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Pie in the Sky: A Memoir about Writing and Publishing
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PIE IN THE SKY is a refreshing success story by the author of hundreds of magazine articles and a dozen books. Johnston discusses writing for magazines, writing and self-publishing books, and her work at the Afton Historical Society Press, where she is the founding publisher. "I am writing this book in the hope that it will inspire others to indulge in the joys of writing for publication," she begins. "Writing is an immensely satisfying activity and one that has given tremendous focus to my life. I am thankful beyond words to have creative work that often literally consumes me. My writing and publishing duties provide the kind of never-ending challenge that I enjoy waking up to each morning."
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Personal testimony on the joys and hardships of writing.......2002-07-12
Pie In The Sky: A Memoir About Writing And Publishing is Patricia Condon Johnson's personal testimony on the joys and hardships of writing for magazines, writing books, self-publishing books, and the tragedy of losing her daughter to murder. Black-and-white photographs illustrate this thoughtful and deeply engaging accounting which is hallmarked by the author's tenacity and insight. Pie In The Sky is highly recommended reading, especially by those who aspire to have their own writings published, regardless of the pressures and challenges life puts in their way.
Patricia Johnston shares her personal journey.......2001-07-06
In Pie In The Sky: A Memoir About Writing And Publishing, Patricia Johnston shares her personal journey as a writer and self-publisher. Along the way Patricia also shares her views regarding the 1993 murder of her daughter, Jane Ellen Neuman, the subject of a CBS "48 Hours" television program and Patricia's ultimately successful crusade to bring her daughter's killer to justice. As a publisher, Patricia's Afton Historical Society Press has produced 37 titles (many of them award winners) and has pursued partnerships to produce and sponsor television documentaries and art exhibitions. Pie In The Sky will prove of intense interest to anyone who aspires to have their writings published, to become a small press publisher, or who has an interest in the small press phenomena and trends in today's highly competitive and rapidly evolving publishing community.
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About Michael Jordan's Life & Game.......1998-08-26
This book is fantastic and super! You should buy this book if you're Michael Jordan fans! It's so cheap,if you go out and buy it,it is much more expensive than buying it from the internet! So get it now! For more information,please e-mail me at chew_rachel@hotmail.com!
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Detailed indexes by star, director, country of origin, and themeLavishly illustrated with over 450 photosComprehensive selection of international cinema from over 50 countriesOver 10,000 films reviewedUp-to-date information of video availability and pricingAppendices with award listings, TLA Bests, and recommended films
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FLAWED, but mostly incomplete.........2003-08-25
This guide isn't a guide at all. So many missing links. Thank God for Mick Martin & Marsha Porter for filling in the blanks, their "DVD & VIDEO GUIDES" are much better. It's rare that I don't find the films I'm looking for with Mick & Marsha. With this guide I only find something like 5 of 10 films. Mick Martin & Marsha Porter 9 of 10. Perhaps I'm just spoiled by them, because I see by the other reviews here that this guide was informative to some. Maybe its the only one they've read. One flaw example: Look at actress Winona Ryder's filmograghy, it has Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow listed. Ryder is not in that film (not even in a cameo).
Not comprehensive, but better than the others.......2002-06-29
I went to the bookstore intending to buy a different movie guide (woof! lol), but it wasn't in stock at the time, so I bought the TLA 2000-2001 guide. Over the past year and more I have had the opportunity to compare the TLA with Videohound. I have been impressed enough with TLA to buy the 2002-2003 edition. Although Videohound may be more comprehensive, there's something to be said for selectivity. Yes, there have been films I haven't found in TLA, but TLA will also tend to have a more thorough and sophisticated review. I've only been let down once with a TLA review I didn't agree with (i.e. it was positive and my opinion of the film was negative), less often than with other guides. It also has good indexes at the back, and the paperstock itself is of much higher quality (which is important for me... I don't like my movie guides looking and feeling like phone books after a few months of use).
For specialty guides (like cult and war movies), Videohound puts out good stuff. Otherwise I prefer TLA!
Excellent Film Guide.......2002-03-12
This *is* the guide for discerning film lovers. It avoids the encylopeadic trend of other guides, so you don't have to wade through thousands of movies that are simply not worth your time. It's not a snobish foreign or indie only guide, nor is it enslaved to Hollywood. That is, it has it all: serious art and serious fun. The reviews are very well written, witty, and often cite broad styles or a director's influences which allows readers to further develop their own preferences and interests. Inevitably, you will disagree with a review here and there, but this guide is by far the best I've come across. Highly recommended.
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This is a fine guide book to home video, with an accent on foreign and indy favorites. The reviews are well-informed and well-written. There is also many small and unknown film covered. Hats off to Bleiler and company. TLA Video is known in the Philly area for their repertory history and interesting video stores, and this book reflects their reputation.
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The tangled connections that have bound Jews to African Americans in popular culture and liberal politics are at the heart of Michael Rogin's arresting and unnerving book. Looking at films from Birth of a Nation to Forrest Gump, Rogin explores blackface in Hollywood films as an aperture to broader issues: the nature of "white" identity in America, the role of race in transforming immigrants into "Americans," the common experiences of Jews and African Americans that made Jews key supporters in the fight for racial equality, and the social importance of popular culture. Rogin's forcefully argued study challenges us to confront the harsh truths behind the popularity of racial masquerade.
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Oh please!.......2007-03-12
No other entity spread anti-black racism more than the slave industry and Hollywood, and both were and are Jewish run. This claim that Jews put on a black face to work against anti-Jewish sentiment has to be the farthest stretch of Jews justifying their own racism towards blacks that I've read so far, and I've read more than my share. We need to be spending more time on combatting real racism, not a fabricated kind.
FASCINATING AND INVIGORATING SCHOLARSHIP.......2001-08-28
This is one of the five best non-fiction books I have ever read! It is superior to anything Rogin has written previously, magnificent as some of his earlier scholarship has been. I reccommend this book for film buffs, as well as anyone interested in learning how this country's history of racism has affected mass culture and how that has shaped our own understanding of what it means to be an American. Read and learn. This is cultural studies at its best.
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Title: Blackface, White Noise: Jewish American Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot. (book reviews)
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Mathematical play has challenged and stimulated human ingenuity throughout recorded history. It has ranged from the common sorts of brain teasers such as mazes, arithmetic story problems, and simple geometric puzzles to sophisticated explorations of questions that still concern modern mathematical theorists. This new dictionary provides a tantalizing variety of paradoxes, games, problems, and puzzles that will appeal to mathematics enthusiasts at every level of proficiency. Eiss introduces his subject with an overview of the history of recreational mathematics and its relation to some theoretical questions that have occupied mathematicians for centuries. Dictionary entries include problems posed by particular thinkers as well as traditional puzzlers that have come down to us anonymously. Information on the origins and history of many of the activities is supplied, and thorough cross-referencing enables the reader to locate all puzzles, games, and amusements of a similar type. The bibliography suggest sources of further information.
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Microsoft Office Project 2003 is a powerful software tool, and like all tools, it requires knowledge and skill to be used to its maximum potential. This fully revised new edition of Eric Uyttewaal's best-selling book on Microsoft Project provides users with everything they will need to more easily and effectively manage projects to a successful conclusion. Dynamic Scheduling with Microsoft Office Project 2003: The Book By and For Professionals is not only written by a certified PMP and project management practitioner with over 17 years of experience using and teaching MS Project, but is also based on the cumulative experience of the author's clients, other instructors, and includes insights from numerous other professionals who have used MS Office Project successfully.
This unique guide, based on research from over 1,000 real-life schedules, gives a complete picture of how to use this software to achieve the best results. "A must read, reread, and use daily for all project managers" is what PMI's Project Management Journal had to say about the previous edition. This updated version is even better.
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Fully aligned with the PMBOK 2004 edition
Teaches how to build easy-to-maintain dynamic schedules that will meet your continual needs to forecast until project completion
Provides many helpful screen illustrations, diagrams, stories, cartoons, review questions, case studies, and hands-on exercises to help make the learning process easy for all user levels
Also available in a 2002 MS Project version that is fully aligned with the PMBOK 2000 edition - Dynamic Scheduling With Microsoft Project 2002
Web Added Value offers downloadable quick reference tables with toolbar and keyboard shortcuts, answers to sample exam questions, one hundred examples of certified schedules, filters to check the quality of your own schedule, solution files for the Project 2003 exercises and a solutions manual for college professors — available from the J. Ross Publishing Web Added Value™ Download Resource Center
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This IS the book!.......2007-07-27
Yes, it's big. Yes, it costs $60+. Yes, it has some "stuff" in it that experienced managers don't need. Yes - this IS the best MS Proj reference book out there. I've read many of them and still have to keep hitting blogs and vainly searching through help to find answers. With this baby on your desk, YOU have the answers at hand.
Buy it. Read it. Use it.
Too wordy.......2007-03-08
There is some good information, but it is buried amougst stuff you can get for free in the help files.
Excellent Book!.......2007-02-14
If you are looking for a book that is related to real world situations rather than teaching you to use 100's of out of context features... than buy this book, this book shows you when and how and most importantly why to use different features of MS Project. It also explains concepts clearly and simple.
Dont buy any other books...
Too many words for concept.......2007-02-11
The book could be compressed to at least half of its size. It takes about a hundred pages to get to the real stuff. A lot of marketing about the author's organization is boring and irritating. Because as a project manager I don't have time to get thru all these crap. Very bad style to write a book.
Having said that, some positives are, a few concepts have been explained well.
A great book to learn MS Project 2003 AND scheduling techniques.......2006-09-29
I purchased this book as part of the "Microsoft Office Project 2003 Orange Belt Self Study Package" from IIL (Institute for International Learning). For those who understand the basic concepts of project management, the book is extremely educational as it will teach you the basics of MS Project, as well as various project scheduling techniques that you may not have been aware of.
The book also clearly illustrates the various "quirks" of MS Project, and how best to use the features. Some of the material may be a rehash for those who have used the tool before, but from my experience, 90% of the people who claim to be MS Project "savvy" have never used the advanced features.
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For those interested in the IIL OrangeBelt certification (which is THE official MS Project certification approved by Microsoft), think twice about doing so. The package was $350, which covers the cost of this book, the exam, and an extremely poorly-written answer guide which is supposed to serve as a supplement, but failed miserably due to poor content. Simply buy this book and use MS Project regularly, and forego the certification that few people know/care about.
In summary, this is a great book which I highly recommend for any project manager who plans to use MS Project regularly.
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Founded one hundred years ago by the inventor of dynamite, the Nobel Prize is the world's most celebrated and controversial honor.It grants its winners instant celebrity and acclaim for "service to mankind," despite accusations that it is too trendy, arbitrary, and narrow-minded.In examining both its fame and notoriety, Burton Feldman opens up the Nobel institution and process: how it originated, how it works, and how it is influenced by outside pressures (political, moral, personal and academic).The Nobel Prize is an extraordinary work that never fails to surprise, provoke, and entertain.
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Good stuff.......2005-10-01
Burton Feldman's absorbing book gives us a brief history of Alfred Nobel, the prizes his fortune funded, as well as fascinating details on those who won these cherished prizes. As the author explains, the Nobel Prize's combination of wealth, pomp and prestige lends it greater credibility than, say, The Fields medal, awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union, which is much harder to win.
Scandal has also helped. The tale of Marie Curie, a double Nobel Prize winner, whose amazing rags to riches story was taken up by the French media, helped to spread the fame of the Nobel awards during the crucial early years. Curie won her prizes while nursing her child - and simultaneously having a brief affair with a fellow French physicist. After Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac, Pauling, Feynman and similar intellectual giants were also honored, the prestige of the Nobel Prize in Physics was assured forever.
The same cannot be said for the other prizes. Hitler was proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize - for not invading Austria in 1934. Around the same time, Charlie Chaplin was proposed for the Literature prize. Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Emile Zola, Mark Twain, Heinrik Ibsen, August Strinberg, Henry Adams, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov, Gertrude Stein, Eugene Ionesco and Virginia Woolf were all denied the prize.
For anyone hoping to win the prize, it helps to have a good Swedish translation - better still if you are Swedish. Scandinavians have won the Literature Prize some fourteen times in all. The fact that one-seventh of all Nobel Literature prizes have gone to their compatriots is evidence, no doubt, of the comparative superiority of Nordic writing. Either that or it is a fix!
Although Gandhi never won the Peace Prize, other equally eminent people have been so honored. These include Henri Dunant, who founded the International Red Cross; Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian Arctic explorer, oceanographer and tireless peace activist; and Carl von Ossietzky, who got the prize in 1935 - he was incarcerated a Nazi concentration camp at the time.
Although the history of the economics prize is also documented, the author, like several of its recipients, believes it should be discontinued. Because the winners are dominated by lecturers at the University of Chicago, the prize is widely regarded as nothing more than a cozy sinecure for an incestuous bunch of American academics. The author strongly suggests that some of them - Gary Becker, Robert Fogel and Douglass North in particular - are little more than academic charlatans.
Although the economics prize has proved problematic, the chemistry prize has also led to controversy, most notably when Fritz Haber won the prize in 1918 for his ammonia process. Along with five other future German Nobelists, he had previously used the same process to develop poison gas for use in the trench warfare of World War 1. Ironically, because Haber, who was a staunch German patriot, also happened to be a Jew, he had to flee for his life to Britain when Hitler took over.
Max Planck, the Galileo of quantum physics, remained and the sad story of this gentle soul is also recounted here. His elder son was killed in action during the Great War; his only other son was implicated in the 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler and was summarily executed as a result.
Such sad tales are interspersed with quirky anecdotes we lesser mortals expect to hear about such luminaries. Richard Feynman, for example, used to frequent topless bars; he found them conducive to solving complex mathematical equations. Werner Heisenberg received his Nobel Prize only seven years after almost failing his doctoral examinations. The dogfight that developed between the Canadian discoverers of insulin also makes lively and informative reading. The author recounts many such snippets about such greats as Bohr, Dirac and the great Albert Einstein, whose brain was put on public display after he died.
Feldman has given an enjoyable, readable and informative book. Not worthy of a Nobel Prize, perhaps, but thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless!
A wonderful account.......2003-12-05
This wonderful History of the Nobel Prize is without a doubt one of the most interesting books you will find. It details every portion of the prize, from literature to Physics to economics to Peace. It details the scandals associated with the prize and the politicking behind the prize. It also details the many amazing personalities that have received the prize as well as the ebbs and flows of certain movements within the awarding of the prize. A wonderful account and a must read.
Do your homework before publishing a book, plase!.......2003-04-24
The topic is fascinating, however is this book really "a well-researched guide to the merriment in Stockholm"? Let's look at a paragraph devoted to Polish winners in literature (and what is more obscure for an American than Poland?). I am not an expert, however on a single page I found a few errors and misinterpretations, e.g.:
1. Author thinks that Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) belongs to the same generation as Zbigniew Herbert (d. 1999) and is younger than Czeslaw Milosz (Nobel Prize 1980).
2. Author mentions a great poet Tadeus Resewicz. Did he mean Tadeusz Rozewicz, poet and playwright?
3. Author states that Wladyslaw Reymont was known mostly for historical novels, but since high-school I have always thought his books were quite contemporary in the early 20th century.
4. Author does not have any idea about complex historical events that took place in Warsaw and Poland during and after WWII and its influence on writing of Czeslaw Milosz (as he ommits entire catastrophy of Warsaw and he has never heard about Gajcy or Baczynski). It is obvious, he is not an expert on literature nor history.
How many errors are there in an entire book? I do not know. One can only guess, but it is hard to consider this book a worthy scientific resource. It is apparent, that he did not do his homework. How can I trust the rest of it?
Very Good Introduction.......2002-10-03
Now that the Nobel Prizes for 2002 have just been announced, there is no better time to take a real look at the history and background of the Prizes themselves. There are very few books written about this important subject for the general reader, so even a mediocre one is appreciated. And this book is not mediocre. Of course there are the official records from the Nobel committees, but they are dry and sometimes too technical. This book gives the juicy behind-the-scene anecedotes, in addition to more thoughtful reflections over some of the important issues facing the Nobel selections.
The question of selecting whom to award the Prizes is the most difficult and the most important task the Nobel committees face. The choices are often controversial, even over the scientific ones, as the book well illustrates. The Peace Prize is certainly not the only controversial one, although most people tend to think that all Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine Prizes are only given to the most deserving. Far from it!
A few examples will suffice. The Medicine/Physiology Prize for the DNA resolution is awarded no long after Rosalind Franklin died. Why did the Nobel people wait when the evidence was already overwhelming? And the question of who deserved this is really thorny, given the fact that many people had worked towards the goal of resolving the DNA structure. Watson and Crick would have won the Prize in any case, but Watson certainly did not deserve as much credit as he thinks. (In fact he deserves much less. At least Crick has the wits and modesty to recognize his own contribution was small, if important.) Whom to give the third share is so difficult that the Nobel people must have breathed a sigh of relief when Franklin finally croaked. Shame on them!
John Wheeler, one of the finest physicists of the twentieth century, deserves a Nobel but got none. The same goes for J. Robert Oppenheimer (whom Wheeler dislikes), though in this case his early death may have prevented this. The award should have been made for his astrophysical work on neutron stars, rather than for his nuclear physics. Einstein should have won the Nobel three times over instead of just once: once each for the Special Theory of Relativity, the General Theory of Relativity, and the photoelectric effect (for which he got the Prize). In the case of the Special Theory, he may have had to share it, though with whom is difficult (again) to say. (Perhaps Grossman?) The Nobel people were too incompetent to understand Relativity, as it happened. (Some on the committee thought he deserved it; others weren't so sure. Few - some not even physicists - really understood the math.)
There are many other examples along these lines. The Einstein mistake was probably the biggest in the history of the Nobel Prizes. Nor is it clear that a Nobel is the strongest proof for a scientist's place in history. Bardeen shared the Physics Prize twice, but who has heard of him? Simply put, Bardeen was a great physicist, but not one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Pauling won the Chemistry Prize once only, but he was the greatest chemist of modern times, by far.
There is really no need to fuss over the Peace, Literature, and Economics Prizes as Feldman does, for the prestige (if this word may be used at all) attached to these is considerably lower in any case. The Peace Prize will always be controversial no matter how deserving or undeserving the recipients may be. But that doesn't mean we should do without one.
This book doesn't tell the whole story. For instance, why are there no Nobels for Philosophy, Astronomy, and Mathematics? Read the book, but don't expect a detailed explanation there. This book is not about Alfred Nobel himself, but a little more biographical details than what Feldman provides would be helpful. The question of why the Japanese, with the second most powerful technological economy in world, should be so under-represented in the awards (even in the sciences) is not at all touched upon. There has been much discussion recently (like in a recent article in the New York Times) about this question. As if in reply, two of the science Prizes are shared by Japanese scientists this very year. (On a per capita basis, the Germans do much better, but still lag behind the British or the Swiss.) A breakdown of the prizes on national basis is available from the official Nobel Prize website, but Feldman may want to consider doing a per capita analysis in a new edition (if available). He does list the recipients of Jewish ancestry (or partial Jewish ancestry) in the last Appendix (Appendix E). This is a real eye-opener. Anyone who doubts that Jews are intellectually gifted should take a good look at this list. Considering the small number of Jews in the world, their achievement is astonishing, especially in medicine. Not even the Scots, who do relatively well, can remotely compare. Like most stereotypes, there must be some truth to the one about Jews (particularly the Ashkenazi kind) being smart. However, few of the Jewish winners represent Israel or did their groundbreaking research there.
In any case, no single book can tell the whole story about the Nobel Prizes. There are others (one recent one by a Hungarian chemist) but not nearly enough for us. Although Feldman is no scientist himself, he did us a fine service, and I give him a small honorary Nobel, for investigative history. May there be more like him!
Omission of nominee Otto Warburg for the 1926 Nobel Prize........2001-12-28
"The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy and Prestige" by Burton Feldman, Arcade Publishing, New York, 2000.
While the author discusses the award of the Medicine prize to Fibiger in 1926, he fails to include a vital reference to the book "Otto Warburg Cell Physiologist Biochemist and Eccentric" by Hans Krebs and Roswitha Schmid, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981.
In this reference, it is documented that the 1926 Medicine and Physiology Nobel Prize was proposed to be shared with Otto Warburg for "his work on the metabolism of cancer cells; the proposal was that the Prize should be divided with Fibiger but the Faculty preferred to give Fibiger the undivided Prize for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma..."
While the author notes that Otto Warburg received the 1931 Prize in M & P, he also fails to note that he was also nominated for the 1944 Prize: "In 1944 he was again found to deserve the honour for identification of the flavins and of nicotinamide as hydrogen carriers in biological oxidations, but Hitler's decree which forbade the acceptance of Nobel Prizes by German citizens intervened." (Krebs, page 49). He also fails to mention that Hans Krebs was one of Otto Warburg's three Nobel Prize winning pupils, along with Otto Meyerof and Hugo Thorell.
While Feldman makes a flippant speculation about why "Hitler allowed him to stay in Germany", he fails to mention that Otto Warburg's seminal discovery in 1923, for which he was nominated for the 1926 Prize, that nearly all cancer cells metabolize by anerobic glycolysis, has been confirmed over and over again in the intervening years. Had Otto Warburg, M.D., Ph. D., who has been described elsewhere as "The greatest biochemist of the twentieth century" before the century was over, received that "first Cancer Prize", the sordid history of cancer treatment might have been forever changed for the better. For example, while the medical orthodoxy has rejected his conclusions, Dr. Warburg believed until his death in 1970, that the prime cause of cancer was the shifting from the primarily oxygen based metabolism to the primarily glucose based metabolism and this is not necessarily contradicted by genetics since genetics cannot manufacture necessary nutrients like oxygen (or others) at a cell site; these must be provided from external sources. Even if Dr. Warburg was wrong about the "prime cause" of cancer, the shifting from the primarily aerobic state to the primarily anerobic state for most cancer cells is an experimental fact not in dispute.
Yet, virtually every serious effort to scientifically test and use this vital fundamental information about cell metabolism in treatment and prevention of cancer, from Max Gerson, M.D., "A Cancer Therapy Results of Fifty Cases", 1958 (used by him in the 1940's to treat cancer in New York and testified before the U. S. Congress in 1946) to the efforts of Joe Gold, M.D. to "block the glycolic pathway" with a common and inexpensive drug, Hydrazine Sulfate from 1968+ has been obstructed by the medical orthodoxy as documented in "The Cancer Industry" by Ralph W. Moss, Ph. D., Equinox Press, 1996 first published as "The Cancer Syndrome", 1980 (and other places as well). By the way, the quackwatch website, operated by one Stephen Barrett, M.D., seeks to vilify both Ralph W. Moss, Ph. D., and his book above, and Otto Warburg and his experimental conclusions, through the words of one Saul Green, Ph. D., who makes misleading statements in a review of The Cancer Industry.(By the way, this book is documented with hundreds of references).
In fact, Dr. Warburg himself proposed using it for prevention in the above reference by Krebs (pp. 24-25), but these recommendations have fallen on deaf ears by most so-called medical doctors.
The omission of this vital material has a negative impact on this book even though the book contains other useful information.
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Into The Labyrinth: The U.S. and the Middle East, 1945-1993 provides both the background and the most current details necessary to understand relations between America and the Middle East as they unfold in the nineties. The book treats a wide range of aspects of American policy toward the area: the Arab-Israeli dispute, the Palestinian question, petroleum, great-power competition in the region, the Iranian revolution, the Iran-contra affair, and the Persian Gulf war.
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Any literate person should be familiar with the central ideas of modern science. In his sparkling new book, Peter Atkins introduces his choice of the ten great ideas of science. With wit, charm, patience, and astonishing insights, he leads the reader through the emergence of the concepts, and then presents them in a strikingly effective manner. At the same time, he works into his engaging narrative an illustration of the scientific method and shows how simple ideas can have enormous consequences. His choice of the ten great ideas are: * Evolution occurs by natural selection, in which the early attempts at explaining the origin of species is followed by an account of the modern approach and some of its unsolved problems. * Inheritance is encoded in DNA, in which the story of the emergence of an understanding of inheritance is followed through to the mapping of the human genome. * Energy is conserved, in which we see how the central concept of energy gradually dawned on scientists as they mastered the motion of particles and the concept of heat. * All change is the consequence of the purposeless collapse of energy and matter into disorder, in which the extraordinarily simple concept of entropy is used to account for events in the world. * Matter is atomic, in which we see how the concept of atoms emerged and how the different personalities of the elements arise from the structures of their atoms. * Symmetry limits, guides, and drives, in which we see how concepts related to beauty can be extended to understand the nature of fundamental particles and the forces that act between them. * Waves behave like particles and particles behave like waves, in which we see how old familiar ideas gave way to the extraordinary insights of quantum theory and transformed our perception of matter. * The universe is expanding, in which we see how a combination of astronomy and a knowledge of elementary particles accounts for the origin of the universe and its long term future. * Spacetime is curved by matter, in which we see the emergence of the theories of special and general relativity and come to understand the nature of space and time. * If arithmetic is consistent, then it is incomplete, in which we learn the origin of numbers and arithmetic, see how the philosophy of mathematics lets us understand the nature of this most cerebral of subjects, and are brought to the limits of its power. C.P. Snow once said 'not knowing the second law of thermodynamics is like never having read a work by Shakespeare'. This is an extraordinary, exciting book that not only will make you literate in science but give you deep enjoyment on the way.
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A great reference on the state of science!.......2007-03-22
I can seriously recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in science and wants to take part the next time the discussion at a party turns to quantum physics or DNA. If you are a faithful person this book might help you to understand why many scientist come to doubt a biblical God but find God's beauty in science.
The most important point is that Atkins lables all ten subjects as 'IDEAS' and not as scientific facts. He has come to terms with the only fact: That we will never know for sure. Each one of us and this universe will remain an enigma for all times.
Good Overview of Science.......2005-02-22
P.W.(Peter) Atkins is the author of the excellent textbook "Physical Chemistry", "Molecules", a general overview of nature's chemicals from the Scientific American Library, and the imaginative "Periodic Kingdom". In his latest popularization, "Galileo's Finger", Atkins outlines what he considers are the ten central ideas of science. Without bias, he only chooses two from his own area of expertise. The rest are from the realms of biology, physics and astronomy. Given that only two to three of the chapters are part of a high school curriculum, the book is essential reading for anyone who has not studied science past that point. His writing neither oversimplifies nor bores the reader, reminiscent of the way the late Stephen Jay Gould practised his craft. I love Atkins' definition of chemistry, " It is the bridge between the perceived world of substances and the imagined world of atoms."
Popularized science but not a For Dummies book.......2004-12-07
Galileo, as he was sentenced to recant what he had seen with his own eyes is reputed to have said under his breath something like, "but I saw what I saw." Trying to see evolution or quanta or the spacetime continuum is more difficult.
Galileo was then sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. No more questioning the unbridled power of the church. But the church was not all powerful, in places other than Italy observations continued. And the instruments used for observation became better and better, scientists could see further, and smaller, and with a better understanding of what they were seeing.
Dr. Atkins has selected ten key central ideas of today's science and described them for the general public. But having said that, I must also say that this isn't a For Dummies book. His explanation, for instance, of some of the modern thinking in the physics of symmetry, quanta, cosmology and spacetime reaches the point where you either have to accept it on faith or spend a considersible amount of time with very high level mathematics.
This is a book that presents the modern thinking at a level that most of it is understandable to most of us. Combine that with an elegent writing style, and reading it makes for a great deal of enjoyment.
Panoramic view of modern science.......2004-10-01
This captivating book deals with the ability of the scientific method to explain the wondrous nature of the universe. The author's elegant style, clear explanations and understated humour ensure an engaging read. Atkins has chosen 10 simple concepts of great import that manifest into a giant tree of application. With its patient explanations, it is an excellent guide for the lay reader to become literate in modern sciene. The major insights of modern science discussed here are evolution, DNA, energy, entropy, atoms, symmetry, quanta, cosmology, spacetime and arithmetic. The book includes black and white photographs and illustrations, a bibliography arranged by chapter and an index. Galileo's Finger is the perfect guide for those who wish to understand science more clearly.
Hard going in places.......2004-07-14
Some of the press reviews suggest that this is for the general reader. However, even with a degree in Science, I found some the explanations quite hard-going, and I think the general reader might be disappointed or frustrated, hence why I give it 3 rather than 4 stars.
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