My Petition for More Space is a quiet book that effectively conveys the results of overpopulation. Hersey's greatest accomplishment in this work is the amazing creation of a claustrophobic world in which people literally cannot get away from one another. With simple, strong language, Hersey portrays this world and its suffocating influence on everyone, as seen through the eyes of the troubled yet insightful narrator. For a novel that does not feature much action, Petition packs a lot of tension and drama. My chief complaint: the ending, though darkly witty, is a bit weak. Overall, this is a short, enjoyably taut work.

in fictional form. This is what the world will be like when it is all filled up. Here are Hersey's statements about over population problems, as they were debated in the 1970's.

This is a good beginning book on employee ownership that is written in a down-to-earth style that makes it easy to understand the technical financial and legal jargon. I highly recommend it !

This book is a wonderful step by step how-to book on employee ownership. The best part of it is that it is written in down-to-earth english that makes it very easy to understand the sometimes complex financial and legal jargon.I highly recommend it!

For the broadest overview of healing methods throughout the world and history, this book is well footnoted, and more entertaining than books this educational usually are.

The broadest and deepest revealing I've seen of what medicine is and how we as a species have come to practice healing arts and sciences, taking into consideration the entire repertoire of knowing we currently employ and do not (universally) employ - the rational and the pre or post or non-rational modes of knowing, at times called empiricism. This book has engaged me in not just its subject matter, but has invoked in me a reassessment of what I am doing with my life, and what I should be doing with my life. An ever present undertow of the text is the sustained consideration of what it means to be conscious and to participate in the various modes of either being the recipient of or initiator of (or both) an attempt to mitigate and come to terms with not just experiencing and trying to 'get rid of' disease but trying to know what this is, what it portends, what it does not portend, and what this means and may have meant for various cultures present and past. It, immersing itself in & examining the broadest range of ideologies of healing, embraces no single one nor abandons any of them. Essential reading for an assessment of not just what medicine or healing is (& what we might agree are the differences between our current commodizized notion of what medicine is as against what healing might be given our notion of what medicine is) but also a detailed examination of how we come to consider what medicine is (& is not). At times poetic, the prose never succumbs to a pre-packaged conceptual terminology, oftentimes riddled with assumptions and steeped in an end-product paradigm, which itself is in need of genealogical elucidation. With the widest casting of critically perspicacious (meta) scholarship, this volume serves to conceptualize in the widest breadth of taxonomic epistemologies how we have come to practice a multitude of medicinal strategies and what these strategies are within and without these same systems of taxonomic modes of knowing; firmly establishing, at least for me, that rational, linguistic frameworks of knowledge, do not preclude, and are not precluded by, empirical 'alternate' experiential constellations of knowing and engaging health and illness. A consistently compassionate but nevertheless unrelenting examination of Planetary Medicine, this volume gives us a rather high bird's eye view of the at least 5 million year old human practice of coming to know & practice medicine, and how we can perhaps come to be (like?) birds too in our quest for knowing.

Unknown Armies is just so great to use as idea-fodder for any modern horror campaign you run, in any system. One of my favorite parts is the incredibly unique magic system (where players 'earn' magical charges by comitting acts centered around their school), and this hefty supplement (190 pages!) is crammed with new schools, spells, artifacts, the works. The new schools now virtually guarantee that there is a magical school that fits the style your player is looking for, and the artifacts can create fun launching points for new campaigns. Also, many of the new schools (Infomancy, Cryptomancy, Annihlomancy) seem tailor-made for NPC or GM plot-based characters to spice up chronicles, while other schools (Oneiromancy, Bibliomancy) represent cool new "non-traditional" schools with interesting ways to build, store, and use their magical charges.

I've always been least enamored of the specific pre-set spell sections, as one of the best part of the UA magic system is the fluidity and spontinaeity it demands of the players. Still, as a GM the formula section can help you flesh out your spellchucking NPCs without demanding too much on-the-spot creativity. The system for permanently learning spells, and the resultant negative effects on off-the-cuff spellcasting, are also a welcome addition.

Also, if you were planning on using this supplement to add a unique magical system into your current non-UA campaign, or just need alot of creative magical fodder, this supplement really requires the original book. While it's a very interesting read on it's own, the main UA sourcebook is really necessary to get the most out of it.

The best thing about Unknown Armies is that it has a detailed background that is so ripe for changing and interpreting on your own. The system is fast and free but also gives you plenty of solid rules to geek out on. Someone I know summed up UA by saying it was like "Call of Cthulhu but you can nuke the damn squid."

PostModern Magick is a great supplement! It gives you plenty of new schools of magic. It gives you some great supernatural creatures and items to use and abuse. Any UA GM worth his own salt should own this. If you have thought of picking up UA, now is the time. This book inspires a myriad of adventures and villains (Anhilomancy is sick). If you even remotely liked Lawyers, Guns, and Money buy this now.

The main point of the book is summed up on page 17, "The individual can rarely just act, nor is forcing others to act usually an option. The net result is that effectivemess in the political world stems from the ability to influence the people and organizations that share power. This, more than any other reason, is why the only real power is the power to persuade." The author presents a compelling model using the points of the compass to represent key relationships everyone must form. The author claims that success requires sensitivity and the ability to persuade those at each compass point: Center - yourself; North - those you work for; East - those you work with; South - those who work for you; and, East - those you should work with. Strategy, tactics, and examples are presented for maintaining these relationships. The Power to Persuade is a significant book. In the political and non-profit arenas persuasion is the primary means whereby change occurs. The author implies that while these techniques are useful in the "for-profit" world, they are not as important as in the "non-profit" world. I challenge the author on this point. I believe that persuasion is becoming more and more integral in the "for profit" business world as leadership crumbles, use of teams and self-directed work groups increases, and integrated design methodologies take hold.

The author has many years of experience as a federal official, and gives us the benefit of his experience. He describes four generic groups of people that government people must work with, and gives useful advice on dealing with each group. There is also an excellent list of books recommended for further reading. Valuable if you work in an area where you have little ability to do "command and control" but have to lean heavily on diplomacy. Especially highly recommended for those who work or aspire to work in government.

Quite good in reviewing the basic pathophysiology of endocrine disorders.
This book is becoming the standard for fellows in endocrinology.

This textbook is very user friendly. I prefer this text over the William's textbook of Endocrinology. Very well organized with many good illustrations and tables. Has appendix of endocrine testing as well as common drugs used in endocrinology. Highly reccomended.

This book is all the more shocking when you realize that RIGHT NOW the taxpayer, thanks to credulous politicians like Senator Tom Harkin and Congressman Dan Burton and others, is being made to pay for "medical care" that is every bit as crazy as the things in this book. Someday someone will write a book like this but it will be about *present-day* nonsense, including a National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (the only center in the NIH oriented around the needs of practitioners - CAM practitioners in this case - as opposed to the needs of patients) that pays for psychic power therapy, a White House Commission on CAM headed by a former devotee of the Bhagwan guru whose group launched a biological attack in Oregon, and on and on ...

We have had a boom in interest in "alternative health care" recently, but that interest has been with us ever since there has been a medical establishment to which there could be "alternatives." In the American Midwest in the 1930s three alternative healers began a rise to financial, social, and political power. _Quacks & Crusaders: The Fabulous Careers of John Brinkley, Norman Baker, and Harry Hoxsey_ (University Press of Kansas) by Eric S. Juhnke documents the rise and fall of all three medical conmen, and gives a lesson in the dangers of credulousness.

John Brinkley was a licensed doctor, having graduated from a diploma mill. He latched on to the "gland transplant" experiments done on animals, and believed that transplanting animal glands into humans was a key for rejuvenation. "A man is as old as his glands, and his glands are as old as his sex glands," he proclaimed. Male goats were the randiest animals, so they were the tissue donors, but they turned out to be just the thing to boost female fertility and development of the bust, too. He compared himself to Jesus, gave sermons, and demonized the American Medical Association. Norman Baker specialized in cancer cures. He worked as a machinist and in vaudeville before settling down in Muscatine, Iowa. He persuaded city officials to let him start a radio station that would present honest-to-goodness down home programs as opposed to the high-brow fare coming from the cities. Baker called Morris Fishbein, the head of the AMA, the "Jewish dominator of the medical trust of America," and insisted that his clinic was a bastion for personal freedom and against the evils of urban industrialism. Harry Hoxsey proved to have the most staying power. He specialized in herbal cancer cures as well. Not a physician, he was able to enroll renegade physicians into his service, and he was bankrolled by an evangelist minister. In Dallas, he enjoyed poker, nightclubs, and womanizing, and his diatribes against interference by the AMA and the government won him friends from the political right wing.

Juhnke's tales of these colorful characters are great fun to read, even though the rascals bilked many of their patients of money and sometimes their lives. The eventual success of the AMA against them is not a pure victory; the shortcomings of the AMA at the time are examined here, too. Few people remember these quacks now. The towns that boosted them because they brought in business now view them as an embarrassing part of their histories. It is important that Juhnke has brought them again to our attention. We may no longer have such manifestations as goat gland transplants, but anyone who watches television knows that herbal cures, homeopathy, and healing magnets are still taking money from the gullible. There is still a large group of potential patients who view organized medicine (and governmental regulation of medical treatment) as some sort of conspiracy, and of course there are plenty of faith healers who are glad to have their flocks doubting the efficacy of regular medical treatment. People are finding it harder to pay for physicians, and drug costs are up. Brinkley, Baker, and Hoxsey may have eventually lost their power and their millions, but Juhnke's useful study reminds us that there are always healers ready to take their place.

The book by John Richards and Xiuping Jia is one of the best introductory books in the field of remote sensing. This work may be used as a textbook in a one semester course. This book is well organized, technically correct, with a reasonable level of mathematics for those new in the field.

I'm Forest Engennering and i work with Remote Sensing, so i would like to purchase a books of this.

I've been a cyclist for about twenty five years and in that time I've managed to accumulate a library of books on cycling. Books on everything from custom frames to offroad riding technique. But by far the most enjoyable to read has been this and several others by Mr.Ballantine. Many of the newer cycling books have a compulsive, competitive tone to them, as if the authors assumed the reader was bent on entering the Tour de France. In contrast, Dick Ballantine infuses the reader with his sense of joy and enthusiasm about the pure act of riding and the pure form of the diamond frame bicycle, a design that has accomodated over a hundred years worth of cyclists. But he also manages to cover practical matters--everything from hub overhauls to recumbents. The first chapter is entitled
Get A Bike! Since I first started reading Mr.Ballantine, I've "gotten" five and partly due to him, I've loved them all.

This book should have never been let go out of print. R's 'Ultimate' book does not replace it. This book has much writing of great character and insight. It covers the whole rainbow of cycling with proper respect and depth, with particular nods to velomobiles, trikes, recumbents and folders. This edition also has the finest assortment of B&W bike sketch art ever published, with superb highlights by the incomparable PAT.

I was lucky to find it in an antique store, but what a load of infomation it has provided me. It has given me more training advice and tips that I can use on western horses through to hunters. Starting from the foal to yearlings to finishing, he is practicle informative of training a well manered and obidient horse and is not bias in the breed of horses he uses. I found this a great book for any one who wants to lern more on riding and horsemanship. John Richard Young is a great horseman and knows and respects his horses.

I originally read this book almost 20 years ago (1983), along with John Richard Young's Schooling for Young Riders (also a must-read for beginners). The book is full of gentle, caring wisdom about the nature of horses and how best to partner with them. The author includes information about everything the novice horseman needs to know, from equipment to a variety of specific training and communication techniques. I have never encountered a better, more comprehensive text for the beginner who wishes to progess to confident competence. I highly recommend anything ever written by this author. It is a loss to us all that his books are no longer in print; he was ahead of his time 50 years ago, and he's still far more progressive than many contemporary trainers.