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Reckless recounts the stories of nine women who made choices that sent their lives on unique paths. Gloria Mattioni was so entranced by these women that she moved from Italy to the U.S. to explore their lives, getting to know each one individually over more than a decade. Her subjects include:
•Julia Butterfly Hill who lived alone for 738 days atop an ancient 200-foot-tall redwood tree
•Wilma Mankiller was chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma for more than 10 years
•Gevin Fax left a promising career in Ohio to ride a motorcycle across country to California, where she became the ambassador of women bikers
•Annie Duke is the queen of professional poker, who won $2 million and the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions in 2004
•Libby Riddles is the first woman to win the legendary Iditarod
•Angelika Castaneda and Barbara Warren are twin 61-year-old Ironman, X-Treme Games, and Triathlon multi-champions who continue to compete
•Lisa Distefano is a former Playboy model who captains a pirate vessel in order to protect sea life
•Polly Matzinger returned to school in her late thirties to become a world renowned biologist with theories that could revolutionize the way we treat disease
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Nine lessons in courage.......2005-12-08
Sometimes we read books to learn lessons from others' lives without having to live them personally. To me it has been the case with "Reckless": a lesson (or better, nine lessons) in self-confidence, bravery and nonconformity. At any age, at any time in your life - as teaches storyteller Gloria Mattioni page after page, just recounting the adventures of her "extraOrdinary" women - you can change the course of your destiny.
I found particularly stimulating the story of Polly Matzinger, a former Playboy Bunny and sheep-dog trainer turned into a successful scientist (she is now at the head of a laboratory at the NIH): a trail of life that in a country like mine (Italy), where career paths still lack of flexibility and imagination, would have hardly been possible.
essential, not exotic.......2005-11-21
Definitely a very exciting book. These nine women and the author herself show that recklessness is not something weird, but a vital energy. It's a strong, corageous, creative relationship with the world and the life. It's something essential, not exotic. This book reveals that in order to be reckless we don't need to go beyond human, but simply beyond a miserable idea of human.
Get Moving!.......2005-11-10
Even if you're only an armchair reckless or a even a freelance reckless, pick this up. You'll be inspired to try something new, shake things up a bit.
What's important.......2005-11-06
I was recently asked to choose what was important to me. Love is important. So are friends. And compassion. Gloria loves the women in her portraits and they are her friends. And she has great compassion for them. All three are clear in the writing in "Reckless." As is Gloria's passion for her subject. I bought a second copy and gave it to my daughter as I was reading mine. She will soon be eighteen and my hope is that she will choose a path in life that she can pursue with the passion demonstrated by the women in Gloria's profiles.
women models.......2005-11-06
finally a book again that writes about women that can be models for a society that is conditoned by instant gratification . all the examples show us that these woman are trained to delay gratification and to tolerate frustrations. i hope we will get more stories in the future.
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9/11 ushered in an era of permanent war, rule-by-fear, illegal torture, and indefinite detentions—all justified by an attack that the Bush Administration claimed was a complete surprise. But as publisher of the critical Bush biography Fortunate Son, Sander Hicks had a unique position from which to cast a hard look at the official story around the attacks. With original research and interviews, his new book, The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-Blowers and the Cover-Up, provides a new level of proof that Bush's advisors had detailed foreknowledge of 9/11. The Big Wedding examines the CIA's controlling, client relationship with Pakistani intelligence, who had close, documented, under-reported links to the 9/11 terrorists. In Big Wedding, Hicks hits the road and in Florida, finds FBI whistle-blower Randy Glass, who documents how the FBI was warned by Pakistani intelligence three years before the attacks.
With the cumulative power of his original research into the neo-cons, the Bush family, the CIA, and Muslim Brotherhood, Hicks concludes: it's impossible that the White House did not have detailed foreknowledge of 9/11. The ascendant neo-conservative agenda, under the leadership of Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld, used Arab rage to solidify the U.S. stranglehold on the planet.
Hicks hands in startling revelations from government whistleblowers and top researchers, including lauded FBI Whistleblower Coleen Rowley, ATF Agent Steve Barborini, Mohamed Atta expert Daniel Hopsicker, CIA asset Brad Ayers, and Naval intelligence veteran (and colorful con-man) Delmart Vreeland.
"Imagine Henry Rollins meets the young Bob Woodward—a clean-cut, hard-as-nails punk with the reporting chops to take on an empire. Hicks is out to do nothing less than expose the planet's most insidious nexus: the jihadists, bankers, mercenaries, drug dealers, and so-called leaders who are currently pantomiming their way through a charade they've dubbed the `war on terror.'" —From the Foreword by Anthony Lappé, (True Lies)
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This is most probably government disinformation.......2007-08-04
Sander Hicks' _The Big Wedding_ is filled with glimpses into the world of spooks and their fringe colloborators and is spiced with details that are probably both new and true. Yet, inserted in this book are some very few factual claims and viewpoints that makes it hard to believe the book is written in good faith. The author present sources as reliable when they say the main foreign power involved with the hijackings and demolitions on September 11. 2001 was _Pakistan_ (and not Israel), when they say the WTC demolitions were a _downgraded_ attack (from the original nuclear, and that US authorities "downgraded" it), and finally he refers to the Truth Movement's refusal to accept that a 757 hit the Pentagon as "our weakest link". This book is readworthy only as a study of the coverup, which this book very probably is a part of.
Foundational principles sacrificed.......2006-10-21
This book tells the story of the gagging of the whistle-blowers, who predicted that `9/11 was going to happen' and `was allowed to happen'.
The author sees 9/11 as a desperate last effort of the powerful in the US (mega-capital) to divert the power of the people for their own selfish goals, not for Lincoln's vision of real democracy `government of the people, by the people, for the people'. The mighty sacrificed the US foundational principals for pure power.
A crucial text in this context is the PNAC (Project for a new American Century) where the authors ask for a huge jump in US military spending with new bases in Central Asia and the Middle East, the toppling of non-compliant regimes, the shredding of international treaties, total control of the world's energy resources, militarization of outer space, complete control of internet and a willingness to use nuclear weapons to achieve US goals. This manifesto recognized the need for `some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.'
Actually, `the US war machine sucks down half the tax dollar of every working American'.
This book contains also excellent information about the 9/11 ring leader Mohamed Atta, who apparently was some kind of double agent, but was `compartmentalized': `he clearly didn't know exactly what he was doing.'
Also very important is William Colby's statement that `the CIA owns everyone of any major significance in the major media'.
I highly recommend this book to all those who love freedom, alongside books by W.G. Tarpley, D.R. Griffin and N.M. Ahmed, as well as the BBC TV-series `The Power of Nightmares'.
NORAD.......2006-08-10
NORAD told the 9/11 Commission they couldn't locate errant aircraft on 9/11 because the planes turned off thier transponders! Wow, too bad the Soviets folded (Sic) back in 1991. Little did the Soviets know that all they had to do to defeat America was to ensure that the transponders on their Cruise missiles and Black-Jack bombers were turned to the OFF position! Sander Hicks posits that Bush & Co. let 9/11 happen. The big lie NORAD told the 9/11 Commission confirms Bush & Co. made 9/11 happen.
Open your mind.......2006-06-29
Remember, most viewpoints which you feel are not similar to yours are typically disalowed as credible. Keep an open mind, look to other resources with the ultimate goal of connecting the dots to the truth. This is an excellent resource for getting started.
Citizen Info-Warrior Makes A Useful Case.......2006-04-15
This is one of a number of 9-11 truth movement books that I have reviewed. The bottom line is clear and supported by other books: the U.S. Government had fore-knowledge of 9-11; the FBI and the CIA are a combination of inept and corrupt; and the 9-11 Commission was a deliberate cover-up.
Two of the facts the author cites, while brought out by others, have a special cachet in this particular book:
1) John Ashcroft stopped flying commercial in June 2001; and
2) The 9-11 Fund for victims was managed by a quasi-compromised individual whose task was to get them all (at least 90%) to sign up, because the acceptance of compensation came with a quit claim against the US Government and any further legal action, a compelling indicator, in my mind, of guilt by implication.
Here are a few things that stayed with me from this author's worthy effort:
1) Summary of what we lost on 9-11 from Dr. Hecht: "3000 New Yorkers, half the Constitution, and most of the Republic."
2) Key people like Dave Frasca at FBI that blocked all efforts to stymie the 9-11 attacks, and Francis Taylor at Department of State, director of security (with Ambassadorial rank) and party to special deals with Pakistan, were never forced to testify in detail.
3) 9-11 Commission deliberately started its review in 1996 to leave out the 1993 World Trade Center bombing where evidence exists that the FBI built the bomb and it was all part of an operation that went bad.
4) Both the 9-11 Commission and other reviews have failed to go back to the BCCI Bank scandal, where the BCCI was a joint Pakistani-CIA bank to channel funds to Afghanistan (and not incidentally, to jihad terrorists in the making)
5) The BCCI was the bank that bought George Bush II's stock in Harkin when he was a failure and needed help.
6) Sixteen (16) reporters and investigators died under mysterious circumstances while investigating the BCCI story.
7) Mueller may have been rewarded with FBI Director post for his role in blocking BCCI investigation.
8) 9-11 may have originally been planned as a nuclear attack under the direction of the Pakistani nuclear genius now allegedly under house arrest, and "downgraded" to the WTC [note: there are numerous allegations that all the gold and other valuables in the WTC were evacuated in advance, and the most important allies of the Administration were not in the building that morning--it was, in other words, expendable, and also valuable as pretext for war (Jim Bamford's term, see my review of that book). NOTE: The author suggests that the Pakistani's not only made the point to the Bush Administration that an attack would be good for the Administration, while relieving some pressures in Pakistan, but also negotiated the down-grade, receiving in turn further assistance toward their nuclear arms race with India. Lest anyone doubt this, please note that Zbigniew Brezinski specifically gave the Pakistanis a nuclear bye in return for help against the Soviet in Afghanistan. Regardless of the party in party, the political leadership in America is clearly willing to sell its soul and sacrifice American lives for what it perceives to be strategic gains for its own selfish elite).
9) Israel and Egypt warned the US in strong terms, as did Germany and Russian, within weeks prior to the actual attacks. The US Government chose not to act on those warnings, perhaps because it wanted the attacks to succeed.
10) Al Qaeda and the Neo-Conservatives actually share some viewpoints and have a symbiotic relationship.
11) The Muslim Brotherhood is close to the CIA, and goes back many decades with the neo-Nazis. as both share an abiding hatred for the Jews and Israel (this suggests that the many stories about US skin-heads supporting Al Qaeda terrorists are plausible).
12) Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff is dirty as sin. He defended terrorist financier Dr. Magby Elamir, is a "dishonest bastard" who went along with Vince Foster suicide cover-up, and was fast-tracked to the top and via the judge's circuit as part of the overall deal between those who sin and those who condone.
13) Governor Jeb Bush PERSONALLY showed up to confiscate flight school records in Florida days after 9-11, and then took action to make them forever irretrievable.
14) Florida is called by some in the know as "Terrorland" where two Floridas co-exist--a normal Florida (that is to say, the walled city/golf courses with water features of the well to do, and the slums of the poor), and a second Florida consisting of CIA training camps, banks approved by the Government to launder drug money for Wall Street, and flight schools and airports for discreet arms-drugs-money transfers--and even Miami International Airport, where world-class assholes can be "pre-cleared" for entry to the US "at the convenience of the U.S. Government." Indeed, the connection between Florida, drugs, and the U.S. Government is so strong that in one uncoordinated inter-agency assault on an arriving Lear Jet loaded with drugs, DEA senior executive Mike Brasseltine was in the co-pilot's seat. [Ugly side note: Henry Kissinger is on record as supporting Third World eugenics or "depopulation," there is mounting evidence that the white wealthy elite consider drugs an excellent albeit totally racsist means of "de-colorizing" of America.
15) In passing the author points out that the 9-11 Commissioners, with one exception, did not meet the Congressional mandate that they all be free of any association with the Bush Administration.
The author also does magnificently in discussing "suppressed histories" as a "standard" U.S. Government operating procedure. Lest you think this is fanciful, see my reviews of "Fog Facts" and "Lost History." The FACT is that the U.S. Government and its corporate partners and its international criminal allies is routinely deceiving the American people and mis-serving We the People.
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Exposition of 4th dimension, concepts of relativity as Flatland characters continue adventures. Popular, easily followed yet accurate, profound. Topics include curved space time as a higher dimension, special relativity, and shape of space-time. Accessible to lay readers but also of interest to specialists. Includes 141 illustrations.
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With few exceptions, it is a readable, stepwise explanation of how the universe is structured.......2007-06-29
To understand relativity, it is necessary to understand geometry, specifically how a straight line can be curved. For nearly everyone, any attempt to understand four-dimensional space begins with understanding how a three-dimensional creature would appear to a two-dimensional one. One of the earliest and still the greatest of all introductions to going up a dimension is "Flatland" by Edwin A. Abbott. Quite naturally and sensibly, Rucker starts with Abbott's rendition of the properties of Flatland.
Rucker then moves on to the idea of curved space, where the shortest distance between two points is a "straight line", which is curved by the properties of the space. The space that we occupy is curved by the presence of matter, as Einstein claimed in his relativity theories. Furthermore, movement causes shrinkage in the direction of the movement and the slowing of time, which causes time to become just another dimension of space. As counterintuitive as this may appear, Einstein's relativity theory has been verified over and over again to a large number of significant figures.
One of the best things about this book is that Rucker has included problems at the end of each chapter. These problems reinforce the concepts of the chapter; it is unfortunate that no solutions were included.
In this book, Rucker steps the reader through all of the background material necessary to understand relativity and four-dimensional space. With few exceptions, the accounts are understandable to anyone with an understanding of college algebra.
The best book ever in its field.......2007-04-19
This book has presented the most difficult topics of our world with the easiest words. After reading this book many of my questions that I had in my mind for a long time were answered. It's worth thousands more than its price.
Congratulation to Mr. Rudolf Rucker for his great book.
explain dimensions very well.......2007-03-31
it is published years before but it is almost new for today and it explain dimensions and shape of space well and clearly .thanx to amazon for sending me timely.
See what's outside the box.......2007-03-30
Over two millenia ago, Euclid wrote his masterpiece Elements and stated in his fifth postulate that only one perpendicular line could pass through any one point adjacent to another line.
One hundred fifty years ago, it was proven that yet another geometry could be described by asserting that more than one parallel line could pass through such a point.
Building on these ideas, Rucker briefly yet thoroughly surveys the relevant mathematics outside the box of Euclidian geometry.
It's a fascinating place too because it involves considerations of hyperspace, four dimensional travels and ultimately Einstein's theory of relativity.
Copiously filled with illustrations to help drive home his points, Rucker has produced a book that meaningful helps one visualize and better understand the fourth dimension.
This book is an excellent read along with Choas, Coincidences and All that Math Jazz, The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained, Einstein's own Relativity and Hyperspace by Michio Kaku which discusses all these ideas as well as contemporary string theory (which purports to pull it all together).
excellent book, fascinating author, start your exploration! :).......2005-12-31
Mr. Rucker is a 'genius educator' in my opinion :) he can open your mind and get you started - no matter what direction you wanna take! :) whether it be philosophy, math, physics, or even spirtual things - Mr. Rucker can get you going! to me, he is one of the great men of these modern times :) ah, i remember! pay particular attention to visualizing hyper-dimensional objects .. it can be done! good luck and may god bless all of you! :)
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paperback version.......2006-02-04
If you're looking for the paperback version, look for ISBN 0395393884. It doesn't show up as the paperback version of this hardback, probably because the author's name for the paperback is listed as Rudolph Rucker instead of Rudy Rucker.
Hope this helps.
Good overview.......2003-06-16
This book presents its material in a well-organized manner.
The author is a brilliant theoretical physicist and explains the concepts wonderfully.
I recommend this book for any and all who wish to understand the essence of time, reality, and the universe in general.
From a very personal level, the book affirms many of my own views pertaining to the cosmos and consciousness. There is indeed a Primary Mover (aka "God"), and he exists and operates in infinite (!) dimensions.
Nice intro to 4-D.......2003-05-04
I bought this book about ten years ago, and recently rediscovered it. It is full of nice (though very simplistic) illustrations and lots of references to other books and writers that touch the subject. Not very profound, but enough to tickle the mind and awaken interest for futher investigation into this realm. Rucker has obviously read a lot on this matter and he has made me want the same.
Would you please repeat that........2002-11-04
I found this book a difficult read. "Flatland" by A. Square (an illustrator) is a definite pre-requisite, and helpful, but even with that under my belt I had problems following Mr. Rucker.
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In this insightful book, which is a revisionist math history as well as a revisionist art history, Tony Robbin, well known for his innovative computer visualizations of hyperspace, investigates different models of the fourth dimension and how these are applied in art and physics. Robbin explores the distinction between the slicing, or Flatland, model and the projection, or shadow, model. He compares the history of these two models and their uses and misuses in popular discussions. Robbin breaks new ground with his original argument that Picasso used the projection model to invent cubism, and that Minkowski had four-dimensional projective geometry in mind when he structured special relativity. The discussion is brought to the present with an exposition of the projection model in the most creative ideas about space in contemporary mathematics such as twisters, quasicrystals, and quantum topology. Robbin clarifies these esoteric concepts with understandable drawings and diagrams.
Robbin proposes that the powerful role of projective geometry in the development of current mathematical ideas has been long overlooked and that our attachment to the slicing model is essentially a conceptual block that hinders progress in understanding contemporary models of spacetime. He offers a fascinating review of how projective ideas are the source of some of today’s most exciting developments in art, math, physics, and computer visualization.
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A wonderful introduction to the projective approach in math and art.......2006-03-07
An innovative thinker and a gifted artist, Tony Robbin filters the world of mathematics through the nuances of human vision, creating masterful representations of higher dimensions. His new book stands as a testament to his meticulous scholarship of the history of projective geometry, in mathematics, physics and art. It is a thoroughly enjoyable account of how the notion of finding shadows of the fourth dimension emerged in the 19th century, permeated modern art in the 20th, and now represents one of the frontiers of computer graphics in the 21st. Along the way, Robbin shows how projective geometry could provide the key to a quantum description of gravity. A must read, for the curious anecdotes, cutting-edge science, impressive array of references, colorful art, and insight into how we can perceive the seemingly imperceptible.
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Readable and informative, this collection of 22 essays employs a minimum of mathematics to explain how the fourth dimension may be studied, the relationship of non-Euclidean geometry to the fourth dimension, analogues to three-dimensional space, four-dimensional absurdities and curiosities, and the simpler properties of four-dimensional space. 1910 edition. 82 figures.
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As easy as 0, 1, 2, 3, 4.......2007-03-30
To understand the fourth dimension, we need to really understand the four that precede it.
The first dimension is 0. A square rendered 0 dimensionally would appear as follows: "." (a simple dot).
The second dimension (commonly called "the first dimension") extends the dot one direction as follows: "__" (a simple line).
The third dimension (commonly called "the second dimension") extends the line as follows: "[]" (a simple square...not connected here only because my keyboard can't technically create a completed square).
The fourth dimension (commonly called "the third dimension") extends the flat square to create a three dimensional cube...like a sugar cube.
Before taking the next step up dimensionally, it's probably best to understand the kind of thinking that's necessary by employing the square we previously discussed one dimension ago.
So if we were to create a plainiverse and give it two inhabitants being A Square and V Square in honor of the Abbott Abbott book Flatlands and the Stewart reprise Flatterlands they would appear as follows:
"[] / []"
In my example A and V would be unable to interact unless they removed the line between them. Though because we view their situation from a higher perspective and therefore know their relative whereabouts, A and V could only obtain this information by circumnativing the line in their planiverse (or by removing it).
In other words, to A and V "/" is the same kind of impediment that a wall we would be to any two people similarly separated here in our dimension.
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE FOURTH DIMENSION (as it is commonly called) WORKS, KINDLY ASSIST IN THIS EXPERIMENT.
Again, we create our planiverse, but this time, I would ask that you use a key, a toothpick or some other line like object to supply the "/" between A and V.
"[] []"
Now lift your line like object and you will observe that you eliminated the impediment between A and V. To their senses, the removal of the line would be nothing less than magic. To your sense, of course, no magic would be involved because all you did was to lift the line between A and V (albeit into the third dimension...an option ostensibly unavailable to them).
In this way, it can be observed that the step to the next dimension (commonly called "the fourth dimension") is accomplished by making use of an exotic avenue of motion...into what's called hyperspace. And not surprisngly a cube rendered four dimensionally would be called a hypercube.
As pointed out in this book, use of this motion in hyperspace would permit people to be able to walk through three dimensionally seeming solid walls and drink from three dimensionally seeming corked bottles.
As also pointed in this book, though the fourth dimension is commonly associated with time, there's no reason why this would have to necessarily be so. For example, even with the dot "." I previously created though it may exist 0 dimensionally on paper it continues to exist in time and therefore would not only appear as a mere point but a line if viewed durationally.
All the ideas described in this book gain additional currency because researchers just recently discovered an additional platonic solid found only four dimensionally...and consisting of 11 sides each of which faces a mate. If this idea strikes you as counter intuitive (even after having read the forgoing material) you are not alone because we are not evolutionarily designed to observe matters inconsistently with the traditional three dimensional points of physical reference with an additional dimension of sequential time.
In other words, by our very construction we might not be observing our universe the way it's really built and that's part of what makes the ideas behind this book and these investigations so thought provoking.
At the end of Walden, Henry David Thoreau wrote: "Let the word go out to every Jon or Jonathan that there is more light to day than dawn. The sun is but a morningstar!"
How apparently right he was.
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Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, which is also available under separate cover, was published in 1880 and imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. The further mathematical fantasy, Sphereland, published 60 years later, revisits the world of Flatland in time to explore the mind-bending theories created by Albert Einstein, whose work so completely altered the scientific understanding of space, time, and matter. Among Einstein's many challenges to common sense were the ideas of curved space, an expanding universe and the fact that light does not travel in a straight line. Without use of the mathematical formulae that bar most non-scientists from an understanding of Einstein's theories, Sphereland gives lay readers ways to start comprehending these confusing but fundamental questions of our reality.
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An odd, amusing and still provocative fantasy. The narrator is a Square who lives in a world of two dimensions, and whose vision of a third gets him into grave trouble with the authorities.
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Flatland is about a two-dimensional world in which geometric shpates are the main charaters. The Square is the narrator of the book and he tells of his world and his fantastic contact with the three dimensional world. Mildly amusing and though provoking, a wonderful read for everyone! This book is easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. This eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable.
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Free SF Reader.......2007-09-03
Flat is an exercise in science fiction geometry, if you like. It shows a denizen of a 2 dimensional world seeing what it would be like to exist in higher dimensions. An interesting mathematical and philosophical exercise. Some will definitely find this very odd, and rather quirky. If you don't know what a dimension means in this sense, give it a miss.
Wonderful experience.......2007-08-09
Smooth transaction, careful and fast shipping, very nice product, couldn't ask for a more wonderful buying experience. Thank you very much! A+++
A Valuable Idea for Science and Math Teachers.......2007-08-02
Abbott, the author, has the reader imagine three-dimensional structures from a distant horizontal perspective. The third dimension becomes unimportant, and can be dispensed with completely. Taking this further, we are left with a "society" of circles, triangles, and other 2-D geometric figures, all living in Flatland.
As a science and math teacher, I found this book an inspiration for thought-provoking questions, such as: How would you describe the sphere to someone living in Lineland or Flatland? How, for that matter, would you communicate the very concept of thickness to someone living in Flatland? Or volume?
Visualize a sphere crossing Flatland. It starts as a point, then a circle of expanding diameter, then a circle of decreasing diameter, then a point, and then finally nothing. Other 3-D figures can be visualized in comparable manner. The possibilities are endless!
My favorite book to teach.......2007-07-16
This book is such a great tool. I've used it for 10 years and it still gets my students excited about dimensions. They can't believe it was written over one hundred years ago and still, as they say, "blows their minds!"
A Good Book for Looking at the World Differently.......2007-07-05
This book at first is very dense. But once you get used to the writing style it becomes a great tool for thinking about perception. I especially like the section on shading and how that can determine what it is you are looking at. It is a short book but it does take a little a time to get through. Overall, it is a very good book.
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Industrial Pollution Control: Issues and Techniques Second Edition Nancy J. Sell This revised guide incorporates all the important information on pollution sources, control methods, and pollution regulations generated since publication of the previous edition in 1981. This edition surveys the impacts of every type of pollution on health, plants, materials, and weather. It discusses how different types of pollution are produced, laws governing specific emissions, and both existing and emerging air, water, and solid waste control techniques. Detailed sections zero in on processing methods, pollution production, and control methods in specific industries, including chemical, physical, and economic factors that inhibit better pollution control. Case studies offer insights into processes that directly minimize emissions or indirectly reduce them by decreasing energy needs. Pollution issues of iron and steel manufacturing, foundry operations, metals finishing, cement manufacture, glass manufacture, paper and pulp, food processing, brewing, tanning, and chemical industries are probed in depth. Among the new pollution control strategies covered are:
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- Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo
- Hansen Solubility Parameters
- Eyewitness to 1798
- The Role of Imagery in Learning
- Cherish the Earth: The Environment and Scripture
- Progress in Botanical Research
Roar Softly and Carry a Great Lipstick: 28 Women Writers on Life, Sex, and Survival
Going Alone: Women's Adventures in the Wild (Adventura Books)
50 Ways to Improve Women's Lives: The Essential Women's Guide for Achieving Equality, Health, and Success (Inner Ocean Action Guide)
Legends: Women Who Have Changed the World Through the Eyes of Great Women Writers
