Turning Point is the initial book in a series on developing a Biblical worldview. Marvin Olasky, Editor-in-Chief of World Magazine, and Herbert Schlossberg, author of Idols for Destruction, here set forth the fundamentals of this Christian worldview. After addressing the problems of rationalism and pietism, they offer a true balance of reason and piety, a harmony that reveals itself in Christian action.

The first problem is the error of rationalism, which places man's reason above all else, and ends up throwing out Scripture and much truth out of a desire to be reasonable. When reason is elevated so high, sins such as abortion and sexual immorality suddenly seem milder than they really are, and ideas such as evolution begin to take prominence over against Christian truth.

They also cover the problems of pietism, which is devotion to God to the exclusion of involvement in the world. Many Christians see problems in our culture and instead of grappling with these matters, confident in Christ's instruction in all matters, they instead retreat into their personal lives of prayer, Bible reading, and "love." When such pietism is embraced, both culture and the church are allowed to be harmed by the world.

Olasky and Schlossberg expose the ditches of rationalism and pietism on both sides of the road, and then they guide readers onto the straight path. A Christian worldview recognizes the importance of both reason and piety, and they blend these two together in submission to God's Word. Christians are to love God, but prayer and study of Scripture are to be manifested in discipline of the nations. Reason is necessary to apply the Bible to assorted areas in culture, but wisdom is lost when reason replaces Scripture.

Use reason wisely, and be a truly pious Christian. But don't serve either out of proportion; blend them together into a glorious view of the world and subsequent reform of culture.

This book explains the basic concepts of the ARC/INFO GIS and handles the basic functions of ARC/INFO key by key. It's begins with the data structure, digitizing process, data cleanup, till the final map composition. It's a useful starting point for dummies as well as for more experienced GIS users with no ARC/INFO experience. When you've gone through this book ARC/INFO will certainly not have given all his secrets free but their will be a light in the darkness.

I used Dearborn Series 63 materials to pass my own exam. You need this one besides the Series 7 in most states. Compared to the Series 7 Exam this test is a walk in the park. You really only need about 10-15 hours of study for this one and I would imagine, though i dont recommend, you could do it without cracking the book if you had enough of the exam questions handy. That is why Dearborns questions and answer CD's are so usefull. They mimic the test fairly closely.

Take the full sample exams 10 times and you should be ready to sit for the exam with no worries, just make sure you are getting over 85% on the pre-tests.

The section covering accepted and unacceptable practices makes up the majority of the test and is also mostly just common sense. Getting that section down pat will make up for questions missed in the other "harder" areas.

Its easier than the Series 7, but none of the NASD exams are "easy" so don't get lazy or they will smoke you.

From 2000-2001 this exhibition, devoted specifically to Van Gogh's portraits and self-portraits, will travel to Detroit, Boston and Philadelphia. This book is well written and provides graphics of superb quality. My only misgiving comes from the fact that seven different writers contributed to the commentary of the book which makes the flow of the text somewhat disjointed. While very well researched, other exhibition catalogues (those by Ronald Pickvance, for example) take a work-by work, single author approach and, as a result, the commentary is more clear and concise. Still, it's a minor criticism of an excellent book.

This is a good introduction to the language for those whose contact with Spanish speakers is limited to days or weeks rather than longer periods. Within that period, it is excellent, since you are unlikely to need more "sentence patterns" than it supplies. It is not designed to replace an academic course in the language. It is designed to give someone over the process of a few days a reasonably complete tour of most of the working parts of the language, designed for immediate use. If you're going on a trip to a Spanish speaking locale, this is a good buy!

This is work which I am actually part of. The other stories are willed from the minds of Native American Youths, and what they have there is different than the archetypical Americana. Some stories are raw as a open wound, and others are as deep. This is part of the "New World" that has actually been here forever, and most stories swell with the consequences of Columbus' "discovery" of us.

I picked up this book because I had some familiarity with the subject matter having worked in that field of biochemistry in the late '60s. That is probably the main reason I read the whole thing and enjoyed it.
This is very much a scientific biography. It's an interesting story of the evolution a scientific idea (The Chemiosmotic Theory) and how that idea came to be accepted by the scientific community. The originator of the idea, the imaginative, ambitious, passionate Peter Mitchell, had to fight for many years to see his theory finally accepted.
I was disappointed, however, that the book did not paint a fuller picture of Mitchell who had many interests outside of science which are (frustratingly) alluded to - music, architecture, farming, family - but never explored. For example, the authors state that family life was very important to Mitchell but give no examples of how a highly motivated scientist/entrepreneur managed to fit it in. Nor is there any sense of what domestic life was like living in an isolated research institute/manor/farm. In my opinion, if these aspects of his life had been more developed, the book would appeal to a wider audience and the reader would come away with a fuller appreciation of the man.
Technically, it is rather a choppy book. Each chapter is divided into subchapters, which detracts from its cohesiveness. Repetition of some points also gives the sense that the book was pieced together.
However, I did read the whole thing and found it an interesting study of how 20th century science works - or works imperfectly.

This book is perfect, in explaining the future of microsimally manufactured systems.People will come to know that such tech. exists not on movie screens, but in reality. The best for a SOC designer, covering the topics what & where he needs.

With the tongues of men and angels: A study of channeling. By Arthur Hastings. Published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1991. ISBN 0-03-047164-8.

When he proclaimed, "the medium is the message," it's doubtful that Marshall McLuhan had ever heard of channeling. His rule nevertheless applies. When television channels channel channelers channeling, you may have noticed, it's not the channelled communication itself they capitalize. Who can recall a television show highlighting the implications of the channeled message? Instead the focus is on whether it's really a spirit speaking, part of the channeler's subconscious personality, or maybe just a hoax. The medium's still the message.

When Jon Klimo published in 1987 his book, Channeling: Investigations on receiving information from paranormal sources, it too focused not on the message but on the medium. The history, the methods and the theories of channeling were its subject. Channeled material itself was given only a single chapter. When introducing that book, Charles Tart wrote that the question, "Who am I?" is one of the most important we can ask and that some of the most significant answers come from channelled communications. Yet Klimo's book didn't quite reflect that significance.

Edgar Cayce emphasized the comparative study of channeled guidance. Until now, however, there's been no book that satisfies that order. Arthur Hastings's study of channeling, however, is a sumptuous feast. Besides containing the required chapters on the history and parapsychology of channeling, it devotes the majority of its pages examining the contents of significant works of channeled material.

The author is Dean of the Faculty at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Menlo Park, California. His academic background is in communications and he views channeling as a form of communication. He defines it as follows:

"Channeling refers to a process in which a person transmits information or artistic expression that he or she receives mentally or physically and which appears to come from a personality source outside the conscious mind. The message is directed toward an audience and is purposeful."

What is the purpose of channeling? Hastings proposes that civilization has received much of value from channeling. He gives us a guided historical tour of the channeled material that has significantly contributed to the spiritual traditions of the world. Perhaps the earliest source of channeled materials are the Vedas, the oldest scriptures in Hinduism. More recently, Mormonism owes its inception to channeling. Hastings devotes separate chapters to metaphysical systems such as Alice Bailey and Theosophy, Jane Roberts and the Seth material, and Helen Schucman and A Course in Miracles.

Never before had I read accounts of these systems of thought by someone not writing from within that system. Until reading his book I had never encountered any criticisms, for example, of A Course in Miracles. Hastings presents several in an otherwise sympathetic treatment. I found particularly interesting the criticism that the Course seems to ignore the body, that it is strictly a "cognitive" spirituality.

Throughout he also draws some interesting parallels between these systems of thought, world religions and mythologies. He clearly shows that the sources of channeling, as extra-terrestrial as they sometimes claim to be, are quite in keeping with the collective unconscious of humanity.

It is clear that Hastings sought readings from many contemporary channelers in preparing this book. His informal observations give the book a personable grounding. He can be down to earth without being frustratingly earthbound. He can enjoy having his head in the clouds, but can tell the difference between a nitrous oxide stupor and a whiff of heaven. One of the definite values of this book is the author's presence.

What about the presence of spirits? Hastings concurs in the conclusion reached by parapsychologists almost one hundred years ago: channeling is not a good courtroom to decide upon the existence of disembodied spirits. Edgar Cayce indicated, for example, that one can't discriminate between telepathic contact with the continuing effects of a person's existence and the continuing activity of that person's spirit. If not spirits, then who's there? Hastings concludes that the entities who speak are transpersonal factors within the human mind, personifications of higher intelligence.

I found myself dissatisfied. At the outset Hastings restricts his study to channeling where a separate being is active. He specifically excludes exalted states of inspired awareness (what Klimo called "open channeling"). Yet he has but few words on why channeling so often takes the form of messages from a separate being.

In this regard, Edgar Cayce's channeling career presents an interesting enigma: He consistently advised us to turn to the highest within ourselves. He himself turned down the opportunity to channel an outside entity. Yet when describing in a public lecture what happened to him during his psychic trance state, he said he went to a hall of records where an "old man" handed him a book of information for the person requesting the reading. Who was this old man? Cayce's higher self?

I can accept that the higher self is but a personification. But I wonder why even Cayce manifests the personification process. Perhaps the answer relates to why God created souls. In Cayce's myth of creation it was for th

The 1936 election marked the birth for pollsters George Gallup and Elmo Roper, whose names are now well-known. But no one knows the name of Emil Hurja, who was the driving force behind the Roosevelt campaign. While the Literary Digest was predicting a landslide victory for Republican opponent Alf Landon, Roosevelt was entirely confident of his reelection because of Hurja's work. Holli, seemingly the only person to even mention Hurja's name, amazingly recounts his life and details how Hurja led Roosevelt to be consistently victorious. A must-read for anyone interested in the history of public opinion polling or the New Deal Era.