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Muchas vidas, muchos sabios
Brian L. Weiss
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El doctor Brian Weiss -- psiquiatra del hospital Mount Sinai de Miami, EE.UU. -- relata en este libro su experiencia con Catherine, una paciente a quien trato bajo hipnosis, luego de intentar sin exito durante un ano la terapia convencional.
En estado de trance profundo -- solo un 15% de los hipnotizados logran llegar a este -- Catherine recordo sus vidas anteriores y revivio sus traumas que eran la clave de sus constantes pesadillas y su ansiedad, comenzando cuando se llamaba Aronda, en Egipto, 18 siglos antes de Cristo.
El escepticismo del doctor comenzo a diluirse cuando Catherine empezo a dar muestras de la existencia de "espacios entre una vida y otra," con sorprendentes acerca de la familia del Dr. Weiss y de su hijo fallecido. Al utilizar una terapia de "vidas pasadas" el Dr. Weiss pudo curar a esta paciente y avocarse a una nueva y mas significativa fase de su carrera.
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It leaves you wondering..........2007-09-30
The Spanish version of Brian Weiss's book, "Muchas vidas, muchos sabios" is even more intriguing to me than my English version. (La version del libro de Brian Weiss es aun mas intrigante para me que la version en Ingles.) For those who believe in reincarnation, this is a great book (Para aquellos que creen en la reincarnacion, este es un gran libro.)
Sólo para los que necesitan creer.......2007-03-26
No seré yo quien quite la ilusión de quien necesite de otra vida para llevar mejor la presente. Pero analizado con sentido crítico, este libro presenta numerosos signos de ser totalmente inventado:
- Alondra, la primera reencarnación, afirma estar en el añor 1863 antes de Cristo. ¿Desde cuando el CALENDARIO CRISTIANO SE UTILIZÓ ANTES DE NACER CRISTO? Y dejando aparte este pequeño detalle, ¿cómo Catherine -la persona que supuestamente Weiss estudió- puede llegar a saber el año al instante? ¿realmente se piensa Weiss que la humanidad ha tenido siempre tan presente el AÑO en el que vivía? - otra cosa son las estaciones dentro de un periodo anual- . Decir la fecha parece sencillamente a un recurso narrativo para impresionar al lector, pero que no tiene ningun sentido en el caso acontecido.
- El libro cae en tópicos que en una novela serían incluso detalles "malos". Por ejemplo, ¿por qué la vida que Catherine vivió a mediados de siglo XX ha de ser, precisamente, piloto de guerra alemán? ¿Por qué no era campesino en la India, o habitante de Brasil, o cualquiera de los millones de europeos que no tuvieron nada que ver con la guerra mundial? Es un detalle que le quita veracidad a la narración!
- La teoría de que las almas viajan en grupo es absurda. La población mundial, hace 30 años, era la mitad que la de ahora. Por tanto, estadísticamente es imposible que las almas viajen en grupos sencillamente por que hace 30 años existían la mitad de las personas. Lo mismo se puede decir de las típicas encarnaciones en la civilización egipcia: Egipto tenía varios miles de veces menos población que el mundo actual, por lo que sería dificilísimo encontrar un reencarnado que hubiese vivido en Egipto!!. En cambio, Weiss parece haber encontrado uno a la primera!!
- Weiss se plantea pero inmediatamente descarta la posibilidad de si la memoria es heredada. ¡¡El simplemente hecho de plantearse tal aberración muestra que no tiene ni idea de, ni cómo funciona la memoria, ni cómo funciona la herencia!! Aparte...las vidas pasadas NO son de hijos o nietos... Por tanto, no podría tener nada que ver con la herencia!
- El calendario cristiano, actualmente, es seguido por 1/5 de la población mundial. Por tanto, estadísticamente de nuevo, sólo un quinto de las vidas pasadas podrían haber expresado las fechas en este calendario. En cambio, TODAS las encarnaciones que son capaces de expresar la fecha lo hacen en este calendario.
Hay mas detalles que hacen dudar muchísimo de la veracidad de lo que cuenta Weiss. En numerosas ocasiones es traicionado por su falta de visión del mundo, de lo que es y de lo que fué. Tampoco fué el primero en hablar de regresiones mediante hipnosis: a principios de siglo era una práctica de moda en círculos esotéricos.
Lo siento, pero si por un remoto casual existiesen vidas pasadas, creo que Weiss puede aportar al asunto menos que yo: yo no puedo aportar nada, pero él sólo confusión.
UN LIBRO IMPORTANTE.......2006-08-14
El merito del Dr. Weiss reside en que fue pionero en la difusión de la creencia en la Reencarnacion en Occidente. En la epoca en que publico por primera vez su libro, la Reencarnacion era algo practicamente desconocido; sin embargo el libro fue escrito en un estilo ameno y sencillo, pero a la vez era fascinante y revelador, que contradecia un sistema de creencias desde una pespectiva esperanzadora y que ofrecia ademas la oportunidad de crecer espiritualmente. Despues de el se han publicado quiza miles de libros sobre el tema. Pero hay que reconocer su valentia al difundir el fruto de sus investigaciones ante una sociedad donde los fundamentalistas cristianos tambien existen.
Algo diferente.......2006-04-25
Crea o no en la reencarnacion, este libro escrito por un psiquiatra de profesion, lo hará detenerse a pensar en esa posibilidad. Es posible que a lo largo de esta lectura surjan muchas preguntas que queden sin responder, pero es probable que continuen influyendo en lo que piensa sobre el mundo que nos ha tocado vivir. Despues de leerlo, le aseguro que nunca volvera a mirar su vida de la misma manera.
La reencarnación vista por un científico.......2005-01-16
El primer libro del Dr. Weiss sigue siendo un gran libro para todos aquellos a quienes les inquieta el tema de la reencarnación, así no crean en ella.
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Written in spanish.
Customer Reviews:
eh.........2007-08-07
its okay.nothen very cool about it or in it,except for the part on the minor gods and some cool artifacts at the very back of the book. it mainly sums up all the core books and gives them a slight refresh to the new rules. i gues if you want to take all you old rules and charms to the new rules its usefull.if your like me and take the rules with a grain of salt,then its just somethen nice to fill that collection and bookcase.
have fun.
Just a bulky summary.......2006-08-21
For the most part, this book is nothing but lists of charms. Normally that'd be a great thing (especially since all the books aren't out yet) but the description and layout is so poor that its not worth it. The Abyssal section does nothing more than print out a name and tells you to refer to the equivalent Solar Charm. Better to bide your time for the specific source book you are interested in.
Yes, this time it's useful.......2006-04-24
If you were a Storyteller for the 1st edtition of Exalted, you may well wonder if it's worth getting this book. Let's face it, the 1st edition Storyteller's Companion was a mishmash of stuff that was largely superseded and made obsolete by later supplements.
Well, that's not the case this time. The whole Exalted 2nd Edition line looks like it's being planned out very carefully, and there's not going to be any slap-dashery like before. This Storyteller's Companion is very focused on providing a ST with everything needed to prepare a huge variety of NPC Exalts of all types, and it succeeds admirably. It provides several character templates which you can turn into a fleshed-out NPC in minutes, and also includes quick descriptions of many of those Exalteds' Charms. At the end of each section is a description of their typical troops, for Mass Combat encounters. And each chapter also contains some secrets not revealed in the core book.
The final chapter is the Mandate of Heaven rules, which amounts to a strategic mini-game you can use to model the effects your players are having on the nations they live in. [...]these in much detail yet, but they look good for players who decide to take over the world, or at least their corner of it.
The only things missing are a chapter on the Fair Folk--not Exalts, I know, but equivalent, power-wise--and Demons (including Exalts who've sold their souls to Malfeas). And a chapter on Mortals, particularly Heroic Mortals and Thaumaturges, would have been nice. But it seems silly to quibble over something that has so much gaming goodness packed into it. Five stars, easy.
many faces to face.......2006-04-21
this book gives a quick rundown of the five basic exalt types just like in the core book... but with some new info and a great many charms for each. not only that, but each section includes some premade character stat to use as npcs (at least one for each caste of each exalt type). storytellers rejoyce!
oh yeah, and the end portion has some neat stuff for what is the 'mass battle' of social combat... and if you are not tracking with what that means, then you must not have the core book yet; in which case i have only one recommendation:
GET THEM BOTH!!! you can get a good deal here! buy the core and this suppliment, and begin storytelling with a lot of neat tools to start with! oh yeah, and look forward to the 'book of sorcery wonders of the lost age' and add it to you 'tool box'... i can't wait for mine!
till next...
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ESC.......2005-01-21
-Exalted Storyteller's Companion- has been my only, and slight, disappointment with the -Exalted- line. In general, the line awesomely evokes heroes and ages of myth, without the Eurocentrism that mars DnD, SnS, etc., and without the convoluted and enforced dependence on metaplot of the original World of Darkness setting (which I hear has been supplanted). Nevertheless, -E.S.C.- fails to give anything but the most cursory information on setting and precious little else.
What it did have:
The first section, "The Scarlet Empire," disappointingly elides the entirety of the setting's largest antagonist organization (for the Solar Exalted at least) into a description of the youth and career, and death of a typical Realm Terrestrial Exalted with the dull opening paragraph, "The Dragon-Blooded see no difference between their realm and themselves. So, then, let us follow the Dragon-Blooded through their lives in search of the empire's soul." I don't believe I am hasty to admit that I would rather know about the empire's body, heart and mind than its soul, as an ST. What about the millions who actually comprise the Realm and make it work? What of the All-Seeing Eye and the Thousand Scales? What about the dreaded imperial legions? Knowing about the birth and career of Dragon-Blooded provides exactly zero dramatic tension and exactly one opportunity for an NPC to engage in, frankly, painfully boring exposition. Will there be a Realm supplement? Will we learn about the Scarlet Empire - enough to ST it - from -Dragon-Blooded-? Shouldn't the setting blurbs on antagonists contain - well - setting?
I found the second chapter on other Celestial Exalted much more useful. It gave about the same amount of information as did the first chapter, but much more economically. For each type of Celestial Exalted there are about eight pages of history, setting (which I would have appreciated in the Realm segment), character ideas, and sample mechanic.
The third chapter contains information on the spirits and their courts. Following ten pages of mechanic on spiritual Charms, there is some history and setting as well as a number of example characters (elementals and demons are included). I appreciated this section but I do wonder to what extent White Wolf intends for spirits to be part of stories - see my add'l comments below).
The fourth chapter details six artifacts; the chapter seemed almost an afterthought. It does have the history and story of the Eye of Autochthon - an item of immense power referred to in many other supplements, and essential to the setting of several locations.
What it didn't have:
This book failed entirely to have any discussion of storytelling this game. How should I pace the chronicle? How do stories come together in this setting? I am still wondering. In terms of the particular difficulties of storytelling this setting, I am still left only with the meager scraps in the main rule book. While I'm an experienced ST, I myself would have appreciated some help with adapting to the game, and I'm sure a beginning ST would have appreciated that as well.
I'm also left wondering to what extent the spirits and other supernaturals ought to be included in a game. We constantly read in other supplements about gods and their machinations - what exactly is going on with these beings in terms of their prevalence in the story? I appreciate White Wolf's circumspection with respect to cutting down on the intrusive metaplot in this setting, but I feel as if this is setting information that I have no idea how to adapt.
Overall:
Really? Except for the Eye of Autochthon, I suspect that most of the information in this book is redundant and explained in greater detail in the more specialized supplements. I haven't gotten -Dragon-Blooded- or -The Abyssals- but I really think those two books will have more and essential information.
There are -many- better books on how to ST or run a campaign/chronicle, and I suggest one of the Revised Edition original World of Darkness ST guides together with the Dungeon Master's guide for DnD if you really are looking for ideas and practical advice on how to put together a day of gaming or a month of days of gaming.
The one thing I really like pretty unequivocally is the ST screen that comes with the game. Personally, I like to have a game-specific DM/ST screen when I have the job - and the screen is great. But it's for that reason that if I had the chance to buy this all over again knowing what I do from having read it, I'd probably try to find the ST screen without the book, and save the money for one of the hardbound antagonist setting books.
Definitely not worth buying now.......2004-11-17
This book wasn't great even when it came out, but back then we had no idea what Lunars, Dragon-Blooded, Sidereals, spirits, etc, could do, so we bought it anyway. Now, the vast majority of the information in this book has been retconned, and what hasn't been retconned has been published elsewhere, except for the spirit Charms, which were supposed to be published in "Games of Divinity" but were left out due to typical White Wolf publishing confusion. However, even those are available free to download on the White Wolf website (under "Games of Divinity Appendix"), so you have absolutely no reason to spend money on this book. Don't.
Some Non-Essential Goodies for Exalted Storytellers.......2003-06-06
This book details more information on the factions in the Exalted game. Solars, Lunars, Dragon-Blooded, and Abyssals, there is probably a little bit of everything for everyone. There are several paragraphs covering each of the factions and a small section of additional charms to try out. But would you even want to bother with the snippets here merely to whet your appetite until the full supplements for the factions are released?
Also, since this is supposed to be a Storytellers Companion, I was pretty surprised not to find a hefty section on running games and campaigns. Dock 1 star there. The nifty storyteller's screen packaged with the book is useful and seems to work well for the few game sessions I ran. In the introduction, the book also mentions a full-color map that was supposed to be included in the book, but don't bother looking for it.
In summary: Nice but not essential, and left out a lot of the cooler stuff for the supplements. I would recommend buying the full supplement for your favourite faction(s) instead.
A good companion........2002-04-25
As a storyteller wishes to improve himself, he finds that, most often than not, companions are pretty useful. This particular companion, however, instead of optional rules or player characteristics, it gives a more complete background, absolutely necessary when running a chronicle for a game as Exalted. This sort of history and backgrounds is what will separate your chronicle from a common AD&D RPG and a more complete, more human world.
This book avoids the storyteller from inventing everything on the city and gives hundreds of guidelines for possible chronicles, besides, exalted is extremely hard to run precisely because of historical background, so, this book is quite useful.
At Long Last.......2001-08-27
I was highly skeptical of Exalted when I first heard about it, but I jumped on the bandwagon and bought it for kicks. The roleplaying community has been needing this game for a long time. An exciting, intruiging fantasy world, cool, chic powers, and a tried-and-true White Wolf emphasis on ROLEplaying, not dice. Instead of the cliched "Dungeons and Dragons"/"Lord of the Rings" fantasy RPG style, this game draws a lot of themes, moods, and powers from anime and Greek epics. If you're a fan of White Wolf's games, this is definitely for you. If you like fantasy RPGs, this is definitely for you. If you are looking for something fun and different, this is for you. Peace.
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One of the Most Releveant and Best Books ever written.......2007-08-16
Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change is without a doubt, simply stated one of the BEST BOOKS ever written about the most pressing issue of the times, namely how the human species has through industrial and technological effort, in the name of "progress" has led the entire human species and the bioshpere into possible extinction and the destruction of life on our plannet. Needless to mention that this is some serious subject matter for a relative 'lay-person' however William R. Catton, makes the subject matter comphrensible and if read with a open mind, leads the reader to the conclusion that we are all in big trouble. The Best part of the text is that while paiently illustrating how the human species came to this point, doesn't place the blame on anyone in particullar, but shows that all of us, currently living 'played a part' in the quandry currently unfolding. This is a refreshing change from the current crop (no pun intended) of text in a similar vein, who in the name of ideological or political 'correctness', needs a 'bogeyman' to blame and focus their individual or collective rage towards. Catton avoids that sandtrap elegantly and pointedly, by stating that we can best repair the problem, restore ballance and focus our efforts without resorting to anger or dispair, by all of us working together in a symbiotic relationship with each other as well as the remainder of all life in which we share this finite world.
A Must Read for understanding ecolgy and the future of the world!.......2007-07-18
I am an MIT engineer (BSME MIT, 1978) and Author of When Technology Fails, and I can't recommend this book enough. It is invaluable for understanding the ecological basis for the predicament that our world is in. Knowledge is power, and an in-depth understanding of the intricately woven web composed of our technological society, food production, energy systems and the ecosystems of our planet is absolutely critical to developing a proactive worldwide plan to avert global catastrophe and collapse.
Even though William Catton's Overshoot was written in 1980, it remains today a true masterpiece of ecological writing, presenting a uniquely clear view of where our world is headed, and what kind of actions and understanding are required to change this direction. If enough of us face the facts, and stop behaving like ostriches with our heads in the sand, we stand a chance of leaving a viable future for our children.
The ecological view.......2007-03-22
I own some eight thousand books and if my house caught fire this is the only book I would risk my life to save. Read it and it will change the way you view the human race. Probably one of the most important books ever written.
Raise your ecological intelligence.......2007-01-05
As close to a manual for navigating humanities future - and present - as you can wish for. Leaves you with a clarity of humanities place in the biosphere that I found in no other book. Reading it should be an entrance qualification for every politician and scientist.
An Important Work to be Read Widely.......2006-05-16
This is a highly significant book. It is probably safe to say that most intelligent readers today (2006) are nevertheless unaware of the important, basic ecological themes addresed by Catton, but none can afford to remain uninformed of them. There are many more detailed works on the subject of resources depletion and societal collapse, but none strike to the core of the problem--us, "Homo colossus", or Homo sapiens on fossil fuel steriods--speeding down a highway with a definite "road ends" sign and barricade, our collective "carrying capacity" limit. Catton's arguments are hard to believe at first, then become harder to dismiss, as he makes the case for our innocent or perhaps not so innocent past deeds and current ways. At the end of this extremely well-written and researched work, you will likely find yourself looking for the exit--alas, there is only one Earth, one life. Published in 1980, the material is just as relevant if not more so today, 26 years later and even farther out on the limb. Will our technology save us again, or even prolong our growing masses and consuming way of life much longer? Perhaps, but Catton is no optimist here, with what appears to be a socially sound and ecologically wise judgement of our species.
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- Absolutely unacceptable.
- Compelling
- A Disaster
- Growing old in post-apocalyptic Berkeley
- an amazing book!
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Overshoot
Mona Clee
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Absolutely unacceptable........2003-07-22
I would have thrown up on this book, except that I got it from the library.
Compelling.......2003-05-05
... I can't help but agree with the criticisms of this book mentioned by other reviewers here on Amazon, but, ultimately, that doesn't affect my opinion of it one bit. The book's recent history may be a few years out of date, but the core message, that we're fouling our nest and we've got to do something about it, is more compelling than ever, five years (and a brain dead President who just doesn't seem to get the environmental thing) later.
As one other reviewer said, one of the most compelling things is the utterly pedestrian nature of most of the travails that befall the aging characters as they struggle to eek out the barest existence possible. Not with a bang, but with a whimper, does the American lifestyle of mass consumption expire. This is not the old age I wish for myself.
How many of us have our own personal, physical or mental
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> files?!? Ironically, almost all the incidents she cites in her book, I already knew about...
How many of us, right here, right now, are thinking, "goddamn, when is the human race going to collectively wake up and get a clue? what is it going take to compell us to act?" This book makes me want to sell everything I own and dedicate the rest of my life to saving the planet.
The only thing that disappoints me about this book is the duex ex machina of this all being related to a collective genetic flaw that can be cured by a tailored retrovirus... in the real world, thing simply are not going to be that simple, and if our last best hope is an altruism plague, thing seem pretty bleak indeed.
Ultimately, we have a much harder roe to how: we've got to first be our own change, then convince the people around us to change as well.
I can see the first, gratingly halting staggering steps towards that being made... read the environmental manifesto of the ever so mainstream Liberal-Democratic Party in England... read what the mainstream dialogue there (and in New Zealand) is over the environment - it is like we live on a different planet here in the states, the basic assumptions about what our goals should be, and how we should live, are so different; but, not so long ago, they must have been fairly similar, so there is obviously reason for hope!
A Disaster.......2002-11-02
Let me start by saying that I don't judge novels by the message that the author is trying to deliver. I judge them by how effective they are at getting that message across. "Overshoot" has the right message, but the wrong delivery. The book is ineffective and unsubtle in almost every possible way. It's almost universally agreed that powerful novels don't feature long passages where the author simply drops the story and instead just starts directly telling the reader what their message is. In "Overshoot" the narrator is constantly breaking into lecture mode, going on for paragraph after paragraph about how evil it is to disrespect the environment. The resulting tone of preachiness is the book's defining characteristic, although there are any number of other annoying factors.
The book is set in Berkeley in the year 2032, when an ecological crisis and a series of international conflicts bring the world to the brink of disaster. The main character is an 80-year-old named Moira, who narrates her life through a series of flashbacks. Starting from when she was a child in the 1950's, she describes the events changing political movements that she witnessed during her lifetime. Perhaps the strangest aspect of the book is that once she reaches the 1990's, she simply skips directly to the present 2032 without giving us any clue as to what sort of disasters happened to turn the world into the shambles that's displayed during the final chapters. It's as if the author simply grew bored with the book around page 300 and decided to skip straight to the ending without caring whether or not it made sense.
While some of her descriptive writing is quite good, the author appears to have no understanding of how normal people talk during their everyday conversations. Her characters use words like "provisions" instead of "food" and "compact disc player" instead of "CD player", and there's one scene where Moira encounters a drug dealer whose speech sounds more like an uptight English teacher than a street person. Almost all of the dialogue in "Overshoot" sounds stilted and unrealistic.
Literally everywhere you look in this book there's something that annoys you. At one point a character who's a Neopagan complains about the stereotypical representation of her religion in the media, yet members of her coven have names like "Red Wolf" and "Blue Otter". If Mona Clee had actually spent some time (five minutes, maybe) researching the topic, she would probably have learned that Neopagans are not actually named after colored animals. She throws in lots of pop culture references to things like "Star Wars" and "Jurassic Park", but she doesn't do it very well. For instance, when she visits a cottage with a thatched roof, the Moira remarks that "there could have been hobbits living there". Hello, doesn't the first sentence of "The Hobbit" clearly state that hobbits live underground. (I know it's a minor complaint, but I'm a big Tolkien fan and stuff like that irritates me.) One twenty-page chapter consisted solely of two characters using the internet for the first time while saying thing like "This internet has the power to bring people together" and "This internet will change the way we view the world", causing we to wonder whether I'd accidentally picked up an ad for a now-bankrupt ISP.
In summary, learn from my mistake and don't bother with this train wreck of a book.
Growing old in post-apocalyptic Berkeley.......2001-10-15
I like books about communities making it through catastrophic times and I really enjoyed this one. Overshoot tells the story of a group of senior citizens in the Berkeley hills trying to survive after global warming is about to bring the world to an end. How will we be saved? Clee gets her descriptions of Berkeley exactly right as she intersperses her characters' actions in 2032 with flashbacks from one woman's life, relating her encounters with ideas about mythology and (pagan) religion, environmental warnings, and a wealth of historical events covering several decades. Hard sci fi fans might not appreciate the references to synchronicity and Gaia beliefs in Overshoot, but I felt Clee skillfully weaves together aspects of culture and mysticism while still keeping her empirical feet (mostly) on the ground. She has a good ear for communal life, recognizing the importance of group actions. What she does with the birds is a nice touch too. I thought Clee's only misstep was in having her main character make a few odd choices when she was younger (who didn't?), but this is a small quibble about a book that brings a lot of pleasure.
an amazing book!.......2000-06-02
I picked this book up because some of it is set in my town, but I keep re-reading it because of the ideas she so intelligently expresses. This book is a warning about what could happen if we don't pay attention to the environment (are you listening, Exxon/Mobil? ). It is also a hopeful view about humans moving toward healing each other & the environment by rediscovering spirituality; yet Clee doesn't condemm technology. Technology, wisely used, is part of the solution.
I've heard that Ms Clee is working on 2 books -- I can't wait till they come out!
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This study addresses the conceptual challenges that emerge when calculating Ecological Footprint time series. Building on core concerns arising from the various existing Footprint time series at the national and global scale, this paper discusses conceptual and methodological implications, and suggests improvements for enhancing the clarity, validity and reliability of Ecological Footprint results. Unlike static accounts, time series show trends that allow researchers to test the noise in the data. Also, time series offer the opportunity to examine results and question interpretations, a fertile ground for comparing methodological alternatives. This paper addresses two conceptual issues that determine method design: the specific meaning and measurement challenges of ecological overshoot; and the range of research questions that can be addressed with productivity-adjusted hectares versus actual hectares. The conclusions from this discussion build the groundwork for showcasing time series for three countries.
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This digital document is a journal article from Land Use Policy, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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The protection of natural capital, including its ability to renew or regenerate itself, represents a core aspect of sustainability. Hence, reliable measures of the supply of, and human demand on, natural capital are indispensable for tracking progress, setting targets and driving policies for sustainability. This paper presents the latest iteration of such a measure: the Ecological Footprint. After explaining the assumptions and choice of data sources on which the accounts are built, this paper presents how the newest version of these accounts has become more consistent, reliable and detailed by using more comprehensive data sources, calculating and comparing yields more consistently, distinguishing more sharply between primary and secondary production, and using procedures to identify and eliminate potential errors. As a result, this method can now provide more meaningful comparisons among nations' final consumption, or their economic production, and help to analyze the Ecological Footprint embodied in trade. With the higher level of detail, the accounts can generate sectoral assessments of an economy or, as shown in a complementary paper in this series, time trends of all these aspects.
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This digital document is an article from Circuits Assembly, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2007. The length of the article is 1570 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Extending tip life in Pb-free hand soldering: improved heater control and tip profiles eliminate overshoot, improve thermal transfer to the joint and reduce idle temperature.
Author: Ed Zamborsky
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Circuits Assembly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 18
Issue: 2
Page: 72(3)
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This digital document is an article from The Weekly Standard, published by News America Incorporated on March 19, 2006. The length of the article is 1526 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: The Next Big Dig? There's a reason big public projects almost always overshoot their budgets.
Author: James Thayer
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The Weekly Standard (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 19, 2006
Publisher: News America Incorporated
Page: NA
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This digital document is an article from The International Economy, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 3283 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Overshoot? Behind the curve? Or just right? This time, will the Federal Reserve know how high to raise interest rates? TIE surveyed some leading Fed watchers to assess how the FOMC is doing.(Federal Open Market Committee)
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The International Economy (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 19
Issue: 4
Page: 10(8)
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• The first book to seriously examine the feminine aspect of Egyptian religion sheds new light on the important role of the goddess Hathor-Sekhmet.
• This accessible study sheds much new light on ancient Egypt and provides a powerful new perspective on women's theology.
• The text is accompanied by nearly 200 striking and unusual illustrations
Drawing from temple art, myths, rituals, and poetry, Hathor Rising is the first book to seriously examine the feminine aspect of the complex Egyptian pantheon and to shed new light on the pivotal place held there by the fiery serpent-eyed goddess, Hathor-Sekhmet. The primary importance of this goddess is emphasized by the serpent coiled over the forehead of every pharaoh--the supreme symbol of royal power in ancient Egypt. The erotic vitality and fierce aggression of the goddess, qualities commonly perceived as masculine in nature, gives the reigning Pharaoh the capacity for dynamic leadership. The author explores the symbolism behind this and other manifestations of the goddess in Egyptian cosmology and provides new revelations on the rich tradition of feminine divinity in Egypt. Hathor Rising is the most important study of one of the world's oldest civilizations to appear in years.
Customer Reviews:
Hathor Rising - definately worth a read.......2005-05-21
It's so refreshing to read a book such as this one which explores the feminine aspects of the Egyptian Pantheon in depth. The book appears well researched and the author comes across as having a very genuine interest Hathor and her impact on Egyptian life.
I really enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone wanting more than the 'this is this, that is that' you often find in books covering Egyptian Gods and Goddesses.
Not for beginners.......2005-03-09
If you are a New Ager who thinks Gerald Massey, Alvin Kuhn and R.Schwaller de Lubicz have the inside track on Egyptian religion, this isn't the book for you. Try the fantasy/New Age section where those books of creative fiction belong.
If, like one reviewer on this page, you are unaware that Hatshepsut did not have a son (only a step-son/nephew) and most recent historical research suggests that he did not kill her or even dismantle her monuments, you might need to brush up on your history in a decent and recent history book before heading into this complex topic. This is a book which presumes a knowledge of ancient Egypt greater than one can pick up in historical novels or trips down the Nile.
If, on the other hand, you have a genuine interest in scholarly study of ancient Egyptian religion, especially the much-neglected feminine aspect you will find this book useful and interesting. This is particularly true since similar good books on Egyptian goddesses are either not in English or prohibitively expensive.
Faulty logic turns fact into fantasy.......2004-07-08
I was disappointed to find that many of the author's assertions are supported by incorrect interpretations of historical customs. It was, therefore, impossible for me to consider those assertions. For example, the author holds that we can tell Hatchepsut was highly respected because there are so many statues in her honor. What the author ignores is the fact that the Pharaoh's (ALL of them) commissioned numerous statues of themselves during their reign. (Ramses the II seems to hold the record. I saw many hundreds of statues of him while in Egypt in January.) While Hatchepsut was arguably the most successful Pharaoh of Egypt, the statues are not proof of that. Such a basic misinterpretation destroyed the credibility of this author.
Hatchepsut was likely murdered by her son because she was very powerful and well respected, and because she would not turn over the rule to him. Many of the statues and glyphs of Hatchepsut were defaced by him and his followers after her death. Had the author pointed this out, it would have paid higher tribute to the power of women at the time because there is NO truly powerful person who has no enemies.
I have great respect for the ancient Egyptian culture, in part because women were respected as equals then. But in order to pay true respect to them and to understand the culture better, it is important to maintain a connection to facts, and resist glossing over those circumstances which aren't as palatable.
Original and Fascinating.......2001-09-18
Ms Roberts provides an original and unusual insight into the feminine aspect of Egyptian religion exploring the importance of the goddess Hathor-Sekhmet. A fascinating read.
Insightful Read!.......2001-03-28
This book is by far one of the most insightful books on Ancient Egyptian Theology. Ms. Roberts brings to light much information often neglected by "egyptologists" bent on focusing only on the male aspect of the very complicated Egyptian Cosmologies. The importance of Hathor in the roles of Kingship is a subject that I found fascinating and helped me understand more fully how the Egyptians viewed their Kings (and Queens)and the world around them. This is a must read for anyone bogged down by the out-dated material previously printed on the Egyptian Pantheon.
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