Magic Lantern Guides: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi EOS 400D (Magic Lantern Guides)

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Michael Guncheon is a contributing editor for PC Photo magazine and is author of "Helpline," one of the magazine's oldest and most popular columns. He has also written for Digital PhotoPro and Outdoor Photographer magazines. His resume includes a long list of professional assignments in video and film editing, which includes commercials, music videos, and documentaries. He has taught technical seminars and is a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers. This replacement for the ever-popular Rebel XT is destined like its forerunner to become one of the top-selling amateur category digital SLR cameras. Written by the author of the Magic Lantern Guide: Digital Rebel XT, this information-packed volume covers every feature! This Magic Lantern Guide has the answer to all their questions, because it explains in detail how to use all the wonderful enhancements: its ability to save large and fine resolution images direct to the CompactFlash Card, its user-selectable metering; and its single plate, high sensitivity, high resolution color CMOS imaging sensor technology, and the XTi's special feature

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Half a bargain.......2007-08-27

Good content but all pictures are black and white! What's the point for a photo book? Not as interesting and to the same level of the book written by C.Lowrie.

Best guide out there.......2007-07-03

Magic Lantern guides are all very good, but this one is better than most. I had a Canon XT and upgraded to an XTi (the next, slightly newer model). I also had the XT lantern guide so was hesitant to get the XTi version, thinking it might be a rehash.

While there were a few overlapping paragraphs, almost all of the content is entirely new and is specific to the XTi. There are things I can do with that camera that I didn't know existed. There are tips and tricks that make relatively complex tasks easier. I very highly recommend getting this book if you have the XTi. You'll be glad you did.

Magic Lantern Guides.......2007-06-28

I have two other Canon bodies and have Magice Lantern Guides for both of them. They are invaluable. The Guides go further than those provided by the manufacturers in explaining how the camera works and the various functions.

'The' Guide for Cannon EOS400D.......2007-06-03

Many years ago I purchased a 'Magic Lantern' guide for my then state-of-the-art Cannon EOS 35mm film camera, and was impressed. Hoping for the same sort of book-partner for my first digital camera - the Cannon EOS400D - I purchased the new 'Magic Lantern' guide, and was not disappointed...all the camera functions are explained in easy and simple language, from the basic right through to the advanced. I had the Cannon EOS400D, read the instruction manual - and still wondered what all the functions did ... this book answered all (yes, all) my questions.

great companion guide.......2007-05-30

this is a good book to reference when learning your new camera. Would have liked color pictures as examples to explain different things tho.

The Mind within the Net: Models of Learning, Thinking, and Acting

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A great book about models of the brain and psychiatry
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Are neural networks the basis for brain function?

The Mind within the Net: Models of Learning, Thinking, and Acting
Manfred Spitzer
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Is your brain like your computer? Well, (hopefully) it doesn't crash as often, and that's just one of many on the long list of differences. But psychiatrist Manfred Spitzer says neuroscientists have much to learn from the alternative computing architectures called neural nets. His book The Mind Within the Net is a look at biological and electronic networks, their similarities, and what each can tell us about the other, with a particular emphasis on his own field. We've known for decades how individual neurons work. It's taken recent advances in neural computing to help us learn how brain systems might take advantage of their unique dynamics to help us see, walk, and keep the trains running on time.

Covering the basics of both neuroscience and neural computing with a user-friendly, but not oversimplified, prose style, Spitzer then moves on to the often striking similarities in function between simple electronic networks and mechanisms within the brain. Keeping in mind the importance of recognizing models as such, he takes pains to point out that there are some aspects of computing for which there is little comparison to biological systems. However, the similarities between different network degradations and such diverse problems as Alzheimer's disease, schizophrenia, and depression are compelling and potentially important. It's not often that we get a new batch of metaphors to help us understand ourselves; this may be the paradigm shift we've been waiting for. --Rob Lightner

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Neurophysiology has told us a lot about how neurons work; neural network theory is about how neurons work together to process information. In this highly readable book, Manfred Spitzer provides a basic, nonmathematical introduction to neural networks and their clinical applications. Part I explains the fundamental theory of neural networks and how neural network models work. Part II covers the principles of network functioning and how computer simulations of neural networks have profound consequences for our understanding of how the brain works. Part III covers applications of network models (e.g., to knowledge representation, language, and mental disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease) that shed new light on normal and abnormal states of mind. Finally, Spitzer concludes with his thoughts on the ramifications of neural networks for the understanding of neuropsychology and human nature.

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A great book about models of the brain and psychiatry.......2001-10-11

This is one of those precious books I love for their clarity and density of real information. The author is a psychiatrist and a neuromimetic model enthusiast who tries to communicate his enthusiasm to the reader. There is no mistake when it is about things I know well (I am more into statistical learning than biology), even when the author simplifies the topic to make it understandable to the non-specialist. The figures also are neat and clear. A great book.

Reaffirms a new era - outstanding.......2000-06-07

As a psychiatrist who is concerned about reconciling psychoanalytic and neurophysiologic perspectives, this book provides a substantial foundation to this endeavor. I find the book notably helpful in teaching analytic and psychodynamic approaches to new psychiatrists. It begins to suggest a new discourse through which clinical practice may be described. I am thankful that we have this book and look forward to more work by Manfred Spitzer.

Excellent!.......2000-05-05

I have had difficulty getting a good understanding of neural networks from other books which are heavily based in math. Everything in this book was very easy to absorb and the quality of the content puts most books to shame. The way the author connects neural network models to real life situations is excellent. This book is a must have for anyone doing anything with neural networks.

Mediocre review of Neural Networks.......2000-02-08

Besides grammatical mistakes and obvious errors in translation, the book doesn't delve deep into the places it promises, and concentrates on analogies that play to the lay-est of laymen rather than focusing on the actual data and theories of neural networks. Chapters on neuroplasticity and feedback are worthwhile, but the book quickly derails onto a scene of neuroscientific generalism, which seems to be the popular fad among most brain books today, which seem to pass around the same cache of information on L-Dopa, homunculi, and Aplysia to take up a good 25% of 75% of the books in print. Good for an introduction to neural nets and semantic networks, but not a valuable reference.

Are neural networks the basis for brain function?.......1999-12-02

Even though I'm not a neuroscientist or neural computing expert, I found this book to be an excellent discussion of neural networks and how they seem to at least provide models for (and may actually be the primary mechanism of) brain function.

In the book's three sections ("Basics", "Principles", and "Applications"), Spitzer's lucid writing describes neural networks, current concepts in learning, how cortical organization relates to networks, and many specific examples which describe how research is illuminating the challenging topic of how the mind works.

His illustrations complement the text perfectly, he cites references as needed, he provides a glossary of the terms he uses, and his index provides quick access for review.

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Foremost occultist analyzes certain older schools of thought, of both East and West, connects them with modern ideas and explains them in the light of 20th-century discoveries and speculations in physics and philosophy. Fascinating discussions of relativity, the fourth dimension, Christian symbolism, the tarot, yoga, dreams and more. Stimulating and thought-provoking.

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theory of everything for dummies.......2007-04-03

I have a long history with this book. I first read it when I was eleven and thought that I understood it completely. Almost ten years later and its ideas still resonate in my brain. I can't think of anyone who wrote about such complicated subjects with the same open-mindedness and lucidity and in the same unpatronizing, honest manner. Uspensky doesn't require superhuman concentration from the reader, like an encyclopedia, it gives you the answers fast. I still re-read chapters from it occasionally and im concistently amazed how well-written it is, even compared to Ouspensky's other work, like totally inaccesible Tertium Organum. It's an easy interesting read even for someone only superficially interested in philosiphy and mysticism.

Ouspensky wrote this before meeting Gurdjeff.......2006-06-26

It is a book I owed for many years and I have been reeding it many times. Written at the beguinning of the past century it is still very actual. I love the chapter on dreams and the story of the Buddha with the saffire eyes.

something to get you out of the grave and worse.......2003-11-23

Well, when I read childish comments some people post-- I can read and write too. And I wanted to set a counterweight against comments that make A New Model look funny.

Namely, the book does not deserve it. What am I about to say? The book is rather good, you see. That's it.

If you buy it-- I indeed don't say you must-- you will find yourself amply repayed for sacrificing few lousy dollars. When you die, and the balance will be set up for you-- FOR YOU-- you will be able to say quietly-- put that book on the positive side...

Of course, the guy is a little tiring with its constant repetition of how man gets to know that things are otherwise than he imagined and how man begins to see that his mental apparatus and results it gives and is capable of giving are questionable and how man is taught in these Schools to distrust his narrow opinions which he cherished so far etc. etc., comma, deep breath, but you will see yourself refunded for such painstaking advance when you get to the and. Pearls of simple mathematical insight used in what is generally NOT regarded as mathematical region in a way that convinces you that man was a genius, though mediocre writer (though be careful with this mediocrity so called, it is not as mediocre as it seems - just a style of tactful Muscovite who certainly - contrary perhaps to his contemporaries - was not in need to be flayed alive to come to some feelings). I can't promise you that you will spot them, why, I don't know what kind of person you are. But if you make yourself read it despite noticing anything worth reading there it will increase your capability of noticing such gems and it will count just that much more when you die-- and die you will-- to give only two reasons. I must say that the percent of people who WILL notice what I'm pointing out but are on the other side of the scale, recognizing the pearl but not appreciating it in too enthusiastic manner simply because they have already gone further will be considerably lower... but they don't need such reviews.

something to get you out of the grave and worse.......2003-11-23

Well, when I read childish comments some people post-- I can read and write too. And I wanted to set a counterweight against comments that make A New Model look funny.

Namely, the book does not deserve it. What am I about to say? The book is rather good, you see. That's it.

If you buy it-- I indeed don't say you must-- you will find yourself amply repayed for sacrificing few lousy dollars. When you die, and the balance will be set for you-- FOR YOU-- you will be able to say quietly-- put that book on the positive side...

Of course, the guy is a little tiring with its constant repetition of, you know, "man gets to know that things are otherwise than he imagined. Man begins to see that his mental apparatus and results it gives and is capable of giving are questionable. Man is taught in theses Schools to distrust his narrow opinions which he cherished so far etc. etc.", but you will be refunded for such painstaking advance when you get to the and. I can promise you pearls of simple mathematical insight used in what is generally NOT regarded as mathematical region in a way that convinces you that man was a genius, though mediocre writer (though be careful with this mediocrity so called, it is not as mediocre as it seems - just a style of tactful Muscovite who certainly - contrary perhaps to his contemporaries - was not in need to be flayed alive to come to some feelings). I can't promise you that you will spot it, why, I don't know what kind of person you are. But if you make yourself read it despite noticing anything worth reading there it will count just that much more when you die-- and die you will. I must say that the percent of people who WILL notice what I'm pointing out but are on the other side of the scale, recognizing the pearl but not appreciating it in too enthusiastic manner simply because they have already gone further will be considerably lower... but they don't need such reviews.

one of the best books I've read.......2003-08-12

I really liked this book. It was challenging and revealing with regards to aspects of human thought. What particularly struck me with this book, is the complete honesty that the author adopts when pursuing an area of interest to him. What this means is that there aren't many assumptions, and the author has no following judgment from assumption meaning he is open to all possibilities in circumstance. Because assumption isn't presented, it tends to rub off on you, and you learn with the refreshing vigour of a childs mind. The authors inquisitive nature coupled with this rare gift of being humbled in the face of mystery, and also looking at the way we think and perceive, has made him a receptacle for boundless knowledge. What will be taken from any situation will be maximal from these qualities alone, and his knowledge gained is presented here. Sometimes you hear of the "Human Factor" as a problem in certain environments, well there is no "human factor" here, just a presentation of pursued lines of thought as honestly recorded as can be. This is an excellent book, ...despite my ramblings!

Critical Moments During Competition: A Mind-Body Model of Sport Performance When It Counts the Most

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Critical Moments During Competition: A Mind-Body Model of Sport Performance When It Counts the Most
Roland Carlstedt
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This book provides an integrative empirical analysis of numerous anecdotal notions and clichés that have permeated sport psychology, including just do it, the ideal performance state, mental toughness, focus, and the idea that sport is mostly a mental game. T ^he ^{author, Dr. Roland A. Carlstedt, travels where no researcher has ventured in quantifying these slogan statements, bringing new insights and data as to their meaning. His Theory of Critical Moments provides a long-overdue, lucid and highly plausible explanation for the dynamics of Zone} ^{and Flow states as well as the effects of intrusive cognitions on sport performance. In attempting to quantify the Zone, Carlstedt presents provocative data and perspectives on brain and heart interactions, suggesting that specific parameters of these measures reflect peak performance} ^{states. His model has explained up to 44% of the variance in the performance equation that can be attributed to psychological factors - an unprecedented finding that attests to the sensitivity and potency of the predictor and criterion variables Carlstedt has isolated as being crucial} ^{and central to peak sport performance.

This book is also a valuable source for applied practitioners. It presents innovative assessment methods and advanced approaches to mental training, including on-the-field measurement and manipulation of cortical states and heart rate} ^{variability to improve performance. Carlstedt's applied protocol also advances off-the-field assessment of cortical functioning using brain-imaging methods, intervention efficacy testing, critical moments analysis, and database management, sophisticated approaches to athlete evaluation} ^{that will soon be de rigueur.

Dr. Stanley Krippner, the noted consciousness researcher, calls the theories, perspectives, applications and methodologies in this book seminaland a watershed in the annals of research in sport psychology.his is a book that should be read by} ^{practitioners, researchers, educators, and athletes who are interested in an integrative approach to peak performance. It will also be of interest to neuroscientists, neuropsychologists, psychophysiologists, methodologists and personality, health and cognitive psychologists.}

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Reviews by leading researchers and practitioners .......2005-04-15

"The issue of how athletes can be assessed as a basis for performance management and enhancement is a crucial one for contemporary sport psychology. More basically, assessment for performance management and enhancement in sport is an area where cogent theory, practical concepts, effective methods, and technically defensible measurement procedures are needed. Roland Carlstedt's seminal work provides valuable information that helps fill these gaps. Based on a solid theoretical model of critical moments during competition, coupled with a clear and internally consistent conceptual and operational framework, and using persuasive empirical research from psychology and other areas, including results of his award winning dissertation, Dr. Carlstedt demonstrates substantial relationships between psychological characteristics and performance outcomes in a range of athletes. His work provides guidance for sport psychology researchers and practitioners as well as others involved in human performance at all levels. "The material in this book can help shape the larger knowledge base of sport psychology for years to come."

--Charles A. Maher, Psy.D. Professor of Psychology Rutgers University, Sport Psychologist, Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Cavaliers and Cleveland Browns

Why do some professional athletes tend to "deliver" in critical situations, while others are less dependable? Dr. Carlstedt's Mind-Body Model of Sport Performance focuses on this well known and vexing performance difference between comparably talented highly-skilled athletes. He traces these differences to certain basic personality characteristics and their interplay. Depending on their strength and configuration, these general personal propensities may play either a facilitative or counterproductive (but potentially modifiable) role. Carlstedt's model is obviously of great relevance to Sport Psychologists. Because of its plausibility as well as its amenability to empirical scrutiny and continuing development, it also merits the attention of a wider readership. It has the potential for evolving into a general model for understanding consistent excellence in response to challenge.

--Auke Tellegen, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, University of Minnesota, Personality Psychologist and Behavioral Geneticist

Methodologically rigorous in its approach , Dr. Carlstedt offers a thoroughly innovative perspective on the field of Sport Psychology in this new book. His model of peak performance ambitiously and successfully integrates a wealth of physiological, psychological, and cognitive neuroscience data to forcefully make the case that athletic performance can not only be studied in a controlled fashion, but can be improved systematically. Although scholarly in its methodologies, this book is highly readable, and will be of interest to a wide range of academics, coaches, athletes and mental health and Sport Psychology professionals.

Sanjay Mathew, M.D. Psychiatrist and Neuroscientist, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Department of Psychiatry (former ranked tennis player)

Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (Bradford Books)

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Finally.The monster can be tamed.

Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity (Bradford Books)
Thomas Metzinger
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According to Thomas Metzinger, no such things as selves exist in the world: nobody ever had or was a self. All that exists are phenomenal selves, as they appear in conscious experience. The phenomenal self, however, is not a thing but an ongoing process; it is the content of a "transparent self-model." In Being No One, Metzinger, a German philosopher, draws strongly on neuroscientific research to present a representationalist and functional analysis of what a consciously experienced first-person perspective actually is. Building a bridge between the humanities and the empirical sciences of the mind, he develops new conceptual toolkits and metaphors; uses case studies of unusual states of mind such as agnosia, neglect, blindsight, and hallucinations; and offers new sets of multilevel constraints for the concept of consciousness. Metzinger's central question is: How exactly does strong, consciously experienced subjectivity emerge out of objective events in the natural world? His epistemic goal is to determine whether conscious experience, in particular the experience of being someone that results from the emergence of a phenomenal self, can be analyzed on subpersonal levels of description. He also asks if and how our Cartesian intuitions that subjective experiences as such can never be reductively explained are themselves ultimately rooted in the deeper representational structure of our conscious minds.

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Finally.The monster can be tamed. .......2004-10-16

This book is very hard to review. There are many reasons for this. One is that I may be biased: I think this may be the most important book written about consciousness in the last couple of decades. Then there is the fact that the book is enormous in scope, (and not far in size either- it is 650 pages long), brilliantly written and argued, and succeeds in doing something few other related books do. Reading this book makes you feel that consciousness has been explained. It makes you feel that the monster has been tamed, that progress can be made, that those who believe there can be no sensible exxplanation for consicousness are just wrong. Now in reality, it is not obvious that consciousness HAS been explained. But one feels like it has. And this is why I think this book is superior to Daniel Dennetts ¨Consicousness explained¨, arguably the book regarded as the most significant and influential philosophical contribution in the field. After reading Dennett, few believed consicousness had been explaied. Even few felt like it had. This book is unique, and I believe it is a matter of time until its impact is made apparent.

Metzinger wanted to show that the self can be explained in subpersonal terms, using representational analysis. He quickly noticed that since Selves are usually consicous entities, that he would first have to do this for consciousness. Imagine that. Having to explain consicousness to try to explain the self. And so, the book could be seen as divided in two. First, a theory of consicousness, and second, a theory of the self. I am by far more impressed with the former, although undoubtedly the latter is extremely interesting as well.

Before proposing a number of theorethical entities supposed to play the explanatory role, Metzinger carefully analyses the conceptual tools necessary to understand the problem, and formulate solutions. Thus, he analyses the concepts of representation, mental model, phenomenal presentation, etc. His account is also almost completely positive; that is, he almost does not stop to defend his ideas, or to analyse other philosphical theories. He focuses on arguing step-by step for a conceptual edifice that may lead to the explanation of phenomenal states in terms of non-phenomenal objective relations. This part of the book alone seems to me to be one of the strongest formulations of a representational theory of mental states.

Metzinger, then, is able to answer the question of what makes a mental state a conscious state. He argues that mental states have representational, and these states can have phenomenal content if the representational states meet some constraints. Consciously experienced content is content of an active phenomenal model, and phenomenal contents are all representational. The various constraints are the conditions that the representational content must meet in order for it to be a phenomenal content. Examples of these constraints are globality (integration into a global whole), activation in a window of presence, transparency.

The constraints are what makes these ideas powerful. Metzinger analyses the constraints in representational, phenomenological, information-processing, functional and neural-implementation terms. He gives what could be seen as necesary and sufficient conditions for a mental state to be a consicous state. He presents a theory of consicousness. And a very sensible, conceptually simple, naturalistic, and powerful one.

After doing this, he shows how his analysis can acomodate some abnormal phenomenons like blindsight, agnosia, and neglect. He then does much of the same last steps with the problem of the self. He defines concepts like subjectivity, self-hood, self-models. Then he proposes theorethical entities like the phenomenal self model, or the phenomenal model of the intentianality relation, to try to show how the conscious self might emerge. Here too metzinger argues that self content must meet some constraints to be considered phenomenal self content. He also tests his constructs against cases like anosognosia, multiple persoality, lucid dreams.

In sum, Metzinger deals with everything from mental representation, to content, qualia, subjectivity, intentionality, self, and does it in carefully ordered and convincing ways. Metzinger is a philosopher, and the theory is mostly philsophical. But few philsophers include such careful empirical and neurobiological observations. Few philosophers have such knowledge of the extensive literature. Few are as convinced of the central role that scientific objective theorethizing must play.

I must repeat that it is in no way evident that consciousness is explained in Metzingers book. But if there is a book that will set the conceptual framework that leads to such an explanation, it is this one. It is virtually imposible to explain his ideas concisely, and to understand them one has to follow his discussion completely. Therefore, I can do not much but to recomend that anyone interested in consicousness read this book. The book is quite technical and it is fairly long, however I believe that this should not stop the lay reader. The book is in my opinion simply too important. I have reviewed close to 100 books now, most of them on consicousness. I have said on numerous times that such or such a book is a must read. This one is the one I think more closely matches that description.

The Structure of Intelligence: A New Mathematical Model of Mind (Recent Research in Psychology)

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The Structure of Intelligence: A New Mathematical Model of Mind (Recent Research in Psychology)
Ben Goertzel
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VERY Technical, but extremely interesting!
The significance of trauma

The Trauma Model
Colin A. Ross
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ASIN: 0976550814
Release Date: 2006-12-20

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The Trauma Model is the outcome of twenty-one years of work in medicine and psychiatry. Dr. Ross defines the problem of comorbidity as the central conceptual problem in psychiatry, then solves it using the logic and predictions of the Trauma Model. A person with extensive comorbidity suffers from many different psychiatric disorders at the same time. Most individuals requiring inpatient psychiatric treatment fit the profile of the Trauma Model. Dr. Ross also presents a detailed description of Trauma Model therapy, which is suitable for a wide range of addictions, self-destructive behaviors and symptoms. General principles and specific techniques are described and illustrated with dialogue from composite case examples.

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VERY Technical, but extremely interesting!.......2001-08-29

Although it is obvious that this book was written more for other physicians and workers in the mental health profession (the vocabulary is quite advanced to say the least), I found each new chapter held something in it to help me learn more about the effects of trauma and the different outcomes of a traumatic childhood. I, having Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) was relieved to read that I was not different in the fact that I had been diagnosed with almost everything and have been in and out of hospitals. I've also worked with the author's staff as well as his assistant and, although I'm not quite sure of my thoughts on his view of memories, I totally agree that memories are not the point. The point is that we wouldn't have problems if life had been bliss. I highly recommend this THICK book to anyone who, if they don't have a complex vocabulary, is willing to look up words as they go. (smile)

The significance of trauma.......2001-07-25

In this landmark work, Dr. Ross challenges the field of psychiatry to make a giant leap forward in the treatment of mental illness. After 21 years of carefully listening to patients and weighing scientific evidence, he has hit on what should now be obvious: trauma causes and/or contributes to most psychiatric disorders. This is especially true for comorbid (many diagnosies) patients. Just as a single disease can produce multiple physical symptoms, unresolved trauma can generate multiple diagnosies. He describes why the single gene-single disease and biomedical reductionist models don't work for psychiatry. He also points out many flaws in logic in the DSM IV diagnosies, making specific revision suggestions. His hypothesies will pique the curiosity of many reseachers and lead to many dissertations. He concludes if trauma therapy is added to medication for many patients, outcomes will be much improved. This is a must read for the serious mental health professional.

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The thrill of going the next step in paperdolls
Beautiful book, relatively useless for a beginner
"Paperclay" dolls, not "paper" dolls

Creative Paper Dollmaking
Rhonda Rainey
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From the a Queen of Hearts to Tribal Dancers, these 30 enchanting, surprising paper doll projects will captivate the imagination! They encompass a variety of styles and techniques, pushing the boundaries of what paper dolls are and can be. To create basic "Simply Victorian" greeting card dolls, select favorite reproductions of period angels, flowers, and other art images and cut them out. Then add metallic paint, a skirt fashioned from florist's foil, and glue. Make a festive Santa from papier mâché. Découpage vintage paper doll children onto a frame: the patterns are all here. Get dolled up with a fancy fall figure, molded out of card stock and decorated with silk autumn leaves. Each one is magnificent!

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The thrill of going the next step in paperdolls.......2005-07-09

I am so totally taken with this book...I have always wanted to go beyond the traditional flat paper cutout dolls. This book is truly the answer...Not only are you given a list of materials need, to complete your project. You are given step by step instructions that make your endeavor a fabulous success. Doing the projects has opened doors to so many ideas for creativity. I always knew that "paperdoll" could be so much more dimensional and creative than just paper and scissors...Three cheers for someone being creative and artistic...Taking the traditional paperdolls to a level that opens a world of creativeness and artistic beauty that I never would have dreamed could be possible. Many thanks to you Rhonda for sharing your wonderful talents with those of us that dare and wish to go beyond the traditional paperdolls.

Beautiful book, relatively useless for a beginner.......2004-05-08

The dolls made of paper clay, wood, foam, wire and paper and other items featured in this book are exciting and beautiful. The book is beautiful. The author is obviously quite talented as an artist. Unfortunately, I found the instructions are woeful in terms of helping a beginner. The author assumes the reader knows what a "wooden ball-top mug peg" is, what "push molds" are. For a beginner, some of the instructions are sketchy and difficult to understand. For instance, although steps of construction are numbered, in one case, there was nothing to inform the reader that she/he was trying to make a head out of a square of paper and some stuffing material. I give the book two stars for beauty and one for usefulness to a beginner like me. If you are new to this type of art, it might be a good idea to look carefully at this book at a store before purchasing to determine whether it would be helpful to you.

"Paperclay" dolls, not "paper" dolls.......2003-09-24

While this is a lovely book for the advanced crafter, I don't consider paperclay a true "paper" medium. Most of the recipes here call for items far beyond what I was hoping to see, such as beading wire and wire cutters, clay or paperclay, molds, cornstarch, and cheesecloth. You get to make dreamcatchers and modeled papier-mache dolls, but only half a dozen of the nearly 30 projects appealed to me as actual "paper dolls." The others have an advanced "Way of the Doll" feeling, but for the money, I'd rather buy several Dover paper doll books and create my own projects. This book gives instructions for re-creating specific art dolls but is intimidating rather than encouraging of individual creativity (even specifically disallowing commercial sale of the projects described within, because they are NOT "jumping-off" ideas, but copyrighted finished products). And though the author is trying to expand the definition of "paper doll," even an elastic word or phrase can be stretched past the breaking point, as has happened here.

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In this groundbreaking book, Jonathan Waskan challenges cognitive science's dominant model of mental representation and proposes a novel, well-devised alternative. The traditional view in the cognitive sciences uses a linguistic (propositional) model of mental representation. This logic-based model of cognition informs and constrains both the classical tradition of artificial intelligence and modeling in the connectionist tradition. It falls short, however, when confronted by the frame problem--the lack of a principled way to determine which features of a representation must be updated when new information becomes available. Proposed alternatives, including the imagistic model, have not so far resolved this problem. Waskan proposes instead the Intrinsic Cognitive Models (ICM) hypothesis, which argues that representational states can be conceptualized as the cognitive equivalent of scale models.

Waskan argues further that the proposal that humans harbor and manipulate these cognitive counterparts to scale models offers the only viable explanation for what most clearly differentiates humans from other creatures: their capacity to engage in truth-preserving manipulation of representations. The ICM hypothesis, he claims, can be distinguished from sentence-based accounts of truth preservation in a way that is fully compatible with what is known about the brain.

Waskan also develops a new account of explanation, grounded in the ICM hypothesis, as an alternative to the traditional deductive-nomological model--which, he claims, suffers the same shortcomings as other sentence-based accounts of representation and inference. Waskan's "Model model" of explanation resolves these problems in a way that no other account of explanation can.

Molecular Models of Life: Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)

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Molecular Models of Life: Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology (Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology)
Sahotra Sarkar
Manufacturer: The MIT Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0262195127

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Despite the transformation in biological practice and theory brought about by discoveries in molecular biology, until recently philosophy of biology continued to focus on evolutionary biology. When the Human Genome Project got underway in the late 1980s and early 1990s, philosophers of biology -- unlike historians and social scientists -- had little to add to the debate. In this landmark collection of essays, Sahotra Sarkar broadens the scope of current discussions of the philosophy of biology, viewing molecular biology as a unifying perspective on life that complements that of evolutionary biology. His focus is on molecular biology, but the overriding question behind these papers is what molecular biology contributes to all traditional areas of biological research.

Molecular biology -- described with some foresight in a 1938 Rockefeller Foundation report as a branch of science in which "delicate modern techniques are being used to investigate ever more minute details" -- and its modeling strategies apparently argue in favor of physical reductionism. Sarkar's first three chapters explore reductionism -- defending it, but cautioning that reduction to molecular interactions is not necessarily a reduction to genetics (and does not support the claims of either heriditarianism or environmentalism). The next sections of the book discuss function, exploring how functional explanations pose a problem for reductionism; the informational interpretation of biology and how it interacts with reductionism; and the tension between the unifying framework of molecular biology and the received framework of evolutionary theory. The concluding chapter is an essay in the emerging field of developmental evolution, exploring what molecular biology may contribute to the transformation of evolutionary theory as evolutionary theory takes into account morphogenetic development.

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