Perspective Books

For most of us in the West, if we are honest, when we hear the word terrorist, we often now associate this word with Muslim, or Islam. The word association is constant in the media. With events since and including 9/11, such as the suicide bombings in London, the Iraq war and now the fighting between Israel and Palestine, I wanted to know more about these people who, for one reason or another and despite government assurances to the contrary, we in the West seem to effectively be at war with, certainly from their point of view. I wanted to find out the perspective of a Muslim who lives in the West, and therefore has an insight into both sides of the equation.

This book could easily have been a simple vilification of the West and its governments to bolster the Muslim cause. In actuality it is a well thought out look at the reasons behind both the Western media's campaign to demonise all followers of Islam, tarring them with the same brush as extremists like Bin Laden, and also the reasons why many Muslims fear the West, and often it seems with good reason. It contains criticisms of both sides, presenting a much less biased approach than other books I have read from the Western point of view.

It incorporates a great many quotes from non-muslim Westerners in support of its case, which to me adds a good deal more weight to the central argument. Some of the facts regarding Bush and his government (again supported by quotes and documented evidence from Western journalists and politicians), and the reasons behind the so called war on terror are quite shocking, even to those of us who try to keep up with the situation.

I came away from reading this with a much greater understanding of Muslims and Islam. The author is clearly a man of conscience who is simply trying to put some facts straight, because the Western media, either through simple sensationalism or more disturbingly through a government controlled campaign of propaganda, are currently misrepresenting an entire religion based on the actions of a few zealots, in order to allow our governments to plunder their land and control or destroy their population, with our happy consent.

The publishers should have given more information on this excellent book. I own this book and it gives a tolally different and realistic persective on the current relationship between Muslims and the West. It explains how negative and mostly false impressions of Western 'experts' and media's insistance on portraying negative images of Islam and Muslims, have resulted in the current tragic affairs. This author shows short history and the true picture of all the hot spots in the world like Iraq, Iran, Kashmir, Palastine and so on. This is a must read for anyone who wants to know the truth about muslims and the West. Here is the back cover text.

"Islam, as a religion, has no issues with Judaism or Christianity. It acknowledges Torah and the Bible as divinely ordained books and respects the Prophets of both of them as its own. The Koran assures the Jews and Christians, 'We believe what you believe; your God and our God is one' (29:46). This acceptance is not reciprocated and Islam has been historically viewed by the other two religions as a heresy and a perversion. Consequently, it has been misrepresented and maligned in the West for centuries and the process continues unabated even to this day.

In the past twenty-five years, nearly four million Muslim men, women and children have been killed as a result of religious cleansing and wars waged or supported by the West in Europe, Africa and Asia. More than eight million Muslims have been driven out of their homes and obliged to live in squalid refugee camps scattered throughout the world. Much of this suffering has been inflicted for political and economic reasons. These crimes against humanity are being covered up and justified through an organised and well orchestrated media campaign aimed at demonising Islam and the Muslims in the West.

There can be little chance for peace in the world as long as the excesses and injustice persist and people continue to be persecuted and denied their legitimate rights and liberties. The book attempts to present a view of world events and developments from the Muslim perspective in the hope that it will lead to a fair and balanced understanding of the issues.

The author served in the Pakistan Navy before making his home in Canada. His other books include 'The Pathans of Jullunder' and 'Soft War on Pakistan'."

This book really should enjoy an additional run at print. It is the work of Freelance writer and editor Gordon I. R. Lore, who worked with NICAP, the AIR FORCE, and several sources trying to fairly document the events of several "sightings" of unknown objects, and the impact these events had upon those who saw them.

Ordinary citizens, police officers, military officers and enlisted men, and children have all claimed to have seen something in the skies...but what did they see?

Gordon I. R. Lore takes an in-depth look, with witness accounts, Air Force and other government documents and sources, NICAP, and surviving witnesses to past sightings speak of their strange effect upon the remainder of their lives.

Bud Hopkins himself commented on the scope of this book, and his comments appeared in NICAPS publications shortly thereafter.

This is a fantastic book. 1968 was a pivotal year in UFO history. APRO and NICAP were vigorously pursuing their agendas. Dr. James McDonald was very alive and pushing for a proper investigation of UFOs. Allen Hynek was five years away from founding the Center for UFO Studies. Project Blue Book was still in existence, and the Condon Committee was in the midst of its investigation. The Portage County sightings (the Spaur / Neff high-speed chase) were fresh in everyone's mind, as were the notorious Ann Arbor "swamp gas" sightings and the House Armed Services Committee hearing on UFOs.

It was in 1968 that Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Deneault, Jr.published _Mysteries of the Skies_. The authors had access to NICAP's files and produced a wonderful compendium of pre-1947 sightings. (Lore would be deposed from NICAP along with Donald Keyhoe in December, 1969.) The intent of the authors was to show that there was much more to the subject of UFOs than the sightings reported subsequent to Kenneth Arnold's widely publicized encounter.

There is detailed coverage of the Airship Sightings of the 1890s, Foo-Fighters, and the Battle of Los Angeles in 1942. This isn't about "little green men" and rectal probes. This is about strange things seen in the sky by reliable observers, things that never get explained.

One of the bonuses of reading this book is getting to watch as Lore and Deneault swallow Kansas farmer Alexander Hamilton's now-debunked 1897 airship lie, hook, line, and sinker. They practically open the book with it. It constitutes a warning to those who would too readily believe the succeeding accounts. And yet, people saw these things, and they are still seeing them.

If you are interested in or amused by nuts-and-bolts UFOs, and you get a chance to acquire this book, you would do well to do so.

this is a mastefully written history of the construction of british empire and its relationship to natural philosophy (science). this book is a must read for anyone in the field. she is also a great writer.

An electrifying and thought-provoking study. Irving's book is a must read for anyone interested in the intellectual history of the British Empire and the impact of seventeenth-century science on the institutions of British colonialism.

From this book I learned more about the territory, the Pacific region, the United States, and Faleomavaega. This man has worked toward a positive direction for American Samoa with regards to the Pacific and U.S. Much of the content of this book can still be applied today in the territory. For Samoans in the U.S. we all have ties back to Amerika Samoa in one way or another. This book covers a few of the issues that effect Samoa, compromising traditional cultural values and the influence of the modern world.

Few Americans know that the United States still owns a relic from the Age of Colonialism below the Equator, and that this "possession" is not faring so well after 101 years of benign neglect. Congressman Faleomavaega is a gifted writer. Few people could cram quite so much information into 142 pages and still have the result highly readable. But it's not a happy story when for 51 years the proud people of American Samoa had their Governor appointed by the US Navy, and then for another 26 years their Governor was always a personal friend of the Secretary of the Interior. Yet the author is basically an optimistic person, and he continually cites the many accomplishments of Asian and Pacific Island Americans, and the success of local initiatives in agricultural development, commercial policy, and educational achievement.

I was really surprised that a Member of Congress could endorse the pagan and gruesome Ritual of the Tatau. The current medical literature suggests that severe physical punishments during initiation rites can be life threatening. And then after such a persuasive plea for Americans to take Pacific policy seriously, the Congressman asks for only half a loaf. After 101 years of being required to be Americans, the people of American Samoa deserve Commonwealth or Statehood status. If their price for joining the Union is permanent protection of the Samoan tradition of communal property ownership, it is doubtful that very many Americans would object.

Robert Melillo from the Carrick Institute for Graduate Sciences in Florida and Gerry Leisman from the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York have collaborated on this impressive (text)book on neurobehavioral disorders of childhood.
To learn, make friends and develop self-esteem are major tasks for children and adolescents to succeed in the school environment. If the child will manage to succeed in school the economic future, social and emotional status, career and quality of life will be positively affected. The issue at hand in this book is what sometimes is referred to as learning disability (LD) or disorder. LD is a disorder that affect the ability to either interpret what is seen and heard or to link information from different parts of the brain. These limitations can show up as specific difficulties with spoken and written language, coordination, self control or attention. Such difficulties extend to schoolwork and can impede learning to read, write or do math. But LD must be seen in a broader picture of developmental disability that also include attention deficit disorder, attention deficit hyperactive disorder, pervasive developmental disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, Asperger's syndrome and autism. We are talking about many children involved and therefore the importance of this book.
This book has 11 chapters with topics like the evolution of the brain and why the brain works the way it does, sign and symptoms of neurobehavioral disorders, therapeutic theory and strategies. This book is well researched with many references with a focus on alternations of the normal child development in relation to the learning disorders described above. A working theory is presented based on what is known of the neurological and cognitive development in the context of evolution of the human species and its brain.
This book will be of interest for neurologists, professionals involved in child development and the human brain. It is another step forward in the work to find solutions to learning disability.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Developmentand Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel. E-mail: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net

In the confusing world of learning disabilities and functional disconnection, the theories are many but the answers are few. Dr. Melillo and Dr. Leisman have put forth a theory that has been meticulously researched and tested over many hundreds of patients and many years. The excitement herein lies not in a new theory, but in the treatment protocols inherently implied with the neurological consequences of hemisphericity. It opens up a world of possiblities of treatment for these children, and builds upon, rather than replaces, many of the great behavioral and rehabilitative programs that are already in place for these children. I have personally seen life-changing results with patients in the application of this system of evaluation and treatment in just the short time I have been using it. For any practitioner interested in the specific treatment of LD's, this book and its protocols are a must.

This monograph frames HIV/AIDS in the context of rapidly-changing local sexual-mores as well as the fast growing arena of international, non-governmental and governmental organisations, that for 20 years have rallied to arrest the spread of the HI Virus in Thailand. The author draws together a number of ethnographic accounts of the Thai HIV/AIDS epidemic offering critical insight into local understandings, experiences and responses to the disease. Concomitant to this the author traces out the development of the modelling of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the subsequent campaigns that were fashioned to control it. The resultant picture that emerges of Thailand's HIV/AIDS epidemic is impressively broad in its scope and striking in the author's attention to detaill. In the true spirit of a critical anthropology the author raises questions regarding the taken for granted assumptions that inform the majority of HIV/AIDS research projects and social and behavioural intervention campaigns while, simultaneously contextualising the multifarious aspects of the epidemic in its contemporary and historical settings. This monograph is one of the few works on HIV/AIDS that through trying to understand the disease in its local social and cultural contexts, rather than simply change the worlds of the people affected by it, offers real insight into how HIV/AIDS is experienced on the ground and therefore insight into what might be done better than has been over the last 20 odd years.

A New Look At Thai AIDS: perspectives from the margins, is the only work of itskind in the field of HIV/AIDS both, in terms of Thailand's epidemic and the global pandemic as a whole. It offers the most comprehensive and thorough analysis of the biomedical, epidemiological, demographic and socio-cultural dimensions of Thailand's HIV/AIDS epidemic of any work in this field to date. Drawing on 19 years of ethnographic research in Northern Thailand, Cambodia and Laos, and an exhaustive corpus of English, Thai, Khmer and Lao language materials, this monograph runs a sustained and compelling argument that's critical insights and forthright conclusions set a new bench mark for anthropology as a critical discipline and raises questions of serious import to the'development world' as a whole. This monograph constitutes a finegrained, subtly-nuanced geneaological analysis of Thailand's HIV/AIDS epidemic grounded in its social, cultural, political and historical context. Essential reading!

I'll admit to judging this book (and buying it) based on its cover and I'm glad I did. Dr. DeMarco makes a case against contraception from a health, spiritual, and natural law perspective.

I really enjoyed his many references to popular culture (Back to the Future, The Wizard of Oz, etc.) and I thought the best chapter was the one on the Catholic Church's teachings on contraception. A couple of criticisms though: the misspellings and grammatical errors kind of throw you off when you see them while you're reading.

Also, DeMarco has a tendency of making statements like "It is well established scientifically..." and "There is virtual universal agreement that...", but doesn't provide any supporting evidence. I can see if you were reading the book from a skeptical perspective how those establishing sentences wouldn't be very satisfying.

However, I did enjoy the book and would recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about the case against contraception.

Drawing upon a variety of resources, Scripture, and cultural examples Dr. Donald DeMarco presents a solid case for contraception's damaging effects upon individuals, marriages, and society as a whole. His message is not one heard in the popular media of the day.

Philosophical, yet practical, the book demonstrates that knowledge and true love (not contraceptive love) are the cure for the "Culture of Death" in which we find ourselves.

Highly recommended!

My boss asked me to develop a leave system. I have no experience about Access VBA before. I bought a lot of books. However most of them are too thick and theoretical. No step by step examples are provided. Fortunately after reading this one, I can finish my task now.

I consider this book to be ideal for people needing real hands on knowledge of Access. I'm using it in self-study to learn advanced concepts and VBA. I feel this is the ideal text for the self-learner.

This is a superbly organized and clearly written book that anyone with an intermediate knowledge of Access who's interested in moving forward into VBA will appreciate. The figures and illustrations are well-integrated with the text, allowng the pictures and the words to work together to improve the knowledge of the reader. It's a good balance between theory and practice. It's difficult to point out specific qualities. In short, I think the strength of this book lies in it's organization and clarity of text.

The "Reference Window" concept gives a general overview of the procedure being taught. This has helped me understand the "big picture" and gives me ideas on using the concepts in my existing databases. The book is also a gold mine of good ideas that I'll be able to incorporate into my databases. Additionally, a well-detailed table of contents and good organization makes it fairly easy to find what you're looking for. All the above makes this book a keeper for future reference.

Technical concepts and overviews enhance the ability for the reader to learn some very challenging procedures. They are presented on an "as needed" basis and in sufficient quantity to increase understanding without being technically overwhelming.

The book came wrapped and in great condition. It was delivered on time as well. Good purchase!

The book is in excellent condition and the shipping was very prompt. I was very impressed by the ease in ordering this product and the condition it was in. The price and customer service was also great!

This book is a great way for people who are new to Office Access 2007 to learn how to do many different things with the program.

Would not order from individual again, seller did not supply tracking number and it took two weeks to obtain book. Seller was not honest enough to advise the book was not complete. Had to obtain second half from publisher. Dishonest seller..........