Seven Months Deep

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Seven Months Deep takes a look at one guy's struggle to find a job in a tight market. An economic downturn, a pile of debt, and a business degree from a mediocre school made the summer of 2003 a difficult time to find work. Written first-hand, Jon uses his irreverent humor to describe his experiences of one of the worst seven-month periods of his life.

Insightful and worthwhile, this book should be read by anyone with an interest in the business reality. It will be especially useful for anyone on the cusp of a new job search.

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Seven Months Deep takes a look at one guy

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A must read for any recent college graduate.......2004-09-16

I think every undergrad believes the minute they leave the ivory tower there will be a job waiting for them. However, after the dotcom bubble burst many college graduates found themselves thousands of dollars in student loan debt and with no job in sight.

Seven Months Deep is an tongue-in-cheek look at life after college while mixing in first-hand accounts of working in the global marketplace with a MBA perspective. This is a must read for anyone who knows the pains of job searching and how far (and low) they will go to secure an interview.
I found myself laughing out loud at all-too familiar job hunting scenarios and nodding my head when the author discusses the new economy our society is adjusting to. This would make a great gift for any new graduate.

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The embodiment of Yorkshire cricket for over half a century, Lord Hawke, together with W.G. Grace and Lord Harris, was one of the founding fathers of the modern game. During a long and colourful career he captained Cambridge University, Yorkshire (despite being born in Lincolnshire) and England - his record for his country being unequalled. Drawing on an extensive range of contemporary sources, James P. Coldham has created a compelling account of the controversial, outspoken, and highly successful aristocrat.

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Engaging Film is a creative, interdisciplinary volume that explores the engagements among film, space, and identity and features a section on the use of films in the classroom as a critical pedagogical tool. Focusing on anti-essentialist themes in films and film production, this book examines how social and spatial identities are produced (or dissolved) in films and how mobility is used to create different experiences of time and space. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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Young people, it seems, are both everywhere and nowhere. The media are crowded with images of youth as deviant or fashionable, personifying a society's anxieties and hopes about its own transformation. However, theories of globalization, nationalism, and citizenship tend to focus on adult actors. Youthscapes sets youth at the heart of globalization by exploring the meanings young people have created for themselves through their engagements with popular cultures, national ideologies, and global markets.

The term "youthscapes" places local youth practices within the context of ongoing shifts in national and global forces. Using this framework, the book revitalizes discussions about youth cultures and social movements, while simultaneously reflecting on the uses of youth as an academic and political category. Tracing young people's movements across physical and imagined spaces, the authors examine various cases of young people as they participate in social relations; use and invent technology; earn, spend, need, and despise money; comprise target markets while producing their own original media; and create their own understandings of citizenship. The essays examine young Thai women working in the transnational beauty industry, former child soldiers in Sierra Leone, Latino youth using graphic art in political organizing, a Sri Lankan refugee's fan relationship with Jackie Chan, and Somali high school students in the United States and Canada. Drawing on methodologies and frameworks from multiple fields, such as anthropology, sociology, and film studies, the volume is useful to those studying and teaching issues of youth culture, popular culture, globalization, social movements, education, and media.

By focusing on the intersection between globalization studies and youth culture, the authors offer a vital contribution to the development of a new, interdisciplinary approach to youth culture studies.

Sunaina Maira is Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, Davis.

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If you're ready to go from blindly following step-by-step instructions to "Aha, I finally GET Photoshop!" this is the place to start. In these pages, world renowned Photoshop instructor and best-selling author Ben Willmore writes in his signature style–intuitive, crystal clear, and in-depth–helping you gain the deep understanding needed to master Photoshop's most essential features. Complex concepts like Curves and Channels are broken down into easy to digest metaphors and descriptions, and features new to Photoshop CS2–such as Bridge, Smart Objects, the revamped Layers Palette and Camera Raw dialog box, as well as the awesome new Warping and Vanishing Point features–are all covered in the depth they deserve, making it possible to quickly adapt them into your daily workflow. Whether you’re a photographer, designer, production artist or hobbyist, the knowledge you gain in this book can dramatically change the way you think about Photoshop.

Customer Reviews:

Best add-on.......2007-08-02

I'm a photoshop user since version 5, but with the latest developments I feld a little bit lost between all the possible features. Ben shows you how to use them and to develop your own style. It's more then telling how it works, but also how it can work for you. Now I can adjust and create my pictures even better. The book is easy to read, for the novice and even for an expert designer. Lot of tips, tricks and humor makes this book the best add-on for this product.

Adobe Photoshop CS2 Studio Techniques.......2007-07-15

This book is very good. Ben Willmore is an expert of expert. Buy it and it will not make you disappoited.

Ben Makes It Feel Easy.......2007-06-12

Ben Willmore makes learning easy and appeals to the full range of learners. Great website support and lots of examples to help a person learn what they want. Dive in on any chapter and you will find out what you want to know and walk away with a better understanding of Photoshop as well. I would highly reccommend this book to all but the very newest to Photoshop, for it is jam-packed with knowledge that a lot of books promise but do not deliver.

The one Photoshop book you have to have!.......2007-05-28

All of Ben's Studio Techniques books are a must read! There is no better Photoshop book out there! If you only buy one Photoshop book, this is the one to get!

Photoshop book........2007-05-12

I got it for my class. It was cheaper and in great condition. It's really helpful too. Good for looking things up quick and practicing.

The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers (O'Reilly Digital Studio)

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Organization!
An Excellent Overview
Indespensable Reference for management & storage of digital photos.....
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Once good, now seriously outdated and needlessly complex

The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers (O'Reilly Digital Studio)
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Can you find your digital photographs when you need them, or do you spend more time rifling through your hard drive and file cabinets than you'd like? Do you have a system for assigning and tracking content data on your photos? If you make a living as a photographer, do your images bear your copyright and contact information, or do they circulate in the marketplace unprotected?

As professional photographer and author Peter Krogh sees it, "your DAM system is fundamental to the way your images are known, both to you and to everyone else." DAM, or Digital Asset Management, in the world of digital photography refers to every part of the process that follows the taking of the picture, through final output and permanent storage. Anyone who shoots, scans or stores digital photographs, is practicing some form of digital asset management. Unfortunately, most of us don't yet know how to manage our files (and our time) very systematically, or efficiently.

In The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers, Krogh brings clarity to the often overwhelming task of managing digital photographs, with a solid plan and practical advice for fellow photographers on how to file, find, protect and re-use photographs. Following a thorough overview of the DAM system and de-mystifications of metadata and digital archiving, Krogh focuses on best practices for digital photographers using Adobe Photoshop CS2. He explains how to use Adobe Bridge, the new CS2 navigational software that replaces the File Browser introduced in Photoshop 7, with full details on integrating Bridge, Camera Raw and Digital Asset Management software.

Compellingly presented in four-color format, The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers brings Krogh's award-winning creative approach to a subject that could have been technically intimidating. Instead, Krogh's twenty years of experience and instructive visual storytelling make this material not only accessible, but compulsory reading for serious digital photographers.

Customer Reviews:

Organization!.......2007-08-31

This is a good book. It is very helpful in determining how to organize photographs. It also is a give a good review of Bridge. It would be nice for the book to be up dated to cover CS3.

An Excellent Overview.......2007-03-31

I found this book to be an excellent resource to help you to understand how all the pieces fit together.

Indespensable Reference for management & storage of digital photos............2007-03-18

As a novice in the area of digital asset management, I found this book to be extremely helpful.....well written and full of great suggestions on how best to manage your photos. Highly recommended.......a true five-star guide.

HIghly Recommended.......2007-03-08

Helps you learn how to deal with all the digital photography photos that amass on your hard drive. Do you save them as JPEG , RAW, both? What about DNG? How do you tag, and archive these files? Why would I do it this way? It's important to know when your files reach into the thousands!! Do you want to lose your data or save it as an inferior file? I hope this book gets updated yearly.

Once good, now seriously outdated and needlessly complex.......2007-03-02

The DAM Book was probably much needed when it was first published - its publication coincided with a realization by many professional and serious amateur photographers that handling the quickly growing digital photo collections required a sound organizing approach and dedicated software tools. The book aptly points out that dealing with digital image workflow and the resulting file archives is in many significant ways different than dealing with film-based archives. Based on this initial premise, the book offers recommendations on how to organize digital photo studio workflow and filing / archive system.

Alas, the author chose to tie VERY CLOSELY his mostly sensible conceptual framework (i.e., HOW to organize) with very specific software and hardware. Often, more general advice is difficult or impossible to separate from his step-by-step, software-specific recipes. So, unless you use exactly the same software and hardware configuration as the author, much, if not most of this information will be of little use.

Since the book was first published, new, DAM- and photographic workflow-oriented software has become available (Adobe CS3, including the new Bridge is now in public beta nearing its release; and Apple Aperture 1.5 and Adobe PS Ligtroom 1.0 are the new, more workflow-focused tools), and more up-to-date (although dispersed) discussion of problems in question can be found in numerous articles on the web. This makes large portions of the book obsolete, as new tools enable different workflows that may be better suited to many photographers' preferences.

The book has other issues.

First, the author LOVES using technical jargon. While technical vocabulary is appropriate in discussing technical issues, creating new terms and elaborate taxonomies for everything is an overkill. The author's misguided argument for using "controlled vocabularies" (a common term, which he uses in his own, very peculiar way - p. 47) is a good case in point. As Eric Abrahamson (Columbia Business School) aptly points out in his excellent book "A Perfect Mess," organizing is always good in principle, but OVER ORGANIZING by creating systems more complex than it is necessary to get the job done, comes at a very steep price in time and resources needed to maintain the system. Enough said.

Secondly, since this is a workflow book (not a coffee-table book), the full color print is totally unnecessary, and the price point is consequently too high. This should have been one of those $9.95 O'Reilly quick-guide booklets. Most photos reproduced in the book are simply decorative, or used as examples for things that are obvious (e.g. an example of a "group shot" - duh!; or a photo of wine barrels in a cellar as a metaphor for file storage system). Photos are not interesting on their own merit; screen captures and simple diagrams would be just as effective in greyscale.

In summary, you may want to flip through the pages of the book at a local library or bookstore - what's really useful and noteworthy here, can be easily grasped in less than 15 minutes; otherwise, your money may be better spent on a good book focused on the actual software tools YOU are committed to using.

Photoshop Cs2 Avanzado / Adobe Photoshop Cs2 Studio Techniques (Diseno Y Creatividad / Design and Creativity)

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Ben Willmore
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In a sport full of players who are larger than life, Terrell Owens towers above the crowd.

It isn't just that he holds the NFL record for catches in a single game (twenty) or that he's the most feared wide receiver in the game. It's also his penchant for unique self-expression -- spiking the ball on the midfield Texas lone star in front of a hostile Dallas Cowboy crowd, pulling a Sharpie from his sock to sign a game ball after a touchdown, and dancing with a cheerleader's pom-poms after another TD. Never politically correct and always controversial and colorful on and off the field, Terrell Owens has transformed himself into "TO," the outrageous gridiron personality who has rocked the entire NFL and the sports landscape. But Owens is more than touchdowns, dancing, and celebrations. In this wickedly insightful book, he's full of sharp-eyed observations on the contentious, demanding, insane phenomenon that is pro football.

In Catch This! Owens takes readers back to his hardscrabble childhood in rural Alabama, where he was raised by a stern grandmother and loving mother. By the time he won an athletic scholarship for football at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, the once small, bullied boy had transformed himself into a very large man with a super body and an iron will to succeed. He takes us behind his apprenticeship to -- and eventual eclipsing of -- the legendary 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice. He pulls no punches when it comes to his extremely public fight with San Francisco coach Steve Mariucci -- a relationship so sour that they didn't speak at all during the crucial final weeks of the 2001 season. And, finally, he lets loose on the free agent scandal that shook the NFL in 2004 -- and reveals the truth behind the NFL's attempt to deny him free agency, his fraudulent trade to the Baltimore Ravens, and his ultimate happy landing with the Philadelphia Eagles.

For those who think they know both Terrell Owens and TO, catch this story.

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"In a sport full of players who are larger than life, Terrell Owens towers above the crowd. It isn't just that he holds the NFL record for catches in a single game (twenty) or that he's the most feared wide receiver in the game. It's also his penchant for unique self-expression -- spiking the ball on the midfield Texas lone star in front of a hostile Dallas Cowboy crowd, pulling a Sharpie from his sock to sign a game ball after a touchdown, and dancing with a cheerleader's pom-poms after another TD. Never politically correct and always controversial and colorful on and off the field, Terrell Owens has transformed himself into ""TO,"" the outrageous gridiron personality who has rocked the entire NFL and the sports landscape. But Owens is more than touchdowns, dancing, and celebrations. In this wickedly insightful book, he's full of sharp-eyed observations on the contentious, demanding, insane phenomenon that is pro football. In Catch This! Owens takes readers back to his hardscrabble childhood in rural Alabama, where he was raised by a stern grandmother and loving mother. By the time he won an athletic scholarship for football at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, the once small, bullied boy had transformed himself into a very large man with a super body and an iron will to succeed. He takes us behind his apprenticeship to -- and eventual eclipsing of -- the legendary 49ers wide receiver Jerry Rice. He pulls no punches when it comes to his extremely public fight with San Francisco coach Steve Mariucci -- a relationship so sour that they didn't speak at all during the crucial final weeks of the 2001 season. And, finally, he lets loose on the free agent scandal that shook the NFL in 2004 -- and reveals the truth behind the NFL's attempt to deny him free agency, his fraudulent trade to the Baltimore Ravens, and his ultimate happy landing with the Philadelphia Eagles. For those who think they know both Terrell Owens and TO, catch this story. "

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Catch This!: Going Deep With the NFL's Sharpest Weapon.......2007-01-11

This book was very inspirational and gives the reader a glimpse into the life of Terrell Owens that you won't see in the media.

Hypocritical.......2006-07-12

He clearly does not practice what he preaches. This book is just a facade for arrogance and self-serving attitude. He's probably looking for more money since he wasn't able to get it out of Philadelphia. Once a fan of his in his early Niners years, I have learn to not respect someone who does not respect the game, his teammates or anyone else he works with but himself. He's miles below the great players of this game in terms of character and sportsmanship.

This book is a poor attempt at recovering whatever was left of his reputation, thinly veiled and clearly self-serving. Other naïve readers might buy it, but I'll believe it when I see him stopping being "all about me".

This book made me believe he was the victim, for awhile.......2006-07-10

Living as an Eagle fan in CA can be trying. When the Eagles signed TO all of my 49er friends said that it wouldn't last. TO's true colors would show sooner or later. I then read the book and encouraged them to do the same. TO does an excellent job of portraying himelf as the victim. He claims to need the money for his family and his future. My family could easily live off his paycheck now and well into the future. After reading this book, I was sold on TO and as an Eagle fan I thought he was the answer but then his true colors came out just as my 49er friends said they would. This book should be changed to fiction.

TO with DALLAS.......2006-03-23

Get over it Jerry Rice is the past TO is the future.

Self-serving.......2006-03-23

Hard to believe the reviews on this page where people take this guy at his word. So he's hard-working, so what? The guy is a jerk that cares about nothing unless it benefits him. He's great at saying all the right things when his back is against the wall. He claimed he was misunderstood and promised to be a team player and show his character at this Philly press conference. Now he says the same garbage in Dallas - again misunderstood, again says he knows what is expected of him and he won't let his team down.

The only worse football teammate I can think of is Lucy from Peanuts - but at least she honored her contract.

Catch This!: Going Deep With the NFL's Sharpest Weapon

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Terrell Owens
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Why did the twentieth century witness unprecedented organized genocide? Can we learn why genocide is perpetrated by comparing different cases of genocide? Is the Holocaust unique, or does it share causes and features with other cases of state-sponsored mass murder? Can genocide be prevented?

Blending gripping narrative with trenchant analysis, Eric Weitz investigates four of the twentieth century's major eruptions of genocide: the Soviet Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and the former Yugoslavia. Drawing on historical sources as well as trial records, memoirs, novels, and poems, Weitz explains the prevalence of genocide in the twentieth century--and shows how and why it became so systematic and deadly.

Weitz depicts the searing brutality of each genocide and traces its origins back to those most powerful categories of the modern world: race and nation. He demonstrates how, in each of the cases, a strong state pursuing utopia promoted a particular mix of extreme national and racial ideologies. In moments of intense crisis, these states targeted certain national and racial groups, believing that only the annihilation of these "enemies" would enable the dominant group to flourish. And in each instance, large segments of the population were enticed to join in the often ritualistic actions that destroyed their neighbors.

This book offers some of the most absorbing accounts ever written of the population purges forever associated with the names Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Milosevic. A controversial and richly textured comparison of these four modern cases, it identifies the social and political forces that produce genocide.

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Synthesis not Thesis.......2006-10-27

Historian Eric Weitz traces themes of utopianism, racism, and nationalism through four genocidal regimes. Allotting one chapter each to the notorious Lenin/Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, and Miloseviæ regimes, Weitz follows "population politics" to their historical conclusions.

Weitz's deconstruction of the concepts of race and nation is concise and effective, demonstrating the fluidity and modernity of such understandings of human differences. Notably absent from Weitz's book, however, is a clear definition of or even sustained reflection upon the idea of utopia. Weitz largely assumes his reader's familiarity with utopia, and the assumption is crippling for a reader not well-versed in utopian theory. Moreover, the reader who is comfortable with the concept of utopia will be disappointed by the infrequency of actual applications of utopianism to these four regimes. For example, Weitz alludes to the complex juxtaposition of optimism and pessimism in these genocidal regimes without stating that such a paradox is inherently utopian. The word utopia denotes both "a region of happiness and perfection" and "a region that exists nowhere." When nowhere is attempted somewhere, utopia becomes dystopia. The clear progression of each regime from the possibility of utopia to the actuality of dystopia could likewise have been demonstrated, but Weitz also ignores the concept of dystopia.

Weitz notes that each regime promulgated and perpetuated a specific ideology, but he fails to demonstrate the manner in which the particular ideological perspective of a regime shaped not only its participation in history but also its construction of "eternity." Each regime came to view individuals through the lens of a determining attribute--namely, these concepts of race or nation. By separating and defining individuals according to an ideology, these regimes were able to exclude large segments of the population either formally or informally, from citizenship. In so doing, each regime was striving for a prescribed homogeneity. Only through achieving such homogeneity would they reach utopia; in this way, genocide is hideously utilitarian. Weitz undoubtedly recognizes but does not clearly delineate this process.

At points, Weitz's arguments are weak. For example, Soviet propaganda explicitly rejected racial themes as "zoological thinking." Nonetheless, Weitz characterizes that regime as racist without providing sufficient defense (although the label could be defended). In fact, Weitz even states that the absence of a well-developed racial ideology deterred the possibilities of genocide under Stalin, confounding his argument. Labeling Miloseviæ's regime as "utopian" is also somewhat problematic, as is evident but not explicit in his chapter on Serbia. The concept of utopia is virtually ignored in this chapter, which focuses on negative creation (destruction) rather than positive creation (construction).

A Century of Genocide provides a solid overview of ideology and genocide, but is incapable, as structured, of providing an in-depth analysis. With four regimes and at least three major concepts under consideration, Weitz's project is, perhaps, utopian in nature. The ideas behind the book have the potential to make new contributions to genocide studies; as it stands, the book is an excellent work of synthesis rather than the articulation of a new thesis.

Skip it.......2006-07-30

This book is poorly written, painfully repetitive, and excruciatingly poorly edited. The ideas are poorly organized, and at times it appears to be nothing more than a loose collection of quotations from other authors. The first chapter contains some interesting ideas, but its straight downhill from there. I should have known not to waste my time with this book when, in the prelude, the author states he will not address the Rwandan genocide because he doesn't know enough about it. Since the book attempts to cover the phenomenon of genocide in the 20th century from a comprehensive perspective, it seems somewhat dubious that the author submits not to understand one of the major genocides of the century. In short, this book is boring, obtuse and devoid of any useful purpose - I suggest taking a pass.

It lacks something.......2003-08-08

Several years ago Eric Weitz wrote a fascinating book about the German Communist Party which argued that its notoriously truculent and dogmatic nature was not simply the result of Stalinist domination, but instead reflected the party's own German traditions as well as an understandable reaction to Weimar's intolerance of them. One would think that Weitz would be an excellent author to write about twentieth-century genocide. But this comparative account of four major genocides is disappointing. By his own admission Weitz does not have sufficient scholarly expertise to study the genocides in Armenia and Rwanda. So instead he looks first at Soviet terror in general and the more specifically genocidal deportations carried out against various nationalities during and after World War Two. Then he looks at Nazi Germany, Pol Pot Cambodia and the Serbian attack on Bosnia. All of his four accounts share certain key similarities. First, all the perpetrators were moved by a utopian ideology. Second, all the perpetrators were in some way or another "modern" and sought to use modern instruments to carry out their crimes. Third, all the genocides took place in periods of profound social and political crisis. Fourth, all the genocides were able to use the mass complicity of the society as a whole. Fifth, all the genocides had their own savage rituals of inhumanity.

Not bad, and the discussion of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany are based on a reasonable discussion of the latest research. But there are some real problems with Weitz's account. For a start consider the "utopian" nature of genocide. Weitz does not define what a "utopia" is. This is rather important, since "utopian" implies the impossible, indeed the impossible that it would be dangerous to attempt. But while the Holocaust was a uniquely cruel atrocity, it was hardly "utopian" since it was, in fact, all too possible to kill 90% of Polish Jewry. More problematically, to what extent can Serbian nationalism be viewed as utopian? Undoubtedly some people thought a victorious Greater Serbia would lead to a better future. But the dominant themes in Serbian propaganda were paranoia, fear and self-pity. Instead of looking to a glorious millennium, Serbs concentrated on the "collective guilt" of Croats and Bosnians with Nazism. What Utopias did the Hutus dream of, or the final rulers of the Ottoman Empire have? One may agree with Weitz that Hitler and his colleagues believed in a "redemptive" anti-Semitism. But how far did this filter down to his executioners? (It strikes me that Arno Mayer's oft-derided "Why did the Heavens Not Darken," about the connection of the Holocaust to a vicious war against Communism, does better at answering this question.) The modernity of "genocide" is also problematic. That is certainly the case with Cambodia. Weitz's focus on ideology and ideological logic does not explain why Pol Pot followed a path that no other Communist party did. At one point Weitz suggests that Pol Pot's policies flowed logically from an ultra-radicalism, yet at other points he notes that he had to purge the Communist party frequently. More importantly, emptying the cities and abolishing money does not strike me as clever plans to destroy the ancien regime while following Democratic Kamuchea's own path to industrial modernity.

There are other problems. While genocide is understandably linked to war and crisis, this is not always the case. When destroying half of the population of what is now Congo, Belgium faced no imminent threat, nor did it carry out its crimes for any other reason than greed. Too much concentration on utopia and conflation of it with "fanaticism" leads to tautology. We condemn genocides as acts of fanaticism, and then define as fanatical genocidal acts. Weitz's discussion of the Yugoslav crisis does not really explain why so many Serbs and other Yugoslavs would support a policy that would definitely make the new nations considerably less than the sum of their parts. At one point Weitz mentions that Yugoslavia had a weaker civil society than, say, Poland or East Germany. But what distinguished pre-Milosevic Yugoslavia was not an especially brutal Communist regime. Indeed, the opposite was the case. Nor did Milosevic Serbia lack opposition parties and an independent church. There were no shortage of Serbs who denounced Milosevic, but a profound shortage of those who denounced Srebnica, and Weitz does not really explain why. At times Weitz's arguments are weak. He discusses popular complicity with genocidal crimes, though his main example for Nazi Germany actually takes place in Lithuania. He takes an example of one Serbian thug who comments that a victim looks like a cabbage and generalizes that this how all Serbian fighters viewed Bosnians. This is part of a larger problem with Weitz's discussion of ritual. Much of what he says about tortures and the rituals of atrocities is true, much of it is obvious, much of it is fashionable, but none of it is new or original. Likewise the accounts of genocide, while obviously horrific, do not really get us close to the minds of the perpetrators. Ultimately this is a book that adds little to our knowledge.

Holocausts.......2003-07-26

Interesting analytical comparative history of genocide in the twentieth century, in Russia, Germany, Cambodia, and Serbia. After invoking the case of Armenia the author shows the common core of these four in the light of the nineteenth century tide of race and nationalism. The emergence of race as a concept is demonized now, but the legacy of Darwinism tends to be underplayed, although the account makes clear the mood of Social Darwinist confusion leading up to the First World War and its coarsening of spirits (and Armenian overture) resulting in the walpurgisnacht to come. The concept of genocide was arguably miscast, since it applies too technically to racial issues. (Cf.The emergence of the term and the Genocide treaty, along with the life of its inventor Lemkin in A Problem from Hell. Also the case of Rwanda should be included, cf. A People Betrayed, by L. R. Melvern)

A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State

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Cosmology, Religion and so much more.......2007-06-30

When you see a book title like "Theories of the Universe", the usual expectation is that it is strictly a science book. But this book is so much more that just a scientific perspective. The ideas presented in this book cover philosophical, religious as well as the views found in science. Interwoven are themes of mythology, which when included with chapters on quantum physics and the holographic universe, provide a rich environment that offers an interdisciplianry approach to cosmology. Along with the author's varied teaching background in philosophy, comparative religion and physics, his light-hearted yet insighful approach to the material can help us see how different theories, beliefs and speculations about our universe can help us to not take ourselves too seriously when it comes to what we think we know about the cosmos.

Who's the Idiot?.......2006-12-18

When a lay person picks up a book entitled "An Idiot's Guide To (Insert Interest)", he/she expects a book that walks the reader through the topic flawlessly and with sophisticated simplicity. This would be a book with pictures, graphs and illustrations that helps alleviate as much imaginary guesswork as possible for us readers so that we can focus on grasping the concepts. If we are stuck trying to visualize the concept at every turn of the sentence, reading it would be painful. Especially with a book that explores the abstract and scientific concepts of Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Mechanics (which literally IS "rocket science"), having no visual aids makes for a very frustrating reading experience. Let's just say, after each paragraph, I had to google the topic for visual explanations of what was going on. I might as well just have read up on these topics on-line instead. The absence of visual aids in this book is a drawback; one that is so significant that it renders this book severely compromised. This book left me with one question, "Who's the idiot here?"; the author or the reader?

Don't misunderstand me. I have the most profound respect for the author, Mr. Moring, who obviously is well versed in the physics that he presents in his book. This book is not completely without merit though (otherwise I wouldn't have given it 3 stars). First, the book encapsulates all the key scientific theories of the 20th and 21st century in a sequential manner, explaining how one concept lead to the next. Furthermore, the section on "Quantum Holograms" has the most cogent and intuitive explanation I've seen anywhere. This, for me, was its saving grace. Lastly, the side notes and humorous cartoons break the monotony on such serious topics.

If the writer did away with all the religious mumbo jumbo and spent more page space for elaborating certain concepts with more examples and illustrations, this book would've gotten 5 stars from me, especially when trying to explain super-symmetry and super-strings. You are better off reading Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe". Now THAT book is a bestseller for a reason!

Comprehensive and comprehensible.......2006-03-08

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Theories of the Universe is the only book of the dozens I've read on cosmology to approach the mysteries of the universe from not only the perspective of science, but philosophy, mythology and even religion. Just as important, author Gary Moring presents these diverse perspectives in a conversational style and at a completely comprehensible level. This book deserves a place on your bookshelf between Cosmos and The Universe in a Nutshell, though of the three it will most likely be the more practical reference and more often recommended.

If facts are what you need - here is a great book!.......2005-12-31

I really enjoyed reading Gary Moring's book. I am longer in the tooth than most readers and missed studying many of the current theories in school so I enjoy trying to keep abreast of things by reading publications such as "Discovery", "Nature",and the "Smithsonian". Often times I run into concepts and ideas in these magazines that are not fully explained and even if they are I often don't understand it. This book has been a great source for me to go to for a brief, clear, and completely understandable explanation. I thank Mr.Moring for his effort in making even complex ideas understandable and very readable. As far as the religious angle, it has helped me understand where it is coming from and the part history has played in the world's beliefs. I would highly recommend this book to everyone that wants to understand the world and their place in it.

There are other options.......2005-09-18

You're looking for a book in which you'll invest money and your time to read it. Look for other books before making up your mind. There's a lot of books about this same topic that do focus on the topic.
If the author took all the time talking about religion and used it to talk about the "Theories of the Universe", I'd have given this book 5 stars. I gave it two.
In quantum theory scientists understand that they do not know the very basics of the Universe, but Mr. Moring and says he knows best (if he didn't he couldn't say what he says about religion).
More wise men than Mr. Moring have thought that the world was made our of water (greeks), that the Earth was the center of the Universe, and now Einstein proves that Newton was wrong, and we now know that Einstein was wrong too! and each time we get a little closer to knowing a higher truth. If God's existence will be proven or not by future physics, I don't know. At least I can recognize that. We don't need to insult Aristotle or Newton just because we know better now.
Even if you don't believe in God (even if you hate religion), I'd recommend find a book that talks exactly about it's title. If you want book against religion, go on, there's planty of them. But if you want to know about the Theories of the Universe, I'd recommend buying something "Don't Know Much About the Universe: Everything You Needed to Know About Outer Space but Never Learned", and if you're a novice I'd recomend "Stephen Hawking's Universe: The Cosmos Explained". If you'd like something a little more advenced, "The Elegant Universe" is a great book.

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