In consultation with President Leon Pomeroy, Editors Art Ellis and Rem B. Edwards developed the following statement for Hartman's Freedom to Live, and we encourage all sellers and users to photocopy this and include it with the book:

Second, on p. 163 Hartman states that "Jesus was crucified by the powers that were: the Jewish community and the Roman state." Seen in context, this sentence is best understood to be about the "powers" or authorities in the Jewish community, not about the community as a whole. Robert Hartman had a Jewish father, later married a Jewish wife, Rita Emanuel, and fled Nazi Germany for his vigorous opposition to Hitler and Nazism. No Anti-Semitism was intended by his words, rather an explanation that the actual "powers" or authorities who crucified Jesus were operating within the framework of existing law, which can always be used "for either good or evil," in this case for evil. It is a commentary on the dangers of power.

The new 750 page long HVP/ PTSI Manual of Interpretation titled Axiology: Theory & Practice, Coaching Edition by David Mefford and Vera Mefford is now available. The price, postage paid,  is $145.00 per copy to non-members of the Hartman Institute or $95.00 per copy to dues-paying members of the Institute. David Mefford's "MAP" is also available, postage paid, for $30.00. Please order directly from: Dr. David Mefford, 2620 Old Highway 25-E, Morristown, TN 37814. You may phone David and Vera at 423-585-5885 or e-mail them at veraax@aol.com Logic: Framing A Unified Field Theory of Values For Progressives. To get the really essential information about this book, go directly to the following webpage: http://www.empathicscience.org/proglog.html. There you can find more information about the book, including the discount price of only $10.00, and you can click directly on the PayPal button to order it using your credit card.

Rem B. Edwards, David Mefford, Vera Mefford. Developing Your Spiritual Potentials: The Religious and Christian Value Profiles is now published by Xlibris Press.
Price: $20.00 plus shipping. To order click here. Xlibris
This book includes the "Religious Value Profile" for monotheistic religions, and the "Christian Value Profile" for Christianity. Both are based upon the axiological structure of the Hartman Value Profile. These Profiles may be taken and will be scored automatically without charge on our website: http://www.rvp-cvpautoscore.com/. The book explains the meaning of your scores and includes several self-development chapters. Exercises for spiritual growth are presented in two chapters that deal with further spiritual growth and development." The implications of attaching too much or too little value to various religious value dimensions are explored in discussions of errors of overvaluation and undervaluation. An additional spiritual development chapter is titled "Being and Becoming All You Can Be Before God." A concluding chapter titled "The Structure of the Religious and Christian Value Profiles" gives the theory underlying the profiles, the proper rank order of the items, and a discussion of "Axiologically Ordered Selfhood."

Discover Your Blind Spots: How To Stop Repeating Everyday Business Mistakes by Dr. Bob Smith Client Edition available: 10/15/2004, Price: $22.95, Hardcover, 188 pages. To order this book by e-mail, go to: sales@cleardirection.com
This is an easy-to-read book that presents how everyone has blind spots and when those cause people in business contexts to make mistakes that they could otherwise avoid. This book answers the questions: When can you trust your own perceptions and when are you blind and likely to make ill-advised decisions and costly mistakes?
Why do people act differently when you are not around and what can you do to avoid the problems this behavior causes?
What common business practices regularly yield poor results and what can you do to stop these mistakes from being repeated?
Discover Your Blind Spots is more than a recap of the obvious concerning self-understanding or communications. It is the fruit of 17 years of work inside more than 50 corporations and law firms. Dr. Smith has analyzed the causes of unwanted results in the workplace and has put them into an easy to understand and useful format. He then provides immediately applicable counsel and suggestions for five critically important management roles:
Effective communications
Managing all kinds of personalities
Conducting performance reviews
Promoting employees
Discover Your Blind Spots is the perfect book for senior management to provide their employees because those who read it will work more effectively as a result of their newfound awareness.

Frank G. Forrest, Ethical Decision Making for the 21st Century. Published by Frank G. Forrest. Price: $22.00 plus tax and postage. Order from: Frank G. Forrest, 2828 N. Atlantic Avenue, Apt. 1503, Daytona Beach, FL 32018. E-mail: fforest@aol.com
This book is a text on how to solve today's ethical problems based on formal axiology. It fulfills the need for an up-to-date text in ethics courses in schools and colleges, and in organization ethics training programs in business, industry, and government. Persons who have completed the Hartman Value Profile will find the tenets and principles in this text useful in furthering their strengths and eliminating their weaknesses revealed by the HVP.
The initial chapters introduce ethics as a subject of study to include the elaboration of a reasoning system called value logic for making value judgments and ethical decisions. The final chapters show the application of value logic to such matters as value vision development, how to redress wrongs and badness, and how to determine when, if ever, wrongs and badness are justified. The last chapter--Case Studies--is devoted to the structure of an ethical decision making model and its use in cases involving contracts, abortion, euthanasia, e-commerce, and military intervention.

Rem B. Edwards, Religious Values and Valuations, 2000. Published by Paidia Publishing Co., 17 Grayswood Hill Road, Signal Mountain, TN 37377.  Phone/Fax: (423)-886-7140. E-mail: byrum4@aol.com The paperback ISBN number is: 1-56888-442-7. The price is $22.50, plus $3.50 for shipping and handling. The book is designed to facilitate self-knowledge by helping readers to understand what and how they value, based largely on the value theory or axiology of Robert S. Hartman, for whom our values are the keys to our personalities and practices. The book develops and examines three ethico-religious stages along life's way—worldliness, ideology, and saintliness—and the types of religiosity associated with them. It emphasizes valuations—how worldlings, ideologists, and saints value, as well as values themselves—what they value. The heart of the book consists of an analysis of the above three personality types and how they are organized around different values and valuational styles, all of which have a religious expression, and all of which are conspicuously present in existing religious thought and literature. Ideological types are organized primarily around systemics, worldly types around extrinsics, and saintly types around intrinsics. The book applies Robert S. Hartman's formal axiology (without the formalities!) and his hierarchy of values and valuations (intrinsic, extrinsic, and systemic) to self-knowledge, religion, and issues of spiritual development. Innumerable philosophical and religious thinkers have commended the quest for self-knowledge as a pre-requisite for moral and spiritual growth and development. Many religious thinkers from St. Bonaventure and Søren Kierkegaard to James W. Fowler have explored a variety of stages of ethico-religious growth and development, but without an adequate systematic axiological frame of reference for understanding and ordering their subject matter. The work of Robert S. Hartman provides the missing valid systematic frame of reference. This book also relates religion and human values to psychology, especially evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, attachment theory, and the psychology of religion. Quotes and insights from traditional Christian and Jewish theologians (mainly Christian, since I am most familiar with these) are integrated with process theology. With a knowledge of values and other insights derived from this book, readers should be able to pick up almost any story with a plot, any theological or devotional publication, or any study in the psychology of religion, and be able almost immediately to discern what is going on, to make sense of it, to assess its strengths and weaknesses, whether agreeing with it or not. Hartman's axiological frame of reference, purged of a few impurities, makes literature, religion, religious writers, and studies in the psychology of religion intelligible—as no other systematic frame of reference can.

Rem B. Edwards and John W. Davis, eds., Forms of Value and Valuation: Theory and Applications, 1991. Published by: University Press of America, Inc., 4720 Boston Way, Lanham, MD, 20706. Phone: 1-800-462-6420. Fax: 1-800-338-4550. To order on line, go to: http://www.univpress.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0819184489 They do not currently list a price, but formerly the price was: Paperback edition: $57.50 (plus $2.00 postage for the first copy and $0.50 for each additional copy). The paperback ISBN number is: 0-8191-8449-7.  Hardback edition: $87.00 (plus $2.00 postage).  The ISBN hardback number is 0-8191-8448-9.
Joyce Austin, who manages Axiopress since John's death, offers a computer printout version of this book for $39.95 and a hardback edition for $54.00. John originally bought paperbacks and turned them into hardbacks. To order from Joyce, go to: http://www.axiopress.com Getting the Austins to respond to communications, especially e-mail, has been difficult.
Essays in this book by Hartman and his interpreters explain and examine the origin of formal value theory; the nature of valuation; systemic, extrinsic, and intrinsic value and valuation; the intrinsic value of individual persons; the basic norm of intrinsic valuation; value combinations and the value calculus; managerial, psychological, and behavioral axiology; cross-cultural studies of values; self-knowledge and self development; why good people do bad things; axiology; and education; and the theological implications of axiology. It ends with excellent bibliographies of the writings of Robert S. Hartman and of secondary discussions of his work.

Several books on Hartmanian value theory are available from Joyce Austin at Axiopress. To order any of the following books, go to: http://www.axiopress.com

(1) John W. Davis, ed., Value and Valuation: Axiological Studies in Honor of Robert S. Hartman.

(2) Robert S. Hartman, The Hartman Value Profile (HVP) Manual of Interpretation. (Older first edition). A more recent edition is available from the Hartman Institute itself.

(3) Robert S. Hartman, Can Field Theory be Applied to Ethics?
This was Hartman's doctoral dissertation.

(4) Robert S. Hartman, The Structure of Value. A few copies were available, but Joyce Austin no longer lists this.

(5) Joyce Austin publishes the Hartman Value Profile (HVP)and makes available a number of other Hartman related materials. If you do not have one already, ask her to send you a copy of her Order Form, which lists these and other Hartman related materials and their price.
Here is additional contact information for Joyce Austin:
Joyce Austin
Research Concepts
1368 East Airport Road
Muskegon, MI 49444
Phone: 231-739-7401
E-mail: Jaustin@axiopress.com
Website: http://www.axiopress.com

As his contribution to the Hartman Institute, Marvin Katz makes his latest book, Ethics, A College Course, available without charge. You may download the entire book by clicking here. Marvin would like his readers to contact him about the book: (1) to comment on it; (2) suggest constructively how to improve on it; (3) explain what uses to make of it, (4) and how to extend the discipline of Ethics. His e-mail address is: drmk1@rcn.com. His phone number is: (847)-967-7966.

(1) Robert S. Hartman, El conocumiento del bien Fondo de Cultura Economica

(2) Robert S. Hartman, La estructura del valor: fundamentos de la axiología científica Fondo de Cultura Economica

(3) Gilberto Carrasco Hernández, La Teoría Axiológica del Desarrollo Humano. Price postage paid in US dollars: America and Europe: $18.00; rest of the world: $26.00. ISBN: 03-2001-112712034900-01. To place an order e-mail Gilberto at: gcarrascoh@prodigy.net.mx
Abraham Maslow's last book, The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, 1971, appeared after his death. In it, Maslow exhorts all people of good will to put all their resources and talents into solving the two Greatest Problems of Humanity: to make Good People, and to make a Good Society. In response, this book presents ideas about the technological possibility of building Good Men, starting from precise axiological definitions that can facilitate the liberation and harmonization of human powers with the impressive practical results, as explained in the final part of the book. The book follows the development of scientific thought, which has already had demonstrated its effectiveness. It applies the logical ordering of Formal Axiology to the psychology of human development to obtain in a deductive way the axiological meaning of important concepts like “person,” “good person,” “self-actualization,” “the potential development of the person,” “the direction of human development,” “the meaning of the life,” “the axiological structure of the personality,” “the harmonic development of the personality,” “education,” “the axiological process of human development,” and “the measurement of personality.” The union of these elements is called the “Axiological Theory of Human Development.”
To explain these concepts, the axiological definition of “good” and a mathematical definition of “ordinal good” are presented and applied to the human developmental process. Works on the application of Formal Axiology to Psychology carried out by Robert S. Hartman, David Mefford, and Mario Cárdenas Trigos are considered, as well as axiological investigations of education carried out by professor Alfonso Lozano González.

(1) Kurt Kaltreider, American Indian Prophecies: Conversations with Chasing Deer (Carlsbad, Calif.: Hay House, 1998). You may order Kurt's book, priced at $12.95, through your bookstore or directly from the publisher.  Hay House has a website at:  http://www.hayhouse.com/; or you may write to them at P.O. Box 5100, Carlsbad, CA 92018-5100, or phone them at 1-800-654-5126.

(2) Rem B. Edwards, Reason and Religion: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1979). Price: $20.00, postage paid. Order from Rem B Edwards, 8709 Longmeade Drive, Knoxville, TN 37923.

(3) George D. Parrish, Rite of Passage (Xlibris Corp., 2000) Price: $18.69. Order from xlibris.com

(4) George D. Parrish, Fijian Gold (Xlibris Corp., 2000) Price: $18.69. Order from xlibris.com

(5) George D. Parrish, Instant Losers (Xlibris Corp., 2000) Price: $18.69. Order from xlibris.com

(6) Geprge D. Parrish, Lucid Dreaming (Xlibris Corp., 2001) Price: $18.95. Order from xlibris.com