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Most finance students will do short-term finance assignments when they go to work. In recent survey of CEO's, Controllers, and Treasurers that appeared in Financial Practice & Education, the question was asked which elective is the most important and 81% responded a short-term financial management course should be required. Both authors hold a Certified Cash Manager credential. Strengths include broader and better integrated coverage of treasury and working capital management, while using valuation and the cash flow timeline as integrating themes. Up to date presentations of developments in treasury management, banking deregulation, globalization of financial services delivery, electronic commerce, international cash management, and foreign exchange risk with a decision making emphasis throughout offers a complete view for students. This text is appropriate for upper level undergraduate finance courses in short-term financial management, working capital management, treasury management, and cash and cash flow management. It can also fit the MBA level financial management and short-term financial management courses.
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Buying Web Services: The Survival Guide to Outsourcing
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A small Web site might be a do-it-yourself project. A complex business site, however, usually requires outside help. Frenza has gathered a team with expertise in all facets of Web-site development to show you how to work with contractors to build the Web presence that's right for your business.
First, the guide helps you determine whether or not to use an outside developer. Frenza explains that the choice has as much to do with your management style as with your technical needs. Following chapters discuss such topics as determining goals; evaluating proposals and budgets; and designing, hosting, and marketing your site. The book also covers legal issues, project management, how to avoid disaster, how to work with multiple contractors, and how to develop the second-generation site after the first is completed.
Each chapter is authored by an expert on that particular topic and then edited to maintain a warm and often amusing style. While none of these chapters can make you an expert on any subject, they do provide the insights needed to communicate with your hired help, understand what they're doing, and assure that you get the results you want. --Elizabeth Lewis
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Buying Web Services is the definitive guide for small, medium and large businesses looking to hire a Web developer to establish their Internet presence. The first book of its kind on the market, this outsourcing survival guide features chapters presented by experts in the field on a wide range of topics. J.P. Frenza provides a gold mine of practical information for companies of all sizes, including how to: *Find reliable Web developers *Evaluate proposals and budgets *Plan and develop its specifications *Coordinate development efforts - company wide *Manage and troubleshoot the development process *Cover all the critical legal bases
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Must have, which ever side of the business you are on.......1999-09-30
Whether you are a web developer or a company considering outsourcing, this book is a small investment you need to make. Many of the chapters focus on areas that will not change much over many years. Project disipline, forming a consensus, ensuring you have high-level support will always be needed. I am a web developer, and I would (with the singular exception of one chapter, which I felt the contributer was way, way too jaded...)highly recommend to my clients. I find knowledgable clients much easier to work with then newbies. They are far more realistic about the time, effort, and potential for reward. And the costs. The book is not the end-and-be-all, but it doesn't try to be; bottom line, it is a sober, necessary resource to turn to.
Additional Review - Excellent Book.......1999-04-23
Today, I gave this book to my corporate attorney and CPA.
Everyone believes they know what is involved in building a web site. But most mean the end product. Including our attorneys and financial advisors.
Now, everyone involved in our company knows what we do and can help our company continue its growth.
We've changed our accounting and changed our web development and hosting contracts because of this book. We've also added a Internet law firm to our mix to help our client thru the maze of issues that they may face.
Thank you JP.
Don't buy this book! (More competition for me.).......1999-04-10
Actually, I think it's a great source of info -- NOT for the extremely knowledgeable, but for the potential client. Do you offer *quality*? Then buy this book and give it to your potential clients. Nothing here very new for the seasoned Web site designer.
Recommended Reading.......1999-03-05
We have recommended this book to Fortune 500 companies, internal staff who are responsible for some areas of web work, and businesses of all sizes.
The education gathered from this book allows a business to learn enough to ask questions and make informed decisions.
As a web development company, we want our customers to know what they are buying and to be able to tell the difference between our company and our competitors.
I highly recommend this book and hope you enjoy it.
Count The Cost Before Undertaking Any Website Design Job!.......1999-03-05
J. P. Frenza has written Buying Web Services to provide plenty of necessary information for any company or organization to get the best Website design job possible for their money while at the same time minimizing the risks involved in bringing in outside people to perform the work for them.
This book offers concise guidelines for planning such as evaluating proposals and budgets, develop contracts, coordinating development efforts, Website ownership and copyright issues, prioritizing, working with individual and multiple contractors, selecting Web development technologies (such as Web browser and platform compatibility), and programming issues. It is important to realize that a lot of work goes into putting together a successful Website and keeping it up-to-date. These and other factors are very important considerations anyone planning to setup an online presence must take into account.
The author provides a number of helpful resources for additional reference purposes. A helpful chapter that lists Websites, books, magazines, e-zines, trade shows, and user groups offers plenty of additional assistance. Input from professionals in the field adds dynamic impact to the effectiveness this book can have to enhance a company's online presence as well.
There are a number of people and companies around today to outsource work to. This book will help readers to develop a serious plan of action that includes finding the right people and resources and putting them to productive use. This book will help readers to count the cost before undertaking any Website design job. Highly recommended!
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Classicist, professor, and farmer Hanson chronicles the decline of small-scale agriculture in the Central Valley of California. He takes his classics seriously, likening the raisin farmers of Modesto to Aeschylus' ideal virtuous man, who "did not wish to seem just, but to be so." He takes modern cultural dictates less seriously: "Is it not odd," he writes, "to rise at dawn with Japanese-, Mexican-, Pakistani-, Armenian-, and Portuguese-American farmers and then be lectured at noonday 40 miles away on campus about cultural sensitivity and the need for 'diversity' by the affluent white denizens of an exclusive, tree-studded suburb?" Hanson relates the life stories of his farmer neighbors, writing that their way of life will likely soon disappear, thanks in part to a federal system of agricultural subsidies that favors large-scale, industrial farm corporations over individual "yeomen." This is a sobering and eye-opening book.
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Eulogizing the vanishing lifestyle of the family farm, Victor Hanson calls for America to take notice of its lost simplicity and purity before it is too late. "Victor Davis Hanson . . . is a writer as much as a farmer. His memoir is complex--passionate, angry, honest, scorching".--Jane Smiley, "The New Yorker".
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I tried........2007-07-26
I found this book at my in-laws' place and thought it looked interesting. I was wrong. I made it 51 pages in and just couldn't do it anymore. Maybe I'm not smart enough. Maybe I'm not educated enough. Either way, I'm done trying to wade through something that kept putting me to sleep after a handful of pages.
Get a real perspective on farming-the good & the bad..........2005-08-25
book of great impact. A realistic view into the challenges and demands of mono-cultural farming. If you want/need to understand the reality of farming and challenge your 'romantic' ideals, this book will provide that awakening and more. Most importantly, it leaves with you a clear sense of the honest influence fostered by an agrarian lifestyle - folks with integrity and values, least of which - fortitude and faith.
two worlds, one person.......2004-06-17
Hanson is one of the rare people that can live in two distinct worlds and have the vision to see the difference. Fortunately for all the rest of us, he also has the ability to allow us all to see his two worlds. To me, many that read this book need to read it closer, for the book contains much more than casual reading can reveal. This book tells real life stories of real life people and the many interactions that take place between these people, that will ultimately shape everyones future. I did my best to try and say how I feel about this book. Read this book yourself and enjoy.
Fields Without Dreams.......2004-03-22
I must respond, although a bit late, to the review posted in Dec. '99 by "a reader": "As we read this book it became clear that Professor Hansen's uniformly negative opinions of the people who now support themselves as professional farmers are truly clouded by his amateur status as a farmer. The sad thing is that he does not see that himself. In case you are wondering, his profession is, after all, that of College professor."
Clearly the "reader" did not read Mr. Hanson's book carefully enough. As a nearby resident of his town of Selma, I can attest to Mr. Hanson's personal and family legacy of professional farming. He is by no means "an amateur farmer." Instead, he has worked on his family farm more than full time since his pre-teens, and supported his family doing so.
The difficulties Hanson encountered as a farmer were common to the ventures of his particular crops. In addition, his acceptance of a university position at Cal. State Fresno was mainly a way to keep food on the table after the raisin crash. I wish this reviewer had read the book more carefully before tossing out major criticisms.
As an outsider to farming, although my uncle is a cattle farmer in Wisconsin, I developed a passionate respect for farming after reading Fields Without Dreams. Hanson's overriding point, I think, is to emphasize the character and toughness required of farmers in any age. His book is particularly timely because, as he notes, "Family farmers are noble, but vanishing stewards of ancient ground."
Hanson also makes an important statement about farming--that its myth of simplicity and quaintness is unfounded. While capitalism overtakes the family farm in favor of agribusiness, just like it has many other American businesses, what is disappearing along with the family farm is an honorable society we'll never see again. I am glad Hanson is around to capture this moment for us.
Brilliant, engaging, impressive........2000-10-24
A wonderful read. Hanson sweeps the reader up into the the high stakes game, the espirt d'corps of the family farm, the teeter-totter hazards of weather and market demands, the changing fortunes of agrarian culture. A magnificent achievement. One of my favorite books of the last decade.
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The universe is yours to grasp!
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and felt overwhelmed by its mystery? Maybe you tried to figure out which twinkling lights were stars and which were planets-or the differences among meteors, meteorites, and meteoroids-but never quite got it.
The Everything® Astronomy Book, by noted SETI Institute scientist Dr. Cynthia Phillips, helps you stargaze with authority. The book not only provides clear descriptions of all the theories of the origins of the universe, it explains the facts about the planets, moons, and stars in language anyone can understand-completely free of the usual astro-jargon. In addition, common myths are debunked: Find out why the Big Dipper is not an actual constellation, and that a shooting star isn't really a star at all!
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Polarity Control for Synthesis
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Identifies the polar reactions that are frequently employed in carbogenic synthesis. While touching on retrosynthetic analysis, it's emphasis is on the exploitation and manipulation of the electronic properites of synthons in response to synthetic necessity.
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Semimartingales and their Statistical Inference (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
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Statistical inference carries great significance in model building from both the theoretical and the applications points of view. Its applications to engineering and economic systems, financial economics, and the biological and medical sciences have made statistical inference for stochastic processes a well-recognized and important branch of statistics and probability. The class of semimartingales includes a large class of stochastic processes, including diffusion type processes, point processes, and diffusion type processes with jumps, widely used for stochastic modeling. Until now, however, researchers have had no single reference that collected the research conducted on the asymptotic theory for semimartingales. Semimartingales and their Statistical Inference, fills this need by presenting a comprehensive discussion of the asymptotic theory of semimartingales at a level needed for researchers working in the area of statistical inference for stochastic processes. The author brings together into one volume the state-of-the-art in the inferential aspect for such processes. The topics discussed include: · Asymptotic likelihood theory · Quasi-likelihood · Likelihood and efficiency · Inference for counting processes · Inference for semimartingale regression models The author addresses a number of stochastic modeling applications from engineering, economic systems, financial economics, and medical sciences. He also includes some of the new and challenging statistical and probabilistic problems facing today's active researchers working in the area of inference for stochastic processes.
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Rao's Semimartingales and their statistical inference.......2000-04-23
This book and the journal articles on which it is based pioneer a new branch of statistics. The reader who is unfamiliar with semimartingales can think of them as a generalization of supermartingales, where the latter are roughly a sequence of variables whose means increase and such that each variable is bigger than its conditional mean (a conditional mean is the mean of one thing or variable with another thing or variable fixed). Intuitively, when you use semimartingales to approximate or model something in the real world, you are approximating its mean by a sequence of increasing or decreasing means or alternately both, keeping track of where and when the means increase or decrease inside the mathematics. This allows you to make fewer assumptions than usual about how the things that you are modeling behave, since roughly you only have to keep track of the means. This has an advantage over computer techniques now in common use such as linear and polynomial regression. This book shows that you can actually make statistical estimates for the unknown quantities in your model for large samples ("asymptotically"). The reader is cautioned that a somewhat parallel but interesting theory exists with conditional means replaced by logic-based probability (LBP) means, which is to say that division is replaced by subtraction and adding 1 to the result. The latter allows study of very rare events since it is defined when events have probability zero, and also other events of importance. See some of my reviews of other mathematics books or my articles abstracted on the internet at the Institute for Logic of the University of Vienna for LBP methods.
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Stephen Sears posits that "General McClellan's importance in shaping the course of the Union during the Civil War was matched only by that of President Lincoln and Generals Grant and Sherman." But McClellan was seen as a failure and history ignored him. This book restores the balance.
The youngest in his class at West Point, by 35 McClellan was commander of all the Northern armies, in which roll he was irresolute. His failure was lack of aggressiveness. He lost his command and turned to politics, running against Lincoln in 1864. He was soundly defeated.
"Drawing on primary sources, Sears gives us the first full picture of the McClellan, a man possessed by demons and delusions, and of a fatal belief in his own powers as a war leader." (B-O-T Editorial Review Board)
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McClellan the Self-Defeatist.......2007-08-15
Billed as neither an indictment nor an apologia, Sears makes it pretty plain that George B. McClellan was a failure as a military leader. Overly cautious, slow to act, seeing the worst in every situation, McC was probably his own worst enemy. It's easy to see why so many of the soldiers liked him, though: fighting with McC meant there was a good chance you wouldn't see much action and if you did it was with the utmost planning for the soldiers' safety and well-being. He always thought he was outnumbered by the enemy and let opportunities for victory slip quickly through his fingers. Sears makes the point that McC always planned his campaigns and battles as if facing an overwhelming enemy force, and in that regard they were superb plans. Unfortunately, that wasn't the way it was on the field. Antietam probably should have been McC's best chance to destroy Lee's army and perhaps end the war then and there, but he squandered every opportunity and left a third of his army in reserve. Even worse, and what surely makes the man detestable, was his tremendous ego and feelings of self-importance. Sears' biography covers McC's entire life, though 90% of it deals with the Civil War years. Well written and interesting.
"Little Mac", warts and all..... .......2007-04-16
History and historians have, on the whole, not been very kind to Major General George B. McClellan. Lately a trend, or better, the beginning of a trend, can be discerned in Civil War historiography towards a kinder view of McClellan. I'm referring to books like: "McClellan's War" by professor Ethan S. Rafuse, the book on McClellan by professor Thomas Rowland and to the 3 books on the Army of the Potomac by Russell Beatie.
All these books are very good and offer many valuable insights.
Yet I remain convinced that the reputation of George B. McClellan is quite beyond saving and that that there is only one man who comes in for the lion's share of blame for this: George B. McClellan.
On the plus side, and this has to be acknowledgded, McClellan never got near enough credit for his greatest achievement: he MADE the Army of the Potomac. He really did, and it was a magnificent job, considering the time he had to do it in.
So often we read about McClellan: "oh well he was a great organizer, but a very bad general" but that -unfairly- belittles his tremendous skills in that respect. So more kudos to McClellan for that. It is very, very hard to organize, to build, to equip arm, feed and clothe an army, and then to train and drill it in preparation for it's deadly work. Then of course there was another task: he had to select it's leaders, from the senior command level on down. Don't think to lightly about this. McClellan did so superbly. He gave men like John Gibbon, George Meade, Henry Hunt, Rufus Ingalls, John Buford, Winfield Scott Hancock, John Sedgewick, Charles Griffin and Andrew Humphreys their first commands on brigade level.
He should never have led it out to fight himself, though, his beloved Army of the Potomac. He was distinctly unqualified for that. I think that deep down inside of him, he was aware of this, read his correspondance (also compiled in a magnificent book by Stephen Sears, buy it!!!): his letters offer a case-study of a man plagued by insecurities, complexes and paranoia.
mr. Sears comes down hard on McClellan, very hard. But the points he argues are correct: McClellan was singularly unfit to lead an army.
Yet he was so boastful and arrogant that he put himself first and the Union war effort second, as is witnessed by his behaviour during the interlude in august 1862, when Major General John Pope commanded half of MacClellan's army aginst Lee. McClellan preferred to let Pope (who possessed as annoying a personality and as large an ego as McClellan) be beaten by Lee than come to his aid.
By then Lincoln was don with him: he let McClellan lead the army for the Antietam campaign, in order to drive Lee from Mary land, but when McClellan again started whining and dragging his feet he fired him.
"Alas, my poor country"McClellan wrote his wife after his removal from command. Alas indeed: the war was to last another two and a half years, while he could have ended it in one day, had he not so utterly mismanaged the battle of Antietam.
That is McClellan's enduring bequest to his country: two and a half more years of war.
What baffles me is this: why wasn't he brought to account for this in his own time??? Instead he was honoured, admired and even nominated for the Presidency in 1864!!!
McClellan lost the 1864 election to Lincoln, thank God. Had he won the world would not have been the same: maybe America would still be split in two countries: the USA and the CSA, or the Civil War would have restarted and be contested with even more bitterness and more ruinous consequences for the nations after his presidential term, or even terms.
Why he was not impeached, tried or court-martialled after his inept campaign in september and october 1862 is a question I ask myself. Surely others must have too?
Lincoln should have made McClellan Quartermaster-General in Chief of the Union army and put him in charge of supply, armament, recruitment, equipment and training. That was what he was good at. He would have been the Union's Lazare Carnot: "the Organizer of Victory" of the French Revolution. There is litle doubt in my mind he would have done a very good job.
A solid biography on this remarkable man. Well done Stephen W. Sears!!! Keep 'em coming.
GBM was a punk........2007-01-14
I'd like to knock some sense into this little brat General.
Lee rules Dixie! Long Live the South.
A fascinating and thoroughly-researched book!.......2006-09-21
This is a fascinating and thoroughly-researched book, of that there is no doubt, but I have other nagging concerns about its contents. It is said that history is written by the victors and my guess is that Stephen W. Sears is a Yankee-supporting Republican who still looks upon Lincoln as a God. The author shows bias against the Democrat General McClellan and towards the Republican President Lincoln and his law-bending administration. Despite the general's disinclination to slaughter Southerners and to lose in the process so many more of the lives of his own soldiers, for which Grant and Sherman and Sheridan later cared much less, the fact remains that if McClellan had fought by his methods and for his and Lincoln's original causes, the appalling war could have been concluded with an honourable peace and a restoration of the Union as it was. And if McClellan and the Conservative Democrats had defeated Lincoln in 1864, which they came much nearer to doing than is generally acknowledged, the possibility of an earlier peace was still there for the asking and taking. As it was, many thousands more men were killed or maimed, and even more families were bereaved and ruined, both at the North and in the South. Hurt was done that has still not been healed: thankfully, George Brinton McClellan was not responsible for it and can be regarded today as a great soldier, beloved by his various commands and armies, and one of the greatest characters of American history.
No one Knows McClellan Bettter than Sears.......2005-01-31
Perhaps no one was a better organizer of an Army during both sides of the Civil War than George McCellan. He took a dispirited army after the defeat of the First Bull Run and equipped it, drilled it and raised its morale to an effective unit. Unfortunately, McClellan could not mobilize into battle or effectively command when in battle. During the Seven days battles, McClellan left his army disorganized at Glendale and hugged a ship in the James letting his army fight for it's life without a commander. McClellan's initial movements outside the gates of Washington were so sloth like that Joseph Johnson's Confederates moved out of their forward positions unchallenged with the aid of their "Quaker Guns" (fake cannons). Sears captures the tremendous ego of McClellan through McClellan's letters, orders and first hand accounts. McClellan, who was so disrespectful to Lincoln personally and among his generals, is given a second chance at Antietam where he had captured Lee's
strategic dispatch only to squander his great opportunity on uncoordinated attacks allowing Lee to defend with limited resources. The popularity among his generals and his troops was a great concern to the Lincoln administration due to McClellan's
references to marching on Washington and his leniancy toward the Confederates. Fed by incompetent spys and paranoia, McClellan imagined that the Confederates had a huge numerical adventage over hhis armies when the reverse was true. Sears has made virtually a career of understanding McClellan and his command. A fascinating book and time, the fear of McClellan's military politics contributed to General John Porter's courtmartial and the oppressive Congressional Conduct on the War Committee. A great book on an extremely capable, egotistical yet limited personality. Sears captures the man and all the conspiracies in the Army of the Potomac. After reading this book, you will understand why Lincoln took a shot at having a Western Commander come east, General Pope, after dealing with McClellan.
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First Person Plural: My Life As a Multiple.......2007-05-07
This is a book for people who are truely interested in Ego State Theory. Also, it is a very informative and engaging book for people who have been diagnosed with DID. Cameron West brings his personal struggles to the public and is able to impart his angst as well as his optimism to readers.
There aren't enough synonyms for "bad" to describe this book........2007-03-09
I bought this book in a second hand bookstore and before I finished the first chapter I was already distracted by West's appalling overuse of groan-inducing metaphors. This book must contain the largest collection of bad metaphors ever published. You can scarely turn a page without being assaulted by another embarrassingly dreadful metaphor, or an irrelevant, boasting description of his cars, clothes, appliances, etc. The impression I was left with (besides the fact that this guy REALLY should have gotten someone else to write the book for him, or at the very least should have found a competent editor), is that it's fake. I don't doubt that Mr. West has psychological issues, but more than anything, you get the impression that this is a man who craves attention. It's obvious that West wrote the story with a movie in mind, as it reads like a bad screen play. I believe in DID, but I don't believe Mr. West.
not a technical volume.......2006-11-16
Just a true story of a family and the affects of a MPD father on that family. Down to earth. Showing how and what the family memebers could do to support the father. I was happy to see a family unit working together. There is very little technical, big words describing MPD
but from the patients view and family. It is a story. Not a school book that is cold with descriptions and theories. Helped me a lot.
And who would want to read about the worst kind of sin? .......2006-08-03
I've always been fascinated with the intricacies of the human mind. After completing a book about a patient with schizophrenia, I picked up for a change this book about Disassociative Identity Disorder. I've to tell you, in sharp contrast to the effort it took me to comprehension the symptoms of schizophrenia, DID required challenging- no, scratch that- almost mind-bending attempt on my behalf to comprehend how the brain could invent such a mechanism to cope with abuse.
The story spans over the course of several months and examines in detail tribulation after tribulation. The author, Dr. West, paints a picture of a painful and chaotic existence, beginning with the emergence of several male and female identities and ending with his treatment. Thankfully, readers are spared the details of his childhood abuse. And who would want to read about the worst kind of sin? Of course, it must have taken a superhuman effort on his part to complete this heartbreaking book. How could one retain control of his own fragile mind when so many identities constantly struggle to burst out in the open and retain control of his body? Truthfully, it's beyond my imagination.
Despite Dr. West's attempts to keep a level of sanity within the pages, readers should be prepared for a quite confusing narrative. As identities came out, one is forced to struggle to understand the intricate emotions of each personality. There were times when I wanted to stop reading as my interest wavered during certain dialogues. At other times I was fully captivated in the story (especially towards the end when the author finally accepts the reality of his misfortune).
For someone who wasn't very familiar with this type of psychological disorder, I found the book very informative. For those interested in learning about how the disorder manifests itself in the beginning, what impact it has on a patient, and how the person learns to cope with it, pick up a copy of the book.
By Simon Cleveland
Non Co-Conscious View.......2006-06-16
I have heard many people bash this book, but as a multiple who is NOT co-conscious with many of her alters...I found it extremely helpful in establishing contact with them. Yes, it reads like a novel. He wasn't attemping to be a doctor and write it as a "how to" guide. It lets you into the feelings and the uncertainly. There is much speculation and doubt within the pages. I know how that feels.
But one thing stands out above everything else. He made the point that he doesn't have DID...he IS multiple and that was a break through for US...all of US. His self discovery and journey, no matter how clinical or non-clinically written helped to provide a door for me to walk through.
I strongly recommend this book to others that are not connected to their inner world and are trying to just find the path along the journey.
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