This book attempts to provide a varied and balanced picture of Andalusia and assess the romantic attitudes of past travellers and writers. Popular subjects such as Moorish Andalusia and flamenco music are examined and the reader is introduced to many less familiar aspects of the province, ranging from the baroque architecture of Seville to the cultural life of Granada in the 1920s, as well as many little-known places and monuments.

A Guide to Andalusia

Travel

Jacobs,Michael

Europe

Penguin??Books

Break the Wall Street Rule explains how you can maximize your stock-market returns by acting as a true owner of the companies whose stock you purchase. In his thorough analysis of today's investment landscape, former Treasury Department official Michael T. Jacobs shows that this "effective owner" approach takes the guesswork out of investing and reinvents the relationship between corporations and shareholders. In contrast, the current Wall Street Rule - to sell stock whenever its performance displeases you - actually undermines your returns. Most investors speculate on stock prices, either buying and selling or paying mutual funds to buy and sell. Such shuffling produces dismal results compared to the overall market; each year three out of four money managers return less than the market average. The real beneficiaries of the Wall Street Rule are the investment industry and company executives who don't want to answer to owners. Jacobs shows that simply by investing for long-term growth, you can beat 95 percent of mutual funds. Even better, in the last decade companies with large effective-owner shareholders earned triple the market average. With Break the Wall Street Rule investors of any size can become effective owners. In clear language Jacobs explains how small shareholders can utilize the power of institutional investors. There are guidelines for choosing companies structured for the benefit of their shareholders, not to insulate their executives from shareholders. Other chapters describe how to assemble a portfolio and how to calculate whether a stock has paid you back enough. Many books explain when to buy stocks or which stocks to buy. Break the Wall Street Rule shows how real gains come from what you do once you own a stock. You can use the power of new SEC proxy rules to maximize your returns. You can ensure that management works for shareholders by supporting directors and resolutions that protect your interests, such as connecting pay to performance. Owning only $1000 of stock lets you propose your own shareholder resolutions; Jacobs illuminates the rules and realities of this process. As shown at Sears and GM, shareholders and boards can affect how major corporations are run. In sum, the effective owner philosophy of Break the Wall Street Rule will revolutionize the way you look at stock-market investing.

Break The Wall Street Rule: Outperform The Stock Market By Investing As An Owner

Business & Money

Investing

Basic Books

This best-selling volume has been fully revised and updated to take account of the latest thinking about the theory and practice of pastoral counselling. As reviews of the original edition demonstrate, this is a book that no Christian minister or lay counsellor can afford to be without. 'Michael Jacobs has written a book which in terms of realistic and sound understanding, of sensitivity to the real needs of people, of a proper encouragement and humility, could not be improved upon. I can think of no better book to recommend to those who are beginning to take the counselling task seriously. They will be given an excellent grounding, and will be spared many obvious and less obvious pitfalls' Theology. 'It is lucid, persuasive and practical, firmly insisting that all those who dare to help others must start by seeking to understand - and love - themselves. The illustrative dialogue and events scattered across the pages offer fresh insights into what must be familiar ground for many readers feeling alone in the pastoral work they do. The chapters on beliefs and values and on endings are particularly valuable' Epworth Review.

Still Small Voice: Practical Introduction to Counselling in Pastoral and Other Settings (New Library of Pastoral Care)

Religion & Spirituality

SPCK Publishing

Living Illusions: A Psychology of Belief

Basic listening skills are at the heart of communication, or any pastoral encounter. In this new and thoroughly updated edition of 'Swift to Hear', Michael Jacobs addresses these listening and responding skills, describing the process of communication, which is at the heart of the helping interview. The primary message of this book is the ability to listen, and to hear what a person is really saying, is of paramount importance in any counselling situation, and that if practitioners can enhance these skills they will be far more effective. Numerous exercises make this an excellent book for training in all fields of pastoral work, both with individuals and with groups.

Swift to Hear: Facilitating Skills in Listening and Responding (New Library of Pastoral Care)

The author travelled by foot and public transport around Spain in the footsteps of the Romantics, revealing the country as it is today. The book provides an insight into the rich and diverse culture and heritage of Spain.

Between Hopes and Memories: a Spanish Journey

Pan/Macmillan

Therapists from six disciplines, including Kleinian psychotherapy, transactional analysis, cognitive-analytic therapy, and feminist group therapy, analyze Charlie, a 40-year-old working mother. Each therapist diagnoses the client based on interviews, and discusses the preferred course of therapy, problem areas, and criteria for successful outcome. Includes chapter summaries, background information on each therapist, and space for counseling and psychotherapy students to write in their own assessment. Lacks an index and a bibliography. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Charlie-An Unwanted Child? (In Search of a Therapist)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

Open Univ Pr

"Everyone who works with clients will welcome Michael Jacobs eminently readable and stimulating new book. Drawing on the works of Erikson, Winnicott, and other relational theorists, Jacobs articulates the three major development themes that weave their way through both counselling and psychotherapy. The author's case studies leap off the page, drawing the reader into the intricacies of the therapy relationship to demonstrate how the past becomes a living part of the here-and-now. A boon for beginning therapists as well as a refreshing source of new ideas for more experienced clinicians." - Professor Sheldon Cashdan, author, Object Relations Therapy "This book is a wonderfully readable overview of the developmental principles underlying psychodynamic counselling. Theories of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Kohut and others are organized into three broad developmental themes- dependency, autonomy and interdependence, and illuminated with rich clinical examples. Jacobs' lucid, lively style makes the connection between theory and practice clear and accessible. This outstanding book will appeal to established clinicians as well as students training in counselling and psychotherapy." - Jan Grant, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia "Michael Jacobs is a free spirit who roams purposefully in the often contentious world of the rival psychoanalytic traditions." -Professor Brian Thorne, Centre for Counselling Studies, University of East Anglia "An original and reliable approach to the development of personality that every therapist and student therapist should possess. Jacobs, one of the founders of psychodynamic therapy and counselling, avoids the twin perils of unimaginative, meaningless causality on the one hand and indifferent, irresponsible reference to fate on the other." -Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology, University of Essex The revised edition of this best-selling book not only introduces much more material about the basic psychodynamic themes of trust and dependency, authority and autonomy, and cooperation and competition, but also makes a major break with developmental stages, preferring to show how the real issues that concern people are present at every point in life. As in the highly successful first edition, the themes are lavishly illustrated with case examples, and the useful appendix is extended. This edition contains a completely new chapter on the way the major themes appear at different points in the process of counselling and therapy.

The Presenting Past

Open University Press

The Presenting Past: The Core of Psychodynamic Counselling and Therapy

This volume helps navigate "the jungle of different typologies that has sprung up in the field of psychotherapy ...." The authors review character and personality typologies from realist and postmodernist positions as useful for effective practice as well as counter-arguments about their subjectivity and over-simplification, before explaining the myriad approaches from psychoanalytic to transpersonal. They conclude by weighing the benefits and risks of integrating them. Includes further reading. Totten, influenced by Reich, Process- Oriented Psychology, and psychoanalysis, practices Embodiment- Relational Therapy. Jacobs has been consulting since his recent retirement from the U. of Leicester's psychotherapy and counseling program. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Character and Personality Types (Core Concepts in Therapy)

Totton, Nick

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