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Summary: GC Uof R Satire Review
Review: REMBERT, James, A.W. Swift and the Dialectical Tradition. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988. IBSN 0-312-01160-1. Rembert examines Swift by analyzing the dialectical method Swift employed. It is Rembert's claim that "Satire is in fact an adjunct of dialectic." Rembert traces the developmental and history of the dialectic method from the ancients to Swift. Against this backdrop Swift, the churchman-writer-citizen, is presented by highlighting his dialectical skill. The university system and the intellectual milieu of Swift helped create this spirit of satire as a form of dialectical and this is the thrust of this book.
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Summary: GC Uof R Satire Review
Review: GREENBERG, Robert A. (Ed.) A Norton Critical Edition Gulliver's Travel Jonathan Swift. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1970. IBSN 0-393-09941-5 --- This text has a complilation of Swift's letters from Pope, Gay, & Sheridan, with Pope's verse on Gulliver's Travels. There is an excellent collection of critical essays about Gulliver's Travels from Allen Bloom to Samuel Monk to R. S. Crane to Paul Fussell, Jr. These essays are insightful which can be very helpful for the students of 18th Century English satire.
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Summary: Nice overview of the possible purposes of mind maps
Review: Tony Buzan explains in this book different kind of possibilities to use mind maps for personal, family, educational and professional purposes.However the book doesn't have much dept for each of these topics. It gives a good impression of what mind mapping is about. A clear instruction of how to make a mind map will definitely help new novice users give a kick start. Personaly I would like to read more about computer mind mapping and available software (reviews)
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Summary: Creativity at its finest
Review: Mind Mapping is surprisingly easy technique. So easy in fact dismissing the act of creating a Mind Map might be a problem, not to mention easy to accomplish. I will remark more later.
Getting to the point, this book is not the most comfortable of reading material. This book is lengthy, awkward, and repetitive at times. From the previous reviewers they commented on the pretty pictures contained in this book. There are numerous nature pictures in which the Mind Map themes seem to originate.
To state Mind Maps are merely organically shaped drawings for aid in organizing material. Such as compared to a neuron of the human brain. More circular in the center and protruding arms -octopus looking- connecting to other neurons. In addition, an octopus with its head and its outstretched tentacles could be considered a Mind Map. Human minds are comfortable in understanding this method of organizing material. Using proper writing techniques and color are some of the processes shown in this wonderful book. This book is tailor made in applying, and using the technique. Upon first reading the book, I was not thoroughly impressed. It seemed wearisome, and looking at the pictures of Mind Maps, they were colorful and creative. Do not be perplexed because there is a tremendous amount of useful info in this book. Using correct Maps, help techniques, Psychology answers, and references. I could not figure the lure of this technique, and I was perplexed in the beginning of my very first reading. Then, making the effort to try a Mind Map, I was a believer. Mind maps are a technique in which is not passive. Mind Maps are a creative, highly personal, "individual" learning tool. This mentioned, the book does seem "pretty" and just a collection of dainty pictures. Future buyers, I would recommend reading this book in the previous thought, because Mind Maps are most valuable when accomplished individually. Remember "Mind maps are an employed technique and they must be done, or tried in order to understand them". I received some very valuable info from looking at other Mind Maps, and proper technique can be gleamed from this (check Vanda North's mind map). "You" organize the material in a fashion in, which is comfortable for you, and your own personal learning material. This sounds like creativity in my explanation. In a short period of time I am a believer in Mind Mapping and I currently use them frequently. I recommend at least one Mind Map per day. Use it or loose it! In a latter note, it is very surprising when checking on current proponents of Mind Maps. Vanda North, Michael Gelb, Anne Jones, Dominic O' Brien, Sean Adams, etc....... etc, and ............etc. There is a very impressive list of very talented individuals using Mind Mapping. Please check the Mind Sports Olympiad for more information.
What more can be said about an impressive book, a must read!
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Summary: Do not waste your money
Review: I am a visual thinker and learned the basic concept of mindmapping some years back. I thought I'd pick up this book to learn the full technique. What a dissapointment. There is no there there. The book could be condensed to a pamphlet...and even then not so useful.
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Summary: Great Book...only one criticism
Review: I loved this book. It is especially fun to flip through and look at all of the illustrations which are just as valuable as the reading. My only criticism of the mind mapping model and subsequent software is that it is "too centralized." Natures systems are often decentralized where many hubs are of equal importance. Our mind is the same. Our thoughts are built upon many "hubs" of equal importance rather than one central hub in the middle of many radiating thoughts. In other words, I have found mind mapping to be far more useful when thought of as a "network" rather than a "central hub" like that of a wheel with radiating spokes. A decentralized network is made of many equal hubs with many radiating thoughts and ideas which relate to other thoughts and ideas and other hubs. No single hub is more relevant, "bigger," or more "central" than any other. In this way, the system has greater integrity and stability.
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Summary: blow your mind open
Review: The powerful realization that we are connected to nature and the organic blossoming of her fertility as mirrored in the workings of our minds. The computer cannot come close to the multi sensory dimensionality of our hidden treasure. Tony , in a very consistent way digs the tunel for his insights into your thinking. He presents his passion in such an unassuming way, that it takes many reads and practice with the mapping to see the wonder of our brains unfold. I found it to be a joyful ride with a high that keeps on pleasing.
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Summary: More brain power!
Review: It works excellent for me. I'm using the technique very often to organize my thoughts. It's amazing how much output the human brain can generate or input it can cope with. Definitely worth to buy if you want to get most out of your brain!
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Summary: Another tool for the tool box
Review: This book is a quick read with many valuable insights into learning and manipulating information through mind mapping. The mind mapping process is easy to learn and can pay a high dividends to those that apply it. The secret is applying it. I use it now for reports, proposals and project to-do lists. After you create the mind map you'll be suprised how much of the work is already done.
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Summary: Good to READ, but Unnecessary to KEEP.
Review: Stella, a close friend of mine, introduced this book to me at a social event last week. She only spent several minutes explaining so thorough about all the details of the concept and techniques of mind mapping. As an QA engineer who needs to deal with quality assurance activities everyday, this method is not new to me, although I have never read the Mind Map Book before. No QA engineer dose not know how to apply the Fishbone Diagram, similar to the mind map, in analyzing and finding all the possible causes of defects of a certain manufacturing process or an end product. In fact, most people with high school education, or lower or higher, are applying some sort of mind maps in their daily lives without knowing the book is there. Two days ago, my friend lent her Mind Map Book to me. That was a really nice book with lots of colorful illustrations. It took me about forty minutes finished reading those key points and interesting maps in the book. I would recommend those who do not know anything about thinking, memorizing, minute-taking, studying, planning, orgnizing, decision-making and/or problem-solving techniques borrow and read this book from a library because it is truly powerful and useful in applying to these fields and in maximizing our brain's potential. However, the most efficient and effective way of learning this skill is to have someone like my friend Stella to give you an one-houred short instruction on mind mapping. The other rests on your practice, practice and practice, until it becomes part of your habits.
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