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The American Dream

From Cop To Ceo
Chuck Smith
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How a bankrupt, broke street cop with a high school education and no business experience built a multi-million dollar real estate investment business that generated $500,000 cash in hand per year. He did it part-time, with no employees, out of a home office.

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The American Dream.......2004-04-09

I enjoyed Chuck Smith's "shoot from the hip" style. What amazes me is the income this man generates and he started with no college education or business experience. Chuck Smith also wears his heart on his sleeve. The story of his background and challenges he overcame to become a success will inspire you.
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Ex-cop deserves badge of honor for Scripps Health reforms: hospital system CEO honed his leadership skills on dual-career track.(SPECIAL REPORT: Health ... An article from: San Diego Business Journal

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This digital document is an article from San Diego Business Journal, published by Thomson Gale on April 9, 2007. The length of the article is 1785 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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Complete Disaster.......2001-12-28

The sports world needs a definitive photo book about Mantle. This isn't it. The photos are very poor reproductions of familiar images found clearly reproduced in other books. Here, they look like 50th generation copies. I returned the book without reading it but noticed that a sequence of Mantle's great catch in Larson's perfect game is described as a catch against Boston! Schoor, a quality writer, should be ashamed of allowing his name to put on this disaster. Charging $36 for this work is a crime.

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Critical Cultural Policy Studies: A Reader charts cultural policy as it exerts its powerful - if often overlooked - influence on every aspect of culture, from the fine arts to popular forms of entertainment. Key essays by pioneers in cultural policy studies combine with more recent reflections to define this important field and demonstrate the substantial role policy plays in the cultural production, from film, radio, and television to the Internet, the arts, music, and even sport.The volume explores a dazzling array of subjects from across the humanities and social sciences and around the globe: indigenous media, television and citizenship, film and government, museums, national cultures, suburban culture, international trade, and the shopping mall. Making the claim that no study of culture is complete without a thorough analysis of economic and political determinants, Critical Cultural Policy Studies offers a provocative view that culture is a very public - and very political - concern.

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Microsoft Office 2003: Introductory Concepts and Techniques, Second Edition (Shelly Cashman)
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Anyone can conquer their computer with this book.......2007-07-13

When I started college as an older student I had never been on a computer. This book which is used as a textbook at my college was a lifesaver. You will learn the basics that are needed for college or for employment. I have to say the diagrams/photos that accompany every step are what puts this book above all others. If the pictures did not match what was on my computer I could go back and see what I needed to change. I work as a mentor for women in a non-profit program and use this book to teach them the skills they will need in the workplace. I recommend this book to anyone who needs to learn or to polish their computer skills.

horrible.......2007-01-10

I bought this book for a class I was taking and it arrived in bad shape.First, it took forever to get to me and it arrived all beat up. The book had water damage. It looked like it was through a flood or something. This made me hesitant on whether to buy any used books again.

NO DISK FOR CLASS.......2006-07-05

THIS TEXT BOOK DOES NOT COME WITH THE REQUIRED DISK FOR COMPLETING PROJECTS REQUIRED FOR THE COLLEGE CLASSROOM.

Confusing, and at times inaccurate.......2006-03-22

I used this book for an online class, books and test are bundled together and each time I took the test I had to challenge at lest one question, because it was simply wrong or inaccurate. Test quiz/test questions are non constructive for the most part. Many examples use non-standard fonts that hard to find, making assignments unnecessarily difficult to complete, in some exercises after following all instructions the correct result would not match the examples given again creating difficulty not needed. This books suited for online classes because it often gives instructions which are completely irrelevant in such environment. The books gives a good amount of tips and tricks about MS Office, books needs revising and grouping of lessons.

Excellent Reference.......2006-02-26

This reference book is a must have for anyone learning or needing the support for Windows 2003.

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Nicknamed "Mini-Man" for his diminutive statute, a mere five-foot-three and 125 lbs in his flight boots, chopper pilot Ron Alexander proved to be a giant in the eyes of the men he rescued from the jungles and paddies of Vietnam. With an unswerving concern for every American soldier trapped by enemy fire, and a fearlessness that became legendary, Ron Alexander earned enough official praise to become the second most decorated helicopter pilot of the Vietnam era. Yet, for Ron, the real reward came from plucking his fellow soldiers from harm's way, giving them another chance to get home alive.In Taking Fire, Alexander and acclaimed military writer Charles Sasser, transport you right into the cramped cockpit of a Huey on patrol, offering a bird's eye view on the Vietnam conflict. Packed with riveting action and gritty "you-are-there" dialogue, this outstanding book celebrates the everyday heroism of the chopper pilots of Vietnam.AUTHORBIO: Ron Alexander was the second most decorated helicopter pilot of the Vietnam era, having earned two Distinguished Flying Crosses, the Bronze Star with "V" for valor and oak leaf cluster, an Army Commendation Medal with "V" and two oak leaf clusters, and twenty-six additional Air Medals, each with a "V." He lives in Hagerstown, MD. Charles Sasser is a decorated Vietnam veteran and Green Beret, and is one of today's most respected military and true crime writers. He has authored more than a dozen books, including One Shot, One Kill.

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Taking Fire.......2007-08-16

As a former Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam, I could appreciate and understand where Ron was coming from. His experience paralleled mine in several ways. Recommended reading for those who want to know what a Vietnam helicopter pilot's life was like.

Apparently exaggerated, but definitely unoriginal........2006-03-20

If you liked Chickenhawk, by Robert Mason, you don't have to read this book by Alexander and Sasser, because you already read the good bits, which were copied word-for-word from Chickenhawk. Check out the Wikipedia article on Chickenhawk for the low-down.

Bologna.......2006-02-26

As the aviation columnist for the 1st Cav's newpaper, SABER, I would describe this book as bologna, for lack of a more vulgar term. "Most highly decorated American helicopter pilots of the Vietnam War" I think not.

He was there.......2005-08-06

One of the best true Vietnam stories in a long time. The sort of book you can't put down till you finish it.

A work of Fiction.......2005-04-21

As someone who spent 2.5 years in RVN (one year as a crewchief/gunner) and a lifetime career in aviation as a F/W Commerical Pilot and A&P mechanic (most of that on Bell Helicopters), I found this book disappointing. In fact the book belongs in the FICTION Catagory. There were so many discrepancies in the book I don't know where to begin. But I will say this, I NEVER had any doubt in my mind when I was being shot at. And I didn't have to hear a "ping" to know it. The sound of a close 7.62 will get your attention and a 12.7 mm will scare the s**t out of you. Perhaps the Capt. has told so many war stories he began to believe them himself but for someone who was there and did that, his war stories are BS.

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An essential resource for the study of ancient Egypt's pharaonic dynasties, covering the lives of some 1,500 rulers and royal individuals.

This groundbreaking new book illuminates the lives of the kings, queens, princes, and princesses of ancient Egypt, unraveling family relationships and exploring the parts they played in politics, cultural life, and religion. It ranges from the dawn of Egyptian history, when only isolated glimpses are available of the royal family, through the vast progeny of Rameses II, and ends with the fiendishly complicated—and blood-soaked—interconnections of the Ptolemies and Cleopatras.

The authors begin with a basic summary of the structure of the pharaonic state, including the nature of ancient Egyptian kingship itself and how its functions meshed with those of the bureaucracy. They introduce key members of the royal family and assess what is known about the implications of the major titles that define them.

The book then moves from the general to the particular, with a chronological survey of the royal family from c. 3100 BC and the First Dynasty up to Egypt's absorption into the Roman Empire. For each dynasty, or significant part of a dynasty, the authors provide an historical overview of the period, a summary listing of the kings involved, and a discussion of their families' relationships, including, most importantly, how we know what we think we know about them. Finally, the individuals who made up these families are placed in context via twenty-seven genealogical trees, and described in a comprehensive list of short biographies.

Handsomely illustrated with more than 300 photographs and line drawings, this book will serve equally well as a biographical history of ancient Egypt and a superb volume for home reference. 330 illustrations, 80 in color.

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Wonderful book by Dodson.......2006-10-26

This is a typically well-written and thorough book by the British Egyptologist Dr. Aidan Dodson and his counterpart Dyan Hilton. It is an excellent follow up to Dodson's 1998 book--"Mummy in Ancient Egypt: Equipping the Dead for Eternity." Dodson copes well with the task of listing the more than 1,300 known family members of Ancient Egypt's royal familes starting from Narmer, the first king of Egypt who unified the country down to Cleopatra. The illustrations are of impeccable quality as one would expect from a book publisher such as Thames & Hudson. His geneaological tables are first rate and highly important because he connects the links between a king and his numerous family members.

While the price is a bit on the high side, Dodson compensates by including the latest and most up to date research and bibliography for Ancient Egypt including Kim Ryholt's 1997 study of the Second Intermediate Period which strongly suggest that the 16th Dynasty was a Theban, rather than a Hyksos, kingdom. (pp.116, 118 & 290) Dodson now acknowledges that a certain Neferneferuaten who ruled Egypt in the interval between Akhenaten's death and Tutankhamun's accession was a woman and not the male king Smenkare as he had previously maintained. As Dodson writes: "Definitive evidence as to Neferneferuaten's gender was revealed by James Allen...at the April 2004 meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt." Allen reported that an "examination of palimpest inscriptions of Neferneferuaten on objects reused in Tutankhamun's tomb (on a pectoral and on the canopic coffinettes) have shown conclusively that...the former use the epithet sh-n-h.s, [meaning] 'effective for her husband'. This makes impossible the reconstruction put forward in Dodson 2003, which viewed Smenkhkare and Neferneferuaten as one and the same." (pp.150 & 285, note No.111)

The authors also accept David Aston's likely correct JEA 75 proposal that Shoshenq III was the direct successor of the 22nd Dynasty Pharaoh Osorkon II at Tanis rather than Takelot II as most scholars once assumed. (pp.224) As Dodson and Hilton writes: "Takelot II is likely to have been identical with the High Priest Takelot F, who is stated in Karnak inscriptions to have been a son of Nimlot C [the son of Osorkon II], and whose likely period of office falls neatly just before [king] Takelot II's appearance." (p.224) They also note that Osorkon III can only be the High Priest Osorkon B, son of Takelot II based on a unique stela from Akoris. It explicitly calls king Osorkon III a former High Priest of Amun which was an office that Osorkon B held prior to his disappearance in Year 39 of Shoshenq III. (p.226) This book will certainly be a welcome addition to the collections of Colleges and Universities throughout the world.

Excellent.......2005-07-17

1. Easy to read.
2. Easy to understand.
3. Shockingly thorough.
4. Well researched.
5. Most complete work on Egyptian royal families that I have ever seen.

Royal Genealogy of Ancient Egypt.......2005-02-19

This book is the most complete reference of royal genealogy in Ancient Egypt that I have ever come across. I did not expect so much detail about royals who lived thousands of years ago.
Each chapter contains
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- a section with short descriptions of all involved persons,
- many photographs and drawings.

Where "Chronicle of the Pharaohs" by Clayton focuses on the rulers of Ancient Egypt, Dodson and Hilton describe all their known (likely) family members.

Aidan Dodson does it again!.......2004-11-08

Yet again Thames and Hudson's series `The Complete' comes up with a winner. Royal Families starts with an outline of the Ancient Egyptian Pharaonic State and the set up of the royal family then goes on to list over 1.300 Kings their known Queens and off springs. Royal Families is laid out in an easy to follow, dynasty-by-dynasty fashion with sections on the family tree, historical information and a fascinating section called `Brief Lives'. This later section is a who's who of all the known players on the Ancient Egyptian Royal Families stage. All in all it's an extremely interesting read suitable for academics and armchair historians alike, but then with Aidan Dodson's involvement what else would you expect.

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In Soul Made Flesh, Carl Zimmer reveals the strange and complicated history of the discovery of the human brain. Amid the turmoil of 17th century England, with religious leaders and monarchs battling for control of the country, an elite group of thinkers used every scientific means at their disposal to figure out that the unassuming putty in our heads was crucial to human health and wisdom. Primary among these Oxford scholars was Thomas Willis, whom the Royal Society affectionately called "our chymist." Soul Made Flesh is as much a biography of Willis and the men who shaped him as it is a medical history. Zimmer admirably sets the stage for what would become a metaphysical revolution and spark arguments that continue to this day about what the mind is and where, if anywhere, the human soul resides:

Thomas Willis... isolated the soul from stars and demons and made the chemical workings of the brain the key to sanity and happiness. Just as important, he helped make the brain a familiar thing.

Zimmer applies the same dedicated research and quietly sparkling style to this book as he did to Parasite Rex and At the Water's Edge, distilling reams of historical and scientific information into a concise yet comprehensive narrative. The book's chapters are accompanied by drawings by Willis' contemporary Christopher Wren, whose architectural sensibilities made the brain's structure beautiful to behold. --Therese Littleton

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In this unprecedented history of a scientific revolution, award-winning author and journalist Carl Zimmer tells the definitive story of the dawn of the age of the brain and modern consciousness. Told here for the first time, the dramatic tale of how the secrets of the brain were discovered in seventeenth-century England unfolds against a turbulent backdrop of civil war, the Great Fire of London, and plague. At the beginning of that chaotic century, no one knew how the brain worked or even what it looked like intact. But by the century's close, even the most common conceptions and dominant philosophies had been completely overturned, supplanted by a radical new vision of man, God, and the universe.

Presiding over the rise of this new scientific paradigm was the founder of modern neurology, Thomas Willis, a fascinating, sympathetic, even heroic figure at the center of an extraordinary group of scientists and philosophers known as the Oxford circle. Chronicled here in vivid detail are their groundbreaking revelations and the often gory experiments that first enshrined the brain as the physical seat of intelligence -- and the seat of the human soul. Soul Made Flesh conveys a contagious appreciation for the brain, its structure, and its many marvelous functions, and the implications for human identity, mind, and morality.

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How we came to know the brain as the seat of thought.......2006-11-07

This is the story of how we came to understand that life and thought are not beyond a naturalistic, material explanation. It centers on one seventeenth Englishman, Thomas Willis, around whom Zimmer assembles in Oxford a cast of early natural philosophers.

Zimmer begins in Greece with Aristotle and continues in Rome with Galen who while they did look at the human body, were too quick to come up with pet theories about biles and humors and present them as facts. For centuries their words ruled science.

Then comes Descartes with his mechanical view of the world, presenting a soul that ruled over the body. Descartes questioned the ancients and corrected some of their grosser factual mistakes but he made a few of his own and repeated their methodological error: he did not question his own pet theories enough.

The heroes of Zimmer's book are surgeons. Then, surgeons were simple menial workers with a gift for butchery and enough skill to allow their patients to survive their operations. The surgeons eventually gathered the courage to stand up to scholarly doctors and point out that Galen's descriptions were wrong. When challenged, they opened up cadavers and counterchallenged the doctors to show them Galen's fictional body systems.

The central hero is Thomas Willis, a country squire turned renowned doctor during the turbulent times of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, and Charles II. He had the luck to live near Oxford and displayed a keen interest in anatomy. Willis studied the brain and the nervous system with unprecedented precision. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society, meeting with the likes of Robert Hooke and Christopher Wren. Together, these men studied anatomy so that observations overruled theory whenever one did not agree with the other.

Willis's observations, descriptions, and case studies make him the first neurologist. Living in times of religious extremes, this devout man never swore off the primacy of a supernatural soul, but he saw the brain as a tool of the soul and his studies of this organ mechanized our model and led to today's materialistic explanations of consciousness.

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Reasonably Good; 3.5.......2006-04-30

This is a fairly good popular account of the scientific revolution in 17th century England with an emphasis on the pioneering neuroanatomical research and speculation of the physician Thomas Willis. Written clearly by an experienced science journalist, this book is largely a popularization of the fairly extensive secondary literature on 17th century science and medicine. This is a very interesting period in European history and the narrative features an impressive list of contributors, including not only Willis but Boyle, Locke, Hooke, and several other important figures. Zimmer does a good job of showing the evolution of thinking about the mind from exclusively metaphysical concepts to thinking about brain and mind functions in a more materialistic manner. The concentration on the very interesting and impressive Willis is the best feature on the book. Zimmer does less well on some other aspects. His account of the development of mechanistic thought is relatively superficial, as is his treatment of theological issues. The subtitle of the book "-and How it Changed the World" is somewhat inappropriate. As Zimmer himself explains, Willis' work was relatively neglected after his death. A final and striking omission is the lack of discussion of Newton. In one sense, this is understandable as Newton tends to eclipse his contemporaries but Newton's achievements became the primary vehicle for convincing the world of the power and utility of science and the mechanistic approach.

What Willis was talking about.......2005-10-22

For about a thousand years, the smartest people of every European generation tried to understand the world around them by reading texts based on scriptures and the works of ancient philosophers. At the end of the thousand years, the living conditions of the average person were the same as they were at the beginning of the thousand years. Life expectancy was around 40, and most people lived in fear of disease and starvation.

It's fascinating to read in "Soul Made Flesh" how completely the mind of the Middle Ages was infused with mysticism. People who were otherwise brilliant found it impossible to believe that any aspect of nature could operate in a purely mechanistic fashion, without spirit or purpose. In fact it was considered blasphemous to think otherwise. Human progress since the beginning of the Enlightenment is simply the adoption and development of a mechanistic understanding of the world, sometimes called "materialist" philosophy.

Zimmer's book provides a thoroughly enjoyable look at the transition between the mystical and mechanistic worldviews. Starting in the early 17th century, the coherent (and incorrect) set of doctrines sanctioned by church and state began to crumble: The Earth was found not to be the center of the universe, but one of several planets orbiting the sun. Matter was made not of Aristotle's four elements, but of atoms. Blood circulated through the body, rather than being absorbed by it. And crucially, the source of reason and consciousness was not a substanceless soul, but a gelatinous lump of biological tissue.

Interestingly, most of the men involved in these discoveries remained deeply religious, even though their findings contradicted what the church had been telling people for the previous 50 generations. And the ones that were physicans continued to rely on mysticism and alchemy to treat their patients. It would be centuries before people were able to talk candidly about a purely mechanistic account of the universe and its inhabitants. And we are only now beginning to enjoy the benefits -- life expectancy has doubled and formerly deadly diseases have been eradicated.

Remarkably, many people in the US have recently been calling for a return to the 17th century way of thinking. The problem is that mysticism didn't work out so well the first time, and now the stakes are much higher.

Did the firing of my neurons make me do it?.......2005-03-02

As a Christian who upholds the truth of Scripture and Science, I find that Carl Zimmer has written a wonderfully engaging, yet disturbing, introduction to the 17th century beginnings of neuroscience. Zimmer is wonderfully engaging in that he is a gifted story teller. He makes the world of Thomas Willis' 17th century Europe come alive. Tying in the ancient views of Aristotle and Galen, Zimmer leads us quickly into the advent of modern anatomical observation as the basis for Rene Descartes' and William Harvey's approach to natural philosophy and medicine. The stage is set for Thomas Willis and his colleagues, such as Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle, to revolutionize Western thought about the soul.

However, this surely isn't dry medical history. The story is filled with fascinating descriptions of other leading natural philosophers of the early Enlightenment, interwoven with social and political tales of the English Civil War and Restoration, and spiced with colorful details about the Christian devotion and theology of the time.

Aside from Willis, my other favorite in the story is Robert Boyle. Like Willis, Boyle was a devout Christian who combined his love for God's Word in the Bible with his love for God's Word as revealed in Creation. For Boyle, he was able to see God's truth and glory in both Holy Scripture and Nature. This is right in line with Francis Bacon's principle of the "Two Books," Scripture and Nature, that God has used to reveal his glory to humankind. In our time where many people see only warfare between science and religion, it is a relief that Zimmer shows us several portraits of great people who sought to find harmony between faith and scientific reason. Right from the start of the Scientific Revolution, Evangelical believers were advocates of the new scientific methods.

Nevertheless, Zimmer's book is disturbing. Concerns of atheism loomed on the horizon of the Anglican natural philosophy of Willis and Boyle. Willis and other Royal Society members struck a moderate position between extreme Puritan biblicists, Quaker spiritualists, and materialists like Thomas Hobbes. However, it was the challenge of the materialists that has proved to be the greatest threat. Willis, in many ways, was a victim of his own success. By granting that some of the soul's traditional characteristics can be explained in purely physical terms, this opened the door to modern skepticism.

Historically, Christians have championed either a trichotomist (spirit-soul-body) or dichotomist (spirit/soul -- body) view of the human person. Thomas Willis' anatomical research has led us to the 21st century tendency to eliminate the spirit or soul from the human person. This physicalist account of human reason, emotions and will challenges a literalist reading of the Scriptural soul and/or spirit of the human person. For example, in Matthew 12:34, Jesus says that it is "out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." If the heart is no longer the seat of the soul, then would it be right for us to retranslate this as "out of the abundance of neurons in certain parts of the brain that the mouth speaks?"

Nevertheless, the data is not completely in yet. Granted, harmonizing the insights of neuroscience with the revelation in Holy Scripture is not easy. Yet despite the tension, we can still speak of our ourselves as "souled" beings. The function of the soul needs review but it has not been eliminated totally. The full replacement of the immaterial soul with nothing but a material soul would undoubtedly scandalize Thomas Willis as well. Oddly enough, even though Zimmer celebrates this scientific movement towards physicalism, in the final analysis Zimmer yearns for some type of return to an immaterial soul, along the lines of the Quaker, Anne Conway, or the Romanticism of William Blake. Yet the trend is still there and Christian apologists are faced with the exciting challenge of speaking of the soul in meaningful, biblical terms while being consistent with the findings of today's neuroscience. Those who do not share a Christian faith are faced with somehow finding a way to think about "soul" without falling into meaninglessness talk or else making up something as they go along.

There are a few problems to point out in the book:

(1) Zimmer suggests that "many Puritan sects" rejected the discovery of truth through human reason (p. 114-115). This is a broad overstatement. John Calvin, the primary architect of what would become Puritan theology argued that while reason does not save a person, truth can still be found to some degree through reason. Reformed theologians call this "common grace" which is extended to elect and non-elect alike. In other words, reason does not save but it is not opposed to revelation. Reason compliments revelation. The difference with the Anglicanism of Thomas Willis is that he saw a more significant role for reason as a prerequisite to salvation.

(2) Zimmer finds Darwin's evolutionary theory as being in conflict with the theory of divine purpose and design of Thomas WIllis. Sure, Darwinianism has been used that way to justify a pure naturalistic materialism. But the basics of evolutionary thought hardly rule out design and purpose altogether. Maybe this is why Zimmer is continually speaking out against "Intelligent Design" in his other writings. This is terribly unfortunate. Just because contemporary neuroscience has mapped out the brain does not mean that the soul is simply eliminated. The immaterial soul can and should be thought of in a new way, but to this Christian the God-designed and God-purposed place for the soul is far from gone.

The search for consciousness.......2004-12-13

Ths book is an excellent historical background to man's attempts to understand his own mind. It's also a great primer for some of the theories man has held about his own anatomy and
consciousness.

The author keeps it interesting by tracking the story to the lives Thomas Willis and his buddies at Oxford who must skillfully skate through a minefield of intellectual dogma and even civil war to lay the foundations for scientific mehtod.

The author does a fine job of turning history into a story and ends up teaching the reader quite a bit.

As a bonus the author gives us a short but thoughtful conclusion. Showing how modern researchers continue the quest for the answer to the question what is "man".

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