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David A. Shore’s THE TRUST CRISIS IN HEALTHCARE
Publishers Marketplace reports:
Associate Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health David A. Shore’s THE TRUST CRISIS IN HEALTHCARE, to Oxford University Press, for publication in spring 2006, in a nice deal, by Martha Jewett of Business Books of Distinction (world).
About 40 years too late to be timely.
Dan Okrent’s Triple-Diple Snoozefest
Publishers Marketplace reports:
The New York Times’ first “Public Editor” Daniel Okrent’s PUBLIC EDITOR NUMBER ONE: The Collected Columns (with Afterthoughts, Reconsiderations and Even a Few Retractions) of the First Ombudsman of The New York Times, to Peter Osnos and David Patterson at Public Affairs, for publication in spring 2006, by Liz Darhansoff at Darhansoff, Verrill & Feldman (world).
Wow, what a triple-diple snoozefest. There should be a category for negative advances based on negative reading interest. Pass.
Bantam Dell Publishing Group | A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin
Bantam Dell Publishing Group | A Feast for Crows by George R. R. Martin: “Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace…only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.”
The Bantam Spectra web page for AFFC
[Science Phile] New Scientist Breaking News - Elephants may pay homage to dead relatives
New Scientist Breaking News - Elephants may pay homage to dead relatives:
Elephants may pay homage to the bones of dead relatives in their home ranges, a study of the creatures’ responses to skulls and ivory suggests.Humans apart, only a few animals show any interest in their own dead. Chimpanzees show prolonged and complex behaviours towards a dead social partner – but abandon them once the carcass starts decomposing. But lions, for example, might sniff or lick a dead member of its own species before proceeding to devour the body.
African elephants have been observed to become highly agitated when they come across the bodies of their own, and they have been seen to pay great attention to the skull and ivory of long-dead elephants. However, this interest had not been tested experimentally.
Now research from a team in the UK and Kenya has demonstrated that African elephants pay a higher level of interest to elephant skulls compared with those of other animals and ivory compared to wood.
Technorati tags: Elephants, Theory of Mind
Theory of mind = theory of head? Big head.
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Posted by wfzimmerman to Science Phile at 10/25/2005 02:34:30 PM
New Scientist Breaking News - Elephants may pay homage to dead relatives
New Scientist Breaking News - Elephants may pay homage to dead relatives:
Elephants may pay homage to the bones of dead relatives in their home ranges, a study of the creatures’ responses to skulls and ivory suggests.Humans apart, only a few animals show any interest in their own dead. Chimpanzees show prolonged and complex behaviours towards a dead social partner – but abandon them once the carcass starts decomposing. But lions, for example, might sniff or lick a dead member of its own species before proceeding to devour the body.
African elephants have been observed to become highly agitated when they come across the bodies of their own, and they have been seen to pay great attention to the skull and ivory of long-dead elephants. However, this interest had not been tested experimentally.
Now research from a team in the UK and Kenya has demonstrated that African elephants pay a higher level of interest to elephant skulls compared with those of other animals and ivory compared to wood.
Technorati tags: Elephants, Theory of Mind
Theory of mind = theory of head? Big head.
20 Turks fined for using letters W and Q - Oct 25, 2005
CNN.com - 20 fined for using letters W and Q - Oct 25, 2005:
A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law that bans use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners said.
Technorati tags: books
hat ould the orld be ithout w and q? No uick answers.
JUST SAY NO TO MICROSOFT (No Starch Press)
October 25, 2005, San Francisco-There are so many reasons to say no to Microsoft-the blue screen of death, Outlook email viruses, the endless dump of Windows patches, and so on. And yet, with Microsoft owning the lion’s share of the desktop market, how can anyone escape the Beast from Redmond and still function? It’s not as hard as you think, and author Tony Bove is only too happy to explain how to become liberated in his new book, JUST SAY NO TO MICROSOFT (No Starch Press, October ‘05). As PC Magazine columnist John Dvorak says in his introduction, “You are about to read one of the most interesting overviews of modern desktop computing history that’s ever been written.”
This looks like an entertaining read. For book-lovers, thouogh, I should point out that Microsoft has had a laudable long-term commitment to improving the fundamentals of the on-line reading experience through its Microsoft Reader software. It’s a pity that Reader hasn’t caught on as well as PDF.
Filed in: Microsoft, Microsoft Reader
Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Warning on Iran nuclear ambitions
Iran proliferation not the end:
Failure to halt Iran’s ambitions to develop a nuclear bomb could lead other countries in the region to acquire nuclear weapons of their own, a leading international affairs think tank has warned.Dr John Chipman, director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), said Turkey and Saudi Arabia could be among the countries that would “reconsider their options” if Tehran succeeded in building a bomb.
His comments, at the launch of the IISS’s annual Military Balance report for 2005/06,
Technorati tags: nuclear proliferation, Iran
Well, duh…
[What's New for Book-Lovers] 20 Turks fined for using letters W and Q - Oct 25, 2005
CNN.com - 20 fined for using letters W and Q - Oct 25, 2005:
A Turkish court has fined 20 people for using the letters Q and W on placards at a Kurdish new year celebration, under a law that bans use of characters not in the Turkish alphabet, rights campaigners said.
Technorati tags: books
hat ould the orld be ithout w and q? No uick answers.
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Posted by wfzimmerman to What’s New for Book-Lovers at 10/25/2005 10:32:42 AM
THE TRUTH (WITH JOKES) by Senator Al Franken
Franken’s ‘Truth’: Politics can be serious business - Yahoo! News:
n the epilogue to his newest book, The Truth (with jokes), published today, Franken writes a letter to his grandchildren, dated 2015, reviewing how Democrats “took our country back.”
Technorati tags: books, Al Franken
Richard A. Clarke, THE SCORPION’S GATE
Clarke unleashes ‘Scorpion’ on U.S. foreign policy - Yahoo! News:
Combine an insider’s expertise in geopolitics, the structure of a thriller and a deadly serious concern about the direction of American foreign policy in the Middle East and you have Richard A. Clarke’s anticipated new novel, The Scorpion’s Gate.
Technorati tags: Iraq, Richard A. Clarke, oil
I love it when journalists say something is “anticipated” that I’d never heard of…
Unfortunately, this one sounds rather turgid. But I do like that he envisages the world as changing:
The book is set in the very near future. After a bloody but failed war in the Middle East, the United States is desperate for both oil and friends.
Postwar Iraq has thrown us out. Our former oil supplier, Saudi Arabia, is now called Islamyah. Although hostile to America, this new government does have democratic leanings.
The corrupt Saudi rulers have fled to the USA, where they plot their return to power. That they remain enormously rich helps them buy U.S. politicians and influence political campaigns.
Failure of imagination is a huge problem for novelists as well as politicians!
