Vision Books

outstanding description of the history ,meaning and use of thangkas .good explanations which are easily understood even by those who are not very well versed in buddhism .the kind of book I have been looking for over so many years.

Lucky me. I spent the better part of today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art standing before fifty-five incredible 11th through the mid-15th century paintings from one of the great Buddhist civilizations of Asia. I've got to go back tomorrow. Luckily, in the meantime, I have Sacred Visions.If you can, see this exhibition and do not leave the Museum without the accompanying catalogue with wonderful reproductions and essays by noted scholars such as Steven M. Kossack, of the Met, Jane Casey Singer, Tibetan Art Historian, and Robert Bruce-Gardner, from London's Courtauld Institute. One will learn how Buddhism spread from India through Tibet and the effect the religion had on Tibet's people and, hence, its art.The details of the beautifully reproduced works of art are chosen to help illustrate the subtle and important aspects of the Tibetan artist while diagrams, such as for the Vajravarahi Mandala, further explain the iconography. I brought the book into the exhibition to gleen as much information as I could while standing before each work.If you have any interest in Tibet, rush to this exhibition (it closes 1.17.99) to see some beautifully presented mandalas, book covers, etc. If you cannot, you are not "settling" by any means to peruse the catalogue as you will witness Taras, portraits of Lamas, that are not only unique for their beauty and intelligence, but for the remarkable fact that we have them to admire.

I really love this book that shows everyone the best that San Jose has to offer... sites, dot.com's,places to go, palces to see, all about the Business and Inpiration that the Siicon Valley offers it's Employee's and the Community alike. 100's of photo's on the Valley in and around San Jose. Special Thanks to Dana L. Groverand for all the wonderfull pictures. Very Happy with this Informative Book.

This really isn't a review, just a note to let you know that I, Dana L. Grover, am the featured photographer for the new "San Jose Silicon Valley: Innovative Vision, Entrepreneurial Spirit" book, not one of the editors. If you would like to correct that on your on-line information, I wouldn't mind a bit.

Oh, it's a pretty good book, too. Especially the photos!

This book is a breath of fresh air. It is beautifully photographed, capturing the uniqueness of a quaint histoic town nestled in the rolling hills of the Ozark mountains. The creative soft hues of the photographs that comprise this work are fresh, new and inviting. Eureka Springs is a magical place and this wonderful book brings this little known secret to the reader.

What an amazing book! My first visit to Eureka Springs was when I was 5 years old, back in the 1950s. I fell in love with the place and have returned many times over the years. There's very little in print about this unique mountain town beyond a few photos of what it looked like in the late 1800s. But White's book goes beyond trying to capture the antique storefronts and quaint Victorians homes of the historic district, looking instead into the soul of the quirky tourist town. His images, taken by infared photography, seem to capture the quality of life that you don't often actually see as a tourist. Artists, crafters, writers and creative people live tucked away in the hills of town, living real lives alongside 5-star restaurants and excellent entertainment. Some of the most pristene views in all of North America are the backdrop of this beautiful book. I give it a hearty 5 stars and a big thumbs up!

I enjoyed this book so much that I nearly wrote to the author to congratulate him. The content is easy for modern readers to relate to: young adults exploring religion and sexuality and occasionally rioting against college authorities. Hessinger skillfully interweaves these themes with the political, economic, and cultural values of the early republic to discover the roots of this generation's apparent crisis. The book is not only a compelling piece of scholarship but also a model of clear, succinct, engaging historical writing. I recommend it highly, with the caveat that it will be best enjoyed by those who are already knowledgeable about the nineteenth-century United States.

So you think your teenager gives you trouble? Well, get in line with generations of previous Americans! This book shows that young adults produced much anxiety in the decades following American independence. Armed with new notions of equality and finding new opportunities unleashed by market capitalism, youth in the early national era disrupted traditional patterns of courship, churchgoing, and apprenticeship. Effortlessly blending entertaining anecdotes with sophisticated theoretical analysis, Hessinger has written a fascinating book that will appeal to both scholars and a general audience.

Seeing Through New Eyes is an introduction to the treatment of visual conditions that go beyond 20/20 eyesight. Developmental or behavioral vision care can have a significant impact on behavioral, social and learning problems associated with autism spectrum disorders and other developmental disabilities. Poor eye contact and other behaviors are often the result of difficulty with "ambient vision" that drives spatial awareness, visual organization and balance/coordination. Dr. Kaplan gives guidance on how to identify the visual deficits of nonverbal children, select performance lenses that will alter ambient vision and how to create individual vision management programs in order to assist each individual in achieving maximum success in life. This book is essential reading for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and professionals in the fields of autism, optometry, ophthalmology, psychology and education.

One of the most interesting book in the field of vision, behavior, posture and
much more.
Thousand thanks to Dr M.KAPLAN.

This is similar to my original review... During a Year's worth of Gang Banging in Colorado Springs, Colorado in our Westree Apartments ( 1997 ),I found myself remembering eye exercises taught to me during grade school. These eye exercises Permitted me to keep controll over my own eyesight while under "unusuall" straign. These eye exercises Allowed me to see anything I wanted to in our Public Libraries where I learned to read when I was Two Years Old. I still have every Library card from the entire front range - including Universities and Colleges...After about two years, my eyesight is better, with my left eye going from 20-200 ( from 1975 ) to now 20-180. I will not sya that this Is The One Book Meant For You...but the rest of the topic under Vision Exercises will show you even others! I intend to dump my eyeglasses in two to three years. Of course, even the FBI likes Gargoyels...or Ray Bans...I hate UV rays as I'm out standing and walking around for my health.

These were the same techniques taught me in elementary school to relieve straign and fatigue brought on by reading texts and using a CRT. The bibliography is provacative, especially "The Bates Method For Better Eyesight Without Glasses" by William Bates, M.D.

Ignore the dismissive comments of Tony Thomas regarding orgonomy. He says that it doesn't resemble science, but not all sciences have been discovered yet. Reich attempted to study a phenomena which had no established means of observation, and when he couldn't cure cancer quickly enough, was treated worse than any scientist since the Renaissance, perhaps. Because of this, you'll hear a lot of people with views based on the propaganda released when the government sought agreement from their supporters to deny Reich his rights. These layman will never claim to possess evidence that his work is mumbo jumbo, because saying that he was a crazy communist is much more effective propaganda.

In this book you can read about revolutionary attempts to build camps for "deliquent" children in the early pre-Stalinization Soviet Union. In this book, you can learn the importance of the fight of young people for healthy sexual activity, and the negative neurotic damage done by this society's anti-sexual repression. You can read this in relatively short articles Reich wrote on a variety of topics collected here under this name.

This book is the most approachable introduction to Reich's positive contributions on the role of sexuality in capitalist society, on destruction of compulsory sex morality, and about what a new freer less pathological world would be like. Most of his other books were reedited in the 1940s and 1950s and smothered with the mumbo jumbo of his "orgone biopathy" theories. These theories were more of an expression of Reich's mental breakdown under the hammer blows of Stalinism, Fascism, and Americanism, than anything resembling science.

Perhaps this book has less of that because almost all of Reich's works were banned by the US government during the 1950s through the late 1960s. This was the first one of his books legally published (I remember reading bootleg editions of his work before then) after that ban and might have less of that stuff for that reason. Whatever people misremember about the 1960s, it was quite revolutionary to see this book with this author and this title in bookstores in 1968!

If you have never read Reich, or if you have been turned off by the insanity of orgone theory, this will be a pleasant surprise.

As partners in a bungled social experiment, the Aboriginal people of Canada nevertheless had one thing right: that the education of children is a duty and privilege of parents. The church and the government may be called alongside to help. But if the parents relinquish the responsibility and control of their children's education, the outcome is unlikely to be advantageous for anyone. Miller's book vividly illustrates this truth. I'm glad he didn't publish before he could introduce the present chapter of the story, the founding of schools (some residential) under Aboriginal ownership, staffed and managed by the First Peoples themselves. Great book!

Excellent book! I could have been there. Hell, I was there, 10 years under the loving strokes of a Jesuit strap - being systematically stripped of my language, culture, way of life and humanity. Miller's attention to detail stands out. No stone is left unturned in his relentless search for who was ultimately responsible for the existence and operation of those infamous institutions. A must read for anyone truly interested in the history of white/native relations in Canada.

"Through Kester Brewin's eyes, pilgrims can see cities as the place where one's dreamy theologies and `psycho-spiritual bull' confronts the Concrete Christ. A highly recommended faith journey for those who dare to walk the walk and follow the trouble-making Jesus."

SIGNS OF EMERGENCE is a pick for serious ministry and spirituality holdings, covering the basic of how to organize a church of believers and how to make it a decentralized body with more flexibility than the usual church structure. Chapters survey the idea of an 'emergent church' which may be better suited to meet the needs of worshippers. Chapters offer important guidelines and specifics on achieving such an institution.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

M. Jacqui Alexander is, without question, the boldest, most courageous and radical feminist thinker working today. Is it any wonder she's been denied tenure numerous times? Her work in this anthology and her forthcoming 'Pedagogies of Crossing' demonstrates a commitment to locating those sacred sites where politics, the social, and the ontological are inseparable. She will create an epistemic rupture that will change forever the substance and tenor of feminist, liberatory thought in which an entirely unsentimental approach to African cosomological systems breaks down the hegemony of the linguistic, the written, and the visual, instead taking into account the full range of the sensorial and intellectual. Ignore her work at your peril, it represents a hard-won and 'difficult' hope at a time when the latter is fast slipping away.

Collaboratively compiled and edited by feminists, activists and academics M. Jacqui Alexander, Lisa Albrecht, Sharon Day, and Mab Segrest, Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray!: Feminist Visions For A Just World is a thoughtful and thought-provoking, 737-page anthology articulate writings exploring the politics of race, class, and gender from a dedicated feminist perspective. Astutely examining such issues as the increasing frequency with which women are being convicted for killing their children; to troubling racial imbalances in the criminal justice system; to the failure of decolonization; and a great deal more, Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! is a quite profoundly impressive compilation which is especially recommended for Women's Studies and Political Science reference collections and reading lists.