Salama Moussa is my maternal grand uncle( The younger brother of my maternal grandfather Wahba Moussa). He was a self educated man, but rubbed shoulders with the likes of Bernard Shaw !!. He was the first voice for socialism in Egypt, equal rights for women, industrializaion, education and culture. He lived a modest life , jailed many times for his views and died followig abdominal surgery in the Coptic Hospital in Cairo after a full life of achievements. Unfortunately very few of his works has been transalated from arabic. He was born in 1886 and not 1889 as mentioned by an otherwise, excellent and unique book.

Meet Vernon Howard, the most didactic Mystic of our times. If you haven't read anything by him, I would suggest that you first read "The Mystic Path to Cosmic Power". But anyway, if you're open-minded and willing to learn, you will hardly find such condensed high-quality spiritual insight anywhere. Look at the price of this booklet. After you read it, you'll realize, maybe astounded, how such diamonds are free.

Have you read a book titled "Self-Help Stuff that Works"? I haven't, but I received an excellent excerpt in an e-mail newsletter. It talked about the technique of combating our own nonsense with "the blade of rationality". I didn't realize how important this was at first, until I tried it for a while, almost automatically. I don't agree with the author in all of his points of view, but I don't have to. Just look at these words: The blade of rationality. Look at them carefully, because I suspect they can take you to a new world. All your prejudices, all your false egotistic opinions can be struck, shaken, demolished by the blade of your own objectivity, which is wiser and more powerful than you may think.

So where does Vernon Howard enter? Once you learn to question yourself regularly, you'll have gained much. Now he's going to give you tremendous tools to tear your own falsehood all over. This is the blade, but it has become more than just the blade of rationality. This is the Blade of God. No, friend, don't take me wrong, this is not religious stuff. You need not believe in anything. What's more; it's better that you don't believe in anything, because then you can be totally ignorant, ready to receive something.

The didactic prose of Mr. Howard is amazing. It is so condensed, so short. Yet is seems like tremendous arrows to falsehood, to human pretense. God is truly willing to help you anytime, if you set aside your pretenses of being so wonderful, and allow yourself to listen. So relax and get ready for the journey. Here are several ways to get help from... God is not a belief, not an object, not an idea. Then what is God? I don't know, and probably neither you. But there's some kind of remote sensation, perhaps some far away memory, that you'll be able to... recognize...

Fire Works, Hand Dipped Ice Cream, Live Bait and Jesus Saves by F. Vernon Chandler is an all out great book. It is full of exciting short stories and real life experiences that Vernon has had in his 50 plus long years of life. It is an entertaining and thought provoking collection of writings that will have you not only laughing but also thinking about life and what is important. Vernon's sense of humor will always bring out a laugh and a smile and maybe a tear or two as you read this book. And yes, those "not so smart" things really happened. This book will also have you examing your on spiritual thoughts and ideas of what is really important in life. I highly recommend this book not just because he is my big brother, but because I know you will enjoy each and every page.

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The book is a good, fundamental reference for flowering plants. I use it to supplement courses in botany and find it popular with my students. Indices & glossary are excellent, as are the figures for identifying features of reproductive and vegetative anatomy of plants.

George Washington's Mount Vernon is not only an American landmark but a landmark of what America is, a warm, welcoming and gracious home. This beautiful book takes you through a four season walk of Mount Vernons spectacular grounds and a detailed and historical tour of the homes interior. With the easy interesting writing and the spectacular color photography all guided by the expert hand of Wendell Garrett, we learn and understand Washington's love and devotion to his beloved home. For anyone searching for detailed information on colonial interiors or historical gardening ideas, this book will be a welcomed addition to your home library.

In 1975 Ensign Berg became the first Naval Officer to challenge the Navy's ban on homosexuality. He is a Naval Academy Graduate who placed in the top 10% of his class. The trial took two weeks during which each side presented expert testimony. Dr. John Money came from Johns Hopkins University Medical School, and Vice Admiral William P. Mack the Suprintendent of the Naval Academy testified that he thought that Ensign Berg should be retained despite what the policy was.The most compelling testimony came from his father a Presbyterian Minister and career Navy Chaplain who won a bronze star while serving in Viet Nam. He testified of knowing undetected homosexual officers in the ranks of Commander, Captain and Rear Admiral. He also testified that he knew openly gay combat marines serving in Viet Nam. For his testimony Chaplain Berg was forced to retire from the Navy and later died of a horrible cancer having been sprayed by agent orange in Viet Nam. The Berg case was settled in 1981 with an agreement made between the Jimmy Carter White House and the Pentagon to give only fully honorable discharges to all gay men and women discharged from the military. They also made this policy retroactive so that all persons who had ever been discharged could apply and have their discharges up graded to fully honorable. This is a great book. Compelling, sad, infuriating, and informative. I cry every time that I read the passages of testimony by his father. The father's love for his son is so strong that he willingly gives up his carrer by testifying for his son and against the present Pentagon policies. It's also a great love story between Berg and his lover who is the author of this book

A useful textbook for students, scientists and policy makers. The information is extensive and detailed in a logical fashion, taking the reader from the basics of biodiversity through to human influences, economic values and conservation.

Firmly rooted in the Objectivist tradition and owing much to Mooers' other talents as a photographer, the poetry here relies on careful selection of detail, acuity of perception, and understatement...Short lines arranged in single strophes or free verse stanzas of minimalist description, the occassional overheard fragment of vernacular speech, quiet matter-of-fact tone: everything, in short, to set off the short fuse to the understated irony packed into the well-crafted cylinder of each poem. Mooers has waited a long time and carefully edited this collection, so that it reads like a Selected and covers much terrain: from the outports of Newfoundland to the Harmattan winds of northern Nigeria, from the bald Prairie to Albert's Hall and Spadina Avenue in Toronto, these are the careful gleanings of an engaging poet and true gypsy of the road...Mooers is as comfortable documenting the themes of coming-of-age, and the vicissitudes of life on the rock, as he is with neocolonial and sociopolitical themes of great moment. He's got the instincts of a fine journalist and the eye of a jeweller, but wastes nothing on ornament. Killick is a new imprint and their books are beautifully designed too.

This is a really neat book. I was surprised at how much information is packed into this book. It is easy to understand with lot's of pictures. It covers everything from Hunting stratagies, building hunting gear, building various animal traps, and recieps for cooking your game. I highly recomend this book for any outdoorsman / outdoorswoman!

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