Global Capitalism at Bay (Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy, 21)
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    Global Capitalism at Bay (Routledge Studies in International Business and the World Economy, 21)
    John Dunning
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    In this collection of his latest essays, John H. Dunning - renowned authority in international business - elaborates his theories on the current situation of the foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises.

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    Renowned authority in international business, John H. Dunning, here elaborates his theories on the current situation of foreign direct investment and multinational enterprises. A unique study of contemproary capitalism and its possible future.
    Global Capitalism at Bay?(Book Review): An article from: Transnational Corporations
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      Global Capitalism at Bay?(Book Review): An article from: Transnational Corporations
      Alan M. Rugman
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      Release Date: 2005-07-30

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      This digital document is an article from Transnational Corporations, published by United Nations Publications on April 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1476 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: Global Capitalism at Bay?(Book Review)
      Author: Alan M. Rugman
      Publication: Transnational Corporations (Refereed)
      Date: April 1, 2002
      Publisher: United Nations Publications
      Volume: 11 Issue: 1 Page: 113(4)

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      Risk Management, Derivatives, and Financial Analysis under SFAS No. 133
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        Risk Management, Derivatives, and Financial Analysis under SFAS No. 133
        Gary L. Gastineau , Donald J. Smith , and Rebecca Todd
        Manufacturer: Research Foundation of AIMR & Blackwell Publishers
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        ASIN: 0943205514

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        The authors begin this monograph by providing an overview of the elements of risk management and then delve into the specifics of derivative and hedging activity under SFAS No. 133. They conclude by coming full circle and discussing the implications for financial analysts of a firm's risk management practices and its derivative and hedging activity. Although no single work can be an exhaustive discussion of risk management, derivatives, and SFAS No. 133, this monograph fills in many of the gaps and sets a precedent of clarity and usefulness for others to follow.

        Oil and Gas Law in Nigeria
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          Oil and Gas Law in Nigeria
          Yinka Omorogbe
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          ASIN: 9780231331

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          A new empirical study on oil and gas in Nigeria, which serves as a useful general introduction to many aspects of the country's oil and gas industries and related laws. Contents: introductions - definitions, importance, the international oil industry, how oil was found; the Nigerian oil industry: historical perspectives and acts of law; legislation governing the industry; ownership of oil and gas - ownership theories in the oil and gas industries, sovereignty over natural resources and international law; contracts for exploration and production; the natural gas industry; fiscal matters pertaining to the petroleum industry; OPEC; national oil corporations and the Nigerian Petroleum Corporation; downstream oil and gas law and policy; trade in crude oil and products; environmental issues; oil community issues; topical issues in the petroleum industry - e.g. acquisitions of technology, indigenous oil companies; nationalisation and privatisation; and dispute settlements. Yinka Omorogbe is a lecturer in law at the Universities of Benin and Lagos, Nigeria.
          The anthropology of oil: the impact of the oil industry on a fishing community in the Niger Delta.: An article from: Social Justice
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            The anthropology of oil: the impact of the oil industry on a fishing community in the Niger Delta.: An article from: Social Justice
            Alicia Fentiman
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            This digital document is an article from Social Justice, published by Crime and Social Justice Associates on December 22, 1996. The length of the article is 6015 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.

            From the supplier: The village of Oloma is a rural fishing community on the Island of Bonny in the Eastern Niger Delta. The inhabitants have not benefited from the oil industry even though oil is extracted from their lands. Oil production has damaged their environment and destroyed their sources of livelihood. The minority groups in the Niger Delta are demanding fair representation and compensation from the government.

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            Title: The anthropology of oil: the impact of the oil industry on a fishing community in the Niger Delta.
            Author: Alicia Fentiman
            Publication: Social Justice (Refereed)
            Date: December 22, 1996
            Publisher: Crime and Social Justice Associates
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            Offshore oil and gas resources: economics, politics and the rule of law in the Nigeria-Sao tome e Principe joint development zone.: An article from: Journal of International Affairs
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              Offshore oil and gas resources: economics, politics and the rule of law in the Nigeria-Sao tome e Principe joint development zone.: An article from: Journal of International Affairs
              Hurst Groves
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              This digital document is an article from Journal of International Affairs, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 8169 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: Offshore oil and gas resources: economics, politics and the rule of law in the Nigeria-Sao tome e Principe joint development zone.
              Author: Hurst Groves
              Publication: Journal of International Affairs (Magazine/Journal)
              Date: September 22, 2005
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              Milk & Milk Products From Medieval to Modern Times: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Ethnological Food Research
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                Milk & Milk Products From Medieval to Modern Times: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of Ethnological Food Research

                Manufacturer: Diane Pub.
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                ASIN: 0788196480

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                Milk flows through our history as a vital human food. This volume will be of interest not only to ethnologists, folklorists & food historians, but also to all those concerned with the role of basic foods in the human diet. Milk is a uniquely vulnerable commodity, & while in some cultures it was considered a luxury food, in others it was thought both unwholesome & unhealthy. Folklore highlights the part women play in the production of milk & milk products, & their econ. import. in the household & farm economy. In their role as producers & processors of milk, women are credited with supernatural powers to protect or promote the individual or collective dairying process. Ill.
                Modern Farm Power
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                  Modern Farm Power
                  William J. Promersberger
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                  Cellular Proteases and Control Mechanisms
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                    Cellular Proteases and Control Mechanisms
                    Tony Hugli
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                    Cellular proteases and control mechanisms: Proceedings of a Glaxo-UCLA Colloquium on Cellular Proteases and Control Mechanisms, held at Lake Tahoe, California, ... symposia on molecular and cellular biology)
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                      Cellular proteases and control mechanisms: Proceedings of a Glaxo-UCLA Colloquium on Cellular Proteases and Control Mechanisms, held at Lake Tahoe, California, ... symposia on molecular and cellular biology)

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                      The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Tectonics and Hazards (NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences)
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                        The Adria Microplate: GPS Geodesy, Tectonics and Hazards (NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences)

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                        Tectonic motion of the Adria microplate exerts a first-order control on the tectonics, geology, seismology, resource distribution, and the geological hazards across a broad zone of south-central Europe and the north-central Mediterranean. Since its first application to geodynamical problems, GPS geodesy has gradually revealed the nature of motion and deformation for most active areas of deformation across the Earth. One of the last remaining regional-scale problems on the planet is the motion and associated deformation in the peri-Adriatic region. Selected local-scale studies have examined aspects of this motion, but to date no truly regional analysis or regional team has systematically attacked the full breadth of this problem. A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was held in Veszprém, Hungary from April 4-7, 2004. This workshop brought together a distinguished international group of scientists working in the peri-Adriatic region to: (1) review research activities and results, (2) share technical expertise, and (3) provide a springboard for future collaborative research on Adria geodynamics. Areas of agreement were identified, as well as remaining areas of debate. In addition, attention focused on important scientific questions and the potential for international and interdisciplinary research in the future.

                        Using REDUCE in High Energy Physics
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                          Using REDUCE in High Energy Physics
                          A. G. Grozin
                          Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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                          This book describes the use of the symbolic manipulation language REDUCE in particle physics. There are several general purpose mathematics packages available to physicists, including Mathematica, Maple, and REDUCE. Each has advantages and disadvantages, but REDUCE has been found to be both powerful and convenient in solving a wide range of problems. This book introduces the reader to REDUCE and demonstrates its utility as a mathematical tool in physics. The first chapter of the book describes the REDUCE system, including some library packages. The following chapters show the use of REDUCE in examples from classical mechanics, hydrodynamics, general relativity and quantum mechanics. The rest of the book systematically presents the Standard Model of particle physics (QED, weak interactions, QCD). A large number of scattering and decay processes are calculated with REDUCE. All example programs from the book can be downloaded via Internet, from http://www.inp.nsk.su/~grozin/book/. The emphasis throughout is on learning through worked examples.

                          The Hobbit (Illustrated Edition)
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                          The Hobbit (Illustrated Edition)
                          J.R.R. Tolkien
                          Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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                          "In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."

                          The hobbit-hole in question belongs to one Bilbo Baggins, an upstanding member of a "little people, about half our height, and smaller than the bearded dwarves." He is, like most of his kind, well off, well fed, and best pleased when sitting by his own fire with a pipe, a glass of good beer, and a meal to look forward to. Certainly this particular hobbit is the last person one would expect to see set off on a hazardous journey; indeed, when Gandalf the Grey stops by one morning, "looking for someone to share in an adventure," Baggins fervently wishes the wizard elsewhere. No such luck, however; soon 13 fortune-seeking dwarves have arrived on the hobbit's doorstep in search of a burglar, and before he can even grab his hat or an umbrella, Bilbo Baggins is swept out his door and into a dangerous adventure.

                          The dwarves' goal is to return to their ancestral home in the Lonely Mountains and reclaim a stolen fortune from the dragon Smaug. Along the way, they and their reluctant companion meet giant spiders, hostile elves, ravening wolves--and, most perilous of all, a subterranean creature named Gollum from whom Bilbo wins a magical ring in a riddling contest. It is from this life-or-death game in the dark that J.R.R. Tolkien's masterwork, The Lord of the Rings, would eventually spring. Though The Hobbit is lighter in tone than the trilogy that follows, it has, like Bilbo Baggins himself, unexpected iron at its core. Don't be fooled by its fairy-tale demeanor; this is very much a story for adults, though older children will enjoy it, too. By the time Bilbo returns to his comfortable hobbit-hole, he is a different person altogether, well primed for the bigger adventures to come--and so is the reader. --Alix Wilber

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                          "In a hole in the ground, there lived a hobbit." So begins one of the most beloved and delightful tales in the English language. Set in the imaginary world of Middle-earth, at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale, The Hobbit is one of literature's most enduring and well-loved novels. This gift edition, with new watercolor paintings by the artist Alan Lee, celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of the first publication in 1937.

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                          5 out of 5 stars Tolkien at his best!.......2007-10-09

                          As the prelude to the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit or There and Back Again, is a magnificent tale of magic, fantasy, and adventure. I found that I could not set this book down. With each page, I was that much more drawn into the realm of Middle Earth, and I made myself put the book down for a little bit in order to enjoy it.

                          The characterization in this book is phenomenal. Both the protagonists and antagonists throughout the novel help creat the landscape of the book, as well as set the foundation for Middle Earth. Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, displays the ideal character in that he is forced into a world of adventure of magic. As an innocent creature unaware of the outside world, Bilbo matures throughout the book, and is a classic example of a character who, by the end of the book, has developed into a great intellectual character. Bilbo continues to display this intellect throughout the Lord of the Rings.

                          I have experienced many a conflict with other readers who did not enjoy the Hobbit, and I'm not saying that this book is in everyone's favor, but any reader of fantasy, magic, and adventure will love this book. I recommend the Hobbit to every person no matter what age. As a timeless tale of Tolkien, I give this book five stars (although, it probably deserves more).

                          4 out of 5 stars The Hobbit.......2007-10-06

                          This book was boasting with the great imagination of J.R.R Tolkein. About 60 years before the lord of the seires Bilbo Gandlaf and a gang of Dwarfs travel through the misty moantians to get to a treasure stolen from the Dwarfs. As the gang travels through the land they meet tons of epic characters (elfs dwarfs goblins trolls). Tolkein could have written more voilence like its sequel Lord of the Rings. Overall it was a epic classic.

                          5 out of 5 stars --.......2007-10-03

                          I generally do not read books if there is a possibility of a movie being made on the same. However, this is a really very interesting book. You can not keep it down once you start reading.

                          5 out of 5 stars Tolkien Set the Stage.......2007-10-02

                          Though I grew up reading fantasy, playing Lone Wolf books and sometimes joining an AD&D game, I had never read any of Tolkien's works until recently. The Hobbit sat on my bookshelf for seven years because I couldn't get past the first chapter. Now I breezed through it, soaking in the rich world of Tolkien's imagination and discovering where most modern fantasy has its roots. Though I've seen the first two Lord of the Rings movies, I'm now going to get and read those books and anything else JRR Tolkien wrote in the way of fantasy.

                          5 out of 5 stars Better than LOTR.......2007-09-08

                          I think this book is a much better read than Lord of the Rings. I also think Peter Jackson should have made a movie out of this book. There are a million reviews out there for this book, so I just want to add that I thoroughly enjoyed it. Beautiful imagery, interesting storyline... This is one book that everyone should read.
                          Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic (Abridged)
                          Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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                          Hobbit: An Illustrated Edition of the Fantasy Classic (Abridged)
                          J. R. R. Tolkien
                          Manufacturer: Tandem Library
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                          4 out of 5 stars Em's Review.......2004-05-12

                          I found the Hobbit to be a very well written book. It was about a Hobbit named Bilbo Baggins. I enjoyed the character of Bilbo very much, and I enjoyed hearing about his life inside his hobbit hole. JRR Tolkien did a very nice job of describing Bilbo, and I could see a clear picture in my mind of him. JRR Tolkien is also a very clever author. He has clever solutions to traps. For example, during Bilbo's adventure, he and the dwarves were captured in a dungeon. Believe it or not, they escaped by way of barrels in a roaring river. In the sequel, The Lord of the Rings, i did not feel the solutions were as clever. Back to The Hobbit. There were many creatures in this book, and i thought the author did a wonderful job creating them. They were each unique and had their own personalities, and they interacted that supported the ending of the story. There were also a few things i did not enjoy about this book. For example, sometimes Bilbo's split personality got confusing. It was hard to keep track of his character. Also, the book tends to get boring at times. It may depend of what genre of books you enjoy reading, but these books are not my type. However, if you enjoy a good adventure, this book is DEFINETALY for you. Some of you may read this book and not be into adventure stories, but change your mind because of his writing style. Overall I would give this book four out of five stars.

                          For Want of a Horse: Choice and Chance in History
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                            Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
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                            Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
                            Neil Postman
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                            The problem with the world today, says Neil Postman, is that we've become so caught up in hurtling towards the future that we've lost our societal "narrative," a humane cultural tradition that creates "a sense of purpose and continuity"--in other words, something to believe in. "In order to have an agreeable encounter with the twenty-first century," he asserts, "we will have to take into it some good ideas. And in order to do that, we need to look back to take stock of the good ideas available to us." He finds rich source material in the Enlightenment, the salad days for philosophers such as Goethe, Voltaire, Diderot, Paine, and Jefferson, "the beginnings of much that is worthwhile about the modern world." Yet Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century is a call for cultural progress, not regression: "I am not suggesting that we become the eighteenth century," Postman notes, "only that we use it for what it is worth and all it is worth."

                            Chief among the values Postman cites is the development of the intellect; it plays a part in many of his recommendations, from the cultivation of a healthy skepticism towards overhyped technology to sweeping educational reforms that include replacing grammar instruction with logic and rhetoric and introducing courses on comparative religion and the history of science. He also lashes out at postmodernists who start with the premise that language "is a major factor in producing our perceptions, judgments, knowledge, and institutions" and conclude that language is therefore tenuously connected to reality at best. Enlightenment thinkers knew that language molded perception, he notes, but they also believed that "it is possible to use language to say things about the world that are true" and "to communicate ideas to oneself and to others." Postman is excessively curmudgeonly at times, as in his reference to philosopher Jean Baudrillard as "a Frenchman, of all things," or his remarks on the ancient Athenians: "I know they are the classic example of Dead White Males, but we should probably listen to them anyway." But for anybody with a stake in the culture wars, or who wants to apply the lessons of philosophy to the modern world, Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century will make for provocative reading.

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                            In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world.

                            Postman shows us how to reclaim that balance between mind and machine in a dazzling celebration of the accomplishments of the Enlightenment-from Jefferson's representative democracy to Locke's deductive reasoning to Rousseau's demand that the care and edification of children be considered an investment in our collective future. Here, too, is the bold assertion that Truth is invulnerable to fashion or the passing of time. Provocative and brilliantly argued, Building a Bridge to the 18th Century illuminates a navigable path through the Information Age-a byway whose signposts, it turns out, were there all along.

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                            5 out of 5 stars Essential reading for educators in history.......2007-08-10

                            Postman makes an extremely compelling argument that our best source for assistance for moral and intellectual decision-making lies in the 18th century, not the historical aberration that was the 20th century. I won't summarize the points here, if what I said above makes sense, don't delay, read this book! You won't regret it. This is a clear, concise and accurate read that entertains along the way.

                            5 out of 5 stars How the past can improve our future.......2007-04-06

                            Neil Postman, longtime professor and eventual chair of the department of culture and communication at New York University, sadly died in 2003 at the age of 72. Bridge is his final book, and it deals with the same universal themes found in his earlier 20-odd works: language, reason, education, childhood, and the idea of progress.

                            Despairing over post-modernists who claim words don't stand for anything real, he makes a case for reading and writing. Indeed, he feels if we don't come up with a meaningful narrative for our world, we're toast.

                            It is no accident, Postman is a huge fan of the two Thomases: Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Paine, particularly Paine.

                            Note: Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense and The Crisis. Common Sense sold as many as 600,000 copies, which would be equivalent to a run of 60 million copies in the United States today.

                            During the 18th century we were sewing the seeds for the end of monarchy and, eventually, slavery. Dr. Postman states that "men of the mind" in those heady days thought knowledge should be useful. Such Renaissance Men were known as philosophes, i.e. philosophers using their minds for great and just social causes.

                            Now consider the modern era, and the so-called information revolution. The pervasive imagery of video and computer media work often to undercut the logical, serial narrative form of print. Reading, books in particular, requires active intellect, constantly evaluating statements, considering context, weighing consistencies, etc.

                            Too often we succumb to the easier means of getting information... from perceptual streams of video images and sounds, serving to reinforce the perceptual-emotional method of awareness: "see something, have an immediate, often extreme emotion one way or the other."

                            For example, a large number of Americans see footage of the World Trade Center towers falling and have an immediate animosity toward Arab men. Alternative explanations to the official story, no matter how logically unassailable, are simply blocked from consideration. A society relying on emotions bred from controlled media images is Orwellian... and doomed.

                            Dr. Postman also has insightful observations on the loss of childhood to technology. He doesn't "rail against the machine," so much as ask questions of the necessity of every shiny new thunderpig widget that comes along:

                            "What is the problem to which the supersonic jet is the solution?" -- pg.43.

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                            4 out of 5 stars A brilliant case for the value of the humanities in the modern age.......2006-05-28

                            In _Building a Bridge to the 18th Century_, Postman raises a number of excellent questions about the issues and challenges of the post-modern age. In doing so, he tackles technology, education, and our sense of "progress."

                            Postman transparently states that he is not a fan of email, the internet and television. For this, the title of "luddite" (a perjorative for those who reject "modernization") initally seems appropriate. Postman addresses this and rejects it. I would agree with him on this; he is not opposed to technology per say, but rather is opposed to technology for its own sake. This argument is the basis of his book.

                            Essentially Postman forces us to ask, "what is the utility of the technological advances we are making?" In responding to this, Postman finds the answer in the philosophes of the 18th century - Lock, Rousseau, Diderot, Jefferson, Franklin, Voltaire - stating that without some purpose for the greater good, we end up serving technology, rather than having technology serve us.

                            The effects of this "unexamined life" are profound. As we read less and watch more, interact more with machines than people, and lose our sense of skepticism taking the word of experts and scientists without challenge, we are essentially returning to a "pre-Enlightened" age intellecutally reminiscient more of the middle ages than the modern age, to our misfortune.

                            There is much here to mentally wrestle with. The intellecutal depth of the issue made easier by the lucid writing of Postman. It is a provoking read that I recommend.

                            5 out of 5 stars Not a Luddite.......2001-11-23

                            Somehow Postman has been accused of being a luddite. I'm not sure how he got theis reputation. He is certainly critical of present excesses, but as this book shows, he merely - and justly - questions current ideas that have degenerated to produce dubious advantages. he has no objections to technology or science but, he argues, there is aneed to revert to a more humanist (which also implies liberal in the good sense of the word) approaches to temper the way technology is creeping intrusively into our lives. In philosophical terms he argues against cultural relativism and its older brother deconstruction - i.e. Derrida, Lacan. in this he is joined - though he does not mention it - by several leading physicists and, indeed, Fashionable Nonsense by Sokal confirms this. Like many greek classical philosophers, from Plato to Epicurus, postman excercises healthy doubt and merely questions the present. Not all change is good. I also found the book to be very well written, erudite and humorous.

                            5 out of 5 stars Postman Delivers!.......2001-10-22

                            This is my third Postman book and I am still enthralled in the reading of his works. Mainly, I believe, because he writes with a particular verve that I find lacking in many of his contemporaries. His discourse covers a wide range of topics, some of them superficially, but all of them intended to support his thesis: children are losing their childhood; and meaning needs to be revived in language, education, narrative, and culture. He is iconoclastic.

                            Even though it is possible to read his book in a cursory manner, don't fault the easily accessible work as trite. Postman's criticism is erudite, precise and well-articulated.

                            I hope he doesn't stop writing. His voice needs to continue.
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