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The conventional wisdom has it that a balanced budget is the height of economic rationality, that social security should be privatized, and that most adult welfare recipients could and should get jobs. All our social and economic problems, we are told, are due to too much government; if we only left the American free enterprise system alone, the free market would heal all that ails our society and lead to lasting prosperity. Challenging these widespread stereotypes and myths, this book starts with the fundamental theory underlying capitalist ideology, showing that even in theory an unfettered free market cannot deal effectively with the many needs of a modern economy. Our society has many social goals to which the great majority subscribe--goals such as sustained full employment, universal health care, and quality education for all. The free market will not, the author argues, bring us quality education for every American child, affordable universal health care, Social Security for the elderly, assistance for the poor, or protection of the environment. Only an active, participant government can affect positive change in such areas of social concern.
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Medicare / The Budget / The Truth.......2000-07-13
An informative, entertaining examination of the Social Security System. A bold look at revealing the truth about what needs to be done in all areas or government and finance.
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The Rights of Firefighters
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Details the constitutional, statutory and common law employment rights of firefighters.
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Benefical Read.......2007-05-07
A must have for Union Firefighters or those starting out. Provides a basics of rights and laws for firefighters by case law.
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This graphic novel follows the adventures of 18-year-old Daigo as he joins the brotherhood of firefighters. Daigo has just passed the firefighters exam. He has his fancy new uniform, now all he needs is to conquer his childhood fear of fire! Daigo soon discovers that disaster can strike without warning. When a fire breaks out in the high school, Daigo must face the fire and his fears to make sure his favorite teacher makes it out alive.
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Underdog Title Deserves More Love!!.......2007-08-23
This underdog title deserves more love!! It's not a mainstream hit like Bleach or Naruto, but it's worth the read. A rookie firefighter with that uncanny knack of being the one everyone is leary of, especially with the way he is.
The story is good and the art is quite good. I just wish I didn't have to hunt it down like a rare and priceless treasure. Finding the manga means either ordering it online, special ordering it from the local bookstore, or managing to snag some of the newest volumes at a convention.
So bring this one some more love so they'll bring it back to the shelves....:D
This is one of my favorite mangas of all time........2006-01-13
I recently got into mangas. Like a year ago. I have enjoyed the Initial D series, Naruto, One Piece, and quite a few others.
This manga is exceptional but what I dont understand is why they dont carry it in the stores. I live near a comic book store and they have everything you can imagine. Yet, they dont carry Daigo. So I order them online.
The story follows a young fellow that works as a firefighter. His name is Daigo and he works for Company M.
That explains the title. But the illustrations are top notch and story telling is a real page turner.
If you havent gotten into this series, I urge you to. It will be worth it. At least get the first one and if you dont like it, then just let it collect dust. But I assure you, you will like it if you like the other mangas mentioned above.
yoshi
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Redox regulation, like phosphorylation, is a covalent regulatory system that controls many of the normal cellular functions of all living cells and organisms. In addition, it controls how cells respond to stress involving oxidants and free radicals, which underlie many degenerative diseases. This area is undergoing a transition from general knowledge to specific description of the components and mechanisms involved.
This invaluable book provides a timely basic description of a field whose relevance to cell biology and degenerative diseases is of the utmost importance. It describes the state of the art, lays the foundations for understanding the reactions involved, and presents the prospects for future developments. It can serve as a basic text for any undergraduate or graduate course that deals with redox regulation, oxidative stress and free radicals under normal and pathological conditions in bacterial, plant and animal cells.
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Isaac Newton is a legendary figure whose mythical dimension threatens to overshadow the actual man. The story of the apple falling from the tree may or may not be true, but Isaac Newton's revolutionary discoveries and their importance to the Enlightenment era and beyond are undeniable. The Newtonian Moment, a companion volume to a forthcoming exhibition by the New York Public Library, investigates the effect that Newton's theories and discoveries had, not only on the growth of science, but also on the very shape of modern culture and thought. Newton's scientific work at Cambridge was groundbreaking. From his optical experiments with prisms during the 1660s to the publication of both Principia (1687) and Opticks (1704), Newton's achievements were widely disseminated, inciting tremendous interest and excitement. Newtonianism developed into a worldview marked by many tensions: between modernity and the old guard, between the humanities and science, and the public battles between great minds. The Newtonian Moment illuminates the many facets of his colossal accomplishments, as well as the debates over the kind of knowledge that his accomplishments engendered. The book contributes to a greater understanding of the world today by offering a panoramic view of the profound impact of Newtonianism on the science, literature, art, and religion of the Enlightenment. Copiously illustrated with items drawn from the collections of the New York Public Library as well as numerous other libraries and museums, The Newtonian Moment enlightens its audience with a guided and in-depth look at the man, his world, and his enduring legacy.
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Times change--who would have thought that we'd ever see a nonjudgmental mainstream anthology of writings about mind-altering drugs? Editor Mike Jay delivers scores of well-selected hits of wild wisdom from Homer and his cronies to William Burroughs in Artificial Paradises. His mild-mannered but insightful introductions and links between pieces prime the reader for a series of expansive trips through other people's minds as they grapple with medical, moral, artistic, and spiritual puzzlers posed by drugs. Hopped-up coke fiend Sigmund Freud rants about his favorite little helper, while painter Henri Michaux complains that mescaline is a poor muse. The pieces are usually amusing and sometimes penetrating. Jay wisely avoids most of the propaganda we've already been oversubjected to in recent decades, instead focusing on the experience and assessment of drugs and their cultural value. Sections include Researches Chemical and Philosophical: Drugs and Science and The Algebra of Need: Drugs and Addiction, with selections from such disparate writers as Jean Cocteau and Thomas Szasz. Most of the pieces are very short--one or two pages--but highly concentrated, giving an immediate sense of the author's intent and attitudes, often inspiring a trip to the library for another dose. When it's time to turn on, tune in, and drop out, prepare yourself with the guidance of Artificial Paradises. --Rob Lightner
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This sensational anthology features a rich tapestry of voices exploring the powerful role that mind-altering drugs have played throughout history. It brings together a multiplicity of voices to explore the presence--both secret and public--of drugs in the overlapping dialogues of science and religion, pleasure and madness, individualism and social control. Featuring writings by William Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, Aldous Huxley, Alice B. Toklas, Charles Baudelaire, Sigmund Freud, and an array of other seekers, Artificial Paradises locates the origins, busts the myths, examines the scientific studies, and embraces the controversy surrounding drugs, offering an honest, if not psychedelic, portrait of the lives and minds of those who have used them.
"Excellent . . . shows how drugs permeate the very fabric of our history and culture."--Irvine Welsh, author of Trainspotting
"This is a superb anthology--scholarly, penetrative, mind-expanding. It's probably the best of its kind." --Ian McEwan, Booker Prize-winning author of Amsterdam
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encyclopedic entheogenic.......2003-12-03
Penguin is so adept at publishing comprehensive, but manageable, collections in forms that are portable, highly readable and easy to reference.
This collection is diverse and delves into the scientific, poetic and recreational components with elegance and authority.
A completely worthwhile work.
Dazzling survey of drug history, science, art and culture.......2000-06-21
I expected a handy reference tome and found something else - a breathtaking and compelling end-to-end read. Excerpts are short and threaded together in sections which raise the central questions about the relation of drugs to art, religion, science and society while illustrating them with an incredible range of perspectives from history and different cultures. I find most 'drug literature' rather boring but this anthology opens the subject out into new dimensions.
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A fascinating, profusely illustrated collection of facts, features, obscure details, and overlooked information about the great conflict, ideal for the serious student or the Civil War buff.
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GREAT source for Civil War buffs.......1998-07-07
This is a GREAT source for casual Civil War trivia buffs! Its concise, ordered question and answer format works well for use as an icebreaker in gatherings and allows reading in short sessions. Makes a good, inexpensive gift. Check out the Old West Quiz and Fact Book by the same author.
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A Dictionary of Eighteenth-century History (Penguin Classic History)
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In an age when the nature of reality is complicated daily by advances in bioengineering, cloning, and artificial intelligence, it is easy to forget that the ever-evolving boundary between nature and technology has long been a source of ethical and scientific concern: modern anxieties about the possibility of artificial life and the dangers of tinkering with nature more generally were shared by opponents of alchemy long before genetic science delivered us a cloned sheep named Dolly.
In Promethean Ambitions, William R. Newman ambitiously uses alchemy to investigate the thinning boundary between the natural and the artificial. Focusing primarily on the period between 1200 and 1700, Newman examines the labors of pioneering alchemists and the impassioned—and often negative—responses to their efforts. By the thirteenth century, Newman argues, alchemy had become a benchmark for determining the abilities of both men and demons, representing the epitome of creative power in the natural world. Newman frames the art-nature debate by contrasting the supposed transmutational power of alchemy with the merely representational abilities of the pictorial and plastic arts—a dispute which found artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy attacking alchemy as an irreligious fraud. The later assertion by the Paracelsian school that one could make an artificial human being—the homunculus—led to further disparagement of alchemy, but as Newman shows, the immense power over nature promised by the field contributed directly to the technological apologetics of Francis Bacon and his followers. By the mid-seventeenth century, the famous "father of modern chemistry," Robert Boyle, was employing the arguments of medieval alchemists to support the identity of naturally occurring substances with those manufactured by "chymical" means.
In using history to highlight the art-nature debate, Newman here shows that alchemy was not an unformed and capricious precursor to chemistry; it was an art founded on coherent philosophical and empirical principles, with vocal supporters and even louder critics, that attracted individuals of first-rate intellect. The historical relationship that Newman charts between human creation and nature has innumerable implications today, and he ably links contemporary issues to alchemical debates on the natural versus the artificial.
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most accessible text from the top alchemy scholar.......2007-10-11
William Newman is one of the most knowledgeable experts and a key pioneer in alchemical studies, and this is his most readable, engaging, and socially relevant book. Those who wish to learn about the history of alchemy should start here, and will find references to the next logical steps in the study, but this book is also important for those who wish to understand more about the way our culture understands life using science. Many urgent issues in the philosophy of biology and medical ethics have long been the province of alchemists, which Newman demonstrates with clarity and grace, and anybody interested in these topics will find much of deep interest here. Buy it as a present for any educated person who doesn't understand why people should study Alchemy. Encourage your library to carry a copy. Well worth the price of admission.
Well worth the effort & study.......2006-07-13
I greatly enjoyed this excellent book, even though it was quite an undertaking to really absorb. It's a book you'll read a bit, then think about, then come back to, working though it and letting each bit you take in trickle through your consciousness before you move on.
As a practicing Alchemist myself, I especially enjoyed the clear explanation of our Western philosophical lineage and the Hermetic tradition that stretches back to the Greeks and before. Whether we realize it or not, here in the US at least, we are educated in this tradition, and think a certain way because of it; the tendency to look to the East for all things spiritual is unfortunate when we have so, so much native to our own culture. This book brings that line right down through the ages, and made me see that I have many more "ancestors" than I thought!
The main theme of the book, Alchemy as the language and arena for the discussion of Art and Nature, is also brought to more modern relevance than might be expected, and examining our scientific heritage through that lens is very useful philosophically. After reading this book, when I hear debates about genetic modification, artificial intelligence, and the like, I realize that these discussions have been taking place for centuries, and the ancients' explorations of these questions have much to teach us now.
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