The Insurance Buying Guide: A Practical Method for Figuring Out How Much--And What Kind Of--Insurance You Need

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Easy-to-understand methods for calculating how much insurance is needed and how much it will cost.

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From Dagwood to Dilbert, the past fifty years haven't seen much evolution in our attitudes toward work. Too many of us still believe that our work selves and our real selves, our professional and personal lives, are separate entities. This book is about how that concept is slowly, but surely, changing. It is about why it is changing. And, most important, it is about why it must change. C. Michael Thompson takes a compelling look at the connection between our inner lives and our work lives and shows how the development of the individual spirit can trigger not just personal fulfillment, but much-needed organizational change.

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A good start, but finishes weak.......2003-10-21

I had high expectations of this book but was let down. The author starts on the right foot but loses momentum. I got to the middle of the book and felt that the only way to live a congruent life is to leave my job and become a monk! His tone and attitude toward work are VERY negative. The author is also very "preachy". He is pretentious and writes in "holier that thou" language. Awakening Corporate Soul is much better.

Solid prose for life the congruent life.......2002-06-13

C. Michael Thompson does an excellent job with a challenging subject. A challenging book to read because you have to really think through the issues, ideas and concept presented. Very timely book, given the issues of business, life and how to balance the competing demands. Well thought out concepts, good use of example and appropriate use of concepts. I have had this on my bedside and travel bag for the past year, and I am still digesting all the wisdom.

Jasper Welch, Durango CO

A Catalyst for Change.......2001-09-30

I had the great fortune of meeting Michael Thompson at a Leadership course I was attending, and after spending several hours with him, I realized he had a message to deliver to me and to others. I picked up his book, The Congruent Life, and after reading it and re-reading it, I was able to start to make sense of my place in life. Reading this book has been a catalyst for change in my life.
For the masses out there looking for meaning in their work, for those feeling disconnected and lost, Michael Thompson has crafted a resource that will not only help you find your way, but will help you understand why you were lost to begin with. He not only points you in the right direction, but gives you the map and compass.
The Congruent Life is the single best resource I have come accross addressing spirituality, the meaning of work, developmental theory, and personal growth.
The Congruent Life sits on my desktop, right next to M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled. Do yourself a favor, and pick it up.

A Bold Book.......2000-03-06

In this bold book, courageously written by an author who has tasted business success and found it bland, we are challenged to rethink the values we have been taught since preschool-that "success" is measured in quantitative terms, that "happiness" is having the most toys, and that "making it" in business means you have to sacrifice all other aspects of your life-especially the spiritual aspect. He quickly points out that "spiritual" and "religious" are not the same thing. Then he makes a strong case for the idea that, to be an effective leader of an organization, one must be a "deeply spiritual" person. Instead of seeing how fast we can fly around the light bulb, we must consider the value of solitude, of reflection, of self-knowledge, of acknowledging that the world does not revolve around us. Instead, we can live the congruent life only when we connect with a power beyond our own. He makes it clear that all of the world's great religions-Judaism, Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism, call for this connection. Being spiritually connected does not guarantee business success. Spiritual connection guarantees that, whether or not you are "successful", your life will be richer, more satisfying, more congruent-and the lives of those around you will be enriched as well. You will be a true leader-a servant leader.

So Helpful.......2000-02-22

I am the co-owner of a growing software supply company. As you may have guessed, my business does not leave much time for private time, much less time for spirtual reflection. However, I attended a business conference and was recommmended this book. I can not stress enough how helpful it has been. My life feels fufilled - it is now "connected." I no longer feel as if I am leading two lives: one at the office,and one at home. I would recommend The Congruent Life to anyone who feels that their business leaves them cold.

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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1894 edition by C. Reinwald et Cie, Paris.

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Jay Goldner takes the reader on a step-by-step, clear and compelling adventure in decoding the message from space and explains why this may well be the first indisputable evidence that extraterrestrial intelligence is trying to communicate with the earth's inhabitants.

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Indisputable evidence - well documented.......2002-12-11

I read and reviewed "Messages From Space" earlier this year for a print publication. I am currently writing for two websites and wished to add some comments to this review area.
When I initially picked up this book, I was as skeptical as most might be. However, Jay Goldner's research was as fascinating as it was convincing. His finding's are presented in a clear and concise format that show there is more to the Crop Circle phenomenon than is being told to the public.
Though it has been proven in the past that some Crop Circles have indeed been hoaxes, the sheer numbers (over 10,000)and intricacies make it impossible for them all to be.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has even a passing interest in the subject.

Michael Edwards

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Comprehensive bilingual coverage of over 40,000 essential words and phrases found in chemistry literature

Wiley's English-Spanish, Spanish-English Chemistry Dictionary

Wiley's English-Spanish, Spanish-English Chemistry Dictionary provides a ready reference to more than 40,000 essential terms and phrases found in the chemistry literature. Its quick, user-friendly format means that you won't waste valuable research time leafing back and forth in search of the appropriate entry. And distinguished lexicographer Steven M. Kaplan has made every effort to provide equivalents with maximum clarity, accuracy, and timeliness.

Up-to-date, comprehensive, and authoritative coverage

Indispensable for students, researchers, translators, and others working in chemistry
Entries cover different fields within chemistry and include thousands of chemical compounds
User-friendly format directs you to the precise term you need without rerouting you to other irrelevant words and phrases
A wealth of information in one portable, handy volume

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Indispensable!.......1999-12-12

I am a chemistry professor involved in myriad research projects, and this dictionary has all the terms that I or any of my research assistants or students ever need. A snap to use, and complete with absolute precision, as is needed in chemistry. A must in all academic, research, and industrial settings.

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This is NOT about Evolution VS. Creationism

Animal minds made human

Easy reading, but well researched

A pretty good look at the power of the modern synthesis

A battlefield tour

The Darwin Wars: The Scientific Battle for the Soul of Man
Andrew Brown
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster UK
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Evolutionary theory is now one of the main myths of our time. It has to bear the weight of most of our hopes and fears about what being human really means. And for over twenty years it has been riven by a holy war, conducted with an extraordinary fury that reverberates far outside the walls of academe. The two scientific camps are currently divided between 'Dawkinsians' on the one hand who may not agree with Richard Dawkins about very much but are convinced Stephen Jay Gould is dangerously wrong, and the 'Gouldians' on the other hand who take the opposite views. But who is right, or wrong, and what does it all mean? The Darwin Wars is an entertaining and lucid account of the evolution of today's neo-Darwinist theories, including the hugely influential Selfish Gene theory, and the misunderstandings and even deep hatreds that they provoke. With wit and insight, Andrew Brown puts in context the wide-reaching debate and explains its real significance for us all. For just as Darwinism now provides the main explanatory framework of our times, so disputes about Darwinism are really disputes about our very nature and place in the world

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This is NOT about Evolution VS. Creationism .......2006-09-27

The title of this book may be a little bit confusing, especially to readers in the USA.
I just want to note that this book is not about any type of debate between evolution and creationism/intelligent design. I picked it up thinking it was some type of history about the "controversy." People looking for information about that "debate" will have to look elsewhere.
This book is about the debates going on within the scientific community. This book is about Darwinian (i.e. genetic) explanations regarding human behavior and about the critics and proponents of these ideas. It mainly focuses on the ideas of Richard Dawkins vs. the ideas of Steven Jay Gould, but seems rather sympathetic to Gould's point of view, while still giving Dawkins his equal amount of "airtime."

Animal minds made human.......2006-03-11

It is exciting times to be a thinking ape. After millions of years of evolution we exist at the point in time when the implications of the discovery of our primate ancestry are being played out in the scientific, philosophical and literary worlds, when the potentials of millions of years of future evolution are being examined and even the possibilites of taking control of the destiny of our species is being entertained. And it is fitting that the men and women who are determining the scientific and cultural debate as to what it means to be a being created by the same rules that produced the earthworm should be themselves so recognisably human all too human, vividly portrayed here by Andrew Brown.

Whether or not the human animal can overcome those rules and create a world that is not destined by algorithmic game theory to contain an inherent core of suffering and exploitation is one of the key intellectual issues of the 21st century. One wont come away from reading this beautifully clear book with a definite answer, but you will gain a very human and personal sense of what is involved in merely asking the question.

Easy reading, but well researched.......2005-05-13

Ever since biologists such as Edward O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins first popularized the idea that human psychology might be explainable in Darwinian terms, they encountered fierce opposition, not only from sociologists brought up on the "standard model" whereby the mind is a blank slate, but also, and less obviously, from other biologists, such as Stephen J. Gould and Richard Lewontin, who saw evolutionary psychology as genetic determinism. The battles between different groups of biologists, whom Andrew Brown characterizes as Dawkinsians and Gouldians (while recognizing that nobody will be happy with these names: "this won't please anyone involved"), were remarkably vicious, full of ill will on both sides, and, for anyone who was not emotionally engaged in the struggle, entertaining to read about. Andrew Brown has risen warmly to the challenge, and has written a very readable book about them.

He is a journalist, and has a journalist's ability to write clearly and well, but, far more than that, he has a scholar's ability to check his facts and to get them right, and to present opinions that he does not necessarily agree with in a fair and balanced way. He interviewed many of the participants, and appears to have established friendly relations with everyone he spoke to. He has also studied the biological and philosophical aspects with care, and his opinions are worthy of respect. Only occasionally does he lapse into unsupported assertions, as, for example, when he writes "Is the difference in the striping of Burchell's and Grevy's zebra a result of different selection pressures in the different parts of Africa where these species originated, or, as is more likely, was there simply a selection for striping to which the genotypes of the two species responded differently?" With his "as is more likely" he seems to be assuming the point that he ought to be arguing.

Brown devotes several pages to a sympathetic examination of Elaine Morgan's views on the aquatic origins of humanity, ultimately coming the conclusion that they cannot be completely correct, but nonetheless treating them with far more respect than some of her critics have done. He also almost manages the superhuman feat of presenting Mary Midgley in a favourable light -- she of the "up till now I have not attended to Dawkins, thinking it unnecessary to break a butterfly upon a wheel."

As Brown notes, the Darwin wars have been quite separate from the battles with creationists, all of the participants he writes about being evolutionists, all of them regarding themselves as being in the tradition of Darwin. All of them, therefore, have been non-religious, and in some cases on the Dawkinsian side extremely hostile to religion, with an almost religious, and certainly fundamentalist, fervour in their attacks on Christianity. Brown describes himself as an atheist, albeit one who worked as the religious correspondent of a newspaper in the years before undertaking the book, but he considers that intolerant atheism can be as harmful to human freedom as intolerant religious fundamentalism. By the end of the book, therefore, one feels that although he is more of a Dawkinsian than a Gouldian he is far from being wholly on one side or the other.

It is interesting to compare The Darwin Wars with Defenders of the Truth, another book written on the same subject at about the same time by Ullica Segerstråle. The two books cover much the same ground, but Segerstråle's is much longer (about twice the length, if one allows for the larger amount of text on each page), and is written from the point of view of an academic sociologist rather than that of a journalist. She shares Brown's concern with seeing both sides of the dispute, with getting her facts right, and with presenting the different points of view in a fair way. Both books are excellent, and both are essential reading if one is interested in the subject. Neither mentions the other, but they were being written at the same time, and published at much the same time, so neither author is likely to have had access to the other's work while writing.

A pretty good look at the power of the modern synthesis.......2003-12-12

I think, first off, we ought to put away the idea that it is somehow wrong or remarkable that Brown is a journalist writing a book about science.

The extent to which a good journalist (and Brown is one) cannot sufficently grasp the issues in modern Darwinism is precisely the extent to which no popular books ought to be written about it at all, by anyone.

If an intelligent journalist working full time on the issue can't correctly understand it, what hope does the casual reader have?

The fact is that most of the issues really aren't all that tough, and where things do get complicated, the issues are often philosophical and interpretive. Areas where scientists have not shown themselves to be particularly adroit (as Brown notes). There is plenty of writing out there by scientists whose credentials in the lab are impeccable and whose command of the facts I wouldn't dare to question.

But when some of these folks quit the job of fact gathering and start interpreting and sketching out implications . . . well, let's just say that words & phases like naive, wishful thinking, overly ambitious and even stupid start coming to mind.

Brown (though he briefly forgets which sex is XY) generally seems to have his facts straight, he digs up little-told portions of the history of the Darwin Wars, and has an interesting take on the personalities involved.

Brown's philosophical sympathies lie with the Gould camp (emphasizing the limits on what science can really say with confidence about things like society and culture), but he presents a pretty balanced view nonetheless, very solid on the sometimes rather half-baked philosphical underpinnings of scientific interpretation at its most exalted (and perhaps most dangerous) level.

A valuable book.

A battlefield tour.......2002-05-20

A journalist writing on science embarks on a perilous journey. Preparation requires knowledge of the path, the likely hazards, and how to avoid awkward detours. When the trail passes through a disputed area, every risk is multiplied. In this instance, the dispute is interpreting how Darwin's idea of natural selection works. Andrew Brown makes a valiant effort to learn the route, chart the perils and keep to the centre. Even his vivid writing skills can't prevent him failing on nearly every count. Granted, the best informed writers have stumbled on the same trek. Brown, however, misses the whole point of the dispute.

His Foreward states that "Darwinian explanations" about the world have led to acrimonious scientific debate. The remainder of the book tries to outline those debates and their participants. The tragic story of George Price, a transplanted American who died in London in 1974, reveals the issue. Price had reformulated William Hamilton's earlier work on altruism. Nature, it seemed, offered little reward for altruism. The knowledge sent Price first into insanity, then suicide. The Hamilton/Price work brought Richard Dawkins to develop his idea of "the selfish gene." Brown struggles to comprehend Dawkins' idea that strings of molecules "desire" only to replicate. He turns to Dawkins' appearance and antecedents to relieve his confusion. He scorns Dawkins use of metaphor, labelling him "vulgar", then fills
this book with his own. Dawkins becomes the label for thinkers in one side of Brown's Darwin Wars - the "Dawkinsians." Although admitting its weakness, Brown retains the identification throughout.

The Dawkinsians are countered by the allies of Stephen J. Gould - "the pope of paleontology." Brown is clearly in awe of Gould's writing ability and reputation for accuracy. Unfortunately, Brown's veneration shields him from another of Gould's talents - the building of artificial targets for scathing assaults. Brown is more correct in his labelling of "Gouldians," since his quotes of Gould, Lewontin and Rose follow the long-established pattern. Lewontin characterized E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology as "bad science," even in the face of later work supporting it. Brown notes that Gould, Lewontin and Rose stood aligned against the rising science of evolutionary psychology. There's another aspect of Gouldians Brown favours. Brown, an athiest who writes for religious journals [i'm not making this up!], sympathizes
with Gould's "respect" for religions as opposed to Dawkins' argument that "any religion is irrational." Ultimately, when Brown takes an capricious detour later in the book, grants Gould and his "position" acceptable.

The detour is into the realm of philosophy. It's bad enough for a religion writer to attempt to write on science. Brown's excursion into science-cum-philosophy is wholly unwarranted. All the more so when he openly admits his inadequacies. Gould's most incisive critic isn't Dawkins, it's philosopher Daniel C. Dennett. Brown confesses his failure to understand Dennett's "Consciousness Explained," although that excellent book is but thinly related to Brown's theme. The real thrust is Dennett's "Darwin's Dangerous Idea," which Brown doesn't understand either, but he fails to state that as openly. Brown claims DDI is a "freshly ground axe," instead of a surgically precise instrument eviscerating Gould's misuse of evidence. Because Dennett isn't a biologist, Brown accuses him of a "let's you and him fight" attitude, running from the fray after initiating it. Anyone who has read Dennett will never forgive such a slander. As a counter to Dennett, Brown gambits British philosopher Mary Midgley "in her large, sensible shoes." Besides her footwear, Midgely contributed only "her gift for the eviscerating phrase" to the debate. Her science, even Brown admits, was "confused and ignorant." Perhaps Brown is correct in assigning her to the Gouldian faction.

Brown fails to directly come to grips with the fundamental issue. How did natural selection produce thinking humans, and what, if any, is their role in the universe? After his tour of the biological battleground, he uses a cute chapter title, "How the Meme Raths Outgrabe" to again display his faulty understanding of Dawkins. Brown uses Dawkins' idea of the "meme," a replicable idea, to introduce a discussion of "morality." This was the issue that drove Price to suicide, Brown reminds us. Is the universe benevolent, offering some hope in the face of injustice? Or is it malign, a condition which brings Midgley again forward to declare as "madness." Brown, however, fails to consider the proper alternative - the universe is indifferent. If he'd read Dennett instead of maligning him, Brown might have caught the point.

There's some value in this book in the introduction of some issues and a few of the personalities. If you wish to understand why the Darwin Wars came about, however, you must turn to the sources. A compromise option is Ullica Segerstrale's Defenders of the Truth. Although excellent, its focus is on the American participants, which, thankfully, omits Midgley.

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This compact treatment of the basic theory of nuclear forces, structures, and reactions bases its explanations almost entirely on the familiar results of nonrelativistic quantum theory. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, it presents careful and concise discussions of experimental ideas.

28 illustrations. 1956 edition.

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a definitive treatment of nuclear theory.......2006-07-05

This 2nd edition comes 50 years after the 1st edition. Much of the material appears unchanged. Bethe died only last year [2005]. But in 1956, he was already one of the giants in physics due to his massive contributions to the study of the nucleus.

The book lacks the rich illustrations typical of current textbooks. But if you can ignore that, then it provides for a definitive education in our understanding of the nucleus. It is suitable for an undergrad reader who has done an earlier course in quantum mechanics. By the very nature of nuclear interactions, most of the discussion is outside the realm of classical mechanics, and you do need that quantum background.

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Selected by the New York Times as a "Notable Book of the Year," for it's "wicked, black comedy," Duck and Cover was hailed by Publisher's Weekly as "a bittersweet and utterly beguiling novel." The Los Angeles Times noted Peterson is "a hauntingly funny writer...the balance she strikes is almost hypnotic." An eerily prescient novel, Duck and Cover is even timelier now in a 21st century of intimate terrorism--within our families and our world.

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