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The first part of the book seeks to present successful educational administration approaches for primary and secondary school students. It attempts to open new vistas of Divine understanding by examining the concept of Karam through academic exploration and current religious theology. Analyzing my life's experience I delved deeply into Life's realities to find out how these can be made advantageous for successful and satisfied existence. Thoughts, customs, the environment and what the Buddhists call "Karmic Residue" are the most potent factors directing the unfolding of not only everyday existence but the Gestalt of Life. All the vagaries of living in this world may be understood with deep, unemotional and careful consideration. Everything has a cause. Nothing remains hidden if one carefully considers all factors that impinge on a phenomenon, and weighs it wisely and dispassionately. The second part of the book is intended to open different vistas of comprehension so that an individual may see very clearly that nothing is magical but everything is as natural as can be. Further, the book explores an individual's need to reconcile the seeming different (and sometimes competing) functions of Religion and Science in establishing a combining scientific cohesive understanding of our world. Specifically, noting the current realities in our world, the author identifies the need for a "New Theology" and new praxis, combining scientific knowledge and religious history to protect and preserve the Living Environment.

In this book author Harry McD Persaud shares the legends and folklore of Native Guyanese. His picturesque and accurate description of the lifestyle, culture and taboos of of the Amerindians of Guyana is so compelling that I would not be surprised if the reader is encouraged to visit them in their natural habitat. This book is rather unique in that, perhaps for the first time, a non-native and an Indo-Guyanese has been privileged to be the repository of these legends, which, in essence, may very well be the highlights of the oral tradition of story telling by the Amerindians of Guyana. The author lived among these beautiful people for many years and earned their trust as an educator and they voluntarily entrusted their prized lore to his memory. The author, with this book, is ensuring the preservation of the vivid folklore and legends of a vibrant culture and is bringing it to the readers of the "civilized" world. He does, however, challenges our accepted notions of "civilization" and poses the question as to who is truly "civilized." There is no doubt in my mind that many readers my be encouraged, after reading this book, to travel to Guyana, South America, to witness first-hand the eco-friendly lifestyle of these Natives of Guyana. And I am further sure that, having visited, and perhaps having lived among them, many visitors will classify their experiences as memorable, enjoyable, and shall be ready to repeat it again and again. With the continuous march of "development" in Guyana and other countries of South America, it is not too difficult visualize that, at some point in time, these Natives' way of life and culture will be hard to come by. But this book (and a few others) will serve to record and perhaps preserve in written format these cultures that have now existed for hundreds of years.