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- Very poorly written
- It's a page-turner; it's a business book: It's both
- A Tale of Two Cultures, indeed!
- It's a page-turner; it's a business book: It's both.
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Leading at the Speed of Change: Using New Economy Rules to Transform Old Economy Companies
Bill Capodagli , and
Lynn Jackson
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Energize a traditional bricks-and-mortar company with lightning-fast e-business spirit -- and results
Traditional brick-and-mortar companies' competitive survival in the New Economy depends on learning how to think, act, and perform like the most agile of today's light-speed, dotcom enterprises. Leading at the Speed of Change shows the way. Based on extensive interviews with key players, this book takes you behind the scenes to describe how one global giant, AT&T, has risen to the challenge.You'll learn how AT&T Solutions, under the direction of entrepreneurial superstar Rick Rocsitt, grew from a dream to a $5 billion enterprise in less than five years.
A road map through today's exciting e-business revolution, this challenging, compelling landmark book serves up a template old-line companies can use to rethink, redesign, and reengineer their design processes, factory floors, supply chains, and distribution channels --and meet the changing demands and opportunities of the new Internet economy. Don't miss this guide's powerful lessons on how to infuse any organization with the spirit, creativity, swiftness, and growth of the best dotcom companies.
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Traditional brick-and-mortar companies are waking up to the fact that competitive survival in the New Economy depends on learning how to think and act like today's most successful dotcom enterprises. Now this important new book from the authors of the bestseller The Disney Way shows them how. Based on extensive interviews with key players at AT&T, including CEO Michael Armstrong, and heir apparent Rick Rocsitt, Leading at DotCom Speed takes readers behind the scenes of one of the most sensational success stories of recent years to describe how one global giant, AT&T, has risen to the challenge. It explains exactly how AT&T Solutions, under the direction of entrepreneurial superstar Rick Rocsitt, grew from a dream to a $5 billion enterprise in less than five years. Offering powerful lessons on how to infuse any organization with the spirit, creativity, swiftness, and growth of a dotcom company, Leading at DotCom Speed is must reading for CEOs, executives, and managers at companies in all industry sectors.
Customer Reviews:
Very poorly written.......2004-11-21
I decided to purchase this book because I was interested in the story of AT&T solutions. I read it cover to cover because of my interest, but the poor writing and corny side-story made it quite painful. The authors should have never used that ridiculous airplane flight as a stage for the book. Unless you have a specific interest in AT&T solutions then I wouldn't suggest purchasing this book.
It's a page-turner; it's a business book: It's both.......2001-06-04
Enjoy this book. Be gripped by it. Learn from it. I did all three. LEADING AT THE SPEED OF CHANGE is a different kind of business book: it almost reads like a novel. It's a riveting tale of vision, courage, and perseverance, with action guides after each chapter to nail the main points and help you be the hero of your own business story. Authors Capodagli and Jackson cheer Rick Roscitt and his maverick AT&T Solutions team as they Dream, Believe, Dare, and Do their way to phenomenal start-up success. AT&T CEO Mike Armstrong is praised for blessing and nourishing the breakaway unit, and he is also fairly and frankly assessed for re-shaping the corporation into a global communications one-stop shop, and then recently dividing it into four parts. Throughout, Capodagli and Jackson are passionate but clear-eyed observers, and masterful teachers, too. This will be no surprise to readers of their previous books THE DISNEY WAY and THE DISNEY WAY FIELDBOOK which established their business-as-show business approach. In the close, overstuffed warehouse of business books today, Capodagli and Jackson are a welcome and invigorating breath of fresh air.
A Tale of Two Cultures, indeed!.......2001-05-25
In Leading at the Speed of Change, Capodagli and Jackson combine artful storytelling with hard hitting facts about AT&T and its prize division, AT&T Solutions. The book begins with a flashback to 1993, where AT&T vet Rick Roscitt had a profound vision. And from this creative burst of business energy he, and a team of 12, pioneered Solutions into a model that can potentially alter the way things are done throughout all of AT&T. In a time where AT&T bashing is the norm, it was refreshing to read this book and find a bright spot. But don't think that Capodagli and Jackson were blind to what was happening just down the road. In fact, they pay considerable attention to the impending break up, and what CEO Michael Armstrong and AT&T could have possibly done to avoid this fiasco. In this chapter, I also found that it served as a wake-up call to any business. A small organization can falter as well (or perhaps more easily) from the same mistakes made by this telecommunications behemoth. Capodagli and Jackson rely on their management consulting background to provide criticism as well as prescriptive advice, breaking things down into eight simple, but essential, categories: Vision, Values, Alliances, Acculturation, Predictable Problems, Failing Forward Fast, Quintessential Teams, and Customer Intimacy. For those of you unhappy with the status quo, from the corporate CEO to the small business owner, Leading at the Speed of Change is a must read.
It's a page-turner; it's a business book: It's both........2001-05-17
Read this book. Enjoy it. Be gripped by it. Learn from it. I did all three. LEADING AT THE SPEED OF CHANGE is a different kind of business book: it almost reads like a novel. It's a riveting tale of vision, courage, and perseverence, with action guides after each chapter to nail the main points and help you be the hero of your own business story.
Authors Capodagli and Jackson cheer Rick Roscitt and his maverick AT&T Solutions team as they Dream, Believe, Dare, and Do their way to phenomenal start-up success. AT&T CEO Mike Armstrong is praised for blessing and nourishing the breakaway unit, and he is also fairly and frankly assessed for re-shaping the corporation into a global communications one-stop shop, and then recently dividing it into four parts. Throughout, Capodagli and Jackson are passionate but clear-eyed observers, and masterful teachers, too. This will be no surprise to readers of their previous books THE DISNEY WAY and THE DISNEY WAY FIELDBOOK which established their business-as-show business approach. In the close, overstuffed warehouse of business books today, Capodagli and Jackson are a welcome and invigorating breath of fresh air.
Book Description
Demystify investing and maximize your wealth-with guidance from the world's most trusted financial news network
From CNBC, the global leader of financial news, comes the most user-friendly, approachable guide to simplifying the often confusing world of finance and investing.
CNBC Creating Wealth offers a complete and comprehensive introduction to world markets and shows readers how to use the information and tools currently available for maximum wealth-building. Using the hallmark CNBC approach-demystifying complex and confusing market terminology through lucid language and instructions-this accessible primer helps readers make smarter investment choices, and stay successful and secure even in volatile markets.
CNBC Creating Wealth covers:
- The inside story of the stock market and creating a long-term investment portfolio
- Strategies for the most profitable investment areas, including stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
- Online tools, including research, brokers, and access to data about financial markets around the world
Customer Reviews:
GREAT COVER.......2001-08-03
GREAT COVER I THINK WE CAN DO BETTER. I LOVE CNBC MYSELF.I SEEN MORE BOOKS WITH MORE DETAIL INFORMATION. AS I SAID GREAT COVER.
Easy to Read Practical Guide.......2001-07-14
Watching CNBC can be entertaining and educational but sometimes you need more information than the anchors provide about a certain story. This book gives you the background--the basics about how the stock market works and what you need to know to make smart investing decisions. There's lots of useful stuff here and you can peruse the chapters that you're interested in.
Thank Goodness for CNBC!.......2001-07-14
I am a CNBC junkie -- I just can't get enough, particularly when it comes to understanding what's going on in today's crazy markets. This book not only has same straighforward approach you find on CNBC, it also provides you with an invaluable analysis of how markets work and a list of resources where you can get up to the minute information on world markets. Any book that will help me make sense of what the current stock market is doing will help me feel confident in the choices I make as an individual investor and is worth the price. I highly recommend this book. Thanks.
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'Like Products' in International Trade Law: Towards a Consistent GATT/WTO Jurisprudence (International Economic Law Series)
Won-Mog Choi
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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The obligations of international trade law hinge upon the question of what constitute "like products". Trade disputes will often involve an examination of whether the products in question are in competition with one another. The most common term used for this test is to ask whether they are "like products" - that is to ask whether products are sufficiently similar for consumers to see them as substitutable - and thus whether they are subject to the rules of the WTO and GATT. The central thesis of this book is that despite the centrality of the principle of 'like products' to the WTO, it has not been consistently interpreted, and therefore the risk of discriminatory practice remains. The author, through analyzing legal and economic arguments, sets about defining the concept of 'like products' in such a way as to consistently give effect to WTO aims.
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Soil survey of Louisa County, Iowa
Melvin D Brown
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Photoreceptor Evolution and Function
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ASIN: 0123533902 |
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The mechanisms which enable photoreceptors to use radiation as a source of energy or information have traditionally been studied separately in different groups of organisms. As a result the structural similarities between these essential molecules in a wide range of species of both plants and animals have, to a great extent, been overlooked.
In this book, current knowledge in the area is summarized, and recent research into the parallel evolution of photoreceptors in bacteria, algae, fungi, higher plants, arthropods, fish, birds, and mammals is discussed, providing a fascinating insight into the ways in which organisms have developed specific photoreceptors to fulfill their individual requirements. Photoreceptor diversity and properties are considered first, and subsequent chapters expand upon the structure, mode of action, and function of molecules such as flavins, carotenoids, chlorophyll, haem porphyrins, phytochrome, phycobilins, and visual pigments.
The book bridges several disciplines to give an up-to-date account of the subject which will be indispensable to all those involved in research in photobiology.
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* Stresses the fundamental similarities between photoreceptor molecules in plants and animals
* Focuses on current research into photoreceptor function
* Demonstrates that these molecules form a "family" whose evolution can be investigated
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- could be difficult for a physicist to follow
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Pauli's Exclusion Principle: The Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle
Michela Massimi
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There is hardly another principle in physics with wider scope of applicability and more far-reaching consequences than Pauli's exclusion principle. This book explores the principle's origin in the atomic spectroscopy of the early 1920s, its subsequent embedding into quantum mechanics, and later experimental validation with the development of quantum chromodynamics. Reconstruction of the crucial historic episode provides an excellent foil to reconsider Kuhn's view on incommensurability. The variety of themes skillfully interwoven will appeal to philosophers, historians, scientists and anyone interested in philosophy.
Customer Reviews:
could be difficult for a physicist to follow.......2006-07-06
Massimi covers both theoretical physics and philosophy in this book. In doing so, a physicist reader might well find herself treading water in parts of the text. If you thought you knew the Pauli Exclusion Principle, by the time you finish the book, you might be befuddled.
It's simply that Massimi looks at the Principle and its history in ways unfamiliar to most physicists. Not that he is wrong, but that the logic and terminology he uses are their own speciality. The pure physics parts of the book are straightforward to follow, and should be safe grounds for such readers.
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Science of Everyday Things: Real-Life Physics (Science of Everyday Things)
Judson Knight , and
Neil Schlager
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Oscar Wilde: The Man, His Writings, and His World (Ams Studies in the Nineteenth Century)
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- Wonderful, Great coffee table book
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Dictionary of Historical Allusions and Eponyms
Dorothy Auchter
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Wonderful, Great coffee table book.......1999-02-28
Horrible title, outstanding book. I didn't expect that it would be so fun to read. It has an appeal beyond academics. This is very rare. This was an informative and very fun read. Recommend it highly...after you graduate the only text book you can keep and actually use. Even your mother will like this book.
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Following his country's victory over Nazi Germany, Joseph Stalin was widely hailed as a great wartime leader and international statesman. Unchallenged on the domestic front, he headed one of the most powerful nations in the world. Yet, in the period from the end of World War II until his death, Stalin remained a man possessed by his fears. In order to reinforce his despotic rule in the face of old age and uncertain health, he habitually humiliated and terrorized members of his inner circle. He had their telephones bugged and even forced his deputy, Viacheslav Molotov, to betray his own spouse as a token of his allegiance. Often dismissed as paranoid and irrational, Stalin's behavior followed a clear political logic, contend Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk. Stalin's consistent and overriding goal after the war was to consolidate the Soviet Union's status as a superpower and, in the face of growing decrepitude, to maintain his own hold as leader of that power. To that end, he fashioned a system of leadership that was at once patrimonial-repressive and quite modern. While maintaining informal relations based on personal loyalty at the apex of the system, in the postwar period Stalin also vested authority in committees, elevated younger specialists, and initiated key institutional innovations with lasting consequences. Close scrutiny of Stalin's relationships with his most intimate colleagues also shows how, in the teeth of periodic persecution, Stalin's deputies cultivated informal norms and mutual understandings which provided the foundations for collective rule after his death. Based on newly released archival documents, including personal correspondence, drafts of Central Committee paperwork, new memoirs, and interviews with former functionaries and the families of Politburo members, this book will appeal to all those interested in Soviet history, political history, and the lives of dictators.
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A Unique Glimpse into the Operations of a Dictatorship.......2007-08-01
This book should not only hold a place in the history of the Soviet Union, but also speaks to a larger audience interested in dictatorships of the twentieth-century. Gorliziki and Khlevniuk provide a unique description of a dictatorship not available from a study of Mussolini or Hitler. The fundamental difference between Stalin and his dictatorial counterparts was not that he survived World War II, but the fact he was a "machine politician." Stalin was not an accomplished orator, but he did not hesitate to involve himself in bureaucratic disagreements, which Hitler avoided. In the context of twentieth-century dictatorships, Cold Peace, provides a picture of a dictator without the trappings of intense oratory, but an instinct for the intricate details of bureaucratic administration.
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This digital document is an article from The Historian, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 538 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: Cold Peace: Stalin and the Soviet Ruling Circle, 1945-1953.(Book review)
Author: Simon Ball
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The Historian (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 67
Issue: 3
Page: 566(2)
Article Type: Book review
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- From his former Scoutmaster
- Lack of Correct Background Info
- Good book, could do without the editorializing
- The Radioactive Boy Scout Review
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- The Radioactive Boy Scout Review
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The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor
Ken Silverstein
Manufacturer: Random House
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Release Date: 2004-03-02 |
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On June 26, 1995 the people of Golf Manor, Michigan returned from work to find a federal EPA crew dismantling a potting shed in Patty Hahn's back yard. In subsequent days, the crew, wearing protective suits, carted away the refuse in sealed barrels emblazoned with radiation symbols. The EPA workers refused to disclose what was happening, only offering vague reassurance that everything was ok. Ken Silverstein shows that things in Golf Manor were not, in fact, ok. David Hahn, a 17-year-old aspiring Eagle Scout, had constructed the rudiments of a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard and had contaminated himself and the immediate area with potentially deadly radioactive material. In his brief, briskly-paced account of the events, Silverstein weaves together science, history, and testimony from David and his family in a tale both frightening and tragic.
For David to get so far, Silverstein shows, he had to be the victim of carelessness and neglect at all levels of society. David Hahn's parents were divorced, and David used the separate households to conceal the magnitude of his work. His school teachers paid little heed when David, nicknamed Glow Boy by fellow students, suggested he was collecting radioactive substances. Most alarmingly, corporations and government agencies blithely supplied David with the materials and information he needed to expand his work to dangerous levels. Interspersed with his account of David, Silverstein exposes the culture of deceit surrounding the history of nuclear power, a culture that easily seduced an aspiring young scientist. David was left with little in the way of mentorship other than such one-sided testaments to the benefits of science as his trusted Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments.
The book, which grew out of Silverstein's 1998 story in Harper's Magazine reads like a suspense novel blended with breezy accounts of America's history with the atom. It is, in some ways, a coda for the nuclear age. In his final pages, Silverstein shows that power production from nuclear reactors has slowly ebbed over the last decades, breeder reactors world-wide have been shut down, and public apprehension has finally out-stripped naïve scientific exuberance for atomic energy. But is the danger truly receding? Surprisingly, The Radioactive Boy Scout does not address any changes in security that have evolved from David's incident. In fact, Silverstein hints that David himself may still be dabbling with radioactive materials. In the post 9/11 era, the prospect is even more frightening. --Patrick O'Kelley
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Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments—building homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and concocting his own self-tanning lotion—were more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David’s obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed.
In
The Radioactive Boy Scout, veteran journalist Ken Silverstein recreates in brilliant detail the months of David’s improbable nuclear quest. Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. (Ironically, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was his number one source of information.) Scavenging antiques stores and junkyards for old-fashioned smoke detectors and gas lanterns—both of which contain small amounts of radioactive material—and following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His unsanctioned and wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental catastrophe that put his town’s forty thousand residents at risk and caused the EPA to shut down his lab and bury it at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah.
An outrageous account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris that sits comfortably on the shelf next to such offbeat science books as Driving Mr. Albert and stories of grand capers like
Catch Me If You Can,
The Radioactive Boy Scout is a real-life adventure with the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.
Customer Reviews:
From his former Scoutmaster.......2007-08-04
I was David's scoutmaster when he was preparing for his Eagle Scout Board of Review. I was to contact five registered adult Scout leaders, who would comprise the Board. One prospective adult told me he could not, because "something happened".
I learned that David and some friends were stopped by the cavaliering Clinton Township (Michigan) Police, who were randomly stopping teens and searching their cars for stolen tires.
David was not allowed to keep his experiments in his stepmother's home, so he kept everything in his car trunk. The cops found no tires, but saw his stuff and overreacted.
Days later, David's father phoned and said that David would no longer pursue the Eagle Scout rank.
A month or so later, a man claiming to be a reporter phoned my home, wanting to do a telephone interview about David. After a few moments, I refused. There was something negative about the line of questioning.
As a Scout, David was always clean-cut, polite, and well-liked by the other boys. My take is that David had the scientific curiosity of a Tesla or Edison; not of an evil prankster.
David's father, like so many divorced and re-married men, walked a tightrope between caring for his son and appeasing a new bride.
For Mr. Silverstein should keep his story factual, and keep his opinions about Scouting to the editorial pages.
Lack of Correct Background Info.......2007-05-15
Did the author have this read by a nuclear engineer or physicist for accuracy? Obviously not!!!!! First thing, on page 39, the author states that electromagnetic separation is the same as a centrifuge. If he would have researched the separation techniques for more than 5 minutes would have seen that we used calutrons (electromagnetic separation) in WWII but that is not the same as centrifuges which is the primary form of separation today. Second, his discussion on radioactivity on page 54 shows that he doesn't understand the topic. Furthermore, he makes blanket statements that do not attempt to frame the situation or put things in context. If nuclear power didn't produce an ounce of energy like the author says then why are countries actively pursuing this power source (such as France as an earlier comment stated)? Lastly, this book could've been one page but he continues saying the same thing over and over again. It was the first book I debated quitting reading or at least going directly to the end. I want my money back, this was one of the worst books I've ever read.
Good book, could do without the editorializing.......2007-01-31
The story of David Hahn is interesting enough that it would be difficult to write a bad book about it. Fortunately, Silverstein's prose is breezy and well-written, and the book is quite the page-turner. Hahn is a near-perfect antihero - you know that he's clearly endangering himself and others, but at the same time, you can't help but cheer him on.
The story was initially an article in Harper's, which Silverstein then expanded on. This is pretty obvious, as lots of the book has little to do with David, but more to do with atomic energy and its history in the US. However, it's all pretty interesting stuff, and even though I already knew about most of it, I think that it would be quite educational for people who don't know as much about the US's history with the atom.
Now for the bad parts- Silverstein does a lot of moralizing, and it gets on my nerves.
He correctly judges David's parents as being neglectful - indeed, they do seem to treat David more as a burden then anything else. I also agree that his school should have done more to channel his energy in a positive direction. But what the hell - schools in America suck at this sort of thing, and everybody knows that. This is a problem that should be addressed, but you could hardly blame the school system for David's building a nuclear reactor.
Silverstein portrays David in a mostly sympathetic light, but he does judge him a bit harshly at times. I think this is unjustified - David carried out his experiments when he was still an adolescent. At that age, you really don't know right from wrong, which is why there's a different set of laws for people under 18.
Silverstein blames various adults for "not catching on" to what David was doing, and I think that's absurd. You can't expect that a teenager is going to build a nuclear reactor.
Finally, Silverstein seems to have a serious hate-on for nuclear science, and that really got on my nerves. Yes, the US does have sort of a dark history with nuclear science. However, is this the fault of the atom, or the fault of the US government? Last I checked, France gets 76% of their power from atomic energy, and they seem to be doing pretty well with it. Point being, you can discuss our past mistakes in atom-splitting without dismissing an entire branch of science.
Anyway, good book, you'll probably enjoy it, but you'll have to filter out some of Silverstein's gratuitous editorializing.
The Radioactive Boy Scout Review
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The Radioactive Boy Scout
By: Ken Silverstein
Non-fiction
The book is about a boy who finds a golden book with science experiments in it and he becomes obsessed with it and basically he becomes a science expert. He then decided to have a lab in his potting shed. In the book it tells about how to perform experiments. Whenever he had the chance he would look over his nuclear research, in the library, in his potting shed, and at school. The kids at school think that he is a geek so he brings some of the rare elements on the periodic table of elements to school to show off. He got the elements from clocks, smoke detectors, and borrowing some of the things he needed. Then David made a great discovery and made a gun for it. His dad wants him to join boy scouts so he did but that didn't take science off his mind. He even won merit badge in atomic energy. His dream was to collect a sample of every element on the periodic table of elements. But later he gets in a lot of trouble using the things on the periodic table of elements. I like how the author describes the elements so well and where they are on the periodic table of elements. I also like how the author describes how the elements work in liquids and other things. I didn't enjoy reading the book because he took to long to describe things like the elements or what they did. I also dislike how the book only described how the elements work and where they are on the periodic table of elements. The author didn't talk about other things happening in his life like his girl friend. She only appears once in a while in the book. The author also didn't tell what happened to the boy at the end of the prolog.
The Radioactive Boy Scout Review
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The Radioactive Boy Scout
By: Ken Silverstein
Non-fiction
The book is about a boy who finds a golden book with science experiments in it and he becomes obsessed with it and basically he becomes a science expert. He then desited to have a lab in his potting shed. In the book it tells about how to perform experiments. Whenever he had the chance he would look over his nuclear research, in the library, in his potting shed, and at school. The kids at school think that he is a geek so he brings some of the rare elements on the periodic table of elements to school to show off. He got the elements from clocks, smoke detectors, and borrowing some of the things he needed. Then David made a great discovery and made a gun for it. His dad wants him to join boy scouts so he did but that didn't take science off his mind. He even won merit badge in atomic energy. His dream was to collect a sample of every element on the periodic table of elements. But later he gets in a lot of trouble using the things on the periodic table of elements. I like how the author describes the elements so well and where they are on the periodic table of elements. I also like how the author describes how the elements work in liquids and other things. I didn't enjoy reading the book because he took to long to describe things like the elements or what they did. I also dislike how the book only described how the elements work and where they are on the periodic table of elements. The author didn't talk about other things happening in his life like his girl friend. She only appears once in a while in the book. The author also didn't tell what happened to the boy at the end of the prolog.
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Title: The fates of parks in modern America: five trends that will shape our future.(Transcript)
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