Cleo And Cindy: What Two Dogs Taught Me About Unconditional Friendship

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Two special canines introduce Dempsey to the special bond possible between man and dog. The depth of their friendship rivaled any human companionship he had known

Your Healthy Body, Your Healthy Life: How to Take Control of Your Medical Destiny
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Your Healthy Body, Your Healthy Life: How to Take Control of Your Medical Destiny
Donald B. Louria
Manufacturer: Mastermedia Publishing Company
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Your Healthy Body, Your Healthy Life: How to Take Control of Your Medical Destiny.: An article from: The Futurist
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Your Healthy Body, Your Healthy Life: How to Take Control of Your Medical Destiny.: An article from: The Futurist

Manufacturer: World Future Society
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Digital
ASIN: B00092B72Y
Release Date: 2005-06-01

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This digital document is an article from The Futurist, published by World Future Society on May 1, 1991. The length of the article is 4827 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Your Healthy Body, Your Healthy Life: How to Take Control of Your Medical Destiny.
Publication: The Futurist (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 1, 1991
Publisher: World Future Society
Volume: v25 Issue: n3 Page: p42(2)

Article Type: Book Review

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The American Revolution gave birth not just to a new nation, but to a new landscape. America was paradise to its native inhabitants, while to the colonists, it was an unlimited land of opportunity, a moral and physical wilderness from which they could create paradise. Powerful people like Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton struggled to shape it to their opposing visions. Over the ensuing two hundred years, many other visions shaped the American landscape. Today, their imprints form a complex layering of messages--past and present, physical and cultural, public and private, local and national--that tell a story of many interwoven meanings. John Warfield Simpson traces this fascinating story in Visions of Paradise, providing a fresh perspective from which to understand not only our landscape but also the way we steward our environment.
Simpson describes the transformation of America from wilderness into an agrarian and suburban landscape as the nation expanded westward after the Revolution. He highlights the role of influential people in this transformation and the critical policies and programs they used to acquire, survey, and dispose of the public domain. He shows how their actions reflected changes in our traditional values that considered land as property and a commodity primarily for functional use.
This transformation in values has yielded a landscape of contradictions: It is at once a landscape of freedom and opportunity, order and disorder, permanence and transience. Ours is an egalitarian and litigated landscape shaped by reason and mobility, he argues, one that reflects our historical sense of separation from and superiority over a limitless land of endless abundance and resilience. These perceptions, he shows, have blinded us to the environmental consequences of our actions and created a people who behave as though they are temporary occupants of the land rather than residents who enjoy a deep connection to the land. That connection, he concludes, holds the key to our contemporary environmental debate.

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very wordy.......2003-03-11

The book has some good content, but the auther him-haws around. I enjoy a good book that can get to the point and drive it home. This book does not do that. It jumps around a lot and is hard to follow in places. I wouldn't recommend this book to other readers.

A Revelation.......1999-06-04

I am not a 'landscaper' in the grand or even minimal sense (tending to let my own backyard become overgrown), but I do have a layman's interest in history. Perhaps for those reasons I found 'Visions of Paradise' to be an enthralling introduction to the history of our American landscape. Simpson was able to engage my interest quickly with his obvious feeling for and sensitivity to our culture's rather short-sighted treatment of the natural landscape. As a native midwesterner I was particularly interested in his regional references but really found the entire volume to be captivating. He truly helped me to understand the national landscape as 'ours' in a collective sense. For the first time I have an informed appreciation of our land and believe that I have a role, however small, in its future. I will never be able to take a trip by car or plane in the same way again - Simpson's book has helped me understand the importance of my examining the nuances of all parts of our landscape, and being able to take a stronger position regarding its appropriate uses (even my own yard, which I am now cultivating more carefuly).

Quick, but not a light read,...........1999-06-02

..it's a great book. The personal anecdotes will speed you through a book more scholarly than it first appears. With the clean slate that North America presented the world upon it's discovery, it's amazing how well it's held up, considering all the different hands on the chalk!

Excellent landscape book.......1999-05-12

Every now and then a book comes along that evokes our experience of the landscape, books by authors such as William Least Heat-Moon, John Hanson Mitchell, Donald Meinig, John Stilgoe, or J. B. Jackson. With Visions of Paradise, John Warfield Simpson joins the group and goes beyond. He offers a wide ranging and readable description of the forces that shaped our landscape from conflicts in landscape values to public policy and law. Visions is a wonderful book filled with personal anecdotes that engage. Anyone interested in cities, suburbs and environmental stewardship hould have a copy of this handsome book

Wonderful look of USA's beginnings, transitions, and present.......1999-03-08

Mr. Simpson's book is an unparalleled look at this nation's beginnings, transitions, growing pains, and its current situation. To understand today's problems and land-use ethics, one must read this book. Through elbow grease, endless research and a fascination with the land, Mr. Simpson has created a classic that anyone involved with the land must read. On a personal note, Ohio residents will find this book particularly interesting, the development of Columbus is used as a typical example of settlement and expansion.

Visions of Savage Paradise: Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil, 1637-1644

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Visions of Savage Paradise: Albert Eckhout, Court Painter in Colonial Dutch Brazil, 1637-1644
Rebecca Parker Brienen
Manufacturer: Amsterdam University Press
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Visions of Savage Paradise is the first major book-length study of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Albert Eckhout to be published in nearly seventy years. Eckhout, who was court painter to the colonial governor of Dutch Brazil, created life-size paintings of Amerindians, Africans, and Brazilians of mixed race in support of the governor’s project to document the people and natural history of the colony. In this study, Rebecca Parker Brienen provides a detailed analysis of Eckhout’s works, framing them with discussions of both their colonial context and contemporary artistic practices in the Dutch republic.

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Captive of the Vision of Paradise
Ivan Arguelles
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The Quest for Paradise: Visions of Heaven and Eternity in the World's Myths and Religions

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A little of everything
Share Heaven and Eternity in Utopian Quest
A Pictorial History of Paradise by its seekers

The Quest for Paradise: Visions of Heaven and Eternity in the World's Myths and Religions
John Ashton , and Tom Whyte
Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Almost all the major religions have a version of the Garden of Eden story, which is studied and illustrated extensively in The Quest for Paradise. The idea of paradise has inspired the human imagination for millennia, and the full-color artistic renditions of life in the hereafter enhance the ambitious narrative. Biblical scholar John Ashton and comparative religionist Tom Whyte span a multitude of religions and myths while remaining completely accessible to a general audience. While readers will discover many intriguing similarities, there is also a satisfying diversity of stories and beliefs. The Aztecs thought warriors spent eternity on Earth as brightly colored birds. In Islam, an "Angel of Death" named Izrail has enormous wings that "embrace the faithful but crush the wicked." Rastafarians believe that paradise can be re-created on Earth if humans learn to commune with nature. Readers can ponder the many possibilities while savoring these beautifully illustrated pages. --Gail Hudson

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In every culture, in every epoch, human beings have yearned for heaven -- the dwelling place of the gods, mirror of our hopes and desires. Now, in The Quest for Paradise, renowned scholar John Ashton and his colleague Tom Whyte offer an intriguing look at how we have thought of and envisioned heaven and the afterlife, from the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, to the Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and Muslims, as well as the indigenous peoples of the Americas, Australia, and Africa.

Lavishly illustrated with extensive depictions of heaven in art from around the world, and drawing on scriptures, myths, epics, poems, novels, philosophy, and other writings from many cultures, The Quest for Paradise illuminates the vast spectrum of beliefs about the world beyond. The book also explores the concept of utopia, or paradise on earth, from the perspective of such diverse thinkers as H.G. Wells, D.H. Lawrence, Margaret Mead, and Aldous Huxley.

Ashton and Whyte present a fascinating array of ancient and modern views of heaven. Included are extraordinary inhabitants and geographical features, representing scenes from works such as The Odyssey, the Bible, the Quran, and the Sukhavativyuha Sutras, and from the works of writers such as Hesiod, Ovid, Virgil, Dante, Milton, and Yeats, highlighting both the diversity and the universality of reflection on heaven.

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A little of everything.......2006-01-21

but not enough of anything. Curious mixture of a broad survey with the arcane. Written by scholars, but vitiated by political correctness. Sumptuously illustrated, sometimes irrelevantly. Amused, sometimes by its own cleverness. A coffee table book on Paradise. A quick read on a cold night.

Share Heaven and Eternity in Utopian Quest.......2005-07-17

"The Egyptian afterlife, like many Egyptian conceptions, was characterized by a contrasting duality: a dark and mysterious netherworld presided over by Osiris, Lord of Resurrection, and an astral dominance, in which sun god Re was supreme." Dr. Ogden Goelet, NYU

Origins and Eternity:
Almost all religions pose the question; "From where did we come, and where are we having our ultimate destination?" with Different answers to these eternal questions. In Visions of Heaven and Eternity in the World's Myths and Religions, John Ashton, a Biblical scholar, and Tom Whyte, a comparative religion expert, take the reader of "The Quest for Paradise:" in a visual utopian journey that explores the afterlife of the Ancient Egyptians and all who followed the mystical quest for eternity since ancient times, from all around the globe.

Visions of Heaven:
Belief systems of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, and Muslims, are probed while ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, Rome are explored to compare the similarities and contrast the differences on the afterlife myth and religious folklore. Greek to Celtic Paradise are linked to the Garden of Delights. The comparative treatment of Adam, Eve and the Tree of Life, is particularly intriguing to those who are exposed only to the Genesis story, while the Heliopolitan Cosmology stands clearly as the origin of the creation drama. Exploring the common historical roots and discovering the mythical fables of Alexander the Great, Gilgamesh, to the ride on Buraq are fascinating. Beautifully embedded with spectacular visual arts in drawings and photos, the book pages look real for the young and challenging for all readers.

A Pictorial History of Paradise by its seekers.......2005-06-17

"Paradise has inspired the human imagination for millennia, and the full-color artistic renditions of life in the hereafter enhance the ambitious narrative. While readers will discover many intriguing similarities, there is also a satisfying diversity of stories and beliefs." Gail Hudson

Afterlife Paradise:
How did traditions develop on various Paradise doctrines and beliefs, sometimes similar and in many ways different? The answer you could enjoy the richly illustrated book that explores these questions about various beliefs in the "afterlife," and its expected location: Paradise, and the journey in between.
Every paradise seems to have a sort of entry requirements, but they are different in nature. While some are limited to brave warriors, other paradises are restricted to the righteous and pious adherents to religious virtues. Although the monotheist conception of paradise, involves a blissful garden with different dwellings, where one might relax peacefully some other human cultures would not figure it that way.

The Historical Quest:
Based on Oriental beliefs, of which I acquired some knowledge it is clear that the authors presentation of Ancient Egyptian beliefs in the after life, their variety, and their development is far from superficial. Paradise lost and regained narrates the Judeo- Christian, history of Salvation from Genesis to John's Revelation. The Islamic concepts of Eden, Hell and Satan is well rounded in less than ten pages. The early Church, of Apostles and desert Fathers is extended into middle ages. The book is concluded with the global Garden: Earth.

The Quest in Word & Color:
John Ashton, a Religions expert and Gardens authority, with Tom Whyte, a comparative religions scholar inform you in word and picture on a multitude of religions and mythical concepts in a legible and entertaing rich tour, integrating information about particular religious traditions with myths and practices from all around the world and through the ages.
The pictorial Quest flows throughout the book without any boundaries, while the subject is developed in three parts: "Immortal Longings," from the dawn of human history covering with Ancient Egypt other ancient cultures, which emphasized the concept of paradise in their search for eternal happiness; "The Eden Story," focuses on the traditional Semitic visions of paradise emerging from Judaism: Christianity and Islam. Thirdly, "Other Worlds," explores ideas; from Utopia to primitive and ultimate traditions of New Age. Fables, lesser circulating stories and myths, are blended with major faiths expositions, and analysis, adorned with beautifully designed insets and vivid illustrations rich in content and colorful in essence. Although proposed as a good coffee table book, due to its vivid presentation, it brings to the table a scholarly content in a non-academic rendering accessible to all readers.

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"From carvings and sculptures to paintings and frescoes, the visual tour of afterlife imaginings alone could absorb readers for hours. Although each segment is necessarily brief and inevitably oversimplified, the broad, comparative sweep across so many traditions and worldviews draws out some fascinating similarities (and contrasts) in the concept of paradise. In particular, the comparative treatment of Adam, Eve and the Tree of Life across several major world religions is intriguing to those who have been exposed to a single Western view of the story." Publishers Weekly

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Visions of Paradise
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Memories and Visions of Paradise

Memories and Visions of Paradise
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Memories and Visions of Paradise.......2007-03-17

I was very disappointed in this book. I had read a book with the same title and by the same author, but it was almost 300 pages long. This book had very little of the information that the one I had read had. I don't know how a book with the same title and by the same author could be so different!

A Vision of Paradise: Robertson Ward and the Mill Reef Club

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Almost the family album

A Vision of Paradise: Robertson Ward and the Mill Reef Club
Elizabeth Ballantine
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Renowned for being a haven of the rich and famous, Mill Reef Club has been an exclusive destination for American millionaires seeking serenity under the tropical sun for almost 60 years. It has been the winter home of the Mellons, visitors such as Jacqueline Kennedy, and many other prominent people.

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Almost the family album.......2003-02-07

This book is very personal--my late mother- and father-in-law were two of the founding members of the Mill Reef Club (they are both buried on the island in St. Philip's Parish) and it's wonderful to study the old photos and see the genesis of one of the most beautiful places anywhere. Robertson (Happy) Ward created something unique and lovely in the club itself and in the houses--the open uncluttered living spaces, the soothing pastel colors and, always, the inviting views of the beach, the bougainvillea, the expanse of impossibly unique blue of Caribbean water. If there is a paradise, for me always it will be the remembered aspects of the club; the mornings under the huge thatched umbrella on the beach when everyone gathered to visit--periodically getting up to walk into the shallows to cool off. In the struts supporting that umbrella were stored flippers, snorkeling gear, forgotten sunglasses, suntan lotion, odds and ends. Residents and guests, visitors invariably found their way to the umbrella--an ever-elastic gathering that was the focal point of the farthest end of the beach from the club. Everyone made the long walk along the sand, back and forth to the club, admiring the houses fronting the water--those pastel creations that looked almost edible. It was an intimation of what heaven might be like. And this book offers portraits of the original members, insight into Ward's creative gifts, and a singular view of another time in another place.

Reaching for paradise: The Playboy vision of America

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Reaching for paradise: The Playboy vision of America
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Apocalyptic Vision in "Paradise Lost"
Leland Ryken
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Captive of the Vision of Paradise.
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Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions (Springer Finance)
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Continuity of ancient innovations in the modern world.

Origins: The Ancient Near Eastern Background of Some Modern Western Institutions (Springer Finance)
William W. Hallo
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Origins is the first fully comprehensive study of the debt owed by modern western culture to Ancient Near Eastern civilization - a debt touched upon by standard histories of the Ancient Near East but never as systematically investigated as here by William W. Hallo. The author, who has devoted a lifetime to the study of the Ancient Near East, places the emphasis on the way the Ancient Near East continues to shape our Western world. He takes an in-depth look at the ancient origins of many institutions that are most essential to contemporary life - and most often taken for granted. In the exploration of the "first half of history", Hallo shows that modern ideas of urbanism and the formation of capital were first developed between 3000-500 BC and that aspects of 20th-century agriculture, manufacturing and trade go back to ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Israel. Special attention is given to the role played by women, arguing that this was an often non-traditional one; for example, women are shown to have been among the first authors in history who are actually known by their names. The scope of the work is vast: Hallo methodically examines a wide range of topics, from the order of the alphabet to the coronation of kings, and from schooling to the calendar. An intriguing touch is provided by sections on games and on the world's oldest cookbooks. This ground-breaking study leaves the reader with a full appreciation of the legacy of the Ancient Near East to modern Western society, in all its aspects. It will be essential reading for researchers and general readers alike who are interested in the cultural history of the West as well as the history of the Ancient Near East.

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Continuity of ancient innovations in the modern world........1998-01-28

The author of this book, William W. Hallo, is a specialist in Near Eastern languages and literature and is a professor of Assyriology and Babylonian literature at Yale university, where he has taught since 1962. According to the author the object of the book is "... to show how ancient Near Eastern innovations or their consequences have survived into our own day and age.", and "To put it another way, I will try to assess the extent to which our modern western world is indebted to the ancient Near East." Although the author links those Near Eastern innovations to developments within Western history and by extension the modern western world, he avoids linkages and continuities to developments within Islamic civilization and therefore by extension to the Islamic world as we know it today. Had the author done so, the book would truly be more comprehensive and valuable. In fact it would have been much easier to trace the path which some of the innovations have traveled to reach parts of the western world. I have included details of the book's contents* for conveying to the reader the rational for its structure and the institutions it covers. Part I, for instance, is based on the notion that civilization's three-leg tripod is based on urbanism, capital formation, and writing. The Appendix is very useful as the author skillfully summarizes centuries of history in a short and very readable synoptic of the three cultural regions which the book addresses. Part VII on Religion is disappointing, as the the Near East was the birthplace of the three monotheistic religions, and therefore a more thorough analysis of the religious contextuality of the region is warranted. It is quite possible that a separate volume would be needed to address this topic. One of the book's strengths is the abundance of bibliographic references cited at the end of each chapter. There are also abundant footnotes on almost every page of the book. This is a very valuable contribution for all those who are interested in tracing some of the contributions which the ancient Near Eastern civilizations have gifted to the western world and to the world at large. It is particularly useful for the specialist or the serious inquirer as a first step for more detailed information available through the extensive bibliographic references. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Introduction; I. Essentials of Civilization: urban origins, capital formation, writing; II. Secondary Aspects of Civilization: manufacturing, agriculture and animal husbandry, trade; III. Refinements of Civilization: travel and geographical knowledge, culinary arts, games; IV. Calendar: hour, week, era; V. Literature: creativity, genre, and canon, bilingualism and the beginnings of translation, the birth of rhetoric; VI. Kingship: royal titles, inscriptions, hymns, royal lifetime, royal afterlife; VII. Religion: the sacrificial cult, public prayer, individual prayer; VIII. Women: in law, in public life, as authors; IX. Appendix- The First Half of History: the land between the rivers, the gift of the Nile, the land of `milk and honey'; X. Conclusion: the legacy of the ancient Near East; Index.

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