Bond Reviews

Just a note... This is a boxed module for the 007 RPG, not a work of fiction based on the movie.

Wayne Gralian
Wayne's World of Books / Krakow RPGs

In this exciting and hilarious story, Ruskin Bond describes the adventures of 'Grandfather' as he tries to make a Private Zoo!From monkeys to snakes and from Hornbills tobuffaloes, Mr.Bond has created a world of its own. Grandfather bought Toto the monkey from a tonga-driver(A tonga is a small wooden platform with wheels, pulled by horses) .Toto was alittle red monkey with bright eyes. Toto was loved by all in Grandfather's family. But unfortunately, Toto was a very naughty and cheeky creature. he managed to get Grandpa in all sorts of troubles and it was not long before he was sold back to the tonga-driver--for almost half the price! Grandfather also bought a conceited python.It was also very troublesome. The python loved to look itself at the mirror, so Grandpa used its weakness to get rid of it. I highly recommend it.

This book includes an excellent collection of historical photos, plus informative captions.Photos of Greenville College, and its predecessor college, Almira College, are among the many excellent pictures in this work.Also the book includes a a rare group photo showing legendary American labor leader John L. Lewis in his early years as a coal miner in Panama IL.Good book for those interested in local history.Allan H. Keithallank@webtv.net

This book is well written by the authors, and it includes some latest development in the field, like intensive exposure treatment for panic, and the application of Acceptance and commitment therapy in depression and work works. It really broadens our knowledge and use of CBT in our clinical practice.

There's no better source for insight on the new-since-1997 Treasury Inflation Protection Securities [TIPS]. Brynjolfson runs one of the largest TIPS funds. Fabozzi is a well-known commentator on investments and fixed income specifically. Want details of CPI seasonality, integrating TIPS in mean-variance optimization, etc.? It's here. Also includes coverage of international TIPS-equivalents.

This delightful book is a pop-up book for adults, complete with sliding levers, opening doors, and sight gags galore. It follows "the trials and tribulations of Mr. Smudge and his devoted family." Although you can finish it in minutes, you'll find yourself going over it repeatedly and showing it to friends. Slightly bawdy humor, but all in good taste. A great gift, especially for those without lots of time for reading. Unfortunately out of print, but still available used.

Color Zone Therapy is a combination of two very powerful healing techniques: Zone Therapy and Color Therapy. Joseph Corvo, a master practitioner of Zone Therapy, has been a healer for more than thirty-seven years. Lilian Verner-Bonds is an internationally respected practitioner of Color Therapy. They combined their healing techniques into a powerful new therapy, which they present in Healing With Color Zone Therapy. Color Zone Therapy is a unique and simple system of treatment that can eliminate illness, pain and tiredness; help you look and feel younger; and enable you to meet life with energy, vigor and vitality." It treats the whole person, including emotional and spiritual aspects. Color Zone Therapy can be used with any conventional medical treatments that readers may already be using. The authors first explain each technique and how it works. They also provide detailed instructions so that readers can use each method for self-healing. The bulk of the book is devoted to "An A to Z of illnesses and their treatment" that enables readers to apply Zone Therapy and Color Therapy in combination to alleviate specific ailments. Readers are first advised to become aware of the causes of their ailment. This involves understanding how negative thoughts and attitudes affect health. They are then taught affirmations that will help them replace negativity with "positive permanent thinking replacement." Each disease has its own healing color and its own particular zone pressure points. "Zone Therapy uses physical stimulus, while Color Therapy works through more intangible stimuli, ie the emotions." The essence of the combined therapies is to tune into the healing color, repeat the affirmations, and apply pressure to the appropriate zones. The treatment is repeated daily for ten minutes each day. The final section of the book deals with the special problems of children, aging adults, and people dealing with grief. Healing With Color Zone Therapy is an essential reference for all those desiring to help their bodies heal in a natural and non-invasive way. Paper, 169 pp. -- Sandra I. Smith, Reviewer

Daniel Berthold-Bond explains why, in Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (part 3 of the Encyclopedia), madness is logically prior to reason. The answer lies in the extreme negavity of consciousness. Mad destruction is required before the subject can build a symbolic existence. The work is heavily Lacanian without any evidence in the footnotes that this was consciously intended. The book does much to make the under-recognized connections between the thought of Hegel and Lacan. The book is extremely well written and is one of the finest contributions to Hegelian interpretation in recent times.

The divine Angela Thirkell, to my mind a latter-day Jane Austen, wrote her simply wonderful novels about upper-class village life in pre-war England, in a series of 40 or so novels that are simply irresistable. Her plots captured a time, a mind-set, and a way of life that is long gone, and in fact, her later novels, set just after the war, already reflected a desperate nostalgia for a never-to-return past.

Never mind, though, because "High Rising," one of the earliest of Thirkell's series, is a delight you won't soon forget. The plot centers, as always, on a blithering author whose high-piled hair is continually in disarray, often spewing hairpins at the most inappropriate of times. A widow, she has raised several strapping sons, and is now engaged in trying to educate her youngest, the irrepressible and impossibly boring 8-year-old, Tony. To do so, she must churn out novels, and to that end, she employs a secretary named Anne Todd. And so the plot begins.

Anne is a selfless creature who uncomplainingly cares for her ailing elderly mother, a task that is draining her almost to illness. But plucky pre-war Britishers of a certain class never complained, and neither does Anne. The plot thickens when a truly horrid gold-digger appears to become secretary to another author, and proceeds to wreak terrible havoc on this close-knit society. She is truly an "incubus," which becomes her secret nickname.

So. What will become of the incubus? Will she succeed in her nefarious plot to marry wealthy Geoffrey, a scholarly author who doesn't have a clue? If so, what of Geoffrey's teenaged daughter? Who will mind the dogs? Will High Rising (Tony's prep school) survive yet another class of noxious boys? Will the good village doctor, besotted by Anne, be successful in his gentlemanly courtship?

And most of all...can anyone resist this book??

This is an unusual book in many ways. It outlines a new approach to the explanation of the most important chemical phenomena: chemical bonding and chemical reactions. The commonly accepted theory of matter structure based on the corpuscle-wave dualism of an electron is well known. The idea was formulated by Louis de Broglie in 1923 and was confirmed by diffraction experiments which Davisson and Germer carried out in 1927. Since then nobody ever returned to these experiments and all the scientists' attempts were focused on the search for the approximation method for solving the Schroedinger equation which has no solution for multi-electronic systems. Besides, the following questions were not considered by the scientists: 1) Why don't all chemical reactions proceed if they are thermodynamically possible? 2) Why do many chemical reactions proceed at room temperature, while, in order to break a chemical bond at molecule thermal excitation, we have to heat it up to several thousand degrees? 3) Why is the activation energy in most of the chemical reactions much smaller than the energies of the chemical bonds that break during the chemical reactions? The search for the answers to these questions has led the authors to the development of a new theory - The G Theory of Chemical Bonding and Chemical Reactions. The principles of this theory are described in the book under review. The authors have rejected the corpuscle-wave dualism of the electron on the grounds that the only experimental proof of the presence of wave properties in electrons is the incorrectly interpreted experiments of Davisson and Germer. When elucidating the results of their experiments, Davisson and Germer did not consider the influence of the electromagnetic radiation (which accompanied the electronic stream) on the properties of this stream. The consideration of this influence on the properties of the electronic stream in the experiments of Davisson and Germer, described in the book under review, has shown that the electron stream becomes a wave of electrons, and that the length of this electronic wave is proportional to the value h/mv where h is the Plank constant, m is the mass, and v is the speed. The authors regard the electron as a common material particle with a mass, a corresponding kinetic energy, and a negative electric charge. Analyzing the forces acting between the electrons and the nucleus, the authors elaborated a system of simple algebraic equations which allowed them to realize: 1) the physical nature of chemical bonding, 2) the optimal number of bonding electrons, 3) the radius of the orbit where the electrons are, 4) the dependence of the bonding energy on the first ionization potentials (FIP) of the interacting atoms, 5) the length, direction, and polarity of the bonds. The great strength of covalent bonding is explained in the new theory by the fact that much of the heat energy, given to the molecules in the course of thermal agitation, is spent irrationally, i.e., goes not to the increase of the vibrational energy of the nuclei, but to the increase of the energy and entropy of the bonding electrons. The fact that chemical reactions proceed with bond breaking at low temperatures is explained by the authors on the basis of the experimental results received by a large group of scientists who are well represented in chemical literature. According to these works, in the course of chemical transformation, strong covalent bonds can change into weaker donor-acceptor bonds or into very weak Van-der-Waals bonds. Having studied the regularities of chemical transformations described in literature, the authors have concluded that all the chemical interactions proceed along an analogous mechanism that includes the stages of association, electronic isomerization, and dissociation. As a rule, the limiting stage is that of dissociation. The fact that the activation energy is almost by one order of magnitude smaller than the bonding energy of the interacting atoms - is explained by the electronic isomerization. The exponential dependence of the reaction rate on the temperature is explained by the formation of chemically active particles (radicals, ions, conences) in initial substances in the course of any chemical interaction. Thus, the authors have categorically declined the transitional state theory (activated complex) proving that in reality the chemical reaction proceeds via the formation of an intermediate compound - associate A... B... C - whose formation is based upon the minimal potential curve, and not via the transitional state at the top of the energetic barrier. All the theoretical principles are confirmed with experimental data. The main ideas of the G Theory of Chemical Bonding are based on principles that do not, in any way, contradict modern science. And a good coincidence of theoretical and experimental data is a good proof of the reality. This book is not a textbook, for the authors did not mean to produce it as such. Its main object is to get the scientific world acquainted with a new approach to the study of matter structure, chemical bonding, and chemical interactions. This book can, undoubtedly, serve as a main source for the construction of new textbooks on chemistry for both high schools and colleges.