Stone Books

Perry Stone makes you think. That's the idea of searching and studying. I don't agree with him on everything and he probably doesn't me either. However,I found this an excellent book. Thought provoking and intelligent. Well worth the few dollars paid for it.

Perry Stone's The Pope, The Eagle, and the Iron Sickle: Unusual Prophecies Being Fulfilled, is very interesting stuff. He has the Anti Christ being Muslim, the False Prophet being a final apostate Pope, combined with Marian Apparitions (which are leading both catholic's and Muslims astray), a merger of Catholicism and Islam and a FALSE Christ (who is either the False Prophet or another entity), along with the image of the beast. He uses Biblical prophecy's, Islamic beliefs and Catholics extra biblical prophecy's to draw his conclusions. He is not being dogmatic, only proposing what may happen. When I think about it, Islam being the end time apostate religion makes sense, that would explain why those who do not take the mark of the best are beheaded.

I just read V to the N and couldn't put it down, I loved hearing your voice again and can't quite get it out of my mind while reading that the actual character is in the room with me....its so vibrant, quirky, soulful, funny and heartbreaking all at once. Also I get really caught up in the story and can't wait to see what happens next, the last line is perfect. Please, please write more.\

Written to author by Maggie Deegan, Vancouver, Canada

View To The North is a kindly novel about a woman's life journey from youth to middle age, and her experiences as a wife, mother, and lover. The narrative alternates between moments of "then", times past, and moments of "now", living in the present and confronting the future. Bisexual themes as well as the universal conflicts and self-reflections of a parent watching her children grow up and grow more distant add a poignantly human tone to this introspective story.

Volunteering Around the Globe: Life-Changing Travel Adventures by Suzanne Stone This book is simple to read because it is so well organized to be the best reference for how to travel as a volunteer, whether in the United States or other countries. There are many personal experiences that various volunteer travelers share, describing what they did to help in many different countries and how it affected their own lives. The author tells how to choose among the many organizations which offer places and ways to see the world as a volunteer, helping as you go. Stone emphasizes that although you will give much needed help, you will receive far more benefits in the personal growth experience and the satisfiaction of knowing you made a difference. The areas of service which she discusses in the bookare volunteers for business development, construction, cultural preservation, disaster relief, environmental work and conservation, healthcare,social services and teaching. She tells how to plan for the trip, what to take, and which organizations to contact. This is a MUST for anyone who has thought about traveling as a volunteer, and you don't have to have any expertise or foreign language knowledge.

This book is invaluable for anyone who has an instinctive wish to serve others but doesn't know where to begin. Suzanne Stone provides step-by-step guidelines for how to plan and carry out a volunteer mission. She presents, on both a domestic and global scale, an array of volunteer opportunities that some might never imagine. The stories of individual volunteer accomplishments, and especially the author's own experiences, are inspiring, and empower the reader to say, "I can do that"!

Allucquere Rosanne Stone is one of the most fascinating writers in this moment. Her book, "The War of Desire and Technology" explores a changing world, in transicion between science and mythology. As Orwell and Huxley warned about, our world is fastening its pace around the axe time and place. Machines and tools are executing the utopias, making dreams and nightmares come true. Stone's book is a challenging book, with questions and a few answers, a book for seekers and poets. The encounter between feelings and facts is described by Stone as a meeting between two worlds in permanent fight, two pictures painted by blind painters, who has never seen any colours. The War of Desire and Technology is a book about nomads and cyborgs, lonely hackers and autists, leftovers from the time before the beginning, when the earth was new and the ages were newborn.

For technology lovers and technophobes, and even for those who don't think about the man/machine relationship at all, Stone's book offers intimate accounts of how humanity is dealing with the computer age. Some are anecdotes, some are discussions of theory, and there is a corporate history of Atari that had me on the edge of my seat (really). War of Desire and Technology is a quick and fun read that gives you much to think about

As a classicist and poet, I am shy - if not wary - of "hard science". I stumbled upon this book by accident, browsing the non-fiction shelves in the public library. It is unique! I have ordered it - and I'm not even quite finished with it - I am reluctant to finish this first reading, although it is five-star enjoyment. Water Ice and Stone is a "braided river" (read it and you'll see why the phrase is in quotation marks) of a) Green's personal passion for his field and his subject that took him to the Antarctic lakes again and again; b) scientific explanations of that field that are accessible and fascinating without being either patronizing or unscholarly; c)the personal reminiscences and experiences that led to his choice of profession and to the Anarctic; d) the daily observations, colleagues and acts of living while he was there; and e) the beauty and wonder and astonishment and inspiration that this world we live in has to offer any of us who will take the time to look, to understand, to see. The book is science and it is poetry; it is wonder and it is analysis; it is a marvel. My highest acolade for books in fields that I did NOT take up is: it makes me almost wish I had become a.... Water, Ice and Stone left me an almost-geochemist.

I live just a few miles from Oxford, Ohio and Miami University, where Dr. Green does his work when he's not away from civilization, and have sailed or swam many times at Acton Lake, which he uses in an early chapter to introduce the science of limnology, or the study of lakes.

This is a complex and ambitious book, and the result is thoroughly engrossing. It is an introduction to lake science, an adventure tale, and an account of how a scientist plans and executes his work, but these are just at the surface. It is also a personal exploration of the author's own memories and motives. Ultimately, it is a book about what moves mankind to keep learning and exploring, presented using the author as his own example.

Wondering about the powerful emotional draw that Antarctica exerts on him, the author is reminded of his boyhood, when Great Lakes winter storms would transform his town's landscape with a featureless cover of snow, allowing him to explore what became, in his imagination, an unexplored land. He describes the beauty that can be found, if one will allow himself, in the terrifying nothingness of the universe, whether it be seen in the vast coldness of space or the inhuman bleakness of an ice-covered continent. Some of his colleagues found Antactica intolerable, probably for the same reasons. He writes...

"The ice seemed a reminder of the universe at large, of the universe as accident, as matter blown and strewn and expanding, 'heartless' as Melville had described it, all moon-filled and dry, hung with poisoned worlds, incinerating stars, vacuums of frozen light. Loneliness, the warm sun as memory, as myth, the blankness of white landscape, in which we see no trace of ourselves, no artifact of our genius and cunning...". Reading this, I was taken back to my own boyhood to find my love of exploration awakened as I stood studying the cold and vastly distant stars from by back yard, and felt the fearful thrill of being sucked upward into the eternal void...

Deserving of a Pulitzer
WHAT LOVE COMES TO: NEW & SELECTED POEMS by Ruth Stone
Copper Canyon Press. 357 pages. c. 2008
Reviewed by Burgess Needle,June 24, 2008
Reading Ruth Stone's poetry is falling through Alice's magic hole and coming out into a world that's been refreshed, redesigned and realigned. The natural world will never look the same to you after Ruth Stone's poetry because you've seen the world through the eyes of a wolverine and the universe from an exploding star. Love in all its crackling flashing surfaces will surprise you again in ways you thought had been lost forever. Ruth Stone's poetry validates string theory: we're all here, there and someplace else at the same time. Buy this book, fall into it, let it envelop you. In the end, part of you returns from a parallel universe, but part of you stays there forever because Ruth Stone's poetry gives you a clarity of vision you never knew you needed and so many blurry, sepia shapes previously familiar and common are suddenly in focus and startle you with true color. In her poem "Memory" Ruth Stone asks, "Can it be that / memory is useless, / like a torn web / hanging in the wind?..." That poems continues on its own path, but this reviewer swerves away, simply saying -- WHAT LOVE COMES TO devours memory as fodder for a galaxy of poems, each one a portal to another world. Buy this absolutely brilliant collection.

Hi. This is my first review. I think this book is worth every penny and it will win a big prize in '08 like the national Book Award or Pulitzer. If not, Fire to Fire by Mark Doty (also his collected works will win!) What I love about this book, is that it reveals the gowth of the poet over time, as any collected works should, but it also shows how elegant, simple but poetic, and wonderful her language has been all along. She is an overlooked poet in my opinion even thow she has won a few of the prizes and Hunger Mountain (a literary journal) named a prize after her! Buy this now!Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems

I found this book in fall 2005 just at the right time as 2004-2005 were years of challenges and criticisms for our church and our pastors. I gave copies to our pastors in hope they would find the contents helpful, enlightening and comforting. I'm also sharing it with my fellow colleagues in the ministry area we serve as church secretaries and administrative assistants in hopes they too will find a new perspective in dealing with the challenges and criticisms of being in ministry.

I've read other books on how to deal with criticism in the church but this one is different. The writing is personal and speaks to my heart - not just my intellect.

Though you can read the book in one sitting, I find the chapters are best read for specific situations. The first chapters are in response to current hurt from criticism. Other chapters help walk the reader through how to forgive and how to respond when you know the criticism is valid.

The extensive use of scripture helped me view the situation from God's perspective - beyond "he said, she said".

This book has helped me turn a corner whereas other books on this topic focused more on the "why" people criticise then the "how" to move on.

If you wonder where love is - and you grasp for it, sometimes it finds you and it isn't really love. Sometimes it is. Young women really need to know how to tell the difference between choices and events that happen which will be good for them, and the choices and events which will be devastating to them. This book is refreshing because the author is brave, and shares her happiness and heartache - and shares her shame and her exaltation, equally. This is real life. This book is a must-read for teens and young women. We should all learn from each other, to save each other from heartache, and to share God's blessing for our lives. Fast read.

This book is a fast read with a strong message. Can be used for young women to all of us that struggle with feelings of inferiority. The author uses personal examples to support biblical principles, but does not loose the biblical basis either. Would be ideal for teenagers and family discussions. Very relevant for today's teens.

For me, this book is not about the battle against illness but rather the power of creating a TEAM to create the REALITY we want in life. There are two ways to get love in this world -- ask for it and give it. This book helped me to really be clear on my purpose, put out to the world what I really want, enlist the assistance of others in meeting that goal, and continue improving my life and others I come in contact with through my efforts. I cannot recommend it highly enough. Dare to live as someone who was "dying" teaches you! I have been on my own personal journey of transformation predicated by major conflict with a teenage son. We are both deeply involved with creating a better world for ourselves and others. What a ride!

When you sit across a big wooden desk from someone in a white labcoat who says "I'm afraid it's bad news" and advises you to get your affairs in order, your next move should be to pick up this book. Mr. Stone's uplifting method of taking on The Big "C" is an inspiration for those of us who share the journey. If you haven't started your own "buffaloe herd" yet, you will! Thank you, thank you, thank you to Bob and Jenny for this manual on survivorship. This book is worth an "out-of-print" search.

This book has moved me in ways I never thought possible. The woman's trek for purpose and being have pulled many thoughts to mind. So many pages have been dog-eared to read again. I normally do not reread books, but I have read this one three times. Each time I gather new thoughts and warmth from the words. I encourage you to read if you've ever considered (even just a little bit) that life may have something waiting for you .

This is a wonderful book! It deals with a young woman's quest to find herself, and meaning, in the world. As many of us who grew up and were educated in the 1980's, this young woman pursued a career that paid, in terms of money, but not necessarily in terms of satisfaction and happiness. The young woman realizes that something is missing, and she takes the opportunity (many would say risk) to pursue what is important in life, which ends up being many things (which I will leave future readers to learn). I think many readers will be able to relate to the world that the main character faces, as many of us have tried to balance work and expectations with personal satisfaction.

In the process, the main character meets many wonderful individuals who teach her something about herself and the world. The reader also gets a sense of life away from the rat-race, since much of the book takes place in the American Rockies. And, the novel is well-written; it is full of humor and descriptive passages.

For anyone who has thought seriously about their career, and whether or not their chosen career was the right "match" for them, this novel may make them think about evaluating life. For those who have taken the risk of exploring other careers, or completely "dropping out" of their chosen job or career, this novel will hopefully re-affirm the rightness of doing so.