Handbooks of Management Accounting Research, Two-Volume Set, Volume 1-2 (Handbooks of Management Accounting Research)

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Handbook of Management Accounting Research, Volume 1
Edited by Christopher S. Chapman, University of Oxford; Anthony G. Hopwood, University of Oxford; and Michael D. Shields, Michigan State University

Volume one of the Handbook of Management Accounting Research series sets the context for both Handbooks, with three chapters outlining the historical development of management accounting as a discipline and as a practice in three broad geographic settings. The bulk of the first volume then draws together a series of contributions that analyze the scholarly literature in terms of distinct intellectual and theoretical social science perspectives. The volume includes a chapter which looks at work informed by psychology as a base discipline. The volume also includes a set of chapters that seek to evaluate and explain issues of research method for the different approaches to research found within management accounting.

Handbook of Management Accounting Research, Volume 2
Edited by Christopher S. Chapman, University of Oxford; Anthony G. Hopwood, University of Oxford; and Michael D. Shields, Michigan State University

Volume two of the Handbook of Management Accounting Research series consists of two groups of chapters. The first draw together research that has focused on particular management accounting practices. The second set synthesizes contributions to the literature that have been focused within particular organizational contexts. Volume two concludes with a review of research on how management accounting practice and research varies around the world.

Volumes 1 and 2 are also available as individual products.

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Handbooks of Management Accounting Research, Volume 2 (Handbooks of Management Accounting Research)

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Volume one of the Handbooks of Management Accounting Research sets the context for both Handbooks, with three chapters outlining the historical development of management accounting as a discipline and as a practice in three broad geographic settings. The bulk of the first volume then draws together a series of contributions that analyse the scholarly literature in terms of distinct intellectual and theoretical social science perspectives. The volume includes a chapter which looks at work informed by psychology as a base discipline. The volume also includes a set of chapters that seek to evaluate and explain issues of research method for the different approaches to research found within management accounting.

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Research in Banking and Finance, Volume 1 (Research in Banking and Finance)

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This volume contains a broad range of papers examining contemporary managerial and public policy issues in finance and banking. Special emphasis is given to financial institutions, instruments, and markets. The volume includes papers examining prudential regulations and competition among banking institutions in different countries; the dynamics of stock returns along domestic and international dimensions; and the analysis of debt and equity issuance in the framework of the firm's financing decision. Other papers in the volume provide insight into such timely issues as the global integration of capital markets and the nature and impact of financial crisis at the household and economy-wide levels.

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Competing for Talent: Key Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Becoming an Employer of Choice
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Competing For Talent, by human-resources consultant Nancy Ahlrichs, is a solid and accessible resource for anyone who recognizes that "people (not technology or products) are the key to organizational success, innovation, and profitability." Ahlrichs advocates becoming an Employer of Choice, or EOC, which charts "new strategic directions that put people in the profit equation." Although there is no one-size-fits-all approach to recruiting and retention, she outlines some of the tools and techniques already in use by others along with her own advice for embracing them. A lengthy Introduction examines profitability in a tight hiring market, and offers ways to document turnover costs and uncover its causes. Part One explores the tactics used by some successful EOCs, and presents specific ways to adapt them. Part Two focuses on recruiting, examining the processes and technologies involved as well as some underutilized sources for quality candidates. Part Three looks at retention, laying out tactics for lowering turnover that range from improving compensation and benefits to total cultural rehabilitation. A final section offers information specific to "information technology brainpower." --Howard Rothman

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Step by step, this hands on guide gives all companies the strategic weapons they need to meet the top challenge of today's hot economy.

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Comprehensive, Well-Organized, Informative.......2001-12-21

Employers are continually concerned about competing with each other to hire and hold the best employees they can find. Sometimes this competition becomes a frenzy, since the best people-qualified, experienced-are in high demand. It's essential, to compete well, to become an Employer of Choice. Ahlrichs, in her preface, observes that employers of choice "know that their 'choice' status is a significant achievement attained through consistent application of comprehensive strategies and tactics, as well as top-bottom organizational responsibility for retention.

This book is divided into three important sections: the big picture, recruiting, and retention. In Part One, How Employers of Choice are Winning the Talent Wars, the three chapters focus on Learning from Employers of Choice, Employer of Choice Foundation Strategies, and Building and Communicating a Top Employer Reputation. These writings present a good overview and insight into how Employers of Choice are operating. The orientation is to understand what these companies are doing, rather than a how-to approach. There is a lot to learn here.

The second part, Creative Strategies for Recruiting Top Talent, offers the readers four chapters, starting with How Employers of Choice are Redesigning Recruitment. The next chapter, Only You Will Do, has a little more instructional tone, but still primarily takes a third person view. This chapter concludes with a helpful Orientation Checklist. Chapter 6, Surfing for Recruiting Results Online does provide a healthy amount of how-to. While this field is changing almost daily, there is a lot of value here for the reader. Plenty of website domains are included. The last chapter in this section, Finding New Hires in Unlikely Places, is filled with good ideas. Here I felt a lot more of the how-to I was looking for.

The third section is entitled Comprehensive Strategies for Retaining Top Performers. Here the chapters are titled Understanding Why Employees Leave; Managing and Leading for Retention; Retrain, Develop, and Profit; and New Compensation and Benefits Strategies. There is a lot of value in these chapters-lots of ideas and perspectives. An exit interview guide will be helpful to those companies that have not taken advantage of this tool. The author seems to really hit her stride in providing ideas for readers in this section. The same holds for her conclusion, Becoming an Employer of Choice.

The book is well-written, filled with valuable information for the reader. The solid chapters are supplemented with a good resource guide and an index. I'd recommend this book for company owners, senior executives, and human resource professionals. As an ethical reviewer, I must share with you that I am co-author of "How to Become an Employer of Choice," a competing title in the same field. With that perspective, I would be quite comfortable recommending my clients read "Competing for Talent" as a supplement to my book.

A handbook on the retention of your most valuable asset.......2000-12-02

An easily understood, quickly assimilated read. I read the entire 200-page book at one sitting, and shared ideas with the co-owners of my company right away. Usually, business management textbooks are full of jargon. Competing for talent is in plain english, and can be applied immediately.

Excellent competitive intelligence on corporate culture.......2000-11-28

This book offers "heads up" competitive intelligence that will work for any company or organization that wants to attract and retain a high quality workforce. I have seen bits and pieces of this information as we have worked with our own corporate culture. Having "Competing for Talent" in my hands five years ago would have saved us a great deal of research.

Important New Book!.......2000-11-04

Competing for talent should be required reading for anyone interested in learning new approaches for hiring qualified employees in today's very competitive work environment. I work for a state university system that has restrictive limits on what we can pay. Competing for Talent provided me with useful real world solutions to attracting and retaining qualified employees. This book had a positive and immediate impact on our hiring success.

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"Artful Ownership: Art Law, Valuation, and Commerce in the United States, Canada, and Mexico" is the most comprehensive guide to the appraisal and commercial protocol and the giving of artworks, antiques and collectibles. It is the first book dealing with the art law and art commerce of the three countries. Author Aaron Milrad demystifies the legal world of art and uncovers the secrets of the industry with a wealth of information regarding donation, buying at auctions, bequeathal, acquisition and gifting of art.

With expertise in copyright, cultural property issues, taxation, insurance and import and export of artworks and collectibles, Aaron Milrad brings clarity to a field long obscured by disputes over rightful ownership and acquisition. "Artful Ownership" is an intriguing read, bringing to light the legal basics behind the current scandals that surround art confiscated during the Holocaust and the resulting implications upon their sale to major art institutions. No other book presents art law with such explicit detail and comprehension of its far-reaching international impact.

Both a working tool and a reference book, "Artful Ownership" is a vital guide to all members of the art world, whether lawyers, accountants, financial or other advisors, artists, collectors, students, or those seeking to begin investing in artwork and collectibles. The book answers the following questions: How do you determine who owns a work of art and who has the right to sell it? What services and opinions of value can you expect from an appraiser? What are the latest rules governing Nazi-confiscated art?

Additionally, you'll be updated on issues dealing with stolen art; export or import of art; fakes, frauds, and forgeries; gifting and tax benefits; art project contracts; reproduction rights; contractual concerns when buying, selling or trading art; and obtaining appropriate professional advice on authentication, public or private commissions of art, value, copyright and insurance concerns.

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Covering topics of radio astronomy, this book contains graduate-level problems with carefully presented solutions. The problems are arranged following the content of the book "Tools of Radio Astronomy" by K. Rohlfs and T.L.Wilson (also available in the this series) on a chapter-by-chapter basis. Some of these problems have been formulated to provide an extension to the material presented in "Tools of Radio Astronomy".

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Tools of Radio Astronomy (Astronomy and Astrophysics Library)
K. Rohlfs , and T.L. Wilson
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This substantially rewritten and expanded fourth edition outlines the most up-to-date methods and tools of radio astronomy. Tools of Radio Astronomy gives a unified treatment of the entire field of radio astronomy, from centimeter to sub-millimeter wavelengths and using single telescopes as well as interferometers. The basic physical principles are described and a complete outline of the instrumentation, observational techniques, and methods of measurement and analysis are given. The goal of this standard reference and text is to prepare readers to carry out observations and relate the data to physical processes in interstellar space. In this fourth edition, the chapter on interferometry and aperture synthesis has been thoroughly revised in the light of most recent developments, as has been the chapter on molecules in interstellar space, and material on receiver technology.

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One of the best introductions to the field.......2000-05-18

Although Rohlfs and Wilson have only made perfunctory changesbetween this and the previous edition of the book, it still stands asone of the best introductions to the field of radio astronomy. It still doesn't cover some topics (such as calibration techniques) as well as I would have liked, and Kraus' _Radio Astronomy_ (2e) does a better job (IMHO) on the mathematical details as well as specific applications. Because of its length, the topics of millimeter and submillimeter astronomy are not covered in as much as centimeter wavelengths. However despite all this, the book is highly readable for a student in the field, and is invaluable to have on one's bookshelf, or even to take observing (for those who only dabble in radio astronomy).

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Kristen Rohlfs
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High Resolution NMR provides a broad treatment of the principles and theory of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) as it is used in the chemical sciences. It is written at an "intermediate" level, with mathematics used to augment, rather than replace, clear verbal descriptions of the phenomena. The book is intended to allow a graduate student, advanced undergraduate, or researcher to understand NMR at a fundamental level, and to see illustrations of the applications of NMR to the determination of the structure of small organic molecules and macromolecules, including proteins. Emphasis is on the study of NMR in liquids, but the treatment also includes high resolution NMR in the solid state and the principles of NMR imaging and localized spectroscopy.
Careful attention is given to developing and interrelating four approaches - steady state energy levels, the rotating vector picture, the density matrix, and the product operator formalism. The presentation is based on the assumption that the reader has an acquaintance with the general principles of quantum mechanics, but no extensive background in quantum theory or proficiency in mathematics is required. Likewise, no previous background in NMR is assumed, since the book begins with a description of the basic physics, together with a brief account of the historical development of the field.
This third edition of High Resolution NMR preserves the "conversational" approach of the previous editions that has been well accepted as a teaching tool. However, more than half the material is new, and the remainder has been revised extensively. Problems are included to reinforce concepts in the book.

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High Resolution NMR: Theory and Chemical Applications, 3rd Edition
Edwin D. Becker
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Speaking, like breathing, is something we do every day without thinking. And just like breathing, speech is the result of a complicated dance between neural mechanisms and muscle responses. Although everybody makes use of language--in some form or another--little is actually understood about what it is or how it began. In Eve Spoke, Philip Lieberman, a professor of cognitive science and linguistics, outlines his own theories about this mysterious subject. From development of the human vocal tract to the latest models of where language skills occur in the brain, Lieberman covers the physical aspects of producing speech. He then tries to explain just how the brain puts it all together to create meaning from sound.

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If we were to summon the first man and woman from their prehistoric graves, what would they--indeed, what could they--say to us? The human imagination never ceases to be captivated by the quest for its own roots. Who were our ancestors? In the evolutionary clash of brains and brawn, what was it that prevailed and made us, Homo sapiens, uniquely human? Today scientists cite language as the distinctively human feature. But what is language--a sign, a grunt? a sound with collective symbolic meaning? This remarkable book seeks to set the record straight with a critical refinement of the language theory, providing us for the first time with a scientific explanation of how Eve came to speak at all. Wrestling with the age-old question of why such a large gulf exists between humans and other animals, Philip Lieberman mines both the fossil record and modern neuroscientific techniques to chart the development of the anatomy and brain mechanisms necessary for human language as we know it. Eschewing any notion of a language gene or instinct, he pursues instead an evolutionary path in which environment acts on a biological capacity to reveal the interconnectedness of systems that make us most human: precise motor skills, speech, language, and complex thought. Eve Spoke challenges the dominant scientific theories of language's origins and forges a new understanding of the role of language in our evolution. Lieberman interweaves his decades of research in anthropology, neuroscience, psychology, and linguistics with fascinating studies and playful discoveries on such disparate matters as the demise of the Neanderthals, the limits of chimp language, the chinchilla's share of the language gene, and Mt. Everest's contribution to language research.

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Why and how mankind evolved the plumbing required for speech.......2007-06-07

A good complement to Robbins Burling's "The Talking Ape," Stephen Pinker's "The Language Instinct," and John McWhorter's "The Power of Babel." Each has its own niche. Pinker approaches the question from the structure of the brain, and the structure of language itself. McWhorter is a linguist; he talks about how languages are put together.

Lieberman and Burling occupy themselves with the evolutionary question. How did language come about? Their works complement each other quite nicely. Lieberman examines the physiological changes that were required in the evolution of the sound production mechanism that is so unique and so characterizes Homo sapiens. Burling approaches the same question from a linguist's perspective. How could language of all in such a way that each step represented an evolutionary advantage over the prior step, but yet the overall result was a qualitative leap which he says went from analog to digital communications.

Burling advances a number of large theories. The kinds of theories that would be impossible to prove given the fact that speech leaves no historical record, and even the archaeological record of the evolution of the speech apparatus is fairly spotty.

He proposes that the evolution of language was driven by listening and perception rather than production. The ability to produce speech would have been worthless unless it was paired with listeners capable of interpreting it. Conversely, superior ability to understand utterances of other members of a social group would always be advantageous to the animal possessed of that ability. This ties in quite well with Lieberman's timeline for the development of the human speech apparatus. Lieberman goes into a lot of detail about the differences between Neanderthal and Homo sapiens' vocal tracks, evolutionary differences that occurred very recently, in the last 200,000 years or so. I believe this would make sense to Burling; the production mechanism evolved quickly once the listening mechanisms were substantially in place. Lieberman notes that the human vocal tract imposes a number of disadvantages. We're the only animal that can asphyxiate in the process of swallowing. The location of our larynx impedes airflow for maximum aerobic performance, and requires that we have smaller and less useful jaws. It could only have evolved the way it did if language had a high selective advantage.

Burling observes that that human speech is digital whereas most animal communication is analog. Words are discrete from one another; they do not fall on a continuum. Bat and bag are two different words. Our hearing apparatus may err in choosing between them, but our brain will form one concept or the other. Compare this with a baby's cry, which can vary continuously from a whimper to a full-blown scream.

Both authors address the question of why a speech is a vocal rather than a gestural matter. It is both, on both the analog and the digital side. On the analog-visual side, a smile can represent quite a continuum of emotion. On the digital-visual side you have true languages like American sign language, and gestures such as a knotted head or an extended finger. Their conclusion is practical. The vocal tract can operate quickly, can operate in the dark, and it leaves the hands free. Lieberman cites statistical analyses showing that speech is about five times faster than any other mode by which people could communicate with one another. It evolved because it was highly efficient. Primatologists have written that grooming behaviors limit group size. It takes a lot of time to maintain social hierarchies picking nits from one another. Speech makes us more efficient nit pickers.

Burling asserts that there are five specific cognitive tools that are essential to learning a language:
1. A rich conceptual understanding of the world around us.
2. Joint attention: the ability of two individuals to focus on a single object, such as a tree to which one is pointing, or a coffee cup was holding.
3. The ability to imitate. If I make a sound or a gesture, you can imitate it.
4. The ability to understand pointing gestures, and representative signals such as "big" and "small," to establish abstract thoughts that can be verbalized as adjectives and adverbs, for instance.
5. The assumption that language will be pattered and repetitive ways. For instance, in a given language the subject will precede the verb and the object will follow it, or vice versa.

People are good at this. A trained anthropologist can sit with a person whose language is totally unknown to him and figure out how to communicate within a matter of hours or days. Even our closest primate relatives are fairly weak on these abilities.

Burling addresses the evolution of the structure of language. The first major question is words. There are 60,000 or so in the average vocabulary. Where and how they are stored as a mystery that is only now being unraveled. What is clear is that no such memory and retrieval system was required when communication was largely analog. We need syntax to hold our words together in meaningful relationships. Burling talks about how elements of syntax are likely to have evolved from independent, standalone words. See the McWhorter book for a more extended discussion.

Burling is fascinated with the question as to why language provided such a strong selective advantage. In his field work in rural India he notes that most tasks within a village can be accomplished without a great deal of verbal communication. People learn those tasks involved in agriculture by observation. Deaf-mutes can master the tasks about as well as hearing people. He offers a number of theories, the most intriguing of which is sexual selection. The peacock's tail is supposed to have evolved not because it gives the male peacock any advantage in life, but simply because it is more attractive to the peahen. Other authors have posited that sexual selection is the reason that blonde hair, blue eyes, hairless bodies and large breasts crept into the human populations. There is no doubt that both men and women prefer articulate partners, and that articulate people rise to the top of any human social grouping. They will have more mating opportunities. Burling notes as well that we measure intelligence in large measure as the expression of verbal ability. Upon this premise, he would say that there is sexual selection for intelligence.

The question that led me to read these books is the assertion that McWhorter makes that human speech is only 150,000 years old. The conclusion I get from both these authors is that the 150,000 year figure applies to speech by Homo sapiens. The production mechanisms we use were available about that long ago. A lot of the mental mechanics, the word storage, the syntax, and some of the production had to be in place much earlier.

It is interesting to superimpose the 150,000 year figure over the timeline of human migrations. Most authors believe that modern humans arose in Africa about 200,000 years ago and left about 50,000 years ago. We might expect the same kinds of evolutionary differentiation in linguistic abilities that occurred in human physiognomy. Neither author addresses the question, but on the very morning that I write this review there is an article in The Economist that a Dr. Dediu and a Dr. Ladd have found genetic differences between people to speak tonal languages such as Chinese and the rest of us. There is more to be learned about this most essential character of the human animal.

Thus Spake Eve and Lieberman!.......2002-01-05

I give this work a "C" because I expected more from a man who has spent most of his life engaged in the study of the evolution of human speech and language. This book is loosely constructed, as if the author dictated a few paragraphs over coffee each morning, with little apparent direction in mind other than discussing the overall, global idea that language and speech have evolved along with the anatomy of the head and neck. That's ok, however. This book is geared more to the average reader with some science background. He does a nice job discussing other research that was germinal to our present day understanding of speech perception and production. He reviews his own research on reconstruction of the vocal tracts in skulls of early man. Although his studies over 30 years, which suggested that the human larynx descended in order for human speech to develop, made him almost a popular science icon, alas, some of his work subsequently has been dismissed by various linguists and paleo-anthropologists.

For example, there is no reason why humans could not develop speech and language with a higher seated larynx. Indeed, a human can be understood while using just ONE vowel in running speech (this is in iximpil iv whit i min). And a language could be constructed around one vowel by simply making longer words. Also, humans who are adept at buccal speech (where the vocal tract is basically the oral cavity) can be readily understood.

It is true that a lowered larynx indeed allows more vowels to be produced and makes speech more efficient, but that does not prove that this was why the larynx descended. The larynx may have descended in order for humans to bellow out deeper nonspeech warning cries to predators. And, further, a higher larynx is not the reason chimps do not talk. That is to say, there is no reason to suspect that had their larynges moved South, nonhuman apes would begin conversing in human-like fashion. Lieberman points out that the chimp lacks higher cortical centers for speech and language, but he eschews a Chomsky-type innate language acquisition device. His arguments against this are interesting, if not compelling.

Certainly, articulators such as the tongue,velum, and lips, and the way they are articulated are far more critical to the production of speech than is the position of the larynx. Yet, the perception of speech takes place despite fairly sloppy articulation.

In Lieberman discussion of vocal tract normalization, he suggests Terrance Nearey (1978) first described this phenomenon, when, indeed, this concept was written up very nicely by Tim Rand in a Haskins Lab Research paper in 1970.

As Lieberman writes in the Coda of this book, "Evolution in itself has no direction." Despite his research and views, I believed the larynx gradually lowered in humans, but did not HAVE to. It just evolved that way and consequently made speech more efficient. Lips could have protruded more to lengthen the vocal tract (and thus allow more vowels), but, if anything, human lips, in general, have receded over time, not protruded. Yes, a lowered larynx increases the risk of choking to death, but does this really prove that the reward of more efficient speech is the underlying cause for this? Who knows?

What came first, the lowered larynx or language? I say, language, however "primitive" it may have been. What did Eve say to Adam? Obviously, she spoke the equivalent to "Yes" or we would not be here now. Lieberman is correct in saying there may have been many Adams and Eves over the past five million years. He exhibits his humane side when he adds "We are not the lords of creation, made in God's image because we talk, masters of the birds and beasts, which cannot speak. The purpose of human life is surely that we must use the gift of speech, language and thought to act to enhance life and love, to vanquish needless suffering and murderous violence - to achieve a yet higher morality." He may be stretching it a bit here, but it would be nice to think he is right.

and adam listened.........1999-07-01

Lieberman's book is concise, well-written, and fascinating. While the book may be intended for a popular audience, some knowledge of basic anatomy and neuroscience is necessary in order to fully appreciate his ideas. The organization of topics is refreshingly casual, unsuitable for textbook writing, but perfectly appropriate for this particular work. A quick, enjoyable, and informative read. Great preparation for a cocktail party.

where's the thesis?.......1999-07-01

Given how short this book is, it's surprising how poorly organized it is. There's a lot of interesting information in here but the job of turning Lieberman's incoherence into a reasoned thesis is left entirely up to the reader. This is really a shame, since some of Lieberman's arguments and cited studies really are interesting -- but in that sense _Eve Spoke_ is more of a limited reference tool than a book. I've read this book twice, and the content is still pretty fuzzy. I'm just thankful it wasn't assigned reading, as taking notes for this must be a nightmare.

In short: decent writing, useful material, terrible organization. Definitely a library read.

a disappointing and frustrating read.......1999-03-20

Philip Lieberman tries desperatly to make this book accessible and ultimately fails. Although his knowledge is extensive and most likely fascinating under other circumstances , I found his "proof" so extremely unorganized and out of place , that I ultimately stopped caring . All 151 pages of this book were pure torture .

EVE SPOKE: HUMAN LANGUAGE AND HUMAN EVOLUTION

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EVE SPOKE: HUMAN LANGUAGE AND HUMAN EVOLUTION
Philip Lieberman
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Eve Spoke: Human Language and Evolution
Philip Lieberman
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This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1858 edition by Mallet-Bachelier, Paris.

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A modern day, grown-up tale reminiscent of "The Sword and the Stone", a humorous view into the life of a befuddled composer whose spiritual journey begins with the arrival of a strange and enigmatic mentor.

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Tired of mayhem and violence?.......2003-10-24

If you're tired of the same old mayhem and violence in just about every medium, then The Blissmaker is a must read. I purchased the delux addition complete with CD, as a birthday present to myself. I lite a few candles, set back in my easy chair and simple couldn't put the book down until I'd read every word, listened to every note. It was the best birthday gift I'd received in all my 60 years.

From the beautifully designed dust jacket to the very last word this book keeps you completely engaged in a story within a story of mystery, music and a significate spiritual sense that this could be leading to something, something new yet born of profound ancient wisdom.

Humorus, provocative and inspiring are all terms that come to mind, but mostly just pure joy. Yes, The Blissmaker is a great gift, give it to yourself, then give it to a friend.

BEYOND EXCELLENT.......2002-09-08

A MUST READER. I FOUND MYSELF AS PART OF THE BOOK. COULD NOT PUT THIS DOWN. EXCITING, DELIGHTFUL, FUNNY, SPIRITUAL AND SO MUCH MORE. SEE FOR YOURSELF.

A unique fantasy adventure novel.......2001-12-16

Jared Grayson is a teacher and composer scheduled for a planned meeting with a renowned music producer when he is called to the hospital to identify a seriously injured man thought to be his uncle. That is when a sage and enigmatic man uses Jared's own music to draw him and others into parallel adventures to walk the fine line between magic and madness -- and never quite certain as to which was which!. The Blissmaker is a unique fantasy adventure novel that is accompanied by a CD showcasing musical compositions and lyrical songs that form a kind of auditory special effects enhancement to a riveting text. In this unique and enthusiastically recommended novel, author, composer and artist Royce Richardson demonstrates himself an original and masterful storyteller of the first order.

An insider's look at The Blissmaker.......2001-08-22

I was one of the fortunate persons who assisted with the birthing of a fabulous new novel, The Blissmaker, by author, and my friend, Royce Richardson. It all started more than seven years ago when the story began to unfold. You know that not many books are beautiful, but I am here to say that what you will see when you hold this book in your hand is an exquisite hardcover volume with a satin ribbon bookmark built right in, and a colorful and intriguing cover-all of which was designed and created by the author. As you are drawn into the reading, you will find yourself involved with a struggling middle-aged composer whose life begins to change radically and unexpectedly. He encounters a strange mentor who comes into his life in a seemingly impossible way and turns everything upside down: his expectations and beliefs and even his longings. The more you read the more you discover a depth of experience unlike any novel written. The songs, poems, illustrations, and even musical scores create an all-encompassing reading event-one that does not stop with a simple plot. This is a joyous adventure story interwoven with information and perceptions that will challenge and entice you, clear to the very end. I highly recommend you just accept my word and get this book.

The Blissmaker Weaves an Intricate Tapestry.......2001-08-11

The Blissmaker follows the adventures, insights and synchronicities of Jared Grayson, 38 year old music teacher and so far unsuccessful composer, as his life takes an ever more metaphysical dive into an alternative reality that at once seems familiar and "right" and at the same time bizarre and downright comical.

Just as he is about to meet with a famous composer who could finally get his career on track, Jared is led step by unruly step into relationships with a comatose uncle, a ethereal young woman, a poetic graffiti-writing street person and more unique, carefully described characters than you usually find in a five book series! Jared's openly portrayed responses to these people and the effect they are having on his life and his concepts of himself, the universe and reality are exquisitely revealed as the reader is tenderly drawn into the same sensual experiences Jared encounters.

The characters all are drawn to Uncle Ben (Shankara) who magically captivates larger and larger groups who are lured to hear him speak about...whatever it is he is actually discussing. He weaves a spell that Jared hears surrounded by his own unpublished music. As readers, we can hear the music too because there is a CD available that plays the music and records Shankara's words while we read the words and see the music graphically. This multi-dimensional encounter moves the reader off the page and into the experience in profoundly inspiring ways.

Brilliantly and beautifully written, illustrated, composed and presented, The Blissmaker transcends any category of book and presents a totally unique and unforgettable experience.

"Everything is of your choosing, no matter how helpless you believe or have been told you are." ...The Blissmaker

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