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This book brings back many memories as Jim Walden built a program that had been the joke of almost all collegiate football and made it into what would eventually become a frequent Bowl participant and a conference championship contender. Walden was the third coach hired in the last three year, he made a promise to stay with the downtrodden program and even though he was not there when WSU made it's improbable apearance in the '97 Rose Bowl, He clearly planted to seeds that started the turnaround. Very similar to the Cindarella story of the Mariners.

This is the source of most of the legends involving the "Father of Our Country." "Parson" Weems tells us about the early years of Washington that not even historians know. How about this famous nugget? "George," said his father, "do you know who killed that beautiful little cherry tree yonder in the garden?" "He bravely cried out, "I can't tell a lie, Pa; you know I can't tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet." This legendary book was a favorite of Abraham Lincoln, one of the books he used to teach himself to read and write. A must for any American History buff or scholar. Is it history or legend? You decide.
Also recommended: Devil and Daniel Webster; Paul Revere's Ride, and Kolak of the Werebeasts.

English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as something every educated
person should know. One such idea, according to Snow, was the second law of thermodynamics, which deals with the diffusion of heat
and has many profound consequences.
He might well have added Newton's laws, the periodic table of elements, the double-helix structure of DNA, and scores of other masterpieces of scientific discovery.
Now, Professor Robert M. Hazen introduces these and other great ideas in 60 lectures that explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of all of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more.
A Passion for Teaching and Science
Professor Hazen is an apostle of science education for non-scientists, and he has few peers at rendering the most complex ideas simple, without being simplistic.
"I have a passion as a teacher," he says, "and that passion is to share with you the joy of science, the astonishing discoveries, the mind-bending insights, and the transforming applications of science as well."
A research scientist, professor, and advisor to public television's NOVA science series, Dr. Hazen helped draft the National Science Education Standards (National Academy of Sciences, 1997). These Standards represent a consensus among thousands of scientists and educators regarding the most effective approaches for teaching and learning about science.
These lectures have been specifically designed to introduce and review all of the scientific principles that are included in the Content Standards portion of the National Science Education Standards.
The result is a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. By devoting just 30 minutes a day, you can complete this entire course in two months and discover an enhanced understanding of the physical world that will be a source of endless wonder and intellectual joy.
A Special Learning Opportunity
This course offers a special learning opportunity because:
* It steers clear of the jargon and mathematical abstractions that so often bedevil science education.
* It features an integrated approach that allows you as a learner to transcend artificial disciplinary boundaries in order to gain a panoramic view of the whole scientific enterprise in all its breathtaking scope.
The key to these achievements is Professor Hazen's insight that only a course organized around the common principles of scientific inquiry can put science in its proper light as a unique way of knowing.
Four Reasons to Become Scientifically Literate
Dr. Hazen cites four reasons why you should strive to become scientifically literate:
* Scientific literacy helps you as a consumer make informed decisions--about health care, diet, nutrition, exercise, environmental issues, and the plethora of technological choices that we all face.
* Many of today's jobs depend directly or indirectly on science as well as on technologies that are developed from scientific discoveries.
* Scientific literacy helps you provide your children with a firm foundation as they study science in school.
* Learning about science allows you to share the joy of humanity's greatest ongoing adventure of discovery and exploration.

What You'll Learn
Highlights of Part I (Lectures 1-12):
Dr. Hazen begins by explaining the four-step cycle that defines the "scientific method" of knowing. He introduces you to five pivotal figures in early-modern science: Nicolas Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton. Astoundingly, during a single rural sojourn in 1665-66, Newton discovered calculus, many of the basic laws of optics, the three laws of motion, and the law of gravity. Newton's discoveries unified the supposedly separate domains of terrestrial and celestial motions.
Highlights of Part II (Lectures 13-24):
Dr. Hazen introduces you to H. C. Oersted, the little-known figure who paved the way for a revolution in technology with his finding that electricity can produce a magnetic field. Out of this discovery came the electromagnet, the telegraph, the telephone, the electric motor, the generator, and many other inventions. You will also learn how James Clerk Maxwell offered the first mathematically rigorous description of the close connection between electricity and magnetism--and how Einstein, pondering a paradox that arose from Maxwell's equations, proposed and explored the principle of relativity.
Dr. Hazen shifts the focus of his lectures to the nature of matter, paying particular attention to atoms and quantum mechanics. He explains the chemical bonding of atoms, the different states of matter, and the principal force of change in the world of matter: chemical reactions.
Highlights of Part III (Lectures 25-36):
Dr. Hazen then turns to the explanation of how specific physical systems work. Such systems manifest themselves in the properties of materials, as well as in the characteristics of atomic isotopes and their energy-producing nuclear reactions. You will learn about astronomy, the Big Bang theory, the solar system, and today's burgeoning field of extra-solar planetary systems.
Highlights of Part IV (Lectures 37-48):
Dr. Hazen devotes lectures to the constant recycling of Earth's materials--water, air, and rock. He explores the question, "What is life?" You'll examine life's molecular building blocks: carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. You'll learn how biological information is passed from parents to offspring, processes first quantified by the Czechoslovakian monk Gregor Mendel.
Highlights of Part V (Lectures 49-60):
Mendel's discoveries lead Dr. Hazen to focus on the great unifying biological principles of genetics, evolution, and ecosystems. He argues that no scientific discovery of the 20th century has had a greater impact than the deciphering of the genetic code, embedded in the double-helix structure of DNA first described in 1952 by James Watson and Francis Crick. Dr. Hazen goes on to address troubling ethical questions raised by genetic engineering. He examines both the chemical and biological evolution of life before delving into the interdependent communities of species and their physical environments known as ecosystems.
Dr. Hazen also raises questions about claims that science is approaching its end--that all there is of significance to be learned about the natural world will soon be known.

A text tightly packed with information and concepts. Not an easy read, but satisfying. Concept of using Native American horticulture techniques is an attractive technique for saving our natural areas while still producing food. Should be required reading for horticulture programs in our colleges.

Kenneth Callahan was a master painter from the northwest school that rose to prominence in the 1930's-1950's. He never reached the level of fame as his peers such as Mark Tobey, but his work is on a different, more spiritual level. Callahan died in the 1970's, but his work is enjoying a resurgence in popularity. This book is a most definitive collection of his work. The only text involved is a few quotes by Callahan, he prefered to let his art do the talking. Michael Johnson, the editor, was Callahan's agent and good friend through Callahan's later years and did an excellent job compiling the works that make up the Book. The reproduction value is great. No art book ever captures the beauty of a great Artist's work, but this is a must-have for any fan of Callahan.

This is a terrific result of a joint project of Dickinson College and Yale University. I highly recommend this book.

Koizumi Diplomacy is a thoroughly revised edition of a book that the author published in Japanese in 2004 under the title: Kantei Gaiko, or Kantei Diplomacy. This original version had a book cover showing the Kantei, the newly-build official residence of the prime minister which, by extension, designates the Cabinet Secretariat working with the prime minister as its head. The English edition personifies the title with the name of the character that occupied the Kantei from 2001 to 2006 and represents on its book cover the recognizable silhouette of the individual that foreign media invariably associated with the expressions 'maverick', 'lone wolf' or 'cool haircut'.

The noticeable shift between the Japanese and English editions from building to silhouette, from institution to person, is a testimony to the personification of power at the top that Koizumi achieved. No other Japanese prime minister could ever have been recognized by a foreign audience based simply on a shadow profile. It also illustrates the fact that the Kantei still has to achieve the same immediate recognition and brand image that one associated with the White House, 10, Downing Street or the Elysee Palace.

People usually consider that diplomacy is best handled by diplomats and that a country's ministry of foreign affairs, known in Japan as the Gaimusho or MOFA, is in charge of conducting foreign relations with other parts of the world. At the same time, people acknowledge that when vital interests are at stake, there is a need for leadership that can only be fulfilled by a head of state or a prime minister. There is a difference however between leader's diplomacy (Shuno Gaiko in Japanese) and the style of diplomacy that developed under Koizumi and that the author defines as Kantei diplomacy or "a phenomenon in which the Cabinet Secretariat offers institutional support as a core executive for political decisions and policy-making coordination that MOFA cannot provide."

Kantei diplomacy finds its origins in the involvement of the prime minister in international trade issues for which neither the MOFA nor the MITI could provide a clear sense of direction. It is characterized by a top-down process of decision making that usually evolves around a great pair formed by the prime minister and one of his aides: Nakasone and his chief cabinet secretary Masaru Gotoda, or the Takeshita cabinet with Ichiro Ozawa playing the role of chief negotiator and deal maker. The stories of Nakasone's visit to South Korea, where he received a cold welcome but managed to melt the ice before his farewell, or his first meeting with Ronald Reagan, where he declined the invitation to talk about beef and oranges and had a free discussion on global issues instead, are especially worthwhile.

The 1990 Gulf crisis and Iraq war proved a traumatic experience. Although Japan was one of the largest contributors, providing $13 billion in financial support, critics disparaged its effort as "checkbook diplomacy" and brought home the importance of sharing the burden with blood, sweat and tears, and not just with money. Major disasters such as the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995 and the Aum Shinrikyo sarin gas attack on that same year were also badly managed. The reforms introduced by Hashimoto in 1996 laid the groundwork that allowed the Kantei to function as a 'core executive' leading the policy making process from the top down. The revised Cabinet Law allowed the Kantei to initiate policies by clearly providing the authority to plan and draft concrete law proposals.

Junichiro Koizumi was the first prime minister to use the empowered Kantei in full swing, especially on foreign and security issues. There certainly was a personal element in the way he decided to align with the US after 9/11, gambled the liberation of abductees by the North Korean regime, or passed a legislation which allowed Japan's Self Defense Forces to offer humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to Iraq. Intriguingly, his top-down style of leadership also came from a position of relative weakness. Lacking a strong support base in the Liberal Democratic Party and distrustful of bureaucrats, he bypassed the traditional, bottom-up decision making process to seek approval from other parties which were minor partners in the coalition, or to appeal directly to the public who tended to plebiscite him.

The strong hand of the Kantei in diplomatic issues also came from the difficulties that MOFA experienced at that time. The foreign minister, Makiko Tanaka, was at war with her administration. The ministry was also badly hit by scandals, and hadn't fully recovered from its mishandling of the 1990 Gulf crisis. Lastly, there was an element of chance: it just happened that when the US was hit by the terrorists attacks a task force of able administrators was already working on a piece of emergency legislation from a prefab building near the Kantei, and the team was able to finalize an anti-terrorism legislation within three weeks. The same inter-agency teamwork was also used for subsequent pieces of legislation.

Based on interviews with key actors as well as on a firm theoretical framework, this book offers a fine balance of scholarship and testimony, of historical background and detailed case studies. It concludes with a discussion on the merits and drawbacks of Kantei diplomacy, arguing that a stronger leadership also provides more democratic accountability. To those who argue that diplomacy is too complicated for the ordinary citizen to understand and should be delegated to professional experts, the author replies that "the prime minister is in a much more appropriate position than any MOFA official to explain important foreign-policy decisions to the public." The lessons drawn from Japan's Kantei approach to foreign and defense affairs should be meditated by all readers interested in foreign policy.

I can't praise this book enough. There is so little primary source material on our Native American heroes. This book is a collection of photographs, facsimiles of archival records, and transcripts of interviews and orations. These materials are accompanied by some very insightful editorial commentary. The research that went into this work must have been momumental.

The editor of this work, Mick Gidley, prepared this book as part of his Ph.D thesis. He took up where Edmond Three-Knives Meaney, Chief Joseph's official biographer, left off. Three-Knives Meaney accompanied Joseph on many trips and spent much time with Joseph during his last years on the reservation in Colville, WA. After Joseph died in 1904, Meaney "burned out" but left a wealth of research and records. Gidley uncovered these records and put together an honest and accurate biographical picture book. The focus of the book is Joseph's last years. Joseph devoted his final 25 years to civil rights work and to the education of future generations. His orations rank with Martin Luther King's and Abraham Lincoln's. In addition to information about Joseph, the work also contains information on Joseph's contemporaries (both white and Native American) who were influential on the Nez Perce reservations.

For students of Nez Perce history or for those who are just interested in knowing more about a truly decent and spiritual man, this book is a "must read".

In last page of Cover the book Editors write : "The eventual reunification of the Korean Peninsula will send political and economic reverberations throughout Northeast Asia and will catalyze the struggle over new regional order amnong the four reat powers of Pacific-Russia, China, Japan, and the United States." Book is edited by leading american reaserchers korean issue. Book is very current now at time start Bejings 6-sides talks. The contibutors of book was outstanding scholars and former politicians , like prof. Robert Scalapino from University California, Marcus Nolland, Robert Galluci,Chuck Downes, Michael Armacost. Book is divided to three parts: first - Historical and political context, second economic context and third strategic implications. Analysis of international enviroment Korean Peninsula is deep and serious. I agre with genaral conclusions book: America must prepared to solve very serious challenges from North Korea and must cooperate with China, Japan , Pacific-Russia
and specially Republic Of Korea. I recomend this book readers want understand korean issue.

It's a very informative book. Things include practice notes and government instructions really help young property professionals in HK. In addition, this book gives a brief historical background on land admin. in HK. It serves a very good guide to the ppl interested in studying HK's land policies. After all, it is a very concise and easy to read book. Hope u enjoy it.