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Why oh Why didn't I read this sooner!

Creativity and Innovation: The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook (McGraw-Hill Training Series)
Elaine Biech
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Everything you need to conduct creativity training--in a day or less Training Magazine recently reported that fully 44% of firms surveyed provide creativity training. Now you can conduct your own transformational full-day, half-day, or one-hour creativity-building workshops with Creativity and Innovation: The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook, by Elaine Biech. Packed with fully reproducible facilitator notes, training designs, participant handouts, activites, instruments, flipcharts, overheads--the works--this powerfully affordable resource gives you a total toolchest or surveying your organization's creative climate and needs, sparking fresh thinking and ideas, encouraging brainstorming and risk taking, spotting and banishing ``creativity killing'' attitudes, embracing the productive 5 Rs of creativity, and much, much more.

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Inspiring.......2001-05-16

Finding good information on ways to unleash creativity in a spiritual context is easy. Finding a way to sell creativity to businesses is another thing. I particularly liked the way the book encourages you to customize your own training program. In my business I work with a very diverse group of people and businesses which demands that my program also be diverse. I highly recommend this sourcebook.

Why oh Why didn't I read this sooner!.......2000-10-18

This book is an excellent resource for developing a creativity program. I enjoyed the structure and the examples offered by this fine text. You can rely on this book for information on other resources within the business creativity context.

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Analytical chemistry of zirconium and hafnium (Analytical chemistry of elements)
S. V Elinson
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Analytical Chemistry of Zirconium and Hafnium (Monographs in Analytical Chemistry)
Anil Kumar Mukherji
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Studies in the analytical chemistry of zirconium and hafnium: I. Determination of zirconium and/or hafnium using 1-naphthyl glycolic acid. II. Determination ... IV. Reactions of hafnium tetramandelate
Pullukat Thomas Joseph
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Cunning end

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Great Cast of Characters

Read for what it says, not how it says it

A life well lived

The Cunning Man
Robertson Davies
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The story of Dr. Jonathan Hullah who has used his high degree of cunning to the end of concealing his own true nature. In this brilliant novel, Davies reveals him to us.

"This is a wise, humane and consistently entertaining novel." -- New York Times Book Review

" The Cunning Man is one of [Robertson Davis's] most entertaining and satisfying books..." -- The Washington Post Book World

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Cunning end.......2007-02-05

Though Robertson Davies was researching another book -- the end of the unfinished "Toronto Trilogy" -- his final novel "The Cunning Man" feels like the real end of his career. While it has some typical Daviesian content (mystery, evolving characters), the whole novel feels like an elderly man's farewell to his friends and the changing world.

Father Ninian Hobbes, a sweet old High Anglican priest, dies during Good Friday mass. Dr. Jonathan Hullah is perplexed by the details, but not so perplexed that he doesn't take the time to recount his life story: a supposedly fragile child in a backward Canadian village, who encountered love, deep friendship, and the mysteries of psychological and physical medicine.

In the present, he's a successful doctor, with a lot of the drama centering on St. Aiden's Church and his two old schoolmates: scholarly Brocky, and tragically pious priest Charlie. The death of old Hobbes sets off a hysterical devotion to the old "saint," followed by a murder, the loss of old friends, and a shocking confession that changes Hullah's world.

"The Cunning Man" is actually more like two books -- one is the bildungsroman of Hullah's youth and development, and the other is more like a series of short stories about Hullah's waning years. Many pages have musings about how the world -- and Canada -- has changed, regrets, and the loss of old friends to illness and age. You can tell that Davies was near the end of his life when he wrote this.

As is usual with Davies' books, there's a wealth of historical and philosophical detail, with quirky moments like the shaman's tent and Hullah trying to diagnose fictional characters. He also tackles the question of miracles (without taking sides), the spirit of marriage, and the idea of religious devotion twisted into something else, when sins are committed in an attempt to glorify God.

But his is a less coherent book than most of Davies' works. Some of the characters -- Dwyer, the Gilmartins -- simply fade out or expire offscreen, without fanfare or even much of an explanation. And the latter half is chopped up by multiple subplots and lots of rambly letters from Hullah's landlady, which are interesting but hard to follow.

Hullah himself isn't terribly likable; he seems too enamored of himself. The interesting ones are the supporting characters -- lovable cynic Brocky and his wife Nuala (respectively friend and lover to Hullah), the lesbian landladies, Esme the journalist, Dwyer the religious gay banker, Mrs. Smoke the gruff medicine woman, and Charlie the worshipful curate whose piety is slowly perverted.

"The Cunning Man" is perhaps Davies' weakest novel as well as his last, but it's also a melancholy, introspective piece of work. Farewell, Mr. Davies.

decent book.......2007-02-01

the main character was a little too in love with himself. maybe that was the point. about 80% of the way through, i got bored and put the book away.

Great Cast of Characters.......2006-06-29

Robertson Davies' "The Cunning Man" purports to be the Diary or Case Book of a doctor--Jonathan Hullah--who moves from the wilderness of Sioux Lookout to Toronto, Canada.

But it is much more than that. It turns into what the narrator, Hullah, says he wants to avoid, a Bildungsroman or Novel of Development: in this case the development of Hullah's character, but also the development of Toronto and Canada itself, from a wild-and-wooly backwoods place to an cosmopolitan, but very quirky, society.

The cast of characters is brilliant.

Hullah himself is interesting, if a little stuffy. But Pansy Todhunter, one of "The Ladies," whose letters he quotes in full, is a wonderful offset: slangy, funny, malicious, hearfelt.

Charlie his never-quite-holy priest friend is fabulous: tormented and visionary and fanatical and sad.

Mrs. Smoke, the cranky Indian shamaness who saves the 8-year-old Jonathan by magic spells and awakens him to The Other.

Darcy Dwyer, the aesthete banker who opens him to music and the visual arts, but also ruthless inquiry and even espionage.

Lt. Commander Daubigny, the high-school teacher with a multi-national and even cannibalistic past.

Even Esme, the relentless young reporter with whom Hullah becomes, shockingly, smitten.

All are wonderful in themselves, yet emblematic of larger elements of a changing society.

Instructive, thoughtful, funny. A wonderful read.

Read for what it says, not how it says it.......2006-06-05

Pity the Amazon star system doesn't allow for fractional stars, or else I would have given this 3.5 or 3.75.

I first read The Cunning Man in my mid-20s, after reading - and greatly enjoying - both the Salterton and Cornish trilogies. It left me disappointed, but for some reason I couldn't get Charlie Iredale's fate out of head. I recently re-read the book in my late 30s, and I've adjusted my original judgement slightly. There's no doubt that the book's flawed, but it also manages to be a deeply moving meditation on the comedies and tragedies of everyday life; if approached on its own terms.

And let there be no doubt that the book is flawed. The narrative technique chops and changes, chronology moves inconsistently, major characters fade away (in the case of the older Gilmartins) or (in the case of Dwyer) die off-stage with no apparent consequence, some of the literary allusions seem a little too forced (just how many times can you use the adjectives 'Chekovian' and 'Dostoeyevskian' in one book anyway?) and few works of popular fiction - however literary - can have had a central plot (just what did happen to Fr. Hobbes, and what was Charlie Iredale's role?) that occupies so little of the book. On top of that, anyone who's read much of Davies' literary criticism will be aware of the extent to which the narrator (and Brocky Gilmartin) share the author's own perspectives on art and literature, which makes for an uncomfortable de-opaquing of the literary fourth wall.

But for all that, every time I read the book it has a profound impact on me, an impact that is arguably greater on its own terms than that of Davies' better books. If you can get past the flaws, there are some profound - and profoundly moving - truths about the human condition here. I stand by my review title: if you read it for what it says, rather than how it says it, you will be richly rewarded. And you'll probably get more out of it the older you are.

And just a closing thought.... I re-read this right after reading Anthony Burgess' Earthly Powers - a novel about an ageing bachelor of literary bent who muses back on the events of his life following an interview where he's asked about the potential sainthood of a deceased acquaintance. I'm not implying anything, but it makes for an interesting comparison.

A life well lived.......2006-02-28

The Cunning Man will never be mistaken for the finest work of Robertson Davies, and the reader new to Davies should definitely start with the Deptford Trilogy in preference to this volume. The Cunning Man's plot is paper-thin, and merely a device that Davies uses to share the wisdom that he has accumulated in a long, eventful life.

A trifle from Robertson Davies is better than the best from most writers, and a reader of this book will be rewarded with an entertaining read, an introduction to some new philosophical ideas, and a knowledge of how one man has created a life worth living. One could do worse than to adopt Davies/Hullah's version of the Perennial Philosophy that `recognizes and reflects the Divine Reality in all things' as a guide to living life.

Cunning of the Mountain Man (Mountain Man Series, 14)

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Not A Great Western
Heroic recording

Cunning of the Mountain Man (Mountain Man Series, 14)
William W. Johnstone
Manufacturer: Otis Audio
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Audio Cassette

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ASIN: 1890990639

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Not A Great Western.......2005-05-09

I picked this book up along with a Max Brand novel, the Tyrant. Now, I know I shouldn't look for much when it comes to mass paperback genre fiction. I really was just hoping for a quick read, some humor and decent writing. I got humor, if only because Johnstone creates a nutso character in Smoke Jensen. I mean, in the plot....wait, sorry. I finished it an hour ago and for the life of me, can't remember the plot. All I really remember is the showdown between Smoke and York and 4 Mexican banditos (complete with handlebar moustaches and gun belts across the chest) backing up an Englishman captured family and platearmored Pullman. Yep, fascinating. Took me three days to read, it was that bad. Sorry, only deserved 2 stars, 1 because it's a western, 1 because it's written on paper.

Heroic recording.......2002-08-09

I picked up this audio cassette and enjoyed the dramatic presentation very much. I've listened to a few books on tape but this was the first that I've heard as an audio drama. I'm looking for more now because of this tape. I'm not familiar with the Mountain Man series, but I have become a fan through this recording.

More Cunning Than Man: A Social History of Rats and Man

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A lot of this is way off base
don't miss it !!!!
Facts on Rats
Fascinating,yet repulsive...

More Cunning Than Man: A Social History of Rats and Man
Robert Hendrickson
Manufacturer: Kensington
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A lot of this is way off base.......2004-07-19

A lot of the reviews have focused on how well-researched this book is and while some of the elements are, a lot of them are obviously urban legends or horribly over-exaggerated anecdotes given by people who obviously are not aware of much about rats and are speaking only from fear or cultural stereotypes. I spent a great deal of time examining the points he made about how rats are ferocious, disease-ridden, gluttonous and tend to over-populate their environment and I couldn't help but draw a parallel with humankind and wonder if that is why humans have always held them in such horror - because they hold up a very unflattering mirror to us. Nonetheless, he tends to open up each chapter with horrifying, sensationlistic stories about rats lurking in corners preparing to jump out and eat babies or some other such nonsense whereas anyone who knows anything about rats will tell you that rats much prefer to avoid humans and will not tend to bite unless they are provoked (or you smell like food, because they are remarkably short-sighted) - and being at heart lazy animals, prefer much easier to attain meals than humans, which are much larger than they are. His hysterical listing of the diseases that rats carry is outdated; many of the diseases listed have since been determined to actually be much more frequently carried by other animals, including other rodents that humans find "cute," such as prairie dogs and squirrels (but we don't find mass extermination campaigns against them, do we?). Zoonosis from rodents, in any case, is extremely rare in industrialized countries in the modern era. Overall I was very disappointed in this book - I was hoping for some cold, hard facts and instead I got all the same sort of hysteria and sensationalism I could get reading the Star. The only reason I gave it 3 stars was because there were a few interesting facts in there, and the bibliography is most useful. If you are actually interested in learning about rats, I suggest you look elsewhere.

don't miss it !!!!.......2001-11-14

While I would have like to have seen a slightly more sympathetic view of rodentia, this book is jam-packed with incredible facts and very intriguing, well-researched and well-written.

Facts on Rats.......2000-03-30

I had read an earlier edition of this book and thought the book needed updated. When I bought the recent edition and read it, I was disappointed. The facts are there, but as previously noted, there are no citations.

I grow weary of the same old 19th century drawings of rats that appear in this and most other books dealing with rats. I guess real photos just don't look menacing enough. Rats get lots of bad press. These old illustrations just add to it. The book is history, however and these are presented as such. If a book is about rats, all I ask for are illustration that look like rats.

The book is a good read. Packed with information, humor and insite, it has a lot to say. The title is very appropriate. With an animal that is as cunning, diverse and adaptable as the Rat, genetic engineering needs to appoach with a bit of caution.

Fascinating,yet repulsive..........2000-01-07

The most inclusive book on this rodent I've ever read.It includes the origin and natural history of the rat,rat behaviour,mans' attempts to eradicate them,rats' links to disease,rat folklore,rats in art and literature,rats in the lab,rats as pets,rat attacks, even recipes for cooked rats(:-P).Don't think I'll be trying any of those.The book has many facts about rats I've seen nowhere else,including this : scientists were able to impregnate a female mus musculus with the semen of a Norway Rat.Attempts to cross rattus norvegicus with rattus rattus have failed. That means that the common house mouse is basically a tiny rat...or that the norway rat is a huge mouse,however you want to look at it.

Of course,all this information in a book of less than 300 pages means the book reads like some rivers out west...a mile wide and only 6 inches deep.Furthermore,Mr. Hendrickson uses neither endnotes or footnotes,so if the reader wants to verify the info by consulting the original sources,s/he is SOL.This is most irritating when one is reading the horrific attacks of rats 'swarming'human victims and eating them alive.Behaviour that unusual in an animal that prefers to avoid people begs for better verification,rats being one of the animals that inspires Urban Legends.(At least one story RH repeats was identified as such by Jan Harold Brunvand;the one where two people check into a hotel room,one leaves,when she returns,the second person has vanished,and no one remembers her ...)The author does include an index and a bibliography.And while I do understand that most people would read this book for the horrific elements, I wish the role of the rat as pet had been covered better.Any rat person will tell you that a rat is friendlier than a cat,smarter than a dog,more trainable than a guinea pig or hamster,and cleaner than any of these other animal companions.For that matter,wild norway rats have been tamed and trained by any number of convicts and POWS and other,lonely people forsaken by their human brethren.

I gave this book 4 stars out of 5 because I reserve 5 stars for one-in-a-million masterpieces.I took off 1/2 a star for the lack of documentation...use endnotes or footnotes, PLEASE!

WARNING:THIS BOOK SHOULD NOT BE PURCHASED BY A PROSPECTIVE RAT OWNER,WITH THE IDEA THAT IF A RECALCITRANT PARENT/SPOUSE/SO READS IT,THEY'LL BECOME ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT GETTING A RAT! :-)

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The Cunning Man
Celia Rees
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Binding: Paperback

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Cunning/Power of the Mountain Man
William W. Johnstone
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The Cunning Man
Robertson Davies
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The Cunning Man
Robertson Davies
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Cunning Man
Robertson Davies
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Marjorie O'Hara
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The Cunning Man: Taken from the Devin Du Village of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era,)

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The Cunning Man: Taken from the Devin Du Village of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Recent Researches in the Music of the Classical Era,)
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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