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Today, six out of ten Americans describe themselves as "active" environmentalists or as "sympathetic" to the movement's concerns. The movement, in turn, reflects this millions-strong support in its diversity, encompassing a wide spectrum of causes, groups, and sometimes conflicting special interests. For far-sighted activists and policy makers, the question is how this diversity affects the ability to achieve key goals in the battle against pollution, erosion, and out-of-control growth.This insightful book offers an overview of the movement -- its past as well as its present -- and issues the most persuasive call yet for a unified approach to solving environmental problems. Focusing on examples from resource use, pollution control, protection of species and habitats, and land use, the author shows how the dynamics of diversity have actually hindered environmentalists in the past, but also how a convergence of these interests around forward-looking policies can be effected, despite variance in value systems espoused. The book is thus not only an assessment of today's movement, but a blueprint for action that can help pull together many different concerns under a common banner. Anyone interested in environmental issues and active approaches to their solution will find the author's observations both astute and creative. ... Read more

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Design, install, and manage a complete unified communications solution with this definitive guide.

• Gain an in-depth understanding of the Cisco Unity architecture and feature set
• Plan, design, and install a complete unified messaging solution using the design process found within this guide
• Use features in Cisco Unity to solve legacy and convergence problems for your users
• Administer and manage Unity installations effectively by leveraging the comprehensive solutions provided in this book
• Learn about Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino support and configuration with Cisco Unity
• Support CallManager and legacy PBX integrations with your unified messaging solutions

This definitive reference helps you leverage the true power of Cisco Unity, the powerful unified communications server that provides advanced, convergence-based communication services, which integrate with the desktop applications that business professionals use everyday.

Cisco Unity Deployment and Solutions Guide shows you how to integrate Cisco Unity with Cisco IP-based communication solutions, including Cisco CallManager. Part I introduces you to the Cisco Unity architecture and teaches you about the Cisco Unity feature set. Part II helps you design and deploy a unified message solution with Cisco Unity, and Part III helps you manage and administer your solution by leveraging the tools within Cisco Unity.

Cisco Unity Deployment and Solutions Guide teaches you all that you need to know about designing, deploying, and managing a sustainable, unified messaging solution.

This book is part of the Networking Technology Series from Cisco Press, which offers networking professionals valuable information for constructing efficient networks, understanding new technologies, and building successful careers.

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great help!
Cisco Unity Deployment and Solutions Guide is THE book to figure out how to make Unity work and how to properly deploy it.

Very helpful!!

Making Unified Messaging Work
In the beginning there was the telephone. Then there e-mail, and not long after came sophisticated voice messaging systems that replaced the simple answering machines. Then all of this kind of communications becan to converge. The combined communications capability became called Unified Messaging. Cisco's Unity server is the state-of-the-art in unified messaging systems. And this book seems destined to be the Unity Bible.

This book covers unity. Part I, about a quarter of the book is on the concepts and architecture of the of the Unity system. A good bit of the material in this section covers features that are not discussed anywhere else.

Part II, about a third of the book is on Deployment. Unity is a very flexible system. That means that the installer has many options to consider, and the use of these options involves tradeoffs.

Part III is on the ongoing management and administration of a Unity system. What tools, for instance, are available to monitor the performance of the system and how to interpret the results that these tools give you. ... Read more

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Prayer meetings held in 1889 in the Kansas City living room of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore were the beginning of what grew to be an international religious and educational movement. This book is the first in-depth study of the people and beliefs that shaped it into one of the fastest growing movements of our time.

Today there are 170,000 Unity students who are members of Unity centers and churches and attend Unity classes both in the churches and at Unity School. More than 70,000 people subscribe to Unity magazine, and 1.2 million subscribe to Unity’s Daily Word. The Association of Unity Churches provides services to over 1,000 ministries worldwide. Unity’s 24-hour prayer ministry responds to more than 2 million prayer requests each year, including approximately 1.1 million phone calls and 1 million letters.

Neal Vahle documents the lives of the spiritual visionaries who created, organized, and led the Unity movement: Myrtle Fillmore, the 40-year-old wife and mother who was inspired by a Christian Science practitioner to cure herself of tuberculosis; Charles Fillmore, who had planned a business career but found, through study, prayer, meditation, and dream analysis, that he had another calling; H. Emily Cady, a New York City homeopathic physician whose book on Unity teachings, Lessons in Truth, was published in 1901, and has sold more than 1.6 million copies; Lowell Fillmore, eldest son of Charles and Myrtle, who clarified and popularized Unity teaching; and the other descendants of Myrtle and Charles, each of whom made immeasurable contributions.

He explores the key factors that led to the steady growth of the movement: the creation of the Unity School of Christianity; the development of Unity Village in Missouri; the evolution of "Silent Unity;" the publication program; the training of students; the development of centers and churches; and he presents and analyzes the controversies and debates within the organization. Vahle concludes the book with a look at the challenges facing the movement in the 21st century. ... Read more

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The History of Unity Church
Neal Vahle has written a dense and sometimes dry history of the Unity Church.It began with Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in 1889 after Myrtle was healed of various illnesses including tuberculosis after attending a few Christian Science meetings.

The Fillmore's believed that Christ was born human but was not any more divine than the rest of us. Unity Church is considered a Christian church because Jesus is regarded so highly due to the fact that he is the one human that has reached the highest enlightenment.

"Myrtle was repelled by the puritanical teachings on sin and the nature of evil" of other Christian churches.Although free will was considered important to the Church--sex was not encouraged for anything but procreation. The book quotes Charles as saying, "It followed that men and women must refrain from sexual relations to conserve the 'seminal substance' and make it available to revitalize the body". The Church believes/believed in bodily regeneration and reincarnation. Neither one of them attained total bodily regeneration but Charles did live an impressive 94 years.

Early in the Church's history the Fillmores received/developed the 12 Powers which were a basic teaching of Unity and they were: Spiritual Understanding, Faith, Divine Love, Power, Imagination, Zeal, Will, Life, Strength, Order, Judgement, and renunciation.

Vahle has written a balanced book which tells of the other side of the story.He has chapters on what the established protestant churches passionately feel are the down falls of Unity such as Unity's denial of the need to be born again through accepting Jesus as son of God. He writes of the Churches segregation of blacks while promoting the rights of women. He tells of the many who consider Unity to be a fringe or even a cult group among many outsiders.Unity also has very few members worldwide.

Mr. Vahle neglects to mention the current statis of teachings. As a non-member, I really wouldn't know what to expect if I happen to walk into a service these days.I'm sure the Church has evolved--but how?

I did find on the official Unity's website what are considered to be the 5 BASIC UNITY PRINCIPLES. They are: 1. There is only on presence and one power active as the universe and as my life, God the good, 2. Our essence is of God; therefore, we are inherently good,This God essence was fully expressed in Jesus, the Christ, 3. We are co-creators with God, creating reality through thoughts held in mind, 4. Through prayer and meditation, we align our heart-mind with God. Denial and affirmations are tools we use,5. Through thoughts, words and actions, we live the truth we know.

Please Note: I have actually given this book 4 stars--not 5.One star was added when I was editing my review and I could not change it back to 4.


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The Communist Party was the only political movement on the left in the late 1920s and 1930s to place racial justice and equality at the top of its agenda and to seek, and ultimately win, sympathy among African Americans. This historic effort to fuse red and black offers a rich vein of experience and constitutes the theme of The Cry Was Unity.

Utilizing for the first time materials related to African Americans from the Moscow archives of the Communist Inter-national (Comintern), The Cry Was Unity traces the trajectory of the black-red relationship from the end of World War I to the tumultuous 1930s. From the just-recovered transcript of the pivotal debate on African Americans at the 6th Comintern Congress in 1928, the book assesses the impact of the Congress's declaration that blacks in the rural South constituted a nation within a nation, entitled to the right of self-determination. Despite the theory's serious flaws, it fused the black struggle for freedom and revolutionary content and demanded that white labor recognize blacks as indispensable allies.

As the Great Depression unfolded, the Communists launched intensive campaigns against lynching, evictions, and discrimination in jobs and relief and opened within their own ranks a searing assault on racism. While the Party was never able to win a majority of white workers to the struggle for Negro rights, or to achieve the unqualified support of the black majority, it helped to lay the foundations for the freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s.

The Cry Was Unity underscores the successes and failures of the Communist-led left and the ways in which it fought against racism and inequality. This struggle comprises an important missing page that needs to be returned to the nation's history.

Mark Solomon, an emeritus professor at Simmons College, is the author of Red and Black: Communism and Afro-Americans, 1929-1935, Death Waltz to Armageddon: E. P. Thompson and the Peace Movement, and Stopping World War II (with Michael Myerson). ... Read more

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Fascinating
An excellent book on an overlooked period of African-American and Communist Party history.I consider myself well-read on these topics, but was surprised to read that, during the Civil Rights period, white Northern organizers won some acceptance in the South from African-American sharecroppers and laborers as some remembered the work done by the Party to further the rights of African-Americans during the Depression.

I would recommend this book to anyone interested in Depression-era history.

Black nationalism and the early days of the CPUSA
Taking advantage of archival material, Mark Solomon has written what might be the definitive history of the CPUSA's involvement in the black struggle during the period of the party's formation to the beginning of the popularfront turn. ("The Cry was Unity: Communists and African Americans1917-1936," U. of Mississippi).

Solomon is emeritus professor atSimmons College and a member of the Committees of Correspondence. The CofCsplit from the CPUSA because of objections to the dogmatism and bureaucracyof the Gus Hall regime. The event that finally led to the formation of theCofC was Hall's support for the coup against Gorbachev. Some of the mostprominent black members of the CP went with the CofC, including CharleneMitchell who is co-chair of the CofC with Manning Marable, department headof African-American studies at Columbia University. Although Solomon iswhite, he explains in his introduction why he was drawn to the blackstruggle:

"The environment we knew was one of spiriteddemonstrations to save the lives of Rosa Ingram, Willie McGhee, theMartinsville Seven, and other victims of a racist legal system. It includedattending vibrant interracial dances at Rockland Palace in Harlem, sittingin awe in the back of Birdland to ask Charlie Parker to support Du Bois forthe Senate, and listening to Miles Davis, engaged by the unhip MarxistLabor Youth League, which somehow thought that Davis's brilliant,elliptical bebop was right for dancing. All of that had nearly disappearedby the mid-1950s. But that defiant interracialism, grounded in the unity ofcultural traditions, of shared support for all who labored for an end tooppression at home and abroad never died. Its special commitment to, andadmiration for, black culture, history, and community life survived andfused with a pervasive sense that the liberation of one group was essentialto the spiritual and physical freedom of all."

What is significant,however, is that Solomon understands the progressive character of blacknationalism as well, sparing no effort to show how the Communist Party atvarious points in its history embraced such initiatives. I want to focus inone particular moment in party history, which is highly revealing for theaffinity black party members had for nationalism, namely the African BloodBrotherhood. Despite the separatist name, this group was the instrument ofCommunist Party involvement in the black struggle in the early1920s.

Cyril Briggs was the founder of the African Black Brotherhood.Born in 1888 on the Caribbean island of Nevis, he always considered himselfa "race man". His father was a white plantation overseer and thisaccounted for Briggs's light complexion, which earned him the descriptionof the "Angry Blond Negro" later in life, just as Malcolm X wasdubbed "Detroit Red" before becoming a nationalist for similarreasons. Briggs moved to Harlem in 1905 and launched a writing career,finally landing a job with the Amsterdam News in 1912.

Briggs was sweptup by the self-determination rhetoric of WWI which inspired his editorial,"Security for Poles and Serbs, Why not for Colored Nations?," acall for a separate black state in the United States. He was also a strongsupporter of the Irish Easter Uprising of 1916.

Briggs started a newmagazine called the "Crusader" in 1918 to focus on the strugglefor self-determination and black pride. The magazine made no distinctionbetween such goals and more immediate social and economic issues. It backedthe Socialist Party electoral campaigns of A. Philip Randolph and exposedlynchings in the south and job discrimination in the north.

In theFebruary 1919 issue, the Crusader began demonstrating a concern with classin the Marxist sense. Comparing the forced removal of black workers from aPennsylvania steel town (where they had migrated to during wartime laborshortages) to the Palmer Raid deportations of white foreign-born radicals,The Crusader attributed such actions to the "mailed fist ofcapitalism." By May and June, the magazine was equating capitalism andcolonialism, and projecting proletarian unity between black and whiteworkers as a way to eradicate national oppression of black people.

In thefirst months of American Communism, Briggs drew close to two members of theparty's underground, Otto Huiswoud and Claude McKay, who would later becomeknown as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. (Huiswoud, another Caribbeanimmigrant, was a charismatic figure in his own right. He got involved withthe Socialist Party while studying agriculture at Cornell University.During a summer job working on a cruise ship, Huiswoud organized asuccessful job action by black members of the crew for higher pay andbetter working conditions.) Solomon believes that Briggs became a partymember in mid-1921. This connection influenced the direction of Brigg's ownorganization, the African Blood Brotherhood, which would begin to absorbMarxist influences.

The 1920 ABB convention defined resistance to theKKK, support for a united front of black organizations, and promotion ofhigher wages and better working conditions for black workers as paramount.While calling for "racial self respect," it also maintained thatcooperation with "class-conscious white workers" was necessary.As the ABB drew closer to the Communist Party, nationalistic prejudices assuch became less frequent. The Crusader, which was now the semiofficialorgan of the ABB, declared that while the oppression of blacks was moresevere, blacks and Jews shared a historic experience ofpersecution.

Furthermore, Briggs began to, as Solomon puts it,"...fuse his own sense of African identity and national culture withLeninist internationalism. He found in African antiquity the primitivecommunism that provided an Afrocentric root to the vision advanced by theThird International." As opposed to Garvey's nationalist movement, theMarxists of the ABB did not view "Africa for the Africans" as aninvitation to capitalist development. He wrote, "Socialism andCommunism [were] in practical application in Africa for centuries beforethey were even advanced as theories in the European world." Within ayear or so, the ABB would have evolved into a full-fledged black Marxistorganization.

Showed necessity of Black self-determination and class unity
Mark Solomon has produced perhaps the most important study on the Black struggle in a first ever analysis of the role and contribution of the Communist party, working with Black leaders, in acknowledging and acting onthe special nature of racism in America.Ultimately the party leaderslearned from Balcks that racism had to be addressed as a prerequisite tofostering black/white working class unity.Unlike the liberal traditionwhich could only offer "reforms" within the system that producedracism and class exploitation, the Communist Party recognized racism andclassism as inherent in the liberal/capitalist system.The party focusedsharply on the need for fundamental change of the economic and politicalinstitutions as the only real solution for oppression and exploitation. The Party understood the drive for Black self determination was not as acontradiction of class unity. Black self-determination addressed theproblem of racism by providing a people with a sense of worth which couldthen allow them the freedom to go further in confronting the exploitationof black/white class oppression.Lenin understood the importance ofnational self-determination when he developed his own nationalities policy,and the broader national struggle of colonized people to experiencenational independence first before uniting to dislodge global capitalism. Solomon's work is comprehensive of the period studied because he was amongthe first to access former USSR archives elucidating the thread of strongcommitment to Black self-determination united with the working classstruggle.As a result, he was able to show clearly the importance of theleft to offering a real venue for articulating the systemic roots of theissues of racial and class inequalities.As a result, clarity and accuracyof policy, if not strategy, stood out in relief. Solomon plans a sequel tohis present seminal work which will focus on the way the cold war affectedthe Black/Communist relationship and actions.He will also analyze theimpact of the recent loss of the left, forcing the Black struggle back tothe confines of the liberal/capitalist system.Can a system which producedthe problems solve them without altering the conditions within them thatproduced them?Read Solomon.His work offers the most important analysisto date in understanding the essential core of these yet festering issues.The best scholarship produced on these issues in years. ... Read more

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The only Unity biography disappoints
The Mitford sisters, with the exception of Jessica, were vehemently opposed to Pryce-Jones's book, and lobbied hard to stop or contain it.Pryce-Jones interviewed many first person sources and had a wealth of detail and observation about Unity.However, the book is very poorly written.In my opinion (and Jessica Treuhaft's, too!) the best biographies are those in which all of the subjects views and actions are laid out, warts and all, and the reader is allowed to make his/her own judgement.Pryce-Jones editorializes constantly.

I am certainly not disagreeing with the fact that there was much that was despicable about Unity's political views, associations, and actions.But Pryce-Jones fails to find any humanity in the woman.He makes it hard to understand why anybody still loved her.And they did.

A vivid account of Unity Mitford''s bizarre love for Adolf Hitler
Unity was the second youngest of six progeny of Lord and Lady Redesdale, at a time when the iniquitous class system was beginning to decay. Unity Valkyrie (Bobo) Mitford, her four sisters and brother Tom, were reared in the exclusively separatist atmosphere of governesses for the girls, and Eton for Tom - a class apart from the common herd. The girls were strictly supervised and chaperoned, their companions other members of the aristocracy. Lord Redesdale had links with Germany through his father's friendship with Siegfried, the son Richard Wagner, the composer and virulent anti-semite. Nancy became a noted novelist and ardent anti-fascist, while Diana and Unity embraced both Sir Oswald Mosley, his BUF, and Adolf Hitler and National Socialism.

Unity seems to have always been something of a self destructive rebel, apparently enjoying her role as a victim or martyr. She lacked a sense of humor yet enjoyed upsetting and embarrassing others. Both Diana and Unity were considered beauties, with their blonde hair and classical features. Diana married Bryan Guiness but later began an affair with the married Sir Oswald Mosley, whose wife later died. Diana divorced Bryan on the gounds of his adultery, to which he acceded, since it was the absurd custom of the time for the innocent party to take the blame. Mosley and Diana were eventually married on October 6, 1936 in the Goebbel's ministerial house opposite the German Chancellery.

Unity was expelled from St Margarets school because she 'had a fine disregard for the rules of the school'. She joined Mosley's BUF and proudly wore her black shirt and fascist brooch wherever she went, going so far as to give the fascist salute while the national anthem was being played in a cinema. Although considered a nordic style beauty with her height, blue eyes and flaxen hair, she was supposed to have had bad teeth and big hands with 'fingers like sausages', and was reputed to be quite expressionless. Some time in 1934 she 'crossed the divide, to live more in Germany than in England' - with 'full parental approval'. While in Munich she learned Hitler had lunch at the Osteria Bavaria, and would sit there 'day after obsessive day' waiting and hoping to be noticed by her adored fuhrer. Evedntually her persitence paid off and a meeting was arranged. Thus began an extraordinary chain of events culminating in Unity's attempted suicide and her beloved fuhrer's successful suicide. Unity became ss stridently fanatical as Hitler and the vicious Julius Streicher in her hatred for the Jews, and only the prospect of war between Germany and England dampened her enthusiasm for continuing her existence.The Learning Process

She's a Rebel
The Mitford bio Hons & Rebels was thusly titled for a reason. Many of the sisters WERE rebels. Unity rebeled against the conventions of her time. She took her pet rat to the debutantes ball, played 5 radios tuned to different stations simultaneously (turned up full blast), & generally did as she pleased. Had she not fallen in with Hitler, it's doubtful that anyone other than rabid anglophiles would know or care about her. BUT, had she not fallen in with Hitler it's also possible that she would be a feminist icon of sorts. This book captures Unity in all her paradoxical complexity. Hitler hated lipstick, yet Unity refused not to wear it in his presence. He hated women drivers, yet was delighted to see Unity zooming about Munich in her sports car. She was a unique woman who refused to bow down before anyone, up to & including her "idol", Hitler. Read this bio & you'll find a woman that, like most fascinating figures, was wildly out of step with the times in which she lived; & as a result will continue to be misunderstood by most. Nonetheless, it's a great read, however you feel about Unity and/or her politics.

Accuracy in real life and reviewing
Anyone who's read anything about the Mitfords knows that Unity was NOT the youngest. The youngest (and only-surviving) Mitford sister (as of 2004) is Deborah, the Duchess of Devonshire. The birth order of the Mitford siblings was Nancy, Pam, Tom, Diana, Unity, Jessica and Deborah.

Now -- about the Pryce-Jones book. I can understand why all the sisters, except Jessica, didn't want it published. Nancy was the only committed anti-Fascist among them and so dreaded family contention, that her book about Unity, Wigs on the Green, was never re-released for publication. Deborah also valued family harmony. The rest of them were, as Jessica (the Communist) says, basically sympathetic to the Fascists and were also anti-semites, in the old tradition of British aristocracy. Even Tom, who supposedly had Jewish clients as a lawyer, was, as his sister Diana pointed out, a paid-up member of the British Union of Fascists. Yecchh.

Nevertheless the book is a fascinating psychological study and worth reading for anyone who's interested in family, or social, pathology. What makes charming, funny, smart, gifted people willingly adopt such a hateful social philosophy?

The book may not provide the definitive answer to this question but it is somewhat enlightening about the pre-war social conditions in England and Germany and the mind-set of Nazi fellow-travelers. Unity may be an extreme case but her story is illuminating.

Fascinating subject, poor writing
I haven't yet finished this book.The topic is fascinating and somewhat chilling, however, the writing gets in the way.

The author presents a wealth of interesting material, but the organization is confused.Much of it reads like a society column squib.Often it is not clear who is being quoted and names are thrown around with abandon.

However, it was very enlightening to read about the level of Nazi sympathy that existed in 1930s England, among the upper classes. ... Read more

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Telephony solutions for the small and medium business, enterprise branch office, and small office

• Detailed information not available in any other resource enables you to deploy IP telephony solutions with maximum efficiency
• Building blocks of the product features provide solutions that enhance the operations and productivity of your organization
• Numerous examples show you how to configure the comprehensive suite of features available with Cisco IPC Express
• Insights from the experts demonstrate how you can enhance your IP telephony system with applications such as automated attendant and voice mail
• Management and troubleshooting tips will help you keep your network up and running smoothly

Enterprise branches and small and medium businesses require IP telephony solutions particular to their size. Cisco® IP Communications (IPC) Express is the answer: a one-box solution that provides turnkey operation with an easy-to-use web-based interface for combined voice and data needs. Cisco IPC Express delivers a comprehensive suite of telephony features, security, and applications–but how will you use them to your best advantage?

This book, Cisco IP Communications Express, provides the detailed information you need to maximize the use of this powerful product suite. By reading this book, you will learn how Cisco IPC Express and its applications can become a business solution for your office or enterprise. The experts from Cisco Systems® give you in-depth design guidance, full configurations, and valuable examples to serve as blueprints for your network. The feature operation and deployment discussions demonstrate how to configure and customize the system and how to use different product features to achieve your specific business goals. Once you deploy your solutions, you will be able to maintain your network through the troubleshooting guidance and examples of resolutions to common problems provided in this book.

Cisco IP Communications Express is a must-have for any organization using Cisco CallManager Express or Cisco Unity® Express. Technology decision makers and network administrators will be armed with relevant information on how to deploy IP communications for their particular business needs. IT managers in larger enterprises will benefit from the plans for distributed call processing design for their networks. Service providers and resellers will be prepared to sell, install, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco IPC Express based on customer needs.  Beyond its application in the workspace, Cisco IP Communications Express will also prove helpful to those studying for Cisco voice-related certifications.

This IP communications book is part of the Cisco Press® Networking Technology Series. IP communications titles from Cisco Press help networking professionals understand voice and IP telephony technologies, plan and design converged networks, and implement network solutions for increased productivity.

Customer Reviews (9)

Great reference book
Great book. I Have not read the whole book yet but what I have read has been very helpful and well written.

Very useful guide
A very good reference guide for any new/existing cme/cue deployment. Specifically the sample config guides were very useful. Overall this book is well written.

A Complete Reference for Configuring and Managing CME
Cisco IP Communications Express: CallManager Express with Cisco Unity Express (ISBN 1-58705-180-X) is an all-in-one resource for configuring, managing, and troubleshooting the Cisco CallManager Express (CME) solution. It is almost 900 pages and is well organized into five parts: overview, feature operation and applications, administration and management, maintenance and troubleshooting, and appendices. If you are involved in configuring or maintaining the Cisco CallManger Express, this book will provide you with all the information you need to get your work done.

Cisco CME is an integrated solution offered by Cisco for meeting the IP telephony needs of small businesses or branch offices. The CME solution, which consists of the call processing feature and the voice mail feature, runs on the Cisco routers ranging from the 1700 series to the 3700 series and beyond. Whereas the CallManager suite offers centralized approach to building out an enterprise wide VoIP network, the CME is meant to serve the needs of smaller businesses or to integrate seamlessly into the larger, enterprise solution.

The book is well written and starts out with a high level architecture of the deployment scenarios for CME. The second part gets into the features and applications side of the solution. This part is where the crux of the book lies. It presents a detailed coverage of the commands used to configure the CallManager solution under various scenarios such as implementing different call features, integrating VoIP with PSTN, and deploying CME as part of a larger CallManager solution. This part presents a thorough coverage of Unity Express (UE), the voicemail module of the CME. The third part relates to the management of CME. Particularly useful in this part is a real-life configuration example as it illustrates and brings together a lot of the material covered in the earlier part of the book. Part four gets into the essential topic of troubleshooting the CME solution. It provides useful tips and solutions for common problems found in deploying the call processing and voice mail aspects of CME. This is definitely a very useful section of the book. The last part, the appendices, has reference materials and scripts used in the book to make daily tasks easier etc.

One of the strong points of the book is a multitude of sample configurations. The authors provide sample configurations throughout the book to help illustrate the concepts being presented. This sample configuration goes a long way if the reader has the task of actually configuring CME. The other strong point of the book is the depth of coverage given to each topic that is discussed. With the exception of a handful of topics (one in particular which I'll mention), the book never glosses over any topic; rather it covers it in detail, ensuring that most aspects of the topic are addressed. The exception to this was the coverage of the D/A module(s) used for attaching analog devices to CME, such as a fax machine. Given that analog fax machines still constitute a critical part of any business, I would expect this topic to be covered in detail. However, I found that no configuration examples were provided on how to configure this in the CME suite.

In summary, this book is a great all-in-one reference for configuring and managing CME. I would highly recommend it to any professional tasked with working on Cisco's CallManager Express.

excellent book
overall this book is very good. I like the examples it presents to make thing clear, and also the broadness of topics it covers.
Since Cisco IP Telephony evolves so quickly, I wish Cisco will release newer editions with updated technologies. in particular I was hoping this book should contribute some to SIP and its deployment in UCME environment.

Very good book - not only for CCME and CUE
I've used this book as a main reference for my first complete implementation of CCME and CUE. I said "main" reference instead of "only" reference, because there are few small gaps to be filled by Cisco on-line documentation, but the deficiencies are too small to justify anything less than 5 stars. Additionally, there is a lot of general (IP and traditional) telephony information so even a relative beginner, after reading this book, will be able to intelligently interview future users (Chapter 5 is simply brilliant!), design quite complex system with many fancy call features, and even create scripts for quite sophisticated Auto-Attendant options. Certain concepts are not explained in complete detail (for example dial peers or voice ports), but deeply enough for the needs of CCME. ... Read more

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This scholarly yet engaging book presents a dynamic interpretation of Jewish history—from biblical to modern times—as a set of interconnected and evolving events and relationships that spring directly from Judaism’s core beliefs.

Rivkin explores how monotheism has enabled Jews throughout history to adapt themselves, their communities, and their vision of the Covenant whenever they were confronted by new circumstances or historical forces. This flexibility and redefinition has time and again ensured Jewish survival and vitality, and placed Jews in the forefront of the modern trend of globalization.

The Unity Principle is newly revised and expanded based on Rivkin’s classic work The Shaping of Jewish History.

"This remarkable book captures much of the scope, passion, originality, and incisiveness of an inimitable teacher and cherished mentor who opened new vistas for our understanding of Jewish history—indeed of history itself."

– FROM THE FOREWORD BY ROBERT M. SELTZER—Professor of Jewish History at Hunter College and author of Jewish People, Jewish Thought: The Jewish Experience in History. ... Read more

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We are God seekers and Our God teaches
This audacious book presents a creative theory of virtually everything!I am so in awe of Professor Rivkin that anything I write here is going to be inadequate.It's impossible to do justice to Rivkin's comprehensive knowledge of Jewish history and world history, to his powerful explanations of the creative power of monotheism or his observations of our present global challenges and possibilities.One must experience this great mind first hand.The Unity Principle is as accessible as it is brilliant.The man writes beautifully. This is a transformative book.You may not be the same after you read it.We are God seekers, and our God is a God who teaches.That is the essence yet only the beginning of Rivkin's offering here.

The Unity Principle, by Rivkin
The book arrived promptly and in good condition. Although I have only browsed in the book, so far, I find it to be very interesting. It is a valuable asset to my Interfaith Relations library. Dr Rivkin is a renowned authority on the matters of which he writes.

An elegantly written, scholarly review of Jewish history
This distillation of the wisdom gained in a lifetime of scholarly inquiry and teaching by a professor of Jewish history concisely presents complex concepts in a readily comprehensible and elegantly written style. Dr. Rivkin traces the metamorphoses of Jewish concepts of deity throughout the vicissitudes of Jewish historical experience, in the process documenting "the chosen people's" remarkable capacities for adaptation and survival. Inculcated and nurtured by scholars, priests, and prophets, the Jews' commitment to monotheism has remained constant through mutating prisms of experience and historical process. Indeed, Dr. Rivkin emphasizes, there is no simple or universal Jewish theology, but rather a process of searching for, rather than finding, an omnipotent deity who endowed humankind with free will and therefore with the capacities for both good and evil. Within this historical perspective, the author finds an underlying unity in the spectrum of Jewish beliefs from those of the ultra-orthodox through those of their secular and non-professing counterparts, and he identifies this unity with the liberating impulses of capitalistic globalization affecting all of humankind that are disproportionately implemented and advanced by urbanized, well-educated intellectuals, professionals, and merchants of Jewish descent. In short, this work constitutes a summary of world history with especial emphasis on the unique contributions made by those schooled in Jewish thought, values, and faith. ... Read more

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A short overview of the Unity Church and its beliefs.
Eric Butterworth summarizes the history of the Unity Church and the beliefs it encompasses.This is a good place to start if you are interested in learning more about Unity.It's a quick read.However, it's probably not very illuminating for those who've already read Butterworth's Discover the Power Within You, which goes much more in depth into these beliefs.

A Great Introduction to Unity
Wherever you heard about Unity before or not, you will be blessed if you will acquaint yourself with this non-orthodox Christian movement. No matter what some critics say, it is far from being a cult. It is a way of thinking and a way of living - living positively and creatively. Unlike many other groups, it claims no absolute authority; require no allegiance to its founders or modern leaders. You can take from Unity whatever you want and as much as you want, and to be confident that it will be a blessing to you.

Unity re-discovered the practice of silent meditation long before it became popular in the Western world. Unity taught about the power of "positive thinking" long before it became popular through books of Norman Vincent Peale and Robert H. Schuller. Unity was a blessing to a modern religious thought in many ways, although it is not always admitted. However, I want to assure you that if you will take time to read its materials, especially the classical ones, your understanding of God and your own life will not be the same!

Personally, after I found Unity several years ago, I dedicated myself to making Unity materials available in the Russian language. ... Read more

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This novel tells the story of a Botswanian family's struggle to cope with the devastatation of HIV and poverty. While Mara, mother of four, turns to traditional magic to cure the disease destroying her family, her children increasingly reject such beliefs, choosing instead to fight the powerlessness and oppression that have made the family so vulnerable to HIV. ... Read more

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Intimate story of life for an African woman
I read this book to learn more about women's rights issues in Africa, and I think in a very subtle way it is a great learning device. It really humanizes the struggles women in rural Botswana go through and places the reader inside an often unfamiliar culture. It is particularly interesting to see how local customary beliefs try to explain AIDS. A good read if you want to understand Africa.

Confronting Understanding
Oh, Stan, I am just tired of feeling like I am being taken over by all kinds of forces: teachers, men, foreigners, other students... I need a way to survive the pettiness around me. (p.115)

Far and Beyon' is, for me, in the first instance an exposition of the plurality and pervasiveness of power.Although domestic violence, corporal punishment and other forms of force feature in the account, Mosa and her family are not merely oppressed by brute force.Mosa's life is, instead, structured by a series of complex, contradictory rules, norms, expectations, and sanctions.Family relations, for instance, are guided by overlapping but mutually incompatible systems: Social norms determine social standing, tasks, responsibilities, acceptable behavior; a closely connected but less pervasively understood body customary practices (which itself has diverse interpretations, see p.151) regulates familial and gender relationships.Somewhere in the distance is the specter of a complex and cumbersome system of formal legal rules based and the Botswana state.Yet, as Mosa's attempt to help Cecilia shows, this recourse is often ineffective, formalistic and impotent (see: pp.172-8).

Contradictions pervade the novel.Botswana, as nation-state, rarely features in the lives of the Selato family save from a devious police officer, a school system, and a formal visit from the education minister to a prize giving ceremony.Neither traditional healing nor modern medicine provide viable solutions to the AIDS crisis, while social norms and customary practices encourage male promiscuity.In her attempt to get an education, Mosa has to contend with an institution operating with Victorian British practices, teachers who seek to forge patron-client relationships with students, and pervasive forms of misogyny.Mara maintains a "female headed household" (p.87) but is confronted with practices, customs, and rules than undermine women's self-sufficiency and access to the most basic rights and resources.Moreover, the contradictions and confusion of modern, post-colonial existence is born out in every aspect of the identity of each character.Mosa initially curses her unglamorous, non-English name which, to boot, means woman (pp. 76-8), while American teachers take it upon themselves to elongate and abbreviate their students' Anglo-Saxon names (p101).Mosa is acutely aware of the disciplining power of language, accent and syntax: "you have to remember to say 'Koki and I' at school and 'Me and Koki' at home" (p.88).The constant clash between competing cultures and values results in a kind of cultural bilingualism.Mosa instinctively knows when her definition of family is incompatible with her English teacher's.Stan patiently avoids his white benefactor's intrusive questions and attempts to hide his ritual-induced scars.

Ask your know-it-all Mr Mitchell how much family counseling costs where he comes from.(p.108-9)

Far and Beyond is a reflection on contemporary Southern African society.It is also a powerful commentary "what makes the world hangs together".For better or worse, ideas, myths, rituals, stories, implicit agreements and strategic silences are the glue of all nations, societies, groups and families.When Stan voices discomfort at a cow slaughtering ceremony, Mosa challenges him by comparing it to western ways of coping with grief.Partly aided by her geographic and cultural distance, Mosa's comparison highlights important parallels between the grieving rituals of western and "traditional" societies by stripping the former of the taken-for-granted esteem and authority that "scientific," institutionalized, and professionalized western practices are often afforded.

Fiction, ultimately, does much more than shed light on what is often left undocumented or underreported.It can also help us understand the urgency and humanity that is at times masked by academic terms and political buzz words like "development," "sustainability" and "equity."Mirroring Mosa's angry confrontation with "reality" which ultimately spurs her agency, novels like Far and Beyon' provide a bridge between education and understanding by drawing parallels between "us" and "them," and by inspiring anger, hope and action.

A great read about a strong African woman
Mosa is an intelligent girl who grows up in a traditional village community in Botswana. Two of her brother die of AIDS, a disease that is widespread but hardly mentioned. Her mother tries to get her life back on the track with the advice and actions of traditional diviners, her brother Stan is caught between cultures when he has to find a way to mix his African background with the western background of the teacher in whose house he lives. After an abortion Mosa has to fight hard, first to get her place back at school and to get her family back together after years of sorrow, than to fight for her rights in an environment where teachers can do pretty much everything with their female pupils. Using a mix of social skills and cunning ideas she ends up as the glorious winner of the fight.

This book, written by an African woman who is a judge at the high court of Botswana, is a monument for the strength of African woman: the way in which they run society behind the scenes and in which they have to cope with sexism in order to survive. It is also a strong plea for openness about HIV/AIDS. And most important of all: there is an engrossing story to get the message across. ... Read more

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Etienne Gilson The best summary of this book is in the authors words from the forword: It is the proper aim and scope of the present book to show that the history of philosophy makes philosophical sense, and to define its meaning in regard to the nature of philosophical knowledge itself. For that reason, the various doctrines, as well as the definite parts of these doctrines, which have been taken into account in this volume, should not be considered as arbitrarily selected fragments from some abridged description of the medieval and modern philosophy, but as a series of concrete philosophical experiments especially chosen for their dogmatic significance. Each of them represents a definite attempt to deal with philosophical knowledge according to a certain method, and all of them, taken together, make up a philosophical experience. The fact that all those experiments have yielded the ... Read more

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A Delighful Read
Not too many books in philosophy or about philosophy deserve to be called delightful, but this is one such book. Originally delivered as lectures--and that's when philosophers are at their best--this work is part history of philosophy, part criticism, part positive doctrine. What Gilson succeeds doing better than most is writing a story of Medieval and modern philosophy. A single narrative that weaves through the various thematic threads and keeps them all in sight. We learn about the continuity of thought and what specific concerns a philosopher had with his predecessors. In Medieval philosophy, he concentrates on later and more obscure thinkers. He spends a lot of time--too much--on Descartes, laying out and paraphrasing his method and reactions to it.

There's a pattern in the history of philosophy. A pattern of error. One philosopher's enthusiastic and idealistic doctrine will be taken by his followers to its ultimate conclusions, which then leads invariably to skepticism. The way out of skepticism has been mysticism or moralism. The book lays out how this happens in Medieval times, with Descartes, and in Modern philosophy after Descartes. He does not focus much on mysticism because that pertains to religion more than philosophy.

He concludes his book by telling us how all these philosophers have erred- repeatedly. And in doing so he gives us the guidelines, the principles, of what a philosopher would have to do in order to avoid repeating the same error again. Such a philosophy would not be devoid of metaphysics, on the contrary, it would be a metaphysics that does not begin by trying to emulate an external method of one of the sciences and thus is not subject to the inexorable reductive degeneration into that science--a degeneration that often not just destroys philosophy, but the science as well.

There's a lot here to be learned. The book is very clear and concise and gets to the main ideas of the thinkers it discusses. And it is also very readable. It is a quick read that can be easily accomplished, no preparation--mental or otherwise--is needed. It is at times humorous. It is not very thought-provoking though. Despite dealing with metaphysics, it's not deep, and you won't get lost in it due to overconcentration.

Some criticisms: most philosophers are rather parochial. Gilson is no exception. For the most part, his philosophical universe is populated by Frenchmen. His positive teachings occupy perhaps 7 pages or so. I would have been interested in reading more about it. Aquinas is notoriously absent, unless it was assumed that his audience knew him already. Gilson mentiones him often and in glowing terms but he never tells us what Aquinas is all about.

Best Single Book in the History of Philosophy
This is one of my favorite books.I regularly recommend it as the best single book in the history of philosophy.I'm delighted that it is again in print and at a reasonable price.

A Philosophical Must
Gilson's work is composed of four parts.In each of the first three parts he explores the advent and demise of a philosophical system (the Medieval experiment, the Cartesian experiment, the Modern experiment) and identifies the recurring fatal attribute contained in each: the application of a particular science (logic, mathematics, science respectively) to the investigation of first principles.The successive failures of these systems has led to the "natural" but not "logical" modern conclusion that metaphysics is impossible.Gilson rejoins that simply because no one has ever succeeded in forming a complete metaphysical system that "explains" all reality doesn't spell the death of metaphysics.Such an enterprise isn't the goal of metaphysics to begin with, and anyone attempting such an undertaking is doomed before he starts.One cannot start with a method and attempt to encapsulate being since being is inexhaustible.Rather, one must start with being and work his way out.As Gilson observes, "Man is not a mind that thinks, but a being who knows other beings as true, who loves them as good, and who enjoys them as beautiful."The metaphysician must accept being a priori and interpret it anew for each generation.Metaphysics is not dead or static, but alive and as new as each succeeding moment.The nihilism which marks the present age is the result of systems imposing themselves upon being which results in frustration and emptiness.It is only when one allows being to reveal itself to us that any meaning can be derived from existence.

A history of philosophy with philosophical implications
Lectures given by Etienne Gilson in 1936 at Harvard. Gilson defines the coming war, World War II, as a philosophical war of two different heads of Hegelianism. Communism, which is inspired by a look forward, into what will be, and helping it along (all conjecture of course); and the Hitlarian (Romantic) looking to the past. Thus Hitler's paganism and his desire to rid Europe of all nonindigionious elements, especially Semetic. Christianity, after all, is a conquering force upon the natural purity and indigoniousness of Europe. It is a glorification of what man, or more importantly, a nation (peoples) would be had they been left in their natural state uncorupted by foreign elements. A Darwinian, Rousousian, Kantian mix (among others) that created the ultranationalistic Romanticism. Gilson defines these misguided principles (still the dominant principles of today) as leading to a future tragic bloody war. But it also explains why Japan, in WWII, wished to be rid of Americanism in their culture, and of any foreign influences. Anyway it leads to extreme nationalism that is just an end result of Romanticism. The problems with defining the truth of Hitler to modern minds is we are not far removed from the thesis and antithesis of his metaphyiscal plain.

The most important thesis of the book, however, is Gilson's defense that philosophy and more importantly metaphysics is a process and not a conclusion. Once one has made metaphysics a conclusion it ceases to be Metaphysics. Metaphyics can supose a greater truth, like an octagon being closer to a circle than a hexagon, but to incompus all truth is at least a human impossibility. However there have been many cycles in the history were postulations of a "metaphysical" entirety of truth have lead to philosophical cycles of argumentation, sometimes with real physical consequences. These cycles have turned into philosophical battles between true metaphyics and the false. The most recent false metaphicans have been Hegel, Kant, Carte, Hume, Descartes, and William of Ockham, plus their various disciples. The first cycle, Gilson defines, is that of Thales, 2,600 years ago, claiming all is an absolute of everything being air, followed by Anaximenes claiming everything was not air but water, and then Heraclitus caliming all is fire, then the first synthasis of this absurdity was Anaxaimander saying that the common things of all this stuff was indeterminable.

Gilson spends most of his effort, 99% of it, in defining the modern and medieaval cycles of metaphysical certatude and the resulting problems. Any summary of it would not do it justice.

The importance of this book to historians and pilosophers and historians of philosophy is immense. I don't know of any other book which so vividly paints a picture of modern thinking and how "it" got here than this book. Although I must admit I got hopelessly lost in the discriptions of Descarte's postulations, but the thesis of Descartes was made clear. One could go on forever about this book it is a cornicopia of ideas for further study and expansion. Highly recommended for any student of history or philosophy. Gilson brings a view that cannot be ignored. The question I have for Gilson, if I could ask it, is does Gilson agree that error illuminates the truth, as Aquinas did, and further, if error is good.

Gilson convincingly argues that there is unity to the philosophical experience and this experience is illuminating on the nature of man and perhaps more.

This is one of the good ones
I found this little book a quarter of a century ago. I have never seen itsince, but I've never forgotten it. What Gilson has to say here is simple,sane, important and exciting and just really fun to read. And sturdy too.It holds up. A reviewer below said that he was thrilled to see this is backin print. Well, so am I. ... Read more

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Good book - but seems more like a NT introduction
I would first condition my review.I did not read through this book really slow to analyze the intricate details of it.But I still felt like I was reading an Introduction to the New Testament with bigger strides.Instead of stepping for each book, Matera steps on every section of books (which he divides into authors-basically).Though he does not support traditional authors behind the inspired books, he does still hold each book as Scripture and therefore authoritative.Over all, Matera does write well and give good information, I just thought it did not feel like a NT Theology book with ideas like the degree of continuity and discontinuity with OT as a principle aspect to be discussed.

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The author, a respected scholar, offers a comprehensive book-by-book examination of the dogmatics of each work within the larger theological message of the entire New Testament. Integrating both Protestant and Catholic approaches, he explains the theologies of the Synoptic, Pauline, and Johannine traditions, as well as the General Epistles and the Book of Revelation. ... Read more

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I loved it.
This book is deep and complex. One has to read it to grasp and understand. Anyway, Diop essentially divides the world into two cradles - the Northern (patriarchal in character), and Southern (Black and matriarchal). He clearly demonstrates that matriarchy could only be found in Black populations, specifically in Africa, or other places subject to Black influence. European and Asiatic societies have a patriarchal regime because of the demanding nomadic lifestyle in the Eurasian steppes. The sedentary life of Blacks is what fueled great respect for women...the Black woman being the inventor of agriculture. Children often got their names from the mother's lineage. He clearly argues his facts by explaining dowry, fire worship, cremation, amazonism, etc. He gives thorough examples throughout.

This is not just another feel-good book from a zealous Afrocentrist. This is true scholarship! I am sure all readers will be convinced when they finish reading it. Islam, colonization, and Christianity have truely changed the Black world in terms of its matriarchal character. We should respect our women. In European and Asian history, you will never find anything resembling the armed Sudanese Kandake, the Angolan Nzinga, the Egyptian Hatshetsup and Tiye,...the list is endless. Perhaps it's matriarchy that fueled our ancient societies to become world powers in our glory days. We can only imagine. Can Africa ever really gain what it's lost? That's the question. In a way, I feel that Diop asks the same question. ... Read more

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From the completely new, exceptional art program, to the complete integration of the text with technology, Saladin has formed a teaching solution that will both motivate and enable your students to understand and appreciate the wonders of anatomy and physiology. This distinctive text was developed to stand apart from all other A&P texts with unparalleled art, a writing style that has been acclaimed by both users and reviewers and clinical coverage that offers the perfect balance without being too much. Saladin’s well-accepted organization of topics is based upon the most logical physiological ties between body systems. The text requires no prior knowledge of college chemistry or cell biology, and is designed for a two-semester A&P college course. ... Read more

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I needed this text for a class.The 5th addition was recommened.It was running around $170.00.I got the 4th edition for $20.00 and it is fullfilling all my needs!Extremely happy with my $150.00 savings!

Anatomy & Physiology: The Unity of Form and Function 4th Edition
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Anatomy & Physiology
This edition is being used by my instructor and it was such a good deal I couldn't pass it up.Came in timely manner and in very good condition. ... Read more

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This easy-to-read book demonstrates how a simple geometric idea reveals fascinating connections and results in number theory, the mathematics of polyhedra, combinatorial geometry, and group theory. Using a systematic paper-folding procedure it is possible to construct a regular polygon with any number of sides. This remarkable algorithm has led to interesting proofs of certain results in number theory, has been used to answer combinatorial questions involving partitions of space, and has enabled the authors to obtain the formula for the volume of a regular tetrahedron in around three steps, using nothing more complicated than basic arithmetic and the most elementary plane geometry. All of these ideas, and more, reveal the beauty of mathematics and the interconnectedness of its various branches. Detailed instructions, including clear illustrations, enable the reader to gain hands-on experience constructing these models and to discover for themselves the patterns and relationships they unearth. ... Read more

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Finally a book dedicated to Pentecostalism and Christian unity
The book says it clearly: this collection dispells the myth that Pentecostals are anti-ecumenical. A number of high-caliber authors portray the history of ecumenical involvement among Pentecostals without succumbing to either romantic ideas about Christian unity or unfounded criticism. The result is a balanced account of historical and theological perspectives on Pentecostalism and Christian unity. Vondey offers a suprisingly basic introduction to the volume that can serve well as an entrance point to ecumenical discussion in any place. The book is divided into three parts. The first is a collection of essays by Douglas Jacobsen, Harold Hunter, Carmelo Alvarez, Raymond Pfister, Paul van der Laan, and Cecil M. Robeck Jr. These essays come from the ecumenical studies group of the Society for Pentecostal Studies, apparently organized by Vondey. The second part brings together ecumenical documents from the history of dialogues of Pentecostal churches with the Roman Catholic Church and the Reformed Churches. I have never seen these documents together, and the breadth of theological discussion in these texts is a tribute to Pentecostal scholarship in dialogue with others. The last part of the book contains essays of the latest consensus statement by the World Council of Churches on the Nature and Mission of the Church. The authors are Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Frank Macchia, and a concluding essay by Wolfgang Vondey. Overall a great collection of scholars with long-term experience in ecumenical work. A great resource and wonderful documentation of the contributions of Pentecostals to Christian unity. The book will work well in courses on Pentecostalism or on the church or ecumenical affairs in general. The essays are globally oriented and offer good resources for further study. Finally a book dedicated exclusively to Pentecostalism and ecumenism! ... Read more

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Although many observers have assumed that pluralism prevailed in American political life from the start, inherited ideals of civic virtue and moral unity proved stubbornly persistent and influential. The tension between these conceptions of public life was especially evident in the young nation's burgeoning cities. Exploiting a wide range of sources, including novels, cartoons, memoirs, and journalistic accounts, James J. Connolly traces efforts to reconcile democracy and diversity in the industrializing cities of the United States from the antebellum period through the Progressive Era.The necessity of redesigning civic institutions and practices to suit city life triggered enduring disagreements centered on what came to be called machine politics. Featuring plebian leadership, a sharp masculinity, party discipline, and frank acknowledgment of social differences, this new political formula first arose in eastern cities during the mid-nineteenth century and became a subject of national discussion after the Civil War. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, business leaders, workers, and women proposed alternative understandings of how urban democracy might work. Some tried to create venues for deliberation that built common ground among citizens of all classes, faiths, ethnicities, and political persuasions.But accommodating such differences proved difficult, and a vision of politics as the businesslike management of a contentious modern society took precedence. As Connolly makes clear, machine politics offered at best a quasi-democratic way to organize urban public life. Where unity proved elusive, machine politics provided a viable, if imperfect, alternative. ... Read more

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For the 11th edition of BIOLOGY: UNITY AND DIVERSITY OF LIFE, Cecie Starr and Ralph Taggart made it their goal to "solve" some of the toughest Introductory Biology course challenges. We introduce a new issues-oriented approach with engages students in current, motivating biological topics; a built-in cross-referencing system for key topics; and, most importantly, time-saving media resources for instructors.Show students how biology matters ? Opening each chapter with engaging essays on hot issues and related online voting, the text highlights the connections between biology and real-life. Online exercises promote critical thinking about issues students will face as consumers, parents and citizens. Link concepts from chapter to chapter - Students often have a difficult time with this, so the authors created a "linking" tool. A list at the start of each chapter reminds students of related topics that were explained earlier. Within chapters, a key icon identifies cross-references to relevant sections in earlier chapters. As students work through the text, they see how topics build upon one another.Monitoring students' progress with ease - BiologyNow? offers diagnostic quizzes with automatically graded results that flow directly into your instructor gradebook (iLrn, WebCT or BlackBoard). And, to assess students' progress instantly with in-class quizzes and polls, you can use JoinIn? on TurningPoint? content and software.Easier lecture prep - The new PowerLecture tool integrates all chapter assets - art, photos, animations, videos, links to InfoTrac articles, web links and everything else you need into each chapter's lecture slides. This "buffet" of media resources-arranged by chapter section is at your fingertips. Just cut and paste what you want into your lecture file. ... Read more

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Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life
This is one of the best textbooks for introductory Biology you can find - in my opinion ... Read more