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A. P. Giannini: Banker of America
Felice A. Bonadio
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Perhaps more than any other individual, Amadeo Peter Giannini brought California into the twentieth century. Extending credit to ordinary working people, creating a financial empire through his branch banks, this son of Italian immigrants enabled California to advance faster than any other state in the decades before World War II. But who was A. P. Giannini? Felice A. Bonadio's superior biography reveals the founder of Bank of America in his many roles, most notably that of a bold, ruthless financial genius keenly aware of his minority status in a world dominated by the eastern Protestant elite.
Yet this is more than the success story of an underdog. Bonadio profiles a man of immense talent who was relentlessly eager to serve "the people." Hard-driving, obsessive about defending his empire against its enemies, Giannini could be both a good hater and a good friend. He was one of the first American businessmen to promote employee ownership and profit sharing, and when he died in 1949 at age 79, nearly forty percent of B of A's shares were owned by its employees. Little interested in personal wealth, Giannini's own estate was modest at the time of his death.
Much of Bonadio's research is from the private papers of Federal Reserve Bank officials and confidential Bank of America archives. Recollections of Giannini family members and former bank executives are also here, lending historical resonance and color to this portrait of a man whose influence endures many years after his death.
Giannini prided himself on his compulsive work habits, which he justified with one of his frequently repeated aphorisms, "Be first in everything." Once, on horseback to solicit a consignment order from one of the valley's biggest growers, he suddenly spotted a competitor's team in the distance headed in the same direction. Remembering a deep slough that stood between him and the farm, he quickly cut across the field, tethered his horse to a tree, and swam to the other side. Then he ran the rest of the way to the farmhouse. By the time the other merchant had arrived, Giannini was negotiating a deal with the grower.
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THE PEOPLE'S BANKER.......2000-05-11
Most people today never heard of A.P. Giannini. Yet, they can probably thank him for most of the banking services that they take for granted: consumer loans, mortgages, interstate and branch banking. Giannini brought banking to the masses. Bonadio's book chronicles the life and struggles of this man who helped build California and modernized the whole business of banking.
A lesson in tenacity and the one track mind.......2000-03-06
When people say "You have a one track mind" they mean it as an insult.After reading this book about A. P. Giannini, you'll be able to take it as a compliment. What he did for banking in America we now take for granted. It wasn't always so. He had a single minded purpose, "To give the little guy a bank who will do business with him." He was going to do that no matter what! And he did.The man was a bull dog in his accomplishments! This an excellent book about a unique man who has largely been forgotten in our day.He created the modern bank.
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This digital document is an article from Bank Marketing, published by Bank Marketing Assn. on July 1, 1991. The length of the article is 3911 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 supplier: Bank of America founder Amedeo Peter Giannini has made a great contribution to branch banking and interstate banking in the US. Giannini began thinking about establishing a nationwide banking system in 1912, and he acquired the Bank of America in 1928. Banks that expand across the US can survive if they continue to provide good customer service. Banks should develop a public relations policy, and they know that they have a good public relations function when they provide the public with the best possible service and inform the public about that service. One way in which banks can grow is to provide such services as insurance.
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Title: A conversation with A.P. Giannini. (founder of Bank of America Amadeo Peter Giannini)
Author: Barry I. Deutsch
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Date: July 1, 1991
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Nice, concise biography.......2006-01-18
This is an excellent resource for kids who want to learn about Tony Hawk. Very well written. Highly recommended!
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Lovely sketches, but...where is the animation?.......2003-03-12
This is my first Disney sketchbook series, and I except nothing from the book (rarely anybody owns one). This book is more of a character drawing and sketches book, there is hardly any concept art, background design, color test, or development art. I myself as an animation student personally thinks this is a lovely book to have, but I wouldn't be able to use it for reference or inspiration. It is more of a collectionable item for Disney and animation fans. I strongly suggest you check it out before paying the big buck for it.
The Book Does Not Deliver.......2002-11-24
As the title suggests, we are meant to see the "Hand Behind the Magic" and yet we do not see enough artwork to visualize anything; in fact most of the pages are almost blank. Content on Ariel is appalingly short, considering that she is the main character. There are no preconsception sketches that show the develoment of the character, absolutely nothing that answers "How do they do it?" question suggested by the title. Colour plates are nice, but far inbetween. Anyone, who is looking for inspiration will be severly disappointed.
Disney's Sketchbooks - Great Resource for Artists!.......2001-03-27
This fine addition to the Disney Sketchbook series has many of the wonderful sketches done by Disney's animation department for The Little Mermaid, including many pieces from the storyboards, and several sketches of scenes that never made it into the final film.
Artists that would like to study the Disney style of drawing and animation should find this volume a terrific addition to their collection despite its rather high price. As a student of art, and a fan of the Disney style, I highly recommend any of these books for your library.
I can watch for hours to these beautiful drawings!.......2000-08-16
You cannot compare the sketches with the film, I think, these pencildrawings are an artform on itsself.
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Narrow focus and dry style make history less interesting........2006-09-05
I have to disagree with other reviews of this book being accessible to the common reader. It is not. It's lengthy and dry and forced myself, a grad student and an avid rock fan, to skim over many of the lengthy and uninteresting descriptions.
It's not that the book isn't complete, it just has an extremely narrow view as to what was going on in the rock world during the 70's, and though I understand it's about Glam Rock, the fact is for anyone who has ever studied anything about rock movements in the 50's - the 90's it's too narrow to actually make me want to add to my library.
The really sad thing is that I was excited to read this book. It was assigned in our syllabus, which normally indicates that a student would be uninterested, but being required to study Glam Rock? Now that's just cool! I really wish I had better things to say.
The performance aspects are interesting but not really new information. Personally I probably could have gotten more by watching a really well produced film. (Because frankly, you need audio and visual to have the full on Glam Rock experience.)
Defining this moment in rock music.......2006-04-30
Glam Rock was a short lived moment in popular music that essentially lasted only about five or six years, say from 1970 to 1975. In 1970 we were long past the time when Ed Sullivan would only show Elvis from the waist up. The pill has made basic changes in the outlook of the young towards sex. Here in the US, the Viet Nam war, Watergate and Kent state were changing the view of the people.
In music the time was ripe for a change and a series of musicians did that with a new form of rock that featured extremely theatrical performances with outrageous (for the time) costume, makeup and sets. This was called Glam Rock. It drew upon the history of previous styles of rock and added a theatrical aspect to music that was minimally modified.
This book traces the history of Glam Rock from its beginnings with T. Rex and goes through the advent of Suzi Quatro. It explains what Glam Rock was and a bit about how it evolved into the next phase of music.
Performing Glam Rock Review.......2006-04-16
I recommend this book to rock music aficionados who hunger for deeper analysis and more thoughtful work than is the typical fare for books about this genre. It helps to have some interest or fond memories for glam rock, but the chapters about performers one may not know that well or never cared for (e.g., Suzie Quatro, for me) are as compelling as those about ones personal faves. While some of the discussion may be a tad academic for the casual reader, I urge the casual reader to read on, because he will learn something and be entertained. The author is well aware that writing a book is a performance of sorts, and does not ignore his obligation to keep the reader entertained even as some sophisticated and/or obscure concepts are dealt with.
Full disclosure: the author is a college friend of mine and I am thanked in the credits for having read over a few chapters in draft. - Peter Shapiro
Performing Glam Rock: Gender and Theatricality in Popular Mu.......2006-03-31
Performing Glam Rock does a brilliant job of explaining this elusive moment in rock history. For the first time we have a book which makes sense of glam: pretty boys (and one girl) in lurex and make up who swept away rock's no-performance code. As Phil Auslander shows, glam subverted rock's gender sterotyping too, and opened up the possiblity of new kinds of expression around sex and identity.
Along the way we get some engaging, funny and always insighful anlysis of the performance of glam artists from Bolan to Quatro. It's too early to name a rock book of the year for 2006, but this is surely a candidate.
Jason Toynbee
Lecturer in Media Studies, Open University
Better Hang on to Yourself.......2006-03-27
Although I've only recently begun to read up on performance studies, it seems to me that Auslander has chosen a particularly illustrative case study in glam rock. Within a genre so explicitly focused on the construction and performance of identity, it's actually a bit surprising that this book hadn't already been written.
While Auslander comes from the performance studies tradition, Performing Glam Rock also serves as a great overview of the genre. The book includes a great deal of history, making it a worthwhile read for anyone interested in the genre. The big guns are profiled in depth to illustrate the glam's traits: Bolan (style), Bowie (theatricality), Roxy Music (gender) and Suzi Quatro (more gender, specifically female masculinity).
Overall, an accessible and compelling read.
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Good, but not for all tastes.......2001-01-09
When I first got hold of this book, I expected something similar to the original "Merchant Prince", a few essays on trade, enhanced character generation, a few ship listings and maybe an additional trade table or two for the buying and selling of cargo.
...what a difference 15+ years can make! Boy, was I surprised when I opened the covers of "Far Trader" and started to read. Detailed essays on finance and trade in the Imperium, an incredibly detailed - almost realistic - economic and trade system, and much more besides. The detail was somewhat overwhelming at first, and somewhat insulted my minimalist sensibilities as a twenty year traveller veteran. I want to play a merchant! I exclaimed, not read a book on economics! But then I started to look at the material closely - and it *is* good. The authors have started with the initial premise that interstellar trade *is* both viable and necessary and then built a "pseudo-realistic" trading and economic system on top of it. It's elegant, neat and eminently playable.
All the usual stuff is there of course, starship plans, character templates for GURPS and a host of adventure seeds. Production values are fabulous, and the books have a nifty "sidebar" format where a wealth of additional information is presented.
I'm going to give it 5 stars, its a great piece of work - I liked it, but I can imagine that it won't be for all tastes. Its not really a book you can "dip into" and start using with a cursory read - if you are going to have successful merchant characters you'll need to read and absorb a fair portion of this book. I'm afraid that the 40 page vignette books of the classic traveller period are long gone, replaced with detail, detail, detail. But with such quality of content, and production values like these I for one won't particularly mourn their passing.
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No matter how much trainers believe that their work is valuable, clients will always want solid, objective evidence that the training they're spending good money on is effective. "Telling Training's Story provides the tools to do just that, allowing anyone to measure a training regime's effectiveness and prove it to customers. The book's central tool is the Success Case Method (SCM), and although the SCM is rigorous enough to convince even the harshest skeptic, it's also easy to understand. The book first explains how the SCM works, and then lays out a five-step plan that shows how to perform an SCM evaluation. Later chapters elaborate on the SCM process, providing in-depth instructions and guidelines. There are also four case studies that show how SCM evaluations were performed by global organizations. Filled with examples and checklists, "Telling Training's Story levels the playing field by granting trainers the ability to prove what they know in their heart -- training works.
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Right Up There With "Preparing Instructional Objectives." .......2006-03-30
Brings to the topic of training evaluation what Robert Mager brought to training design. An extremely lucid read about the author's why-didn't-anybody-think-of-this-before "Success Case Method" of training evaluation. Shows how traditional "Training ROI" methods are not only impractical, but wrongheaded in trying to isolate training impact from the work environment. Offers a fast track alternative that helps you improve your training as you prove it, and team better with the business issue owners whose support you require. Not an academic tome, this is a real "how to do it" manual that provides everything you need to know to evaluate your own training projects, illustrated by real case study examples.
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I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN!!!!.......2007-08-28
The book was great! I loved it from the first page to the last. It made me cry through out the whole book, most of the book made feel as they were writting about me personally. I finished the book the same day so the only thing is, I would have liked it to be alot longer. After reading it myself I let my sister read it, she's not a military wife but I wanted her to get an idea of what we go through, and she loved the book. She called me in tears and told me she was proud of me for being strong enough to get through a deployment, and now she see's the military and their wives in a whole different way.
Touching.......2007-05-21
If you've every uttered the phrase "keep it real" you will appreciate this book. Sherry Hines keeps it real by providing a real life glimpse into the sacrifices military families make to keep America free. This book touched me like no other. Homefires is an emotional roll-a-coaster ride that will inspire you to give your time, emotion and resources to help military families cope with the stress and separation that unfortunately pulls many American families apart.
Get the tissue.......2007-03-19
In this book the author gives a glimpse into her day to day life and what goes through her mind as she stays home raising her son while her husband is deployed. It details the emotions that most wives go through during the separation.I read this book while my husband was in basic training. I couldn't put it down. Even though I had not been through a deployment at the time I had read this it helped me later on when while he was. It's a real tear jerker though because so much of the emotions described in the book can only be imagined and understood by other military families. It helps to know you are not the only one feeling those emotions. I recommend this book to anybody that wants to better understand what a military wife goes through while her soldier is deployed and it is a must have for any military wife whether you face an upcoming deployment or you have already been there and done that!
Great support for military wives and supporters.......2006-11-06
This book really helped me relate to someone else that knew what I was going through. Not only was there stories of experiences but there was poems which I read almost every night before bed just to keep my spirits up. I recommend this book to anyone searching for conformation on their own feelings on handling deployment and being a military wife.
Finally!.......2005-07-13
I cannot begin to express my gratitdue to Sherry for putting on paper the things we military wives feel. Simply reading the first few pages made me realize that I am not alone and that, in itself, was so comforting and reassuring. Finally, I can feel relief at the millions of emotions I have on an every day basis, knowing that there are thousands of other men and women in the same position, feeling the same way. Excellent book, honest stories, raw emotions-all true and to the core. Sherry, you have done an excellent job and from one military wife to another, thank you.....
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This fascinating story of madness reveals the radically different perceptions of madness and approaches to its treatment, from antiquity to the present day. Roy Porter explores what we really mean by 'madness', covering an enormous range of topics from witches to creative geniuses, electric shock therapy to sexual deviancy, psychoanalysis to prozac. The origins of current debates about how we define and deal with insanity are examined through eyewitness accounts of those treating patients, writers, artists, and the mad themselves.
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Madness in Social Context.......2006-06-29
Ror Porter's excellent book places the history of madness within specific social contexts. We get a full picture of the perception of madness primarily as an emblem of difference which serves as a trigger for rejection by the dominant social forces of communities. Individuals outside the dominant social groups are confined, placed in asylums, and made invisible; Porter reveals to us that the "mad" weren't necessarily ill or disordered, but often individuals that were seen as a blight on the facade of cities---single women, orphaned children, the disabled, or artists whose freedom was considered a threat to more conservative rulers of town and country. Porter's description of madness as illness is equally compelling. He writes with elegance, style, and clarity. Highly recommended.
Madness... Such Beauty!.......2004-10-14
This book was like nothing I have ever read before. The detail that was shown throughout the book really was able to make me see what it might have looked like, sounded like, felt like and sometimes even smelled like being in an asylum. The amount of information that Roy Porter put into this book was amazing. You might have thought he haad been in an asylum himself. I would absolutely recommend this book to anyone.
Roy Porter's succinct historical summary of madness.......2003-11-25
This is the first book I have ever read by Roy Porter,
but it won't be the last. He is a polished writer and
in this condensed overview of the history of mental
illness, every word is measured and to the point.
I love the illustrations and do wish the book came
in a larger format.
One grave omission, imho, there is not mention of
lithium as one of the great drugs of the century.
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Insanity as a social construct over the centuries..........2002-06-13
Roy Porter died way too young. His books on medical history are a must-read for those who enjoy learning, and need to know how medical and scientific changes came about. I am one person who really feels that understand medical and social history is the only way that we can avoid the mistakes of the past, and work towards making the future as equitable in treatment and understanding towards those with mental illness as we can.
Porter's book is small and a quick read. He doesn't dash through, but this is not a textbook. Nor does it cover every possible scientific and social input on what 'makes' madness and what different centuries did to deal with those with mental conditions. If the reader is looking for a first look into the history of mental illness, he cannot go wrong with reading this concisely written book. It will not answer all the questions...in fact, it raises more questions. But Porter not only gives enough information and color to this particular problem, he also gives a wonderful bibliography/reference to refer to if the reader wishes to read about any particular time or problem. I did go looking for several of his recommended books, and I have not been disappointed yet.
It is of great interest that I read about the early 18th century, when so many of the great philosophers impacted the view with which scientists and physicians (and family too) viewed mental illness. Porter emphasizes that the great humanitarian changes made in the care of those mentally ill occurred then...but in spite of obvious success with providing homes and medical care and even jobs to these unfortunates, the fact that this 'care' did not provide a cure and unfortunately, the input of Darwin's idea of 'survival of the fittest' as promoted by his cousin, caused these asylums to deteriorate into the snake pits of the movies. Since genetics is raising some of the same questions and answer given by the eugenists from 1870 to past WWII ... it is paramount that students and medical personnel be trained in this medical history.
Karen Sadler,
Science Education,
University of Pittsburgh
The Long View of Lunacy.......2002-05-01
Roy Porter died recently at the age of 55, but produced over eighty books on a wide range of subjects, from the Enlightenment to the English treatment of insanity in various historic periods. It would not be surprising if this polymath has other manuscripts awaiting publication, but _Madness: A Brief History_ (Oxford University Press) was his last production before his death. It is a remarkable work especially for its brevity, taking in prehistoric concepts of madness and ranging all the way into current psychiatric controversies in less than 250 clear, well-researched pages. There have been fashions of treatments for the mentally ill, and just a bit of scientific justification for them most recently, but one of the points of his treatise is to show that we aren't any closer to true definitions of madness than Polonius was: to "define true madness,/ What is't but to be nothing else but mad?" His own lack of definition enables this brief overview to take in a great deal of territory.
Porter examines the imposition of madness by the gods in Homer. By the time of Hippocrates (around 400 BCE) madness was a medical, not moral or magical, matter. But supernatural explanations for insanity were advanced again, along with the angels and demons sanctioned by the Christian church. Around the Renaissance, the concept arose that madness was a special sort of inspiration. (There remains folk wisdom that geniuses are not at all far removed from the insane.) Families had originally had the responsibility for lunatic progeny, but the surplus wealth of urban areas encouraged families to buy such services. At the beginning of the nineteenth century in England, confined lunatics were largely in private asylums under what was literally called "the trade in lunacy." Optimism that "moral treatment" might cure such cases was disappointed; in the last of the nineteenth century, a pessimism took over, as few were cured and the asylums became clogged with inmates whose needs were severe. Security and sedation were promoted as the numbers grew. Armed with new classifications of different styles of madness, doctors continued to be frustrated by an inability to change much; one German asylum doctor said, "We know a lot and can do little."
With the revolution in pharmaceuticals in the twentieth century, this changed. Patients were able to leave the asylums, and the medicines promised improvement without long stays in the hospital, long bouts of psychoanalysis, or irreversible psychosurgery, as well as promoting psychiatrists as "real doctors." This is a remarkable book, which is able to take a broad historical view; there are far larger tomes on this subject, and indeed on subjects which here necessarily get only a paragraph or so, but the sweep of the coverage is impressive. Porter ends his summary with unnecessary pessimism. It is true that the last century had its share of abuse of the mentally ill (one does not even have to cite the extremes of Nazi and Soviet persecution), and it is also true that there are more psychiatric diagnoses than ever, and more patients classified as fitting them. Even though the history of the rise of psychiatry and the improvements it can bestow may have had more controversy or backsliding than other branches of medicine, it is a simple truth that those suffering from madness now are better off than they were one or three or twenty centuries ago.
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Title: Midnight madness: A discouraging episode for network news. (Top of the Review).(foreign news coverage)(Brief Article)
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An exploration of mankindÂ's fascination with worlds beyond our own—by the bestselling author of The Physics of Star Trek
Lawrence Krauss —an international leader in physics and cosmology—examines our long and ardent romance with parallel universes, veiled dimensions, and regions of being that may extend tantalizingly beyond the limits of our perception. Krauss examines popular cultureÂ's current embrace (and frequent misunderstanding) of such topics as black holes, life in other dimensions, strings, and some of the more extraordinary new theories that propose the existence of vast extra dimensions alongside our own. BACKCOVER: “An astonishing and brilliantly written work of popular science.”
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The prehistory of and rise -- and perhaps fall -- of string theory.......2007-04-23
According to Ed Witten of Princeton's Advanced Institute (former home to BOTH Albert Einstein AND Kurt Godel), modern string theory is a piece of 21st century science that fell early into the 20th century.
According to string apologist Brian Greene, sring theory succeeds where Einstein himself failed...in uniting nature's fundamental forces to form a complete explanation of reality itself...our "Elegant Universe."
According, however, to a growing cadre of notable physicists however string theory is not even wrong by virtue of its untestability but fails to explain some astrological phenomenon and in fact retards the actions of those who would.
Krauss has been rightly praised for this book which attempts to put the modern fascination with string theory into a proper historical context. The idea that explanation of scientific phenomenon can made by recourse to higher dimensions is not new. Perched at the beginning of western thought in the Greek philosophy of Socrates/Plato, Krauss recounts "Socrates" story of the cave.
In the story of the cave, "Socrates" as related by Plato wonders what would happen to prisoners in a cave, illuminated from behind, whose only contact with each other was through their shadows. The speculation was that they would come to regard their shadows as their essences. The further speculation was that maybe we -- in looking at our manifestations of each other -- perhaps do much the same thing.
More contemporarily, Krauss talks about the nineteenth century fascination with the 4th dimension. As explained in the H.G. Wells book "Time Machine" the fouth dimension would be a means by which individuals could enter and exit seemingly locked rooms.
As recounted by Krauss, the religous considered it the purview of God. And some scientists considered it the purview of a possible explanation of reality. As fads come and go in popular culture, however, Krauss tells how this science fad fell under the excitement of new discovery.
In discussing the spectre of contemporary string theory, Krauss suggests that we may see yet the same phenomenon occur yet again. In so doing, Krauss' point is well taken.
It is perhaps the most characterizing element of science that its theories rely upon testably provable phenomenon.
Masterful Explanation of a Complex Subject to General Readers.......2007-02-20
Lawrence M. Krauss has steered a course perfectly between the Scylla of scaring the general reader off with massive amounts of math and the Charybdis of dumbing down his subject. It's not an easy book to read, but then it's not exactly an easy subject. He has a good time, but not to excess, with some of the sillier New Age and PoMo attempts at appropriating physics for one or another version of the newer superstition, but the main thrust of the book is his attempt to convey to us general readers what's going on in particle physics, insofar as this is accessible to those of us who stopped struggling somewhere in the neighborhood of differential equations.
This is, of course, a quixotic project, rather like trying to explain serious music to the profoundly deaf. It can be done, to some extent, but it's not easy to do. It's not even easy to try. I can't imagine that the tangible rewards are at all commensurate with the effort required, and Viking Press didn't really hold up their end, in my opinion. The book appears to have been neither copy edited nor proofread. VP, like not a few other publishers, has figured out that few readers demand their money back just because the book is riddled with errors. Apparently their professional ethic is simply "They can't kiss us on the mouth."
Krauss deserves better with this book, but then so do all the writers who publish books intended to inform and even, in the best sense, educate the public. Krauss knows he can't make me understand the math, but he's done the best job I can imagine of getting the ideas across without it. At every stage of the exposition, his honesty and integrity shine through; he gets it across without ever kidding (or flattering) the reader.
I intend to look up everything else of his that might be accessible. If you are interested in what's going on in modern physics but aren't an expert, check out this book. You'll be glad you did.
a guide through the pitfalls of science careers..........2006-12-30
If you pay close attention, then you can hear Lawrence Krauss cautioning you to beware of taking science as a religion. Krauss explains his own immunity to falling victim to this affliction by way of having been caught in the crossfire between the two insititutions of science and religion.
I applaud his insistence on taking the physical evidence as evidence of itself only while resisting the allure of the reported enthrallling beauty of the equations and precision in physical theory.
If the lesson comes across that it is possible to be a scientist without out being a secular religionist, then that can be realistic encouragement to future potential scientists.
Well done, sir!
A superficial view of a multi-dimensional world.......2006-10-26
After reading Brian Green's "The Elegant Universe", I wanted to learn more on the possibility of a world made of more than 4 dimensions, time included. L. Krauss seemed to offer the opportunity not only to learn more about these extra dimensions based on scientific knowledge but also to melt it with an insightful adventure into the history of human creativity which has already imagined such world. Unfortunately, I was very disappointed. Both the scientific and artistic parts are poor and shallow, a shame when the explanation of a multidimension world is at stake. The rhetoric has nothing of the passion and the doors-opening of Brian Green's book. Too bad.
Krauss is a physicist of many dimensions.......2006-09-01
Lawrence Krauss has a particular knack for taking the reader through a wonderful journey of discovery through science, and Hiding in the Mirror does just that. His scholarly approach is both witty and colloquial, profoundly informative without being preachy. The book begins with a lively introduction to modern-day cosmology, relativity and quantum physics, the quest for the grand unifying theory and a presentation and critique of a potential candidate: string theory. His critique is timely and well presented, and never without the humor and readability which marks Lawrence Krauss as one of the greatest science writers today. This is Krauss' best work, and an absolute joy to read.
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When Sam tries to have fun in the sun, everything she tries leads to trouble. But soon she finds a smelly dead fish to roll in and suddenly the beach seems like a much better place to be.
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The Bears' Seaside Adventure
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Muzzy at the Seaside (Muzzy in Gondoland Readers)
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Nature readers;: Seaside and wayside,
Julia McNair Wright
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This series of Nature Readers is intended for the use of beginners in reading. Lessons fresh from the seashore and the field, where life is seen, not in an abnormal state, such as captivity, but in its own God-given homes and natural development, cannot fail to have an educative power of great value, even to the minds of the very young.
We bring to you no cat and dog stories, no tales of monkey antics; but have endeavored to impress upon the little children a comprehension of, and a reverence for, life, even in some of its lower manifestations.
Author: Lepanto Press
Pages: 87, Paperback
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In this, Book Three of the Nature Readers, the children shall investigate a little farther-by the seaside and by the wayside. Sometimes they shall walk on the breezy hills; sometimes in the low, marshy places, where ferns and rushes grow. Sometimes they shall stroll along the wayside path, where the wild-flowers and grasses are woven into a wreath.
Wherever they go, the intention of these Readers is for the little ones to learn what beauty and wisdom lie hidden in God's creation, even in such humble things and beetles and worms.
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Pages: 184, Paperback
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Nature--by seaside and wayside: A series in natural science
Mary Geisler Phillips
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