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Contains an approximation for the value of the number known at "pi" -- using about 100 pages!It's a goofy novelty book, and it should be noted that your phone number is probably listed somewhere inside!The book contains all of your favorite digits from 0 to 9, including 4, 7 and 8!As a bonus, the fact that it covers only one topic means that no annoying index is needed.This and other books by the same author are available at ApplecreekBooks.weebly.com. ... Read more

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4 and 20 giggles, baked in a Pi!
This book is SO worth the money in the giggles it induces. The look on the faces of the math teachers and students at my school was totally worth it. Sure, it's nonsense. Totally a waste of everything. Butwho cares? It could easily be the Pet rock of the new Millenium! ... Read more

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Almost from her birth, Beta Theta Pi has been a singing fraternity, a reputation well acknowledged within the greater Greek community. Today, it is believed that no other fraternity gives as much prominence to singing at initiation than does Beta Theta Pi. Complete sheet music. Includes 10 Ceremonial Songs; 54 Traditional Songs; 54 Chapter Songs; 93 First Lines. Originally published by the Fraternity 126 years after its founding in 1839. Among the top 20% of college fraternities in size, Beta Theta Pi was the first to be founded west of the Allegheny Mountains and the first to locate a chapter west of the Mississippi River. The Fraternity was founded August 8, 1839, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Today, Beta has some 125 chapters and colonies in Canada and the United States. ... Read more

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ONE OF MASLOW'S LAST WORKS
Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) was an American psychologist best known for his conceptualization of a "hierarchy of human needs" and "self-actualization." He (along with Carl Rogers) is considered the founder of humanistic or "Third Force" psychology.

He states in the Preface to the 1970 edition, "Since this book was first written, there has been much turmoil in the world and, therefore, much to learn. Several of the lessons I have learned are relevant here, certainly in the sense that they are helpful supplements to the main thesis of the book... Organized Religion, the churches, finally may become the major enemies of the religious experience and the religious experiencer. This is a main thesis of this book." He adds, "I now consider that the book was too imbalanced toward the individualistic and too hard on groups, organizations, and communities. Even within these last six or seven years we have learned not to think of organizations as necessarily bureaucratic... If I were to summarize both the book and my remarks in this Preface in a few words, I would say it this way: Man has a higher and transcendent nature, and this is part of his essence, i.e., his biological nature as a member of a species which has evolved."

Here are a few quotations from the book:

"The high religions... tends to rest ... its right to exist on the codification and the communication of this original mystic experience or revelation from the lonely prophet to the mass of human beings in general. But it has recently begun to appear that these 'revelations' or mystical illuminations can be subsumed under the head of the 'peak experiences' or 'ecstasies' or 'transcendent' experiences which are now being eagerly investigated by many psychologists." (Ch. III)
"(A)ny doctrine of the innate depravity of man or any maligning of his animal nature very easily leads to some extra-human interpretation of goodness, saintliness, virtue, self-sacrifice, altruism, etc. If they can't be explained from within human nature---and explained they must be---they they must be explained from outside of human nature." (Ch. V)
"We must remember, after all, that all these happenings are in truth mysteries. Even though they happen a million times, they are still mysteries. If we lose our sense of the mysterious, or the numinous, if we lose our sense of awe, of humility, of being struck dumb, if we lose our sense of good fortune, then we have lost a very real and basic human capacity and are diminished thereby." (Appendix I)

Don't give up.
The last appendix is worth the wait. If you are a novice like me, don't give up reading until you make your way to the end.

Explains a lot...
This book of Maslow's is way underrated! Though a child of the 60's I just discovered this book a week ago.

The book touches on many important life themes. It explains why so many people can not swallow organized religions, which in turn explains why so many people describe themselves as atheists. At the same time, it explains the commonality of values shared by most people and makes an important case as to why such universal values should be taught in schools. There are also implications about child-rearing practices and how it is done best. The book also shows why the mystics in any religion struggle with the administrators and clerics (and visa versus). The struggles and causes of struggles between men and women are also examined. It is fairly easy reading though it may send you to the dictionary a little.

A SYNTHESIS OF SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Written near the end of his life, Dr. Maslow sought to leave threads for others to pickup and develop. He disturbed those who prefer the logic-tight barriers between science and religion, and boldly suggests that his "most important finding" was his discovery of what he termed "being values," or metavalues. This, his lost discovery, has been virtually ignored by psychologists and religionists. Yet, this insight is pivotal to understanding Dr. Maslow's belief that human nature has been sold short. He discovered metavalues to be active agents that configure the personalities of self-actualizing individuals. He pointed out that Truth, Beauty and Goodness are expressed in the lives of all self-actualizing personalities. Without these metavalues, the qualities of devotion and passion toward a cause or mission can become lethal to humankind. Science without higher values often creates better weapons of distruction and even more efficient gas chambers. Those who observe that much of what Maslow says in this book is colored by religion and philosophy are correct. His intention was to break down the arbitrary barriers between disciplines. Along with "The Psychology of Science" ad his posthumous: "The Farther Reaches of Human Nature" this book is of landmark importance to the 21st century.

Existential Reaching
Maslow reaches with the "a priori" bias of pluralism.Clearly he struggled with his own being and sought to discover himself in terms of pluralistic existentialism.It is heartbreaking to read this book knowing he was never able to find his answer. ... Read more

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Title: Educar en valores.(religión y sociedad)(TT: Teaching values.)(TA: religion and society)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Ramón Pi
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 17, 2002
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 61(1)

Article Type: Artículo Breve

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