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Chauncey Bell's Profile
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Chauncey Bell (Seattle, WA USA)
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Even Better than I expected, December 30, 2007
The blender is wonderful for making shakes, soups, chopping up chunks of meat into finely ground meat, and a myriad of other things. The accompanying little chopper is fabulous, and I've given away my Cuisinart mini processor so now I have more space in my cabinet. I chop garlic, little amounts of nuts, herbs, and other things that would get lost in the large Cuisinart, but are tedious to do by hand. Much less mess and clean up! Great price. Only complaint is that I have to keep pressing the start button in order for it to work. But I suppose that is a safety precaution.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Enthusiastic endorsement, November 18, 2007
I see that the other reviewers of this book have done a careful and creditable job of giving Ms. Jamison the level of review this book deserves. It is a magnificent book that I found inspiring to read, terribly useful for thinking about people all around me, including loved ones, and surprisingly valuable for thinking about my own place and navigation in the world. I highly recommend the book.
Thank you Ms. Jamison
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
A fast, deep review of central human questions, October 22, 2007
Aiy! Another extraordinary book without reviews. In this short book Anthony Kenny introduces us to the way that Western Philosophy has interpreted the central questions we confront when we go about designing our own lives. Ambition, will, emotions, language, understanding, the mind, how we think, and so forth. What are they? From whence do our understandings of them come? What is each connected to? The book is inescapably contental philosophy, but a walk in the park in comparison to Heidegger or Wittgenstein. It is on my list of the 10 books I would take if I knew I was going to be trapped on a desert island.
I highly recommend it.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
An extraordinary book, and right on time, July 30, 2007
There are two books with this same title, "How Doctors Think," that have arrived at more or less the same time. Dr Groopman's book will sell more copies, and is a useful book for building competence for managing both sides of the doctor-patient interaction. This book is something different. It is a historic milestone that offers extraordinary help to those who are committed to guiding the medical professions in shifting their orientations and competences for the challenges facing them. It arrives at the right moment, in that to effectively address these challenges will require new understandings of what doctors are and do, how they become what they are and how they are trained to do what they do. I am grateful that Ms. Montgomery has published it.
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Preparing for an Economic Era Like None Before, July 19, 2006
I strongly recommend the book.
Peter Schwartz speaks of "Inevitable Surprises" - changes coming to us which, once here, we could see clearly have been upon us for a long time. This book is a carefully researched and argued introduction to one of the biggest inevitable surprises in the history of this country, and it is coming now. The economic structures underlying human productivity of this country are going to be turned upside down in the next decades, while the pressure on our health care systems will be multiplied many times.
Would you have been able to make use of a good characterization of the economics of the networked world we now find ourselves in, if you had listened to it back in the 1970s? Burns and Kotlikoff are characterizing the world we are about to enter.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Putting Marketing and Sales Back Together, October 25, 2004
The authors found out first-hand through their work that the "modern" separation of marketing and sales produces certain unholy messes, lots of waste, extra unproductive work, and, only accidentally, some sales. They have constructed a way of approaching the two as a unity, so that every marketing action happens in a context where sales is the other side of the equation.
Readers with marketing responsibilities will save a fortune, and those with sales responsibilities can find ways to talk to the marketing folks.
I recommend it.
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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
A Jewel by a Giant, January 2, 2004
This is an astonishing book, for its brevity, readability, depth, and importance for our time. In the short space of only 75 pages, Varela turns on its head most of today's common sense about where ethical behavior comes from, how we prepare for ethical action, and how wise and ethical people learn to be that way. The exploration Varela reports in the three lectures reproduced here are based on recent biological evidence. In this regard, he speaks not as writer, journalist, or gifted amateur, but as one of the leading authorities on the science of mind in the world - a giant. For those who may be tempted to ignore this book because of another reviewer's dismissive comments, I recommend a quick visit, through Google, to one of the many web sites that speak of his education, accomplishments, and world-wide reputation. Try: http://www.enolagaia.com/Varela.html#Bib. In the second major inquiry that the book reports, Varela takes his question about ethical behavior from an inquiry into scientific and Western Philosophical traditions and connects them to an informed examination of Eastern Wisdom traditions. He is an authority there as well, a practicing Buddhist for many years, and also for many years one of the chief scientific advisors to the Dali Lama. Varela is better known for two other important contributions - as co-author with Humberto Maturana of the ground-breaking Tree of Knowledge, in which they construct a radically new interpretation of biology that makes sense of language and cognition as biological, not metaphysical phenomena, and as the lead co-author of The Embodied Mind, in which the authors offer a new foundation for studies of the mind. The lectures offered here do not go over the same ground as the two other books, although Varela is standing on what he did before. This book is asking more sweeping questions about the construction of the human condition than did the others. I give this elegant little book my very highest recommendation.
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19 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
I love this book, November 19, 2003
To read The Soul of Money is to sit down and have a memorable, life-altering conversation with an extraordinary, courageous, deeply thoughtful and committed soul. Lynne speaks intimately and passionately from each page. The book does a beautiful job of untangling the mess in which almost all of us have learned about money, and then offers important opportunities and challenges to each of us about ways to enrich our lives and those of all around us.
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:
Not Just Another Pretty Face, July 24, 2001
A few years ago Byte Magazine named this one of the 10 most important books in the history of the computer industry. Flores was asked to keynote the 50th anniversary meeting of the ACM on the strength of the work he has done, some of which is shown here. I am a little surprised not to find a review here that shows awareness of what this book is and was intended to do -- to turn those concerned with the design of the role of computers in society into a new direction. The book offers a fundamental enrichment and extension to the traditional engineering-based foundations that are used for designing computer systems that is drawn from philosophy and biology. It opens the development of a rigorous new design milleau to the reader. This is NOT yet another multi-disciplinary rumination. I would say this is not a "helpful" book, and it was never intended as an easy read. It is a book to turn to when one has learned enough about what is really at issue in putting computers to work in human life to discover that the likes of input, process, output, "friendly" interfaces, attractive graphical presentations, and logical flow charts are vastly insufficient distinctions for doing work that really makes a contribution to your clients and colleagues. The book challenges the reader strongly, and is not simple to read. I guess that the best way to read it is with someone else, having discussions as you go along. This is a book to engage and grow with -- a must-read for those serious about designing and building systems that will affect the lives of those who engage with them.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
The most thoughtful book on listening as listening, November 20, 2000
Amazon today lists 1760 books on a search for "listening." 99% of them fall into (1) language training, (2) Christian and Spiritual Direction texts, and (3) tips and techniques for listening in different contexts. This book is different. Fiumara attempts to bring listening into the light -- what listening is, really, what happens when we listen, and what listening does to us. As she shows carefully in the first few chapters, what people think of today as a "philosophy of listening" -- what we can use as a basis for thinking about listening -- is a whole lot of talking about talking. There is almost nothing at all on the subject of what listening is about. Listening, especially listening to what we have not listened to before, is going to get more and more important in this world, as change accelerates all around us. And Fiumara is right; we are operating without basic maps or carefully wrought structures for thinking about listening. Paraphrasing Heidegger, we have the unfortunate habit of listening only to what we already understand. My children, I notice, like many other people in the world today, get angry when I ask them to begin to listen to something they have not before encountered. Listening is bloody important. The ambition of this book -- a philosophy of listening -- is an astonishingly important ambition for our times. I don't think Fiumara fully realizes the ambition here, but she has done a superb job of aiming us in the right direction and raising all kinds of the right warnings and concerns. I have read this book half a dozen times. I quote it regularly when I am giving talks. I use it for thinking how to construct a marriage, a community, and how to get my children to listen to me, others, the world, and to be better listeners for themselves. I recommend this as one of the top 10 books on the shelf of anyone who is committed to thinking about growing people in this era we are entering. Thank you, Dr. Fiumara.
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(Seattle, WA USA)
