I can't believe I'm only the second person to write a review of this wonderful deck...I already owned about 11 tarot/oracle decks before I discovered "Beasts of Albion." Too bad I didn't find it sooner! It's a beautifully illustrated deck & a well-written book. I find that there are too many decks out there with second-rate artwork, but this deck is very well drawn. It's similar to "The Druid Animal Oracle" in design & quality of art work. If you are interested in the magical lore of Celtic animals and would like to tap into that magic to enhance your own life, I think you'll love this deck as much as I do. Each animal is presented with it's folklore and history, and then very practical interpretations are given for their meaning.
This deck should be more well known. Seek it out!

This book contains an amazing collage of folklore, myth, legend, and story from many cultures and time periods. The cards are beautiful, and the paths explained with each animal will help the reader to understand and identify the value of studying animals in connection to identity. The Beasts of Albion will help the reader to find growth, enlightenment, and creativity by tracing the essence of nature's creatures and creating meaning with each connection between humanity and beastiality.

I picked up this book at a suggetion of a friend. Once I started reading it, I could not put it down. It's a very entertaining book, with historical insight to English-Roman relations during the first century.

The characters, Caracatus, Rhiannon, Taran, Porcious, et al are well "fleshed-out". It was easy at first to peg the "good" and the "bad" people. But as the story went on, good and bad started depending on your point of view, and as the characters grew. The author's descriptions of sights, smells and sounds make you feel as though you were part of the story.

I would highly recommend this book to everyone, at least for it's historical perspective on 1st century English monarchy, religion and Roman relations. But more than that, it is a well-paced, action-packed book, that will keep you entertained from start to finish.

THE WOLF OF ALBION dramatizes the life of the First Century British hero, Caratacus, who fought against invading Roman legions to achieve honor in defeat before the Roman Emperor.

A young Caratacus struggles to impress a demanding father and claim his mantle as chief of their tribe, excelling as a hunter and a warrior. Torn between two women, the gentle warrior Rhiannon, and the Druid priestess, Taran, Caratacus takes his place as the great British battle leader opposing Roman invasion, to be brought in chains but never in defeat to Rome.

Every British schoolchild knows the name of Caratacus. Now American readers can follow his exploits in this meticulously-researched novel by an author with a degree in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations. A worthy read.

It's good to see Albion Fellows Bacon get some well deserved credit and attention for her hard work during her live. Although not as famous as her older sister, Annie Fellows Johnston, Albion probably did more for the needy. Very well wrote with lots of information I never knew existed.

Robinson provides a unique analysis of the Great Mutiny from the perspective of the British women involved. Robinson conveys, in a manner that strictly military writers do not, the scope of the Mutiny and its "domestic" impact.

Only another woman could have written this book. Robinson combines sympathy with a certain level of judgment of the actions and opinions of some of the participants in a straightforward way. She is unencumbered by the Victorian deference to women and current fear of radical feminism.

The selection of photographs-- current and historical-- and old wood cuts that accompany the text reflect great care and excellent judgment.

In all, an important addition to the field of Mutiny scholarship related in a very human way.

Not only does this volume provide a concise summary of the classical laws of thermodynamics, it offers a critical appraisal of some of the modern applications of thermodynamics. Definitions of thermodynamic quantities and processes are clearly introduced. Long and complicated derivations are reduced to their bare essentials. A case in point is the reduction of Kelvin's derivation of the relationship of heat and entropy. The book also includes more modern and controversal topics such as the thermodynamics of black holes, negative heat capacities in cosmological systems, and negative temperatures in systems with a limited number of degrees of freedom. The property of the concavity of the entropy is highlighted and is shown to be in contradiction with the Bekenstein-Hawking expression for the entropy of a black hole. There are even answers and solutions to problems, and a glossary for easy reference.

I was particularly impressed by Tourgee's use of dialogue. By constantly hearing both sides of each design and every brainchild, the reader is allowed to come to his or her own conclusions. Whether A Fool's Errand would be considered a historical account or a novel is ambiguous, but then maybe such a combination of fact and fiction is what allows literature to survive the passage of time as this work has. I was enamored as well by the way Tourgee, sitting as judge to all, openly and maliciously attacked both the plaintiff and the defendant for their contribution to the melee we know as "reconstruction". This is the only truly nonbiased approach, and it was marvelously implemented here. I feel too many works are skewed to facilitate the author's motives, especially those written about this era. Like a refreshing breeze from far away, this work brings clarity and insight to a misinterpreted time in our nation's past.

Read the book in the time it was written (1966) and also know what was happening in the rest of Africa. It gives a lot of answers.

Deftly edited by Robert N. Essick (Professor of English, University of California - Riverside), Visions of the Daughters of Albion is a full color reproduction of William Blake's classic literary blend of verse and art, which was first printed in 1793. Enhanced with a straightforward, easy-to-read, separate transcription of Blake's poem, drawings from Blake's sketchbook related to the final work, and an extensive and erudite literary commentary on the images plate-by-plate, Visions Of The Daughters Of Albion is the definitive edition of a timeless classic and would grace the collection of any academic reference library or William Blake enthusiast.

This book gets off to an odd start with the switch of the narrator. I understand why it was done, but you don't know who the narrator is until a few pages in. However, once you get used to the fact that Tegid is narrating, it's a deep read with rich descriptions and an activity that bounces you all over, which can be distracting.

It's an interesting book about the right of kings and of sovereignty. What exactly does a king mean to the people, the land or to himself? I think that this is a question that bothers Llew throughout the book. The answer isn't clearly defined, and you see the destined king stumble, but the pondering of the question is a valuable task.

That said, I would say that there is a lack of depth to the plot. You know that everything is supposed to come out right at the end. Things that should be difficult to accomplish are dispatched with ease. However, I enjoyed this book and will pick up the 3rd book in the series to finish it off.

This is one of the best books that I have ever read. The whole trilogy is a great story that is really hard to keep your mind off of. The characters and the plot is well thought out and the essence of the battles and good vs evil is almost overbearing at times. Lawhead has great description, and describes each scene well. If you like a book that will stretch your imagination with celtic culture and mythology this is a great series to read!

Seldom do I read a trilogy I truly enjoy where I don't want to start the third book. The beginning of the third book leads to the end of the trilogy and this isn't the "Never Ending Story". Llew, the misplaced warrior, grows to meet his destiny. One wonders if the land will die before he finds it. Plenty of loose ends to entice you to read the third of the series, but you would want to anyway. Mythical, mystical and heroic, this is well worth the read.

As with several other people, the biggest complaint I have with this book is that Prof. Fischer hasn't yet followed up with further works on U.S. cultural history.

But what's here is marvelous. Fischer traces the distinctive folkways and religious influence of the four great waves of English emigration to the American colonies, and shows how they combined to make modern USAmerica.

I have 19th century immigrant roots, and have never lived in the South or New England. I can't therefore confirm or dispute what Fischer and the various reviewers say about the distinctive regional U.S. differences that persist there today, and how they go back to the original English immigrants. But as a modern USAmerican from California, I can see the various strands that make up our general culture in each of the four founding regions.

This is a long book, perhaps a bit too long, but I recommend it highly, and since discovering it I automatically read any book Fischer produces. I have yet to read a bad one by him. Now let's have further volumes in the series!

This is a book that will appeal most strongly to Americans of British ancestry. Fischer writes at one point of of walking around the countryside in Oxfordshire and feeling that he was home. This is very personal history, both for Fischer and British-Americans. Who according to census returns, given by Fischer, are now an ethnic minority in the USA. Many of the reviewers speak of how it how it explained things to them of their own personal life. I read the book first 7 years ago. It reaffirmed my sense of kinship and affinity with the USA ( and might explain why I was awake at 2 in the morning, 9 pm in Washington, watching the Presidential election coverage on the BBC). It is scholarly and full of fascinating cultural details. It is illuminating on how British culture, institutions and folkways have shaped the USA as it is now. (It's sad that the Scotch-irish seem to have had more influence than the Quakers). This is a book for Anglo-americans to reafffirm their roots. It should also remind English readers how much we have in common and why. I was fascinated to learn how many Cheshire place-names are reproduced in Pennsylvannia including Prestbury where I was born. And would love confirmation that there are people in Pennsylvannia who use or know the meaning of dialect words like nesh, gormless, daddy-long-legs.

Albion's Seed details the "folkways" of four groups of people that moved from distinct regions of England to the US. The premise is that ther culture of each of the groups persisted and that these cultures provide the basis for the modern United States. The folkways are the cultural beliefs in religion, magic, child raising, family, age,food and other interesting things. Since reading the book I have been asking everyone I spend any time with about their background and quizzing them about beliefs. The book has opened up a whole new world to me about the types of things Fischer discusses in his book. Traces of the cultures he describes are still very much with us and I am finding it remarkable the degree that you can predict the overall pattern of a person's beliefs based on their background. Another aspect of the book is that though it is 900 pages of text, it never got boring to me. By talking about people and how they lived it brings them to life as well as any novel.