Rad Decision: A Novel of Nuclear Power

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Enjoy a techno-thriller and learn

Gripping, educational and thougth provoking thriller

Rad Decision: A Novel of Nuclear Power
James, Aach
Manufacturer: Impressive Imprint
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ASIN: 0615136575

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Rad Decision is a technothriller about a looming crisis at an American nuclear power plant, written by an engineer with over twenty years of experience in the US nuclear industry. Within a tale of espionage and disaster, the people, politics and technology of nuclear energy come to life.

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Enjoy a techno-thriller and learn.......2007-05-01

Rad Decision is a great book for techno-thriller fans and also for those of us who enjoy learning as we read. The story is an entertaining spy story about a Russian mole who has been in place in the USA for about ten years. He trained to be an operator in a nuclear power plant and has worked in a power plant for most of his time in the USA. In the story he is activated and told to destroy the plant he is working in. The book goes into detail on how he devises a plan and finally destroyes the Nuclear Reactor.

This is highly technical material for the lay reader and so the author builds up to this by describing in fascinating detail and an entertaining teaching style with diagrams and charts how a nuclear reactor works.

I hope that Jim Aach's will publish another work.

Gripping, educational and thougth provoking thriller.......2007-01-24

Very impressive and kept me up much later at night than I planned. Once you get hooked you really want to find out what happens. The storyline keeps you engaged and you learn a lot along the way.

I liked learning the technical details and the amount presented was easliy understandable and sufficient for me. The axiom for an author to write about what he knows well has been followed in the technical field and setting of the story.

I learned from the main plot and case study comments something that I have been applying at work. In most disaster scenarios, it is not an initial catastrophic event that predetermines the outcome but rather how the people involved react - whether they make hasty, poor decisions for a "quick fix" or calmly think and follow prethought out solutions or find innovative new solutions after examining and weighing all the information. You will have to read the book to the end to find out what happens!!

Please don't be insulted but it would make an excellent movie.

As to the underlying theme, the whole world's appetite for power is growing incredibly and it will be difficult to imagine everyone on earth is going to be able to live like Americans have in the past. I am currently living in Taiwan (a long way from my birthplace in the real South Bend, IN) which uses nuclear power and can see across the strait that China's energy "needs" are going to take a lot of resources and increased risk to the environment no matter how that power is generated.

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Family secrets
We Know These People
British Sensibilities
This thoughtful family saga evokes a climate for change.

A Change of Climate: A Novel
Hilary Mantel
Manufacturer: Picador
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ASIN: 0312422881

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Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and thirty years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were.

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Great British Author.......2005-08-09

I didn't discover Hilary Mantel until two weeks ago when I read a July 2005 New Yorker magazine (I don't remember the week). All I can say is that I thought I was well read, but now I wonder. No, I AM well read! So how have I missed this great author? And why, I demand to know, hasn't she won a Booker Prize?

Anyway, in the two weeks since my discovery, I have read "A Change of Climate" and "Fludd". I now have before me "A Place of Greater Safety" which I hungrily look forward to. In fact, I plan to read all of her books. I even considered becoming one of those nuts who dedicates a web page to his or her favorite author. I won't, however, but not because Mantel is unworthy of such adulation, but because, well, I am not a nut.

Finally, please allow me do the reader of "A Change of Climate" a great favor: do not read the back cover, as it tells way too much of the story. Instead, trust Mantel to tell you the story. You won't be disappointed. Great writing and great story.

Family secrets.......2004-11-21

Instinctively, people know that when a pain is too great to be endured, it is appropriate to wait until it can be more rationally confronted. But there is always the danger of pushing the pain so far away that it becomes inaccessible, if never, ever forgotten. "To some people great grief is an indecency...They blame the bereaved."

After a stunning tragedy in Africa, where Ralph and Anna Eldred have gone as missionaries, they return home, cautioning their family never to speak of the horror they have endured. It is relegated to the past, where it will stay. The Eldred's are compliant people, particularly Ralph, a man of good intentions who works for the family charitable trust, providing necessities, such as food, clothing and shelter for those less fortunate. But for their brief years in Africa and the trauma they suffer on the Dark Continent, the Eldred's personify the spirit of missionary life.

Once again residing in England providing for the downtrodden, Anna and Ralph live out a self-effacing routine. As a Christian, Ralph believes in service, so compassionate that he cannot turn away from those in need. Covertly, Ralph is concerned that people will mistake him for a man who loves mankind in general, but not persons in particular. However, this is exactly how he is perceived, soldiering on for over twenty years after the tragedy, burying himself in the trivia of everyday obligations. His endless pursuit of virtue in hopes of atonement can never be realized.

Meanwhile, Anna suffers grievously for Ralph's neglect, enduring a constant ache, her own survival defined by the ever-present needs of her four children. Anna has paid a terrible price for her silence all these years. Ralph grows more distant and preoccupied, Anna more edgy and neither expects the emotional eruption when Ralph falls into a romantic entanglement with a local woman.

Mantel is gifted writer, dissecting her character's motivations with elegant precision, especially their great missionary hubris, the vagrant self-congratulatory thoughts that creep into even the most well-meant acts, as the couple seeks to bury the past under the weight of the present. Layer upon layer, the author builds a structure that appears sturdy but ultimately collapses under the weight of grief and silence. Whether the couple recovers will be determined by their spiritual strengths and human weaknesses, the delicate balance between expectations and reality. Luan Gaines/2004.

We Know These People.......2003-03-31

This is the first novel of Hilary Mantel that I've read, and I'm eager to read more. Her style is her strength: she is a keen observer of human character, human fraility, human environments, and she describes the environment, emotions and atmospheres with a crystal clarity. For example, her paragraph about the end of a semester caused me to relive those times: "only dogged by that usual feeling of anticlimax the end of exams brings. After this, you think, after my papers are over, I will do, and I will do ... and then you don't. You are a shell, enclosing outworn effort. You expect a sense of freedom, and yet you feel trapped in the same old body, the same drab routines; you expect exhilaration, and you only feel a kind of habitual dullness, a letdown, a perverse longing for the days when you read and made notes and sat up all night."

Mantel's characters are muddlers. They muddle through life with good intentions, but feel displaced and unsatisfied. Yet you care for them, and say to yourself, "I know these people!" There are many robust characters [Ralph and Anna, missionaries in Africa; their children, searching for their place in the world; Ralph's sister Emma] and threads interwoven through the basic story. The main characters are Ralph and Anna, missionaries who go to Africa to "do good". Evil events there haunt their lives when they return to England.

The novel is written as an "entertaining read", in a page-turning style -- you are interested in the characters and events. Yet it is a substantial work, addressing important themes: good versus evil, do our choices make a difference, the cost of cultural misunderrstandings, the loss of faith, how any sense of security is an illusion. While entertaining, Mantel is not afraid of the artist's obligation to tell us unpalatable truths about ourselves.

My one complaint is that the ending was too predictable; I felt that the novel was "wrapped up", rather than allowed to find its own ending.

British Sensibilities.......2001-07-10

Save your money. Or, if you need to spend it, buy plain yogurt -- you will find the bland white stuff much more exciting than this novel. If you do buy this book, you will wade through pages and pages waiting for the story to get started and then you will not care about a single character you meet. In the course of the book, there are love affairs, savage beatings, and a kidnapping or two, and all these incidents unfold without an ounce of passion, desire, or emotion. Anna, the long suffering wife, is so strangled that she can't bring herself to demand a new washing machine. She and her obtuse husband never talk to each other or to their children. And we are supposed to care about the marriage of these two? Buy yogurt.

This thoughtful family saga evokes a climate for change........2000-07-12

When asked, rhetorically, by his sister, "Whatever happened to the dinosaurs?", Ralph, the main character responds, "Their habitat altered...A change of climate." In his rebellion against his parents, their closed, religiously fundamentalist point of view, and his father's financial blackmailing regarding his career choices, Ralph intentionally changes his physical habitat and his climate by escaping to South Africa with his bride.

Working as a lay person at a mission and vigorously opposing apartheid, Ralph and Anna eventually are imprisoned, then banished to Bechuanaland, now Botswana. It is here that the savagery which creates a permanent and terrible climate in their marriage occurs, a savagery not limited to one race as Ralph and Anna had perceived in South Africa.

As the story bounces from the present in England back twenty years to Africa, the reader lives through the vivid and terrible African experiences and simultaneously sees how they have permeated the lives of these good, but often naïve, people. Both Ralph and Anna have rejected the traditional religion of their parents in favor of doing good deeds in their family lives and through a social service trust. But as Ralph's uncle James points out, "There is nothing so appallingly hard...as the business of being human."

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A book of humorous and thought provoking cartoons tackling the major environmental issues affecting the twenty-first century.

Cultural Climate and Linguistic Style: Change in English Fictional Prose from the Late Victorian to the Early Modern Period

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Cultural Climate and Linguistic Style: Change in English Fictional Prose from the Late Victorian to the Early Modern Period
Gillian Cawthra
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The Owl and the Oak: The Climate Change Novel

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Catchy Title

The Owl and the Oak: The Climate Change Novel
Robert Emmett Morris
Manufacturer: PublishAmerica
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ASIN: 1424167094
Release Date: 2007-03-26

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America is unprepared for the coming fury of hurricanes, drought and flood intensified by global warming. Aaron Woods, the graying single father of a troubled pre-teen adopted son, is determined to directly confront the responsible industries by organizing a boycott of SPECO, the largest of the oil giants. The new executive director of the Natural America Club, Tony Albritton, seizes on Aaron's idea to push himself and NAC to national prominence. Tony's energetic assistant, Wendy Sparks, develops a campaign that quickly becomes the seed for a growing movement. The confrontation of idealistic activists, cynical Washington power brokers and ruthless agents of SPECO sucks them all into a deadly vortex of anger and emotion. Passion flares as lives intertwine in a heated conflict of competing values. Strengths, weaknesses, longings and fears are bared as the pages race to a climax that tests the limits of commitment and will leave you breathless.

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A real page turner!.......2007-09-30

Having the good fortune to know the author, this book is not only a page turning read, it reflects the author's humanity, his deep commitment to the environment and his experiences as a grassroots activist, albeit in a fictionalized account. For all of us concerned with global warming, this "climate change novel" is an exciting read that leaves you inspired at the end.

Catchy Title.......2007-06-27

The catchy title gives just hint of the thread of this book. Expecting to read a climate change parable, instead I found a captivating, fast moving novel about a plausible scenario in the climate change saga. This is a mainstream novel with all the necessary aspects to make it a compelling read. And you'll learn about the back room drama of an "imaginary" advocacy organization. The author clearly has a good understanding of how things work in this arena.

A novel modelling approach for evaluating the preindustrial natural carrying capacity of human population in Iceland [An article from: Science of the Total Environment, The]

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A novel modelling approach for evaluating the preindustrial natural carrying capacity of human population in Iceland [An article from: Science of the Total Environment, The]
H.V. Haraldsson , and R. Olafsdottir
Manufacturer: Elsevier
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000PC06I4

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This digital document is a journal article from Science of the Total Environment, The, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The pre-industrial natural carrying capacity is believed to have limited the human population in Iceland to a maximum of fifty to sixty thousand inhabitants. Since AD 1800 the Icelandic population has gradually grown up to nearly 300 thousand in 2005. In this paper a simple approach is used to evaluate the potential population size that the pre-industrial Icelandic environment could possibly sustain. A dynamic model was constructed that simulates the population size according to potential biological production available for livestock. Biological production was determined by the extent of the total potential vegetation cover based on the Degree-Day concept. Fluctuations in the mean annual temperature causes changes in the potential vegetation cover and as a consequence change the biological production sustaining livestock and ultimately human population. The simulation's results indicate that the potential population that the Icelandic environments could sustain during the pre-industrial period fluctuated between 40 and 80 thousand. The results further indicate that the severe land degradation experienced after the Viking settlement period in AD 900 had a marginal impact on the population size. The pre-historical population did however overshoot the natural sustainability on several occasions.

The zero-emission certificates: A novel CO"2-pollution reduction instrument applied to the electricity market [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]

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The zero-emission certificates: A novel CO"2-pollution reduction instrument applied to the electricity market [An article from: European Journal of Operational Research]
P.L. Kunsch , J. Springael , and J.P. Brans
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RR0WWW

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This digital document is a journal article from European Journal of Operational Research, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Today several instruments exist to decrease air pollution. The paper discusses pollution taxes, emission trading permits and green certificates applied to reduce the CO"2-emissions in the electricity sector. It then investigates how the different mechanisms behind these three instruments can possibly be combined. The proposed approach is to introduce the concept of zero-emission certificates (ZEC). ZEC are confirming actual emission reductions achieved by electricity producers as compared to a well-defined baseline. Producers can trade ZEC on a market to achieve least-cost efficiency in their reduction efforts. Distributors can themselves produce an additional contribution to emission-reductions by decreasing the final demand, i.e., by producing zero-emission MWh. In this way the electricity market is approached from both the supply and the demand sides. The paper uses system dynamics to validate the approach. It shows why it is in the interest of all operators to make the largest possible reduction efforts as long as they are compatible with economic efficiency.

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The glorious romance from the acclaimed author of The Bride Finder

"[An] enchanting love story . . . A real treasure."

--Affaire de Coeur

Beloved author Susan Carroll took the romance world by storm with her
captivating novel The Bride Finder, a spellbinding tale of magic, romance,
and legend that earned sensational praise from nationally bestselling
authors, booksellers, and fans everywhere. Now, in the classic love story
Winterbourne, Carroll's exquisite prose and breathless storytelling gift
come to life once more--in an irresistible, utterly gripping epic of
passion and defiance. . . .

In the harsh, turbulent Middle Ages, lovely Lady Melyssan remains as she
always has been--sweet, timid, and content to be alone. But in a desperate
move to resist the advances of the dreaded king, she claims to be married
to his worst enemy, Lord Jaufre de Macy, the legendary Dark Knight.

Seeking temporary shelter in Jaufre's abandoned castle, Winterbourne, she
is unprepared for the fierce, angry warrior who returns to confront her.
He is a man as rough and unforgiving as the Welsh border lands he
rules--and she is as gentle and innocent as a new day. But neither
Jaufre's dark heart nor Melyssan's innocent one can resist the love that is
their destiny--nor protect them from the danger drawing ever closer. . .
.

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Well-written, but..........2007-01-28

I was somewhat torn about how to rate this book. It was a very well-written and intelligent novel. It leapt right into the action, which was a good thing and it took a long time to read, because there was so much that went on. The plot stretched on for years. It was thoroughly researched and planted the characters right in the middle of King John's tyranny, which is always an interesting time period.

The real problem came with the romance and the hero. The characters basically have a great week of love and then years of torment, where there are large amounts of time that they are apart. This is actually pretty typical of medieval romances, so the author kind of stays true to that. The hero, Jaufre, was too mean and cynical for my taste. Don't get me wrong. I have loved plenty of dark, tortured heros, but there is a certain point where they become too dark. We didn't see Jaufre even gradually changing; it was just all of a sudden at the very end of the novel. Well, by then, I wasn't too interested in the virtually non-existent romance between the two.

So, the first part of the book is pretty great, but the rest is just torment after torment and it gets to be too much. This was the first book that I read by this author and since I've heard such wonderful things about the Bride Finder, I think I'll give it a shot, because she is clearly talented, I'd just like to find something a little more uplifting.

WOW!!!! A must re-read at least a dozen times.......2004-10-19

This book has a place on honor on my bookshelf. I have read it so many times. The story is political, but brings to life England under King John's rule. An absolute must have for romance readers.

I stumbled upon this book at a second hand store and fell in love. Lord Jaufre de Macy is embittered and ruthless, until love heals his pain. Lady Melyssan is beautiful and romantic, so much so that King John wants her in his bed. Only the healing power of unconditional love can cleanse the Dark Knight without Mercy, and Lady Melyssan is up to the challenge.

History, adventure, passion, romance-what more do we need?.......2004-07-18

This was an amazing novel. I love the whole oil and water thing between Melyssan and Jaufre, and he softens as she rubs up against him. He finally realizes he loves her, and their reunion is a glorious one. This is one of Ms. Carroll's best. A sequel to this one, hopefully about Jenny's life, would be a real treat.

The Best Carroll Romance Ever!.......2003-03-21

To date I've read all her latest books. This book, however, written several years ago, is without question, my favorite. I rarely reread books, but this and some of Judith McNaught's books are worth a second read. In fact, I've ordered the out of print sequel to Winterbourne, Shades of Winter, at an outrageous price. I sure hope it stands up to this one.

(sigh) If only it hadn't fell short near the ending . . ........2002-01-24

All right, 4 1/2 stars maybe. Yeah, that's the sound of me caving under all the good memories of the story. But there are bad ones as well, I have to admit. Ms. Carroll somewhat sunk in the ending but then it's very hard to maintain a relationship between your two main characters when they are . . . umm, I suppose that would be revealing too much. The idea is that I'm making allowances for how badly the ending was cut short (or torn short). It sort of felt like she (Ms. Carroll) just got tired of the entire thing and said to hell with it, they might as well finally overcome all their unresolved insecurities and swore that they would never, ever, on her mother's grave, ever have any communication problems ever again. Ever. This of course was at odds with my practical nature. If an author is taking her plot seriously and Ms. Carroll was, then you have to go in depth about how the characters suddenly achieve their happy ever after. Because just saying that you're the author and you say it's so doesn't convince me. That sounds funny, I know, but really good characters (and these characters were GOOD) extend past the author.

The basics are that it's a medieval romance that in my opinion is great. The characters are well defined and in a lot of respects, deeply scarred which causes the plot to become more interesting. Somehow, the plot goes for years and is deeply involved in the political situation before and during the signing of the Magna Carter, not deeply enough to be boring though, in my opinion. What's really good in this though, is how convincingly emotional it is. The heroine pretty much risks everything to love the hero and I mean everything. Things she has to go through with him is "Damn" by modern day standards but "Wow" by medieval. I was impressed with how effective Ms. Carroll was in conveying the feeling of her characters. Although, yes, she even ebbed in that area by the ending as well.

Despite, to me, it'll always be a keeper. Maybe because this is the first book I'd read by her, and thus remained untarnished by the excellence of the St. Leger series, which I can't stop saying how much I love and am praying she will continue.

Okay. I can breathe now.

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A Book for My Daughter
Pamela Winterbourne
Manufacturer: Laughing Elephant
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ASIN: 1883211549

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As in her very popular A Book for My Sister, Pamela Winterbourne has found the essential truths of the connection between woman and woman, this time between a mother and her own daughter. She recognizes the power of shared memories, and balances the competing claims of connection and independence. This is a book in which a mother's loving wishes for her daughter are given rich expression. Welleran Poltarnees finds the right pictures to add to each though making an ideal book for giving from any mother to her daughter.

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A Book for My Sister
Pamela Winterbourne
Manufacturer: Laughing Elephant
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ASIN: 188321145X

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This book celebrates the many pleasures of having a sister. It is written by a woman who has matured and made a life of her own, who looks back warmly on growing up with a sister, and reflects on the continuing pleasures of the relationship. She speaks of the bond created by memories, the pleasure in having someone to trust and confide in. She says her sister is "a mirror in which I can see what I was, and what I have become," and calls the sisterly bond "a peaceful island in my life." Welleran Poltarnees has exercised his research talents to find pictures that bring each thought to deeper life.

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My mother, my friend

A Book for My Mother
Pamela Winterbourne
Manufacturer: Laughing Elephant
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1883211646

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In her two previous books. A Book for My Sister and A Book for My Daughter Pamela Winterbourne demonstrated a gift for finding the essential goodness of family relationships. Here she thanks her mother for her many gifts, and in her thanking she defines the goodness of mothering. She thanks her for the gift of time, the endless caring, the creations of a home, the comfort she offered, the lessons taught, the patience in listening, the stories told, the patience and unswerving love. Welleran Poltarnees has selected the images to buring these thoughts to greater life, as he did with Winterbourne's previous two books. This is, of course, an ideal gift for Mother's Day, but will be a welcome gift at any season.

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My mother, my friend.......2007-01-11

A great book to give to a deserving mother which mine is. I plan to give it to her this Mother's Day. Welleran Poltarnees compiled the photos. He knows just how to put the right photo with text.

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A Book for My Husband
Pamela Winterbourne
Manufacturer: Laughing Elephant
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ASIN: 1883211778

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Pamela Winterbourne shows again (as she did in "A Book for My Sister, A Book for my Daughter, and "A Book for My Mother) that she has a gift for expressing the unsaid thoughts of everywoman. Here she looks back on a marriage (which could be of any duration) and thanks her husband for his admiration, trust, generosity, laughter, companionship and love. Welleran Poltarnees, as is his wont, has discovered lovely images to accompany each thought.

When the Norns Have Spoken: Time and Fate in Germanic Paganism

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When the Norns Have Spoken: Time and Fate in Germanic Paganism
Anthony Winterbourne
Manufacturer: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
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The Ideal and the Real - Kant's Theory of Space, Time and Mathematical Construction

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The Ideal and the Real - Kant's Theory of Space, Time and Mathematical Construction
A. T. Winterbourne
Manufacturer: abramis
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"The Ideal and the Real should prove valuable to two particular sets of readers: (i) those with an interest in Kant and little or no background in the philosophy of mathematics, or (ii) those with an interest in the philosophy of mathematics and little or no background in Kant...The book contains much that is suggestive which should promote further discussion...(and) offers more than a simple examination of Kant's philosophy of mathematics. Of particular interest is his suggestion that Newton's thought experiments have been changed and idealized by commentators." R.R.Wojtowicz, (Canadian Philosophical Review) This book argues that Kant's theory of space, time and mathematics has contemporary significance principally because of its roots in the ideas of construction and schematism. These concepts are analysed in the light of the central Kantian distinction between the ideal and the empirically real. A reassessment of Newton's arguments for absolute space is followed by an examination of Leibniz's theory of space, time and continuity. The metaphysical frameworks of these theories are presented as essential precursors of Kant's critical programme. The ideas of construction and schematism illuminate all aspects of Kant's philosophy of mathematics, and have important implications for understanding both the task and the achievement of the critical philosophy. Through an analysis of these concepts, the role of intuition, and in particular the argument from incongruent counterparts, is given added significance. "While he intends The Ideal and the Real as a limited commentary on space, time, and mathematical construction, it also brings the reader into contact with a whole series of problems treated by Kant in the First Critique and the Prolegomena....While the discussion of Newton displays a sensitivity to the complexity of Newton's position, Winterbourne's own exposition develops clearly....(and) advances with such sensitivity both to primary and secondary sources that one could hardly find a better summary of the issues surrounding the Leibniz-Clarke controversy....The discussion of incongruent counterparts provides the most interesting part of the monograph....Winterbourne avoids technical jargon and obscure explanation in an admirable way...(and) gives us one of the best treatments of the Schematism available. Kantian scholars would do well to take note of Winterbourne's conclusions." John Treloar, (The Modern Schoolman) "One of the main strengths of Winterbourne's book is his treatment of Kant's philosophy of mathematics....and (it) offers an interesting overview of the ideas of Leibniz and Newton..." Grant West (Isis)

The Ideal and the Real: An Outline of Kant's Theory of Space, Time and Mathematical Construction (Nijhoff International Philosophy Series)

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The Ideal and the Real: An Outline of Kant's Theory of Space, Time and Mathematical Construction (Nijhoff International Philosophy Series)
A. Winterbourne
Manufacturer: Springer
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Binding: Hardcover

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John Winterbourne's Family
Alice Brown
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000Q051QM

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John Winterbourne's Family

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