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Title: Trailer.(noticias cortas del mundo del espectáculo)(TT: Trailer.)(TA: short news from show business)(Artículo Breve)
Publication: Semana (Magazine/Journal)
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This digital document is an article from Semana, published by Spanish Publications, Inc. on June 14, 2002. The length of the article is 832 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Pantalla grande.(TT: Big screen.)(Reseña)
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Date: June 14, 2002
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Thomson Gale on March 6, 2005. The length of the article is 442 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Eastwood, siempre a más.(Golpes del destino)(Reseña de película)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
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Title: PBS-TV series 'Slavery and the Making of America' examines history of U.S. slavery.(Black History)(Brief Article)
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Date: February 21, 2005
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This digital document is an article from Jet, published by Johnson Publishing Co. on February 21, 2005. The length of the article is 925 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Black stars to shine at 2005 Oscars.(Cover Story)
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The Heart of the Matter
I've read all the "what to do and how to do it" diet books - yet, I still struggle with my weight.The problem is far deeper than portion control and exercise.This book invites you - it is a gentle book - to work at your own pace to really delve into another level; the often unknown level that drives behavior.It is a book to work with and read through over and over.I have found it insightful, humorous, and practical.

A Healthy Way to Eat and Live
There are plenty of books out there that tell you what to eat and healthy food options are all around. What has been missing is a book that looks at the core issues about the true inner struggles of food and weight gain... this book does that and MORE. This is a fresh, unique look and process around being healthy inside and out.

"Weight Release" A Book for Everyone!
I am not a person who has any weight to lose. In fact, I have the opposite problem. I have weight to gain. I think my issues and struggles might be the same as one with too much body weight. When I get emotional, overwhelmed, depressed and freaked out, I go on a food strike. That's right, I gain comfort and punish my self by NOT allowing myself to eat. It's the same trip. I say I do not love me by refusing to nourish myself.
I needed to read Freeman Michael's "Weight Release"I needed his help so I could live.But more, I needed to read "Weight Release" because I needed to know how to have compassion for myself in order to have a chance at becoming healthy. I have been changed by reading Mr. Michael's book. I have been changed by listening to his radio shows and podcasts. The weight I carry is becoming more manageable. And with that, I am beginning to allow myself to feel loved, to love, and I am confident, to heal! So, this book is not just for those who struggle with an excess of body weight. It speaks loudly about the struggle of carrying inner weight, which creates all kinds of bodies, and all kinds of souls with pain. Thank you, Mr. Michael's. I am releasing the weight I have been carrying and learning to love myself. I am happier. Thank you for helping me. This is a great book for everyone!

A journey in forgiveness and compassion
I have to say that this book has to be read more than once. There is so much wisdom in it. I have struggled with my weight most of my life going from diet to diet and having read just about every book on this subject. This book is not about dieting. It is about releasing. It is about forgiving ourselves, looking at some of our issues with compassion and finding not only peace in the process but also helping others along the way. I Loved it and highly recommend it.

Great Approach... But
I think this book takes a great approach to "releasing" extra pounds but I don't think that it necessarily stands alone.The author really doesn't provide enough (or really any) guidelines for what to eat.This book does however do an amazing job of helping people look at the deeper reasons for their poor eating habits.

I have read a lot of diet books, and this book is clearly different.Honestly, I believe this approach is going to be more effective in the long run than any fad diet.To the author's credit, he even mentions in the book that you may want to buy someone else's book for nutritional guidelines - I think that is excellent advice.

Coupled with a really good "diet" program, I believe this is an excellent book.The author makes a really good point that if you loose weight, without looking at the real reasons for your poor eating habits, you will find the weight again.That has been my experience.This time I am combining the program from this book with a more traditional weight loss plan.I hope it works.
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When a world, any world is falling...when its end is near, it tries desperately to be saved. Imagination is like a magnet to these worlds...Many stories you read are about a world that needs to be saved. It makes for great fiction, of course, but the real element of truth is what really happens when an author writes Happily Ever After... Something has been brewing in the shadows...a monster most only whisper about. And only one person can truly face it. Here they are in The Traveling Man, the characters you've grown to love. Cole is trying to understand his new powers, and the conspiracy he's overheard that could unravel any chance he and his brother might ever get home again. Jimmy falls ever deeper into a trap that could separate him from Cole forever. Edwin Krollup and the wizard Granum go off to meet the Guardian of the stone in an earth-shattering duel that will mean somebody's doom. And Isabella rides to Edin to fight in the Last Stand against the wolves. The world is coming apart. The Final War approaches. Come join us in the thrilling conclusion of The Inlands Trilogy for the answer to the most important question: Can the Inlands be saved? ... Read more

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A fantastic finish
The Travelling Man is the most engaging and well-written of the trilogy. This was definitely my personal favorite, and the end to the trilogy is very satisfying. The adventure continues to become more involving to the reader, as it builds towards a climatic ending. A must read! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Wordsworth Circle, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2005. The length of the article is 7737 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: "Eternally disunited": gender, empire, and epistemology in Sydney Owenson's The Missionary.
Author: Kathryn Freeman
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Date: January 1, 2005
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This digital document is an article from International Bulletin of Missionary Research, published by Overseas Ministries Study Center on April 1, 2000. The length of the article is 426 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: An Ecumenical Theology of the Heart: The Theology of Count Nicholas Ludwig vonZinzendorf.(Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Jr., Hampton Morgan
Publication: International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2000
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Volume: 24Issue: 2Page: 94

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The adventure continues! Jimmy and Cole are stuck in the Inlands, and Edwin Krollup is in a mysterious coma where all of his memories are vanishing. The war with the wolves has ended, but it has left Isabella and Shavin the only remainders of the world s last great protectors the Hunters. Chain of the Worlds continues where The Man with the Stone abruptly ended follow Granum the wizard, the Hunters and the otherworlders on their epic journey across the Inlands...through the dark tangled forests of the Barrens, a land the world has forgotten, toward a great city left in ruins after a civil war left its government and people in disrepair. But something is happening...something that would suggest Edwin, Jimmy and Cole came to the Inlands for a reason. Jimmy is becoming quite adept with the blade, and Cole is starting to have dreams...dreams that are proving to have real consequences! Chain of the Worlds, the second book of The Inlands Trilogy, continues an epic tale that weaves between two worlds: our own, and another, darker land, where magic and faith coexist, and monsters lurk in every shadow... ... Read more

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If you enjoyed the first, then...
If you enjoyed the first novel, then you'll love this. I had high expectations, as the second book is typically much faster paced, and The Chain of the Worlds does just that. It keeps and greatly builds upon that spirit of adventure and fantasy. An excellent work. ... Read more

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How did the human brain with all its manifold capacities evolve from basic functions in simple organisms that lived nearly a billion years ago? John Allman addresses this question in Evolving Brains, a provocative study of brain evolution that introduces readers to some of the most exciting developments in science in recent years. Evolving Brains integrates a multiplicity of evolutionary developments involving genetics, response to climate variations, social organization, the nervous system, environment, and behavior. By providing one of the clearest maps yet of the brain's long and eventful journey through time, Evolving Brains reveals a more complete picture of who we are and where we come from.Amazon.com Review
What's the big deal about big brains? They're a costly enhancement, says neurobiologist John Allman in Evolving Brains. "Animals with big brains are rare," he stresses. "If brains enable animals to adapt to changing environments, why is it that so few animals have large brains? The reason is that big brains are very expensive." He examines the whys and wherefores of large-brain evolution, and draws out the connections between large brains and long lives; shows why major evolutionary advances are often made by small predators; makes you appreciate why mammals, burdened by the cost of warm-bloodedness, were unable to unseat the dinosaurs; and more. So, while large brains such as the ones we humans enjoy may give survival advantages to individuals, some species have done (and did) just fine for millions of years with pea brains.

Rather than talking only about cells, circuits, neurotransmitters, and genes, or gliding up to the ethereal regions of psychology and philosophy, Allman looks at the whole organism--the "middle-sized, middle-distanced objects," as Willard Van Orman Quine said. Evolving Brains is full of interesting scientific tidbits, only rarely becoming tangled in the thicket of jargon. --Mary Ellen Curtin ... Read more

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Very Straight to the Point, Understandable Book
This book proceeds from molecules in bacteria with brain-like functions all the way to the very complex brains of primates.It explains the history of how the brains evolved in very understandable terms using pictures and graphs.It shows how various innovations in the nervous system created both new possibilities that could be explored by future animals as well as cutting other possibilities off.It talks about how having a complex brain is related to worm-bloodedness.In short, read and find out.

A very interesting book
This book starts with some basics about the nature of brains, and a comparison of brains.Special mention is made of serotonin, which often "modulates the response elicted by other neurotransmitters."It seems that serotonin tends to reduce risk-taking and fighting.But it also reduces motivation, as well as sensitivity to opportunities for rewards that risk-taking can bring.

Next, there is a more detailed explanation of the different parts of the brain and nervous system as well as the senses of sight and smell.After that, we learn about brains in warm-blooded creatures and primates.And we get into the question of senescene (the risk of dying going up with advanced age rather than staying the same) and what brains have to do with that.As well as more about sight, and how our brains allow us to be so aware of patterns and motion.

There are all sorts of fascinating tidbits to be found.When babies cry out for their mothers, do they do so in a high-pitched voice?Well, in some mammals, they do so at such high frequencies that while their mothers can hear them (and find them), predators find these sounds to be ultrasonic, and thus do not notice.There is also a complex attempt to explain why primates tend to have specific alarm cries for aerial versus ground predators.I find this phenomenon totally unsurprising: sentries make an entire group safer, and since all group members are potential sentries, everyone benefits including the sentries.It's easy to imagine how such cries might have evolved, even though the individuals crying out might well call attention to themselves.

We humans have very large ratios of brain weight to body weight.And perhaps the most interesting part of the book deals with the evolutionary tradeoffs involved with bigger brains.By the way, the part of the body that is most sacrificed in humans to get the excess brain weight is the gut.The liver is also a little smaller than for a smaller-brained mammal.

At the end of the book, we get into the interesting question of why Women live longer than Men.Women definitely do tend to live longer, and often have the unhappy experiences of outliving not only their husbands, but even one or more sons.But why?There are, of course, some flippant answers (not discussed in this book, of course).Men are genetically inhibited from asking for directions, and as a result get lost, wander around, and die.Men are married to Women (actually, I think married men tend to outlive unmarried ones).Men tend not to wear panty hose, a marvelous invention that protects the legs against swelling and blood clots.More seriously, I thought a dominant reason might be the fact that Men generally weigh more than Women.Within a species, smaller mammals may tend to live longer.But Allman makes the point that in those mammalian species where males have major role in parenting (such as the owl monkey), the males live longer.And there's an evolutionary reason for this: a species does better if the caretakers of the young live longer.The author discusses a couple of mechanisms for this: Males take more risks, while in females, estrogen enhances the actions of serotonin, reducing risk-taking behavior.Another mechanism could be that females may tend to lose fewer hippocampal neurons, which "are richly supplied with receptors for the corticosteroid hormones, which are produced by the adrenal cortex to mobilize the body's defenses when subjected to stress."If that's true, it could explain the higher incidence of death in Men due to stress-related causes.

I enjoyed this book very much.I learned plenty from it, and I highly recommend it.

Great synthesis
A well written and illustrated book full of interesting thoughts about the evolution of brains leading up to our own.

The level of writing is about that of a review paper. Although Allman covers a lot of subjects, from genetics, developmental biology, palaeontology to primate vision, all concepts are well explained and illustrated and the book makes good reading for a research biologist as well as for an interested layman.

Allman started his career as an anthropologist, which gives him a different perspective than the average neuroscientist's. He not only describes the workings of the nervous systems and behaviors of different animals, but puts them into perspective with their evolutionary roots and their ecological niche. All these insights are not hand-waving speculation, but well supported by comparative studies.

Another strong point of this book is how Allman guides the reader trough the evolutionary lineage leading from amphibians to reptiles, mammal like reptiles, mammals, primates to ourselves. At every branch point he points out the critical innovations, the evolutionary pressures that most likely lead to these innovations and the trade offs made. A key question he addresses is, "why isn't every animal equipped with a big brain?". It is our own experience, both phylogenetically as well as everyday life, that a big brain, and the resulting high level of intelligence, is an advantage. Allman points out the high cost of rearing big-brained young and of maintaining such an energetically expensive organ.

If you are interested in how animals use their brains to deal with ever-changing environments and why our brain evolved to be so much more powerful than any other species', then this book is for you.

From small beginnings . . .
This is a sweeping examination of evolution's path leading to that mass of gray matter behind your brows.Allman has synthesized a wealth of research in producing this study.He explains in a clear, interesting style how natural selection has spent the last 500 million years tinkering with life to build complex systems from simpler ones.He is a forceful writer, supplementing a fine text with superb illustrative material to build his narrative.It's a refreshing view of natural selection's power of innovation.

Allman draws on the detailed research undertaken in recent years that has mapped the brain and detailed its operations.Like all life, beginnings were simple, but small variations among organisms had thepotential for important roles.Deep in the Precambrian, floating cells developed appendages leading to hair-like structures we call "cilia".The cilia adopted dual roles: sensing the environment and responding to it.Allman explains how gene duplication led to opportunities for experiments.This process demonstrates how we can track many of steps leading to today's life forms.The original genes are usually still resident, with enhancements providing new functions added over the passing generations.

The author's explanation of the workings of chemistry in brain functions is worth close attention.Behaviour is the result of brain activity, but the interactions of various parts and functions of the brain elude simple analysis.One example is the brain chemical [neurotransmitter] serotonin which is found throughout the brain.It's impact gives monkeys their social structure while adding to the risk of suicide in humans.Neurochemistry alone doesn't explain the expansion of the human brain, nor does the author stop there.He goes on to show how bipedalism, diet, language and social behaviour all working in self-reinforcing feedback loops led to the gob of tissue that takes a fifth of our body resources to keep working.Even global climate changes played a role, coming at a time when our species was just prepared to contend with them.

The number and impact of revelations in this book are almost beyond counting.The "urban myth" that women live longer than men because of improved health practices has been disproved both by history and anthropology.A study reaching back into the 18th Century demonstrates that women have outlived men at least that long ago.Among the great apes, chimpanzee females also outlive their mates.Orangutans and gorillas have nearly parallel life spans between genders.There are also studies showing how caring fathers have extended life spans.His analysis of the development of colour vision is another novel thesis.Colour perception arose only 40 million years ago, after the demise of the dinosaurs.This raises again, the question of whether the emergence of flowering plants, which were toxic to those creatures, helped speed their demise.

While this book is not a light read, it's an informative and edifying one.Allman deals with complex topics.Adding to the elaborate range of material involving the brain, behaviour and social issues is the background of the immense time spans required in dealing with these questions in the context of evolution.Given all these constraints, he has met the challenges of the task credibly and lucidly.[stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada]

Mind expanding material
How has the emergence of the super-sized human brain depended on the evolution of a good set of teeth?Why are the stomach and brain closely linked across the brambles of genetic code?This book answers not only those intriguing questions but also many others concerning the emergence of the brain on this planet. Especially fascinating to me was the explanation of the homeobox phenomenon, a process by which very complex mutations can arise in an organism without the mutation risking certain disaster.Being a non-biologist, I found this homeobox material quite fascinating, for it opened my eyes to how evolution could generate incredibly complex features without requiring a hundred trillion years for all the right components to come together all at once.Equally interesting are the many vestiges of our evolutionary past that are still embedded in the way our brains process information.For example, the sectors into which our brains split each of our retinae today for the purpose of signal processing: these are left overs from the days when our ancestors were prey and not predators, back when our ancestors' eyes were mounted to the sides of their heads!In summary, I would like to say that in reading this book, while just sitting in my chair, I felt myself moving up another notch on the evolutionary tree.It gave me a whole new appreciation for the miracle that is the development of brains and conscious life on this planet.A very pleasant read. ... Read more

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This anthology contains the masterpiece of Henley "Invictus" and over 100 other poems. Nicely formatted with capital letters, page break and interactive toc!

At the age of 12, Henley fell victim to tuberculosis of the bone. A few years later, the disease progressed to his foot, and physicians announced that the only way to save his life was to amputatedirectly below the knee. It was amputated when he was 25. In 1875, he wrote the "Invictus" poem from a hospital bed. Despite his disability, he survived with one foot intact and led an active life until his death at the age of 53
In the 2009 movie Invictus, produced and directed by Clint Eastwood, the poem is referenced several times. It becomes the central inspirational gift from Mandela, played by Morgan Freeman, to Springbok rugby team captain François Pienaar, played by Matt Damon, in advance of the post-apartheid Rugby World Cup hosted in 1995 by South Africa and won by the underdog Springboks. ... Read more

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THE AVENGERS CALI FORNIA BRANCH TEAM !!!Date: November 1990 - September 1991*** Contains Issue #'s 64-74 ***The 'West Coast' team take on the Grim Reaper & Ultron 13 ! ... Read more