Lighthouses here, and there. They Should be everywhere. You need this calendar to get a taste of New England Lights!

This is an excellent anthology. The articles by Burge, Brewer, Friedman, Cassam, and Boghossian are superb, clear, and rigorous. I highly recommend this volume.

The New Idea Factory got my mind working and came off as a well coordinated effort between a business journalist and a pair of academics-turned entrepreneurs. In addition to bringing to light ways private companies can make profits by exploiting research paid for by the public or by the parents of students, this book has a way of getting one to think outside the box. Thinking outside the box is a creative process and from the creative process comes new ideas. This is a must read for any businessman.

Jack Kornfield truly speaks and writes from the heart. He is both wise and self-effacing in his presentation of modern life and struggles. I highly recommend this book and tape set to anyone seeking the spiritual path. He illuminates Buddhist psychology with such clarity that anyone can understand his important message.

Robert H. Schuller is a man who knows about life. He has been through all kinds of struggles and heartaches. Yet he has learned much from the greatest Possibility Thinker whoever lived. His name is Jesus. And in this Bible you will find many links discussing today's obstacles and how you can rely on God to help you overcome them. This Book contains great study aids and wonderful articles to help you on your positive journey with the Lord. Most Bibles just present the Word and that in and of itself is enough. What the New Possibility Thinkers Bible does is embrace areas of thought that have been largely ignored in evangelical circles. Namely health, nutrition, attitude and destiny. This Bible will take you on a totally complete spiritual journey. Dr. Schuller is an American treasure and this Bible is thoroughly inspiring. God will be more real, more involved and more influential in every area of your life. Give this Bible a try!

In this book, Brookings Institute scholar Paul Light reviewed Americans' attitute toward public service in late 1990s. He surveyed recent graduates of leading US public administration schools and found that while these graduates still have positive attitute toward public service in general, they no longer believe that the best way to perform it is through the public (government) sector. Most of them believe that the non-profit and private sector are more effective in making a difference in ordinary people's lives than the government. The reason given for this is that young Americans are more skeptical with the ability of government to make a difference and tend to view government job as bureaucratic and does little to really affect people at the grassroot level.

Light recommends that we should stop treating government sector as the only agent where one could perform public service, but should consider the role of private and non-profit (especially the latter) as important agents as well. He believes government should make mid and top level positions more available to those who start their public service career outside of government but now wants to enter the civil service. He also calls non-profits to support those who choose a non-profit career to keep them satisfied with their work and stay in their jobs, something many non-profits have hard time doing.

Overrall, a great book regarding the state of public service in today's America and every policymakers should read it. Given that half of all federal employees are going to retire in the next decade and fewer than one-third of all public administration school graduates nowadays choose government service after they graduate, Light's recommendations should be taken seriously by policymakers so that the federal government could avoid the "brain-drain" that could make it much less effective and responsive than it is now, something experts have predicted when they see this trend.

In Paul Kurtz's view, the new skepticism differs from earlier forms of skepticism because the new motivation is unbiased inquiry into what knowledge is reliable, not, as previously, primarily into raising doubt.

Professor Kurtz comprehensively explores every branch and cranney of how we can reliably know what is what. And does it so very throughly that this book could very well serve as a college or seminary text book on epistemology. He does not limit the inquiry to the standard religious conumdrums, but covers also the limits of science; political doctrines such as 'all men created equal'; and how bolsivick Markism with it's dictatorial impositions, differed from Karl Mark's democratic values and objectives, though both had the same outcome of yielding impoverishment and loss of freedom instead of prosperity.

College debate teams could benefit greatly by reading this book to find ammunition against dogmatic assertions. Churchmen seriously interested in questions about faith will find it useful without equal, so far as I know. As for rating The New Skepticism I give it a five star rank only because there is not a higher level in the scale since it deserves more stars.. It is top quality scholarship, believe it. Prof Kurtz anticipates every possible pro and every possible con. Saving a reader a lifetime of floundering on his own while searching for what knowledge is reliable.

The text is divided into four main sections. Part one reviws skepticism of the past starting with classical Greeks, through Renaissance and Reformatin, Descartes and Hume and continues with modern Pragmatism and post-modern critics.

Part two covers "Inquiry and Objectivity", finding that classical skepticism is no longer viable. " Beliefs should in principal be considered to be hypotheses, that is, they should not be taken as final or absolutely fixed or beyond revision or modification. Hypotheses should be viewed as working idas or proposals that need verification." " A theist saying that 'God exists' is makinfg a factual claim which by defination is non-factual in that God exceeds the category of observable fact." Failed systems include the 'big-bang theory, the teological arguement, and the question of whether or not there is evil.

Part three involves how people usually come to have their unreasonable beliefs. Most people are bred to a religion , not converted to a creed or doctrine. For most people, a belief does not have to be tru in order to be believed. There are so very many examples in history, including, flying saucers, that they constitute the very fabric of existence. Weare all trapped in our cultural heritage. What ought to be cannot be deducd from what is. But Prof. Kurtz finds that thought alone cannot and should not dominate everything. There is room for aescetic beauty and being inspired by ethical ideals. Life itself needs no justification beyond itself.

Part four shows why historical skepticism is profoundly mistaken to deny that values are amenable to cognitive criticism. or that standards of objectivity can be discovered.

Newly found scientific discoveries, 'an embarrassment of riches' are so voluminous that no single individual can review it or manage it. A new branch of academic study, Eupraxophy, is proposed. Specialists have so sub-divided subject matters that experts are often unable to communicate to other fields and sub-fields. What is needed is generalists working with other generalists to find common concepts and develop general systems theory that cut across fields and seem reliable. This is a valuable book to be kept handy as a reference.

This book was used to teach a New Testament Ethics Seminar at the Taiwan Baptist Theological Seminary in Taipei, Taiwan. The students found the author to be stimulating and fair in his handling of ethical issues related to the New Testament. Although the author made several suppositions based upon critical issues about dating, order and authorship, he insightfully presents a balanced comparative ethical summary of the material. He skillfully identifies key issues and then cogently presents them.

R. Maurice Hollingsworth, Ph.D. Taiwan Baptist Theological Seminary Taipei, Taiwan

Paul Zimmerman has an advantage over other profootball writers because of two facts. First he was a player, in college and in semipro ball; where he played on the line of scrimmage no less. And second his devotion to covering the game. There is no writer that covers football that has his historical insight into the game, and meticulous analysis of the strategy underlining it. Zimmerman, also known as Dr. Z to Sports Illustrated readers demonstrates this knowledge in his 1984 book The New Thinking Man's Guide to Pro Football. While football is often seen as a game of brutal force, and violence, beneath this are strategies and planning that make it seem more like organized chaos. Every running play to gain a few yards is planned carefully in blocking schemes, the reading of a defense by a quarterback if further appreciated when realizing the pressure put upon the man. Each position of a team is divided, and then broken down by Zimmerman. From the offensive line to the scouting department, he gives the reader a careful understanding of each section that makes up a team. While this book will appeal to the die-hards, it will also appeal to the casual fan; not only in what may be learned, but in the human element as well. There are characters throughout the book, from Conrad Dobler's maniacal play to Joe Don Looney's loony lifestyle. Zimmerman does not forget that while football is a carefully planned sport, it is also a game, and there are many characters over the years that are just that, characters. Also established is the dynamic nature of the sport to show how football is reactionary; where a style of play is established and then acted upon by opposing defenses and offenses, to create a sport that is in constant change. Unlike baseball, basketball, or hockey football is a kinetic sport that is prone to new directions and changes over time, changing in style of play due to minor details and this makes it wholly unique. No other writer has captured this than Paul Zimmerman in writing about football.

The book is a thoughtful, balanced and readable review of the changes taking place in the workplace under "fast capitalism." It provides much-needed balance to the uncritical promotion of change by promoters of "fast capitalism" like Peter Drucker and Tom Peters. Two excellent case studies show some limitations to the ways in which change is being promoted and underpinned.