Help Yourself To Positive Mental Health

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This work reveals 50 simple ideas and concrete actitivities to improve anyone's mental well-being. Written in a conversational style, this resource provides techniques and specific suggestions to combat depression, fear, loneliness, anger, a poor self-image, undesirable habits, poor communication, relationship difficulties and other problems. Step-by-step, the authors show the reader the way to positive mental health.; All 50 ideas are introduced in the same straightforward format: a basic idea is presented on the right-hand page and a concise, one-page explanation that defines the concept and how to implement it is shown on the left.

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A REAL GEM! PACKED COVER TO COVER WITH GREAT ADVICE!.......2001-06-21

This is a terrific book. I would recommend it to anybody who is depressed, stressed out, nervous or alcoholic. The authors provide 50 strategies to make you happier and build your self-esteem. The book is a super easy read. It is humorous, lively and very practical. I must admit that I am kind of a self-help book fanatic (I have literally purchased hundreds of them) and I would rate this one at the top of the list. It gives numerous techniques that none of the other books even mention!!! This book will set you back about one-fifth of what it would cost to see a shrink or a personal coach for one session and will probably do a heck of a lot more. I'd give it six stars but the system only goes up to five!!! FORGET THE BIG NAME SELF-HELP TITLES. BUY THIS ONE AND GET A TON OF INFORMATION YOU HAVEN'T HEARD BEFORE THAT MAKES SENSE.

Don't Tie Yourself Up in Nots: How to Untie Yourself from the Can Nots and Should Nots of Life

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"Fantastic!"
A BLAST OF HIGH-POWERED MOTIVATION!!
AWESOME!!!
Motivation in a fast-paced format
Very insightful with alot of valuable thoughts and ideas.

Don't Tie Yourself Up in Nots: How to Untie Yourself from the Can Nots and Should Nots of Life
David P. Schloss
Manufacturer: David P. Schloss
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0962923001

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"Fantastic!".......2000-08-10

A great success book with no-nonsence straight to the point facts to turn your life around for the better. I found this book easy to read and refer back to it time and time again. Thank you David this book is a Gem in my collection.

A BLAST OF HIGH-POWERED MOTIVATION!!.......1999-05-21

This incredible short book contains more information on success and motivation than your average book. It gets right to the point and is so valuable that it can be read many times through. It will change your life.

AWESOME!!!.......1999-05-15

THIS SHORT BOOK IS LOADED WITH GREAT INFORMATION ON SUCCESS AND A POSITIVE ATTITUDE.I WAS VERY MOTIVATED AFTER READING IT,AND I INTEND TO REREAD IT SEVERAL MORE TIMES.

Motivation in a fast-paced format.......1998-10-29

Right on target! This book is a quick-easy read (although I found myself highlighting and rereading) with hard-hitting, information not just on "why-to" but the "how to" as well. This book contains no fluff, and as such can cover numerous topics in only 114 pages.

I'm going to buy additional copies and give this book as gifts to those who need it but probably don't know enough to go out on their own and buy it. Because it's a fun, quick, easy read, those who truly need it will find it enjoyable, and thus give themself the opportunity to complete it and reap the benefits. Meanwhile, those of us who enjoy motivation and information anyway, will value this as an excellent addition to our "success library."

As it says on the cover, this book is "a blueprint for lifelong success."

Very insightful with alot of valuable thoughts and ideas........1998-10-27

This book made me re-think many of my daily practices and "routines." It's not hype,just simple,yet powerful ideas that are easy to understand and apply. I liked the book so much,I have given copies to other family members!

More Positive Thinking: How to Create a Better Future for Yourself

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More Positive Thinking: How to Create a Better Future for Yourself
Vera Peiffer
Manufacturer: Element Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1862044910

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I was there.......2006-09-14

I thought I'd read everything & experienced all Viet Nam had to offer. Bill Merritts book has refreshed my memories of Cu Chi and Phu Cuong. I was on the bridge with Bill Merritt before it blew. We played chess, and he remembered the names of our Chinese/Vietnamese soldier friend-"Ha"-and our housegirl "Loi". I have pictures of both. His memory of dialogue and events is astounding, and I believe I am one of the characters in his book. I loved it, even though the memories are not good.

one of the best personal accounts by a Vietnam veteran.......2006-03-29

Bill Merritt's account of his service with the 65th Engineer Battalion, 25th Division, in 1968, never got the attention it deserved, but it is one of the best memoir-style books to have emerged from the Vietnam War. The writing is rich and layered, the dialogue utterly real, the stories frank and fascinating. Highly recommended for anyone interested in what Vietnam was like for a junior enlisted man, and a must for any serious reader of Vietnam War literature.

Fine Memoir.......2002-12-21

A fine memoir of a Vietnam veteran. My brother met the author and secured a signed copy for me which I immediately devoured. It is highly readable and engrossing. I especially enjoyed the attention to language; specifically the terms and names. Merritt uses them effectively to put us into his time and environment.

One of the best personal accounts by a Vietnam Veteran.......1998-03-10

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Where the Rivers Ran Backward
William E. Merrit
Manufacturer: Athens University of Georgia Press .
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000S07WVW

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Where the Rivers Ran Backward
William E. Merritt
Manufacturer: Univ. of GA Press
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NQNR38

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Where the Rivers Ran Backward.

Manufacturer: 0
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000ICPUGO

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"HANNELORE, YOUR PAPA IS DEAD."

In the spring of 1942 Hannelore received a letter from Mama at her school in Berlin, Germany--Papa had been arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Six weeks later he was sent home; ashes in an urn.

Soon another letter arrived. "The Gestapo has notified your brothers and me that we are to be deported to the East--whatever that means." Hannelore knew: labor camps, starvation, beatings...How could Mama and her two younger brothers bear that? She made a decision: She would go home and be deported with her family. Despite the horrors she faced in eight labor and concentration camps, Hannelore met and fell in love with a Polish POW named Dick Hillman.

Oskar Schindler was their one hope to survive. Schindler had a plan to take eleven hundred Jews to the safety of his new factory in Czechoslovakia. Incredibly both she and Dick were added to his list. But survival was not that simple. Weeks later Hannelore found herself, alone, outside the gates of Auschwitz, pushed toward the smoking crematoria.

I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree is the remarkable true story of one young woman's nightmarish coming-of-age. But it is also a story about the surprising possibilities for hope and love in one of history's most brutal times.

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The horrors of the holocaustin the point of view of Laura Hillman.......2006-05-31

The book I will Plant You A Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman is an excellent book. I would most likely recommend it to girls though. I would recommend it to girls because the book talks about Hannelore getting sexually assaulted and other things like her falling in love with Bernard (Dick) Hillman. I would also recommend this book because it talks about true fact that happened during the Holocaust. This book has been the best book I've ever read. One reason it is would be because she expresses her feelings about the people she loved and lost, but also how she hated what was happening to the Jewish religion. All in all if you're looking for a good read I think you should read the book I will Plant You A Lilac Tree.

A Brave Book about a Terrifying Time.......2006-04-18

This is one of the best books I've ever read on any subject. It was compelling reading--I, too, couldn't put it down.
I love its honesty. Nothing was left out of this book. And yet it is not sensational or graphic. It's an honest, humane, and brave book about a terrifying time.
I'm so grateful to the author for writing it.

A Moving Story.......2006-03-13

This is the first-person account of Hannelore Wolff, a survivor of Nazi death camps and a Jew on Schindler's List. The story chronicles Hannelore's time when she leaves safety to accompany her mother and brothers to first a Jewish ghetto and then to a concentration camp in an effort to keep the family together. Hannelore then spends the next three years living day to day as she survives the disease, death, and horrors of the Holocaust. Her story is by turns one of luck, faith, and perseverance as she ultimately finds herself on Oskar Schindler's famous list and thus brought to the relative safety of his factory. Along the way Hannelore meets and falls in love with her future husband, Dick. Mrs. Hillman gives us a chilling account of a desperate time and helps us all to remember those who should not be forgotten. A tremendous story that will touch you deeply. Highly recommended.

Awesome!.......2006-02-16

This book is great! I have always been interested in this subject and i don't normaly read books! I'm a junior in high school and i enjoyed this book ALOT!!! Great character plot and great ending!! I don't want to return it to the library!! Also i share the same last name!

The best true story I have ever read............2006-02-07

One day I had nothing to read and I decided to get this book because I heard was great. It kept me on the edge of my seat through the whole book! I finished in less than two days and have read it five more times since.

Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List

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Stimulating Debate of the Merits of Spielberg's Film

Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust (Emerging Media: History, Theory, Narrative)
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The "Jew" In Cinema: From The Golem To Don't Touch My Holocaust (The Helen and Martin Schwartz Lectures in Jewish Studies)
Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies)

ASIN: 0253210984

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Stimulating Debate of the Merits of Spielberg's Film.......2001-03-09

Perhaps unfortunately, many of the essays in this fine collection would have to fall under the category of univocal Spielberg-bashing. The director is berated by a chorus of academics for his documentary-style authoritarianism in his approach to representing the story of Oskar Schindler and the Schindler Jews. What merits the movie does have are, by and large, swept under the carpet in the interest of pointing out its glaring faults and moments of irresponsible over-reaching. This robs the debate of a good measure of balance, but the wealth of different critical perspectives brought to bear on the discussion more than makes up for any lack of diplomacy.

The book's greatest stengths are just this sort of breadth--there are essays here by film experts, historians, literary theorists and other academic luminaries, most notably Geoffrey Hartmann and Omer Bartov. Another virtue of Loshitzky's collection is that the reader comes away with a much better grasp of the larger debate over representing the Holocaust. Essays point repeatedly to Claude Lanzmann's interview-style documentary as an ideal form, but the more careful essays admit that this is not the version most viewers would sit through, as it's too long, too slow, etc.

There are some shocking revelations, too, like things Spielberg has said in interviews that should curdle the blood of even his most vociferous supporters. He compares his trials of being rich and famous and recognizable with the suffering of victims of the Holocaust, and one wonders what on earth he could possibly have been thinking.

Those tidbits aside, though, the most useful, convincing and durable essay here is, in my opinion, the balanced assessment by Bartov, a Holocaust historian, who candidly admits that Spielberg's triumphalism and hero-narrative are terribly misplaced in this corner of history. Unlike the other essayists here, though, Bartov challenges critics to focus more on the positive accomplishments of the film, and especially the fact that it has raised overall awareness of the tragedy in extraordinary fashion. This must not be forgotten in a judgment of the film, he argues, since it is likely (and he writes this, of course, before the breakout success of Benigni's "Life is Beautiful") the only Holocaust film most people--and certainly most Americans--will ever care to see.

While certain of the pieces cater more obviously to an academic crowd well versed in the ongoing debate and most current scholarship on the topic of the Holocaust, the book in general is quite accessible to more mainstream audiences who wish to see Spielberg's version of the Shoah challenged in an often very productive way. I highly recommend this book.

Oskar Schindler and His List: The Man, the Book, the Film, the Holocaust and Its Survivors
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gut buch

Oskar Schindler and His List: The Man, the Book, the Film, the Holocaust and Its Survivors

Manufacturer: P.S. Eriksson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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Oskar Schindler: The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind The List

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I Will Plant You a Lilac Tree: A Memoir of a Schindler's List Survivor

Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List

ASIN: 0839764723

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gut buch.......2000-04-05

The book kept me interested but it wasnt edge of the seat action but i would definately recommend it

An American Jewish Bibliography, a List of Books and Pamphlets By Jews Or Relating to Them Printed in the United States From the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies Until 1850

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An American Jewish Bibliography, a List of Books and Pamphlets By Jews Or Relating to Them Printed in the United States From the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies Until 1850
A. S. W. Rosenbach
Manufacturer: American Jewish Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000O3I096

An American Jewish Bibliography: Being a List of Books and Pamphlets by Jews, or Relating to Them, Printed in the United States from the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies

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An American Jewish Bibliography: Being a List of Books and Pamphlets by Jews, or Relating to Them, Printed in the United States from the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies
A. S. W. Rosenbach
Manufacturer: Canonymous Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0963190296

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An American Jewish bibliography: Being a list of books and pamphlets by Jews, or relating to them, printed in the United States from the establishment of the press in the colonies until 1850
A. S. W Rosenbach
Manufacturer: American Jewish Historical Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

Being a List of Books and Pamphlets by Jews or Relating to Them. Printed in the United States from the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies Until ..

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Being a List of Books and Pamphlets by Jews or Relating to Them. Printed in the United States from the Establishment of the Press in the Colonies Until ..
A. S. W. Rosenbach
Manufacturer: Oak Knoll Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1578982022

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A reprint of the 1926 first edition(Besterman 3281). Being a list of all works by or about Jews from the early colonies to 1850. Complete collations, location copies and occasional annotations. Describes 691 books.

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The Book of Jewish Lists
Ron Landau
Manufacturer: Stein & Day Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0812862147

International Bibliography of Jewish Affairs 1966-1967: A Select List of Books and Articles Published in the Diaspora

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International Bibliography of Jewish Affairs 1966-1967: A Select List of Books and Articles Published in the Diaspora

Manufacturer: Holmes & Meier Pub
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Binding: Hardcover

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International bibliography of Jewish affairs, 1966-1967: A select annotated list of books and articles published outside Israel

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International bibliography of Jewish affairs, 1966-1967: A select annotated list of books and articles published outside Israel
Elizabeth E Eppler
Manufacturer: Deutsch for the Institute of Jewish Affairs
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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"Things are going wrong with our environment," writes John Terborgh, "even the parts of it that are nominally protected. If we wait until all the answers are in, we may find ourselves in a much worse predicament than if we had taken notice of the problem earlier. By waiting, one risks being too late; on the other hand, there can be no such thing as being too early." Terborgh's warnings are essential reading for all who care about migratory birds and our natural environment. Why are tropical migrant species disappearing from our forests? Can we save the birds that are left? Terborgh takes a more comprehensive view of migratory birds than is usual--by asking how they spend their lives during the half-year they reside in the tropics. By scrutinizing ill-planned urban and suburban development in the United States and the tropical deforestation of Central and South America, he summarizes our knowledge of the subtle combination of circumstances that is devastating our bird populations. This work is pervaded by Terborgh's love for the thrushes, warblers, vireos, cuckoos, flycatchers, and tanagers that inhabited his family's woodland acreage while he was growing upbirds that no longer live there, in spite of the preservation of those same woods as part of a county park. The book is a tour of topics as varied as ecological monitoring, the plight of the Chesapeake wetlands, the survival struggle of Central American subsistence farmers, and the management of commercial forests.

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The Real Silent Spring .......2007-06-14

Dry statistics such as the research showing 60% fewer migrant songbirds returning from the tropics have little impact when told even to conservation minded people. John Terborgh writes the description of the forests, fields and shores as they have changed with the decline in bird populations so that the loss is graphic based on the ground with field observations. This is more painfull and effective in impact and yet he provides inspiration to do something about it. This is a non-fiction book written by a biologist but he writes as well as any novelist creating an easily read, interesting and informative book.

Many of the chapters explain what is changing in areas that the birds from North America spend the winter. There are suggestions on how to promote better conservation practices as exist in countries like Costa Rica and what could be done to assist countries such as El Salvadore and Haiti where almost no natural habitat remains.

This book has had a major impact in my life and after reading it I have dedicated much time, energy and funding to projects that help people protect habitat. I have been suprised that many people that I have strongly recommended this book to have declined to read it fearing that they would be too depressed about the population and habitat studies that Terbough relates in this book. Don't make that mistake, this book will arm you with the information and the motivation you may need to make a positive contribution.

Where Have All The Flowers Fishes Birds Trees Water And Air Gone

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Where Have All The Flowers Fishes Birds Trees Water And Air Gone
Segerberg
Manufacturer: David McKay Company Inc
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JDSQ36

Where Have All the Flowers, Fishes, Birds, Trees, Water and Air Gone? What Ecology Is All About

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The red desert!

Where Have All the Flowers, Fishes, Birds, Trees, Water and Air Gone? What Ecology Is All About
Osborn Segerberg
Manufacturer: David Mckay Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0075576376

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The red desert!.......2006-05-25

In those distant years of the early seventies, the first augur voices of Barry Commoner, Osborn Segerberg or Rome Club were considered as simple red alarms in the desert of the indifference. The Ecology was in its puberty and the Concorde was the final culmination of a long expected dream. The first indications of certain anomalies around the Ozone layer and the overheating of the planet were issues of minor relevance. There was a general overlook, a pertinent indifference in this sense. The main headlines dealt about much more important to keep ion mind. But the first signals were acquiring more and more cover. The residual waters and the atomic wastes began to establish its own vestibule, when that first half of the seventies (Vietnam, Watergate, Munich massacre, 1973 Petroleum crisis, Patricia Hearst and the first symptoms of a visible cracking of the extinct U.R.S.S.) were A-1 priorities.

Nevertheless this text added its little grain of sand due the well documented it was. One of the best documented texts of its ages, that, despite of the years still maintains to keep your interest.

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Great Book

Where Have All the Flowers, Fishes, Birds, Trees, Water and Air Gone? What Ecology Is All About

Manufacturer: David McKay Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0679302220

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Great Book.......2000-10-18

This book was excellent with lots of description talking about how the environment relates to humans.

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Where Have All the Flowers, Fishes, Birds, Trees, Water, and Air GONE? What Ecology Is All About.
Osborn, Jr., Illustrated by Line Drawings, Maps Segerberg
Manufacturer: David Mckay Co
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGL5TK

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Where Have All the Vultures Gone
A. Ofori-Mensah , and E. O. A. Asibey
Manufacturer: Sub-Saharan Pub & Traders
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 9988550014

Where Have All The Birds Gone?: Essays On The Biology And Conservation Of Birds

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Where Have All The Birds Gone?: Essays On The Biology And Conservation Of Birds
John Terborgh
Manufacturer: Tandem Library
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: School & Library Binding

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