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Cops Don't Cry: a book of help and hope for police families
Vali Stone Manufacturer: Creative Bound ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
Accessories: ASIN: 0921165625 |
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Policing is a consuming profession with incredibly high elements of stress. Research suggests that police divorce rates are more than double the national average of ordinary marriages. The spouse's fear of physical danger, adjusting to shift work, transfers and changes in the officers' personality are only a few of the contributing factors, but the most crucial problem is the breakdown of communication within the relationship. From the beginning of the officers' careers they are trained to control their emotions, and thus are accused of being cold-hearted. Spouses agree that law enforcement officers grapple with the real-life horrors on the job and that the bitter belief that 'cops don't cry' is sadly untrue.Customer Reviews:
Great advice and encouragement........2007-08-21
boring.......2007-06-15
Excellent.......2006-06-28
Good for new police wives/families.......2005-09-29
a readable useful book.......2003-05-18
Vali Stone makes no bones about it: When your spouse is presenting symptoms of job-related stress, she repeatedly urges you to get help immediately, as she did. Doing nothing about it will not make it "go away" & will, ultimately, ensure defeat of your marriage.
COPS DON'T CRY is a serious & good book, no matter which profession you or your spouse is in. Listening to what spouses have said about being married to a policeman, is both engaging & eye-opening. It is a look at how couples live together, through better or worse, & what those old-fashioned attributes such as loyalty, compassion, & living a public life can be.
Well done! Highly recommended.
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Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem
bell hooks Manufacturer: Washington Square Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0743456068 |
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In Rock My Soul, world-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues facing African Americans: a collective wounded self-esteem that has prevailed from slavery to the present day.Why do so many African Americans -- whether privileged or poor, urban or suburban, young or old -- live in a state of chronic anxiety, fear, and shame?
In Rock My Soul, hooks gets to the heart and soul of the African-American identity crisis, offering critical insight and hard-won wisdom about what it takes to heal the scars of the past, promote and maintain self-esteem, and lay down the roots for a grounded community with a prosperous future.
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"World-renowned scholar and visionary bell hooks takes an in-depth look at one of the most critical issues of our time, the impact of low self-esteem on the lives of black people. Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose, and power. For too long, African Americans in particular have been unable to openly and honestly address the crisis of self-esteem and how it affects the way they perceive themselves and are perceived by others. In her most challenging and provocative book to date, bell hooks gives voice to what many black people have thought and felt, but seldom articulated. She offers readers a clear, passionate examination of the role self-esteem plays in the African-American experience in determining whether individuals or groups succeed or self-sabotage. She considers the reasons why even among ""the best and brightest"" students at Ivy League institutions ""there were young men and women beset by deep feelings of unworthiness, of ugliness inside and outside."" She listened to the stories of her students and her peers -- baby boomers who had excelled -- and heard the same sentiments, including deep feelings of inadequacy. With critical insight, hooks exposes the underlying truth behind the crisis: it has been extremely difficult to create a culture that promotes and sustains a healthy sense of self-esteem in African-American communities. With true brilliance, she rigorously examines and identifies the barriers -- political and cultural -- that keep African Americans from emotional well-being. She looks at historical movements as well as parenting and how we make and sustain community. She discusses the revolutionary role preventative mental health care can play in promoting and maintaining self-esteem. Blending keen intellectual insight and practical wisdom, Rock My Soul provides a blueprint for healing a people and a nation. "Customer Reviews:
An easy way to get Hooked for the sake of self-esteem!.......2003-05-19
In her most challenging and provocative book to date, bell hooks gives voice to what many black people have thought and felt, but seldom articulated in a way where doubt would hold sway. She offers readers a clear, passionate examination of the role of projecting positive images and having the confidence to allow the playing field to be equaled to play in the African-American experience. This is essential in determining whether success is individual or collective. In gathering research for the project, the author delves into the methods and reasons why she used the paradigms to construct this project. She painstakingly listened to the stories of her students, peers, and people from different walks of life and heard the same arguments, including deep feelings of inadequacy and despair. With critical insight and a fervor bent on finding answers, the author exposes the underlying truth behind the crisis. In her estimation, it has been extremely difficult to create a culture that promotes and sustains a healthy sense of self-esteem in African-American communities...and this book gives all the reasons and supportive analogies thereof.
What I found interesting and gave me such a positive vein with this book, is how she rigorously examined and identified the barriers -- political and cultural -- that keep African Americans from emotional well-being and a sense of belonging. She looked at historical movements, the role the community plays in this issue, gave introspective analogy why self is just as important at arriving at conclusions, and how the family came to be so involved. She also discusses the revolutionary role preventative mental health care can play in promoting and maintaining self-esteem. The question will always be asked: Why is self-esteem so on the forefront of our societal emanation? This book does quite a bit to understand how racism has been abated, relative to how often-negative reaction to integration has crippled the black community leaving deep psychological scars and extremely low self-esteem as blacks compete by imitating whites. I recommend this book to give compelling arguments and subsequent solutions for a far better understanding of the issue than has been given to us up to now.
FINDING THE BEAUTY IN A PEOPLE.......2003-05-03
While hooks provides interesting discourse on the subject matter, she often
comes off sounding like a text book in her discussion of the different sides
of this issue. As such, this is not a casual read or a self help book. It is
an informative, thought-provoking, volume with historical and psychological
references that provides food for thought and information for further study
among those interested in this subject matter.
Reviewed by Diane Marbury (HonestD)
The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers
Looking within for a reason to believe!.......2003-04-23
Lest we forget the importance of feeling good about ourselves, bell hooks, the quintessential black feminist writer has added yet another tome to the many outstanding references to the literary canon of African-American culture. Here, she gives us Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem. No less provocative, but ever so poignant, the panache is intact as she talks with passion on a highly debated topic that is always at the cutting edge of discussion in our communities. There's no book that this author has contributed that doesn't get the overall treatment with candid and insightful analogy. Self esteem and what it means to people of color will always be high profile and a force to be reckoned with due to the scars of slavery and unbalanced scales . Without self-esteem everyone loses his or her sense of meaning, purpose, and power. For too long, African Americans in particular have been unable to openly and honestly address the crisis of self-esteem and how it affects the way they perceive themselves and are perceived by others.
In her most challenging and provocative book to date, bell hooks gives voice to what many black people have thought and felt, but seldom articulated in a way where doubt would hold sway. She offers readers a clear, passionate examination of the role of projecting positive images and having the confidence to allow the playing field to be equaled to play in the African-American experience. This is essential in determining whether success is individual or collective. In gathering research for the project, the author delves into the methods and reasons why she used the paradigms to construct this project. She painstakingly listened to the stories of her students, peers, and people from different walks of life and heard the same arguments, including deep feelings of inadequacy and despair. With critical insight and a fervor bent on finding answers, the author exposes the underlying truth behind the crisis. In her estimation, it has been extremely difficult to create a culture that promotes and sustains a healthy sense of self-esteem in African-American communities...and this book gives all the reasons and supportive analogies thereof.
What I found interesting and gave me such a positive vein with this book, is how she rigorously examined and identified the barriers -- political and cultural -- that keep African Americans from emotional well-being and a sense of belonging. She looked at historical movements, the role the community plays in this issue, gave introspective analogy why self is just as important at arriving at conclusions, and how the family came to be so involved. She also discusses the revolutionary role preventative mental health care can play in promoting and maintaining self-esteem. The question will always be asked: Why is self-esteem so on the forefront of our societal emanation? This book does quite a bit to understand how racism has been abated, relative to how often-negative reaction to integration has crippled the black community leaving deep psychological scars and extremely low self-esteem as blacks compete by imitating whites. I recommend this book to give compelling arguments and subsequent solutions for a far better understanding of the issue than has been given to us up to now.
What's in your arsenal?.......2003-03-08
Me...I wrapped mine in a non-threatening cover so that I can read it on my lunch break too. You don't want to tip off the "others" that you're trying to make a break for it...
Some more soul searching.......2003-03-04
What I disliked about the book is the self-righteous stance hooks tends to do in her writing as of late. She writes about in great length about the evils blacks have done to contribute to the white color caste society-light skin blacks privilege over darker skin blacks. While I wholeheartedly agree with her, it's funny how she never shares her privileges on being light-skinned herself. She never talks about the personal instances where she has gotten privilege over someone darker. She only goes on about light-skinned people in general. I think her message would have been more powerful if she also shares with the reader how she has been put in that privilege position, even if she rejected it and critiqued it. She only talks about the ills that have been done to her, but never the privileges.
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The Prince of Nantucket: A Novel
Jan Goldstein Manufacturer: Shaye Areheart Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0307345904 Release Date: 2007-04-24 |
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“I could never be a good father because I turned my back on being your son.” Perhaps Teddy Mathison is right when he makes this heart-wrenching confession to his dying mother, but is it really too late? The touching and surprising answer unfolds in this richly layered, tender story of a man who is primed to go far in life, but first must find his way home.Customer Reviews:
Prince of Nantucket.......2007-09-13
a magical read.......2007-05-15
Prince of Nantucket.......2007-05-10
The Prince of Nantucket.......2007-05-02
Page Turner!.......2007-04-26
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Violence, Identity, and Self-Determination
Manufacturer: Stanford University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0804729964 |
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Impressive Analysis with Deconstructive Affinities.......2001-11-16
The rigour of most essays ranges between good and excellent -except for Ali Behdad's erotism/colonialism and Caruth's (whose argument is rehearsed all over the place). Especially notable on an intellectual level are the de Vries' essay, which follows the Derridian attention to sacrifice (see the latter's "Eating Well" as well as the book dissected by de Vries, 'The Gift of Death'), and Hamacher's argument on multiculturalism. Gourgouris is also very smart -you might want to contrast the Enlightenment's political loci evoked in his essay to Agamben's explosion of the concentration camp's theme. Note also that his piece concerns explicitly and extensively the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. Samuel Weber's essay centers on Freud's writings during the First World War - though perhaps his best work on Freud is in his book The Legend of Freud.
Further attention: issues of religion and the theological turn in philosophy; the relationship between state, law and violence; messianism and the individual subject.
I first read this book a couple of years ago and i continue ot go back to it -and not simply for reasons of scholarship. It is an essential reference point for anyone interested in contemporary non-analytic philosophy and on a rigorous approach to the political-judiciary realm. Beware of the often complicated writing -but don't allow it to disparage you from reading it and reading it closely. For this is a good, an essential volume.
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A Family Casebook: Problem Based Learning and Mindful Self-Reflection
Maria Napoli Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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The Family and the Political Self
Laurence Thomas Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 052167011X |
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Having children is the most common aim among human beings. The Family and the Political Self aims to capture the insights that can be gleaned from taking this truth seriously. One truth is that human beings may not be as self-interested as is commonly supposed. In this book, Laurence Thomas argues that the best construal of the political self reflects this truth.
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Straight Talk About Terrorism: Protecting Your Home and Family from Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Attacks
George Beahm Manufacturer: Potomac Books Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1574887335 |
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After the September 11th terrorist attacks and anthrax scare of 2001, the need to prepare for the possibility of terrorist attacks using nuclear, biological, chemical, or radiological weapons has become increasingly apparent. Written in plain language by a former Army NBC officer, this book dispels several media-propagated myths and tells the real story about what people can and cannot do to protect themselves and their families. Beahm provides handy checklists of household or other useful items, safety procedures, action plans, and emergency planning guides. Each section contains frequently asked questions to provide readers with the essential information they need to prepare their homes, offices, and communities, such as what to look for and where to buy protective equipment; how to find shelter at a designated shelter-in-place; how to construct a safe room and what to stock; and what to do when itâs time to evacuate their home. This book will simultaneously reassure citizens alarmed by the terrorist threat and give them concrete steps to take to feel safer at home and at work.Customer Reviews:
straight talk express.......2007-09-13
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The Last Remnants of Slavery: An African American Dilemma
Arthur J. Stovall Ph. D Manufacturer: Trafford Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1412046351 Release Date: 2006-07-06 |
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The mission or purpose, Dr. Stovall, endeavors to transmit in this book, "The Last Remnants of Slavery: An African American Dilemma", is support for an intervention that will start a Cultural Revolution for change, to end the last chapter to a chaotic dysfunctional process in the lives of African Americans. There are many historical correct and factual representations about slavery, but until now, there have been no examination of slavery's impact on African Americans. This book is a must read that deals with the Last Remnants from the past that is still influencing the economic, social and political values in African American communities. The processes of the remnants discouraged Africans and subsequent African Americans from any organized effort at providing for their communities' economic, social and political representation that would have allowed self-sufficiency after emancipation and proclamation in 1865.The Africans' unbeknown to themselves became guardians of the poverty paradigm and past it to their future generations' not just poverty as a lifestyle, but the socialization process that has ensured its perpetuation. The effects of the Last Remnants' tactics have grown roots in the lifestyle of the African American families and communities. The outcome of the Last Remnants is evident by the crime reports, which suggest that 90% of the incarcerated population is made-up of African American's youth between the age of 18 to 38 and 70% are substance abuse related offenses.
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How to Attract Your Soul Mate: The Secrets of Lasting Love
Barbara Gulbranson , and Bahram Gahzi Manufacturer: Monarch Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0975575007 |
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This compelling spiritual guide reveals the secrets of creating healthy relationships. These powerful, easy-to-use techniques will change your life to a complete expression of joy in the love you give and receive.Designed to propel you forward in developing unconditional love, this book is the key to spiritual progress in today's demanding world. No matter how many relationships you have had, these pages will lead you on a journey of awakening your heart and uncovering the love that is present in you right now.
You will learn how to: heal the wounds of the past, transcend negative energy, boost self-esteem, forgive and release unwanted attachments, master the mechanics of mind, uncover the secrets of the soul, cultivate a lifetime of love and reach greater states of consciousness.
As Barbara writes, "Revealing love is why we are here in the first place. No matter what has come before, today is your time to love."
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Fantastic and awe inspiring.......2004-08-26
Very Inspirational.......2004-08-22
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50 Ways to a Safer World: Everyday Actions You Can Take to Prevent Violence in Neighborhoods, Schools and Communities
Patricia Occhiuzzo Giggans , and Barrie Levy Manufacturer: Seal Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1878067958 |
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the book was good for doing research on violence.......1999-11-02
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