While I found this book to be an informative "survey" of Muslims in America, I felt that it was quite shallow in its focus. For instance, the book relied very heavily, it seemed, on the Nation of Islam, when, as Barboza knows, most Muslims consider them outside of the pale of Islam AND most Muslims are not a part of that organization. Also, the two people he chose as representative of the Sufi path are considered by many Muslims (and Sufis) to be on the fringe. I felt he could have spoken to more women, and more "regular" Muslims. It also seemed like the book was "star struck" in that there was so many celebrities or members of Elijah Poole's family. It would be interesting to see a follow up or another set of interviews.

A great book about Islam & Muslims especially African-American muslims. I really enjoyed the interview format as well as the listing of 99 names & attributes of Allah in the back of the book.This book has great interviews from a diverse range of American muslims. From African -Americans to Native-americans and everything in between.Sunni,Shiah,Sufi and also a Ismali all are presented in this book.For those who know a little about the American Muslim community there is special treat!!! A interview with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson.

Well with a title like American Jihad i thought i was getting something different, but I guess it was a better buy than i thought because it really changed what i thought about islam and muslims in general. I really don't know what to say about it other than it is worth getting if your open minded enough to gain something out of it. I very much suggest getting it.

BLACK PEARLS is one year's worth of daily meditations. The collection touches almost all motivational subjects. Reading it is a positive way to start the day. It's very inspirational. Written for African Americans, but good for anybody.

This black pearl appreciates Eric's ability to caputure the true essence of black love. The selection of poems was superb. I laughed, I cried but most of all I reflected, on what love meant to me. With Valentine's Day around the corner, this book was right on time. Thank you Eric...

This is a great book to read at the start of everyday. It can be read by anyone of any heritage or ethnic background, it applies to anyone and everyone. Its one of those books that "makes you go hmmmm."

I am interested every thing about Roof Garden for example about soil ,irregation,countaner,new system,all phd teses program,etc .

A gift from a mother to her newbie gardener son, this is the best text I've sampled so far on container gardening how-to. It's essentially an ornate lesson planner slash visual catalog. Being overwhelmed by the variety of choices available to a novice, this book takes the direction of showing you the authors own display ideas, along w/ information on number of plants needed, initial planting steps, container size information, and how large the display will get. Granted, my choices are a bit light starting my garden in the winter chapter, I'm still very enthusiastic about recreating some of his pieces: minty evergreens and red winter berries. The large, glossy, full color photos effectively help to give an idea of size, scope, and often texture of the displays, as they contrast their containers. As mentioned in another review, his eye for color, and his knack for matching the pots to their plants are very impressive. The printing I have is from 1995; perhaps the 1998 version has added a few new items. I found this an excellent primer for the beginner.

Best container gardening book I've ever seen. The way the Author uses colors can be reapplied not only to containers but also in your backyard. The way the author classifies the book into seasons are also enjoyable.

Hear Us O Lord contains a variety of story forms which Lowry attempted, and some themes which will be familiar to readers of his other works. Such stories as The Forest Path to the Spring and others are an integral part of his ouevre. A wonderful story about the dungeons of Pompeii - forgive me forgetting the story name for I've lost my copy - is the other highlight of the book. Even where the story is secondary to the form, as in Through the Panama, Lowry achieves some success - we must remember the time at which these stores were written, and I don't think I've seen this type of experimentation dating from this period. On the whole HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, I've only given just 3 stars because of its flaws. If you;re lucky enough to find a copy, maybe you;ll get the beauiftul cover of a woodcut with Christ ushering in the rainstorm in the distance.

Although I read this book years ago I still think of it often. The Forest Path to the Spring, read today, is very much a story about how to live out of the media, out of consumerism, out of materialism that consumes contemporary society. And suggests how to be content; suggests alternatives to corporations or churches defining your life and your happiness for you(Selling you a life, as Marcuse would say). And this is exactly why we read isn't it? We read to seek the answer to lifes most important question - "What is worthwhile?". In a beautiful story Lowry tells us what he found worthwhile on The Forest Path to the Spring.

Certainly the centerpiece of this collection is the novella "The Forest Path to the Spring," perhaps Lowry's only work to offer redemption. It's the counterpoint of his Under the Volcano, the Paradiso to Volcano's Inferno. In a "northern paradise" like that daydreamed by Yvonne in Under the Volcano, (and like the Lowrys' own Dollarton beach shack) the narrator faces his demons and routs them. Like Thoreau, he learns to live deliberately, to see the world itself. Lowry's descriptions of the Canadian wilderness are lyrical without being fanciful; instead of the internal phantasmagoria of Geoffrey Firmin's haunted mind, "The Forest Path to the Spring" gives us a real forest, real stars, a real spring. The story can be read as fiction and as a meditation on the nature of reality. It's Lowry's most mature work and, if not his best, a close second to UTV. The other stories in the collection, often featuring Lowryesque writer-protagonists, play with conjunctions of art and life. In the metafictional "Through the Panama," snippets of history, travelogues, poems, and children's songs weave throughout a journey through the Panama canal. In other stories, an author unexpectedly meets, in a zoo, the elephant who inspired his best-selling comic novel, and a disillusioned writer finds "strange comfort" in the impoverished and unhappy lives of Keats and Poe. Ironically, most of the pieces in "Hear Us O Lord" were not published in Lowry's lifetime. Those that were ("The Bravest Boat") are the weaker links in the collection, tamer and more traditional than one would expect from a writer of Lowry's wild talents. Perhaps, again like Poe, he was an artist in advance of his time.

I've read this book for school. All I can say is 2 words: BUY THIS! Jeffery is a great guy. This book has a cool plot! Who knew fasting and not leaving a house could- Oh, dear. I don't want to spoil everything. Look, just get this book, You and your children will enjoy it! See ya later :)

I loved this book. I thought it was wonderful, I espically liked it because I could relate conciderin I"m hindu just like Jeffrey (Ganesh) was

"Ordinary Magic", originally published as "Ganesh" almost twenty years ago, is an absorbing and touching story of an American boy, born and raised in India, who must "return" to the United States after both his parents die. When the book opens, Jeffrey "Ganesh" Moore is fourteen. His mother has been dead for five years, and his father is suffering from heart disease. In the first third of the book, we are introduced to Ganesh's life as an "Indian" villager and accompany him through his father's death and funeral. The remainder of the book concerns what happens to Ganesh after his father's death-- his lonely trip to the River Cauvery to spread his father's ashes and his move to the U.S. Ganesh's somewhat rough acclimatization to American culture is perhaps no more than a reader might expect, but what charms about this book is not that Bosse is trying to wow us with an unpredictable plot, but rather that he enters so clearly into the mind of a fair-skinned, blue-eyed boy raised as a Hindu and depicts so clearly the conflicts such a boy would likely have on coming for the first time to his "native" land. Ganesh is a strong and likeable character, and "Ordinary Magic" is a thoughtful and delightful book for readers from age 10 or so and up.

When I started reading this book, I was very interested in it -- I loved the author's writing style, and it really wrapped me into the story. This lasted for about 10 pages, at which point I started thinking, "When's he going to get to the point?" I stopped thinking of the writing as beautiful and started thinking of it as expositional filler, the words of someone writing so he can read his own words. I tried to stick with the book, thinking that eventually I'd find something interesting again, but I was disappointed. If you're at all curious about this book, I suggest you try interlibrary loan and save your cash.

A unique book; entertaining, funny, puzzling, but what does it all mean? Perhaps there are no easy answers. If you're prepared to do your share of the work, this book will take you on a fascinating spiritual journey. It's compelling on the first read - but more enjoyable each time you return to it, because that's when the different layers of this multi-faceted tale really present themselves.

Plutarch argues in a dialogue in "Moralia" that animals are able to reason, including pigs. Malcolm Mitchell would agree. He has devoted a slim book of voyage and meditation to the theme of wise and stupid animal beings. It is called "The Hog's Wholey Wash" (the quote marks are part of the full title). The long title says it all: "A Complete Allegorical Manual on Consciousness & Cosmos, with Vindication Sublime of that Most Maligned Terrestrial Species or `The Hog's Wholey Wash.'"
* The book is the ideal bedside companion, being written in short, four-page sections. It is also the perfect gift for the jaded friend who has read everything. (Mind you, the tastes of the friend have to be really jaded, for the language here is "superswineishly" slipper and sly, Joycean, Gurdjieffian, neologismically inventive. There is a lot of humour here amid the "higher" wisdom. One never knows what the next sentence will bring.
* The way Virgil led Dante through a hierarchy of worlds, the "Pig-Being" leads us through all the worlds that are, instructding us along the way. Here is one pig that is garrulous, but no boar, being closer to Plutarch's philosopher than it is to the sty-variety. In fact, Malcolm Mitchell's pig is in a class by itself, the dispenser of unlikely wisdom to the animal nature that hogs the limelight.

A book where you wish terminally ill kids to hurry up and die? A dying kid masturbating on the monirail at Walt Disney world? What else can I say. A really disturbing bit of fluff

There's nothing quite like the experience of readiing a Stanley Elkin novel. The bizarre events, the over-the-top characters, and the sentences -- long, winding sentences filled with tangential details and parenthetical clauses, sentences which tumble and turn, drunk on themselves, but which somehow by the end all manage to add up.

The Magic Kingdom has all of the virtues of Elkin's other great books, as well as an irresistible premise: a man who mourns his dead son by taking a group of terminally ill children to Disney World. It's as unsentimental as such a story could possibly be, and though the characters all certainly have annoying qualities, by the end the children possess a nobility which is far truer than the superficial good intentions of the adults around them.

Certainly, this will not be a book for everyone. If you only want a straightforward story with sympathetic and coherent characters, look elsewhere, for The Magic Kingdom is a sort of cross between Virginia Woolf and Monty Python. If, however, you are able to keep your imagination open, appreciate wild flights of language, and don't mind moments where you aren't sure whether to laugh, cry, or throw up, then this book is for you.

If you want sentimental garbage about dying kids and them being perfect little angels, don't buy this book, watch Oprah. On the other hand, if you want a book that is totally unsentimental, yet extraordinarily heartbreaking, about dying kids who are fatally human, not angels, then get this one and quick!

Aldring give us his insides in the Apollo 11 mission. His personal toughs about the Space Program the feelings of been one of the firsts to walk on the Moon. This is a must reed for any enthusiast of the Apollo Program.. You can relive the Gemini 12 space walk and the trill of the trying for the historic Apollo 11 mission

The author of this book went to the the moon but unfortunately the book still lurches in Earth orbit. Yes, the book is hard to get and my grateful thanks to Amazon for getting me a copy. Despite the splendor of the subject matter the book was a tough read. Too dry, too technical, too lost in words. Where was the personal touch? Where was Aldrin's inspiring rehabilitation from alcholism, the personal difficulties, the controversy over who would walk first on the moon. The latter makes it in print, but only just, and one can't quite help but feel with much selective editing. For real space buffs only.

This book is almost as good as Buzz's first book--Return To Earth from early 70's. Dr. Aldrin at least takes his time and makes the effort to share the Apollo 11 experience with us and also what was happening [space related] in America and in RUSSIA during Cold War/ Space race era, and compares the two " superpowers'" and what was happening at both places at same time intervals in the 60's. Much research and time spent in book

I was very ,very disappointed with this book , to be honest I thought it was un impartial study of God's revival through out the ages , fill with facts and little 'I thinks' The name is quite 'catchy' , but the information is pure Baptist and if you are Baptist and are not interested about the facts of Pentecostalism and the Last revival specially on the faith movements and it does not mention at all great men of faith'this book will keep you blind to the facts of the last age faith movement'
Sorry. I wish a could get my money back!(from the author,That is)

Firefall, written by two godly Baptist professors is a through treatise of the History of Revivals from Biblical Days to the present. Being Baptists they abbreviate the Pentacostal experience in many of the Revivals. In particular they give the Toronto Blessing a very short and inadequate discussion. They do bring out many events in the fundamental - evangelical world that are very interesting and not pentecostal. All in all a good read.

This work does an excellent job in allowing the student of awakenings a historical overview. The book's most salient features are its breadth of history and its applicable points of history for the twenty-first century.

Although this book gives the reader much useful information on GSM, the style is poor and and needs editing by Artech House. when I first read the book I got out my marker pen and delated large sections of useless text. The explanation of Channel Coding and Signalling, 5.14.4, started by saying 'The passengers (user data) in an airplane may have all paid full fare, the plane may be safe, and the accomodations exceptional, but nobody is going anywhere without the a pilot and crew (signalling data). The book is still in my bookshelf as it is a handy reference manual on GSM, but I am sure there are better books on GSM out there.

This book is a good entrance to the GSM world and can still serve as a quick handbook for GSM.
But the main problem is with the additional unnecessary text that some times can distract the reader away from the technical point being explained.

This book gives a detailed information about GSM. I can recommend this book for beginners.