Amherst Bookshed

Book of the Month: Chess in a Nutshell

2010-03-05T07:55:00.000-08:00

A complete guide to Chess....
By Fred Reinfeld
Publisher: Pocket Books, NYC
Year: 1958

Your Back, Your Bones and Things That Ache

2010-01-22T11:42:00.000-08:00

On the Bookshed Shelve this Week:
A thorough survey of what causes back and related pain and what to do to allay it as well as prevent it.
Kim Davies has contributed to Your Back, Your Bones and Things That Ache as an author. Kim Davies is an established writer in the fields of health, lifestyle and natural therapies and is the author of books on a whole range of well-being subjects, including t'ai chi, yoga, having a healthy back, and building successful relationships. Having started out as a newspaper and magazine journalist, she has run a yoga-based holiday centre on the island of Crete and worked as publications officer for a major cancer charity. Kim as also traveled widely in india.

Publisher: Book Sales

Author: Kim Davies, Anthony Campbell

Language: English

ISBN: 0785819037

EAN: 9780785819035

No. of Pages: 208

Publish Date: 2004-08-31

Binding: Hardcover

Deliverable Countries: This product ships to United Arab Emirates, Australia, Belgium, Bahrain, Switzerland, China, Germany, Spain, Finland, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Japan, Kenya, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, South Africa.

New Book on our Shelves: The Leadership Challenge

2010-01-08T07:32:00.000-08:00

Book overview

The main part of the book discusses the five actions that Kouzes and Posner identify as being key for successful leadership:

Model the way

Modeling means going first, living the behaviors you want others to adopt. This is leading from the front. People will believe not what they hear leaders say but what they see leader consistently do.

Inspire a shared vision

People are motivated most not by fear or reward, but by ideas that capture their imagination.
Note that this is not so much about having a vision, but communicating it so effectively that others take it as their own.

Challenge the process

Leaders thrive on and learn from adversity and difficult situations. They are early adopters of innovation.

Enable others to act

Encouragement and exhortation is not enough. People must feel able to act and then must have the ability to put their ideas into action.

Encourage the heart

People act best of all when they are passionate about what they are doing. Leaders unleash the enthusiasm of their followers this with stories and passions of their own.

Book of the Month: From Survival to Recovery

2009-12-29T10:35:00.000-08:00

From Survival to Recovery Hardcover

Growing Up in an Alcoholic Home

Hardcover, 308 pages

Item: 3023

ISBN-10: 0910034974

ISBN-13: 9780910034975

Publisher: Al-Anon Family Group Headquarters, Inc.

Published Year: 1994

Online Price: $16.00 Each

Description:

How is it like to grow up in an alcoholic home?

"I have no idea. To survive, I blocked out the pain . . .

in fact, I blocked out everything!"

"Lonely."

"The only person I can honestly say is probably an

alcoholic is my mother, and she didn't have much effect

on me because she left me the day I was born."

"Terrifying!"

"I thought I had escaped and was determined never to

marry a man like my alcoholic father. I didn't. I

married a man like my mother instead."

"Confusing! Embarrassing! Mixed up!"

"I never saw Dad's bottles or noticed his drinking, but

my children did! I was crushed. I felt deceived. Worse,

I felt stupid!"

"I thought adult children were whiners. Then I

discovered I was an adult grandchild, and my mother's

abuse of me was related to grandfather's drinking. A

whole new world of understanding opened up for me."

Al-Anon adult children tell their stories -- with pathos and humor, with courage and rigorous honesty. They lift the many veils of family denial revealing the pain, recovering the past, and renewing the hope for all of us.
Read more: http://www.hazelden.org/OA_HTML/ibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?item=3941&sitex=10020:22372:US

Moodswing: Dr. Fieve on Depression

2009-12-10T08:00:00.000-08:00

source: http://www.enotalone.com/article/19010.html
Book Description

Fifteen years ago, this groundbreaking book provided new hope for those whose lives were devastated by moodswings and depression. Now, in this newly revised and updated edition, Dr. Ronald R. Fieve, the pioneer in the treatment of depression in America, offers an even brighter prognosis. Major advances in drug therapy have provided dramatic chemical "cures" that alleviate symptoms faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost that ever before.

In this revised and expanded Moodswing, Dr. Fieve sheds new light on the causes and symptoms of specific mood disorders, including manic depression, seasonal depression, and PMS. Then, through case studies, he illustrates the effective use of the latest diagnostic methods and drug treatments. He also provides fascinating information on:

Why creative types are often prone to manic-depressive disorders - the results of a fifteen-year follow-up study.

How manic depression, alcoholism, and substance abuse go hand in hand.

How presidents, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights, and Wall Street wizards can benefit from "manic advantage," but crumble when their moods crash.

The revolutionary uses of one of psychiatry's greatest wonder drugs: lithium, as well as new material on the latest antidepressant drugs.

Why teenage and adult suicide is on the upswing and what friends and family can do to prevent it.

Why traditional psychoanalysis in the treatment of depression is, in many cases, no longer necessary.

About the Author
Ronald R. Fieve, M.D.

Internationally renowned psychiatrist Ronald R. Fieve, M.D. is the pioneer in the use of lithium for manic depression in America. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he served his residencies in internal medicine at New York Hospital and in psychiatry at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. He is professor of clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, the founder of the former Foundation for Depression and Manic Depression and current executive medical director of the new Foundation for Mood Disorders.

Welcome to the Bookshed Volunteer Project

2009-10-20T09:33:00.000-07:00

picture source: www.boston.com

WELCOME to the Amherst Bookshed

Bienvenue a le Amherst Bookshed

Bienvenidos al Bookshed de Amherst

مرحبا بكم في كشك أمهرست للكتب

Welcome to the Amherst Bookshed a space for reading about literature hosted at the Amherst bookshed at the Amherst Recycling Center in Amherst, MA.

Bienvenue a le Bookshed de Amherst un endroit pour le lecture disponible dans le Amherst Bookshed pour le Centre de Recyclage dans Amherst, MA.

Bienvenidos al Bookshed de Amherst un espacio para leer de literatura disponible en el Amherst Bookshed por el Centro de Reciclar de Amherst, MA.

This is a collaboration project initiated by Amherst Outreach Program, a ServiceNet program, as part of its community outreach activities in Amherst.
In addition to have more free books available for readers in the area especially students, the goal of this project is expected to help in the recycling program of Reduce/Reuse/Recycle the city has pioneered over the years.

This project is registered as part of the global movement '350.Org' to reduce the Carbon Emission (see http://www.350.org/node/10930)

How the Book-shed Project works:
Every two weeks our team of volunteers (five, so far) will pay a visit to the Book Recycle Ctr and decide on what books to have on the assigned shelves for this project. For example, in the coming 2 weeks, the theme will be Education; Nature; Food (we have 3 assigned shelves).
The second step is to announce the books we have in our section here on this Blog and circulate widely so more people be aware of it and able to go pick them.
After 2 weeks on the shelve and if was not picked up by any of the readers, the book sadly will go to its final grave and get made into recycled paper.

So, we encourage you to share this Blog among your network and let them be aware of the diverse free books waiting for them!

Blog Maintainers
Eddie, David, Brandon & Mohamed
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Here are brief review for one of the books available now @ the Bookshed:
* Moodswing: Dr. Fieve on Depression: The Eminent Psychiatrist Who Pioneered the Use of Lithium in America Reveals a Revolutionary New Way to Prevent Depression Book Description (http://www.enotalone.com/article/19010.html)

Fifteen years ago, this groundbreaking book provided new hope for those whose lives were devastated by moodswings and depression. Now, in this newly revised and updated edition, Dr. Ronald R. Fieve, the pioneer in the treatment of depression in America, offers an even brighter prognosis. Major advances in drug therapy have provided dramatic chemical "cures" that alleviate symptoms faster, more efficiently, and at a lower cost that ever before.

In this revised and expanded Moodswing, Dr. Fieve sheds new light on the causes and symptoms of specific mood disorders, including manic depression, seasonal depression, and PMS. Then, through case studies, he illustrates the effective use of the latest diagnostic methods and drug treatments. He also provides fascinating information on:

Why creative types are often prone to manic-depressive disorders - the results of a fifteen-year follow-up study.

How manic depression, alcoholism, and substance abuse go hand in hand.

How presidents, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights, and Wall Street wizards can benefit from "manic advantage," but crumble when their moods crash.

The revolutionary uses of one of psychiatry's greatest wonder drugs: lithium, as well as new material on the latest antidepressant drugs.
The teenage and adult suicide is on the upswing and what friends and family can do to prevent it.

Why traditional psychoanalysis in the treatment of depression is, in many cases, no longer necessary.
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P.S
During our weekly visit to the Bookshed site @ Amherst Recycling Ctr we found good indicators to the success of this project. The following books were gone from Bookshed assigned shelves:

Self and Society: A Symbolic Interactionist Social Psychology
The End of History and the Last Man
Landscape Design Software
Techniques and Materials of Tonal Music (Hardcover)
The Broken Brain: The Biological Revolution in Psychiatry
Learn French the Fast and Fun Way!
Sexuality and Homosexuality: A New View
Sexual Preference, Its Development in Men and Women
Annual Review of Sociology. Volume 5, 1979.
Education of Exceptional Learners Second Edition
The Tofu Cookbook
1001 All-Natural Secrets to a Pest-Free Property -
Ego psychology theory and practice
Healing Heart, Antidotes to Panic and Helplessness
Infant Psychiatry: A New Synthesis
The History of Lesbian Hair
Moodswing: Dr. Fieve on Depression: The Eminent Psychiatrist Who Pioneered the Use of Lithium in America Reveals a Revolutionary New Way to Prevent Depression
Attacking Anxiety & Depression A comprehensive, cognitive behavioral based solution fostering strength, character and self-empowerment Includs Sessions 1-15 (CD AUDIO BOOKS) (Attacking Anxiety & Depression, 1-15) (Audio CD)
Diversity and Unity in Early North America (Rewriting Histories)
Drugs and the Human Body
VICE VERSA: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life
Hygieia: A Woman's Herbal
Fitness Is Religion: Keep the Faith
Ethnomusicology, Vol 49, Number 1, Winter 2005
Social Environment and Human Behavior: A Diversity Perspective