The author is a Professor of Astronomy who chose to investigate Stonehenge. He concluded that Stonehenge was a sophisticated astronomical observatory designed to predict eclipses. The positioning of the stones provides a wealth of information, as does the choice of the site itself. If you can see the alignment, general relationship, and the use of these stones then you will know the reason for the construction. The author, and other astronomers, discovered the 56-year cycle of eclipses by decoding Stonehenge!

Stonehenge was constructed from about 1900BC to 1600BC. Appendix B tells how the movement of stones once each year from an initial fixed position will predict accurately every important lunar event for hundreds of years. This computer would need resetting about once every 300 years by advancing the stones by one space. Mankind generally used the cycle of the moon as a unit of timekeeping.

The most significant Stonehenge positions line up to point to some unique sun of moon position (Figure 12). Chapter 7 tell how they used an IBM 704 computer in 1961 to plot the Stonehenge positions (120 pairs of points) and calculated where the lines would hit the sky (p.105). Chapter 9 asks if the Aubrey holes can be proved to have been used as a computer? No, but it is the most reasonable solution proposed so far.

This entertaining and educational book tells about the author's investigations and conclusions. It is a classic science book for the general reader.

Put away all your wild theories and the inept investigations of amateurs. Hawkins has put the record straight for anyone bold enough to keep an open mind. The case is closed, the mystery of Stonehenge has indeed been decoded.

Where have I been, that I did not know this?
I have been to Stonehenge; the highlight of my
2 weeks in England, bought a good little book
as a momento; sat and stared at my photos, and
listened intently as documentaries described
it as an alien landing site, etc.
I'd go "hmm...aligns with the sun...
constructed by aliens...prehistory people
couldn't do that...magically formed by
Druids...hmmmmm." But never gave it serious
thought. It seemed too beyond analyzing; then
I saw this book.
"Stonehenge Decoded" from page one, gave
insight to my sleeping brain.I became totally
absorbed in the concepts revealed by
G. Hawkins. So simple, yet so profoundly
accurate. So meticulous were these early
peoples. I have a new respect and thirst for
how they lived that I didn't have before. It
took an astronomer to recognize what, to our ancestors, were so obvious. OF COURSE!!

I now seek out any book with info on Circle
Stones; some by Gerald Hawkins. History is
TIME travel to its fullest!! Here I go....back
to the future.

The chicken and dumplings recipe alone is worth the price of this book!!! This is true Southern comfort food at its very best!!! If you happen to come across this book at its given price....DON'T THINK TWICE!!! BUY IT!!! It really is too bad that it is not out of print because it really is a wonderful book. You couldn't do anything but benefit from it's pages.

From Tennessee's premier milling company, this book combines the best of yesterday and today. Belinda Ellis Gibson has shown that in her first venture as a food stylist and author she has what it takes to allow the conumer to visualize and almost smell the biscuits baking.

This book is a must for any proud Southerner!

This is a collection of recipes from the famous Southern flour, White Lily. The tips and recipes are the most requested from generations of Southern bakers. These favorites have been updated so they are quick and easy to prepare.

The biscuit recipe is so much like my Grandmother's it takes me back to her kitchen, and fills me with memories of "home".

The black walnut cake is the easist I have ever baked, and has a wonderful flavor. Rich without being too sweet.

I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as I have.

In the second edition of Treasures Against Time there are a series of lectures entitled "Yoga Explained", given by Doctor Lewis during his tenure as minister at the Encinitas Ashram.
These lectures contain some of the most profund utterances about the esoteric truths of Yoga ever put to paper.
It was my distinct pleasure and blessing to have known Doctor Lewis as our minister at Self-Realization and as a counselor to all who asked his advice. This extraordinary man had reached the pinnacle of spiritual perfection by following the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda. His spiritual state was beyond the ken of us ordinary mortals, but Paramahansa Yogananda said of him, "Doctor Lewis not only gives you my words, he gives you my spirit."

Many thanks to the author for sharing the letters and insights into this wonderful family relationship.

This book is unique, written by and about the first western Kriyaban disciples of Yogananda. Yogananda's letters to Dr. Lewis and the photographs of Yogananda are unavailable anywhere else. It is truly a beautiful book.

Simply put, this book changed my life... I was going through a long period (over a year in duration) where I had trouble getting rid of "unwanted thoughts"; basically thoughts that I knew would reduce the level of pleasure I was getting out of any given activity. For example, if I dwelt on X while I was undergoing some otherwise-pleasurable activity - where X is an unwanted thought - my level of enjoyment i.e. my appreciation of that activity would decrease. While I was going through these cycles of unwanted thoughts, the quality of my life was drastically reduced. I'm sure "unwanted thoughts" differ for each person, both in their individual characteristics and implications. According to this book, one should not consciously try to suppress unwanted thoughts, as thereby the thoughts will systematically persist in reemerging. Instead, just "let it be" as it were, and inevitably the unwanted thoughts will start to dissipate. Don't be dissuaded by the above editorial review, as though it is true this is not "light reading" per se, it is very well written and in an easy-to-read format with the layman in mind; and it does not contain a lot of jargon. It reads just like a novel and is quite humorous in parts. I'm not a student of psychology but had no problem with my reading and comprehnsion of this book and gleaned a lot of new information out of it, such as how meta-cognition or "thinking about thinking" works. I hate to say anything negative about this book since I found it a self-help book in the truest sense, but its only feature I didn't fully appreciate was the few charts and graphs it contained, even though they were relevant to the information at hand and supplemented the statistics well. If I were the author of the book I'd have put them in the back. That's trivial, though. In summary, next time someone says "just stop thinking about it" in replying to how you should get rid of an unwanted thought, ignore their advice - then enlighten them.

A wonderfully engaging, cleverly written book about a serious subject. A real delight.

Since graduating high school and moving on to college, I've had significant difficulties concentrating due mostly to what could be described as unwanted thoughts - at least unwanted and the time. This book is the first one I've read that offered scientific evidence supporting the authors points. It didn't solve all my problems, but it has been a great place to start finding solutions.

Here is where Ginsberg's brilliance is perhaps best shown. In conversation, he revealed his passion and sharpness for all topics. His "poems" should probably not be called poems, but instead exercises in poetic freedom, which is ultimately a futile task, especially when approached for the mere sake of asserting more freedom. One is baffled at the mere badness of his poems, which are not in the Whitmanian vane at all, but in the vane of bloated mounds of words. Nonetheless, Ginsberg, the "excitable visionary Jewish Budhist," is beautifully and swiftly rendered in these interviews.

i am a ginsberg fan and so i am biased but this book of interviews is really an enjoyable read. sure some of the interviews are dated but they really show the great intuitive thinker and off the cuff debater the allen ginsberg really was.
especially fun is his debate with john lofton who attempts to bury ginsberg in his born-again brand of conservativism. also fun is allen's transcripts from the chicago seven trial. i actually found this a hoot.
also his discussion on poetics is quite enlightening.
we miss you allen; your shining mind, intelligent wit and your shaman boddisattvic spirit

David Carter edits this compilation of selected interviews with Allen Ginsburg from 1958-96, providing a chronological arrangement of material which in some cases has not appeared elsewhere. The extensive interviews from decades of changing experience result in an excellent survey of Ginsberg's changing life, works and times, and provides a fine commentary on his social and literary life.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I'd give it more stars if I could. It is really enjoyable to read! I highly recommed it.

This is a book that I highly recommend! It is a great Christian fiction romance novel. If you buy it you won't be dissapointed.

Debra White Smith is one of my favorite authors! I stumbled across her books in the library and immediately fell in love with the Seven Sisters stories! I have read Best Friends (the pre-series book) as well as books 1-4 of the Seven Sisters series. I highly recommend this author and these books! I don't know how I'm going to wait 4 months for the next book to come out!

"When Race Becomes Real" initiates a discussion long overdue in America where the subject of race is so sensitive that it has become virtually taboo. Some of the essays in this book touched me very deeply, some annoyed me, and others provided thoughtful new insights. All of them impressed me with their sincerity. After reading these writers' revelations about their own highly personal experiences and feelings in regards to race, one understands that there are many sides to the same truth, and that in order to approach any level of comfort in relations between the races, well meaning people need to be able to bare their souls without fear of censure or ridicule. This stimulating work can be used to open up frank discussions in the classroom or the living room and is highly recommended to anyone who is ready for an honest examination of the unavoidable everyday complexity of race relations in America.

This book made me laugh, cry and everything in between. In the wake of the Trent Lott controversy, I would highly recommend this book to Blacks and Whites. Although there were a couple of stories that were long and uninteresting, I still gave this book 5 stars.

Bernestine Singley is to be congratulated for her thought-provoking, nitty gritty book. She has assembled a group of writers who aren't afraid to make it plain about race, including black folks who are sick of it, white folks who are finally getting it and everything in between.
My favorite pieces are Derrick Bell's epilogue (I have been a big fan of his since Geneva Crenshaw), Julianne Malveaux's hilarious and rather poignant "Race, Rage and the Ace of Spades" (that woman needs to write a memoir or something), and Tim Wise's insightful piece.
This is too searing to read in one setting, but it is the kind of book that begs for discussion. I am suggesting it for my book club and plan to use it at work to deal with some diversity related issues. Check it out!

Steven Salinger's second novel, White Darkness, is a very strong follow-up to his highly praised debut book, Behold The Fire. White Darkness is an exciting urban-Caribbean thriller that represents a refreshing and interesting introduction to the genre. It grabs hold of your attention from the first page and doesn't let go until the last page. It's the type of book that you just want to keep reading to see what happens next -- but also one you don't want to see end. White Darkness is more than just a very good thriller with characters you really feel you know, it's a story of the American Dream, the new immigrant experience and an evil that transcends peoples and cultures. I would have, if possible in Amazon's system, rated this book 4 1/2 stars. I didn't rate it 5 stars because some of the plot was too contrived and because Salinger didn't tie together some of the plot twists and relationships tightly enough. Nonetheless, these minor flaws should not deter you from putting White Darkness high up on your To-Be-Read list. Enjoy!

WHITE DARKNESS, by Steven D. Salinger, is an up close view of unabashed evil perpetrated by sociopathic mercenaries lacking empathy or compassion for fellow humans. It's about Haitian history, Haitian voodoo and the impact of diverse cultures and adjustments that result as life pursues happiness and the American dream.

WHITE DARKNESS is painlessly education, a college course one can attend in your nightie, snuggled in a sleeping bag munching trail-mix and listening to Buddy Guy at the same time. Upon completion, you can wow your erudite friends by asking them if they're familiar with the 4C's of evaluating the quality of a diamond or the definition of words like "naif," and "zabocah".

My only complaint, I couldn't get this book in large print.

Otherwise, I wish this tale could have continued for at least a thousand pages. WHITE DARKNESS IS A MASTERPIECE!!!

It is a pleasure to find a book that far exceeds one's expectations for the Thriller Genre. In White Darkness, Salinger has created believable characters moving through a world which might best be called Caribbean Gothic. How else to describe a story that takes the reader from Haiti to Brooklyn, from the utterly evil Colonel Ferray to the good natured jeweler Moe Rosen? Salinger weaves a tale where we meet Miz Ark, Moe's neighbor and owner of the gathering place of Brooklyn's Haitian community, her employee, a goddess-like waitress, Marlene, who proves to be a passionate love interest for Moe, and a truly delightful character, Fabrice, the Haitian house boy , a brilliantly created naif whose Candide-like adventures and misadventures connect the rest of the cast. Salinger's knowledge of Voodoo brings considerable verisimilitude to much of the action. We are led through a world where things aren't what we expect them to be, a world filtered through the perceptions of a community most of know little about. In a curious way, the Voodoo vision adds a reality to the horrors, the escapes, and rescues that punctuate the book. The observant reader will also appreciate Salinger's subversive sense of humor. But to say more would give away too much and spoil some of wild incongruities and sheer delight intersperced in this world of terror and intrigue.

An incredible book! I was a teenager, safe inside my parents' house, when the blizzard hit Elma, NY, 23 miles east of Buffalo.
Cut off from civilization (not even snowmobiles could access our road), I never heard the extraordinary tales that Rossi related -like the Buffalo Zoo animals running around the city! This, and Robert L. Smith's pictures, brought '77 back in full black and white - a LOT of white.
Rossi also poignantly relates the losses that Western New York suffered from this disaster that still leave repercussions, such as the loss in faith in the federal government's benevolence and the huge number of abortions that year. It is no wonder to me that Western New York spawned a huge number of fundamentalist congregations to ease their pain. And it is no wonder to me that Dr. Slepian was killed in the religiopolitical war that followed.
I've heard people down here in the Philadelphia area complain about this or that blizzard, but so far, NOTHING compares.

The Blizzard of '77

(This column was first published in the December 27,1999 Buffalo News.)

What was the major regional natural history event of the 20th century? No contest.

Lake Erie froze over by December 14, 1976, an early record. This normally puts an end to the lake effect snowstorms created by winds picking up moisture from the lake surface, converting it to snow and dumping it when those winds reach shore. But that winter something different happened.

It began to snow just after Christmas and a few inches accumulated almost every day through the next month. By late January snow depth in Buffalo was 30 to 35 inches and street plowing was already falling behind -- 33 of the city's 79 plows were in for repairs. More ominous, snow depth on the 10,000 square miles of Lake Erie surface was also almost three feet.

Although the National Weather Service had posted blizzard warnings, that fateful Friday, January 28, 1977 started out quite pleasant. There was little wind and it wasn't too cold for late January. But suddenly, just before noon, the infamous Blizzard of '77 hit.

The temperature quickly plummeted to near zero and the winds arrived with gusts peaking at over 70 miles per hour. This produced a wind chill that dropped almost off the chart to 60 below. Only about seven inches of new snow fell over the next several days, but western New York and nearby Canada were also inundated with those tons of snow blown in off Lake Erie.

As one consequence, visibility remained at zero for the first 25 hours of the storm. Drivers found themselves being buried and many, surrounded by the whiteout, were forced to stay in their cars. Some of those contributed to the 29 death toll, dying of carbon monoxide poisoning or exposure. (In another episode carbon monoxide from a snow blower started in an enclosed garage killed not only the operator but his daughter in a nearby bedroom.) Hearing of people marooned in their cars, police struggled over drifts to bang on car roofs. They were relieved to receive no answer because they had no way of digging anyone out.

Ordinary snow would not have been so bad. During this same period the east end of Lake Ontario received almost six feet, but theirs didn't pack the way it did in Buffalo. Here the wind was so strong that it broke up snow crystals and compressed them into drifts that were cement-like in quality. At the same time buildings acted like snow fences causing the drifts to accumulate in some places to 30 feet, enough to bury a house.

The problem became more than the usual too few plows; now it was plows that could not penetrate the drifts. Some broke down, were quickly buried and themselves contributed to the difficulty of opening roads. The state's National Guard and Department of Transportation, the Army Corps of Engineers, nearby towns and commercial firms had to bring in earth moving equipment to handle the huge accumulation.

Seven western New York counties were designated part of a major national disaster area and soldiers were dispatched from Fort Bragg in North Carolina to assist in the clean-up. It lasted well into February.

Although there was some looting and theft during the storm, it was mostly an episode that brought the community together. Stores and restaurants and hotels provided food and places to stay, often free. Agencies like the Salvation Army and the Red Cross as well as city and county departments worked continuously through the emergency to provide services. Individual people helped not only neighbors but strangers as well.

It was without a doubt our storm of the century.-- Gerry Rising

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Note: Most of the information on which this column was based was derived from the excellent book about the storm, Erno Rossi's WHITE DEATH: THE BLIZZARD OF '77 (Seventy Seven Publishing

Does Uncle Sam need some Viagara? Or are Canadians just better than Americans at something other than hockey and health care? Erno Rossi raises this question in his best selling oral history of a major national disaster, White Death -The Blizzard of '77--Millennium Edition. Rossi says that Canadians appear to snuggle faster and more effectively than Americans during a cold weather disaster.

The Canadian birthrate jumped an impressive 18% nine months after a winter hurricane called The Blizzard of '77. The American birthrate sputtered at 3%. Should Uncle Sam see his doctor ?

The answer says Rossi might shock some people. But its all there in his White Death-The Blizzard of '77--Millennium Edition, ... Rossi will be talking about his book, the success of his new edition and how to save your life in such an emergency...