Depression Books

This is a great work of Christian fiction with a wonderful message. It is fast-reading as it attracts the reader's attention from the first chapter. Upon reading the last page, you will likely call for a sequal -- it is just that good!

I really enjoyed reading "The Color of Love". It was an interesting and easy book to read. Hilary Hamblin gives great descriptions throughout the book that makes the story and characters come alive. I also love that the book has an encouraging message, God loves us and is there for us no matter what the circumstances might be. I am looking forward to reading more books by this author.

Nice, easy read. Good story, would be a great book for young adults as well. Great reminder that no matter what is happening in our world, whether it seems big or small, good or bad, God always loves us and is there for us; you just have to believe! I am looking forward to Hilary's next book!

When this book first came out in 1974, it gave glass collectors more new information than we imagined existed! This book is still pertinent today as it covers products from many many glass factories in the U.S. that are no longer in business. This is the only book that covers such a wide variety of glass products, companies and types. There have been many more books published with detailed information and pictures of one particular glass company, but this one is still tops for the mass of information it includes. The newer books have many color pictures, but for sheer reference material, Hazel Weatherman put more information into this book than any other book in my library. From A to Z in the glass industry of America, this is our Glass Bible.

With grateful thanks to the late Hazel Weatherman for her efforts to educate glass lovers of the world.

This book has everything you'd want in terms of references for depression glass collectors. I am totally enthralled by the comprehensive nature of the information available. This compilation of companies and catalog references that Hazel Marie Weatherman has researched is an absolute must for American glassware collectors! This book has 40 some glass companies represented in it pages with indepth information about the glassware lines and times of production. In addition, I was able to get a hold of the 1979 Supplelement and Price Trends for Book 2 which added excellent supplemental information to the lines of the glassware already provided in the Big Book 2. While the prices are out of date, the info was very helpful and completed the total picture of the glassware lines. This books is not only a great reference book for depression glass, but it is FUN to look through and enjoy on its own terms. As far as I am concerned, Hazel Marie Weatherman's Colored Glassware Book 2 should be the bible for all DG collectors!

It's amazing to even try to fathom the depth of this work - in the years before personal computers and the Internet, Hazel Marie Weatherman painstakingly gahered information from various resources to create this book. Mrs Weatherman even went door to door in areas where the factories had closed down to talk to the workers.
The result is a beautiful labor of love. Catalog reprints, arrangements of glass, print ads and info on the various factories fill this well researched book. Almost anything you can think of (advertising premiums, fish bowls, ashtrays) is in this book.

If you are interested in this beautiful glassware, or know somebody who is, this is definitely the book to own. You will refer to it constantly.

"The world is governed by far different personages than what is imagined by those not behind the scenes"--Benjamin Disraeli "Those unaware are unaware of being unaware"--Merrill Jenkins, Monetary Realist. For nearlyone-half century, the news industry strove to keep us fearful of a being enslaved by a country that we were feeding and financing and this was absurd! President James A. Garfield (1831-1881) stated:"Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all commerce and industry"( including the news industry) He was shot. It is apparent that the total effort of those in power is to control the volume of money by all means fair and foul so that they will remain our absolute masters. This message concerns the controlling of the volume of money. There were people who hated the U.S. Constitution as it was being written and there has always been such people since it was ratified over 200 years ago. Congress was granted the power to provide penalties for counterfeiting. Naturally, counterfeiters don't want either interference or penalties. Nevertheless, in the Mint Act of April 2, 1792, Congress provided a penalty of death for officers of the mint who might participate in debasing our gold and silver coinage. This harsh penalty was deemed necessary because those wise men knew that unrestrained counterfeiters could overthrow the republic. Where are we now? FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF RICHMOND, KEYNES ON INFLATION, PG.6 KEYNES IS QUOTED FROM HIS BOOK, ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF PEACE. " LENIN IS SAID TO HAVE DECLARED THAT THE BEST WAY TO DESTROY THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM WAS TO DEBAUCH THE CURRENCY. BY A CONTINUING PROCESS OF INFLATION, GOVERNMENTS CAN CONFISCATE SECRETLY AND UNOBSERVED, AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE WEALTH OF THEIR CITIZENS. BY THIS METHOD THEY NOT ONLY CONFISCATE, BUT THEY CONFISCATE ARBITRARILY. AND WHILE THE PROCESS IMPOVERISHES MANY, IT ACTUALLY ENRICHES SOME. LENIN WAS CERTAINLY RIGHT. THERE IS NO SUBTLER, NO SURER MEANS OF OVERTURNING THE EXISTING BASIS IF SOCIETY THAN TO DEBAUCH THE CURRENCY. THE PROCESS ENGAGES ALL THE HIDDEN FORCES OF ECONOMIC LAW ON THE SIDE OF DESTRUCTION, AND DOES IT IN A MANER IN WHICH NOT ONE MAN IN A MILLION IS ABLE TO DIAGNOSE." FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF RICHMOND, KEYNES ON INFLATION, PG.10 KEYNES IS QUOTED FROM HIS BOOK, TRACT "Keynes argues that inflation is a method of taxation, which the government uses to secure the command over real resources. Resources just as real as those obtained by ordinary taxation. What is raised by printing notes is just as much taken from the public as is a beer duty or an income tax. A government can live by this means when it can live by no other. It is a form of taxation which the public finds hardest to evade and even the weakest government can enforce when it can enforce nothing else."

This book describes the insidious threats undertaken by a select group of moneyed powers to destroy our Constitutional rights given to Congress in the control of money, regulating its value, and the right of the country's money supply belonging to its citizens.

The author does an excellent analysis of the British intent to destroy America's fledgling financial dreams of a money system for the people and created by the people. Through its agents of Jay Cooke & Co., the Rothschilds and the traitorous Senator from Ohio John Sherman (brother of Gen. Wm. T. Sherman) the rise of the national banks and their sole intent to destroy the Constitution by controlling and regulating the supply and value of the country's money. Drawing on numerous 'hidden' sources -- memos, letters, etc. -- the book describes exceedingly well the worst in political and financial corruption encountered in the 19th Century.

This book explains the dialectics of money power eloquently and scholarly. Concentrating mainly on the 19th Century (it is a little weak on the Hamilton, Jefferson and Morris discussions first exposing the differences in financial power prior to 1792 and the discussions in determing what a dollar or 'unit' consists) nevertheless, it rightfully places Andrew Jackson as perhaps the greatest president in exposing the corruption of the (Second) Bank of the United States and the seditious acts of those associated with it (or instance its president Nicholas Biddle, et al.) and most importantly, providing the clarion warning call to all 19th, 20th and 21st Century sons of liberty that giving away the people's control of the money system is the primary constitutional threat to sovereignty this country faces.

The state banking era (1837 to 1862) however is not properly addressed (perhaps the author believed this was the era in which decentralized banking practices were in accord with the intent of those who framed the Constitution -- we will never know), and neither is there a full expose of those individual interests in forming the power basis of national banks with the exception of the secret meetings of John Sherman (in 1867) with British financiers. Obviously, at the time the book was written, the national banks had completely corrupted the financial system to the point where so much of the system's weaknesses were blatantly noticable by all (debters and creditors alike) but those very few who derived maximum benefit. The state banking era was but a temporary memory between the interlude between the collapse of the corrupt (second) Bank of the US and the rise of the corrupt national banking system (which was in guise a reincarnation at a tempt at a central banking system -- the National Banking Association in NY called the shots much like today's Fed. Res. system).

The 1862 to 1875 period is rightfully exposed as the most politically and financially corrupt period of the national banking era. Until 1873 gold and silver bullion was freely coined into money on account of the depositer at the mint, thereafter, on the account of the US Treasury. The mysterious circumstances surrounding the congressional passage of the Act of Feb. 12, 1873 is exposed and evidence is presented on why so many in Congress changed their voting records to promote passage of this act. Furthermore, the big mystery of why the silver dollar was deleted from the list of coins to be made on the final draft of the bill remains today. The effects of this would shape the debate between the silver and gold interests until 1900. Thereby, 1873 is rightfully exposed by the author as the last year the US could be a creditor nation, thereafter it was indebted to those interests who controlled politics and finances. With most of the later quarter of the 19th century the moneyed interests attempted to destroy the greenbacks (Resumption Act of 1875) and government financial instruments in hopes to promoting a debt based financial system where the money does not belong to the people but must be had through the banks at high rates of interest.

To a great extent the national banking system brought about a system that succeeded in creating a central banking power controlling the political and financial system in the country. While the forms change with time, legal prowess and the vagaries of the Supreme Court, the insidious greed of the heart finds new modes of concentrating money and power.

In summation, the book is an excellent scholarly written overview on the rise of the banking system of this country. Numismatic researchers of both coin and financial paper too will find it highly rewarding. It is highly recommended.

This book explains the SCAM! The federal tax code book says that income taxes are collected as a voluntary contribution, then why are we "forced" to pay, this book is the door way to freedom!!!

This is an incredible book,it shows you to see the world and GOd like humans, just as we are, everybody should read it

Los seres vivientes mueren.Tú eres un ser viviente.Tú vas a morir.
Partiendo de esta premisa y aceptando que el sufrimiento es parte inherente de la condición humana,Kushner en este libro nos convence con argumentos sólidos de la existencia de Dios y la importancia de la religión en nuestras vidas.He dudado toda mi vida de la existencia de Dios.Por lo injusto,por lo absurdo,por lo indolente,por lo cruel que en la vida práctica se manifiesta.Sin embargo al terminar de leer este extraordinario libro de Kushner,con reflexiones hechas en base al dolor que le causa la muerte de su pequeño hijo de una forma tan dramática y que le lleva a preguntarse por qué la gente buena sufre;quedo plenamente satisfecho y por fin convencido,después de muchísimas lecturas de filosofía y teología,que Dios...sí existe.Gracias Kushner.Gracias.

Very Good, excelent. Muy bueno exelente. Deberían de tener todos los titulos de Harold Kushner.

Darcy Daisy is a wonderful book for teaching children about an all too common disorder. It is brilliantly written and the illustrations are so colorful and exciting. A great educational book for children of all ages.

As a health care professional, I have shared Darcy Daisy with many patients as a way for them to explain bipolar disorder to their children. Darcy has earned a permanent place on our bookshelf!! Traci, RN, BSN, IBCLC

This book is a great tool for teaching kids. The illustrations are BEAUTIFUL! The illustrations along with the great story keep interest as well as teach a wonderful lesson on acceptance for others who are different!!! I can't say enough great things about this book!!!! Great for "kids" of all ages!

I enjoyed this book for many reasons, but here are the top three:
1) I am fascinated with how energy has transformed societies, and these stories show how farming during the period adapts to increasingly cheap energy.
2) The book shows how real people dealt with the financial changes over the 4 decades period. That was particularly interesting since I read this book in Nov 2008 when everyone is making references to the Great Depression.
3) The book is a joy to read. Carrie Meyer weaves together the simple threads provided in the diaries into a concise and completely satisfying life story.

I was fortunate to hear Carrie Meyer give a presentation on this book and immediately bought it. I am now buying extra copies for family members who live on farms in Illinois and Iowa. I grew up on a farm in Central Illinois (roughly 100 miles of the family farm Carrie describes) in the late 1930s. This book has the daily diary from 1900 to 1944. It also has income and expense ledgers for everything they bought and sold. It tells about living on the farm in good and difficult times. Carrie's family is still living on the farm. This is the best book I have seen about life on a farm and how technology changed how farming was done. It is a must read.

"Days On The Family Farm: From The Golden Age Through The Great Depression" by Carrie A. Meyer (who grew up on an Illinois farm and went on to teach economics at George Mason University) is a memoir based history of life on a Midwestern farm from the beginning of the twentieth century to World War II as recorded in a daily chronicle kept by farm wife May Lyford Davis. The result is an entertaining and informative 'window into time' through which is revealed an American yesteryear when May and her husband Elmo experienced life on a farm through two decades of prosperity, the bleak years of the Great Depression, and the impact of two World Wars upon their Midwestern farming community of friends and neighbors. Articulate, detailed, personable, "Days On The Family Farm" is the story of a farmer's life marked by description of what was bought and sold, the evolution of farming practices and technologies from horse drawn plows to tractors, what was planted and harvested, temperatures and rainfall, births an deaths, even the impact of wind on the work of farming. Simply stated, "Days On The Family Farm" is an engaging and articulate read and a highly recommended addition to any personal or community library collection.

An interesting and insightful book. For anyone interested in their financial future, this is a must read. Gives quite a history of money and the depresssion and how to avoid financial problems in the future.

When I read 'Depression Proof Your Future' I realized it was a good primer for the general public to learn about financial and economic cycles and problems. Since this is an area I've not studied at all, it was an interesting overview of the story of economic downturns and problems. I am far more familiar with investing principles and financial management and Professor Horatio has some excellent strategies for getting out of debt, paring expenses, learning to be self-sufficient, and acquiring wealth. He's packed a lot of information into this slim volume, and the wise reader would do well to read this book several times in order to learn all the details offered. It's never too late to take control of your own financial affairs.

Depression Proof Your Future is a survival manual for the common man and a must-read for all in these troubled times. It should be given wide publicity because it is a clear exposition of steps we can take personally in order to safeguard ourselves in the event of devastating downturns in our economy. This book provides survival guidelines by carefully and lucidly drawing on both ancient and recent history of former economic collapses as well as drawing on economic theory to reach clear and compelling recommendations for the common man. It is written so well that it should become part of the general education of all people who need to demystify the pronouncements of the high priests of politics and economics. The book removes the mystery of economic cycles, currency, devaluation, inflation, and deflation through an effective use of examples that clearly depict the history of money, the actions of politicians and their capitalist allies responsible for the inevitable cycles of boom and bust, and ways in which the common man can survive the hard times ahead. Other themes explored include how our economy works, how to cope with runaway inflation, and the energy crunch.

I strongly urge reading of this powerful survival manual for the common man.

This is an excellent book. I read it in one night, couldn't put it down and have since passed it on to friends to read. I have been battling depression for over 10 years now. It truly is a day to day battle. You can see how the author has grown through the experiences in his life. He has so much respect & love for his family, which I admire. For someone to come out on top after going thru all he went thru is truly amazing. I am so happy to hear that he is even off meds. I hope someday I can do the same. Great job Brian! Words cannot express enough. Love, Trish (Andreas friend)

This book is really awesome. It is a very personal story that will not only captivate you, but will also provide comfort if you have ever dealt with even a hint of depression in your own life. The author really exposes himself in this book by taking what started out as a suicide note to his son, to a book loaded with interesting life lessons and personal experiences. An awesome, easy to read book that will captivate you from the second you open it until it is read to completion. Well worth buying and adding to your personal library to be referenced over the years. Also, 100% of the proceeds go to a great cause as well!

This is my book. I never intended to publish it, as it is a very personal look into my life and my illness. However, I was asked to publish this to help those suffering from depression and give insight to those who love someone who may be struggling with depression. 100% of my royalties are going to a charity my friends and I started to help those struggling financially due to catastrophic illness and injury named "The True Measure Foundation".

Thank you for your support!
Brian Michael Joyce

I have purchased a number of these guides and have found them to be a great support and teaching tool for individuals with depression and their families. They are ideal to use in conjunction with therapy.
Ann D., Licensed Mental Health Counselor

"The guide helped me tremendously in answering my therapist's question, 'How have you been?' That was always difficult to answer and it was easy to say that I was awful. But the guide showed that I really was improving."

I have had depression for many years. Using this guide has helped me to keep track of how I am doing. I am able to track my moods, medication, sleeping and eating patterns. I can see my progress over time and it's been really helpful to show to my therapist. I also use it with my husband and have found that it helps both of us to communicate about my depression.

Meta-cognitive therapy, in its essence, is as old as Buddhist detached mindfulness and experiential attunement to the self-reflective state of being the Thinker behind one's Thoughts. The West-East clinical synthesis of meta-cognition and mindfulness, however, appears to have been slowed down by our methodological ethic of needing emperical validation: despite anecdotal data on the self-regulatory efficacy of meta-cognitive states, the Western scientist-practitioner appears to have been awaiting the formal sanction of empirical validation.

"Depressive Rumination" by Wells and Papageorgiou provides such a sanction and makes application of meta-cognitive techniques clinically transparent. The book introduces the theory and research behind the emerging field of meta-cognitive therapy and provides step-by-step clinical protocols for applying the armamentarium of meta-cogntive therpay to the all-too-familiar presentation of perservative, recyclic depressogenic rumination.

Given the fundamental similarity of rumination (past-focused) and worry (future-focused), as perservative thinking styles primarily different in time-focus, the book not only provides direction to how help clients manage their depressive rumination, but also enhances clinician's appreciation for how to meta-cogntively engage anxiety/worry presentations. As such, the book is an important primer on meta-cognitive therapy in general.

Pavel Somov, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist
Athour of "The Recovery Equation: Motivational Enhancement/Choice Awareness/Use Prevention: an Innovative Clinical Curriculum for Substance Use Treatment."

The leading experts in the field have been brought together in this insightful, refreshing and unique work. Depressive Rumination is essential reading for any clinician, researcher or student that wishes to keep abreast with cutting-edge theory and practice.

Rumination is the most salient, mental feature in depression and other mood disorders. Understanding this process will improve current psychological therapies for depression. This book clearly achieves this goal and much more. The editors should be congratulated for producing a state-of-the-art volume on this important process. This book is essential reading for all students, academics, and clinicians.