Bryant Books

great book in first person telling a story of a time and place that is little known in american history. she writes with great skill, and houmor abounds as she takes you on a trip down the river with her familey and actor friends. here comes the showboat is a great read for the whole familey.

If you've been limiting your life because you feel as though you're a "business man" and have compartmentalized work and spirituality as two different arenas. You need to read Mark Bryant's book and see that this business man found inner resources and practical applications in the holistic arena as well as a way to integrate various life paths such as relationships, parenting and personal growth. This book is touching, spirtually balanced and filled with love and compassion. It's also filled with practical guides and/or "hidden assets" to transform your life! I highly recommend this book as a great reference piece, bridging a gap between the staunch businessman and/or business world and a holistic (all encompassing) point of view. Well written and signed by the heart!

I've read about Lisa and Dinah before, but in this book, they seem so rude to each other, but so nice to Stevie and Carole. This is a good book about the extraordinary power of friendship.

Excellent book on Buick engines...

Needs more on the LC2, but other than that.. pretty good.

being in the motion picture business for over 30 years..i find that bryant's book is extremely informative and to the point.. for anyone planning to rent their house for filming this book is an absolute must...and those who have not thought about doing this..reconsider.

Paul "Bear" Bryant was a football coach rightly beloved by fans of the Alabama Crimson Tide, for his team won six national championships, thirteen Southeastern Conference titles, and twenty-four consecutive appearances in bowl games from 1959 through 1982. Those who knew him best continue to love him, and Al Browning's I Remember Paul "Bear" Bryant is heartfelt testimony to that love. Dozens of his friends and acquaintances, from former football players to childhood friends to family to opponents on the field reminisce in their own words the man they knew. I Remember Paul "Bear" Bryant tells of a master of reverse psychology; a steely disciplinarian; and a truly kind human being beneath the tough-as-nails exterior. Paul Bryant has moved on from this life, but he will not be forgotten. Recommended for anyone who would wish a glimpse into the life of one of the greatest football coaches who ever lived.

I appreciate this book on so many levels, it took me back to my own childhood things that I had forgot about. I appreciate someone who is willing to be honest about the racial state of this society. I laughed and felt sad over this book however, most importanly for me I gained some insight into what a White person would face under these circumstances

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I made the decision that I was an educated person. As such, in order to be well read, there were certain books I needed to read. One of them is "The Illiad". I tried to do it. It is a long poem about the Trojan wars. I could not do it. It was beyond my ken. My feeling is it can be read and understood as part of a class, in which the reader takes notes and periodically discusses it with an expert. As far as "pleasure reading," I leave it to smarter people than me. For me, I had to settle for the Brad Pitt version on the big screen, which I found to be a great USC recruiting film.

STEVEN TRAVERS
AUTHOR OF "BARRY BONDS: BASEBALL'S SUPERMAN"
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I must first state that I am not a member the Hindutva movement, indeed, I denounced the BJP for its sectarian rabble-rousing and Semitization of Hinduism in my The Oneness/Otherness Mystery: The Synthesis of Science and Mysticism (MLBD, 1999)
However, I am associated with a more fundamental Indian challenge to Western thought, attacking Materialist metaphysics after having identified the physical correlate of the yogic Pure Consciousness (Divine Light, cit; Atman, Buddha Nature, al haqq etc.) with the brainwaves of the Reticular Activating System, which supports the Brahmanic view of the ontological primacy of Consciousness. The vast majority of Westerners do not question the fact that Materialist science is based on the Christian myth of Creatio ex nihilo and it is easy to show epistemologically that the "physical world" is never experienced directly, outside consciousness. Furthermore, as J.L. Mehta states in his phenomenology of the Rg Veda, the "Arya" is one who seeks the (Divine) Light.
In 1997 as I finalized the manuscript of O/OM a bookseller showed me a copy of What is Enlightenment magazine featuring a Georg Feuerstein on the front cover (I had never heard of him). Synchronicitously, I found in the shop a copy of Feuerstein, Kak and Frawley's In Search of the Cradle of Civilization (published by the Theosophists) which introduced me to the new ideas about the Harappans being the Vedic Aryans. Their arguments included that the Vedic word for Man "Purusa" came from pur (town/city) dweller and the recently discovered LANDSAT images of the extinct great river in what is now the desert of Rajastan which seems to tie in with the Rg Vedic river Saraswati etc. However, the attempt to deracialise the "Aryans" as merely "nobles" seemed suspect and PC.
As I had written about colonialist distortions of Indian history (as in Inden's "Imagining India etc.) and knew that the self-hating pro-colonialist Indian N.C. Chaudhuri had argued that the Indus civilisation must have been an offshoot of Sumer, these new ideas were very appealing even though I had no problem with Aryans being invaders of India. Indeed, in 1989 on a trip to the USA an American woman asked if I was Iranian as I did not look Indian". I replied that as a brahman, I am an Aryan as are the Iranians, we are a branch of the Indo-Europeans. I was born in Assam where the natives are Thais and tribals and the majority of my fellow Bengalis show non-Aryan S.E. Asian and dark-skinned features.
In 2000 I attended the World Association of Vedic Studies conference in Hoboken where H.H. Hock and Konraad Elst were amongst the speakers on the Aryan Invasion debate. As the only UK-based Indian I was taken aback by the ferocity of the BJP-supporting USA Indians shouting down liberals. I was publicly denounced by one as a "self-hating Hindu" for telling an American that I was not a Hindu in a simple orthodox or henotheist sense but that my scientific and philosophical researches led me to Yoga, Advaita and Nondual Kashmir Saivism etc. in support of my ideas. Like many open-minded scientists, I found that Yogic mysticism contained essential truths about Reality cloaked in mythology (see www.sciencemysticism@zaadz.com). A US Bangladeshi Hindu loudly berated me for questioning his teenage daughter's ferociously sectarian speech about Muslim intolerance in Bangladesh.
In 1998 I read in India Today about the Rajastan "Saraswati" discovery linking it to Rg Veda ("Saraswati do not kick us away, do not force us to migrate to foreign lands"). At the same time I came across Western put-downs of such New Age or Hindu Revisionist "mythology". Even Thomas McEvilley who in The Shape of Western Thought argues powerfully for the Indian Jain origins of Greek philosophia (whose mystical nature is suppressed by Western academia) and transcendental monism, was sceptical of the Vedic Aryans as the Harappans claim. In August 2007, Indophile Michael Wood began his BBC Story of India asserting that a few thousand Aryans invaded from Central Asia. He also completely misrepresented Yoga as thinking and Hinduism as ritual in his effort to glorify his favoured Buddhism (ignoring its roots in Brahmanism) and, whilst focusing on "tolerant" Sufi Islam completely ignored the central role of the Brahmanical Ideology in unifying India's diverse little traditions (the idea of India is largely a Brahmanic one).
Following Wood's advocacy of the Aryan Invasion I searched and found this book and am pleased to see that this debate is clearly not just Hindu mythological revisionism trying to Indianize the Aryans even though Witzel et al. claim it is. As Colin Renfrew said in Archaeology and Language, Linguists and Archaeologists have used each others' tenuous speculations unquestioningly to concoct ever more fanciful speculations posing as "science". The LANDSAT images, the recently discovered submerged cities in the Gulf of Cambay etc. are much harder science than Linguistic theorizing! The Vedic 100-oar boats and fully Aryan (not Sankritized) river names in N.W. Indo-Pak and the archaeological evidence of BMAC cities and post-Harappan towns makes "nomadic Aryans" very suspect! Lars Fosse's critique of simplistic Hindu revisionism and nation-building myths whilst valid, is also revealing in his patronizing view that India is a "wounded civilization" on the brink of social and "economic disaster". Does the phonological hard scientist Fosse think 8-9% growth and the never-so strong sense of Indian national unity is a complete disaster or his he like other Western scholars imagining the India he would like to see!
Sutapas Bhattacharya