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Students in both the natural and social sciences often seek regression models to explain the frequency of events, such as visits to a doctor, auto accidents or job hiring. This analysis provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of models and methods to interpret such data. The authors combine theory and practice to make sophisticated methods of analysis accessible to practitioners working with widely different types of data and software. The treatment will be useful to researchers in areas such as applied statistics, econometrics, operations research, actuarial studies, demography, biostatistics, and quantitatively-oriented sociology and political science. The book may be used as a reference work on count models or by students seeking an authoritative overview. The analysis is complemented by template programs available on the Internet through the authors' homepages.
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Students in both the natural and social sciences often seek regression models to explain the frequency of events, such as visits to a doctor, auto accidents or job hiring. This analysis provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of models and methods to interpret such data. The authors have conducted research in the field for nearly fifteen years and in this work combine theory and practice to make sophisticated methods of analysis accessible to practitioners working with widely different types of data and software. The treatment will be useful to researchers in areas such as applied statistics, econometrics, operations research, actuarial studies, demography, biostatistics, quantitatively-oriented sociology and political science. The book may be used as a reference work on count models or by students seeking an authoritative overview. The analysis is complemented by template programs available on the Internet through the authors' homepages.
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authoritative and current treatment of count data.......2001-04-03
This is a very thorough and authoritative treatment of regression methods for analyzing count data. It is very current and covers many topics not commonly found in books on point processes. Economic applications are emphasized but the broader applicability of the methods is eluded to.
The authors intent is for this book to be read by researchers, graduate students and practitioners in the many fields that make use of count data. Chapter 1 introduces count data, the Poisson distribution and the Poisson process and also shows how the Poisson process can be derived based on the assumption of independent and identically distributed exponential waiting times. It concludes with specification of regression models for counts and a number of practical examples where modeling count data would naturally arise. The importance of the integers is emphasized with the quote from Kronecker at the beginning of the chapter, "God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man."
Chapter 2 provides an extensive treatment of model specification and estimation methods. The authors cover many approaches and provide excellent references to the literature. Generalized linear models provide one common approach in the statistics literature and these methods are well described in this chapter.
Poisson regression is the main topic of Chapter 3 but the chapter goes on to discuss negative binomial models that handle overdispersion. An example of data on doctor's visits is used to illustrate the techniques. Statistical tests for overdispersion are also presented. A variety of other modeling techniques are also provided.
More general models including mixture models are considered in Chapter 4. Chapter 5 looks at ways of evaluating potential models. Chapter 6 provides some real economic data from health services to illustrate the methods of the earlier chapters.
Chapter 7 covers time series analysis for integer data. The authors provide information and literature that is not standard in a text on time series analysis but is applicable to count data.
Subsequent chapters deal with more complexity including multivariate data,longitudinal data analysis and measurement error models. Important recent developments in bootstrap methods and Bayesian statistics are covered in the context of problems for which these methods have demonstrated their value.
This is a great reference book for statisticians and econometricians interested in problems involving counting processes. It could also be used for a graduate school text on point process regression.
It is true!.......2000-05-04
Well most prople are used in telling stories about the unapliability of economics in real life. That math and logic can not apply to most economic books! Most of the people say that economics are only theory.I will tell you that this book is one of a kind, reading it you will be able to have a better understanding of Econometrics.If you have enough money to pay the rent and some left buy this book ! its better than food!
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Leadership lessons from the best--Gates, Welch, Dell, Gerstner, Kelleher, Grove, and Walton
What are the traits, tactics, and strategies of the business world's most transformative leaders . . . and what can the rest of us learn from them? In What the Best CEOs Know, leadership authority Jeffrey Krames examines the careers of seven of history's most accomplished CEOs--including in-depth interviews with Michael Dell, Lou Gerstner, and Herb Kelleher--to get candid answers to many of today's most compelling business questions.
The result is a blueprint-like framework that instructs as well as it informs, and provides managers with the firsthand secrets of leadership giants. Proven learning tools--from cases and lesson summaries to selfassessment exercises--reinforce the book's methods and key ideas. Each chapter of What the Best CEOs Know provides innovative features including:
- Assess Your CEO Quotient
- Leadership Lessons of the CEO
- What would Jack Welch et al. do?
A host of well-known and bestselling books have detailed the success formulas of specific CEOs. But until now, no single book has compiled the strategies of several CEOs--let alone the world's most well-known business leaders--into a handbook for achieving breakthrough corporate stewardship. What the Best CEOs Know does exactly that, combining the wisdom, strategies, and tactics of today's most accomplished CEOs into one powerful and one-of-a-kind business resource.
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What are the traits, tactics, and strategies of the business world's most transformative leaders . . . and what can the rest of us learn from them? In What the Best CEOs Know, leadership authority Jeffrey Krames examines the careers of seven of history's most accomplished CEOs--including in-depth interviews with Michael Dell, Lou Gerstner, and Herb Kelleher--to get candid answers to many of today's most compelling business questions.
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Stories on renowned CEOs.......2006-01-27
A good book with summaries of the achievements of the few best CEOs in the corporate world.
Too condensed.......2005-05-10
Breezed through the book in 3 hours. To some extent it captures the main points. However, one would have a more wholesome experience by reading each of the individual books.
Condensed Books Version of Leading CEO Philosophies.......2004-03-17
If you have already read books by or about Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Lou Gerstner, Andy Grove, Herb Kelleher, Jack Welch and Sam Walton, you will probably think this is a two star book. If you are unfamiliar with any of these gentleman and their companies, you will find this book to be a helpful introduction that can direct you to more detailed reading on subjects that interest you.
What's new about this book is that Mr. Krames positions thought experiments in the sections about each CEO so you can address a business problem . . . and compare your answers to those the CEOs might have supplied. These are a cinch if you have read about the people involved, and are otherwise quite challenging. There are also helpful questions to test your organization's current applications of the concept at the end of each CEO's chapter.
What's not new about the book is any information that hasn't been written before about what the CEOs did in their own companies. I cannot remember seeing anything that I hadn't seen already. As a result, the book serves as a condensation of past learning. That's helpful for those who read little and have limited time. I didn't detect too many problems with the material. The consistent pattern of misfocus was concentrated in not in explaining enough about the context for the ideas. All of Jack Welch's big theme ideas were borrowed (as Mr. Krames points out for Sam Walton), and Mr. Welch was often quite late in picking up on and applying those ideas. Many of the initiatives in expanding service at IBM were well underway before Lou Gerstner arrived. I graded the book down one star for these slight misfocuses.
If you have the time, there's a better book either by or about each person than this one. Feel free to go to the better source!
As I finished the book, I began to realize that much study of great leaders is influenced by the size of their success . . . rather than the size of their accomplishment. If we were looking at leaders who had made great transformations, we would also be reading about Millard Fuller at Habitat for Humanity International, Jack Bogle at Vanguard, Mike Ruettgers at EMC, Richard Reese at Iron Mountain, Rob McEwen at Goldcorp, and Bernard Liautaud at Business Objects. I wonder what it will take before studies of best practices turn to those who are best at those practices.
Learn What Others Have Learned from Others...........2003-07-22
Krames has an excellent concept for this book: select several exceptional corporate leaders, examine each in terms of a specific objective to which both he and his organization are fully committed, and then explain what can be learned from HOW that objective is conceived. Of course, he could have selected a different seven...or perhaps add several others to those he did. Few can question the inclusion of Dell, Welch, Gerstner, Grove, Gates, Kelleher, and Walton. After explaining "What Made Them Great" in Part 1, Krames devotes a chapter to each in Part 2 as he explains those defining strategies which have made each exceptional. I commend Krames for including exercises which actively engage the reader's mind. For example, a brief scenario "that puts the reader in the seat of the [given] CEO." Krames offers a series of business situations which enable his readers "to test their business acumen against that of each of the seven subject CEOs." Each chapter is filled with various lessons as well as "Assess Your CEO Quotient" questions which can be asked both of the individual and of her or his own organization. Throughout his narrative, Krames also inserts brief comments from the works of business thinkers such as Peter Drucker and Philip Kotler so as to provide different perspectives on the given business issue.
Here are the seven CEOs and their respective defining strategies:
Michael Dell: Place the customer at the epicenter of the business model
Jack Welch: Create an authentic learning organization
Lou Gerstner: Focus on solutions
Andy Grove: Prepare the organization for [in italics] drastic change
Bill Gates: Harness the intellect of [in italics] every employee
Herb Kelleher: Create a performance-driven culture
Sam Walton: Learn from competitors, but remain faithful to the vision
Listing the CEOs and their respective defining strategies is easy to do. The great value of this book is derived from Krames's rigorous analysis of each CEO and defining strategy within the context of their respective organizations. The reader learns not only the WHAT but also the HOW and WHY. I agree with Krames that these seven as well as other exceptional leaders have much in common: an "outside-in" perspective; an evangelical leadership gene; an understanding of the critical role of culture; a passion to create next-generation products, processes, or solutions; a determination to implement the best ideas, regardless of their origin; and, meanwhile, a commitment to increase and thereby advance the leadership body of knowledge. This is an exceptional book about exceptional leadership, one which I highly recommend to business students and recent graduates as well as to those well along in their business careers. I also presume to insist that maximum value will be derived only if the various "Assess Your CEO Quotient" questions are answered with appropriate care and then rigorously evaluated. Stated another way, there is much to learn from the CEOs but perhaps even more can be learned from these self-audits.
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Lo que saben los mejores CEOs/What the best CEOs know: 7 excepcionales lideres y sus lecciones para transformar cualquier negocio/7 exceptional leaders and their lessons for transforming any business
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Mathematical and Control Applications in Agriculture and Horticulture 1997 (IFAC Proceedings Volumes)
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A wide ranging programme was planned, covering the principal areas where mathematical models or control engineering can have a major impact on agricultural and horticultural processes and their management. Emphasis was placed on applications of models and control in agriculture.
Focal areas for the meeting included: models and control of post-harvest processing and grading, climate control in plant production and animal houses, mathematical models relating to the environmental impacts of agriculture, sensing and control methodologies appropriate to agricultural systems, information technology, impact of uncertainty and forecasting in models, demonstration of novel developments in software for agriculture and horticulture, and practical implementations of models and control.
The meeting was structured to maintain maximum interaction between participants in the focal areas of the programme - and to permit presentations across a wide range, from control methodologies to practical implementation of models.
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Human thought is a kind of storytelling, the cognitive scientist Jerome Bruner has argued, an evolving narrative that we constantly and unconsciously construct in order to make sense of the world around us. One expression of that interior storytelling--namely language--was given to us, said the sardonic French philosopher Talleyrand, so that we can disguise those very thoughts, hide them from others behind a mask of words.
David McNeill suggests that another component of storytelling/thinking is a kind of parallel language, one that is far more revealing of what's going on inside our heads. That language is made up of gestures--those fingered jabs and sweeps into the air, locating us and our actors in the imaginary space of stories. When we relate what happened in a movie we've just seen, McNeill writes, we retrace the plot gesturally; our shrugs and symbols betray our opinions, and a skilled observer can literally read our minds from our movements.
Whereas most human languages have their grammars and dictionaries, McNeill continues, linguists have paid little attention to gestural language over the years. This may be, he suggests, because gestures are "idiosyncratic and not subject to a system of standards." They are, however, remarkably similar from person to person, and even from culture to culture. His endlessly interesting book hints at a new avenue of research, at new mysteries of the mind to explore. --Gregory McNamee
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Using data from more than ten years of research, David McNeill shows that gestures do not simply form a part of what is said and meant but have an impact on thought itself. Hand and Mind persuasively argues that because gestures directly transfer mental images to visible forms, conveying ideas that language cannot always express, we must examine language and gesture together to unveil the operations of the mind.
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Provocative and groundbreaking.......2006-10-05
The second reviewer is correct. This is a landmark book by one of the pioneers in research on language, mind, and gesture.
first reviewer gives a bad impression.......2003-12-09
Yes, this book is a bit difficult, but it's not *supposed* to be for the lay person. It's a very clearly written exposition of over 10 years of psycholinguistic research by Professor McNeill (now he might call himself a Cognitive Linguist, I don't know for sure). I just couldn't let that one review stand alone because it is so sorely misguided and makes McNeill's work unappealing. Today gesture studies is a thriving discipline, and this book is probably THE MOST influential and cited work in the field. VERY IMPORTANT. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Poorly written, no explanations.......2002-03-21
I was very disappointed with this book, I really took a chance because I give weight to rates and reviews but no one had yet rated this book when I bought it.
Since I am the first person rating the book, I hate to do this.
This book is extremely difficult to understand, many difficult words that are not too often spoken in daily conversation are used so you better keep a dictionary handy. The author doesn't give any back ground in the subject of hands movements so you kind of dive right in with his "heavy currents" of writing so bring your life preserver.
Let me put it this way, when the author writes or explains things, he is writing from the assumption (this may be an assumption on my part also) that you already know about this topic and have been in the field of hand movements for quite sometime. If you have no background in this subject and you really want to learn about it, then you are going to have to read VERY s l o w l y, and re-read a lot.
It took me a week to get past chapter 1; I can finish a book usually in 3 days.
This book needs to be rewritten in language that us common folk can understand.
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Red Cell Membrane: (Contemporary Biomedicine)
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Raess and Tunnicliff's timely compilation of reviews highlights the most recent advances in studying transport processes across the plasma membrane of the red blood cell. These processes are responsible for controlling the accumulation and elimination of solutes vital to the metabolism--and consequent survival--of the cell. Because of the inherent difficulties of the work, most notably isolation problems and organelle membrane contamination, these transport phenomena are hard to study. The red cell, however, offers many advantages, since isolation is simple and yields a pure plasma membrane.
The Red Cell Membrane presents a unified approach to the three fundamental components of major transport processes: structure, function, and consequences of modification, by chemical, pharmacological, and pathological means. Chapters, contributed by experts in the field, present both general overviews and specific, detailed applications.
The Red Cell Membrane provides researchers and clinicians involved in biophysics, biochemistry, membrane pharmacology, and related areas with a highly practical, interdisciplinary discussion of the red cell membrane as a model system. Essential reading for a large variety of specialists!
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This is the best squash book i have ever read.......1998-12-05
Well done Ian McKenzie. This is a grat book. I send my best personal regards
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This is your complete guide to using Family Tree Maker 2006 to create a family history that you and your family will treasure for year to come. This book gets you started by helping you enter what you already know. Learn how to search the INternet for more ancestors. As the information starts rolling in, yoiu will learn how to organize and plan your ongoing family history by using the research journal and to-do list, as well as its data entry wizards. Shareyoiur research with family members; whether it is through a book, a website, or a PDF in e-mail, this guide takes you through the process, step-by-step. Includes easy-to-follow instructions, screen shots, adn the author's clear explanations.
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Wonderful.......2007-05-14
This is the best out there on the market! Although I had to wait longer for the package to arrive because the original package got lost in the mail.
Helpful resourse to the program.......2007-05-13
I got this book to help if any difficulties came up working with this program. So far I really havn't needed it but plan on keeping it handy just in case. A helpful guide.
The Official Guide to Family Tree Maker 2006.......2006-08-04
Very informative. User friendly. Well written and well organized. Lots of illustrations to go along with the text.
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Richard Dawkins has an opinion on everything biological, it seems, and in A Devil's Chaplain, everything is biological. Dawkins weighs in on topics as diverse as ape rights, jury trials, religion, and education, all examined through the lens of natural selection and evolution. Although many of these essays have been published elsewhere, this book is something of a greatest-hits compilation, reprinting many of Dawkins' most famous recent compositions. They are well worth re-reading. His 1998 review of Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Fashionable Nonsense is as bracing an indictment of academic obscurantism as the book it covered, although the review reveals some of Dawkins' personal biases as well. Several essays are devoted to skillfully debunking religion and mysticism, and these are likely to raise the hackles of even casual believers. Science, and more specifically evolutionary science, underlies each essay, giving readers a glimpse into the last several years' debates about the minutiae of natural selection. In one moving piece, Dawkins reflects on his late rival Stephen Jay Gould's magnum opus, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, and clarifies what it was the two Darwinist heavyweights actually disagreed about. While the collection showcases Dawkins' brilliance and intellectual sparkle, it brings up as many questions as it answers. As an ever-ardent champion of science, honest discourse, and rational debate, Dawkins will obviously relish the challenge of answering them. --Therese Littleton
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The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins is an enthusiastic declaration, a testament to the power of rigorous scientific examination to reveal the wonders of the world. In these essays Dawkins revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. Here also are moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. The collection ends with a vivid note to Dawkins's ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life.
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Dawkins addresses some myths.......2007-08-27
Some excellent essays. A touch too close to being a bit racist here and there, but perhaps that was inaccuracy of language. For the first time I think I actually understand something about evolution. His point about the 98% figure of genetic similarity with chimps was well made. He cited the fact that if you compare two books, there will be a lot of common letters and the figure would suggest similarity. But if you were to compare them sentence by sentence, they would probably share only a tiny fraction of commonality.
What I still don't understand about theorists on evolution is how they still discuss superiority or desirability for breeding in terms of strength, speed, size etc. After many hundreds of thousands of years during which human cooperation in agriculture, shared civilisation and eventually technological change has transformed the success rate of the species, why are qualities of cooperation, constancy or intellect now not also included in the factors that influence natural selection? Perhaps they are. Maybe I should read late Darwin.
The idea that atheists just go one God further was also a point well made. Many of us would admit to being atheists when it comes to Mithras, Zeus, Thor, etc etc. Of all the Gods, most people who claim not to be atheists probably only admit a belief in one and thus reject thousands of other. It's a bit like claiming to be a vegetarian on the grounds that you don't eat duck, but do eat all the rest of the animal world.
The point about cloning and identical twins was made a few too many times, I think, but then it was a collection of essays. It is a point, however, that the non-scientist would find it hard to relate to, since for someone from that starting position the twins are "natural" and the "clone" is not, despite the fact that genetically they represent identical concepts. The position would be really interesting, however, if the twins, or triplets or quads etc arose as a result of in vitro fertilisation and then implantation, and hence were not "natural".
Nobody does it better, but . . . .......2007-05-27
Richard Dawkins is more eloquent in explaining biology and more forthright in disparaging its critics than anyone else writing in English today. However, the Greeks said even Homer nods, and I want to pursue a thread in this collection of reviews, prefaces and articles where I think Dawkins does not follow his own argument.
A recurrent proposition in these essays is that humans evolved in Africa (even Dawkins haters could be charmed by his essays on his return to Kenya) to meet African conditions. Surprisingly, he does not then inquire: How does it come about that a genetic armamentarium designed for camping on the plains of Africa produced a species capable of both inventing absurd religions and working out, through direct observation and indirect, abstract arguments, what stars are? What possible selective value could having a brain capable of either have to a caveman?
The answer, of course, is that the mental function evolved for reasons unrelated to stars or spooks but once evolved proved to have other capacities. In medicine, it is not uncommon for physicians to discover that a drug selected for one organ or syndrome has a completely unexpected, positive effect on some other organ or syndrome. (And, of course, it is even more common for it to have an unexpected, negative effect elsewhere.)
The significance of this is that it opens the door to a special status for humans. Dawkins does not want to concede this, claiming, for example, that if we were aware of the continuous genetic gradient between us and chimpanzees, we would not countenance any fundamental difference between us and, therefore, would not `sacrifice' chimps in medical experiments.
This is very strange proposition for a professional zoologist to be making. What are species for?
The genetic continuity is present, obviously, and, as Dawkins himself sometimes says, goes right back to an ur-organism. So, where does the quantitative difference become qualitative? If it is unthinkable to torture chimpanzees (or, to put it positively, as Dawkins does, if it should be thinkable to imagine interbreeding with them), why not object to eradicating mosquitoes that carry the malaria plasmodium that kills a half a million African babies each year (or maybe a million, who's counting?).
One barrier is to claim for humans a soul. This is nonsense. No one has ever seen such a thing. But another barrier is the capability of being moral actors, and everybody has observed that.
It is not obvious that moral action has selective advantages for inclusive fitness. Dawkins himself worries that having too many babies risks famine. Indiscriminate breeding, without worrying about moral consequences, is likely to leave more descendants, at least in the nearest subsequent generations, than discriminate, morally driven breeding -- or non-breeding, as the case may be.
Surely the evolution of a trait that confers voluntary selective unfitness on a species makes that species qualitatively different from all other species that cannot do it?
I expect this deviationism is a result of Dawkins's desire to see certain outcomes. Very natural it is, too, but it needs to be struggled against. Evolution up to us was non-deterministic. We should keep it that way.
Otherwise, this is a marvelous book.
Dawkins revealed.......2007-05-21
It's pity about the title: the subtitle is slightly more informative. Dawkins defines the book himself in the first sentence of his introduction: " ... a personal selection from among all the articles, tirades and reflections, book reviews and forewords, tributes and eulogies that I have published (or in some cases not published) over 25 years." This would be a better title but it's a bit long.
If you want to learn more about the things Dawkins writes about, this book is not the best book to read. If you want to learn about genetics or evolution or the God Delusion, this is just an appetiser. But it's a good book to read if you want to get to know Dawkins and his way of thinking.
It's a well-chosen anthology of 32 of Dawkins' "minor works", grouped in seven sections, each with a common theme and an explanatory introduction. Dawkins is a prolific writer, and sometimes he must write in a hurry: you get the impression that in his "tirades" he is using a dictating machine while waving his arms about. But the same passion that makes him do this can, a few pages further on, emerge as language so carefully and economically crafted that it will make you cry or laugh out loud, as probably intended. And make you think, too.
You don't have to read this book in page order. It's a good book to dip into. The memo for Tony Blair is a gem; every politician should be given briefs like this and made to read them. The eulogies are both moving and funny. The book reviews will make you want the books. The last essay is a letter Dawkins wrote to his daughter: it's personal and revealing and rather sad; I suspect the letter wouldn't have worked; he doesn't say. (I'm older than Dawkins and have had more children.) Look for the other personal bits, the anecdotes scattered through these writings: for each anecdote, you get one insight.
This is a great book for an atheist to own and lend.
A Devil's Chaplain.......2007-05-08
Of the several books by Richard Dawkins that I have recently read, this is my favorite. I read it forth in my list, and have since read six more of his books. This one is especially poetic and answered a majority of my questions in one reading. In my opinion if you are only going to read one of his books, this is the one to grab.
Having explored a variety of studies on religion, I decided to have a serious look at the opposing views. I spent many years trying to make sense of the contridictions in creation based beliefs. I had not until recently considered evolution as a serious consideration of belief. I found reading Dawkins to be a serious, yet sensitive presentation of his reasons for not believing in a personal God. I particularly like his respectful, detached approach to the subject. I personally can't imagine anyone taking personal offense to his way of sharing his point of view. . His writing style is witty, intelligent and engaging. He is practical and respectfully present in his dialogue. I will read anything he writes and I highly recommend his work to anyone who is looking for answers that makes sense of a complicated subject. I have greater respect for those who choose to practice religion now than before I read Dawkins' work on the theory of evolution. The The Meme Machine, by Susan Blackmore is my second favorite read so far~
Refreshing and Thought-Provoking.......2007-03-30
Richard Dawkins tells us not only why the Emporer has no clothes, but tell us how he knows - by discussing his logical processes for making his determinations. It's nothing short of brilliant, and offers much to contemplate.
If you enjoy a series of 'articles' on an array of different subjects, as I do, you will find that Dawkins manages to pack a lot of punch into each and every one of his selections on topics that range from Ethics to Public Education to Cloning with a seemless thread that makes it hard to put this book down.
It's my first book by Dawkins, but definitely not my last.
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Title: Dawkins, Darwin, and the devil.(A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love)(Book Review)
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