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Setting the record straight - this early.......2006-02-04
This book was originally written in 1949. That's an important fact to consider when reading it. This makes Mr. Anderson the first historian to publicly state the fact that Hoover authored the New Deal.
This is a very trenchant examination of the economics of the period between the start of WWI and the end of WWII, and that includes the Roaring 20s and the Depressed 30s. Since this is a book of economics, it was ignored by historians. Shame, since they're the ones perpetuating the myth that Hoover and FDR were of opposite kinds when the truth is they were merely different by a matter of degree.
This book details the true economic situation during that time, but it was the sections on Hoover that really caught my eye, all the massive public works programs and cartelization of the economy that show that the myths are wrong.
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Reengineering Your Nonprofit Organization: A Guide to Strategic Transformation (Nonprofit Law, Finance, and Management Series)
Alceste T. Pappas
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A hot topic in the business world, reengineering is the radical redesign of an organization's processes, structure, and culture. The realities of the nonprofit world are not all that different from those of the corporate world. Shrinking budgets, changing societal needs, and scandals are forcing nonprofits to heed the call of reengineering. To stay alive, and competitive, nonprofits must re-examine their raisons d'tre, how they carry out their missions, their organizational structures, and their business processes. Those involved in strategic planning and reengineering a nonprofit range from paid staff to volunteer board members, all with varying degrees of hands-on involvement in the organization. Developed out of the author's extensive experience, this book is a guide to the major issues and concerns facing nonprofits who are considering or in the midst of reengineering. It examines the organizational structure of nonprofits (board members, executive staff, and volunteers), the business processes and activities (allocation of resources, strategies for growing the organization, and means of delivering services), and the corporate culture of nonprofits (what the organization is and should be doing, self-assessment, and continuous improvement). This book takes our Nonprofit Series trade titles to a more sophisticated level. Hopkins/Organization 2E, Greenfield/Fundamentals, and Smith, Bucklin/Management are more basic, introductory level books. This book is for more developed nonprofit organizations, but has trade potential because of the timeliness of its subject.
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Together with the other farm animals, Old MacDonald is building a surprise for the babies on the farm. Saw, drill, chisel, file, screwdriver, and paintbrush are operated by cat, goat, chicken, pig, cow, and dog. With a zztt zztt here and a tap tap there, there's a miniature toy farm being made—just for the baby animals. For any preschooler who likes tools and making things, Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop is sure to be a hit! E-I-E-I-O!
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Grandpa's Favorite .......2007-09-17
Because I have my own wood shop and make toys for my grandkids I was attracted to this book when I first saw it. I have given it to my grandkids and to the grandkids of many of my friends and neighbors. The reports I haven gotten back from those who have received it tell me that it is their child's favorite book. The kids love the animals and especially the sounds the tools make. They also are able to learn the names of the tools used in the book. It just might spark an interest in creating wood objects for some of these children.
Great to read to a group.......2007-03-29
The fun noises, the familiar song, colorful illustrations and terrific ending make this a particularly good book to read to a group of children.
Great.......2007-03-08
It is as good as a new one, but at an awesome price. Thanks!!
Alternative Old McDonald.......2007-01-10
We came across this in our daughter's playgroup and had to own it -- it's a lovely version of the old song but integrates "non-standard" gender views by letting female animals take charge in the woodshop. The sounds accompanying each tool are wonderful, as are the illustrations. Our two-year old loves it and wants to spend more time in the garage now!
Great book - cute and good values.......2003-04-30
This book is definitely worth having. Our 2 1/4 year old son (who likes tools and loves music) loved the twist on a familiar and loved song. The depiction of Old MacDonald as a sheep and as a female!!!! who has a woodshop!!!! makes this a must have book to balance out, for both boys and girls, the lack of gender-neutral characters and over representation of gender-stereotypes that is ubquitious in both books and songs. The sounds used for the various tools are not that good so you may want to make up your own but otherwise the pictures and text are good and what Old MacDonald and the animals are building makes for a cute surprise ending.
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If I had only known............2006-05-02
This field guide has what I consider to be soso black and white photos and drawings of each type of barn and supporting structures. If you are looking for accurate information on a style of barn and where it may be located this is the book for you. I would perfer better quality photo's and some color. Rather boring presentation!
Fantastic Book on Barns!.......2001-04-02
For what I wanted the book for it is a fantastic resourse. I build model barns and covered bridges. This book has not only given me new ideas but also a history behind them. Love the book.
Frustratingly brief presentation.......1998-10-29
While the book presents numerous types of agricultural buildings from all over the U.S., it doesn't go into any sort of detail about any of them, making it of limited reference use.
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Simply written, abundantly illustrated text provides handy tips for building everything from a cheese press, hog house, and even a bicycle-powered washing machine to advice on the proper way to split wood, sharpen scissors, and paper a room. 200 black-and-white illustrations.
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A delightful recreation of an American farm.......1997-01-28
A.G. Smith has designed several cut, glue, and assemble paper models. This is on of his best. The farm buildings are an accurate recreation of a farm scene in HO scale, 1:86 ratio. There are nine buildings in all and you would find these buildings just about any place in rural America. The instructions and methods are easy enough for the novice but has appeal for the advanced paper modeler too. This model is highly recommended for the first time card modeler (paper models are called card models) not only for its ease of assembly but also for the positive results attained
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During the 1990's, Oxford Archaeology North (then Lancaster University Archaeological Unit) conducted a programme of evaluation, building recording, excavation and documentary research at Old Abbey Farm, Risley. This small moated site, now in Warrington Borough, was probably constructed after the sub-division of the manor of Culcheth in 1246; timbers dated by dendrochronology have suggested that a late thirteenth or possibly early fourteenth century aisled hall formerly stood on the moated platform. In the late medieval period the aisles were removed and new timber framing was built below the arcade-plates; the renovated hall was accessed by a substantial fifteenth century timber bridge. A crossing was added to the hall in the mid sixteenth century and the bridge across the moat was rebuilt in stone. From the seventeenth century, the house was subject to piecemeal underpinning and rebuilding in brick, and was extended in the mid eighteenth century. The project provided a rare opportunity to record a building during demolition and subsequently excavate below it, thereby maximising the information retrieval. The project was a runnerup in the British Archaeological Awards for 1996.
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Black and white half-timbered buildings are a distinctive and much loved feature of England's countryside and historic old towns. Originally published in 1904 and presented here in a remastered edition, Old Cottages, Farm Houses and other Half-Timber Buildings in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Cheshire features some of the finest and most celebrated examples of the half-timbered style, including Stokesay Castle and the Reader's House in Ludlow. Numerous atmospheric photographs by architectural woodworker James Parkinson accompany notes and sketches by E A Ould, highlighting the construction, ornamentation and regional character of buildings dating mostly from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Detailed and fascinating for anyone interested in history, architecture or rural life, Old Cottages, Farm Houses and other Half-Timber Buildings conducts the reader upon a nostalgic yet informed journey around one of the most appealing areas of England's past.
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What are the limits of self-knowledge? Acclaimed science writer John Horgan takes a penetrating look into the world of neuroscience in The Undiscovered Mind, a follow-up to his more general The End of Science. Already pessimistic about the long-term prospects for the grand endeavor of scientific progress, he finds even more reason for skepticism about the claims of those who study the brain and the mind. Will we ever cross the explanatory gap between our reductionist neuroanatomical knowledge and our everyday awareness of the qualities of our perceptions, thoughts, and feelings? Horgan's answer is no.
He's no neo-Luddite, though--his aim is not to disillusion the public, not to reduce funding, but to address the hubris of the neuroscientists, evolutionary psychologists, and artificial-intelligence researchers who all proclaim a new golden age just around the corner thanks to an imminent grand unified theory of consciousness, a theory Horgan believes unlikely and far off at best. His clear, entertaining prose is more conversational than polemic, and his verbal portraits of luminaries such as Eric Kandel and Lewis Wolpert make for engrossing, thoughtful reading. Even if you disagree with him, as many neuroscientists do, his point of view is refreshing and challenging, and hence well worth consideration. --Rob Lightner
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GRAY MATTER UNDER INVESTIGATION
In his acclaimed book The End of Science, John Horgan ignited a firestorm of controversy about the limits of knowledge in a wide range of sciences. Now in The Undiscovered Mind he focuses on the single most important scientific enterprise of all -- the effort to understand the human mind.
Horgan takes us inside laboratories, hospitals, and universities to meet neuro-scientists, Freudian analysts, electroshock therapists, behavioral geneticists, evolutionary psychologists, artificial intelligence engineers, and philosophers of consciousness. He looks into the persistent explanatory gap between mind and body that Socrates pondered and shows that it has not been bridged. He investigates what he calls the "Humpty Dumpty dilemma," the fact that neuroscientists can break the brain and mind into pieces but cannot put the pieces back together again. He presents evidence that the placebo effect is the primary ingredient of psychotherapy, Prozac, and other treatments for mental disorders. As Horgan shows, the mystery of human consciousness, of why and how we think, remains so impregnable that to expect the attempts of scientific method and technology to penetrate it anytime soon is absurd.
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'Swift-Boating' neuroscience.......2006-02-03
It's healthy bear in mind, as Horgan urges, that neuroscience has yet to produce medical or technological breakthroughs on the scale of physics, chemistry, or other areas of biology (of which neuroscience is a subfield, btw); research programs in the field would do well to be more influenced by these priorities. But as far as his grander, negative conclusions regarding the futility of neuroscience are concerned, the book is an unmitigated failure. Indeed, the discussion of neuroscience is so thin and his arguments so specious that one suspects that Horgan is really quite content just to provide a set of Tom Cruise-style talking points for those who are already suspicious (or frightened) of the empirical study of mind.
Horgan's negative claims are not borne out by an honest look at the field. For example, he professes not to be able to come up with a single solid discovery that neuroscience has made in its history. Really? What about the discovery of receptive fields by Kuffler and others, a fundamental fact about sensory and motor neural organization every student learns? How about functional neural columns in V1 (Hubel & Wiesel) and elsewhere? The neural correlate of eye movement commands in the superior colliculus (Wurtz, Goldberg et al.)? And what exactly was the objection to Kandel's groundbreaking work on the molecular basis of memory supposed to be?
Rather, Horgan's methodology is to exploit the modesty and self-effacement of many neuroscientists, who will say `But of course we have no idea how X works' to temper the enthusiasm surrounding their discovery of Y. But modesty (or jadedness) notwithstanding, no neuroscientist believes that the field has learned nothing important about the brain in the last 100 years, or that important questions haven't been answered definitively. Horgan also offers a sort of argument from ignorance-if he and his colleagues at Scientific American can't get their heads around Goldman-Rakic's work in an afternoon, it must be beyond human comprehension altogether. Other interpretations of the situation are possible.
In sum, a grossly misleading book.
a high level survey of mind science.......2005-06-01
I found Horgan's book valuable as a survey of the highly varied fields relating to the science, engineering, and philosophy of the mind. Although the theories are immature and contradictory, Horgan maintains a tone of hopeful skepticism.
For me, the most valuable feature of the book was its high level perspective, helping me to see, for example, that much of psychotherapy and psychiatry is quack medicine, and to learn about the ideas of evolutionary psychology. But don't expect to learn much detail from this book; it contains no diagrams and keeps on moving at a fast pace.
If, like me, you have only passing familiarity with Freud's ideas, you will be interested to read Horgan's critique of the theories of oedipal complexes, childhood trauma as an explanation of adult behavior, anal personalities, and Freudian slips. He condemns Freud as the father of false memory syndrome. Horgan regards Freud as a great storyteller, but a highly flawed scientist. He relates studies showing that psychotherapy succeeds, when it does, because of a placebo effect, that actuarial methods are better predictors of future behavior than the clinical methods of psychology, and that in one study, patients who received more therapy had higher crime rates!
His critique of psychiatry is equally harsh: the field has a long history of quack fads, often inhumane, and poor quality control: magic potions, electroshock therapy, fever cures (inject the mentally ill with malaria virus!), lobotomies, ... homeopathic medicine. More recent treatments seem more humane, but are little less arbitrary, and probably equally fleeting. Horgan is quite critical of Prozac as an antidepressant: comparative studies have found it to be no more effective than psychotherapy, cognitive therapy, or a placebo, and only 20-30% of patients are still well two years later. For psychiatric treatments, overall, Horgan credits most of the claimed benefits to a placebo effect. You don't hear this when you talk to shrinks!
The chapter on evolutionary psychology (EP) is interesting. EP explains, for example, that men are attracted to young fertile women, and women are attracted to good provider (rich) men because that yields an evolutionary advantage, and that such characteristics of human nature are inherited, not just learned. Some criticize EP as "glib and lame explanations" and "after-the-fact storytelling". Horgan does a good job of summarizing this debate.
I found the later chapters on artificial intelligence and consciousness to be too shallow and anecdotal. Horgan does not explain the leading theories in sufficient depth, and devotes too much space to fringe theories and to stories about the personalities he met at various conferences.
Regarding the future of mind science, Horgan hints that we may never really understand the mind. I came away with a more optimistic perspective: yes, our current understanding is very limited, but we'd expect neuroscience to be less mature than physics or plant biology, say, because the brain is so complex. Progress is accelerating, and in a few decades, perhaps, we'll make real strides in understanding the mind.
Discover lots of explanations..........2004-11-16
Reading individual scientific works on brain/mind issues with the goal of gaining insight into how the mind works can be - well, mind numbing. I greatly appreciate John Horgan's journalistic, no-holds-bared approach to the subject. What does he discover? The field is wide open, massively complex and contradictory. And he lets you know it in a fast paced conversational style.
I enjoyed this book very much. In particular I enjoyed the interviews with James Austin and Susan Blackmore. I respect the imposition of Mr. Horgan's personal views. This is a book by a journalist, not a peer review. I recommend it to everyone with a general interest in mind studies.
A good antidote to the hype.......2003-12-23
At a time when we are constantly bombarded with claims and counter claims about the mind in the media and the popular press, it is good to see someone finally rise above the hype and take a good critical look at the current state of Mind Science.
Opening with a discussion of the mind body problem or as Horgan calls it the "explanatory gap" and the difficulties in constructing a single theory of the mind, Horgan leaves the reader wondering if in the final analysis, such a thing is even possible.
While ultra critical, Horgan does not make the same mistakes as he did in his first book. He treats each argument fairly and reasonably. As one reviewer pointed out "Where he is skeptical he is judging scientists by their own standard: the evidence"
In my view he is at his strongest when critiquing Bio-Psychiatry and especially the pseudo- science Evolutionary Psychology, which he rightly points out its inability to perform experiments, and the impossibility of objectively determining what is a cultural or innate trait. He likens this budding "Science" to the now fading psychoanalysis, which has interesting views on human nature, but whose theories can never really be verified.
Finally, he tackles the old philosophical problem of consciousness, and highlights all the competing contradictory views on how to tackle the problem.
Of course ultimately we may solve the problems that Horgan thinks are beyond our grasp, but until then, Horgan's Critical rationalism will do just fine.
An entertaining read.......2003-12-09
Horgan takes the reader on a journalistic tour of mind science.
With wit and depth of reporting he shows just how far off we are from understanding the mind.
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