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denial forces
 Weapon of Denial: Air Power and the Battle for New Guinea (U.S. Army Air Forces in World War II) $2.75 United States Army Air Forces in World War 2.? Discusses the Battle for New Guinea in which United States and Australian air forces proved to be decisive in preventing the resupply of Japanese ground forces.  Denial, Negation And the Forces of the Negative: Freud, Hegel, Lacan, Spitz, And Sophocles (Suny Series in Hegelian Studies) $21.95 Denial, Negation, and the Forces of the Negative is a book that will greatly interest those eager to explore not only the philosophical aspects of the subject matter, but its psychoanalytic issues as well. In this regard, Ver Eecke provides a lucid and highly detailed account of the subject, yet the book is also highly readible. The book is divided into seven chapters that roughly takes us through the following discussions: we start out with an exploration of the puzzling phenomenon of denial (negation). Here, Ver Eecke is dealing with Freud and his demarcation of denial. From this "grounding" of the problem in the Freudian oeuvre, including the fact that humans reveal more about themselves than they are able to acknowledge consciously, we are moved on to a discussion of Hegel's analysis of the will to argue that denial can be understood as a misapplication of the forces of the negative that is necesssary for human freedom. As Dr. Ver Eecke points out, the difference between Hegel and Freud is that a positve outcome ensues with the former, a rather negative aspect is associated with the latter. In another interesting chapter, Dr. Ver Eecke argues that a child's "no saying" can be seen as a step toward independence. Here, Vere Eecke is critiquing Spitz by arguing that language provides the first form of negation, and, consequently, the precondition for human freedom. In my opinion, Dr. Ver Eecke's discussion in this section is quite well done, and I would highly recommend the book based on this discussion alone. I would agree with Jon Mills' assessment that this is the best book on human denial; its form; its content; and its use in the literature today. I also understand that this book was one of the finalist for this year's Goethe Prize in the Canadian Psychoanlytic Association's annual meeting.  Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow $49.95 Remember "stealing the network, how to own the box" how groundbreaking and fun it was to read, an intesely technical, multifaceted thriller. Remember reading the next two books, how to own an identity and how to own a continent, glued to the pages as the authors seemlessly twisted what started off as an unorganised collection of stories in the first book into a over arching plot in the next two. Now forget all that because the excellent story format of the first three books has been dumped. The whole book now is written by just three guys and they're not very good writers. Knuth the shadowy arch villian escapes the clutches of the NSA only set up seedy poker website and spend his time sampling the local prostitutes. We meet a new character pawn, who is a naieve ninja(literally) hacker extrodinaire, the only way he could be more awesome would be if he was a pirate as well as a ninja. How someone could be such an accomplished hacker and so freaking naieve I have no idea, you'd think the person who spends his whole day breaking into other peoples computers would be a little bit more paranoid about his interpersonal interactions instead of just trusting every person who tries to exploit him. To top it all off, nothing happens in this book, we introduce 3 new characters and that is it. Nothing else of consequence. I can only assume the authors got greedy and decided that they didn't want to cut anyone else in on this book so they could take all the money for themselves. They also seems to have decided that 1 book wouldn't give them enough money so they artificially elongated it and turn it into 2 books, hey maybe it's a triology who knows, this could be the next Star Wars, they can all be George Lucas. Basically if you loved the other 3 books steer clear of this one, it stinks. |
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