What's So Funny About Science?: Cartoons from American Scientist

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An existence proof of how many ways science is indeed funny

Quite a bit, apparently.

And then a miracle occurs

What's So Funny About Science?: Cartoons from American Scientist
Sidney Harris
Manufacturer: William Kaufmann
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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An existence proof of how many ways science is indeed funny.......2006-12-04

The answer to the question is an emphatic, "A great deal, but only in the hands of the right person." Harris is without question one of the right people. In addition to being funny, his cartoons are topical, sometimes biting and send a clear message. He lampoons scientists, people who worship science, those who exploit science for their own ends and all who have no respect for the natural structure of the planet. My favorite is the man in a suit sitting at a desk at what is a research institution. The caption reads, "I think, therefore I am paid." A close second is the first cartoon in the book, which is a modification of the famous painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. That painting shows God reaching his index finger out to Adam, who is also reaching back. In this cartoon, a microorganism is at the end of God's finger. Funny and yet so very profound.

Quite a bit, apparently........2001-09-19

OK, so I'm a scientist, but it's one of the few cartoon
books that stands re-reading. And, it's not just
me. One of my daughter's 7 year old soccer buddies was
flipping through and giggling through the cartoons
she understood.

It's understated humor, and it often takes a leap to
get from the caption to the laugh, but every one is
different and fresh. The facial expressions are particularly
good.

And then a miracle occurs.......2000-08-17

This book contains the famous cartoon containing "then a miracle occurs".

What's So Funny About Science?: Cartoons

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Giggles and grins abound

What's So Funny About Science?: Cartoons
Sidney Harris
Manufacturer: William Kaufmann
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Giggles and grins abound.......2000-11-21

Cartoonists are truly a breed apart from the rest of us. Not only must they possess a high degree of artistic ability, but they also must have a point to make. Some of the funniest things that I have ever seen have been cartoons lampooning politicians, who by definition possess more than their share of self-importance. Scientists also take themselves very seriously and therefore are legitimate targets for the cartoonists pen. Nobody does this better than Sidney Harris, and this collection is full of giggles and grins. I have posted many of these cartoons on my office wall and have seen many others do the same. Even though the cartoons are funny, they do have a serious side. Pollution and environmental degradation are serious issues and the author raises them without becoming sanctimonious or preachy.
Sidney Harris is my favorite cartoonist, blending the serious with the hilarious. If you like to laugh while receiving serious messages, then you will love this book.

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A Cultural History of Fashion in the Twentieth Century: From the Catwalk to the Sidewalk
Bonnie English
Manufacturer: Berg Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 1845203429
Release Date: 2007-08-07

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The 20th Century saw the effective end of haute couture, the rise of prtporter and, finally, the triumph of street fashion. Bonnie English unravels the complexities and contradictions behind these changes to chart the history of modern fashion. What caused the demise of haute couture in the 20th century? What does the "democratisation" of fashion actually mean? Which key designers bridged the gap between "couture," with its associations of elite class and taste, and "street style," a product of tribalism and of popular culture and protest? If fashion imitates art and art imitates life, does life imitate fashion--do we wear the clothes or do the clothes wear us? Setting fashion within its social, cultural and artistic context, this book presents an engaging history of the interplay between commerce and culture, technology and aesthetics, popular culture and pastiche, and fashion and anti-fashion.

Eye on the Flesh: Fashions of Masculinity in the Early Twentieth Century (Cultural Studies)

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Maurizia Boscagli
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In an Influential Fashion: An Encyclopedia of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Fashion Designers and Retailers Who Transformed Dress

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Will delight collections solid in fashion history and design

In an Influential Fashion: An Encyclopedia of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Fashion Designers and Retailers Who Transformed Dress
Ann T. Kellogg , Amy T. Peterson , Stefani Bay , and Natalie Swindell
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ASIN: 0313312206

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In an Influential Fashion profiles 164 fashion designers and retailers from many countries who have had the most impact on American dress and culture from the late 19th century to the year 2000. Each entry introduces a fashion personality or retailer whose influence on the industry reflected societal, political, and/or economic change. The commercial side of fashion, neglected in most fashion encyclopedias, is explored here, with details of licensing agreements and marketing innovations not easily found elsewhere. Students and professionals in fashion design, retailing, costume research, and social history will all find this book a valuable addition to their libraries. Each entry includes the birth and death dates of designers, their education and training, career highlights and accomplishments, and awards they have won. The entry describes the designer or retailer's signature styles, with a keen emphasis on the designer's contributions to American fashion design and culture. As appropriate, the entry summarizes any licensing agreements and influential marketing innovations. Web sites, lists of museums and fashion design schools, and numerous appendices make In an Influential Fashion a complete resource on American fashion history for the late 19th and 20th centuries.

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Disappointing.......2006-09-04

This book reads like an extended high school term paper. Some of the biographies could qualify for an entry to the wikipedia- others barely merit an entry in a bibliography...for a high school term paper. The illustrations are inked by the same undistinctive hand- which is rather sad and occasionally pathetic. The absence of context- the absence of variety, the absence of flavor all make for a very dull and uniforming "encyclopedia" indeed. I shudder to think of the school papers that will be written using this book as source material.
Are the authors and editors that worked on this project so uninspired by this field?

Will delight collections solid in fashion history and design.......2002-08-06

In An Influential Fashion isn't for your casual home or art library collection, but will delight collections solid in fashion history and design. Over a hundred sixty fashion designers and retailers from many countries are profiled in entries that cover the personality's lasting influence on the industry. Commercial fashion, licensing agreements, and marketing are all explored in an exciting survey.

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This collects Molly Kiely's acclaimed series of the life of a dominatrix.

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Diary of a Dominatrix (volume 2)
Molly Kiely
Manufacturer: eros comix
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000UASE2Q

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Adult content by one of the best. B/D, S/M, etc. Rare & hard to find copy.

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Diary of a Dominatrix (Volume 3)
Molly Kiely
Manufacturer: Eros Comix
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Binding: Comic
ASIN: B000V6G9V2

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Adult comic book with B&W illustrations.

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Diary of a Dominatrix (Volume One)
Molly Kiely
Manufacturer: Eros Comix
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Binding: Comic
ASIN: B000V7CJJC

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Adult comic book with B&W illustrations.

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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Can you go wrong with a Maier book?
Excellent Book
Not as good as his other novels
Parents Beware
LOVED IT !

Flames of Rome, The: A Novel
Paul L. Maier
Manufacturer: Kregel Publications
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0825432979

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The splendor and pagan excesses of Roman society are confronted by the life-changing faith of Christianity in this historically accurate fiction work. Guaranteed fiction!

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Can you go wrong with a Maier book?.......2007-09-27

No spoilers

What more can I say than that. If you've read any other Maier books and enjoyed them, then I promise you will enjoy this one. Before this I read A Skeleton in God's Closet and More Than a Skeleton and loved both of them. Maier is great at combining documented historical accuracies with his own genius plot twists; Flames of Rome is no different. He gives you all the facts relating to the migration of Christianity to first century C.E. Rome, while also throwing in enough of his own storyline to draw you in and force you to keep turning the pages.

The bottom line is if you've read Maier and liked it in the past, nothing will change there. If you haven' read him, pick this, or any other of his books up and enjoy some great historical fiction/documentary.

Excellent Book.......2007-07-12

Thoroughly enjoyed Flames of Rome. I recommend it for anyone interested in gaining a clearer understanding of first century Rome or early Christianity.

Not as good as his other novels.......2007-03-20

I enjoyed the novel, though it was not half as interesting as his previous one. Not much emphasis was given to the Christian characters: Nero and his cronie Tigellinus shine, and so does Sabinus. The book is basically about Nero and his crimes: the murderous Messalina, his cruel and scheming mother Agrippina, his wife (he killed her too) Poppea. The book does not explain in detail what happened to Seneca. Some attention is given to Claudius, in the beginning, before Nero takes over.

Parents Beware.......2007-02-26

Other reviewers have already detailed all the great points of this book, so I won't repeat them, but I would like to give a warning. I purchased this book as part of the Sonlight curriculum for my 16 and 14 year old kids. I decided to read it myself first and then decided not to have them read it. I just wouldn't recommend it for teenagers due to the fairly graphic sexual information contained in it. I'm not opposed to telling the truth about a society, but I think there are limits to how many details the reader needs to know to understand the facts.

Here are a few of the details that concerned me:

a woman leaving claw marks across a man's chest when he refuses her sexual advances

falling into each other's arms, kissing and embracing with an intensity that astonished them

being "inflamed" by a kiss

empress removing her clothing in front of a Senator, with the description that she had a supple figure

thirteen year old youth hiding in the bathhouse watching young naked girls

This was just a little too much information for me to recommend it to teenagers. I wouldn't have a problem recommending it for an adult.

LOVED IT ! .......2007-01-15

I couldn't put the book down and had sleepless nights because of it.

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The Flames of Rome
Paul L. Mair
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000IND7O0

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The Flames of Rome
Paul L. MAIER
Manufacturer: Doubleday & Co., Inc.
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ASIN: B000OPII6E

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The Flames of Rome: A Documentary Novel
Paul L. Maier
Manufacturer: Tyndale House Pub
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000SEBESU

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The Flames of Rome: A Documentary Novel

Manufacturer: Tyndale House Pub
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000HEG8V4

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