Factor

Emory Mulling's book is a must read! The book has appeal for all levels of employees and those looking for a job. I have always wanted to love my job - and Mr. Mulling has given me a formula to make sure that the next position I take on is most likely to be one where I am very happy.

I particularly enjoyed taking his assessment of what type of work environment and boss would suit me best. I highly recommend this book - It has changed my job search and provided me with exciting opportunities and focus so the next job is one where I will truly be happy.

My thanks to Mr. Mulling for a fabulous read. I read it in a weekend and could not put it down!

I never seen this book pleas let me se

The book is a compilation of 22 "human factors" research projects in nuclear power plants, performed to address the issues of safety and risk reduction. The papers are written by a variety of internationally known nuclear experts, and represent the most current studies available in one source. The focus of the research is the affects of human interaction with engineered technology.

Unfortunately, because of the narrow scope of interest in this book, it is unavailable in most academic libraries. This is probably the most expensive book I have ever purchased. With that in mind, I must say I have no regrets. To purchase these studies separately through information services such as NTIS, would like cost about $40 each ($880 total). The information is solid and credible, and will likely serve as validators to my masters thesis.

Two new publications in this health reference series enhance the health reference handbooks of this publisher and are recommended picks both for specialty health library collections and any general consumer health reference collection. Wilma Caldwell and Chad Kimball edit Obesity Sourcebook..., which helps lay readers understand and manage issues of overweight and illness. From health risks to weight loss programs, this covers all related issues. Dawn Matthews edits Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sourcebook..., which appears in its second edition to provide the latest information on STDs. Chapters cover the symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of most diseases and provides details on prevention and related social issues. Both are exceptional.

Allard Dembe's first book is very good. It is very detailed. It explains the subject in a intresting manner. It is a good book for scholoars and teachers of the subject.

I found this book in a small bookshop in Cambridge, England, and was immediately intrigued as an architecture student whose design philosophy is based in a user-needs-come-first approach. Hill's selection of authors, including one of his own writings, is just as varied as the authors' individual response to the challenge of "write about architecture and the user."

Each article varies in its dissection of the profession as practice and application. Katerina Ruedi, for example, presents her resume, then dissects it in terms of cultural, educational, and social context. Lesley Naa Norle Lokko discusses architecture and a sense of place from a cultural and racial point of view, the cultural aspects of imagery, territory, and "response-ability" as a creative source and outlet. Hill's own article indirectly jabs at the heart of New Urbanism, as this book came out in 1998, by making the distinction between "community" and "society"; one is physical, while the other is truly a product of commonalities or/of conflict. Muf Art and Architecture records the comments of the locals in one British neighborhood and uses these to compare and contrast the spatial and civic aspects of the surroundings.

Overall, Hill's book encourages the reader to consider the client as a different faction than the user, and to own up to the differences between those of us getting the degrees and those having to tolerate our actions upon the built environment. It was not, as I'd expected, an environmental-behavior text, but rather an analysis of social forces at-large that are at work in our surroundings. I also recommend Andrew Ross' book on "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property Values in Celebration FL" for anecdotal relation to Hill's article.

This book tells about a secret operation that "succeeded", but was a failure in the end, after many deaths and the destruction of many lives. The author pieced together this story from a variety of sources; he had been a diplomatic correspondent and foreign editor.

Th Potsdam Treaty carved up the world just like the Versailles Treaty after an earlier war. But unlike the latter, a new Cold War began (p.19). America shed its traditional isolationism and began its long march towards a New World Order - to replace and surpass the now declining British Empire.

The death and destruction in Eastern Europe fixated their leader's minds on security from another war. Their leaders were composed of two dissimilar type: those who spent years in underground activities (Tito), and those beholden to Moscow. It also included adventurers who joined the winning side, those with experience from the pre-war regimes, and some double agents.

Jan Masaryk said that Czechoslovakia's votes with Poland and Yugoslavia had not harmed the United States but benefitted Czechoslovakia by preventing Soviet interference there (p.26). But the Soviets demanded political support in return for noninterference in internal affairs, and America demanded political support in exchange for aid. Can a servant serve two masters?

Page 30 makes two mistakes in talking about disbanding the OSS by Truman, and a decoding organization by Stimson. The former was due to bureaucratic struggles within government, the latter to drop a high-cost unofficial group. You can be sure the regular agencies continued with this work!

Page 37 tells of the activities of "Michael Sullivan", the head of a British relief agency who set up a spy network in Poland. Prisoners were extracted, incidents of sabotage and terrorism were created, rumors of shortages created runs on shops, rural riots were created by rumors of collectivization. In 1945 agents incited anti-semitic riots in Kielce and Krakow. The purpose of all this was to create a revolution; it failed. But he recruited the deputy director of Department Ten (Jozef Swiatlo), whose function was to police the policemen of the police state; it had unlimited powers.

The devil in all these details was Allen Welsh Dulles, grandson and nephew of Secretaries of State, senior partner of the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, and head of the OSS mission in Berne during World War II. From 1946 to 1948 Allen Dulles ran private intelligence operations in Eastern Europe, using funds from companies and the wealthy (page 53 does not list their special interests). Like his brother John he was involved with a number of religious and charitable institutions which were used to cover and conceal their secret activities.

Dulles chose to use Noel Field as a pawn to taint national Communists as US spies, ensuring their destruction by Stalin. Dulles would use Swiatlo to help incriminate many with planted evidence (p.99). Evidence would show that Field recruited Communists as American agents, that others were followers of Tito or Trotsky. Stalin checked out these stories with their double agent in Washington - it was verified. But their double agent was a triple agent! Recruited in the 1930s, he was being saved for an event like this (p.101). To complete the deception, Dulles "leaked" the news that the CIA had agents in the Communist governments of Eastern Europe. The result was widespread investigations, purges, imprisonment, and executions. Years later the victims would be "posthumously rehabilitated".

Didn't DeTocqueville once say that a regime is likely to be overthrown once it begins to liberalize its rule?

"The Spy Who Came in From the Cold" was a fictional story based upon this real incident. They made it appear that an important Eastern government official was a spy for the West in order to get him purged, and his rival promoted; but the rival was the real spy!

OOIO is an extraordinarily catalogue of human and trans-human capacities and capabilities. Covering much of the same ground as Michael Murphy's The Future Of The Body in much less space, Gowan's book is a pleasure to hold and read. His theoretical explanations of the now somewhat passe holographic paradigm, and the "two fluid phenomenon," are well-worth reading.

New Solutions for overcoming human destructiveness. Table of Contents
includes a Foreword by Lee Nelson who explains: Osiris was an Egyptian
god who judged people, often unfairly, when they died. The Osiris Factor
is about the unnecessary judging we do in our lives, that frequently
results in anger, guilt, shame and eventually depression, and how all
this can be avoided.

Introduction while the book notes the terrorist attacks against the
United States The Osiris Factor is not about terrorism. Rather, the
author states the book deals with everyday problems of the average
person. One: The Common Element the author reveals most people are
responsible for most of their problems, usually they do not know how they
sabotage themselves. People in general tend to tell themselves something
is and something should. I am wrong, and I should be different, Some is
wrong, and someone should be different. The 'should' is the thing that
causes us a lot of grief.

Two: Living in Two Unreal Worlds We all cling to the fantasy world we
held as a child even after we face the perceived world around us. Three:
Beliefs beliefs about self, about the world and about relationships are
all discussed. Fantasy and Perceived world beliefs and troublesome
beliefs are discussed before a plan for constructing new beliefs is
presented. Four: Mental Movies, we get caught up in mental movies when we
shift our attention from the world around us to our inner world.

Five: Goals learning what works and what does not helps us in formulating
the goals we need to overcome the 'should'. Six: Reprogramming the Osiris
Factor because we judge ourselves and others, assign blame fault we
experience life as a series of trials and prosecutions producing anger,
guilt, shame and depression filled with 'should' 'must' 'ought'. Seven:
Good-bye to Anger The first step to reducing anger is to consciously
decide to not become angry.

Eight: Overcoming Depression overgeneralization, biological imbalance,
behavior all contribute to depression. Depression is one of three forms
of sadness. Normal, appropriate reaction to upset is unhappiness. Grief
is a normal reaction to loss. Depression is an abnormal, potentially
crippling reaction to loss or upset. Nine: Our internal Committee
Difficult decisions often involve internal conflict. It is as though we
are composed of an internal committee. Ten: The Osiris Factor and The
Self Self-Esteem is the result of The Osiris Principle applied to the
self. Recent polls show self esteem ranked among the top five values
listed.

Eleven: Life without the Osiris Factor The last chapter shows how life
can change when we replace the Osiris Factor with the Humility Factor, we
are not god, when we accept that we are human our lives change.
Bibliography Bibliography included in the back of the book covers a broad
spectrum of works.

Writer Roos draws from his successful practice for the material fleshing
out his work. The Osiris Factor is written in plain, clearly understood
language and is meant for use by the layman as well as others in the
field of counseling. Dr. Roos is a licensed clinical psychologist who has
come to the conclusion that we are often our own worst enemy. The Osiris
Factor provides insight into many of the foibles we humans tend to pile
upon ourselves.

The Osiris Factor is a well written treatise filled with excellent
suggestions for eliminating much of the guilt producing activity we
engage in each day. Dr Roos offers recommendations for enriching our
lives by changing our thinking, attitudes and need for placing blame or
guilt upon ourselves or others. Roos presents a keenly focused work meant
to be read and then read again when things begin to overcome us.
Excellent book for the home library, those who want to better their
lives, and for the professional.

Written by a lay person who followed the difficult road from pain to healing, Phoenix Palmer's The Phoenix Factor: Rising From The Ashes Of Abuse presents her personal life in brief, riveting bursts of short essays and cogent observations, showing the tell-tale signs of an abusive relation that ultimately manifested in the relentless stalking, terrorizing, and abusive behavior of her ex-husband -- as well as her on-going struggle to cope with the trauma and transcend the bitterness of. A strong and powerfully moving account, The Phoenix Factor is highly recommended reading for anyone caught up in (or seeking to recover from) abusive personal relationships. It is a sad commentary on the world today, but The Phoenix Factor should be strongly considered for inclusion into community library collections in order to make it as widely available to the general public as possible.