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1. The Tragic Sense of Life: Ernst Haeckel and the Struggle over Evolutionary Thought by Robert J. Richards | |
Paperback: 576
Pages
(2009-08-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Prior to the First World War, more people learned of evolutionary theory from the voluminous writings of Charles Darwin’s foremost champion in Germany, Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), than from any other source, including the writings of Darwin himself. But, with detractors ranging from paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to modern-day creationists and advocates of intelligent design, Haeckel is better known as a divisive figure than as a pioneering biologist. Robert J. Richards’s intellectual biography rehabilitates Haeckel, providing the most accurate measure of his science and art yet written, as well as a moving account of Haeckel’s eventful life. “This is a brilliant book. . . . It is intellectually brilliant, offering an account of Haeckel as driven by tragic failures in love that colored his view of life. And the book is brilliant scholarship, drawing on a wide range of sources to paint a quite different picture of Haeckel’s work than other scholars have achieved.”—History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences "[An] excellent, well-illustrated and scholarly biography of Haeckel."—Andrew Robinson, Financial Times Customer Reviews (4)
In defence of Ernst Haeckel
Excellent, but too lengthy
Darwin's Defender in Germany and the World
A portrait of a scientific and very human life |
2. The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Robert J. Richards | |
Paperback: 606
Pages
(2004-09-01)
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A Multi-Faceted Affair
Science and aesthetics
Hidden dimension of evolution
Well-meant but unbalanced Richards is obsessed with Goethe.This is all very proper and German, and no doubt leads to brownie points in the form of research grants.It is also a woefully unfair and lopsided view. We get all the details about Goethe's mistresses, such deathless poetry as "I have fallen so in love with her/It's if I had drunk her blood" (where is Buffy when you really need her?), the intermaxillary bone, the Urplanze, and so on and on. This maximization comes at the price of minimizing every other contemporary thinker.Herder is dismissed as merely a sidekick of Goethe - indeed, since the bibliography doesn't list the Suphan edition (page 562) one may wonder if Richards even bothered to read the "Ideen" in full.Among the younger Romantics, only Schelling receives anything like a fair discussion.Alexander von Humboldt, who as a scientist and explorer had enormous and lasting influence not only on the German but European and American scientific scene, and whom Darwin himself credited with inspiring him, is given particularly derisive and cursory treatment, and one suspects more than a whiff of homophobia here.Chamisso, who was inferior to Goethe as a poet, but overwhelmingly superior to him as a scientist, doesn't even get so much as a footnote. There could be a good book written on romantic science and its continuing if unacknowledged influence - but this isn't it.
Orthodox neo-darwinist view on Darwin is an evident false an |
3. Operations Management for Competitive Advantage (The Irwin/Mcgraw-Hill Series. Operations and Decision Sciences) by Richard B. Chase, Nicholas J. Aquilano, F. Robert Jacobs | |
Hardcover: 763
Pages
(2000-08)
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George
Very basic
A Good Operations Management Book I really like the excellent applicable case studies cited as examples in the text. These really helped with comprehension on the material. The CD has some expanded spreadsheets, presentations for the various chapters, and miscellaneous other items of interest. Candidly, I have really not used the CD much, but it is a nice resource to have. Detractors for the book include the degree of statistical background and comprehension that students are presumed to have when they begin using the book (and the relatively poor mathematical explanations given for various formulas), the excessive price of the book, and the lack of clarity of some of the illustrations. Overall, this is a good book, and I would recommend it, especially to a student with a strong mathematical background.
Operations Management for Competitive Advantage Review
The Text Poorly Explains the Mathmatical Formulas Positives: The text, in each chapter, does a respectable job describing how OM applies in the various workplace environments. Though it is more manufacturing oriented, the service sector is addressed. Also, many of the problems at the end of the chapters are quite good. Negatives: First the book is written by college professors. What more needs to be said! Due to this fact, I believe the main problem of the book lies.This is not a subject which can be taught or written about unless you have some significant real-life experience.In the latter part of the book the chapters pertaining to forcasting,aggregate planning,inventory control,and material planning,the mathmatical models were poorly explained that study groups had to be formed and the professor, to his credit, devised some alternative approaches which were more realistic. The engineers and accountants in the study groups were a valuable asset to some students due to their math backgrounds. Most students in the class who came from various backgrounds; medical and business were lost/confused. The primary problem was not being able to understand how the models worked and applied to the material. Many of the students commented that they just gave up trying to understand the material, and mindlessly plugged values into the various formulas. Granted, many of these models are worked out on Excel programs in the business arena, but for one to understand their meaning, in an educational setting,you need to do the preliminary organization and calculations. I correlate this with a 3rd grade student "learning" their multiplication tables with a calculator.What have you really learned? ... Read more |
4. Foundations for Osteopathic Medicine by American Osteopathic Association, Robert C. Ward, Raymond J. Hruby, John A. Jerome, John M. Jones, Robert E. Kappler, Michael L. Kuchera, William A. Kuchera, Michael M. Patterson, Bernard R. Rubin, Michael A. Seffinger, Sarah A. Sprafka, Richard van Buskirk | |
Hardcover: 1472
Pages
(2002-10-07)
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Very pleased!
An improvement
Comprehensive resource
Great for beginning and experienced osteopaths.
The osteopathic manipulative therapy bible! |
5. Designing School Systems for All Students: A Toolbox to Fix America's Schools by Robert J. Manley, Richard J. Hawkins | |
Paperback: 164
Pages
(2009-12-16)
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6. Economic Valuation With Stated Preference Techniques (In Association With the UK Department for Transport) by Ian J. Bateman, Richard T. Carson, Brett Day, Michael Hanemann, Nick Hanley, Tannis Hett, Michael Jones-Lee, Graham Loomes, Susana Mourato, Ece Ozdemiroglu, David W. Pearce, Robert Sugden, John Swanson | |
Paperback: 458
Pages
(2004-05)
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Editorial Review Product Description Compiled by the leading experts in the field, this manual starts by explaining the concepts. It shows how to choose the most appropriate technique and how to design the questionnaires. Detailed advice on econometric analysis is provided, as well as explanation of the pitfalls that need to be avoided. |
7. Exploring Photography by Richard J. Walker, Robert E. Walker | |
Hardcover: 204
Pages
(2000-01-01)
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EXPLORING PHOTOGRAPHY
Exploring Photography |
8. AXIOM: The Scientific Computation System by Richard D. Jenks, Robert S. Sutor | |
Hardcover: 742
Pages
(1992-08-20)
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9. Human Development and Criminal Behavior: New Ways of Advancing Knowledge (Research in Criminology) by Michael Tonry, Lloyd E. Ohlin, David P. Farrington | |
Hardcover: 223
Pages
(1990-11-06)
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10. Fundamentals of Pediatric Dentistry by Richard J. Mathewson, Robert E. Primosch | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(1995-01-15)
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11. The Wisdom of Creation by Barbara Ellen Bowe, Mary C. Boys, Walter Brueggemann, Agnes Cunningham, Carol Dempsey, Mary Frohlich, Anthony J. Gittins, Mary Catherine Hilkert, Andrew L. Nelson, Richard J. Sklba | |
Paperback: 143
Pages
(2004-06)
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Editorial Review Product Description The work of a theology that will contribute to the care of and the future of the earth is still in many ways in its early stages. Dianne Bergant’s own work on themes of wisdom, creation, prayer, and preaching has made a significant contribution to that theology. It is hoped that these essays will continue that important task of making a better world in which the next generation will grow and mature. Essays and contributors are "The Creatures Know!" by Walter Brueggemann; "Redeeming ‘Gospel Feminism’ From Anti-Judaism," by Mary C. Boys, S.N.J.M.; "The Divine ‘I Am’: Wisdom Motifs in the Gospel of John," by Barbara E. Bowe; "Creation as a Divine-Human Collaboration," by Herman E. Schaalman; "Creation, Revelation and Redemption: Recovering the Biblical Tradition as a Conversation Partner to Ecology," by Carol J. Dempsey, O.P.; "Three Who Loved Wisdom," by Agnes Cunningham, S.S.C.M.; "’Charged with the Grandeur of God’: The Created World as a Path to Prayer," by Anthony J. Gittins, C.S.Sp.; "The ‘Myth of the Garden’ and Spiritual Ministry in Postmodern America," by Mary Frohlich, R.S.C.J.; "Nature’s Parables and the Preaching of the Gospel," by Mary Catherine Hilkert, O.P.; and "Preaching Morality without Moralizing," by Andrew L. Nelson. Customer Reviews (2)
Wisdom and The Care of Our World
Presents significant and seminal theological contributions |
12. Readings in Cognitive Psychology by Robert J. Sternberg, Richard K. Wagner | |
Paperback: 864
Pages
(1998-10-27)
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13. Nutrition And Eating Disorders (Eating Right: An Introduction to Human Nutrition) by Lori A. Smolin, Mary B. Grosvenor | |
Hardcover: 164
Pages
(2004-12-31)
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14. U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis by Richard Breitman, Norman J. W. Goda, Timothy Naftali, Robert Wolfe | |
Paperback: 508
Pages
(2005-04-04)
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The 'good Nazi'
Great at detail; Poor at putting in context
Better than no book at all
Painful truth about an unholy collaboration
Cross checking newly released documents |
15. Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) by Robert J. Richards | |
Paperback: 718
Pages
(1989-07-15)
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Forbidding, but probing |
16. Integrating Complementary Medicine into Veterinary Practice by Robert Goldstein, Paula J. O. Broadfoot, Richard Palmquist, Karen Johnston, Jiu Jia Wen, Margo Roman, Barbara Fougere | |
Hardcover: 768
Pages
(2007-12-01)
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An essential, key reference to any studying or working in the veterinary science field |
17. The Psychology of Spine Surgery | |
Hardcover: 288
Pages
(2003-04)
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Comprehensive |
18. Worship: A Hymnal and Service Book for Roman Catholics | |
Paperback: 112
Pages
(1982-06)
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19. The School for Quality Learning: Managing the School and Classroom the Deming Way by Donna K. Crawford, Richard J. Bodine, Robert G. Hoglund | |
Paperback: 296
Pages
(1994-01)
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20. Nucleases (Cold Spring Harbor Monograph Series) by Stuart M. Linn, R. Stephen Lloyd | |
Hardcover: 499
Pages
(1993-12)
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