, Young told Irwin Silber, "I still hate you commies, but I'll write for you," when the latter asked him to join the staff of 'Sing Out!' magazine. Young's column, entitled "Frets and Frails," is presented here in its entirety. It largely consisted of brief notations of various happenings both in the Village and in the greater folk music scene: births, marriages, deaths, arrivals, departures, performances, group roster changes, and the like. Besides providing a real-time account of the folk revival's lifespan, the sheer number of names Young listed in his column is a reminder that it involved many more than the handful of most famous figures, rendering this a necessary reference volume of the musical and cultural movement.

More engaging are Young's refreshingly blunt opinions on various issues, which are scattered throughout "Frets and Frails." "American Blues are being recognized in England and Europe while they are not encouraged enough here--especially by Folk Music Journals and Magazines," he wrote in the winter of 1959-1960--a full decade before the founding of 'Living Blues.' He was particularly concerned with matters of copyright: "Did you know that John Lomax Sr. wrote 'Goodnight, Irene'?" Young asked in his second "Sing Out!" column, and over the years he openly criticized those who recorded and copyrighted traditional songs without properly crediting their source or explaining their methodology. In a paper entitled "Folk Music and Copyright, Lomax and Leadbelly," written in the 1990s and included here, Young expanded upon this topic, calling for clarification of the manner in which John and Alan Lomax copyrighted songs recorded by Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter. (See [...] for an explication of the Lomaxes' association with Ledbetter.)

Young is quoted as saying that he has no plans to publish an autobiography, but rather will "write short `stories,' from time to time, that are more like historical accounts, and that feels good to me, sort of my mind actively helping and encouraging me to write the way I like to." This seems a shame, as Barretta notes in his preface the delight Young took in recounting his memories of musicians such as Big Joe Williams, Robert Pete Williams, and Reverend Gary Davis--stories that remain unpublished. Hopefully Young will commit these and more to print, but until then, 'The Conscience of the Folk Revival: The Writings of Israel "Izzy" Young' is the definitive account of his folk revival experiences and observations.

(I originally wrote this review for 'Living Blues'; it appeared in Issue #224/April 2013, p. 68. Re-used here with permission.--Melanie Young)

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