Nature sounds, classic piano and violin, overlaid with positive, life improving, awareness affirmations! A definite must have!

Listening to this work allowed me to take an inward journey to the depths of my soul. I've realized how precious and important achieving inner peace is to the core of one's being. Regardless of what bends in the road you may encounter, once you achieve an inner peace it will be a peace that surpasses all understanding.

Restoring Broken Vessels is an excellent written and well timed book. I was hooked from the beginning. Although I have never been sexually abused, the content held a lot of information that was helpful in realizing what occurs to the female psyche as one develops. I am a christian woman and the author's articulation and unfolding of spiritual attacks, spoke directly to my spirit and beliefs. I found the book so enlightening, that I began reading it to my 10 year old granddaughter, who in turn began reading it herself and in 2 days, had read 3/4/'s of the book. If one is a believer in the providential plan of God in their life, (of course the Bible is the first source), this is a must read book. I am looking forward to sharing this book as a teaching/learning aid to assist women I encounter who are hurting, confused, and at the point of giving up on relationships. Thanks Ms. Johnson for sharing your work with us, your readers.

This is a excellent book for women's Bible and study groups. It gives much background research on the origin and root of sexaul abuse and the attack on the female sexuality. An in-depth overview of women and sexuality through every transition of life. From young girls to old age. It gives personal testimonies of both men and women's sexual mistreat, but mostly geared to the women. A must read for women with tainted past, it gives much hope and pardon. Very Biblically based. We will use this book in our Women's Ministry Group.

Anyone interested in Frantz Fanon and post colonial studies would do well to start here. This well rounded critical volume discusses Fanon's thought and its contexts as well as current debates. The collection includes essays by Said, Gates, Bhabha, McClintock and Fuss as well as important essays by less well known authors including Bulhan, Sharpley-Whiting, Gibson (who also writes a provocative introduction) and Turner. It has a good number of essays on the debates around Fanon and Feminism. 460 pages at this price, it's a deal.

Forged in the colonialism of Martinique, confirmed by the racism of Paris and vividly enlivened by the Algerian revolution, Frantz Fanon's all too brief life (1925-1961) and thought were inextricably linked to the transformation of reality. Fanon's historical importance as a Black theorist with a total critique of imperialism has made him a crucial figure in the Black struggles in the U.S., the fight against apartheid in South Africa and postcolonial theory.

RETHINKING FANON: THE CONTINUING DIALOGUE is a new collection of essays, edited by Nigel Gibson, which highlights Fanon's significance by airing controversies over his legacy. The issues which generate the most controversy concern the meaning of Fanon's humanism and his assessment of the role of women in the Algerian revolution. The two issues are intimately linked.

Fanon's famous critique of "The Pitfalls of National Consciousness" outlines the ways in which a revolution can stop short or turn into its opposite if a narrow vision of the past is imposed as a substitute for the ongoing development of a new culture. In one of the most moving pieces in the collection, Algerian feminist Marie-Aimée Helie-Lucas relates the hideous damage done by delaying women's liberation until after the revolution. The building of a "national culture" falls disproportionately on women, who become symbolic carriers of traditions which are "seen as ahistorical and immutable" (275). "Defending women's rights 'now'-this now being any historical moment-is always a betrayal of the people, the nation, the revolution, religion, national identity, cultural roots" (280).

Helie-Lucas holds Fanon partly responsible for this bind in which women were placed after the revolution, claiming that he created a myth of Algerian women's "revolutionary virtue of the veil" (275). T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting considers this argument, but rejects it, saying that Fanon was not trying to make a stagnant principle out of the veil. Instead, he was dialectically recording a fluid revolutionary situation, relating "Algerian women's resistance in a way that can be remembered, recalled, and corrected by women in their present quests for self-actualization" (350).

The debate on women's liberation is the most exciting section of the book, framed as it is by the voices of Algerian women liberationists. Zouligha, described as an activist, writes movingly of the silences that pervade an Algeria terrorized by armed Islamist groups, but she warns that it is not enough to simply oppose religious fundamentalism. Those "women's associations who limited themselves to the struggle against the Islamists ended up allying themselves with the state power" (366).

A NEW HUMANISM

The issues Zouligha raises are key to understanding the dialectic of revolution for which Fanon was reaching. As Nigel Gibson writes, "in contrast to an 'Islamic' nation, Fanon posited not simply secularism but a 'new humanism'" (29). This concept is taken up by Lou Turner and John Alan in an excerpt from the News and Letters pamphlet, FRANTZ FANON, SOWETO AND AMERICAN BLACK THOUGHT. They stress that the culture that mattered to Fanon was not an invented Black past or idyllic utopia, but the new ideas and new human relations forged in revolution: "To Fanon, culture without revolution lacks substance" (117).

Postcolonial theorist Homi Bhabha takes a dimmer view of Fanon's humanism, which he dismisses as being "as banal as it is beatific," reductively equating this humanism to psychological categories like "overcompensation" (191). Edward Said traces the logic in Fanon's humanism, though he fears it has been "too strenuous for the new postcolonial states to actualize" (213).

Nigel Gibson understands Fanon's humanism as the dialectic pulse of "the social and democratic processes of becoming historical protagonists" (435). He contends that Fanon saw decolonization as the process of how a "culture becomes reinvigorated as a FIGHTING culture...(which) rather than valorize 'tradition' seeks to forge totally new relations between people" (420).

Such an engaged battle of ideas marks the entire book and Fanon's legacy. For instance, the relationship of violence and revolution that Fanon developed theoretically is often taken as a blanket justification for violence. But Fanon was a dialectician and a revolutionary: all actions take place in the context of concrete historic particularities. Thus, he writes that the uprisings against colonialism are "not a treatise on the universal, but the untidy affirmation of an original idea propounded as an absolute" (quoted 209). As Tony Martin writes, "the most eloquent testimony to the depravity of French colonialism is provided by the fact that it could have driven a man as desirous of justice and a true humanism as Fanon was to the inescapable conclusion that violence was the only answer" (85).

'ABSENCE OF IDEOLOGY'

This untidy affirmation of struggle evidences itself in the social organization of movements for freedom. Lou Turner brings all the issues together in his article on "Dialectics of Organization and the Algerian Revolution," tracing the organizational struggles of the FLN, showing how the focus shifted from "the new Algerian society to come" to "diplomatic and military concerns" (373).

Turner shows Fanon's revolutionary practice: how he fought this betrayal by going directly to those fighting in the countryside and how THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH was written to warn of the dangers ahead. Turner concludes that the "crisis in FLN-governed Algeria today is haunted by the specter of this retreat from defining the ideological ground of the revolution," which left an "ideological void...filled by Arab nationalism and Islamicist tendencies" (379).

It was Fanon who warned that "the great danger that threatens Africa is the absence of ideology" (379). The voices of the women's liberationists in this book make clear the cost of settling for anything other than totally new human relations and a new society. The battle of ideas matters; lives are at stake.

I knew Rhonda as Ron and if anyone can succeed, she can. I have had the chance to talk with Rhonda and she is a sweet and beautiful person. The book is well written and you can almost feel the struggles Ron was going through. I was unable to put the book down. Good luck and "God Bless You".

This book is a must for all those interested in gender change operations. The personal story is classic for the trials and tribulations of individuals suffering with this problem. It is a story of personal victory told in a sensitive and warm style that all can relate to. I personally met Rhonda on a plane and saw her in transition. She is an attractive new person with charm and wit! I loved her story.

I must admit, I have yet to actually read this novella. Then why, you ask, am I reviewing it? A local theater group that I am in is performing an dramatic adaptation of "The Sacred Fount." I am portraying the character of Ford Obert and must say that this is one of the most thought-provoking productions I have been involved in. I have been told that the novella itself is a very difficult read but, if my experience in performing it is any indication, a throughly rewarding one.

The Sacred Fount is the first great modernist novel, as well asan ignored one. The plot is kind of odd. The narrator, at a weekendparty, thinks that he is observing some sort of vampire-like transactions of vitality between the guests. He spends the next two days trying to find who has vampiric control over whom. Odd, but brilliant. END

This is a great book and gets the children to enjoy science by doing it! The book covers

Light

Day and Night

Visual concept

Bouncing Light

Moving Pictures

Splitting the light

Mixing Colors

Changing Colors

And so much more! Each project it is well explained for the second grade level to why it works. It gives added ideas for further thinking and projects. The book is very easy to read and the illustrations capture the young audience. What a fun book!

I wanted a book that my first grader, who is interested in science, could read. This book is written so a second or third grader could read it. He was interested enough in the book, the pictures, and the science to stretch a little to read it. The experiments are well laid out, with step by step instructions and colorful pages. Each experiment tells you why it works. Great book for kids interested in science.

A fun book to read. Full of real stories of people who sale their home grown plants and vegges. Well worth the price. Read also "Secrets to a Successful Greenhouse and Business"

This book is designed for the small farmer to help create a marketplace for what they produce. It covers virtually every area that produce can be sold from direct marketing, farmers markets, CSA's, and restaurant sales to name a few. He lists the advantages and disadvantages of most plans in detail. He covers how to display signs and produce in the most appealing manner. Of particular interest to me was his discussion of "value added" products. There is an excellent Resource Section at the end of the book with a multitude of organizations that are sources of information. This is a must-have in the home library!

I purchased Signs the Spiritual Sky from Dr. Gibson and I truly
love the product. This version allows me to calculate the emotional energy of any day, date, place or time depending on the movement of the planets. This system of astrology is a bold and visionary departure from the systems that I was used to using. But after I gave it a try, I found that the advise and observations were extremely accurate and concise. I will need to study the system more but this guy is onto something. I am glad that I gave this software a chance. I would like him to add a bigger atlas, ACS or something like that. The online help file included on disc is very helpful and huge. Almost too much information!!

Dr. Mitchell Gibson has managed to produce a software program available on CD (a great partner to the book of the same name) which allows even a novice to produce astrological birth charts or charts for specific events. The entire process from software installation to viewing a chart takes place in minutes; there are NO hurdles to overcome. The charts may be printed including or excluding graphical representations and includes traditional views as an learning tool to becoming proficient in 'Modern Astrology' technique. This reviewer had the rare pleasure of attending Dr. Gibson's 'Modern Astrology Seminar' featuring practical demonstrations of the software and an entertaining lecture explanation of the inherent philosophy. However, even without this benefit, the software help file takes a user through each step necessary to produce a chart, intrepret the chart and print the chart. Professional astrologer or novice, this tool affords the opportunity to expand your awareness and knowledge; you will enjoy the experience Dr. Gibson has astutely provided. Always a pleasure to anticipate the next work forthcoming from this talented man. Ophanim...

Tales Of The Jazz Age is an anthology of classic short stories by the renowned 20th Century American author F. Scott Fitzgerald, who is best known for his enduring classic "The Great Gatsby". Satirizing the selfishness of the wealthy, depicting revelry that escalates into a destructive mob, while offering a sharp look at the flaws of society, and enhanced with introductions to each story by the author, Tales Of The Jazz Age is highly recommended, and this Pine Street Books edition would make a perfect choice for school and community libraries needing to replace worn copies of previous editions.

Tales of the Jazz Age is an anthology of nineteen short stories by renowned author F. Scott Fitzgerald, including "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz", "Dice, Brassknuckles and Guitar", and "Love in the Night". Enhanced with an extensive record of variants, explanatory notes, as well as an extensive introduction concerning the selection and editorial principles of the anthology, Tales of the Jazz Age is a superb edition of classic literature that would grace any academic or library collection -- and is "must" reading for F. Scott Fitzgerald enthusiasts and fans.