just what every office employee needs. Tear off each self-adhesive page you'd like to keep and stick it anywhere, or add a message and stick it in a coworker's office to add a little humor to the workday.P* This calendar is a perfect fit for any employee's desk and is guaranteed to provide hours of laughter.P* You Know You Are the Office Dork If . . . You wear the company logo attire on non-mandatory days.P* This calendar's adhesive-backed pages allow anyone to keep a joke or funny office quip simply by sticking the page to any surface.  (less)

EMDR around the world. He lives on Long Island, New York.IbrbrbI am Introduced to EMDR/bbrbrI went without extraordinary expectations. My friend Uri Bergmann, like me a psychotherapist but more experimental than I (he was into hypnosis and pain management), had learned of a new therapeutic method called EMDR--Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. He had been impressed with the results he had achieved with it, particularly in one case, and now he wanted to learn more. He asked if I would accompany him to the Loew's Hotel on New York's Lexington Avenue for a weekend Level I training session. I somewhat reluctantly agreed.brbrThe year was 1993. I was forty years old. My life was about to change forever.brbrThere were about eighty of us in a conference room--several, I found out later, from abroad--all of us staring with some wonder at the striking, five-foot-eleven, dynamic, fortyish woman named Francine Shapiro who talked with confidence and clarity about the new form of psychotherapy she had developed.brbrI confess I didn't immediately grasp most of it. Her ideas were derived from cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy (put simplistically, what you feel comes from what you think), whereas I, trained as a psychoanalyst, believed in the influence of early life experiences in the formation of personality, conflict, and self. Her talk was highly technical, filled with words and phrases I would come to integrate only later, but I was impressed by her ardor and by the fluidity of both her words and her movements. Throughout the day, she seemed comfortable and self-assured teaching her new method.brbrWe broke for lunch. I remember telling Uri that I was neither impresse@9  (less)

Carols Miniature Edition/I™ (more than 300,000 sold), this lovely little adaptation of a popular book about the origins of more than 30 of the most beloved Christmas songs, both secular and religious, promises to be a strong seller as well. “Collins is an ace at song history . . .” notesIBooklist/I./DivDIVBAce Collins/Bis the author of StoriesIBehind the Great Traditions of Christmas, Stories Behind the Hymns that Inspire America, Songs SungRed, White, and Blue, Tragedies of American History/I, andITouchdown Tommy/I. An award-winning author with over fifty books to his credit, he has appeared on scores of television shows, includingICBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Good Morning America, MSNBC/I, andIEntertainment Tonight/I. He lives in Hillsboro, Texas./Div  (less)