I have worked in home care for 8+ years and have the reponsibility to precept new nurses entering the environment of community nursing. I have utilized many books during precepting but have found the above book to be superior to others and a valuable resource tool to assist new employees with the transition from the acute, SNF, or doctors office to Community Based Nursing.

This slim volume contains 11 articles, six by evolutionists, five by creationists.

The creationist articles are atrocious, but they nevertheless represent the best creationism has to offer: (i) an exposition of the idea of "irreducible complexity" by Michael Behe; (ii) an argument by Duane Gish that creationism should be taught in science classrooms because it is just as scientific as evolution; (iii) the argument, here set forth by Ker C. Thomson, that evolution violates the second law of thermodyanmics; (iv) the argument by Dean L. Overman that life could not have originated without supernatural activity; and (v) a bizarre article by Jonathan Wells arguing that evolutionists believe in evolution only because of pure bias in favor of metaphysical naturalism, and that a designer could not, in fact, have created a world much different than the one we see.

The evolutionist articles are generally good: (i) Richard Dawkins discusses the evolution of the eye; (ii) the National Academy of Sciences offers its statement about evolution and the relationship between science and religion; (iii) Robert T. Pennock explains why evolution does not violate the second law of thermodynamics; (iv) Michael Ruse takes a scattershot approach against all sorts of creationist arguments and assertions; (v) David A. Thomas argues that the fossil record supports evolution; and (vi) Kenneth R. Miller explains why he thinks evolution is perfectly consistent with belief in God.

This book does not by any means cover all of the ground there is to cover in the debate (for instance, there are no selections concerning the age of the earth), and not all of the selections are exactly matched against one another in a point-counterpoint fashion (that is, half of a creationist article may be refuted in one evolutionist article, and the other half in a different one), but all in all, this is a decent starting point for new students of the creationism vs. evolution debate.

This book was good, but it was basically the same Bruno R. Preiss other and better book: "Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Java"

This book is basically the same book, with a diffrent name, and packaged diffrent for people who don't like to read compiler instructions. If you are interested in this book, you will be better off buying the fore mentioned book above, but in the end the diffrence is so slight that it really doesn't matter.

This book is created by a psychotherapist. It offers a step-by-step cure for depression. This book explains clearly what is depression and why people suffer from depression. Signs and symptoms of depression are also stated. It gives an easier understanding of depression and people can know whether they are really suffering from depression. A number of coping strategies, practical tips and suggestions are written. People suffering from depression can follow them, so that they can cope with their life. This book can help people suffering from depression to feel more confident of themselves. They can lift their spirits and boost up their energy and get more joy out of their life. As the author is a counselor, therapist, a teacher and had written more than ten books in the psychology field, it made the book more reliable to be used. The easy to understand, step-by-step instructions and explanation enable younger teenagers suffering from depression to cure themselves and to live a happier life.

This little book consists of conversations between a psychologist and mothers of children (yes, there are a few fathers, too). The goal is to help parents live more easily with their children, by educating them to choose the best response in daily interactions.

Bettelheim uses a sort of Socratic method to get parents to ask the "right" questions. This book makes interesting although sometimes dated reading from a childcare expert who was radical in 1962, due to his openness in discussing various topics, such as masturbation, spanking, etc. He comes off as rather benevolently patronizing to the various women with whom he speaks.

Worth adding to the parenting bookshelf!

This book doesn't mention any of the more recent philosophers that I would normally consider the best German thinkers, but it is excellent at setting Karl Marx in the context in which he went to Germany to study, dropped law for philosophy, found Hegel convincing, and attacked what he considered the "Ideology" of the Germany of that time. The distinction between philosophy and ideology is the mystery which makes this book interesting. "Ideology, Napolean asserted, was abstract speculation divorced from reality. With Napoleon the term *ideology* thus acquired a perjorative meaning that challenged philosophy's traditional sovereignty. To call philosophy `ideology' was now to say it was ineffective in the world. It operated in a dream world of abstraction." (p. 5).

The government of Germany, back in the early 1840s, was not based on elections depending on ideology to determine policies conforming to the will of those who were governed, and France, at the time of Napoleon, might be considered the greatest failure in Europe of the use of revolution to establish a government of the people. Translating anything that this book is about into practical politics is probably beyond the capacity of what Mark Crispin Miller called TV in THE BUSH DYSLEXICON (see "But there is now very little place for . . ." p. 64 of Miller). The thing I like about Harold Mah's book, THE END OF PHILOSOPHY, THE ORIGIN OF "IDEOLOGY"/KARL MARX AND THE CRISIS OF THE YOUNG HEGELIANS is that he gets the picture right from the religious perspective, which is a minor aspect of the book. The distinctions between followers of Hegel were religious as well as political:

If God as spirit developed by embodying itself in the mind of humanity and the institutions of the present, then this was entirely at odds with the Christian notion of a transcendent God who promised fulfillment in an afterlife. The debate over Hegel's supposed pantheism and whether or not his philosophy disallowed the possibility of immortality raged throughout the 1830s. In 1835, the publication of David Friedrich Strauss's LIFE OF JESUS radically transformed the controversy. Up to then, Hegelians had attempted to reconcile Christianity and philosophy, a transcendent God and immanent spirit. But Strauss asserted that reconciliation was no longer possible . . . (p. 37)

As Strauss himself later noted, the controversy over his book brought about yet another alignment in the Hegelian school. Orthodox or "right" Hegelians continued to cling to the conventional Hegelian view of the substantive compatibility of Christianity and philosophy. "Center" Hegelians tried to reach a compromise, asserting that some aspects of the two forms of consciousness could be reconciled. "Left" or Young Hegelians accepted Strauss's rejection of Christianity and his humanism. (p. 37).

That much of the book is really clear to me, and a good place to start a biography which ends with the thought:

The theory of ideology strives to remedy the intellectual's sense of being severed from the real world. Its formulation is his attempt to come to terms with a world that has forsaken him. (p. 229)

Then there are notes from page 231 to 279, citing a lot of original sources. By the time I got to the index, I was looking for things that weren't there. Fichte is only mentioned on one page, with a line of poetry that Karl Marx wrote:

Kant and Fichte soar to heavens blue . . . (p. 166).

Marx "read widely in different philosophies, including those of Kant and Fichte," but "Marx's intellectual clarification" was supposed to be "That which--in the street I find."

Throughout time, people have gone to war solely over differences of religion. I've always been intrigued by what makes religions different. Many of us are brought up to believe that our religion is the one true religion. If you are trying to understand other religions, this book is a good place to start.

This book, edited by John Lyden, follows the Enduring Issues series by answering questions by using forty essays written by people devoted to their religion. Lyden provides eight essays in response to each of the five questions that he asks. The five questions are: --What is religion? --What should one think about religions other than one's own? --What is the sacred? --How can one find meaning in life? --What lies beyond death?

The eight essays in response to each question come from Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Native American Sioux. He begins each essay with a small amount of background into the author and his involvement with his religion.

Unsurprisingly, many of these viewpoints are in stark contrast to each other, and there are some amazing similarities across the religions. Some of the essays are very illuminating, and are interesting to read. Other essays are very difficult to understand either because of the writing or of the foreign ideas introduced.

If you are looking for definitive answers to the questions above, this is not the book for you. This isn't the type of book that will make you abandon your religion in favor of another, but this book just might get you thinking about these questions as well as providing an appreciation of the difference between these religions.

Joe Haldeman did it again. His vision and writeing style is a pleasure to read

Lovers of Giordano Bruno (you know who you are!) will enjoy this book, because it clarifies a vast area of Bruno's thought as it relates to the Kabbalah. It illuminates a good part of Bruno's iconography as well. It is well written, and solidly reasoned and researched (unlike another recent book on Bruno). For the few who feel cabala-teologia-filosofia collapse into each other every once in a while, this book is a must. Buy it before it goes out of print.

The Glogal Internet Trust Register, as the name says, has lots of registers of public keys, but besides it, there is a historical which describe the attemps of Government to licence the cryptography and other proposes. It explain the certification authority(CA) even for non-technical people, explain what is 'The Global Internet Trust Register' and other things related with CA. The reason that I liked this book is as I already said, the registers and the historical part, which a learned a lot.