A splendid collection of short, atmospheric ghost stories in the style of M R James. With many imitators of James' style assuming verbosity to be an essential component in the creation of atmosphere, Munby's prose is refreshingly economical. His characters find themselves in appropriately scary situations which are resolved within eight or so pages, but not to the detriment of the overall effect of the story. Excellent. A classic. If you love these sorts of stories, you've probably got this book already.

Amazon readers, here is something special. A book produced by the Ash-Tree Press, one of the finest publishers of classic supernatural fiction. Every edition of theirs is a limited edition, and the first edition of this collection--limited to 250 copies--sold out rapidly. I am told copies from that first edition now sell for $200 and up. To satisfy unmet demand, Ash-Tree has produced this second edition, and I would recommend this collection to anyone with a taste for subtle, polished ghost stories, steeped in the antiquarian tradition of M.R. James (to whom Munby dedicated the book). Every serious ghost story collector should have a copy!

Fourteen chilling ghost stories tell of specters who haunt bookshops, urban and rural areas alike, with Munby's unique style blending a Holmes-like investigative style with too real ghosts. Any who relish the ghost story will find these satisfyingly diverse tales which offer many unexpected twists and turns. Highly recommended.

I obsessed over this book wile I was pregnant and finally bought it for my daughter's second birthday (it was really for me). She's 2 and half and, although she isn't coordinated enough to really do a whole lot on her own, we have great fun with this book. She pulls it down from the bookshelf herself and looks through it. The illustrations are great and the instructions are easy enough for an adult to follow. I delegate the gluing and some coloring to her and we discuss shapes and colors--as well as letters and numbers-- while assembling the pieces. While not all (but most) of the materials are easily found around the house, I have found the ones that aren't in dollar and discount stores for next to nothing. She loves watching ordinary household items like an empty toilet paper roll transform into an alligator with some tape, a marker, scissors, green paper and glue. Her eyes light up like I'm performing magic. I have read, in teachers' journals and the like, that children retain information better when it is presented in a way that emotionally impacts them. For myself and my child, this book was well worth it, and I intend to look into some other titles by this author and from Williamson. Publishing.

Each letter has specific crafts, tracings, writings, etc. It is a great learning tool. I have found it to be the best book for dealing with the alphabet.

My kids (ages 2 and 4) absolutely love the crafts suggested in this book. They were able to do most of the crafts themselves without difficulty. There was a pattern to the activities that they both also enjoyed.

This is a truly unique book full of many life- lessons on different levels. The author presents a rare wisdom contained within an intriguing story, touching the reader's heart in many ways. I would recommend this book for anyone who is tired of typical "self-help" books, and is ready to go deeper. A different book each time you read it.

This is an excellent book. It is spiritual without dogma or religion. I would strongly recommend this book to any truth seeker. Surprisingly and unfortunately, the author has not produced any other works.

There are small, yet important, universal truths exposed in this book which aren't discussed or considered in other similar books. This book could change your life!

This book reminds me of The Way of The Peaceful warrior. It is very special and very profound. I am thankful that I stumbled upon it.. It holds answers to many areas of life and living that I question. It is an important book to me. I will read it again and again. I wonder if J.Jaye Gold has wriiten more, can't find any other books by him. This book is important to me determining my vision and life purpose.

This book, At the Hands of a Child, is a great book for all adults. We live in our own world and never understand that an act of kindness can be used to destroy lives. The children who were used in this book never got to live a normal happy childhood. This book should be a wake-up call for many, especially ones working with young children. My only question is, What could have been done to not only save the children but also the life of Mr. Richards and his family? This would make a very educational and exciting movie.

This is an extremely well-written book that should be required reading for everyone, but especially anyone that works with children. I work in a public school and have seen first-hand how a person can be put through sheer torture simply on the words of a child, despite being totally innocent. The events in this book happen more often than we realize. It is sad when you have to be afraid to hug or show any affection toward a child. This book shows the horrors that evil people inflict on our children and yet manage to remain free. It is impossible to put down and reading it sent chills up my spine. The authors made me feel as though I were actually walking in Joseph's shoes. I can't wait to see it made into a movie.

There is such sadness and evil in this book. How Joseph Richards and his family survive the onslaught upon them is beyond my comprehension. The ending left me weak and stunned. How tragic. The girls who were used and manipulated were left at the mercy of the ones who abused them because the system allowed itself to be used to go after an innocent man. This makes me wonder how we have arrived at the place where a man's constitutional rights can be suspended like this, just because kids are involved. But it is clear from what we hear on the news all the time that such things can happen, and do happen. To use protecting a child as an excuse to convict the wrong man, and in so doing allow the real offenders to escape unpunished and free to keep misusing children is just wrong. I will recommend that any man I know who deals with kids read this book to see what jeopardy they are in. This was a wake up call for me. Even as a woman I feel endangered by this mania that makes this kind of charge tantamount to a conviction. This puts too much power in the hands of those who can benefit from making these kinds of accusations. The media loves this kind of story, and I feel guilty for all the times I have heard such stories and just took them at face value. I never questioning the motives of those who brought the charges in the first place. I am sure that often the charges are true, but am also sure that often they are not. When we nail the wrong guy, the kids are left at the mercy of the real molester. This obviously means that in this kind of case we need to go back to using the traditional rights, checks and balances the law provides for those accused of other kinds of crimes, because only by finding the real criminals do we protect the kids. This book needs to be made into a movie, because there are just not enough people who will read this story to make a difference in how things are done. It is sad that so many won't read this. The story could not have been better told. I could not put the book down, though the terrible truth of it terrified me all the way through. As it rushed towards its inevitable conclusion it just made me sick not to be able to do anything to stop it. At the Hands of a Child is surely worth your money and your time.

Peter Amcotts' autobiography is the stuff of =best-selling fiction: adventure, romance, the best of times, the worstof times, betrayal, loss and finally peace. H.Rider Haggard could have written it. Or Edgar Rice Burroughs. But Amcotts wrote it himself, and it's not fiction. It's a true-life adventure that spans the globe. Amcotts, a World War II veteran, writes about life with verve and humor. He's experienced it all, from an abusive father to a British "public school" education, to the war, to love and marriage, to his experiences as an ex-pat in East Africa, Canada, Hawaii and the Middle East. Amcotts' adventures make for enjoyable reading, although his British reserve keeps him from writing as much about his feelings as one would have liked. Having met the author and his wife, and one of their daughters, it's a pleasure to see the pictures of them in by-gone days. Amcotts' descriptions of his life, especially the family's times in Kenya, are vivid. The family lived on part of a former coffee plantation that once belonged to Karen Blixen. During the Mau Mau insurgency, they went to bed with loaded pistols at their sides. Having known many American World War II veterans, I found it very interesting to read the experiences of a British soldier. Mrs.. Amcotts was also in uniform. Is a second installment of the family saga, her story, in order? Autobiography and reminiscences are genres that capture the past in the most personal of ways. The Best Laid Plans recreates part of the 20th century from the author's point of view. That personal history, and that point of view, is worth reading, and enjoying.

A review from Cliff Bowyer, the president of theBritish-American Club. =I have just finished a very interesting book, it is an Autobiography, but reads like a novel. It is a true story of adventure, travel, romance, world war, revolution, failure and success. Written by an ex-Brit, who recently moved to the Bay Area after living in many countries. It spans the years from the mid 1920s to the present day and covers four continents. The book tells the author's life as a boy growing up under the very dominant thumb of an over strict father. His years at public school, the W.W.II. Serving in the Royal Engineers in India. How he met his future wife who at the time was serving in the WRNS. The post war years in England were hard for ex-servicemen who had been subjected to life abroad. So austerity and the ever present search for adventure led the author to a new life in East Africa, at the time of the Mau Mau rebellion. You will read his journey to the New World and the many exciting travels and experiences that followed... but I could go on and on. I must admit I did get carried away with this very intriguing story. If you are someone who likes unusual Autobiographies, this is the book for you.

I find the style of the writing to be the most unique aspect of this biography. One sentence can convey a whole stream of related thoughts that could be expanded into a seperate novel, possibly fiction based on Mr. Amcotts experience that day. The episodes presented in Africa are the most intrigueing. I thought of some enlightened sreenwriter adapting a concept storyline from a single page and developing a major motion picture! Mr. Amcotts P.O.V.(Point of view) style of writing makes one wish for a slower, more colorful, pace. I find myself wanting to interupt his presentation to ask for explanations of "why" or maybe a more personal observation of the situation he has placed himself in. Retrospection is a useful teaching tool that should be used to fuller advantage for the benefit of the reader rather than the Author. But realizing that and reading between lines does provide some entertaining thoughts for the reader.

Barbara Hand Clow is a noted astrologer, shaman, teacher, theologian and trained anthropologist, a tireless researcher, and the author of a number of important and best-selling books including "Pleiadian Agenda" and "Chiron: Rainbow Bridge Between the Inner and Outer Planets." In "Catastrophobia: The Truth Behind Earth Changes in the Coming Age of Light" she once again reaches beyond the consensus to shed new light and original thinking on the events, processes and anxieties that humans deal with on a daily basis.

The pervasive fear of an impending catastrophe is the motivating force, in Ms. Clow's postulation, behind and beneath all of the obsessions having to do with the structure of contemporary earthly civilization: work, human relationships, the economy, the environment and the state, and the search for healing of these structures and ourselves. But whence this anxiety? Why now, and indeed at periodic intervals over the course of recorded history, have we feared a coming catastrophe, a tragedy of such proportions as to snuff out the Earth and all that lives on it?

In this monumental work, Ms. Clow examines legendary cataclysms and delineates how - contrary to prevailing prophecies of dark and deadly times to come - we are truly on the cusp of an era of incredible creative and spiritual growth. The very recent discovery of the remains of ancient villages buried beneath the Black Sea is but the latest in the accumulation of mounting evidence that many of the "mythic" catastrophes of history - the fall of Atlantis, the Biblical flood - were historic events. Ms. Clow ably demonstrates how a series of cataclysmic disasters resulting from a disturbance in the Earth's crust some 11,500 years ago (itself likely caused at least in part by a stellar supernova in the nearby Vela system) "rocked the world" and left humankind's collective psyche deeply scarred and ineradicably traumatized. We are, in her view, "a wounded species," and the unprocessed, until-now indescribable fear passed from generation to generation is responsible for the constant and widespread expectation of a world-ending apocalypse, seen in such instances as the Y2K event to the much-reported end of the Mayan calendar in 2012.

"Catastrophobia" also uncovers in detail the insidious global forces - economic, political and religious - that have used these collective fears to control and manipulate humanity for countless centuries. But Ms. Clow's book offers more than a glimmer of hope. It is the work of an informed, reasonable and persuasive optimist. In the author's view, we are in the midst of a shift in the Earth's 26,000 year precessional cycle, and there is every indication that the changes in consciousness seen over the past forty years are the beginnings of a collective healing from these deep fears from the primeval past, heralding a time to come of great spiritual evolution.

Ms. Clow's monumental research effort in writing this insightful and important book and the scientific efforts underlying that research it are particularly praiseworthy. The reader is advised, for a taste of the foregoing and as a preface to "Catastrophobia," to consult the article by G.R. Brackenridge in Icarus (16:81-93) entitled "Terrestrial Paleoenvironmental Effects of a Late Quarternary Age Supernova."

Every serious student of history (both academic and alternative) has every reason to own this important, incisive and pacesetting volume. It will appeal also to the astrologer and the eschatologist, as well as the scientist willing to approach Ms. Clow's work with an open mind.

Once again, Barbara has reached beyond the collective planetary miasmic thought processes to bring light to what all people deal with on a day to day basis. Fear of catastrophe is the driving force behind and underlying all of the obsessions having to do with our work ethics, our relationship dynamics and the state of how we are becoming sick, as well as how we choose to heal as a society. The book reads like a text book, so get ready to delve into deep historical revelations. Get ready to go back to school and learn the real truth with immense hope on the other end of the trail. The hope is for a future of total and complete enlighhtenment. We've been there before, and we will be there again. This time, no disaster. Like most of her works you will evolve enormously just getting connected with the truth. Enjoy.

To say that ÒCatastrophobiaÓ is Òmind-blowingly provocativeÓ is an understatement. What Barbara Hand Clow does is give you the keys to the universe. And she just doesnÕt leave you at the gate entrance. She instructs you on how you, and everyone with intent, can access it. SheÕs spent a lifetime unlocking secret doors of ancient knowledge. In ÒCatastrophobiaÓ she gives us a brilliantly illustrated (and lovingly so by her son, Christopher), clearly documented and scholarly referenced tour of the labyrinth with a multi-dimensional vision of the way out. Far out!

She takes you on a trip farther than anyone in my experience. She brings us all to the truth about earthÕs changes over the last 11,500 years that historians, politicians, religions and even archeologists have worked so hard to obscure. In the end itÕs the power of really knowing this truth that is so vast and far reaching. It provides a psychological foundation for immense opportunity to consciously shake the power of fear. She doesnÕt wait until the end to tell you this -- itÕs on page one: ÒCrippled by collective fear from past earth changes...our surface minds are filled with floating images of disaster, guilt, and suffering...We project these painful thoughts out of our inner minds, which creates a coming apocalypse as a self-fulfilling prophecy. However, it already happened!Ó

We have been watching the ÒmovieÓ in reverse!

I am fortunate to have been a student of Barbara Hand Clow for over ten years and have traveled with her (through Power Places Tours) to many of the historical sites she references in the book. Together we have explored and questioned the meanings and possibilities of what we saw. However, I could never have pieced it together from what our direct experience was. I am grateful to Barbara for writing this book which culminates all that she knows to offer answers to so many questions that have gnawed at my subconscious over the years. To put forth a reason why ancient cultures were obsessed with precession opened huge doorways of immediate understanding for me.

Barbara Hand Clow offers a framework for the management of fear and mass hysteria from the macrocosm of existence to our inner world experience of it. What are we so afraid of? And why are we living in this constant fear? Barbara presents a clear understanding and explanation throughout recorded history drawing upon her vast research of Plato, Egyptology and Aegean archeology, her mastery of mythology as well as the secondary research of other writers. By doing so, this form of new paradigm writing moves the reader into a creative dance of possibility for their own lives.

I was most excited by her revelation that the ancient Egyptians would paint pictures of Òhow they wanted their life to continue on the Nile.Ó If they painted it on the tombs and temple walls, the gods would grant them the life they depicted for themselves. We do this now, with television and movies. And IÕm certain without the knowledge of what is being activated for our future on this planet.

As Barbara says, the greater challenge is to integrate this knowledge through deep spiritual intention. Her book is based on a perfectly credible premise: ÒConsciousness creates the material world.Ó And with that, she invites us into the journey of humanity over the past 11,500 years since the cataclysm.

What tickled me the most about her book is that the last word is Òfun.Ó If there is one force that can unite mass consciousness, let it by all means be fun!

Charlie needs a cloak, and this book tells the story, from start to finish, of how he goes about to make one. It takes readers through the year, From spring sheep shearing through sewing by the winter fire, showing Charlie going through each step to create his own cloak from raw materials. The story is fun and educational, while the pictures are delightful telling a hidden story in themselves.

I highly reccomend this book to any family with young kids!

I haven't touched this book for 14 years, but I picked it up today while cleaning house, and decided to read it over. It was hilarious! I read it outloud three times in a row it was so sweet and charming.

This is my favorite book from when I was a little girl. The pictures and story line are so sweet and since growing out of this book I still read it every now and then. I recommend this book to parents looking for books for their children that are educational and entertaining. I love this book and have for twenty years!

We received this book as a gift when my son was 6 months old. We now have all of these books. My son is intrigued by the pictures and wants us to read it over and over! He's 15 months now and still loves it! A great book!

My little 16 month old daughter loves this book. We have to read it every night before bedtime so she can "wave to daddy, wave to mom". I also read this book (along with tickle tickle and all fall down) to my 11 year old son when he was a baby/toddler. This book has lasting power over many years and I highly recommend it

Our toddler had us read this so many times that we memorized it quickly. It's rhythm and rhyme are so catchy that we could repeat the words YEARS after we returned it to the library. Now we're buying it as a baby gift for someone else to enjoy. Like "All Fall Down" (also by Oxenbury) the pictures are adorable multi-cultural children having fun together. It's a nice size and length for a board book.

A must for any serious player. Good advice on every aspect of reevaluating your hand as the bidding proceeds by one of the most readable of all bridge authors.

This book is superb; the author's thoughts flow through my mind during every auction, competitive or not. He discusses in detail, for example, when a holding of xxx in a suit opened by opponents is terrible, neutral, or mildly positive. The studious reader will understand why a hand which opened 1 Spade with xxxxxx in spades improves vastly more than a hand which opened 1 Spade with KQJTx when partner raises Spades vigorously (in Lawrence's words, "Beware the short stubby suit.") Attention to the principles carefully explained and extensively illustrated (sometimes the same hand is given with half a dozen different auctions to explain evaluation niceties) by Lawrence will vastly reduce your phantom sacrifices, -800s when dummy hit with "all the wrong cards," and +1370s which delight your teammates, who were -630 defending 3NT at the other table when their opponents never looked for a minor-suit slam.

Many players think there's little more to hand evaluation than counting points. This suits me fine when those players are my opponents. But when one of them is my partner, I wish he or she had read this book.

Mike Lawrence has written quite a few bridge books, and most are quite good. This is one of the best. It's clear, concise, and replete with stuff that makes sense when you see it, but that you may not have thought of yet. What more could you ask for?

This book is a remembrance of what was and tells of the pain and suffering of the German Deaf Community under the leadership of the Third Reich. I read this book, not as a hearing person, but as a Deaf person and I felt there pain. This book is horrifying but more so was the persons who were involved in the Deaf community who helped this government succeed to there sick ideas. Crying Hands reaches out from the darkness to shed light on one chapter in the history of our Deaf people and of our struggle over centuries of oppression. This books value is in it history; Deaf Holocaust History. I recommend this book for everyone.

This little book, a nicely translated academic effort that is quite readable, demonstrates the depth of the idea that those who are rendered surperflous are being set up for death. This notion first expressed by Richard Rothstein sweeps across issues of race and nation, and into questions of ablity/disability, perhaps now the most obscured of the social issues that must be addressed by those who seek a more democratic, egalitarian, and civil way of life. The idea that inclusion means ALL, has not reached into the mind-sets of too many on the left, an odd circumstance since many fine efforts like the text at hand show that the old saw, An Injury to One only Goes Before an Injury to All, is quite true. This is a good book for educators, activists, and researchers in all fields.

I first read the book on the medical holocaust in Germany by Dr. Friedlander. I then came across this one in my search for more material having to do with the Deaf in Germany. This book was originally a dissertation, however, Gallaudet Press and the translater, William Sayers, did a great job in turning what would be a dry dissertation into a short, but interesting book.

Horst Biesold is an interpreter who in the performance of his job, came across members of the German deaf community who were finally willing to tell their story about being forced to undergo sterilization. He writes with obvious concern for and about his deaf clients, and the emotional and psychological impact that the eugenics laws had on these people. It is with concern and dismay that I am researching the same subject only in the United States, since the Nazis often wrote that many of their ideas and programs were first proffered by eugenicists in the U.S.

This book is a good reminder that when societies don't stand up for what is right, even when it does not directly affect most individuals, you cannot tell how far the 'slippery slope' is going to go. The Holocaust did not just become the Final Solution for the Jews, but included the gypsies and the disabled, and those who were considered 'life unworthy of life.' With the completion of the Human Genome Project, and proponents of euthanasia getting more vocal, and doctors like Kervorkian, and HMOs who put their bottom line before the worth of people...it is all too possible that this horror could happen again, and in this country. I urge ethicists, physicians, and educators to read this book as well as members of the deaf/disabled community so that we can protect ourselves from those who would put less value on our lives for whatever reason. Karen L. Sadler, Science Education, University of Pittsburgh