Stanley Books

I have been upset with the laziness of the publishers. As a publisher myself, and very happy to be a member of Amazon Advantage, readers should understand that publishers can, at no cost, enter the Table of Contents, the Author's Biography, Publisher's Comments, and short editorial reviews of the book by others. They can also send the book to Amazon as a candidate for full "Inside the Book" cross-indexing.

Since this publisher has failed abysmally to respect the potential buyer and reader, and since the author merits better, below I am simply going to provide the chapter headings and the ten commandments. Buy the book if you need to, but in my view, this brilliant author has not been well-served by his publisher.

Contents:
01 Chemistry, Green Chemistry, and Environmental Chemisty
02 The Elements: Basic Building Blocks of Green Chemicals
03 Compounds: Safer Materials for a Safer World
04 Chemical Reactions: Making Materials Safely without Damaging the Environment
05 The Wonderful World of Carbon: Organic Chemistry and Biochemicals
06 Energy Relationships
07 Water, the Ultimate Green Solvent: Its Uses and Environmental Chemistry
08 Air and the Atmosphere
09 The Biosphere: How the Revolution in Biology Relates to Green Chemistry
10 The Geosphere, Soil, and Food Production: The Second Green Revolution
11 Toward a Greener Anthrosphere through Industrial Ecology
12: Feedstocks: Maximum Utilization of Renewable and Biological Materials
13: Terrorism, Toxity, and Vulnerability: Chemistry in Defense of Human Welfare
14 The Ten Commandments

01 Human Welfare Must Be Measured in Terms of Quality of Life
02 We Must Address Both Number of People and Demands on Earth Per Person
03 Anthrosphere Must Be Recognized and Held to Goal of Zero Environmental Impact
04 Energy Sources With Little or No Environmental Impact Are Essential
05 Climate Conducive to Life on Earth Must Be Maintained
06 Earth's Capacity for Biological and Food Productivity Must be Maintained and Enhanced (e.g. with Deep Root Farming)
07 Material Demand Must be Drastically Reduced, Be Reusable, Recyclable, or Biodegradable (e.g. end to toxic trash)
08 Toxic Waste Should Not Be Released and Must Be Rendered Non-Hazardous
09 There Are Risks in Not Taking Risks
10 Education in Sustainability is Essential

The author is compelling and sensible. I am personally thrilled to see that in addition to the success of Paul Hawken and the others in the Natural Capital Institute, that biomimicry, benevolent bacteria, green chemistry, and sustainable design are coming into their own. We have seven years from today to stop emission growth.

See also:
Priority One: Together We Can Beat Global Warming
An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It
Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power
Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature
Biomimicry for Optimization, Control, and Automation
Green Engineering: Environmentally Conscious Design of Chemical Processes
The Philosophy of Sustainable Design
Building Green: A Complete How-To Guide to Alternative Building Methods Earth Plaster * Straw Bale * Cordwood * Cob * Living Roofs
The New Craft of Intelligence: Personal, Public, & Political--Citizen's Action Handbook for Fighting Terrorism, Genocide, Disease, Toxic Bombs, & Corruption

I was crew chief on the Army-Lockheed YO-3A in Vietnam 1970-71. The 9 planes operating in Vietnam were silent and only operated at night. They were never shot down or took a round. This will come as a surprise to many, but the YO-3A had a 2nd generation NVAP (night vision scope,) infrared illuminator and a laser target designator. Non of these aircraft ever took a round or were shot down in 14 months of operation during the Vietnam War. This was the only Lockheed Missiles and Space Corporation airplane ever built. It was also the only airplane that was built specifically for the U.S. Army. After Vietnam, 2 of the planes, 006 and 007 effectively operated for the Louisiana Wild Life and Fisheries to nap illegal shrimpers. The planes were then acquired by the FBI and were used in the Patty Hearst case and other kidnapping and extortion cases. NASA still operates one YO-3A for rotorcraft acoustic research. YO-3A 69-18007 is undergoing restoration to flight status at Cable Airport, Upland California. Check out these websites for more information: www.yo-3a.com, www.prizecrew.org, www.quietaircraft.org

No matter the degree of knowledge of music, if you are interested in music as an art form, or if it is your career or simply your passion, you should invest in this book. It covers every imaginable subject on music, from terms to composers. I cannot tell you how many times I have referred to this book, whether to understand a concept better, to research the works of Benjamin Britten, or find out what a Gora is. This book has useful illustrations, but puts more emphasis on conservation of space in order to include a huge range of entries.

This will ring personal bells for you. By it for those you mentor. Colleen is "on target" and relates well to some very basic facts about your business.

Mick Occhiuto
President
Merritt-Gentry Group
www.merritt-gentry.com

Soft bunny with magnets inside hands. Bunny is so cute as it covers its eyes. Hands can be pulled away by baby. Each card has a question that can be answered by opening the flap. Helps babys with story building, pre-reading, fine motor skills, thinking skills and visual perception.

In this brilliant book, Stanley Hoffmann wrote, "the road selected by the United States was that of a declaration of `war' against terrorism, the creation of the notion of `illegal combatants', and the assimilation of states suspected of sheltering terrorists to the terrorists themselves. This was playing into their hands." Instead of focusing on getting Al Qa'ida, this road widened the war unnecessarily in space and time.

About the occupation of Iraq, Hoffmann noted, "There are good reasons for calling for the end of the occupation. As in Palestine, the occupation is the main cause of the current troubles (which does not mean that they will end if we leave; but whatever we do to try to resolve the internal conflicts is likely to backfire). Continuing U.S. military control, direct or indirect, will feed anti-Americanism (as in post-1965 South Vietnam) and provide a training and breeding ground for terrorism, native and from other countries. American interests would be better served by a shift of U.S. resources toward ... the fight against al Qaeda and its allies around the world - who have become more diversified and decentralized and continue to receive manpower and support from schools and factions in officially pro-American states such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. ... It is time to refocus the struggle against terrorism, by giving priority to the fight against Islamic jihadists (the most dangerous for U.S. and Western interests), and by spending far more energy on a permanent solution to the Palestinian problem, along the lines almost agreed upon at Taba in 2001 and advocated by the Geneva informal alliance of Palestinians and Israelis, as well as by Jimmy Carter."

He urges us all, "In the case of the Middle East, an exit from Iraq, combined with a new effort by the U.S., the U.N., the EU, and Russia to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and to create a livable Palestinian state, would mark a return to reality, to good sense, and to morality."

He concludes, "Nothing wholly good can come out of a war that resulted from a mix of self-deception and deliberate deception, waged in a part of the world in which alien control has for a long time fostered turmoil and tragedy. The presence of terrorism is not an invitation to empire, but an incentive for finding policies that reduce its appeal, and for pursuing the terrorists in ways that do not help them multiply."

Stanley Hoffmann, a Professor at Harvard University and the author of many books on international affairs, has written a very insightful book on current US foreign policy. He looks at the Franco-American dispute, the question of US imperialism, 9/11, the preparations for the attack on Iraq, the war and the subsequent occupation, and the future of the international system.

He writes that after 9/11, "the road selected by the United States was that of a declaration of `war' against terrorism, the creation of the notion of `illegal combatants', and the assimilation of states suspected of sheltering terrorists to the terrorists themselves. This was playing into their hands."

He suggests, "It is time to refocus the struggle against terrorism, by giving priority to the fight against Islamic jihadists (the most dangerous for U.S. and Western interests), and by spending far more energy on a permanent solution to the Palestinian problem, along the lines almost agreed upon at Taba in 2001 and advocated by the Geneva informal alliance of Palestinians and Israelis, as well as by Jimmy Carter."

He notes, "Nothing wholly good can come out of a war that resulted from a mix of self-deception and deliberate deception, waged in a part of the world in which alien control has for a long time fostered turmoil and tragedy. The presence of terrorism is not an invitation to empire, but an incentive for finding policies that reduce its appeal, and for pursuing the terrorists in ways that do not help them multiply. In the case of the Middle East, an exit from Iraq, combined with a new effort by the U.S., the U.N., the EU, and Russia to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands and to create a livable Palestinian state, would mark a return to reality, to good sense, and to morality."

He concludes with some sensible proposals. He writes of Iraq, "There are good reasons for calling for the end of the occupation. As in Palestine, the occupation is the main cause of the current troubles (which does not mean that they will end if we leave; but whatever we do to try to resolve the internal conflicts is likely to backfire). Continuing U.S. military control, direct or indirect, will feed anti-Americanism (as in post-1965 South Vietnam) and provide a training and breeding ground for terrorism, native and from other countries. American interests would be better served by a shift of U.S. resources toward ... the fight against al Qaeda and its allies around the world - who have become more diversified and decentralized and continue to receive manpower and support from schools and factions in officially pro-American states such as Saudi Arabia and Pakistan."
We do indeed need to focus on defeating Islamic jihadists. The barbaric bombing of Londoners on Thursday 7 July is to be utterly condemned, without qualification. The inhuman fascists who carried out, or connived in, these acts, wish to push us into a dark age of unreason and fear. They will try to blame their inhumanity on others. But terrorists are responsible for their crimes and we must hold them to account. There can be no excuses given. All of us must assist to unmask these mass murderers.

Haroldson Lafayette Hunt lived more than 85 years in a lot of places in this country. A drifter from boyhood, later to become a land speculator, a professional gambler, a small-time oil promoter before he made his first REAL MONEY. Years later, labeled "The richest man in America", he remained a poor, ignorant, stunted child of Middle America.

Hunt got his first real wealth, not by finding oil, but by finding an oil finder. He purchased out an old con man who had made the biggest oil strike in history and didn't know it. Hunt knew it and that deal turned out to be worth about $100 million.

His public life brought him in touch with such luminaries as General Douglas MacArthur and Senator Joe McCarthy. But, his insistence that he could never be wrong finally turned away every hope of real power in the real world, so he made his own world with his own law.

About the Author: Stanley H. Brown has described the public and private natures of men of power and wealth in such magazines as New York, Esquire, Life, Fortune, People, and Business Week. One famous book he authored was "Ling; the Rise, Fall and Return of a Texas Titan", which was a probing look into the mind, the doings, and the undoing of the master conglomerateur, Jim Ling of Lind-Temco-Vought.

This book should be at the top of every health professional's list. Many patients who suffer with intractable pain -- whether from AIDS or scoliosis -- will find it heartening and hope-inspiring. It clears up preconceptions and myths which are ubiquitous and extremely damaging to patients. It tackles head- on one of the oft-voiced Gut Fears in Prescribing, that of "turning the patient into an addict." Concisely yet comprehensively, it pioneers largely uncharted territory ranging from pain that is never adequately treated becaused it is classified as "nonmalignant" to that old bugaboo, "substance abuse." (A major point made under the latter heading is that people with substance abuse problems or drug dependency can still suffer pain!)

While providing a high-level discussion of the many different options available to clinicians treating pain, this volume is especially stellar in its treatment of narcotic therapy for chronic pain. Along the way, it answers questions that may never have been asked but should have been, such as "Why does my patient who says he's in pain look as if he isn't feeling anything?" (Answer: This is a hallmark of chronic pain, the chronic suppression of reactivity to pain.)

This volume is not a pharmacology treatise wafting about in the theoretical realms of academia. It is a report from the trenches. It tells real people how to deal with real pain, whether they are parents of toddlers or friends of seniors; whether they are health professionals, sufferers of pain, or both. Don't miss this one! -- It is a pragmagtically useful, exceptionally informative, all-round wonderful book.

Shipped quickly and was able to be used for my course. In very good condition, as specified.