The World's 101 Best Islands
Edited by Farhad Vladi
published by teNeues 2013
Size: 25 x 32 cm / 9 7/8 x 12 2/3 in.
220 pp., Hardcover with jacket
344 color photographs
Text in English, German, French, and Russian

• An indispensable guide to the most exciting island destinations of the world!

• Now everyone can find a dream island to call their own for a while!

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0. Dedication and Preface
   1. ON BEING IDLE.
   2. ON BEING IN LOVE.
   3. ON BEING IN THE BLUES.
   4. ON BEING HARD UP.
   5. ON VANITY AND VANITIES.
   6. ON GETTING ON IN THE WORLD.
   7. ON THE WEATHER.
   8. ON CATS AND DOGS.
   9. ON BEING SHY.
   10. ON BABIES.
   11. ON EATING AND DRINKING.
   12. ON FURNISHED APARTMENTS.
   13. ON DRESS AND DEPORTMENT.
   14. ON MEMORY.

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Should Christians try to influence laws and politics? Historically, Christians have disagreed. Dr. Wayne Grudem's booklet offers a historical and theological overview of the disagreement and offers an answer that lends itself to thoughtful action. The booklet is adapted from a chapter of his book, Politics- According to the Bible: A Comprehensive Resource for Understanding Modern Political Issues in Light of Scripture. Here, he addresses five views of Christian involvement that he finds unbiblical, incomplete, or spurious. He closes with a more balanced and biblical solution.

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The series follows the exploits of a village of ancient Gauls as they resist Roman occupation.
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With just four required items: 1-This all inclusive book (with simple terms, teaches you how to use a sextant/navigate and includes all celestial data needed till the year 2056), 2-sextant, 3-compass and 4-universal time (shortwave radio or time piece) you can navigate the globe by using latitude and longitude derived from the sun with these four items and have peace of mind knowing that you have a reliable backup to GPS. Once you have your position in latitude and longitude, this book teaches you basic navigation (destination, heading and distance), so you will never be lost.For safety reasons and because equipment fails, batteries die, and equipment falls overboard, people going to sea should have at least two different methods of navigation. The preferred primary method is using a GPS system. This book will teach a secondary backup method of my version of the “Noon Shot Fix”.If you are headed offshore, just curious about celestial navigation or have an old sextant and wonder how it works, buy this book with the other required items and you won’t be disappointed. This book can be read in a short amount of time with sextant readings starting immediately. This book is a combination of basic theory, teaching only what you need for a noon shot fix and basic navigation/plotting, along with a checklist type form to calculate your position, all inclusive celestial data, many “completed” examples and information on emergency navigation.There are many other great celestial navigation techniques out there that people use every day, however many of these techniques require more dedication to learn/use. My goal was to create a simple book, that could be used by the average person with no background on the subject, and contain all the information needed that could be called on in a time of emergency. Anyone with basic math skills can learn/use this technique.

About the Author
Greg was a Second Class Petty Officer in the US Navy, a Sergeant in the US Marine Corps Reserve and has a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. //

Douglas Smith

5.0 out of 5 stars
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2017
An easy path to basic celestial navigation
In today’s world, it is incredibly easy for a casual, or even an experienced sailor to become totally dependent on GPS for the safe navigation of his vessel. For any sailor who ventures beyond sight of land and club house flag of his home marina, it is dangerous to be lulled into this dependency!

GPS receivers, and even the GPS satellite system are not perfect. Receivers fail, batteries go dead, and satellites suffer outages. Every sailor should possess the navigation and piloting skills necessary to bring his vessel safely home in an emergency.

The most basic “backup” navigation and piloting technique, using a sextant to compute Lat/Long and a magnetic compass to reckon direction, requires no power, electronics or radio navigation signals.

Unfortunately, teaching oneself celestial navigation is an overwhelming task for the average boater! A naval, or merchant marine officer dedicates an entire one semester course to this topic.

Greg Boyle’s book is not a comprehensive guide to celestial navigation. It will never find a home in an Annapolis classroom! But it will teach a complete neophyte a few basic celestial navigation and piloting techniques sufficient to bring him safely home in an emergency.

The celestial navigation portion of the book is dedicated almost exclusively to one specific celestial observation – observation of the sun at “Local Apparent Noon” (LAN).
This one technique is an excellent choice for emergency navigation:
• The LAN sun is one of the easiest observations to make with a sextant
• This single sextant observation yields BOTH Latitude and Longitude
• The “reduction” of the LAN observation to a Lat/Long fix is relatively easy

Greg’s book provides a step by step guide to the LAN shot. Everything from calibrating and observing with a sextant, to a simplified method of computing the “fix”. Numerous examples are included.

Any reader with a calculator and an understanding of very simple algebra will soon be successfully “shooting the sun”.

The book also teaches the reader basic piloting techniques which require only a magnetic compass.

I recommend this book to a newcomer who wishes to learn emergency navigation, and especially to sailors who have “tried and failed” to learn celestial navigation using other books.

Most average sailors will successfully complete this course. They will experience that special (and usually surprising) satisfaction the first time they shoot the sun, and using only a sextant and an accurate watch, compute a Lat/Long position which MIRACULOUSLY agrees with their GPS!

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“Apocalypse Never may be the most important book on the environment ever written.”

— Tom Wigley, climate scientist, University of Adelaide, former senior scientist National Center for Atmospheric Research

Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions.

But in 2019, as some claimed “billions of people are going to die,” contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction.

Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas.

Curiously, the people who are the most alarmist about the problems also tend to oppose the obvious solutions. Those who raise the alarm about food shortages oppose the expansion of fertilizer, irrigation, and tractors in poor nations. Those who raise the alarm about deforestation oppose concentrating agriculture. And those who raise the alarm about climate change oppose the two technologies that have most reduced emissions, natural gas and nuclear.

What’s really behind the rise of apocalyptic environmentalism? There are powerful financial interests. There are desires for status and power. But most of all there is a desire among supposedly secular people for transcendence. This spiritual impulse can be natural and healthy. But in preaching fear without love, and guilt without redemption, the new religion is failing to satisfy our deepest psychological and existential needs.

Apocalypse Never summarizes the best-available science and debunks the myths repeated by scientists, journalists, and activists.
Some of those activists, scientists, and journalists have now responded to Apocalypse Never to defend those myths, including that humans are causing a sixth mass extinction and that climate change is making natural disasters worse.
Anyone who hopes to seriously evaluate Apocalypse Never for its scientific accuracy must read Apocalypse Never, including its over 1,100 endnotes, which comprise 100 pages of the 400 page book.
No book about the environment in recent memory has been praised by a wider and more prestigious group of scientists than Apocalypse Never. It cannot be dismissed. And yet that is what many of the critics of Apocalypse Never appear to want potential readers to do.
But in their haste to misrepresent the contents of Apocalypse Never, and make personal attacks, critics reveal that they fear people will read the book and discover the truth for themselves. I hope curious people do.

Much of the innovative programming that powers the Internet, creates operating systems, and produces software is the result of "open source" code, that is, code that is freely distributed--as opposed to being kept secret--by those who write it. Leaving source code open has generated some of the most sophisticated developments in computer technology, including, most notably, Linux and Apache, which pose a significant challenge to Microsoft in the marketplace. As Steven Weber discusses, open source's success in a highly competitive industry has subverted many assumptions about how businesses are run, and how intellectual products are created and protected.

Traditionally, intellectual property law has allowed companies to control knowledge and has guarded the rights of the innovator, at the expense of industry-wide cooperation. In turn, engineers of new software code are richly rewarded; but, as Weber shows, in spite of the conventional wisdom that innovation is driven by the promise of individual and corporate wealth, ensuring the free distribution of code among computer programmers can empower a more effective process for building intellectual products. In the case of Open Source, independent programmers--sometimes hundreds or thousands of them--make unpaid contributions to software that develops organically, through trial and error.

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Michael Shellenberger has been fighting for a greener planet for decades. He helped save the world’s last unprotected redwoods. He co-created the predecessor to today’s Green New Deal. And he led a successful effort by climate scientists and activists to keep nuclear plants operating, preventing a spike of emissions.

But in 2019, as some claimed “billions of people are going to die,” contributing to rising anxiety, including among adolescents, Shellenberger decided that, as a lifelong environmental activist, leading energy expert, and father of a teenage daughter, he needed to speak out to separate science from fiction.

Despite decades of news media attention, many remain ignorant of basic facts. Carbon emissions peaked and have been declining in most developed nations for over a decade. Deaths from extreme weather, even in poor nations, declined 80 percent over the last four decades. And the risk of Earth warming to very high temperatures is increasingly unlikely thanks to slowing population growth and abundant natural gas.

Part Two of the monster post: Why I Write What I Write. Brace yourselves. Here be words... //

I write what I write because it’s another way of displaying the truth. A decorative, subversive, winding way of displaying the truth that delights and makes people have to think.

I write what I write because I love writing fantasy. I love the way I can create a whole world, layer the magic and the political system through the whole thing. I love threading manners and morals and proverbs and culture through my worlds.

I write what I write because I love the act of creation itself. It’s something that has always fascinated me about God in particular, His creative side; and it’s something that makes me feel particularly close to Him. Like I understand a very small part of what He is. Like I’m just a little bit closer to Him as a creator, though my type of creation is so much less than His.

I write what I write because it gives me joy.

I write what I write because it gives other people joy.

I write what I write because it’s a way for me to do something with the gift God has given me. //

And I want most of all, as in everything else in my life, to glorify God through my writing. //

I’m not saying you shouldn’t say something if you’re concerned for someone’s soul, or if you feel God is prompting you to speak. But bear in mind that each person stands or falls before God, and that you can’t persuade someone into your way of thinking without God changing that person’s mind.

It’s not your job to make over everyone in your image. If you’re concerned, pray for us. We can always use the prayer; we’re all growing, and learning, and trying to honour God. That shows your love for us far better than ranting at us over social media or shaking your finger in our faces.

And it leaves the work of changing hearts and minds exactly where it belongs; with God.

The most frequently-asked question of all by visitors to this site has to be “Where do you get all those crazy ideas?”. Well, I read a lot of books…. Starting in January 2001, I decided to keep a list of what I've read to share with folks with similar interests. I read all kinds of stuff—technical books, science fiction, trash novels, history, fringe science, political screeds—you name it. My taste in literature is as indiscriminate as it is voracious.

A book's appearing on this list does not necessarily mean I recommend you read it, nor even that it's worth reading at all in my opinion; it simply means that I've read it. Books so awful I couldn't bear to finish are not included in the list, but that's a rare occurrence (none I can recall since 1999). Conversely, books I've re-read are included—works sufficiently enlightening or entertaining to revisit deserve mention alongside new discoveries. //

You may consider some of the works listed here controversial and/or disreputable; their appearance does not constitute an endorsement of the views expressed in the volume. According to Shannon's theorem, you gain information only from messages which are not predictable; getting inside the head of somebody you disagree with and dissecting arguments which come to different conclusions than your own is an excellent way to broaden one's perspective, if only on the way that others think.

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