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Everyone wants to improve and deepen their relationships. This book explains the development of psychologically healthy, fulfilling, 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 included. The authors anticipate that 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. Deepening Your Personal Relationships provides original, meaningful, and transformational insights. These insights can be especially helpful in understanding how to overcome the separate ego''s mostly subconscious fear of and resistance against emotional intimacy and good communication, as well as understanding how good relationships can produce enhanced levels of spiritual development, psychological healing, self-understanding, creative functioning, inner peace, happiness, and fulfillment in life. ABOUT THE AUTHORSDr. Max Hammer and Dr. Alan C. Butler are psychologists from Maine. Dr. Barry Hammer (also from Maine) has a specialization in the History of World Religions, and has studied the process of psychological and spiritual transformation, and its applicability to enhancing human relationships, for many years.The primary author, the late Dr. Max Hammer, was an editor and a major contributor of two previously published books: The Theory and Practice of Psychotherapy with Specific Disorders (Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1972); and The Practice of Psychotherapy with Children (Homewood, Illinois: Dorsey Press, 1967). Another book, soon to be published, is: Psychological Healing Through Creative Self-Understanding and Self-Transformation. (Strategic Books). He also published about 30 articles in the fields of psychotherapy and clinical psychology.Publisher''s website: http://sbprabooks.com//MaxHammer

The Logicist Tribulation of Sophia is a trilogy that attempts to confront idealism, positivism, secular humanism, as well as decadent and sterile Thomism. Since the most important parts of Book 1 are the result of the author's personal interpretation of Thomas Aquinas, the work is unexpectedly original. Logicism is a kind of animism invested of rationality. Animism is the unscientific tendency of transposing outside the mind interpretations of our cognitive apparatus. In general, all errors in science are related to logicism because they are human errors and, consequently, a product of or related to the way we feel and think. "Whoever ignores his own cognitive limitation falls into some form of logicism (or animism) for he ends up projecting his own ideas or mental schemes upon reality. Human science is always perfectible. Each new progress frequently uncovers the traces of previous logicism" (Book 1). The trilogy has unity in spite of its variety and amplitude. The relentless attack against logicism is the spark that kindles the flame of its unaltered leitmotiv and preponderant weapon: epistemology. This aims to foster the development of critical and analytical abilities. Hence the dedication: ERUDIENDIS ABSQUE DOLO SEU FICTIONE IUNIORIBUS PRAECIPUE (to those who are to be taught without fiction or deceit, especially the youth). Book 1 develops the essentials of an epistemological technique discovered in Aquinas, thus providing a scientific procedure for philosophy. It is the foundational section of the trilogy. Book 2 is titled Recuperation of the Theological Ethics of Happiness against Logicism and Phil-Ideology, and Book 3 is Recuperation of Theological Principles against Ideo-logicist Incompetence.A.J. Bueno is a Catholic priest from Venezuela and Colombia, who studied at Princeton University and at the Universitá Lateranense in Rome. He now lives in Trinidad.Publisher's website: http://sbprabooks.com/AJBueno

With poetry and commentary, From the Bottom: Anti-Japanese Verses offers a much-needed challenge to the culture elite and policy wonks of a sun-marked country, where its red and white colors still fly as if they were an emblem of squeezing blood from bone.Unearthing what is buried beneath the seemly topography of the island nation, the book renders Japan's postwar history as an enormous inanity that has just come full circle, from nuclear to nuclear, from Hiroshima to Fukushima. Often with scathing mockery and derision, the work gives expression to the tension between tribal elite politics and underclass perspectives.This book of poetry opens with the introduction providing a necessary context in the form of historical accounts of Japanese poetry, from its ancient peninsular origin to its post-war transformation, and more recent singsong babbling after the 9/11 tragedy and the 3/11 disasters.Taneo Ishikawa, Ph.D. (2000) in humanities, Florida State University, fights with a ghostly development of Japanese humanities. He calls for the de-Japanification of much re-Japanized Japanese studies, in particular, in culture and history, including religion and archeology. The author insists that Japan's legacy of heliocentric self-identification is a culture of farmer-fighters, with a settler's history from peninsular to insular, unfolding on the unsustainable logic of self-sacrifice and self-aggrandizement. The major three malefactors were Buddha, Samurai, and Emperor, who together played on the legacy of stealing, cheating, and lying. This past history, the author believes, should be denounced by all means and with much rancor. He lives in Osaka, Japan.

When I was just a little boy, my mother taught me that God loved me and that when I was sad, God would show me thy way. Setting my prayers not so high that God would find them unreasonable, I would often find myself outside just staring up at the sky, hoping for a glimpse of heaven. I joined the church at 12 and felt the wonderful sensation of God coming into my heart. However as I grew older, got married, and had children of my own, I still had questions and longed for a sign that God had indeed heard my prayers. It was only when I had grown into a much older man that I finally understood that God had answered his prayers after all. Perhaps it was just as my mother had always told me after all I endure in life; in the end, God will answer your prayers . . . in his own time, in his own way. Heaven Struck is the story of a journey through life inspired by faith and heavenly contemplation. Ule Folston Sr. grew up on a farm as a sharecropper in Sylvania, GA. "Throughout my life, through all of my trials and tribulations, my belief and faith stands that God would someday answer my prayers. That has been the driving force that's always kept me going. Now retired after a successful career running a lawn service, I reside in Orlando, Florida and with my children fully grown, I spend my time writing and completing my book, Heaven Struck."Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/UleFolston

A complex tale of love, lust, betrayal, and hatred, Driven is the story of Charlotte, a divorced mother of two, who meets Edward, also a divorcee, in a chance encounter at a grocery store. The two are stirred by an irresistible attraction to one another that neither can fight. But sometimes it''s difficult for love to find its way; especially when Charlotte''s controlling ex-husband Trevon finds out she''s dating and becomes insane with jealousy. The extent of his rage becomes evident in increasingly violent ways. Edward is also dealing with his own complications from his previous marriage, as well as a pair of managers at his network of auto dealerships that are attempting to undermine his business. Things go from bad to worse for Edward when he finds that his ex-wife''s new boyfriend has molested his daughter. Although love can arise at the most unexpected of times and places, it can also be tested. For a love to survive such adversities, it must be true and Driven. Phyllis Greene-Nicholas was born in Valdosta, GA. Even though she now lives in Atlanta, she still calls Homestead, FL home. Although she has been writing poetry since the age of 15, Driven is her first book. It was inspired by her children, her love of romance novels, and her own life experiences.Publisher''s website: http://sbpra.com/PhyllisGreeneNicholas

The Pangolin Diary offers reflections and insights by an Australian male midwife working in remote, rural Zimbabwe in the early 1990s, as AIDS and TB spread their shadow across the continent. Some stories are funny, many are sad, but they offer a range of perspectives on midwifery, health care and life in Zimbabwe. Says author David Stanley: "The book addresses my first year as a midwife and midwifery tutor in Africa and tells the story of my arrival at Murambinda Mission Hospital and transition to life away from my friends and family. The Pangolin Diary also deals with issues of grief and loneliness, the building of friendships and the medical and social issues faced by Zimbabwean women as they grapple with the impact of HIV/AIDS and other medical and midwifery conditions." Read along as the author struggles to understand and adjust to the strange or unusual customs, while facing the challenges, isolation, and dangers of working in a medically confronting, resource poor, and overburdened health service. David Stanley was born in Liverpool, England. At the age of six, he moved to Whyalla, South Australia. He trained as a nurse and midwife at the Whyalla and District Hospital, and has travelled and worked as a nurse and midwife in Africa, Singapore, Australia, and England. He now lives in Perth, and works as an associate professor teaching nursing at the University of Western Australia. He wrote the children's books When Emus Dream and A Lovely Day for Knitting, and a general poetry book Rhymes with Reason. His academic books include Clinical Leadership: Innovation into Action and A Preceptor in My Pocket.

Set in a small Australian farming town on the edge of a national park, Jake and the PB's is an exciting tale of adventure for boys and girls between the ages of 7 and 11 years. A sequel to the ever-popular Jake's Secret, the book tells the story of Jake and his best mate, Sam, Ricky, the class nerd, Tom, the school bully, and Janey, the girl next door; a group of ordinary kids with extraordinary super-powers. Joined by their friend Chadwick, a colorful magic elf with a large, round, yellow face, Jake and his "PB's" take magical powder that shrinks them in size, allowing them to fit inside a hovering, flying car that travels back and forth through time. Dedicated to the motto "Protect and Assist," the group of friends travels forward in time in an effort to save a habitat of koalas that are at risk from a local farmer who wants to clear his land. Discover what other exciting adventures await Jake and his friends, as they career through time, trying to return to their own era, before the effects of the magical powder wear off! Glynis Bloomfield grew up in a small farming town in Victoria, Australia and now lives in the beautiful seaside city of Warrnambool in southwest Victoria. A retired primary and special schoolteacher, Glynis has taught all over Australia, and in the UK, and Middle East. She is the author of two previous children's books: Jake's Secret and Lara Long Legs. Her next book will be a picture book story entitled Who Will Play with Molly May? Publisher's website: http://sbpra.com/GlynisBloomfield