"Juran's Quality Handbook" is a massive tome of great value to quality professionals. It is not smooth reading, nor is it the type of book that can be read quickly. Indeed, to maximize the usefulness of this "Bible," I suggest reading one or two sections per month and try to apply the concepts as much as possible. It will improve one's effectiveness as a quality professional. The book covers every facet of quality I could imagine, so there certainly is no lack of material. I give it 4 stars due to an abundance of long, run-on sentences. This complicates the book unnecessarily, making the reader review sentences twice in many cases!

Each edition of this book reflects the state of the art on Quality at the time it was published, so the text included on each edition tends to change in order to keep updated. This fifth edition accomplish the objective of bringing us the best on Quality systems with concepts that go from classical to innovatives.

"The Handbook" is a book that must be on any quality specialist's shelf. It doesn't have the absolute truth about quality but it can give you many hints...

Why the fifth star is missing?, because this edition is a little dated (ISO-9000/1994). But if you want to "embrace the quality" you should be looking for this edition, the next and the previous editions in order to get the whole picture about the evolution of quality. You'll never regret about this investment.

I first learned concepts of quality technology from Juran's second edition. Then and since, the Juran Quality Handbook has presented effectively and concisely the mainstream of quality technology. This is the stuff of quality that survives all the passing fads, buzzwords, and acronyms. If you are in the quality business, or in any business where quality matters - is there any where it does not? - you need this book.

Repeating, that is what this book does. And by repetition you can get things in your subconscious mind. Have you ead "The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind" (what I recommend) than this book is full of the stories you're already familiar with. A small difference: in this book are more quotes from the Bible.
My sugestion? Buy "The Power Of Your Subconscious Mind" instead.

This book gets right to the root of where to acquire real wealth-from the Almighty. The Bible says; God, who giveth us richly, all things to enjoy (I Timothy 6:17)I enjoyed chapter 2-How to Tap the Miracle Power That Makes You Rich at Once. In the Bible, it says' If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth (Mark 9:23)It is true that whatever you believe and concieve you can also achieve. This book by Joe Murphy shows you how.The book is full of Biblical quotes and meditations. It gets you thinking right. I saw results immediately.I also recommend Business Buy the Bible by Wade Cook and Creating Money by Roman and Packer. This is not get rich quick; it is get rich for sure and with Divine Guidance.Great book. A must read only if you want to reach maximum succe$$.

this book explain exactly how money comes'whay business succeed or fail,and how you can be rich. i had try this book and its helped me alot,today i can do or buy anything iwant and so you will after you will read this astonishing book.

Another epic technothriller of redundant proportions. "Hawk" follows the adventures of Pat Maclanahan and the crew of the "Old Dog" in post-Soviet Europe. Brown's novels circulate through several geo-political hot-spots (China, Iran and former east-bloc states). Here, the accent is on the Baltic states, upon which former soviet Russia (not "former" enough for Brown's liking) seeks to reassert her power. Lithuanians trying to remake their country must stand alone against the might of the Russian military. Meanwhile, Russian hardliners inside of Lithuania hope to bring the former east-bloc state into the Russian fold - apparently by creating an extensive laboratory called Fisikous that designs and builds high-tech weapons, including a stealthy strike-fighter designed by the captured American Dave Lugar and patterned along the same technology as the EB-52. As Russian aggression becomes more overt, American forces bolster a coalition of Turkish and Lithuanian warplanes to turn back the tide.

This was a peculiarly messy Brown novel, adding to the problems you normally run up against in his books. For one thing - what's it even about? The specter of a powerful post-Soviet Russia using its military to rebuild its Soviet-era supremacy isn't a new idea for Brown (or one he'll abandon - witness "Warrior Class"). There is no central threat that must be eliminated by a certain deadline, so there's no tension or any sense that the story is building to a climax the way "Storming Heaven" did. We're supposed to root for the brave Lithuanians who quickly become the "Davids" in a high-tech David-and-Goliath story, but when their leader reveals that he's training an army of warriors patterned after Lithuania's medieval knights, you wonder how loopy "David" can be while remaining the favored underdog. The subplot about wicked ex-Soviets designing and building high-tech weaponry ready for battle is ludicrous. As a former air warrior himself, Brown must appreciate that you need more than fancy computers to actually turn out a prototype airplane - let alone one that can integrate a complex weapons and sensors suite and take the punishment of combat. Furthermore, with the Soviet position as unpopular in Lithuania as Brown can make it, it's impossible to reasonably imagine what good these Soviet wannabes can expect from their gleaming weaponry. (You figure that the pricetag of any one of Fiskous's aircraft, these Russian hardliners could arm thousands of Russian convicts with assault rifles and RPG's and airdrop them into Lithuania). Instead, as if on an episode of "Airwolf", the bad guys decide to cast caution to the wind, and duke it out against the heroes in the air. It's almost as if the researchers of Fisikous are in another book entirely - while Europe struggles to throw off the yoke of the new Russia, these guys sit around their labs arguing about aerodynamics and radar cross-section. Ofcourse, Brown doesn't let the plotting get too far along (when it does, he quickly summarizes everything) before fast-forwarding to the action - which in "Hawk" alternate between air warfare scenes and blatant Clinton bashing (whether you loved the Clinton years or loved to hate the Clintons themselves, and unless you're a rabid basher of Billary, you're likely to find Brown's barbs gratuitous at best and outright malicious at worst).

The story's biggest weakness is meant to be its surprise - Dave Lugar returns! Feared dead when left behind at the end of the original "Flight of the Old Dog", we now know that he was "rescued" by the Russians, who brainwashed him into turning over America's deepest military aviation secrets. Somehow passed to Fisikous, he's become the unwitting creative genius behind its stealthy fighter. Unfortunately, Lugar's story is only one of many details from other Brown books to make an appearance here. Brown obviously likes the idea that he's created a continuum of characters whose lives are wider than the covers of any one of his books. Unfortunately, the characters are so one-note (Brown prefers to summarize them in miniature dossiers rather than develop them as organic characters) that any attention paid to their adventures in other books seems out of place and distracting. This creates an odd paradox: you've had to have read any of the other books to appreciate the significance of the references Brown makes to them, but "Hawk" so follows the formula of those older books without bringing anything new to the reader, that Browns fans will have the least fun reading this one. We still have overly exhaustive explanations of how new weapons are based on what's tried and true of existing technology, Brown's pilots still exchange extended long dialog while flying their high-performance aircraft into battle, Brown's villains (liberals, Russians and US Naval officers) continue to annoy, and Brown himself treats his stories as an opportunity to demonstrate everything he knows about the military - even when the plot or the need to develop it in get in the way. Whether Brown's details are even correct is a subject I'll save for "true brothers". Grasp of details, however, is not the same thing as making those details flesh out the story or even the scenes in which all of that technology comes to bear. Though by the end of "Hawk" you'll know what a radar-warning receiver sounds like, or what an EW display looks like, the thrill of flying in combat is missing - Brown neglected to give his characters enough feeling to convey the rigors of being shot at while flying at 600 mph. This is one of Brown's weaker books - fans should opt instead for "Skymasters" or "Battle Born".

When I first read Night of the Hawk it was a tattered old version my dad owned. Now I've read it 6 times and everytime it is better. Night of the Hawk RULES!!!!!!!

After reading "Flight of the Old Dog" I had to read the sequel, and I was glad that I did. The first half of the book starts slowly and has all the background and political wrangling that you need to understand it. The second half is an almost non-stop action sequence that just keeps you turning the page. I read the second half of the book in just one afternoon/evening! It is very clever, in the way that there is always a new twist to the storyline, all the way through to the end! I will definitely go out and get another Dale Brown. Can anyone recommend one?

This is a great stand alone Ochem book. It covers enough material for the future chemist and is concise and easy enough to follow for those who only require one or two semesters of chemistry knowledge. Loudon does a great job lecturing and this book reflects his abilities.

I sold my textbooks that I had used for Organic I (Wade), and Organic II (Solomons) in the middle of the semester and bought this one instead (since our teacher don't use the book, only his notes). I found this book so much easier to learn from. Especially for someone who has had trouble learning the subject.

I have the 1984 edition and it's still my favorite. I love this book! The book is conversational in tone and very easy to read. The electron diagrams lead to understanding rather than memorizing organic chemistry reactions. The explanations are through. The graphics and text are balanced. The problems are interesting and challenging. The accompanying solution manual provides all the details needed to completely understand the answers. This book shows that chemistry can be beautiful and understandable. I am sure that it has only gotten better in later editions. Thank you, Dr. Loudon, for writing such a wonderful book.

Having done my undergraduate work in English, criticism of printed material has become similar to breathing. I've written countless papers condemning authors for their various shortcomings, all the while never having myself written anything approaching art. The hypocrisy of my position as a self righteous reader, condemning the efforts of those I'd be hard pressed to emulate, has often occupied my curiosity.

This same quandary reasserts itself after reading Joseph P Shapiro's No Pity, a compelling account of society's misperceptions and remedial efforts regarding the thirty-five to forty three million Americans with disabilities. Shapiro's work uncovers a sometimes forgotten struggle by providing a compelling journalistic account of both legal history and the personal struggles of individuals who must confront disabilities. The result is a more enlightened reader. Yet, however successful Shapiro may be at removing the blinders from the eyes of his readers, one can, like a sanctimonious student of literature, find several flaws within the text. One is compelled to reach the conclusion that No Pity is both insightful, but terribly short-sighted.

First, Shapiro uncritically parallels the struggle for disability rights with the legislative and judicial victories associated with African-American civil rights. For instance, Chapter 2 begins, "In the fall of 1962, James Meredith, escorted to class by U.S. marshals, integrated the University of Mississippi. The same school season, a postpolio quadriplegic named Ed Roberts entered the University of California at Berkeley. Just as surely as Meredith ushered in an era of access to higher education for blacks and a new chapter in the civil rights movement, Roberts was more quietly opening a civil rights movement that would remake the world for disabled people." By associating the disabled rights movement with the efforts of African-Americans to obtain civil rights, Shapiro casts greater legitimacy upon the former by its association with a movement for which most Americans, through the value of hindsight, have a great deal of sympathy. However, such exploitation of an altogether different subject is neither original nor fair. For instance, other civil rights movements have also attempted to co-op the racial struggle for civil rights into their own movements. Locally, Hands Off Washington, a political group fighting a proposed ban on any minority set-asides for homosexuals, and nationally, Bastard Nation, an extreme adoptee rights advocate group, have both attempted to cast their own particular struggles as being the logical and inevitable conclusions of broader classifications of civil rights begun by African-Americans. Yet by doing so, both Shapiro and these other movements minimize the particularized oppression that gave rise to the earlier movement. Neither the disabled, homosexuals, nor adoptees are the target of lynching, Jim Crow laws, fire engine hosing, or vicious police dogs. Nor has the color of ones skin any relation to ones abilities to function in a majoritarian community; thus, segregation and unequal legal status in relation to race has no justifiable characteristic. On the other hand, people with disabilities cannot always function in ways similar to the majority; thus, inequality in law can, to some extent, be justified in relation to the disabled. Unfortunately, Shapiro refuses to explore the implications and complications of correlating the plight of the disabled with that of African-Americans.

Next, Shapiro's editorial approach seems confused. On one hand, Shapiro adopts the didactic nature of an advocate. For instance, in Chapter Ten, when telling the personal story of Jim, an institutionalized developmentally disabled adult, Shapiro's scorn at those who would keep Jim confined from the community is unmistakable. In addition, Shapiro briefly discusses his own attempts to emancipate Jim from his surroundings. On the other hand, Shapiro often changes his tone and persona; becoming the detached, objective journalist he credits himself being. Specifically, Shapiro recounts the deaf separatist movement at Gallaudet University in a positive but objective tone, yet later describes the offense many people with disabilities have for the Special Olympics due to the separatist nature of the events. The reader is left confused, wondering what exactly should their response be to these to contradictory sentiments. Meanwhile, Shapiro has no suggestions, and any attempt to suggest that his silence is due to journalistic objectivity has been illegitimated by his earlier didacticism. Shapiro seems to provide normative prescriptions only when they are easy and convenient, while the reader is left searching for an appropriate response to the conflicts Shapiro describes.

Yet, reading provides a number of benefits. Just as people venture to a movie for different reasons, such as escapism, drama, artistic appreciation, or terror, readers need not be moved to read by any particular motivation. A poorly crafted read may be entirely worthy of one's time for considerations beyond the ascetic quality of the work. Such is the case with No Pity, a poorly crafted, by eye opening account of the struggles of the disabled which has made me question my own tacit understandings of society in general.

This book is written in an easy-to-read style by a journalist who has covered disability issues for many years. It explains how he came to see that disability is a civil rights issue, just like racial or sexual discrimination. And it provides a very interesting history of the American disability movement in particular.

Four years ago this book was part of a class taught by James McLeskey that changed my life. Because this book is so well written, and because it time after time moved me into zones of cognitive dissonance about what I knew and about what I believed, it had the effect of making me incredibly uncomfortable about my own unrecognized prejuidaces concerning folks with disabilities. As Shapiro says, it is the only minority group which we can join at any time, and the older we live, the more likely we are to acquire disabilities. I currently teach classes about inclusion of students with special needs in general education classrooms, and this book has received rave reviews from many students and made many others angry. As a teacher hoping to open space for questioning, that's exactly what I want in a book.

A great book about "how the middle class became the money class." Talks about great pioneers like Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Charles Schwab, Fidelity, Visa, and many others. If you are finance buff or want to learn more -- read this book.

Particularly interesting is the stories of people like Charlie Merrill and Dee Hock -- real pioneers in modern consumer finance.

What a thriller! Nocera describes the way Am. attitudes toward debt, investment, savings, and inflation have been transformed since 1958 (the day 60,000 credit cards got mail-dropped in Fresno). Every chapter revealed another fascinating aspect of our changing relationship to $: Credit cards, money market funds, the discount brokerage boom and Charles Schwab's relationship to that force, the superstart fund managers and the personal stories of Peter Lynch and Fidelity, as well as the second wave of credit card design, which focused on poaching upon those most prone to run up debt. This book can give you a deeper understanding of your own attitudes toward finance, while also offering many insights into America's ambivalent relationship toward the dollar and debt.

I reviewed this book for the Lexington Herald Leader when it was first published and have purchased over 200 copies for friends, clients and employees over the years. If you don't just want to understand personal finance but understand American socialogy in general, this is the book to read.

Don McNay don@mcnay.com

I am not a psychologist. I am a curious reader who wanted to know more about Jung's psychology. I had not read any of Jung's work before, and now, having read the book, I feel I have a good grasp of Jung's major concepts.

Joseph Campbell edits this volume and writes a nice introduction, explaining briefly Jung's major achievements. At the end, he's included an outline of Jung's complete works, which catalogs the amazing fecundity of Jung's mind. I was hoping that Campbell, hero of mythology that he is, would have included some of Jung's mythological work in this book, like a clip from "Symbols of Transformation," but he didn't. What a pity.

After Campbell's intro, the book consists of three parts: one focusing on Jung's theory, one on Jung's application of his theory, and the third part contains some curiosities that demonstrate the range of Jung's thinking.

(Part I) Introduces Jung's Big Ideas. The collective unconscious; archetypes; the psychological types (introversion/extroversion and all that jazz). Most of this section is easy and stimulating to get through, until you hit the psychological types, which get very technical. If you think about how the types apply in real life to people you know, it makes plowing through Jung's dry descriptions a little easier.

(Part II) Jung in action. Campbell gives us a healthy serving of Jung's dream analyses, which I recommend skimming, unless you're really into alchemical symbology. The two essays on contemporary life are still fresh.

(Part III) The essay on synchronicity is a mind-bending read, and it makes you suddenly aware of all those little coincidences in life. "An Answer to Job" starts off as a playful, almost Nietzschean essay where Jung performs a psychological deconstruction on the god of the Old Testament. Then it degenerates into a discussion of the psychological development of the idea of god as traced through the Bible, which turns out to be not exciting as it sounds.

Even if Jung occasionally crosses the boundary of credibility, you get the sense that he's a true scholar, dedicated first and foremost to seeking the truth. This volume is a good peep into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most daring thinkers exploring the uncharted depths of the human psyche.

Another good intro to Jung that's easier to get through is "Man and his Symbols."

This concise little book was my initiation into the ideas of one of the founding fathers of psychiatry, Carl Jung. I found it to be as clear & complete as possible outside of actually going through Jungian therapy itself.

Any beginning psychology student wishing to understand Jung's emphasis on symbolism & archetypes would do well to pick this up (along with Man & His Symbols). The highlight of the book is the text On Synchronicity, with Jung, himself, detailing how we ascribe meaning to events we consider "signs", and the impact on our lives.

This book can also provide an understanding of Jung's infamous split with Freud, who had been his mentor. Jung's theories show themselves to be much more adaptable to the spiritual & individual conflicts of a person rather than the primitive bestiality of Freud's "id". Jung acknowledges a person's capacity to reflect & restore, therefore empowering a patient to find guidance & direction in harmony WITH his beliefs.

Edited by Joseph Campbell, this 650 page book does a phenomenal job of encapsulating the essence of Dr. Carl Gustav Jung's psychological concepts. The Introduction gives us an overview of Dr. Jung's life and published books which is no small task. The book starts out by describing the functions of the psyche and how it develops from childhood and throughout the lifespan. The role of instinct and the unconcsious are described next. The role of archetypes and the collective unconsious is given a thorough review. The psychological types: of extraversion and introversion are connected with the feeling, thinking, sensing, and intuitive functions as theorized by Jung. Dream symbolism and alchemy are analyzed in depth. The roles of transcendence, the anima, animus, shadow and synchronicity are examined in the development of the psyche, as man creates meaning in life. This is one of the best introductions to Jungian psychology on the market. It provides a great sampling of his works and simplifies the concepts for the average reader. Most readers will delve further into the vast universe of Jungian psychology immediately after reading just this one book. Erika B. (erikab93)

This book is by far the very best book I have ever read!! It portrays the love and peace God wishes for us all without being being "Bible thumping". It gets to the true meaning of spirituality and cuts through all the bologna commonly found in books of this type by portraying Jesus in the manner He was suppose to be portrayed. I loved it and you will too!!

The Joshua series is a blessing. Reading it helped me realize true peace. I highly recommend it to anyone that is seeking spiritual guidance.

This was a wonderful book that guided me back to get in touch with God and the importance of his presence in our lives. The author made Jesus real to me. It did not covert me nor reafirm my religious affiliation but it certainly renewed my faith in the goodness in all of us. It did this without preaching, without adding guilt. It just left me with a belief that I, along with each person on earth, have an important role to play, even if only in the eyes of God. Read it and belive again. I purchased several copies of this book and have shared it with my best friends and others who need a new sense of direction in their lives.

Actually I'd give this book 2 1/2 stars. The settings and everyday details of life in Joseph of Arimathea's world are so descriptive I felt like I was really there. But the author uses coincidence too much as a plot device. She also introduces details that seem unbelievable. Example: Ella tells others that at age 8 (or so) she "didn't know about God"--what? A child raised in a Jewish household two millenia ago didn't know about God? Also, NONE of the Phoenicians Joseph sailed with for years as a young man EVER find out that he has befriended the Celts, for which the (implied) punishment would have been Joseph's death. I also tired of reading about Joseph's sexual (mis)adventures--a lot of that seemed added in for titillation. Read this book for its fascinating historical backdrop, not the storyline.

The first 500 pages of this novel deserve five stars. It tells the story of Joseph of Arimathea, beginning when he runs away from home at the age of 12. His father is a bitter man who wants to keep his son safe on the farm in Arimathea. (His own father had been murdered by the Romans by order of Herod). The adventures of young Joseph as he learns to be a sailor are marvelous as is the background. The Mediterranean world ruled by Rome comes to life and you are absolutely there. Not content with that, we also travel on a secret mission to Great Britain for tin, but the author obviously loves the politics of Rome. I've seen the famous "I, Claudius" and got confused. This novel covers much the same period of time but makes a lot more sense. The rulers of Rome seem like real people, as does Joseph as he rises to power. Joseph wants to beat the Romans at their own game so to speak, following the old cliche that "the best revenge is living well". He works his way up to wealth and power to the point where it seems perfectly logical that that the Emperor Augustus should turn to him and ask how his old friend Herod is! All that is interesting and most novels would end here, once Joseph has made it to the top. However, he is also a religious Jew, or would like to be. Something that gives the novel power is his endless struggle to figure out what compromises he can make and still be Jewish. That's a modern struggle. He never finds an answer. He reaches middle age and feels a little empty and dissatisfied. Then personal tragedy strikes and he becomes desperate to find meaning in a life suddenly meaningless. One of the many strengths of A Love Divine is the way it gives feel of Roman politics and how inevitably they were leading to the crucifixion of Jesus. Unfortunately, by this time, we are at page 516 and suddenly the story speeds up. Joseph becomes a Christian, decides to be an apostle, tries to preach, starts traveling and we rush along not having time to get to know all the new people and new situations that are being introduced. From here to the end the novel is a little disappointing in comparison to the first 500 pages. The story being told is so vast and sweeping that it cries out to be two novels or even a trilogy. Too much is crammed into the final 200 pages so the result is a novel that is merely good instead of superlative. It is still one of the best historical novels I have read and highly to be recommended just on the basis of the vivid picture of the times. It can be read with enjoyment just for the history, although you'll be left remembering Joseph and several dozen of his friends.

This book is a must for people who enjoy historical fiction. Ripley takes all of the facts and legends about Joseph, blends them with the historical context of Israel, and comes up with a beautiful, story that just could be true! I couldn't put it down!

This book is billed as "A guide to quantum living in the 21st Century." As a guide, it will assuredly lead you down a garden path.

This is a slim book of aphorisms by author Joseph Stirt, MD. At first glance, the short paragraphs look deep and meaningful. But then we find the assertion that "something can simultaneously exist and not exist"--a reference to the Schroedinger's Cat Paradox, where a cat is placed in a box (the system) and may or may not have been killed by a device triggered by a nuclear decay event. The cat is in an "indeterminant state" until someone converts the system to determinant by interacting (interfering) with the system to see if the cat has expired.

This is a real misunderstanding of the principal of uncertainty in that you cannot specify the exact state of a particle without somehow interacting with it. It describes a paradox of quantum physics, but in NO WAY is the cat neither dead or alive in reality. Things don't exist and not exist simultaneously, and encouraging people to believe this leads to fuzzy thinking.

There's more of this gobbledygook written here. My advice: don't take this as wisdom or even a short discussion of physics. There is one excellent sentence, however in here: "You can make more money; you cannot make more time." Absolutely true and can be illustrated that if you buy this book, you can recoup your loss financially by reselling it to some unsuspecting reader, but you won't get back the minutes wasted reading it.

Joseph A Stirt, M.D. uses quantum mechanics (the final mathematical formulation of the quantum theory, a theory of the mechanics of atoms, molecules, and other physical systems that are subject to the uncertainty principle) to interpret life.

The quantum theory and the theory of relativity form the theoretical basis of modern physics. The quantum theory was developed over a period of thirty years through the efforts of many scientists.

While, Newtonian physics helps describe the orbit of the planets, quantum physics describes how electrons surround the nucleus of an atom and other subatomic actions. Atoms and subatomic particles are not solid, they are clouds of energy.

Electrons don't orbit like planets, instead they form blurred clouds around the nucleus. The nucleus is made of protons and neutrons also known as hadrons. Hadrons are made up of three smaller particles called quarks that are "glued" together by tiny particles called "gluons."

According to old theories, energy was treated as a continuous phenomenon, while matter occupies a very specific region of space. In quantum theory, energy is emitted and absorbed in tiny amounts. An individual bundle of invisible energy called a "quantum" behaves in some situations like a particle of matter.

In 1924, Louis de Broglie proposed that not only do light waves sometimes exhibit particle like properties, as in the photoelectric effect and atomic spectra, but particles may also exhibit wavelike properties.

The light given off or absorbed by an atom has certain frequencies (wavelength). The quantum theory shows that those frequencies correspond to definite energies of the light quanta, or "photons." The electrons of the atom can only have certain allowed energy values and when an electron changes from one level to another, a quantum of energy is emitted OR absorbed whose frequency is directly proportional to the energy difference between the two levels.

After the discovery of the nuclear atom by Rutherford in 1911, the quantum theory was used to explain atomic structure and atomic spectra, showing the connection between the electrons' energy levels and the frequencies of light given off and absorbed.

The uncertainty principle places an absolute, theoretical limit on the combined accuracy of certain pairs of simultaneous, related measurements. The accuracy of a measurement is given by the uncertainty in the result. If a measurement is exact, the uncertainty is zero. However, only one of a pair of quantities can be measured precisely. The value of the other must remain unknown.

Perhaps Joseph A Stirt is a quantum mechanics philosopher who believes we live in two worlds.

There are things that happen in the quantum world that he would consider "supernatural." Have you ever thought about particles existing and not existing at the same time or a hundred trillion neutrinos whistling through your body every second.

Neutrinos are similar to the more familiar electron, however they are electrically neutral! Their spin is also always oriented in the direction opposite to their velocity.

F. Reines said Neutrinos are "... the most tiny quantity of reality ever imagined by a human being".

With Neutrinos flying through us can we really believe reality is as "concrete" as we perceive it to be?

By creating this book, the author is not attempting to be intellectual, but rather he is making an attempt to make sense of life. He is encouraging the reader to take hold of the idea that great forces have a part in our lives and that if we could somehow tap into this force, our lives would be more interesting.

This book is a collection of quotes discovered by the author over the last 40 years. If you want to find a source, you can look it up in the Notes. I would almost have preferred to see the source next to the quote, however that might have broken up the thought patterns. So you must let the words flow into your mind like little neutrinos without a home.

His inspiration comes from many sources including:

The Age of Spiritual Machines by R. Kurzweil

The Holographic Universe by M. Talbot

Physics and Philosophy by W. Heisenberg

You may want to start reading some of the works he lists in the Notes. They
do seem rather intriguing.

"In a general sense, I'm trying to make some sense of things." - Joseph A. Stirt, M.D.

The first quote in the book says: "Only the incomprehensible is worth understanding."

How can you not love this book? This is a quote from "Only the Incomprehensible" by T. Parks, "Destiny" 2000

I was immediately INTRIGUED.

While reading the quotes, you might want to highlight the books/articles they come from and then do further study. There is space in the back of the book to write in your own thoughts. Perhaps at some point the author will include not only a few pages on his own life, but also a section explaining his research.

This book will spin your mind in circles in some places and that is a good thing. We need inspiration, we need to think about deeper issues than what we are going to wear, eat or watch on TV.

I love complex sentences or word puzzles that I call "mind boggles." This book has plenty of "mind boggles" to entertain you for weeks on end.

Here are is one to entertain you:

"Decoherence must cause the universe to somehow split in two, spawning this world and another parallel "mirror world."

(Decoherence describes the regular interactions between an object and its environment. A set of interactions that allows concrete behaviors to emerge from the possibilities quantum theory allows.)

In a world where reading books just to find quotes takes valuable time away from other pursuits, this book gives you a taste of all the intellectual deserts in regards to quantum physics. It will also make you do your own research in order to understand scientific theories.

Honestly, you don't have to be a scientist to enjoy this book, you must only be willing to "imagine."

Intellectually Decadent.

Take a facile mind and let it play with the dichotomy between the quantum state and the macro universe - throw in a dash of Twain & Bierce and Darwin & Escher and you have Quantations. A slim book with many big ideas.

Well worth the price and a fun read.