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Understanding Health Insurance: A Guide to Billing and Reimbursement, 8th Edition is a comprehensive source for teaching the subject of health insurance and reimbursement. The book contains chapters on introductory information on the health insurance field, managed health care, legal and regulatory issues, coding systems, reimbursement methodologies, coding for medical necessity, and common health insurance plans. Each chapter contains exercises to illustrate content and reinforce learning. Numerous opportunities are provided throughout the book for manual completion of CMS-1500 claims. A CD-ROM at the back of the book allows for electronic data entry of CMS-1500 claim form information. End of chapter review questions in objective format (e.g., multiple choice) test learners on their understanding of book content. Appendices I and II provide case studies that are also included on the Student Practice CD-ROM. Additional appendices provide instruction in dental claims processing and completion of the UB-92 (claim used for inpatient and outpatient hospital claims). The accompanying workbook provides application based assignments for each chapter, additional content review (multiple choice questions), and additional case studies for practice in completing CMS-1500 claims. This edition of the book contains the most up to date information regarding health insurance claims processing and coding and reimbursement issues.
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Comprehensive Instruction Material for Beginner Coders and Billers.......2007-04-10
Medical coding and billing continuously evolve in large part because insurance companies and providers have conflicting business goals. An effective biller must go beyond simple claim submission and discover the reasons for underpayments and denials, to solicit missing information from both providers and payers, and follow up on every claim until its full payment. Rowell's and Green's Guide provides an ideal introductory didactic set of materials covering everything from history of health care reimbursement, major insurance companies, and federal health care legislation, to basic knowledge of national diagnosis and procedure coding rules, to complex topics, such as V-codes, and diagnosis code linking. The text is replete with examples and exercises, helping students understand and remember the needed materials.
Learning Tool.......2007-03-11
This book is fanastic and provides up-to-date information on the health insurance industry. Its great for learners and old timers too. Gives a very broad spectrum of the health industry and easy to comprehend. I recommend this book to anyone as a teaching/learning tool.
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Understanding Dental Health (Understanding Health and Sickness Series)
Francis G. Serio
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Dental Radiology: Understanding the X-Ray Image
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Dental Radiology provides a broad overview of the normal and abnormal appearance of teeth and jaws on x-ray images. Abnormalities are grouped according to their location or their main presenting feature. Recognition of abnormalities, and interpretation of their radiographic appearance is assisted by a clear review of normal appearances and the production of the standard x-ray views used in dentistry
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Understanding Dental Carries: Prevention
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Understanding First Class Dental Care: A Human Interest Story
David Vine
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Understanding Managed Care Contracts: A Practical Guide for Dental Professionals
David H. Lees
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Dental Hygiene, published by American Dental Hygienists' Association on March 22, 2004. The length of the article is 398 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Body Out of Balance: Understanding and Treating Sjogren's Syndrome.(Book Review)
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Volume: 78
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Dental Hygiene, published by American Dental Hygienists' Association on March 22, 1999. The length of the article is 2088 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
From the author: Each year, one child in every 800 births in the U.S. is born with Down's syndrome. It is the most prevalent chromosomal abnormality found in humans? Of the approximately four million births in the U.S. per year, 5,000 newborns with Down's syndrome can be expected. All health care providers should understand the unique features of this condition. Likewise, dental hygienists should be cognizant of its specific oral manifestations to provide optimum oral care for these clients.
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Title: Understanding Down's Syndrome: A Review.
Author: Robin Buxton
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Volume: 73
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Title: Understanding Pharmacology for Health Professionals.(Book Review)
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Illustrated Guide to Understanding Dental Implants Root Form
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"In three days the number of so-called `volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place."—from the book
South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen years old when he was forced to serve in the North Korean People's Army during the first year of the Korean War. After a few months, he deserted the NKPA and returned to Seoul where he joined the South Korean Marine Corps. Ho's experience is only one of the many compelling accounts found in Voices from the Korean War. Unique in gathering war stories from veterans from all sides of the Korean War—American, South Korean, North Korean, and Chinese—this volume creates a vivid and multidimensional portrait of the three-year-long conflict told by those who experienced the ground war firsthand.
Richard Peters and Xiaobing Li include a significant introduction that provides a concise history of the Korean conflict, as well as a geographical and a political backdrop for the soldiers' personal stories.
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Franz Josef Land is a forbidding place, isolated by geography and history. Lying above the Arctic Circle in the northernmost province of Russia, this remote series of islands was only discovered by Westerners in 1873, and remains little known today. A few intrepid explorers ventured there in the late 19th century as a stepping-stone in attempts to reach the North Pole. Chicago journalist Walter Wellman led the first American expedition to the archipelago as part of a polar expedition in 1898-1899. His second-in-command, Evelyn Briggs Baldwin, kept a journal documenting their trip. This previously unpublished journal reveals much about one of the last great periods of exploration—including the violence, chicanery, and racism that characterized much of American exploration and expansion.
Baldwin's journal, reproduced here, paints a more realistic picture of the expedition than did Wellman's communiqués sent home for mass consumption. Correspondence between Baldwin and Wellman is included, and expedition notes list the supplies carried, descriptions of geographic features observed in the course of the trip, and the doctor's notes on treatments, remedies and supplies. Editor P.J. Capelotti provides an extended introduction, and the text is illustrated with maps, depictions of dramatic events occurring on the trip, and several photographs.
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Diffusion Processes and Fertility Transition: Selected Perspectives
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The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet, though until the publication of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, "nobody cared." Greenlaw's boat, the Hannah Boden, was the sister ship to the doomed Andrea Gail, which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and became the focus of Junger's book. The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right--proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster.
There is the weather, the constant danger of mechanical failure, the perils of controlling five sleep-, women-, and booze-deprived young fishermen in close quarters, not to mention the threat of a bad fishing run: "If we don't catch fish, we don't get paid, period. In short, there is no labor union." Greenlaw's straightforward, uncluttered prose underscores the qualities that make her a good captain, regardless of gender: fairness, physical and mental endurance, obsessive attention to detail. But, ultimately, Greenlaw proves that the love of fishing--in all of its grueling, isolating, suspenseful glory--is a matter of the heart and blood, not the mind. "I knew that the ocean had stories to tell me, all I needed to do was listen." --Svenja Soldovieri
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The term fisherwoman does not exactly roll trippingly off the tongue, and Linda Greenlaw, the world's only female swordfish boat captain, isn't flattered when people insist on calling her one. "I am a woman. I am a fisherman... I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl. If anything else, I am a thirty-seven-year-old tomboy. It's a word I have never outgrown." Greenlaw also happens to be one of the most successful fishermen in the Grand Banks commercial fleet, though until the publication of Sebastian Junger's The Perfect Storm, "nobody cared." Greenlaw's boat, the Hannah Boden, was the sister ship to the doomed Andrea Gail, which disappeared in the mother of all storms in 1991 and became the focus of Junger's book. The Hungry Ocean, Greenlaw's account of a monthlong swordfishing trip over 1,000 nautical miles out to sea, tells the story of what happens when things go right--proving, in the process, that every successful voyage is a study in narrowly averted disaster.There is the weather, the constant danger of mechanical failure, the perils of controlling five sleep-, women-, and booze-deprived young fishermen in close quarters, not to mention the threat of a bad fishing run: "If we don't catch fish, we don't get paid, period. In short, there is no labor union." Greenlaw's straightforward, uncluttered prose underscores the qualities that make her a good captain, regardless of gender: fairness, physical and mental endurance, obsessive attention to detail. But, ultimately, Greenlaw proves that the love of fishing--in all of its grueling, isolating, suspenseful glory--is a matter of the heart and blood, not the mind. "I knew that the ocean had stories to tell me, all I needed to do was listen." --Svenja Soldovieri
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In his number one bestseller, The Perfect Storm, Sebastian Junger describes Linda Greenlaw as ;one of the best sea captains, period, on the East Coast. Now Greenlaw tells her own riveting story of a thirty-day swordfishing voyage aboard one of the best-outfitted boats on the East Coast, complete with danger, humor, and characters so colorful they seem to have been ripped from the pages of Moby Dick. During the voyage Greenlaw must contend with savage weather, equipment failure, too few fish, and too many sharks;not to mention the routinely backbreaking work of operating a fishing boat in a state of mind-numbing exhaustion after working ten twenty-one hour days in a row. With a true fisherman's gift for spinning a yarn and a voice that's wry, honest, and all her own, Greenlaw brings readers right on deck with her and her crew, re-creating the experience of going for the big haul against awesome odds.
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The book embodies what is right and wrong with our culture and civilization.......2007-07-29
Did my slugline suck you into this review of *The Hungry Ocean*? It is not meant to be misleading, even if what I refer to is more subtle reading into things on my part. Linda Greenlaw is a swordboat captain in a definitively man's world of commercial ocean fishing. But, she isn't just any captain, but a good one at that. She turns up in Sebastian Junger's *The Perfect Storm*. But this book isn't about that, nor is it an attempt to capitalize on that book's success; this book is about the essence of commercial fishing - commercial swordfish fishing to be specific - and it's about what it is like for a woman to succeed in a male dominated enterprise. It is also about life in general as well as one's journey to find a meaning and place in life.
That is a lot to place on one book. But intentionally or not, that what Greenlaw takes on. This book is specifically about one fishing trip for Greenlaw's swordboat, the Hannah Boden; but along the way she talks about life in general in her neck of the woods and corner of world - both physically and psychologically. At times Greenlaw paints the picture of a lonely woman searching for something; but I think that is much more than the cliché at its heart. She is searching for meaning and place, not a man to make her complete. And, in the end, she seems to find a new direction to life.
Beyond the personal story of Linda Greenlaw, this book is about the commercial fishing industry. Maybe it doesn't dig deeply into what is right or wrong with it, nor does it over-analyze it on the micro or macro scale, but what we see on this one fishing trip is enough to open the reader's eyes to an industry that is both a way of life on the micro scale for many of the fisherman and also another over consumptive practice on the macro scale. The story is both engrossing and romantic.
But at times the shine is lost and the underbelly exposed. The best single example I can give is waste and litter that is produced when commercial fishing is practiced on this scale. When they let the line out, they place chemical lights - the type that you bend and shake to activate - at regular intervals along the line as an additional lure; these lights are single-use, disposable, and left to sink to the bottom of the world's oceans. This is one single, indicative example of waste on a large scale practiced by our civilization.
Linda Hits A Home Run.......2007-06-24
What a great book. I am not a huge book reader and she makes me feel like I am on the boat with her and the crew. I highly suggest this book!!!!!
Great Reading
Great book.......2007-05-13
This is a great book. Linda does an excellent job making you feel like you are there. You want to reach out and help as she is challenged day after day. What she has accomplished is amazing. This is a must have for every boat library
This book was a blast. Much better than "A perfect storm".......2007-05-12
Written by a fisherperson for fisherpeople!
She captures the life & passion of the events in her 1st hand dialogue.
The Thrill of Open Water.......2007-02-20
"In an instant, the jaws of a Mako shark can latch onto the calf of one whose back is turned. Rows of razor-sharp teeth puncture oil pants, boots, skin, and flesh, and sink into solid bone like nails into balsa wood." This is just one of the dangers faced by the fishermen on the Hannah Boden.
Real life thrills and danger. Not the narcissitic thrill seeker, who bungie jumps or the mountain climber who ascends Mt. Hood knowing a storm is coming, yet tries to beat the squalls to the summit. This is the real life story of Linda Greenlaw, Captain of the Hannah Boden, the 100 ft. swordfishing boat. The story unfolds with the preparation and expectation of returning from a month at sea with 70,000 lbs of fish. All the while trying to maintain a mutually respectfull relationship with her crew and their no where near minor idosyncracies while at sea. Bob Brown, the crusty, pushy owner of the boat goads Ms. Greenlaw into making demands on herself and crew that are akin to miraculous.
Nine to five does not exist. When the lines are cast the crew is punched in for 24 hour days adding up to approximately 700 hours. No benefits, no sick days, no salary. 700 hours of physical labor, in poor conditions, that you might not get paid for. No fish, no pay.
20,000 gallons of fuel, 280 miles of open sea before the fishing even begins, sickness, competition, engine trouble and danger all managed with finesse, firmness, nerves of steel, stamina most men can't comprehend, and motherly love. Linda Greenlaw tells a story you can't put down, from her heart, in a down to earth fashion, making even a land lubber long for the high seas and salty air.
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Something to tie you over.......2006-12-20
If you are a fan of the hit TV series Deadliest Catch and just can't wait until late March to see new episodes than I suggest that you do read this book, it a very quick and easy read for the fans of that show. This publisher is trying to cash on the popularity of this series, by reprinting the book with a different type of cover art on it, which is clearly showing not a longliner type of fishing vessel, with this book is all about, but quite possibly a Bering Sea crab boat. While the cover art is a little bit of a misnomer, don't let that stop you from buying this book or reading it if somebody you know has it, for your time will be rewarded, and you will learn a few things in the course of reading the novel.
This book tells the story of Linda Greenlaw, the captain of the fishing vessel, Hannah Boden, which would be her last trip fishing for swordfish. Now, Linda, gain some popularity with the novel and the movie "The Perfect Storm", so she cashing in her new found fame to tell her own story and her own personal experiences in this industry.
While, this might sound like this could be a boring novel it not because of the style that Linda writes in this novel, very down to earth like you are having a conversation with her over a meal at a roadside dinner. Explaining a good majority of what it takes to get these boats prep and ready for a fishing trip, or what they call "Turing the Boat Around", the gear that they used, and the terms that they used to describe that type of swordfish that they are out there. Also in the course of the 31 day fishing trip, she take some time to tell some of the stories of her childhood, pervious trips, and there is also a section of the novel that tell the reader some of the superstitions that fishermen have.
While, I did enjoy this book, I found out that her explanation of the gear that they use and the electronics were a little hard to put into picture without the visual aid. Also reading this novel I gain a new respect to the Captains of all of the fishing vessels that out there, because you have a lot tougher job then I first thought.
The ones that got away.......2006-09-26
Linda Greenlaw achieved some measure of fame as a supporting character in the nonfiction book "The Perfect Storm" (and the more fictional movie that followed). Now, Greenlaw tells her own story in "The Hungry Ocean," a less thrilling but equally fascinating tale of a four-week swordfishing run over the Grand Banks.
Writing with the casual, conversational style of a story told over coffee and breakfast, Greenlaw describes the details of preparing for and executing a swordfishing expedition. She describes at length the supplies needed and the work that must be done to prepare for the water. She explains the crew dynamics, worries about the persistent illness of one crewman and wrangles over the racist attitudes of another. She frets over the readings as she steams northeast in the ocean and fills in the logistics on temperatures, currents and competing boats. She admits to occasional lies regarding fishing conditions in her wake.
She also recalls yarns from her earlier days, before she captained her own ship and sailed with others. She conveys the feeling of complete, utter exhaustion that is par for the course on a cruise of this nature. By the end of this book, you'll know how to clean a fish, whether you want to or not.
by Tom Knapp, Rambles.NET editor
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The Vietnamese called the Amerasian children of U.S. servicemen bui doi, "the dust of life." Half American and half Asian, they had been abandoned by their fathers to a xenophobic society that ostracized them. Nor was the U.S. government anxious to acknowledge their paternity and accept responsibility - until the Homecoming Act opened the door to their immigration.
This poignant account renders the lives of these divided souls, resulting in an unflinching look at two countries, two cultures, and the legacy of a war that tore them both apart.
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Captures the issues that faced and still face Amerasians.......1999-10-19
This well-written book does a good job of accurately capturing the plight of the Amerasians from Vietnam. Great descriptions of characters in Utica, NY and how they changed and/or stayed the same since their time in Amerasian Park in Saigon. Having visited Amerasian Park, I thought of the book and the many other Amerasians that are still in other parts of Vietnam and have been trying to leave.
Vietnamerica shows the challenges the Vietnamericans face, what they think and feel, and the way in which many of them have to deal with not finding their fathers even though they made it back to the U.S.A.
Thought-provoking and informative.
BORING, REPETITIVE AND NO CLEAR DIRECTION.......1999-09-23
THIS BOOK IS DISJOINTED AND BORING.BASS HAS NO CLEAR FOCUS AND FAILS TO GRIP THE READER. POORLY WRITTEN. THERE ARE PROBLEMS AND ISSUES OF SIGNIFICANT MULTITUDE CAUSED BY WAR, HOWEVER, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE ISSUES CANNOT BE GIVEN UNNECASSARY IMPORTANCE. WAR A TRAGEDY, BUT WE MUST LEARN TO LIVE ON.IF PEOPLE FEEL SO BITTER ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES OF WAR, THAN PEOPLE SHOULD THINK TWICE BEFORE CAUSES RIFTS BETWEEN NATION STATES.
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Thirty years after Lyndon Johnson declared a War on Poverty, the United States still lags behind most Western democracies in national welfare systems, lacking such basic programs as national health insurance and child care support. Some critics have explained the failure of social programs by citing our tradition of individual freedom and libertarian values, while others point to weaknesses within the working class. In The Color of Welfare, Jill Quadagno takes exception to these claims, placing race at the center of the "American Dilemma," as Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal did half a century ago. The "American creed" of liberty, justice, and equality clashed with a history of active racial discrimination, says Quadagno. It is racism that has undermined the War on Poverty, and America must come to terms with this history if there is to be any hope of addressing welfare reform today. From Reconstruction to Lyndon Johnson and beyond, Quadagno reveals how American social policy has continually foundered on issues of race. Drawing on extensive primary research, Quadagno shows, for instance, how Roosevelt, in need of support from southern congressmen, excluded African Americans from the core programs of the Social Security Act. Turning to Lyndon Johnson's "unconditional war on poverty," she contends that though anti-poverty programs for job training, community action, health care, housing, and education have accomplished much, they have not been fully realized because they became inextricably intertwined with the civil rights movement of the 1960s, which triggered a white backlash. Job training programs, for instance, became affirmative action programs, programs to improve housing became programs to integrate housing, programs that began as community action to upgrade the quality of life in the cities were taken over by local civil rights groups. This shift of emphasis eventually alienated white, working-class Americans, who had some of the same needs--for health care, subsidized housing, and job training opportunities--but who got very little from these programs. At the same time, affirmative action clashed openly with organized labor, and equal housing raised protests from the white suburban middle-class, who didn't want their neighborhoods integrated. Quadagno shows that Nixon, who initially supported many of Johnson's programs, eventually caught on that the white middle class was disenchanted. He realized that his grand plan for welfare reform, the Family Assistance Plan, threatened to undermine wages in the South and alienate the Republican party's new constituency--white, southern Democrats--and therefore dropped it. In the 1960s, the United States embarked on a journey to resolve the "American dilemma." Yet instead of finally instituting full democratic rights for all its citizens, the policies enacted in that turbulent decade failed dismally. The Color of Welfare reveals the root cause of this failure--the inability to address racial inequality.
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An indictment of American public policies.......2005-10-14
Jill Quadagno argues that governments (reflecting the sentiments of moneyed constituents) bought into and even reinforced stereotypes about women of color being 'welfare queens'.
Contrasting with the atmosphere of the authorizing legislation, society believed that these women needed to work outside the home and those who did not were 'lazy'. Black women especially found themselves being portrayed as the 'outsider'.
White women were still on welfare and had always comprised a majority of the program recipients, but politicians knew they could not create public outrage and internal disorder against somebody who more or less resembled the status quo. They had to attack somebody who was so `different' from themselves.
Neither the realities of a tight job market, lax community infrastructure, non-existent mass transit, or the exorbitant cost of quality and safe child care shattered those carefully-spun stereotypes. That positioning also made it easy for the government to ignore how little the monthly check was actually buying by the 1990's because it had not been adjusted for inflation.
Color of Welfare.......2000-05-02
The Color of Welfare does an excellent job of tracing the evolution of the U.S. welfare state. Quadagno explores the major programs of the welfare system. The main conclusion is that racism was the major factor in the development of policies designed to help those in need. Quadagno chronicles the political games and their impact on the services to the poor. Each major program or department responsible for the distribution of welfare benefits is explored and critiqued. Overall, a good source of background knowledge of the maze of the programs and benefits that make up the welfare system.
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Can the love reserved for family and friends be extended to a place? In her latest book, acclaimed author Kathleen Dean Moore reflects on how deeply the environment is entrenched in the human spirit, despite the notion that nature and humans are somehow separate. Moore's essays, deeply felt and often funny, make connections in what can appear to be a disconnected world. Written in parable form, her stories of family and friends — of wilderness excursions with her husband and children, camping trips with students, blowing up a dam, her daughter's arrest for protesting the war in Iraq — affirm an impulse of caring that belies the abstract division of humans from nature, of the sacred from the mundane. Underlying these wonderfully engaging stories is the author’s belief in a new ecological ethic of care, one that expands the idea of community to include the environment, and embraces the land as family.
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Beautiful book -- beautiful life.......2006-07-13
This reminds me of "The Web of Life : A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems" by Fritjof Capra as well as his previous book "The Turning Point" on which the movie "Mindwalk" (by Bernt Amadeus Capra, with Liv Ullmann, Sam Waterston, and John Heard) was based. The difference is this book is not written by a physicist but by a philosopher whose engagement with her family and her environs is done in beautiful prose. Even an island is not an island.
What does it mean to love a person? What does it mean to love a place? The list (p. 35) is interesting and so both are similar. How many things I must love according to this list! But even though they all fit, would I say I really love my car? I suppose I am spoiled by C.S. Lewis' "The Four Loves" which I think gives us some wonderful ways of discriminating among different "loves" and keeping them clearly different in our minds. I suppose the issue would be in the degree of love -- number nine "desperately".
My favorite piece was about the bird hiding the nut in the backyard. What a great ending!
Excellent!.......2004-10-24
I had the pleasure of briefly meeting the author, Kathleen Dean Moore, and listening to her read a (too) brief selection of pieces from The Pine Island Paradox, her latest collection of essays. I was so moved by her approach to her work (she is co-founder and Director of The Spring Creek Project, devoted to expanding the connections between the environment, philosophy, and words) and her writing that I ran right out and bought this book.
I was not disappointed a bit. Ms. Moore has a gift for observations of the natural world and the ways western philosophy
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