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This book is a collection of short stories, mostly science fiction or fantasy, which cover a wide range of topics, including social problems, the shape of the future, and the nature of god. ... Read more

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Scholar, activist, and educator Paulo Freire was one of the first thinkers to fully appreciate the relationships between education, politics, imperialism, and liberation.This volume is a testament to the works of Paulo Freire in the field of Education as well as the life of the man: a "story of courage, hardship, perseverance, and unyielding belief in the power of love."In this comprehensive collection, prominent intellectuals including Noam Chomsky and Donald Macedo reflect on Freire's "politics of liberation" and add important new dimensions to the revolutionary, innovative ideas that Freire bequeathed to a generation much in need. ... Read more

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This new volume in the best-selling Case Review™ series helps readers test their mastery of all of today's core knowledge in cardiac imaging. Hundreds of case studies—with over 350 superb images as well as questions, answers, rationales, and references—cover everything from basic principles through the latest diagnostic imaging techniques, equipment, and technology. The result is an outstanding review source for the American Board of Radiology's oral exam in cardiopulmonary radiology as well as for other exams in the field. * Organizes case studies into "Opening Round," "Fair Game," and "Challenge" sections that present varying levels of difficulty. * Features more than 350 high-quality, state-of-the-art images representing a wide range of clinical situations encountered in cardiac imaging. * Includes page references to Miller: Cardiac Imaging: The Requisites, 2nd Edition (0-323-01755-X) as well as to other current works in the literature, making it easy to find in-depth explanations of any subject. * Mirrors the format and content of the American Board of Radiology's oral exam in cardiopulmonary radiology, offering readers highly effective preparation assistance. ... Read more

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Must have for those preparing for FRCR London
A Must have book for those preparing for FRCR examination in RadiologyLondon , do not miss it .

Best of Case Review Series - take note
I've been mostly disappointed by the Case Review Series.One exception had been the Ultrasound book, which was above average for the group.

Dr. Reddy's book is another pleasant surprise.

The book arrived with several others a few months ago and I accidently discarded it along with the shipping box into my recycling bin, thinking it was a catalogue.The book is very thin (less than 1 cm thick), although it actually has a reasonable page count.

I later recovered the book, disappointed that I'd spent so much on a pamphlet, and stuck it on the bottom of my stack of books to get around to reading.

Now, I'm very happy I saved it for last.After completing this book I feel fairly confident that I will at least understand the anatomy of any major cardiac lesion/anomaly presented at the ABR exams.Dr. Reddy's text ties together many of the cases seen in Pediatrics and Chest and provides reasonable multimodality support for these entities.It's also up to date, unlike many of the other Case Review Series, and the image quality is excellent.

The book also duplicates many of the cases on the UCSF Cardiac MRI CD-ROM.

Now, Dr. Yousem, please take a close look and consider remodeling the other books in the series after this text.

Another strong addition to the series
The Case Review Series may be the most useful books I have used during my residency.They have been enormously helpful in preparing for boards and just learning cases.This cardiac addition is no exception.I'm a little disappointed by the publisher going to a thinner stock paper (several times I accidently turned 2 pages which spoiled the next case) but other than that it's very deserving of being in the series.

How the series could go from an A to A+ (are you listening, Dr. Yousem?): make the discussions more succinct with rapid-fire headings like Findings, Diagnosis, Differential, Key Points (i.e. - what a board examiner might be looking for).We can get the rest from our other textbooks.My thanks to Drs. Reddy, Yousem and all the other CRS authors. ... Read more

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Dreamtime: A Collection of Short Stories dissects a wide range of social problems by merging realism with fantasy and the supernatural. Gifted storyteller Robert Steiner addresses some of life’s uncommon questions and provides provocative answers. Sweeping from Australia and Italy to outer space, Steiner offers a look at the world from an altered point of view and compels us to rethink our most sacred beliefs.

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In this book Rudolf Steiner lays the foundation for a truly spiritual psychology. He begins by examining the principles of Freud and Jung. While Steiner agrees that the phenomena originating psychoanalysis are real, he claims that because Freud did not recognize spirit, the human soul experience was cut off from the larger whole and reduced to subjective, personal history. Beginning with a phenomenological description of the threefold structure of human consciousness — reflective or mirror consciousness, supraconsciousness, and subconsciousness — he outlines an alternative psychology that takes into account both the soul’s hidden powers and the complex connections between psychological and organic, bodily processes. Robert Sardello contributes a vital introduction from the perspective of a psychotherapist.

“These lectures on psychoanalysis and spiritual psychology, given at the very time when the ‘talking cure’ was in its beginnings, force us to confront the inadequate knowledge used in founding psychoanalysis and psychotherapy as a method of soul work.... A truly spiritual psychology leads to wisdom of the soul ... [it] not only takes us out of the limited domain of psychology as concerned with subjective states and into the broader culture, it also takes us into an understanding of the body as the necessary organ through which spiritual perception must find its orientation” (from the Introduction).

Previously published as Psychoanalysis and Spiritual Psychology. ... Read more

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Interesting, but misnamed
First, this book isn't about Freud & Jung.Those two names are briefly mentionned as being totally wrong and not understanding anything.Steiner also takes the time (this is a collection of lectures) to enlighten is audience on the reason that people who disagree with him are also in error and incompetent.

This apart, this books present some of Steiner's views on spiritual psychology.I found his ideas on the unconscious to be interesting and presented in a clear way, but left me on my appetite.Maybe this can be seen as a good complement to Steiner's other books.

Interesting, but misnamed
First, this book isn't about Freud & Jung.Those two names are briefly mentionned as being totally wrong and not understanding anything.Steiner also takes the time (this is a collection of lectures) to enlighten is audience on the reason that people who disagree with him are also in error and incompetent.

This apart, this books present some of Steiner's views on spiritual psychology.I found his ideas on the unconscious to be interesting and presented in a clear way, but left me on my appetite.Maybe this can be seen as a good complement to Steiner's other books.

Bearing the test of time
Freud, Jung, & Spiritual Psychology: Selected Lectures by Rudolf Steiner is an acclaimed collection of informative and insightful lectures that he gave during the early twentieth century. Bearing the test of time, Steiner's examinations remain highly relevant to modern psychoanalysis and spirituality. Among Steiner's claims are that, because Freud did not recognize spirit, his way of thinking excluded the experience of the human soul. From reflections upon the threefold structure of human consciousness to musings on the depth of the soul, Freud, Jung, & Spiritual Psychology is a unique and highly recommended psychological perspective of the meeting of mind and spirit. ... Read more

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Dreamtime: A Collection of Short Stories dissects a wide range of social problems by merging realism with fantasy and the supernatural. Gifted storyteller Robert Steiner addresses some of life’s uncommon questions and provides provocative answers. Sweeping from Australia and Italy to outer space, Steiner offers a look at the world from an altered point of view and compels us to rethink our most sacred beliefs.

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Compelling Short Stories
Reviewed by Paige Lovitt for Reader Views (1/08)

"Dreamtime" is a collection of eleven short stories, written by Robert F. Steiner, that have been previously published in other books.Using some of his real life experiences as inspiration, many of the ideas in this story came from real situations to which he added a touch of the supernatural.

I totally enjoyed every story in "Dreamtime."Each story has its own theme and takes you into a completely different room in Steiner's imagination.He writes in incredibly vivid detail.He also has a gift for taking you directly into the mind of the main character in each story.After I read each story, I pondered to myself, "What if?"How incredible it would be if some of these were true, such as "Canine Fantasies," where the main character has hallucinations of a very protective dog in his life.This dog takes on a guardian angel role and protects him. I appreciated Steiner's ability to put me in a contemplative state of mind, in a few pages of each tale.

Because it is not a long book, I think that it would be a great one for someone to read who needs a mental escape, in a short period of time.I also think that it would be a great resource for an English class.Students who normally don't like reading would really get wrapped up in these stories and I think that they would enjoy discussing them.

"Dreamtime" is definitely a must-read for reader's groups.The stories are guaranteed to stimulate some incredibly interesting discussions.

Well-Written Magical Fiction
Nice concurrence of words and thoughts. Magical reality. All stories were quite fine. I enjoyed 'The Hitchhiker Tale at Anton's Restaurant' the best.
'The Uninvited Guest' with its political statements would have been even stronger, in my opinion, by not being placed in a magical reality - which ended. The issues are too important and too real.

a storyteller with a gift for description
Dreamtime is a term for the magical period of the creation of the world...it grasps the meaning of mystery and mystical wonder. The title "Dreamtime" captures the essence of Robert Steiner's short story collection and gives the correct suggestion that this too is a thing of mystery and mystical wonder.

This collection offers stories of great variety, from an odd summer job of being a decoy for muggings to the consequences of space travel. All of the stories contain some sort of oddity, lending them all an air of the "Twilight Zone." Each is a short, satisfying episode of fiction that will be sure to please its readers.

Robert Steiner is a storyteller with a gift for description. He grabs the reader's attention from the first word and offers tidbits of uniqueness to carry you through to the end of each tale. "Dreamtime" is an interesting and enjoyable read that touches on the paranormal but also demonstrates the very human qualities of its characters.

Review by Heather Froeschl of BookReview.com.

Unsettling, bizarre, and wonderful
What is a dream? Is it merely that state achieved during sleep when fleeting images only half remembered later trace their way through your mind? Or are there other dream states? How about an alternate reality? Could one stumble into something so extraordinary and so beyond the common frame of reference that it constitutes a sort of waking dream? Author Robert Steiner seems to think so. He compiled eleven short stories outlining his belief under the title "Dreamtime." The author, a Harvard graduate who worked as a research scientist at the Naval Medical Research Institute in Bethesda, Maryland, has written a series of tales that evoke memories of such writers of the supernatural as William Hope Hodgson and even, in a certain narrative way, Clark Ashton Smith. Not all of the stories delve into the paranormal, but all of the stories do give the reader a decidedly eerie sensation of "not quite rightness" that only the masters of supernatural fiction manage to achieve. You won't find a lot of monsters from beyond time and space or fabled lands on other planets in "Dreamtime." What we do get is something far more sinister and far more personal. This is one creepy set of stories.

The first story in the collection, "The Decoy," doesn't exactly set the tone for the rest of the book. Don't get me wrong; it's a great story. But it doesn't expose us to the bizarre like the rest of the tales do. In this one, a young man ready to head off to graduate school decides to take a most unusual summer job in Italy helping the authorities there crack down on street criminals. Why he would be perfect for the job only emerges in degrees: it seems that his physical appearance is so repugnant that the Italian cops think he looks like a dupe of the type criminals love to victimize. He's actually quite intelligent, of course, which is another trait the police are looking for. Needless to say, he works wonders busting up packs of pickpockets until an encounter with a particularly ruthless gang of Russian thugs changes our young hero forever.

The next story, "The Hiker's Tale: At Anton's Restaurant," is more conventionally weird, if that makes any sense. A man decides to take a long hike to a dinner party only to run headlong into a dangerous snowstorm. He sits down on a stump to rest--never a good thing to do when it's cold and snowing outside--only to resume his trip a few minutes later. He stumbles over a brightly lit gentleman's club/restaurant in a place he never noticed on previous excursions. Invited inside by the friendly personnel, he sits down to partake of the inn's fantastic menu only to wake up suddenly in the hospital, a victim of frostbite and extreme exhaustion. Was it real or only a dream of a warm, welcoming place conjured up by an injured mind and body in order to sustain itself?

The next four tales share a similar trait in that we are seeing people or animals emerging from some other place or time to affect characters in the present day. "The Student Pilot" introduces us to a mysterious man who shows up for flight lessons even though he seems to know everything about flying airplanes. His identity, strongly hinted at toward the end of the story, makes us wonder whether what we are seeing is a case of reincarnation or something more eerie. The same can be said for "Canine Fantasies," a truly odd tale of a man hypnotized into thinking a phantom dog follows him everywhere he goes. Is it the recalled spirit of his childhood pet or a merely a hallucination? Problem is, this spirit helps the main character out in a big way on several occasions. "The Returning Student" eschews pilots and dogs in favor of a university teacher's encounter with an enigmatic student resembling one of our most famous authors. In "The Disappearance" the author treats us to yet another reappearing historical figure, this time a figure straight out of the Bible.

For something darker and scarier, turn to "Phoenix Street," "The Seaside Witch," and "The Uninvited Guest." The first involves a Harvard graduate student stressing out over finishing his thesis who disintegrates into a nervous wreck after glimpsing the visage of an evil looking woman glaring at him from the window of a house. "The Seaside Witch" involves a strange case of two individuals meeting again years after a chance encounter. The witch appears only briefly and in a way that doesn't set off alarm bells until the end of the story. My favorite story, and one that will definitely stay with me for some time, is "The Uninvited Guest." Some poor wretch caught in the fog pulls up to a house filled with chattering people throwing out very grim political opinions. This story made me think of Jack London's "The Iron Heel." The last tales include a science fiction story, "Round Trip," about an astronaut returning to earth after a forty-year excursion among the stars, and a delightfully optimistic look at the afterlife called "The Pilgrim."

Steiner has written some real gems here. He definitely has a knack for creating delightfully bizarre environments in the space of a few pages. His writing style works well too: you get the sense rather quickly that this is an author who ponders over each and every sentence to make sure he gets everything just right. He might have worked in science as a career, but his talents extend far beyond the laboratory and the microscope.

Poignant stories set in the misty outskirts of the mundane
Dreamtime is an apt title for this collection of short stories.The author has a wonderfully natural writing style, and in all but one case the story feels as if the author is right there with you recounting personal stories beside the hearth - indeed, the majority of the stories are drawn from personal experience, as the author tells us in his Preface.The naturalistic style of the writing makes for a perfect medium in which Steiner introduces touches of the dream-like and supernatural.In story after story, the world of the mundane is gradually infused with an atmosphere of intellectual, almost dreamlike fog.

The initial story, The Decoy, is rather atypical of the eleven stories collected here, in that it does not stray into the realm of the unusual.It does, however, show how good can come of seemingly bad occurrences.The sense of dreamlike experience first manifests itself in The Hiker's Tale: At Anton's Restaurant, in my opinion the most effective story in the collection.In this tale, an older gentleman finds himself caught in a sudden snowstorm, only to find a needed respite in the form of a most unusual restaurant.

Two of the stories, The Student Pilot and The Returning Student, share a similar theme; they don't deal with reincarnation per se, but in each case a great man of the past seems to make an unexpected and relatively brief trip into a contemporary but otherwise mundane setting.Canine Fantasies was a story I particularly enjoyed; here, the main character is given an invisible canine companion by a hypnotist, and this supposedly transient spirit eventually becomes the man's best friend in ways few would believe.

Several of the stories are open-ended explorations of extreme possibilities.The Disappearance, for instance, puts forth one possible scenario of The Rapture in the form of a man with whom the protagonist has, he realizes after the fact, a brief but personal connection.Events and personalities coming back together for a seemingly preordained purpose is also the formula for the story The Sea Witch.Phoenix Street is the only story with a real feeling of creepiness embedded within it - in the form of a malevolent old lady who affects a young Harvard graduate student's life, despite the fact the two individuals have never truly met.

A palpable sense of unreality or perhaps hyper-reality is evinced in the story The Uninvited Guest.Here, a stranded traveler wanders into an upscale party of strange characters espousing radical ideas.There would seem to be a context of political philosophy built into this story, but it is hard to say more without giving anything away.

The Pilgrim proves to be the most unusual story in the collection; it offers an allegorically striking and most unusual take on the subject of dying.I would have liked to have seen this story close out the book rather than the much less effective tale Round Trip.This final tale differs from the others in that it is told from the perspective of a third person, and its somewhat depressing account of an astronaut returning to a world forty years in his future (thanks to the conundrum of relativity) casts a dark reflection on the reader's consciousness.

Needless to say, I found Dreamtime a most impressive short story collection.While the author devoted his life to science, he obviously developed at the same time a deep sense of the human condition, with all its fears, desires, and mysteries.His writing style, far from the cold and sterile manner you might associate with a man of science, is in fact vibrant and exceedingly smooth and natural.Steiner chose the title Dreamtime because the word reflects a time of creativity and dreamlike magic, and as such it seems to fit this collection of stories perfectly. ... Read more

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This is an introduction to the basic writings of Rudolph Steiner, a man who has been an important influence on contemporary education, literature, art, science and philosophy. This book offers selections from 60 of Steiner's published works. ... Read more

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Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO. Explores the connections between creativity and development. Drawing on decades of research, discusses the creativity of children's play, the creative aspects of children's thinking process, and the role of multiple intelligence in both creativity and development. Hardcover, softcover available. ... Read more

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Chapters: Matthias Steiner, Robert Fein, Hans Haas, Franz Andrysek, Karl Hipfinger, Andreas Stadler, Leopold Friedrich, Anton Zwerina, Franz Aigner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Matthias Steiner (born August 25, 1982) is an Austrian-German weightlifter, and Olympic gold medalist. He is 183 cm tall. As a native Austrian, he competed for Austria internationally from 1998 to 2005, in European Championships, World Championships, and the 2004 Summer Olympics. From 2002 to 2005 he was four times Austrian National Champion in the +105 kg category, and holds Austrian records in the -105 kg and +105 kg categories. In 2005 Steiner left the Austrian weightlifting federation, and married a German woman. Although his wife died in a car accident, he continued his weightlifting career in Germany, eventually received German citizenship in early 2008, won overall silver at the 2008 European Championships, and the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Matthias Steiner was born in Vienna, Austria. He hails from Obersulz in Lower Austria, where he attended Volksschule (primary school), then Hauptschule (secondary school). Steiner completed an apprenticeship in plumbing. He started weightlifting in 1995. His father, Friedrich Steiner, is 20 times IWF-Masters World Weightlifting Champion, and also ranks first on the IWF 2008 Hall of Fame Survey of Leading Master Lifters. Since an untreated infection Steiner suffers from diabetes, diagnosed at his 18th birthday. Before the diagnosis, the first symptom was an intense thirst, then he lost appetite, and 5 kilograms (11 lb) body weight within three months. He went to the doctor when his sight deteriorated. Despite the diagnosis he followed his dream to become a weightlifter. In 2004, a German woman from Zwickau in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17814082 ... Read more

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Chapters: Matthias Steiner, Robert Fein, Hans Haas, Franz Andrysek, Karl Hipfinger, Andreas Stadler, Leopold Friedrich, Anton Zwerina, Franz Aigner. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Matthias Steiner (born August 25, 1982) is an Austrian-German weightlifter, and Olympic gold medalist. He is 183 cm tall. As a native Austrian, he competed for Austria internationally from 1998 to 2005, in European Championships, World Championships, and the 2004 Summer Olympics. From 2002 to 2005 he was four times Austrian National Champion in the +105 kg category, and holds Austrian records in the -105 kg and +105 kg categories. In 2005 Steiner left the Austrian weightlifting federation, and married a German woman. Although his wife died in a car accident, he continued his weightlifting career in Germany, eventually received German citizenship in early 2008, won overall silver at the 2008 European Championships, and the gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Matthias Steiner was born in Vienna, Austria. He hails from Obersulz in Lower Austria, where he attended Volksschule (primary school), then Hauptschule (secondary school). Steiner completed an apprenticeship in plumbing. He started weightlifting in 1995. His father, Friedrich Steiner, is 20 times IWF-Masters World Weightlifting Champion, and also ranks first on the IWF 2008 Hall of Fame Survey of Leading Master Lifters. Since an untreated infection Steiner suffers from diabetes, diagnosed at his 18th birthday. Before the diagnosis, the first symptom was an intense thirst, then he lost appetite, and 5 kilograms (11 lb) body weight within three months. He went to the doctor when his sight deteriorated. Despite the diagnosis he followed his dream to become a weightlifter. In 2004, a German woman from Zwickau in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17814082 ... Read more

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These dazzling, radical lectures were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf School—following two years of intense preoccupation with the social situation in Germany as World War I ended and society sought to rebuild itself.

Well aware of the dangerous tendencies present in modern culture that undermine a true social life—such as psychic torpor and boredom, universal mechanization, and a growing cynicism—Steiner recognized that any solution must address not only economic and legal issues but also that of a free spiritual life.

Steiner also saw the need to properly nurture in children the virtues of imitation, reverence, and love at the appropriate stages of development in order to create mature adults who are inwardly prepared to fulfill the demands of a truly healthy society—adults who are able to assume the responsibilities of freedom, equality, and brotherhood.

Relating these themes to an understanding of the human as a threefold being of thought, feeling, and volition, and against the background of historical forces at work in human consciousness, Steiner lays the ground for a profound revolution in the ways we think about education.

Also included here are three lectures on the social basis of education, a lecture to public school teachers, and a lecture to the workers of the Waldorf Astoria Cigarette Company, after which they asked him to form a school for their children. ... Read more