Customer Reviews:
Great book, just takes a lot of time to read!.......2007-07-18
Great book. I got it thinking it'd relate mostly to candle charts. But it covers everything. The book is pretty confusing at first and takes awhile to get used to the author's writing style. He uses words that college business students should understand. It'll take you forever to read, if you want to learn what it has to offer, but it's well worth it. Just google the topics after reviewing to get a full understanding of what Pring offers. Well worth the $10 used price (got lucky!.
a must read for those who try to understand technical analysis.......2007-05-07
I have nothing to say more than what I said in the title , this book is essential for learning technical analysis , no wonder why it's included in most of the reading lists of the technical analysis certificates .
Major Layout Problems!.......2007-03-13
While the book is generally well organized and presents materials helpful to the beginning technical trader in simple terms with examples, visual organization of the book leaves the reader page flipping and frustrated. Rarely are the graphics or charts which are referred to in the text on the same or nearby page. I constantly find myself having to turn pages and search out which chart is being referenced, a very detracting exercise when trying to study technical analysis!
Good book.......2007-03-08
Goes through all the basics of trendlines etc, I really enjoy Pring's writing style and analogy's. This book alone won't turn you into a profitable trader, but will give you the core you need to seek out a good system and understand it.
Good reference; poorly edited.......2005-04-05
Though the book is detailed and fairly comprehensive, the poor editing mars the quality of the book. Even the acknowledgement page contains 4 typos. That is a certain embarrassment. It is difficult to overcome the initial impression of sloppy editing and the book seems to have been rushed to meet some deadlines.
If you can get past the editorial issues, the book is a good collection of almost any interesting technical indicator that is available. While this book cannot be a substitute for the classic book by Murphy on technical investing, it is still a good resource for any investor. Of specific interest to the reader who is already aware of the technical investing (and a Murphy fan), the sections on "psychological strategies" is an interesting read. Other than that the book presents information from a huge variety of sources that has anything to do with indicators and oscillators. If you want to invest in only 1 book on technical investing, the book by Murphy is a better bet, with its better organization, editing and use of examples. This book, however, is a welcome addition, and not necessarily a must-have.
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Book Description
It's Hollywood. Actresses hate getting passed over. Cold shoulders are common. Petty sniping is part of the fabric of the place, but it takes two to fight. Cassidy Hyland's birthday party for her son is about to spark much more than a truce with Brenna Lanigan, her cold costar on the television sci-fi series "Time Trails". It becomes the first step in a journey neither woman ever imagined her heart could take: to love another woman. Both women have pretty "straight" personal stories. Brenna is "just over the hill" by Hollywood standards. She's 41, with two teenage sons, and a second husband back in her Midwest hometown. She has spent from age 18 at theaters and on television, even a few movies, living out roles that other people write. Cassidy is relatively new. At 32, she came to Hollywood after majoring in Literature and Drama in college. She did a little modeling, got small parts, had a child, and escaped her abusive marriage when she landed on "Time Trails". From the warmth of an unexpected hug, to the heat on a sunlit mountain top, getting to know each other brings these two women closer to the truth of themselves, and how open their hearts have never been before. Turning Point explores the journey of these two women surrounded by a mix of supportive and unsupportive cast, from colleagues, to children, parents and spouses, both current and former.
Customer Reviews:
Believable.......2007-08-12
I've read a few "straight woman falls for straight woman" novels and have found most of them to be contrived and utterly unbelievable. But in this book, the attraction develops at a slower pace and seems genuine. I read it in one sitting at a beach in Provincetown. It made for a very pleasant day.
Jennifer Parello, author of Dateland
Page Turner.......2007-07-16
One of the best written lesbian novels I've read in many years... the women develop a relationship, not just jump in. You understand each of them and get to know the supporting casts without meaningless meanderings.
I had to read it a second time within 1 week just so I didn't miss anything.
More like this, please. Don't sell out like so many others.
One little error picked up.... Cassidy took her little son to an Oakland A's baseball game against Baltimore in L.A. That would have been impossible. Oakland A's ARE in OAKLAND it would most likely have been the Anaheim Angels vs Baltimore... but who cares about a baseball game with these two women?
FANTASTIC BEACH READ!.......2007-07-06
I picked this book up after receiving an recommendation from a friend who loved it, and I can certainly see why. "Turning Point" is a sneak peek behind the scenes of the cut-throat entertainment industry in Hollywood where starlets are literally clawing their way to stay on top. "Turning Point" explores the insecurities and lonliness two such women endure while shooting a top-notch television series. It seems that everyone is flocking to them to benefit from their fame in same way, shape or form. They soon discover that they can turn to each other for greater comfort than anyone else could ever hope to offer.
"Turning Point" is a sweetly written and thoroughly enjoyable story about a wonderful, unexpected love between two powerful, intelligent women. I call it the beach read of the summer. And probably the fall. And what the heck, the winter, too, if you're so inclined to be on a beach in your sweater....
A well-written novel.......2007-07-06
This is a story of two "straight" women who fall in love. One has never even thought about being involved with a woman, the other has only had a drunken one night stand with a college friend. The change from Brenna's 'you're trespassing in my professional space, you blonde bimbo' to her willingness to try friendship is very believable. Since Cassidy always wanted to be friends the progression is natural.
The writing is far superior to many of the lesbian novels I have read.
The only fault I find with the story is the final resolution. (I know she couldn't include the things I want to know given space constraints.) It seems that Brenna's sons are too quickly moved from shock and in one case hostility to near acceptance. Teen-agers can buck their parent's attachment to a new significant other long enough and hard enough to throw a major monkey wrench in the works. Other than that this is by far one of the best-constructed and interesting books I've read. She draws excellent supporting characters from co-workers to neighbors to broken-hearted and/or jealous and spiteful discarded significant others.
One reviewer expresses surprise that the author is a straight woman. I on the other hand, make no assumptions about the author's psychosexual orientation. I have a dear friend a lesbian, who is happily married and dedicates her work ot her husband.
Coloring Outside the Lines.......2007-07-02
This debut novel by Lara Zielinsky shows much promise. I enjoy books that achieve more than the standard required elements of the genre, in this case, lesbian romance. Turning Point gets stars on all counts.
First, the setting is in Hollywood series television. The two main characters are actresses on a popular Sci Fi show. Next, a central concern in this novel is with their children. On those two scores alone, this novel is different and deserving of a read. The writing is crisp and clear. Scenes are well drawn. Plot moves along.
It is refeshing to find something different and unique. These are working mothers whose major motivation is the raising of their kids, and what they do, the relationships they have, affect their children. It takes time for adults to form serious relationships when they consider how they impact the family dynamic.
The kids are believable and endearing. So are the main characters Cassidy and Brenna. They are not super stars, super moms, or super anything. I like that they just happen to be actresses.
You'll like this first novel by Lara Zielinsky very much. Fall in love with the kids; I know I did. You'll feel the anguish and the struggle to put the children first at the same time Brenna and Cassidy try to understand and explore the growing attraction between themselves. Real life is sometimes messy, and sometimes things take longer than the length of a TV episode to resolve.
Book Description
Now in trade paperback, the ground-breaking and carefully documented book that shows how couples come apart.
Customer Reviews:
Straight forward book to help understand an unwanted break-up.......2007-05-13
This book is an excellent resource to help put the mechanics of a break-up in perscpective. It is like group therapy. You understand better the problems with trying to convince an unwilling lover to stay in the relationship. The book helps you have an open dialogue with the person who does not really want to talk to you anymore. The book provides in essense the other's persons part of the dialogue. It does not sugar coat what is happening, but allows you to appreciate where you truly are in the timeline of the relationship.
The review by 'Sabreur' is right........2007-03-14
Damn. We've done that.
Damn. We've done all of it.
From the first negotiations ("Please - hear me.") to the trying ("Can things change?") to the eventual but inevitable end. ("No. They can't.")
I wish I'd found this book earlier.
I don't have any illusions it would have changed the outcome in my situation. But I would have understood more. And agonized less.
As much as we would have liked to assign our relationship difficulty to outside factors, what was broken was between US. I see now that it had been breaking for a long, long time.
The book helped me come to terms. And in coming to terms, I came to peace.
I wish you the same.
Best book for understanding "How did this happen?".......2007-02-04
Yes, this book is depressing, but only because it offers a clear look into the mind of the partner who has already made the decision to leave the relationship. I found it extremely helpful in coming to understand the "invisible" thought process going on in my soon-to-be ex-husband's mind. I was reeling with confusion and disbelief when my husband of 21 years left me. He said he had come to a decision to "move on". He never gave me the benefit of knowing his reasons or opening a discussion of his concerns in the last few years of our marriage. He claimed to have tried to tell me, but I didn't comprehend the extent of his dissatisfaction. As anyone can attest, most long term marriages have their ups and downs. Especially when you are involved with raising children, you may believe some loss of intimacy is just a temporary phase of the child rearing years. Reading this book made me realize why he wouldn't consider marital counseling to help restore our marriage. I realized that he was past that point, and was already in the final stages of the uncoupling process. For me, what appeared to be a "sudden" decision on his part to leave was in fact being planned for quite awhile without my knowledge.
As other reviewers have pointed out, this book will not help you or give you hope in saving a relationship. But for understanding the mind of person who doesn't care anymore about making the relationship work, it is invaluable. The truth of the matter is, while it takes two to make a marriage, it only takes one to end it. This book explains that concept and why you can't do anything about it. Understanding this helps with accepting the inescapable truth: your relationship is over.
Paperback medicine.......2006-12-24
When I divorced my first husband, I lost everything. Self-esteem, possessions, family, concentration--and then I sat down and read this book, in a couple of hours, and found that finally I could concentrate on something again. I read it with tears pouring down my face and started to accept the very harsh, destructive, debilitating, demoralizing, soul-destroying truth. No one is going to tell you it's easy, but at least you can use this book to get the closest thing to an answer that you can get to the bigger question of, "Why?" Then you can move on to the anger stage. Try a DVD copy of "Audition." Kiri kiri kiri kiri!
The Essential Book for Anyone Already Married or Getting Married.......2006-07-01
This book was published about three years after i was divorced and I didn't get around to reading it until many years later. When I did, I read it in a single night. It explained everything that had occurred in my divorce. Since then, I have occasionally summarized the book to other people and have yet to meet anyone who does not know one or more married couples who carried out the pattern described in the book and ended up getting a divorce. It turns out that there is a pattern which appears over and over again in marriages where no one is dyfunctional or abusive, but one person (the initiator), nevertheless, is vaguely dissatisfied and doesn't know why, but decides not to tell the partner and instead begins to carry out the pattern. Bascially, the initiator is bored and secretly blames the partner. As the author notes, once the pattern starts it is normally impossible to stop it because whenever the problems raised by the initiator are solved by the partner, the initiator simply invents new ones. At the end the partner has no real understanding of what has happened and is quite devastated, often for years. This book is essential reading for any couples getting married because if both are aware of the pattern, it will not be possible for it to occur. It would also be helpful to those who are married, preferably before the pattern has started, for the same reason. The pattern fits well with what the existentialist Sartre called bad faith or self-deception, since as the author uncovered, many initiators in the study were not even aware what they were doing. It would be a great gift for anyone getting married. Not reading this book is like walking along the side of a cliff blindfolded.
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The Optimistic Jew.......2007-08-31
The back page of Capra's book contains the following: "We have reached a time of dramatic and potentially dangerous change, a turning point for the planet as a whole. We need a new vision of reality, one that allows the forces transforming our world to flow together as a positive movement for social change." The book was written before the fall of the Soviet Union and European Communism, before the advent of the Internet Revolution, and before the rise of international stateless terror. Much of what seemed exotic at the time - alternative wellness treatment, alternative energy, and environmental concern - have since become mainstream. Other problems he presents as potentially catastrophic have become obsolete because of the productivity potential of the Internet and the knowledge economy.
Yet the above quote is still relevant as an apt description of our present world and the book can still be read with benefit by the inquisitive and concerned world citizen. The title served as a useful metaphor for me when writing "The Optimistic Jew" -- it seems to me that Jewish civilization itself is at a "turning point" within the general "Turning Point".
Great find.......2006-06-05
Found this today at the annual library sale for $2 and this was right after showing my class the movie "Mind Walk" which is based on the book. Talk about coincidence! I have "The Web of Life".
Excellent questioning of commonplace ideas!.......2005-01-05
The text contains criticism on several commonly accepted concepts, from drugs advertising to public health to physics (almost a summary of The Tao of Physics) to agriculture to nuclear power, all extremely relevant topics to anyone.
As I graduated in Business Administration, one of chapters I liked most is about Economics - exposing the lack of proper concepts to start with, then the common weak and biased conclusions reached based on those weak and biased concepts. Ecology discussions are also great, though alarming - but I think few people can stay calm reading about that in any media today.
The title refers to a bigger idea, that of an overall crisis and upcoming transformation of our society. The "jump" from criticism of specific issues (above) to this conclusion is highly subjective, and so many will disagree to it. Even if you do disagree, read the specifics anyway; they are still interesting.
It's also wonderfully written; in almost every paragraph you can take out one or two thoughts. I ended up underlining most of the book.
I highly recommend it. The exercise of questioning our concepts helps understanding. Even if you reach other conclusions yourself, it's still worthy to question!
Important messages.......2003-10-03
I think Fritjof Capra is making some very important observations in this book. Through his observations, the author states that Western Civilization is gradually approaching the climax of a major turning point in its evolution. He suggests that the cause of this is in our consciousness, a certain way we are seeing and understanding our experiences. This is leading to many of our present day environmental, social, political, and financial crises. We are all sitting on a treebranch that is gradually getting too heavy. Many modern theorists try to explain this phenomena but Capra articulates this in a way that many people can understand. This book as well as "The Ever-Transcending Spirit" by Toru Sato do a very fine job in trying to open the public eye to these issues. Both of these books are highly recommended for people who want to understand things from a wider, larger, and deeper perspective.
a much-needed mind walk.......2003-02-01
This landmark, timeless work and the movie based on it (Mindwalk) are great accomplishments that have much relevance to today's events and where the world is headed.
Read before it is too late!
Book Description
Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can take place in a moral vacuum. It is not possible for education to be nonreligious, deliberately excluding the basic questions about life. All education builds on the foundation of someone's worldview. Education deals with fundamental questions that require religious answers. Learning to read and write is simply the process of acquiring the tools to ask and answer such questions.
A second reason for the failure of public schools, Wilson feels, is modern teaching methods. He argues for a return to a classical education, firm discipline, and the requirement of hard work.
Often educational reforms create new problems that must be solved down the road. This book presents alternatives that have proved workable in experience.
"Good at diagnosing our educational afflictions, Douglas Wilson is still better at finding remedies. His Logos School provides a model, a practical design, for the restoration in the curriculum of Christian humanism--as contrasted with what Christopher Dawson called secular humanism." --Russell Kirk, D. Litt., editor, The University Bookman
Customer Reviews:
One big ad for Logos School!.......2006-07-05
I appreciate many of the Logos School curriculum materials, along with the overall philosophy of the school. I looked forward to reading founder Douglas Wilson's book.
At the beginning, the book was very interesting, mostly discussing what goals the Logos School has and how the school implements various curriculum to teach its students.
The author continually vaguely slams Christian schools that are basically secular but just add in Bible study/prayer time. I think it's fair to say that most people would not want this type of Christian school, but other than bashing these schools, Mr. Wilson did not give any advice to the reader as to how to identify these schools or help to bring about change.
When I reached the chapter on homeschooling, Mr. Wilson lost all credibility with me. Being an educator at a Christian school, I would assume he is also very familiar with homeschooling, and he in fact claims that he and his wife would choose this option, if "a good Christian school were not available." Reading his book, the reader begins to understand that Logos School is one of the few schools in the nation that might meet this criteria.
He then goes on to say that parents teaching at home in the early years who then place their children "in a Christian school to continue their education" have fundamentally identical education principles as the Christian school. BUT "if a home schooling family maintains that children can be given a complete education in the average home (say, K-12), then frankly there is an important difference in educational philosophy." Boloney. I began to see that the "difference" might have more to do with the funding of Christian schools, not the educational choices among each family.
The logic Mr. Wilson puts forth for this argument is bizarre. He claims that a homeschool mom could be dividing her time "teaching a 12-year-old, a 10-year-old, and an 8-year-old, and she has to teach each one of them history, math, English, science, etc." Hunh? The homeschooling families that I know blend as many of these subjects as possible. The only people that I know who teach each child separately in all of these subjects belong to virtual academies (publically funded schools where the children are taught at home by a parent).
Mr. Wilson claims that parents can more easily teach younger children at home but that it becomes more difficult as children get older. "[I]t is one thing to teach your 5-year-old how to read and quite another to teach Latin to an 11-year-old." Yes, Mr. Wilson, it is. Teaching reading is a far more scary thought, especially considering so many schools do a poor job. Latin's not so tough in comparison.
Additionally Mr. Wilson also claims that homeschooling parents are unable to adequately research claims of various textbooks they use to teach their own children. I beg to differ. Many homeschoolers can and do often refer to original material, just as one is led to assume must be done by Logos School (although there are no claims that Logos School "adequately researches" textbook claims).
Mr. Wilson interjects quotes by homeschooling experts Raymond and Dorothy Moore, and various "unschooling" theories to "prove his point." However, these experts and theories are fundamentally opposite of the whole rigorous classical approach that Mr. Wilson promotes. This would be similar to using quotes from (former California Governor) Jerry Brown to argue a platform of President Bush!
This book was a huge disappointment. I believe Mr. Wilson is capable of so much more, and unfortunately, he left a very bad taste in my mouth. Blech!
Classical Christian Education provides children with integrated view of the world.......2005-12-02
I found this book to be excellent. We have our two children (5 and 7 years old) enrolled in a Classical Christian School in Troy MI. Both are doing wonderfully, and the rigorous approach to all areas of their education is producing great results. Doug Wilson does a great job of inspiring the reader to look into this great alternative to public education (or even watered down "christian" education). Giving your children the Tools of learning is one of the best gifts you can give to them.
An "education" about Classical education.......2005-09-28
Excellent-Insightful and thought-provoking. Makes me proud and excited to have my child enrolled in a classical education school.
Tested and found excellent.......2005-07-29
We started our daughter in kindergarden at a school modeled after this Book. She will start 3rd grade, and Latin, this fall.
We are pleased, from a historical and Christian context, with the outstanding learning and environment she has been recieving.
I would like to point out that 2 reviewers said that they didn't think the book was helpful for homeschooling. They are looking at the wrong book. There is a very good book on how to homeschool in the classical fashion: The Well-Trained Mind. I stumbled onto that book in my search for alternatives to government education, and then found that there was a school locally that followed these techniques. There are 140 schools around the country that follow this model; you can see them at www.accsedu.org
Seeing this stuff work!.......2005-03-07
My wife and I read this book as a prerequisite to getting our son into a private Christian school. While I am no education expert, my wife has a masters degree in the field, and experience in the public school bureaucracy.
We are seeing the approach that Wilson describes have fantastic results. At our son's school, the kids are tested at the end of third grade in the major subjects, and their scores are weighed against public school proficiency levels in each subject. There is not one subject where our 3rd graders are performing lower than a 6th grade (public school) level.
That alone speaks volumes. However, the book repeatedly makes the point that cleansing a public school curriculum from objectionable material and adding "chapel" or a Bible class does not a Christian school make. Our goal is to build an education around a Christian worldview, in hopes that our children can understand the Bible in context (without cherry-picking verses to suit some agenda) AND in application. This way, we don't raise "compartmental Christians," or folks who live one way during the week and another on Sunday.
Wilson also makes great points about what effect being accredited can have on a private school.
Lastly another focus of the overall text is to teach children to THINK. If public schools can graduate students that cannot read, do you really want to trust them with equipping your child with cognitive reasoning skills? Our answer is "no." This book lays a foundation to equip our kids with the ability to reason and think on a high level.
Book Description
The modern era is over. Assumptions that shaped twentieth-century thought and culture, the bridges we crossed to this present moment, have blown up. The postmodern age has begun.
Just what is postmodernism? The average person would be shocked by its creed: Truth, meaning, and individual identity do not exist. These are social constructs. Human life has no special significance, no more value than animal or plant life. All social relationships, all institutions, all moral values are expressions and masks of the primal will to power.
Alarmingly, these ideas have gripped the nation's universities, which turn out today's lawyers, judges, writers, journalists, teachers, and other culture-shapers. Through society's influences, postmodernist ideas have seeped into films, television, art, literature, politics; and, without his knowing it, into the head of the average person on the street.
Christ has called us to proclaim the gospel to a culture grappling with postmodernism. We must understand our times. Then, through the power that Christ gives, we can counter the prevailing culture and proclaim His sufficiency to our society's very points of need.
"While pundits wring their hands over the radicalism of political correctness, speech codes, and outrageous art, Gene Edward Veith takes unerring aim at the intellectual roots of it all. The most important book for anyone who wants to know what's behind the political correctness movement." --Chuck Colson, founder, Prison Fellowship
"An ideal guide for Christians who don't want to be like the notorious military strategist preparing to fight the last war instead of the next one." --Herbert Schlossberg, author,
Idols for Destruction
"Pinpoints the strengths and weaknesses of postmodern thought and points the way for Christians to take advantage of both." --E. Calvin Beisner, Covenant College
Customer Reviews:
The book that makes you say, "Ahhh! I get it!".......2007-05-07
Our culture today is basically an "anything goes," your-truth my-truth system. How are we as Christians to deal with the confusion and overload of information and media? This book explains how culture became the way it is today, as well as the pros and cons of society. I would recommend this book to absolutely everyone, because it helps you realize how to filter through the media and relativism that saturates our lives every day. Seriously, this book is a must read, a book that will teach you how to perceive culture! It is so important not to be lost in the abyss level confusion! It's entertaining as well!
Good criticism of the Pstmodernism.......2006-12-28
Great book from Evangelical perspective.
This is a must read to understand and resist contemporary destructive pop culture. Society is heading in wrong direction. People have to read books like this one to see where and how postmodernism ruined and still ruining society.
This is a great introduction and overview.
Valuable book.
Great Schaefferesque Analysis of Culture.......2006-08-11
This is the best and most incisive introduction to criticism on postmodernism I have come across. I won't go into his arguments as other reviewers already have, but I will point out a few detractors.
Veith is too kind to Humanism. He doesn't find postmodernism's "Anti-Humanism" itself a very perverted from of Humanism, which it very much is, for it is still man's arrogating autonomy for himself (to declare _anything_ about his own existence) without a real standard of behavior. By what standard is he the judge of his own existence and can this view himself in _any_ way other than the right way, that is the one instituted by the creator of reality itself? None. And Veith consistently fails to elucidate matters like these. If you don't understand what I mean, read the next detractor.
Another is Veith's belief in democracy, which follows his belief (or implicit condoning) of humanism. Democracy is also a physical manifestation of autonomy, one that denies the creator's sovereign control over all creation _as creator_, which He is. Veith allows man to construct law for himself as long as he follows God's transcendental absolutes, but Veith fails to see that these transcendental absolutes operate in every function of human life, especially in law & government!
For a better analysis of these and other issues, consult C. Van Til in _Defense of the Faith_ (among others) or R. J. Rushdoony in _By What Standard?_ (available from chalcedonstore.com).
But, enough of that. This is an _excellent_ book on postmodernism. Every graduating high school student should read this before even thinking about applying to a university. I sure wish I had!
Optimistic Outlook in Postmodern Times.......2004-01-16
I learned from his interesting summaries and commentary on modern and postmodern thought, art, society, and religion. The author is optimistic on Christianity surviving and flourishing in postmodern times, after Christians fought their greatest battle of the 20th century and won against the oppressive Soviet puppet masters. In the conclusion, I was pleased to read the brief quotes from Solzhenitsyn's 1978 critique, delivered at Harvard, on the spiritual emptiness of Western culture civilization and how he implores Christians to begin a "spiritual blaze."
Excellent intro to postmodernism.......2003-08-16
In this book, Gene Edward Veith offers a readable and insightful look at the worldview and effects of postmodernism, which dominates much of American culture.
After first explaining the origins and characteristics of modernism, Mr. Veith then shows its decline and demise, leading to the fresh position of postmodernism. He highlights the heavy influence literary criticism had in the development of postmodernism, with deconstructionist theories reformulating how people thought about truth. This section I found particularly interesting, since I hadn't had much exposure to deconstructionism before.
Having outlined the fundamental principles of postmodernism, Mr. Veith spends the rest of the book explaining how postmodernism is revealed in our culture and what to look out for. He explains the difference between modernist and postmodernist art and architecture. He observes the explosion of postmodernism in books, music, and television. He describes postmodernism's influence on politics, spirituality, and Christianity. Pretty much every sphere of life has fallen under some segment of postmodernism's shadow, and Gene Edward Veith exposes this fact in no uncertain terms.
Mr. Veith closes his book with some practical suggestions on how Christians should interact with postmodernism. He notes that there is a degree of truth in what deconstructionists say, and it should be embraced as such. Christians should seize the true benefits postmodernism has brought in overturning modernism, and not throw them away with the system. But we must also watch for the negative effects of postmodernism, and the ways it subverts the gospel. This system of thinking is indeed quite dangerous, and Christians must be watchful, and cognizant of the peril.
Do you want to understand contemporary American culture? its overriding philosophy? its danger? If so, this is the book for you.
Customer Reviews:
not only for cancer people but also for heathly ordinary who wants to get the max out of life........2006-02-27
I dont understand somthing, why all the time people are saying that this is for people figuting cancer? LeShan in his own words says that cancer is a normal process that is heppening in every body 24 hours a day, it is only the immune system that isnt able to fight the process and as a result what we are calling a diease excist.
I am trying to say that everybody should read and accept what is in this book, the immune system is the gate for everything, dosent matter weather you are figting the "diease" or weather you are an elite athlete needs to strengen his body and mind.
It is up to you weather you use the tools writen here, but it is an eye opening book that tells you how far you can go.
Is this book intended as a joke?.......2004-09-26
I've had cancer (and recurrances) for 7 years, and I've read every book on every aspect of the subject, and this book is the absolute worst I've yet to come across. LeShan writes a weird mixture of vintage voodoo and goofy "new-age" hype. LeShan's lethal psychobabble can be literally deadly as he lures frightened, newly-diagnosed cancer patients into drinking oceans of green tea while while scaring them away from conventional, proven treatment. Avoid this book, and the others like it, unless you want a good laugh.
Inspiring - entertaining - wonderful.......2004-01-05
LeShan's message is simple -- put your life before your illness. For years, he helped people with cancer to live the lives they wanted to live, to "sing their own song" as he puts it. These people frequently recovered from cancer in the process of working on their lives.
Some of these stories are amazing. The people you meet are ordinary folks with a lot of strikes against them, but they manage to transform their lives and, in a surprising number of cases, cure their cancer.
I apply LeShan's approach in my wellness workshops and in my book, The Art of Getting Well. Get your life right and your health will likely (although not necessarily) follow.
David Spero RN www.art-of-getting-well.com
This book offers hope!.......2002-06-23
Cancer as a Turning Point is a well researched, informative and interesting book written by an expert in the field of cancer and cancer research. LeShan is a psychotherapist rather than a medical doctor and thus he approaches the topic of cancer from a different perspective. In the book he provides much useful and practical advice for cancer patients, their families and friends, therapists of cancer patients and medical professionals in the cancer field. This book is packed with information but progress a bit slowly at times. Overall, it fills a niche other cancer books miss because it addresses cancer more holistically and a more emotional, psychological point of view. While not perfect, this book is definitely worth reading for anyone touched by cancer.
Putting It All Together.......2001-02-17
LeShan's book is a excellent review and summary of important concepts in holistic approaches to cancer. He reminds us that holistic medicine rests on four basic axioms: (1) Health requires treatment of all levels -- physical, psychological, and spiritual; (2) Standardized approaches are not helpful -- treatment programs must be individualized; (3) Patients need to be part of decisions, given as much knowledge and authority as they will accept; (4) Everyone has self-healing abilities that need to be engaged.
Book Description
Presenting a historic and contemporary look at curriculum's journey–from its conceptualization in 1947 to present–this innovative work combines intellectual commentary, impressionistic portraiture, parallel tales, interviews, and excerpted scholarly materials to create a living history of the curriculum field. Unique in approach, it uses rich narrative, primary sources and thoughtful discussion to reveal the complex issues and dynamic conversations that have shaped major Turning Points in American curriculum. It is a book that chronicles contemporary curriculum and invites readers to identify with and ultimately participate in this important field of intellectual study.
Customer Reviews:
An Indispensable Text.......2007-03-19
It has been said that we cannot fully understand a text unless we know about the whole culture from which it emerged. This book provides that background understanding for those who would study the many and varied texts in the field of curriculum. As an instructor of graduate level curriculum students, I have used this book to provide the type of context that is not available in any other source. It is extremely accessible without oversimplifying a very complicated field. My students appreciate the comprehensive review of scholars and their texts with the opportunity to "sample" many of them in the primary document excerpts. They have also commented on the manner in which the reflective questions actually do make them think (unlike those in many other texts) and get them to focus on issues they may have missed otherwise. In addition, the "varied tales" sections drive home the realization that the study of curriculum is inextricably linked to the study of broader social issues. This is a book that I will continue to use and use again with my classes.
A great book. Worth reading!.......2007-02-25
Turning Points walks us through a historic journey in curriculum field in a unique way. I like the way it combines interviews, documents, social history, and curriculum ideas.
It's a great book that encompasses historic issues and current issues (e.g., high-stakes testing and international issues). It's not just a static text. Rather, it is a dynamic conversation between the authors, the great scholars, and the readers.
An excellent choice for curriculum researchers, educators and students.
Good Becomes Better.......2007-01-01
This was a groundbreaking book when it was first released several years ago as it astutely combined interviews, documents, social history, and curriculum ideas. This NEW edition brings better formatting and, more importantly, additional content related to high-stakes testing and international issues. It is incredibly reader-friendly and captures the history of curriculum thought and work from 1950s onward.
Book Description
Evangelicalism's premier historian provides a general introduction to church history organized around 13 key moments in the history of Christianity.
Customer Reviews:
Turning Points.......2007-09-25
Don't care for the type font. It does contain factual info. Will use as a resource text for term paper.
Great Supplemental Text.......2007-06-28
As a Church History professor I highly recommend this book as a supplemental text that would complement an edited book of readings and perhaps a biography or two. This volume picks up on decisive events, and as such is not an encyclopedic text with all the facts and figures. Noll is a great writer and he knows how to synthesize very complex matters such as the Council of Nicaea. He does a masterful job in explaining this theological maze to students--especially ones who do not have theological degrees. Because of the brevity of the book, some important figures recieve very little space (St. Augustine) or no space at all (Abelard), and women are few and far between. Nevertheless, it served as an excellent text in my classes at Calvin Theological Seminary, where I taught before I was given the boot ("My Calvin Seminary Story"). Each chapter begins and ends with worship liturgy, hymns, and prayers fitting the time period.
A Useful & Edifying Book.......2007-02-15
Noll's book is well worth the cost and the time to read. It is a fine resource for teaching in the local church or for individual study. Written in plain prose with adequate explanation of the technical theological terms that must be considered, it is easily accessible by the average reader today. If for nothing else, this book will acquaint or re-acquaint us with the importance of doctrines, Evangelical piety no matter in what tradition it is found, and how the world can be changed. It is implicitly, a call to return to our roots.
Noll's major contribution in this work however, may very well be how he demonstrates to us that crucial turning points in the progress of history are often the consequence of intense, penetrating debate concerning rather precise and difficult concepts. These debates may be acrimonius and there may be many dark episodes that accompany them, but Noll's synopsis makes us realize just how vital those debates are, even when so accompanied. We often consider the ancient thinkers as being somewhat primitive because their technology was not as advanced as ours. A survey of history such as this will quickly disabuse us of this notion and cause us to reflect upon the paucity of such thinking around us now as was evidenced in these debates.
I highly recommend reading the book. It would be good to pay attention to the names and dates but the real teaching, for me, is that we moderns need to get back to thinking deep thoughts about our time and place as these men and women did in theirs.
Excellent introduction to the history of the church/theology.......2006-06-12
This book was used for a class I took last year on the history of Christian theology, and I greatly enjoyed this book. Noll manages to take 2000 years of history and center it around 12 major turning points, interweaving ideas and events around these points. He makes it very readable to someone who had not studies the subject before, and presents a new perpective on a number of issues to those who have studied this before. I found it to be a very enjoyable book.
The only complaint I have about this book is the lack of discussion of the 20th century. Barth, Lewis, Vatican II, etc. hardly get mentioned. He really should have dealt with this some. As it is, he brings us up to about 1910 or so then leaves us with only a vague and fuzzy vision of where the church has gone from there.
Overall grade: A
History! - A God of History?.......2006-05-29
Christians believe that God is a God of history. Events, councils, decisions, all involving people, are part of God's continuing revelation through history.
This book allows the reader to see Christianity's history since the fall of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. with the pushing of the early church from its Jewish roots into the surrounding Roman world to events that are occurring around us today.
Christians who do not know their Christian heritage since the New Testament times including the struggles and debates that bring us to where we are today should read this book.
Included "turning points" in this book are as Luther and what we now call the Reformation. There are endless numbers of books with 300 to 600 pages available to read and learn about Luther and the Reformation. If, however, you want to learn of the Reformation and other chosen turning points with their beginnings, issues, and consequences in about 20 pages per topic, this is your book.
Noll brings over 13 turning points in the history of Christianity to his book in 20 page segments. The turning points are placed in full context of surrounding, influencing forces such as government, wars, economics, languages, theology, church maturity, Christian zeal, personalities, etc.
He closes with "turns" that are occurring today and what Christianity might look like in the future.
Customer Reviews:
Decent Study Guide for Fans of the Main Hardcover.......2006-05-11
For those who enjoyed the "Technical Analysis Explained" by Pring, but want to know if they can recall some of the facts, this is a great accompaniment, whether for an examination or just for some fun. (For CMT and CFT Level 1, this book would not help much, as the exam questions do not cover much charting, despite assigning the main text book as core reading). The multiple choice style questions cover nearly all chapters. There are around 10 to 20 questions per chapter, which implies that one can finish the entire quiz book within a day. At $20, it is a bit on the expensive side, hence my low valuation.
Excellent start on Technical Analysis.......2005-12-19
Many of the reviewers for the hardback mentioned typos etc. I have the inexpensive International Edition (paperback) and didn't notice anything significant.
Anyhow, I found this book to be one of the best books on TA as it covers all the supporting theories of TA - not just the usual studies on momentum and price indicators.
It covers business-cycle theory & Dow theory, as well as some other wave theories towards the end.
Overall, the book's structure has been planned very well (and this is unusual for most books on TA). It aims to explain the relevance of technical analysis before taking you briefly into each topic. This helps place everything into perspective and avoids the reader from getting 'lost' in all the technicalities.
It can also help you understand the link between Fundamental Analysis and Technical Analysis.
Like all TA books, it won't give you the complete answer to the markets, but combine this with some other more detailed reference books and it will serve it's purpose.
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