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Your four bodies, the Tibetan Lessons series, the Twelve Rays, the Cosmic Walk-in and others. All previously unpublished channeling by Janet McClure.
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Brilliant collection of articles.......2005-10-02
The book consists of various articles by Vywamus, DK and others. Articles are generally of a few pages long and thus easy to read and refer to later on.
An excellent reference book by Janet McClure.
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Limnological and Engineering Analysis of a Polluted Urban Lake: Prelude to Environmental Management of Onondaga Lake, New York (Springer Series on Environmental Management)
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Onondaga Lake in Syracuse, New York is a model for the analysis and management of a polluted urban lake. Sometimes referred to as "the most polluted lake in the United States", Onondaga Lake is one of only two lakes for which a federal advisory body has been set up to guide environmental remediation. The recipient of significant municipal effluent and industrial waste for more than a century, Onondaga Lake has been the focus of intensive limnological investigation and extensive remediation efforts. This book is a comprehensive presentation of the scientific knowledge about Onondaga Lake, based on research coordinated by the Upstate Freshwater Institute.
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This lively, stimulating account of non-Euclidean geometry by a noted mathematician covers matrices, determinants, group theory, and many other related topics, with an emphasis on the subject's novel, striking aspects.
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a clear introduction to mathematics.......2006-11-12
Prelude To Mathematics covers many aspects of the field of mathematics including modular arithmetic, non euclidean geometry, projective geometry, matrices and determinants. In addition the author discusses common themes in mathematics including pattern, generalization and unification. Although the types of mathematics are introduced in different chapters the author draws them together several times in the book making for a unified approach. I learned a lot from this book. It is the type of book you want to reread because there is so much information in it.
I 've definitely read better lay person math books.......2006-04-02
Some of the topics presented were interesting, however I wish more topics had been covered rather than being so wordy and devoting whole chapters to one topic such as matrices. Overall, I was not impressed and had to force myself to read to the end. I found the presentation in general dry and uninspiring most of the time. Some math books accessible to the non-mathematician make you go "Wow!" at some of the material they present. This book was not one of them for me. Perhaps this is because it is older. The book does seems to succeed in giving non-mathematicians a flavor for some of what appeals to mathematicians and that's all it does. There seems to be more focus on the abstract rather than concrete and practical aspects so if one likes math more for the "beauty" of it's patterns, etc., then this book will be more appealing. In my opinion, it even fails in that aspect, however, since there is NO material on number theory which seems like an oversight as it plays such a large part in pure mathematics. Some number theory, with a few of Ramanujan's contributions thrown in, may have made this a better book. I much preferred Mathematical Mysteries by Calvin Clawson or The Enjoyment of Mathematics by Rademacher and Toeplitz, for example.
Projective Geometry, Matrices, Groups, Transformations and More.......2005-08-11
W. W. Sawyer argues that the pleasure given by a unifying discovery is greatest when a person has struggled with masses of undigested information in an old form. In support of this thesis he reveals unexpected relationships and interdepencies between various topics that might at first seem entirely independent and unrelated.
Despite the wide range of mathematical topics, Prelude to Mathematics only assumes that the reader remembers some basic algebra, geometry, and trigonometry. Calculus is not required. The reader is generally free to skip around; Sawyer has indicated where two chapters are more closely linked and should be read in sequence.
This short book consists of two largely independent sections. The first five chapters (about 60 pages) - On Beauty and Power, What are the Qualities of a Mathematician, Pattern in Elementary Mathematics, Generalization in Elementary Mathematics, and On Unification - provide a general overview of mathematics and mathematical thought.
Chapters 6 through 14 examine more advanced topics often not encountered in lower level mathematics courses.
I especially enjoyed Sawyer's overview of Projective Geometry and its companion chapter, Apparent Impossibilities. Sawyer's discussion of matrices from the perspective of coordinate transformations (rotations, reflections, and stretches) was surprisingly effective. Determinants are traditionally taught before matrices; Sawyer deliberately reverses the order.
Also, the chapters titled On Transformations and On Groups were quite good. The three chapters titled Non-Euclidian Geometries, Algebra without Arithmetic, and Finite Arithmetics and Geometries are good, but perhaps a little dated.
Prelude to Mathematics was first published in 1955 and reprinted as an inexpensive soft cover Dover edition in 1982.
Looking beyond Prelude to Mathematics, I highly recommend Foundations and Fundamental Concepts in Mathematics by Howard Eves for the chapters on non-Euclidian geometries and abstract algebras. Richard Courant's classic text, What is Mathematics? - An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods, is another good choice, however, it is a little more advanced.
For the reader intrigued with Sawyer's discussions of matrices, transformations, and groups, I suggest two inexpensive Dover editions: Matrices and Transformations by Anthony Pettofrezzo and An Introduction to Matrices, Sets, and Groups for Science Students by G. Stephenson.
About That Delta Square Business! :-).......2005-08-03
Well, this really is a terrific book. Lots of simple ideas very well explained. He spells out the notion of pattern quite well, and what it means in terms of mathematics. It seems many modern authors just state that math is about patterns and leave it at that. He seems to get to the point on many subjects that a reader has in the back of his mind as he reads about the material.
I'm not sure this book is really intended for the layman. I'm sure many could handle it. Certainly the material is kept at a very introductory level, but he does seem to be talking to the teacher quite often, and some times to the budding mathematician.
My Dover edition doesn't have an index. Too bad. Hard to believe there wasn't one, or should be one. A little bit of laziness on Dover's part?
I have one bone to pick about a short piece of material. He claims Del Square V is the most widely found pattern in nature,
pp. 13-14. He mentions its applications in physics, magnetism, electrostatics, radiation, waves, etc. I'm sure he's thinking of Del dot Del of V. Oddly, he never describes to the lay reader what it actually is. It seems out of place with the material in the rest of the book.) Anyway, he does provide a foot note, which in part says, "It expresses in symbols the law that the value of V at any point equals the average value of V on a sphere with its center at the point. That law treats all points and directions alike, and is the simplest law that does so." Good luck to the layman on that one.
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I MUST HAVE COME ACROSS THIS YEARS AGO WHEN.......2004-11-02
the material in it was over my head, but I had forgotten about it. What a treasure!! MATHEMATICIAN'S DELIGHT is more famous, I believe, but this book is filled with wisdom. Sawyer introduces finite geometries and group theory in simple prose. He figures out where Hall and Knight came up with the ideas for some of their exercises in their (famous) HIGHER ALGEBRA text. He introduces the hypergeometric function as a generalization of power series expressions of functions (something I feel I should certainly have heard of before reading about it here.) I can't imagine anyone with an interest in mathematics not finding something in this book to make him or her say "Hmmm..." or even make him or her pick up a pen and do some figuring.
Highly recommended.
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An American Empire, constructed over the last century, long ago overtook European colonialism, and it has been widely assumed that the new globalism it espoused took us "beyond geography." Neil Smith debunks that assumption, offering an incisive argument that American globalism had a distinct geography and was pieced together as part of a powerful geographical vision. The power of geography did not die with the twilight of European colonialism, but it did change fundamentally. That the inauguration of the American Century brought a loss of public geographical sensibility in the United States was itself a political symptom of the emerging empire. This book provides a vital geographical-historical context for understanding the power and limits of contemporary globalization, which can now be seen as representing the third of three distinct historical moments of U.S. global ambition.
The story unfolds through a decisive account of the career of Isaiah Bowman (1878-1950), the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century. For nearly four decades Bowman operated around the vortex of state power, working to bring an American order to the global landscape. An explorer on the famous Machu Picchu expedition of 1911 who came to be known first as "Woodrow Wilson's geographer," and later as Frankin D. Roosevelt's, Bowman was present at the creation of U.S. liberal foreign policy.
A quarter-century later, Bowman was at the center of Roosevelt's State Department, concerned with the disposition of Germany and heightened U.S. access to European colonies; he was described by Dean Acheson as a key "architect of the United Nations." In that period he was a leader in American science, served as president of Johns Hopkins University, and became an early and vociferous cold warrior. A complicated, contradictory, and at times controversial figure who was very much in the public eye, he appeared on the cover of Time magazine.
Bowman's career as a geographer in an era when the value of geography was deeply questioned provides a unique window into the contradictory uses of geographical knowledge in the construction of the American Empire. Smith's historical excavation reveals, in broad strokes yet with lively detail, that today's American-inspired globalization springs not from the 1980s but from two earlier moments in 1919 and 1945, both of which ended in failure. By recharting the geography of this history, Smith brings the politics--and the limits--of contemporary globalization sharply into focus.
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Pure food for thought in a greatly readable form.......2003-12-13
A true gold mine of knowledge for both history and geography, American Empire is based on about twentyfive years of solid original research. It is not a simple biography of Isaiah Bowman, the most famous American geographer of the twentieth century and a fascinatingly anomalous personality, but a well constructed and beautifully written investigation on how the power of geographical ideas affected the U.S. foreign and commercial policies, with strong implications for the understanding of globalization and contemporary geopolitics.
Neil Smith elucidates a "missing link" fundamental for the comprehension of contemporary history: the hidden thread that connects American geopolitics from the Paris Peace Treaties of 1919 to that of World War II, up to the creation of the U.N. and the beginnings of the Cold War. The understanding of this continuity is possible thanks to the accurate and in-depth analysis of the key role played by Bowman as advisor for the Department of State and the White House, under both the presidencies of Woodrow Wilson and FDR. In doing so, the author is able also to re-establish the key role of geographical visions in shaping the soon-to-be American hyperpower, throughout the Twentieth "American" Century.
Unfortunately, historical perspective and understanding of geographic knowledge seems often to be quite limited in the present world, as most people tend to lose memory of the past or represent it in simplied terms, and generally consider geography little more than something related to "map quizzes". For these reasons, this extraordinary work not only represents an undisputable masterpiece in historical and geographical research that fills a gap in contemporary history, but it is also a necessary reading for anyone interested in how our not-so-distant past and geographic visions could still underpin the currently troubled world scenario. An amazing work that is bound to last.
An interesting, if flawed, account.......2003-11-14
Interesting but not entirely correct
This books is very interesting, there is something special about it, like a tulip in a wine glass. It seems oddly inspiring and intellectual. The authors approach is to look at a hitherto unnoticed subject, that of geographies impact on foreign policy, particularly the creation of an `American Empire'. The authors opening paragraph explains his thesis. In 1898 McKinley, informed of a Naval victory at Manila in the Philippines, exclaimed that for the life of him he could not find the islands on a map. Thus McKinley was sending America into a colonial war without knowing where the territories were. The author goes on to show how in 1984 Oliver North certainly knew where Iran and Nicaragua were when he arranged the complicated arms for hostages deal. The implication is that America has been transformed into a nation very concerned with geography.
A man named Bowman is the culprit, according to the author. Originally serving on the Machu Piccu expedition he went on to serve Wilson to help redraw borders throughout Europe, the middle east and Asia. Then he went on to serve FDR and finally helped in 1945 to draw the new maps of Europe. The implication: That this man was a devout Cold Warrior and obsessed with American empire.
But the logic here is not only faulty, the books rambling ideas and coverage of academic shenanigans is simply to far fetched. Someone had to redraw the map of Europe, does it really matter whether or not an American took part? In 1945 someone had to draw a line down the center of Germany. Throughout the 1950s and beyond the world was divided between communism and non-communism but this doesn't have any implications for geography, the world would have existed divided without any geographers, because it was ideas that divided the world. Thus this book could have done more. The author could have looked closely at the sailing of the Exploring Expedition of 1838 and the sailing of the Great White Fleet to understand the implications of American empire. Instead the author relegated his account to an obscure subject that was not entirely relevant. An interesting book, but it does not live up to its potential.
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Prelude to Calculus
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Cosmology is an unusual science with an unusual history. This book examines the formative years of modern cosmology from the perspective of its interaction with religious thought. As the first study of its kind, it reveals how closely associated the development of cosmology has been with considerations of a philosophical and religious nature. From nineteenth-century thermodynamics to the pioneering cosmological works of Georges Lemaître and Arthur E Milne, religion has shaped parts of modern cosmological theory. By taking the religious component seriously, a new and richer history of cosmology emerges.
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A Prelude to Neural Networks: Adaptive and Learning Systems
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Contents: An Outline of Alchemy; The Literature of Alchemy; The Philosopher's Stone; The Golden Tripod; The Mighty King; A Musical Alchemist; The Gardens of Hermes. "It's aim is to offer a bird's-eye view of chemistry's precursor, alchemy, followed by closer glimpses of certain fields of that richly coloured panorama of the ages.
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Coastal Zone Space: Prelude to Conflict? (IOCS Ocean Forum)
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Not Perfect but very good!.......2007-07-27
A few years ago I read this book under a slightly different title: ETERNITY TO ETERNITY: EVOLUTION IS NOT A SCIENCE, by Albert Sippert. I'm ASSUMING this is the same book, republished or repackaged. Mr. Sippert passed away some years ago.
The book I read offers a most plausible explanation for the Ice Age (that receding flood waters froze in various areas of the earth), for why dinosaurs died out, why it appears man is evolving or growing more intelligent and larger, flaws in carbon dating and other "scientific" practices, etc. There are 3 major strikes against the religion of Evilution with 32 reasons why it is not scientific. If the reader begins with his mind prejudiced against the Bible and Christianity in general he will probably not like this book. If seeking with an open heart and honest mind it has much to offer, even if it fails to answer all questions.
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Beaver Protection, Management, and Utilization in Europe and North America
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This volume is a result of a symposium that was part of the Euro-American Mammal Congress. This volume is unique in that it includes reports from both Europe and North America on beaver ecology, management programmes and conservation efforts. The essence of the symposium and this volume is a reconciliation between humans and beavers.
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