Bradford Books

This is an excellent book, focusing on fMRI and PET, that goes over in detail methodology and applications. The methodology sections includes details on the underlying physiology (it's more complicated than just blood flow and 02 extraction)and critiques the commonly used subtraction method, preferring instead event-evoked studies. Going beyond the simplistic concepts of areas "lighting up" being "for" this or that cognitive function, there is coverage of network analysis. The methodology is obviously still in an early evolutionary phase, and each chapter has closing section on controversies and future directions. The application sections cover neuroimaging of attention, visual recognition, semantic, episodic and working memory, and language. There is good critical review of the literature here, and there is no tendency towards oversimplification of conflicting results. There is also a chapter on cognitive aging that I found particularly informative, showing how the elderly utilize different neural networks than younger people to perform various cognitive tasks. The book is about 400 pages and includes 22 color plates. This is a very rich and rapidly evolving research area, and I think this is a great intro book for clinicians in neurology, psychology and psychiatry, as well as neuroradiology, to get an appreciation of what just a few years ago was a science fiction concept...taking pictures of the mind as it thinks.

Surprisingly, even a younger child can understand the first part of this book, which introduces some higher level mathematical concepts in an engaging manner. I would like to see more books like it!

This is a very good biography on the scourge of the Roman Empire. Mr. Bradford does a good job in telling about his youth, his hatred of Romans, his rise to fame, and his subsequent downfall. Not too lengthy and an enjoyable book.

Bradford Huie was a North American advertiser of renown fame about issues about Contemporary History - "The execution of Private Stovik" and "The hero of two Jima" - focus the lives of two North American soldiers whose involvement in the WW2 meant for them tragic consequences.
He gathered abundant information about the best known "Eatherly case" and besides a big amount of valuable data for all those people really interested in this subject.

Volumes III and IV are available from The Jewett Family of America, Box 254, Rowley MA 01969 Contact Ted Herrmann, Publisher, at 201 569-6611 or Ted Loranz, V.P. at 508 429-8750. Library of Congress No. 95-81192. Original Volumes I and II were published in 1908.

Description: Two volumes, hard-bound with title stamped in gold. 1,758 pages, hundreds of illustrations, Jewett genealogical data concentrating on period 1908-1995, with newly assigned JFA numbers of family members. The alphabetically arranged INDEX covers every name found in BOTH volumes. There is some detail on the Norman origins of the Jewett name and some history of the Jewett Coat-of-Arms, including derivation, French roots in Jouatte, Jouett, Jowitt, etc. Also contains a copy of the orignal Charter of the Jewett Family of America from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1910.

Size 6-1/2 x 9-3/4" emulating the size and style of the first two volumes I and II by Dr. Frederick Clarke Jewett, printed in 1908. Endpaper illustrations include a map of the original Ezekiel Rogers plantation established at Rowley, MA in 1639; a Civil War political cartoon; pen and ink wash drawing by William Samuel Lyon Jewett of New York Harbor in 1871 entitled "Sail and Steam"; and a reproduction of original sheet music written for the first National JFA (Jewett Family of America) Reunion in 1855.

Varzi and Casati offer a survey of philosophy far better than anything you'll find in textbooks and histories. Their's is a *demonstration* of philosophy: philosophy in action, applied to a ancient conundrum, yielding explanations and sometimes even answers. For all of you who are curious about what those philosophers were always doing arguing on the steps of the English department, why they would brush by you staring at the ground mumbling about ontology and reference, or just what in the world they've been up to for the past 2000 years--this is your book!

Bradford Angier's cookbook of recipes for wild meat is wonderful because the recipes complement, not mask, the unique flavor of the game. The author obviously respects the wild game for which the recipes do justice. If one doesn't have the opportunity or desire to eat such animals as raccoon, porcupine, and mountain lion, at least one can enjoy reading the recipes!!

This book is the first I know of that tries to examine the impact of emotions in decision making from the lay person to the scientist. It is not an easy reading like the money-making populist books on 'emotional intelligence' and similar, but it can be read by anyone wanting to learn about emotions impact in our lives using a scientific approach, because it uses simple language and it is very organized and methodical.

To me the scientific study of the impact of our emotions in our lives is important because:
1) Emotions appear to be biologically evolved algorithms for quick behavioral response to particular situations.
2) Emotions evolved before concious step-by-step reasoning, as they can easily be observed in lower functioning animals.
3) And since their initial appearance emotions have continued to do most of the decision-making work of animals while the conciousness of the self and of the decision-making process gradually developed and grew as a percentage of the total decision-making process from one species to the next up in complexety, up to the human species, which is the one that seems to have the higher ratio of concious to unconcious decision-making process.

However, current humans are still somewhere halfway toward being completely concious of their decision-making process, and, like everything else we know, individual humans vary one from the other according to a bell-shaped curve of distribution from those who have the lowest ratio of concious to unconcious decision making to those who have the highest ratio. In other words the decisions of humans are based on a mixture of the processing of data using unconciouss learned memes plus genes-based hardwired neural-emotional-reflex-circuits mixed with a varying amount of "concious" step-by-step process of reasoning. The ratio of both types of reasoning for each individual defines the individual as either more unconcious of the reasons behind his/her own decisions (sometimes called more emotional) or more concious of the reasons behind his/her own decisions (sometimes called more rational).

Emotions allow for speedy decisions which are vital in many situations, but their evolutionary-programed behavioral patterns, which developed as the most effective responses to stereotypical environmental situations, are either less effective or not effective at all when dealing with significantly different situations and they lack the flexibility to adapt quickly enough to them. So, it is here, before novel situations, where concious step-by-step processing/thinking of each situation particular gives an edge to those who can do that. It is unclear if our brains will ever be powerful enough to be capable of awareness of all the processes involved in each decision we make, as it unclear if this will ever be practical/useful for the survival of any species in the Universe.

This is a must read for anybody who is thinking about starting out on your own. It explains exactly why some of my first few tries went down in flames, and how to be successful next time.

This is a quaint book which portrays a unique twist on the Christmas story. Those individuals who have grown up on the coastal SC/GA islands will recognize the style of grammar as that of Gullah or Geechee. This book could be considered as "racially controversial" in these times, however, it must be understood that it harkens back to a earlier century and that should guide the reader. Those individuals who have not experienced Gullah/Geechee before, might have a difficult time reading and pronouncing words in this book.

It is interesting how Roark spins the tale of Jesus, and Santa Claus and how at the end of this short story, both of them seem so necessary to make our Christmas story complete. For me, it will be a tradition to read out load at Christmastime. A must read!