Communication 2000 2E: Reading for Information, Learner Guide/CD Study Guide Package (Communication 2000)

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This softcover text focuses on strategies for reading, gathering, and prioritizing information. Effective reading and information management skills are essential for following instructions, solving problems, and understanding documents in the work place. The workshops provided will give instruction on how to identify information needs, use reading strategies, and manage electronic and technical information. Multimedia components enhance the impact of the workshops so users can complete a variety of exercises on the computer, watch video footage of people effectively communicating on the job, and use the Internet to conduct further research.

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The new economy has changed the rules of the game in business, and the speed at which businesses operate and interact. Corporate success has therefore never been more dependent on the contribution of first-rate people, who give more than merely adequate performance at work and in turn, trust has become a topic of considerable importance within organization, as people need to be engaged and motivated by their role in order to go the "extra mile". Low trust is characterised by defensive, protective and legalistic behaviour (with the potential to financially damage a company), whereas high trust can help create real competitive advantage in the marketplace through promoting effective collaboration, involvement and loyalty which in turn generate energy and innovation among employees.

The organisations with a high level of trust have teams of people that are highly motivated and co-operative and command respect and loyalty from their customers. This can lead to the fulfilment of a company's mission and goals, and eventually, financial success. Yet trust is not an easy commodity to achieve and maintain, with employees increasingly demand more, and less obvious, compensations than financial benefits alone, such as job autonomy and ownership, and the market value of their role. Fulfilment of these 'hidden' rewards can lead to employee commitment and passion based on trust, which are valuable assets when employee retention is at a premium -many people are choosing to opt out of the corporate economy to work freelance, or for the new, small and entrepreneurial e-businesses start-ups. This book shows, through practical guidance and examples, how trust can be harnessed to create real competitive advantage within an organisation's strategic aims.

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More Secrets that Will Help Bring Out the Sous Chef in You

Lots of secrets in this book

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New variations on old ideas.

Add some professional secrets to your kitchen spices!

More Cooking Secrets of the CIA: Over 100 New Recipes from America's Most Famous Cooking School (The Companion Book to the Public Television Series)
The Culinary Institute of America , Culinary Institute of America , and Joyce Oudkerk Pool
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More Secrets that Will Help Bring Out the Sous Chef in You.......2006-10-24

Like the one that came before, this book is full of recipes (a hundred of them) that will have you making meals that will impress all who sit at your table. My copy is a bit worn, because I go to it all the time, not just for meal planning the next dinner, but for ideas in the future. I'm always cooking in my head, smelling spices that are not there, tasting meals not yet cooked and I go over this book like a kid does a toy catalog.

As for the recipes, just try the Moroccan Chicken on Page 71 and you'll see what I mean, never has a pita pocket been so deliciously stuffed. And if you want to Tiramisu your darling, just grab a gander at the recipe on Page 100. Oh how I really loved the first book, I love this one just as much, you will too.

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Lots of secrets in this book.......2003-09-12

Being a student of CIA is not easy. I needed all the help I can get. There lots of info on techniques and different type of recipes. To get through some of the other tough courses, I purchased The Study Guide for Baking: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations, including the Advanced Baking study guide book. Both these books can be found on Amazon.com under P.Leonardi. These books were a great help to me in passing my classes and of course with a lot of practice in the kitchen.

terrible.......2003-02-09

i just made a recipe from this series of books

tasteless. very disappointed

New variations on old ideas........1998-09-23

This book inspires innovation. Variations on simple recipes from Chicken Breasts with Herbed Creram Sauce and Asian Pork Chops to the more traditional White Chilli and Osso Buco alla Milanese. The writing style is to the point yet detailed enough to provide easy instruction. Photographs are excellent. As a new restaurant owner and a passionate home cook the book is my current favourite.

Add some professional secrets to your kitchen spices!.......1998-03-18

More Cooking Secrets of the CIA is a look at how the pros cook and present wonderful food -- sometimes healthful, sometimes quickly, but always delicious. I've never tried a recipe from this book without a successful result -- everything works and there's never anything left. Not everyone can attend the Cooking Institute of America, but anyone can learn from this lively little book.

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This book focuses on the effects of information policy. While information policy studies often consider the ideology underlying policy, the policy process, the stakeholders and players in that process, and the nature of the outcomes of policy development, there have been few studies that focus on the ultimate effects of information policy. This book looks at effects from two perspectives. First, it examines the impact of government-wide information policies on a specific government agency in terms of its dissemination policies for the information it provides. Secondly, the effects of the ensuing agency information policies on social science research are examined. The government-wide policies of interest here are cost-recovery and restraint initiatives imposed by the Canadian federal government in the mid-1980s. The policy statements specifically identified government information as an area in which increased revenues could be generated. Such de facto information policies can have a wide effect on government information production and dissemination. In this book, the history and background of the policies is considered and the effects were empirically examined using multiple methods of analysis. The period covered is mid-1980s through mid-1990s. An epilogue chapter provides information on recent policy developments in Canada and the continuing effects of the policies of the 1980s.

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The Everything Sewing Book: From Threading the Needle to Basting the Hem, All You Need to Alter and Create Beautiful Clothes, Gifts, and Decorations (Everything Series)
Sandra Detrixhe
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Despite the availability of retail fashion, more and more people are turning away from the assembly line toward one-of-a-kind clothing, decorations, and accessories.

The Everything® Sewing Book provides readers with easy instructions for creating beautiful garments, gifts, and decorations for the home. From selecting the right needle and thread to choosing fabrics, reading patterns, and working with a machine, this uncomplicated book introduces readers to the basics of sewing as they complete increasingly challenging projects that will be cherished for years to come. Also included are tips and tricks for making alterations and repairs and dressing up old clothes with embroidery and accents.

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An important individual who is not perfect

An insightful book

De Klerk, a story about South Africa

De Klerk - one of the most visionary statesman of our time

De Klerk - Visionary, Pragmatist or Traitor?

The Last Trek--A New Beginning: The Autobiography
F. W. De Klerk
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A History of South Africa, Third Edition

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On April 27, 1994, millions of South Africans stood in mile-long queues for hours to cast their votes in the country's first democratic election. F.W. de Klerk, the last apartheid president, must have known his party would lose and that he was effectively handing the power of the volk to the African National Congress and its leader, Nelson Mandela. De Klerk's motivation for writing The Last Trek appears to be to show this surrender of power as the act of the country's "great reformer." The book is also an attempt to reassure the volk that this is not the end for them--merely a fresh challenge.

De Klerk was brought up as an Afrikaner nationalist and his view of the world was shaped by racism. He unapologetically tells how, as a young man, he was impressed with Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd's plans to create separate black homelands and was relieved when Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment. Throughout the time he was a nationalist parliament member, minister, and later president, de Klerk insists, he did not know about his government's reign of terror and its attendant massacres and death squads. (Though he was a "compassionate reformer" and lawyer, it seems unbelievable that he did not try harder to find out if the allegations were true.) He does apologize for apartheid crimes--but urges they should be seen in context of the cold war and his political background, as well as in comparison with other nations: a weak apology, indeed. The Last Trek offers interesting insights into de Klerk's mind, but its most interesting material may well be its description of how his relationship with Mandela deteriorated, leading to the collapse of the coalition government--an event that angered de Klerk's colleagues because it caused a rift in the party and eroded international confidence in multiracial government.

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An important autobiography by the white Afrikaans politician who is credited with dismantling apartheid in South Africa. It is frank, revealing and controversial, reflecting both the man and a remarkable period of history. Although a serious book, it is full of anecdotes and personal behind the scenes observations. The autobiography will also explain to the world what had motivated apartheid and why and how those with so much to gain from this system of oppression came to realize it could never work. This, therefore, is the story of the South African miracle from the other side.

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An important individual who is not perfect.......2004-12-08

I think F W De Kelrk is a visionary in the sense that he forwsaw dire consequences for the Afrikaaners had they not relinquished power. The whole world watched in horror but did nothing when rwanda happened in 1994 the same could have been the case in South Africa had not De Kelrk swallowed his immense afrikaaner pride and said to himself "we ruled the country for 44 years and we were wrong, i either throw in the towel now and admit to the errors of my people or we go down the firy path of ethnic conflict (Bosnia 1992-1995) and possibly genocide (Rwanda 1994)" This was a nobel act in itself, but de Klerk has his faults, he was an admirer of Hendrik Verwoerd, the architech of modern aparthied and the Mengele of a latter day, in his youth. He was corrupt but so was Winnie Mandela, in one sense he was the best of a rather bad lot, next to the likes of John Vorster and P W Botha the man was a saint, but i would not go so far as to call him a savior for his people. He spared them from destruction but he was not able to do more. In todays S Africa AIDS, rape, violence, theft, and corrupt are rife, all are exposed to it equally now but i suppose nelson mandela has just as much to blame for that as does mr de kelerk

An insightful book.......2004-05-28

This book gives great insight into the workings of the apartheid edifice from its inception to its collapse. De Klerk gives a candid account. He however comes accross as somewhat dismissive and patronizing to the point of insults to the black majority of his native country. The black people of South Africa and their struggles against an oppressive and openly racist system are simply brushed over as a footnote to the events that led to the collapse of apartheid. Injustices such as the ownership of 75 percent of the country by a minority that is barely 13 percent are glossed over as mere logistical problems.

An important point to note on crime:

While the crime rate in South Africa is unacceptably high, it is necessary to note that this has only become a major issue now that the white minority are exposed to the consequences of economic inequalities created under apartheid. The crime rate was kept artificially low during apartheid by segregation laws and a ruthless racist police force. From the black perspective, there is no significant increase in the crime rate. Indeed there has been a major reduction of state sanctioned violence against the black majority since the end of apartheid.

This book is excellent if you want to look into the mind and workings of one of the most vile systems of governance ever conceived and implemented.

De Klerk, a story about South Africa.......2003-05-20

THis is the ultimate book on the resting place of SOuth AFrica. Klerk details his childhood, explaining his roots in Afrikaner culture(thus the title 'THe Last Trek'). He talks about the war years and about the victory of the nationist party and the begginings of aprthied under Malan and Verwoerd. He also talks about the heady years of Botha(the imperial president). he explains the meaning of the word 'coloured' talking about the Cape coloureds and he talks about the Indian voting blocks. THis is a book about a great nation and its tormented past. Deeply divided and ethnically challenged South Africa is struggling today to escape its past. Rape and crime is higher then ever in modern day S. Africa. land invasions are the norm. Mr. De Klerk may be regretting what he accomplished but this book is the ultimate study of the ultimate questions concerning race.

De Klerk - one of the most visionary statesman of our time.......2000-09-24

De Klerk realized early in his political career that Apartheid was dead and would continue to ostracize South Africa. With the dissipating threat of Communism on South Africa's borders, how could South Africa justify its policies? De Klerk steered through the policies that gave birth to Apartheid in 1948, and set the National Party and the White electorate on a course towards reconciliation. De Klerk was a pragmatist and a man of peace. Releasing Mandela from prison and negotiating a constitutional blueprint for the future, New South Africa is an accomplishment realized by few.

De Klerk - Visionary, Pragmatist or Traitor?.......2000-06-03

I purchased The Last Trek after returning from a recent business trip to South Africa in the hope that it would shed light on how the white minority in that country manoeuvred itself into the predicament it now faces. --- It certainly did hence my positive four stars rating of this book.

Recent events in Zimbabwe highlight the plight of ethnic minorities in countries ruled by an African majority. We have witnessed the steady disappearance one way or another of ethnic minorities across the African continent since the independence movement began in the late 1950's and 60's. Sometimes this has happened in a peaceful fashion like in Kenya where former British settlers quietly returned to the U.K. in the years following independence. Sometimes it's been abrupt and traumatic like when Idi Amin decided overnight to rob and deport Uganda's entire Indian community. Sometimes it's been horrific and bloody as recounted by former Portuguese citizens of Mozambique and Angola. Whatever the methods the end result has always been the same, reclamation of sovereignty by the African majority via the expulsion of non African minorities. With the exception of South Africa there are quite frankly no significant non African minorities in Sub Saharan Africa. This phenomenon is not restricted to Africa, I noticed a distinct lack of diversity driving around Harlem recently, in fact I challenge any non African to walk around let alone live in an African American neighbourhood.

Mr De Klerk clearly demonstrated in his book that he was very much aware of the consequences of black majority rule; he also expressed unease in regard to the totalitarian tactics used by the ANC to intimidate opponents during the elections. Towards the end of his book he poignantly describes the modern post apartheid South Africa which confirms his original fears: "There is growing anxiety over the intolerable levels of crime in the country, there is anger over the apparently systematic murder of white farmers..there is alarm over the decline in services and standards; there is a sense of grievance over the reverse racial discrimination in unfairly applied affirmative action; there is deep concern over the perception that whites are now being made the scapegoats for all the ills of our society and that, in the future, the ANC will blame us for their failure to deliver on the promises they made to their supporters; there is disillusion over the perceptions that whites are no longer really welcome in the new South Africa unless they conform with the ANC's model." (p.394-395)

Despite numerous diatribes on the part of the author reflecting on the moral righteousness of his actions Mr De Klerk leaves the reader with the distinct impression at the end of the book that the new South Africa he helped bring into being is a failure. There is a sense of unease about the future facing white South Africans, which the author tries to reconcile by arguing that the new South Africa was inevitable: "This book is, in essence, the story of how we, at last, confronted those realities and dismantled the laager of apartheid."(p.390). After reading this book however I would argue that Mr De Klerk was more than a pragmatist, he betrayed his people. By his people I mean the white minority that voted him into office, not the entire South African Nation over whom he had no franchise.

Yes, I agree with Mr De Klerk's view that the dismantling of apartheid was inevitable however my concern is that he did so without providing his people with any form of safeguard in case the new rainbow nation did not work out. The tragedy of South Africa is best summarized by the following quotation from an eminent Zulu leader: "Towards the end of our meeting King Goodwill said that he anticipated that things would go worse in the new South Africa than they had gone in other African countries. He said that he had nowhere to run to with his white and black brothers."(p.307) These words are haunting because they encapsulate the key difference between the impending decolonisation of South Africa vs. every other former European colony; this time there is nowhere for the European minority to run to. Former colonists with British, French, Belgian and Portuguese passports could go home when things got tough, in the same way that Korean families fled African American neighbourhoods in L.A. after the last spate of rioting and racial intimidation. South African minorities don't have this option.

Mr De Klerk was certainly not naive, nor was he an idealist; he was a pragmatist with an understanding of African history who knew that his people faced at best an uncertain future under black majority rule. Despite this he refused to demand any form of genuine guarantee for their safety lest it impede his growing fame as a world statesman. In the early nineties from a position of strength Mr De Klerk could have demanded dual nationality from the Western powers for every European, Cape Coloured and Indian South African, this should have been a non negotiable prerequisite to black majority rule given the history of that continent. If countries like the U.K., Holland, U.S.A, Australia and Canada, not to mention the Nordic nations were serious about dismantling apartheid they would have been hard put as a group not to give in to such a request, especially if they genuinely believed that democracy would lead to prosperity and peace.

Despite my personal differences with the author I highly recommend this book as a stimulating, provocative read which provides a background to the upcoming tragedy about to unfold in Southern Africa.

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THE LAST TREK - A NEW BEGINNING: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
F. W. de Klerk
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Last Trek: The New Beginning PB
DE KLERK
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ASIN: B000OUGH26

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Louise de Koven Bowen grew up in a Chicago caught between frontier and urbanity--a young city struggling to wipe the mud from its boots. Born into privilege and comfort, she demonstrated from an early age an extraordinary sense of social responsibility and alertness to how she could improve the circumstances of those around her. Smart, savvy, and bracingly candid, Growing Up with a City offers a rare portrait of Chicago and its growing pains from a woman's perspective.

"When I took a walk," Bowen says, "I liked to go into the poorer parts of the town and see what was going on, especially in my own ward." An early and longtime supporter of Jane Addams and Hull-House, Bowen was active in a multitude of reform organizations, describing herself as a third-class train passenger who goes out every day and pushes the train uphill because it cannot make the grade on its own. She was instrumental in creating a separate juvenile court and Chicago's Juvenile Protection Association, and she helped found the Woman's City Club, an organization that brought women together in one central organization to work for the welfare of the city. She was serving as president of the Chicago Equal Suffrage Association when the Illinois legislature gave women of the state the vote in local and federal elections. She even flirted with the idea of running for mayor in 1923.

More than a record of her accomplishments, Bowen's memoir is a disarmingly witty narrative of an enthusiastic, generous, and perpetually optimistic benefactor--with herself often the target of her own wry humor. Invigorating and endearing, her story lets us see how women made a difference in Chicago. This reissue features a substantial introduction by historian Maureen Flanagan.

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EPOCH: Arm; Angel of Truth; Mazes; For All Poor Folks at Picketwire; Growing Up in Edge City; Durance; The Ghost of a Model T; Planet Story; Graduation Day; Timetipping; Encounter with a Carnivore; Lady Sunshine and the Magoon of Beatus
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Growing up with ghosts: Memories of Silver City, Idaho
Julia Conway Welch
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Yesterday's children: Growing up in Kansas City 1900-1950 : a catalog in conjunction with a temporary exhibit at the Kansas City Museum, Kansas City, Missouri
Barbara M Gorman
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I was a city boy, a soft Asian: novelist MG Vassanji describes growing up with graft in Tanzania.(PSYCHOLOGY)(corruption): An article from: New Internationalist
M.G. Vassanji
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This digital document is an article from New Internationalist, published by Thomson Gale on December 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1725 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: I was a city boy, a soft Asian: novelist MG Vassanji describes growing up with graft in Tanzania.(PSYCHOLOGY)(corruption)
Author: M.G. Vassanji
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Date: December 1, 2006
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Growing Up With a City
Maureen A. Flanagan Louise De Koven Bowen
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Growing Up with a City
Louise De Koven Bowen
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Managerial Economics: Applied Microeconomics for Decision Making
S. Charles Maurice , Christopher R. Thomas , and Charles W. Smithson
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Managerial Economics- Applied Microeconomics For Decision Making (mcgraw-hill International Editions)
Charles Maurice
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Managerial Economics: Applied Microeconomics for Decision Making
S. Charles; Smithson, C. W. Maurice
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Managerial Economics: Applied Microeconomics for Decision Making.
S. Charles. Maurice
Manufacturer: Richard D Irwin
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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