Corporate Taxes 2002-2003: Worldwide Summaries (Worldwide Summaries. Corporate Taxes)

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This book delivers invaluable up-to-date information on corporate tax issues, rules, rates, and regulations on the tax systems of over 120 countries. With insights on tax planning, foreign investment, tax reform, and much more, its the most comprehensive resource available.

Worldwide Summaries 2002-2003: Individual Taxes/Corporate Taxes (Worldwide Summaries. 2 Volume Set)

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This book has served as the recognized authority on the subject for more than a decade, the first and most respected guide of its kind. This two volume set includes Volume One: Corporate Taxes and Volume Two: Individual Taxes.

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Don't mess with Lola. She's too old for you to be asking, she bucks stereotypes like a bronco, and she suffers adult sons, daughters-in-law, and potential suitors badly. In Old Age Isn't for Sissies, Lola continues her brash march through life, stepping over proper diet, exercise, and political correctness. She's a take-no-prisoners, cigar-chomping, beer-on-the-doily kind of gal who will whack you with her cane if given half a chance. But Lola's lack of charm is her most charming trait-and what makes her such a delight to fans of all ages.

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Essays on Cooperative Games collates selected contributions on Cooperative Games. The papers cover both theoretical aspects (Coalition Formation, Values, Simple Games and Dynamic Games) and applied aspects (in Finance, Production, Transportation and Market Games). A contribution on Minimax Theorem (by Ken Binmore) and a brief history of early Game Theory (by Gianfranco Gambarelli and Guillermo Owen) are also enclosed.

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Primarily written for developers who know basic Java and want to pass the Sun Certified Business Component Developer exam CX-310-090, this study kit shows how to use EJB in developing enterprise applications. With the popularity of J2EE in the enterprise, SCBCD certification is an important credential for an EJB developer to earn. Focused on the exam objectives, the content goes beyond simply "exam-cram." More than 130 review questions with answers distributed over all chapters and an Exam's Eye View section at the end of each chapter that emphasizes the important points in the chapter from the exam's perspective are provided.

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Clearly written.......2007-03-20

What I was most impressed in this book was how clearly it's written and yet it goes deeply on those details that can always get you confused on a certification exam.

I am very satisfied.

Good book for SCBD.......2006-11-07

This is a good book to learn the concepts of EJB but for the exam you need the HFEJB book.
The details of Context objects (which method of Context object you can use in which method call of the Bean class) are more descriptive in HFEJB
If you are planning to sit for the exam this book should be accompanied by HFEJB

Very Good Book.......2006-06-13

I used this book as a primary preparation tool for the Sun Certified Business Component Developer (SCBCD) exam. Being a beginner in EJB, I found this book to be very friendly. I liked the layout of the book in general and the writing style of the author in particular. Only relevant pieces of code are presented to focus explanation of topic in question. A complete running application may be downloaded from the author's website. The multiple choice questions at the end of every chapter and ALERTs in every chapter made remembering main points easier. Deployment descriptor elements are clarified in considerable detail and they are explained well. Please note that there are errors in this book - some of them are fairly obvious such as using a capital letter as opposed to a small letter (Java versus java) while others are not so obvious but noticeable by experienced java developers. Regardless of its minor faults, I consider this book to be a valuable addition to my library. Normally I would have a cut a star for the errors but because of its content quality, I felt compelled to give 5 stars. I just passed the exam today thanks to this book. I know that I will not hesitate to buy another book from this author. Thanks Mr.Sanghera! I recommend this book highly without any reservations whatsoever.

SCBCD Exam Study Kit.......2006-04-27

This is a very good book on a complex subject. Explanations of the concepts are easy to understand. Exam objectives are covered in detail with example codes and review questions.
Each chapter covers the individual exam objectives as well as summarizing the gist. Logical organization of the chapters helps conceptualize even the toughest topics.

The Quick Prep Appendix for last-minute cramming and free downloadable Whizlabs SCBCD exam simulator are very effective tools for the exam.

I recommend this book as must have SCBCD exam preparation book that can be also used as a reference book on EJB.

great work.......2006-04-02

After the exams SCJP,SCWCD; I decided to learn and take the SCBCD certification. I'd not had any clue about enterprise beans before the exam. I'd started many books about EJB and EJB exams but I got bored all of them. I also tried to read Sun's specs but it was hard for a beginner. Then I bought Sanghera`s SCBCD Exam kit. It was really good for a beginner, easy to read. In fact it was like a novel, I could not stop reading it. After a month I passed exam with %90. I really recommend this book. Now I fell like I am an expert in this topic. When I design and write codes related with EJB, It's a good thing to know what is what and what is going there. Also now I can understand Sun`s specs where easily, they now seem like a story, because now I have the background for that. As I read in one of reviews above I would be very happy if Sanghera writes the same for SCWCD.

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Does postmodernism, with its relativism and claims that historical study is little mor than a discourse of political power, promote and defend thinking that denies the occurrence of the Holocaust in Nazi Germany? This book argues not.

Customer Reviews:

Nice "little" book.......2007-09-13

I have to laugh at the review by "A reader" in which the book is given only 2 stars and the reviewer says: "Another book in the Postmodern Encounters series where the author presents an argument against Holocaust denial that is based on a postmodernist perspective." Hello, "Postmodernism and Holocaust Denial" is: 1. in the "POSTMODERN Encounters" series, and 2. titled "POSTMODERNISM and Holocaust Denial." I don't really think you can fault a book for being of a postmodern mind/persuasion when it so blatantly and clearly states (in two places) that it is coming from a postmodern perspective. That is like going into a Chinese restaurant and getting mad that they don't serve Italian food.
This is an evocative and worthwhile book that spends a lot time explaining why we should discredit Holocaust denial, but doesn't touch on some of the deeper nuances of, say, collective memory, the impact of history in our lives, how and why we choose to highlight certain historical events more than others, etc. Nonetheless, it's a well-argued, tightly focused, and agreeable book, although I think mentioning or exploring the Errol Morris documentary "Mr. Death" (about a man who doubts the Holocaust happened) would have made it better. It's not the strongest or best in the Postmodern Encounters series, but not the worst either. Makes some good points and addresses a disturbing period in human history.

A Thoughtful Argument.......2003-08-17

As other reviewers have suggested, Robert Eaglestone appears to be as concerned about postmodernism as he is about Holocaust denial. They are, he implies, diametrically opposed. As a result, he suggests that employing postmodern strategies can indeed help historians confront denial. To make clear his point, Eaglestone refers to the 2001 case of David Irving versus Deborah Lipstadt, in which Irving was suing Lipstadt for libel.

Now, some people think that it was up to the judge to decide whether the Holocaust did or did not happen, but that is untrue. Because the trial took place in England, it was Lipstadt who had to prove the truthfulness of her statements about Irving (ie. that Irving "is a Hitler partisan wearing blinkers.") If she could not, then Irving's status as an historian would have been secure. Surely, it would also have been a victory of sorts for Holocaust denial in general. But Lipstadt's team did prove her case. In fact, Irving was destroyed during (and later, because of) the trial. As Eaglestone suggests, this was not simply the result of Irving's not having been objective in his writing. Objectivity is, of course, simply a long-cherished myth. No, the author makes it clear that Irving did not follow the proper conventions of history, ergo, he was (and is) not an historian at all.

How does postmodernism fit in to all of this? Postmodernists' having been so successful at exposing the inherent subjectivity in historical writing, what better "genre" than postmodernism to help expose the goals and motivations of Holocaust deniers? Just to make this abundantly clear, never does Eaglestone suggest that there is no such thing as "truthful" history, and that ONLY postmodernism can successfully confront Holocaust denial. On the contrary, he states explicitly that there is a bedrock/foundation on which histories are built. Unfortunately, arguing with Holocaust deniers on the basis of the evidence alone is a fruitless task, for they and their arguments simply aren't reasonable. Historians must go deeper, and expose deniers for who they really are, and for HOW, not just what, they write. Employing postmodernism as a corollary to evidentiary means should help do exactly that. It will assist in making readers aware of deniers' goals, motivations, and strategies. Only then will readers, many of whom simply aren't familiar with Holocaust studies and might then be coerced by denial literature because of its scholarly appearance, be confronted with a stark reality: Holocaust deniers aren't interested in the truth at all. Holocaust denial is simply a way to disguise their anti-Semitism, display the Jewish conspiracy theory in which they seem to believe, and portray their work as legitimate. Eaglestone's book is important because it makes evident the imperative to combat deniers by making these things clear to all readers alike.

Conventions vs evidence.......2001-10-20

Another book in the Postmodern Encounters series where the author presents an argument against Holocaust denial that is based on a postmodernist perspective. Essentially, what the author is arguing is that the court case between Irving (a holocaust denier) and Lipstadt was about a breach of a genre of writing particular to historiography; not the fact that Irving failed to be objective. According to the author, one of the conventions employed by historians in writing history is in the use of evidence and consulting the historical record but Irving, having failed to provide proper evidence (by misrepresenting or misinterpreting it), failed as an historian. He violated the conventions of what historians would consider valid history writing: he wasn't doing history at all as his biases overwhelmed any attempt at doing it.

Because postmodernism has supposedly cast doubt on the whole notion of objectivism--and on the notion of anyone producing objective historical accounts--the idea of objectivity is more or less treated as a myth along with the traditionalist empirical account of history. Eaglestone therefore dismisses Lipstadt's accusation about Irving failing to be objective. What he ultimately sees as being wrong with Irving's arguments is that he failed to conform to the generic conventions of history as set by historians.

I think the author's main premise (that Irving broke with the generic conventions of historiography) sidesteps the essential role that evidence plays in this whole debate. What was at stake in Irving vs Lipstadt was not a violation of genres, or a style of writing or a breach of historical conventions. It was something much more fundamental: it was an ontological issue. Did the holocaust happen or not? The evidence says it did. Interpreting the historical record or arguing about the details is magnanimously different that arguing about whether some event took place or not.

The fact that evidence in the end ruled in the court case is confirmation for accepting the traditionalist empirical methodology of writing history. Using credible evidence to support your claims is what being objective is all about. This, I think, is one of the main points that Lipstadt made. Evidence is the sine qua non factor that is essential to producing valid historical accounts and I would say that evidence plays a much bigger role in historiography rather than simply being one of many check-box factors (such as writing in the third person) that makes up a set of history writing conventions. It is not simply a matter of following generic rules as in a game or a genre of writing. Irving was beat by evidence. In a different time and place where the conventions of history writing do not require the use evidence at all, would Irving's claims become true when the evidence and the historical record say otherwise? Irving's account is not history not because he happened to break with historian agreed-upon conventions necessarily; It's not history because the evidence overwhelmingly falsifies the claim that the holocaust never happened--independent of who makes the claim, what their beliefs are or what the conventions of history writing happen to be at the time. Even if there was nobody on the planet after the Holocaust happened, Irving would *still* be wrong.

To summarize, the book is well-argued but the main argument has sidestepped the real issue; if you don't have evidence, credible evidence on your side, you really have nothing.

A timely work........2001-10-10

A beautifully and clearly written little book explaining the
Postmodern
ideas on History in general and they relevance to the phenomena of
Holocaust denial in particular. Starting with, and having as a
guiding thread
the case of Irving vs. Lipstadt, the book clearly and sucintely
states the
postmodern positions on the issues of objectivity, impartiality, and
History
genre rules. As the author states (pg 51) "[S]ome writers,
categorised as
postmodern, have indeed written rather foolishly on history and no
one
should defend bad scholarship or lack of thought." This work
certainly
does not belong to either of those categories and can be read with
much
pleasure.

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What the Music Said is a book about communities under siege, but also communities engaged in various forms of resistance, institution-building and everyday pleasures. Beginning with the Be-Bop era, Mark Anthony Neal reads the story of "black communities" through the black tradition in popular music. Exploring the broad range of black cultural experience and expression, Neal locates a history that challenges the view that hip-hop was the first black cultural movement to "speak truth to power."

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Interesting Premises.......2002-09-08

In this book Neal theorizes about African-American music, examining the link between early 20th century musics and turn-of-the-millenium music. The author shows connections between social developments and the forms of pop music that black Americans developed. The book is interesting both as a survey of some threads of black music and as an overview of historical changes for African-Amercians in our nation.

The linkages between the two-- the music and the social climate-- are supported by a careful analysis of the music, and more often of the lyrics of some well-known composers. Performance styles are given some attention also. However, Neal is selective about examining only those artists whose work supports his theories. Other artists whose work does not fit the schema are generally ignored. In this sense, the book is not exhaustive. That is fine, actually, as the volume is elegantly structured into six digestible chapters. This maintains the momentum of the writing and allows the reader to remain engaged, to avoid being bogged down in minutia.

Neal does a nice job of examining the African-American societies that have emerged during the 20th century. He looks at how different groups of blacks have related with each other, and how the music serves to both mollify and communicate the tensions and connections between the groups. The roles of work, finances, and community are given emphasis in his theories. As such, he focuses mostly on the middle-class, the working-class, and the under-class blacks. Other groups, such as gays or the wealthy (often the artists themselves), receive less attention.

The author does at times surrender to a hair-splitting approach with the concepts. Sometimes his writing becomes entangled, with long, long sentences that are structured so that the reader becomes lost. This occurs primarily in the later chapters. The index given to the book is fairly incomplete, making cross-referencing difficult. To his great credit, Neal tends to hew closely to common language. This makes the book as a whole accessible to a variety of readers. Overall, I found this to be a educational and insightful volume, and recommend it to anyone interested in popular music, African-American cultural studies, or contemporary history.

On-Point.......2000-04-03

Books Like This state The Facts of the Importance of Black Music not only in America but also WORLDWIDE.How it has shaped the World at Large.How The Beauty&Tragedy of The Music always keeps your Attention.Black Music Has Influenced everything Period.Rock-Roll was Taboo because it was from Blues,Jazz,Funk to Rap all have been Called Taboo because of The Negro Imput.it Plays Out on Society at Large.The Impact is so Strong that thru out History to this day you Get a Watered Down take of it.From What Little Richard had to Put up with thru Pat Boone among others to What The Jackson 5&New Edition deal with all of these Wack Non-Singing White Boy Bands Cashing in on a Style and Not Respecting it.Jimi Hendrix took it back Home for us as did Michael Jackson.cuz all of The Styles are Ours.Miles Davis was Straight Black with it.Marvin Gaye as well.James Brown among many made Statements Heard around the World that Spoke Volumes About Us Here In The United States.

I Love this book, a must- buy for any lover of music.......1999-04-21

I think that this book was very well written and focused very well on how the music of the Black community was a reflection of the status of blacks as well as their position. As a former student of Dr. Neal, I have learned that resistance to oppression does not always come from marches and sit-ins, but music itself can be a form of social protest. If you are a student of African-American history, you must have this book for your collection. Buy it now!

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A guided tour through the strange and sometimes dangerous microscopic world
Germs are everywhere--in our intestines and on our skin as well as on kitchen counters, public toilets, doorknobs, and just about everything else. Why are there so many microorganisms? Which ones are dangerous? And how can we avoid the ones that will make us sick? This entertaining and informative book provides the answers. Profiling a rogue's gallery of harmful germs--from the influenza virus, salmonella, and herpes to hepatitis, tuberculosis, and HIV--as well as helpful microbes (we actually need E. Coli and other bacteria for proper digestion), the book reveals how different germs interact with the human body and what happens when they do.
Nicholas Bakalar (New York, NY) is the author or coauthor of ten books, including Hepatitis A to G and Wiping Out Head Lice.

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Incredible nonsense.......2004-11-14

If this book can be published, then anyone can publish anything.
The point at which I realized that I should hurl this book across the room was on page 11 where the author claimed that fungi were species of plants. I'm sorry, Nicholas Bakalar, either your medical friends whom you acknowledged did not read your manuscript at all, or they are just as incredibly ignorant as yourself and are not good candidates for saving you from yourself.
I suppose this book could be hilarious for people who know better, but I worry about the 12 year old who picks it up and thinks he/she is being anything but misinformed by it.

Very informative, not necessarily very entertaining.......2004-10-21

Germs, primarily made up of bacteria and viruses, are as ubiquitous as air-they live everywhere in our homes, including inside our bodies. The book seeks to provide us with a practical guide for living with germs in a way that reduces the risks of incurring harm. He opens with a general discussion of what constitutes a germ, and catalogues some of the more notorious types and species. He then devotes a chapter each to the germs in a different area of our lives: in the kitchen, in the bathroom, in laundry, in children and child feces, in sexual acts (mostly STDs), in pets, flu and cold germs, in drinking water, in the outdoors, in public areas, and finally, a discussion of what products are beneficial in dealing with germs.
The Good and the Bad:
I was really looking forward to this book, but found it to be a disappointment.
The back cover promises that the book is "often delightfully funny," but I didn't really get that at all. It is less dry than, for example, a research paper on the same topic, but it falls far short of similar books about interesting facets of life (the book "Cod" comes to mind). The writing was far too bogged down in technical terms, and the author was far more focused on comprehensiveness than he should have been. The witticisms were just too few and far between to bridge the gaps.
I think a better approach, when given this topic, would be to gather together all of the interesting facts, myths, anecdotes, historical anomalies, etc., and tried to find an organization system that would best present them all. But this author has instead taken all of the information that's out there, irrespective of the likelihood that it would be of interest to the general reader, and given each microbe its due. There is an effort to include interesting anecdotes, the large majority of which involve some sort of outbreak of sickness in one part of the country or other, but they fall short of the ideal. The author seems to be primarily a public health expert, and secondarily an author (although he has written ten books).
This extends to the handful of illustrations in the book (tellingly labeled "Figures" as in a scientific paper), which are chosen by some criteria that I don't understand or appreciate, the least helpful of which might be the fuzzy picture of a Carnation Festival in Alliance, Ohio which took place months after a meningitis scare in the area had died down. I certainly hope that Bakalar had a personal reason (such as knowing the "carnation queen") for including the picture, because there was no value added for the reader.
What did he do right? Well, he's done a very good job at lightening the text, given that he prioritized comprehensiveness. But his real achievement is in giving good, practical advice that walks the balance between OCD behavior and complete sloppiness. Further, he presents a range of acceptable germ-prevention behavior, and invites us to find our own comfort level.
What I learned:
Lots of information in this book. My take, after reading the book, is that being extremely vigilant against germs will reduce my chances of contracting a serious illness from something like one in a hundred thousand to one in five hundred thousand (my numbers based on an impression, not remotely scientifically accurate). When it comes to mild illnesses, such as colds and diarrhea-inducing stomach ailments, a slob might be in for five such episodes per year, while a very germ-vigilant person might be in for one episode per year. So, if the added security and freedom from illness are important to you, invest the time and energy needed to stay away from potentially harmful germs. But if you're willing to take your chances, don't worry about it.
One interesting side note was the misleading claims of cleaning products that have antibacterial agents in them. He cites several studies that show that there is no benefit to using them, and a few others that imply that they might actually cause some harm. So when it comes to antibacterial or anti-microbial products, avoid them. This was one of the best chapters in the book, and I wish it had come a little earlier.

Interesting and valuable information, well-presented.......2003-07-31

The photo on the cover somehow hints at the sometimes ironic expression within. The cover shows a fifties housewife in black heels, nylons, lipstick, a modest hairdo and a house dress covered by an apron mopping her kitchen floor. She is smiling with pride. Her squeaky-clean persona represents the germaphobe in all of us--a class of humanity to which I belong and to which science writer Bakalar has aimed his book. Her pleased sense that her sparkling kitchen is largely germ-free is of course a delusion. Read and be revolted!

As far as readability goes, this is the best general-information book on germs that I have read, and I have read several. What Bakalar does so very well is inform, period. He also has a witty and easy flowing style that makes the pages turn. He is a writer who loves to explain how the microbial world of disease works. He likes to turn away misconceptions and debunk urban myths without taking himself too seriously. He can be slyly funny as when he notes that house mice "are in general not a reservoir of serious human illness," but that "any restaurant that allows them to frolic in the presence of diners is likely to be out of business soon." Or when he identifies electrocuting insect traps that "may actually spread germs into the air" as "the kind that produce that satisfying buzz every time they kill a fly." (p. 197)

He can also be profound. Consider this from page 15: "Viruses, bacteria, archaea, prions, protozoa, and fungi all exist in nature. Disease does not. Disease is a human invention, not a phenomenon that exists out there apart from us." He adds that from the point of view of the disease agent, "the infection is merely life." And indeed, "From the point of view of some organisms, human beings themselves are a disease." He notes that tigers, for example, have a bad case of "humans."

One of the myths that he debunks that I had long believed was that the recycled air in passenger airplanes was a significant cause of disease. Turns out that in older airplanes such as DC-9s and 727s the air is not recycled at all but drawn entirely from outside the plane. In newer airplanes "half the cabin air is recirculated" but it is filtered better and refreshed more often than in office buildings. (pp. 209-210)

Chapter headings include The Contaminated Kitchen, Toilet Training, Kids and Microbes, Microbes and Your Sex Life, Pets and Their Germs, Water and What's in It, Germs in Public Places, etc. Bakalar ends the book with a chapter on products you can buy at the store that may or may not kill germs and improve your health. Naturally all sorts of ugly microbes make their appearance including plague, West Nile virus, smallpox, TB, cholera, etc. as well as some not so charming vectors: mice, rats, mosquitoes, ticks, bats, fleas, and their brethren, cockroaches, flies and things that creep in the night.

There is a 15-page glossary and there are footnotes arranged by chapter (a dense paragraph for each) at the back of the book that you can examine for further information. The notes are not subscripted nor referenced by page. I'm not sure I like this but it does unclutter the text.

Good reading but no surprises.......2003-07-24

I disagree with the first reviewer who gave this book a low rating. I think it's a pretty good overview of the details of which germs cause what illness, and how they're spread.

I think the author does a nice job of handling what could be a highly technical subject. The book is comprehensible to the layperson, yet still difficult enough that you probably ought to have had college-level sciences in order to understand its complexity.

I was hoping that the book (especially considering the picture of the kitchen on the cover) would offer me something new regarding keeping germs and illness away from my family. However, it does not go far beyond the standard prevention tactics of good handwashing and modern sanitation. Good handwashing is particularly emphasized.

Diseases and illnesses such as smallpox and lyme disease and West Nile and herpes are handled in detail. It's a useful and factual introduction to bacteriology and contagious diseases, and includes some historical references, in a readable text.

A comedy of errors.......2003-06-27

Actually the only "funny" thing about this book is how John Wiley & Sons allowed it to be published without a microbiologist proof-reading it first!
The basic microbiology is riddled with mistakes and errors, the chapter contents often go off the topic being discussed, terms are misused (or wrong)and some of the facts and figures quoted contradict each other later on in the book - sometimes on the next page!
I wasted £14.99 on this book - although it was fun spotting the mistakes. There are better books on microbiology for sale, buy one of those.
By the way subtract 2 stars from the rating system - Amazon won't let me give negatives.

Where the Germs Are: A Scientific Safari

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Where the Germs Are: A Scientific Safari
Nicholas Bakalar; Nicholas Bakalar
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Not Acknowledged by NEW but still Thankful of Home Thunder

Not just for Northwesterners

Well written but could have been so much more

One of the most important books of 1996

This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence
Alan Thein Durning
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Alan Durning spent several years traveling the world as an environmental policy analyst. When a Filipino tribeswoman asked him to describe his home, he found that he could not, answering weakly, "In America, we have careers, not places." Determined to change all that, he brought his family to his native Northwest to make a home--by which Durning means learning the geology and ecology of a place, as well as its human present and past. Durning looks into matters such as recycling, urban planning, and community building, and he proposes ways in which we can all tread a little more lightly on the earth, especially by sharing goods and knowledge with our neighbors. This is a lively, hopeful addition to the literature of place.

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Simplify, downshift, sustainability. What does it all mean? Alan Durning returns to his home ground to consciously carve out a new life away from the mainstream of politics and power. This Place on Earth is both a personal journey and a working blueprint for anyone interested in a better life.

Customer Reviews:

Not Acknowledged by NEW but still Thankful of Home Thunder.......2003-09-30

In retrospect, when I look back on my "hungry" journey, few pillars of existing heart and knowledge-base re-affirmed my personal hope for the future more than this very rich resource.

Not surprisingly "This Place on Earth: Home and the Practice of Permanence," by Alan Thein Durning of www.NorthwestEnvironmentWatch.org, become a resource so rich for this organization that further works would expand directly from the chapters within. Infact, it is still going on today.

In my opinion, Alan's Worldwatch Institute journey storied at a very local level (the Pacific Northwest) is a vital element to each individuals own learned journey in the context of their own life and view. It is heartening, as I write that this work continues.

Thank you to Alan and his dedicated staff and sponsors.

Sincerely,

Dennis Patrick Kain

Not just for Northwesterners.......2000-08-08

Having recently moved to the Northwest, this book is great in covering the history in a way that few books do. Although I don't agree with everything he says, he's got some very valid points. Interwoven in the story of "place", is his personal story, and it fits in very well. I liked this book enough I will probably actually buy it (the one I have is from the library) so that I can loan it out to friends. Besides being specifically about the Northwest, the book's premise can be transferred to other areas as well, the idea is you relating to your part of the earth and to your community.

Well written but could have been so much more.......1998-11-23

Durning pulled his punches on several topics in this book, depriving readers of his valuable insight on some of the most controversial topics in the environmental movement today. The two most glaring examples of this are his cursory discussions of immigration and abortion. He doesn't discuss whether we should address the environmental impacts of immigration, or even write about whether these impacts actually exist. And although Durning goes into great detail about his wife's precarious health during her second pregnancy and his own fears about overconsumption in the US, Durning doesn't dive into why he and his wife decided to carry to term their third pregnancy instead of aborting. Durning has written extensively and eloquently on the problems of overconsumption in the US, it would have been very enlightening to see how Durning reconciled their decision to have a third child with his environmental convictions.

One of the most important books of 1996.......1997-01-22

Durning has written a fascinating book that examines the potential of the Pacific Northwest bioregion and the people that live there. This book demonstrates that the personal is political, and shows readers how his/her own impact on the planet can be lessened. It is, by far, one of the most important books written in 1996, and one of the most important books that you can read in the year ahead

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