This is not a great book. It contains very little philosophizing about physics, and it brings very little to the table as far as the non-physicist will be concerned. Rather what you get chapter after chapter is the author's views about a particular issue in physics. But arguments are lacking and the opposing views are rarely considered (and when they are, they're swept aside without much scrutiny). As an example, the author takes a highly instrumentalist stance on the status of physical theories without even discussing alternative conceptions of reality. Although this might very well reflect the opinions of many physicists today, there are serious philosophical issues being ignored here. That would be fine if this were just supposed to be another book spewing the opinions of a scientist. But it's not. It's supposed to be a book geared towards critical examination of the opinions of working physicists. And on that front, I think the author falls far short of his aim. Furthermore, the author barely scratches the surface of the philosophical issues that he does address. Issues like entanglement and the arrows of time are discussed much more thoroughly and accessibly in other books. For those looking for an introduction to some of the philosophical issues in physics, or even a deeper appreciation for physics, there are plenty of decent pop-physics and philosophy of physics books out there besides this one that will give you what you want (check out authors like Stephen Hawking, Michael Friedman, Lawrence Sklar, Tim Maudlin, David Albert, Richard Feynman, Jim Baggott, and Roger Penrose). If you are a practicing physicist looking to read about another physicist's philosophical reflections (without much critical examination), this may be the book for you. Otherwise, I could not in good conscience recommend this book.

This is a great book. The author gives his personal philosophy as a practicing physicist and obviously good teacher about the current great issues in physics: the arrow of time, the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics, The EPR debate, entanglement, causality, probability..... There is an extensive discussion of models, theories, and paradigms and how they influence experiments as well as how they are chosen from among other likely candidates. There is even a short appendix on solitons. It is the reflection of a practical man as to how physics advances and its relationship to the "real" world - far from the philosophical musings of Kuhn or Popper. It's the kind of book that would make you want to sit down and have further discussions with the author. He does have a previous publication by Harvard U Press which I haven't read but will surely look at next.

I was so impressed just by Darling's little pink-diary-with-a-lock-and-key packaging that, in itself, it may be enough to buy the book just to enhance the look of your bookshelf. Otherwise....Not much inside. Most memorable is a photocopy of a diary page of Darling describing what it's like to have once been known and then forgotten...or worse. The book has pages that make you regret you must hesitate for a moment before flipping to the next.

" It Glittered and it gleamed, for the arriving beauty queen" The words once sang by Siouxsie Sioux, describes the spiritual search for the ghost of Jane Mansfield. I guess the words itself in the title could have been uttered by Candy as she applied her favourite colour of lipstick by Revlon...Fire and Ice. While not an autobiography by any means, these are her words plain and simple. Little Jimmy from Long Island, grew up to be one of the Warhol "Girlettes" as she tried to emulate her favourite star, Lana Turner. The book is filled with basic odds and ends from little journals and scrap pieces of paper thrown together to cash in on the success of " I Shot Andy Warhol ". She considered herself a great actress and wanted forever to get the flaw between her legs taken off, but instead from illegal hormones died of cancer. Sadly, this is basically the only book out there that is a companion piece to " A Low Life in High Heels " By Holly Woodlawn, he fellow transgendered actor friend, rival, and sometimes, an enemy. Don't look for any special secrets (other than what it is a woman should where when going out, and a horrid recipe for a salad, ) about her life or anything, but random bitchy words and poems from someone who is lost to us forever except for two films and a photos taken by some of the best fashion photographers.

I've been interested in Candy ever since I saw her in "I Shot Andy Warhol" (played by Steven Dorff) I decided to buy this book because I have an interest in all things related to Andy, the Factory, and the entourage. It's very interesting- the entries are Candy's own handwriting, some of them go back to when she was in middle school. There are even pictures she drew herself. There are some nice photos too- even one in the front of her and Andy. Candy's writing is also very heartfelt- you can tell she desperately wanted to be something she wasn't. My favorite passage in the whole book is "You must be true to yourself no matter what the cost, it is the highest form of morality." My only complaint is that it should have gotten under the surface and told more about her life. But overall, I think Mr. Newton did a wonderful job. You feel like you get to know Candy throught this book, it even looks like it could have been her diary- it has a lock and key and everything. It's a good book for those who are interested in Candy, or things that went on in the Factory.

As a physics student using this book as a main text, I found it of little help as a learning aid. While Dr. Harris does do a wonderful job explaining the Schroedinger equation he does a very poor job at relaiting it to applications and explaining anything else. His writing style is inconsistant, going from conversational to lecturelike often within the same paragraph, and overly complex. Most explinations are overly analizied and the same material can be found using fewer words in other texts.

The problems that go along with each section of this book are also very poor. It is very seldom that the problems from a section actually correspond to the section of the book they are said to. The lack of in text examples, and especially the lack of complete work on the few examples there are, as well as the lack solutions to answers also makes learning from this book very difficult.

Hey randy harris is my professor at UC Davis and I had him for about 2 quarters so far. he is a great teacher but I agree with most people that his teaching style is conversational and lecturelike at many points. From a person that read his book and listen to him speak are almost one in the same. He often patronizes students because he understands that things are hard to understand in Nonclassical physics yet he lectures you on issues that may seem confusing to us but not him. Oh well that is randy harris for you (aka Chandler of DAvis)

Great book, Harris tels you evertything on a easy, clear way.

This books fails as both a romance novel and historical fiction. This author claims to have degrees in psychology and history. I cringed at her depiction of 18th Century life. In her attempt to portray the times, she fails completely. Many others have tried this genre and at the least have gotten the social basics correct about the times. Had this book presented itself as a harlequin romance, I may have understood from the beginning not to expect more, but the author presents this book as historical fiction. It is not even good soap opera.

Anne Newton Walther debuts as a novelist in the most difficult genre of romantic-historic fiction, which typically pleases neither the romantic nor the historian. Ms. Walther's contribution to the genre is accomplished and balanced. Her colourful and compelling fictional characters hold their own with historical figures. Her tale races across the background of the American Revolution with riveting progress. It's a most enjoyable read and would make a terrific film.

If you are looking for an escape this is the book for you.

It is labeled a historical fiction because it includes both fantasy and reality. Do not be dissuaded by those who express disdain about the historical depth of this work. I think those opinions are inappropriately harsh considering Walther does not claim this book to be non-fiction. Books are a form of entertainmment as well as study.

On the reader's journey, she or he will come across beautiful Virginia countryside,breathtaking water views and skies off the island of Bermuda,unforgettable characters and will also learn some fascinating bits of history during the period of the American Revolution. Walther writes an absorbing, beautiful and powerful story which lingers long after the last page is turned. This is a story of love, fierce loyalty, espionage and patriotism.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book precisely because I was looking for a blissful escape and a journey and not a history lesson. It seems we all take ourselves a bit too seriously nowadays.

Indulge yourself, live a little!

John Newton is a fascinating character; his story is a remarkable one. But Joe Musser's treatment of John Newton and his story is a travesty.

Aside from the fact that writing is miserably simplistic, and that this is not a novel but a poorly written biography, the characters do not come alive and neither does the story. As a believer who loves the hymn "Amazing Grace," I wanted and needed so much more from this book. As a literature teacher, I struggled to get past the overwrought yet underdeveloped writing because I wanted to know more about John Newton.

The problems are many. The author was uneven in his attempt to relay incidents in Newton's life that compel the reader to see how his conversion came about. The author was equally uneven in trying to probe the mind of a clearly brilliant Newton as he rejected God, and yet observed God continuing to work in his life. Squeamish about Newton's behavior as a man of licentious habits, the author treads with comically light steps over and around the very incidents which must be conveyed to understand why Newton saw himself as a "wretch." Either underinformed about or shockingly untouched by slavery, the author recreates Newton's own experiences as a slaver and as a "white slave" with either high melodrama or insufficient detail. In either case, Mr. Musser simply does not do any justice to Newton's developing revulsion of and toward his work. And why in the world was it so incredibly necessary for the author to belabor Newton's sluggard work habits, and in such a way that would be inappropriate for a junior high essay!

Even though Newton's relation with Polly is an important one, Musser glosses over that relationship as though he is equally afraid of talking about genuine love, and love that forgives. It is no small irony that Musser is unable to address profound emotional instances with anything more than either a standoffish approach as though he is too embarrassed by such emotion, or with a weirdly erratic voyeurism that pulls away really quickly after really details in a microscopic fashion. It is as though he longs to get to the details, but then backs away when he thinks he may be intruding or doing something wrong.

Musser spends a great deal of time talking about Newton's experience as a "white slave," and spends an ironically inordinate amount of time talking about how badly Newton was mistreated by a white slave trader and his black mistress. Some of this is done because it is necessary for a later part of the story, but it also seems to be out of balance with Musser's treatment of everyone's treatment of the slaves. Musser seems more horrified that a white man was treated in such an inhumane way than he is that white and black men traded goods for human beings, sold human beings, and were able to justify such sales.
The absolutely most frustrating thing about this miserable book is that is so remarkably uneven in its treatment of Newton's conversion. At some points Newton's vacillation between sin and conviction is treated with a sort of offhand approach, as though everyone would understand what it meant to be a man of profound sexual appetite and incredible disdain for authority and himself, and still think it somewhat curious that God would spare him, even though we are not given enough insight into Newton to understand why he would think that way.

After Newton's conversion, Musser spends some significant time addressing the outcomes not only of Newton's conversion but the consequences of his actions as a sinner, and does some minor justice to Newton's realizations. However, Musser is again painfully voyeuristic in a soap opera-like fashion as he develops Newton's part in the abolition of slavery. Again, Musser's apparent squeamishness in talking about the elements of Newton's life seem to interfere with his ability to tell Newton's story.
The most egregious problem with this novel is the end. After giving us page upon page of biographical tidbits or drivel, Musser gives us few pages that enable us to contemplate the profundity of the hymn "Amazing Grace," and mentions Newton's writing of it almost in passing!!!

If Joe Musser was unable or unwilling to do the research required to give accurate and even portrayals of John Newton's life, then his editors should have realized what literary pap they were foisting on the public, what kind of damage this sort of work might do to the perceptions non-believers have of current and historical believers as well as Christianity in its entirety. Newton's is a powerful and remarkable story. Too bad you won't be able to get a full sense of the man and God's redemptive work in his life through Joe Musser's abbreviated and pathetic treatment.

This book is truly awful. The main character, John Newton, has huge changes of heart in the middle of sentences with little or no justifiable provocation. I want to escape Africa, wait, now I want to stay. I won't go whoring and drinking, oh, maybe I will. There is no god, well, I guess there is. I am an atheist, no I'm a Christian. These changes seem to come this quickly. This book is full of Christian dogma which the reader is expected to swallow as truth.

The characters are paper-thin and the master-centric view of slavery is one that was seen as shallow around the time of the Emancipation Proclomation. The author clearly knows little to nothing of eighteenth century Africa (this makes it the 1700's, not the 1600's - though I have never won a beauty pagent) and the description of life aboard a slaver, a very interesting and disturbing historical tragedy, is given little detail or attention. The only two interesting anecdotes in the novel are outright stolen from historical documents - a candle not being able to burn below deck in a slaver and a captive African child being eaten to death by rats.

Newton's redempton is utterly unconvincing, and his courtship of the love main interest, (when not raping slaves, though he eventually realizes that this is "just not right") Polly, is ludicrous. If you are a narrow-minded Christian who is looking for confirmation of your faith and you abhor the "heathens" and "savages" of Africa (with their non-Christian and therefore evil practices and beliefs), you might enjoy this. If you have an inquisitive brain and a respect and curiousity about diverse cultures and thoughts in the current and past world, you will find this book moronic and self-mockingly hilarious. I would call it dangerous, but it is so weak as to be benign. Burning this book would be a waste of a match....

I found the book to be an easy story line to follow, and while Newton's life was remarkable, the book was easy to predict. The book was less than I assumed it would be, with an inadequate climax feeling like a side issue. However, when I finished, I couldn't help but sit back and say, "Wow! What an extraodinary life".

This book is nothing but another version of the all too familiar "teacher as victim" story routinely seen in today's popular press. The book is noteworthy not for what it reveals, but for what it conveniently omits. The book laments the drain federal programs are on teacher time; the book does not note the guiding role teachers' unions have played in the development of such programs. The book complains about administrators and their meddling; the book does not note the lucrative career path into administration that many teachers neglect their primary duties to pursue. Neither does the book allow teachers, who spend far more time with students than students spend with administrators, and sometimes even parents, to take responsibility for declining test scores and student achievements. Instead, everyone else is blamed. This book is accurately classed as "fiction", because it is. Readers are cautioned against taking anything in this novel of whining and complaining too seriously; instead, they are directed to the excellent work "The Worm In The Apple: How the Teacher Unions Are Destroying American Education", by Peter Brimelow. Brimelow's book is filled with discussion and citations, both absent in "A Disgrace To The Profession".

This is hands down the best book written by teachers for teachers! I am recommending it to every teacher I know! As a teacher, I could definately relate to many of the frustrations caused by the gov. and administration. The new programs, more work less pay, mentoring (not all bad, but too much is too much), and so on. Read this book and if nothing else you will know you are not alone in this world we call education.

Master Wang is one of China's great energy healers and a fascinating personality who has visited America for several years to teach Taoist & Tibetan Qigong. I have attended a dozen of his healing workshops and recommended several acupuncture patients to attend, & he gets results. So I would like to give this book high rating but that's not possible. Although it gives basic background and presents some interviews of people who benefit from treatments, it really misses the chance to present either a portrait of a wonderful, fascinating healer or an in-depth examination of an extraordinary healing modality. This is more like an advertising document, descriptions of workshops are lifted from the healing brochure, and most of the details could be heard by anyone who attends a couple of workshops. In a day and age when there exists a substantial body of excellent literature on Qigong, Taoism, Budhhism & Tibetan studies, this book still preaches on the tired theme that the West doesn't understand Eastern philosophy. Still, anyone who reads this is encouraged to attend Master Wang's healings & workshops, and you can easily get your own ideas beyond what is offered here.

I've gone to one of Master Wang's workshops and find his approach to healing to be unique. This book is not by him, but by a follower, and so doesn't have much theory. Still, it helps explain the experience of being treated by Wang, and how it improves health.

This book serves up a bowdlerized version of Sir Isaac Newton that has been carefully crafted to make him look like a modern Evangelical Fundamentalist. It makes good Sunday-school reading, perhaps, but it doesn't make for accurate biography.

Sir Isaac Newton was indeed a committed Christian and an almost obsessed Biblical scholar, as well as a towering mathematical genius. However, his years of scholarship ultimately led him to reject the doctrine of the Trinity and adopt a system of Christian belief that was closer to Arianism than to orthodox Christianity. See the essays collected in John Fauvel's <> for more information on this view of Newton and the evidence for it in his personal notebooks. See also Dr. Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs' careful study <> to understand how important the thirty years Newton spent investigating the claims of alchemy were in the development of his mature scientific philosophy.

This book should be placed in the adult section at church in addition to the children's section. These days new books are coming out claiming Newton to have been a deist and to have dabbled in alchemy, while his Christianity has been completely ignored. This book blows the covers off of those myths. Newton is shown to have been a dedicated Christian believer as well as a dedicated scientist. Many quotes from his one million word commentaries on the Bible are mentioned. His relationships with other important Christian scholars of the day are explored, and his true genius are revealed. The book will even bring a tear to your eye. Highly recommended.

The other customer review said this was a book worth reading???? There is no text inside this 15 page book. There are a few of Jerry's illustrations, however it is definitely not worth purchasing. I was frustrated because I bought it as a biography and it is a picture book.

this book seems like it will be a very cool and interesting book to read. in my opinion this would be a good book for any dead head out there. if your a garcia fan you should really think about reading this book and learn a little more about the great legend Garcia himself.

Unless you go to Haaaaarvaaard (I always forget how many A's to put), you are probably going to be a bit perplexed by the content of this book.

The cases go WAY beyond what is covered in the Chapters, and its up to the instructor to try to fill in the gaps (hopefully your instructor realizes this).

I have found myself referring to my textbook from my intro accounting course more often than this book itself in order to grasp the concepts at hand. Seriously, this book is a punishment to anyone who has to buy it for school. And its FREAKIN heavy to haul around across campus.

'Nough said.

I used this book for my MBA and found it to be lengthy and dense. One would be lost if he has no basic accounting knowledge. I spent more time looking up other books in the book shop for my revision.

It's not that bad as other reviews say it is, but it is definetely such a heavy book to carry around.