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"Having her own detective agency would give her
the independence she had always longed for. It
would also give her the chance to show those people
who shunned her that she could be successful. People
were getting rich. They owned property, money,
business, and cars. With new freedom and opportunities
came new crimes. There would be much that
she could do."


Present day, Beijing. Mei Wang is a modern, independent woman. She has her own apartment. She owns a car. She has her own business with that most modern of commodities -- a male secretary. Her short career with China's prestigious Ministry for Public Security has given her intimate insight into the complicated and arbitrary world of Beijing's law enforcement. But it is her intuition, curiosity, and her uncanny knack for listening to things said -- and unsaid -- that make Mei Beijing's first successful female private investigator.

Mei is no stranger to the dark side of China. She was six years old when she last saw her father behind the wire fence of one of Mao's remote labor camps. Perhaps as a result, Mei eschews the power plays and cultural mores -- guanxi -- her sister and mother live by...for better and for worse.

Mei's family friend "Uncle" Chen hires her to find a Han dynasty jade of great value: he believes the piece was looted from the Luoyang Museum during the Cultural Revolution -- when the Red Guards swarmed the streets, destroying so many traces of the past -- and that it's currently for sale on the black market. The hunt for the eye of jade leads Mei through banquet halls and back alleys, seedy gambling dens and cheap noodle bars near the Forbidden City. Given the jade's provenance and its journey, Mei knows to treat the investigation as a most delicate matter; she cannot know, however, that this case will force her to delve not only into China's brutal history, but also into her family's dark secrets and into her own tragic separation from the man she loved in equal parts.

The first novel in an exhilarating new detective series, The Eye of Jade is both a thrilling mystery and a sensual and fascinating journey through modern China.

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• Published on: 2009-04-07
• Released on: 2009-04-07
• Original language: English
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Chinese exile Liang, who fled her country after participating in the Tiananmen Square protests, makes an impressive debut with this understated mystery set in the late 1990s, the first in a prospective series. After resigning from the ministry of public security, Mei Wang launches a private investigative agency, a technically illegal business in China, much to her family's dismay. After an old family friend, Uncle Chen Jitian, hires Mei to track down a jade seal from the Han dynasty, previously believed to be destroyed, Mei and her assistant, Gupin, follow slim leads to a shady dealer who might have connections to the same museum collection supposedly incinerated by the Red Guard. Readers familiar with Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs will find many parallels between that independent and unconventional PI and Mei. Mei's challenging family life nicely complements the puzzle of the missing jade and the shifting Chinese political climate. (Feb.)
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" We've all heard of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling novels about a female private detective from Botswana. Now it's China's turn. On the surface The Eye of Jade is a classic detective fiction with lots of underworld contacts and hushed conversations in noodle bars, but underneath, Liang, who fled China after her involvement in the student protests in Tiananmen Square, is doing something much more than an examination of China old and new. There's an incredible tension between old Communist China and a new capitalist future; this tension is at the heart of the novel. This novel takes on subjects that in the past would have been censored." -- Mark Coles, BBC

"This may start out as a straightforward mystery but it expands to encompass a meditation on the nature of love and justice in extraordinary circumstances." -- Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia)

"An exquisitely written book, with the added bonus of a great plot and an engaging leading lady." -- The Sun-Herald (Sydney, Australia)

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" We've all heard of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling novels about a female private detective from Botswana. Now it's China's turn. On the surface The Eye of Jade is a classic detective fiction with lots of underworld contacts and hushed conversations in noodle bars, but underneath, Liang, who fled China after her involvement in the student protests in Tiananmen Square, is doing something much more than an examination of China old and new. There's an incredible tension between old Communist China and a new capitalist future; this tension is at the heart of the novel. This novel takes on subjects that in the past would have been censored." -- Mark Coles, BBC

"This may start out as a straightforward mystery but it expands to encompass a meditation on the nature of love and justice in extraordinary circumstances." -- Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia)

"An exquisitely written book, with the added bonus of a great plot and an engaging leading lady." -- The Sun-Herald (Sydney, Australia)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Unusual and fascinating
By L. J. Roberts
First Sentence: In the corner of an office in an old-fashioned building in Beijing's Chongyang District, the fan was humming loudly, like an elderly man angry at his own impotence.

Mei Wang had been dismissed from the Ministry for Public Security and has opened an office as a private investigator. "Uncle" Chen, a family friend, hires her to find an ancient, and extremely valuable, piece of jade looted from the Luoyang Museum during the Cultural Revolution. The case takes her into the back streets of Beijing, and into secrets of her family's past.

This was an unusual mystery and a fascinating book. It is a PI story, but very different from the typical American PI. The story focuses on people, interactions and relationships, yet still has some suspense.

I realized how little I know about China, past or present. There are vast differences between our cultures but enough similarities that the story really worked.

The sense of place is wonderful and the dialogue has just the right voice to it. I am interested to see where Mei Wang's story goes. You might want to give this a try.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
A wonderfully depicted novel on modern China, but not a detective novel
By Vivian Wu
I gave this book three stars, because I found it has some wonderful elements and equal amount of flaws.

The Positives:
1. The author has a very natural way of weaving the daily scenes of Beijing into the story. It adds a layer of richness and gives the reader a true sense of the lives of the modern day China. There are other such novels on the market right now, but this particular one is written nicely about the details without being overly "educational" in tone. One such example will be in the book when Mei was meeting with her friend from the department of the motor vehicle. They chose to meet at a place where they could see all the people dancing on the street. (I am not being exact here. I don't want to ruin the appetite of those yet to read this book.) The author very skillfully devoted some time describing this street dancing/parading phenomenon without being overbearing.

2. The depiction of the characters are quite real. The author goes into great length describing the main characters in this novel. Some of the emotional scenes appear to be real to me and felt by me as I was reading. She does a particularly nice job on the conflicting dynamics between Mei and her mother. The love and hate mix is so authentic in my eyes.

The Negatives:
1. This is not a detective story in the strictest sense. The plot thins as it progresses. The detective uses rather evasive skills to find clues. Often times, she just jumps from point A to point B without strong evidence, just using a sense of hunch.

2. Some of the situations are not as convincing. If Mei has been working in the police department, how could she not stomach a dead body (not even brutally murdered, just dead). How Mei came to grasp the whole truth of the missing gem was very sudden, it's like, she got information A, B, C. And then suddenly, she can tell that this whole thing happened including A, B, C, D, E. There is a lot of assumption which almost made me feel that the author was rushing into a conclusion at the end to finish off the book.

3. How to use Chinese proper names in English is often an author's personal choice. This results in some hilarious ones such as stir fry stocks (that's indeed clever), but to translate Xiao Long Bao as "Little Dragon Buns" was a misunderstanding of the Chinese character "long". The correct character "Long" is referring to the steamer. It is meaning buns coming from a little steamer. The dragon "long" is a character without the bamboo radical, therefore, it is altogether a different character. Not sure why the author needed to translate something that's already very well known in the west into something that's wrong. But on the other hand XLB was never a Beijing thing.

In conclusion, if you just want to read an entertaining novel which can show you the ins of Beijing in modern day times, this is a very good book for you to get a sense of it. It is a disappointing detective novel to me, because of the lacking of the reasoning and development in plot. 1/3 of the book is about the actual jade. Another 1/3 is the description about Beijing. Sometimes, it is quite overwhelming. Initially, I thought it was very interesting, but after a while, I suddenly realized that these descriptions of the surrounding, the people, are not going to add anything to the plot. The last 1/3 is about the family dynamics and the family history.

27 of 32 people found the following review helpful.
"Cornerstone" of a mystery
By Xujun Eberlein
1.
Diane Wei Liang's female detective protagonist, Mei Wang, is a character built up of conflicts between her mindset and reality. She is aloof, "an outsider who never wanted to be in" while in college, but her college friends turn out to be the only ones who truly care about her. Her longing for her mother's love manifests as resentment, and her mother suddenly has a stroke before there is a chance to reconcile. She desperately wants to cure her mother, but she has no money or connections, and those things can only come from the sister she looks down on. She detests "guanxi" (connecting with purpose) and people who are good at it, yet whatever clues she obtains for her investigation are through "guanxi." Wherever she exhausts her network of relations, her means of investigation also dry up. For the most part the novel leaves the reader wondering if the only way for Mei Wang to make progress in Chinese society is to embrace the opposite of what she values.

Yet this is a quite realistic depiction of the late 1990s' Chinese society, post Cultural Revolution, in the midst of the Reform-and-Open era. And Diane Wei Liang is at her best depicting it using multi-voice dialogue. A conversation at Mei's class reunion is so real, I can almost see those people's lips moving and hear their voices, as if they spoke in Chinese, as if I were among them.

The intimate reflection on everyday life of contemporary China is a great quality of this novel. For a reader who knows about China, this quality is engaging. Too often I can't finish a novel set in China written by non-Chinese, because it turns me off when the author gets obvious things wrong.

For readers who are less familiar with China, The Eye of Jade provides a real lens into Chinese society. The author picked a good starting time for the story. Between 1980 and 1997 there were amazing changes that took place, almost as amazing as the changes between 1997 and now. The central case that Mei is investigating takes us back in time: to the origin of the relics she is trying to locate, nearly 2,000 years ago; to the circumstances of its disappearance 30 years ago; and to Mei's youth 10 years ago. Thus, without a complete recount of history we are given insights into it. One can reasonably predict that, as future cases come for Mei Wang, we will get a chance to see China develops more, and hopefully also to explore more of its past.

That said, there are some holes in the work. For one thing, the Ministry of State Security (analog of the FBI) did not exist until 1983, so some of the retrospective actions during the Cultural Revolution in late 1960s are not completely plausible. Still, compared with some other English fiction on China, the lapses are small.

2.
Ultimately, Mei Wang does not give in to the Chinese societal trap. Toward the end of the novel, Mei's true self, aloof and courageous as she is, does triumph. When her "guanxi" ends, she singular-handedly confronts each hypothesized suspect one by one, alone and determined. And sure enough, each confrontation takes her closer to the entire truth, until the case is solved.

At this point, however, this triumph should be read as the author's fictionalized ideal ending, rather than a depiction of the reality. After all, it is unlikely in reality that any private detective, not to mention a young woman apparently with no training in self-defense and no backup - would go to each (dangerous) suspect and point a finger at him, "You are the murderer, aren't you?" simply to see if he'll admit to it. A detective who relies on this approach wouldn't be the smartest one anyway.

So why does Diane Wei Liang make Mei Wang do this? One can find a partial answer from the author interview by her publisher, in which she views "guanxi" as "a cornerstone of Chinese culture, as the society is operated according to it".

Except guanxi is more like extra oil for an age-old societal machine than a cornerstone of Chinese culture. In any case "guanxi" is an external factor; the concept might assist a novelist to move forward a plot, but it can't enhance characterization, nor excite the reader. If Mei's entire investigation "operates according to it," the intricate behavior and actions would be absent. The final confrontations carried out by Mei Wang, therefore, are a last-ditch resolution for both the author and the central character.

3.
This raises a key question: is this novel really a detective story? The answer is both yes and no. It is what the author sets out to make; it is not quite accepted as such by readers.

For detective genre readers, the fun of reading is solving a puzzle with the author. It is the chase of logical inference that is thrilling. In The Eye of Jade, however, this element is largely missing. Sure, Mei Wang confronts the suspects with her hypotheses, but when we see this, the hypotheses are already made. We read the conclusions without being letting in the process of reasoning, and we don't know how she gets there. This thrill is not quite there.

Apparently, the author has a different idea about what this book should be. The Eye of Jade is the first in a series of "Mei Wang Mystery" novels, for which the author has a very interesting and intriguing concept. In the interview mentioned above, she says she found crime fiction "an ideal format to examine the social and economical changes that are at the center of modern life in China. I also wanted to paint an honest and authentic picture of life in Beijing."

That is exactly what she does in The Eye of Jade, and quite successfully. The social and economic aspects of life in Beijing are given equal, if not greater, emphasis than Mei Wang's case investigation. A reader who is not looking for a particular genre story could enjoy both threads. To a mystery/crime genre reader, however, the author's stated goals, however admirable and ambitious, do not provide the same thrill as logical inference.

On the other hand, would a romance novel bother its readers for its lack of logic? No. One would have to be bothered by something else. This is to say, the genre label pre-sets reader expectations. It is a double-edged sword. It helps us find the right category for reading pleasure; it can also stop us from being entertained.

Therefore, the author has options. The smart idea of conveying modern China's societal change to English readers through genre fiction (which has a much greater readership than literary fiction) might actually work, if she finds the right genre and executes in it well. If she (or her publisher) chooses to stick with the current label, then she will need to enhance the genre's "cornerstone": logical inference.

(Note: a more complete version of the review can be found on my blog.)

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• Released on: 2007-09-04
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About the Author
Jim San Marco was a teacher, athletic director, and coach at Edgemont High School in Scarsdale, New York, who finished his eighteen-year soccer coaching career with a 211-67-24 soccer record. He was recognized as the Section I Soccer Coach of the Year, New York State Section I Athletic Director of the Year, and he has served as a New York State soccer coaching clinician and a New York State Physical Education Convention speaker. He lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

Kurt Aschermann is currently helping to launch Charity Partners, a firm that creates fund-raising platforms for national charities, and he is a sought-after speaker, workshop leader, and consultant. A physical educator and coach, Kurt is also coauthor of Coaching Kids to Play Baseball and Softball, also published by Fireside. He is a graduate of Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts.

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Chapter 1

IT'S ALL YOURS, COACH

A simple, important, sobering fact needs to be stated at the outset: as a youth soccer coach you have a huge responsibility to everyone on the team. Not only do these youngsters want to learn soccer from you, but they also want to win, want to score some goals -- and they don't want to be yelled at. Your impact is rivaled only by that of the parent, and in certain circumstances, it surpasses that influence. You will find that your kids want to please you more than anyone else, and this simple fact can place tremendous pressure on you. It should guide your every action.

We believe that your responsibilities as a youth soccer coach are easily stated:

Fun

Learning

Individual development

Winning

...in that order! Let's look at each one in turn:

Fun: It may come as a surprise to some of the parents of the players, but 99 percent of the kids are playing soccer because they want to have fun playing it. Those kids in your charge, Coach, have joined the league and your team to enjoy themselves. The minute you lose sight of that as your principal motivating factor, you're in trouble.

Learning: Youth soccer coaches must be responsible, dedicated teachers -- more so than other youth league coaches -- because most kids in America don't know the sport! They grow up catching the things that are thrown or kicked at them, except for an occasional kickball. "Offside" is when the offensive guard (in football) moves before the ball is snapped. Couple player ignorance of soccer with magnified parental ignorance, Coach, and you can see why we put learning second on the list.

Individual Development: A nine-year-old should be compared with himself, not every other nine-year-old. You help a team develop by helping each individual. And if you've succeeded in helping most of your athletes become better soccer players by the last week of the season, you're a winning coach, regardless of your record.

Winning: We believe the outcome of the game yields winners and learners -- there are no losers. Winning is important and needs to be an important part of the development of soccer players. But perspective becomes the important consideration, because while winning is important and must be part of the education process of an athlete, it needs to be understood as the result of hard work and individual development. The coach who succeeds in teaching the sport -- individually and to a group -- will find success in the won/lost column. The coach who helps the team keep winning or losing in perspective will find success in the personal development column.

THE BALL STOPS HERE

Coaches in volunteer leagues are often acquired like goalies: no one wants to do the job, especially, so someone gets drafted. You may have come to your soccer duties purely out of love for the sport or, like many, out of love for your child. Any coach, regardless of experience, has two factors that must be dealt with quickly: (1) individual knowledge of the sport and (2) ability to impart that knowledge to the youngsters. If you have come to your soccer team because your child wanted to play and no one else was there to teach or lead the team, how you deal with the two factors may well determine if the players have a positive or a negative experience.

Copyright © 1987 by Jim San Marco and Kurt Aschermann

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Good fundamentals
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There are good pictures and good descriptions of various aspects of soccer skills and the game. The age range for this book is probably more like age 8 - 18. I am coaching 6 year olds right now and the drills and discussions in this book don't really apply to the level of soccer these kids can comprehend. Otherwise it is a good reference and will come in handy as my kids get older.

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Part historical narrative, part travelogue, and part environmental plea, Selling Your Father's Bones recounts one of the most astonishing journeys in the history of the American West.

The year 1877 bore witness to a broken promise. Joseph, chief of the peaceable Nez Perce band who made their home in Oregon's Wallowa Valley, had long sworn to uphold the dying words of his father: "This country holds your father's body. Never sell the bones of your mother and your father."

Yet, as the U.S. government confined the tribe to ever smaller reservations in favor of miners and ranchers in their westward sprawl, the fateful decision of several young Nez Perce warriors to attack the settlers set in motion an exodus from Joseph's ancestral home. For the next eleven weeks, seven hundred Nez Perce men, women, and children traveled 1,700 miles across inhospitable wilderness, engaging the chasing army in six battles and many more skirmishes, as they drove on in search of peace and freedom. Just forty miles from the Canadian border, the tribe survived a calamitous five-day siege until Joseph could no longer bear his people's suffering and surrendered. It is said that when he died, in 1904, the cause was a broken heart.

Populated with the heroes and villains of a classic conflict, Selling Your Father's Bones intercuts the Nez Perce's fight for survival with the author's own travels across this very same terrain, the mountains, forests, badlands, and prairies of modern-day Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. The imposing Bitterroot Mountains, the Lolo Pass (then and now among the toughest mountain crossings on the North American continent), and the great Montana buffalo plains retain their majesty. Yet, as Schofield reveals, ecological vandalism, unthinking corporate policies, and dubious political leadership have wrought scarred landscapes, battered communities, and toxic environments whose realities must be borne by the living descendants of both the Nez Perce warriors and the European settlers. As Schofield walks among the people who now occupy these sacred lands, he sees in the values of the Native American West -- love for homeland, for ancestry, and for Mother Nature -- a route to their, and our, salvation.

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• Published on: 2009-02-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.16" w x 6.12" l, 1.25 pounds
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This account of the Nez Percé's trials is a painful tale well told. British journalist Schofield writes a history of this Columbia River Valley tribe down to its present-day remnant, confined to a modest Idaho reservation. Casting a wide net, he also describes white settlement in the northwest, emphasizing its devastation of wildlife, soil, rivers and forests. The Nez Percé's troubles began in the 1850s when the U.S. began insisting the tribe make room for white settlers. The author recounts 20 years of coercion and broken treaties until, in 1877 the tribe was ordered out of its homeland entirely. In defiance of the ordered confinement to a Christian reservation, Nez Percé leaders led their people on a heroic flight across Idaho and Montana, inflicting humiliating defeats on pursuing soldiers, but ending in a tragic surrender. America evicted the tribe in favor of that legendary frontier icon, the homesteader, but, ironically, the area is too dry for small farms. Today it consists largely of ranches, timber reserves and irrigated factory farms dependent on government-subsidized water. This is a colorful, action-packed frontier history in which, many will feel, the bad guys won. (Feb.)
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The core of travel writer Schofield’s extensively researched historical saga is the arduous trek made by the Nez Percé tribe in 1877 in their attempt to elude the U.S. Army and avoid removal from their homelands. He intersperses and enriches this oft-told account with the lesser-known details of the environmental ravaging of these former Nez Percé lands over the last 140 years. These include the damming of the West from the 1930s on, the depletion of salmon and buffalo, and the tragic logging story, beginning a few years after the Nez Percé were forced off their ancient territory on the Columbia Plateau and continuing to the 1980s, by which time unregulated deforestation had “decimated watersheds and salmon runs,” eroded soils, and precipitated widespread flooding. Schofield deftly juxtaposes specifics from 1877—the settlers on Nez Percé land who later make a fortune taking copper from the Bitterroot Valley—with the modern-day consequences—the toxic-waste dump now surrounding Butte, Montana. Schofield’s illumination of this crucial point in history clearly illustrates the “Manifest Destiny” of 1845’s rescinding of “native, natural stewardship.” --Deborah Donovan

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"Genuinely epic." -- "The Sunday Times" (London)

"What can the history of the Nez Perce Indians tell us about today? Brian Schofield's "Selling Your Father's Bones" is a heartbreaking account of their last stand against the U.S. Army, which also examines the ideology behind the conquest of the West and its place in American thinking today. If you want to understand the forces that unleashed the credit crunch, start here." -- Chris Hannan, "The Herald" (Scotland), a Best Book of the Year selection

"It is never dull, politically correct, too late or anything less than shaming and shocking to read about the evils done in the name of European Americans to the indigenous peoples of the northwestern United States. But it takes a book such as this to bring it all together and let you begin to sense the scale of the injustice as Native Americans experienced it....Brian Schofield's heart-rending account is interwoven with contemporary scenes from his researches, in a second-hand van, in the hardscrabble ex-lumber towns of twenty-first-century Idaho. A quiet fury burns through his careful prose." -- "The Times" (London)

"Schofield's book, which is admirably ambitious in scope, could well turn out to be a future classic." -- "Geographical" magazine

"A riveting account of one of the darkest and most misunderstood periods of American history. It should be required reading for anyone who believes that greed and big business are forces for good." -- "The Birmingham" (England) "Post"

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have not yet read this saga..I am more familiar with the Muckleshoot, Nisqually, Macah tribes..they occupied the beautiful n'west on the better half of the state..will be interesting to read differencesw/similiarities in treatment..the 'palefaces' of the Puget Sound were not kind!!!

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This is alternately a heart-breaking book and an uplifting one. If you study Native American history this is a great book for you, and if you're into things environmental and Native spirituality, it's all in this great book. We had read a review of it in High Country News which is what prompted us to order it. The book arrived in timely fashion and great condition, and it is already being passed on to others here in the heart of Nez Perce country.

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Interesting mix of history and environmental issues
By book lover
Real rating: 3.75 stars.
Brian Schofield's book is not just another telling of the Nez Perce War of 1877. That has been done elsewhere, and multiple times, too. Instead the author weaves together the story of the Nez Perce War with what became of the disputed land (and the entire Northwest) since the time that the land was signed away and/or wrested from the native inhabitants; he covers, among other items, water, timber and mining rights. Sometimes the irony is just too much to take, as contemporary whites complain about how they are being wronged, totally forgetting how the Nez Perce and other Indian tribes were wronged in the name of manifest destiny. Recommended, but if all you care about is the Nez Perce War, then read Jerome Greene's Nez Perce Summer and a host of other Nez Perce War books listed here on Amazon. For one of the best ever warrior narratives, read Yellow Wolf by Lucullus McWhorter. Then read it again.

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Christopher L. Bennett is a lifelong resident of Cincinnati, Ohio, with bachelor’s degrees in physics and history from the University of Cincinnati. He has written such critically acclaimed Star Trek novels as Ex Machina, The Buried Age, the Titan novels Orion’s Hounds and Over a Torrent Sea, the two Department of Temporal Investigations novels Watching the Clock and Forgotten History, and the Enterprise novels Rise of the Federation: A Choice of Futures, Tower of Babel, Uncertain Logic, and Live By the Code, as well as shorter works including stories in the anniversary anthologies Constellations, The Sky’s the Limit, Prophecy and Change, and Distant Shores. Beyond Star Trek, he has penned the novels X Men: Watchers on the Walls and Spider Man: Drowned in Thunder. His original work includes the hard science fiction superhero novel Only Superhuman, as well as several novelettes in Analog and other science fiction magazines.

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A Good Bridge.
By Kevin T. McGuinness
Just finished reading this book and I think it's a good bridge between the end of the "Stargazer" series and the beginning of "Next Generation". Be warned, this review is chock full of spoilers.

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I also recommend reading "The Valiant" and "Oblivion" from the "Stargazer" series. While "Buried Age" stands well on its own, these two other books will give you some good backstory.

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I don't usually post reviews but feel I should after reading this book. It's by far the best Star Trek fiction I've ever read. The author's grasp of scientific concepts and understanding of Picard's psyche and the entire Star Trek universe comes together so perfectly, it actually made me want to rewatch all of the Next Generation from the very beginning, with a brand new understanding of the motivations behind everything. It could have worked as 3 or 4 separate novels (that's how in depth it is), but this "condensed" version of Picard's missing years is a great read.

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The Buried age covers the time from the loss of the Stargazer up until Picard steps onto the Enterprise-D, a rather long period. I was surprised that the Star Trek Gods approved this as it blocks out a lot of time for one adventure. It seems to me that there was room for more Picard stories in those years.

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The history of science is replete with ideas that were considered socially, morally or emotionally dangerous in their time. The Copernican and Darwinian revolutions are obvious examples -- radical, brilliant insights that did not so much push the envelope as rip it into shreds. These ideas were dangerous because they challenged our comfort zone. But what are the dangerous ideas of the twenty-first century? Which theories do the world's leading thinkers and scientists regard as too hot to handle -- not because the idea might be false, but because it might turn out to be true? Collecting together the very best contributions to the renowned Edge.org question from the most eminent respondents, WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA? is another endlessly fascinating and provocative insight into the bleeding-edge of intellectual endeavour.

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Dangerous ideas: what would YOU contribute?
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It is an interesting and provocative question: what is your "dangerous idea"? John Brockman edited this compilation of short essays from a variety of "leading thinkers." This effort was inspired by the Edge Foundation, a "third culture" think-tank that sponsors "edge dot org," and has a mandate "...to promote inquiry into and discussion of intellectual, philosophical, artistic, and literary issues, as well as to work for the intellectual and social achievement of society."

In other words, Joe and Jane Citizen were not invited to participate in this project. Too bad... it would have been a worthy exercise to see "third culture intellectuals" spouting out alongside those who live in... our first and second culture?

Regardless, there are some interesting ideas presented here, even if the pool of writers has been high-graded through a filter that is not clearly specified.

There is an introduction and an afterward written by Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins, respectively. These are both interesting essays in their own right. Pinker stated that "When done right, science (together with other truth-seeking institutions, such as history and journalism) characterizes the world as it is, without regard to whose feelings get hurt. Science in particular has always been a source of heresy, and today the galloping advances in touchy areas like genetics, evolution, and the environmental sciences are bound to throw unsettling possibilities at us" (p. xxv).

Pinker continues, "Another contributor to the perception of dangerousness is the intellectual blinkers that humans tend to don when they split into factions. People have a nasty habit of clustering in coalitions, professing certain beliefs as badges of their commitment to the coalition and treating rival coalitions as intellectually unfit and morally depraved. Debates between members of the coalitions can make things even worse, because when the other side fails to capitulate to one's devastating arguments, it only proves they are immune to reason" (p. xxvi-xxvii).

Ouch.

Pinker pulls no punches. "...it's hard to imagine any aspect of public life where ignorance or delusion is better than an awareness of the truth, even an unpleasant one. Only children and madmen [and I add, madwomen] engage in 'magical thinking,' the fallacy that good things can come true by believing in them or bad things will disappear by ignoring them or wishing them away" (p. xxix).

Double ouch.

And the answer? "'Sunlight is the best disinfectant,' according to Justice Louis Brandeis's famous case for freedom of thought and expression. If an idea really is false, only by examining it openly can we determine that it is false.... The moral order did not collapse when the earth was shown not to be at the center of the solar system, and so it will survive other revisions of our understanding of how the world works" (p. xxx).

And thus the essays begin, all 108 of them. They cover a wide gauntlet of topics, most related to the writer's specialization, but some ranging further afield. Some examples that stood out for me:

Sam Harris - "In the spirit of religious tolerance, most scientists are keeping silent when they should be blasting the hideous fantasies of a prior age with all the facts at their disposal" (p. 150).

Jordan Pollack - "There is a fine line between pushing God out of our public institutions and repeating the religious intolerance of regimes past" (p. 157).

Robert Provine - "The empirically testable idea that the here and now is all there is and that life begins at birth and ends at death is so dangerous that it has cost the lives of millions and threatens the future of civilization" (p. 159).

Jared Diamond - "...too many people today believe that a reason not to mistreat tribal people is that they are too nice or wise or peaceful to do those evil things [damage their environments and make war], which only we evil citizens of state government do" (p. 186).

Susan Blackmore - "We humans can and do make up our own purposes, but ultimately the universe has none" (p. 188).

Rupert Sheldrake - "...there is a possibility that animal navigation may not be explicable in terms of present-day physics" (p. 201).

Simon Baron-Cohen - "What would it be like if our political chambers were based on the principles of empathizing?" (p. 205).

Philip Campbell - "These perceptions and discussions [of and by alternative science networks] may be half-baked but are no less powerful for all that, and they carry influence on the Internet and the media" (p. 220).

This is just a small sample that reflects what caught my eye. There is much, much more here, on physics, psychology, aging, and other topics. With 108 essays, this book is easy to pick up and put down.

Dawkins ends with a summary of the topics covered, and a comment on what he thought was missing: a discussion of eugenics, and why "pro life" always means "pro human life." But you do expect Richard Dawkins to cast a wide net, don't you?

What Is Your Dangerous Idea?: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable, is an interesting book. Consider this one as a book for your upscale reading group.

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I wish all books were as hard to put down as this one!

The mini-essays are short enough to pick the book up, read several, put it down and mull them over for awhile. Often, two very well-articulated dangerous ideas will be in complete contradiction to one another and will thus be placed one right after the other.

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One of the world's most humorous and dynamic ministers inspires readers to realize their potential and fulfill their dreams using the power of "determined" thoughts.

Life is about dreaming, doing, and enjoying yourself in the process. Sometimes it might seem as if your dreams are just too wildly improbable, or there are too many obstacles standing in your way, or you've missed your window of opportunity. But if those dreams are divinely inspired, hope is far from lost. You just need to know how to visualize the path to your dream to make it a reality.

Born a poor Cajun boy in south Louisiana, Jesse Duplantis was a rock musician in his early years and, after a life-changing experience with God, became one of the most candid, and popular, ministers of the Gospel today. For thirty years Jesse Duplantis has demonstrated what life can be when you focus on finding your personal path and nurturing a closer relationship with God and Jesus Christ. Jesse believes God can help anyone to succeed--no matter who you are or where you come from.

Weaving visionary-style thinking with powerful life principles and stories from his own life, Jesse shares what destiny really is, how to find yours, and how to avoid letting others kill your joy. You'll also learn about the "Greatest Weaknesses" and "Destiny Killers" that have prevented people from achieving their goals.

Other key topics Jesse explores include:

• The amazing power of human imagination: God gave it to you for a reason!

• The strategic power of "determined" thoughts: Learn to use them and see results.

• What to do if you feel it's too late for your dream: God-given dreams have no expiration dates.

• Why you can't have what you speak against: Use the magnetic power of words to draw in what you know is yours.

• How to overcome discouragement: It's okay to shut the door on negativity.

• The big picture: You are important to God, and your dreams and visionary-style thinking may affect future generations.

As Jesse says, "Somebody is going to succeed...why not you?" You can experience real joy, ful-fillment, and success by following God's path to your dreams!

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• Brand: Simon & Schuster
• Published on: 2008-07-08
• Released on: 2008-07-08
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.25" h x .90" w x 6.12" l, .90 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 240 pages

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"Jesse Duplantis has a simple yet profound way of preaching the Good News about Jesus. The Everyday Visionary will help you to know God's thoughts on life, and if we obey Him and His word, we will have life more abundantly." -- Dodie Osteen, co-founder of Lakewood Church and mother of New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen

About the Author
Jesse Duplantis is the founder of the Jesse Duplantis Ministries. His television program is broadcast on major networks in the United States and around the world. Dr. Duplantis is a bestselling author whose books have been translated into many languages, as well as braille, and have sold more than 1.2 million copies worldwide.

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Chapter 1

Building Mental Maps to Destiny

Dreaming is wonderful. Doing is better. When I first began in ministry, the Lord told me that I was going to be preaching the Gospel on worldwide television one day. Now, at that time, that looked about as possible as seeing a pig fly over south Louisiana. I barely had enough money for gas to fill up my car. I felt blessed to preach in a church that sat fifty people. And, I sure didn't think that, with my accent and my Cajun heritage, that anyone would want to listen to me preach the Gospel on TV.

Still, I knew the voice of the Lord. My life had been completely turned around through another man's television ministry and I knew that God would use me to reach others through the same vehicle.

I grew up along the banks of the Mississippi River, in south Louisiana. I learned early that nobody was going to take care of me, but me. I saw a lot of poverty and a lot of hypocrisy. I experienced hardship from a young age and I had a pretty bad view of the church in general, but my mother was a strong believer and a strong woman, and she instilled the Scriptures in me from the time I was a young boy. Still, I didn't believe it and I just wanted to get out.

So, although I made my own choices and used my musical talent to get out of Louisiana and play rock music as a young man, when I came back around and gave my life to God, I knew that it meant change...change not only in my spirit and in my heart, but also in my mind.

Mental Changes, Mental Choices

When I decided to follow the teachings of Jesus and the Bible, it was also a decision to change my mental strategies. Before, I didn't understand spiritual concepts like faith. But after I accepted Christ and chose to go this way in my life, I began to get a clearer picture of what it meant to think God's way, to trust Him and start living by the teachings in His Word.

Years later, after I accepted God's call on my life and entered the ministry, God dropped the idea of preaching the Word on worldwide television into my mind. It was a big thought and, I knew, totally beyond my means.

It could have easily stayed in the realm of dreaming, but I decided to move that thought out of idleness into the realm of real faith. To even begin doing that, I had to "reboot" my mind, so to speak, and actually consider that the dream could come to pass. After all, everything around me told me that I couldn't do it. But, I knew that this was a "God-thought" -- a thought that was not about me, but about reaching more people for Him.

That day, I began developing a "mental map" -- a determined thought-life -- that I knew would be a key in reaching what I believed God had told me would be part of my destiny. I knew that this thought wasn't a pipe dream. It wasn't a thought that I wanted to dismiss with a "well, maybe one day" kind of attitude. I knew in my heart that I needed to go deeper with the idea that I considered to be "God-revealed."

Mental Maps Are Determined Thoughts

You see, daydreams are idle thoughts. They can be fun. They can be a form of escape. But mental maps are the kind of thoughts that have purpose and direction. They're the thoughts with intent, thoughts that are actually taking you somewhere that you want to go. You could call them "determined" thoughts.

You know the difference. Think about it. Have you ever been watching TV and a commercial for cake mix comes on the screen? Shot one, you're suddenly seeing close-ups of a butter-yellow cake with chocolate icing. The announcer is telling you how good it is as, shot two, that steaming cake comes sliding out of the oven.

Shot three, you watch a fork press down on the top of the cake and the cake just fluffs right back up, like the freshest thing ever made. Shot four, they get a tight angle on a knife sliding across the top of that cake with chocolate frosting so thick and so close that you can almost reach out and grab it.

Shot five, a big old slice of that cake sits on a plate as another fork cuts right down and lifts up quick to take the first bite -- the act of the fork coming up quick creates a perfect little twirl of chocolate icing. It looks like it's just waiting for that fork to come in and make that next bite...which the fork never does. Instead, the camera zooms in closer and closer to the cake. The name brand of the mix comes on the screen and it's all over. The TV is rolling on to something else.

Okay, now, here's where thoughts come in. You've just seen the commercial. You start wanting that cake. You sit there for a second and imagine tasting yellow cake with chocolate icing. It's just an idle thought, a passing thought.

A "determined" thought is different. It has intent and passion behind it. A determined thought isn't content to remain idle, it gives you an idea!

In this case, a determined thought gives you the idea of preheating the oven. Then, it is this kind of thought that actually gets your rear off the sofa at ten at night! It's the kind of thought that has you speeding to the grocery store to get that mix, the kind of thought that has you reading the back of the box in your kitchen and going through all the steps it takes to have that cake mixed, baked, and frosted, so that you can sit right back down where you were before in front of the TV...except with a hot slice of cake on a plate in your hand and a big smile of accomplishment on your face! My wife and I do this kind of thing once every few years. I know what I'm talking about!

Now, do you see the difference? An idle thought keeps you on the couch. A determined thought gets you inspired to move.

From Mental Maps to Reality

Here's how it goes. A mental map begins with determined thoughts. Those determined thoughts produce ideas. Those ideas produce actions. And those actions -- combined with faith in God, trust in His Word, and the tenacity to never give up -- are what will draw your dream into reality.

Many people wander through life with big dreams, but they don't have determined thoughts -- thoughts that will make them believe what it takes, say what it takes, and even change what it takes to start doing what it takes and moving that dream to reality.

Instead, they live in the world of idle thoughts, which may be entertaining, sure, but that's about as far as the thoughts ever go. Dreaming is good. It's a God-given gift to be able to imagine and to dream. Doing is better, because doing -- actually acting on your dreams -- is what moves your life forward and brings greater fulfillment.

It all starts with thoughts.

In this book, I hope to inspire you through biblical passages and stories, and my own personal experiences, to stop thinking idly and start thinking with intent and determination -- to start building "mental maps" that will get you moving in the right direction. Maps that will lead you to the good life and the good destiny that God has in store for you.

You Determine Where You Go in Life

Destiny isn't fate. It's not firm. It's not something that just happens to you or something that is going to happen no matter what.

No. You are the architect of your own life. You have free will. You have choices that you can make that will determine your future, and that puts you in the driver's seat. You may not have picked the car! You may not have picked the town you're in! But, you still have power because you still have free will and choice.

Sure, there are events that happen which might put you in the right place at the right time...but if you don't choose to do the right thing, in that moment, nothing is going to happen!

It's sort of like health and money. It doesn't matter how healthy you are. If you don't have any money, you ain't going anywhere! And, you can have all the money in the world, but if you're as sick as a dog, you ain't going anywhere either!

A God-given destiny is sort of like that. Certain things have to be in line for you to get the best result, but ultimately, you are going to determine where you go and what you do in this life.

Nobody is a puppet. God created this earth and the Bible says that He gave it to the children of men (Psalm 115:16), which is you and me. We have to take ownership over what is ours, or we will lose it. Our choices in this life make a difference, but nothing happens without thoughts, which is what mental mapping is all about.

What will we allow ourselves to believe that we can accomplish? What will we do with the good thoughts, good ideas, and good concepts that God has given us? Are these thoughts good? Are they worth pursuing? Do they make us feel passionate? Are they God's way of nudging us to fulfill His good plan, which is His will for our lives?

Can we take those good thoughts and build upon them day by day and reach the good life God has for us? Yes, we can. Abraham did it. Thousands of Christians do it every day, and even nonbelievers can use the principle and see some results.

Taking a thought that you believe is God-revealed and praying about it, focusing on it, and letting it develop into an idea, which produces an action, which leads to more actions on the path to God's good plan for your life...well, that's mental mapping, and anybody can do it and see results.

Mental Mapping Is a Spiritual Concept

Mental mapping is a spiritual concept, and spiritual concepts always apply to our lives in a real way, even if they don't appear to do so on the surface.

The Bible tells us that spiritual things, such as mental mapping, are foolish to those who only think naturally.

But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
For who hath k...

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Vision is what sets successful people apart from losers. Learning more about how God operates and works in the everyday Christian's life is part of the journey. Only those who look for more will find their purpose and fulfillment. God gives word pictures or vision for the future to those who look to Him for their future. This book will encourage you to look for more out of life, by seeing that it is God who gives us our vision. We find our reason for living through the vision God gives to those who seek Him out. Written in a clear and understandable manner. It will encourage you, understanding that God does not use extraordinary people, but ordinary people, because they are the ones who give God all the glory. God seeks out the simple. Understanding how God blesses those like Jesse, who were once "messed up" is a powerful message, and if God will do it for Jesse, He'll do it for you.

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