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This is a well-channeled stimulating book regarding the illusory nature of time while showing how other beings have evolved differently yet emotionally wise and technologically advanced.

The Paschats are a 7 feet tall highly developed race of leonine people from the Sirius constellation of what we call our future. Yet time according to them, and to me, is an illusion so actually they are living in the NOW of another dimension.

The Paschats talk about the nature of death, karma and reincarnation; procedures of healing, and self-healing; the reality of other intelligent forms in the universe; and the cosmic connection between Sirius and the planet Earth.

At the end of the book Hope provides material evidence of the past presence of such leonine people on Earth. Yet since the message is so clear, uplifting and positive the attempt for historical proof of their existence is totally irrelevant to me.

This wonderful book was loaned to me when my own much loved cat was sadly killed in a horrific way. On opening this book I could not put it down, the information in it being channelled by the Paschats is wonderful the race of The lion People helped me to come to terms with what had passed and I feel their precense where ever I go. Murray Hope told their story brilliantly and anyone who likes felines will love this book.

As a proud former member of the United States Secret Service, I believe that this product is worth your time and money...and I also feel it is my perogative to inform everyone here that, while Vince Palamara is to be commended for his notable research acumen and getting many of my colleagues-and myself- to speak to him, he has also done so at the expense of many of their feelings, beliefs, and trust. In short, Vince Palamara believes the means justifies the ends.
So, imagine my horror when I turn on the television a few years back and I SEE the young researcher who promised myself and many others that he was not a journalist, stating facts, theories, and innuendo as the gospel truth. Emory Roberts, for one, cannot defend himself. I will concede that I have no good explanation for what transpires on the film Palamara shows-but does that have to lead to conspiratorial conclusions? Does it, Vince?
From what I gather, many members of the AFAUSSS, myself included, are quite upset with him, as well they should be.

Can we let sleeping dogs lie? Lee Harvy Oswald killed President John Kennedy, acting alone. Yes, my colleagues did not do their jobs as effectively as they could have or probably should have-but will that bring back the man? No. What useful purpose is served by defaming Kennedy's memory and all the still-living former agents with calling into question the very painful loss of said man, as well as their job performance.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
T.R., proud alumni/ past member of the folowing organizations:
MSU
Army 1957-1959
USSS 1961-1982

As the leading civilian authority on the U.S. Secret Service, I heartily recommend this internal SECRET SERVICE ONLY book (meant for former agents, primarily). I was fortunate to have a very old, former agent graciously provide a complete photocopy of this book. There are priceless photographs and some very good information inside...lots of cool pictures of Robert L. "Bobby D" DeProspero, Jerry Behn, Floyd Boring, etc. etc. etc. Highly recommended...if you can obtain a copy from a retired agent! ;-)

This book is a collection of all the eschatology papers that were presented at the 1999 Evangelical Theological Society's annual meeting. Eschatology is thr study of last things, the study of the end times. One of my favorite articles was the one about Martin Luther's eschatology, how he believed that the soul slept but was alive in heaven with Jesus until the second coming. He also believed that hell referred to the struggles of this life and doesnt become a real place until Judgment Day.

I also enjoyed the article by Darrell Bock on the kingdom in New Testament Theology. He shows how the term kingdom is used in different ways throughout the NT canon.

There are also a series of articles about eschatology within Open Theism. Steven Roy and others charge that Open Theism cannot provide any confident assurance that things will turn out OK in the end because they believe that God only knows the future choices we will make as probabilities, not certainties.

Robert Thomas's article shows a commitment to Revised Dispensationalism as he shoots down the concepts of imminence in preterism, progressive dispensationalism, and in prewrath rapturism.

But a theologian from Midwest Baptist Seminary effectively counters Thomas with his sturdy concept of imminence and of posttribulationism.

I have only commented on a sampling of the articles, but I trus that this gives you an idea of the book's flavor.

I felt like I was at this conference while reading this volume. I am grateful for all those who were able to contribute these stimulating articles.

This book is a collection of all the eschatology papers that were presented at the 1999 Evangelical Theological Society's annual meeting. Eschatology is thr study of last things, the study of the end times. One of my favorite articles was the one about Martin Luther's eschatology, how he believed that the soul slept but was alive in heaven with Jesus until the second coming. He also believed that hell referred to the struggles of this life and doesnt become a real place until Judgment Day.

I also enjoyed the article by Darrell Bock on the kingdom in New Testament Theology. He shows how the term kingdom is used in different ways throughout the NT canon.

There are also a series of articles about eschatology within Open Theism. Steven Roy and others charge that Open Theism cannot provide any confident assurance that things will turn out OK in the end because they believe that God only knows the future choices we will make as probabilities, not certainties.

Robert Thomas's article shows a commitment to Revised Dispensationalism as he shoots down the concepts of imminence in preterism, progressive dispensationalism, and in prewrath rapturism.

But a theologian from Midwest Baptist Seminary effectively counters Thomas with his sturdy concept of imminence and of posttribulationism.

I have only commented on a sampling of the articles, but I trus that this gives you an idea of the book's flavor.

I felt like I was at this conference while reading this volume. I am grateful for all those who were able to contribute these stimulating articles.

Lynn V Andrews books are a good read. They are interesting and well-written. I recommend all of them - let your mind fly ... great read

This book recounts Lynn's real adventure into her spirit marriage and meetings with other medicine women in Nepal. Her writing style evokes a novel -- but in your heart you KNOW it's real. You KNOW that you chose this book to teach you about yourself and your relationships. It was the first of her books I read, and now I must read THEM ALL. It is the first book I've read about any relationship that gave me a tool to gain peace about my own relationships.

This short book challenges us to revisit the manufacturing function in our companies,and provides an action plan for doing so. The book teaches us why manufacturing must be integrated in--and not a stepchild of--the company's operation, even for those outsourced components. CEOs and all department heads must get together and discuss the strategies in this book.

This is one of the volumes in "The Future of Business from Booz & Company" series in which the firm's senior-level executives explain especially significant developments and emerging trends within major sectors of the global marketplace. (Booz & Company is the new name for the commercial side of Booz Allen Hamilton.) In this instance, Kaj Grichnik and Conrad Winkler with Jeffrey Rothfeder focus on "the opportunities for manufacturing along with the perils [decision-makers] may face and the potential for overcoming them...[as well as] special trends that will affect manufacturing and the evolution of new production methods, techniques, philosophies, and strategies that could positively influence the performance of industry and improve global economic, environmental, and social conditions. We describe how current and future trends are conspiring to alter the dynamics of manufacturing, and explain how manufacturers can transform themselves to achieve success in a difficult landscape."

All of the authors of volumes in this series have the full benefit of a wealth of resources that have been accumulated during the completion of Booz & Company's client assignments throughout the world. The specific observations and recommendations that Grichnik and Winkler offer are research-driven and based on real-world information. For example, they examine:

How manufacturers have reached a "crossroads" of multiple options, with decisions to be made having "make or break" consequences (Chapter 1)

Eight "very real" challenges that manufacturers now face and why they must learn to navigate them successfully; also, lessons to be learned by using an analytical model when playing out two scenarios that take entirely different approaches to manufacturing (Chapter 2)

How Toyota's greatest advantage "has accrued from the way that a number of factors - some generated within the company, others external--have all, linked together in a virtuous cycle [i.e. each element contributing to the cycle makes the others move faster] while US auto makers have been caught up in a vicious cycle [i.e. problems cause each other to worsen more quickly than they can be managed individually]"; also, how to "harness" virtuous cycles and avoid vicious ones (Chapter 3)

The four principles on which innumerable programs, tools, techniques. and tactics are based to make (rather than break) a company's relations with its workforce mutually beneficial; also, qualities that will support and enable the success of manufacturing executives (Chapter 4)

Frankly, I find it remarkable that Grichnik and Winkler can somehow provide so much valuable information and counsel within only 207 pages. With rare precision, eloquence, and (yes) brevity, they explain why the future of manufacturing is truly becoming a "make-or-break" proposition for many companies as their weaknesses are increasingly exposed. "At the same time, there are always great opportunities in challenging times." More specifically, as Grichnik and Winkler carefully explain, enlightened and determined leaders can help their companies to renew and revitalize themselves with an appropriate mix of "innovative manufacturing technology, flexible global footprints, deliberately redesigned manufacturing operating systems, and truly engaged manufacturing communities." When doing so, they will not simply make winning futures for their companies and their industries - they may change the world. "That, after all, is what manufacturers have done since the industrial revolution - indeed throughout human history."

Additional notes and resources are available at www.businessfuture.com.

Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to check out Janine Benyus' Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature, William McDonough's Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, Paul Hawken's The Ecology of Commerce, John E. Ettlie's Managing Innovation (Second Edition): New Technology, New Products, and New Services in a Global Economy, Fast Strategy: How strategic agility will help you stay ahead of the game co-authored by Yves Doz and Mikko Kosonen, Dean Spitzer's Transforming Performance Measurement: Rethinking the Way We Measure and Drive Organizational Success, and Enterprise Architecture as Strategy: Creating a Foundation for Business Execution co-authored by Jeanne Ross, Peter Weill, and David Robertson.

Lots of practical examples! Clear structure, no easy answers, but insightful views based on practice and supported but academic concepts.

This is a great book for all who drive innovation!

'Managing Global Innovation' is a must-read for anyone interested in new product development in a globalizing world. This book presents a coherent framework for international innovation strategy, global R&D organization, and the execution of transnational R&D projects. The many examples make theory and concepts easy to understand. Moreover, the book features a collection of indepth case studies of otherwise little described companies. If you ever wondered how companies like SAP, Roche, or HP compete at the forefront of technology development, then this is the book to get. All in all, a well-conceived book that immediately appeals with its balance of applicability and theory.

So he is still around and still active. I for one am thoroughly pleased to see that, and when I read this short but clear, forceful, penetrating, commonsensical, humane and visionary volume I reflected that one major reason why the present-day world is in the appalling mess it's in is that there are not more like him. I last saw and heard him on a TV chat show, in which he was as lucid and good-humoured as ever. When the show's host suggested that his contribution to world peace had been enormous he replied `Can I have a certificate saying that?' As a politician he failed, of course, but maybe the kind of boldness that he showed is bound to fail politically, and such failures may be the price of progress. The Soviet Union that he inherited as General Secretary of the Communist party rested on an obscene economy dedicated to armaments production, and he told his generals that the show was over. The cold war confrontation in Europe and the burden of supporting reluctant allies had degenerated into a routine kind of official hostility looking for a purpose, and he told the satellite regimes that had to find their own way in the world. When this new policy was extended even to the talismanic presence of Soviet troops in East Germany the whole structure of ideological make-believe collapsed - back in Stalin's time Beria had said to his colleagues that East Germany was not even a real state, something perfectly obvious but a statement that breached Soviet official etiquette and doctrine, as we can read in the horrified report in Gromyko's memoirs. Back at home Gorbachev reversed 70 years of official secrecy in the belief that the citizenry had to take charge of their own salvation and that they therefore needed to be told some home truths. The rickety economy accordingly ground to a confused halt, Gorbachev got the blame, and he would probably have had to go whether or not the Soviet Union had survived.

One political Hercules had not survived his own labours, but who else in living memory can we even imagine showing the courage, conviction, and even for a while political skill, to set about anything of comparable ambition and scale? He tells us about this in outline but without heroics or self-dramatisation. One thing that he stresses from the start is the environmental degradation that even he had not been fully aware of until he stepped into the top job, he makes clear his belief that the western market economy is at least as much of a culprit in this matter, and the rest of the book is devoted to his vision of the morass that humanity has created for itself and to an account of the active steps he has taken in the hope of mounting a rescue. Two things come over to me strongly from this account. One is that collectively in the affluent west we are nearly as blind and uninformed as were the Soviet citizens when Gorbachev came to power, and with far less excuse - they were given no option, we have the option and many prefer to forget the matter. The other issue is that we cannot put the onus of dealing with the problems entirely on the shoulders of politicians and `leaders', feeling doubtless that God, who tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, can never have meant to place on our own tender shoulders such a burden as this.

Not a lot of the examples Mr Gorbachev cites are any kind of surprise to me, more a matter of touching in details in a general scheme that I have grasped in outline through decades of involvement with environmental causes. However there is nothing here that does not benefit from the straightforwardness and direct clarity of his way of expressing himself. There are no histrionics here and no grandstanding, but in case anyone could possibly be missing the general lesson it is that the consumer society and economy are riding for a bad fall, and that it could all happen more suddenly than we like to think. Whether we remind him of his Soviet generals placidly spending their way to economic and environmental ruin he does not say, but our behaviour reminds me of exactly that. There are always reasons, and often very good reasons, it seems to me, for postponing or watering down or rationalising away the looming threats, or for expecting our `leaders' to wave some magic wand while we go on our way rejoicing. Given that few of us on our own can do much to affect the outcome I suppose that to some extent we just have to hope like Mr Micawber that something will turn up. Something quite certainly will, and unless we can find a way through the tangle of pressing current problems to a new public, collective and international mentality that can face up to the certain pain of the adjustment that we have to make in the interests of avoiding even worse pain the `something' is something I don't greatly care to contemplate. Meantime Mr Gorbachev has set up his Green Cross International. Its aims and aspirations are admirable, but we have been there before. It is not a green light but a red light and the warning it gives is not something we can wish away on any grounds of perceived attitude or political orientation. You may have heard it all before, but I'd say read it here for as powerful and compelling a presentation of the case as I have ever seen.

Mikhail Gorbachev is a true world leader. He speaks absolute truth for us to hear. We all need to listen. This book is easy to read in style, and difficult to read in content. Every word is meaningful for every one of us.

Don Vandergriff as once again hit a home run or better yet a "grand slam" with his latest book "Manning the Future Legions of the United States Finding and Developing Tomorrows Centurions."

Do not let the title; "Manning the Future Legions of the United States Finding and Developing Tomorrows Centurions" (which I love by the way) of this book fool you. Don has written the book with the military in mind but, as he will tell you himself, this book will assist any organization, Law Enforcement, Security, or any other corporation looking to to select the right people , the right leaders for the job, those with strength of character who, create and nurture the right cohesive environment to making timely and executable decisions based on; knowledge, continued learning and evolution as well as the use of new incoming explicit and implicit information in changing conditions allowing for, adaptability and individual initiative , which leads to Getting Jobs Done!

The book has great lessons and discussions about the history and evolution of warfare from the 1st generation to 4GW and gives examples, that make important distinctions easier to understand and translate to various professions. It also has historic lessons on training methods from the industrial age top/down methods of Taylor and Descartes to the Bottom/Up approach of Deming who insisted that the lowest level workers be empowered to decide and act! Manning the Future Legions also discusses the theories of COL John Boyd and other modern strategist who know how to translate theory into practice.

These ideas combined with Vandergriff's own innovative ideas and insights based on his experience at reshaping the Army methodology of training and leadership, make this book an outstanding resource for any organization whose mission it is to be more productive through cohesive efforts. Vandergriff's ideas on human and organizational development are laid out in this book and are easy to understand, but make no mistake will take strength of character and effort to implement. However, Well worth the effort!

The world has changed and hence the threats and problems we face and have to deal with have changed as well. This leads tot he premise of the book; changing the culture and climate in organizations to that of Bottom Up Decision Making or decision making on the frontline so time critical decisions are made and actions taken to achieve results.

Manning the Future Legions of the United States Finding and Developing Tomorrows Centurions is a adaptive blueprint to getting it done.

Outstanding read!

Another book by Don Vandergriff that will be in my bag for reference at all times.

Having worked with this author for over ten years, I have come to deeply respect his viewpoints. All are based on many years of dedicated active-duty service. In fact, Maj. Vandergriff may be one of the more talented officers the Army failed to promote through bureaucratic aversion to innovative thinking in general. Now that history has once again called attention to its antiquated personnel management system, the Army should start worrying more about its sacred mission than preserving outmoded (though thoroughly traditional) procedures.

The way the U.S. Army approaches recruiting, personnel management, and training has been so intimately tied to maintaining its traditional culture that a self-perpetuating cycle has been established. Such a cycle will diminish any attempt to develop adaptive leaders and institutions. It can only be broken by fully embracing evolutionary change. Vandergriff maintains the Army will need more than a few references to "adaptability" in its briefings and literature. He says it cannot expect to maintain leaders who grasp and practice adaptability if these officers encounter an organization that is neither adaptive nor innovative. Instead, Army culture must become adaptive, and the personnel system must evolve into one that nurtures adaptability in its policies, practices, and beliefs. Within Don Vandergriff's well-researched work is a detailed, comprehensive plan that will help Army culture to evolve into one than can better handle the challenges of the 21st Century.

Maybe you like the idea of this book but you are wondering, does it live up to the promise, will you actually read much of it, is it just too big? The answers are yes, probably yes, and no.

I've browsed maybe half of the chapters. Each one is clear, easy to skim through, with a lot to dig into if you want. So far I've found not one "book report" just summarizing recent work. I've found fascinating helpful interpretations of subjects I don't know -- and challenging positions on subjects that I have my own view of.

Of course you can find fault. The book leans more to applied math than I'd like. And what about functional analysis?

Overall, I am stunned to think I wavered on buying this. I almost passed it up. It would have been a big mistake.

This book is a look to the future of mathematics based on the trends in mathematical thinking at the present time. I did not read all the articles in the book, so my review will be limited to those I did. The article "Experimental Mathematics" by D. Bailey and J. Borwein is an overview of a somewhat controversial activity in mathematics. This activity, characterized as "experimental" mathematics, has, the authors argue, enabled very interesting mathematical problems to be eventually solved. They outline in the article the recent discovery of how to calculate the the nth digit of Pi without computing any of the first n-1 digits without multiple-precision arithmetic and needing only low memory. The calculation scheme was based on a formula that was discovered by a computer, the first time this has happened.according to the authors. Experimental mathematics can be viewed as "real-time" discovery of mathematics, as well as letting us visualize the mathematical structures involved using computer graphics. Mathematicians interested in network modeling will appreciate the article by F. Kelly entitled "Mathematical Modeling of the Internet". Interestingly, his approach makes use of dynamical systems, with the goal of studying the behavior and stability of the TCP/IP protocol. The most interesting section of the article is the section on packet marking strategies. One can find surprising connections between strategies for packet marking, packet shaping, and network QoS, with techniques in option pricing from financial engineering. This is particularly true for frame relay networks. This connection was not discussed in Kelly's article, but I have found these connections in developing my own network models. Kelly gives good insight on how to apply techniques from optimization theory and dynamical systems to study the behavior of modern networks. The network modeling of the 21st century will have to contend with wireless, DWDM, and other more exotic technologies. By far the most interesting articles in the book were the two articles "Geometric Aspects of Mirror Symmetry" by D. Morrison and "A Chapter in Physical Mathematics" by K. Marathe. The constructions that take place in the areas discussed in these two articles have to rank as the most fascinating in all of mathematics. And most interestingly, the ideas had a powerful influence from theoretical physics. One can say without question that physical ideas coming from quantum field theory/high energy physics justify a rephrasing of the words of the famous physicist Eugene Wigner. One could now speak of "the reasonable influence of physics in mathematics". Physical ideas have permeated many different areas of mathematics and will continue to do so. Some mathematicians have classified this influence as "physical mathematics" because some of the mathematical constructions have not been justified rigorously. Several brilliant mathematical developments have occurred in the last two decades resulting from ideas from high energy physics, such as quantum invariants of knots and three-dimensional manifolds, Seiberg-Witten theory, mirror symmetry in algebraic geometry, and supersymmetry and index theorems. These exciting results could be described best as kind of a "quantization of mathematics", and the future will hold more of the this line of thinking. Every construction in mathematics will have a quantum analog, with a correspondence between mappings/structures in "ordinary" or "classical" mathematics and unitary transformations/noncommutative structures in the "quantized" version. An example of this kind of development is occurring today in the field of non-commutative geometry. "Mathematics Unlimited-2001 And Beyond" is a brief glimpse of what will be an exciting century for mathematics. Quantum computation will no doubt become a reality soon, and its computational power, coupled with the needs of the information age, will push mathematics to new dizzying heights. What was called experimental and physical mathematics in the book will continue to have their niches; but "pure" mathematics will also hold its ground and continue to solidify and advance. The mathematical adventure is just beginning......

Kurt Eisenlohr has that special gift that allows him to juggle tragedy & comedy into an excruciating hokeypokey that frequently makes the reader whince and laugh out loud in the same sentence. Meat Won't Pay My Light Bill is an extremely readable book that effortlessly combines the brain of Jean Paul Sartre with the body of Charo. If you like Charles Bukowski, Eight Star whiskey and have ever lost a part of your body to a machine- this is the book for you.

Kurt Eisenlohr, a first-time author from Portland, Oregon, takes an old premise: A broken-hearted guy trying to win back his girlfriend, and really invents something fresh and funny. His character's loopy thoughts and hilarious antics are always heartfelt, though sometimes misguided. The massive amounts of drinking adds a slapstick element to their actions and the dialogue is amazingly accurate.