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PDF Women Rowing North Navigating Life&rsquos Currents and Flourishing As We Age eBook Mary Pipher

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• Aging has some real issues living in a culture that not only denigrates old age but actively despises it, the lack of civility that makes it hard to move fast enough to avoid being in the way, the high cost of medicine, the one-size-fits-all medical treatment, etc. This book is of no use that I can see. The author's approach is the same kind of generic advice you can find everywhere. If you are annoyed by being told that there are 8 steps to grief or 5 steps to acceptance or to be sure to bring a casserole to a grieving friend, this is not the book for you. Most of the examples seem to be of people who will benefit by being told to take a soothing bubble bath or go hug a cactus or take a rafting trip with "the girls". Nobody seems to be cutting up their pills to save money or taking time to go deeply into "aloneness". It so trivializes aging...just one more pop psychology book to add to the pile of "self-help" books that do not help. Aging is fierce, terrifying, mysterious and very human. Pick up The Bible, the Upanishads, the Torah, the Buddhist sutras, the Odyssey and you will find the same questions being asked about Life, Old Age and Death and it's re-assuring to realize these perennial questions are part of being human. Instead of continuing to "serve", women might think about why? serve your parents, your boyfriend, your husband, your children, your parents (again) and then die " Is that life? is it MY life? why do feel I have to serve? Is it real or just conditioning? Am is afraid of being called 'selfish'? why am I doing this" Old age is a time when you have the time to contemplate these questions and to find friendship and connection with all that has come before you and all that you are. Don't waste it reading this kind of trivial junk and never asking the deeper questions about what it is to be truly human. There is only this one life as this particular "person"; it's a great joy to discover what you are!
• I adore Mary Pipher & expected her book on "navigating life's currents & flourishing as we age" to be my new favorite "Must read!" recommendation. My enthusiasm wilted as it dawned that she often sounds like part of my born-in-1910 mother's generation than four years my senior who graduated from high school at the dawn of the conscious-raising '60s, grew up solidly in the Therapeutic Age. Where I was expecting book relevant to every part of our nation, WOMEN ROWING NORTH seems to largely (not exclusively - one is a pleasant acquaintance of mine who lives in Phila) feature examples & anecdotes from what seem to be solidly middle class, heartland women - - makes sense, since that is where she practices, but limits its effectiveness, at least to this reader. Strikes me that a more apt title would be "White Midwestern Well-Educated Upperish-Middle Class WOMEN ROWING NORTH."
• This book is not promising perfection, but rather engagement in a process that will make us happier, says the author. And it delivers on that promise. She goes on to say that as our bodies age, our souls can expand. It’s a beautifully written and realistic book that outlines becoming an older woman. We follow her journey and other women of a similar age, but with different circumstances through their life journey.
  
  It’s hard to classify. It’s a memoir, it’s a cultural statement, and it’s inspiring and full of hope. At times it reads like your favorite minister at their pulpit. Other times it reads like a proud grandma and then it becomes a culture opinion and self-help piece. All of it flows seamlessly and is beautifully written and brought me to tears a handful of times.
  
  As I continue my journey rowing north, I will continue to refer to the book and have already passed it on to my friends.
• For a book aimed at persons in their advanced years, why is it printed in a small font? I’m going to have to use a magnifying glass which slows me down. The index is in an even smaller font. If you are buying this as a gift, consider the Large Print format or audio.
• I'm on the downward side of my 60's - heading straight for my '70's. Luckily, I've had family and friends who have hit the milestone ages before I have and I can see how they've dealt with aging. Of course, hitting 70 ain't like hitting 50, so I've seen different reactions from those who've gone before me. I have also just finished reading Mary Pipher's new book, "Women Rowing North Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing as We Age". (That's such a long title that I could almost feel myself aging as I wrote it!) Pipher is the author of "Reviving Ophelia", which is about the problems and - I presume - joys of both being and raising a teenage girl. I didn't read it because I had sons, but I am growing older so I did pick up her latest book.
  
  Mary Pipher's book is chock-full of good advise on hitting your old age. She does talk about "Young Old" and "Old Old"; those different sub-catagories of aging. Seventy seems to be the start of "Old-Old", but she manages to make it seem almost desirable as she writes about women who've both cast off and taken on responsibilities they wouldn't have done 20 years earlier. Life is easier as we slow down to smell the flowers and enjoy our friendships and family relations. She gives us examples of women who've found contentment and purpose as they've aged, as they take care of grandchildren and sick husbands, She also tells of women who've found the same contentment as they've shed these responsibilities and lived basically solo lives.
  
  It's an interesting book that gave me a few ideas I hadn't originally thought about as the Big 70 - and "Old Old Age" - is fast approaching.
• I started this book with limited expectations and found that I needed to underline quotes every few pages. I'd give it 10 stars if I could. From facing retirement to surviving the death of a partner, the author of Reviving Ophelia shows us that while every stage of life is hard, there are rewards there too; I've got the other women in my Parkinson's group reading it. (Now if only I could get my husband to read it!)

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Download PDF Hundertwasser Architektur 2020 9783731838920 Books

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PDF Gray Day My Undercover Mission to Expose America First Cyber Spy edition by Eric O'Neill Politics Social Sciences eBooks

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• "Welcome home, honey! How was your day?"
  "Well, I spent most of it trying to gather incriminating evidence against this guy who's been selling our secrets to Russia for, oh, a couple of decades or so. Who sits 5 feet away from me in the office. And is creepy as hell. And happens to be my boss at the FBI. Y'know, the usual. How was your day?"
  Except that Eric O'Neill could never have that conversation with his wife. He was required by law to lie to his wife (and everyone else) about his top-secret mission, constantly.
  The psychological tension between O'Neill, the 26yo junior officer tasked to counter-spy on his boss - the sketchy, brilliant, irascible and magnificently traitorous master spy Robert Hanssen - is palpable. The mounting marital pressures ratchet up the drama another notch.
  The book was also a great primer on the daily work of spycraft, the solid legwork *and* shoddy management at US intelligence agencies, and the current state of cyberwarfare.
  I stayed up way too late reading "Gray Day" in one sitting. Why bother with Le Carré when you can read about the real thing?
  -- Ali Binazir, M.D., M.Phil., Happiness Engineer and author of The Tao of Dating The Smart Woman's Guide to Being Absolutely Irresistible, the highest-rated dating book on , and Should I Go to Medical School? An Irreverent Guide to the Pros and Cons of a Career in Medicine
• I am a big spy fiction fan - Daniel Silva, John LeCarre, Ludlum - but had not read any non fiction books about espionage. I have been to the Spy Museum in DC and had a passing knowledge of the Hanssen case so I thought I would give O'Neill's book a try. So glad I did ... could not put it down. What I found so fascinating was learning about the human toll these sorts of cases take on those involved. I also have a new appreciation of how complex such an operation can be.
  Gray Day is very timely since it shows true Russian collusion and the cost to our country. O'Neill demonstrates why vigilance is still necessary.
• Former F.B.I. agent and author Eric O"Neill has written an enlightening account on his role in the capture of his F.B.I. boss Robert Hanssen who spent two decades passing classified information to the Russians which also resulted in the execution of two Russian agents who were spying for the United States.
  
  Hanssen would often denegrate O'Neill in their office by passing him off as a neophyte in regard to spies and how they operate. Hanssen was a boss known to be both brilliant but creepy and not someone you would want to be associated with. He would also often project onto others an attitude he was sensitive to in his own life. The author had to keep his clandestine work secret from his wife which would often lead to conflicts at home.
  
  Author O'Neill began writing this book in May of 2001 and I must admit the final few chapters on cyber security were beyond my understanding but the Hanssen case revealed the necessary upgrade needed at F.B.I. headquarters to protect their security and the work of spies.
  
  This book contains no photographs. For an additional book on the Robert Hanssen case I would strongly suggest you read the book entitled "Spy" by David Wise. It is an outstanding book. Robert Hanssen now resides as a guest of the government in the Supermax penitentiary in Florence, Colorado.
• I heard Eric O'Neil on SpyCast a podcast and was intrigued. I looked him up on twitter & this was the day his book GRAYDAY came out! I ordered & waited for it to come. In the meantime I looked up other interviews & tried to learn as much as possible. I got the book pretty fast & it was like a fine glass of wine. You can't put it down & want to make it last. This was a Spy thriller & so timely in its writing & release. As I write this Julian Assange was arrested last night & on his way to US for wikileaks hack. This book was heartstopping in some places as Eric goes through getting his boss (Robert Hanssen) Palm pilot out of his office. He details the stresses of the investigation & the stress it took on his marriage b/c his wife didn't know he was undercover. He takes us into the FBI and one of the Ops that caught the biggest spy in FBI history. I just finished the book but didn't want to b/c it was so good. I really enjoyed this book & the spy speak & FBI terms. It makes you wonder why people decide to spy & why others decide to be good & honest. I have a huge appreciation for FBI agents & the other agencies who do counter intelligence work. This is a awesome book.
  I enjoyed it alot and you will too.
• I'm not sure what I expected but this book surprised me. It is fast-paced, well written, and I couldn't wait to get back to it whenever I had to put it aside. Well done.
• This is a great and relevant ready on many levels...
  
  I bought this book for the high level "story". Honestly I already knew the story but I was curious to see what O'Neill would do with it in his own words (as opposed to the movie portrayal in "Breach".
  
  I say all this to highlight my delight in reading this book! Not only does O'Neill have an amazing story to tell, he tells it so very well, very personally, and with great vulnerability. The subplots about faith, your marriage, and his mother made this such a wonderful book to read. What a pleasant surprise that O'Neill is not only an amazing spyhunter, but he is also an excellent writer.
  
  I received the book on a Friday after work and had finished it by Sunday morning. (I have 2 young children and a wife, so my reading time was restricted primarily to the wee hours.)
• Having watched the movie "Breach" several times, I noted that Eric O'Neill's novel adds intriquing nuances and fascinating details to complement an exciting account of the capture of America's most notorious spy. Well crafted and absorbing, this book is a compelling and tension filled worthwhile read.

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PDF Twilight The Twilight Saga Book 1 Audible Audio Edition Stephenie Meyer Ilyana Kadushin Listening Library Books

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About three things I was certain.

First, Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him, and I didn't know how dominant that part might be, that thirsted for my blood.

And Third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

Isabella Swan's move to Forks, a small, perpetually rainy town in Washington, could have been the most boring move she ever made. But once she meets the mysterious and alluring Edward Cullen, Isabella's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. Up until now, Edward has managed to keep his vampire identity a secret in the small community he lives in, but now nobody is safe, especially Isabella, the person Edward holds most dear. The lovers find themselves balanced precariously on the point of a knife, between desire and danger.

Deeply sensuous and extraordinarily suspenseful, Twilight captures the struggle between defying our instincts and satisfying our desires. This is a love story with bite.

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"I love having the full matching box set to add to my library. A part of me wishes I would have stopped by half price books to pick up the novels but it was great having it delivered and matching for 30 some odd dollars. One star off because the back page (the red side) chips away easily. I have only held them and bookmarked them and the back looks worn. Otherwise, I'm happy with my purchase."

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• This is exactly what I wanted, I'm so glad I ended up buying it. My set is perfect, I don't have bent in edges like others have mentioned. I'm going to have to be quite careful with this set, the white is so gorgeous in person. If anybody reading this is skeptical about buying this collection, I say go for it! It's a great price for what you're getting. This is truly a wonderful gift for any Twilight fan.
• The set of books was fine, until Breaking Dawn. The whole part of the birth and Jacobs imprinting were missing from the book. Instead they repeated the Bella chapter twice. So it went directly into the chapter of the burning. I own the hard cover books and this is not an issue in them. Needless to say, I was unhappy with this purchase.
• Okay I first read this book 10 years ago. Around the time it first came out but before all the hype. I fell in love with it immediately. I have reread this book many time's and never get tired of it. Of course I am Team Edward all the way. I fell in love with the vampire who is trying to be good but falls in love with Bella the girl who's blood he can not resist. I know lots of people criticized Stephanie Meyers writing but I don't care. I love her writing and if people call me dumb for it oh well.
• I love having the full matching box set to add to my library. A part of me wishes I would have stopped by half price books to pick up the novels but it was great having it delivered and matching for 30 some odd dollars. One star off because the back page (the red side) chips away easily. I have only held them and bookmarked them and the back looks worn. Otherwise, I'm happy with my purchase.
• The character of Bree was full of life and personality. It was amazing how much Stephenie Meyers brought her to life in this short novella. There is no doubt that this is a tragedy through and through but one with satisfying yet bitter end. I would love to see the other books in the series in the future should Stephenie Meyer's revisit this world. She already has Side characters such as Leah in the main story that she spoke of possibly revisiting in the future. I could see having Fred joining the Cullen's in the future and somehow being perfect match for Leah.
  
  There's really no spoiler to be had given that even the author lets the reader know a front about the story and the fact that it came out after the publication of book 3. It does give a more in depth view into the world of twilight. We see just how easily it is for these newborn vampires to be fooled and controlled by their instincts. I was surprised how well the author manage to make Bree sympathetic and engaging protagonist despite being a blood-sucking monster. She even was able to create a few relationships that seemed to have even more depth than the original twilight book LOL. I say that as a joke but also in truth that the characters felt for each other and grew to care for each other based upon actions and more than just simple I like you because you're hot or in Edwards case to Bella I like you because I can't read your mind and your blood makes me crazy.
  
  A novela that is set in the middle of a series has the advantage of not having to world build. it is meant for readers with knowledge of the series and characters so you can get a short and sweet story that is rather impactful.
  
  I would encourage everyone who has enjoyed the twilight series to buy this novella and more to the point I would say even if you never read the twilight books the short novella is well worth the read. It is an engaging tragedy that will pull you in and hit you in the feels. It also showcases the talent that is Stephenie Meyers in telling a story without showing her hand. It was surprising to see how much personality she managed to shove into Bree in such a short time..
• I first read this book and series because I have a habit when I movie comes out based on the book in the science fiction fantasy and even paranormal genres that I like to read it before the movie. This book and series was my introduction to paranormal Romance. I've since read fairly heavily in the genre and my perspective of the series has changed slightly but not too much from my original thoughts.
  
  When approaching the series you have to recognize it for what it is. The target range is for young girls in their mid-teens and up. It is focused on the emotional journey and the physical mysteries of youth more than action and adventure. It is a very clean book with no foul language and a instant love story where two people become obsessed with each other one because of the flawless beauty and hint of danger she sees in Edward the other in the the fact that he can't read her mind and her blood calls to the monster inside him. In the series is a whole there will be a false love triangle which was played up much more in the movies and an advertisement as team Edward and team Jacob. Again it is not meant to be full of action but rather an emotional rollercoaster with dangerous and mysterious love interest that the reader if they're honest with themselves knows where it will end but we'll enjoy the ride nonetheless.
  
  As much as it sounds like I may be complaining Stephenie Meyer's is a good writer. She writes in a fashion that is clearly understandable and from the perspective and mindset of a young woman. That means not necessarily a rational young woman who makes clear and logical decisions but one who is intelligent and despite the shallow nature of her love is actually a selfless person. It was not until book three that we get several chapters from Jacobs perspective where we see the mind of a Young Man that I realize how good she was in writing from perspective and not showing her hand to the audience. Bella's interaction with other characters covers up something I had not really noticed I strongly until I came back to the series... that the character of Bella has no interest or at least shown to have no active interest really in anything other than Edward. She has shown to enjoy reading certain romantic books but there's no passion for life outside of Edward, no hobbies, or really goals to strive for. This is something that newer readers may not notice but those who have red heavily in fiction will pick up and it will be a fly in the ointment.
  
  The mythos that she built into the story does grow throughout the series and feels true to this world that she creates. In this first book she reveals vampires not to be the hideous things that hide in the dark but rather beautiful predators, yes they sparkle LOL, that are designed entirely to attract and destroy their pray but have a conscience that makes them want to be more than just simple monsters. In truth considering the physical power and extra powers of the vampires particularly as the series goes on with another writer or a different style of story they could have been truly terrifying. However for the genre and target audience it was a perfect hit that of course made Stephenie Meyers millions.
  
  I came to the series when the nation was swept up in the movie. I have a habit of reading books that are made into movies before actually watching the movie. and the first time I read it I wanted to be able to have an opinion of the book series for myself rather than taking others words for it. while I did enjoy the story the more that I read into the genre the more I realize that the twilight series was safe and was meant for a younger audience. The stories did mature as the years went on but not to a degree that would make it too inappropriate for high schoolers. I also realize that it was meant mostly to be a romance before anything else.
  
  Looking back having read the series multiple times and buying the books because I felt guilty for not supporting the author I think Bella Swan while having a rough start in the first book in terms of character depth becomes a different sort of hero in the end. She may not be a sword wielding assassin but she has a strength and determination as well as bravery that makes her relatable.
  
  I do think that looks three and four of the series are better than books one and two. The first book they love story just feel shallow. The second book with how the author had to introduce a character for the false love triangle while also putting the main love interest to the side for a while was rather annoying period in the third and fourth books it feels like a lot of the nonsense is put to the side and it gets down to the nitty-gritty no more wavering to milk the what ifs.

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Download PDF Hate The Rising Tide of AntiSemitism in France and What It Means for Us edition by Marc Weitzmann Politics Social Sciences eBooks

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From an award‑winning journalist, a provocative, deeply reported exposé of the history and present crisis of anti‑Semitism in France—and its dire message for the rest of the world.
 
What is the connection between a rise in the number of random attacks against Jews on the streets of France and strategically planned terrorist acts targeting the French population at large? Before the attacks on Charlie Hebdo, the Bataclan night club, and others made international headlines, Marc Weitzmann had noticed a surge of seemingly random acts of violence against the Jews of France. His disturbing and eye-opening new book, Hate, proposes that both the small-scale and large-scale acts of violence have their roots in not one, but two very specific forms of populism an extreme and violent ethos of hate spread among the Muslim post-colonial suburban developments on the one hand, and the deeply-rooted French ultra-conservatism of the far right. Weitzmann’s shrewd on-the-ground reporting is woven throughout with the history surrounding the legacies of the French Revolution, the Holocaust, and Gaulist “Arab-French policy.”
 
Hate is a chilling and important account that shows how the rebirth of French Anti-Semitism relates to the new global terror wave, revealing France to be a veritable localized laboratory for a global phenomenon.

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""The answer lies in France’s societal and economic decline over the past 30 years. Since 1988, the French unemployment rate has averaged 9.4 percent, significantly higher than the OECD’s 6.6 percent, driven by poor GDP growth of 1.6 percent. France has missed the globalization opportunity, partly due to notoriously rigid labor laws and an inadequate education system. France has also arguably missed the digital transformation. Venture capital investments accounted for only 0.06 percent of France’s GDP, compared to 0.4 percent in the US and Israel.

Beyond its economic woes, France had been initially unwilling and later unable to counter the radicalization of its Muslim youth. The penetration of satellite dishes, then social media, and the presence of many radical imams, coupled with France’s weak law enforcement culture, have yielded disastrous results. According to a survey conducted by the ADL in 2015, 17 percent of French people “harbor antisemitic attitudes,” but this number increases to 49 percent within the Muslim community."

The above is a quote from a March5, 2019 Op-Ed in Algemeiner by Benjamin Canet. This pretty much validates the views of Marc Weitzman in his depressing "HATE". I am a Francophile who reads French and has quite a few friends in Paris and the South. they too are worried about the future of France.

I particularly like the way the author describes the historical context of French anti-Semitism, which helps explain how the Jews were caught between a 'rock and a hard-place'. The Jews are regarded by both French Ultra-Nationalists and the unassimilated Moslems as "The Other""

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Hate The Rising Tide of AntiSemitism in France and What It Means for Us edition by Marc Weitzmann Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews

• Very good I have hard book copy Can’t I have it on when book isn’t with me
• Weitzmann's book is a rather tough read, and limited in scope to the last ~30 years of anti-Semitism (although you could argue that a comprehensive book on France and anti-Semitism would be a fairly large book.) It does bring a lot into context with the number of Muslims in France, a vast majority of them who see themselves as French and have assimilated over the years to be members of French society, and the schism between those who see themselves as Muslim first with those people stoking tensions. Add that to the persistence of the far right wing in blaming Jews for the sorrows of the world and you start to feel that there may be a time where the last Jews have left France for good, finding themselves fleeing persecution yet again. However, the book feels like it's missing more analysis and a plan to move forward.
  
  I did appreciate the historical context - from France's history of involvement in Algeria, the end of the Cold War, the brutal murder of Theo van Gogh in Amsterdam to start the horror eventually leading up to the Charlie Hebdo and the November 2015 attacks. I felt like Weitzmann was trying too hard to dovetail this current wave of anti-Semitism into rising nationalism in Europe and in the US, instead of seeing nationalism as a byproduct of segments of the population who refuse cultural assimilation. So I'm torn and I was hoping for much more. It certainly was helpful and informative for the historical background, but the book finishes with a shrug and a whimper.
• "The answer lies in France’s societal and economic decline over the past 30 years. Since 1988, the French unemployment rate has averaged 9.4 percent, significantly higher than the OECD’s 6.6 percent, driven by poor GDP growth of 1.6 percent. France has missed the globalization opportunity, partly due to notoriously rigid labor laws and an inadequate education system. France has also arguably missed the digital transformation. Venture capital investments accounted for only 0.06 percent of France’s GDP, compared to 0.4 percent in the US and Israel.
  
  Beyond its economic woes, France had been initially unwilling and later unable to counter the radicalization of its Muslim youth. The penetration of satellite dishes, then social media, and the presence of many radical imams, coupled with France’s weak law enforcement culture, have yielded disastrous results. According to a survey conducted by the ADL in 2015, 17 percent of French people “harbor antisemitic attitudes,” but this number increases to 49 percent within the Muslim community."
  
  The above is a quote from a March5, 2019 Op-Ed in Algemeiner by Benjamin Canet. This pretty much validates the views of Marc Weitzman in his depressing "HATE". I am a Francophile who reads French and has quite a few friends in Paris and the South. they too are worried about the future of France.
  
  I particularly like the way the author describes the historical context of French anti-Semitism, which helps explain how the Jews were caught between a 'rock and a hard-place'. The Jews are regarded by both French Ultra-Nationalists and the unassimilated Moslems as "The Other"
• Marc Weitzmann’s book "Hate" details the pathology of anti Semitic hate in France tracing its roots from the 19th century through mid 2018. Its focus - and force - is on the perpetrators and their violence occurring since 2002; the Toulouse attack in 2012, the two attacks against the older women (Sarah Halimi, Mirielle Knoll) in Paris in 2017, the “Charlie Hebdo," Hyper Cacher killings, the November 2015 attack commonly referred to as the Bataclan in the 10th Arrondisement, and, the Nice truck attack. He finds that " the impulsive anti-Semitic violence serving as a basis for the Islamist propaganda is itself a pathological manifestation of an anti-Semitic narrative at work inside the Muslim world today." The author is a splendid writer, and, creative in tying the innate violence of Islamist anti Semitism to the underlying motivations of the perpetrators and their vacant lives in the "cites" of Paris and its outskirts.
  
  No mention is made of the horrific “Tree of Life” shooting in Pittsburgh in October 2018 because it occurred after the publication.
  
  The book is French in tone, structure, analysis and philosophy though as explained at the end, was published first in the United States and then in France.
• This book is written in English by a French writer, and with the exception of a very few odd phrases, is written masterfully.
  
  It's about anti-Semitism in France, something with a long and not so noble history. The book subtitle is "The Rising Tide of Anti-Semitism in France" but it's really more of a historical survey with analysis applying to modern times and recent events.
  
  The author makes a convincing case, although he draws a bit too much on personal experience and his own family history. That's the only real weakness in the book. I don't see evidence of anti-Muslim or anti-Christian bias; the book is fair and balanced and reaches something of an inevitable conclusion.
  
  Of course that conclusion is probably obvious without ever reading the book. But what the book does is provide a great deal of context and a means of understanding why anti-Semitism is on the rise. It does not (at least not really) provide a solution, but I don't know that the author alone can solve a very old problem.
  
  I give the book four stars overall.

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C'è una miriade di informazioni confuse e fuorvianti sulla menopausa cosa prendere, cosa mangiare. Le donne possono cominciare a chiedersi c'è qualcosa che non va nei nostri corpi? E se la menopausa è naturale, perché i medici, le case farmaceutiche e i media raccomandano così tanti farmaci per curare i sintomi della menopausa?

Gli ultimi sessant'anni di consigli dietetici, che avvertono le donne di evitare il grasso, hanno in realtà peggiorato la salute delle donne. Se ti stai avvicinando alla menopausa, in menopausa o sei interessata a migliorare la tua salute in modo naturale, ecco un libro che spiega la storia della menopausa, i benefici evolutivi di questo evento della vita e come mangiare gli alimenti giusti per aiutarti a goderti cosa dovrebbe essere la parte più lunga e più appagante della tua vita.

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Ideas are the currency of the twenty-first century. In order to succeed, you need to be able to sell your ideas persuasively. This ability is the single greatest skill that will help you accomplish your dreams. TED Talks have redefined the elements of a successful presentation and become the gold standard for public speaking. TED―which stands for technology, entertainment, and design―brings together the world's leading thinkers. These are the presentations that set the world on fire, and the techniques that top TED speakers use will make any presentation more dynamic, fire up any team, and give anyone the confidence to overcome their fear of public speaking.

Public speaking coach and bestselling author Carmine Gallo has broken down hundreds of TED talks and interviewed the most popular TED presenters, as well as the top researchers in the fields of psychology, communications, and neuroscience to reveal the nine secrets of all successful TED presentations. Gallo's step-by-step method makes it possible for anyone to deliver a presentation that is engaging, persuasive, and memorable.

Many people have a fear of public speaking or are insecure about their ability to give a TED-worthy presentation. Carmine Gallo's top 10 Wall Street Journal Bestseller Talk Like TED will give them the tools to communicate the ideas that matter most to them, the skill to win over hearts and minds, and the confidence to deliver the talk of their lives.

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"Not a bad read overall; it's quick and easy to get through, yet it doesn't really provide any meaningful insight into how to "Talk Like TED." The essence of Gallo's few instructions comments you can find from any decent book on public speaking: be authentic; gestures are important; be funny; make an impact; visuals are powerful; have passion. I think that covers it all for this books, as far as public speaking is concerned.

If you're interested in the context around some of the more popular TED talks, then this book really shines. It is well written; it's just that the content and title are incongruent."

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• Talk This Way!
  Using a host of TED Talks, Carmine Gallo offers a powerful argument for how to deliver public presentations. Having taught speech for over 20 years and being a former speechwriter, I can highly recommend this book. Gallo suggests speaking with emotion and passion; telling compelling, relevant stories; having a conversation with the audience; teaching something new; inserting show-stopping elements; using situational and personal humor; and, delivering information in short 10-minute segments punctuated by soft breaks—stories, pictures, videos.
• Not a bad read overall; it's quick and easy to get through, yet it doesn't really provide any meaningful insight into how to "Talk Like TED." The essence of Gallo's few instructions comments you can find from any decent book on public speaking be authentic; gestures are important; be funny; make an impact; visuals are powerful; have passion. I think that covers it all for this books, as far as public speaking is concerned.
  
  If you're interested in the context around some of the more popular TED talks, then this book really shines. It is well written; it's just that the content and title are incongruent.
• I used this as a supplement for our homeschooled daughter. She's in 10th grade and needed a speech credit. I feel like she learned more from this book than she did the actual curriculum we used. She loved it so much she ended up buying it for her boyfriend as a gift.
• This is a fantastic book. Gallo really gives extended evidence to back up the 9 'secrets'. The only draw back is that at times it may seem to be long winded, however you leave each chapter fully understanding what contributes to excellent public speaking/presentation. It truly inspires you to tackle all of your business presentations and make sure that all of your audiences are fully engaged and walk away with a new idea.
• I was asked to speak to a group of physicians and grieving families about being an organ donor. This book was suggested to me and really helped me work on refining my public speaking skills. I enjoy Ted Talk programs and this gave me insight on how much the delivery is important when keeping the audiences attention.
• If you stand in front of people for a living this book should be mandatory for you to read. What an inspiring book on public speaking. They make it much more than a presentation. They teach how to grab others hearts and truly impact those you are speaking too. Everything is practical which is the best part. No matter your experience this book will inspire and teach you to be a better speaker.
• Whether your professional student or job applicant thinks they know everything or needs a step by step guide, this is a must have book for anyone going through interviews or panels. In fact, I'm finding it useful for myself and my church committee involvement and husband is looking it over for misc needs in his 30 year blue collar job.
• I expected a lot from this book, yet it somehow managed to deliver so much more. From the inspiring examples of some of the best-known speakers to the easy-to-follow guidelines for becoming a more effective presenter (whether for TED or otherwise), I recommend this book for anyone who wants to make a bigger impact on their audiences!

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“Vivid...impressive....Splendidly informative.”—The New York Times
“Succeeds spectacularly.”—Science
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Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his extraordinary intellect to bear not only on Higgs bosons and extra dimensions but now also on our deepest personal questions Where are we? Who are we? Are our emotions, our beliefs, and our hopes and dreams ultimately meaningless out there in the void? Do human purpose and meaning fit into a scientific worldview?

In short chapters filled with intriguing historical anecdotes, personal asides, and rigorous exposition, readers learn the difference between how the world works at the quantum level, the cosmic level, and the human level—and then how each connects to the other. Carroll's presentation of the principles that have guided the scientific revolution from Darwin and Einstein to the origins of life, consciousness, and the universe is dazzlingly unique.  

Carroll shows how an avalanche of discoveries in the past few hundred years has changed our world and what really matters to us. Our lives are dwarfed like never before by the immensity of space and time, but they are redeemed by our capacity to comprehend it and give it meaning.

The Big Picture is an unprecedented scientific worldview, a tour de force that will sit on shelves alongside the works of Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Daniel Dennett, and E. O. Wilson for years to come.

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"Sean Carroll is a successful theoretical physicist, skilled ponderer of philosophical questions and gifted communicator of science. He brings all these qualities to bear in his big-hearted, ambitious latest book “The Big Picture.” The book is part sweeping survey of some of the most thought-provoking ideas in modern science, part sweeping rumination on two of the most fundamental questions that we can ask: How do we gain knowledge of the world? And how do we distill meaning from an impersonal, purely physical universe?

The book can roughly be divided into two parts. The first part can be titled “How do we know” and the second can be titled “What do we know”. The siren song weaving its way through Carroll’s narrative is called poetic naturalism. Poetic naturalism simply means that there are many ways to talk about reality, and all of them are valid as long as they are rooted in naturalism and consistent with one another. This is the central message of the book: we make up explanations about the world and we call these explanations “stories” or “models” or “ideas”, and all of them are valid in their own ways.

The first part of the book explores some of the central concepts in the philosophy of science that make up poetic naturalism. Carroll starts from Aristotle and the ancient Greeks and progresses through the Arabs. He explores the investigations of Galileo in the seventeenth century. It was Galileo and his intellectual successor Isaac Newton who showed that the world operates according to self-sufficient physical laws that don’t necessarily require external causes. One of the most important concepts explored in the book is Bayesian thinking, in which one assigns probabilities to phenomena based on one’s previous understanding of the world and then updates this understanding (or “priors”) according to new evidence. Bayesian thinking is a powerful tool for distinguishing valid science from invalid science, and for distinguishing science from nonsense: one could in fact argue that all human belief systems operate (or should operate) according to Bayesian criteria. Bayesianism does introduce an element of subjectivity in the scientific process, but as Carroll demonstrates, this supposed bias has not harmed our investigations of natural phenomena and has allowed us to come up with accurate explanations.

Another thread weaving its way through the book is that of emergence and domains of applicability. Emergence means the existence of properties that are not strictly reducible to their constituent parts. Although Carroll is a physicist and holds fundamental physics in high regard, he appreciates that chemistry has its own language and neuroscience has its own language, and these languages are as fundamental to their disciplines as photons and electrons are to physics. No field of inquiry is thus truly fundamental in an all-encompassing sense, since there are always emergent phenomena that offer stories and explanations in their own right. Emergence also manifests itself in the form of what are called effective theories in physics; these are theories in which the macroscopic behavior of a system does not depend in a unique way on a detailed microscopic description: for instance a container of air can be perfectly described by properties like its average temperature and pressure without resorting to descriptions of quarks and Higgs bosons. As long as the two domains are consistent with each other (what Carroll calls “planets of belief”) we are on firm ground.

These ideas lay the foundation for the second half of the book which takes us on a sweeping sojourn through many of the key ideas of modern science. Carroll says that the most important description of the world comes from what’s called the ‘Core Theory’. This theory ties together the fundamental forces of nature and particles like the Higgs boson; it is grounded in general relativity and quantum mechanics. It can explain the entire physical universe, from atoms to the Big Bang, certainly in principle but often in practice. If there's any one hard scientific lesson to take away from the book, it's that the universe is made up of quantum fields. Later chapters deal with topics like evolution in real time, photosynthesis and metabolism, leading theories for the origins of life, thermodynamics and networks in the brain. When Carroll talks about entropy, complexity and the arrow of time he’s in his element; one important aspect of complexity which I had not quite appreciated is that complexity can actually result from an increase, not decrease, of entropy and disorder if guided the right way.

The book also dwells in detail upon Rene Descartes since his ideas of dualism and pure thought seem to pose challenge to poetic naturalism, but as Carroll demonstrates, these challenges are illusory since both the mind and the body can be shown to operate based on well known physical principles. These ideas keep appearing in the later parts of the book in which Carroll deals with many thought experiments in philosophy and neuroscience that purport to ask questions about reality and consciousness. Some experiments involve zombies, others involve aliens simulating us; all are entertaining. A big question is subjective experience (or “qualia”) which is sometimes regarded as some kind of impenetrable domain that’s divorced from objective laws of nature. For the most part Carroll convincingly shows us that the same laws of nature that give rise to the motion of the planets also give rise to one’s perception of the color red, for instance. This section of the book involving famous conundrums like John Searle’s Chinese Room and ‘Mary the Color Scientist’ is fascinating and highly thought-provoking, and while the thought experiments have no clear resolution, Carroll’s point is that none of them violate the basic naturalistic structure of the universe and demand mysterious explanations. His discussion of consciousness is also very stimulating; he thinks that consciousness is not really a thing per se but an emergent property of organized matter. More succinctly, it’s a useful invention, a description of a particular way in which matter behaves rather than something that is beyond our current understanding of natural law; it is what we say rather than what is. Much of Carroll’s discussion here reminds me, as cheesy as it sounds, of a line from ‘The Matrix’: words like love, care and purpose are mere descriptions borne of language - what matters are the connections they imply.

The book ends by taking us on a tour of some of the most important philosophical questions that human beings have asked themselves; questions of meaning, purpose, emotion and free will. Personally I found this section a bit rambling but I cannot really blame Carroll for this: none of these questions have a definitive answer and all are subject to speculation. On the other hand, this little tour provides non-specialists with an introduction to well-known philosophers and philosophies, including constructivism, deontology and utilitarianism. The big question here is how meaning can arise from the impersonal natural laws that have been described so far. Neither Carroll nor anyone else knows the answer, and the book simply makes the case that all these qualities are emergent properties that are all consistent with poetic naturalism. You may or may not be satisfied by this answer, but it certainly provides food for thought.

In a book as ambitious as this one there’s bound to be some disagreement, and that’s a good thing. Here are some questions I had: Generally speaking Carroll is on more firm ground when talking about science rather than philosophy. Quite oddly at one point, he uses poetic naturalism to argue against opposition to gay marriage and LGBT rights. While his support for these issues is one I heartily share, I am not sure poetic naturalism is the best or the most persuasive reason to uphold these causes: we should support them not because of but in spite of naturalistic reasons. Also, Carroll who is a self-professed naturalist spends several paragraphs describing how all of the arguments for a supernatural God violate naturalism. However I think religion has a purpose beyond describing the real world, and ironically this purpose lends itself to the same analysis that Carroll does of human qualities like care and love. I would think that based on much of the book’s narrative, religion would be described as an emergent phenomenon that provides people with a set of stories and descriptions; these stories provide succor and and a sense of community. Are these stories real? They may not be, and they are certainly not grounded in natural law, but Carroll himself says at one point that models of the world should be used because they are useful, not because they claim to be real. Shouldn’t one say the same thing about the positive and personal aspects of religion?

However, none of these concerns should detract from the sweeping scientific and philosophical journey the book takes us on. Carroll is an engaging, sympathetic and pleasant guide to the big picture, irrespective of whether you agree with him completely or not. Ranging over some of the most pressing questions that humanity has unearthed and continues to unearth, the one clear message in the book is an unambiguous one: we will always keep on searching, and this search will continue to propel humanity past unexpected and exciting horizons. More than anything else the discussion drives home the grandeur of the universe and the human mind, and this is grandeur we should all revel in. Perhaps this bit of wisdom from Carroll’s chapter on entropy where he is describing complexity in a cup of coffee sums it up best: “Those swirls in the cream mixing in the coffee? That’s us. Ephemeral patterns of complexity, riding a wave of increasing entropy from simple beginnings to a simple end. We should enjoy the ride.”"

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• Sean Carroll is a successful theoretical physicist, skilled ponderer of philosophical questions and gifted communicator of science. He brings all these qualities to bear in his big-hearted, ambitious latest book “The Big Picture.” The book is part sweeping survey of some of the most thought-provoking ideas in modern science, part sweeping rumination on two of the most fundamental questions that we can ask How do we gain knowledge of the world? And how do we distill meaning from an impersonal, purely physical universe?
  
  The book can roughly be divided into two parts. The first part can be titled “How do we know” and the second can be titled “What do we know”. The siren song weaving its way through Carroll’s narrative is called poetic naturalism. Poetic naturalism simply means that there are many ways to talk about reality, and all of them are valid as long as they are rooted in naturalism and consistent with one another. This is the central message of the book we make up explanations about the world and we call these explanations “stories” or “models” or “ideas”, and all of them are valid in their own ways.
  
  The first part of the book explores some of the central concepts in the philosophy of science that make up poetic naturalism. Carroll starts from Aristotle and the ancient Greeks and progresses through the Arabs. He explores the investigations of Galileo in the seventeenth century. It was Galileo and his intellectual successor Isaac Newton who showed that the world operates according to self-sufficient physical laws that don’t necessarily require external causes. One of the most important concepts explored in the book is Bayesian thinking, in which one assigns probabilities to phenomena based on one’s previous understanding of the world and then updates this understanding (or “priors”) according to new evidence. Bayesian thinking is a powerful tool for distinguishing valid science from invalid science, and for distinguishing science from nonsense one could in fact argue that all human belief systems operate (or should operate) according to Bayesian criteria. Bayesianism does introduce an element of subjectivity in the scientific process, but as Carroll demonstrates, this supposed bias has not harmed our investigations of natural phenomena and has allowed us to come up with accurate explanations.
  
  Another thread weaving its way through the book is that of emergence and domains of applicability. Emergence means the existence of properties that are not strictly reducible to their constituent parts. Although Carroll is a physicist and holds fundamental physics in high regard, he appreciates that chemistry has its own language and neuroscience has its own language, and these languages are as fundamental to their disciplines as photons and electrons are to physics. No field of inquiry is thus truly fundamental in an all-encompassing sense, since there are always emergent phenomena that offer stories and explanations in their own right. Emergence also manifests itself in the form of what are called effective theories in physics; these are theories in which the macroscopic behavior of a system does not depend in a unique way on a detailed microscopic description for instance a container of air can be perfectly described by properties like its average temperature and pressure without resorting to descriptions of quarks and Higgs bosons. As long as the two domains are consistent with each other (what Carroll calls “planets of belief”) we are on firm ground.
  
  These ideas lay the foundation for the second half of the book which takes us on a sweeping sojourn through many of the key ideas of modern science. Carroll says that the most important description of the world comes from what’s called the ‘Core Theory’. This theory ties together the fundamental forces of nature and particles like the Higgs boson; it is grounded in general relativity and quantum mechanics. It can explain the entire physical universe, from atoms to the Big Bang, certainly in principle but often in practice. If there's any one hard scientific lesson to take away from the book, it's that the universe is made up of quantum fields. Later chapters deal with topics like evolution in real time, photosynthesis and metabolism, leading theories for the origins of life, thermodynamics and networks in the brain. When Carroll talks about entropy, complexity and the arrow of time he’s in his element; one important aspect of complexity which I had not quite appreciated is that complexity can actually result from an increase, not decrease, of entropy and disorder if guided the right way.
  
  The book also dwells in detail upon Rene Descartes since his ideas of dualism and pure thought seem to pose challenge to poetic naturalism, but as Carroll demonstrates, these challenges are illusory since both the mind and the body can be shown to operate based on well known physical principles. These ideas keep appearing in the later parts of the book in which Carroll deals with many thought experiments in philosophy and neuroscience that purport to ask questions about reality and consciousness. Some experiments involve zombies, others involve aliens simulating us; all are entertaining. A big question is subjective experience (or “qualia”) which is sometimes regarded as some kind of impenetrable domain that’s divorced from objective laws of nature. For the most part Carroll convincingly shows us that the same laws of nature that give rise to the motion of the planets also give rise to one’s perception of the color red, for instance. This section of the book involving famous conundrums like John Searle’s Chinese Room and ‘Mary the Color Scientist’ is fascinating and highly thought-provoking, and while the thought experiments have no clear resolution, Carroll’s point is that none of them violate the basic naturalistic structure of the universe and demand mysterious explanations. His discussion of consciousness is also very stimulating; he thinks that consciousness is not really a thing per se but an emergent property of organized matter. More succinctly, it’s a useful invention, a description of a particular way in which matter behaves rather than something that is beyond our current understanding of natural law; it is what we say rather than what is. Much of Carroll’s discussion here reminds me, as cheesy as it sounds, of a line from ‘The Matrix’ words like love, care and purpose are mere descriptions borne of language - what matters are the connections they imply.
  
  The book ends by taking us on a tour of some of the most important philosophical questions that human beings have asked themselves; questions of meaning, purpose, emotion and free will. Personally I found this section a bit rambling but I cannot really blame Carroll for this none of these questions have a definitive answer and all are subject to speculation. On the other hand, this little tour provides non-specialists with an introduction to well-known philosophers and philosophies, including constructivism, deontology and utilitarianism. The big question here is how meaning can arise from the impersonal natural laws that have been described so far. Neither Carroll nor anyone else knows the answer, and the book simply makes the case that all these qualities are emergent properties that are all consistent with poetic naturalism. You may or may not be satisfied by this answer, but it certainly provides food for thought.
  
  In a book as ambitious as this one there’s bound to be some disagreement, and that’s a good thing. Here are some questions I had Generally speaking Carroll is on more firm ground when talking about science rather than philosophy. Quite oddly at one point, he uses poetic naturalism to argue against opposition to gay marriage and LGBT rights. While his support for these issues is one I heartily share, I am not sure poetic naturalism is the best or the most persuasive reason to uphold these causes we should support them not because of but in spite of naturalistic reasons. Also, Carroll who is a self-professed naturalist spends several paragraphs describing how all of the arguments for a supernatural God violate naturalism. However I think religion has a purpose beyond describing the real world, and ironically this purpose lends itself to the same analysis that Carroll does of human qualities like care and love. I would think that based on much of the book’s narrative, religion would be described as an emergent phenomenon that provides people with a set of stories and descriptions; these stories provide succor and and a sense of community. Are these stories real? They may not be, and they are certainly not grounded in natural law, but Carroll himself says at one point that models of the world should be used because they are useful, not because they claim to be real. Shouldn’t one say the same thing about the positive and personal aspects of religion?
  
  However, none of these concerns should detract from the sweeping scientific and philosophical journey the book takes us on. Carroll is an engaging, sympathetic and pleasant guide to the big picture, irrespective of whether you agree with him completely or not. Ranging over some of the most pressing questions that humanity has unearthed and continues to unearth, the one clear message in the book is an unambiguous one we will always keep on searching, and this search will continue to propel humanity past unexpected and exciting horizons. More than anything else the discussion drives home the grandeur of the universe and the human mind, and this is grandeur we should all revel in. Perhaps this bit of wisdom from Carroll’s chapter on entropy where he is describing complexity in a cup of coffee sums it up best “Those swirls in the cream mixing in the coffee? That’s us. Ephemeral patterns of complexity, riding a wave of increasing entropy from simple beginnings to a simple end. We should enjoy the ride.”
• The Big Picture by Sean Carroll is an excellent book for anyone who wants a concise, understandable, and we'll written overview of modern science, with an emphasis on quantum mechanics and the philosophy of Poetic Naturalism. In this review I will focus on the philosophical side of his work and particularly his treatment of issues related to consciousness.
  
  As Carroll puts it, "Naturalism” claims that there is just one world, the natural world... (while) “Poetic” reminds us that there is more than one way of talking about the world . He describes these different ways of talking about the world as an "interconnected series of models appropriate at different levels". From this perspective, physics, chemistry, biology, and even psychology and sociology are simply different but useful ways of talking about the same world.
  
  From a scientific perspective, the most fundamental way of talking about the world is quantum field theory and, more specifically, the Core Theory, a term coined by Nobel Laueate Frank Wilczek. The Core Theory may be viewed as quantum field theory within a "domain of applicability" that includes most of the universe in which we live but excludes certain phenomena (e.g. dark matter, the big bang and black holes). Though the Core Theory is not the elusive Theory of Everything, it has been validated by so much data from so many experiments that it may be as close as we ever get to scientific certainty. As Carroll puts it, "We can be confident that the Core Theory, accounting for the substances and processes we experience in our everyday life, is correct. A thousand years from now we will have learned a lot more about the fundamental nature of physics, but we will still use the Core Theory to talk about this particular layer of reality". That is an audacious claim, but Carroll supports that claim with rigorous scientific reasoning.
  
  Carroll views higher level or "coarse grained theories" such as chemistry and biology as "emergent" and describes them as "... speaking different languages, but offering compatible descriptions of the same underlying phenomena in their respective domains of applicability". For example, chemistry and biology are emergent models of the universe, compatible with each other and the Core Theory, but with unique utilities in their particular domain of applicability. He briefly mentions supervenience, the view that emergent theories exist in an ontological hierarchy where higher level theories rest on more fundamental theories. For example, there could be no change at the level of biology without there being a change in the underlying chemistry. Similarly, there could be no change at the level of chemistry absent a change in the more fundamental physics. All of the models are interconnected and interdependent. Though each model has its own unique utility and coherence, that utility and coherence ultimately rests on a consistency with other more fundamental models.
  
  Unfortunately, Carroll's treatment of how different emergent models relate to each other alternates between autonomous or semiautonomous utility on the one hand and consistency with more fundamental models on the other. Though he warns readers not to begin a sentence in one model and end it in another, by moving between these two criteria for the validity of those models, he committs a very similar error. He frequently refers to consistency or compatibility among different models as essential, but also writes, "Within their respective domains of applicability, each theory is autonomous—complete and self-contained, neither relying on the other". This is just one example of where he suggests that the soundness of a model can be evaluated by its utility and internal coherence, and without reference to consistency with more fundamental models. In my opinion, when this level of credence is given to utility, one has entered a slippery slope that can lead to invalid ontological conclusions. Now, the criteria of utility does have its own domain of applicability, namely when the theory does not make ontological claims. For example, there are languages or ways of talking about everything from hair styling to stamp collecting that do not make claims about fundamental reality. Even Newtonian physics has its utility within its particular domain of applicability. In these areas, utility is a perfectly reasonable criteria. But when it comes to any model that claims to reflect, at some level, an underlying reality, utility by itself is an inadequate criteria.
  
  Another example is theism, a world view that Carroll does an excellent job demonstrating why it is not only unnecessary but a way of looking at the world but one that is ultimately inconsistent with the Core Theory. But if one evaluates the validity of theism, and particularly the theism embodied in major world religions such as Jewdaism, Christianity, and Islam, from the perspective of their utility, one is headed for an ontological train wreck. Who can deny the comfort (i.e. utility) that faith in a loving god and a blissful after life has given millions if not billions of people? But does that mean that such a world view is real in the same sense that the Core Theory is real? Of course not.
  
  The same logic applies to the role of consciousness in human behavior. Though there may be personal or social utility in the belief that conscious intent is responsible for human behavior, such a position is inconsistent with everything we know from cognitive science and everything we know about how the world works according to the Core Theory. Behavior emerges from complex brain activity, not inner experiences. The fact that our brain is responsible for both behavior and consciousness, at approximately the same time, gives rise to the illusion that conscious intent causes behavior. It is no more reasonable to claim that consciousness is responsible for behavior than to claim that a god is responsible for behavior or that a roosters crowing causes the sun to rise.
  
  Carroll tries to get around this by claiming that consciousness is just another way of talking about brain activity and the deeper layers of chemistry and physics. Unfortunately, reducing consciousness to a way of talking about experience fails to solve the Hard Problem. Consciousness is more than just a way of talking about brain states. It is dependent for its existence and form on those states, but is not identical to them. I do not claim to know what consciousness is, but whatever it is, it is more than words.
  
  Thus, poetic naturalism fails as a satisfactory philosophy of mind on two counts. First, it fails to give an adequate understanding of inner experience and secondly, it provides credence to the idea that consciousness is responsible for behavior. The first failure is understandable; the Hard Problem is hard for a reason and no one has yet come up with a satisfactory solution to it. As David Chalmers has said, that may take a hundred years. But Carroll should have seen the second failure coming. By allowing for the claim that consciousness can be responsible for behavior, he is opening the door for a new element in the Core Theory, an element he has argued persuasively does not exist. If it existed, this new element or property, somehow related to connsciousness, would make David Chalmers a very happy camper, but for the Sean Carroll who describes the Core Theory with such reverence, not so much.
  
  In conclusion, The Big Picture is an excellent book on the current status of science and his portrait of Poetic Natualism as a unifying philosophy. For those reasons, I highly recommend it to interested lay readers. However, I also urge those readers to be very careful in analyzing his treatment of consciousness. I believe he made a significant error in that analysis, though the error could very easily be my own.

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The 10th book in the best-selling Chronicles of St Mary's series, which follows a group of tea-soaked disaster magnets as they hurtle their way around History. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor.  

You can't change History. History doesn't like it. There are always consequences.  

Max is no stranger to taking matters into her own hands. Especially when she's had A Brilliant Idea. Yes, it will mean breaking a few rules, but - as Max always says - they're not her rules. Seconded to the Time Police to join in the hunt for the renegade Clive Ronan, Max is a long way from St Mary's. But life in the future does have its plus points - although not for long.  

A problem with the Time Map reveals chaos in the 16th century and the wrong Tudor queen on the throne. History has gone rogue, there's a St Mary's team right in the firing line and Max must step up.  

You know what they say. Hope for the best. But plan for the worst.

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"I am in awe of Jodi Taylor's talent.

This is a funny, action-packed, thrilling roller-coaster ride of a book. You'll laugh, you'll feel righteous indignation, you'll fear for Max, you'll come to respect Dr. Bairstow even more than you did before, you'll--oh, just buy this book, already.

Seriously, I think this is one of the best things that Jodi Taylor has ever produced.

I eagerly await more of Max's adventures--and some excellent fill-in-the-gaps short stories--that will hopefully be forthcoming.

And, of course, I am eagerly awaiting the new Time Police series, which I hope will soon be available for pre-order on Amazon US.

Buy this book. Read it. Cherish it. You won't regret it."

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• I’m upset that I won’t hear from Max until at least next year. I don’t want a book about the Time Police, I want St. Marys. I do want to say that I think this one of the best books in the entire series. It was action packed from beginning until the very last paragraph. I was absolutely ugly crying during this story. I was walking around with an earbud in and gasping sobs with tears streaming down my face. I must have looked incredibly bizarre. I don’t know how Zara Ramm could read this without sobbing. Super, duper story I wish I had never read this series so I could find St. Mary’s crew for the first time. Stop reading this review and listen to Zara Ramm narrate this incredible book!
• In one single paragraph, she destroyed my liking for her and her books. I will never read anything by this author nor will I ever recommend her again. Sticking American politics in, no matter how small it seems to this author, is wrong in every way. The hint of Donald Trump being murdered while Hillary survives is disgusting and shameful. If I could get my money back for every penny I've spent on her books, I'd do it. She doesn't seem to mind that Hillary left four men on a rooftop in Benghazi for 13 hours to be tortured and murdered. Doesn't mind that this same person has attempted to overthrow a sitting President. Doesn't mind that this same person has been linked to child trafficking. Congratulations Jodi, you have shown that you are incapable of common decency. I would never ever insult your Queen or PM as you have insulted the United States. No class whatsoever
• I am in awe of Jodi Taylor's talent.
  
  This is a funny, action-packed, thrilling roller-coaster ride of a book. You'll laugh, you'll feel righteous indignation, you'll fear for Max, you'll come to respect Dr. Bairstow even more than you did before, you'll--oh, just buy this book, already.
  
  Seriously, I think this is one of the best things that Jodi Taylor has ever produced.
  
  I eagerly await more of Max's adventures--and some excellent fill-in-the-gaps short stories--that will hopefully be forthcoming.
  
  And, of course, I am eagerly awaiting the new Time Police series, which I hope will soon be available for pre-order on US.
  
  Buy this book. Read it. Cherish it. You won't regret it.
• Jodi Taylor’s writing has become my new gold standard. I become so engrossed in the St. Mary’s world that I find it can sometimes be difficult to readjust back to my world. A bit like jet lag after an absolutely amazingly perfect holiday. Would that be ‘book lag’? Hmmm, that doesn’t sound quite right. I suppose I will be forced to revisit St. Mary’s repeatedly until I hit upon the right terminology. Oh well, so be it...
• Ok, yes, this a typical Maxwell Saves The Day story. It does, however, have a sufficient number of plot twists, many unforeseeable, to keep this story moving, interesting and driving towards an unexpected, yet wholly reasonable conclusion. I'm writing this as Game of Thrones just had 'the BIG battle #1' air and Avengers Endgame is in theaters wrapping up their storylines. I saw GoT, not bad, haven't seen Endgame but I understand they done good, and Jodi Taylor provide Hope and nails it. Not bad company!
• I'm a super-duper St. Mary's fan, and predicted this "write a Time Police story" several books ago. I don't think this was a bad effort, and I read it through twice, but it made me realize how much I enjoyed the "observing History" aspects of the past stories, and that these more conventional story lines (time police enforcement, alternate timelines, speculations about the future) aren't really as satisfying, at least to me. It's certainly true that the plot here is the most elaborate and complex yet, and it's good to see two old characters from the past return, but somehow I didn't get caught up into things the way I normally do. If it's hard to think of new Max stories, I might be time to focus on the younger characters (I'm thinking North and Sykes buddying up after some arduous story, perhaps). The Time Police idea, as a main plot vehicle, leaves me cold.
• Jodi Taylor's Chronicle's of St. Mary's has consistently been the best time-travel series written today - and I think I read them all. Even within this stellar series, "Hope for the Best" is utterly amazing. Prepare to give up all work, sleep and family life once you start this book - there are that many plot twists and character developments and truly satisfying moments right up the last paragraph. Now I want to go back and re-read every book, novelette, novella, and short story in the canon....
  
  Please hurry with Book One of the Time Police series, Ms Taylor!
• I have so enjoyed the series of St Mary’s, all ten books. The characters are well written and the plot weaves its way through time. The only thing I wish is that they were much, much longer and that she would write a new book a month.

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