Poland - Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business Intelligence Report Library)

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Poland - Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook (World Business Intelligence Report Library)
USA International Business Publications
Manufacturer: International Business Publications, USA
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 0739726331

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This report contains business intelligence information for succesful export-import, business and investment operations, strategic contacts and more... The report also contains selected information on investment and business opportunities, international economic projects, tenders, government projects, as well as, marketing and export-import opportunities information.

Poland Business Intelligence Report (World Tax Guide Library)

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Poland Business Intelligence Report (World Tax Guide Library)

Manufacturer: Intl Business Pubns USA
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ASIN: 073978160X

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ho-hum.......2002-10-30

This isn't a bad book. It isn't a good book. It just seems pretty standard issue. There aren't any surprises in the story line and I found the artwork to be somewhat stilted. However, if you're a fan of magic and mayhem, check it out.

The Nine Rings of Wu-Tang #5 Vol. 1 July 2000

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The Nine Rings of Wu-Tang #5 Vol. 1 July 2000
Aaron Bullock
Manufacturer: Image Comics
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Binding: Comic

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ASIN: B000RBZC2S

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Short stories with a long meaning that tell of God's grace revealed in unexpected places and unlikely people.

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Wasn't sure what to expect!.......2000-05-08

I enjoyed this easy read. I live in San Antonio and see Dr. Fanning on the TV and in public. I was not sure what to expect of this book, but I was treated to an incite into what makes Dr. F - Dr. F and what makes man - man. I escpecially liked the tale of "Mother's Favorite Vase" and the "Visit to the Tattoo Parlor!" Yes those sound odd, but you'll have to read the details for yourself. Excellent!

God Drives A Pickup Truck.......2000-01-26

Dr. Buckner Fanning tells wonderful stories of how God has worked in his life and in the lives of many others. From adventures in Russia to finding God driving a pickup, the stories are a real treat and they will bring God right into your lap as you read.

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In the past two decades, Othello has tried out for the basketball team, Macbeth has taken over a fast food joint, and King Lear has moved to an Iowa farm—Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. This collection of essays addresses the use of Shakespearean narratives, themes, imagery, and characterizations in non-Shakespearian cinema. The essays explore how Shakespeare and his work are manipulated within the popular media and explore topics such as racism, jealousy, misogyny and nationality.

The submissions concentrate on film and television programs that are adaptations of Shakespearean plays, including My Own Private Idaho, CSI-Miami, A Thousand Acres, Prospero's Books, O, 10 Things I Hate About You, Withnail and I, Get Over It, and The West Wing. Each chapter includes notes and a list of works cited. A full bibliography completes the work; it is divided into bibliographies and filmographies, general studies and essays, derivatives based on a single play, derivatives based on several, and derivatives based on Shakespeare as a character.

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Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television.(Book review): An article from: Shakespeare Bulletin
Nicholas Jones
Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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Binding: Digital

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Release Date: 2006-11-07

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This digital document is an article from Shakespeare Bulletin, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 1356 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Almost Shakespeare: Reinventing His Works for Cinema and Television.(Book review)
Author: Nicholas Jones
Publication: Shakespeare Bulletin (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Page: 71(3)

Article Type: Book review

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Television and Common Knowledge considers how television is and can be a vehicle for well-informed citizenship in a fragmented modern society. Contributors first examine how common knowledge is assumed and produced across the huge social, cultural and geographic gulfs that characterize modern society, and investigate the role of television as the primary medium for the production and dissemination of knowledge. Later contributions concentrate on specific TV genres such as news, documentary, political discussions, and popular science programs, considering the changing ways in which they attempt to inform audiences, and how they are actually made meaningful by viewers.

Contributors: Suzanne de Cheveignon, John Corner, Daniel Dayan, John Ellis, Jostein Gripsrud, Klaus Bruhn Jensen, Anders Johansen, Peter Larsen, Sonia Livingstone, Graham Murdock, David Morley, Roger Silverstone and Eliséo Véron

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A great overview of the Marvel U for gamers or comic fans.......1999-04-14

While primarily for use with the Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game, this book makes a nice primer for anyone wanting to learn more about the Marvel Comics Universe. Great maps and color illustrations, too!

Acurate.......1999-03-15

Has detailed locations and blueprints of different areas in the Marvel Universe. Gives you just about everything.

Mysteries and Marvels of Ocean Life (Mysteries and Marvels)

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Mysteries and Marvels of Ocean Life (Mysteries and Marvels)
Rick Morris
Manufacturer: E.D.C. Publishing
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ASIN: 0881101494

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Ubiquitous computing--almost imperceptible, but everywhere around us--is rapidly becoming a reality. How will it change us? how can we shape its emergence?

Smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing... even smart bathtubs. networked street signs and self-describing soda cans. Gestural interfaces like those seen in Minority Report. The RFID tags now embedded in everything from credit cards to the family pet.

All of these are facets of the ubiquitous computing author Adam Greenfield calls "everyware." In a series of brief, thoughtful meditations, Greenfield explains how everyware is already reshaping our lives, transforming our understanding of the cities we live in, the communities we belong to--and the way we see ourselves.

What are people saying about the book?

"Adam Greenfield is intense, engaged, intelligent and caring. I pay attention to him. I counsel you to do the same." -- HOWARD RHEINGOLD, AUTHOR, SMART MOBS: THE NEXT SOCIAL REVOLUTION

"A gracefully written, fascinating, and deeply wise book on one of the most powerful ideas of the digital age--and the obstacles we must overcome before we can make ubiquitous computing a reality."-- STEVE SILBERMAN, EDITOR, WIRED MAGAZINE

"Adam is a visionary. he has true compassion and respect for ordinary users like me who are struggling to use and understand the new technology being thrust on us at overwhelming speed."-- REBECCA MACKINNON, BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

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A Magnificent Foray.......2006-12-20

"Everyware" is a magnificent, quixotic foray into the future. At once boldly assertive in attempting to define the evolving trend of ubiquitous computing, it's also disarmingly self-effacing as the author describes his own slowness to adopt, and doubts about, the same technology. As an attempt to thoroughly survey the elusive, ever-evolving world of ubiquitous computing, it is a tour de force.

The text is an impressive series of 81 precise "theses" that describe "the dawning age of ubiquitous computing". Each thesis explores, through historical antecedent and incisive contemporaneous analysis, one aspect of the arriving "ubicomp" paradigm which he terms "everyware."

Author Adam Greenfield seems to have presaged nearly all useful comment on the nature and near future direction of ubiquitous computing. Compared to this work, even such transformative declarations as the Cluetrain Manifesto come across as merely sophomoric, though sincere drumbeats.

Greenfield is a facile conceptualist, comfortable with traditional academic discipline yet easily capable of creating significant buzz with an avant garde writing style molded through constant travel and communication with moblogging ubicomp fanatics from Tokyo to Stockholm. A thought leader, and certainly not a follower, he's always eager to cross swords with iconic figures of the new media establishment, or to ally with them.

Greenfield's style is to trace geodesic descriptive arcs around the ever-evolving space of this subject. In his view, "Everyware" is driven in parts by historical dialectic, cultural evolution, technological invention and entrepreneurial testosterone. In each thesis we are tantalized and left wanting more. Many of Greenfield's theses could easily - and should be - developed into full volumes on their own.

The text frequently and informally refers to events, people, objects and technologies both present and past that support or amplify the author's points, bespeaking extensive research and correspondence. Despite this thoroughness, the book lacks citations and bibliography, perhaps in an effort to make the content seem less weighty and more of a visionary discussion.

Predictive today, this book may become increasingly relevant as its grand vision becomes reality. It may be that an historical perspective will be needed to fully appreciate this contribution. Its meaning and value will be different in "middle age" (say 4 years from now) when Greenfield's many predictions can be evaluated against coetaneous events. The final test will be well down the line when the influence of "Everyware" as manifesto can be seen in historical context.

One of the most endearing aspects of Greenfield's style is his own self-effacing, fundamentally human take on subjects large and small. He writes as the daring internationalist conceptual thinker he is, but never loses sight of his own humanity. He often makes an arching, bitingly tight commentary, which is immediately leavened gently by a genuine and warm personal perspective.

Greefield's personal style infuses the work and subtly develops what may be the most important message of the entire work: the urgent need to preserve humanity and user-centricity in the component development of this overwhelmingly complex and centerless computing system, one that may someday control the electronic infrastructure of the 21st century world.

Despite my enthusiasm for it, there IS a serious problem with "Everyware." The great flaw of this book is lack of a central theme. Despite skillful seques from one thesis ending into the next, the book remains a series of essays whose essential points interconnect, leaving the reader with the task of finding the larger common denominator. It's as if the author were describing each brilliant facet of a diamond, without ever describing the gem itself. It may be possible to describe a whole through the intimate dissection of its parts, but it's hard on a reader. I'd prefer reading the same material structured as a series of proofs supporting a central theme. With such backbone, it would be far easier to learn, test and evaluate the theses.

A less important though still serious shortcoming is the author's exclusive reliance on (sometimes overwhelmingly complex) text. Reading "Everyware" is not for the faint of heart, as its concepts do not enter one's consciousness easily. Despite a clear attempt to write simply, Greenfield's style is inherently complex and he often writes with a fairly high "Fog Index." As a result the reader must pay close attention, but the result in stimulation and knowledge is well worth the effort.

Visual learners will find the book difficult going. Despite numerous footnotes, there is not a single illustration or diagram in the work, nor are there more than a few URL references. For an author and design critic who celebrates beauty in his core (see Greenfield's v-2.org), this is a curious, and galling omission. The theses are replete with references to objects and sites we never see, thus forcing the reader to conjure understanding through the exercise of imagination. I found this highly distracting and made it more difficult to read the work.

Such heavy reliance on text works to exclude visually oriented people, many of whom may be involved in the design of ubicomp hardware and software, and who need to get the message. It also seems odd that Greenfield, until recently a practicing information architect, did not at publication prepare a companion "Everyware" website through which readers could see and experience the scores of supportive examples he provides in support of his theses.

To be fair, it may be that Greenfield (and/or his publisher) did not want to commit resources to the visual description of a subject likely to change within months, preferring to aim at more universal points that might survive the roiling rate of evolution in the field. Time and expense may have been an issue for this first time effort (obtaining reproduction rights and creating original artwork can take much time and money).

Having said that, it seems curiously unforgivable that a book that rides the edge of thought about a potentially significant evolution in human thought and technology should be so lacking in employment of that same technology. It seems incomprehensible that the content was not produced and marketed with equally avant-garde methods such as viral marketing, print on demand production that allows frequent updates, e-book or PDF format (with live links) and website support.

Perhaps time was a factor. The book does seem rushed and breathless, as if it were composed in tense moments of brilliance at a Starbucks, or while infused with ideas after a conference. This tone, taken with the exclusion of graphical elements, makes it seem like the author wanted to be the first on the block to announce "everyware'" and to be credited with coinage of the term. Whether this perception is true or not, it does lead to the conclusion that "Everyware" is a well-crafted effort, but one in dire need of a more thoughtfully considered, better-budgeted, and website-supported second edition.

On the other hand, conceptual density and complex sentence structure seem necessary for Greenfield. His mind works so fast and at such a complex level that he literally needs an explosive, quick way to get the ideas out. I hope that in a subsequent edition, the assistance of more patient and less driven editors would enhance and expand the audience for this importantly predictive and analytical work. A richly graphic approach to the next version would further expand the audience for these important ideas.

In deference to both the reader and the essence of ubicomp, perhaps a future edition can be packaged with (or be)a flash device with a web server embedded in it, containing the text and a full library of reference visuals, diagrams and videos that expand and amplify the concept in the book. By using such a device the reader can be plugged into the meaning of "Everyware" not only informationally but experientially.

"Everyware" rates a B PLUS. B for brilliant because Greenfield truly is, and PLUS for being a superb beginning but not (yet) a home run.

As a final note, I feel sure that "Everyware" is not the last word coming from Adam Greenfield on the subject of ubiquitous computing. An emerging movement couldn't have a more passionate, persuasive and skillful evangelist, nor one whose own humanity and affinity for others helps soften the fear of the unknown, and can help convert resistance to change into open-eyed anticipation.

A good description of ubiquitous computing.......2006-12-13

Ubiquitous computing can mean different things to different people, especially without a concise yet comprehensive description. The book contains a series of statements which I feel helps to define or characterize what ubiquitous computing is about and some of its unique features. I found the book helpful in explaining ideas at a non-technical level without being too abstract. Lastly, "everyware" is a really good word that I think does capture the idea of ubiquitous computing well. Instead of people going to the computer to get things done, the computer has come out to where things are done.

Not interesting.......2006-11-02

It's just a series of repetitive dissertations that reinforce the point that ubiquitous computing will exist in the future. If you know that already, this is nothing new or interesting.

Everyware is a possibility, but can we stand the reality?.......2006-06-05

The term everyware is defined as the ability to access significant computing power from any location, and does not necessarily mean that computer chips are embedded in everything. Hence the contraction from "everywhere software." While chips may not be embedded in everything, that scenario is certainly possible in the near future, as only two preconditions are necessary.

*) Each tag must be uniquely identifiable. This is currently being enacted, Internet Protocol Version 6 has an address space that would allow every grain of sand on Earth to have multiple, unique addresses.
*) The cost of the embedded chips must drop, the figure most commonly cited is less than five cents.

While the first condition is already being implemented, everyone following the history of computing knows that the second is only a matter of time. Most industry watchers believe that this basic threshold will be reached no later than 2008.
Therefore, there are no significant technological barriers to the implementation of everyware. The question then becomes, "Do we as a society want it?" Certainly, we want the convenience that everyware provides. By monitoring the state of health of our bodies, houses and vehicles, our comfort and safety levels will rise. However, there is an enormous downside to this as well. With the advent of everyware, personal privacy will be even more a thing of the past. It will be possible to know the location of a person at all times, both physically and in cyberspace, the people they are with, what they are doing and what they have purchased. It is also clear that divorce lawyers will try to obtain records of the locations of people in order to try to prove that the opposing spouse is guilty of some form of malfeasance. It will no longer be necessary for spies to hide in vehicles and behind bushes.
This book examines both the positive and negative sides of these issues and summarizes the consequences of what will clearly be a revolution. The laws regarding the use of personal data will have to be substantially rewritten to handle these issues, as the gains of everyware will be too strong to prevent the implementation. I cite as evidence the widespread use of cell phones and other mobile devices. Marketing people would find it easy to identify a customer at a purchase point such as a gas station by the number of their credit card. Once you are identified, the screen on the pump would then display items you are known to favor. The same thing can be done in stores, if you are identified when you walk by or in the store, a sales pitch targeted specifically to you would appear.
The recent disclosure that the American Government is monitoring phone calls points out the potential for good and bad uses for data. Guilt by association is not guilt by fact, yet it easy to see how zealous law enforcement could arrive at the former. Everyware would make that conclusion very easy.
I will be teaching a course in the fundamentals of computing in the fall of 2006. After reading this book, I added it to my required list and will be using it as a secondary text this fall.

I can't read this book -- in a good way.......2006-04-26

Seriously, I just can't seem to keep reading it because I have to stop and think. And think. And daydream. And read a passage over again, and dream a little more. Ever read a book that gets you so excited you have to put it down just to shake off the energy that builds inside you? Well, this one does it for me.

Greenfield is not just able to capture a vision for a world ahead with ubiquitous computing, but to explain in a completely non-jargon, tangible, virtually poetic way.

I think the world really needed a book like this -- to establish a way of thinking about a new, invisible digital age that doesn't get lost amidst big-brother paranoia, or overly-detailed technical specs. Let's face it -- we don't know how it's all going to work together, how we'll get to a world of everware. But it's quite clear we will, and Greenfield spells out the promise and the issues with elegance and clarity.

I had bought it awhile back from Amazon, and it sat there in my orders list (I'd actually never preordered before), finally to arrive and exceed every possible expectation. It's really quite magical.

Too bad it's not hardcover, I'll beat this book to a pulp carrying it everywhere with me, tasting the delicious ideas little by little. I'll carry with me until at least half of the vision comes true.

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Historia de la Olvidada de la Cultura Puertorriqueña.......2000-06-15

Este libro es excelente, especialmente, cuando trae a la luz publica la historia de los marginaldos de la Isla. El ensayo de Felix Matos es excelente por ayuda conocer mejor sobre la aportación de la mujer negra en nuestra historia. El ensayo sobre la prostitución es novel. Todos ensayos presentan la lucha de la mujer por la alcanzar su igualdad en una sociedad patriacal que existe en Latino America. Pienso que todo que se considere la historia un asunto serio debe lee este libro.

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A quantum leap in the right direction!

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science...

Needs to be read by those vulnerable to the nonsense.

A nice reference book

Excellent Science/Pseudoscience Primer

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction : Where Real Science Ends...and Pseudoscience Begins
Charles M. Wynn , and Arthur W. Wiggins
Manufacturer: National Academy Press
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A quantum leap in the right direction!.......2006-12-06

This small 189 page book is a great read and an excellent introduction to both science and critical thinking.

After introducing information about how the scientific method works, the authors proceed to describe various paranormal phenomonon with an eye towards what science says about:

-- Visits by ET (science hasn't authenticated any but it sure is trying);

-- Past life regression (invariably a trick of faulty memory or purposeful deception);

-- ESP and related phenomenon (more the provence of a magician's trickery than anything else);

-- Creationism vs. evolution (render to science its legitimate purview and to faith its legitimate purview); as well as other interesting issues like

-- The Loch Ness monster, Bigfoot and crop circles (all confessed to be purposeful falsifications for which there's been no reliable evidence).

As can be seen the issues are without exception interesting stuff and a great way to show lay people the scientific method in operation.

Highly recommended!

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science..........2002-12-19

This book, appearing to be written for children, is itself a quantum leap in the wrong direction. The authors treat many complex topics with inaccuracy and superficiality. For example, they state the Egyptian pyramids were made of "relatively soft limestone...(that)...could be quarried with hard stone tools". The interior of the Great pyramid at Giza is partially made of hard granite, too hard to be the work of either stone or copper tools, and that pyramid appears to have initially had 144,000 sixteen- to twenty-ton limestone casing stones made to an accuracy of flatness of ten thousandths of an inch, undoubtedly impossible to accomplish with "stone tools". They attempt to dismiss various psi phenomena by citing a few examples of fraud and instances where something failed to work, ignoring the large body of fine scientific work (Houck, Radin, Puthoff & Targ, Hasted and many others) clearly establishing the reality of many of the various phenomena discussed. Instead of relying on any scientific data, the authors rely on hypotheses, the views of a magician and ridicule by a cartoonist. The book is an unworthy attempt at treating its subject matter, lumping real scientific phenomena with obvious error, such as holocaust denial, and itself represents pseudoscience and yellow journalism.

Needs to be read by those vulnerable to the nonsense........2001-12-30

When we're younger, and think we have the whole world figured out, we look for patterns while also looking for a means to be different. What we are too often led to is the subject matter of this book.

The authors cover a whole series of fads and pseudosciences by which we're frequently insulted, e.g., astrology, tarot cards and I Ching, and a host of others. The subjects are handled with a bit of wit, but not the cutesy angle of the "idiots guide to..." books.

I'm pretty well read on skeptical literature so for me there was little new. However, the silly fads covered in the book are often considered far more acceptable than critical analysis or thinking. Therefore, the book should be assigned to maybe high school seniors or college freshmen, those inclined to fall into such traps, i.e., into believing such nonsense. At least, then, when they get through their post adolescent turmoil, they'll have had a direction, a reference to put the foolishness in perspective. I'm not so naive to think that young people won't pass through such fads--most of us did at one point or another in our lives. But, again, seeds will be planted when most mature to a more complicated world in which we rely on evidence to come to conclusions.

And they DO cover what constitutes a scientific examinination of something, i.e., a contrast to the "intuitive," testimonial or anecdote-based, or merely "faith" angle they're trying to refute. That is a valuable contribution to the seed for future critical thinking.

The book does, however, have its weaknesses. One petty one, for instance is that the authors referred to the Greek gods for whom the planets are names. I believe their named for ROMAN gods (the biggest, gas giant, for example, being Jupiter, not Zeus). And, in retrospect, I wish they'd covered some of the trendy "therapies" which are draining the pockets of many, who, after these functionless raps still think for some reason that they're morally superior to the rest of us. But I suppose they make up a different genre of the stuff of which we need to be wisely informed.

The book is a fine primer for those thus far ill-informed of its subject matter. As such, that's not a criticism but a perspective. It's a wonderful, step-by-step primer for those new to skepticism, e.g., young people experimenting with it or their parents trying to reason their kids off of astrology kicks and so forth. But I wouldn't recommend it to those who've read far more sophisticated stuff on the subjects already.

A nice reference book.......2001-08-01

Whew! Quite a lot is covered in this small book, but very little detail is given as references. As a skeptic myself these authors were 'preaching to the choir' with me. I think their idea that "people who disagree with them" will read and possibly change their opinions is a bit far-fetched. This book is perfect for those who dabble on the edge of pseudoscience, sometimes leaning one way then the other. This gives easy to understand examples, and some ammo to fight off unscientific beliefs.

I would really have liked to see the authors use footnotes throughout the book as an aid to researchers. I know that they were right on with their claims, but would like to see where they got their information. The glossary was very helpful, and can see using it in the future. If you have a friend or relitive who is always bothering you with pseudoscience claims, and you never quite know how to explain your skepticism, then this is the book for you. Carry it on your person, always!

Excellent Science/Pseudoscience Primer.......2001-06-01

The real value of this book is in the first three chapters, which contain a simple yet powerful description of how science works, and why pseudoscience is, well, pseudoscience. The remainder of the book covers a variety of pseudosciences grouped into five major categories. While detail is a bit thin on the individual entries, the authors do an excellent job of showing why pseudoscientific hypotheses fall down in the face of science. Hard-core skeptics will find nothing new in the pseudoscience sections, but it's always valuable to have so much information in one place to use as a handy reference. The cartoons by Sidney Harris add humor and include some classics - don't be surprised if you find yourself thumbing through the book just to find the next cartoon. This book could easily be used as the basis for a course on Science and Pseudoscience.

A few words about the 'Editorial Review' above - It's clear the reviewer needs to read the book again, because he or she completely missed the point. The reviewer ignores the excellent initial chapters on the nature of science, and then makes a series of gaffes. The fact that Graphology has a better reputation in Europe than in the US doesn't make it any less pseudoscientific. The truth is not a popularity contest. Similarly, the fact that true believers in creationism won't be converted doesn't matter. Converting true believers isn't the point - providing information to those who haven't made up their minds yet is far more important. Holocaust denial is an excellent example of a pseudoscience that doesn't fit the standard 'debunking the UFOs' model of skepticism, and shows how to apply the techniques of critical thinking more generally. Finally, anyone offended by the chapters on near death experiences and life after death hasn't done a good job of reading them. The question is about science and how it works - theology is left untouched. The point is to show that NDE's aren't good, scientific evidence of anything mystical. If you make a scientific claim, you'd better be ready for scrutiny of that claim. Belief in souls is either a question of faith, and so outside the purview of science, or it's a scientific question open to review like any other. You can't say it's scientific when there's evidence you want to use in favor, but then make scrutiny off limits because you're squeamish about violating religious dogma.

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