Future Books

A Great book. A must read for all.
It seems we are finally coming out of those dark ages, where we didnt know, but always wanted to know, and finally here it is for all mankind to know.
Enjoy...

A book for the ages, provides insight, and Truth of God's
true Love for all his children. A must read for any one
who has ever asked the question What happens after you die.

Every family should have a copy of this book..

I really loved this book. I am acquainted with books related to the same subject, but this one, I feel, really provides interest for those who are new to the subject.

The introductions to the chapters are very enjoyable. And the spirit lives in the channeled messages are so interesting! Rarely have we gotten such a glimpse into what happens on the other side.

I commend the editor's work for its readability.

I say skip the Forward and the Preface and go directly to Page 4. Begin your journey to the 'other side' here and proceed to be amazed and delighted. This book does not attempt to speculate or lightly touch on the subject of the afterlife and ,in my spiritual opinion, it is nothing less than a manual for any and all who wish to know about it. I found it novel that the author chose to include many messages from historical, religious, and ancient figures. I imagined myself to be reading fiction for a time and then realized my soul had absorbed a great many truths. This is a book of hope and vision presented with a no nonsense kind of clarity by Dr.Lampron. Highly recommended for all mere mortals who long to one day be Celestials. If you liked The Da Vinci Code and want to know more about the original teachings of Jesus, this is the book for you.

I have always been fascinated with life after death. Ever since I was a child I have been reading every book I could get my hands on regarding the spirit world. Among all the books that I have read, this one is my favorite. The material is so personal and vivid. Each chapter contains personal letters from spirits discussing their experiences after death. It's not simply the bright light at the end of the tunnel. Some spirits speak of darkness and their unhappiness while others speak of beautiful landscapes and marvelous homes and the purity of God's Light shining down upon them. They all speak of progression and how their happiness keeps increasing. They speak of soul mates and a great love that infuses their souls. The information is empowering and is not only relevant to life after death, but has practical applications in developing your spiritual senses and your soul here on earth. I highly recommend this book to everyone who is open to learning more about the spiritual side of themselves and who is curious about life after death.

I have been strongly recommending the series of workflow handbooks to my students and colleagues as an excellent guidebook. The workflow handbooks give us diverse research and development issues and status in the worldwide workflow and BPM arena.

I am an author of one of the chapters in the book. While working on a number of internet protocols around workflow and BPM, I needed a way to get non-formal helpful descriptions of different standards into practitioners hands. I chose to include the chapter in the workflow handbook because as far as I can tell, it is the only compendium of current BPM and workflow material available. Many of the experts in the field have articles in the book. If you have a basic understanding of business process systems, and you need to dig a little deeper and get up to date on the latest developments, this book is a good way to come up to speed quickly.

I found the handbook to be extremely insightful in terms of forward-looking workflow research and current endeavors, particularly wrt web-related and adaptive processes. Overall, a great continuation in breadth and innovation to the handbook series.

Workflow Handbook 2004 is perfect for someone in my position. I am trying to get up to speed in workflow technology, for I believe it will totally revamp IT and the way business is performed. Most books in the field offer one author's opinion, but the Handbook provides dozens. Plus, it provides the definitive work on BP notation and other fundamentals. The Appendix contains a veritable who's who in the workflow community. This book will come in very handy here at the Workflow Institute.

The 2004 Workflow Handbook is a critical reference for both newcomers to, and seasoned professionals of, workflow and business process management. Among the most dynamic techno-business developments of recent years, workflow and BPM promise to rewrite how companies develop, manage and change core processes, driving greater productivity, agility and ROI, and improving competitive edge. The book ranges from Web services orchestration and `intelligent' BPM, to business process outsourcing, workflow-based business monitoring, standards, and new market opportunities for BPM, to name just a few of the topics. The authors - some 50 of them - comprise a distinguished list of some of the world's leading academicians and technologists in both workflow and BPM.

i'm not sure why this collection is so highly rated; maybe it's because it's the end of the claremont/byrne run.
the tpb is a disjointed collection, which goes from the x-men going through the 9 levels of hell a la dante's inferno, to wolverine and nightcrawler in canada fighting the wendigo, to some x-men fighting mystique and the brotherhood trying to kill senator kelly, to kitty pryde and some other x-men trying to change the past and thus the future.
altogether they are solid if somewhat unrelated stories.

ok let me clarify...x-men 141 and 142, the days of future past, is a great classic comics storyline. but this tpb collects some unrelated stories before and after i guess just to be longer, so it kind of throws off the storyline if you think this whole tpb is one long connected story which it isn't.

Though it's really only a two-issue event with more stuff crammed around it in this graphic novel, everything about Days of Future Past is just plain awesome X-Men adventures from the golden age of Chris Claremont's prolific run on the title. Picking up after the Dark Phoenix Saga, Cyclops quits the team and reminisces about all the events that took place up until the death of Jean Grey, Wolverine gets his classic brown costume for the first time (and gets called Logan for the first time too) as he treks to Canada and takes on the Wendigo. Angel rejoins the team, and Kitty Pryde becomes a new member as well, just in time as the X-Men get a visit from the future, and we get a glimpse at the future world ruled by Sentinels and get to see the future versions of Magneto, Wolverine, Storm, and Colossus get slaughtered. This prompts the present day X-Men to stop an assassination plot of Senator Kelly by Mystique and co., and concludes with a demonic Christmas visit. The art by classic X-Men penciler John Byrne and early art by the great John Romita, Jr. has been remastered here and it looks great, as does the revamped cover by Byrne. All in all, Days of Future Past was one of the best stories from the golden age of X-Men comics, and while not as influential or groundbreaking as the Dark Phoenix Saga that came before it, if you missed out on it, then you've missed out on a great deal.

This are the two comic books that thrust just about every encarnation of the X-Men into a whole new ball game. Did you ever watch the old X-Men cartoon in the 90's where politicians were about to mess with mutants? Remember the Sentinels? How about X-Men Evolution? Sound familiar? What about the first X-Men movie? That's right folks. All these shows have this in common: whole story arcs based on Days of Future Past.

These two comics started it all. It launched ideas for numerous future/alternate timeline stories in the X-Men comics as well. The trade paperback reprints issues 141 and 142, but I hear they added more issues with new printings. Doesn't matter which one you get because to me is the focal point is those two issues. Still getting more comic for your money isn't bad. Especially when they are all written by Chris Claremont (whom I consider THE scribe for the X-Men).

Why do these comics hold so much clout? This was something totally new to comicdom. Stan Lee never fled from serious content, and racial profiling is what you have here. The story shows a future where mutants are stripped of their human rights and are regarded as inferior. The parallels between this story and what happened in Nazi Germany are obvious, but it puts a different angle on the issue that makes it something younger audiences can click with.

The artwork is solid and striking without being gaudy and flashy. The background (future) story you get is going to blow you away. And the "modern" activity will give you the classic team you know and love. There is no reason for any X-Fan not to have this TPB... other than if you have the original issues.

"X-Men: Days of Future Past" is the epilogue to the Dark Phoenix saga, the swan song for the team of writer Chris Claremont and penciler Johny Byrne as the co-plotters for "The Uncanny X-Men," and the arrival of Kitty Pryde as the newest and youngest pupil in Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters on Graymalkin Lane outside the Westchester County Township of Salem Center. What you will find in this trade paperback collection are issues #138-143 of "The Uncanny X-Men" and Annual #4, where the artwork is handled by John Romita, Jr. & Bob McLeod.

"Elegy" (#138) begins with Jean Grey's funeral and ends with Scott Summers leaving the X-Men for a while. It really is the true epilogue to the Dark Phoenix saga and most of the issue is a walk down memory lane, recapping the history of the X-Men from when Jean first showed up at the school. Fans of the series will enjoy recognizing issues from the past (remember Grotesk and the Living Pharaoh).

The Annual story, "Nightcrawler's Inferno," has a demon who is fighting Doctor Strange yanking the X-Men off into another dimension, leaving Professor X and Kitty behind. This one involves a more classical interpretation of Hell, what with Minos and Cerberus from Dante coming into play, but like most Annual stories seems a bloated attempt to do something big as opposed to the much bigger impact of a solid multi-part story (see below).

"...Something Wicked This Way Comes!" (#139) has Kitty being introduced to training in the Danger Room, and Wolverine and Nightcrawler head to Canada to meet up with Alpha Flight and an old problem. That would be the Wen-Di-Go, who they fight in "Rage!" (#140), while Ororo takes Kitty to dance lessons with Stevie Hunter. Then we get to the two-part story that gives this collection its title and which remains a classic X-Men story.

"Days of Future Past" (#141) begins with Kate Pryde making her way through a New York City slum in the 21st century (remember, these stories were published in 1980). She is meeting Logan and wearing an inhibitor collar that neutralizes her power to phase through solid objects and an "M" that marks here as a mutant (number 187 in fact). At the South Bronx Mutant Internment Center she walks by graves of the victims of the Sentinels, which includes most of the X-Men and all of the Fantastic Four. Only four X-Men remain: Logan, Ororo, Kate and her husband Peter, and are joined by a wheel-chair bound Magneto, Franklin Richards and his girlfriend, Rachel, a telepath. There last hope is to change the future by changing the past, when the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants murder presidential candidate Robert Kelly and others. To do this, Rachel sends the mind of Kate Pryde back to the present to inhabit her body at age 13.

"Mind Out of Time!" (#142) juxtaposes the battle in the present between the X-Men and the Brotherhood, with the attempt by the few remaining mutants in the future trying to keep Kate's body alive and away from the Sentinels. You know how this one is going to work out in the end, but Claremont and Bryne know how to milk the emotions. This two-parter is the reason that fans of the series would want this one on their shelf.

"Demon" (#143) is basically Kitty Pryde "Home Alone," as the X-Men go out to a Christmas party. While doing a basic gymnastic workout in the Danger Room, an intruder enters the mansion and Kitty finds herself going up against an alien monster. I would say that the alien monster actually looks a bit like the monster in "Alien," but you will find that there are other aspects of that film that come into play as well. Basically this is Kitty's baptism under fire and underscores that "X-Men: Days of Future Past" is ultimately about the littlest X-Man.

I am in complete agreement with the other reviewer's sentiments regarding the "Dark Phoenix" saga. There's just one problem: THIS IS NOT A REPRINTING OF THE DARK PHOENIX SAGA!!! This is a reprint of the also classic "Day's of Future Past" storyline, which was also penned by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. That storyline actually consists of only two issues, but for this latest edition the good folks at Marvel were kind enough to also include issues 138-140, and issue 143 in addition to issues 141-142. A wonderful collection consisting of the issues that FOLLOWED the "Dark Phoenix Saga". This book also features one of the best comic book battles ever as the X-men face off against the new Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. So buy this book people, but please Amazon, get your act together.

This novel entertains and engages the reader in an easy page-turner, all while catapulting her/him from complacency into urgent and specific actions of preparation for "the worst." Through the unfolding story of a survivor of cataclysm, we see how politics, lifestyle, and relationships with neighbors near and far, all profoundly influence our health, well-being, and ability to survive disaster. The author utilizes her gift for story-telling to challenge each of us to commit to our highest values and act based on those values.

This is a very interesting story of life after a natural disaster, appealingly written like a memoir. Along with the tale of a woman's struggle for survival following quakes, volcanic eruptions and a tsunami that rip through Washington State, is an intriguing sub-plot of political upheaval and the future of the United States. Authentic historical facts and useful survival information are interspersed within the imaginative storyline. The middle-class heroine is someone you can identify with and admire, as she bravely faces the hardships of physical survival, questions about events elsewhere in the country and the fate of her friends and family. Everyone who has felt uneasy about the current increase in the number of natural disasters and in the spreading threat of terrorist activity will thoroughly enjoy reading this book.

This detailed saga with its vivid imagery of life and survival after nuclear attack and ensuing natural disaster is riveting. Rugged WA state is transformed as are the lives of the few disaster-prepared survivors. Woven into this meticulously written, historically fascinating tale are courageous words of wisdom that transcend time and place. "BE PREPARED!" for a read that will leave traces of realistic horror in the folds of your mind.

Many great underlying messages:
Where are we placing our attention and values?
Can we live without technology?
What does it take to......
Well, read the book and enjoy the food for thought

This was a very interesting and quick read. Perfect for travel. I learned a lot about living off the land.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It was easy to read and a refresher for what I already knew to be true. I plan to use it as a witnessing tool and to give copies to family and friends that are not saved because it provides the basic concepts in a nonthreatening way.

extremely good for outreach and to clearly explain our relationship to God .Excellent for small group study.

Where did I come from? Where am I going? Why am I here? Who was Jesus and what does he have to do with me?

These are some of the questions Pastor Ray Pritchard has set out to answer in his book, An Anchor For The Soul. He's done a good job. There are very few actual Biblical quotes here but his book is firmly rooted in the Gospel of Christ. He makes his points clearly and concisely and his book is a pleasure to read.

For the newcomer, the curious soul wondering what it's all about, An Anchor For The Soul serves as a wonderful introduction to the world of Christianity. For the old hand, the one who's been around the church a few times, this book serves as a reminder of what it all means.

I found wisdom and enlightenment in the pages of this book. This book does not have all the answers but it will point you in the right direction. If you find yourself lost and confused, give this book a chance. You'll be glad you did.

First off, I'm a pastor in Chicago. Ray Pritchard is my senior pastor(I don't work for him; I minister at a nearby college). I've enjoyed his sermons for almost 3 & 1/2 years now. So I'm a bit partial to him.
With that said, let me say that this is the first book by Dr. Pritchard that I've actually read. It's very down to earth, clear, and easy to read. It took me all of 3 days to finish it(it's only 130 pages long).
Dr. Pritchard basically tells us that we're sinners, why we're sinners, why we can't save ourselves, and why we need a savior. But most importantly, he tells us what to do to get saved and to find salvation. He doesn't browbeat the reader into submission or to his ideas. But he lovingly explains all that I've mentioned above. And he proves everything he says in this book.
This book would be an excellent gift for anyone and everyone you know that doesn't know Jesus personally. Amen to Dr. Pritchard & this book!!!

An Anchor for the Soul is a primer in helping seekers and new believers capture the essence of new life in Jesus Christ. We use it at our church as part of a Fresh Start Packet for new believers and seekers. It is scripturally based and presents a great help for those seeking to grow in Jesus Christ. It also gives hope to those who are looking for an anchor to base their life upon in a world desperately looking for answers to the key questions of life. It is easy reading, but compelling. I highly recommend this little book as a means of telling the Good News that can only be found in Jesus Christ.

I enjoy how real this book is. While reading the story, you get drawn into the plot because you realize that all the damage we are causing this planet really could lead to its destruction. Aria Kalsan does a brilliant job of portaying the universal nature of mankind, on this planet or any other, and that makes for an exciting read.

i'm not usually a sci-fi reader but i loved what this book had to offer. i thought much of it was beautifully written, and the visions were lush and cativating. i was also really moved by the variety of elements used to create the landscape of the book. i was completely intrigued and wrapped up in it. this book is really really cool!

Aria Kalsan brings you through a projected history of the human race as it expands into the cosmos after fouling earth's enviroment. What is great about this book is the collaboration of writers that contribute to it, all adding different perspectives to the narrative. These stories piece together to give you a patchwork feeling for the world that Mr. Wilhelm has brought together. The book has "hard" science fiction elements, "soft" elements, and even poetry! Very interesting for those who are interested in Sci-Fi that breaks the mold.

From the moment you see the book you realize that you have many surprises to look forward to in discovering the mysteries of the future as the sub-title implies. Besides being taken in by the lure of the sub-title, I found the shape of the book unique and refreshingly different. The Aria Kalsan opens with a thoguht-provoking and deeply moving poem by a poet from Scotland. Jon Wilhelm has done an excellent job of editing the works of 14 other authors from around the world. I especially liked how authors from far away places conceived of a world of the future from the other side of the world.

Tired of Sci-Fi that's run of the mill or based on the same tired old concepts and properties? If so, the Aria Kalsan Anthology is for you. 17 stories and other literary works bring life to a whole new world that is parallel to our own. Each of the authors brings their own perspective, bringing a new science fiction world to life with vivid detail and interesting characters.

This book was perfect for my 8yr old daughter. My son is 10yrs and has Asperger Syndrome so this book helped my daughter out tremendously with the millions of questions she has been asking. My daughter has the option of reading it on her own (which she does sometimes) and also we read it together. We are very pleased with this book.

This is a nice book to use to explain to "typical" kids what is my son's situation. It has examples that speaks to their age. Even without sitting there and reading the actual books to kids, I use the ideas to speak to friends' kids and others.
Very good.

I loved reading this book with my nine-year-old. She really got a better insight into her sisters behavior. It gave us a starting point for discussion.

I am 10 and I have a 12 year old sister who has Aspergers Syndrome. My mom and dad have been trying to help me understand it for years. My sister always seems to get away with a lot of stuff and she embarrasses me a lot. I like this book because it really explains how I feel. I get annoyed just like Emily and then I feel guilty because my sister has autism and can't help what she is doing. This book let me know that it is OK to get annoyed and for some reason that makes me less annoyed with my sister. I don't know why but it does. Emily says that she feels like the big sister and that is exactly how I feel! I don't like worrying about my sister so I don't like it when we do the same activities. This made my mom understand a little better too. I really recommend this book because it is really true. I haven't really liked any of the other books my mom got me on autism because they weren't really about how I felt but this one is great.

This is a sterling work that I highly endorse. This is an invaluable work for people who have siblings with autism; for families; for educators and other interested persons.

Emily's older brother Daniel has autism. She naturally wants to know why she cannot communicate with him consistently and what prompts him to behave and respond as he does. Emily's parents acknowledge Emily's anger, concern and other feelings and allow her to explore. I like the conversations they had. I also like the way Daniel is accepted and how some of his more outlandish behavior is explained and not condoned. Reasonable expectations are set for Daniel, always with the hope of contant, continued improvement.

The dynamics among this family are what makes this book so strong. It is a book that will resonate in one's mind long after finishing the last page.

The scariest thing of all is the thing that you don't know about. "Beyond Seaside" is a story of the unknown. Will finds himself in Seaside, with little idea of whom he is. With little other choice, he tries to begin life anew, but it seems whatever past he has doesn't want to allow him to do that. He and the few people he has to call friends see the best solution is the leave Seaside, and find that it's a terrifying endeavor in itself. "Beyond Seaside" is a solid fantasy of venturing into the unknown, recommended.

I found this book to be very captivating. This is a well told story that intrigued my attention from beginning to end. It contains beautiful imagery with fast paced adventure. The over all flow and imagery is beautiful. Fantastic characters that are filled with great depth and reality to the point that I feel that I know them. This book is a fine example of the marriage between great adventure and depth of it's characters.

This book was such a great read! I had a really hard time putting it down; had time allowed, I could have finished it in one sitting. More than anything, I loved the way the author helped me know each character. They were brought to life for me and I came to really care about them!

Beyond Seaside has it all - mystery, intrigue, action, strong characters, AND a message worth remembering. It's a great book for kids, but adults will also find it compelling and hard to put down. Thana Rolph

While reading this book, my 10 year-old nephew said it was like a "video playing before my eyes." In other words, it is very descriptive and easily captures the imagination. The plot is very compelling, with a young man coming out of the blackness of the forest and knowing very little about who he is or where he came from. And the characters are well-developed; I especially loved the strength of the main female character. She is a champion archer who disguises herself so she can compete against the boys at the festival.

BLACK FUTURISTS IN THE INFORMATION AGE is a must read for anybody interested in communications technology. The authors give a lot of information on all the latest technological advances. Probably more than you ever want to know but all the things that you need to know. It discusses how African Americans need to get ahead of the curve and expand their information to the African Diaspora. While there are many disadvantages that African Americans must necessarily face in this country such as the assault on affirmative action, a disinterested market in terms of targeting African Americans, unemployment, redlining in housing and loans, poor schooling opportunities, there are many up-beat reasons to continue pushing forward to make sure that we are not left behind. Concrete ideas for technology savvy are given which is a major plus. Also included is an overview of the change in FCC rules and deregulations.

For the technologically uninvolved it is a tough book but one that helps explain the new world in a reasonable, understandable format.

Reviewed by alice Holman
of the RAWSISTAZ Reviewers

We are at a critical crossroads in the socioeconomic evolution of our society. Technological advancements are changing the way we live, work and play faster than ever before, and now--more than ever--we need someone to guide us. Authors Timothy L. Jenkins and Khafra K. Om-Ra-Seti step up to the challenge in their book Black Futurists in the Information Age....According to the authors, the key to taking advantage of this paradigm shift is KyberGenesis--the futuristic beginning of a major industry movement for scientific and technological development in the black world.

I consider Black Futurists a must read for anyone interested in learning how technology will effect our world in the future. This forward thinking book sheds light on existing and forthcoming technologies and how they will profoundly impact our everyday lives.

For Black Americans, Timothy Jenkins and Khafra K Omrazeti have performed a very important service. With an insightful foreword by former UN Ambassador Andrew Young, Jenkins and Omrazeti have combined their considerable talents and insights to create the case for black Americans to advance into the future using their intellect and technology to create new and untold opportunities for Black Americans. The book is well researched and draws upon the work of successful black technologists and scientists who in the past, leapt ahead of their time to make important contributions to the world at large. This book is easy to read and will serve as an excellent foundation for understanding how we arrived where we are, and more importantly it highlights some of the challenges Blacks will face in the future unless current leadership undergoes a change in consciousness.

Black Futurists in the Information Age is a wake-up call to Black people. It is a jolt toward the realization of the role they can play in the technological age. It is a look at past and future contributions to technology and information, and more specifically how these contributions will effect us all as we enter the 21st century.

This book is essentially an overview of the development and evolution of the Internet, ending with the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft. It was initially published in the UK in 1999, then in the US in 2000. There is some discussion of the intellectual backstories such as Norbert Wiener's cybernetics and JCR Licklider's ideas on interactive computing, but the book is mainly about the birth and growth of the Net. This book lacks detail - and is in that sense superficial - but it works well as the general overview the author meant it to be.

What does the Internet mean for the future? An answer partially depends upon an analysis of the past, and John Naughton's Brief History of the Future is the first book to cover the entire history of the Internet's development, from those who first thought of it in the 1940s to the scientists and engineers who brought it to life. Anecdotes blend with history to provide an intriguing blend of personal and scientific observation.

Reads like a sci-fi novel while providing a solid understanding of how and why the Internet works. At times the detail is almost overdone but this only adds to the credibility of the author. I started with a Timex Sinclair computer and have lived through the period covered in this book without really understanding just what made the internet work. Now I know!

I've worked in the software industry for twenty years, and now I finally have an entertaining, enjoyable book to give to friends and family who don't really understand what I do all day. If you've ever struggled to explain how the internet works, or why anybody would use it. This is the book. I gave a copy to my 77 year old flight instructor, he loved it.

Next time you take a transcontinental flight to a technical conference, skip the airline movie and just read this wonderful book cover to cover. I wish history class in high school had been this much fun. Naughton has written the definitive history of the Internet so far. For example, when the Pentagon asked AT&T to build an early prototype of the Internet for them, AT&T pooh-poohed packet switching as a worthless idea concocted by some young whippersnapper (Paul Baran of the Rand Corp.) who knew nothing about proper telephone engineering. The book is full of anecdotes and funny stories. Great reading for old fogies and young fogies alike.