Stanley Books

This is the best handbook on a pain related subject that I have ever seen. While certainly not intended to be an exhaustive review, it provides a great deal of practical info in an 'outline" form.

I highly recommend the book to anyone who deals with back pain, especially in primary care.

This novel surpasses all Lentricchia's other efforts thus far. Playful, but obsessively serious, this book teaches us more than anything else. For this the professor comes through, as well as my understanding.

Note: I am refering to the Asia-Pacific version of this book, same
content but different case studies.

In deciding which book on macroeconomics to recommend I am tossing between this book and Oliver Blanchard's.

I really liked using this book:

+ the presentation is clean
+ it "feels" professional
+ good mathematical treatments
+ efficient exercises and just enough of them
+ includes coverage of advanced topics
+ clear explanations
+ relevant case studies
+ the chapters flow nicely into eachother

Compared to Mankiw's book Macroeconomics, this book feels more professional, Mankiw's almost felt like a children's book.
This feels like an investment in other words.

This book, although somewhat dated, provides an excellent look at the broad trends of evolution through the eyes of a leading Johns Hopkins paleontologist. Stanley examines explains the modern synthesis, fossil evidence, speciation and extinction rates, quantum speciation, large-scale trends, and the dynamics of species turnover. Among the groups examined are gastropods, echinoids, corals, microfossils, graptolites, and vertebrates.

Concerning Tambiah's inquiry into science in this book:

In "Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality," Harvard anthropologist Stanley Tambiah examines the logic and sociology of scientific inquiry. Tambiah identifies (see figure on page 141) the internal framework of scientific inquiry as a collection of relations between, on the one hand, bodies of specialized knowledge (rectangles) and, -- on the other, subdisciplines, specializations with conventions and "rules of the game" (ovals) accepted by peer groups and professional associations.

Tambiah suggests

"that the Western conception of science as a labeled, self-conscious and reflexive activity of experimentation, measurement and verification matured in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe, that at this time there was a decisive separating off of Christianity (Protestantism) from science, and the repudiation of a third realm of activity as magic. . . . A very critical precondition of modern science was the contribution of early Greece. According to the classicists it was in early Greece that the systematization of the rules of demonstration and proof was begun, and the marking off of nature as the domain of regular laws of causality was achieved (p. 140)."

While Tambiah's historical explanation situates science in relation to magic and religion, the chart on page 141 is schematically useful to orient the internal framework of science in relation to external frameworks (of special contemporary interest), namely to 1) technological applications and interventions in society, 2) the social construction of knowledge / cosmological and ideological belief systems, 3) soico-political and economic interests in society, and 4) the impact of "external history." To gain useful purchase on the sociology of science, see this chart / figure.

This book is tribute to the love of the land - land that was owned and culivated by the Nearings (The Good Life). It shows in pictures the beauty of the Maine coast land, and what honest labor can bring. It also documents local culture and custom to give a flavor for the year-round life in a harsh winter and short but intense summer.

A great book for those interested in building their first classical guitar. Everything you need to know(except some basic woodworking skill) is here. Nice additional info at end of book about famous luthiers.

If you're enthralled by 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, you'll have to read this book. Written during, before, and after film production with the complete cooperation of Clarke and Kubrick, this book explains everything but what the %$#&%!!?!!* movie MEANS.

It's got Clarke's original story, THE SENTINEL, and almost 100 pages of photos. It has special effects information, casting stories, and the back-and-forth between Kubrick and Clarke.

It's jam-packed with fascinating (as Mr. Spock would say) info, including a smattering of reviews of the film (including pictures from a fan sequel and demands for refunds).

It's a fine book about a confounding artifact. "Its origin and purpose still a total mystery."

This book was awesome. I read it in one sitting. It was so insightful in identifying the components of a "True Man". It gave great specific instructions on how to be a man of God.