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- It's not that hard & a great book on eczema.
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Superimmunity for Kids : What to Feed Your Children to Keep Them Healthy Now, and Prevent Disease in Their Future
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Customer Reviews:
Comment on Jaundice and breastfeeding.......2007-02-02
HI, I was just browsing through this book online and I came across the paragraph on jaundice and breastfeeding. This information was supremely inaccurate on this particular subject. The book says that breastfeeding makes jaundice worse and that you will have to stop nursing for your child to be cured of it. I am a very well read La Leche league member and breastfeeding is well known to reverse jaundice by helping your baby to excrete the bilirubin build up. The more often you nurse the faster your baby gets rid of the dead red blood cells. It is the best treatment for jaundice despite was this book says. Stopping brestfeeding during the crucial first weeks is dangerous for your baby's nutrition and immunity and bad for mom in terms of losing your milk supply and suffering engorgement or mastitis. Other than that topic I didn't read the rest of the book so it may otherwise be a good book.
FABULOUS book..........2007-01-17
We love this book. Except for the oysters (my kids just don't get into the texture), we follow everything on this book and our kids are SO MUCH healthier than their friends. They eat better at home AND they make healthier choices when they go to parties/events, as they are not used to so much sugar! I would highly recommend this book to anyone looking to help their kids improve their immunity through diet.
A Must-Read for Moms.......2007-01-06
I found two things to be most helpful about this book: 1) the information on the essential fatty acids that young children need in their diets from flax oil, evening primrose, cod liver oil, etc, especially if they have allergies; and 2) the specific doses of certain vitamins and minerals for each age group.
My son's allergies to milk and wheat are gone, in part, I believe because I introduced flaxseed oil into his diet nine months ago as result of reading this book. Flaxseed oil, I found is the easiest to incorporate into a young child's diet because it's readily available at health food stores and it doesn't have any taste. I generously poured it onto my son's oatmeal every morning and it provided a good source of fat for him and, in my opinion, played a role in eliminating his allergies. Evening primrose and cod liver oils were a little tougher to be consistent with, but if your child has severe allergies, it's a small price to pay for the potential positive outcome.
As for vitamins and minerals, Dr. Galland has specific recommendations for safe upper dosing levels for different age groups. (Who knew that a 2-3 year old can have up to 1000mg/day of vitamin C as long as his tummy will tolerate it?)
I also found the chapter on nutrition for pregnant and nursing moms to be really helpful (for example, too much of the mineral manganese in the mother's diet can be toxic to a nursing infant up to six weeks of age).
The main concern for me, however, had to do with Dr. Galland's recommendation for so much soy in children's diets. There has recently been much controversy over the safety of soy for kids because of the high amounts of isoflavones or naturally occuring plant-based estrogen. Babies on soy formula have been observed as young as three years old to go into puberty, it is believed, due to the estrogen in soy. [...] So I wonder if Dr. Galland were to write an updated or revised version of this book, if he would still recommend so much soy for children.
At any rate, the book is a brilliant reference point for moms and it's easy to pick and choose what is doable and helpful for your child and lifestyle. I consider it a valuable and insightful must-read for every mom. Thanks, Dr. Galland, for sharing your expertise on child nutrition. It's so refreshing to hear from nutritionally oriented MDs who don't resort to medication for every problem.
It's not that hard & a great book on eczema........2006-10-25
Why feed your kids something that actually depletes the nutrition you are trying so hard to give them [such as hydrogenated oils which prevent your child's body from absorbing other nutrients it needs]?
This book makes it clear what kid's need & what they don't need. I found the explanation of which vitamins/minerals can be too much - blocking absorption of other necessary nutrients - very helpful. Everyone I have turned on to the book has loved it!
Another thing I found helpful was the chapter on what to start feeding your 6 month - 1 yr. old. It lists what to start them on & what to hold off on & explains why. This is far more detailed than our pediatrician's information. The prenatal chapter is good as well & I wish I had this book when I was pregnant.
Especially easy & helpful is the information on which supplements are beneficail for your child's specific needs/problems like hyperactivey, yeast infections, eczema, cradle cap, fatigue, diabetes ect..
It's really not that hard. It's very basic nutritional information just well explained. It's really not difficult to feed your kids & yourself basic whole foods. Read the labels! You may quickly realize these are lifestyle changes that you want to make since it is so beneficial to your child's health & development of their brain, eyes, etc.
Great format & an easy read.
THIS IS THE BEST BOOK I HAVE FOUND ON ECZEMA FOR CHILDREN OR ADULTS.
I also recommend:
Chemical-Free Kids: How to Safeguard Your Child's Diet and Environment by Allan Magaziner, Linda Bonvie, and Anthony Zolezzi
This book better explains the importance of organic foods among other things.
Another great format & an easy read.
Great book!.......2005-10-19
I agree with one reviewer who said that it is difficult to pull off. But, I will still give this one 5 Stars. First I never knew how much important EFAs are and this book explains that well. Second it talks about tackling EFA and other mineral defficiencies for kids of various ages starting from Prenatal(pregnancy). I love the format in which this was written. Very easy to refer. My three and a half yr old is a very picky eater. I might not make her eat all the healthy stuff thats said in the book. But I started rubbing FLAX oil onto her skin, and her eczema is getting better.
The book also tells you about anti-nutrients. I now think a little before giving junk food to my kid. Recipes sound good but I never tried them yet. Hopefully I will get my kid to eat atleast a few of those. Highly recomment to parents who worry why your kid gets sick more often and suffers more than all the rest of the neighbourhood kids.
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Tomorrow Now: Envisioning the Next Fifty Years
Bruce Sterling
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“Nobody knows better than Bruce Sterling how thin the membrane between science fiction and real life has become, a state he correctly depicts as both thrilling and terrifying in this frisky, literate, clear-eyed sketch of the next half-century. Like all of the most interesting futurists, Sterling isn’t just talking about machines and biochemistry: what he really cares about are the interstices of technology with culture and human history.” -Kurt Andersen, author of
Turn of the Century
Visionary author Bruce Sterling views the future like no other writer. In his first nonfiction book since his classic
The Hacker Crackdown, Sterling describes the world our children might be living in over the next fifty years and what to expect next in culture, geopolitics, and business.
Time calls Bruce Sterling “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.”
Tomorrow
Now is, as Sterling wryly describes it, “an ambitious, sprawling effort in thundering futurist punditry, in the pulsing vein of the futurists I’ve read and admired over the years: H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, and Alvin Toffler; Lewis Mumford, Reyner Banham, Peter Drucker, and Michael Dertouzos. This book asks the future two questions: What does it mean? and How does it feel? ”
Taking a cue from one of William Shakespeare’s greatest soliloquies, Sterling devotes one chapter to each of the seven stages of humanity: birth, school, love, war, politics, business, and old age. As our children progress through Sterling’s Shakespearean life cycle, they will encounter new products; new weapons; new crimes; new moral conundrums, such as cloning and genetic alteration; and new political movements, which will augur the way wars of the future will be fought.
Here are some of the author’s predictions:
• Human clone babies will grow into the bitterest and surliest adolescents ever.
• Microbes will be more important than the family farm.
• Consumer items will look more and more like cuddly, squeezable pets.
• Tomorrow’s kids will learn more from randomly clicking the Internet than they ever will from their textbooks.
• Enemy governments will be nice to you and will badly want your tourist money, but global outlaws will scheme to kill you, loudly and publicly, on their Jihad TVs.
• The future of politics is blandness punctuated with insanity.
The future of activism belongs to a sophisticated, urbane global network that can make money—the Disney World version of Al Qaeda.
Tomorrow Now will change the way you think about the future and our place in it.
Customer Reviews:
Amazing!.......2006-10-29
Tomorrow Now is essentially a long and brilliant essay by Bruce Sterling, a noted science fiction writer and futurist covering some of his ideas of what the future may hold. Sterling very cleverly breaks the book into seven parts based upon a soliloquoy from Shakespeare covering the ages of man from birth to death, and wittily prophesies what life may shape itself into in our near future.
Two things struck me about this book. The first is that it is not nearly as focused on the next fifty years as the title purports. There is a fair deal of what the future may hold, but there is also a great deal of the present thrown in (especially in the soldier section), and some futurism that is more than 50 years out. Surprisingly this didn't bother me at all because his analysis of the present, especially an exposition on three different terrorists warlords, was fascinating, absolutely fascinating. This book ranges far and wide, and colors outside the lines of the 50 years stated, but I was glad it did as I read.
The second thing that struck me was that this is one of the most amazingly well-written books I've ever read. I am not sure I have ever read something as engaging, fascinating, informative and so easy to read at the same time. I have always enjoyed Sterling's fiction work but, frankly, the quality of this non-fiction book trumps his fictional stories. His writing style is very chatty, more or less as if you are sitting across the table from him, and at first this threw me. It's not something you expect in a science book. Yet once I adjusted I realized that this may be one of the clearest pieces of writing I have ever had the pleasure to read. When I say "pleasure to read" I actually mean it. That is a phrase far too over-used, but in choosing it I mean it literally: reading the words was a pleasure regardless of what he was talking about. His sentence construction and word choices were simply pleasurable to read in and of themself, and I have never seen adjectives used so well to create shades and nuances of meaning before.
Much of the speculation for the future involves biotechnology, changes in workplace dynamics, and what we actually produce, the change of market dynamics, consumerism to end-user, medical advances, and the rift between the New World Order (the first world) and the New World Disorder (the third world). If I had one reservation about this book it is that Sterling promised to show why the Islamic terrorism today will be irrelevant in the future. I don't think he ever really did that; he set the stage for it, and provided the backstory necessary to see the writing on the wall, but he never came out and posited why. I agree with him that the terrorism is not a long-term problem but it would have been nice to see him forcefully make that conclusion. That one quibble aside, this is a book that anyone who cares about current events, the future, or science will find compelling, interesting, and incredibly easy to understand and follow. This is a first class work and I highly recommend it.
Recommended reading to understand the right questions.......2006-03-22
This is entertaining, informative, funny, and grim at the same time. A bittersweet look at the future.
When you look at the reviews, just remember that republicans will hate this book because they have a belief system impervious to the reality happening outside of their heads. They alone have the power to be right and rightness is affirmed by belief! They read Fred Barnes and John Stossel for whats really going on because they're closed and finite. Ambiguity is kryptonite to republicans.
Read this book to find out more about the small print at the bottom of the social contract. There is no threat of a New World Order. There is a New World Disorder that is already here and devolving. Order is not on the horizon anywhere except in one's own chosen orthodoxy.
Brilliant Futurist Architecture Built on Weak Foundations.......2004-02-03
Bruce Sterling is, without doubt, a brilliant futurist. In "Tomorrow Now", he serves up a feast of clever and entertaining prognostications about humanity's near future. But reader beware! The book is like a gleaming, new building whose stunning design, lavish decoration and gleaming contours can blind observers to many small architectural flaws and the crucial fact that it's built on shaky foundations.
To take one example, Sterling tells us in one paragraph that a "cruise missile ... is just a rich guy's truck bomb". But in the very next paragraph he emphasizes that there are in fact huge differences between cruise missiles and truck bombs that go far beyond the class background of their users. Cruise missiles are produced and deployed by complex, industrially advanced societies, while truck bombs are used by terrorists who operate beyond the ken of settled governments and civilized society.
Another, more serious example of some of the less-than-deep thinking that went into this book is its overall organizational gimmick, which is based on the "Seven Ages of Man" so poetically described by Shakespeare and Marlowe. Sterling emhasizes the chronological aspect of these "Ages" by labelling his chapters as stages. Stage 1 is the Infant, Stage 2 is the Student, and so on. He uses these stages as conceptual launching pads for fascinating riffs on a variety of subjects related to 21st century technology, culture and politics. In the chapter on the Infant, for instance, he writes at length about future bioengineering not just for babies but also adults and what this will mean for huminaty as a whole. In "Stage 4: The Soldier" he speculates on the nature of future warfare. Thus, Sterling is really often talking about cross-cutting themes rather that chronological ages, which is more than a little confusing. Why he did this, except that it is so cool to quote from Shakespeare, escapes me.
A final example of Sterling's inconsistency is the subtitle of the book itself: "Envisioning the Next 50 Years". In fact, he often describes trends from the late 21st century, which puts us more than 50 years ahead. So why didn't he just call the book "Envisioning the 21st Century"? Search me.
This is a great book, but Sterling's slickness can't completely compensate for these weaknesses. Cool soundbytes, technological virtuosity, cute wordplay and even large dollops of honest-to-God weighty insight are not enough to make up for some rather shoddy underlying illogic and conceptual weaknesses.
Not very good..........2004-01-12
Not very good... tries to examine the social and institutional trends, but goes into much self-serving prose.
Tomorrow Never Knows.......2003-10-27
Paradigm-shifts can stick in our collective craw like jawbreakers in a goose-neck. Galileo's carpet-pull on Ptolemy was no amateur-hour prank, and Darwin trumping Yahweh left a cantelope-sized goiter that still makes religious fundies bark and fume. Earth-shaking, yes, but taking decades, sometimes centuries to evolve their total, terraforming, reality-torquing impact -- slow-flying dreadnaughts of cultural metamorphosis whose meaning and trajectory still won't let us sleep at night.
Sterling's question is: What happens when the winds of change start storming the reality-studio at supersonic speeds? When whiplash upgrades seem to convulse the Zeitgeist every other minute? When dimensions start spinning like nerve-cells in a centrifuge, when ontology itself becomes as fluid as the global market? Leaning into the stormwinds of these queries, *Tomorrow Now* is less a bland Tofflerian forecast than a smoking flak-helmet pocked with the dents, scars, and impact-profiles of paradigm-shifts concussing like hot shrapnel.
"Apocalypse is boring," as Sterling likes to say, the last-ditch noctuary of the evangelical, the helpless, the neo-Luddite, the future-shocked. Better to encounter futurity with all the Olympian resources of the secular visionary imagination, with conceptual thaumaturgy and high comedy, with new languages to be learned and created, new disciplines picked up and dropped on the fly, a new world racing a hairsbreadth ahead of social and environmental holocausts that have always accompanied technological innovation....
But hey, enough of my hero-worshipping agit-prop, here are some snapshots from Sterling's globalist Bazaar of the Bizarre:
BIOTECH: Let's learn a lesson from our ancestor and brethren, the prokaryote -- let's pay homage to the two pounds of living bacteria that all humans carry within. In the microbe-literate society of the future, the elasticity and survival-skills of the bacterial swarm will make human cloning look like "a simpleminded stunt"(27) by comparison. Genetic engineering will heal the sick, fortify new deadly viruses, darken and transfigure every certainty, pump ontological coolants into the icy elysium of the posthuman. When evolution is reverse-engineered, becoming another stock-option in the industrial market sweep, Homo Prometheus will tap into genetic realms of unprecedented freedom, complexity, beauty, disfigurement, and terror.
EDUCATION: Whisked and pummeled by constant change, traditions will corrode, protocols will deliquesce, and canons will bloom with rot like beached whales. Fields of learning and praxis will ooze squishily from discipline to discipline, producing a steady stream of dynamic hybrids to stay on top of the market. Cultural memory will become like Leonard in *Memento* trying to reassemble and deploy his rapidly obsolescing past, swimming inside of whirlpool of innovation, competition, ecological catastrophe, and an elephant's graveyard of accumulating dead tech.
DESIGN: When things start to think, when domestic objects "love" you, when Shopping starts to look like Art and Philosophy, "visionary materialism" becomes a tasteless euphemism for a phase of cybernetic immersion that would have given McLuhan the spins. We will all be owned by our machines the way tribal peoples feel "owned" by the horizon, by the regenerative landscape of moon and tide, river and mountain, animal and insect. (In case you mistake my tone, this is not a "good" thing. It is simply inevitable.) We will all be passionate, obsessed fetishists. Think of the current ubiquity of cell-phones and telecom gear, and multiply it a thousandfold, in every direction. Trying to write "predictive" science-fiction in this maelstrom of voices and priorities will be like trying to set up a house of cards inside a wind-tunnel.
WAR: Cocksure superpowers trying to net a swarm of locusts in Fourth World zones run by pirates, drug-runners, mercs, ethnic-genociders, and cold-eyed Arab theology students jumping from wreckage to wreckage in the transnational narco-arms bazaar. Just think Belgrade, Kabul, Chechnya, Baghdad, and Mogadishu on crack. And the Third World zones of controlled anarchy embedded in every First World technocracy.
LAW, BUSINESS, POLITICS: Will there be much for governments to do in a post-ideological world, where public policy simpers beneath the windfalls of corporate underwriting, where human rights become a browser plug-in, where success and happiness is sold in terraced upgrades to graduated bidders? Will lawyers and legislators and police superstructures be installed as ornamental horticulture, migrant tenants surfing the crest of technology's raw, surging power? Will a democratic electorate retain its passion for activism and involvement, or will we vote with our money, our investments, our channel flipping, our site surfing, our zodiac of recorded purchases and credit histories?
DEATH: Sure, the Atomic Age may have decked us out in a cozy, suburban Cold War where mutually assured destruction and commie witchhunts could guarantee rigid cultural identity, war-fever eschatology, and a sober sense of imperialist mission (in short, the technocratic inheritor of Judaeo-Christian End Times), but where's the corporate payoff in that? Why not treat human mortality as another marketing-scenario to be spun, merchandized, glossed and sold? But if Sterling is right, our species may, in the end, "outsmart itself to death, [if] human knowledge is...not compatible with human survival"(264). We've burrowed too deep and too greedily into the planet to give birth and sustenance to our machines. Every species lost in the quest to infect the ecosystem with our ubiquity is a piece of the planetary survival-plan that's been irretrievably eroded by our narcissism, our fear, our all-too-human frenzy for mastery and technique, our Faustian gamble with machine-interface....
All in all, Mr. Sterling puts the Zeit in Geist, and *Tomorrow Now* has enough Plutarchan zing, erudition, and vervy wisdom to keep you buzzing for weeks. Some awesome riffs here. Kept me on tenterhooks throughout. Highest recommendation.
--for Ian Vance
Book Description
Light: Medicine of the Future challenges the modern myth that the sun is dangerous to our well-being and claims that technological advancements, such as most fluorescent lighting, sunglasses, tanning lotions, and our indoor lifestyles, may be more harmful than helpful.
Customer Reviews:
A book of extreme importance.......2007-07-31
This book offers an understanding into the importance of light and it's implications in health not found elsewhere. This should be read by every health care professional as the information is sure to apply to many of there clients. There is nothing 'airy fairy' or 'new age' about the content either.
Based in scientific research it's message is clear. Light is essential to our health and the misunderstanding around the dangers of UV may well be doing us more harm than good.
EXCELLENT & HEALING.......2007-01-09
I bought that book having researched the subject early-on. As a doctor I was extremely interested in the subject. This book actually was the last step I took prior to introducing Light-Therapy to my Clinic.
One more item: Patients are lining up... and I'm smiling all the way to the bank. Thank you Amazon and good luck with your space flights.
Dr. Simon Stauber
Naples, Fl.
The medicine of the future.......2006-11-10
This book is a master's work. It has an outstanding performance in explaining the incredible healing power and importance of light for humans and other living creatures on this planet. In an easy way the way how human system about vision is explained, including the medical subsystems playing a key role. A 'must read' for all those who are interested or have affinity with natural cure processes.
real eye opener.......2006-03-03
I didn't expect the influence of the eyes to be that important on the human organs. A 'must read it' for everyone who is interested in good health.
Like the books says - "The medicine of the future".......2005-02-26
This is not a new-age book. Dr. Lieberman has worked effectivly with over 15,000 people.
Light is vital to the healthy functioning of the human body. Anyone with SAD will attest to that. The book is easy to understand. There are many footnotes, notes, appendixes, diagrams & color plates. He builds beautifully on the work of Dr. John Ott, one of the pioneers in light therapy.
The chapter on learning disabled children and light is very interesting. Einstien, Beethoven and Edison were thought to be either hopeless, stupid or mentally slow. The studies he quotes are interesting, the success rate was high (yes, I know he probably would not list those that weren't). Another interesting point was in experiments using florescent lighting opposed to full spectrum lighting in schools, blind children were as affected as the sighted ones. In one of the appendixes he lists the colors used for the walls in the classrooms of one of the experiements. The paints used are a majoy manufacturer available in the US and Canada.
The chaper on the Pineal glad was excellent. He combined the esoteric, old knowledge with recent scientific discoveries one interesting quote:
It's activity, regulated by environmental light changes and the Earth's electromagnetic field, is to transmit information to the body pertaining to the length of daylight. Since the length of daylight is a function of season, this transmitted information from the pineal tells every part of the body whether it is light or dark, whether the days are getting longer or shorter, and what season of the year it is. In this way, our bodies stay closely attuned to nature and are thereby able to make appropriate physiological adjustments that will prepare them for upcoming environmental changes.
If you are looking for an educational book on light and the effect on plant and human life this is a good choice. It is easy to read and written for the lay person with plenty of sources to expand on.
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Great for 20-somethings Just Starting Out.......2007-09-21
I bought this book for a younger sibling who has just set out on her own. I read through it at the bookstore and thought it'd be great for someone just starting out in the world - it covers a lot of the basics in an easy-to-read manner. Not great for someone who wants to learn some new personal finance tricks, as this covers most that some of us have heard over and over and over. But a great, and affordable book, for new high school/college grads trying to find their footing financially.
Personal Finance - nothing new to learn here.......2007-05-07
This book did not help at all. I thought it was kind of worthless.
Best $11 Bucks I've Ever Spent!.......2004-02-14
Finally! A book on personal finance for the average person. This book is filled with easy-to-understand advice about managing your money. You can read it from cover to cover or just browse through it and pick the topics you're interested in right now. The budgeting and credit card debt chapters are great. Even though it's geared towards those of us in our 20s and 30s, most of it is good advice for anyone trying to get ahead financially. Best $11 bucks I've ever spent.
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A fantastic tool for divination.......1998-11-24
This kit of a book and full set of tarot cards is a fantastic tool for divination and self-analysis. Helen Jones' beautiful graphics provide an understandable interpretation of the meaning of the cards, which helps the novice reader to recall the symbolism with ease. The book gives clear explanations of what the cards mean in a historical, astrological and alchemical context which makes for an interesting read even when not actually doing spreads. The sample readings offered are a useful reference tool, to illustrate the way the different cards work together to create a unique outcome. The only criticism I would have of this book is that of the 4 different spreads offered as a tool only 2 of them are really suitable for those new to reading the cards, as 13 and 21 cards to a spread makes the reading quite intricate and difficult. An excellent gift for the spiritual person!
Book Description
Using the Millennial Clock as a paradigm for the Long Now, Stewart Brand offers a practical introduction to the concept of long-term responsibility
"For minds trapped in the ever-tightening time spiral of techno-capitalist progress, where fame is fifteen minutes and the future is this quarter's profits, [Stewart Brand] has provided a wonderful escape route-an exhilarating, liberating, total change of scale and pace."
-Ursula K. Le Guin
For many, the turn of the millennium represents a point beyond which nothing can be imagined. Stewart Brand, an important figure in the United States counterculture, sees this inability to imagine the future as an unwillingness to accept responsibility for it. The Clock of the Long Now tackles the necessary and "timely" question of how to make long-term thinking an integral part of our fast-paced lives.
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Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems.......2006-01-18
Steward Brand is a person who thinks 'big'. His major thought in this work is that "Civilization's shortening attention span is mismatched with the pace of environmental problems,." Thus he suggests that we begin to think about 'the long now' the next ten- thousand years. The ten- thousand has its partial origin in the fact that the agricultural revolution and with it much of our development began ten- thousand years back. Brand also hopes to set up an 'Information gathering project, a Library' which would include that which is worth keeping ten- thousand years from now.
All of this sounds a bit vague and abstract. And it seems to me that there must be better ways of moving people away with the kind of 'instant pleasure 'mind of our 'click- click present Internet culture.
My own sense is that all of us live within, and are bound up in a great variety of different interval lengths of time. And that our lives are processes in which there are long -terms, short- terms and in- between. And that if we need to think about 'ten- thousand years from now ' we will.
I hate to be skeptical here but I recently read an article by Jim Holt in which he talks to cosmologists about what is expected to happen when the universe ends. That is trillions of years from now, and no one has a very clear expectation. But the wisest remark made in regard to it was made by the philosopher Thomas Nagel who said "It doesn't matter now that what we do now will not matter in trillions of years from now". Well it now seems to me that ten- thousand years is such a long time from our now, and such an arbitrary time that there is not really much to be gained by counting time, or putting away information specifically in relation to it.
Truly Extraordinary--Core Reading for Future of Earth- Man.......2002-09-30
I confess to being dumb. Although I know and admire the author, who has spoken at my conference, when the book came out I thought--really dumb, but I mention it because others may have made the same mistake--that it was about building a cute clock in the middle of the desert.
Wrong, wrong, wrong (I was). Now, three years late but better late than never, on the recommendation of a very dear person I have read this book in detail and I find it to be one of the most extraordinary books--easily in the top ten of the 300+ books I have reviewed on Amazon.
At it's heart, this book, which reflects the cummulative commitment of not only the author but some other brilliant avant guarde mind including Danny Hillis, Kevin Kelly (WIRED, Out of Control, the Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization), Esther Dyson, Mitch Kapor (Lotus, Electronic Frontier Foundation) and a few others, is about reframing the way people--the entire population of the Earth--think, moving them from the big now toward the Long Here, taking responsibility for acting as it every behavior will impact on the 10,000 year long timeframe.
This book is in the best traditions of our native American forebears (as well as other cultures with a long view), always promoting a feedback-decision loop that carefully considered the impact on the "seventh generation." That's 235 years or so, or more.
The author has done a superb job of drawing on the thinking of others (e.g. Freeman Dyson, Esther's father) in considering the deep deep implications for mankind of thinking in time (a title popularized, brilliantly, by Ernest May and Richard Neustadt of Harvard), while adding his own integrative and expanding ideas.
He joints Lee Kuan Yew, brilliant and decades-long grand-father of Asian prosperity and cohesiveness, in focusing on culture and the long-term importance of culture as the glue for patience and sound long-term decision-making. His focus on the key principles of longevity, maintainability, transparency, evolvability, and scalability harken back to his early days as the editor of the Whole Earth Review (and Catalog) and one comes away from this book feeling that Stewart Brand is indeed the "first pilot" of Spaceship Earth.
It is not possible and would be inappropriate to try to summarize all the brilliant insights in this work. From the ideas of others to his own, from the "Responsibility Record" to using history as a foundation for dealing with rapid change, to the ideas for a millenium library to the experienced comments on how to use scenarios to reach consensus among conflicted parties as to mutual interests in the longer-term future, this is--the word cannot be overused in this case--an extraordinary book from an extraordinary mind.
This book is essential reading for every citizen-voter-taxpayer, and ends with an idea for holding politicians accountable for the impact of their decisions on the future. First class, world class. This is the book that sets the stage for the history of the future.
Facile Yet Ultimately Specious.......2002-07-18
I wanted to like this book -- big fan of the Whole Earth Catalogs, "How Buildings Learn," Brian Eno and hard science fiction -- but the text kept chasing me away. In the end I had to conclude it was an attractive but rather poorly thought out book.
The idea of 'deep' or 'geological time' is hardly new, but arguing that a 10,000 year view of history is beneficial is simply fatuous. Brand somehow manages to miss the obvious First Nations concept of stewarding land for future generations rather than owning it, and the Inuit concept of making decisions based on what's best for the seventh generation to follow. And by doing so he misses the larger lesson contained therein - that such long views are always eclipsed and subsumed by more powerful, shorter views with more immediate returns.
Brand is also hampered by recurring (and surprising) technical errors - a supposed 15-year lifespan for optical media, a four-digit date for computer dating, sufficient digital storage for all the information in the world(!), etc. His "Long Now Foundation" -- a dodge for attracting short now investors -- envisions a huge mechanical clock built into a mountain somewhere, which completely ignores the lessons of long history that he claims to revere. We still have a few 10,000 year clocks that our predecessors left us, but having lost the owner's manuals, Stonehenge and the pyramids at Cheops have become all but useless.
Documentation is everything - and documentation is ephemeral. That's why his proposal for a 10,000 year library brought guffaws - daily newspapers? Books on computer programming? How long does he think 10,000 years is? I was reminded of Rudy Rucker's "Saucer Wisdom" which imagines itself (with a good deal more humor) still popular in the year 4004 - and that's less than halfway there!!! Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines" is much more mind-boggling, and he had the good taste to look forward only100 years.
John Lennon as usual summed up everything pertinent when he said, "Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans."
Thought-provoking book on thinking long-term.......2001-02-15
Brand, author of The Whole Earth Catalog, is part of a team that is endeavoring to build a clock that will last for ten thousand years. In here, he comments on the lessons to be learned from that effort and the result.
These days time seems to be getting ever shorter, our subjective "now" shrinking from generations to years or less. People need to think on the longer term, for the sake of earth and civilization. Brand broods on how to accomplish this with a series of short, themed articles addressing everything from a visit to Big Ben to a commentary on how the digital age has made things more impermanent rather than less. (Want to try to run a Commodore 64 program? Well, you might almost as well forget it.) He provides a list of levels of paces, from fashion (the quickest) through commerce, infrastructure, governance, culture, and (the slowest) nature. He points out the twentieth century phenomenon of organizations and movements devoted to historical preservation, both a luxury that earlier ages would have found it hard to afford and perhaps a need to be filled in our fast-paced age.
A fascinating and thought-provoking read.
10,000 years - a tick in the evolution of the universe.......2000-11-26
This easy to read yet intellectually stimulating book describes the need for mankind to consider the long-term, and presents the Clock of the Long Now project - a clock that will record time for some 10,000 years, as well as its accompanying 10,000-Year Library. Design considerations of a clock that could run for 10,000 years are discussed. The importance of culture and libraries are discussed, as well as the short lifespan of digital information for a variety of reasons, often due to the introduction of newer technologies making older representations obsolete. It is put forth that a 10,000-Year Library would make the world safer for rapid change, and the possible collections of such a library are discussed.
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Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat: guys shopping for barbecue grills, doing that special walk men do when in the presence of lumber; superefficient soccer Ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize PTAs, and weigh less than their kids; and suburban chain restaurants, which if they merged would be called Chili's Olive Garden Hard Rock Outback Cantina. Are we as shallow as we look? Many around the world see us as the great bimbos. Sure, Americans work hard and are energetic, but that is because we are money-hungry and don't know how to relax.
But if you probe deeper, you find that we behave the way we do because we live under the spell of paradise. We are the inheritors of a sense of limitless possibilities, raised to think in the future tense and to strive toward the happiness we naturally accept.
On Paradise Drive, at once serious and comic, describes this distinct American future-mindedness that shapes our personalities and underlies our beliefs.
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"The author of the acclaimed bestseller Bobos in Paradise, which hilariously described the upscale American culture, takes a witty look at how being American shapes us, and how America's suburban civilization will shape the world's future. Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat. You see suburban guys at Home Depot doing that special manly, waddling walk that American men do in the presence of large amounts of lumber; super-efficient ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize the PTA, and weigh less than their children; workaholic corporate types boarding airplanes while talking on their cell phones in a sort of panic because they know that when the door closes they have to turn their precious phone off and it will be like somebody stepped on their trachea. Looking at all this, you might come to the conclusion that we Americans are not the most profound people on earth. Indeed, there are millions around the world who regard us as the great bimbos of the globe: hardworking and fun, but also materialistic and spiritually shallow. They've got a point. As you drive through the sprawling suburbs or eat in the suburban chain restaurants (which if they merged would be called Chili's Olive Garden Hard Rock Outback Cantina), questions do occur. Are we really as shallow as we look? Is there anything that unites us across the divides of politics, race, class, and geography? What does it mean to be American?
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An humorous and thought-provoking read.......2007-07-14
After writing "BoBos in Paradise," David Brooks certainly had a tough act to follow. I found that BoBos captured the psyche of the affluent baby boomers in a way that was both enlightening and rip roaringly humorous. For me, it's no overstatement to say that BoBos was a joy to read. I haven't enjoyed reading a writer as much since I faithfully read the columns of the late and legenday Mike Royko of the Chicago Tribune.
With "On Paradise Drive," Brooks does it again. This time he takes a broader look at segments of the American population and explains what motivates them to work so hard and be so optimistic. In the book, Brooks brings to life the diverse ways in which we Americans dream about our futures and live out our lives to accomplish our dreams. As it turns out we are united in our future orientation, self-determinism and optimism yet diverse in the paths we choose to pursue. It is delightful to see so many segments of the American population pursuing happiness and at least partially finding it in the pursuit. Aristotle and Thomas Jefferson would be delighted to read this book since they both understood how important it was for humans to seek happiness even with the some of the inevitable bad decisions we make and consequences we experience along the way.
The one area I would have liked Brooks to explore is the actual failure of western societies to improve subjective well-being (i.e the sociologists' term for happiness) since WWII. For those who are interested, two good books to read on this are David Myers' "The American Paradox" and Robert Lanes' "The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies." Happiness has not increased since WWII and following September 11 people's values are changing. It would be fascinating to hear David Brooks thoughts on this development.
As a side note, Brooks the thinker/writer/commentator is certainly doing great work. As a person, I find his humility, realist's idealism, and sense of humor admirable. Two pieces I read that really give us a sense of David Brooks the person were his tribute in Readers Digest to the late Michael Kelly of The Atlantic (who died in an accident while on assignment in Iraq) and Brook's Times' column on his son's bar mitzvah. In them we sense Mr. Brooks love of liberty, doing good, family, and the friends such as Mr. Kelly that he admires for their strength of character.
I wholeheartily recommend this book. For thought-proving insight and good humor, the views of David Brooks on any subject and in in any media -- books, his tues/sat New York Times columns, or friday evening appearances on PBS's The New Hour)-- are always worth considering.
Bobo's On Paradise Drive.......2007-03-20
I have been reading David Brooks since moving to Silicon Valley to help me understand my new context, it has all his main areas: "Bike Messenger Land" - hip, urban centers, the "Crunchy Suburbs" - somewhat suburban environment but with urban values and mindset, and the "Professional Zones" - commercial zones inhabited by cosmopolitan highly-educated workforce. Palo Alto/Mountain View is all three of these "mushed" together. It is a more suburban environment than San Francisco, but with a corporate/commercialized version of the same basic worldview and values-system. David Brooks understands, admires, and critiques the people who choose to live in this type of environment. He calls them "BOBO's", which is a compression of Bohemian Bourgeoisie. These are people with a 60's radical mindset who have become part of the privileged upper class, ironically, part of the establishment. Bobo's is probably the better book, but On Paradise Drive has a bit broader application. It will not only help you understand places like San Francisco and Decatur, GA, but also the general trajectory of the US. - blogophobe -
suburban satire.......2007-01-18
Whenever I travel to a different country and enjoy a new culture, I experience my distinctly American identity with a new force. I'll often ask myself what part of "me," how I think, feel, act, speak, relate, worry, dream, work, etc., is truly Christian, and what part of "me" is merely American. For all of that, what does it mean to be American? That is the question David Brooks, PBS television commentator and columnist for the New York Times, tackles in this book. In particular, he tries to describe what life is like for upper-middle-class Americans, "the people who hover over their children, renovate their homes, climb the ladder toward success, and plan anxiously for their retirement." If you grind your own coffee or enroll your kids in SAT prep classes, Brooks has you in his social scientific sights. His purview ignores the very rich, the rural, and the poor (for the latter categories read Robert Kaplan's An Empire Wilderness; Travels Into America's Future). He further asks what motivates our mania to work, study, move, play and consume as frenetically and assiduously as we do. Finally, he wonders whether we are as shallow as we sometimes look.
I have enjoyed Brooks as a sensible commentator on television's McNeil Lehrer Report, and I enjoyed reading this book. If you like large doses of good-natured caricature, satire, exaggeration, sarcasm, and generalizations about Americans and life in America, as I do, then you will likely appreciate Brooks's style. His riff on suburban Ubermoms, for example, is marvelous. Ubermoms raise huge sums for school causes, drive monster SUVs, weigh less than their kids, are tech savvy, and entertain with effortless charm and verve. They have children whose first names sound like last names and they use "summer" as a verb. I saw myself in his chapters on how we educate our children, how we work, and how we shop. In addition to his biting satire, he employs a staple of statistics about consumption patterns, how often we move, household incomes, and the like. Finally, Brooks is not all laughs; he weaves into his cultural analysis extensive interactions with scholarly social criticisms from sociology, economics, history, and literature.
America might be the Rhino of the World, as Brooks suggests, a sort of bull in a china shop, or alternately the Global Bimbo that is vulgar, crass and shallow. But that is not all that is true about us. Brooks clearly loves America, and is not ashamed to say so. Whatever its many faults, and it has many, America truly is a place of equality, opportunity, mobility, and dreams about a possible future: "Born in abundance, inspired by opportunity, nurtured in imagination, spiritualized by a sense of God's blessing, and realized in ordinary life day by day, this Paradise Spell is the controlling ideology of American Life" (p. 268). Paradise Drive is a simple read about an important subject by an informed critic.
Hilarious Taxonomy of Suburban Archetypes.......2006-11-19
Comedy works when it says something true and Brooks' comic piece of pop cultural criticism is indeed true as he glibly fillets the various suburban types, including "crunchies," self-righteous, do-gooder Trader Joe shoppers who tend to their "anti-lawns"; downtown urban hipsters, upper class Audi-driving professionals with manicured lawns. Brooks' 3-page description of "morally elevated supermarkets" in which he describes the manner in which it seems "that every cashier is on temporary furlough from Amnesty International" is alone worth the price of this funny book. Fans of this type of biting "sociology" will also want to check out Paul Fussell's Class: A Guide Through the American Status System.
Brooks' Enthusiasm Exceeds End Result.......2006-09-18
On Paradise Drive is a fairly amusing pop-sociological study of the modern American middle-class man and woman--especially the suburban-American. In doing so, Brooks attempts to defend the American Dream in its current incarnation and interpretation (consumerism, materialism, sunny optimism) as something just as sacred and legitimate today as it was 100, 200 years ago. DB takes us on a whirlwind Great American Road Trip to illustrate his point, stopping in suburbs, exurbs, middle-ring-suburbs, etc., etc.
In his zeal to entertain, Brooks, as he often does, gets ahead of himself and sometimes tries too hard to make us laugh, letting the point get away from him. He is in the category of social commentators who is head over heels in love with his own witticisms and coin phrases--so much so that this coinage often gets tiresome. He uses composites and generalizations to support his theses, such as the dichotomy between a blonde (superficial, cheery, ambitious) and brunette (self-reflective, insecure, confused) mentality that exists in America. These also begin to sag after a while, with chapters sometimes running past the length required to make the point glibly.
Brooks' main idea, that the very things that make us seem so crude, vulgar, and shallow to the outside world--our obsession with success, indomitable work ethic and ambition, and endless material accumulation--are the manifestation of a deeper (and peculiarly American) spiritual quest, is compelling, to be sure. He often approaches elaboration--but, at the end, seems to recede from it, settling for overquoting sociologists and writers on America, and encouraging independent research. It's almost as if Brooks loses surety and abandons the quest to us.
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From the world-renowned trendspotting duo who has predicted everything from metrosexuality to the growth of global brands comes a new, enlightening look at the future. Based on intensive research and interviews as well as the authors' real-world and business experience in locations across the globe, this book yields surprising conclusions about everything from work (the end of permanent full-time employment) to sex (disappearing gender boundaries) to business (the emergence of true one-to-one marketing and the birth of "Chindia"). Essential reading for managers, marketers, and just about everyone else.
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Great Book To Bring People Up To Date In One Volume.......2007-08-12
When I saw the title of Marian Salzman and Ira Matathia's book on trends, NEXT NOW, I was totally lured in. The world is moving at such a frantic pace these days that if you're not careful, you'll only be able to keep up with your small part of it. As a father, I like to consider what's coming down the pipe. I need to be able to advise my kids regarding education, possible job futures, impending medical breakthroughs, health risks, and general states-of-affairs regarding political and economic trends.
I spend a lot of time considering the future and what may or may not happen. And it's not just about my family. I'm also working writer. The fiction novels I do these days tend to have a lot of research in them. You can't just write a spy novel with an evil, nefarious villain behind all the bad things that happen to the hero without going into why he's that way. Readers want to know how that villain is motivated. They want to know what political, religious, or economic sanctions triggered that villain's point of view.
So I tend to read a lot of online material, periodical magazines, book reviews, books, and watch a lot of television regarding emerging technologies. As it turns out, I'm either more educated in these fields that I thought I was, or the authors of this book didn't quite go far enough with their explorations of what's coming next.
Most of material they cover, I was already familiar with to a degree. Moreover, I was disappointed because they usually only superficially skim the surface of material they introduce in the book. In fact, some of the things they write about I've already been covering in my fiction for a couple of years. Such as the emerging economic growth of China and the direct challenge to the United States for oil as a consumer. A lot of people blame the oil companies for making vast amounts of profits, and surely they are, but the only reason they're able to do that is because the market has expanded and the quantity of the product has not. In fact, being more environmentally aware as well as politically conscious of emerging Third World countries has hindered oil production as well.
That increased market has been in the news if you know where to look for it for years. Unfortunately most people, corporate executives are guilty as well, tend not to look at these things. They're all about the here and now, and don't focus on the next at all.
Those people will probably be intimidated, shocked, and in awe of what Salzman and Matathia write about in their book. As a primer for the uneducated, NEXT NOW is a great little book that should jumpstart questions and interest. However, those who are fairly fluent in these emerging technologies and trends are going to be disappointed because they don't get anything really new.
In fact, the book has more focus on the recent past that it does on the next few years it claims it will cover. It's valuable to a degree in interpreting what is happened and offers some insight into what may be right around the corner.
The writing is workmanlike, though it gets a little clunky of times. Also, there's a habit of switching topics too quickly. Some of the material begs to be discussed more in-depth and doesn't receive the attention it deserves.
Furthermore, I would have liked to have more source material available beyond the book. I want to know where the authors got their information, what books or magazines they referenced, who they talked to in order to get the knowledge, so that I might have been able to follow up on some of the information myself.
I'm self-educated in these areas. You almost have to be. By the time a professor puts together a curriculum that will serve to teach you these things, it will be too late to act upon them. I like thinkers. They encourage me to think for myself and to wonder what if.
NEXT NOW is a great book for the uninitiated, but not so much for the professional working in a field that requires glimpses of the coming years.
Old news which will leave you empty handed.......2007-03-31
Marian Salzman (EVP and Director of Strategic Content for J. WalterThompson) and Ira Matathia (joint managing partner of Intelligence Partners LLC) set out to predict what our lives might be like in the years 2007 to 2010. Unfortunately, I think they have done a better job of telling us what has already happened than they have of telling us what may be.
The authors break their trend-spotting into three sections. The first covers geopolitical trends, the second looks at cultural trends and the third reviews more personal trends.
Some of the trends they identify include:
* The importance of personal branding.
* Potential reunions of the offspring of sperm donors.
* The impact of energy cost on lifestyles.
* The need for IT-free spaces - havens from connectivity.
* The potentially huge number of cars in China.
* The rise of Chindia (China and India).
* The growing need to fend for ourselves, and the accompanying rise in anxiety levels.
* The importance of networking to all of us.
The publisher claims this book is "based on intensive research and interviews" and is "essential reading for managers, marketers, and just about everyone else." Unfortunately, neither seems to be true.
I like my non-fiction books to be based on hard evidence as much as possible. And that usually means primary sources - research, peer-reviewed scientific works, interviews and observations. Based on the Notes, however, this book is based mainly on the popular press. I surveyed the Notes for five chapters and found that 85 percent were references to the popular press.
That's a problem for a couple of reasons. First of all, like many business leaders, I keep abreast of the popular press. In addition I subscribe to a number of blogs. I was already aware of most of these trends, and you will be, too. By reporting on trends already extensively publicized, the authors have deprived us of any real surprise.
The second problem with using secondary sources like the popular press is the inevitable distortion that comes in translating research results from science to press. It would have been much better to start with primary sources and translate them once - for the book. By summarizing summaries the authors have introduced a needless second step of distortion.
If I am going to spend my valuable time with a non-fiction book, I expect to come away with action ideas and insights in return. This book, however, left me empty handed. It's rare that I am unable to take away at least a few helpful insights when I read a business book, but that's the case with Next Now.
My recommendation: rather than buy this book, buy John Naisbitt's "Mindset!: Reset Your Thinking and See the Future" and learn how to sort out what's next yourself.
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This is one you want........2007-09-23
This is an enjoyable volume. Fans, longtime and otherwise, of the Legion of Super-Heroes, will appreciate their appearance here. Good story, good art, good reading experience.
Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-04
Robin has to deal with the loss of his father, and the Titans have even bigger problems.
The newly deadly Doctor Light and his recovered memories would like to make Speedy an ex-Speedy.
They also end up confronting future selves that have gone on to be not very nice fascists, and not even well meaning ones, really.
Teen Titans: The Future Is Now .......2007-03-22
This is such a terrific read! The stories are spectacular, the countless characters are all fascinating, the dialogue is totally believable, the fights are epic, the thought-balloons are gone, the pace is greased, the art is like a bag of your favourite Halloween candies spilled out on the carpet when you were seven--all magic colours and hidden treats, and Raven is still hot. Teen Titans: The Future Is Now is a must, a rare must.
I say "Raven is STILL hot" because this graphic novel represented my return to the Teen Titans, after many years, just to see what was going on in the new era. In fact, I hadn't been reading many comics at all. Even when I read comics regularly, I never really got to know the DC Universe as well as the Marvel Universe. One of my biggest blind-spots, for example, would be The Legion Of Superheroes. But that didn't stop me from enjoying the first part of this graphic novel, where said Legion yanks first Superboy, and then ultimately the rest of the Titans, into the 31st century to battle five hundred foes.
The battle is a grand and terrifying affair, with a big piece of Legion World exploding and plummeting towards Earth, where the main event is taking place: The entire Legion (I met a lot of Legionnaires really fast as they were busy trying not to be beheaded, fried, stomped, etc.), alongside the Teen Titans fighting The Fatal Five Hundred...formerly The Fatal Five, but the whole crux of their plan was to transport so many of their parallel selves from parallel universes that they became five hundred. I love time-travel stories with a dash of parallel-reality, and Superboy's dilemma over which team he owes more allegiance to--new Legion pals or the Titans--is gripping, especially when he may have to sacrifice one team to temporal non-existence so the other can get home.
Part two of this collection is the best part: on their way home from the far future, the Teen Titans take a wrong turn and end up ten years in their own future. They encounter their own future selves and don't like what they've become. Robin has become a heartless Batman with a gun, who leads a bitter, ruthless, militant group of Titans who use their power to control and dominate parts of the United States. But then the younger, timelost Titans learn about the Titans East, future Titans who didn't get corrupted by paranoia and anger, and who still fight for good. They also formulate a plan to return to their proper time, but don't know how to avoid the fate they've seen, even if they get home.
The rest of The Future Is Now is somewhat connected to the events of Identity Crisis. I hadn't read Identity Crisis when I first read this Teen Titans graphic novel, and I still enjoyed it immensely; now I've re-read Future Is Now after experiencing Identity Crisis (another fine product from the folks who brought you Arm Fall Off Boy), and it's that much better.
An enraged Doctor Light snatches the man he hates perhaps most of all--Green Arrow--and demands that the Teen Titans confront him, or bye bye Green Arrow. He especially wants to kill Green Arrow's "daughter" of sorts, Speedy, who has just joined the Titans. Once just about every hero who has ever been a member of the Titans shows up, it looks pretty grim for Doctor Light, except that he's a changed man since the events of Identity Crisis. Sometimes it seems like the Titans, now a small army, are fighting Darkseid, as they fall, and fall, and fall. Doctor Light really comes into his own here, looking unbeatable until one particular Titan decides enough's enough, and fights on despite being blasted full of holes.
So that's it. Except that I haven't done it justice. Oh, and there's an appearance by an old fave of mine the Electrocutioner. And a future Deathstroke the Terminator, missing an arm. And Speedy looks like a cool addition. While sometimes Wonder Girl takes my mind off Raven.
Masterfully conceived and executed, these stories fit nicely into one amazing graphic novel.
Future Imperfect.......2006-07-04
This book gives readers a preview of what the titans may turn out to be in the future, and the consequences of their actions. It's worth it to see how their present and future selves interact with each other.
Very Good.......2006-04-29
This fourth volume of Geoff Johns' Teen Titans is easily the best to date. The writing, while not Mr. Johns' best, is quite good and the pencils are also rather good. This volume collects Teen Titans 15-23 and Teen Titans/Legion of Super-Heroes Special.
The plot has probably been explained well enough, so I'll just make a few comments about the book and be on my way. We start out with a story that involves Superboy being taken to the 31st century to aid the Legion of Super Heroes. This story is honestly not that great but it does serve as a lead in to the next story, The "Titans of Tomorrow."
This story is just an all around classic. It's excellently written and very well paced in the action. Basically, the Titans meet up with their future selves and the future my friends, ain't so bright. This story ranks up their with Mr. Johns' best work and, i dare say, is one of the best stories to come out of comic-dom in some time. I'm not saying that this is "The Watchmen" or "The Dark Knight Returns," but it's very good none the less. The ambiguity of the events surrounding why things turned out the way they did is enough to leave you salivating and definately serves the hype for "Infinite Crisis" quite well. In short, and I can't stress this enough, this story is pure gold.
The other highpoint of the TPB is the "Hiding" story. It's a heart-felt story dealing with the fall out from "Identity Crisis" and the ending gives us the feeling that despite the way things were in "Titans of Tomorrow," the kids may indeed turn out alright. For those who did read "Identity Crisis," we find out what exactly becomes of Luthor's armor.
"The Lights Out" arc spins straight from
"Identity Crisis," and while not required reading to enjoy this story, it certianly helps. It's not great, but it's not bad either.
All in all, this is a very solid collection and I highly recommend it
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- They weren't kidding about the title!
- Tofu... just what the heck is it?
- Everything you'd ever want to know about cooking tofu
- Soy: The perfect food :-)
- Tofu is good for you
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The Book of Tofu: Protein Source of the Future...Now!
William Shurtleff , and
Akiko Aoyagi
Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press
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Book Description
An Incredible Food From The East To Revolutionize Cooking In The West
Amazingly versatile, ideal for weight control, low in saturated fats and cholesterol free, tofu is widely available in America today. This beautifully illustrated book is a complete guide to tofu, its forms, its traditions, including:
250 Gourmet Recipes from East and West -- Soups, Salads, Dressings, Sauces, Main Dishes, Casseroles, Barbecued and Deep-Fried Specialties, and Desserts.
Easy-to-Follow Instructions for Making 7 Varieties of Tofu at Home.
A Clear, Scientific Guide to Nutritional Benefits.
A Definitive Guide to Soyfoods, Japanese Foods, and Sources in the United States.
The protein backbone of East Asian diets, tofu offers an ideal answer to the protein problem for millions of nutrition-conscious Americans. Natural and inexpensive, quick and easy to prepare, an inspiration to creative cookery, tofu is a miraculous addition to the American menu, a food of the future.
Customer Reviews:
They weren't kidding about the title!.......2002-08-08
All you ever wanted to know and more you didn't even think to ask!
This book goes from fresh soybean to the end result. There are tables and illstrations on everything from the differences of each type of tofu to how it is made in different countries and the tools used to do so. There are recipes for every part of the process. And instructions for making 7 varieties of tofu at home. It addresses traditions, culure, history, nutrition, every aspect of this subject. Whether you're going to make it or eat it, if you're curious about it, this is the book for you.
Tofu... just what the heck is it?.......2001-03-28
Well, I have decided to return to vegetarianism... if that's the proper term. I gave up meat once before in college and enjoyed the many benefits of doing so. However, with a busy schedule and little time for eleborate meal planning, I always had difficulty finding the right things to eat. I have decided this time to better educate myself on what my choices are. I read this book because I had looked over a few vegetarian cookbooks and they are filled with recipes containing tofu. I kept asking myself... Just what the heck is it??
Well, EVERYTHING you ever wanted to know about tofu is to be found in this volume, including the reasons why tofu is a better choice not only for your health, but for the sake of world resources as the population of our planet increases.
I am not an environmentalist, not even close. If people want to eat animals, I don't mind. So, I do not generally agree with those who say that eating meat is "wrong"... But, I do have a genuine respect for any argument that champions efficiency over waste. After reading this book, I was surprised at how much grain it takes (in pounds) to produce just one ounce of red meat... which tastes mighty fine, but is not exactly the perfect source of protein and really shouldn't be eaten on a daily basis. (Texans forgive me.)
So, all in all I recommened this book if you are thinking changing your lifestyle, or perhaps pondering the possibility of cutting back on your intake of saturated fat etc...
Ben Franklin was a vegetarian... If he could do it 200 years ago, then we cetainly have no excuse.
Everything you'd ever want to know about cooking tofu.......2001-03-11
Want to know more than just how to stir-fry tofu? This book has just about everything you'd want to know about that bland little block, including the history and manufacture of tofu. It even tells you how to make it yourself. Well, I tried it and got perfectly fine tofu (and a heck of a lot of okara, the bean residue left from straining the soymilk.) I nearly destroyed the kitchen, but it was fun and I learned to appreciate going to the store and buying a refrigerated pack.
If you don't care to try tofu in its Japanese guise (they even eat it cold with a dash of soy sauce) then you can try scrambled tofu. This is a real God-send for people who mustn't eat eggs and who miss a good mushroom omelet.
And did you know there were so many kinds of tofu, from kinugoshi, which is custard-like and can be used to make a good pumpkin pie, to extra-firm, which can be barbecued with sauce (just the thing if you have a summer grill party and can't serve meat. Grill some eggplant, zucchini, corn and tofu instead.)
Not every recipe in this book is useful for everyone (yuba, or the dried skin of soymilk) sounds yummy but is not found outside of good Chinese groceries in urban centers. However, this book will give you new ideas to use tofu.
Soy: The perfect food :-).......2000-01-08
Last year I purchased The Book of Tofu, by William Shurtleff and Akiko Aoyagi. Half recipe source-book, half cultural anthropological look at the history of tofu-making in Asia (Did you know that tofu has been eaten in China for thousands of years? Tell that to Newsweek, who listed tofu as a fad that would die out in the new millenium!), it soon convinced me of the importance of soy in the human diet. This book is fabulously researched, has excellent recipes and TONS of interesting information. We learned about more uncommon types of tofu, like Yuba (bean curd skin). (We soon hunted some down at our local asian market, YUM!) We haven't yet attempted to make our own soy milk or tofu, but this book covers these topics in easy to follow, detailed directions. Read this book! Eat Tofu! Be Happy (and healthy)!
Tofu is good for you.......1999-02-19
This book is very comprehensive in detailing how to make soymilk and manufacture tofu at home. It is quite easy -- maybe a little time consuming for the modern American. But, the benefits of soy far outweigh the two hours (or less) that it takes to make soymilk. My wife has been cleansed of her hayfever and allergies since we have completely switched to drinking only soymilk. Our children are thriving. Simply put: soy products are good for the heart, mind, and soul.
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