Acceptance, Recognition, and Control (A.R.C.) Against Depression was written to trigger understanding in men about surviving depression. In the beginning, I found myself without a partner. A month later, I had no job, leaving me with a mortgage payment that placed a huge emotional and financial burden on me. When I eventually approached the government for assistance, the emotional disturbance was so great that they put me in a two-year counselling program. This helped, but provided no real understanding of my problems. Even after obtaining work, I still didn’t understand why or what was happening to me. After emotional searching, …

Born in 1950, Linda Sue Hoyt grew up in an extended family home on the fringes of a little town that was rapidly evolving. The community’s planned neighborhoods were filled with new starter homes, but her end of town was behind the curve and locked in the 1940s, with older technology and more traditional values still in evidence. The patriotic spirit in this innocent age preceded the rebellious 1960s and ‘70s. Tracing dreams and adventures, the author transports readers to her rustic realm of childhood experience, rejuvenating characters with sprinkles of humor and meticulous attention to detail. Fond memories of …

Everyone is confused at the magnificence and madness of human behaviour, yet the mental profession fails to help us understand it. We know about body organs and limbs, but little about our minds, mental illness and human behaviour. The Origins of Human Behaviour is written in plain English to help us understand how we evolve into the person we become. It sets out to find and explain the major influences, and demonstrates that the origins of human behaviour contain some genuine surprises. Just what are the origins of our myriad personal qualities? Author Bernard Rourke never accepted that living in …

After 50 years of teaching, Pat Kozyra has now acted upon the many requests and encouraging suggestions from family, friends, and colleagues that she write a book about her many years in the teaching profession. This seasoned professional has so many Tips and Tidbits to offer, so much to tell, and so much to share. Pat has had an exemplary career and has taught in many areas including: primary grades, vocal music, art resource, gifted education (15 years), preschool coordinator, English as a Second Language, and courses in special education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Her decision …

I congratulate Andebrhan Welde Giorgis on his high-quality and extremely informative book that has not only the merit to be an update on the political situation in Eritrea, but also asks the pertinent questions on the future of his marvelous country. He does it with tact and success, based on his long experience as freedom fighter, as senior public servant, as ambassador, and his rich experience of Africa. Each country in Africa must be able to determine its own future. Freedom, responsibility, control over its destiny, and solidarity, are the key ideas of the new vision for international cooperation that …

This book focuses on the development of psychological self-understanding, healing psychologically painful inner conflicts, and the basis of psychological and spiritual fulfillment. Readers will discover a new understanding of effective psychotherapy, groundbreaking diagnostic psychological testing research, and the distinction between the ego self-concept, the experiential self, and the transpersonal self (the real self, the relational self, or the holistic self). It also clarifies aspects of optimal psychological health, such as authenticity, sincerity, integrity, creativity, intuition, empathy, courage, strength of character, inspiration, unselfish love (or warmhearted caring), emotional security, inner wholeness, vitality, and fulfillment. Principles of psychological healing and self-transformation can …

This memoir is a story as well as a study of sustained resilience. You’ll not find slavery, poverty, or exile in the author’s background. Her distress was not collective but individual, brought on by circumstances that fostered a sleep disorder and depression, which is perhaps harder to survive, yet so common in our society, though hardly acknowledged. Parental negligence, institutional abuse, sexism, addiction, a touch of incest, rejection within the frame of religious, educational, medical, and judicial institutions feature in this memoir covering the first 60 years of the 80-year-old author’s life. The epilogue is a reminder that although adversity …

Everyone wants to improve and deepen their relationships. This book explains the development of psychologically healthy, fulfilling, and interpersonal relationships involving effective communication, empathic emotional intimacy, shared transformational development, and constructive conflict resolution to achieve this aim. A section on improving society through enhancing interpersonal relationships is also included. The authors anticipate this book will be of keen interest to professional relationship counselors, including marriage counselors, family counselors, and conflict mediators. Readers interested in enhancing their personal relationships and gaining insight into transformational self-help and social transformation will also find this volume helpful. The book provides original, meaningful, and transformational …

The People’s Poet offers variations of what is sometimes right in front of our eyes. The author’s lasting impressions eventually crystallized into poetry that is both emotional and gripping. We may see crime and street violence, or soothing scenes such as nature and the environment. Walter James wrote his earlier poetry about the dramatic and the frightening, but his more recent poems reflect on more serene surroundings and on thoughtful contemplations including the future of mankind. His lasting impressions eventually crystallized into poetry that is both emotional and gripping. Some poems were completed after years passed, including "In Spanish Harlem," …