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Chris Albright and Wayne Winston have brought their hallmark teach-by-example approach to the undergraduate spreadsheet modeling course. Renowned for their other successful texts in operations research/management science, Winston and Albright successfully show how spreadsheets are used in real life to model and analyze real business problems. By modeling problems using spreadsheets from the outset, SPREADSHEET MODELING AND APPLICATIONS prepares future managers for the types of problems they will encounter on the job. Real cases throughout the text further cement this book's status as the most relevant of its kind on the market. This text is also accompanied by Palisade Corporation's professional spreadsheet add-ins, DecisionTools® Suite. ... Read more

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An Excellent Earth Science Curriculum
This Earth Science Curriculum was surprisingly accurate.Frequently I am unhappy with "Christian" science books for being incomplete and find that I have to subsidize them with a lot of extra material.This book was great for 8th grade, home school, earth science.I was very happy with it.I purchased the student text to go with it for my son. ... Read more

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Starts off slow, but stick with it...
I've read this book several times and there are places where the 1940-ish writing bogs down the stories. And the loquacious writing style of the era makes it a little dated...

However, this is a wonderful and powerful and profoundly inspiring book. Keep in mind, this book was written decades before spiritual, prayer-based healing was even a glimmer in the eyes of Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and Larry Dossey.

My favorite parts are the first-hand accounts from soldiers who have told about the times that their prayers were answered very specifically, quickly and sometimes miraculously.

Great quotable quotes, too, such as page 343 where an airman talks about his life in the war. He tells the story of praying to God for specific physical needs, such as an overcoat for the cold weather. Within minutes, a friend asks him if he has any need for a nice overcoat. He writes, "My needs were supplied and no one was deprived!" This was at a war hospital in 1945 when such provisions were few and far between.

On page 345, another soldier captured by the enemy tells the story of being lined up to be *shot* and how his prayers effected a change of heart from his executioners.

Near the end of the book on page 409 is the story of a group of soldiers suffering from dehydration. They sat down to pray (individually) and in a moment, an artillery shell fell near the soldiers and injured no one, but opened up a hole in the ground from which water gushed! The soldiers recounted how they openly praised God.

My #1 favorite part is where a chaplain talks about working with soldiers who suffer from addictions and his realization that all addictions are, at their root, merely a desire for love that has lost its way. That single statement alone has remained with me for many, many years.

Starts off slow but stick with it...
I've read this book several times and there are places where the 1940-ish writing bogs down the stories. And the loquacious writing style of the era makes it a little dated...

However, this is a wonderful and powerful and profoundly inspiring book. Keep in mind, this book was written decades before spiritual, prayer-based healing was even a glimmer in the eyes of Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and Larry Dossey.

My favorite parts are the first-hand accounts from soldiers who have told about the times that their prayers were answered very specifically, quickly and sometimes miraculously.

Great quotable quotes, too, such as page 343 where an airman talks about his life in the war. He tells the story of praying to God for specific physical needs, such as an overcoat for the cold weather. Within minutes, a friend asks him if he has any need for a nice overcoat. He writes, "My needs were supplied and no one was deprived!" This was at a war hospital in 1945 when such provisions were few and far between.

On page 345, another soldier captured by the enemy tells the story of being lined up to be *shot* and how his prayers effected a change of heart from his executioners.

Near the end of the book on page 409 is the story of a group of soldiers suffering from dehydration. They sat down to pray (individually) and in a moment, an artillery shell fell near the soldiers and injured no one, but opened up a hole in the ground from which water gushed! The soldiers recounted how they openly praised God.

My #1 favorite part is where a chaplain talks about working with soldiers who suffer from addictions and his realization that all addictions are, at their root, merely a desire for love that has lost its way. That single statement alone has remained with me for many, many years.

Parts are slow, but many parts are profoundly inspiring
I've read this book several times and there are places where the 1940-ish writing bogs down the stories. And the loquacious writing style of the era makes it a little dated...

However, this is a wonderful and powerful and profoundly inspiring book. Keep in mind, this book was written decades before spiritual, prayer-based healing was even a glimmer in the eyes of Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer and Larry Dossey.

My favorite parts are the first-hand accounts from soldiers who have told about the times that their prayers were answered very specifically, quickly and sometimes miraculously.

Great quotable quotes, too, such as page 343 where an airman talks about his life in the war. He tells the story of praying to God for specific physical needs, such as an overcoat for the cold weather. Within minutes, a friend asks him if he has any need for a nice overcoat. He writes, "My needs were supplied and no one was deprived!" This was at a war hospital in 1945 when such provisions were few and far between.

On page 345, another soldier captured by the enemy tells the story of being lined up to be *shot* and how his prayers effected a change of heart from his executioners.

Near the end of the book on page 409 is the story of a group of soldiers suffering from dehydration. They sat down to pray (individually) and in a moment, an artillery shell fell near the soldiers and injured no one, but opened up a hole in the ground from which water gushed! The soldiers recounted how they openly praised God.

My #1 favorite part is where a chaplain talks about working with soldiers who suffer from addictions and his realization that all addictions are, at their root, merely a desire for love that has lost its way. That single statement alone has remained with me for many, many years. ... Read more

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The Christian Science Journal was founded April 1883 by Mary Baker Eddy, author of The Christian Science Textbook "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures", and is an organ of The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. ... Read more

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Health and Medicine in the Christian Science Tradition
I found it to be a very informative and interesting discussion of the views of the Christian Science church. It was an excellent review of why Christian Scientists do not use medical means for healing. Sincerely, Jim Warren

Christian Science is great.
Christian Science is wonderful;and while this book is perhaps not the best choice for an introduction to it, Mr. Peel is a very thoughtful and eloquent writer and he knows his stuff.

Anyone really interested, readScience and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and youwill find ~ to quote Malachi in the Bible ~ "blessing, there will notbe room enough to receive it"! ... Read more

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Excellent Book For Those Who Think Christians Can't be Scientists
As a member of [...] I received this book when I joined.I finally got around to reading it.As one who spent most of my life as a scientist and an agnostic and only since Jan 2004 as a Christian, I highly recommend this book to anyone who thinks they have to turn off their brain to be a Christian or to have relationship with Jesus Christ.

I believe that this book does much to mend the division that pure creationism(denying any role for evolution) has caused in reaction to pure scientism.When we turn to God to fill in the gaps that we don't understand, what happens when we fill the gaps with scientific understanding?We are faced with an unnecessary choice between God and science.

This author has done a *fantastic* job of clarifying the science/bible landscape to provide the reader with a vocabulary to combat problems created by fuzzy (albeit well-intentioned) thinking.This fuzzy thinking has led to dueling camps in the Christian world and misunderstanding in the secular world of what one must believe to love and know the God of the Bible. I find this to be especially true in the Bible-Belt where I now find myself living.The God of the Bible created our minds--he wants us to use them to know and love him.I strongly recommend the book by Francis Collins, The Language of God, as well.

A great start to fitting together science and Christianity
This is a great beginning book for those interested in fitting together the Bible with modern science.It's not a deep, scholarly book but is rather a short introduction to the philosophical/theological terrain, withpositive, constructive explainations.Every church library should have acopy.

His basic thrust is that science and the Bible are 2 differentsources of information, each answering different questions--and that theyare not mutually exclusive.

Dennis Sweitzer, another member of theAmerican Scientic Affiliation

Awful..
This book has a few good insights, yet contains many fallacies and nonsense about science and the Bible.
Fischer first uses a meaningless definition of God (he never defines him as the First cause, the Creator). He ignores the distinction between efficient, final, formal, material, exemplar and instrumental causes. He thus blurs the distinction between primary and secondary causes and even writes that whatever happens is done by God!!!!! So, when suffering happens or humans do evil deeds, it is Fischer's god who is acting, his Panentheistic god is therefore an evil god!! It seemsFischer was not capable of grasping his own assertion about his god doing everything, because he also writes that his god is all-good!!!
Fischer blurs as well any distinction between natural laws and miracles, rejects the supernatural but does not seem to understand that this makes any divine Revelation undetectable.He confuses design with chance or order computations. He asserts that science does not require any faith (he should read Hume)...
Concerning the Bible, Fischer uses a wrong meaning of the Hebrew verb yatsar, pretends that Gen 1 and 2 reccount evolution, believes blindly in modern theories about hominids, constantly replaces semion (the Greek for "sign") with semelon, thinks that the apostles uttered occult sounds, etc.
This is one of the most stupid books I ever read. I would rather recommend books written by scholars (e. g. James P Moreland, Norman LGeisler...).
Bruno Granger, member of the American Scientific Affiliation

A balanced approach to the Science vs Faith controversy
The author does an excellent job, affirming his faith in the Scriptures while explaining why many are unable to accept the "recent creation" approach.Thus he does not (I hope) turn away readers of fundamentalist background.Whether this approach works with those who rejectDivine Inspiration, remains to be seen. ... Read more

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This comprehensively researched history of the development of military ­ministry within the Christian Science movement from 1917 through 2004 was ten years in the making.It records over eighty years of insight into the hearts and lives of individuals positioned to bring their understanding of the protecting power and love of God into military circumstances, with challenges of conflict, danger, prejudice and life-threatening situations, as well as joys of reformation, healing and interfaith fellowship.
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good historical review
in this one can skip around to see specific people or places or events or can read through. It does not tell it all, for some chaplains there are wonderful examples of good done on the job. For others it seemed just straight history or fact, no stories but basically a good documentary of as it was till 2004. ... Read more

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The knowledge in this book is several hundred years out of date.
"Christian science" is an oxymoron. The people who use this book are mentally retarding their children.

It is clearly obvious that teachers and parents who use textbooks like this are only interested in one book, and it's not this one. I am saddened that millions of children will be corrupted by the ignorance of "Christian science."

In the 2000 years since the Old and New Testaments were written, we have learned a lot about our world. None of which you will learn from this book.

"Science" is the wrong term to use here.
This book, unfortunately, is indicative of the state of education at so-called "Christian universities". It is utterly useless for anyone with basic scientific knowledge or curiousity, and instead serves simply so that irresponsible parents with illogical beliefs can feel that they are educating their children, when in reality they are seriously damaging the lives of their children.

Well done book.
I am using this book along with The Teaching Company DVD's to take a college level CLEP. This book is so easy to understand compared to college textbooks, and yet it covers the same materials. I have found several of the Bob Jones books to be of this quality. Good value, well written, and better than the average high school book.

An alternative to evolution science
Published by Bob Jones University Press, this text does a fine job of contrasting what Christians believe about God's role in creating the world, the structure of matter, atoms, energy, etc. against the secular view of evolution.The text quotes scripture throughout and applies it to the purpose behind why the world works the way it does--that there is purpose in design, not accidents.This would be a perfect text for home schooling the middle school-age child. ... Read more

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This book deals with the various thermodynamic concepts used for the analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems. The most important invariants used to characterize chaotic systems are introduced in a way that stresses the interconnections with thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Among the subjects treated are probabilistic aspects of chaotic dynamics, the symbolic dynamics technique, information measures, the maximum entropy principle, general thermodynamic relations, spin systems, fractals and multifractals, expansion rate and information loss, the topological pressure, transfer operator methods, repellers and escape. The more advanced chapters deal with the thermodynamic formalism for expanding maps, thermodynamic analysis of chaotic systems with several intensive parameters, and phase transitions in nonlinear dynamics. ... Read more

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Simple explanation of living Christian Science in your daily life.
This book is a wonderful introduction to what it means to be a Christian Scientist. I highly recommend giving this book as a companion book to Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy.

Hard to read
I believe this was part of a series of books written in the 1950s and 60s, wherein people of different faiths were invited to write about what it was like to be a Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Christian Scientist, etc.

Several times, I tried to read The Christian Science Way of Life and found the writing to be dry, wordy and hard to plow through. If you want to learn something about what it means to be a member of the Christian Science church, I'd recommend "From The Methodist Pulpit into Christian Science" (fantastic book!) or "Christian Science Wartime Activities" which was written at the end of WWII, or maybe "A Precious Legacy; Christian Science comes to Japan." There's a plethora of CS literature out there and based on my readings, most of it is much easier to read than The Christian Science Way of Life.

Hard to read
I believe this was part of a series of books written in the 1950s and 60s, wherein people of different faiths were invited to write about what it was like to be a Methodist, Baptist, Catholic, Christian Scientist, etc.

Several times, I tried to read The Christian Science Way of Life and found the writing to be dry, wordy and hard to plow through. If you want to learn something about what it means to be a member of the Christian Science church, I'd recommend "Christian Science Wartime Activities" which was written at the end of WWII, or maybe "A Precious Legacy; Christian Science comes to Japan." There's a plethora of CS literature out there and based on my readings, most of it is much easier to read than The Christian Science Way of Life. ... Read more

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Technology is one of the dominant forces shaping the emerging postmodern world. Indeed the very fabric of daily life is dependent upon various information, communication, and transportation technologies. With anticipated advances in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and robotics, that dependence will increase. Yet this growing dependence is accompanied with a deep ambivalence. For many, technology symbolises the faith of the postmodern world, but it is an ambivalent faith encapsulating both our hopes and fears for the future. This book examines the religious foundations underlying this troubled faith in technology, as well as critically and constructively engaging particular technological developments from a theological perspective. ... Read more

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The classical revival style of architecture made famous by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago left its mark on one of the most sustained classical building movements in American architectural history: the Christian Science church building movement. By 1920, every major American city and many smaller towns contained an example of this architecture, financed by the followers of Mary Baker Eddy, the church's founder. These buildings represented a new, burgeoning American institution that appealed to business people and to young men and women working to succeed. Characterized by middle-class congregations that in the early part of the century were over 75 percent women, Christian Science suggested radical civic reform solutions based on an idealistic and pragmatic individualism. It attracted criticism from traditional churches and from the medical establishment due to its rapid growth and to its reinstatement of primitive Christianity's lost elements of physical healing and moral regeneration. "Prayers in Stone" spins out the close connections between Christian Science church architecture and its social context.This architecture served as a focal point for debates over the possibilities for a new twentieth-century urban architecture that proponents believed would positively shape the behavior of citizens. Thus these buildings played a critical role in discussions concerning religious and secular architecture as major elements of religious and social reform. Drawing on a wide range of documentary evidence, including material from the archives of the Mother Church in Boston, Paul Ivey uses Christian Science architecture to explore the social implications of architectural styles and new building technologies, to illuminate class-based notions of civic reform and beautification, and to investigate the use of architecture to bring about religious and social change. In addition, the book explores complex gender issues, including early attempts to define a professional space for women as Christian Science practitioners. Lavishly illustrated, "Prayers in Stone" focuses on four major city arenas of Christian Science building-Boston, Chicago, New York, and the San Francisco Bay area to demonstrate the vital intersection of architecture and religion at the so-called margins of American society. ... Read more

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Important study of religious architecture
"Paul Ivey's thorough, readable, and well-illustrated book explainswhy so many [monumental, classical-style, Christian Science churches] existand what they meant in their original contexts. . .Ivey's book will beinteresting and useful for a broad audience.It demonstrates how a studyof religious architecture can illuminate not just architectural history,but social and cultural history, the material culture of gender, and groupidentity."--as reviewed in Pennsylvania Magazine of History andBiography

A First Detailed Look at a Bygone Model
The monumental 'bank-style' churches we normally associate with Christian Science in urban areas are the subject of Paul Ivey's excellent study, afirst-ever history of any sort of the Christian Science 'field'.

Although Ivey's book is the first extensive, stand-alone study toexamine this period in the sociology of Christian Science, it is for themost part an architectural study. We see how original intent (religiousteachings) makes its way into the public world of urban architecture,construction contracts, and finish materials. Solon Beman is the key figurehere, a fine Chicago architect who is largely responsible for the'Extension' of the Mother Church in Boston.

Beman is the taproot of thestyle of architecture that became known for bright, modernized,comfortable, yet neo-classical monuments that sprang up in downtowns fromcoast to coast during this remarkable Christian Science building boom.

We often look skeptically on these edifices, which a century laterappear so pompous in their now hollowed-out urban areas, and whose futuresare in serious doubt. However Ivey brings back life to these churches andshows us why they were not only suitable for their times, but sociallyprogressive.

In confining his focus just to this monumental, urban,pre-Depression segment of the Christian Science movement, he almostunnoticeably confines his historical examination to a certain type ofChristian Scientist, to a type that is not altogether flattering. In fact,he seems to be saying that while the thrust of this church buildingmovement shared certain undercurrents with the spirit of Mary Baker Eddy'steachings, there was an unmistakable self-consciousness about this visionof church, an overbearing push to be perceived publicly as prominent,legitimate, successful, and literally profitable to the worshiper. All thismakes the religious aims of Christian Scientists appear rather superficial,even if Ivey's treatment of Eddy and Christian Science teachings is morebalanced.

If this characterization of the builders of these buildingsmay not be flattering, it may not be unreasonable. As Ivey himself makesclear, Eddy encouraged churches to bring historical Christian imageryup-to-date. For those not familiar with her teachings, she claimed, partlythrough spiritual healing, to "reinstate" primitive Christianity.The churches that Dr. Ivey examines largely ignore any such sentiment.Instead, they take as their prototype a more secular model of monument thatwas considered highly progressive in its day and place. The ChristianScience movement based its entire urban church building movement upon thismodel.

Having said that, Ivey does invoke a sympathetic view of whatthese builders accomplished.

All in all, Ivey's is the first step inlooking at the architecture of this religious movement. With work likethis, we can assess how these individuals, apart from their own publicity,actually viewed the role of their church and its place in the world. Inthis study Ivey took the most prominent public image of this religiousmovement and tells us the story behind it with care and scholarly diligencethat is truly impressive. [Reading his sources you almost begin to feelexhausted yourself.] As a good storyteller however, Ivey brings light andlife to his subject - a subject that today seems to keep its secrets lockedtight behind three story columns and soaring white domes. ... Read more

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Despite its importance as a key text of the Western esoteric traditions this is the first ever contemporary English translation of this book. is the only one of the three central Rosicrucian manifestos that is concerned with the inner transformation of the soul. It is a deeply interior work one which asks the reader to step into its world of symbols and walk with Christian Rosenkreutz along his path of transformation. ... Read more

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Lynchpin of the Rosicrucian Philosophy
Surfacing in 1616, the Chemical Wedding was the third and last commentary released by the Rosicrucians. Whereas the first two manifestos-the Fama and Confessio-were seditious declarations which seem to possess more of a fairy-tale quality than anything else, the Wedding stands on its own merit as one of the most profound and impenetrable hermetic allegories ever written. The story centers on a man who is summoned by an Angel to witness and take part in a mysterious process that bears very little resemblance to an actual wedding. Despite the success of he and his compeers (qualified by a selection where the other candidates who are not worthy to participate are killed) the story ends in sagacious irony, leaving the protagonist to stand guard over his reward, forbidding him to ever glimpse it.

Joscelyn Godwin provides the translation, and though my knowledge of medieval Latin is not complete enough to grade her work, her reputation is impeccable and warrants little scrutiny. Adam McLean provides introduction and commentary, and it is for his efforts that this volume is most valuable. He abandons the arrogance shown by J. W. Montgomery who quantified the story as an expression of Orthodox Lutheranism, and doesn't attempt a literal translation of the book's intricate symbolism as any specialized religious banter. Instead, he lists the literary symbols (actual and metaphoric) one by one and shows how they link to key Rosicrucian and Hermetic ideologies, leaving the reader to draw their own conclusions, never attempting to force feed any specific brand of Gospel. Indeed, despite the fact that the commentary's length rivals that of the text itself, my only complaint is that it is not longer, much longer, as I'm sure his valuable insight could literally fill hundreds of pages: it leaves the readers curiosity piqued more than sated.

All of the drawings and diagrams from the original are faithfully reproduced, and summarily analyzed for their symbolic content as well. As a bonus McLean shows links between the Chemical Wedding and other allegories afterwards, paying close attention to Goethe's `Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily', and includes the Parabola of Hinricus Madathanus Theosophus (an anonymous translation from `The Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians') as an appendix. If you are looking for further readings on this subject, my best suggestion is `Foucault's Pendulum' by Umberto Eco. Despite being a work of fiction, it describes a very thorough picture of the Rosicrucian's world, and other medieval secret societies too. Showing them as wildly diabolical, it stills bears the immutable signature of a dedicated and terrifyingly intelligent scholar.

A Foundation of Rosicrucianism
An essential text. Godwin is the premier scholar in America in this area.This text, along with two manifestoes (the Fama and Confessio) made a majorcultural and political impact in 17th century Europe and up through the18th century in Germany. The Chemical Wedding is an allegorical tale of theprocesses of "alchemy." Written in coded and highly symboliclanguage, the book is historically important, but also important for thepracticioner of spiritual alchemy or ritual magic in the Golden Dawn orRosicrucian traditions. For the other two manifestoes purchase FrancesYates "The Rosicrucian Enlightenment," a controversial butexcellent scholary text on 17th century Europe and the influence ofEsoteric Christianity.

This is the first modern and accurate Englishtranslation of this work, attributed to a renegade esoteric Lutheranminister. ... Read more

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This text takes an active-learning approach, providing numerous examples and problems so students can practice extensively with a concept before moving on. Four types of problems -- skill-building, skill-extending, modeling, and cases are graded within sections and chapters to help instructors assign homework. Another important feature is the way that the text integrates modeling into all functional areas of business: finance, marketing, operations management using real examples and real data. The text emphasizes modeling over algebraic formulations and memorization of particular models. Shell files are also provided so that instructors can give students as much or as little information as they need. ... Read more

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Excellent for application
I have been using this book for over 3 years now and I still love it.

Very practical and has excellent details.

Only negatives are some editing failures with some exercises, and some of the chapters rely heavily upon some trial software that you may not want to use.

Very Satisfied
I was very happy with my purchase.The book was in perfect condition, shipped quickly, and cost much less than my university's bookstore.

Do not use!
It is full of errors. The explanations are difficult to follow. There are few highlights in the text which makes scanning for a quick review impossible.There is no chapter summary. The book presumes a thourough knowledge of Excel which many students do not have. Stay away!

Not as described
Previous reviews inspired me for the purchase. This book is NOT MBA material. I would rate it at Business 101 book. Most spreadsheet models are basically the same using the SOLVER function in excel. There are better tutorials online.

Management Science made understandable
By incorporating Microsoft Excel spreadsheet examples of the problems, the authors have managed to make self-study management science possible. I'm absolutely convinced this is the best way to learn MS.
Anyone that has responsibility for making business decisions should keep a copy of this text nearby. ... Read more