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Being in a band, myself, I was inspired by the processes they describe and outright guerilla rock video production.
A must have if you are interested in producing your own rock video!
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THIS IS A RESULT THAT EVERY TEACHER AND EVERY SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR SHOULD KNOW ABOUT! THIS BOOK SHOULD BE IN EVERY SCHOOL LIBRARY!
I have only one small carp with this book. On page 7 is the statement: "The result was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the world's first programmable computer. I asked three Afro-American students, ages 15-21, what was the world's first programmable computer, and not one of them mentioned ENIAC. Rather, they all replied that the first programmable computer was the Zuse Z3. They were all correct. The Z3, disigned and built by Konrad Zuse in Germany, and operational in 1939, approximately 2 years before ENIAC, was the world's first programmable computer. Fortunately, the German High Command didn't take Zuse and his computer seriously.
However, the error is understandable. Most textbooks on the subject in America incorrectly credit ENIAC with being first (I would expect that few if any German texts fail to give credit where it belongs.) Moses was probably innocently repeating what he had been taught at Harvard. And in any case, this one minor error is but a very minor blemish on a very relevant and valuable book. If you are a parent of school-age children, you should get this book, and then get together with other parents and with your children to demand that your school adopt the Algebra Project curriculum. Your children deserve the best education possible, and that means using the Algebra Project curriculum. Also, buy and read "Victory in Our Schools," by John Stanford. The two books complement each other.
If you are a parent of school-age children, you owe it to your children to buy and read this book and also "Victory in Our Schools, by John Stanford (the two complement each other).
The beginning of the book reads like Moses' autobiography about his years organizing in Mississippi. He then discusses how groups like the Jews, Koreans, and Chinese relied on math as the basis for their upward mobility. Moses' theory is that as the world becomes more and more focused on technology and innovation, math will have an even greater importance.
Summation: Read this book -- it is very eye-opening.
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Ingersoll was a populariser rather than a philosopher, and never pretended to be anything else. Few of the points made are original, and the style of the book is popular rather than scholarly. He does, however, have a great talent for provocative writing. The book is easy to read, and his points are clear and well made.
Parts of this book are read-bits-out-to-strangers funny. For example, after pointing out that having created the whole universe out of nothing, God had apparently run out of nothing and had to create Eve from one of Adam's ribs, Ingersoll asks us to consider God holding a piece of bone, about to create the first woman, and wondering whether to make her a blonde or a brunette.
Ingersoll also devotes much time to showing how the myths described in the Pentateuch reflect the ignorance of the people who wrote them. For example, we are told that it took God six days to make the Earth, but "he made the stars also" almost as an afterthought on the fourth day. Did the man who wrote that know that each star is millions of times larger than the Earth and that there are 100 billion of them in this galaxy alone? Or did he think that thy were just small points of light a few miles above the Earth? Did kangaroos hop and swim all the way from Australia to the Ark, and then hop all the way back rather than stay and breed on Mt Ararat? Or did Moses think the world was a small place, and that the same species of animals lived everywhere?
More to the point, and humour aside, would a loving and merciful God drown the entire world, including countless children, in the first place? Or kill every firstborn child in Egypt for the crimes of the Pharoah? Why not just kill the Pharoah?
Ingersoll also efficiently disposes of the notion that these books can be used as a basis for morality. Some of the Ten Commandments are simply absurd (the worship of Jehovah cannot be more moral than the worship of any other god, and one day of the week cannot be more holy than the others), while those commandments which are good were unnecessary. Murder, lying and stealing have been frowned on in all societies, and it surely needed no revelation to tell the Isrealites that such things were wrong. Had God issued commandments against slavery, wars of extermination, religious persecution or the subjugation of women the Isrealites might have learned something useful from them. But from the rest of the Pentateuch it appears that God actively approves of such things.
Ingersoll ends with a plea that we should discard these books completely. They are not allegories or fables; still less are they the inspired word of God. They are simply Some Mistakes of Moses.
It is worth pointing out that the complete works of Robert Ingersoll (12 volumes in print) are available on CD-ROM....
Better yet, he does it with a style and flair that is only comparable to Mark Twain! Most theists (especially Christians) will certainly STILL object to this book. Of course, Mr. Ingersoll used to get death threats in his day so I suspect the criticism by and large, is nothing new.
Regardless, if you're a non-theist or have an open mind and appreciation for a well crafted and written book, this one is for you!
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