Being a teacher and student of horsemanship, I found Ray's book to be like sitting down to dinner and listening to Ray talk about his relationship with the horse. It is much the same as what Ray tries to explain at his clinics, but as Tom Dorrance said this is something that you have to feel, it's difficult to put into words. You must open your heart, your mind and spirit to be able to have this work. I know that it does. This book can start you on a never ending journey of knowledge. It's not a magical cure for those who have problems with their horses. You must be able to get into a learning frame of mind. "Have patience grasshopper" And remember if it's not working, either fix it so it can or get someone to help you. This book does show you the trail less travelled, it's up to you how far you go.

This book have give me much help. I liked it. Some people may not understand Ray`s way to explain things. I did. Great book.

This book is designed to LEAD the "smart human" to the watering hole of knowledge. It's your choice whether to drink from the source. We as humans profess how superior we are because of our magnificant brain. All Mr. Hunt is doing is challanging us to use that brain and THINK and find these things for ourselves as this IS an art and to it we all bring our OWN persona. There is NO black and white rules that apply to all. Our teachers of our children in schools should be so brilliant, maybe we would have children that thought for themselves for once. I appreciate this man and his techniques, he has allowed me to be an artist with my horses and my horses will tell you out loud they love it.

One assumes that Goff intended this travesty of a book to provide a history of white gospel singing. But, while constantly referring to white and black gospel as distinctive forms, he never establishes exactly what the differences are. He instead pelts readers with a flurry of boring mini-biographies and social-conservative propaganda. The reader gets a strong sense that Goff disapproves of atheists, homosexuality and abortion, but if the book was supposed to give a definitive account of a musical tradition, it fails.

In this important work, Goff traces the history of Southern Gospel music, the religious music of the Southern plain folk. Building on folk church singing forms, Southern Gospel began in earnest with the quartets sent out to publize songbooks issued by companies such as Stamps and Vaughn. Out of these quartets came such revolutionary groups as the Blackwood Brothers and the Statesmen. Goff continues the history up to the current era, looking at the development of the field and its popularity. Southern Gospel has largely been ignored by scholars so this book fills a deep gap in the literature. As an overview, some performers undoubtedly were left out, but that is a minor quibble. Some topics, such as the interrelationship of Southern gospel and Country music, need further discussion. A new area of research has been opened and with Goff as a guide, let us hope it quickly develops.

Any fan of Southern gospel music would do well to choose Close Harmony as a guide: author James Goff provides a rich history of the genre's evolution from its originals in 19th century shape-note singing to its emergence as a distinct style in a changing music industry. White and black gospel music trends are explored in the course of this title's solid coverage.

Sir, When you get yourself a degree then maybe just maybe I may think about buying this trash. Until that time from my readings PTSD has been tracked for over a century and a half ...so whats your problem? Get rich quick scams....only in America.

This is a groundbreaking study of a "condition" whose popularity has grown way out of proportion to the limited evidence for its validity as a clinical entity. PTSD fits a profession's need for a "serious" mental disorder that requires psychotherapy as its primary mode of treatment, at a time when medications have come to be seen as the primary treatment from most Axis I psychiatric disorders. Just as importantly it meets the needs of patients who need a "reason" (or perhaps a "culprit") to account for their misery other than the mere fact of being ill. However, close study of the condition itself reveals that there is nothing intrinsic which distinguishes it from garden variety depression with prominent anxiety and intrusive rumination. It has been known since time immemorial that such conditions will arise independently of the issues which may occupy the minds of their sufferers. But now, as a consequence of the socio-historical milieu into which PTSD was born, it has become the favored diagnosis for those who see their emotional troubles as the responsibility of someone else. In this book the nature of that historical milieu is well described. Professor Young has broken a powerful taboo in opening this topic up for discussion, and his remarkable work of scholarship deserves the highest praise.

Young ideas' are not new. Many psychologists and psychiatrists working with persons in extreme situations have arrived to the same point: PTSD is an ethnocultural invention of Euro American Psychiatry. The so-called "PTSD-symptoms" are frequent. The syndrome is a construct. Allan Young collects evidence in passionate but scientific way. This book is a must for all students of mental health science that want to give to their profession a wider scope than just what one can get from a cookbook of euroamerican diagnosis that blinds more than helps as DSM-IV. Life is much more than DSM-IV and this book contributes to seeing that in an excellent manner.

I read Stephen C. Paul's first book, Illuminations, many times. It is a spiritual wonder, a way to keep yourself honest and on the path you _should_ be on, especially if you randomly select a page to "read." I was extremely disappointed with this volume as I felt it lacked the spirit and movement of Illuminations. I expected it to be a follow-up, a companion volume. Instead, I found the text to feel forced, as if it was written on the heels of Illumination's success. Remember writing term papers on deadline? This was no different. The book felt rushed and the concepts within lack the depth and "illumination" of the previous volume. Maybe Mr. Paul should take some time off and rethink before he writes again.

This book is terrific for inspiration and uplift when you don't want to plow through a lot of words! The illustrations equally enhance the short affirmations. I wish I could order some of Max Collins illustrations. This review applies to all three books, "Illuminations", "Inneractions", and "Love." Stephen Paul keeps us on the right track with a change of viewpoint toward ourselves, our loved ones, and the world. I have bought extra copies and given them to friends who appreciate the words and visual effect too. I highly recommend them. I'm sorry some are out of print.

This book is very similar in layout and design to the author's and artist's first book, "Illuminations". In that book, author Stephen Paul gave aphorisms that assist one to make changes in one's life. In this, what could be called a sequel, the author gives a different slant. It is for those who have been willing to face their personal issues, and confront their fears, doubts and misconceptions. In the author's words, "I have tried to suggest the life that lies beyond the changes; the life that we change to have."

This book is a very good companion to it's predecessor. I found it very helpful, though I would recommend "Illuminations" be read first, if possible. "Inneractions" serves a different but related purposes. It is more to do with enacting and developing changes already confronted by us.

In this book the author uses, again through short but powerful aphorisms, various tools found in other books. Tools like "creative visualisation", popularised by author Shakti Gawain and "affirmations", attributed to Louise Hay (author of "You Can Heal Your Life") and others. Perhaps what distinguishes Paul's books from others is his uncanny ability to put so much meaning and self-evident truth into what could be called short codes. Just a brief saying can really get your self 'happening' on so many different levels.

Paul Marti

Like the last reviewer I was very disappointed by this set. Mainly because I thought this set would teach vocal techniques. This set teaches theory based information like intervals, scales, octaves, rhythms, notes,etc. Howard and Austin take you step by step vocally thorough all the theory based info on the 4 discs. Still despite my own disappointed with this set I would recommend it to anyone who desire to know theory or may be short of knowledge on music theory. However I wouldn't reccommend this to anyone who just wants to learn vocal improvement techniques or general vocal techiques.

Thanks to Austin & Howard, we finally have a practical training program in Vocal Musicianship. Scales, intervals, chords, rhythm & meter are the building blocks of music. ABCs of Vocal Harmony gears to the human voice and helps you play your vocal instrument with greater skill while learning the language of music. A member of my choir found it at Amazon.com and now I have everyone using it. My choir has never sounded better. Be sure to get the CD version for maximum effect in accessing any subject or exercises at the tuch of a button.

"Your Vocal Harmony Course is great! It's fun and encouraging too. For the first time we have something other than just a book for the kids. Having both male and female voice to listen to and match makes all the difference ... and filling in the missing notes of intervals and chords and getting immediate feedback is just what we need. Thanks." Jayne Campbell - Westlake - Harvard School

It is bunch of baloney. I undestand it is possible to interprete Egyptian culture and spirituality not only from the from the standpoint of professional Egyptologists. Without doubt one can wirite about Egyptian deities (netroo) and rituals e.g. from the point of view of Hermeticist. But author's theses about four fundamental physical forces, about physical cosmology etc. are shocking and unheard-of. Ths way of thinking goes astray.

This is a good book, however the author clearly shows that he is but a beginner in this subject. This is a good book for beginners in egyptian cosmology being that Gadalla's explainations are not wrong just incomplete. The true nature and purpose of egyptian cosmology is much deeper than the author suggests. Read this book then read Ra Un Nefer Amen's "Metu Neter Vol I & II" for the definitive explaination of egyptian cosmology. If you want only but a brief description of this topic this book is a good buy but trust me you will thirst for more so it might be wise to leave this book on the shelf and pick up Ra Un Nefer Amen's works instead.

Gadalla does an excellent job of pulling together the myriad aspects of ancient Egyptian religion and symbolism and presenting it as a complete, unified, and understandable system. It is so easy for modern western monotheists to simply dismiss ancient Egyptian religion as bizarre polytheism, where even animals are worshiped as gods (and so it seemd even to the average ancient Greek and Roman!) After reading this book, however, I came away with a deep appreciation of Egyptian thought and philosophy. In fact, their world view is not so alien from our own as aspects of their thought was picked up Pythagoras and other ancient western philosophers and so comprises some of our own world view today.

My only quibble with the book is that the author tries to show that the ancient Egyptians "had it right all along" by comparing their beliefs with what modern science teaches about the way the world works. No problem with this, except I caught a few errors in his understanding of science. Also, he is not too subtle in suggesting that the world might be a better place if we returned to believing this ancient "truth". But is is easy to overlook the author's advocacy because his explaination is so clear and thorough.

I must say upfront that this book has very little if anything to do with science besides some obscure inferrences drawn between creation and religion. Considering the title I was certainly disappointed. However, trying to move past the title and the contents one finds a belief that man is essentially evolving past the need for an omnipotent God much less a personal one. To make matters worse, his attempts at Christianity and attempts at reducing Jesus to man with a vision come right out of the late 19th century with more recent vocabulary. This book lands squarely in the Ba'hai faith without much imagination. Drawing some teachings out of Kabbalism, I strongly believe that this book would disappoint even most Kabbalists.

In our times, it's important to enjoy ourselves, and feel that we are in a beautiful and neverending world. You can feel it, when you raise the point between science and God, and you can see that, day by day, we are integrate our technology and our souls in one, and now we can realize this, seeing that with science, we can find our mind, body and universe toghether. With this book, you will feel more unit with the Divine and with the whole universe. !Don't miss it!

I took Danny Matt's class in "God and the Big Bang" in Berkeley. Matt in person is witty, intelligent and educated. In print, he is even more so. His science is strong, his kabbalah is flawless. There are parallels between this book and Capra's Buddist/science books, but where Capra is trying to prove something, Matt is just pointing out interesting facts. Anyone interested in science or theology would enjoy this book.

I love the Jayne Castle series of books and look forward to each new release. I bought Harmony because I thought it was the newest release. Unfortunately, it's a repeat of an prior novel and an earlier short story version of a prior novel

Both stories in this book are two of my favorites. After Dark made me fall in love with futuristic romances. I've read it twice and can't get enough!!!

This is a repackage of Amaryllis and Zinnia - two very delightful off world romances under her Jayne Castle name. If you enjoy JD Robb's In Death... series of futuristic romances you should like these as well.

I enjoyed them more the second time around. This is some of JAK's best writing of late. I had been a wee tad disappointed in her last couple HBs and her Amanda Quicks. She seems to have polished her diamond too much and lost some of the spontaneity that was her trademark. But Amaryllis, Zinnia and Orchid, and the off world antics, are her at top form.

Amaryllis Lark is a private detective, but she is also a prism. In the Colony of from Old Earth, people evolved with two talents: either they were a prism or a psychic. The prisms serve to increase the power of the psychics by channelling their powers through them and amplifying it. Even the strongest of psychics needs a prism, for without them they cannot control and maintain their powers.

Lucas Trent the founder of Lodestar hires her for her prism talents. He is an off the chart psychic who need the talent of a prism of his level. If psychic and prism are not of matched talents, the psychic can burn out the prism. And prisms that are as strong as Amaryllis are rare. In order to foil nasty cooperate todos, they are forced to join talents...and more!!

A super, brilliant work from the fine craft of JAK.

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In Zinnia the second in the series: Zinnia Spring (don't you love JAK's names!!) was called the Scarlet Lady by the press when she was mistakenly caught in a tacky tabloid triangle. She is an interior designer and instead of trying to live that down, she plays it for all its worth, creating a real Lady in Red. She dresses red, she drives red...

But when she is hired by Nick Chastain, owner of a Casino, things really heat up!! For both Nick and Zinnia, like all the off-worlders, have a little something extra to their make up. In this off world, a colony of old earth, people are either psychics or prisms. The prisms server to increase the power of the psychics by channelling their powers through them and amplifying it. Even the strongest of psychics needs a prism, for without them they cannot control and maintain their powers.

Though he has hired Zinnia for her decorating ability, he needs something more from her. He wants his respectability. He is an over the top psychic, but he needs the perfect prism - and that is Zinnia. For years, because of Nick's father's lost journal, he had been labelled a bastard, the blacksheep. He hopes with the journal to prove his parents were married and gain that respectability - and all trails end and begin with the Scarlet Lady.

This is ONE super read for Jayne Anne Krentz Fan.

Orchid is the third in the series. Surprised they did not reprint all three under the one title.

I'm a scientist-type who purchased this to learn more about the Music of the Spheres. My take on the book is that it misapplies concepts from music and physics to arrive at frequency values for planets that correspond to those of common tuning pitches of different instruments, symphonic groups, and so forth. But to arrive at these pitches, for instance, the author assumes without explanation or justification an arbitrary "octave number" that gets the derived pitches in the range of these tuning pitches. It's arbitrary and more properly called numerology than anything resembling science. If you want to learn anything of interest concerning the Music of the Spheres, stay far away from this junk.

I'm no idiot (I have an honours degree in psychology and an MBA) but this book was completely incomprehensible to me. If I lived in the States I would have returned it! I suspect only readers with a scientific education can appreciate this book - and maybe they'll find it excellent - but it definitely is not for the generalist.

I just changed my old review. You can prove anything with numbers. So far, I have not been able to find a good honest book on the octave. Goethe and Nicomachus died before they finished theirs, and it seems that no one since then has come close to writing anything credible. Out of all of the books I have read this one comes the closest, but its still far from the truth.

This book is ok for the beginner, but I should have bought something more like the Designers Guide to Color Series. First Color Harmony 2 is basic art class. Second the cd rom is not what I thought it would be. I was expecting something more like a paint palette where I could create, or mix my own colors and then have the software comeup with the complementary, split-complementary, analagous combinations etc. Instead I am limited to the 106 individual programmed colors. So I was really disappointed. And didn't think it was worth the price.

While I found the book to be useful, especially in the 'classic' swatch sections, the 'trendy' area is a bit outdated, being it's six years old.

Also, you're better off buying the version without the CD. Be cautioned, the CD is old, written for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, uses a primitive 'drag folder onto your hard drive, click file and choose program to associate with' install procedure, and uses an included, older version of Oracle Media Objects player to run...it will not work on Windows NT 4.

This is the best book on color I have found. It is a must have for anyone who has ever been confused about matching colors and creating the right mood. Though I was already fairly confident working with color, this book helped me a great deal by letting me see a wide variety of color combinations together.

The book begins by discussing the color wheel. This includes the facets of color such as hot, cold, light, dark, pale, bright, warm and cool as well as a great explanation of all the different color schemes. It is divided into over 20 different themes including romantic, friendly, earthy, fresh, calm, traditional, professional, magical, classic, tropical and energetic. For each of these themes a set of color schemes including monochromatic, primary, complementary, split-complementary, analogous, spilt, clash and neutral is shown. A brief tips section for using the themes in graphic design, interiors and fine art is also provided. In the back of the book there is a process color conversion chart that gives the CMYK values for each of the 106 colors used. Swatches that you can cut out are included. This is very useful for graphic designers.

A very helpful and versatile CD is included with this book as well. It allows you sort by color scheme or theme. You can also pick a color and then see all the color schemes that will work with it. Each color scheme is shown in several different forms and against black, white and gray. One of a color scheme's colors can be made bigger to be used as a background to the others as well. Colors can be saved and added to custom lists and exported to popular graphics programs like Photoshop and PageMaker. The color DIC number as well as RGB and CMYK values are also given.

The program does have some minor limitations. It can only search one aspect at a time. For instance you can't search for a rich theme with yellow. Also, if you search by color or color scheme you can't find out which theme set it originally belonged too. I found it a little hard to install and use at first as well.

This book and Color Harmony Workbook are pretty much identical in content. However, this one is smaller and contains a CD while the other has tear-out swatches. Because I was more interested in decorating my home the workbook was more useful to me. For a web or graphic designer using computers a lot this version will probably be of more help. If I had to select only one color book, this one or Color Harmony Workbook would be my first choice.