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Brimming with good humor and gentle encouragement, these three bestsellers from Patsy Clairmont - a featured conference speaker - are together in one hilarious volume.

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A Big Round Of Applause For Patsy Clairmont ..........2000-04-03

Patsy Clairmont has an incredibly humorous way of sharing her everyday trials and triumphs. There's no better way to express ones belief set than to douse it in humor. She has a great way of shedding Biblical truths to her fun stories and experiences. If spiritual encouragement and a good laugh is what you're looking for, this book is for you !

The Best Devotions of Patsy Clairmont (Women of Faith)

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The Best Devotions of Patsy Clairmont (Women of Faith)
Patsy Clairmont
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Culled from their best-selling devotionals, these "best of" devotions from Patsy Clairmont, Barbara Johnson, Marilyn Meberg, Luci Swindoll, Sheila Walsh, and Thelma Wells are now available as individual books by your favorite WOF author to add to your collection or to give as a gift to your sister, mother, aunt, grandmother, or friend.

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Best Devotions of Thelma Wells, The
Thelma Wells
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Undressing the Ad aims to empower readers to become media literate through the work of deconstructing the consumer culture that surrounds them. By introducing critical scholarship on advertising in a way that is accessible, the book attempts to show how issues of race, class, and gender are expressed in contemporary advertising. The readings in this book take a decidedly critical political perspective and explore how representation in advertising upholds certain economic and political structures and subverts others, and exposes the myth that advertisements are merely messages aimed at selling goods and services. Rather they are texts that shape contemporary culture and shape our images of ourselves.

Undressing the Ad: Reading Culture in Advertising.

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Undressing the Ad: Reading Culture in Advertising.
Katherine Toland (ed) Frith
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Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess
William Ewart ( Edited By I. A. Horowitz Napier
Manufacturer: U.S.A.: David McKay Company, 1957
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Paul Morphy and the Golden Age of Chess

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Paul Morphy and the golden age of chess
William Ewart Napier
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Starting with a detailed description of Delphi and C++ languages, this book covers the essential topics such as conditions, loops, strings and arrays, procedures and functions, file I/O, and pointers and gives an introduction to OOP before venturing into

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Very good .......2007-01-24

As a long time Delphi programmer from v1 through v7, C++ Builder programmer from v1 through v3, and Kylix programmer from v1 through v3, I found this book to be a very useful "nutshell" type book which provides both Delphi and C++ examples throughout.

As others have noted though, this is not the book you want if you expect more than cursory treatment [...]- I didn't so I wasn't disappointed.

Well written to boot.

Rosetta Book.......2007-01-08

I know Assembly, C, and C++, and until I read this book, did not know any Pascal. I got the book mainly to help me with Borland Developer Studio 2006. The last version I purchased from Borland was C++ Builder 4.0 and I wanted (in hard copy so I could read away from the computer) to understand the differences between the compilers. The book is written mostly for Pascal programmers, but it does a decent job covering C++.

A lot of the programs, utilities, and examples I see from various sources are in Pascal. I decided now was as good a time to learn a new language as any. For my situation, this book was the perfect choice. I could read the C++ code then use that understanding to help me learn Pascal, all while becoming familiar with Borland's new environment.

The book itself is fairly well written, though many parts are difficult to follow. It is not the right book for a new programmer - but compared to other programming books, it is a gem. If you buy this book, expect to spend time tweaking some of the examples to make them work, and don't expect to be told everything you need to complete the lessons. With that said, there was nothing I could not make work or figure out with a little thinking - which actually turned out to be a good thing because I learned quite a bit. There are also many good Windows programming techniques and ideas, which are quite valuable themselves.

My overall impression? All serious Borland BSD users should have this book on their shelf.

A very good book for Delphi beginners.......2007-01-08

I have several years of experience with C/C++ using MFC and Borland C++ Builder, and I have long been planning to expand my knowledge to Delphi. To this end, I found this book extremely well written with plain, well orgnized and easy to understand English. Albeit English is not my native language but it took me just 3 hours to finish reading almost half of the book (near 300 pages) with much enjoyment and I feel I already have a good jump start with Delphi. Of course, I guess the presented material might appear too fundamental to Delphi masters, but it is definetly a good book for someone who already have some experience with C/C++ but want to learn Delphi.

Some have complained .NET is only covered at the miminum. But to me this is acceptable since I can find information from other books once I get a hold of Delphi in general. In short, this is a very good book and I would happily rate it with 5 starts.

If your learning from scratch...get THI S book!.......2007-01-04

Having been familiar with Pascal in the past but not programming for a few years i decided to get back into the swing. But OOP and Delphi seemed like a whole new language to me. This book refreshed me on the basics and guided me through the rest. Now i look forward to writing in Delphi ... without breaking a sweat!

A very well done book.......2006-03-09

This is a splendid book. It systematically reviews the BDS/Delphi programming framework, and is written in excellent English. In contrast to the flood of books available to get new and migrating programmers up to speed with Microsoft's languages, Borland has lacked anything equivalent until now. As the owner/reader of about 100 Delphi books, some of which include more detail on much narrower topics and most of which are less well written, I was pleased to get and read this book. I learned things from it, even though I've been using Delphi since version 1. If you are looking for a first book on Delphi, this is clearly the best, although its target audience includes not just neophytes but also those considering a language/platform transition (via its coverage of C# differences). We need more such books. The fact that this immensely readable book cannot be all things to all people and (coming out within a few months of the latest release) cannot comprehensively cover all the latest langauge developments, does not detract from its intrinsic value.

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No one knows New York City like the Post. With its distinctively straightforward and streetwise style, the world's most famous tabloid is the true voice of the world's most irascible city.

But few New Yorkers realize that the Post is also the country's oldest continuously published daily newspaper or that quintessential New Yorker Alexander Hamilton was one of its distinguished founders.

For 200 years the New York Post has been a witness to the historic news events, spectacular sports stories, infamous scandals and scintillating gossip that have shaped its city.

Now you can enjoy two centuries of the Post in this colorful decade-by-decade celebration, featuring:

The Post's unique coverage of each era's major news events, from Thomas Jefferson to William Jefferson Clinton, the Civil War to the civil rights movement, the War on the Godfathers to the Son of Sam

The Post's role in fighting for abolition, Central Park, the NAACP and many other causes

Revealing biographies of famous New Yorkers and the Post's most influential editors, including William Cullen Bryant (New York's "Bryant Park" namesake)

Fascinating stories about the renowned journalists, literary giants, celebrities and infamous criminals who have been chronicled in the paper

And those unforgettable headlines...

Packed with original articles, photos, political cartoons, entertainment reviews, advertisements and more, this book is as energetic and intriguing as New York itself.

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Lots of history.......2003-06-11

Obviously, 200 years is a lot of history. That's why you leave this book with a "I want more" flavor on your mouth. But this book has the most important happenings in the past 200 years of NY history -- including 9/11. It is something to read over and over, and to use as a history source, even for kids.

History Buffs and Take Note.......2001-12-10

This will be a pleasantly surprising book for those unfamiliar with the long and, dare I say, glorious history of the oldest daily newspaper in the USA.

Founded by Alexander Hamilton, the NYP went on to help shape New York City and even the nation, in substantial, surprising ways (the creation of Central Park, the candidacy of Lincoln, the founding of the NAACP, etc.). Page Six fans will be pleased too -- there are ample servings of dirt, scandal and snort-inducing headlines. In short: an informative, fun read.

One small complaint: I would have liked to see 200 years worth of editorial/political cartoons included in the book.

The Post Rings True.......2001-12-03

Whether you love or hate New York, you will love this book. Whether you love or hate the New York Post, you will love this book. I was surprised at how quickly I was taken in my the fabulous photographs and memorable headlines. It's a wonderful historical record of New York. It's also a wonderful historical record of the country.

I could see history bufs, celebratory hounds and just about everyone being interested in it. It would make a great gift.

Truly enjoyable view of New York history.......2001-11-08

This is a book ideal for perusing. All the headlines, front pages, photos, and stories make for a unique view into New York's history. It is at the same time, entertaining, informative, and truly relaxing. Over the course of its history, the Post has covered the ideological spectrum from Left to Right, and this places fascinating interpretations into past and recent events.

A couple of shortcomings ring loud: (1) There is weak writing (or editing), and (2) there should be a bit more depth to the history presented.

Overall, however, this is highly recommended, especially for anyone interested in New York City, and those living here.

Great Headlines, great history.......2001-11-06

I grew up with all those great New York Post headlines. But I never knew how big a part the newspaper played in the city's - and country's - history.

This is a great, fun read.

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The Catalog (Kitab al-fihrist) by Ibn al-Nadim (d. 995 AD) is an index of all books written in Arabic either by Arabs or non-Arabs and contains ten discourses. The first six of them deal with books on Islamic subjects: 1. the Scriptures of Muslims, Jews and Christians with emphasis on the Quran and Quranic sciences; 2. grammar and philology; 3. history, biography, genealogy and related subjects; 4. poetry; 5. scholastic theology (kalam); 6. law and tradition. The last four discourses deal with non-Islamic subjects. 7. philosophy and the ancient sciences; 8. legends, fables, magic, conjuring Inc; 9. the doctrines of the non-monotheistic creeds; 10. alchemy. The author, a bookseller, often mentions the size of a book and the number of pages so buyers would not be cheated by copyists creating shorter versions. He refers often to copies written by famous calligraphers, bibliophies and other libraries and speaks of an auction and of the trade in books. In the opening section he deals with the alphabets of 14 people (Arabs and non-Arabs) and their manner of writing and also with the writing-pen, paper and its different varieties.

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Ideas of nonsense...

Mandatory science education as well as exciting reading

Exploring six very difficult questions

Popular science at its best

Paradigms Regained: A Further Exploration of the Mysteries of Modern Science
John L. Casti
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In Paradigms Regained, John Casti reexamines the six big questions he looked at in his 1989 book, Paradigms Lost: Did life begin naturally and on Earth? Is human behavior genetically determined? Is there a language organ in the human brain? Can computers think? Can we talk to ET? Is there a Real World?

In Paradigms Lost, he presents the evidence for yes and no answers to each question as though in a trial by jury, with witnesses arguing for the prosecution and defense, then a summary of the evidence and a verdict. Paradigms Regained takes the same questions to an appeals court, summarizes the evidence from the "trial" and introduces new evidence from the intervening decade.

Casti's goal is to show how science works, how "the single most characteristic feature of science is that its conclusions are tentative." So in three cases he now reaches a ruling of "appeal upheld," overturning his previous verdicts. In fact, the only one truly overturned is his conclusion of "not proven" to the question about the genetic determination of human behavior: he thinks the evidence for "yes" has become much stronger. In the cases of the origin of life and the existence of a Real World, he has kept the same one-word answers but now favors different mechanisms.

Together, the two books are good illustrations of how science looks at the questions that most interest nonscientists and of how scientific knowledge builds and changes. They make excellent maps to the borders between science and philosophy, science and religion, and science and pseudoscience. --Mary Ellen Curtin

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John L. Casti's Paradigms Lost framed each Big Question as a mock jury trial with prosecution, defense, and verdict rendered. Now Paradigms Regained reexamines each of these questions as an appellate brief and decides whether or not the previous verdict still holds based on a decade's worth of new evidence from the scientific world's top minds.

In Paradigms Regained, noted mathematician and researcher John Casti boldly tackles the Big Questions of science and sets our sights on a thrilling new millennium of discovery. Exploring the extraordinary "what ifs" of the natural world -- the origins of Life, the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence, our genetic destiny, the roots of Language and Learning, the limits of knowtedge -- he debates, with penetrating insight, the diverse and competing theories that exist today.

Brilliant, accessible, and totally engrossing, Paradigms Regained offers important new insight into contemporary scientific thought.

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Ideas of nonsense..........2002-05-10

What a disappointment! Casti, better known as part of the Sante Fe research group, has extended his original book 'Paradigms Lost' in this volume. He uses the rough idea of a trial to introduce the 'defense' and 'prosecution' for various scientific paradigms as of the year 2000.

The book starts out with trying to provide a rough overview of the scientific process including the grand old claim of "Of course there's more to the scientific enterprise than just concocting a theory." To top it off he drags out the Sokal "affair" where a pseudo-scientific paper was published in a literary journal and later another paper was published in a separate journal pointing out the inconsistencies in the first.

But Casti simply propogates the whole mentality wihthout seeming to acknowledge or understand what is going on. But let's start with the 'big' questions that Casti wants to tackle:

- Life arose out of natural physical processes
- Human behaviour patterns are dictacted by the genes
- Human language stems from an innate property of the brain
- Computers can think
- There exist intelligent beings in our galaxy we can communicate with

Well, a pretty heavy list but Casti really avoids doing much work to hold a proper court and instead "demonstrates" how the rationality of current scientifice paradigms can easily defeat the straw-men of any other ideas. And this is very obvious to anyone with some scientific background.

The first thing to realize is the simple fact that almost all genetic theories postulate we should have in excess of 100,000 genomes. Of course we have now completed the genome mapping fiasco and have discovered we have about 30,000. Now, one would suspect that if scientific theories were so "true" they would have pointed out this major inconsistency and some scientists did produce other theories that said this (Barry Commoner being one person who has repeatedly pointed out the problems with the present theory). But, as usual, the "scientific process" basically launched an ad hominen attack against those who actually know better.

So the first few chapters of this book are absolute nonsense (as Post would have said). Worse, Casti comes to the conclusion that the theories are the truth and keeps plowing ahead. Perhaps he should have gone and spent some time in serious research on these subjects before looking like an idiot - a quick search on the internet will find references such as Commoner, Post and Rosen. Oh well...

The whole speech section is woefully inadequate in a similar vein since Vygotsky isn't even mentioned. Once again, a quick search should have turned this up and one wonders if Casti spent any time looking up different viewpoints.

And then there is AI...well, the easiest place to start is Perlovsky. Is he here? No, of course not. In fact, this section has a quaint air of something written by a really really bad science fiction student.

Not that this book doesn't have some use - it is a prime example of what is wrong with the scientific process (as it currently stands) and the entire social structure it has spawned. Yes, Casti has produced a book with less value than Sokal's joke paper and the worst part is it is likely he believes he has presented the "truth".

Do you want to learn about where we are? Read Perlovsky, Vygotsky, Barry Commoner's article on genetics and Robert Rosen's "Life Itself". Then you'd better go back and brush up on some Wittgenstein and perhaps a quick skim of Post. We have a long way to go and Casti certainly isn't helping the process.

Mandatory science education as well as exciting reading.......2000-09-06

Bravo to John Casti for another splendid contribution. It would be extremely difficult to live up to the insight and clarity of Paradigms Lost, an essential classic, and I'm not sure this book quite hits that mark. But it surely does not disappoint either !

This book, like its predecessor, is exemplary science writing and full of the most profound insights into both the process and content of modern scientific theorizing. Casti starts by addressing the academic 'science wars' in his usual sympathetic but uncompromising style, illustrating how the odd notion of the "social construction" of science can arise among sophisticated scholars from a narrow look at the work of scientists. Taking a different tack from that of another excellent writer-on-science, Norm Levitt (Prometheus Bedeviled, etc.), Casti recognizes the social and political influences on science while also drawing a clear line between that and the notion that scientific theories are arbitrary constructions.

A thankfully brief section on the perennial issue of science and religion presents the simple conclusion that science and religion are completely different "reality-generating mechanisms," in the sense of lenses for interpreting nature. This is a theme very consistent with and explored in more detail in Michael Shermer's "How We Believe."

Casti then briefly reviews the cases made in Paradigms Lost (in order that this volume should be self-contained), and presents evidence on both sides of each question. He does not duplicate much of what was found in the previous book, but builds upon it significantly with recent research and changes in scientific worldview in each case.

True to the tentative model of science Casti espouses, several previous conclusions are altered, and one overturned. The sociobiology controversy in particular, previously "not proven" is now interpreted as having been won ... by the gene crowd.

Although this book stands on its own, it's hard to imagine that someone reading this one wouldn't be fascinated enough in the details to go back to Paradigms Lost for more background on the many elegant treatments of modern competing theories.

Given the importance of being scientifically literate today, and the misleading impression we get from reading blurbs in popular newspapers and magazines, Casti has done an invaluable service to all of us in framing some of the biggest questions in science in such a clear and thorough way.

Exploring six very difficult questions.......2000-08-08

Over ten years ago, the author wrote the book Paradigms Lost, where six of the deepest questions currently being explored by science were argued both pro and con. They are: the origin of life, the genetic role in behavior or nature versus nurture, the acquisition of language by humans, the creation of machine intelligence, the existence of extraterrestrial life and the nature of quantum reality. In the original book, each was put forward as a specific claim and argued as if it were a legal trial. The six claims are: life arose out of natural physical processes here on Earth, human behavior patterns are dictated primarily by the genes, human language capacity stems from a unique, innate property of the brain, digital computers can, in principle think, there exist intelligent beings in our galaxy with whom we can communicate and there exists no objective reality independent of an observer. In this book, the author examines the progress in these areas and revisits the verdicts in Paradigms Lost based on the new evidence.
The one point that immediately becomes clear is how complex these problems are. Despite tremendous progress in all of these areas, none of these questions is that much closer to being resolved. The two where the greatest changes have taken place are in the areas of machine intelligence and extraterrestrial intelligence. And yet, these are still the farthest from resolution. A computer defeated the greatest chess player in the world and the media is now full of repeated discoveries of planets around other stars. Both very impressive feats and most likely essential preconditions for the discovery of both types of intelligence.
The problem, as the author so well describes, is that a definitive definition of intelligence is elusive and conclusive proof of machine intelligence is even harder to specify. Furthermore, the first and fifth are closely linked. If life on Earth was seeded from space, then the answer to five is most certainly yes. Furthermore, if life arises spontaneously as a consequence of the laws of the interaction of matter, then the existence of many planets dictates that it exists on other worlds. The debate is then reduced to the development of intelligence once life forms and whether we can communicate with intelligence that developed from other evolutionary trees.
This question is linked to an answer to question three. If the acquisition of complex language is due to something special in the human brain, then it is possible that it is unique to this planet. In that case, communicating with other creatures with different special qualities may prove extraordinarily difficult or impossible.
I found the arguments easy to follow and largely free of emotional entanglements. Even when I disagreed with the conclusion, there was no reason to question the evidence, only the interpretation. If you are interested in the current thinking about these fundamental questions, I suggest you read this book.

Popular science at its best.......2000-03-30

Dr. Casti has written a number of popular science books. This one tackles the Big Questions of our day: the origins of life; nature-nurture; language; artificial intelligence; extra-terrestial life; and wave-particle mechanics. As always, he is lucid, entertaining and painstakingly fair to all sides of the issue.

Paradigms Regained is the successor to Paradigms Lost, published in 1991. There have been exciting discoveries in the decade since then. Casti looks especially closely at the paradox of objects that seem to live a double-life, like Schrödinger's unfortunate cat.

For the benefit of readers who want to learn more, the author has provided a 'To Dig Deeper' section with a list of books and articles for each 'question'.

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Paradigms Regained : a Further exploration of the mysteries of modern Science
John L. Casti
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