Fee-Only Financial Planning: How to Make It Work for You (J.K. Lasser Pro.)

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J.K. Lasser Pro™ Before You Plan, Consult J.K.Lasser

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What does it take to be a successful fee-only financial planner? According to John Sestina, acclaimed "father of fee-only financial planning," the only special qualifications are a genuine desire to help people, an ability to listen, and a commitment to lifelong learning.

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CREATIVITY CAN BE CONVERTED INTO COMPETENCE.......2000-11-29

Twenty-first century is the age of innovation.It is important to know how to meet the challenges posed to innovation management.Felix Janszen in this trendsetting book tells you how to do it.The most brillint spot of the book is that it is based on the latest research in the fields of biotechnology,information technology,bio- informatics and combinatorial chemistry.The book describes the concepts of new product development(NPD) and new business development(NBD) with great clarity and takes the reader to the basic processes of innovation through these concepts.It illustrates graphically the seven generic processes .Starting with the management and decision making process,it goes to prototyping to knowledge generation,acquisition and exploitation process.It then moves on to the generation of ideas process,team building and finally to the two stages of implementation I was quite fascinated by the four phases of team formation which are forming,storming,norming and performing. It was interesting to know how the generation of new ideas is hindered by a critical attitude while generation of new knowledge is facilitated by the same.The book has opened new frontiers of knowledge for me and for the first time ,I have been able to understand the need,meaning and importance of innovation in business and life.IT IS A MUST READ FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN DEVELOPING THE COMPETENCE OF INNOVATION IN BUSINESS AND PROFESSION.

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Title: Employee pension fund may take private equity route; proponents claim stout returns without the risk of hedge funds.
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Hedging the risk (Emerging issues series / Supervision and Regulation Dept., Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

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Hedging the risk (Emerging issues series / Supervision and Regulation Dept., Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)
Michael Atz
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This volume counters current arguments against the green revolution. Using post-green revolution Punjab as his prime example, Singh argues that agricultural intensification has rejuvenated its traditional rural society by both modernizing its economy and by importing additional social
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The NPY-family of peptides encompasses several groups of neurotransmitters and hormones, which exert diverse biological and pathological actions that bear on all major vital systems. The recognition of the role of NPY in stimulation of food intake has already resulted in discovery of potent and selective NPY receptor Y-5 antagonists which are in clinical development for obesity while NPY Y1 receptors are targeted for cardiovascular indications. Research into the multiple functions of NPY and its receptors in neurological and affective disorders are also actively pursued.

This book is a unique compilation of the most recent breakthroughs in NPY/PYY neurobiology, cardiovascular and metabolic disorders, written by international renowned experts with the objective to synthesize leading concepts and data in support for translational medicine.

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Geostatistics is a common tool in reservoir characterisation. Several texts discuss the subject, however this book differs in its approach and audience from currently available material. Written from the basics of statistics it covers only those topics that are needed for the two goals of the text: to exhibit the diagnostic potential of statistics and to introduce the important features of statistical modeling. This revised edition contains expanded discussions of some materials, in particular conditional probabilities, Bayes Theorem, correlation, and Kriging. The coverage of estimation, variability, and modeling applications have been updated. Seventy examples illustrate concepts and show the role of geology for providing important information for data analysis and model building. Four reservoir case studies conclude the presentation, illustrating the application and importance of the earlier material. This book can help petroleu

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North American Survey of Geoscientists
Nick Claudy , and Marvin E. Kauffman
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Statistics for Geoscientists
Dieter Marsal
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STATISTICS FOR GEOSCIENTISTS
Dieter Marsal
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Statistics for Geoscientists
D. Marsal
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The main theme of the book is focused on the intimate connection between two families of exactly solvable models: the inverse-square (ISE) and the nearest-neighbor exchange (NNE) models. The NNE models are Bethe-Ansatz solvable and include the Heisenberg spin chain, t-J models and Hubbard models. The ISE Calogero-Sutherland family of models are simple to solve and contain essentially the same physics as the NNE family. The author introduces and discusses current topics, such as the Luttinger liquid concept, fractional statistics, and spin-charge separation, in the context of the explicit models.

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Episodic story of one woman

good read

Smart and Hilarious

amusing yet deep character study with a serious undertone

Adriane on the Edge
Paul Mandelbaum
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First Adriane's father committed suicide, and then her mother followed suit. Her last "relationship" was four years ago with her boss, Garrett, whom she still secretly pines over. Now that Adriane is pushing thirty, she decides it's time to shake things up. So she flashes a cop and gets herself arrested, finds herself a therapist, attends an orgy, and saves a dog from the pound. Her devotion to those in her life never falters, but like most things in her past, nothing is without a misadventure-and a whole lot of humor.

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Episodic story of one woman.......2007-05-08

Adriane Gelki is a young woman with problems who tries to improve her life by living with "abandon", not worrying about the consequences of her actions. She is alternately likeable and exasperating as her attempts at change lead her to do some good things and also to sometimes act like what could most charitably be described as a spazz. Each chapter is a rather self-contained episode of her life. While the book is a fun read with a mix of serious and funny content, the problem I had with it is that it felt more like a series of short stories than a novel with a conclusion.

good read.......2006-02-28

A nice weekend read. The book felt a little unfinished but will bring a tear to your eye. Poor Adriane is not living in a fantasy world like so many stories I have read lately but trying to deal with alot of emotional baggage that almost anyone can feel great deal of empathy towards.

Smart and Hilarious.......2006-02-02

If this is chick lit, it is chick lit as written by Evelyn Waugh. Mandelbaum's fiction is dry, incisive and inventive. He knows that life is essentially tragic and just as essentially ridiculous, yet also somehow glorious. Adriane is the best kind of comic character, hilarious and deeply moving.

amusing yet deep character study with a serious undertone.......2005-12-11

At twenty-eight Baltimore area single, Adriane Gelki struggles with her existence caused by her deep rooted feelings of being unwanted and unloved by anyone ever since her parents committed a double suicide. She works at City Hall's Office of Neighborhood Enhancement, but feels like a member of the living dead as her gut wrenching loneliness reaches every aspect of her soul and in a self prophecy Pygmalion Effect prevents her from reaching out to others, which in turn isolates her further.

Digging into her heart for courage, Adriane vows to live life on the edge, which in her case is a very tiny but critical step towards meeting someone. Joking, a new concept for Adriane, she solicits an undercover cop only to be arrested for prostitution; sentenced to counseling, Adriane feels at home when her therapist drops dead during their session. Every effort to join the living seems to lead to a further setback; even her adopted dog bites her during the night. Still Adriane continues her pledge to live albeit not to successfully.

ADRIANE ON THE EDGE is an amusing yet deep character study of a young woman trying desperately to find herself beyond the shadow life she lives by connecting with others; a daunting task for an individual never recovered from her parents' suicides. The series of incidents that Adriane fumbles and stumbles through are hyperbole that leads to a dark serio-comedy as beyond the laugher is the fundamental need to belong. Paul Mandelbaum uses graveyard humor to provide a picture of hope even when the darkness engulfs seemingly every molecule that makes up a person who just wants to connect with anyone.

Harriet Klausner

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Was the German Army in Normandy Destroyed?

Falaise 1944: Death of an army (Campaign)
Ken Ford
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Release Date: 2005-03-20

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The battle around Falaise in Normandy during August 1944 saw the destruction of the German Seventh army. This book details the chain of events which led to the German retreat and the ensuing liberation of France. The British and American breakout battles had released motorised units to wage a more mobile war against the German static defensive tactics. At Falaise, the armoured units of US Third Army encircled the German Seventh Army, squeezed them into an ever-smaller cauldron of chaos and crushed them against the advancing British Second Army. The results were devastating: those troops able to escape the disaster fled, those who remained were killed or captured and vast quantities of armour and equipment were lost.

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Was the German Army in Normandy Destroyed? .......2005-05-04

In Osprey's Campaign #149, Falaise 1944: Death of an Army, veteran Osprey contributor Ken Ford (not Gordon Rottman, as mistakenly shown on jacket photo) continues his survey of the major phases of the 1944 Normandy campaign. As usual, Ford's narration is clear and succinct; he has done a superb job of synthesizing the various existing secondary sources on this subject - although it is less clear if the author has actually incorporated any primary research information. The Battle of Falaise was one of the more controversial phases of the battle of Normandy and Field Marshal Montgomery was forced to relieve a number of subordinates, and the failure to close the "Falaise pocket" led to recriminations in the Allied command.

The standard sections on the origins of the campaign, opposing commanders, plans and forces are informative and useful. However, there are two points in the opposing forces section that the author fails to address. First, at the start of the Normandy breakout battles in July, there were about 1.4 million Allied troops in Normandy versus fewer than 400,000 Germans, giving the Allies an overall 3-1 or better numerical superiority in personnel. In terms of tanks and artillery, the Allied superiority was even more pronounced. Second, Ford makes little or no effort to discuss the heterogeneous composition of the Commonwealth forces, particularly the Canadians and the Poles. On the face of it, the Canadian units tended to be larger but less experienced than the British units, and Ford doesn't mention that Canadian commanders were sometimes leery about being used as "cannon fodder" by the British (remember Dieppe and Hong Kong 1941?). As for the Poles, I had to cringe when Ford described the Falaise campaign as "their first battle." Major General Maczek and his men were based on the original 10th Mechanized Brigade and had been killing Germans since 1939; these men were all veterans by 1944, even if the "Polish 1st Armored Division" had not fought previously as a unit.

Falaise 1944 includes five 2-D maps: the Allied frontline before the breakout battles; the breakout; Operation Bluecoat; forming the Falaise pocket; the German collapse. The three 3-D Maps are: Capture of Mount Pincon; Operation Totalise and Tractable; sealing the pocket. It seems to me that Osprey's 3-D maps from 5-6 years ago were more detailed than the new format, although the organization of the text has gotton better. The three battle scenes by Howard Gerrard are: American tanks and infantry overrunning a German 75mm anti-tank gun, July 1944; counterattack by SS `Das Reich' division against Poles on Mount Ormel; escaping troops from German 7th Army under attack from RAF typhoons.

Although Ford's narrative is sound, the vital question of why the pocket was not closed more promptly is explained only in general terms. American General Bradley did not request a boundary adjustment that might have allowed US troops to close the gap and Montgomery perhaps did not instill the Canadians with a sense of urgency in closing the pocket. These explanations certainly contain elements of truth, but do not necessarily explain what happened. Ford fails to mention that the operation was a "converging attack" where US, Canadian, British and Polish forces were to meet in the center - this is a very difficult mission for a Coalition to execute, based on differences in communications, doctrine and willingness to accept risks (a perfect scenario for fratricide). I think that the nature of the pocket and the importance of closing the gap - so clear on maps today - was less clear to tired commanders on smoke obscured battlefields in 1944. The Canadian commanders had seen numerous British attacks repulsed at great cost for little gain, and they chose to fight a methodical battle that was slow but sure.

The real significance of the Falaise campaign is the entire issue of whether or not the Allies were able to "destroy" the bulk of German forces in Normandy - the 5th Panzer and 7th Armies. Ford makes no effort to answer this question, but merely provides the standard Allied "guestimate" that about 90-115,000 German troops were caught in the Falaise pocket, of whom 10-15,000 were killed, 50,000 captured and the rest escaped. Based on these numbers, Ford concurs with the Allied assessment that the German forces in Normandy were more or less destroyed. However, if Ford had taken a look at some of the information now available on German casualties, he might be less certain of this conclusion. If the Allies trapped about 100,000 Germans in the Falaise pocket, that means that about 280,000 German troops then in the Normandy area were not in the pocket and that there were another 200,000 or so other Germans in the rest of France. Apparently, by the time the net started to close at Falaise only about 25% of the German troops in Normandy were trapped. Furthermore, it is also clear from German records that even most units trapped inside the pocket were able to save 40-50% of their personnel, which gave them a cadre to rebuild. German sources indicate that those armor units that escaped from Falaise still had about 80 tanks left operational after the battle, and while this is not a large number, Ford mentions that the Germans had held up the Canadian 2nd Corps for over a week with only 35 tanks. Ford makes no mention of the "September Miracle" but it is clear that the Germans were able to salvage enough from Normandy to stop the Allies on three weeks after Falaise on the German-Dutch borders. I'm sure the British 1st Airborne troops didn't think that the German 2nd SS Panzer Corps was "destroyed" when they met them at Arnhem. Falaise was an Allied victory, but it was not decisive.

Death of a Nazi Army: The Falaise Pocket

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A very nice account of the Falaise battle. It reads like a novel
1/4 history, 3/4 Hollywood...
Another American view on the battle, some clear mistakes

Death of a Nazi Army: The Falaise Pocket
William B. Breuer
Manufacturer: Stein & Day Pub
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The epic German defeat in France--rivaling only Stalingrad.

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A very nice account of the Falaise battle. It reads like a novel.......2007-02-28

William Breuer has turned his attention to July-August 1944 campaign at Falaise, where the advancing Allies trapped the Germans in a lethal pincer and inflicted a terrible defeat. Hitler's attempt to drive a wedge between the advancing Allied armies was a tactic that might have worked, but as you'll see here in detai, battle-tested American units refused to budge in the face of the German counterattacks. The Wehrmacht was instead driven back and encircled in a trap that swallowed up not only Hitler's 7th Army but also 5th Panzer Army and elements of the 15th Army. Breuer doesn's skimp when ot comes to giving you the tactical big picture. He tells you how Adolf Hitler, surrounded by yes me in Berlin, ordered his armies into the Allies' trap. You'll see how Omar Bradley made one of the biggest gambles of the war - with the help of brash commanders like George Patton - and won. Aqnd ypuu'll also learn why the Falaise trap could have ended WW II but failed. Rich in anecdotes and rippling with small-unit action, this book could be a superb look at a little studied aspect of WW II, if Breuer didn' t insist to misspell German General's Heinrich Eberbach's name as Heinz Eberhard throughout the text (for which it loses the fifth star).

1/4 history, 3/4 Hollywood..........2003-02-01

This book fell flat. The writer heavily sprinkles the story with ham-handed B-war movie accounts of anonymous Americans hollering out humorous dogface anecdotes and ridiculous French and German characters that are so inane they become distracting. We encounter a "typical" Frenchman, described as wearing a black beret and a handlebar mustache, talkeeng like thees with a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. Was the author watching a local high-school performance of "Last Tango in Paris" when he came up with that one? The research is sloppy; men of the 116th "Greyhound" Panzer Division, a major player in the German counterattacks against the Allies, proudly wore their unit emblem on their caps, not the words GREYHOUND. The author seems more interested in writing a screenplay than telling the dramatic story of the telling blow to the German army in France; the men who died in this struggle deserved better than this. I've read the author before, and I'm surprised by the quality of this effort. Didn't even finish it.

Another American view on the battle, some clear mistakes.......1999-03-18

This book adds something to a library on the Normandy Campaign of 1944, but its title is misleading for someone whose interest is focused on the actual Falaise Gap battles. The author spends 250 pages leading up to August 14th, and then only 30 pages on the Falaise Gap battles: all prologue and no story. The book is also heavily weighted towards the American contribution, with an offsetting amount of content from the German side. The British, Canadian and Polish activity is poorly covered. This includes the complete ommission of the 3 day stand by the task force under Major David V. Currie of the South Alberta Regiment (16 tanks, and infantry from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada and the Lincoln & Welland Regiment) at the last village in the middle of the "Gap". This action won the one Victoria Cross awarded to Canadian troops in Normandy, and is worthy of a chapter in his book. The fact that photographs and movie film were shot by members of the Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit of Major Currie in action on the first day (perhaps the most famous Canadian photo of WW2) might also have been mentioned. Oh, and by the way, the photo of "Men of an American Armoured Division pause briefly ..." is actually a picture of the short bombing in early August of the Canadian army on its fight towards Falaise. The original photo is in the Canadian Archives and one can clearly make out the British Army type uniforms and helmets, the vehicles all heading towards the camera except ambulance (red cross markings) heading back towards the bombed area to help with the many dead and hundreds of wounded.

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Good stuff

A wonderful account

Do your homework before publishing a book, plase!

Very Good Introduction

Omission of nominee Otto Warburg for the 1926 Nobel Prize.

The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversyand Prestige
Burton Feldman
Manufacturer: Arcade Publishing
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Founded 100 years ago by the inventor of dynamite, the Nobel Prize is the world's most celebrated and controversial honor. It grants its winners instant celebrity and acclaim for "service to mankind," despite accusations that it is too trendy, arbitrary, and narrow-minded. In examining both its fame and notoriety, Burton Feldman opens up the Nobel institution and process: how it originated, how it works, and how it is influenced by outside pressures (political, moral, personal, and academic). The Nobel Prize is an extraordinary work that never fails to surprise, provoke, and entertain. This is the only book to explore every aspect of the prize: its founder, its aura, all its fields (literature, physics, chemistry, medicine, peace, and economics), and its laureates' personalities and rivalries, as well as its controversies and blunders.

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Good stuff.......2005-10-01

Burton Feldman's absorbing book gives us a brief history of Alfred Nobel, the prizes his fortune funded, as well as fascinating details on those who won these cherished prizes. As the author explains, the Nobel Prize's combination of wealth, pomp and prestige lends it greater credibility than, say, The Fields medal, awarded every four years by the International Mathematical Union, which is much harder to win.
Scandal has also helped. The tale of Marie Curie, a double Nobel Prize winner, whose amazing rags to riches story was taken up by the French media, helped to spread the fame of the Nobel awards during the crucial early years. Curie won her prizes while nursing her child - and simultaneously having a brief affair with a fellow French physicist. After Planck, Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Dirac, Pauling, Feynman and similar intellectual giants were also honored, the prestige of the Nobel Prize in Physics was assured forever.
The same cannot be said for the other prizes. Hitler was proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize - for not invading Austria in 1934. Around the same time, Charlie Chaplin was proposed for the Literature prize. Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Emile Zola, Mark Twain, Heinrik Ibsen, August Strinberg, Henry Adams, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, Anton Chekhov, Gertrude Stein, Eugene Ionesco and Virginia Woolf were all denied the prize.
For anyone hoping to win the prize, it helps to have a good Swedish translation - better still if you are Swedish. Scandinavians have won the Literature Prize some fourteen times in all. The fact that one-seventh of all Nobel Literature prizes have gone to their compatriots is evidence, no doubt, of the comparative superiority of Nordic writing. Either that or it is a fix!
Although Gandhi never won the Peace Prize, other equally eminent people have been so honored. These include Henri Dunant, who founded the International Red Cross; Fridtjof Nansen, a Norwegian Arctic explorer, oceanographer and tireless peace activist; and Carl von Ossietzky, who got the prize in 1935 - he was incarcerated a Nazi concentration camp at the time.
Although the history of the economics prize is also documented, the author, like several of its recipients, believes it should be discontinued. Because the winners are dominated by lecturers at the University of Chicago, the prize is widely regarded as nothing more than a cozy sinecure for an incestuous bunch of American academics. The author strongly suggests that some of them - Gary Becker, Robert Fogel and Douglass North in particular - are little more than academic charlatans.
Although the economics prize has proved problematic, the chemistry prize has also led to controversy, most notably when Fritz Haber won the prize in 1918 for his ammonia process. Along with five other future German Nobelists, he had previously used the same process to develop poison gas for use in the trench warfare of World War 1. Ironically, because Haber, who was a staunch German patriot, also happened to be a Jew, he had to flee for his life to Britain when Hitler took over.
Max Planck, the Galileo of quantum physics, remained and the sad story of this gentle soul is also recounted here. His elder son was killed in action during the Great War; his only other son was implicated in the 1944 attempt to assassinate Hitler and was summarily executed as a result.
Such sad tales are interspersed with quirky anecdotes we lesser mortals expect to hear about such luminaries. Richard Feynman, for example, used to frequent topless bars; he found them conducive to solving complex mathematical equations. Werner Heisenberg received his Nobel Prize only seven years after almost failing his doctoral examinations. The dogfight that developed between the Canadian discoverers of insulin also makes lively and informative reading. The author recounts many such snippets about such greats as Bohr, Dirac and the great Albert Einstein, whose brain was put on public display after he died.
Feldman has given an enjoyable, readable and informative book. Not worthy of a Nobel Prize, perhaps, but thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless!

A wonderful account.......2003-12-05

This wonderful History of the Nobel Prize is without a doubt one of the most interesting books you will find. It details every portion of the prize, from literature to Physics to economics to Peace. It details the scandals associated with the prize and the politicking behind the prize. It also details the many amazing personalities that have received the prize as well as the ebbs and flows of certain movements within the awarding of the prize. A wonderful account and a must read.

Do your homework before publishing a book, plase!.......2003-04-24

The topic is fascinating, however is this book really "a well-researched guide to the merriment in Stockholm"? Let's look at a paragraph devoted to Polish winners in literature (and what is more obscure for an American than Poland?). I am not an expert, however on a single page I found a few errors and misinterpretations, e.g.:

1. Author thinks that Adam Mickiewicz (1798-1855) belongs to the same generation as Zbigniew Herbert (d. 1999) and is younger than Czeslaw Milosz (Nobel Prize 1980).

2. Author mentions a great poet Tadeus Resewicz. Did he mean Tadeusz Rozewicz, poet and playwright?

3. Author states that Wladyslaw Reymont was known mostly for historical novels, but since high-school I have always thought his books were quite contemporary in the early 20th century.

4. Author does not have any idea about complex historical events that took place in Warsaw and Poland during and after WWII and its influence on writing of Czeslaw Milosz (as he ommits entire catastrophy of Warsaw and he has never heard about Gajcy or Baczynski). It is obvious, he is not an expert on literature nor history.

How many errors are there in an entire book? I do not know. One can only guess, but it is hard to consider this book a worthy scientific resource. It is apparent, that he did not do his homework. How can I trust the rest of it?

Very Good Introduction.......2002-10-03

Now that the Nobel Prizes for 2002 have just been announced, there is no better time to take a real look at the history and background of the Prizes themselves. There are very few books written about this important subject for the general reader, so even a mediocre one is appreciated. And this book is not mediocre. Of course there are the official records from the Nobel committees, but they are dry and sometimes too technical. This book gives the juicy behind-the-scene anecedotes, in addition to more thoughtful reflections over some of the important issues facing the Nobel selections.

The question of selecting whom to award the Prizes is the most difficult and the most important task the Nobel committees face. The choices are often controversial, even over the scientific ones, as the book well illustrates. The Peace Prize is certainly not the only controversial one, although most people tend to think that all Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine Prizes are only given to the most deserving. Far from it!

A few examples will suffice. The Medicine/Physiology Prize for the DNA resolution is awarded no long after Rosalind Franklin died. Why did the Nobel people wait when the evidence was already overwhelming? And the question of who deserved this is really thorny, given the fact that many people had worked towards the goal of resolving the DNA structure. Watson and Crick would have won the Prize in any case, but Watson certainly did not deserve as much credit as he thinks. (In fact he deserves much less. At least Crick has the wits and modesty to recognize his own contribution was small, if important.) Whom to give the third share is so difficult that the Nobel people must have breathed a sigh of relief when Franklin finally croaked. Shame on them!

John Wheeler, one of the finest physicists of the twentieth century, deserves a Nobel but got none. The same goes for J. Robert Oppenheimer (whom Wheeler dislikes), though in this case his early death may have prevented this. The award should have been made for his astrophysical work on neutron stars, rather than for his nuclear physics. Einstein should have won the Nobel three times over instead of just once: once each for the Special Theory of Relativity, the General Theory of Relativity, and the photoelectric effect (for which he got the Prize). In the case of the Special Theory, he may have had to share it, though with whom is difficult (again) to say. (Perhaps Grossman?) The Nobel people were too incompetent to understand Relativity, as it happened. (Some on the committee thought he deserved it; others weren't so sure. Few - some not even physicists - really understood the math.)

There are many other examples along these lines. The Einstein mistake was probably the biggest in the history of the Nobel Prizes. Nor is it clear that a Nobel is the strongest proof for a scientist's place in history. Bardeen shared the Physics Prize twice, but who has heard of him? Simply put, Bardeen was a great physicist, but not one of the greatest of the twentieth century. Pauling won the Chemistry Prize once only, but he was the greatest chemist of modern times, by far.

There is really no need to fuss over the Peace, Literature, and Economics Prizes as Feldman does, for the prestige (if this word may be used at all) attached to these is considerably lower in any case. The Peace Prize will always be controversial no matter how deserving or undeserving the recipients may be. But that doesn't mean we should do without one.

This book doesn't tell the whole story. For instance, why are there no Nobels for Philosophy, Astronomy, and Mathematics? Read the book, but don't expect a detailed explanation there. This book is not about Alfred Nobel himself, but a little more biographical details than what Feldman provides would be helpful. The question of why the Japanese, with the second most powerful technological economy in world, should be so under-represented in the awards (even in the sciences) is not at all touched upon. There has been much discussion recently (like in a recent article in the New York Times) about this question. As if in reply, two of the science Prizes are shared by Japanese scientists this very year. (On a per capita basis, the Germans do much better, but still lag behind the British or the Swiss.) A breakdown of the prizes on national basis is available from the official Nobel Prize website, but Feldman may want to consider doing a per capita analysis in a new edition (if available). He does list the recipients of Jewish ancestry (or partial Jewish ancestry) in the last Appendix (Appendix E). This is a real eye-opener. Anyone who doubts that Jews are intellectually gifted should take a good look at this list. Considering the small number of Jews in the world, their achievement is astonishing, especially in medicine. Not even the Scots, who do relatively well, can remotely compare. Like most stereotypes, there must be some truth to the one about Jews (particularly the Ashkenazi kind) being smart. However, few of the Jewish winners represent Israel or did their groundbreaking research there.

In any case, no single book can tell the whole story about the Nobel Prizes. There are others (one recent one by a Hungarian chemist) but not nearly enough for us. Although Feldman is no scientist himself, he did us a fine service, and I give him a small honorary Nobel, for investigative history. May there be more like him!

Omission of nominee Otto Warburg for the 1926 Nobel Prize........2001-12-28

"The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy and Prestige" by Burton Feldman, Arcade Publishing, New York, 2000.

While the author discusses the award of the Medicine prize to Fibiger in 1926, he fails to include a vital reference to the book "Otto Warburg Cell Physiologist Biochemist and Eccentric" by Hans Krebs and Roswitha Schmid, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981.
In this reference, it is documented that the 1926 Medicine and Physiology Nobel Prize was proposed to be shared with Otto Warburg for "his work on the metabolism of cancer cells; the proposal was that the Prize should be divided with Fibiger but the Faculty preferred to give Fibiger the undivided Prize for his discovery of the Spiroptera carcinoma..."
While the author notes that Otto Warburg received the 1931 Prize in M & P, he also fails to note that he was also nominated for the 1944 Prize: "In 1944 he was again found to deserve the honour for identification of the flavins and of nicotinamide as hydrogen carriers in biological oxidations, but Hitler's decree which forbade the acceptance of Nobel Prizes by German citizens intervened." (Krebs, page 49). He also fails to mention that Hans Krebs was one of Otto Warburg's three Nobel Prize winning pupils, along with Otto Meyerof and Hugo Thorell.
While Feldman makes a flippant speculation about why "Hitler allowed him to stay in Germany", he fails to mention that Otto Warburg's seminal discovery in 1923, for which he was nominated for the 1926 Prize, that nearly all cancer cells metabolize by anerobic glycolysis, has been confirmed over and over again in the intervening years. Had Otto Warburg, M.D., Ph. D., who has been described elsewhere as "The greatest biochemist of the twentieth century" before the century was over, received that "first Cancer Prize", the sordid history of cancer treatment might have been forever changed for the better. For example, while the medical orthodoxy has rejected his conclusions, Dr. Warburg believed until his death in 1970, that the prime cause of cancer was the shifting from the primarily oxygen based metabolism to the primarily glucose based metabolism and this is not necessarily contradicted by genetics since genetics cannot manufacture necessary nutrients like oxygen (or others) at a cell site; these must be provided from external sources. Even if Dr. Warburg was wrong about the "prime cause" of cancer, the shifting from the primarily aerobic state to the primarily anerobic state for most cancer cells is an experimental fact not in dispute.
Yet, virtually every serious effort to scientifically test and use this vital fundamental information about cell metabolism in treatment and prevention of cancer, from Max Gerson, M.D., "A Cancer Therapy Results of Fifty Cases", 1958 (used by him in the 1940's to treat cancer in New York and testified before the U. S. Congress in 1946) to the efforts of Joe Gold, M.D. to "block the glycolic pathway" with a common and inexpensive drug, Hydrazine Sulfate from 1968+ has been obstructed by the medical orthodoxy as documented in "The Cancer Industry" by Ralph W. Moss, Ph. D., Equinox Press, 1996 first published as "The Cancer Syndrome", 1980 (and other places as well). By the way, the quackwatch website, operated by one Stephen Barrett, M.D., seeks to vilify both Ralph W. Moss, Ph. D., and his book above, and Otto Warburg and his experimental conclusions, through the words of one Saul Green, Ph. D., who makes misleading statements in a review of The Cancer Industry.(By the way, this book is documented with hundreds of references).
In fact, Dr. Warburg himself proposed using it for prevention in the above reference by Krebs (pp. 24-25), but these recommendations have fallen on deaf ears by most so-called medical doctors.
The omission of this vital material has a negative impact on this book even though the book contains other useful information.

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