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Title: Implementing Kaizen. (Checklist 142).(Japanese quality management concept)
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Japan has been, and will likely remain, the second largest economy in the world. In the four decades following the Second World War, it dazzled the world, its enviable social indicators, unprecedented fast and sustained with economic growth, process innovations, high productivity and high quality of manufactured product. In the nineties, the growth slowed down to a crawl, and a recession and deflation now threaten it. Could we foretell these historic ups and downs on the basis of financial reports of Japan's great corporations? The 14 chapters of the book take a sweeping view of accounting, covering methods, data, theories, and comparisons. Institutionalism has been a major force in accounting thinking in the United States as well as Japan. The influence of Marxian theory on Japanese accounting and social science thinking remains vastly underappreciated in the United States. A direct comparison of Japanese and U.S. factor markets, and Korean and German accounting practices also reveals important differences. It is crucial for anyone interested in international investments, trade, and economics to understand Japanese financial reporting practices and how they differ from the United States practices . While a few comparative works on Japan and U.S. financial reporting are available, they rarely give the reader an in-depth understanding of the similarities and differences between the United States and Japan. In this volume, a Japanese and U.S. editor have collaborated to bring an understanding of Japanese accounting practices, perspectives, and their implications to the English speaking audience.

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For over a quarter of a century, gamma-ray bursts were the outstanding mystery in astronomy. No one knew where they were or how they worked. The Biggest Bangs tells how the mystery was unraveled, from the discovery of gamma-ray bursts by a Cold War satellite system monitoring the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty to the localization of bursts in distant galaxies and the observation of surprisingly bright flashes of light from the bursts themselves. The Biggest Bangs is for laymen with an interest in science, physicists and astronomers interested in subjects in those fields not their specialty, students in non-technical astonomy courses, and as supplemental reading for courses in the history of science.

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An educational and insightful peek into the research on Gamma-Ray Bursts .......2007-08-20

In this book, Dr. Katz (a professor of Physics) takes the reader on an educational and insightful trip into the history of research on the phenomena of Gamma-Ray Bursts ... bursts of highly energetic photons with energies far in excess of standard X-Rays - sometimes hundreds (even thousands) of times more powerful.

The journey of discovery goes all the way back to the early days of the Cold War, and fledgeling attempts to monitor international compliance to the nuclear test ban treaty ... and from there into the early days of the space program ... and on into the days of the Hubble Space Telescopes, the BATSE/GRO (Gamma Ray Observatory), HETE-2 (High-Energy Transient Explorer), and on into attempts to scatter GROs far and wide throughout the solar system, in order to use triangulation and parallax to pinpoint the location and distance of such bursts ... with the holy grail being to someday localize such a burst quickly enough to focus a telescope on the origin, and settle the ongoing (and heated) debates concerning the nature (and distance) of their origin.

The author does an excellent job of taking the reader along on a thrilling ride of discovery - not just of the phenomena at hand, but also on a lifecycle of the scientific method itself ... from the early stages of gamma burst detection, through early theoretical explanations, through increasingly complex experiments attempting better measurements, through setbacks of funding and accidents during and after launch, to revised theories and debates in response, to still more ambitious experiments by forward thinking and innovative minds ... and finally onward to the holy grail itself - timely photos of the afterglow of a super burst, and the long sought-after confirmation of the origin and nature of such bursts - a holy grail that, in this case, is found and described by the author in his closing chapter

The book is recommended, albeit with one minor stylistic nit ... the author has this inexplicable aversion to using superlatives when he writes about his subject. This causes him, at times, to project an overly-cool detachment, when describing mind-bogglingly powerful phenomena (on the order to 10**54 ergs) ... it left me feeling half-crazed at times, wishing I could shake him.

Anyway, if you like populist {astro}physicists-turned-authors like Brian Greene, you'll like Dr. Katz, and this book as well.

Whiny.......2006-08-28

I have to agree with a previous review, this book is so whiny of the lack of research in gamma-ray bursts that I forgot I was reading a science book.

Gamma-ray bursts!.......2004-12-03

Gamma-ray bursters were first detected in 1967, by satellites designed to verify complaince with rules against testing of nuclear weapons. This book traces the history of figuring out what produced the gamma-ray bursts and tells what we know about them.

The first question was: were they near us or far from us? That got answered more than ten years ago: they're far away. Besides the gamma-ray bursters, there were other objects, "soft gamma repeaters." We learn how all these phenomena started to become associated with faraway neutron stars. The soft gamma repeaters were interpreted either as a release of magnetic energy by the neutron star or as the sudden accretion of matter by the neutron star. And the gamma-ray bursters were interpreted as the, um, collision of binary neutron stars. Actually, I think there is good evidence for some gamma-ray bursters being collapsars rather than merging binary neutron stars, and I wish there had been a better discussion of all this. In addition, I would have liked to see more about the difference between the shorter and longer gamma-ray bursts.

In any case, we're led to a couple of obvious questions: just how big are these bursts? And how much damage would one do if it occurred in our galaxy? Well, they can dish out up to 10 to the 52 ergs per second. And they do that for about a minute. For reference, our Sun puts out about 4 times 10 to the 33 ergs per second. So for a minute, the gamma-ray burster is more than 10 to the 18 times as luminous as the Sun. Over a hundred thousand times as luminous as the entire Milky Way galaxy! That's scary. If a star 5 light years from us were to become a gamma-ray burster, the blast would hit us like an atom bomb going off less than 10 feet away. We'd be vaporized.

Still, gamma-ray bursters are rather infrequent. We might do better if the burster were, say, 500 light years away. Still, that would pretty much set half the planet on fire, not a very pleasant prospect.

Supernovae are about 10,000 times more frequent than gamma-ray bursters. But Katz explains that gamma-ray bursters may be more dangerous to us than supernovae. After all, we might well survive a supernova blast at a distance of 20 light years.

The good news the author gives us is that we might be able to predict when a gamma-ray burst would occur. He speculates that we might even know the time to the minute (assuming the merging binary neutron star theory is correct and we can make use of it), and know it years in advance. If that burst were a thousand light years away, what would we do? Most of us would get to the side of the Earth away from the blast, and that would protect us. And a few brave firemen would water down half the planet and hide out underground, and then try to put out all the fires! I've no idea what we'd do about all the induced radioactivity. Sounds like a marvellous science fiction story.

Anyway, I liked the book. I don't know why there isn't more popular interest in these fascinating gamma-ray bursts.

Written too Soon?.......2003-05-13

In the late 1960s the U.S. military discovered gamma-ray bursts: intense bursts of radiation coming from random points in the sky. Over the next thirty years these bursts remained one of the most mysterious astrophysical phenomena. Very little was known about them. This changed in 1997 when Paul Vreeswijk discovered an optical flash at the location of one gamma-ray burst. This discovery made it possible to determine that gamma-ray bursts are at cosmological distances and involve energies that are usually only seen in exploding stars. Jonathan Katz gives the history of gamma-ray bursts and provides a clear explaination of how astronomers have come to understand what they are and how they work. Unfortunately most of the book is devoted to what happened before 1997. Only four of the seventeen chapters cover the time after the discovery of the optical flashes. This is unfortunate because it has been since 1997 that science has been able to understand gamma-ray bursts. The book would have been much better if it had treated the two eras equally instead of concentrating on the early history of the field. The book also suffers from a slighly biased view of who contributed what to our understanding of gamma-ray bursts. The field is competetive, and rival researchers often refuse to give credit where credit is due. It is unfortunate that Katz chooses to continue this trend in a popular work. Gamma-ray bursts are a hot topic in astronomy, and the story of their discovery is worth telling. However, "The Biggest Bangs" is not that story.

Science is Done by People.......2002-10-02

The Biggest Bangs is really two books in one. The first book is an entertaining popular account of astronomical gamma-ray bursts. It tells how they were accidentally discovered (by satellites launched to monitor the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty), how (through the development of better instruments) we gradually learned more about them, how the right ideas were sifted from the wrong ideas (there were plenty of wrong ideas), and how astronomers finally arrived at their present understanding. The picture is still rather cloudy, so there are likely many surprises yet to come. This is straightforward popular science writing, uncontroversial and rather well done.

The second book hiding inside The Biggest Bangs is an account of the human side of science, warts and all. This is reminiscent of The Double Helix (although Katz is only one of many contributors to understanding gamma-ray bursts, and his own name doesn't even appear in his index, in contrast to The Double Helix, in which Watson was the biggest player as well as the author). In both books the human side is often ugly. Good ideas are rejected for funding, scientists can be real backstabbers (they're human beings with the usual share of jealousy and more than the usual share of ambition), and credit doesn't always go to the most deserving (the Soviet contributors seem to have received particularly short shrift). NASA comes in for severe criticism (well-deserved, according to most scientists who have dealt with that agency). NASA apparatchiks and people who believe that science is a never-never land populated by goody-goodies above mere human failings have not been pleased.

This second book within The Biggest Bangs is really a book about the history and sociology of science, using gamma-ray bursts as a source of illustrations. It occupies only a small fraction of the text, a paragraph or a page here and there. Yet it may the most interesting part, especially for readers who don't begin with a great interest in astronomy. If the people who run science read it and pay attention it might do some good. Science could be more efficient and productive, if it were run a little differently.

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Really outstanding book with one major flaw.......2004-02-15

This is an outstanding recapitulation of who we are and how we got that way written by a wise and learned man. William Burger, who is Curator Emeritus at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, begins with our sun and its place in the universe and ends with reflections on human beings and how rare we might be. Along the way he demonstrates that he is well-grounded in a variety of disciplines, including most especially evolutionary biology. I found his insights into the discoveries of science most interesting and edifying. I especially liked his clear prose and forthright statements shorn of humbug and euphemism.

Strange to say, however, I am not in agreement with the spirit of his central thesis. While it is true that we human beings are unique in the most technical sense of the term, just as every fingerprint is unique, it is questionable whether the essence of who and what we are as intelligent beings is unique in this unimaginably vast universe. Indeed, I am amazed that Burger, who is so objective about our savage tenancies as well as our incredible ability to manipulate our environment to our perceived advantage, can be so, shall we say, myopic in his inability to see the possibilities in the wider scheme of things.

Near the end of the book he recalls the famous Drake Equation, and as others have done, examines each of the factors and comes to the conclusion that it may very well be that we are the only intelligence species extant in the galaxy.

I have pointed out the fallacies inherent in such an endeavor elsewhere, but let me note here that at least 90% of the matter in the universe is still a complete mystery to us. While it is technically feasible to say that intelligent life as we know it; that is, carbon-based life dependent upon liquid water, etc, may very well be rare in our galaxy, it is a mistake to suppose that any convincing argument against the existence of intelligence life itself has been made.

There is also a peculiar fallacy in the argument (sustained throughout the book) that there is something marvelous or probabilistically rare in the unique series of events that have characterized the odyssey (as Burger calls it) of our planet's "perfect" history, leading to our rise. This argument can be seen as a sidebar to the "anthropic cosmological principle," which I like to call the "anthropic cosmological fallacy," in the sense that we are here only because of a miraculous series of events, when in fact we are here precisely because of those events. The fallacy can be seen in being dealt the following hand at poker: the nine of hearts, the five of clubs, the king spades, the eight of spades, and the trey of diamonds. This is quite an amazing hand. The odds against it being dealt are 2,598,959 to 1! (same as the odds against being dealt a royal flush in, say, diamonds). It is only our perspective that makes the one hand seem commonplace and the other miraculous.

Burger writes, "However unlikely our odyssey, the incontrovertible fact is that our planet, our solar system, and our star are ideally configured for the development of intelligent life..." (p. 290)

This is not only ex-post facto reasoning, it is misleading since beings living near (or even on, for all we know) a brown dwarf may make a similar observation, citing the congenial warmth of their star and the lack of "visible" radiation as part of the unique factors that make their life possible. They might even point to how "lucky" they are at being particularly good at sensing the surfaces of things, a talent that would not have developed in a "sighted" world, a talent that has allowed an intelligence of a particularly high order to evolve.

Earlier in the book, Burger argues convincingly that it was the stresses and demands of inter-group war (a biological arms race within our species) that promoted the rapid grown of our brains. This is a fine insight. However on page 280 Burger writes that without our stabilizing moon, "a badly wobbling planet...[would] put huge stresses on terrestrial vegetation and the animals it supports." His conclusion is that without the "accident" of our precisely perfect moon, intelligent life is unlikely to have evolved. But, to recall his own reasoning, is it not possible that the "stresses" of a "wobbling planet" could lead to compensations by life forms, perhaps even serving as a factor in the growth of intelligence?

Burger concedes that bacterial life may be common in the universe and that there may even be life under the surface of frozen worlds, as on Jupiter's moon, Europa. However he writes that "Such an environment...won't give rise to complex life-forms that are hungry for energy." He adds, as though in explanation, that "there's not a lot of energy available." (p. 277) But, it is hard to see how such an explanation explains anything. When there is a scarcity, perhaps it is the other way around: creatures then become even cleverer at finding what they need.

I wish I had more space to talk about the rest of this excellent book and to point to the many fine observations made by Burger and to celebrate the 99% of his book which is wonderful and a delight to read. I have cited his idea that war is what has swelled our brains (see p. 211). That argument alone is worth the price of the book, but there are many others, including a devastating critique of the possibility of interstellar travel to colonize the galaxy beginning on page 272. I also liked the many sharp and candid statements that sparkle the text. Here's one to think about:

"Killing members of our own group is murder, but killing members of other groups is the fastest way for a male to gain social prestige." (p. 215)

Wonderful Survey, Dubious Conclusion.......2003-07-18

This book may provide the most balanced and readable non-technical overview in print of how life and intelligence developed on the Earth. Burger covers an amazingly wide variety of scientific issues, ranging from the probability of planetary systems around other stars to the evolution of our basic technologies. Unfortunately, Burger's balanced presentation falls apart in the last chapter when he turns to his primary purpose, which is to discredit the idea that intelligent life and technological civilizations may exist elsewhere. Suddenly we find ourselves reading opinions based on unproven assumptions, personal beliefs, and politically correct ideology. Burger introduces values into the Drake equation that are as arbitrary as those used by scientists who are optimistic about the existence of other civilizations. He tells us that finding another planet as good as ours is "close to impossible," a truly odd statement given the recent successes in finding other planetary systems. Interstellar travel is described as a "near-impossibility," though no law of physics or engineering makes it so.

Burger argues that, since our own evolutionary path is extremely unlikely to be repeated because of unique circumstances and chance developments, intelligence is unlikely to evolve elsewhere. He fails to consider the possibility that there may be many other possible evolutionary paths in other environments, also driven by both chance and necessity, that could lead to intelligences very different from our own. Physical and cultural evolutions elsewhere do not have to duplicate ours to produce intelligence and civilization.

Burger shows his cultural pessimism when he writes that "the present drama unfolding on planet Earth makes it seem highly likely that energy-guzzling technological societies have a short life span," clearly an unproven assumption. He repeats this conclusion on the last page when he writes that "it seems highly likely that creatures with higher cognitive intelligence...come into being from time to time, then quickly fade away." How can he possibly draw such a conclusion from one example? This is opinion, not science.

Since Copernicus, scientists have discredited the assumption of human centrality again and again. Yet many biologists still seem to cling to anthropocentrism. The history of science suggests that, in the long run, they are riding for a fall.

A renaissance scholarýs take on the totality of biology.......2003-05-08

The hackneyed term "interdisciplinary science" is often bandied about in academia (mostly by clueless administrators), so it is a real pleasure when a true interdisciplinary work appears. Botanist William C. Burger's new book "Perfect Planet, Clever Species" is one of those rare exceptions: a thought-provoking synthesis of biology, geology, astronomy, history, and sociology.

It is a truly interdisciplinary look at nothing less than life on earth: How it began, how it diversified, and the chances for "life" originating again anywhere at all in the universe. Further, Burger looks at the scale of earth's biological complexity, and the road that one species, humans, have taken to attain their present complex technological society.

What impressed me most about the book is Burger's interest in the "backstory" of life - its astronomical context. In my experience most of my fellow biologists are unfortunately "astrophobic" and shrink from any consideration of how extraterrestrial events (such as gamma ray bursts, Jupiter, the moon, or the sun's galactic orbit) may have influenced evolution and indeed made us possible. In this regard, "Perfect Planet, Clever Species" is a useful companion volume stressing the biological side of the "Rare Earth" hypothesis of astronomers Ward and Brownlee.

Highly recommended; the distillation of a lifetime's worth of research, reading, and thought by a renaissance scholar.

Are we alone? Is SETI searching for the thing that is not?.......2003-04-19

Stephen Jay Gould argued for the certainty of life evolving on every earthlike planet in the universe. But according to William Burger, there may be no earthlike planets. To qualify as earthlike, a planet must not only fall within a reasonable approximation of earth's composition, mass, gravity and spin. It must also be located in what astronomers have dubbed the "Goldilocks orbit." And for a star to have a life-supporting planet, it must not be part of a binary system, it must be located inside the comparatively radiation-free "donut" between the galaxy center and its halo and sufficiently far from galactic dust zones, and it must contain more heavy elements than eighty percent of otherwise sun-like mainstream stars.
Add to all of that the stabilizing effect of an enormous moon, created by statistically improbable circumstances, that at the time of its formation increased earth's spin rate, thereby blowing away a suffocating atmosphere such as still exists on Venus, as well as increasing earth's magnetosphere to a level where it prevents the solar wind from stripping away the ozone layer. Later, by tidal effects, the presence of the moon reduced the spin rate to a level that reduces temperature variations to life-supporting limits. Those combined circumstances are sufficiently rare that Burger suggests there may be no other star system that meets all necessary specifications anywhere in this galaxy.
Many of the other factors Burger cites as necessary accidents in earth's evolution as a life-bearing planet, such as constant bombardment from water-laden comets at precisely the right historical moment, cannot be rare in galactic terms. But for all such beneficial accidents to happen to the same planet was indeed a low-probability coincidence.
I find Burger's argument, that life on earth is a consequence of so many fortuitous random accidents that it is not reasonable to postulate similar coincidences occurring on millions, or even thousands, of other planets in our galaxy, convincing. But that, in a galaxy of a quarter-trillion stars, that which DID happen once is unlikely to happen twice, I do not buy. Only dogmatists interpret low-probability events as indicative of intelligent design. I suggest that uniqueness is an equally unnecessary conclusion.
But disagreeing with Burger's ultimate hypothesis does not blind me to the logic of his arguments and the skill with which he presents his case. This may be the most complete, accurate and comprehensible account of humankind and his world, from the formation of the sun to the evolution of Homo sapiens, ever compiled.

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Attitude Adjustment.......2002-03-20

Tilman Spengler discourse on how his chronic lower back pain, a demon that appears one Monday morning as his "new Lord" to torment him despite his best efforts to gain respite and relief, is not a self-help book, unless you consider laughing at the 24 brilliantly illuminated anecdotes---one for each vertebra---the path to curing back pain. Rather Spengler grasps the tiger by the tail, so to speak, revealing the myriad therapies he sought, often in vain, to quell his sometimes nearly crippling back pain. He interweaves these experiences with biting, funny depictions of how this new Lord rules his life, affecting his work, recreation, family, and love life.

Spengler eschews self-pity for irony and insight, and when he finally hits upon a "therapy" in---of all places, a Texas honky-tonk---that helps his low back pain, his nearly deadpan delivery of the culture clash he experiences will have you howling with laughter.

Tapping into vignettes that offer insights history, art, medicine, philosophy, politics, language, and whatever else he targets in his laser beam of dense, moving prose, Spengler informs and entertains.

I would offer a tip of the hat to his excellent translator, Philip Boehm, who rendered this English version, all the while remaining transparent and detached, as a true translator should.

Well.......2000-07-07

Tlman Spengler has an ironic way of writing, wich is sometimes very funny to read, but he has also a very arrogant way of writting which I didn't like. I think the book is too "arrogant written". So,in fact, I didn't like the book.

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