Vision Books

Mr Babbitt captures the true spirit & soul of the American-Capeverdean community in the area of Cape Cod Mass.
His poetic verse creates "soudade" (Capeverdean for longing for) for a time of strong community ties. A must read in understanding the "Soul and Spirit" of the American-Capeverdean.

Various Poems that will say things and open your heart to truth. Titles such as What it Took to make this Crioulo- very moving
Whispers of the Past- It will tell you something.
Easy to follow and like his style in writing.

Visions Book One is an exciting as well as insightful book, considering our current world situation. It is a good and fast read: it keeps you turning the pages.

Four months ago, this book would have been (and probably was) looked at as another non-chalant book about a supposed threat from the Middle-East. However, September 11th changed that viewpoint forever. In today's world of threats from terrorists and biological attacks, K.C. has hauntingly foretold this in his book that is sure to bring chills to the reader in today's world climate!

This book is excellent! God has shown me many things through dreams (night visions) and a few through spiritual and open visions over the years. Some have been quite disturbing. I can honestly relate to the desperation documented in the bible regarding dream interpetation. Although there are no interpeters aside from God, this book did give me much needed guidance on how to approach them. I found this book at a time when I was desperate for answers! There is very little taught about the subject of visions (day or night) and not a lot of understanding or preaching from the pulpits on this subject either. Reading this book gave me the courage to stand on what I knew was from God despite persecution. The context is easily understood, and clearly scriptural. Describing the various means the Lord chooses to speak to his people in the supernatural for guidance, comfort, warnings and etc. Brother Hayes also describes the spiritual warfare neccessary to obey the leading of God through these same visions. It is a neccessity for the library of any spirit filled believer!

This book is excellent! God has shown me many things through dreams (night visions) and a few through spiritual and open visions over the years. Some have been quite disturbing. I can honestly relate to the desperation documented in the bible regarding dream interpetation. Although there are no interpeters aside from God, this book did give me much needed guidance on how to approach them. I found this book at a time when I was desperate for answers! There is very little taught about the subject of visions (day or night) and not a lot of understanding or preaching from the pulpits on this subject either. Reading this book gave me the courage to stand on what I knew was from God despite persecution. The context is easily understood, and clearly scriptural. Describing the various means the Lord chooses to speak to his people in the supernatural for guidance, comfort, warnings and etc. Brother Hayes also describes the spiritual warfare neccessary to obey the leading of God through these same visions. It is a neccessity for the library of any spirit filled believer!

Beautiful images and masterful writing combine to give the reader a glimpse of the economically devastated but spiritually rich lives of the people in Haiti.

Pictures of Manbos, Oungans, and Bokos make the book come alive and speak to us of the beauty and wonder of the misunderstood religion of Vodou.

Phyllis Galembo's photographic skills are legend among those whose interest extends to African and Afro-Caribbean religions. In this area she never fails to impress and satisfy. I am happy to have this book.

In addition to her brilliant photographs, Galembo offers detailed, profound and soulful explanations of Vodou belief. She is one of only a very few authors to have done so. This book will serve to inform and enlighten both the curious and the expert. Bravo!

This is one of the most functional resources for cult apologetics that I have ever seen. It is an ordinary King James Bible, but with every verse that is twisted by various cults, there is a footnoted Christian response, and a relevant cross reference or two. The book appears to have gone out of print, but is well worth tracking down.

Walter Martin's Cults Reference Bible is the best Bible available to help you respond to the cults of our day (Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Bahai Faith, etc). Most of the cults use the King James Version of the Bible which is what this Bible is based on. The cults reference bible lists comments a specific cult says about a particular verse in the Bible and listed below that is a Christian response to the verse. There is backgrounds on every Cult and many other resources that will help any Bible believing Christian take a stand against the many non-Christian Cults of our day.

Deng is as good a writer as he is a diplomat. He combines history with poetry, music, and folklore. The writing is clear, and Deng does not assume that his reader is already a scholar of the Horn of Africa. This epic -- almost 600-page -- book is as valuable for its prose as it is for its analysis of the civil war in the Sudan. I read this whole thing in less than a week.

After reading Author Deng's book: WAR OF VISIONS: CONFLICTS OF IDENTITIES IN THE SUDAN, I came away with a profound respect for the scholarship and comprehensivenes of this writer's work. WAR OF VISIONS is indeed a tour de force in the discussion of Sudan and its' cultural problems. As an author, myself, of a new book on the Sudan: JIHAD: The Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan I must pay homage to Ms. Deng. Her clarity of thought and deep understanding of the various cultures in Sudan from North to South have created a fine volume for everyone to read. Islamic Radicalism today has some of its' roots in Sudan going back to the 7th cenury. But we must remember that it was in the 19th century when the British and French began the colonization of North Africa for the purpose of commercial advantages. The British moved into Egypt and Sudan in the latter part of the 19th century to secure their interests in commerce. When they bought out Khedive Ismail's shares in the Suez Canal(nominal head of Egypt at the time) the British now had access to the riches of East Africa and the Indian sub-continent. Meanwhile, as Deng points out, a new virulent form of Islamic Fundamentalism arose in the Central Sudan under one Mohammed Ahmed ("the Mahdi")that challenged the British, the Turks and the Egyptians. In particular, the Beja tribes of the Red Sea Hills became the key element in defeating British and Allied Forces in the Eastern Sudan. An excellent read! Perhaps, readers of Ms. Deng's book, WAR OF VISIONS might also want to take a look at my new book, JIHAD: THE MAHDI REBELLION IN THE SUDAN. While not a general history, JIHAD encapsulates a short period in time and shows the development of Islamic Fundamentalism in Sudan and its' historical relationship to radical Islamic beliefs today.The terrorism that arose after 2001 in Iraq, Saudi-Arabia, Sudan and other Arab regions that challenged America can be traced back to the forces that germinated and grew over a full century. Please also visit my Online Newspaper: The Iraqi Crisis and Worldwide Jihad at: http://journals.aol.com/mfradin42/TheIraqiCrisisandWorldwideJihad

Kenneth Patchen is a passionately unique, uniquely passionate poet -- and that's never been shown to better advantage than in this volume of his poem-paintings, rich with vibrant colors & insightful, whimsical, prophetic words. The afterward by publisher James Laughlin rightfully compares Patchen's work here to William Blake's illuminated books, which also intertwine art & poetry. Both men are moved by transcendant vision, both are outraged by cruelty & injustice, both strive for something better than the mundane drabness of so much everyday life.

Most books are categorized somewhere on the back cover: Biography, History, etc. This volume is categorized as Art / Literature / Humanity ... and it's that third category that really matters. Kenneth Patchen was always very much his own man, influenced by many sources, but belonging to no school or group other than his own -- or from another angle, belonging to the human race. All his work is well worth seeking out!

As for this beautiful volume, it deserves to be back in print more than 99% of the books out there right now. Most highly recommended!

Opening this book to any of the three dozen prints it contains is like (at least to those of us whom excessive exposure to workaday prose and to overlapping error-messages threatens to render prematurely senile) suddenly remembering what it was like to be a kid sitting in a tree, dangling your legs, and singing any old song you felt like singing irreverently. Patchen's colorful figures and backgrounds and words remind me of Kandinsky and Klee and maybe even of the boy Wm. Karlos Williams must have been. This is art that makes me smile and gently reminds me to pick my battles, tell the truth, and, while there's still time, gaze long and selfishly and irresponsibly at the night sky.

Last week I was told that I had a form of secondary glaucoma. This was not totally unexpected, but it was still a shock: enough of a shock that I couldn't think of any sensible questions to ask the ophthalmologist who told me. Still, as he wasn't the ophthalmologist who diagnosed it, he may not have been able to answer some of my questions anyway. So, I left his office in a state of shock but determined to find out more about this `sneak thief of sight'.

This book was one of the first I was able to acquire, and I found it contains a lot of valuable information. With its help, I was able to differentiate types of glaucoma, read up on the treatment I've been prescribed and start work on a list of questions for my treating specialists. It was sobering to read that the common thread among all glaucoma is damage to the optic nerve and that there are more than forty different types of glaucoma, not of all of which are associated with raised intraocular pressure. It was discomfiting to read that the damage caused by glaucoma cannot be reversed. It was frightening to realise that most (but not all) forms of glaucoma have no symptoms or cause no change in vision until late in the course of the disease.

It is not possible to absorb all of the information contained within this book on one reading, nor will it all be equally relevant to all glaucoma sufferers. While the resource information contained in the book is especially useful to readers in North America, most of the information will be relevant to readers elsewhere.

I recommend this book to those who want, or need, to know more about glaucoma. For sufferers, no book can substitute for specialist care. But the information in this book may well assist you in working with your specialist to manage your own care in an informed and optimal way.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

This book anwered many of the questions that I had .
Lots of terms thoroughly explained, Easy to pick up to recheck facts, medications , etc.

The authors employs a Neo-Marxist perspective when answering the question what went wrong with America. The books is easy to read because it is not written full of terminology and academic prose, rather its done in a very straigth forward manner. The main argument is simple, namely that ever since Reagan became president in 1981 he initiated a frontal assault attack on the union, blacks and women. Basically ever since then the US has been run by big business in a ruthless manner so that the common person is exploited by the huge corporation that leave little choice for the average worker but to accept the worsening condition that the firms dish out to their helpless employees.

The book is ali very good at explaining why the US became more exploitative and aggressive not only at home but also in the rest of the world, this was especially the case after the Soviet Union disintegrated in late 1991.

This book was an eye-opener for me... to put it simply, horrifying. You may need to set aside preconceptions about Marxism to read it with an open mind, however.

Neale makes it quite clear that US policy is not dependent on who resides in the White House: a president will not be able to implement anything of which the major corporations disapprove. It is also very clear that the current president is very much on the side of corporations, and not the people he is supposed to govern. In fact, the inescapable conclusion I reached on having finished this book is that the US government is "by the corporations, for the corporations, of the corporations" - there is no concern whatsoever for the welfare of the working people.

None of this was clear to me before, I must confess. But now, I observe events with a very different perspective... a far less pleasant one.

You need to read this book if you want to know how the US is *really* being run - as well as many other countries, like the UK.

Mr. Baumer has taken what could have been a very dry topic, and turned it into a wonderful interesting book. He took so much care in writing this, in gathering information from folks that were involved with the town teams, we get to hear amazing stories that other wise would have dissapeared forever. I reccomend this book to folks from Maine interested in a part of their state's history, and I also reccomend it to baseball history buffs everywhere.

If your interests are the same as mine - minor and semi-pro baseball history in New England - then this book is a must. It is a real gem and Mr. Baumer is to be congratulated on such a fine effort. It is easy to see that it was a labor of love for the author. He covered his subject well, mixing his stats and his oral histories to just the right degree.

My big hope is that the author continues his research and writes a second volume, one that covers the same subject for the pre-Second World War era.

Of course this book will have a limited audience; that being Maine baseball fans and then possibly more hardcore baseball historians, say from the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), an organization to which I belong.

It is sad that most best-selling baseball books have to be about Ted Williams or Babe Ruth. Afterall, how many of those do we really need? It is the efforts of people like Mr. Baumer - the people who are really capture baseball history in its purest form - that deserve the real praise.