Sharing the Burden: Strategies for Public and Private Long-Term Care Insurance

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In this work James Tobin discusses two major issues of macroeconomics: the strength of automatic market forces in maintaining full employment equilibrium and the efficacy of government fiscal and monetary policies in stabilizing the economy.

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Extraordinary.......2000-03-25

This book is a must have for all you people who study economics or are interested in matters alike. The degree of analysis that professor Tobin reached in this book makes it a fundamental part of the story of economic theory

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Skewed ratings.........2005-05-02

This is not a 2 star book. Don't rate the book poorly because you didn't make the connection.

It's just as fabulous as "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and it's in french.

Nothing lost in translation.......2004-10-16

This is definitely a let-down and a product of bad advertising. But the cover is amazing, and I bought it because I speak French. It's actually a little different from "me talk pretty one day" -- there are more french inside jokes. If you are bilingual, it's worth the buy. But if you think it's a new David Sedaris book, don't be fooled.

FYI, to the reviewer who so hastily tried to make the other reviewers feel bad, "Je Parler Francais" means "I speak French" not "I talk pretty one day" (It is actually gramatically incorrect in french -- should be "je parle francais")

so maybe you should get your facts straight.

Oh please!.......2003-07-12

Don't give the book low marks just because you didn't do your research. It's pretty obvious that the book is a French version of "Me Talk Pretty"... Je Parler Francais translates into what?

If you can read/understand French, and haven't read the English version yet, you'll enjoy this book.

Poor Advertising!.......2003-03-12

I'm glad I'm not the only one who waited excitedly for this book only to discover that it was in French! Why is it even advertised in English?

I was going to use it for my ESL class..........2003-02-28

I am incredibly frustrated to have anticipated this book, to have ordered it to be sent to my parents' house in Missouri, and to have had my mother ship it to me in Paris, where I live, only to find that it is a French translation. I should have paid more attention to the publisher, but ... everyone thought it was a new book! Bad advertising, fellas.

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This was well thought out, you will like it.

All Summer Long, Vol. 4: Dumb Angel
Brian Chidester , and Domenic Priore
Manufacturer: Neptune's Kingdom Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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All Summer Long is Volume 4 in the Dumb Angel book series. The series is about Mid-Century Modern design and the art style of Southern California, with a focus on Surf Instrumental Music, Tiki/Exotica, Brian Wilson and Modernist Architecture.

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This was well thought out, you will like it........2007-06-05

This was well thought out, you will like it.

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Walks Like Fiction, Talks Like Fiction..........2007-08-10

This book is a fun ride. However, if you've read a lot of celebrity bios, you'll be turned off, as I was, at how MacRae appropriates various anonymous and ancient showbiz stories as her own personal experiences.

For example, she has a lover defending her to a foe by saying, "What she has, you used to have. And what she has, you can't spell." Nice line, but it's from a movie.

The whole book has a goofy, made-up quality - even more than the usual Hollywood autobiography. Rather than trying to paint herself as the innocent waif (as June Allyson tried to do in her autobiography), MacRae bends over backwards (a-hem) to sex up her image.

With a huge grain of salt, it's a fun, juicy read. And I wouldn't trust one word of it as far as I could throw the publishing house.

The Glory Days of Hollywood (reflected in photos.).......2006-07-17

The pictures in two photo sections tell the whole story of Gordon, Sheila and family. I have selected some interesting items about Hollywood instead of the typical movie couple in the Fifties. He made four movies with DoDo Day: "Tea for Two", "The West Point Story," "On Moonlight Bay," and "By The Light of the Silvery Moon." She was a bit old for the perrenial boyish MacRae. They were asked to pose for an Easter Seals poster with some 'handicapped' children. She refused on religious grounds that she was a "Christian Scientist and they don't believe in cripples." (Hear that, Wink M.) Gordon was insulted and cursed this Girl-next-door character "She's giving my religion a bad name." Oh well, in her older years, she always had to be filmed through a special filter to obliterate her wrinkles and aging process, the big phony. I loved Gordon in "Carousel" and "Oklahoma." He was fabulous and such a good singer.

Movies are tricks of the eyes and the makeup artists. There's a quirk in how we see that allows a series of still pictures to spring into motion. In pursuit of that optical illusion, fortunes have been made; lives devoted to it, and some ruined. The trouble was if you couldn't tell what was 'legerdemain' and what was 'real,' (magician from the magic); Sheila appeared as the magician's assistant and eventually got to know all the tricks.

They were in Hollywood during the blacklisting and has some interesting things to reveal about the prophetic Ronald Reagan. Also, when she was named as "Mother of the Year" her marriage was a shambles and they were on the verge of a divorce. Sounds like Debbie and Eddie, a typical Hollywood couple. Of all her affairs, I was shocked that Frank Sinatra was one! She had moved here from England and kept a tinge of the British accent; I guess that's what intrigued him as I don't think it was her singing. She was pretty and talented during the Sixties, but after the divorce, things went downhill for them both. Such is life, but especially for the woman.

Golden voice/Blabber mouth.......2006-04-05

"Oh, by the way, I was once married to ...."; now can I tell ya all about my life?" There. Do you feel like reading this superficial analysis of a Hollywood marriage run amok? I didn't think so. Typical, feminist retro-look at the past when Sheila was a part of the dinner club circut power couple come unglued. Trivializes the highs(1950's),depicts the 1960's as the rise of a multi-talented what, dancer/singer, when groups were in vogue?Granted, survival was key here, but I wanted to know more about the golden-voiced Gordon MacRae and what became of his gifts that, among other things, launched her. Not to be. Ended up being about as interesting as a Matt Helm bedroom farce,with the reality glossed over and the reality of what once was unrevealed.

A Great Marriage/Love Affair Gone Wrong........1997-08-23

I have always enjoyed reading a celebrity's autobiography and Sheila MacRae's was no exception. Having been born long after the success of MacRae's famous husband, Gordon in 1960, I was unfamilar with his films as well as Miss MacRae's credits as an actress. Through this autobiography, I read with great interest as well as great sadness, over a man and woman who were deeply in love, but destroyed by Gordon's alcoholism and excessive gambling. The bright spots are MacRae's close friendship with Lucille Ball, some revealing insight into her friend Cary Grant's love life, and the Hollywood parties attended in their heydey. After reading the book, I emerged an admirer of both Sheila and Gordon MacRae.

Hollywood Mother of the Year Sheila MacRae's Own Story

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Hollywood Mother of the Year Sheila MacRae's Own Story
Sheila w/H. Paul Jeffers MacRae
Manufacturer: Birch Lane Press
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LDAP, or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is a directory management system/database that simplifies life for anyone managing a network with more than 50 users. While Sun and Microsoft have created their own versions of LDAP, OpenLDAP is freeware that is available for use and redistribution to the programming community.

For all the work and time invested in using LDAP, not enough time has been spent designing the layout and the logic of directories. End users and system architects often don’t give appropriate attention to the deployment of LDAP as a standards-based system with interfacing ability. Thus, many of LDAP’s best features - especially OpenLDAP - become unusable. As a remedy, deploying OpenLDAP delves into the logic, theories and fundamentals of directories. This book surpasses "what is", and instead shows system administrators "how to." A good resource for learning more is www.openldap.org.

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useless; try the O'reilly LDAP System Administration.......2006-06-23

check out page 67 of the book for a basic reason why this book is useless:
an entire page of a ftp session downloading openldap. huh? How is this helpful? getting the right version of BerkeleyDB and installing it, or installing and configuring OpenSSL would have been far more helpful to me.
This is another book composed mostly of cut 'n paste from the man pages, header files and varous scripts you can find with google.
Discussion on basic topics such as replication skips over key steps, examples for many issues are not provided or are hidden in the book. I use LDAP at work and I used the O'Reilly book to instal, configure and use OpenLDAP. I have yet to find a question that Deploying OpenLDAP can answer that I can't get faster with google.

A book should be written with lots of sweat.......2005-12-28

This is a book produced by merging numerous publicly available materials without too much input from the author. The author seems at a loss what to say when the good stuff is already said by others (other than changing "does not" to "doesn't", etc). Here're some suggestions, in case he plans to write a new edition. For instance, p.77, the first two search filter examples are too easy. But the third one needs a few seconds' thinking. Why not keep building progressively more complicated filters? They would be guaranteed not to be in existing materials. p.144, ACI parameter realm suddenly appears. This "realm" sounds different from that in SASL (p.98 and p.115). But "realm" is never explained anywhere in the book. There're other terms that mean differently but are not explained, such as NSS (p.136 for "Network Security Services" and p.249 for "Name Service Switch"). There're other places in the book that mention something only explained in later chapters, but they're not warned with "We'll explain this in Chapter XXX". The reason is simply that he copies a man page or somebody's article without thinking of adding anything to it. Arrangement of the text is sometimes unexpected. After about 20 pages of Perl methods copied from documentation, p.164 suddenly shows a program in C, not Perl.

This 2005 book discusses technologies of as early as 1998 (not in history section). It may be true that AuthLDAP and TransLDAP modules are not updated since then and C. Donley's web site is gone (pp.264-8). But a responsible book author should tell us anything new around this technology. You shouldn't duplicate Mr. Donley's 1998 article with no comments (and no credit).

In my opinion, if a computer book author dares to list source code, he must add valuable comments, regardless whether the source code already comes with good comments. No need to explain code line by line. But the comments must be insightful. If you don't have any, omit the publicly available code, or readers would wonder if the code is too difficult for you.

Think why most of O'Reilly's books are a success. Take "Sendmail" and "Programming Perl" as examples. The "Sendmail" tome is the easiest to be written as a reprint of documentation. But why do we not have that feeling? Because the authors constantly add text not in documentation, such as if you do this, you would get this error and the solution is such and such. "Programming Perl" does a great job at throwing in real working examples full of wisdom. Documentation can't present too many real-life examples, but a book can and should. If you personally don't have that much experience, gather them from public forums. Be careful though. Don't just copy. Verify, research and add valuable insight. A book author must be an expert in the field.

Lastly, Apress has a Submit Errata page, but they don't send even an auto-reply when you submit one. They don't have View Errata. Tech support doesn't respond. So I'm posting my own Errata at http://rootshell.be/~yong321/computer/bookreview.html#DeployingOpenLDAP (mirrored at stormloader.com/yonghuang/computer/bookreview.html). It took me many hours to create it but please point out errors in it.

virtually useless.......2005-07-21

I was looking for a good treatment of not just what decisions need to be made (I knew those already) but realworld examples I could build on.

Pages and pages of command line switches and API does NOT get OpenLDAP deployed.

Needs more schema info.......2005-05-02

The book has an interesting history of LDAP vs. X.500. It covers some of the basics of entries in LDAP and a bit about schemas, also it talks about installing OpenLDAP and has a bunch of scripts and info on how to hook it up with some common apps.

However, I got this book to figure out how to get OpenLDAP working on my home network. I needed to learn about schemas, and here the book falls down. It covers the basic ideas of a schema, but doesn't discuss the different schemas delivered with openldap (what is cosine.schema and why should I care?) and it doesn't give enough examples of how one would use the schemas - I would really have liked to see all the ldif entries for a whole small network covering users and groups, for example.

In the end, I still don't understand why I'm getting LDAP errors when trying to add users with Webmin. I'm disappointed.

bonus over other ldap books.......2005-03-17

this book has real appeal. i was fortunate enough to pick it up off the book shelves. the in-depth analysis of LDAPv3 all all it's intracacies is fluent throughout the book. i really enjoyed the implementation section. not only have were the commands infinitely useful to my deployment, and other deployments i've seen in the field since - but it adds character and background you won't see in other books. for example, the naming of hosts and the reference to the IETF RFC's made me extremely happy. nobody except the best make casual calls to such sources. this is certainly the best LDAP book for the tech community.

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A Look At Selves and Others

A book to set you thinking about the present

Race and power in the Pacific War

The racism of imperialism, America's racist war in the Pacific

Beyond Subjectivity

War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
John W. Dower
Manufacturer: Pantheon
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0394751728
Release Date: 1987-02-12

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Dower's premise in War without Mercy is a startling one: Though Western allies were clearly headed for victory, pure racism fueled the continuation and intensification of hostilities in the Pacific theater during the final year of World War II, a period that saw as many casualties as in the first five years of the conflict combined. Dower doesn't reach this disturbing conclusion lightly. He combed through piles of propaganda films, news articles, military documents, cartoons--even entries in academic journals in researching this book. Though his case is strong, Dower minimizes other factors, such as the protracted negotiations between the West and the Japanese.

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Now in paperback, War Without Mercy has been hailed by the New York Times as "one of the most original and important books to be written about the war between Japan and the United States." In this monumental history, Professor John Dower reveals a hidden, explosive dimension of the Pacific War -- race -- while writing what John Toland has called "a landmark book...a powerful, moving, and even-handed history that is sorely needed in both America and Japan."

Drawing on American and Japanese songs, slogans, cartoons, propaganda films, secret reports, and a wealth of other documents of the time, Dower opens up a whole new way of looking at that bitter struggle of four and a half decades ago and its ramifications in our lives today. As Edwin O. Reischauer, former ambassador to Japan, has pointed out, this book offers "a lesson that the postwar generations need most...with eloquence, crushing detail, and power."

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A Look At Selves and Others.......2006-08-22

This is a thought-provoking treatise about the hate and racism found in all peoples of the world. It causes one to take stock of what is, and what was in a very violent and trying time. Both the Japanese and the Americans, among others, propagandized their populations to get them to hate "the enemy." This book looks at the techniques and substance used by both sides in the Pacific War of 1931 to 1945 and how it affected the attitudes of each toward the other.

I recommend this as a good read for anyone who is interested in the Pacific conflict and what was used to fan the antagonists into the fury that brough about, fought, and ended the bloody Pacific War.

A book to set you thinking about the present.......2006-08-03

War Without Mercy is not a comprehensive history of the Pacific War; if that's what you want, look elsewhere. Neither is it an "apologist's" account of the American conduct of the war, as some reviewers have suggested. If your mindset is "the Japanese deserved to suffer," don't read this book. If, however, you are interested in how racial stereotypes--views of the enemy as subhuman, primitive, childlike, animalistic, and so on--play a role in wartime, then read Dower's scholarly, engaging account of how the Americans thought about the Japanese and how the Japanese thought about the Americans. Dower never minimizes the atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese as they set about conquering other Asian countries and building their Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, but he provides a brand new perspective on why the Allies despised the Japanese as a people far more than they did the Germans. Not only will this book help you to understand how the dehumanization of the enemy makes possible the devastation of civilian populations, it will also make you think about the stereotypes of the enemy we encounter every day as the U.S. continues to fight wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Race and power in the Pacific War.......2006-07-21

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Dower begins "War Without Mercy" with an amusing account of his inspiration for the book: While working on a history of postwar Japan, Dower wrote a sentence noting how quickly and easily the virulent race hatred of the war years dissipated during the American occupation. Of course, he then had to include another sentence explaining the racial aspects of the war itself, which quickly became a paragraph, then a section, then a chapter, and finally this book, "War Without Mercy". The original history of postwar Japan, meanwhile, sat unfinished on a shelf.

The main criticism of "War Without Mercy" given by other reviewers is that it is too narrow to serve as a comprehensive history of the war -- in particular that it tries to explain the entire conflict only through race and does not devote enough attention to Japanese atrocities and war crimes. This criticism unfortunately misses the point of Dower's book: he is studying racism itself, but for some reason many of his critics seem to think he is trying to use it to explain all and sundry. "War Without Mercy" is not and makes no pretense of being a book about the Pacific War in general or even about atrocities and war crimes themselves. Instead it started as a mere tangent in a larger work and focuses on racial aspects of the war between Japan and the United States, especially the images each side used to describe the other and the war itself, along with some study of how they evolved after the fighting stopped.

As a history of race and power in the Pacific War, "War Without Mercy" is superb: well-organized, clearly written and offering interesting insights. It is divided into four sections, the first of which establishes the importance of the subject by showing how it contributed to the unique ferocity of the war in the Pacific: "Race hate fed atrocities, and atrocities in turn fanned the fires of race hate" (11). The second section studies American images of their Asian enemy, as apes, primitives, children, and 'little yellow savages', and of the war itself as a racial war between white and colored, while the third does the same for the Japanese side. Although the Japanese portrayed Europeans and Americans as decadent, impure, and downright demonic, they viewed their Asian neighbors in much the same contemptuous way as did Western imperialists. The final section explores the transition from war to peace, and the ways in which images and symbols were transformed: the apes became pets and the children became students, while on the other side the western demons shared their secret knowledge. At the same time, the negative images used during the war were transferred to the Soviet Union and (especially) Maoist China.

Meticulously documented, "War Without Mercy" reveals many fascinating aspects of the Pacific War commonly overlooked in more comprehensive studies. I was especially interested to read about contemporary concerns that American rhetoric of racial war would drive Chiang Kai-shek into an alliance with the Japanese (166-169), and that such language caused fully 18% of African-Americans to express "pro-Japanese inclinations" in a confidential poll conducted by black interviewers (174). "War Without Mercy" isn't a comprehensive history of the Pacific War, nor is it for everybody. It is, however, the best explanation I have seen of the merciless nature of the war itself and the psychology of the societies involved. If you have even the slightest interest in that subject, "War Without Mercy" will not disappoint.

The racism of imperialism, America's racist war in the Pacific.......2005-09-16

Dower's book unearth's a major missing or rather hidden peace of the history of the United States: how the Pacific War against Japan was prosecuted openly, publicly as a racist war with a totally different policy and deeper atrocities than was waged against Germany and its European allies. Of course, attempting to balance the study, Dower also points to how racist attitudes toward other Asian peoples were propogated to justifty Japanese imperialism's brutal exploitation of the areas it conquered. All of this emphasizes how racism is really a fundamental aspect of the modern imperialist order, not some aberration left from another time.

What is sensational here is the documenting not only of the racist explanation of the war by the United States and Britain, but his detailing of atrocities carried out against the Japanese by the US and its allies in the Pacific. Indeed, the general explanation of the Pacific war, not as a war for democracy, but as a war to maintain the supremacy of the "White race" was such a strong part of popular, political, and even academic discourse that experts on Asia like novelist Pearl Buck and Chinese/American author Lin Yuitang, believed the US was headed for a confrontation with all non-white peoples in Asia and Africa, not just Japan.

Worse, Dower documents the many atrocities carried out against Japanese civilians and prisoners during the war. While much is made of Japanese soldiers fighting to the death, Dower explains one reason for this is that US and British troops rarely took Japanese prisoners during most of the war. He notes not only where Japanese troops slaughtered without quarter, but a public--as in on the cover of Life magazine as what a soldier boy sends his girl friend home--trade in Japanese sculls and golden teeth from Japanese soldiers--sometimes taken out before the soldiers were dead--blossomed in the early years of the war. Dower quotes one US general who said he wished such atrocities were not carried out, as it stiffened resistance by Japanese soldiers and civilians.

Dower also points to the racist justification that the Japanese used to justify their exploitation of their Asian conquests. It is interesting how he shows their debt to European racist ideology. This seems to be the way nations justify the domination of weaker, less-developed nations, a requirement of the imperialist order, whatever the race of the dominant powers.

Dower's section on the United States provides a quick, but very useful, explanation of the development of racist attitudes in the West in general and the United States in particular. He notes what many forget, the key role that Thomas Jefferson played in launching the pseudo-science of racism, that Blacks and other inferior "races" were less human, lower species than the white Europeans.

This is quick summary of a very serious book that delves deeply into iconography and the structures of racism in imperialist society in general.

Beyond Subjectivity.......2005-08-17

John Dower wrote WAR WITHOUT MERCY: RACE AND POWER IN THE PACIFIC WAR over 20 years ago. During that time, World War II was already 40 years in the past, and the Reagan years welcomed the patriotic fervor of WWII. Retrospection and commemoration takes into account an event with its good and bad elements. It is usually the bad that is left unspoken. According to Dower, he wants to present the racial hate that existed during World War II. He presents two distinctions of racial hate, one involving US portrayal, and two, how the Japanese saw themselves. This is an important distinction in order to understand their purpose and their intentions.

WAR WITHOUT MERCY examines the intense strategy that was executed in order to bring the enemy down. In this case, World War II and the Japanese military. The strategy had been psychological warfare in the form of the propaganda war machine. This method had not been new. Dating back to World War I, the US government used the same tactic against the German army, portraying them as brutal, almost animal-like monsters pillaging the European landscape, and eating any human alive. Though, this is exaggeration, the political cartoons as well as war posters and postcards portrayed the enemy in this way. World War II was no different. Yes, the illustrations that John Dower studies and elaborately discusses were racially stereotypical and hateful during their inception. However, he strongly emphasizes that this context of the war has been neglected, and his job was to present the evidence, and to place them in the context of their time and place. If one looked at the larger context in terms of hierarchical and authoritarian thinking, there is the distinct of race and power that are inseparable (xi).

The overall debate surrounding Dower's study is that he possesses a somewhat subjective point of view resulting in bias of his subject matter. When it comes to preserving the status quo or the well-known narrative of history, it is controversial to re-create or revise history. With the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of V-J Day, bias and unequal exposure of the conflicts that occurred during the Pacific theater of the war are present. World War II involved two distinct conflicts that involved different geographical boundaries and two different oceans - the Pacific and the Atlantic. For some reason, it is only now that the horrors of the Pacific are now getting their due in order to present a more complete picture of a war that has been considered the "good war."

Dower's examination of race within a historical context is important in order to bring an understanding of why it existed. WAR WITHOUT MERCY will continue to be criticized for its bias. This is one reason why it should be recommended reading for anyone interested in the subject of race or US history.

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War Without Mercy, Race and Power in the Pacific War

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War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War.
JOHN W.: DOWER
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War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War

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War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War
John W. Dower
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Michael Dockrill's concise study of the early years of the Cold War between the Western Powers and Soviet Union has been widely acclaimed as an authoritative guide to the subject. In this second edition, he and Michael Hopkins bring the story up to the events of 1991, and also expand coverage of key topics.

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Learn to juggle numbers! This book is the first comprehensive account of the mathematical techniques and results used in the modelling of juggling patterns. This includes all known and many new results about juggling sequences and matrices, the mathematical skeletons of juggling patterns. Many useful and entertaining tips and tricks spice up the mathematical menu presented in this book. There are detailed descriptions of jugglable and attractive juggling sequences, easy zero-gravity juggling, robot juggling, as well as fun juggling of words, anti-balls, and irrational numbers. The book also includes novel, or at least not very well known connections with topics such as bell ringing, knot theory, and the many body problem. In fact, the chapter on mathematical bell ringing has been expanded into the most comprehensive survey in the literature of the mathematics used by bell ringers. Accessible at all levels of mathematical sophistication, this is a book for mathematically wired jugglers, mathematical bell ringers, combinatorists, mathematics educators, and just about anybody interested in beautiful and unusual applications of mathematics.

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Claude Shannon worked on juggling!.......2007-06-30

Polster manages to take the innocuous pastime of juggling and segue from it into number theory. The movement of balls is shown to map naturally into the concepts of finite state graphs. Bringing in ideas of permutations. And introducing juggling matrices!

Plus, he points out that the founder of Information Theory, Claude Shannon, was also interested in the theory of juggling. Several crucial juggling theorems were discovered by Shannon and are named after him. For readers familiar with Shannon in computing, the book gives a look at relatively little known research by him.

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Traditions, recipes and photos to which everyone can relate!.......1998-11-23

Rarely does a book contain facts, feelings and stories of such depth. A Colorado Kind of Christmas has motivated me to appreciate my family and our tradtions in a new way. Thank you for researching and writing this book!

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