The author gets a wonderful message across to children and adults alike in a fun, light-hearted fashion. Trusting that God will help us through life's trials, and that He will not abandon us is a comfort at any age. Milo With A Halo is a great discussion-starter. The illustrations are clean and bright and children will love the rhyming and repetition the book offers. This book is a great "find." I bought one for my kids, and more to give as birthday gifts to their friends.

To say that "Milo With A Halo" is a masterpiece might be an understatement! Lisa Umina has created a "treasure" of a book, beautifully illustrated by Andrea Karcic, and meant to be shared with the children you love. Lisa's book is an invitation to spend quality time with your children and most importantly, it teaches a valuable life lesson. As Milo takes us along his light-hearted journey to find his best friend, he discovers what many of us tend to forget: that anyone, anywhere, and at anytime can talk to God, and that God truly is our best friend! How rare it is today to find a children's book that leaves the reader as well as the young audience with a very special feeling. On behalf of parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc...............Thank you, Lisa and God Bless You!

The Tampa Bay Bucs and Ohio State Buckeyes are not the only ones at the top of their game. Kudos to Lisa Umina, author of the brilliantly crafted "MIlo With A Halo." This adorable children's book is a perfect fit for children to share with the adults they love (and vice versa)! It serves as a great reminder to all of us, that the lesson being taught applies to all.
As Milo, the lovable little angelic character goes in search of his best friend, he comes to learn that his best friend is God, and that God was with him and will forever be with him every step of the way.
How commendable it is that Lisa Umina passionately shares something of significant value with us, rather than just fill pages with mindless dribble.
Based on Umina's obvious talent and commitment........I know it won't be long before we are sharing more moments with Milo!

This is not another novelty Tarot deck. In fact, it recaptures the true magical tradition of the Tarot as few decks have ever done. I have to admit that it isn't as pretty as the Crowley/Harris Thoth Deck or the Cicero's Golden Dawn Ritual Tarot, but it has something more than either of these classics ... in-your-face Magick!

The four Elemental Tablets of the Enochian system of John Dee adorn the Aces - with the Aces and Court Cards you can construct the powerful Enochian Tablet of Union. The Small Cards bear the names and sigils of all 72 Spirits of the Goetia, and the names of the 72 Qabalistic Angels of the Shemhamaphorash, and the degrees of the zodiac and days of the year sacred to these spirits. Want to project your astral body into the elemental worlds? The Aces and Court Cards display colored tattwa symbols used for that very purpose. DuQuette didn't just throw this stuff on some cards and call it Tarot. All these magical correspondences, even the colors, are organized with anal retentive perfection in strict conformity to the most revered magical and qabalistic traditions concerning the Tarot.

The accompanying book is filled with all the technical information necessary to actually begin practicing Qabalistic, Enochian, and Goetic magick. The deck/book set is in truth...REAL MAGICK IN A BOX. The first question I had to ask myself after reading it was..."Am I ready for this?"

I own the deck and book and i am pleased to say that Lon Milo DuQuette has both met and exceeded my already high expectations of his work. This deck has for me been a valuable tool and and a great teacher of different forms of magick. For an individual who wants to diversify his/her education this deck definately will help. The book that was written for it is also of great help and i would highly recommend it to you. All in all i give this deck a 10!

Best Deck Since Ciceros' Golden Dawn Tarot IMHO, there are basically four kinds of Tarot decks out there: historical decks, dating back to the Renaissance (and their modern re-drawings); visionary decks, ranging from the sublime (Thoth Tarot by Crowley) to the slightly ridiculous (Tarot of the Cats); correspondence decks, which conglomerate various occult symbols (such as astrological and kabbalistic symbols); and magical order decks (such as the Rider-Waite deck, the Thoth deck by AC, the Golden Dawn deck by the Ciceros).

Of course some decks cross over the boundaries, being visionary, including copious correspondences (not just suggestive imagery) and having their roots in a bona fide magical order.

Duquette's new deck is just such a deck; it is weighted heavily towards correspondences, so much so that its author calls it 777 (a famous book of correspondences)on cards. However it also includes very workable images which can trigger the imagination, good key words and divinatory meanings. And, it is the product of a reputable member of a magical order.

The frosting on the cake is the incorporation of the Goetic images and Enochian images.

I think this would be an excellent deck for divination (it works for me) while also conditioning the subconscious to several families of potent symbols.

I highly recommend it.

For anyone looking for a beautiful and useful book about antiques, this is it. Barbara Milo Ohrbach has a wonderful way with words and her enthusiasm about the world of antiques is charming.

I've owned this book for a number of years, and often refer to it when I want to know a specific terminology or when I'm checking out the care and treatment of a particular antique object. Because the author's writing style is so enjoyable, I always end up reading pages and pages of the book and learning more with each reading.

ANTIQUES AT HOME is divided into eight chapters on the following topics: Ceramics-Wood- Silver- Textiles- Glass- Paper- A Personal View and The Collector's World. The photographs are beautiful and I've borrowed some of Ohrbach's ideas about how to display different collections. Most of us can't collect everything, but the lure of old and beautiful objects is contagious and the author communicates that love in her book. She calls it "a personal view" of antiques.

"It is the loveliness of little things that imparts life to a room." This quote sums up the feeling of this wonderful book. It is filled with hints and tips on finding and caring for antiques and collectible. The joy of combing through flea markets looking for the next perfect addition to your collection is reflected in both text and pictures. The chapters cover ceramics, wood, silver, textiles, glass and paper. What ever makes your heart sing is covered in this book. A nice plus is an index listing of flea market and shop locations in both the United States and Europe. This is a book I go back to and read and look through time and time again, a keeper for your personal library.

This book is by far the best and is my favorite of all books on antiques and decoration! And I have a lot of those books!

It's very useful and gives you a lot of options on how to decorate with the antiques that you have on hand, makes you take stock of what you have and cherish them even more and also makes you want to have/buy the antiques beautifully illustrated here! I really recommend this book for every antique buffs!

Kit Carson was everywhere and did just about everything. I must agree with other reviewers and Milo Milton Quaife in his introduction, that because of Carson's nature, the book seems somewhat curtailed of descriptive events. What may have taken a few months to happen, Kit says it all in a paragraph. That aside, he came out west at the age of sixteen to become a mountain man. As time went by he was involved with trapping adventures, expeditions with Fremont, the Mexican War and as an Indian agent. Maybe it was a sign of the times, but Carson certainly does not hesitate to boast about how many Indians he killed during his day to day adventures. This may have been brought about by his upbringing as a young child. The settlers in his part of Missouri where he was living at the time had to "fort" themselves against the activities of hostile Indians. This may have carried on into adulthood. Nevertheless, this was a good book on an extraordinary and remarkable man of the early American west.

Kit Carson was a man of few words in life and in his own autobiography. It is unfortunate that such a dynamic individual didn't write down more! Quaife does a terrific job with the notes. Explaining everything that Carson failed to include. This is a common problem as, for example, Kit Carson will say something to the effect: Fought indians today, and Quaife will fill in all of the details about what tribe, how many, who was killed or wounded in both parties, etc. I am fascinated by how much detail is known of Carson's time. Very readable, my only complaint was that it was too short! The editor has included a nicely laid out index. I found the book well worth the purchase price! BTW, for those of you looking for information on William F. Drannon, he is not mentioned anywhere in Carson's autobiography.

Disclaimer: Kit Carson is my first cousin, five times removed! And that's why I read this book.

It took a while to sink in, but the compelling feature about Kit's autobiography is the editing. There are extensive footnotes throughout that put Kit's text in historical perspective, point out errors in his memory, and round out the story.

He describes his 16-year life as a Mountain Man in almost monosyllabic terms. In other words, he compresses a whole year into a single paragraph. A short paragraph!

But it gets better when he has something to say about his scouting and Indian relations roles.

Why does it explain it all? Because I have this wanderlust locked up inside me, and I've always wondered where it came from!

A wonderful tale about a down-on-his-luck magician who meets an amazing bear. The story is delightful and funny-even for parents. We love the illustrations, the bears telling eyes, the magician's expressions. We have shared this book with many friends.

Children should enjoy this funny and exciting story, written and drawn by the creator of "Dmitri The Astronaut." Milo is a big city magician who can't seem to do hat tricks correctly. He meets a bear in the woods that volunteers to pop out of Milo's hat at magic shows. When the gets lost in New York City, Milo must find him, or his show booking will meet with cancellation.
The story is engaging, and Agee's artwork augments it nicely. He draws in straight, graphite pencils that give dimension and depth to his work. Shapes are distorted to lend an air of authenticity that this story takes place in a large city. Lightly rendered complementary pencils and watercolors give the story an approachable feel. The text is a bit too lengthy for preschool programming, but children will find the story irresistible when read to in the lap of a parent.

Milo is a terrible magician. None of his tricks work, he can't even pull a rabbit out of his hat and Mr Popovich, the theater manager, is giving him just one more chance to get it right or he's through. So off Milo goes to the woods, with a carrot on a stick, looking for a rabbit. He doesn't find a rabbit, but he does find a very friendly bear who is willing to join the act and help him out. As Milo watches, the bear jumps up and dives into the hat, disappearing completely. "You just pretend your bones are made of rubber". After several hilarious mishaps, Milo and the bear finally get back to the theater just in time for the show..... Jon Agee has authored a delightful picture book that is sure to keep youngsters giggling and laughing to the end, as they enjoy the antics of this unusual dynamic duo. His clever, witty, humorous text is only outdone by his marvelous large and expressive cartoon-like artwork that will charm children and adults, alike. Perfect for kids 4-8, Milo's Hat Trick is a winner and one of this summer's best new books.

This is simply tbe best practical guide to the Enochian system of magick that I have found. I got my hands on it six weeks ago and it is dog-eared and somewhat worn from frequent use. I find myself refering to it constantly.

Although by no means a complete reference to Enochian magick (that would be quite a feat indeed!), it covers enough material so that the aspiring magician can get started on operations fairly quickly. This includes several versions of the Great Table with alternate spellings used over the years, and all the basic ritual elements from the LBRP to the different calls. This book also contains a complete copy of Liber Chenoch, which is Crowley's exposition of the Enochian system. In theory, Chenoch is sufficient to understand the entire Enochian system; in practice, Crowley can be difficult to interpret properly (anyone who's argued about minutae of the Gnostic Mass can attest to this); this book clarifies and expands Chenoch.

This book is quite handy not only as a thorough explanation of the Enochian system of magick, but also as a reference when doing actual ritual work. It is by no means a COMPLETE reference. For that, you'd do well to also look through David Jones's work, as well as Geoffrey James's "Enochian Magick of Dr. John Dee." and the "Faithful Relation." If you're looking to do practical Enochian work, then I can't think of a better place to start than with this book.

I wish I would have purchased this book when I began studying the Enochian system a while back (the title put me off and I thought it was some strange digression on the Enochian theme). This book is plain and simple Enochian basics with nothing else thrown in (except for the interesting and brief sex magick chapter)- unlike other authors that include their own personal views and revelations. If you can't understand this book you probably don't need to be practising Enochian magick anyway. Duquette and Hyatt give the basics from Crowley's Liber LXXXIV vel Chanokh outlining how to work with the Enochian spirits and the 30 AEthyrs- very clearly explained with excellent illustrations. They also explain how to color the elemental tablets and the Tablet of Union which I have found lacking in some other texts. There is also a very brief chapter at the end of the book on Enochian sex magick with some interesting illustrations (I don't know why they put that in the title since it is not the major focus of the book, but, hey, sex sells...). There is also an Enochian dictionary in the text with phonetic and English translations. I have had some misgivings about Hyatt's writings in the past but this is outstanding. It does not get any simpler than this when it comes to understanding the basics of the Enochian system.

This is an excellent little book! It takes the complexity of the Enochian system and makes it usable. I can say that this is something many other books on the subject fail to accomplish. Hyatt and Duquette are both experienced and practicing magicians, which instantly comes across in this work, with its "dare to be lazy" attitude. Through experience of my own, I can tell you what the two trademarks of all true magicians are: 1)The ability to laugh, even at the worst horrors, and 2)The ability to throw jargon out the door and discern the heart of every matter while never taking any matter too seriously. The simple reason for these abilities is that by actually doing magick and actually experiencing the magickal universe instead of merely reading about it, these abilities are automatically developed. These are abilities that Hyatt and Duquette both possess, and it sets the tone for this book. If you study its contents, you WILL understand the enochian system, and if you practice its rituals, you WILL be successful, given that you have at least some prior experience in magick. Be forewarned that this is advanced magick, and requires one to be proficient in the basic abilities. The methods taught here are powerful, utilising the potencies of Sex Magick. Enochian Magick in general should not be dabbled with without a thorough foundation. Doing so will either prove useless or expose the dabbler to very real dangers, depending on that person's innate psychic ability. Regardless of what some authors claim, these forces are more than mere phantoms of the mind. They act in a very independent and objective way upon the magician's reality. In other words, they might have other agendas than those of the naive apprentice, and will express these agendas quite violently if their "master" fails to muster the strength to command otherwise. In having said that, I leave the rest over to Hyatt and Duquette. After this the rest is between you and the angels of Enochian Magick. Enjoy!

Take it from the title, "The Wrong Case," is not a happy story. In fact, private detective fiction seldom gets more hardboiled or as down and dirty as this one. Crumley's "hero," the recently unemployed private snoop Milo, is a man shattered by a terrible upbringing and by alcohol. But despite his cynical and distrustful nature, he takes a case he knows will be a loser in a last ditch effort to both redeem himself and to find love. The results are about what you would expect.

Milo is a completely different character than Crumley's other private detective hero C.W. Sughrue, the party animal star of "The Last God Kiss" among others. Milo has been scarred far deeper by life and fully expects to lose himself to his addictions at some point. His best friends are homeless winos with one foot firmly planted in their graves. Brooding, violent and with a perfectly shocking ending, "The Wrong Case" is one of THE great hardboiled detective novels.

Milo Milodragovitch is an alcoholic, empathetic and reluctantly dangerous private detective. His creator, James Crumley, has managed to take what is potentially a rather tired stereotype and infuse the character with such raw beauty and complexity, that I was completely hooked from page one. If you're looking for a genuine successor to Chandler, here he is. Crumley is as cynical as James Ellroy, but not in Ellroy's distancing way; he manages to have an unsentimental character (Milo) nevertheless display that hardest to write of emotions:tenderness. This is a very good book and might even be..gasp.. literature. But buy it anyway.It's also extremely entertaining.

This gritty detective mystery has everything a good hardboiled book should have. A beautiful, yet troubled woman who has entered the detective's office looking for help, the down-on-his-luck detective who talks hard and drinks harder, a city that is in the grip of a crime-wave and a cracker of a mystery that builds to a terrific and unexpected ending.

We are introduced to Milo Milodragovitch and his hard-drinking, drug-taking, skirt-chasing ways. Milo's on the edge after two failed marriages, a failing business and a drinking problem. He makes no apologies for any of his bad habits and is prepared to blow off anyone who has a problem with him. The woman who has entered his office steals his heart and asks him to find her brother who has been missing for the past three weeks. It's a case that he doesn't really want to take, but does because, as he freely admits, she is such a stunning woman he'd do anything on the off-chance she might go to bed with him.

If anyone ever wanted to get a taste for modern hardboiled noir fiction, this would be the perfect book to read. I found myself drawn right into the book and could picture the town of Meriwether perfectly and at times I could picture myself occupying a stool at Mahoney's bar, the imagery is so vivid.

Way back in 1994, we reviewed this excellent little book in our dissident physics journal Galilean Electrodynamics (vol. 5, no. 4, p. 100). Hard copy of the full review is available from the Editor, Dr. Cynthia K. Whitney, 141 Rhinecliff Street, Arlington, MA 02476-7331, USA; e-mail dwhitney@mit.edu. The main point is: "This is an educator's book. It is aimed at students who are bright and curious and not overly indoctrinated. Even quite mature physics dissidents can appreciate this book. Unlike the typical text, it dwells very little on the technical details of established physics, and puts the emphasis instead on that which we do not really know. It gives a wealth of pending research topics and candidate ideas that need to be worked out. "The unknowns are the "why's" behind the most fundamental facts of nature, such as force laws, conservation laws, and relativistic or quantum behaviors. The candidate ideas comprise the author's theory of "space resonances". ..." Enjoy."

In this book Dr. Wolff explains, clearly and concisely, some very difficult and revolutionary concepts regarding the wave structure of matter. The ideas he presents are thought-provoking, yet written clearly enough to be understood by someone with absolutely no background in physics, such as myself. That he accomplishes this with a minimum of mathematical formulas is to his credit. Time will tell, of course,but I believe that his ideas are the sort that future generations will look back upon as being ahead of their time. Exploring the Physics of the Unknown Universe is well-written, well-illustrated, and well worth your time.

My copy of Milo Wolff's book is covered with notations. A wide side margin seems to invite the reader to think out loud as he reads. Mr. Wolff's effort to review the understanding current now in physics and then supply his own creative insight, makes interesting reading. As I read book after book on the subject, the way an author organizes the history, addresses the meaningful, and draws his own conclusions, gives physics the human drama of epic. This is where science and art work together. "Exploring the Physics of the Unknown Universe" invites everyone to enjoy the subject and to think about it for themselves. Its a "How to Book" in the sense one is encouraged to undetstand the problems and then come up with their own ideas as to why nature does the things it does. It does not marginalize the reader from the work of phyicis by suggesting only the few thousand card carrying theoretical physicist in the world are the only ones capable of understanding how this universe works. I like the way Mr. Wolff opens the discussion up to the general public. In view of the fact physics has not yet supplied a working unification model, maybe it is time more phycist like Mr. Wolff encourage new input. Milo Wolff offers, with this book, the lay person, and the scientist as well, a creative tool. Read and enjoy.

Beautifully illustrated and thought evoking story which allows young readers (and their parents/teachers/siblings) to see what an impact different choices make in lives both factual and fictional.

Milo and his mice friends on their very special island find a mysterious stone and then need to decide what next step to take. Pfister gives a choice for the reader: happy ending or sad ending. Very clever and both endings should be read so that children can understand how choices build upon choices both in writing, creativity and in real life.

Great book for adults as well and Grandparents may want to keep a copy on hand for when their grand children come visit.

This book so clearly shows students/children the effect the ending has on a story. It's great if you're teaching students or your own child how to write stories. Just reading it gives them perspective and, with each of their stories, they can write two different endings and choose the better one. This book is FANTASTIC! Get it!

Milo and his mice friends find some glowing, magical stones which led them into making a bad choice or a good choice. This book offers two different endings- a happy one or a sad one. This is a great story for all young children to enjoy. Marcus Pfister's illustrations and texture on the pages capture both children's eyes and hands. After reading the happy ending to my kindergarten class, they could not wait to hear what happened in the sad ending. I highly recommend this book.

Reprinted with publisher's permission from MANTEIA, a magazine for the mantic arts No. 15, November 1995. Published by OUROBOROS, ROSKILDE, DENMARK Reviewer: K. Frank Jensen, Editor and Publisher

Lon Milo DuQuette's Tarot of Ceremonial Magick With this deck we are back to the genuine tarot tradition, back to what tarot was before the modern card reading craze began in the 1970s and the growing popularity turned tarot into a mass medium. Apart from also being a card game, tarot was for about one hundred years, beginning in the mid-19th century, essentially a tool for the practising ceremonial magician. DuQuette is one of these with great experience, and in this deck he has combined the various systems that the magician uses to obtain his goal: Self-mastery, illumination and spiritual liberation.

This deck is a natural sequel to other genuine magick decks, like THE GOLDEN DAWN TAROT and Crowley's BOOK OF THOTH. DuQuette has added more symbolic references than the mentioned decks; apart from the Hebrew and astrological references, this deck also has references to the Enochian tablets, to the 72 spirits of Goetia and to the Angels of Shemhamphorash. The Astrological references are extended to also include the decanates. References to the Tattwas and the I-Ching hexagrams are also included.

What more can you wish for?

The tiny booklet gives only a short survey over these symbolic systems, but a more extended study can be found in a book by the same author: TAROT OF CEREMONIAL MAGICK (Weiser 1995).

This is a fascinating deck. The accuracy of readings is astounding, and the deck will continuously give the same card(s), consistently, during a reading / clarification of a reading. I have always had amazing results with The Thoth Tarot, but Lon Duquette's Ceremonial Magick Deck is definitely the most accurate and consistent deck I have ever worked with.

I wasn't too sure about buying it, at-first, because the artwork reminded me of the Golden Dawn deck, but I viewed the details of this book, via the enlarge feature, and decided to give it a chance, based upon Lon Duquette's other works. Suffice to say, I am thrilled that I made the purchase!

I am really enjoying this deck, and I like the artwork. The artwork is not as detailed and "busy" as Crowley's Thoth Tarot, but it is not as Intense, either...it doesn't beat you over the head with Symbolism. I would certainly recommend Duquette's Ceremonial Deck to beginners, but I would also suggest buying a few books about The Goetia, to understand the whole concept.

The Ceremonial Magick Tarot is surprisingly colorful, bright, humorous and intriguing. Duquette's personality comes through in this deck, and his long years of Research are embedded in the cards, as well.

Normally, I need to tune-up a deck and work with it a while, to tune-in to it's vibe...but, this deck spoke to me, the moment I broke the seal.

I believe this deck will be a great asset to anyone already using Crowley's deck, but it will also be a great Beginner's Deck. Of all my Tarot Cards, this Deck is in my "Top 3" favorites (the ones I use the most)--and has shifted to a position above "The Masonic Tarot."

This book is a wonderful guide to the Ceremonial Tarot Deck, I recommend purchasing them simultaneously.

"It is not my intention to lure you away from any tarot deck you may currently prefer, but to help you understand the incalculable power and significance of whatever deck you may be using."...Lon Milo DuQuette... The Tarot of Ceremonial Magick (U.S. Games) is not just another novelty tarot deck and the ground-breaking companion book by the same name is more than just a book about tarot cards. It's author and creator, Lon Milo DuQuette, is one of today's most knowledgeable and entertaining experts on the subject. His bold claim that the Tarot of Ceremonial Magick is the 'key that unlocks the secrets of all tarot decks' is backed solid scholarship and decades of magical practice. Written in the relaxed, humorous style that has made his earlier works so popular, DuQuette demonstrates how the Hebrew Qabalah forms the foundation upon which the Western Hermetic arts (astrology, tarot, geomancy, and the various branches of ceremonial magick) are constructed. He goes on to reveal that the Tarot is a visual representation of qabalistic fundamentals and is the common denominator between the various Hermetic arts. "One could even say the tarot is the DNA of the Qabalah. Properly decoded it reveals not only the mysteries of the Qabalah but also that of all other Qabalah-based systems." To prove this DuQuette has ingeniously placed pertinent data and images relating to Astrology and the two most widely practiced varieties of Qabalah-based magick -- Enochian Evocation and Goetia -- on the cards themselves. His book provides remarkably detailed background information concerning these magical practices...a single-source book without equal. The Tarot of Ceremonial Magick is truly the key that unlocks the secret of all tarot decks. R.D. Potter