Senses Books

Dealing with a loved one who is suffering from dementia is no easy task for anyone, but this book explains in plain english what is happening and what you can expect. It was very helpful in helping me decide on a long term care facility for my grandmother and I would recommend this book to anyone who feels like they have no idea where to start!

As a media educator, I have used this book for years. It offer low-tech exercises, good for communities without high-tech equipment, and some wonderful brainstroming and issue identification tools. These work especially well for students who may not have strong reading skills, or are non-native speakers. My copy is dog-eared and well-loved.

This book is showing its age with examples more relevant to the 70s, but it more than makes up for this with a conscientious attempt to express many ideas from within ancient and modern Philosophy while trying to teach the reader how to make up their own minds about the value of those ideas.
It is a fine guide towards further Philosophical reading and study written for the undergraduate or interested novice.

This book has chapters on the main writers on the concept including Hayek, Arendt and Marcuse. It provides a clear understanding of the historical evolution of totalitarianism while setting each writers work in context. I would recommend this book to anyone who wanted a resume of thought on the theory of totalitarianism and doesn't have time to read all the main works.

My review is coloured by my non-military background. My interest is to better understand strategy and how it can be implemented. I had the good fortune of coming across a journal article written by Alan Stephens which cross-referenced this book. I was sufficiently impressed to take a punt and purchase it.

What an incredibly rewarding investment.

His and Nicola Baker's depth are reflected in the lucid account of what strategy is as a concept, followed by relevant examples which show how the theoretical skeleton they describe is fleshed out in reality - all with reference to war.

Their use of the ends-ways-means construct overlaid by a shape-deter-respond construct is a very rewarding perspective on strategy (and its implementation). I suspect, on reading this book, that the authors of many other strategy books I have read - across a whole lot of themes, mainly business - may profit by going back to this military view from which many strategic concepts were first articulated.

I can't speak for the worth of this book to someone in the military, or to military historians, analysts, etc; but to someone like me simply looking to better understand strategy and its implications, this book will take one of those pride of place positions on my bookshelf. The potential I see in it to illuminate my understanding of any application of strategy I care to be involved in appears to be panoramic in its scope.

Well done to the authors.

Are we free? Most of us feel free. Our culture operates as if we are free and responsible for our freely chosen actions. Yet, the popular wisdom in philosophical circles today is that we are not free. Any feelings of freedom are illusions. In reality, all of us are determined to be what we are by causes beyond our control. What are these causes? How did we loose control of our own destiny? Did we ever have any control of our destiny? Is fate a play we all are acting in with a script not of our own choosing? Is the script dictated by god, genetics, psychology, or some other unknown factor outside our control? Is there room for an individual acting as a free agent in there somewhere?

James Felt has written a remarkable book, that concisely puts forth the view that we are free to make choices independent of the multitude of influences that clutter our decision making process. Determinism in its various forms is exposed as baseless dogma. Dogma built on the shifting sands of faulty presuppositions and unsound logic. The book is written in language accessable to the general reader. Many footnotes and a suggested reading list guide you, if, you desire to dig deeper into the points he discusses. He avoids any theological arguments and sticks to philosophy and metaphysics. Yet, the book progresses beyond the abstract and brings the freedom issue to where we live: the Libertarian free philosophy should clarify our response to the problem of evil. And our rational understanding of our personal freedom should cause us to realize that we are responsible for determining our own character. The concept of agency puts responsibility on our shoulders. We are fully culpable. This sobering fact should drive any thinking person straight to the Cross of Christ, where the blood of our risen Saviour redeems us and truly sets us free...

Although I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person, I have always been clueless about Economics. Oh, I could balance the checkbook, but I didn't understand the Economic news I heard on TV, or read in the paper. I was embarassed about this, but didn't know where to find the info I wanted.

This book was a huge help to me. I'm no longer in the dark!

A few of the issues discussed: The US dollar and how it used to be backed by gold and now is backed by nothing. Why that is important!

Inflation, what is it, what causes it, how does it affect me"

Who or what is the Federal Reserve? Now I get it!

The ever mysterious (to me) Stock Market is also discussed.

The language is clear and easy to understand, but is not "dumbed down" either. This book should be required reading for all High School students! (And adults who missed it in High School.)

People of various occupations respond to large emergency situations. This book will teach you how to become a First Responder, now to interact with the shell shocked living victims who are in a state of disarray and need to sort through their own thoughts about their tragedy, including their perception and belifs about God, in order to return to some semblance of their former lives. Knowing how to respond properly to huge emergencies is critical to the victims who survive in terms of their ability to put their lives back together again. What does not get dealt with in the critical first hours and days may impact on their lives for life, so it is important to know how to respond to these people so that they can recover as much as possible and not be left with insurmountable scars that ruin their lives. People who respond to large tragedies must know how to start and continue the recovery process with the suviving victims. This is the book that tells the helper how to help.

Phil Kozel is possibly the greatest theorist sense Karl Marx. He is a great man and a great scholar. This is quite simply next to Das Kapital and The Communist Mannifesto the greatest book ever written.

"Math At Their Own Pace: Child-Directed Activities For Developing Early Number Sens" by Greg Nelson (Professor of Early Childhood Education, Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, Massachusetts) offers classroom teachers and home-schooling parents with a series of pre-designed, inexpensive activities to use with young children that will provide them with a broad range of fun and informative hands-on math experiences enabling them to learn how to solve problems creatively. The children will achieve an awareness of stable quantities and acquire counting skills to 10 and beyond, become able to recognize and write the numerals 0 through 9, and obtain a whole-part mathematical awareness. Enhanced with recommended ways to present these learning activities to children, and offering guidance on reacting to various student responses, plus customizing variations that tailor the activities to children's specific abilities and interest levels, "Math At Their Own Pace" will prove to be an invaluable and thoroughly 'user friendly' resource ideal for preschool and elementary school curriculums.