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This entire four book set is fantastic. If only choosing one to purchase, I would choose volume one, or volume four. This set provides great insight into Erickson's approach to hypnosis.

Great set of books, the four volumes give excellent insight into Erickson. However, if not purchasing the entire set, get volume one or volume four.

My mother gave me this book when I was a kid. I just found my old copy, read it again, and decided my 13-year-old absolutely must have a copy (though I'm not about to part with mine)! I'm thrilled to see it still in print!

Margaret Burns writes wonderfully for adolescents. It's such a tough age for kids, and they're pretty sure they're the center of the universe. Ms. Burns points out (in ways they might actually listen to) all the things that you really wish you could impress upon them, but can't since you've been relegated to the role of "dumb grown-up" for the next ten years.

She really gives them a chance to think about what kind of kid they really want to be, emphasizing that the choice is really theirs, and without telling kids what their values ought to be. (That part is stil up to parents.) It's an important lesson for kids to learn, and this book is a great tool.

A wonderful compilation of different drawing styles by a wide spread group of artists. The prints are well presented.

This is a carefully researched, thoughtful and well-written examination of the Russian speaking population in the "near abroad" since the break up of the Soviet Union. While my experience is largely with Lithuania, his discussion of the Russian speaking population in Estonia and Latvia seemed insightful. As a minor criticism, or perhaps more as a term of reference for readers, I should note that Laitin seemed more sympathetic to the diaspora Russians than to the local populations. His discussion of Baltic events struck me as distinctly pro-ethnic Russian, although not outrageously so. Persons with Baltic ties may disagree with some his views, but they will still find them interesting.

My first thought upon discovering this book was, 'Where is Kaplan in the pantheon of great contemporary poets?' For in this little-known work lies a powerful and substantive evocation. Though he compiled these poems in 1973, this former Columbia University professor speaks to subjects which still haunt mankind today, including the many unresolved aspects of our nuclear age. In addition, his descriptions of human pain and need are eloquent, reminding us that such things are a force older than language itself. Closing the aesthetic distance between the writer and the reader, Kaplan speaks to those secret things we all experience in our shared human inheritance yet rarely speak about, except to the closest of friends: waking in the middle of the night with the an unusually intense feeling of the absence of a loved one, or the joys of watching our children in their innocent slumber. Let the 'New York School' of poets and their facile blubbering disappear...we need more poets of substance like Kaplan. As Wallace Stevens' one wrote, poetry is both a cure and a redemption. I thank this obscure English professor for offering us both!

This book gives newest and exellent protocol. Contents are not so big but enough detail to follow experiments.

This book is a very cute book. It has lots of experiments in it. I'm a homeschool mom and we used this book with our unit on flight.

In this slim book, Gordon Clark offers his pithy insights on the doctrine of the Logos made flesh. Clark was unable to finish _The Incarnation_ because he died; John Robbins, upon Clark's request, grafted two paragraphs onto Clark's incomplete conclusion. This annexed conclusion is essentially a summation of what Clark has already expounded in the text: Jesus Christ was both God and man: the Logos "did not merely light the mind of Christ"--the Logos _is_ Christ.

Does this sound like Nestorianism? It isn't: Clark, anticipating false charges, argues that his doctrine is _not_ a revived version of Nestorianism.

Clark begins this argument in his introduction: he quotes in full the Creed of Chalcedon, calling it "the most important source of information on the early heretical theories [on the Incarnation]." The Creed sets out to explain what the Incarnation is not; thus, these "negative definitions" describe the early heresies (i.e., the Creed's charge that Christ was "...not parted or divided into two persons" is a charge against Nestorianism). Clark remarks that the rather brief Creed of Chalcedon is not all that helpful for someone who wishes to know what the Incarnation _is_. But more importantly, he notes the undefined terms within the Creed: "consubstantial," "nature," "person," et al.

Next, in his chapter "The Heresies," Clark describes Cassian's account of Nestorius's doctrine on the Incarnation. According to Nestorius (according to Cassius (according to Clark)), Christ was a 'double Person in one nature.'

Clark then (admirably) denounces the ambiguity of the aforementioned terms, for these undefined terms are the "fatal flaw" within the Creed. Free from the non-sense words, Clark is thus able to offer his own definitions. And so, he defines "person" as a "composite of propositions." This definition is derived from Proverbs ("As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he"); in a less elegant way, Clark says, "A man _is_ what he _thinks_."

Clark having thus paved the way, Robbins asserts, "Jesus Christ was and is both God and man, a divine person and a human person." The Incarnation did not compromise God's divinity, nor did it compromise Jesus' humanity. Indeed, it is impossible for there to be such a compromise--God cannot be omni-potent and im-potent. God cannot die upon a cross. Yet Jesus did.

For Clark and Robbins, the resolution to this paradox is that Jesus Christ is both a Person and a person.

Clark says much more than this in a much better way. I recommend this book to any Christian who has never sufficiently answered the question, "Who is Christ?"

This book is published by the Illinois State Museum in its Scientific Papers series. As such, the production is somewhat spare. This is a plain paperback with about 200 pages of text plus indexes, &etc. What the book lacks in appearance, it more than makes up for in content. There is much history here that is unavailable elsewhere. For example, the author (Wayne C. Temple) details the plight of the Kaskaskia Indians and their chief Duquoin in the last days of the Illinois nation in the State of Illinois.

This is a "must read" for anyone interested in early Illinois history in general and Indian history in particular.