Open Books

This is a wonderful series for anyone trying to understand what mission and servanthood is really all about.

I purchased this book because the title was provocative. What I've discovered is an insightful and helpful book! Standish clearly writes to those who are called to be spiritual leaders in this time. His use of wisdom from great spiritual writers, contemporary examples and his own ministry blend well. I would recommend this to anyone looking for ways to grow spiritually as well as in leadership.

Nobody doubts the role that Frege played with philosophy of logic, math and language. However, so little is known about Husserl's role on it. Claire Ortiz Hill exposes the fact that Husserl was influenced by the mathematicians of his time. Husserl was the student and assistant of the great mathematician Karl Weiestrass, for 15 years he was the colleague and close friend of Georg Cantor, the creator of set theory. Then he spent 15 years in David Hilbert's circle in Goetingen. From 1878 to 1916, (from the ages of 19 to 57), Husserl was in contact with the greatest mathematicians of his time that neither Bertrand Russell nor Gottlob Frege, nor their followers, came much into contact.

Husserl also had a doctrine of sense and reference that is essentially platonic. He criticized severely psychologism in his "Prolegomena to Pure Logic" in his "Logical Investigations", and never stepped back from that position, contrary to what many husserlians believe. He formulated an epistemology of math and logic, in a platonist sense, a thing Frege nor any platonist ever made with much satisfaction.

Husserl provides his doctrine that states of affairs are the reference of assertive sentences, and the reference base is a situation of affairs. Using this philosophy, Guillermo Rosado Haddock proposes a platonist solution to the problem that has puzzled mathematicians and philosophers: the interderivability of seemingly unrelated statements in logic and mathematics. Rosado also brilliantly responds to of Benacerraf's, Quine's, Putnam's and Field's anti-platonist statements.

The book has some real valuable information about the various visas and how to go about obtaining one. It also covers cases where one needs to switch visa status. The topics are well divided into chapters and the book is written clearly with great case studies. (It is also available in Hebrew).

I believe this book is one of the best reading materials for anyone who wishes to legally stay in the USA, for whichever purpose. It is highly recommended, even if you have an attorney or about to get one.

After our class felt Seattle's earthquake, I found this book. The kids were captivated to learn more about what makes the ground shake. You can also find out how long the longest recorded quake was, why soldiers break step when crossing small bridges, what special equipment rescuers use, what building shape is very strong, and read earthquake legends. There's a brief explanation of the Richter scale and experiments you can do. This book was hard to find on our class book shelf because someone was always reading it.

funky and astute might be appropriate adjectives to describe Open City mag., which is more than a literary portrait "of New York City and the city in general." with writing not merely urban(e) or cynical (consider the dense, nature-themed poetry of Rodney Jack and the quirky yet illuminating work of Catherine Bowman in #18), here is the intelligentsia--artful and heartfelt, in a format as original as the visions it collects.

My 4 kids and I LOVE Alison Lester. This book is really fun and amusing and has a surprising end. Lester uses wonderful language and a little rhyme with each page..."I'm Green and I'm grumpy, I'm huge and I roar. I'm a thudering, rumbling...(turn the page)...DINOSAUR! Lester' illustrations are always very sweet and amusing with lots going on. I would recommend anything written by her.

Mr. Broomhall drew on a vast repository of information to begin his biography covering 6 or 7 volumes. Today's reader will learn many things about the China of centuries past, particularly the days of this British missionary who went to China before the time of the US Civil War. Broomhall puts in the facts, drawing our attention to the praying family and the life of prayer which prepared J. Hudson Taylor to follow God and live by faith, not by depending on the support of men or church organizations, yet with the eventual respect of those who once ridiculed him. A humble, courageous and very real person -- J. Hudson Taylor is not romanticized, in my opinion, by Mr. Broomhall. I have read volumes 1-4 of this biography, more than once.

This was first published in 1955 and was THE Treasure of my and my brothers childhood.

I now put it on the 'must give' list for all the new babies in my life and still enjoy it myself for such hard to find readings as excerpts from "When we Were Young", the original Pooh book.

As I am writing this I am not even done reading the book, but I would just like to express high regards for it. It is full of tough, heartbreaking poems about family, relationships, grief, menace, darkness and love. I can't wait to read the final pages. I think this book is certainly worth the money.