Reviews for Passport to Algebra and Geometry: Technology: Using Calculators and Computers - Hardcover

The average rating for Passport to Algebra and Geometry: Technology: Using Calculators and Computers - Hardcover based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-04-08 00:00:00 Julian Strahan The section in this book on orthomolecular medicine is ignorant, arrogant and very condescending as regards the motivations and intelligence of Linus Pauling. The authors have not understood even the most rudimentary facts on what Paulings Orthomolecular opinions and theories were, unfortunately. I felt embarassed for the authors as I was reading it. It is like reading someone explain why the earth is flat. The analysis is so poorly done and silly there is no point taking the time to refute any of the claims made in it. (You can easily see the facts explained in any of the books listed below.) Fortunately many others have done a far better job summing up Linus Pauling's Orthomolecular work and advocacy. Dr T. Levy's new book Primal Panacea explains that some of the most common myths about vitamin C include: 1. There are no studies on vitamin C 2. There is no proof that vitamin C works 3. Vitamin C is not safe 4. Vitamin C causes kidney stones 5. Our need for vitamin C is met by diet 6. Vitamin C just makes expensive urine 7. If vitamin C really worked we would all be using it Aside from Levy's great book there are also: Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C by Dr Hickey and Dr Roberts, VITAMIN C: The Real Story by Steve Hickey, PhD and Andrew Saul, Orthomolecular Medicine For Everyone: Megavitamin Therapeutics for Families and Physicians by Abram Hoffer, Fire your doctor! : how to be independently healthy by Andrew W. Saul The healing factor: Vitamin C against disease by Irwin Stone How to live longer and feel better by Linus Pauling...and many others. Despite what this book states, in fact Linus Pauling 'the man' will be remembered by many of us. That includes so many of us who have seen for ourselves the huge impact ascorbic acid at a correct dose and Orthomolecular medicine generally have had on our health. Standing up to what is popular and politically correct but unscientific is not easy, as we admire Pauling for his pioneering spirit, guts and determination as well as his intelligence. We really need more people like him in the medical field. Just had to add a few C quotes to the end of the review: 'Man's body was designed to function best with high blood and cellular levels of vitamin C - synthesised as needed by the liver. Due to an inborn error of metabolism, the vast majority of us no longer have the ability to make it, but that does not lessen our need for vitamin C or the benefits derived form it.' Dr Levy “Modern medicine’s narrow approach, to treat every disease as if it were a drug deficiency, has resulted in a steep price for humanity. It is obvious millions have died prematurely since vitamin C was first discovered over 80 years ago. Brave and resolute men and women, Albert Szent-Györgyi, Irwin Stone, Linus Pauling, Ewan Cameron, Emil Ginter, Matthias Rath, Andrew Saul, Tom Levy, Steve Hickey, Raxit Jariwalla, John T. Ely, Hilary Roberts, and others promoted the idea of vitamin C therapy but were readily dismissed, even belittled.” Bill Sardi 'I could also spend mil­lions to prove that the small amounts of these nutrients will not prevent car acci­dents. Who is funding all these silly stud­ies? No orthomolecular physician ever claimed that giving 200 IU of vitamin E and 500 mg of C cured anything. Perhaps you should write a paper with tongue in cheek in which you announce, “An­tibiotics Do Not Cure Infection”. Then, report somewhere hidden in the paper that you only gave them 200 or even 20,000 IU of a drug that requires doses of one million or more. Such report­ing is a superb example of the cynical, expensive and sleazy research so loved by Big Pharma. This is because it delays the real introduction of good medicine, in the same way that tobacco companies denied smoking causes cancer and we supposedly needed more and more and more research to prove anything. All this allows the companies to add millions of dollars to their coffers. Their defense is delay, delay and delay. The only objective of Big Pharma is to make money, lots and lots of it. How dare we try to prevent them from doing so?' Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E. (HFME) and Health, Healing & Hummingbirds

Review # 2 was written on 2018-11-20 00:00:00 Jeff Stanley Somehow unsatisfying. Felt a bit like it was written by committee, parts were repetitive, important moments in his life (the death of his wife!) were glossed over- barely covered in a sentence or two. Some of his early research was well described.