Jodies journey is great. Jodie is a girl who loves horseriding, but during a competition something goes terribly wrong. She can never horseride again. But that dosont stop her determination to be a normal girl. By Paul.

This book is great. Jodie is a very strong little girl. She has a horse named Monarch and she feels they are soul mates. They compete in jumping contest and win quite a few. One day her hands and knees started hurting her. The pain got worse and worse until one day she went to the doctor. The doctor told her she had rheumatoid arthritis. Jodie was crushed that she would never ride again. She is put in a wheelchair and has to learn how to live again. This book tells all of her adventures and how strong she is. I could not put it down. I would recommend anyone reads it.

Jodies Journey is an excellent book for anyone over the age of 10. Jodie is a a 12 year old girl who is an excellent horse rider. Not long after winning a riding competition Jodie finds out she has rheumatoid arthritis. She will never be able to ride her beloved horse Monarch again. This book is set in the Adelaide Hills, Australia. Jodie has many challenges to over come one of them being surviving the Ash Wednesday bush fires and keeping Monarch out of danger. Colin Thiele is a excellent author and I recommend strongly that you read this incredible story of a young girl fighting a crippling disease.

I found this book in a used book store - of course, the title caught my eye - and found great, original humor. I recommend this book primarily to close friends and family that deserve to discover this gem; but, the author, Colin McEnroe, really deserves nationwide attention for this great book. Buy this one if you have an sharp, offbeat sense of humor; you'll cherish its comical strength. I agree with the other reviewer - where is Colin McEnroe?

I'm not kidding. This book makes me laugh so hard. My copy is beat up now from years of reading, so I keep it safe and only look at it every year or so. Definitely recommended.

Not that too many people are ever likely to read this review at this point, but this book, which is now totally dated (topically) and which I've read probably 20 times, STILL kills me. Why this guy never put another book out is beyond me; I've been waiting for years. WAY, WAY funnier than Dave Barry or Steve Martin's Pure Drivel.

Explains ths story of the cosmos with sophisticated gorgeous illustrations. Clearly and concisely explains both fundamental concepts & great phenomena.
Double-page spreads that explore a topic and richly illuminate it w/ color photos and drawings.
Three parts: I. Creation of the Universe--explains relativity,
space and time, quantum theory
II. The Grand Design--galaxies and stars, black
holes,pulsars and quasars
III. The Living Universe--Future life, life on
other planets
A high schooler or college student would love the layout.

Ok, say its time to curl up on the couch with your favorite book on the cosmos. You go over to the fridge grab a 40 oz, stop by the tomb of knowledge and browse your selections. This book is the bomb on all that is UNI. You pick this little baby up and jump on the couch with a your drink and get ready to go on a tour of everything observable. This book is just cool. I have checked it out of the library many times. And now I am making it my own. Charts, numbers, stuff. It's all in there.

The book is divided into three easy to follow parts,each with many color photographs and color drawings.This book is an exciting tour of; yesterday, today, and the possible tomorrow of our universe.

Colin Clayton demonstrates that every moment contains the challenge to be real. Pete (a fictional character Clayton has created*) is for Clayton the personification of those who desperately seek a personally meaningful way out of the destructive indifference and nihilism of our commercial age.

Clayton returns us to the human dimension by 'the questioning' until its presence awakens a sense of the plight facing those whose primary hunger is to attain that integrity that lies at the core of what it is to be human. It is his thoughtfulness and decisiveness in engaging the moment with a sense of fairness that is personally restorative to individuals because it brings one to a presence of being simply oneself. No artificial techniques for Clayton, he brings out of the actual moment a sense of being that returns one to oneself.

This is the challenge that confronts us, it is inherent in every moment, and to respond to it requires a sincerity and a kind of bravery uncommon in today's world.

The German Philosopher Martin Heidegger has influenced Clayton. However, with his insistence on bravery and personal integrity as the condition for change Clayton separates himself from Heidegger's need to find one's being in history.

His similarity with Heidegger is in his approach because Clayton seizes upon what is possible in the actual which brings those about him to a transforming decision about how one shall truly be since one must boldly confront one's fears and hopes or escape the decision to be. This is his own way of being that in turn brings others into a similar condition with themselves. Here is an actual face to face experience."

Clayton's approach can be seen to be a product of a learning that is remote from academia and continues to open the way to a kind of learning that has implications for today's society and humankind.
Pierre Grimes Ph.D Academy for Philosophical Midwifery.

"Dr Clayton Has been a colleague for more than ten years..he founded the first Philosophically oriented Drug Rehabilitation Clinic....is one of the pioneers of the philosophical counseling movement. His groundbreaking work in philosophical counseling reflects his high level of scholarship as well as his commitment to contemporary social problems"
Dr N Dianuzzo Montclair State University New Jersey USA

"If the Philosophical approach to therapy can continue to be developed along such lines then it will make an important alternative to traditional approaches which are often non-empowering and a form of thought control, rather than a liberating experience for many individuals".
Dr P M Fleming Consultant Psychiatrist
Wessex Health Authority Substance Abuse Addictions Team UK

I found this book in a used book store - of course, the title caught my eye - and found great, original humor. I recommend this book primarily to close friends and family that deserve to discover this gem; but, the author, Colin McEnroe, really deserves nationwide attention for this great book. Buy this one if you have an sharp, offbeat sense of humor; you'll cherish its comical strength. I agree with the other reviewer - where is Colin McEnroe?

I'm not kidding. This book makes me laugh so hard. My copy is beat up now from years of reading, so I keep it safe and only look at it every year or so. Definitely recommended.

Not that too many people are ever likely to read this review at this point, but this book, which is now totally dated (topically) and which I've read probably 20 times, STILL kills me. Why this guy never put another book out is beyond me; I've been waiting for years. WAY, WAY funnier than Dave Barry or Steve Martin's Pure Drivel.

This glossy, colorful book collects Ron English's great works and accomplishments, spanning his 20 years of using and twisting pop art to subvert itself, popular culture, and commercialistic overkill. Although a painter, street artist, and musician, English is best known for his hilarious - and sometimes dangerous - billboard work, whereby he would covertly paint over hundreds of billboards to convey an ironic, social point, sometimes done so well that the original doesn't appear altered. One of his thoughtful pranks was to paint a close-up of Charles Manson in the style of Mac's "Think Different" ads, to point out Mac's tasteless use of geniuses and great humanitarians to sell their products. Big Tobacco is another common victim of English's talent and wit, and his Joe Camel spoofs are more effective and affective than any government-funded anti-tobacco advertisement.

Ron English's work successfully addresses the Disneyification of America, the blatant commercialism of pop art, the uncontested corporate (and irresponsible) intrusion into people's lives, and the nonstop barrage of advertising that forces itself upon us everywhere we turn. His works throw a stick into the cogs, jamming popular culture for just a moment, so that for the split second you take in his work, you can actually "think different."

A VISUAL EXTRAVAGANZA.I COULDN'T BELEIVE HOW MANY WAYS RON ENGLISH CAN SCREW WITH YOUR HEAD. A GREAT BOOK

Ron English is masterfully twisted. I own four original pieces of his work which are the gems of my art collection. His work reminds me of Salvadore Dali's work with more raw talent added. You will enjoy this book.

The collection of interviews contained in this volume is a great guide to anyone interested in examining the work of Michel Foucault, whose work broke new ground through his sustained examination of the interplay between the forces of pwer and the production of knowledges. For those who have previously read works such as The History of Sexuality or Discipline and Punish, this volume is sure to have many jewels that both clarifies and compliments the ideas presented in those works.

Spanning an important period in Foucault's development the interviews included here deal with essential themes for anyone interested in the trajectory of Foucault's work and social concern, French philosophy or literary theory in general. Themes expanded upon includes discussions of the discrusive role of discourse(s) in shaping the parameters of power and the concommitant boundries of knowledge that such a relationship implies; the symbolic, metaphoric and noumenal implications of the body as both flesh and as a site for the inscription of various repessive regimes; or the nature and evolution of the influence of panoptical surveillance in all of its varied formulations.

Part and parcel to Foucault's thinking in this area is the necessary representation of the body as both a dynamic physicality and at the same time a living palimpest onto which the ideologies of culture and society are written--sometimes forcibly, but more often through self-reproduction and latent self-repession. For those who want to know these ideologies are promulgated in panaoptical society, this book will provide many provocative answers as well as an indispensible aide to untangling the complex web of ideas that Foucault used to explicate the structure of modern society.

The relationship between knowledge, truth and power are critical elements in cross-cultural sociological study. Foucault details the relationship between these elements. The relationship between these elements relates directly to global media. If media is predominately produced in one geographic region and exported to another, power in terms of the right to representation, is automatically usurped by the production of truth, by the production of culture, production nationalistic images, by the production of media. Foucault's writings on the Archaeology of Knowledge and it's relationship to geography have a direct relation to geo-political structures and their interdependency with media forms and media audiences. Institutions, such as universities, which reinforce their own forms of knowledge, are likewise either undermined or reinforced by media forms. The relationship between these social components is never neutral, according to Foucault.
"Power is employed and exercised through a net-like organization. And not only do individuals circulate between its threads; they are always in the position of simultaneously undergoing and exercising power." Power is much more abstract, by Foucault's definitions than any previous theorists described it. It is not necessarily a conscious, intentional application of force. Power can be the relationships between components of a society or the relationship between societies. This very subtly makes the analysis of power, more complex and yet more engaging.
Media continues the construction of knowledge. Universities and other such institutions begin the process and sanction it -- provide it "an expert system" by which it is validated. However, the media reinforces this validation by replicating it in mass quantity. The media can, likewise, have the opposite effect, depending on its representation. If a given BBC program highlights the academic excellence of Harvard University, but bemoans the loss of academic excellence in al Azhar, for example. Then the media is undermining the construction of knowledge and the institution of al Azhar while simultaneously reinforcing the disequilibrium of political and economic structures surrounding al Azhar. Foucault's Power/Knowledge provides the platform from which to analyze these transformations.

(Before I begin, if you're looking for Foucault's analysis of the specific intellectual v. the universal intellectual, you can find it here in Chapter 6).

Read Power/Knowledge after you have a general understanding of Foucault's themes. This compilation does an excellent job in clarifying Foucault's vocabulary, and provides a rich assortment of analyses of his critiques of law, historical methodology, culture, science, and political economy.

It's difficult to describe this book briefly. Power/Knowledge provides a series of brief exploratory peeks that probe the whole body of Foucault's work. A central theme is his attack on traditional political interpretations of history. Foucault's unique mode of historical analysis rejects the methodology that has allowed many historians and philosophers to get away with teleological or over-generalized understandings of historical periods. With Foucault, revered thinkers like Locke, Hobbes, Marx, and Freud suddenly seem immature: their grand theories of human history are shown to be totally unsatisfactory.

Another theme is the mutual presupposition of power and knowledge. All knowledges are historically contingent and culturally specific; each society has a general regime of truth that establishes the criteria for determining what is true and what is false. Seemingly neutral knowledges such as criminology, biology, psychiatry, and physics are often strongly influenced by struggles. For example, France's adoption of the metric system was brought about by the French Revolution, rather than by any neat internal developments within the study of physics.

On the other hand, however, knowledges always have concrete effects on the operations of power. In his books, "Madness and Civilization," "The Birth of the Clinic," "The Archaeology of Knowledge," "The History of Sexuality," "Discipline and Punish," and "The Order of Things," Foucault has analyzed the way the human sciences (as well as discourses on sexuality and delinquency) have produced new objects of study and control. For Foucault, the "criminal," the "population," the "soul," "madness," and "sexuality" all came into existence at the moment of their theorization. As such, that which thinkers often "create" rather than "discover" the truth.

It is important to remember, however, that Foucault is not denying that there is absolute truth. He is simply analyzing the contingency and cultural sepcificity of all truth claims, and analyzing how these truths are more than just transparent ideas. Ideas do things; they can liberate; they can enslave. They can have massive effects on the level of practice. That is why truth is dangerous (although not necessarily "bad"), and why critique such a powerful force for change.

this author writes historical fiction like nobody else. the problem is you cannot find his books. he wrote four books starting with the winds of sinhala. i was able to get the last book of the set called "The Last Sinhala Lion". i cannot find the two middle books. he also wrote a great book called "Taj", about india and the mogul who built the taj mahal.if any body reading this review can tell me where to find the two sinhala books i would be greatfull

One of the best books I have ever read. I felt transported back in time as if looking through a spy glass at trurbulent events occuring during the lifetime of the Great King. I made a trip back to Sri Lanka shortly after I read this book and as I was walking on the stone slabs around the Sri Maha Bodhiya I could almost see the Great King lying there on his death bed. I have been trying in vain to locate Colin De Silva's other books on the internet and haven't had much success.

This book has to be one of the best I read. With works as this, I am proud to call myself a sinhalese.

Mr.DeSilva takes the reader on a mixed journey of historical reality and fiction....so closely bound that one looses track.

It was originally titled The Space Vampires. The copy I read had a picture of a seductive woman on the cover with fangs and a trickle of blood. I put off reading it for a while because I thought it would be cheesy.

However I was pleasantly surprised. While the movie wasn't bad, and was visually stimulating (especially the female "vampire), the book is much better. It contained more detail and contained many significant plot threads that were omitted from the film. If you have a chance to read this book, do so. I also enjoyed The Mind Parasites, also by Colin Wilson.

Nine years after first attempting a Lovecraftian sci-fi novel in The Mind Parasites, Wilson made another stab at essentially the same plot, and wrote it much better, as The Space Vampires (Lifeforce). The major difference between the two - aside from a noticeably more mature approach in The Space Vampires - is the addition of plentiful story-required sex.

Wilson's plots never move briskly, but they often make up for it by being intellectually engaging. The Space Vampires is a quick and interesting read, contrasting extraterrestrial criminals with the more common garden variety found on Earth. Discussions abound on predation, and the precise nature of sex in general.

Filmed as Lifeforce in '85, the movie retained the basics of the plot, but went inexplicably overboard in directions Wilson wisely avoided. It is still a watchable movie, but not as good as Wilson's original novel.

It has an unusual twist that the film barely explored....no zombies but a solid story of an ancient race who use sex/life-energy as their 'blood' of choice.

Quiet Light is a large format book (12x13 inches) containing 51 duotone plates of John Sexton's photographs taken 1974-1988. The title refers to the naturally "quiet light" of dawn and sunset which provided the illumination for the photographs within. The photographs are mostly of the natural world and range in perspective from close-ups of plants to sweeping landscapes. Some of the photographs are excellent, some mediocre, but the collection really conveys a specific mood and gives the viewer a strong sense of the style and themes of John Sexton's work during this period of time.

The quality of the paper is very good. It is difficult for me to comment on the quality of the reproductions because I haven't seen the original prints of any of them. In looking at the plates closely, it seems to me that some shadow detail has probably been lost. That always seems to be the case in fine arts photography books.

I particularly appreciate the technical information that Mr. Sexton thoughtfully provides toward the back of the book. The type of camera, lens, filters, film, exposure, and development information are given for every photograph. This will answer all of those "how did he get that shot" questions that every photographer, casual or pro, will inevitably ask himself/herself.

A worthy addition to any collection of nature photography or fine arts black-and-white books. A great introduction to John Sexton's work. A nice synopsis of his work from this period.... And a fine choice of adornment for your coffee table as well.

what is unique about his work...beyond the technical expertise...is the newness of the work....most of the images avoid the cliches and thus fill a void in large format photograhpy...which has a tendency to become repetitive...many of the images are totally new to me, i think he did some work in finding unique material

John Sexton is a master--but you already knew that. His photographs show both a deep technical understanding of the medium and an eye for visualization that I envy even more. Every time I open Quiet Light I want to rush out with my 4x5. That is; after I've turned the last page of this magnificent book. If you practice the Zone System, this volume is a must. If you do not, this book will make you want to. If you enjoy looking at photographs that make the hair on the back of your neck stand on end, this book is for you too.