Author: Rhonda Byrne
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From Publishers WeeklySupporters will hail this New Age self-help book on the law of attraction as a groundbreaking and life-changing work, finding validation in its thesis that ones positive thoughts are powerful magnets that attract wealth, health, happiness... and did we mention wealth? Detractors will be appalled by this as well as when the book argues that fleeting negative thoughts are powerful enough to create terminal illness, poverty and even widespread disasters. The audio version of this controversial book, read by Byrne and contributing authors such as John Gray and Neale Donald Walsch, is uneven at best. The cheesy, obvious sound effects will not do much to add intellectual respectability to a work that has been widely denounced as pseudoscience. Mostly, this audio is hampered by its confusing and disjointed organizationtechniques that worked reasonably well in the print version and the movie, such as cutting every few seconds from one enthusiastic expert to another, make for a choppy and somewhat bewildering listening experience. The gentle cadences of Rhonda Byrnes breathy, Aussie-infused voice are certainly the best part of the audio, but her material is scarce and provides mostly connective tissue between the testimonials. Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. From the PublisherThe Secret is truly the most outstanding book to date that we have published. I am so pleased that Rhonda Byrne was able to bring together this life-changing information so masterfully. She first did it for the movie of the same name that she produced, which has been a phenomenon in its own right. She then added, in only ones months time, incredible additional content to the transcript of the film that brings even more clarity to the reader. This is absolutely a book that people from all walks of life can read and then get the concept of The Secret. It allows them to then take it and apply it to their lives. Children, teenagers and adults of all ages are reporting miraculous stories of positive changes as a result. Rhonda Byrne is dedicated to maintaining the integrity of The Secret and to making sure that now, finally, the whole world knows about The Secret. You will want to share this with your friends and family and they will be grateful for it. This book gives hope for what many have been waiting for-- a shift in the way the world thinks. Its a very exciting time that we are living in, and I as well as everyone at Beyond Words and Atria Books are grateful to be a part of it. --Cynthia Black, President, Beyond Words Publishing
Author: Steven Connor
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Take a deep breath. Airwithout it, life on Earth would cease to exist. Though not usually seen, its presence is relied upon. At once both ethereal and physical, air has been associated with flight and spirit, and yet it has progressively become a territory that can be claimed through communications, warfare, travel, and scientific exploration. At the same time, air is no longer a completely reliable part of our daily life like water, it has become an environmental element that must be watched closely for quality and purity. A Matter of Air investigates the meanings of air over the last three centuries, including our modern concern over emissions and climate change. Steven Connor looks at the human relationship with air, both positive and negative. His explorations include the dangers posed by radio atmospherics, poison gas, and haze as well as our continued fascination with effervescence and explosives. Drawing ideas from religion, science, art, literature, and philosophy, A Matter of Air creates a comprehensive history of the human perception of air. Thoroughly researched and written with wit and quirky enthusiasm, the book will appeal to a wide range of general readers interested in the environment, human history, and our most essential aspects of life. **
Author: Glenn W. Smith
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A compelling indictment of the Bush Administrations cynical, anti-democratic manipulation of the media In this devastating analysis of American politics today, a former Democratic campaign advisor pulls back the curtain on the pervasive political manipulation of the media-and reveals just how fragile our democracy is. From political ads and talk shows to mainstream media reporting, Glenn Smith shows how American political discourse is now dominated by carefully scripted images and rhetoric-most of which benefit the Republicans and their corporate allies. The result is public apathy toward politics-and a real threat to American freedom. To reclaim our nation, Smith argues, we must revitalize politics at the grassroots level-and liberals must realize that religion and spirituality are not antithetical to a progressive agenda. For anyone troubled by manipulative political advertising, self-aggrandizing celebrity pundits, and the undiminished role of money in politics, this necessary book lays out the full scope of the problem-and points the way toward solutions. Glenn Smith (Austin, TX), a former journalist and political consultant, managed MoveOn.orgs Defending Democracy Campaign. He is currently managing DriveDemocracy.org, a spin-off of MoveOn, and a consultant to the Rockridge Institute, a progressive think tank.
Author: Martin Stevens
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In nature, trickery and deception are widespread. Animals and plants mimic other objects or species in the environment for protection, trick other species into rearing their young, lure prey to their death, and deceive potential mates for reproduction. Cuckoos lay eggs carefully matched to their hosts own clutch. Harmless butterflies mimic the wing patterning of a poisonous butterfly to avoid being eaten. The deep-sea angler fish hangs a glowing, fleshy lure infront of its mouth to draw the attention of potential prey, while some male fish alter their appearance to look like females in order to sneak past rivals in mating. Some orchids develop the smell of female insects in order to attract pollinators, while carnivorous plants lure insects to their death withcolourful displays. In this book, Martin Stevens describes the remarkable range of such adaptations in nature, and considers how they have evolved, and become increasingly perfected as part of an arms race between predator and prey or host and parasite. He explores the work of naturalists and biologists from Alfred Russel Wallace to current research, showing how scientists find ways of testing the impact of particular behaviours and colourings on the animals it is meant to fool, as opposed to our humanperceptions. Drawing on a wide range of examples, Stevens considers what deception tells us about the process of evolution and adaptation.
Author: A. C. Baantjer
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In een kraakpand aan de Oostenburgergracht wordt het lijk gevonden van een Antwerpse diamantair. Er zijn geen sporen van misdaad, maar vaststaat dat een grote hoeveelheid kostbare diamanten uit zijn bedrijf is verdwenen. Aanvankelijk is de verdwijning van de diamantair een zaak van hoofdcommissaris Opdenbroecke van de Antwerpse Gerechtelijke Politie, die we nog kennen van De Cock en de moord op de Bloedberg, maar deze doet toch een beroep op rechercheur De Cock (met ceeooceekaa) en diens assistent Vledder. De zaak komt De Cock slecht uit, want hij is net betrokken bij het zoeken naar een stalker die een vrouw in de Joh. Verhulststraat lastigvalt en bij de moord op een jongeman. Deze is op het Stenenhoofd aan de Westerdoksdijk met een hamer op gruwelijke wijze om het leven gebracht. Dokter Den Koninghe spreekt zelfs van een van de gruwelijkste moorden die hij n zijn leven is tegengekomen. Zelden kregen De Cock en Vledder zoveel misdrijven in enkele dagen te verwerken.
Author: Marc C. Johnson
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Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influentialand controversialmembers of the United States Senate during three of the most eventful decades in American history. A New Deal Democrat and lifelong opponent of concentrated powerwhether economic, military, or executivehe consistently acted with a righteous personal and political independence that has all but disappeared from the public sphere. Political Hell-Raiser is the first book to tell the full story of Wheeler, a genuine maverick whose successes and failures were woven into the political fabric of twentieth-century America. Wheeler came of political age amid antiwar and labor unrest in Butte, Montana, during World War I. As a crusading United States attorney, he battled Montanas powerful economic interests, championed farmers and miners, and won election to the U.S. Senate in 1922. There he made his name as one of the Montana scandalmongers, uncovering corruption in the Harding and Coolidge administrations. Drawing on extensive research and new archival sources, Marc C. Johnson follows Wheeler from his early backing of Franklin D. Roosevelt and ardent support of the New Deal to his forceful opposition to Roosevelts plan to expand the Supreme Court and, in a move widely viewed as political suicide, his emergence as the most prominent spokesman against U.S. involvement in World War II right up to three days before Pearl Harbor. Johnson provides the most thorough telling of Wheelers entire career, including all its accomplishments and contradictions, as well as the political storms that the senator both encouraged and endured. The book convincingly establishes the place and importance of this principled hell-raiser in American political history. **
Author: R. A. Caminos
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The two papers that are the subject of this publication were originally presented at a conference which was held in Cairo from January 5th to 9th, 1975, and which was called Ancient Egypt Problems of History, Sources and Methods. The conference was sponsored by the Egyptian Antiquities Organization in collaboration with the American Research Center in Egypt and the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania.(This title was originally published in 1976.)
Author: Andrea Ballestero
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Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human rightand a human right something different from a commodity. Andrea Ballestero shows how these ephemeral distinctions are made through four technolegal devicesformula, index, list and pact. She argues that what is at stake in these devices is not the making of a distinct futurebut what counts as the future in the first place. A Future History of Water is an ethnographically rich and conceptually charged journey into ant-filled water meters, fantastical water taxonomies, promises captured on slips of paper, and statistical maneuvers that dissolve the human of human rights. Ultimately, Ballestero demonstrates what happens when instead of trying to fix its meaning, we make waters changing form the precondition of our analyses.ReviewAndrea Ballestero masterfully brings analytic complexity to wide-ranging fieldswhile simultaneously showing us that these fields are not as separate as they first seem. If this sounds like ethnographic magic, thats because it is the magic of a most creative method carefully and brilliantly pursued to provide awareness of scholarly habits of thought,in the process, offeringalter-inspiration. (Marisol de la Cadena, author of Earth Beings Ecologies of Practice across Andean Worlds) Andrea Ballestero is one of the most eloquent environmental ethnographers of her generation and one of the most important ethnographers of scientific practice that I have ever encountered. Her writing is beautiful, her theoretical and analytic ability are stunning, and the connections that she makes between her empirical evidence and larger conversations in the social sciences are breathtaking. While there are other anthropologists who write about the kinds of techniques that Ballestero dissects, historicizes, and theorizes, nobody does it while always grounding them in social relations and social reproduction. (Paige West, author of Dispossession and the Environment Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea) About the Author bAndrea Ballesterob is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rice University and Director of The Ethnography Studio.