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This study explores how the definition of the medium, as well as its language, readership, genre conventions, and marketing and distribution strategies, have kept comic books within the realm of popular culture. Since comics have been studied mostly in relation to mass media and its influence on society, there is a void in the analysis of the critical issues related to comics as a distinct genre and art form. By focusing on comics as narratives and investigating their formal and structural aspects, as well as the unique reading process they demand, this study presents a unique contribution to the current literature on comics, and helps clarify concepts and definitions useful in studying the medium.
(Ph.D. dissertation, University of Alberta, 1995; revised with new preface, bibliography, and index)

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A literary look at comedy, movies, and songs........2003-12-22

This book of essays is written mainly by college professors, with one by Albert Goldman, a successful writer known mainly for his biographies. The authors' scholarly specialties include Hebrew, Comparative Literature, History, English, General Studies in the Humanities, and the most ancient scholarly claim is a position in Yiddish Language and Literature in the Jewish sector of the Kiev Pedagogic Institute from 1928 to 1931, in the case of Meyer Wiener (1893-1941), who contributed "On Sholom Aleichem's humor" (pp. 37-52). Irving Howe is also famous as the Editor of `Dissent.' If that sounds vaguely un-American, Howe might still feel more American than Michael Greenstein, Associate Professor of English at the University of Sherbrooke, Quebec. Someone in this book describes Charlie Chaplin as being very English Jewish, typical of the categories needed to comprehend the variety that this book attempts to cover. There is no index, and notes are collected at the end of each essay. The authors drop far more names than notes. Albert Goldman has no notes, but he mentions 24 names in his first paragraph, plus the Marx Brothers, in a list which starts "From the earliest years of vaudeville," (p. 80) and "to the sick comics, Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Shelly Berman, Woody Allen--they've all been Jews." (p. 80).

There is an attempt to branch out to other subcultures in "Beyond Kvetching and Jiving: The Thrust of Jewish and Black Folkhumor" (pp. 53-76, notes pp. 76-79), which cites a page of an article, "Jokes Negroes Tell on Themselves" by Langston Hughes in `Negro Digest' (June 1951). The other essay title with Yiddish words is "Lenny Bruce: Shpritzing the Goyim/Shocking the Jews" (pp. 89-104) by Sanford Pinsker. The theme of comically vile speech is continued with "The Unkosher Comediennes: From Sophie Tucker to Joan Rivers" (pp. 105-123, notes pp. 123-124) by Sarah Blacher Cohen, who also wrote the "Introduction: The Varieties of Jewish Humor" (pp. 1-14, notes pp. 14-15). The history is a bit older than I expected. Sophie Tucker was Sophie Abuza until she married Louis Tuck at the age of sixteen, had a son, and "left the baby with her parents to break into New York show business." (p. 106). A few of her songs were worth putting down on paper in a surprisingly explicit way, and I'm most fond of the song "When am I Getting the Mink, Mr. Fink?" (p. 109).

The essay on Lenny Bruce by Sanford Pinsker starts by calling Lenny a "neologist." (p. 89). Once Lenny got started on a topic, he let loose "Words, showers of them, unleashed, sprayed, machine-gunned at the audience until they `cracked up,' couldn't stand it anymore . . . that was Lenny Bruce's brand of neology whether he was `working a room' or talking on the telephone." (p. 90). The best example of Jewish and goyish is:

`When Bruce insists, for example, that "Pumpernickel is Jewish and, as you know, white bread is very goyish," he both reduces "difference" to a matter of supermarket preference and makes it clear that the Jews were hipper, smarter, superior, chosen--because they saw their corned beef through a rye, darkly.' (p. 92).

Literary Americans and those who go to movies might be familiar with the works of Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth. There are a few more authors mentioned in this book. In fact, each of the essays in this book might have a list of favorite authors lurking somewhere within its appreciation of how well humor works. It helps to have some sense of how modern writers picked up themes from people who do not ordinarily say what everybody else wouldn't say under any circumstances. The modern writer is already aware that such circumstances exist. The jokes in this book won't seem any more stale now than they were in 1987, when it was published. Probably one good reason this book does not have an index is because literary society does not have a convention for how to list jokes about God. I'm not going to tell you where they are, beyond:

"We have a God in heaven, thank God; but has he got a people on earth, God help him!" (p. 17).

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Jewish Wry : Essays on Jewish Humor
Sarah Blacher Cohen
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Excellent Read.......2002-09-19

This is an outstanding book, providing a wonderful insight into the pre and post production stages of 'The Crow: City of Angels'. It includes around 200 fantastic colour photographs of the cast, crew, and the set, as well as interviews with the film's stars, production crew, and James O'Barr, the creator of 'The Crow'. I personally found that this book proves that everyone involved really tried to create a film that was different to it's more successful predecessor starring the late Brandon Lee. This book is a must have for all Crow fans.

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THE CROW City of Angels - A Diary of the Film

Manufacturer: Kitchen Sink Press
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Very Interesting.......2001-04-10

This book is one of many that I have to read for a class titled 1980's America. I think that the author makes some great arguments and points out a few diffrent connections between MTV and American society. It is very easy to lose interest in the first few chapters but keep going and it will become easier to follow. He goes into depth with various songs and breaks down the actual videos. Definitly an intersting view on the importance of MTV in the 80's. But it is also nice to have some background knowledge on the time period.

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PowerPoint 2002 For Dummies covers the essentials you need to know to create presentation slides, dress them up using templates and graphics, add sound and animation, and make your presentation in a business or Internet setting. Plus, this friendly guide covers the newest features included with PowerPoint including the updated interface.

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Powerpoint.......2007-07-03

This is not a book that you read and review. You look for a particular bit of information at specific times when you work with the system. It is informative and helpful in many cases and in some cases it is not.

Powerpoint Review.......2005-08-30

Easy to use, contains some useless info. Worked fine for getting me aquainted with Powerpoint

Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Quick Reference Card - Handy Durable Tri-Fold MS Power Point Tip & Tricks Guide. 6 Total Pages. Stores Easily. Ultimate Reference for Shortcuts, Tips & Cheats for PowerPoint. (Software Quick Reference Cards)

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Quick Reference Card - Handy Durable Tri-Fold MS Power Point Tip & Tricks Guide. 6 Total Pages. Stores Easily. Ultimate Reference for Shortcuts, Tips & Cheats for PowerPoint. (Software Quick Reference Cards)

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BrainStorm's Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Quick Start Card gives PowerPoint users a quick and tangible reference they can use to add clean transitions, create pleasing slide designs, and to take the presentation on the go. Topics include the following plus many more: Drawings and Animations, Design Templates, Adding Content and Media to Your Presentation, Editing Your Presentation, Sharing Your Presentation, Using Pack and Go & More. This durable laminated tri-fold card is perfect to hang in a cubicle for all-day reference or to take in a laptop bag. The full-color step-by-step illustrated instructions on each of the 6 full pages of content can also take the stress out of learning a new program like PowerPoint.

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Maps, censuses and other sources of geographic and demographic information are common reference tools for historians, but integrated computer hardware and software systems designed for the preparation, presentation, and interpretation of such geographic and spatially-referenced data are rarely intended for use outside the Earth Sciences. This Guide to Good Practice is written for historians who want to use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) as part of their research. It defines GIS and outlines how it can be used in historical research, describes how to create and get data into a GIS database, explains how GIS can be used for simple mapping and more advanced forms of visualisation, and discusses the various ways to analyse data within GIS. It includes case studies from a variety of historical projects that have used GIS and an extensive reading list of GIS texts relevant to historians. No prior knowledge of GIS has been assumed.

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The Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia by force of arms, then committed the most brazen crimes since the Third Reich: at least 1.5 million people murdered between 1975 and 1979. Yet no individuals were ever tried or punished. This book is the story of Peter Maguire's effort to learn how Cambodia's "culture of impunity" developed, why it persists, and the failures of the "international community" to confront the Cambodian genocide. Written from a personal and historical perspective, Facing Death in Cambodia recounts Maguire's growing anguish over the gap between theories of universal justice and political realities.

Maguire documents the atrocities and the aftermath through personal interviews with victims and perpetrators, discussions with international and NGO officials, journalistic accounts, and government sources gathered during a ten-year odyssey in search of answers. The book includes a selection of haunting pictures from among the thousands taken at the now infamous Tuol Sleng prison (also referred to as S-21), through which at least 14,000 men, women, and children passed -- and from which fewer than a dozen emerged alive.

What he discovered raises troubling questions: Was the Cambodian genocide a preview of the genocidal civil wars that would follow in the wake of the Cold War? Is international justice an attainable idea or a fiction superimposed over an unbearably dark reality? Did issues of political expediency allow Cambodian leaders to escape prosecution?
The Khmer Rouge violated the Nuremberg Principles, the United Nations Charter, the laws of war, and the UN Genocide Convention. Yet in the decade after the regime's collapse, the perpetrators were rescued and rehabilitated-even rewarded-by China, Thailand, the United States, and the UN. According to Peter Maguire, Cambodia holds the key to understanding why recent UN interventions throughout the world have failed to prevent atrocities and to enforce treaties.

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History as a personal quest.......2006-04-30

Peter Maguire's mix of personal travelogue and historical study works well, with the author lingering on the question of impunity and the ineffectual international community, whilst interviewing victims and perpetrators of Khmer Rouge crimes on many visits following his first trip to Cambodia in 1994. That first exciting yet unnerving visit in 1994 is something the author and myself have in common, as we do the loss of a close Cambodian friend in recent years. His loss was Sok Sin, well known as every journalist's 'fixer' and Maguire's tale of his demise is poignant. His interviews with the suvivors of Tuol Sleng such as Bou Meng, Vann Nath and Im Chan contrast sharply with the soul-less KR photographer Nhem En and guard Him Huy, whilst DC-Cam and Youk Chhang rightly emerge as a beacon of light in the chaos that is Cambodia. He also tracked down Mai Lam, the Vietnamese colonel who'd turned Tuol Sleng into a Genocide Museum though ultimately their discussions were stymied. I found the book stimulating, frustrating, insightful and vexing in equal measures, with Maguire admitting up front that he ultimately failed to come to any clear-cut conclusions. However, the journey to get to nowhere is an interesting one.

Magnificently Disturbing.......2006-02-25

This remarkable book takes the reader deep inside the minds of a culture so hard to penetrate that I am returning this year to Cambodia just to attempt to understand the obvious - here is a country in a state of denial. "Facing Death in Cambodia" very effectively analyses Cambodia's culture of compliance, a nation meek to authority, and seemingly paralyzed by a recent past so convulsive that to even think about it is an invitation to "bad karma" - even among survivors and the unindicted killers of their children who sometimes share the same street. Mr Maguire excells at the job of rendering the 75-79 story in human terms. His portraits of the familiar figures like the photographer of those shattering Tuol Slong ID pictures are very important to our understanding of what sort of mental gymnastics many at the heart of the genocide are capable of. The heroic Vann Nath, whose miraculous survival is powerfully and touchingly explained in the book, emerges as a beacon of clear sightedness.Yet even here there is paradox - the survivor is eager to greet the photographer almost as an old friend. The author's tenacious search for the mind set and value system of the killers, and how D.K.'s perverted ideology can be effortlessly justified in Cambodia's "culture of impunity", make for provocative reading. I was particularly impressed by the author's descriptions of lurking violence. The weserner's stereotypes of the smiling Khmer do not long survive exposure to present reality. When Mr. Maguire takes you through the marketplaces and cafes of Phnom Penh, don't expect a comfortable ride. In one shattering passage,we are told how quickly peasant vengeance in the street over seeming trifles turns to horror in a blink. Overall, this book is one of the most important documents of Cambodia's modern history. Mr Maguire has no illusions that this beautiful, tormented country's battle to start over is going to be over soon. Here is a writer of compassion and power, and his book is an excellent one.

Dealing with Mass Murderers .......2006-01-06

This is a clear and concise book about the horrendous regime of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979)and the aftermath. The author asks the question: why haven't leaders of the Khmer Rouge been prosecuted for the mass murder they perpetrated on their own people. He finds a partial answer by looking at international politics and the machinations of Cambodian leaders, the UN, and the US and everyone's lack of priority in seeking justice in Cambodia.

The author, along the way, adds his personal experiences and interesting observations about Phnom Penh and Cambodia in the 1990s and up until 2003. He interviews a large number of Cambodians, including guards and survivors, about the goings on at the notorious S-21 prison. As many as twenty thousand entered the prison; fewer than a dozen survived. There are photos of some of the murdered and the survivors and several historic photos of Khmer Rouge soldiers. The author delves into the mentality of the mass murderers and present day Cambodians who still suffer the trauma of that horrific era.

Chapter two in this book is one of the best brief descriptions of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia and its consequences that I have read. All in all the book is a readable introduction to the sordid history of the Khmer Rouge and the half-hearted international efforts to cope with mass murder and its perpetrators.

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I Still Wonder Why.......2005-05-22

I've often wondered about the genocide in Cambodia. The amount of material available on the Holocaust is emmense. We basically went to war to stop the "Ethnic Clensing" in the Balkans. But in Cambodia, almost noting, even while it was going on it seemed to be largely ignored. The famous pictures of the piles of skulls seemed to have no effect.

When this was happening we had just ended our participation in the Viet Nam war. I asked a Viet Nam protester why they weren't protesting what was happening there, why are we building a Holocaust museum when something of almost horror was happening in Cambodia. There was no answer.

For a time I thought that it might be an issue of race/color. The Jews were white, the Cambodian brown. Then the happenings in Rawanda got a fair amount of press coverage. And I can only conclude that it was just a matter of time. Viet Nam took all the energy the protestors had, perhaps combined with such a contempt/hatred for our own government that they couldn't see the evil in the Khmer Rouge. Maybe it was the left's "love" for communism that made them blind.

Peter Maguire's book puts a personal and human face on this genocide. He has talked to the people all over Cambodia, he has analyzed the international response and concluded that "international law, human rights, and international criminal courts are little more than sonorous fictions without political will."

There is no political will to even think much about Cambodia, not while it was happening, not now.

Unbelievable.......2005-05-07

I just bought a copy of this book because I saw the lecture Dr. Maguire gave on CSPAN and was riveted. The book is unbelievably important in these times when the United States claims to be doing things for international justice. But when you read this and see how Pol Pot got away with so much and what's going on in Asia you won't be able to understand why we were so consumed with a man like Saddam Hussein (oil). Everyone should read this book.

Facing Death in Cambodia.(Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War)(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs

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Facing Death in Cambodia.(Cambodia Now: Life in the Wake of War)(Book Review) : An article from: Pacific Affairs
D. Gordon Longmuir
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FACING DEATH IN CAMBODIA
PETER MAGUIRE
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passionate and introspective

The Essential Florman

Repetitive, Long-Winded Engineering Nolstagia

Much better than "To Engineer is Human."

The Critically Thinking Engineer

The Civilized Engineer (Thomas Dunne Book)
Samuel C. Florman
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Civil engineer Samuel Forman's The Civilized Engineer is aimed at both those observing and commenting externally on engineering, and the practicing engineer-to reveal something of the art behind great engineering achievements, and to stimulate debate upon the author's hypothesis that "in its moment of ascendance, engineering is faced with the trivialization of its purpose and the debasement of its practice."

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passionate and introspective.......2000-06-27

This is an excellent book for anyone who's ever wanted to take a look into the mind of an engineer. Many of the examples are outdated and the later capters degrade into seemingy-endless lobbying for increased integration of liberal arts into engineering education (a noble, but unrealistic goal). However, this book provides insight into the engineering profession by asking questions that all engineers should ask themselves (but many may not have). Questions such as: what makes and engineer an engineer? how did engineering develop from its early days as informal apprenticeships into a "civilized" profession? how does an engineer balance the demands of his/her employer against his/her own conscience? One may not always agree with the answers given, nonetheless, the questions provide insight into what makes at least one engineer tick. As an engineer, I could identify with the author and his quest for self understanding.

This book provides a refreshing alternative to the "nerdy" image with which engineers are often identified. It provides a chance to view the "anonymous profession" of engineering as a sum of its individual parts. Yes, as professionals engineers must be exact, but we must also be creative. Yes, engineers must be loyal to their employer and work from withing the system, but as individuals, we carry with us our individual identities, political ideals, and codes of honor. Yes, we must learn math and science (and dare I that many of us even enjoy doing so), but many of us also enjoy literature, music, art, and other "liberal" studies. This book proves that at least one engineer can WRITE a well-researched book that is also enjoyable to read. Indeed an engineer can be both technically competent and civilized.

The Essential Florman.......2000-05-23

Samual Florman is graceful and balanced writer, as well as a very proud and sensible practicing civil engineer. All of his writing is well worth reading, especially for professional humanists wisely or foolishly spooked by technology, which is not going away, but this one gets to the heart of ancient and impending problems. Florman notes a cultural disrespect, perhaps fading by now, for his profession and looks within, especially at the standard American university engineering curriculum, rather than simply, and simple-mindedly, assigning all blame to others. What a concept! Recommended for all ages and prejudices.

Repetitive, Long-Winded Engineering Nolstagia.......2000-03-14

Despite leading projects with complex dynamics between people, technology, business and strategic issues, engineers often get bad-press for being too scientific, logical and pragmatic. Civil engineer Samuel Forman's "The Civilized Engineer" is aimed at both those observing and commenting externally on engineering, and the practicing engineer- to reveal something of the art behind great engineering achievements, and to stimulate debate upon the author's (1987) hypothesis- that "in its moment of ascendance, engineering is faced with the trivialization of its purpose and the debasement of its practice."

The book meanders around a wide range of related subjects including: heritage from classical times, ethics, teamworking, rewards, public perceptions, electronic future and publishing, risk analysis and decision making, and the characteristics of the civilized engineer (i.e. concept, people, schooling, women, and change).

From Plato's time engineers have been labeled inferior (and artists superior), a tradition carried through the ancient European universities including Oxford and Cambridge in the UK, imported to US universities, and maintained to this day. This is despite the fact that from the fall of Rome onwards, societal/empire/superpower collapses have been caused by politics and lethargy rather than by the balanced use of technology to solve problems. Organization's supporting the professionalism of engineers include: the medieval guilds, the UK Royal Society (1660), the UK engineers institutes (1771 onwards), military engineer training (1817 onwards), and universities (RPI in US 1835). National differences are highlighted- the British individual enterprising hands-on apprenticeships, the theoretical French universities, the large-scale planned German approach, and the status-focus of US engineering societies. Around the beginning of this century when business schools did not exist, engineers like F.W.Taylor spread "Scientific Management" successfully managing US industry and business.

Today millions of engineers across many branches of engineering work in teams on complex projects and strive to be effective, creative, conscientious, and ethically responsible.

Many engineers are driven more by creativity, and the solving of organisational or technical problems, rather than by great wealth or fame (despite the Silicon Valley millionaires), leading to subjugation by the money-motivated (although dual technical-management career ladders can compensate somewhat).

Forman asserts that the media and government tend to simplify debate (about technical-engineering) reinforcing some elitist-perspectives of engineering, but reducing the awareness of issues and debate by the public and often-untrained media. Computers have become central in the media and trade publications, often without evidence of positive contribution to the problem at hand. Ocean engineering is portrayed as an exciting area of opportunity.

The account of the loss of Challenger in 1986 demonstrates media bias in reporting decisions by "engineers" overridden by "managers" with disastrous consequences (when in fact all parties were engineers, but reinforcing portrayal of engineers as lower-level staff).

Forman asserts that the hypothesized civilized engineer, supported by a liberal arts education, is required to take leadership roles in future society, as "The politicians, and even the statesmen, are merely scrambling to deal with the revolutions in weapons, agriculture and industry created by the scientists and engineers. The latter have transformed man's capacity to give life, to sustain and prolong life, and to take life; and the politicians no longer find that they can deal with all the new complexities and ambiguities..."(J.Reston, "Washington, The Dull but Hopeful World of the Future", New York Times Dec.13, 1964). The `reading list' for `educated people' covering history and literature, includes: Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, Wordsworth, Dickens, Marx, Eliot, Twain, the Bible etc..

The debate of arts versus (applied) science has raged for centuries and that between industry, academia, and consulting for decades. Indeed, the March 2000 issue of Wired magazine, includes reports on a Internet startup Harvard University student protesting at his University's traditional Liberal arts focus, and $billionaires in India's Bangalore-IT phenomenon (rivaling/exceeding Silicon Valley quality at 1/20th cost) thanking the US Liberal Arts mindset, for their business opportunities. This reviewer having worked 20 years across sectors, believes universities to excel in rigor, innovation and creativity, industry in urgent application, and consulting in charismatic change. Note- that all factors are required for the most effective, creative, conscientious and ethical solution. Further, to maintain competitive advantage and wider engineering awareness, leading global engineering institutions (e.g. UK IEE, US IEEE) suggest engineers should undertake structured continuing professional development which involves reading & writing papers, attending trade shows & training courses, and completion of further degrees (perhaps at intervals of a decade, including liberal arts and generalist degrees like MBAs).

Strengths of "The Civilized Engineer" include: the passion of the debate, and wealth and breadth of supporting US information.

Weaknesses include: limit of vision as the author does not reflect a wider global community of engineers and sectors; sometimes flow would benefit from moving text to footnotes or endnotes; the greatly reduced readibility of the 2nd half of the book due to the lack of new material and over-repetition of the `liberal arts mantra'; missing significant details including Schumacher's relevant 1973 book- "Small is Beautiful" introducing the concept of appropriate technology, sustainable development and economics; and the lack of mention of the UK Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (1754) supporting sustainable development and society.

Other more recent books in this domain include: D.P.Billington's "The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern" (Wiley, 1996) presenting profiles of historical engineering pacesetters revolutionizing US commerce, industry and history; and E.S.Ferguson's "Engineering and the Mind's Eye" (MIT Press, 1994) exploring the intuition and non-verbal thinking side of engineers that is often ignored in favor of computation and equations.

Overall, "The Civilized Engineer" is a welcome change from reading narrow technical engineering, and (often) superficial business books. It's worth reading once to summarize and feel good about being an engineer- but not worth a re-read due to the ultimately limited and dated content.

Much better than "To Engineer is Human.".......1999-02-05

This book has probably changed my future some what. I am a pre-eingineering student, and found this book very approprate. It made me want to avoid being just a number cruncher, and proved to be that those english and pilosophy classes were not a waste of time. The best thing about this book was that it actually had a point, and stuck to it.

The Critically Thinking Engineer.......1998-09-22

To call this book a classic would be stretching the metaphor a bit. It's audience is, perhaps inappropriately, far too small. But, for those engineers who may wish to understand their academic training and subsequent practice as more than a vocational exercise will appreciate Florman's thesis, and may even be profoundly changed by it. Florman takes great care in describing how engineers, as creative artists, are not immune from the so-called "liberal arts", and can actually benefit from them. Engineers need critical thinking. The author was able to teach me that, even though I don't practice engineering, the intellectual stimulation I felt while studying it is an invaluable asset. That stimulation encouraged me to continue--to satisfy that innate curiosity independent of subject. Technology has an intangible element that Florman captures and describes beautifully.

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