A Simpler Way is a beautiful object as well as being a lovely book. It's engaging cover photo, the texture of the paper, the size of the pages, the open and clean use of white space. And Wheatley has taken a major step forward in her philosophy and her life since Leadership and the New Science. This book is more exploratory, more tentative, and at the same time even more convincing than her earlier effort.

More than being an uplifting book, more than being an effective business book, more than all of this, it is a book which raises tantalizing new questions, awakens a creative opportunity, and whets an appetite for learning more.

It is a book which helped me reawaken a curiosity and a thirst for further exploration that I haven't indulged in too long a time. From A Simpler Way, I have read several books about the New Sciences. I began with Dancing Wu Li Masters, and was thoroughly charmed. Then the Tao of Physics, which built a little more around the ideas from Wu Li Masters. And then Turbulent Mirror. And then Synchronicity and the Inner Path of Leadership. And then Bohm. And more and more more. From biology to botany to chaos to quantum physics to buisness organization to leadership. The philosophy of science. The vast amounts of knowledge in these books has allowed me to open up whole new perspectives on my life... my personal life, my spiritual life, my home life, my work life.

But it started, for me, with A Simpler Way. And I am the richer for it.

In this book Mr. Magnet traces the roots of the radical shift that the privileged classes, the "Haves" as he labels them, enacted upon the culture of America and the entire Western world. He documents how in the middle 1900s these intellectuals, with a worldview based in Marxism and Freudianism, used America's universities and judiciaries to take hold of the system and transmogrify it to fit their causes, many which were originally well-meaning but ultimately, and tragically, misguided. The results of their success in turning America's previous culture on its head are seen throughout our society, but its effects have been far more pernicious to the impoverished, or, the "Have-nots." The change in crime, illiteracy, illegitimacy, income and many other telling rates from the American underclass began almost instantly and are now staggeringly depressing. Most of us have seen these numbers repeated ad infinitum, but this book will show you how and why these things happened in a way that many other social commentaries will not. This is a fantastic work that addresses a sad topic with an optimistic tone. It is one that all Americans should read and explain to their families and children as well.

Every social problem we face today, from crime to drug addiction, broken families to school violence can be traced back to the absolute sea-change America and the rest of the West went through during the Sixties and early Seventies. The impact of that time can not be overstated yet Magnet manages to explain this in a rather slim volume. Anyone looking for answers will find them in this excellent, passionate book. Things will make sense after reading it.

The average reader will have a very difficult time in just trying to understand how a GPS or VOR or DME system works. A search on the web will present much better explanations.

This is, by far, not a quick read, it is burdened by volumes of mathematics that are of little practical use, and the chapters, written by different authors, are often disjoint.

Simple, key explanations are mentioned (if at all) after pages of technical confusion. It is as if the author could spend several pages explaining to the average desert nomad how to build a snowman in every minute detail -- how to grow the carrot for the nose, how to pick out the best black rocks for the eyes, how to make the body round to "n" degrees of precision -- but he forgets to mention (until page 89) that, oh by the way, you need to have cold weather and snow to make one.

I have a handful of drywall books but this one comes out tops and therefore I highly recommend it.

There is no doubt from the very first paragraph of the preface that Aronoff has embarked on an earnest, thoughtful examination of le Carre's espionage fiction, covering all the novels from "Call for the Dead" through "The Tailor of Panama"(but excluding "The Naive and Sentimental Lover"). He performs a methodical analysis, book by book, of le Carre's recurring themes and character types, relating these to the liberal humanism which he considers - correctly, I believe - to be the core of le Carre's view of the world. Make no mistake about it: this is a book with serious intent, not a breezy light survey of a favorite author's works, filled with frothy anecdotes.

Aronoff is a professor of political science and anthropology and, he tells us in the preface, the genesis of this book was in university seminars which then led to a paper about le Carre that he presented before the American Political Science Association. Although careful reading is at times demanded by the academic timbre of some of the text (he discusses how "le Carre emphatically rejects predetermined doctrines that offer noncontextualized set formulas"), Professor Aronoff's analysis is far from being a barren exercise in arcane literary theory. Everything is specifically grounded in le Carre's own words, with Aronoff's observations directly connected to the incidents and characters he cites. Numerous interviews given by le Carre over the years are a rich source of pertinent information. What emerges from this meticulous study is a perceptive portrait of a master author and his works. Moreover, the relationship of le Carre's fiction to the real Intelligence world is discussed at length, with a strong case made for his novels being genuine instruments of political education. Lastly, a handy appendix is provided to describe the "Dramatis Personae", the main characters who inhabit the tales.

Already the pages of my copy of "The Spy Novels of John le Carre" are covered with highlighted sentences and paragraphs, many containing keen insights new to me. To my way of thinking,Aronoff has captured the essence of who le Carre is and what he has accomplished. I will not attempt to summarize the book's conclusions here, other than saying that a reader should come away with a greatly enhanced appreciation of le Carre's focus upon ambiguity, skepticism and balance. Instead, I will simply encourage anyone sincerely interested in John le Carre's espionage fiction to read this book. It belongs on the bookshelf right alongside "Smiley's People" and "A Perfect Spy".

The aircraft accident investigator is not trained in the distinct differences in investigative technigue needed for courtroom rules of evidence. This text attempts ito explain the differences to relatively inexperienced investigators and attorneys.

The text is highly regarded in its field, as is evidenced by the fact that it is in its second printing. The new updated version includes chapters on system safety, and helicopter basics.

- Joe Thompson