If not one of the best field mammalogists in the world today (and she most likely is), Emmons is certainly one of the best "field research" writers. Her style and descriptions are fantastic to read, neither too fluffy nor detached and uninteresting. She includes both the highlights and the unfortunate accidents of her field seasons, providing a reality and a "sense of being there" that's difficult to find in articles or other people's writing. I'm no treeshrew researcher, and probably never will be, but found Tupai to be a fascinating book and yet another model by Emmons on how to do quality field research.

Full of quotes and reminders of how to live greatfully.

This book is a well-organized reference for children from 1stthrough 12th grade, but targeted at those under 12. The book is not adry page by page drool of words. The quick reference information is displayed pictorally. Each job is given a single page, and divided into several components. Each page has a short paragraph explaining day to day responsibilities, and a quick reference section that delineates education required, earnings and job outlook. Younger readers will be interested in the 'subjects to study' paragraph which gives the reader a good basis for what academic areas they need to be strong in. Each job description has a 'discover more' paragraph that takes the younger reader through a hands on example of what the job entails. The 'something extra' section for each job adds interesting facts about the job that are not readily apparent. This book is a must for guidance counselors at all levels and parents should strongly consider adding it to their library.

This is truly a wonderful cookbook to have for elegant vegetarian cooking. It is for ovo-lacto vegetarians and the emphasis is on fancy dishes and exotic ingredients. A wonderful book to find recipes for entertaining or special events, but I found it a little difficult for the routine three meals a day. Throughout the book are sidebars on ingredients and techniques that make this book entertaining and educational. The author's introductions to the recipes also help bring each one down to a personal experience. A great cookbook for ovo-lacto fancy dining.

My wife and I have a lot of vegetarian cookbooks sitting on our shelves. This is the one we've given for a holiday gift to vegetarians and carnivores alike! The recipes are easy to follow, and range from quick and simple to time consuming and rewarding. Most of the recipes in this book are fantastic. Well worth getting for anyone who likes to cook and has good taste in food.

I became a vegetarian about 4 months ago. I bought about 10 vegetarian cookbooks so that I would have plenty of choices. This book has become my favorite. The recipes vary from simple to elaborate. There are also plenty of recipes that aren't intimidating to new vegetarians. Didi includes plenty of sidebar articles about different foods and cooking techniques. What a great cookbook!

UPDATE: I've been a vegetarian for about 2 1/2 years now and this is still my favorite vegetarian book (My wife's favorite too!)

I'm only partway through this book, but I have to say that it's one of the best and most informative on the subject that I've come across. I found it basically by accident while browsing this site, recognized Bonewits' name from another site I'd visited, and decided to try out his book.

He doesn't use a particularly religious context in his approach, and in a way I think this is a good thing. As a solitary Wiccan I'm always looking for good printed source material, and there just isn't much out there that doesn't devolve into happy fuzzies at some point. Bonewits' book is a breath of fresh air that I'm sure I'll be referring to time and time again.

It's a little involved for beginners, but once you've got at least a passing familiarity with some of the topics he discusses (such as sympathetic magic, which I was doing for years before properly understanding what it was or even what it was called), you'll be well on your way.

Not stage magic, but REAL MAGIC. Isaac Bonewitz graduated from Cal Berkeley in 1970 with a BA in magic and thaumaturgy. This book is not a grimoire of arcane spells and occult symbols. No recipes calling for "eye of Newt" will be found within. This is a systematic attempt to study, categorize, and perhaps even explain the phenomena of magic, from ESP to Eastern ritual.

Bonewitz does not write a superstitious text. He claims "I am not anti-scientific... What I have objected to is the modern worship of science as an infallible source of truth, endowed with 'supernatural' powers over mortal men."

Early on, Bonewitz describes laws of magic, gleaned from multiple cultures and magical system. These include relatively obvious ideas, such as the Law of Knowledge (Knowledge is power & Know thyself) and esoteric ones, like the Law of True Falsehoods (If it's a paradox, it's probably true).

He considers parapsychology, doing a useful job of considering some phenomena, and a more dubious job of trying to explain them. Nevertheless, this chapter does a coherent job of postulating why "mainstream" science does not verify parapsychological claims.

One of the most important chapters considers the difference between "Black" and "White" magic. "The whole idea of White as Good and Black as Evil is purely the result of cultural bigotries." (p. 95) While magic, as any other tool, can be ethical or unethical, ethics are not a matter of "light" or "dark."

His most practical chapter is the one entitled Fundamental Patterns of Ritual. "The best spells and rituals are modern ones, written by yourself and designed to affect you personally, with your twentieth-century mind." (p. 162)

The book has a good, but dated bibliography.

What use is it? It's a good introduction to contemporary magical practice, as opposed to the "Do this spell this way because the ancients (or some other authority) did it this way." Bonewitz explains why things might work and what type of an approach might be useful to adopt. It's good reading for the magic practitioner. It complements the various magical system books available (How to be a Witch in 13 Easy Lessons) as well as the more scholarly anthropological texts (such as Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane, which I have also reviewed). It's a laudatory attempt to move beyond the works of Aleister Crowley, Scott Cunningham, and Janet & Stewart Farrar.

(If you've enjoyed this review, consider reading my other reviews here on Amazon. Thanks, Elderbear)

Real Magic is the first book on magick and the occult that I ever read that was the product of careful though and experience, rather than someone's imagination. In a world filled with junk books on witchcraft and magick, Mr. Bomewits has offered up an excellent book for those interested in the subject matter. It's through, yet very easy to read. I'm glad I bought it some years ago, and I highly recommend it.

This book is very useful for every students who take civil engineering as their major. It give you all the explanation about concrete destruction because of nature and human error. And tells you how to repair it and to maintain it so it won't damaged more that it used to be. I find this book very helpful for my thesis. Every civil engineering students and other major that related to it has to own this book.

This is the best book out there on this subject. The author has done an excellent job explaining and illustrating the proper process of repairing concrete: Diagnose, repair and protect. I have made this a must read for all of my sales reps.

Brock Osborn
S.E. Area manager
Sto Corp.

Cited on its own cover as "Reality Bites with a cowboy twist," that pretty much sums it up. In fact, it's probably a better read if you a) don't read that comment; or b)don't get the 'Reality Bites' reference. All the major events of the early 90s fad flick line up with the events of this short novel. Not that it's bad reading. It's well-written, though not strikingly so, and has that everyday-life feel that can catch the reader and keep you gliding through. Probably better reading if you can RELATE to the lead character, who's caught between what's expected of him in the real world, and his artistic leanings. A good thoughtful read for anyone in transition, or wishing they were. Some humor, though I didn't have the impression the lead character was as funny or smart as he seemed to think; that has to do with the writer RELATING to the character. I have half a mind some of the scenes (the slower ones?) are cut from Emmon's life.

Being from Montana, Cowby Angst realy hit home. The Characters in the book seem like old friends. The reality of life in the west and the struggle with family and friends will relate to many people. I hope there is a seguel.

This is a comfortable story, easy to read and believe. You find yourself wishing Dennis McCance was your friend. If he was, he'd go out in a storm to get more wood for the fire and, while he was at it, run by the store and get another six-pack. Dennis is a young man in turmoil, too young to be having a mid-life crisis, but that's what it feels like all the same (without being pathetic, though - maybe he's just a forward-thinking sort of dude). Dennis is examining his values, his beliefs, his morals. Okay, his life. But in a deliberate and endearing way, one that draws you in and makes you feel like a confidante. Dennis may think he's stymied, bottomed out on a dead end road, but little by little he's putting his life in order. Just maybe not the order he had in mind.

I have not read the book but intend to read/scan it ASAP- MY QUESTION is the redundancy of the "reviews" written just above this (if this one makes it). Sure gets my antennae a'quivering (or else, too many people are regurgitating the same phrases without having the same experience---and methinks that AIN'T synchronicity...)

C.F.Emmons book shows for the first time the diverse factors that undermine a objetive appraisal of ufo related phenomena limiting prematurely the big universe of discourse that this subject demand. This as the author says transform ufology in a "extreme deviant" subject much more that in parapsychology where similar "noise" has hindered its aceptance by normal science. A carefull sifting of this type of noise is done in the book's appendix through the selection of biographies/Ufologist Case Studies where only researchers(believers, skeptics and debunkers) with recognized academic credentials in traditional scientific disciplines are disclosed(I found only a marginal error when the author refer to John E.Mack as the Pulitzer winner for a biography of Lawrence of Arabia (p.231) instead of refering to having that prize for the life of D.H.Lawrence). Putting aside literary references the author shows a real effort in a multidisciplinary approach to a theme that cry doing so. Without doubt the final chapter is the more speculative and at some time the more balanced in weighting near all of the more popular theories about the "Larger Reality" that the study of this phenomena demmand of our methodological, epistemological and ontological assumptions behind our institutionalized blessed conceptions about our universe. A view in my opinion is lacking when he refers to "implicate order", "hyperspace" and other concepts borrowed from the new physics, this view is "multiverse" and "quantum parallelism" and "time loops" in alternative interpretations to the Bohm interpretation of QM. The explanatory potential for the UFO phenomena of this latter concepts are left for the interesed reader.

Take off your blinders, pull your head out of the sand, we are probably not alone! Think what you will, but read this book before you decide. Three things: First, "At the Threshold" is genuinely entertaining. Second, the facts on this highly controversial subject are presented in a clear, concise manner. Third, Dr. Emmons isn't afraid to discuss this subject in public, you needn't be afraid to read it in private! In a nutshell, "At The Threshold" is a veritable banquet of food for thought. Enjoy!

Phillip Emmons, a pseudonym for horror author Bentley Little, is the author of the serial killer novel "Death Instinct". Published early in Little's career, this one is different from the horror novels that have made Little a household name in the realm of horror fiction. While not a fan of the serial killer novel genre, I found "Death Instinct" to be very entertaining, but not difficult to determine/guess the identity of the serial killer.

The story involves a series of gruesome murders in Phoenix that has police baffled. They can't seem to find any clues and only begin to realize the truth when being tipped off by someone romantically involved with a member of the force. A young boy is actually the one who first suspects the killer. It's difficult to give many details about the book without giving away key elements of the plot and/or clues to the killer.

Needless to say, the identity of the killer shouldn't come as a surprise. It might be a bit farfetched, but the explanation behind the killer's motives is logical. If you enjoy serial killer novels and can locate this one (it's been out-of-print for many years), grab it and enjoy it.

The overall premise of this book is intriguing. A vicious serial killer (the only killings that rival these are the ones in Messiah) is stalking a small area in the city of Phoenix, and between killings we are introduced to Cathy (the novel's central character), her (so mean that its unrealistic) father, Allan (the local know-it-all cop who's hunches are always correct), Jimmy (the nice neighbor kid who's alchoholic father doesn't care about him), and the weird lady and her mentally retarded son who just moved into the haunted house across the street. As the story develops and the characters are intertwined (I bet you don't have to read any more than the list of characters in this review to realize who gets romantically linked. Half of the book is an effective who-done-it, but when we finally find out who is behind the killings, the brakes are slammed on and the reader is forced to ask his or herself "Could _____ actually do that?" The answer is probably not, but the story is still quite chilling and the prerequisite "visit to the expert on the subject" scene is very good. Its hard to write an effective review without placing spoilers all over, but I would recommend this book to anyone who loves the serial killer horror genre. It's an interesting twist on the convention.

Horror writer Bentley Little moonlights in the suspense genre under the pseudonym "Phillip Emmons." Gruesomely original with the most politically incorrect serial killer ever committed to paper. The final setpiece in a Phoenix hospital, is a nail-biter.

Being one of Mr. Stuart Emmons's past professors, I was especially intrigued and fascinated by his straightforward, open, and touching account of his encounter with schizophrenia. Whenever a bright, conscientious student disappears abruptly after finishing a course, one ponders about his sudden departure and wonders what has happened to him. For this reason Stuart's candid and illuminating story was especially welcomed. Craig's experience is equally insightful. Together they give the layman a rare opportunity to probe into the inner thoughts of intelligent and articulate men as they cope, relate, create, exist with paranoid schizophrenia. Most laymen, including me, are terribly uninformed, even misinformed, and sometimes insensitive to this mysterious illness. The book should be read at least twice, the first time ignoring the psychologists' repetitious notes which disrupt the flow of the images, thoughts, and actions of the narrators. Their notes can be read! as a whole. Then each of the stories can be reread. The book reintroduced Stuart Emmons to me and we have subsequently exchanged many letters. I highly recommend this relatively slim volume with its tremendous impact and positive message. And congratulations to two courageous and compassionate writers--Stuart Emmons and Craig Geiser.

Mysteries of schizophrenia still perplex family members, therapists and researchers today. "Living with Schizophrenia" (Emmons,Geiser et al.) gives those wanting to know more about the cognitive processes of schizophrenics more than just a glimpse into this disorder. Two first-person accounts are represented by Stuart Emmons and Craig Geiser. Both offer significant insights and rather apt descriptions of personal experiences. Poetry by Emmons and unique artwork by Geiser are also included. However, interspersed throughout the text, one will find unmerciful redundancies in the form of(PN's) or psychologist's notes. The book succeeds as Two first-person accounts without overbearing technical jargon often debated,and offers the layperson or psychology student a good adjunct reference.

This is one of the best books I have read, and THE best one dealing with mental illness. The inside look at the thought processes of two men with the illness is totally eye-opening because you see it from THEIR perspective, not the rest of society's. I recommend this book highly. After reading, I still feel like I'd like to give each of these men a hug.