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Some say the dwellers under our feet and beneath the earth have much to teach and benifit humankind other say they have our demise at hand. The author doen't take a stand either way but presents many accounts of personal relationships with creatures who make thier homes in the caverns and encounters with entrances into other worlds.

I once met the author at a conference a number of years ago. I understand he has been a student of the paranormal since he was very young. He told me he was raised in a house that was haunted and had an out of body experience early in life. He had his first UFO sighting at the age of l0. He did a column called ON THE TRAIL OF THE FLYING SAUCERS for Ray Palmer's magazine and he used to correspond with Richard Shaver who claimed that he had been in the caves and been attacked by the dero. Its all very strange. Beckley tells it best in this book. There are literally dozens of stories about individuals who have met the inner earth dwellers. Its easy to read -- Beckley has a breezy style of writing. Its exciting and will keep you turning the page.

In "Subterranean Worlds Inside Earth," author Timothy Green Beckley has collected many stories from a vast wealth of sources on the subject of what is often called "The Inner Earth Theory." The theory holds that the Earth does not consist of molten metal at its core, as modern science tells us, but is instead quite hollow inside, and supports several different races of sentient beings as well as their impressive underground cities. Those cities are said to be linked to one another by underground tunnels with aboveground openings that the occasional surface-dwelling mortal stumbles on to.

Much of the information Beckley presents comes from a man named Richard Shaver, a spot welder on the Detroit automobile assembly lines who one day began to hear strange voices projected at him as he went about his work. Following the trail that began with that unearthly auditory experience, Shaver eventually came to the conclusion that the voices were coming from somewhere beneath the Earth, from a race of creatures he came to call the "Deros," which is short for "degenerate robots."

The Deros have a story of their own. They were once a gentle race who lived on the surface of the Earth, until it became apparent that the sun was being transformed in some way that caused an increase in the amount of a form of dangerous radiation contained in its rays. Some of the Deros escaped the planet by going into space in their highly-developed spacecraft, but not all of them managed to do so.

Those forced to remain went underground and built the cities referred to above, but the sun's poisonous radiation also caused them to go insane and to develop cruel and sadistic personality traits. It is because of their evil madness that mankind suffers so much today, and Shaver himself experienced some bizarre mistreatments as he sought to learn more about the mysterious Deros. Shaver eventually published many of his Dero tales in a magazine called "Amazing Stories," which were so popular that they greatly increased the magazine's circulation.

But Shaver's story of the Deros is only one of many versions of exactly what is down there in the Hollow Earth. Beckley also offers stories by journalist John J. Robinson and others whose research has turned up different legends and personal experiences, some of which tell of a hidden paradise below our feet where beautiful, spiritually benevolent creatures reside.

Beckley's use of numerous and divergent reports helps to paint a wonderfully complete picture of the centuries of folklore that have become mingled with scientific fact through real-world investigations into the "Subterranean Worlds Inside Earth." Some of what's here stretches credibility a little more than might be totally comfortable. But if you have an appetite for unsolved mysteries that extend beyond the realm of the safe and the knowable, then Beckley's thorough overview of what may be inside the Hollow Earth is well worth the time spent reading it.

The Treo 650 is an extraordinary device, combining in one package a cell phone (with data modem capabilities) and the awesome power of the Palm OS as a personal digital assistant. The online manual that ships with the Treo 650 is not intended for easy reading.

Morrison's book, however, which covers much the same territory is.

Treo Essentials doesn't go much beyond the manual: it is simply easier to deal with and merits consideration on that point alone. Morrison has a clear writing style and the book is adequately illustrated.

It's a handy, but not absolutely essentially, reference.

Jerry

The poor excuse for an instruction manual provided with the excellent Treo 650 is so "non-user-friendly" (very small, gray type, dense copy) that I bought his book as a "substitute manual"

The book is a readable, inviting, instruction manual. All the information in it is buried somewhere in the supplied (free)factory manual but this book avoid eyestrain and frustration. That was worth it for me.

I have owned first the Treo 600 and then the 650. I first purchased "Now you know Treo" to try and pick up some tips to help me maximize the use of the device. I did not find that book helpful. I just recently picked up "Treo Essentials" and found it very helpful. I am only about 1/4 through the book and have picked about 5 new things that I didn't fully understand or know even though I have been using a Treo device for several years. My recommendation is buy "Essentials" and skip "Now you know". "Essentials" is much more detailed than "Now you know" but still easy to read and understand.

Chock full of information, but at the same time pictures, illustrations and activities on each page break up the text and draw kids in.

This is a colorful and sympathetic introduction to Jewish history and the state of Israel. It is very clearly and intelligently written. It includes interactive features which are intended to add to overall knowledge.
It is a guide book which takes the reader to meet children in various parts of Israel.

This book is good for the 9-12 year olds in giving a brief overview of Israel. It is relatively up to date (just missing the latest outbreak of terrorism and fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians of the past year). I liked the stimulating and thought provoking questions asked which can lead into good class/family discussions. I also like the Hebrew words which are introduced in the various chapters and the mini biographies. The book is mostly filled with illustrations and a sprinkling of photos. I would have liked more photos. I feel this book would be an asset in home, school and synagogue libraries.

Used for a President book report. Child age 7. We read it together. It held his attention and showed Presidents were once children. Good book; however, difficult words at times. Needed my help on most pages. Still would recommend this book.

William Henry Harrison holds the distinction of being the United States President who delivered the longest inaugural address and served the shortest time (30 days) before he also became the first president to die in office. William Henry Harrison: Young Tippecanoe is a superb biography for young readers ages 8 to 12, written by the late Howard Peckham, and originally published in 1951. Featuring the childhood adventures of our ninth president (including the thrilling rescue of his sister from drowning when he was only seven, and the courageous capture of a British soldier just one year later when he was eight, William Henry Harrison is a welcome, very highly recommended addition to school and community biography collections for children and part of the Patria Press newly designed "Young Patriots" series.

William Henry Harrison, second book in the Young Patriots Series, doesn't disappoint, but makes an excellent read, and both entertains and educates. The illustratins are simply wonderful and truly enhance the story. Geared to the 8 to 12 year old, it's a must on every family bookshelf!

In the early part of the 20th century, northerners headed to the Appalachian Mountains to establish programs that Whisnant termed "systemic cultural intervention." This phrase refers to projects designed to affect change in a community through new forms of cultural programming. The intervention can be in the best interests of the community, or the intervention program can reflect primarily the goals and aspirations of the interveners. It can have positive and negative effects, and the interveners frequently create unintended consequences in the host communities. This important rubric provides a fascinating way to look at the impact of settlement schools and a folk festival in the mountains. Whisnant's analysis is interesting and provocative and well-worth considering when one is working in a community.

David Whisnant coined the term the "politics of culture." He provides an application of a theory of "systemic cultural intervention" in this book. Essentially, Whisnant argues that cultural intervention is a process in which specialists work to create change in a community. He looks at ways that positive interventions can bring about positive as well as negative effects. He also provides ways to examine how cultural intervention can be developed for negative purposes. Whisnant is a folklorist, and he examines how wealthy northerners went to Appalachia to promopte folklife programming in settlement schools and festivals. The book is very useful for examining how outside interventionists need to understand the culture and political dynamics in communities that they enter. At times, however, there is a degree of cynicism in Whisnant's writing that seems to emerge from a nativist stance by Whisnant himself. The lines he draws between "outsider" and "insider" are too neat and rigid, and the analysis would be improved by recognition that the case histories that he examines had far more complex issues at stake. Nevertheless, I highly recommend reading this work to understand fascinating aspects of Appalachian history and to consider ways to work more effectively in contemporary communities.

This book is comprehensive. For anyone interested in psychology, thinking, analogical, spatial and other types of reasoning, this book is excellent. It categorizes and summarizes the basic concepts on thinking. It goes into what the latest research is telling us. It has great diagrams of processes and concepts that I found useful and interesting.

If one is interested in becoming a better and smarter thinker, I would highly recommend this book. It is not for the feignt of heart. It is in fact probably geared specifically for cognitive, psychological or other scholarly audiences (i.e., it is a technical book for the specialist in the field). I recommend it however for the generalist - like me - who is interested in becoming a better thinker, a better reasoner, and a better decision maker.

Philosophy and psychology offer very different contributions to human knowledge, due in part to their different strategies for arriving at the truth but also due to the extent to which they are accepting of scientific facts and theories. Philosophers like to believe that their opinions, argumentation, and writings are more fundamental than scientific theories and serve as a "foundation" for the latter. Psychology on the other hand is usually more empirical, but still does not hesitate to build models, many of them abstract and sometimes seeming far removed from the (mental) phenomena they are supposed to represent. But since psychology does at times have some contact with laboratory experiments, it can be said to be closer to science than philosophy is. Only a tiny minority of those who profess to be philosophers would make any efforts in the laboratory experiments.

This distinction between philosophy and psychology can sometimes fade if one investigates their account of human reasoning which is well-represented in the articles that are included in this book. Covering a wide range of opinions on the nature and functioning of human thought, readers will no doubt be selective as to what articles they actually go over in detail. This was the case for this reviewer, who was primarily interested in the articles that make a connection with cognitive neuroscience. It is the latter field that is making contact with both philosophers and psychologists, and both parties have found themselves deeply involved in debates over topics such as the "modularity" of mind and the sometimes bitter disputes over the independence of neuronal synapses and cognition.

Philosophers of mind usually build elaborate theories based on sophisticated rhetoric in order have a framework to "justify" or criticize human reasoning abilities, and some psychologists construct "mental models" of the same. But if these systems of rhetoric or models are to be helpful to the cognitive neuroscientist, there has to be a way to test them experimentally. This has been very difficult until the advent of magnetic resonance imaging, and the article "Cognitive Neuroscience of Deductive Reasoning" by V. Goel in this book gives an excellent overview of the experiments that have used this technique to study deductive reasoning patterns. Early on in the article he outlines what he says are the two most popular psychological theories of deductive reasoning: the "mental logic" and "mental model" theories. He also mentions another, the "dual mechanism" theory that has been recently proposed. Goel then outlines the brain experiments that have been conducted that will verify (falsify) these theories and the discussion is very illuminating. It is very exciting indeed that the ancient syllogisms of Plato and Aristotle are now being explained by brain science, especially the identification of the areas of the brain that are responsible for analyzing the "validity" of logical arguments. Goel remarks that much work still needs to be done, and no doubt the future holds many surprises for the cognitive neuroscientists who are focused on studying human reasoning patterns.

Not only in psychology and social science, but also in the field of artificial intelligence, the article in the book entitled "Intelligence" by R. J. Sternberg is particularly important. Psychologists need to understand intelligence and its role in personality and social/personal adjustment while sociologists are very concerned with how to measure it (this being very contentious of late). Those who work in artificial intelligence however need a sound, practical definition of intelligence, not only so they can implement machine intelligence but also measure to what degree one machine is more intelligent than another. Sternberg does not do this in his article, but he gives fine overview of the different approaches taken by cognitive psychologists and biologists. Philosophical ideas on intelligence get represented in the discussion on contextualism, as do system approaches (such as the work of Howard Gardner on multiple intelligences).

This text is a helpful introduction to Catholicism. I highly recommend it for those who are interested in learning the fundamental Catholic convictions about the Church. It works well in RCIA discussions.

I used this as a textbook with high school freshmen. It was very informative, but challenging for that level. Driedger takes a thematic approach to church history. So this book is better for understanding who and where the Catholic Church is now than as a comprehensive survey of church history. In fact, it would be helpful to know the basics of Christian history before you delve into this text. The author's religious approach is open minded. She presents the official teachings without being too fundamentalist or rigid. Once the reader gets used to the author's style, this book has much to offer for understanding the contemporary Catholic Church.

They textbook that i recieved was in great condition, there were no torn pages, nothing written on pages. The seller was great responded with timely fashion in regards to shipping the book, i recieved the book well before its due delivery... Thanks Pj

This is an excellent book for anyone who is not experienced with computers but who would like to learn. It covers basic computer software and hardware concepts, basic applications, such as MS Word and MS Excel, as well as basic internet concepts and applications. It doesn't assume the reader has any prior computer knowledge. It starts at the beginning and teaches everything the average person needs to know.

I studied massage with the author 15 years ago and have always been very successful in the massage business due to Peggy's training. My wife and I are both massage therapists and were looking for a book to use as a reference, and we found this delightful and thorough book on Amazon almost by accident.

It is a great reference and uses both written work and excellent photos to help explain the full process of giving a quality massage. Recommended for couples who want to spend a bit of time learning how to really massage each other very well.

"Touch is its own, unique form of communication, which can foster genuine understanding between partners in ways that words alone cannot. For more than 30 years, I have been dazzled by Peggy Horan's extraordinary talents and sensitivities. She is truly one of the great living masters of the art of massage. In "Connecting Through Touch" she does a superb job of capturing all of the ways in which touch can comfort, stimulate, bridge gaps and heal. I have every confidence that this book will enrich the relationships of anyone who reads it."

Ken Dychtwald, Ph.D., Author of BODYMIND

The interviews in this book illuminate the forces behind Morrison's scholarly theories about the role of race in American literature. Anyone who has read "Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination" will immediately recognize key themes in many of these interviews, although the strongest distinctions can be found in the last two interviews, each given after publication of "Playing in the Dark." Taken chronilogically, the interviews are a thrillling opportunity to observe how Morrison has evolved as a writer and a scholar. To me, it is clear her novels are a carefully crafted attempt to mirror the racialized signifying she identifies in her scholarly critiques of white writer's work.

Toni Morrison was clearly ahead of her time -- look at her novels. Her interest in myth, history, a decentered narrator, racialized images of self, and aural language were well ahead of most critics and theorists, who are only now recognizing the full worth of her work. These collected interviews allow us to hear from the horse's mouth what her narrative project is. For Morrison fans, it is particularly interesting to see how the various white interviewers grapple with Morrison's insistence on writing about the culture she knows best -- black culture -- and not putting whites front and center. It is also interesting to see how Morrison herself switches positions throughout her career, from an insistence that she writes only for herself (early in her career) to writing for "the [black] tribe" (middle of her career)to writing for seemingly everybody (later career). A particular treat, for me, were references scattered throughout to how "prickly" Morrison can be and how catty she was about not being nominated for a National Book Award for SONG OF SOLOMON.