With meticulous scholarship, Grant exposes the racist, elitist, unscientific and subversive policies of Planned Parenthood and the free ride they have received from the American government, media and academia. The details in any one chapter would be a devestating indictment, taken together they show a horrifying pattern of Orwellian activity. The chapter on abortion-related medical studies (and Planned Parenthood's suppression of them) alone has probably saved lives. This is required reading for every parent, person of color, school official and especially for anyone who works with Planned Parenthood or sees them as a benevolent or merely misguided organization. Keep in mind that this will not be light reading (a bazillion footnotes) and it will shock and anger you, but it will be an informative and eye-opening page-turner.

George Grant has blown the lid off of the myth of compassion known as Planned Parenthood. They dismember babies. I am not even going to try to be eloquent-Dr. Grant has handled that quite well, thank you!

If you thought that PP was an organization in the business of helping women, you should read this book. (The footnotes themselves are a book)

If you are pro-life and already are leery of PP, you should read this book-they are much worse than you ever dreamed.

No supporter of PP can read this book with an open mind and still claim that PP is what they portray themselves to be.

I read this book in three days, it was a page-turner, very informative, well researched and well written. Dr. Grant dedicated ONE chapter of the book to the founder of Planned Parenthood, but you can read more about her in: "Killer Angel: A Short Biography of Planned Parenthood's Founder, Margaret Sanger" by George Grant. Grand Illusions is factual, and I can't imagine how anyone can argue that point. All you have to do is look at the end notes. There are hundreds of them, including many of Planned Parenthood's own publications. Grand Illusions is written with a Christian worldview and understandably this will not go well with many. If you have your children in the public school system, then you need to read this book!

I remember when Jay-Z said he liked R. Kelly cause he was one of the few R&B singers who could talk about women & love without being corny. The whole time I read the love scenes in this book, I shook my head. They were corny! But Mr. Jasper had a very interesting and unique topic to write about. His writing skill is still impressive, but "Dark" was 100% better than this book. The main character was lame, kept fighting between tough guy vs. corny guy, and there were too many Cinderella and Superman scenes. But I'd still buy his next book cause "Dark" showed me that the man has skill.

Kenji Jasper's sophomore offering is a slam-dunk in Dakota Grand where he gives readers a view of the world of Hip-Hop journalism. Dakota Grand is a young man on the rise. Twenty-two years old, he left his home in Atlanta to make his mark in the Big Apple and is ready to take on New York, showing the world he has what it takes to write the big stories and maybe in the process write that Great American Novel--Hip-Hop style. He is also determined to redeem himself in his single mother's eyes who is disappointed because he left college to pursue his dream.

Dakota is a big fan of Arbor Day, a recently disbanded two-man rap duo. When he is awarded the assignment of his life, an interview with one of brothers in the group, Mirage, he sees it as his big break; this coup will set him apart. With this interview, he will be in the same league as the big boys who write the cover stories for Source and Vibe magazines. However, along with that honor, unfortunately sometimes comes an occupational hazard of incurring the wrath of the entertainers. It seems they can change their mind after the interview and that is exactly what happens. Threats are issued and what ensues becomes a stack of tumbling cards.

How does this happen when everything seems to be coming together? He has the magazine career of his life-he is the man of the hour with freelance assignments being offered to him at every turn, a publishing house wants to publish his novel, and he has a new woman in his life. Carolina, a chocolate sister from Cuba that he meets on the subway, allows him to see the possibilities of allowing someone to get close to him.
Told in first person, this offering allows readers to become familiar with several facets of a writer's life, a world where a freelancer lives hand-to-mouth, where obtaining the next writing assignment or getting a big break determines if one has food to eat or can pay the rent. We see Dakota going through the writing process, the discipline, the disappointments, and the gradual awareness of his acknowledgement that there is much to be learned about the craft. Jasper has a writing style that has influences of Baldwin and Ellison, surreal, precise and genuine. He can only grow more prolific with time and I look forward to his next novel.

Dera Williams
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Kenji Jasper is undoubtedly one of the most gifted young writers of our time. People are using and misuing the term "Hip Hop Generation" but Kenji is actually representing what is going on. His style is reminiscent of extraordinary writers such as James Baldwin. His characters are well developed and complex. If Dark (his first book) didn't already make you a fan, Dakota Grand will make the connection for you. It a must-read!!

This book is fantastic. I wasn't really sure what to expect when I got it, but was pleasantly surprised. Before this I read 'Digital Biology' by Peter Bentley, and this book was much more interesting. No, they don't cover exactly the same subject matter, and Bentley's book covers a broader range of subjects, but if you're looking at both of them, I think this is a better intro to artificial life and digital biology.

Grand is obviously a great programmer and scientist, and he's an excellent writer to boot. I've never played Creatures (in fact, I'd never even heard of it before reading this book) but now I really want to get my hands on a copy to try it out. I can hardly wait for his next book about his current project.

I loved this book for many reasons. I have been intrigued by all things artificial life and artificial intelligence for a long time. I have a computer science degree in which I specialized in Artificial Intelligence (Neural Networks, genetic algorithms and parallel computation).

Creatures the game from Cyberlife was something that fascinated me, being able to actually watch these little creatures "evolve", "learn", "think" and react to you and their artificial environment. Ever since I first saw SimCity, and saw what simulations could be, I was wanting a more involved version which touched on artificial life. I have created ant colony simulations, but nothing this complex.

In this book, Grand shows us how he went about creating these artificial creatures. As some others have pointed out, he doesn't go into the nitty gritty of the code involved. This was a little disappointing for some, but what I found more fascinating was his thought process to go about designing this world and its creatures. He goes into the books that he read (see the bibliography at the end), this gives us more insight into his thoughts.

He explains some interesting concepts and makes them look easy. He doesn't try to explain concepts like neural networks and genetic algorithms again at the depth that can be found in other books, but instead explains how he used them.
Creatures is only a simulation, but what a remarkable first step. As others struggled with trying to create complex intelligent behavior, Grand tried to get rid of what he felt was irrelevant when trying to create an intelligent creature and concentrated on some core processes and simulated these. The end result is a creature that shows some complex behaviors that might not have been expected. Some people have pointed out that they felt some of his approaches were cheating. I will leave it up to readers to come to their own conclusions. But as someone who has studied AI, ALife and delved into neural networks and genetic algorithms, I found his approach refreshing and insightful.

I still feel excited about this book and considering its been over 18 months since I read it, that's pretty impressive.

I think there is scope for another book that can actually show people how they can code their own psuedo creatures. But there are many people out there, including myself who could write this, leaving Grand to make more breakthroughs with his current research efforts.

These are some of the books that are from his bibliography:
The Matter Myth ' Paul Davies, John Gribbin
Does God Play Dice ' Ian Stewart
Planiverse ' A.K. Dewdney
The Selfish Gene ' Richard Dawkins
Out of Control ' Kevin Kelly
Phantoms in the Brain ' Vilayanuar Ramachandran
At Home in the Universe ' Stuart Kauffman

Steve Grand, in my opinion, tries in this book to educate the new generation of AI or Artificial Life researches to a new bottom-up approach to reproduce natural phenomena. What emerges from this book is not the technical approach to the problem, but the phylosophical approach we should take, it gives you a new point of view. It starts explaining the natural phenomena principals of alive things, atoms, natural events, undelining the aspects which make them persistent or not. Persistence soonly becomes the main aspect of Grand's analisys giving the reader, at the end, new eyes he can use to look the new world in front of him. Inspiring.

An unfailingly interesting account by a fine historian. Kenneth W. Noe has made sense of one of the most neglected and confusing campaigns of the entire Civil War. He has sorted through the geographical complexities and factionalism in both armies to show his readers why people should still care about what happened near an obscure Kentucky village over 140 years ago. His work is truly a pioneering one. Unlike most campaign studies, this excellent book pays considerable attention to the treatment of the wounded, the effects of battle on the local landscape, the lives of veterans after the war, and even how the battlefield itself was interpreted and preserved. It will be the standard account for many years to come.

Perryville has been pretty much ignored by Civil War historians except for Kenneth Hafendorfer's poineering book and this one, which is newer, better researched, and has better (but far fewer) maps. Professor Noe has pretty much written the definitive account of this fairly obscure battle. It covers, besides the battle itself, all of Bragg's campaign in Kentucky, from the viewpoints of generals, soldiers, and civilians alike and his views are reasonable, unbiased, and well thought out. Additionally, he writes well and the book was a real joy to read. Highly recommended.

I read Noe's "Perryville: This Grand Havoc of Battle" ("grand havoc of battle" is a quote from Sam Watkin's of the 1st Tennessee on his participation in the hottest fighting he ever faced from Shiloh to surrender)just before visiting the battlefield park. I found the description of the campaign leading the battle to be excellent, and the details of 8 Oct 1862 were well described. Unlike other some other readers, I found the maps to be very helpful in understanding the battle -- I only wished there were more! The discussion of Bragg is fair and balanced; the mild psychoanaysis was helpful and insightful.

I particularly enjoyed reading about the pre-battle conflicts between the Union troops and their search for food and water from private lands enroute to Perryville -- and the occasional sheltering of escaped slaves -- contrasted with some officers intent to stop the "pilaging" and return "property" to slave-owners. More than one example of men in the ranks promising to kill their own officers in the next battle is given. Not to mention the murder of General "Bull" Nelson by Union general Jefferson C. Davis. That crime went unpunished... and Noe explains all sides fairly. Riveting stuff, well told, and extremely helpful in preparing to walk those rolling hills themselves...

I first became aware of Richard Behrens and Torishimaru Aiki-Jutsu after reading an article about him in the Fall 1994 issue of "Official Karate" magazine, published in New York. The article/interview included photographs of Mr. Behrens demonstrating the art with his students. Behrens is based in the Ft. Lauderdale area. The article indicated that he has successfully transferred the principles of his art into the realm of professional sports, having trained members of the Miami Heat of the NBA and the Miami Dolphins of the NFL, as well as demonstrated his skill for the Ft. Lauderdale Eye-Witness news team. A subsequent article on Torishimaru appeard in the Jan. 1995 issue of "Taekwondo Times" magazine with photos of his students demonstrating techniques in the book to a reporter from the magazine, trained in martial arts, who was convinced of Behrens and Torishimau's validity. Both articles gave phone numbers which I called and had a lengthy conversation with one of his students. Mr. Behrens indeed does exist, and a web search will lead one to his site. While many of the principles illustrated in the book are not new, what Behrens has done that is unique, is the way he has systematized very high level techniques that are generally reserved for the most advanced students, and introduces them at the lowest levels. Unlike authors such as Vernon Kitabu Turner, author of "Soul Sword," and Peter Ralston, "Cheng Hsin: Principles of Effortless Power," who claim to not teach technique but only principles that one may vicariously absorb, Behrens presents high level spiritual attainment in the martial arts as an exact science that anyone may work hard to attain. To those experienced in the arts, such a claim seems suspect because tradition teaches that only after long years of training will one experience and become adept with Ki or Chi, and may never experience it. Behrens and his students are well aware of this scepticism and expect it. The students nonetheless speak of his skill as on the same level of an O-Sensei Uyeshiba (founder of Aikido) though they make no such specific comparisons. The creation of new styles or ryu of martial art by Americans is nothing new. Many in this country have done so. It is part of our independent spirit. Most however, do document their training background and certified rank in order to establish their credibility in a world with charlatans. It is this failure, in both the book and conversation, to document Behrens lineage and instuctors, that makes him appear as one claiming to be a unique original to those who know "there is nothing new under the sun."

This is probably the best book ever written in english on the martial arts. The author describes in detail several very advanced techniques, particularly techniques of meditation. He speaks with authority on a number of important spiritual issues and his words have a very strong ring of truth. The test of anyone who speaks on spiritual issues is whether or not they know correct techniques. Behrens passes that test and all the techniques he describes, do exactly what he says they do. Anyone who wants to can experience this for themselves.

I highly recommend this book for just about everyone.

This book will charge with energy, those who search for new insights into the world of spirit and mind. It will surely offend and anger the "hard-science" adherents who need physical proof of all things. The question/answer format had a compelling nature to it, and places the reader in an inquisitive frame of mind...as if one was actually sitting down with an occult master.

I am a martial artist, and found his references to the martial arts and their relation to spiritual/occult matters quite true. His descriptions of the mind as having a "higher" and "lower" component echoes some of the most ancient spiritual principals, such as those embodied in the Huna religion of the South Pacific peoples. I would remind readers that virtually all religions embrace the quiet of meditation, and for what do they quiet this (lower mind tape) mind of ours? Could it be to allow a higher intelligence (higher mind tape) to come through to our consciousness? Richard Behrens speaks the truth.

The concept of Chi/Ki is quite true. If one follows the well-known breathing and meditation practices, (such as those outlined in this book) one can feel very real chi movement. Perhaps different for everyone, it manifests as heat and tingling sensations in my hands. If you are on the quest, read this book.

I have recently read this book. I would caution the reader ... it is difficult to absorb, but, nonetheless, extremely necessary to digest. While it will, no doubt, shock and anger you to find out we've all been deceived, it is obviously crucial information to gain for the well-being of the futures of our children! You might ask, why would a non-professional, non-scholarly stay-at-home mother concern herself with this book. The answer is simple. I hate to be lied to by anyone, especially as it relates to our kids. Dr. Reisman totally debunks the validity of the Kinsey Report(s) in a direct and methodical process. No, I don't claim to understand all the details, but her reporting was simple and clear enough for me that I am outraged and determined to share this revelational information with any and everyone who I care about.

Might I also mention here, that I have had the unique opportunity to be with the author for a five-hour workshop recently. Dr. Reisman's articulate and sensitive handling of such delicate, yet necessary, information only convinced me more that this information must be made known ... NOW!

This book is a well researched, well laid out exposé of an American giant. Dr. Reisman writes in an easy to understand, step-by-step manner. I had read biographies of Alfred Kinsey before. In them, Dr. Kinsey came off as being a little too perfect. This book hits hard. The most telling thing is that the most damning information on Kinsey comes from the man himself! This is the man who's successors have the ear of our public schools. As a parent, it is absolutely chilling to me that these are the people who advise our education dept. on what is appropriate to teach our children regarding sexualality. Thank you Dr. Reisman for exposing this man and his followers for the criminals they are!

Dr. Judith Reisman's new book, Kinsey: Crimes & Consequences; The Red Queen & The Grand Scheme, presents sinister material on the man who seduced America.

The 1960s' sexual revolution was based on the most elaborate and carefully crafted scientific fraud of this century, writes author Judith Reisman. Early sexologist Alfred C. Kinsey, with his two famous reports just 50 years ago, seemingly legitimized both profligacy and deviancy, and thus established "the sexual licence he [personally] espoused." Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male (1948) and its female equivalent (1953) kicked off no-fault divorce, the wife-swapping era, the gay rights movement, classroom sex education, sex "therapy" as a growth industry, explicit imagery in the media and entertainment industry, and an avalanche of pornography and obscenity.

Although Kinsey was a sexual revolutionary, Dr. Reisman contends, he was falsely portrayed by Indiana University where he worked, and the Rockefeller Foundation which funded him, "as just a normal American guy/husband/family man who simply 'discovered' that 'really' most American men commonly engaged in sexually aberrant and outlaw behaviour. Kinsey's 'research' alleged that 10% of American males were homosexual, that all of us were bisexual, that children were sexual from birth and could engage in sexual activity with adults without harm, plus a whole broad spectrum of things taught today in our schools and practised today in courts of law as fact and as true...It was fraud then, it is fraud now and it revolutionized this nation and turned us into Kinsey's [psychological] clones."

His "Grand Scheme" was to eliminate normal families in favour of selective breeding predicated upon racial and sexual eugenics, she charges, and his "scientific conclusions" were concocted to advance it. The reference is to the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland who wanted the sentence (beheading) carried out first and the verdict pronounced afterwards.

Disturbing information about Kinsey's work and private life has been accumulating since his death in 1956 at age 62. (The official cause was pneumonia due to overwork, but his extensive homosexual and sado-masochistic activities were likely contributors.) Dr. Reisman revealed much of it in 1990, for example, in Kinsey, Sex and Fraud. Even last year's resolutely non-condemnatory biography by fellow Indiana University scholar James H. Jones-Alfred C. Kinsey: A Public/Private Life (Norton)-is replete with gruesomely shocking details.

Kinsey: Crime and Consequences cannot be described as non-condemnatory. Its central figure, Dr. Reisman asserts, "fits the classic definition of a sexual psychopath." Had the public known that he "and his male population were sexually abnormal, the popular use of their data to change [our] law, education and public policy would have come to a screeching halt." He was able, however, to blackmail into silence associates who knew about "his extensive use of deviants, his large prison population or, worse, his active child molesters."

Still, she thinks his "findings" should have roused suspicion. "When I first read Kinsey's research, I thought this man is not reporting on America-he's reporting on himself and then projecting that onto the nation. Kinsey prostituted his own wife Clara...into acts of sodomy with fellow 'researchers,' which Kinsey filmed. He seduced his own students at Indiana University-male, not female students. He devised sexual activities with his 'co-workers,' who then became his co-authors. He [personally] engaged in violent sadistic activity, in which he harmed himself terribly... and appears to have died, frankly, as a result of the trauma to his body."

But his famed reports were carefully phrased to obscure the fact that words like "contacts," "partners" and "sex play" could signify grown men sodomizing children. He was also both racist and cautious about his colleagues, avoiding Jews, blacks and moral traditionalists. Dr. Reisman quotes Kinsey co-author Wardell Pomeroy (Kinsey and The Institute for Sex Research, Harper & Row, 1972), on his hiring technique: "As usual...we took his sexual history first...[Then] Kinsey put down his pen and said, 'I don't think you want to work for us.' 'But I do,' the researcher insisted. 'Well, Kinsey observed, 'you have just said that premarital intercourse might lead to later difficulties in marriage, that extramarital relations would break up a marriage, that homosexuality is abnormal, and intercourse with animals is ludicrous. Apparently you have all the answers....Why do you want to do research?'"

Biographer Jones describes Kinsey as "one of the scholarly eugenicists of pre-WW II" who favoured mass sterilization for the lower classes and selective breeding for the "better classes." Moreover, Judith Reisman emphasizes, the Rockefeller Foundation was early interested in population control and in using the media to popularize it. The Reece Committee, investigating U.S. tax-exempt foundations in 1953-54, concluded that this "plutocratic control" was accomplished by "funding the 'right' university research by the 'right' researchers, then by funding mass media dissemination of the 'right' science data to the public." Kinsey's numbers made him a perfect fit for anyone eager to alter what he would call human "breeding patterns."

Dr. Reisman, a specialist in content analysis studies of written and visual media, lost many family members in the Holocaust. In that context she raises further sinister questions about Kinsey's data. For instance, who was the "lone pedophile," the "elderly gentleman" cited by Kinsey for his sexual molestation of 800 children? Who were "The Children of Table 34" and what became of them? How did Kinsey's "technically trained" observers gain access to the claimed 1,800 American children for illegal genital experiments? "To this day," she observes, "the Kinsey Institute and Indiana University have repeatedly...refused to reveal any names of the subjects or the experimenters." Nor has any one of these children ever come forward, although the institute seems an excellent target for lawsuits.

Even in the destitute 1930s, at the cited rate of a dollar a day, she doubts that children as young as three months were obtainable in such numbers around Bloomington, Indiana. She suggests an ominous but credible alternative: a collaborative link between Kinsey and Nazi Germany, then a police state where such "experimentation" could easily be conducted "as part of an ongoing collegial, cross-cultural, multinational, 'fact-finding' research project." She cites significant links, such as one George Sylvester Viereck, who worked for the German embassy in Washington, D.C., in those years, setting up Nazi front groups, and who is known to have been a Kinsey correspondent. Furthermore, the Rockefeller Foundation was simultaneously funding eugenics projects in Berlin.

Kinsey consistently kept secret his hypotheses and the basic facts upon which his conclusions rested, Dr. Reisman charges. "Neither Kinsey nor any of his team can rightly be termed 'scientists.' Their methodology was not scientific, for it was neither able to be replicated nor validated. Their data was anonymous, forced, secretly altered at will, and fraudulent. With the aid of the elite academic world and institutions and the support of public funds and the social planning foundations, Kinsey and his associates, who served as his own private male harem, conducted thousands of sexual interviews to present a false view of American sexual behaviours."

Amazingly, however, use of Kinsey data as authoritative has never been seriously challenged-until now. It must not continue, Dr. Reisman declares: "There [must] be a full and open public investigation into Kinsey's fraudulent data and its impact upon lawmakers, the military, the church, the press, the academic world, the family and all our institutions."

Kevin E. Abrams is co-author of The Pink Swastika: Homosexuality In The Nazi Party.

This book doesn't describe alienation - it is alienation. Fromcharacters who become familiar and yet are still nondescript to a plotthat unfolds but doesn't involve, reading Louse is like watching life go by from your window. If you want to read a better book in a similar vein, read The Physiognomy by Jeffrey Ford, which manages to both draw compelling characters and make a wide ranging commentary on modern life.

Louse reads like Don Delillo, James Ellroy, David Foster Wallace and Terry Gilliam all wrote a novel together--and it worked absolutely perfectly, allowing the best parts of each of them to shine. Louse is based loosely on the last days of Howard Hughes, when the man has completely lost himself to his obsession with hygiene and mania for absolute power, locked himself in the penthouse of his own casino and surrounded himself with troops of supposedly absolutely loyal servants. Louse is the most perfect combination of maverick originality, obvious intelligence, and entertaining storytelling in a novel in a long, long time.

In Louse, Grand brilliantly and hilariously illuminates the interstitial moments of one's worst anxiety dreams and magnifies their existence in mind altering complexity. The narrative is pristine and subtle in its execution, the details and images, bizarre, and the overall effect, vertiginous.

The Red Dragon (The Grand Grimoire or Le Dragon Rouge) is a great grimoire that deserves so much more then Robert Blanchard & I.G.O.S. (International Guild of Occult Sciences) has presented in this version. I was highly discombobulated when I first received this book. The content of the book is extremely valuable to those who wish to learn, practice, or study the medieval arts of commanding spirits. For this version you'll pay an absurd amount of money for cheap binding & pages that look like they were taken to the copy machine. The illustrations in this book are vague & bleary. I found this to be very disappointing considering the puissant magick in this book. Details are very important & this version of The Red Dragon does not provide the reader with the adequate information. At times I did find Blanchard's translations to be a little off. But Besides the fact this version of The Red Dragon was poorly made I did enjoy the fact that the English & French version was provided. Overall this book was impecuniously made & expensive to buy. For those who wish to have a copy of The Red Dragon I advise them to seek out the Trident version. In the Trident version the original Italian text is included & the sigils are digitally restored. Again this is a pitiful version of The Red Dragon & practitioners of the occult should look elsewhere for a better version.

Wow, this is the real deal. Book includes the original French version as well as the English translation. As any true occultist knows the French versions of occult texts were changed the least of any other writing from ancient times.Italian books were edited the most by Church in that country and offer the worst possible source of information. This version is alsotranslated by a "working" occultist.Not a Professor or book company. This company by far offers the finest occult texts in the world. Their beauitful over size text with color jacket is not to missed. Easy to read and a collector item as well.

Whenever people have told me that they've taken an interest in the occult and what I could recommend as introductory reading, this book NEVER comes up. Nevertheless, for those whose interest in the occult sciences runs, not necessarily to the black arts, but a little deeper than the Llewellyn and Weiser texts which decorate the 'Mind, Body and Spirit' section..., this is required reading. Along with the Grimoire of Honorius and the Grimorium Verum, this is THE source of black magic and demonic evocation. Slightly lighter texts such as the Lemegeton (Lesser key of Solomon) and Agrippa's books of occult philosophy should, however, pre-empt any investigation into the more serious matters of demonology, if only to give an idea of what the craft entails. Be warned, this is sinister stuff, although exactly how it affects you depends alot on whether you accept Christian mythology as genuine, or the rituals as simply a mind alterant. People search a great deal for 'necronomicons' and 'black bibles'. This is as close as you are ever likely to come. And buy the Trident Books edition, if only for effect. Black leather binding and pentagrams may scream Hollywood cliche, but it looks good, and seems to help me get into the right frame of mind...

The profound philosophical challenges offered by Mills against the duality model of the electron should not be taken lightly. The "one-star" rating by a reader from the Dept of Mathematics, Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, OH reflects a typical response of scientists to Mills' radical views. Here are some answers to the points made by the OSU reader:

OSU: "(iv) The expressions for the charge distribution given below Eq. (I.5), as well as those given by Eqs. (I.7) and (I.8) do not satisfy the author's wave equation, Eq. (I.6)."

RESPONSE: They are solutions as proven on pages 61-64 of the book.

OSU: "(iii) By an appropriate rotation of the laboratory, any linear combination of the angular eigenmodes having the same l-value will become independent of the azimuthal angle \phi, i.e. will become a pure m=0 mode having the same l-value. According to the Mills theory, the oscillation frequency of the system will therefore have changed from a non-zero value to the value zero. Putting these two observations together, one has the result that, by merely changing the orientation with which one looks at the charge distribution, say, by tilting one's head, one can change the frequency with which the system vibrates."

RESPONSE: The system does not vibrate. Perhaps he is referring to the angular velocity which is independent of l; thus, all m sub l states are degenerate except with the presence of a magnetic field.

OSU: "(iii) The radial amplitude profiles given by Eqs. (I.25) and (I.26) are those of a hollow resonating sphere or those of empty spherically symmetric space. These profiles are not those that pertain to a system having a central charged nucleus, whose electrostatic potential U(r) is proportional to 1/r. As a consequence, vibrational frequencies (or energy levels) based on these (non-electrostatic) profiles are in conflict with the known levels of the hydrogen atom--the author's 'alternative interpretation' on pages 11-13 notwithstanding."

RESPONSE: This is a dynamic not static spherical resonator. The closed form solutions of Maxwell's equations are given on pages 81-107 of the book.

OSU: "(ii) The sweeping negative assessments (after Eq. (I.46) down to the middle of the next page) of (1) quantum mechanics (q.m.), of (2) the relation between Schrodinger's equation and spin and the Pauli principle, and of (3) the impuned "assumption" of q.m. vis a vis macroscopic objects are very strange by any standard. I am sure that if the author had read and followed, for example, Feynman's (Volume III) exposition of quantum mechanics (but not necessarily ALL his philosophical comments), augmented by Wheeler's (Box 25.3 in 'GRAVITATION' by Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler) exposition of the role of Hamilton-Jacobi theory in relating q.m. to Newtonian mechanics, then the author would have been led to a diametrically opposite assessment. (iii) The author claims that the hydrogen atom has energy levels below those already measured spectroscopically. He claims (e.g. on page 21) that these levels betray their existence only through atomic collisions. If that were indeed the case, then the atomic beam physicists would have seen these energy states a long time ago with the help of the Ramsauer effect. This effect is observed when electron having the right energy exhibit resonance scattering (only for the l=0 part of the electrons' angular momentum) when they scatter off a neutral atomic beam. Furthermore, these electrons would also reveal any 'hydrino' states by the energy necessary to ionize the hydrogen atoms in these states."

RESPONSE: This may have been observed but not explained. From Chapter 38: "The detection of the transition of atomic hydrogen from the traditional 'ground' state (n=1) to the fractional quantum energy level (n=1/2) below the traditional 'ground' state (hydrinos) is further reported by the assignment of the anomalous 31 eV backward peak observed by Rudd, et al. [4] in the electron spectrum from collisions of 70 keV protons with hydrogen atoms. The transition occurs by a 'resonant collision' mechanism predicted by Mills [3, 5]. Protons effect this transition of hydrogen by a resonant inelastic collision reaction. In this case, a backward 40.8 eV electron is produced which undergoes Franck-Hertz scattering [6] to give rise predominantly to a 30.6 eV backward peak, a 27.2 eV backward peak, and a 20.4 eV backward peak. Discontinuities in the back scattering spectrum at these energies were observed by Rudd, et al. [4] in the electron spectrum from collisions of 70 keV protons with hydrogen atoms. The maximum intensity of back scattering is predicted to be 165° falling to zero at 90° which is in agreement with the observed maximum at 160° which decreases with smaller angles to the absence of the backward scattering at 90°."

CONCLUSION: As the reader can see, these issues are not so simple as even well-educated scientists might suggest. What is needed is a blue-ribbon panel of scientists with a *serious* interest in understanding and *testing* Mills' theories. As it is, sadly, most scientists continue to assume they know everything there is to know about the hydrogen atom, even though Mills has produced evidence suggesting otherwise.

The significance of this scientific landmark cannot be understated. The work is based on one new, yet fundamental insight--when Schrodinger developed the wave equation for the electron he made a broad assumption for the fourth boundary condition required to solve the problem. Randell Mills replaced this broad assumption with an exact boundary condition derived from Maxwell's Equations. As a result, the Mills solution is far more exact than the traditional quantum model. This new model enabled Mills to develop profound insights into the fundamental structure of matter, and ultimately enabled him to apply Einstein's field equations to the structure of the electron and derive its gravitational mass. In ten to twenty years, historians will look back at the 1990's as yet another example of how the established physics community was unable to recognize a brilliant, discontinuous innovation in understanding nature.

It is sadly rare in the annals of science that a book like this comes along. Mills has a gift and intuition for leading us along a chain of plausible and cleverly-woven reasoning, introducing a minor concept at odds with "accepted" logic, then diverging exponentially to a completely orthogonal or inverted point of view. This charming book presents a world - in some ways remarkably close to our own - in which the laws of nature are dramatically different. Mills' genius lies in showing us how easy it would be, by making a few algebraicerrors and accidentally misinterpreting subtle or obscure aspects of theory, to draw conclusions about physics which are so incorrect as to be almost crank. His keen humor allows the reader to glimpse a hint of the underlying fallacy through mists of cumulostratic equations - and then with a whisk reverses the relative position of assumption and deduction in an argument without detracting from either. The result is a masterpiece at once thought-provoking and side-splittingly funny.

Mills - actually a respected MD - does a great service to the scientific establishment by demonstrating the value of thorough peer review and technical integrity, so important in these times of "cold fusion" debacles. The Quixotic tilting at quantum mechanics is also inspired, as (along with relativity) this field requires careful study to understand, and as a result it does attract a surfeit of fervent disbelievers, predisposed to accept any alternative theory which better accords with the lay judgment of the armchair engineer. As a final stroke, Mills has been sporting enough to use his friends and confidants to write "reviews" of early editions of his works, cleverly creating a cult mystique which is itself a neat spoof of the way scientific conspiracy theory starts.

This book hints at similar irreverent fantasia in the pipeline, mocking quack genome research and "advanced" concepts in space travel. We ask... please Dr Mills, more medicine for us soon?

Clarke is a visionary, and he has prophesized some incredible ideas long before they were mainstream. He continues to explore fascinating scientific thoughts and insights in this book about the raising of the Titanic. However, I find that the book has no central focus. Attempting to use the Titanic as a focal point, Clarke jumps from story to story -- about the Mandelbrot Set (a fractal pattern that is self-replicating), an invention in the field of windshield wipers, automated undersea exploration, and the lives of several diverse characters -- while never focusing the story on any overlapping theme or circumstance. In fact, the story of the Titanic is written off early on and given very little play. It seems Clarke would have been better off simply writing an essay about new technologies instead of wasting the readers time with simple plot twists, one dimensional dialogue, and emotionless characters.

Mr. Clarke is still, in my eyes, a great visionary thinker. He also writes a good sci-fi story. However, this one certainly isn't it. Read it for the ideas, read it for the insights, but please don't read it for the plot.

I read this book for the first time about 10 years ago. Before Y2K and before the 1997 film Titanic tweeked everyones interest in the Titanic. The main story deals with the attempt to raise the Titanic from the ocean floor and transport it to a location where it can be maintained and saved from further decay.

Aside from the plot there were some very good subplots. One dealt with the YTK problem. This book was published a decade before YTK and way before most people, like me, were even aware that there was a YTK computer problem. The solution offered in the book obviously was not one that came to pass but it was still interesting to read about the nature of the problem and the difficulties that could arise if left unchecked.

The technology used to raise the Titanic was well described. I am not that scientific or math savvy and so I cannot say if the technology described is currently possible but it seemed possible the way Clarke described it.

The story is set around the year 2012, the 100 year anniversary of the sinkning of the Titanic. I'm quite sure some of the technology mentioned in the novel does not exist. One invention involving the future of windshield blades and keeping rain off of an automobile windshield was interesting. On the other hand I found the whole "M-set" thing to be beyond me. I'm not sure what role it actually played in the overall plot. I gather that the "M-set" is used in other novels and may make more sense to those that have read more of Clarke's novels.

Lastly, this book is a quick read. It is not to deep or to shallow. An excellent book to read during breaks on the job or to read during an evening when you have time to kill.

Everyone knows this author; Arthur C. Clarke is a genius of his time and ours.
I myself think anything dealing with Titanic is going to be a boring attempt at a topic that has been very over done, but I actually enjoyed this book. This was a story I felt I had to concentrate on; I was trying to figure out the math questions on my own without much success but a headache, but don't let that put you off, if I concentrate to much on anything my head begins to throb, anyways:
The story line is fairly, well to be attempted. To bring Titanic up and of course it's going to take a few pretty pennies to do so. So why not make a big deal about it and have a race, two sides battle a way to the prize and to the success of having to bring up a snapped in half, ocean liner that sunk a hundred years ago? The interesting part is the year this book was written in and the year the characters are placed in, and of course what year you read the book. I was shocked at the way this author thought of the future, and it was so scary a mind could think that up.
I can't remember but years ago, people wanted to bring up the Titanic; they should of read this book and just left their grubby hands off it. (I think they did)
There is robots, huge squid, big high on their horse characters and over the top genius on this case and I even liked them.
The characters are well, not really that important, it's the idea and plot in the book. Sometimes I lost myself in all the gumbo jumbo about how, when, where, and exactly the way your going to do it, but still it was a good book. The idea of M-set interested me much and I even read the little, explanation of it at the end of the book. WoW!
I'd say if you like Clarke and his books, read it. If you like the idea of Titanic, read it, if you like sci-fi, Read it. I think it's a good thinking book and worth the time.