How To Raise Emotionally Healthy Children: Meeting The Five Critical Needs Of Children...And Parents Too!

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"How To Raise Emotionally Healthy Children" states that parenting is too important to leave to chance. It shows parents how to combine common sense and systematic methods to create a family atmosphere where children and parents thrive. It demonstrates how parents can become proactive and creative rather than reactive and remedial. Simple but powerfull planning tools help parents become engaged, connected, and aware of how they are doing. It is a blueprint for better parenting.

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A Self-Help Book for Parents with Good Lessons on Relationships.......2006-01-20

I don't have any children yet, but I read HOW TO RAISE EMOTIONALLY HEALTHY CHILDREN by Gerald Newmark because my cousin, a pre-school teacher, suggested it as interesting reading. It focuses on five critical needs that children have (that is, the need to feel respected, important, accepted, included, and secure) and discusses how to go about fulfilling those needs as a parent. It was a short, informative read, and some of the chapters included examples of how to deal with "real-life" situations at home. One of the things I got out of the book is the realization that you don't have to apply fulfilling the five needs only towards children - you can use them to also improve your relationship with your significant other, parents, siblings, friends, or whatever.

The book is a self-help guide, and it does offer a lot of good, sound advice. Unfortunately, not all of the chapters are as engaging as others, and some can come across as dry reading. Anyway, here's a list of the chapters in the book:

1. The Five Critical Needs of Children (Parenting as Though Children Really Matter)
2. Family Situations (A Closer Look at Behavior that Helps and Behavior that Hurts)
3. Recollections from Childhood (Memories Have Impact)
4. Becoming a Professional at Parenting (Childrearing Is Too Important to Leave to Chance)
5. Overcoming Obstacles and Taking Control (Maintaining Focus and a Balanced Lifestyle)
6. Implications for Families and Schools (Creating and Extending a Sense of Community)
7. Guide to Parent Resources (Tools for Life-Long Learning)

Again, it is a short book, but some the lessons you learn about improving relationships may stick with you for the rest of your life.

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This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussolini's elaboration of a new ruling style to the shaping of the regime's identity, she finds that in searching for symbolic means and forms that would represent its political novelty, fascism in fact brought itself into being, creating its own power and history.
Falasca-Zamponi argues that an aesthetically founded notion of politics guided fascist power's historical unfolding and determined the fascist regime's violent understanding of social relations, its desensitized and dehumanized claims to creation, its privileging of form over ethical norms, and ultimately its truly totalitarian nature.

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David Loxterkamp is a family practitioner in Belfast, Maine, and The Measure of My Days is an account of one year in his life and those he serves. It soon becomes clear in Loxterkamp's chronicle that one need not look to big city emergency rooms for medical drama: among his patients, the doctor includes one woman suffering from the debilitating and ultimately fatal Lou Gehrig's disease and another dying slowly from lung cancer. The dramatic, the tragic, and the transcendent moments of medicine are interspersed in Loxterkamp's journal with more mundane matters--breakfast with his family, Easter Sunday services at church, shopping at the supermarket--that complete the picture of a small-town doctor's life.

In the pages of Loxterkamp's journal, the reader meets mill workers and lobster fishermen, churchgoers and backsliders, young and old, the just-born and the soon-to-die. The author's relationships with his friends, neighbors, and patients, as well as the greater issues that arise from those relationships, form the backbone of this thoughtful, year-in-the-life memoir.

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This is the story of one year in the life of a family physician in Belfast, Maine, and his connections not just to that community but to the Human family. In thoughtful, elegiac, often lyrical prose, David Loxterkamp muses about his patients, his colleagues, his family, and his relationship to his Maker as he recalls the daily minutiae that constitute "the bookmarks in a bountiful life, a string of facts and circumstances that have moved beyond the mere documentary" to his discovery of "peace and perspective and companionship along my muddled way."

That way, which is faithfully mapped by journal entries, is populated by the characters he has come to know: the lobstermen, millworkers, church-goers, back-to-the-landers, and "those from away" who share this picturesque, bare-bones, blue-collar piece of Maine coast. We meet Elena, whose fatal Lou Gehrig's disease reduces her speech to air made into letters on a computer screen. Bernitha languishes in a slow death from lung cancer. A laboring mother deals with her pain, uncertainty, and the realized possibility of a deformed infant. Through the dull and the dramatic, the mundane and the magnificent, Loxterkamp finds his way and fashions "an anthem to the Good God" with deeply moving, "everyday stories of an irrepressible human spirit, a spirit refined by adversity and renewed by love."

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In Medicine For More Of The Right Reasons.......2001-03-08

I had some spare time and was browsing through Amazon when I ran across this book. I have owned the hardcopy book for several years, I had purchased it after reading an article in "Life" magazine about Dr. Loxtercamp in which this book had been noted. I found the book most interesting and found myself walking through the area of Maine he practices as he went about journalling his days and his times & thoughts of his personal family time.

I found the man and his story most inspiring. Alot of people in today's medicine either are in the field for the money or find themselves disallusioned with the field because of all the insurance buracracy. I find those people who are in their field because that is where they truly want to be and for the want of helping others to be a rare find.

I could also follow along Dr. Loxtercamp's views and journeys of a small town doctor from working in the medical area. He tells his story compassionately and the reader can feel his humanity for others.

Over the past couple of years, I had looked forward for another publication and writing for Dr. Loxtercamp but sadly never ran across progression of this book. I found myself wanting to know more about how his journey has progressed along in the small town medical practice.

A highly suggested read.

Good for those who want a slow read.......1999-01-09

I enjoyed this book a good deal, particularly Loxterkamp's attention to God and faith and the notion of ministering. I admire Loxterkamp's bravery for so much soul-searching over a year of his practice. This is a book to savor for those interested in rural medicine or family medicine. I give it 4 stars instead of 5 because I found his writing a bit labored. It's slow-going reading. It's also very much about him, him, him. A good contrast is to read Verghese's In My Own Country. Loxterkamp lacks Verghese's fluid style and attention to others. Despite his efforts to humanize, Loxterkamp presents fairly 2-dimensional portraits of his patients. This book is really more of an interior meditation, albeit a very good one.

This is a autobiography of the life of a doctor........1997-07-17

This is the first book in a long time that I read with care. Usually I skim through pretty rapidly. I liked his candor and insight into his patients' lives. It was interesting how he managed to intertwine his professional life with his family. I enjoyed his constant concern about the effect of religion on his life and others. His questions about death and dying were good. It has to be of concern for all of us eventually. I recommended this book to our local librarian!

South Boston, My Home Town: The History of an Ethnic Neighborhood

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Unreferenced claims, and Media Stereotypes.
A complete, and very thorough history of Southie

South Boston, My Home Town: The History of an Ethnic Neighborhood
Thomas H. O'Connor
Manufacturer: Northeastern
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ASIN: 1555531881

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An engaging yet objective look at the 350-year old history of "Southie," a neighborhood that has survived largely unchanged since the early days of immigrant Irish families and old-time political bosses.

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Unreferenced claims, and Media Stereotypes........2003-08-18

Written by a South Boston expatriate [who hasn't lived in South Boston for decades], the book: 'SOUTH BOSTON: My Home Town - The History of an Ethnic Neighborhood' (c. 1988, 1994) by B.C. history professor Thomas H. O'Connor, ignored the usual tenets of logic and historiography and took a contingent and non-teleological world view of the history of his ex-neighborhood, South Boston.

Containing all the usual ingrediants of determinism - such as: truisms (e.g. "The Dorchester Heights monument was completed in 1901 ..." p. 107) interpreted with many unreferenced categorical statements (e.g. " 'Most' of the Irish who came to America ..." p 78, and "In 'most' South Boston Schools ..." p. 121, or " ... the anti-semitism among 'some' Irish Catholics ..." p. 186); Professor O'Connor, in an attempt to initiate a self-fulfilling prophecy, simply collected a series of stereotypes which coincided with the media coverage of the anti-forced busing events of 1974-1984 Boston, of which he personally was not involved!

This blatant manipulation of information is further enhanced by these curiously irresponsible statements that "To a great extent, Irish emigrants brought their traditional drinking habits with them when they came to America." (p. 44) and " ... the potato was the absolute mainstay of the Irish diet." (p. 47). In light of the facts that the first beer pump in Boston is found in South Boston at the German bar "Amrheims"; and in Ireland, the Irish don't just eat potatoes!

As a further case in reader manipulation, the book 'SOUTH BOSTON: My Home Town' contained an anachronism as Prof. O'Connor perpetuated a crude specimen of Boston 'Mytho-history'. On page 254 in Prof. O'Connor's sources is found the screed LIBERTY'S CHOSEN HOME (c.1977) where journalist Alan Lupo related the excited outburst of an anti-forced busing protester in 1974 to then Mayor Kevin White that: "No matter how poor we were, Kevin, we always had clean lace curtains on our windows"(p. 30). And through sheer hyperbole, this exclamation from a non-Irish women found its way into 'SOUTH BOSTON: My Home Town' (p. 87) as the 1901 long established tradition of "the lace curtain Irish"! It is undocumented that there has ever been a lace curtain Irish in Boston and this description is specious.

The book 'SOUTH BOSTON: My Home Town' presented a series of inconsistencies and mechanistically biased views of the author's former hometown: Prof. O'Connor emphasized white racism and ignored all the black racism found in Boston (p. 219); constantly referred to South Boston as an 'ethnic' neighborhood, but didn't describe at EXACTLY what point South Boston became a 'white' neighborhood when it came to his description of forced busing (p. 209); the author mentioned historical 'forces' throughout his work with no explanation of exactly what those mysterious 'forces' were? (e.g. pgs. 115 & 246); and in confusing digressions for correlations, Prof. O'Connor committed the 'post hoc' fallacy by constantly comparing two disassociate events: the Irish immigrants in the 1854 North End (Boston) as a "theme" (p. 32) for the behaviour of the Irish American minority in 1974 South Boston, two miles away and 120 years later! (An illegitimate teleology occurs when an author speculates, without sufficient proof, that x causes y).

The omission of relevant data also marred 'SOUTH BOSTON: My Home Town' as Prof. O'Connor listed some of the whimsical nicknames (p. 178) found among South Boston residents but neglected to include his poster boy's, former mayor Ray Flynn, sobriquet of 'Mel' Flynn (and why he earned it). Also omitted from this work was the fact that the Irish American became a vocal minority by 1974, surpassed in the 1950s by Lithuanian, Polish, Estonian, Latvian, and Albanian immigrants fleeing communist persecution by the former Soviet Union - thereby breaking any contingency between the Irish immigrants of 1854 Boston, and the Irish American of 1974 South Boston! There were also 240 Afro-American families, plus a small colony of Mic Mac Indians from the Canadian Maritimes living in Southie when the Federal judge declared the Boston Schools segregated, which escaped the author's attention.

Though this was supposed to be a history of South Boston, the author tended to drag in the history of all the Irish no matter how far or removed from Southie; e.g. Irish immigrants of New York city. (This is where Prof. O'Connor's specialty in demographics tended to displace his knowledge of South Boston history.) Then, inconsistently, Prof. O'Connor failed to mention the most segregated and insulated neighborhood in Boston's entire history - Chinatown!

Professor O'Connor's collection of generalizations, unsubstantiated allegations, and unreferenced claims, makes it impossible for the researcher to verify his information. The yarn: 'SOUTH BOSTON: My Home Town' by history professor Thomas H. O'Connor, is a distorted work which is not history, but encompassed all the worse traits of a poorly written biography. By allowing his imagination to run away with him and indulging in a weak psychobiographic speculation with few sources or no proof, professor Thomas H. O'Connor had produced not a technically proficient work of history, but a weak biography on his ex-neighborhood, with all the veracity and authority of an eighth grade book report.

Any life long resident of South Boston would immediately pick out the flaws and errors of this work (e.g. Life long South Boston residents do not refer to themselves as 'Southies'!)

'SOUTH BOSTON: My Home Town: The History of an Ethnic Neighborhod' is a perpetuation of many media stereotypes, documented truisms, vague categorical statements, and added nothing new to the knowledge of South Boston's history.

A complete, and very thorough history of Southie.......2000-07-11

I had to read this book...and comment on it. Like Thomas O'Connor, I am also a native of Southie. Using a voluminous store of references, and countless personal interviews, O'Connor has written the most comprehensive history of "The Town" I've ever read. He takes the reader from the very beginnings of life in the relatively isolated peninsula settlement, through the cultural, ethnic, occupational, and religious history of the residents, emphasizing their insular nature, seemingly always at odds with the rest of Boston and other outsiders, right through the 80's.

The detailed background information provided by O'Connor over an entire chapter, regarding the forced busing for school integration and ensuing Southie riots, will give the non-Southie(and maybe some Southies also) reader a much better understanding, and different perspective, on the town. O'Connor is clear on the causes of the riots, namely a clueless judge following the path paved by a self-serving state legislature that passed a law which would preclude busing to Boston's lily-white suburbs, compounded of course by Southie's insular nature and desires to maintain their neighborhood schools. I recommend Michael MacDonald's recently published "All Souls" for a terrific read on the tragic experiences of one very poor Southie family in the projects during the those riots in the 70's, and on through the 80's, into the 90's.

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A vacation without leaving home.......2004-06-16

After reading this book, you feel as though you've just spent a summer on the Cape and can't wait to go back next year. It's like a vacation without leaving home. An excellent read!

Escape to the Cape.......2003-05-05

This book is a wonderful escape for anyone who picks it up, but if you are familiar with Cape Cod or the coastline of New England you'll find it even more appealing. The people and places so accurately described in Taber's work will make you a convert and read all of her books. Her prose is so superb that you forget you're reading at all and feel that you're having a conversation with Gladys herself. Gone from this world for over two decades, Gladys is still alive with such a presence in these pages that I open her books when I need comfort and I feel as if I'm speaking to my grandmother. An accomplished professor of Writing, a Wellesley grad, a naturalist, and a New Englander, Gladys Taber will remind you that all is and can be right with the world.

A Wanderer All My Days: John Muir in New England

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More about New England's great people than John Muir

A Wanderer All My Days: John Muir in New England
J. Parker Huber
Manufacturer: Green Frigate Books
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ASIN: 0971746842

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Compiled from John Muir’s journal entries, letters, and hundreds of additional sources, this resource presents a detailed examination of Muir’s travels throughout New England—from the mountains of Maine to the halls of Harvard University. With comprehensive insights into Muir’s wanderings, this unique reference discusses the beginnings of the environmental movement as well as how 19th century New England literary society evolved. This distinctive look at Muir showcases how he was just as much shaped by the cultural landscapes of the East as he was by the pathless expanses of the West.

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More about New England's great people than John Muir.......2007-09-22

You might think that a book that painstakingly tracks John Muir's wanderings in New England would teach us some more about this little-known portion of Muir's life. But not so. What the author has basically done is to use Muir's "wanderings" as a literary device to give a detailed, thorough explanation of the many literary figures, scientists, artists, and academics that New England has produced. In this, the book succeeds admiringingly well. You will meet people that lived in places that Muir visited,even if he never met them; in fact, you will meet people who "used to live" in places that Muir visited, even though they were nowhere near that place when John Muir set foot in their town!

So, if you want to learn more about New England's famous and accomplished people over history, this can be a fine book. But if you are looking to learn much about Muir's travels there, or even how the people he knew there influenced him or vice-versa, you will be disappointed.

Game of My Life: Memorable Stories of Boston Red Sox Baseball

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Game of My Life: Memorable Stories of Boston Red Sox Baseball
Chaz Scoggins
Manufacturer: Sports Publishing
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ASIN: 1582619921

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Game of My Life: Memorable Stories of Red Sox Baseball traces back nearly 70 years, almost to the very start of the seminal Yawkey Era, recalling some of the greatest players in Red Sox history and some of their greatest games. Beginning with Bobby Doerr, the Hall of Fame second baseman who joined the Red Sox in 1937, this book will touch on players and their most memorable games from every decade right up to those who finally experienced the exhilaration of winning that elusive World Series.

My Corner of New England: Thoughts on Nature and Human Nature from a Pilgrim House on Cape Cod Bay

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My Corner of New England: Thoughts on Nature and Human Nature from a Pilgrim House on Cape Cod Bay
Robert Merrill Bartlett
Manufacturer: Peter Randall Pub
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Cape Cod on My Mind (On My Mind Series)
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Steep yourself in the peninsula's colonial and nautical heritage. Complementing the color photos are the words of writers who have succumbed to the Cape's charms.

Forest Under My Fingernails: Reflections and Encounters on the Long Trail

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A great hiking book - describes what it is truly like
A favorite backpacking book

Forest Under My Fingernails: Reflections and Encounters on the Long Trail
Walt McLaughlin
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ASIN: 1933937041

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Forest Under My Fingernails is a beautifully written book about a 267 mile, 33 day backpacking trip. At different times gently introspective, humorous, and thought-provoking, this book explores the changes we go through as we gradually immerse ourselves in the deep woods, and the different rhythms we experience there. Walt's work is relatively unknown, but we regard him as one of the most eloquent nature authors and poets writing today.

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A great hiking book - describes what it is truly like.......2007-03-21

I have not read a book that more accurately describes the long (medium)distance hiking experience better. In addition it is one of the best descriptions of the LT found. I finshed a section hike of the Long Trail last October and reading this book took me back to the joys and troubles, the shelters and summits. A great read

A favorite backpacking book.......2006-10-18

A wonderful book to read before you go backpacking to grasp what might be expected on a long trip. It was packed with information about the interactions between people and nature. It was interesting to read while giving me insight on the trail. I recommend this to anyone who enjoys nature and backpacking!

Today in My Garden: 365 Tips for Your Mid-Atlantic and New England Garden

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Today in My Garden: 365 Tips for Your Mid-Atlantic and New England Garden
Cool Springs Press
Manufacturer: Cool Springs Press
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My Love Affair With the State of Maine: By Scotty Mackenie

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Great book
Takes you away to Maine!
Couldn't put it down
A memoir that inspired me 40 years ago!

My Love Affair With the State of Maine: By Scotty Mackenie
Scotty Mackenzie , and Ruth Goode
Manufacturer: Down East Books
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ASIN: 0892724072

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Great book.......2006-03-03

I've read it twice now and loved it each time. Agree with the opinions above. People who enjoy this may be interested in "We Took to the Woods" by Louise Dickinson Rich, also entertaining humerous look at life in Maine.

Takes you away to Maine!.......2002-06-24

I often don't get a chance for much pleasure reading so many books that I start never get finished. This book, however, grabbed me in from the start and like the other reviewer said, I could not put it down. It truly transported me to Maine, a state that I love to visit. However, even if you aren't a Maine fanatic, I think you will enjoy the book and it's ability to take you away from your everyday life. In addition, the strong, independent women who play the lead roles in the book are truly inspirational, especially considering the time period in which they were asserting this independent spirit. Seeing their willingness to jump in to a business that they knew little about and to set it up successfully in a short period of time has really awakened in me the belief that anything is possible -- you just have to be bold enough to go after it. This book is a wonderful read and one that I will surely pick up time after time. I highly recommend it.

Couldn't put it down.......2000-09-26

This book written about the trials and tribulations of two young girls who quit their jobs in New York and took up running a grocery store in Goose Rocks. Scotty does a fantasitc job at taking the reader to Maine. She captivated me and I truely could not put this book down. I want read it again right away!

A memoir that inspired me 40 years ago!.......1998-09-22

In my youth, I often vacationed in Maine and happened to find this book in the local library during one trip. It was truly inspiring for me as a young girl, both to appreciate the great state of Maine and to go on to write memoirs of my own. I would recommend this classic to any would-be memoirist, as a great example of how a well-written life story can transcend time.

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