This book is one of my favorites on ancient stone temples and the knowledge of the earth and her energy grids that modern man has lost or failed to see. It proves to the reader that we all live within the ruins of an ancient and lost society that until recently has been invisible to man because of it's size. The entire surface of the earth is marked with the works and lay out on the ground of a vast network of evidence that the ancient peoples not only communicated accross oceans but had a very good grasp of higher end mathmatics rivaling our best computers in accuracy. Alan F. Alford also makes this theory evident in his new book The Phoenix Solution. (Probably easier to find than The View over Atlantis) Michells book concludes that the ancient cultures had a once universal thought pattern and system that was in tune with nature. He also proves to the reader that modern man is suffering from a mass amnesia.. Further reading on ancient geomancy and sacred geometry will only add to the evidence that Michell has published in this 1969 book, a book 30 years ahead of its time. Todays satellite images prove much of what Michell wrote of the layout of ley lines and the like all over the world. Especially the temple sites of Glastonbery and St Mary's chapel as well as the axis of St Benidict"s church and Stonehenge. Michell brilliantly ties in the equation of alchemical fusion with the secret math in the layout of certain sacred ancient sites. A must read for fans of Zecharia Sitchin as well as those just wanting to learn more about the incredible knowledge and purpose in the design of these ancient structures from long long ago.

This compact anthology presents a fine selection of fiction and nonfiction by one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. The selections of essays and memoirs are especially good, and while it can't do full justice to Woolf's longer works, this volume does include several excerpts from her best novels. If you have never read Virginia Woolf before, start with her brilliant book-length essay "A Room of One's Own" (represented here by too brief a portion) along with this anthology. And, for those who have already discovered her work, this collection makes a nice sampler and refresher - a book to pull off the shelf whenever you want to dip into that extraordinary mind (and prose) again.

This book is an extraordinary trip through the minds of men who no longer enjoy their freedom. You will experience the highs and lows, the ins and outs, the desperation and the inspirations of men behind bars as they struggle to accept their choices and their fate.

I have never used Quick C, but I have read this book hundreds of times. It has good clear examples of C programming for a PC. If you write C programs for DOS, you will not be disappointed.

This is a wonderful book of stories about those who have been curious and brave enough to search into their own souls and find lost parts of themselves. I read this book while taking a one week workshop on dollmaking and now I wish that I could go through the year long process discribed within these pages. You don't have to be interested in dolls to see the transformations that dollmaking can bring from an individual's own creativity. Great read with excellent photos of dolls created by artist and non-artist.

Excellent book that relates a very specific and particualr genre like the western with a very wide source of refernces, from baby care to painting. It has a very good historical background that helps understand the obsession of gender and sex in the jacksonian era.I particularly enjoyed the chapter where the author talks about Leone's living dead, it seems like if Jim Jarmusch had read it carefully for his "dead man". I still have my doubts about his vision of the final scene in the Wild Bunch, I don't see any heroic nostalgia there...

"The White Dominican" shows Gustav Meyrink indulging his talent for arcane abstraction, tracing the mysteries of the soul's interior space.
The story follows Christopher Dovecote on his way to a pre-ordained destiny of final enlightenment. Christopher is rescued as a boy from an orphanage by Baron Bartholomew von Jocher when the Baron learns Christopher is a natural mystic, able to take his body into the country of dreams as he sleeps.
The Baron is a Freemason and a free-thinker. He lets Christopher develop along his own path, offering only the occasional piece of advice voiced as Taoist paradox.
As Christopher matures, he finds and looses love, faces the dark side of himself, and finally learns that his soul has a secret history and a destiny to fulfill which is beyond anything he could ever have imagined.
"The White Dominican", though fairly a short novel, is not an easy read the first time through. It is not at all about linear plot or even about character development. Meyrink said he wrote his novels "according to the laws of magic"--and this one perhaps most of all. The beginning of the novel shows the strong influence of Dickens (whom Meyrink translated into German), but after the first few chapters Meyrink has built the story into something entirely unique.

The Wild-n-Tame, Fish-n-Game Cookbook is limitless when it come to the creative preparation of the outdoors! We have an entire bookcase dedicated to cookbooks in our home, but the Wild-n-Tame Fish-n-Game is the one that we now reach for. With hundreds of easy to follow recipes anyone from the gourmet chef to the weekend B-B-Q'er will appreciate a cookbook like this. I received this book as a gift because my freezer was filled with fish, venison, and dove that no one in my family would eat. After experimenting with many of the easy to follow recipes, my family changed their attitudes and appetites to wild game. I have used several of the fish and deer recipes as well as the duck and dove, to which we have never been disapointed! I must admit, I have not been bold enough to go near a skunk, much less try the skunk recipe, but it does sound very adventuresome! If your family is tired of that "old family recipe" you always prepare, try a new twist on cooking your outdoor game. Since receiving this book, we have always taken it to the deer lease and on our camping trips. Thanks Amazon for having such quality material that "caters" to the outdoors people!

Stefan Rudnicki has done a wonderful job transforming Julian Mitchell's screenplay into a very satisfactory novel about the life of Oscar Wilde. The Samuelson produced movie was superb, and here the novel is able to add a different level of depth by interspersing quotes and pieces of poetry by Wilde throughout the story line.

Granted, the story is not as complete as a full biography (Richard Ellman's is particularly thorough -- if somewhat dry) but it is told with such wit, humor and tragedy as to providing a most enchanting diversion. Highly Recommended, especially to those who are looking for good entertainment rather than mere scholarly facts and literary commentary.

Gorgeous photographs of the rainforest. Even the little frogs look cute!