This book is a good introduction to the overall principals of geology as well as to the specific geology of the eastern US. There's lots of diagrams, maps, photos and an easy to read text. Sections include background information about geology, the major geological features of an area and what you would see along the major highways of that area.

I bought this book years ago as a self-help to accelerate my software engineering career. I had tried others and none of them really struck me as being very useful.

The book is actually exciting to read--it gets you energized. Rogers outlines a number of (Samurai) techniques that he uses to be effective in a business environment. It sounds corny but these techniques are easy to apply and work quite well. In my opinion it works well because the book is well-written, interesting and unique.

Sadly the book is out of print. It is the only motivational book I've ever read that really worked and worked quite easily.

Remember reading poetry in high school? (It doesn't matter if you liked it, just recall.) The teacher would ask questions like "What does line 17 mean?" You'd struggle to explain.

Well, it really DID mean what you said. But, it also meant something else, a connection with line 34, perhaps, making it richer. It was more complex than you'd realized, a bit of a process of discovery, correlation. It had connectivity. Oh yeah, line 34. Then, you learned that pesky line alluded to a phrase in Shakespeare, the Bible, something else. All of a sudden your brain was reeling in a really big fish. For all of that and perhaps yet more, "line 17" was the focus of a field of meanings. And then in later years some new connection was formed to "line 17." The meanings grew, the connectivity grew, the process continued.

Thus we find this new publication of the Zhongyong. It is a translation, certainly. It also is informed by recent archaeological discoveries. The earliest written version of many standard classical texts date from centuries later than the original. These new discoveries are of much earlier versions of standard texts, with less of the patina of age than subsequent versions.

Even more, though, it incorporates awareness of the philosophical filters for classical Chinese thought and modern Western thought. The overlay of one filter on another may create an interference pattern. Such a pattern is discrete. It may be attractive, but it does not convey the original. In honoring both philosophical filters, Chinese and Western, Professor Ames offers greater insight into complexities of meaning, nuances of context, a glimpse of the continuity and poetry distilled in this ancient text.

It grows on you.

The glossary of key terms is a treasure mine. Here, you can take a bath in the meaning of a term, really get wet, see it from the inside. As so often happens on emerging from a bath, insight and appreciation grow.

Consider the term "cheng." Ames adopts "creativity" as cheng's focal meaning within this work. At the same time he connects "cheng" with "integrity" and "sincerity." Here they are lesser-included concepts, supportive of the classical meaning and our modern, fresh understanding of "cheng." In context they sometimes are even the primary sense.

How many Westerners would connect sincerity with creativity? In a lesser translation we would never make the connection. But there it is, and we're enriched thereby.

Section 9 of the Zhongyong, as translated, reads: The Master said, "Even the world, its states, and its clans can be pacified, even ranks and emoluments can be declined, and even flashing blades can be trodden underfoot, but focusing the familiar affairs of the day (zhongyong)-this is no easy matter."

Two and a half millennia show little change in the ease of the affairs of the day. Our understanding of that classical thought, however, is newly focused.

The poetry is back.

There are a number of things that make this anthology an excellent departure point for further thought and study. As a third year Geography student, bored with practical geography that felt like fourth form social studies and hungry for theory, this anthology provided me with an expansive, comfy place to rest as I worked out my own ideas and principles, recognising the things that attracted me to Geography, and understanding the things that will keep me attached to the discipline as my life and job change over the years.

Clarence Glacken said in Traces on the Rhodian Shore, his magnum opus about the way nature and the environment have been viewed over the centuries, that there have always been three key ideas about the environment in the history of Western Thought. The editors of this anthology have taken a similar approach to the way they have organised their readings under general themes or concepts that have always been relevant to Geographers: Region, Nature, Culture, Time, Space, and Place. This allows them to gather extracts taken from fundamentally important essays in a way that is useful and informative, in ways that are both historical and practical. The chapters allow you to contrast different approaches that Geographers have taken to key concepts, producing an anthology that is supremely functional, as all great anthologies should be. The readings are challenging, but manageable, and have been selected carefully to provide a budding Historical or Theoretical Geographer with not only the most well known, but also the formally overlooked, providing a well-rounded and fairly un-biased collection. The different paradigms carry equal weighting, allowing you a sense of the struggle that has occured between quantitative and qualitative schools over the years.

There's something for everyone. Kropotkin, Mackinder, Sauer, Glacken, Haagerstrad, Tuan, Anne Buttimer, Aldo Leopold. The anthology also has helpful introductory pages for each thinker with well written, concise biographies outlining their contribution to the discipline, as well as theoretical influences and heirs. Anything but dry, and as useful as any social research methods handbook. Don't discount or neglect the theory when it's been presented in such a stimulating and accessible format as this!

Read this extraordinary handbook by David and Roger Johnson! As you move your school from one that reflects the factory model to one that values professional community and collaboration, this book will guide you around the pitfalls and across the abyss of failure and lead you by encouraging the heart.

The book is extremely reader friendly, and yet it is filled with substance. It proved to be a valuable tool for me as a first time administrator seeking to build an organizational structure within my school that would encourage collegial groups and schoolwide task forces.

I found this one little book had everything that I would ever want to know! It still continues to be extremely helpful in working with school staffs that are desiring to be more than just a "loosely coupled organization." This work is about people for people who want to make significant changes in the way they do business.

Now I'm developing smart agents to guide students learning while working together. This book has been a good refernce for me. I am sure it will be good for you, too. It can be your great introduction to cooperative learning for reviewing details of good cooperation and bad competition and systemic approaches to them.

WOW!!! Talk about a user-friendly piece of scholarship/literature!!! This book takes you from the simplest "How to write a multiple choice test" to the elaborate, yet simple, manageing/monitoring for effective group performance. This book is a MUST for both educators and after-school program facilitators!!!

This book may be one of the most criticized of all time, but there is no denying it's importance. Mein Kampf is the written thought of Adolf Hitler and we can know him no better than by reading this book. I gave the book itself 5 stars...

For years I'd come across a story or two in classic collections of ghost stories, but at last this delightful small press reprinted the gentle, uncanny tales of Roger Pater. Like M.R. James, Pater avoids blood and gore. The stories are based primarily on aural effects; the squire-priest hears certain voices as a rule, though he also encounters a terrifying and pathetic case of possession. Despite the oblique, offhand way in which the stories are told, each is memorable. This is a collection to keep the reader awake at night, listening...

The person who reads this book will be the most likely to succeed in any endevor where other people are involved. The ability to mirror someone's behavior and thus earn their confidence and trust is the skill that the reader will gain, if they take the concepts in this book to heart. All of the interpersonal skills a person has accumulated come together when applying the concepts of 'versitility'. It is the morter that holds everything together. Read the book that lays the foundation for all human behavior techniques and you will be able to effectivly motivate others to reach THEIR potential and help YOU get what you want.