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Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RVUUE8Z1DG2CH Dan Christensen's review was made as part of a critical review assignment for the Fall 2008 Honors Colloquium on Creative Destruction at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, taught by Art Diamond. (The course syllabus stated that part of the critical review assignment consisted of the making of a video recording of the review, and the posting of the review to Amazon.)

This heavily footnoted and well-researched (and inventive when need be) reference is a terrific guide to the pseudobiblia of the Cthulhu Mythos. Included are histories of the Pnakotic Manuscripts, Eltdown Shards, Celaeno Fragments, G'harne Fragments, Seven Cryptical Books of Hsan, Book of Dzyan, R'lyeh Text, Dhol Chants, Ponape Scripture, Codex Dagonensis, Cultes des Goules, De Vermis Mysteriis, Book of Eibon, Unaussprechlichen Kulten, and of course, the infamous Necronomicon, as well as the history of Miskatonic University's library. Great for major Mythos fans, though perhaps a bit much for those interested more in the mood than the Mythos itself. Highly recommended!

The title may be slightly misleading and even off-putting but do not put down this book. The authors summarize several years of research done at Colorado State University. This reasearch has allowed them to develop some powerful process models which explain the evolution of fluvial systems over time. These models, while derived from flume work, apply well to the real world. Observations discussed and inferences put forth by the authors have been documented in the field by researchers for companies such as Exxon. They fit quite well with the sequence stratigraphic ideas found in the professional literature published by AAPG and SEPM (to name a few). Every geologist who wishes to become a competent stratigrapher should read this book. A great follow-up to Schumm's earlier book 'The Fluvial System.' CJ

I took psych 290 3 times and this book was the only thing that helped me get a passing grade. I am never taking another psychology class again if I can help it.

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Please know the book was exactly the way they described. Also, I have a final this week and they made it a point to ship it early and they paid the addtl shipping out of their pocket.

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, not only because W.S. Haseltine is my great-great-grandfather and I own some of his fine works. The authors took great care researching his life and arts as well as the wonderful works he did. W.S. Haseltine is a fine example for sophisticated American art.

"Extinction" was published in 1987, after the discovery of the iridium layer at the K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary) Boundary but before the Chicxulub impact crater (first reported and ignored at the 1981 annual meeting of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists) impressed itself upon the hearts and minds of paleontologists and geologists.

Professor Stanley, who is a paleobiologist at Johns Hopkins University, presents an authoritative account of all of the mysterious cataclysms that have swept our planet, without resorting to an extraterrestrial `deus ex machina.' He does discuss the meaning of iridium concentrations at extinction boundaries, but the main thrust of his book is a "comprehensive evaluation of the record of great extinctions that is being read from rocks and fossils....More generally, in the process of elucidating the crises that we term mass extinctions, this book takes the reader on a trip through the history of life on earth."

If you are fond of journeys through what John McPhee calls `Deep Time,' this book makes an excellent and only slightly-outdated guide. The illustrations are stunning, even in this age of three-dimensional, in-your-face velociraptors. It is one of my favorite volumes from the Scientific American Library, along with "Viruses," "The Living Cell (two volumes)," "Powers of Ten," and "Islands." (Dear W.H. Freeman & Company: I wish you had continued this excellent series of books.)

There have been fewer than a dozen mass extinctions since multicellular life first appeared on Earth. Professor Stanley covers all of them, beginning with the first great extinction of the acritarchs, and ending with the demise of the mammoths, giant wombats, and Shasta ground sloths that we ourselves may have doomed. His emphasis is on climatic change, although he doesn't consider that to have been the only factor in mass extinction---only the most important one.

Read Professor Stanley's well-presented evidence, and do not ask for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for the trilobites and the lacy bryozoans of the Paleozoic, armored Dunkleosteus of the Devonian, the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic, and the great, sabre-toothed Creodonta of the Cenozoic---not to mention Smilodon fatalis of a more recent era.

This book is a wonderful find. Many of us do have extraordinary dreams and need help to understand them. I have sent this book to others who were concerned. Some dreams are actually telepathic, not subconscious worries. Some dreams involve spirits, and some spirits wish to communicate with us. This is not generally accepted in most older ideas of psychology or physics.

If you happen to be on the mission field (especially in a place like Orange County, California) and seeking to develop a new community of people who are eager to follow Jesus Christ, I can think of no better investment of your time than working through the pages of this book. Stan's solid research and analysis are enhanced by the contribution of Darrell Guder to make this book a wonderful addition to the Gospel and Our Culture Network library (though it doesn't appear to be officially so). There is plenty here to inspire (the participants in Stan's research do that often) even as the missional emphasis makes this text more valuable than another "how to" book on New Church Development. It's required reading for all NCD pastors as far as I'm concerned. And that's my view from the mission field.

This is an excellent book that overcomes a host of minor errors to make a big point: Aesop's fables served as a highly charged and broadly circulated code for political debate in England from Caxton to the 18th-century. She emphasizes the use of two fables in particular: The Frogs Who Wanted a King & The Belly and the Members. I admit I am a Patterson fan: whatever she does is well thought out and whatever she concludes is worth reading.