The 13 Secrets of Power Performance

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Dawson is the man........2004-08-21

Seriously he is.
I didn't think so at first but he worked me over for hours until I snapped. I ended up getting 3 sequined beads and a shower cap...He got the keys to my car and my undying affection. Yeah, he's that good.

I much prefer the audio tapes to the book.
Translates better I feel for this subject.

Proven strategies for increasing your effectiveness........2003-07-16

I don't know how "secret" Dawson's ideas are, but as one of the very few top-level professionals on the speaking circuit, he delivers a lot of motivation to get you off your duff. He gives you plenty more than just stale ideas to think about. I personally use his time management system, because he was the first person to show me the real value of having one that actually works. Sharing several of the ideas in this book with the clients I coach has helped my clients reach specific goals much faster.

Great timeless knowledge applicable to all!.......1999-06-03

Once again Roger has amazed me with the way he explains his knowledge. I read 75 books a year, this is one book that I really had an easy time learning and applying, and that is what we are all looking for isn't it? A quick painless way to success? This is so clear that an elementary student will possess the skills to achieve anything in their life.

The 13 Secrets of Power Performance - The Politics of Institutional Choice

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The 13 Secrets of Power Performance - The Politics of Institutional Choice
Dawson
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Global changes in business and tax environments are having profound impact on the volume and direction of intrafirm trade and transfer pricing strategies. Tang reports on the findings of a survey of 95 Fortune 1000 companies, sponsored by the Institute of Management Accountants, and provides highly relevant information not easily found on how companies are reacting to this new business environment. He covers corporate financial goals and strategies and divisonal performance measurements systems, among other topics, and gives highly detailed case studies based on reports from five major respondents to his survey: Whirlpool, Dow Chemical, Guidant Corporation, Masco, and Eaton. Tang's book is essential, up-to-date reading for upper level students, researchers, analysts, and corporate executives in multinational firms worldwide. Tang starts with a presentation of the major changes in the global business environment and explains their impact on intrafirm trade and transfer pricing. In Chapter 2 he reports results of his questionnaire survey, and in Chapters 3 to 7 examines up close the details revealed in his five corporate case studies. He compares these corporations in Chapter 8, focusing on corporate strategies and financial goals, transfer pricing and performance evaluation practices, and concommitant tax planning strategies. He then relates his case study research to other major findings derived from his questionnaire survey, and ends the book with a general, summarizing, analytical conclusion.

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Excellent insider tool.......2007-01-19

This book is an excellent tool for anyone looking for insights in this topic. If you're new in transfer pricing, you'll find it easy to understand and to get an overview of TP that companies tipycally don't like to discuss or share. If you're working in TP you can use it as a benchmark. Don't expect large formulas to calculate the options to hide your profits in low-tax countries, but you'll find organizational aspects, financial details, approach and strategy.

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The Lutheran Reformation of the early sixteenth century brought about immense and far-reaching change in the structures of church and state, and in religious and secular ideas. This book investigates the relationship between the law and religious ideology in Luther's Germany, showing how they developed in response to the momentum of Lutheran teachings and influence. John Witte, Jr. argues that it is not enough to understand the Reformation in either only theological or legal terms but that a perspective is required which takes proper account of both.

Lutheran Reformation And the Law (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions) (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

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Lutheran Reformation And the Law (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions) (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions)

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The volume provides new evidence of how the legal ideas of the Lutheran Reformation were put into practice, especially in the Nordic countries, and how they worked in the history of law. Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden forming the largest Lutheran area in the world, this lacuna is considerable.

The first part of the book deals with the legal, theological and philosophical thought of the reformers. The second part examines the impact of the Reformation on particular aspects of legal reform, especially marriage and criminal law and the law on poor relief in the Northern Europe.

The study is based on interdisciplinary research by theologians and legal historians.

Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State

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Law and Protestantism: The Legal Teachings of the Lutheran Reformation.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State
Charles McDaniel
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Lutheran Reformation and the Law.(Book review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly

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Lutheran Reformation and the Law.(Book review): An article from: Renaissance Quarterly
Robert Kolb
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Justification as taught by post-Reformation Lutheran theologians

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Justification as taught by post-Reformation Lutheran theologians
Robert D Preus
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Arator, being a series of agricultural essays, practical and political: In sixty-four numbers
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Esteemed researchers from different European laboratories provide state-of-the-art studies on biology and ageing, along with guidelines for future investigations. They cover such issues in molecular gerontological research as regulation of gene expression from DNA to RNA to functional proteins, origin of various age-associated diseases, genetic regulation of ageing and longevity, and different mechanisms of defense and repair. Other contributions evaluate new technologies, including transgenic organisms, and the use of nutritional and chemical modulators of ageing and lifespan.

Molecular Gerontology - Research Status and Strategies

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Molecular Gerontology - Research Status and Strategies
Suresh I.;Toussaint, Olivier, Rattan
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Molecular Gerontology: Research Status and Strategies
Suresh I. Rattan
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This first full-length biography of Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac offers a comprehensive account of his physics in its historical context, including less known areas such as cosmology and classical electron theory. It is based extensively on unpublished sources, including Dirac's correspondence with Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli, Schrödinger, Gamow and others. Dirac was undoubtedly one of the most brilliant and influential physicists of the twentieth century. Between 1925 and 1934, the Nobel Prize laureate revolutionized physics with his brilliant contributions to quantum theory. This work examines Dirac's successes and failures, and pays particular attention to his opposition to modern quantum electrodynamics; an opposition based on aesthetic objections.

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ok.......2006-10-07

This book is a very in depth scientific biography of the famous theoretical physicist. Since it is a scientific biography it is heavy on the physics and prepare yourself to see a lot of equations. Also prepare to not see explanation of notation. All in all this is probably not a great biography for the layman and even the physicist who reads it will hopefully know a bit of QED since a lot of his career revolved around that subject.

The book may not be to blame for not being a great read. This is simply because Dirac did not especially do much in his life but physics. Therefore, in the book there is little connect to more familiar pieces of history. Contrast this with the life of Einstein or any of the German physicists of the time period.

My favorite parts of the book were the anecdotes of Dirac's bizarre, reclusive, and ultra-logical personality. For instance, someone once called him up and invited him to an event. Dirac said he would think about it and then put the phone down on the table, not hanging it up. After thinking for a minute, he picked it up again and gave his answer. Many more humorous examples were in the book.

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The physics of glassy materials and disordered solids presents students with an area of study much more challenging than the physics of crystalline solids. Written by two recognized experts in the field, this highly readable book tackles the subject with the student firmly in mind, beginning with a pedagogical introduction to important concepts such as percolation, fractals, spin glasses, and glasses. Making use of these concepts, the authors show that such systems share many common aspects that can be described within the framework of statistical mechanics. The book is also an essential standard text for researchers on amorphous materials, equally accessible for theorists and experimentalists.

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If Heraclitus is one of our most ancient writers, Kafka seems especially modern. They share in a struggle between disclosure and obscurity that is perhaps as old as writing itself. In this lucid and engaging volume, David Schur takes us from philosophy to literature and back in a sustained examination of a fundamental philosophical metaphor: the way or path of method. Through close readings of texts by Heraclitus, Plato, Heidegger, Blanchot, and Kafka, he follows the development of a rhetorical commonplace into a distinctly Heraclitean paradox of method, concluding that Kafka's account of the way beyond mortal existence renews Heraclitus's emphasis on oblivion in the search for truth.

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Most insightful Kafka scholarship I've ever read........1999-07-24

In all my years I've never read a more thrilling account of Kafka's relation to the Western literary tradition. This is the sort of thing Stephen King might write if comparative literature was his field. Schur's insight about the role of the path in the Western canon was so profound that when I first read it I slid out of my rocking chair onto the floor. Fantastic.

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A unique account of human excellence, from the age of Homer to our own time.

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This is a human accomplishment!.......2007-10-05

Charles Murray is a gutsy social scientist. Back in 1994, he co-wrote the excellent Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life (A Free Press Paperbacks Book) with Richard Herrnstein. The onslaught of controversy from the politically correct faction exhausted Herrnstein (he died not long after the release of the book). But, Murray kept on trucking and a decade later released another politically incorrect outstanding bombshell with this book.

Being aware of the topic's controversial nature, Murray spends nearly as much time explaining his statistical methodology as he does analyzing results. After reading Murray's disclosure, you're overwhelmed by his data gathering effort. And, you are hard pressed to think off how a researcher could have been more objective in this endeavor.

From his extensive data, he develops a ranking of the top 20 contributors in tens of different fields. The usual suspects dominate the podium. In Western literature it is Shakespeare and Goethe. In Western Art, it is Michelangelo. In Physics, it is Newton and Einstein. In Western music it is the usual trio Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach. And so on and so forth.

Murray makes a great effort in capturing non-Western culture by dedicating several inventories/rankings specifically for them, including numerous disciplines for the Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Indian cultures. His research methodology renders him as well versed in Japanese Art as Arabic Literature. His related analytical commentaries are fascinating and educative.

Murray preempts politically correct concerns by addressing them head on. How about representation of women? As an abstract of his findings, if you are looking for the greatest composers of all time it is just impossible to come up with an alternative to the Mozart-Beethoven-Bach trio. And, the same is true for the other rankings he developed. He mentioned that in his gathered inventory of significant figures 98.5% are male. Speculating that all the well established sources had been heavily biased against women and had missed 50% of such significant figures; that would mean the percentage of male/female significant figures would be 97%/3% instead of 98.5%/1.5%. Murray does not believe the mentioned sources were biased. But, he adds even if they were it would not have made a material difference as stated above. Murray explicitly states men and women are of equal intelligence. It is just that our societies are patriarchal. Access to activities leading to superlative achievements is limited for women. Biologically, women incur the burden of reproduction and child rearing that is a constraint on the maniacal focus needed to become one of the all-time-greats in anything.

How about representation of foreign cultures? As mentioned, Murray already dedicated numerous inventories/rankings to other cultures to give them more than their fair share of representation.

After ranking individuals, Murray goes on to developing chronologies of major events in all the mentioned disciplines. Then, he moves on to analyzing trends in creativity over time and geographical location. You get that just a few places over short period of times generated an inordinate number of luminaries such as Athens during the Greek antiquity and a few Italian cities during the Renaissance.

Murray is intrigued by this phenomenon. In chapters 15 and 16, he analyzes the factors contributing to generating many luminaries at any one time within a specific country. From his multivariate regression models we learn that the major contributing variables to generating such luminaries per country are: 1) # of political and financial centers; 2) # of cities with an elite university; 3) population of the largest city; 4) # of luminaries in the immediate preceding generation (defined as a 20 year span); and 5) GDP per capita. On page 380, he discloses the results of this model. And, it is surprisingly good. Using this model he estimated within + or - 10 the number of luminaries per country from 1400 to 1950. Less than 5% of the defined per country-period have an error greater than + or - 10 in the estimated number of luminaries.

Next, Murray attempts to explain what the model has not. He extensively looks at the role of government with the expected assessment (totalitarian ones are bad as they don't allow individual creativity). He also advances that the reason why Europeans dominate the rankings is because of religious considerations. Confucianism and Buddhism in Asia valued tradition, family, responsibility to community, and detachment from desire and individual aspiration. Murray feels Christianity allowed more room for individual achievements hence related human accomplishments thrived in Europe more than else where. Murray makes a case that Christianity fostered human accomplishments more than our modern secularism. This is because he feels religion gives a greater sense of life purpose than secularism. He extends his theory by explaining why he feels that the rate and quality of innovation in the arts and sciences has declined in the 20th century. Remember, he is not talking just about technology. He is questioning whether our civilization will ever produce music composers of the quality of a Beethoven, or painters comparable to Michelangelo, playwright matching Shakespeare, or even scientists matching Newton or Einstein (ok this last one is just on the cusp belonging in good part to the first half of the 20th century). Even though many would disagree, Murray makes a very interesting point. Do we really have another Michelangelo or Shakespeare to come?

For a much different view of the interaction between science and religion, I also recommend Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion and Mike Shermer's Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design.

Statistics, what statistics?.......2007-08-28

The author tries to establish a statistical basis for "excellence". Apparently the argument is: because the Lotka curve applies to excellent golfers, and to commonly celebrated musicians or scientists, it follows that commonly celebrated musicians or scientists are excellent. [From the statistical basis provided, I'd guess the Lotka curve applies just as well to rare weather patterns or extreme events on the stock market]. The author admits to logical uncertainty in his probability argument (see [1] below), but assumes anyway that it validates his methods. He shores it up with the notion that anybody who remains noted over an extended time deserves it, and with the "face validity" test, which amounts to "if I recognise a famous name, that person is famous for good reason" (see [2] below).

The value of the book is in asking a lot of very hard questions, and showing that evaluating human accomplishment is no easy task. However, the value of the book is not in its answers to these hard questions.

[1] "These remarks by no means dispose of the argument about whether we are looking at fame or excellence.", quote from p. 106

[2] The results "look reasonable to a knowledgeable observer". quote from p. 80

Ranking the Greats.......2007-05-23

Charles Murray focuses on ranking the greats in this book, instead of ranking the IQ of the populace, which he did with Hernstein in The Bell Curve. He shows us how ranking the greats can be done objectively by using the surveys of histories of the various disciplines. Whoever gets the most mentions and space from the experts who have the ability to recognize greatness make it on to Murray's lists.

Murray does a good job of explaining why the greats are great. It is very difficult to create a work that will be renowned for centuries, let alone a few decades. It is very difficult to be the first to be able to explain how something works in a scientific discovery, such as how a flame starts. To give us an idea of what genius is, he mentions that Beethoven was able to compose music without an instrument in front of him, just by writing it in down on paper, knowing what the notes, harmonies, and melodies would sound like. He composed great music even after becoming totally deaf. This goes far beyond a merely talented musician in popular music who can just play well by ear.

Murray defends the legitimate canon that should be taught in universities rather than trendy, multicultural pseudo-intellectual fads. I must say that one of the problems of democratic societies is keeping standards of excellence up to a high standard when there is an obsession with making everyone and everything equal despite the greater or lesser talent of individuals.

Brilliant white males dominate the list of the greats in the arts and sciences. Jews have racked up quite a lot of accomplishments since their emancipation. The greats also come mostly from Britain, France, Germany, and Italy with a smattering of greats elsewhere around Europe. In the US, significant figures come from New England, the eastern part of the Midwest, and California with a smattering of people elsewhere in the US. The US is mostly known for technological breakthroughs.

There are some significant figures and events in the arts and sciences from China, Japan, India, and the Middle East. These were not compared to the West though, so the competition was not as stiff to make it on these separate lists.

Murray does not focus on race or IQ to explain why some societies produce significant figures and others do not. Instead, he uses cultural explanations. Societies that produce significant figures and events in the arts and sciences are not as strongly tied to tradition, families, and conformity as most other societies are. The individuality in Western culture has helped it produce great works and find great scientific discoveries by being competitive and argumentative. Murray thinks that Christianity after the influence of Thomas Aquinas has balanced faith and reason together to create great works of art and to discover great scientific findings. Significant figures and events come from societies that allow freedom of thought, expression, and inquiry between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy. Both religious and secular tyrannies have rooted out creativity and discovery in the past. Great works of art and science are made by people who believe that life has a purpose. Murray has some evidence that the arts have declined in recent years, but he is optimistic that artists will get out of their adolescent nihilistic stage and artists will again create great works because they believe that life has a purpose again.

Of course, an individual may not like, appreciate, or understand great works of art or scientific discoveries. Even Murray mentions that he does not like Henry James' most critically acclaimed novels. Or Mark Twain quipped that "Wagner is better than he sounds". I'm really not that impressed with much of what Shakespeare wrote. Nonetheless, it is the experts' consensus on who is great that matters.

The book gave me more respect for the achievements of the greats, even though I'm not quite in awe of them as Murray is. The higher your IQ is, the better you are able to appreciate great feats of the intellect and the imagination. There is also the overlooked sin of taking things for granted.

Putting words in the author's mouth.......2007-01-23

I suspect that I do not share much in the way of political beliefs with Mr. Murray, but I am struck by how many of the negative comments about his work attack positions that he does not hold.

For example, from the Publishers Weekly review, "The book attempts to demonstrate ... that Europeans have overwhelmingly dominated accomplishment ... To this end, he has assembled a laundry list of people ... " This is sloppy attack garbage reminiscent of McCarthyism. Set up a false premise as a fact and then criticize it. The Publishers Weekly reviewer claims to know Mr. Murray's motives in pursuing his study and implies that he shaped his research accordingly. What is the reviewer's evidence for this position?

In any event I thoroughly recommend this book to all. While Mr. Murray had a higher purpose in mind, the book works on a very simple level - it is great fun. For many of us, Top 10 lists are always fun and all I can feel is envy that Mr. Murray had the wit and the time to assemble such an overwhelming volume and quality of evidence to strike a knock-out blow to support his list.

Thoroughly fascinating.......2006-11-03

A fascinating, alternative analysis of the progress of human achievement and the forces that make it possible (as opposed to those that drive it) that reaches a relatively unexpected, but comparatively well supported, conclusion.

Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C.-1950

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So begins Charles Murray's unique account of human excellence from the age of Homer to our own time. Employing techniques that historians have developed over the last century but that have rarely been applied to books written for the general public, Murray compiles inventories of the people who have been essential to the stories of literature, music, art, philosophy, and the sciences -- a total of 4,002 men and women from around the world, ranked according to their eminence.

The heart of Human Accomplishment is a series of enthralling descriptive chapters: on the giants in the arts and what sets them apart from the merely great; on the differences between great achievement in the arts and in the sciences; on the meta-inventions, 14 crucial leaps in human capacity to create great art and science; and on the patterns and trajectories of accomplishment across time and geography.

Why has accomplishment been so concentrated in Europe? Among men? Since 1400? Charles Murray presents evidence that the rate of great accomplishment has been declining in the last century, asks what it means, and offers a rich framework for thinking about the conditions under which the human spirit has expressed itself most gloriously.

Accomplishment--or fame?(Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit Of Excellence In The Arts And Sciences, 800 B.C. To 1950)(Book Review): An article from: First ... Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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Accomplishment--or fame?(Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit Of Excellence In The Arts And Sciences, 800 B.C. To 1950)(Book Review): An article from: First ... Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Philip Jenkins
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HUMAN ACCOMPLISHMENT - The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950

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Charles Murray
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Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C.1950
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Frogs that freeze solid, worms that dry out, and bacteria that survive temperatures over 100°C are all organisms that have an extreme biology, which involves many aspects of their physiology, ecology, and evolution. These organisms live in seemingly impossible places and exhibit fascinating behavior. In this captivating account, the reader is taken on a tour of extreme environments, and shown the remarkable abilities of organisms to survive a range of extreme conditions, such as high and low temperatures and desiccation. Examples include:

Hydrothermal vents

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ocean depths, salt lakes, soda lakes, and estuarine muds, among other environments. Life at the Limits considers how organisms survive major stresses, and what extreme organisms can tell us about the origin of life and the possibilities of extraterrestrial life. David Wharton is a Senior Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. He has focused his research on the survival abilities of nematodes, resulting in the publication of over 75 research papers and one book, The Functional Biology of Nematodes (Croom Helm, 1986). His contribution to research was recognized by the award of the degree Doctor of Science by the University of Bristol in 1997. Recently, Wharton has become interested in the popularization of science through his involvement in the establishment of a Postgraduate Diploma in Natural History, Filmmaking and Communication, a collaboration between the University of Otago and Natural History New Zealand, a producer of natural history films based in Dunedin.

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