Aloha - after studying Bucky Fuller geodesic geometry for 25 years, i found AG & WG best explains how cosmic energy works thru our 'crystaline' earth evolving with multi dimensional systems of fractal geometry. David compiles a great collection of new science articles that support further research, i do with astrology, cosmic weather & geospasm of earth-changes. Its the best intro to the multi-energetics secrets that big $cience & military been using for centuries to access & channel earth energy for power controls. We can use eco-energy for positive,
growing, creating & healing functions, when we feel it flowing around us!
Could the geodesic earth-grids be what guides the formation of mountains, canyons, cataclysms, etc? evolving our infinite variety of bioregional terrain, species & cultures that rise & fall with astrological patterns of power. Like the current shifting of Pices/virgo into Aquarius/leo age now opening us up to cosmic consciousness of energy flows thru our earth grids!

David Childress compiled this now classis collection of works relating to the geometric structure of the planet, the "world grid". Ancient civilizations knew about this geometry and sited their monuments at its points, including the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, and the Chinese and Maya pyramids. The Bermuda triangle is one such point among many. Many unusual natural features also occur at points which correlate with the earth grid geometry. For example, the Hawaiian volcanic seamount occurs at a 'tetrahedral' point which will be of interest to readers of Hoagland's Mars materials and followers of Drunvalo's flower-of-life work.

The book includes, among others, articles by Bethe Hagens & William Becker, who designed the EarthStar globe; Barbara Hero calculates and explains the musical equivalents of globe distances; Bruce Cathie's early method of detecting grid patterns through UFO sightings, and anomolies at other points, including nuclear testing.

A.G.W.G. shows many maps of the geometric relationship of sacred places, including the world, Europe, Afica, and Cairo. Also shows the maps of sites in Somerset England in the pattern of the costellation Canus Major. I highly recommended it for students of Earth Mysteries, Sacred Geometry, and for alchemists.

I lived and sailed Narragansett Bay all my life and never knew the history behind all I was looking at. Excellent book and great fishing section!

I always wondered what those old ruins were hidden on overgrown islands, the history of secluded anchorages.... Great naturalist, along the shore information. Excellent cruising guide!

This book, which was written by a child, has amazing insight into how a child perceives the unknown. In simple verse the author deals with issues such as how one's imagination can play tricks with the unknown on the other side of the fence; as well as the dilemma of being too small to see the other side. The book teaches the reader that sometimes these problems are solved on their own, just by getting older and how that's a nice thing. I have read this book in my child's class at school and am now buying it as a gift for his teacher who was so impressed with story. It is enjoyable for any age group from children to adults.

GOOD WRITING; impressive for such a young girl. BRAVO!!!

This is the most recent edition of a first rate textbook on the difficult topic of medical ethics. The authors' approach is neither to attempt to derive a set of guidelines from abstract moral theory nor to be completely empirical in the sense of simply assessing what clinicians and researchers do when dealing with moral issues. The approach of this book is to extract a series of important principles from the best aspects of practice and then to generalize these principles. The 4 basic principles set out by the authors are respect for autonomy, non-maleficience, beneficience, and justice. The book is divided into a series of well written and integrated chapters covering the basic rationale for the authors' approach, each of the principles, professional-patient relations, and concluding with a set of chapters covering basic moral theories and how the authors' approach fits in with moral theory and competing approaches.

This book has many virtues. The basic approach is strong and practical. Each principle and the exposition of each principle is embedded in real clinical moral problems. The authors make the interesting and important point that none of these principles have priority over another and that balances need to be sought between these principles. This book is simultaneously an excellent exposition of a strong approach to medical ethics and useful reference source to clarify thinking. The bibliography is excellent. Some of the chapters, notably the sections on autonomy and those on justice, are outstanding. The quality of writing is clear and the sections are distinguished by clarity of thought. The authors set themselves objective of writing a book that would combine a high level of rigor and would be useful, reaching a mixed audience of physicians, researchers, and others concerned with medical ethics. They have succeeded.

Book Review PRINCIPLES OF BIOMEDICAL ETHICS Tom L. Beauchamnp and James F. Childress

"You can't tell a book by it's cover." Don't you believe it! Principles of Biomedical Ethics by Beauchamp and Childress is every bit as formidable as it's cover might suggest. That is not to say that the book is poorly written or inadequate in any way. It is just that this reviewer is a student, whose professor, at the end of the course confessed to the class the the text was indeed a demanding work requiring proportional effort on the part of the student. Granting that, it was the best of several texts he had examined.

After setting the stage, in chapter one with a discussion of approaches to ethics, the authors, in chapter two, deliniate in detail, eight classical ethical theories, which form the foundation of the study. Through liberal use of examples, the authors reveal that all theories have both weaknesses as well as strengths and that to rely on one theory to the exclusion of others is indeed a hightly questionable approach to ethical decision making.

In the subsequent six chapters, the authors continue with a wealth of case studies, elaborate on the importance of autonomy, privacy and dangers of paternalism; they discuss the elements of nonmaleficence and beneficence as essential elements in the Hippocratic oath. Distictions are made between killing and letting die. Arguments are made for and against the use of medically administered nutrition and hydration. Balancing prima facie norms to provide treatment and for truth telling are examined and the extenuating circumstances when these seemingly basic tenets may not be appropriate are discussed.

The authors have not dodged the knotty problems of availability of organs for transplantation, rationing of scarce treatments and health care resources, costs of health care or the concepts or theories of justice as they relate to health care. The appendix consists of ten case histories. There is a abundance of footnotes at the end of each chapter sufficient to satisfy the most rigorous student.

This is not a book for the casual reader. But for someone desiring an in depth treatment of current issues in health care from the standpoint of the physician, chaplain or health care administrator, I recommend this book without reservation.

Ernest G. Barr

Alice Childress's second novel for children, and written in the same sort of Harlemese as A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich, this is the story of fourteen-year-old Rainbow Jordan. Her single mother, Kathie, is a go-go dancer and flighty. Every couple of weeks she'll take off on a gig and leave Rainbow alone in their apartment. Usually when this happens Rainbow goes to say with Miss Josie, her foster mother, who cares a lot about Rainbow but is preoccupied with the breakup of her twenty-year marriage. On the street Rainbow's got a girlfriend, Beryl, who earns spending money with casual prostitution, and a boyfriend, Eljay, who keeps pressuring her to go all the way.

The story is told from three points of view: Kathie, Rainbow, and Miss Josie. Kathie does love her daughter in her own way, but as Rainbow says, "her way don't weigh much". A good example of this is when Kathie went out and bought Rainbow some new, pretty clothes. But she had to use the babysitter money to pay for them, and because of this she had to leave Rainbow, then five years old, alone in the house for several hours. Miss Josie on the other hand cares about Rainbow in a much more mature way. Rainbow thinks little of either of them.

I thought A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich was good, but I think I liked Rainbow Jordan better. The situations in the book -- irresponsible parents, boyfriends that keep nagging you to have sex with them, men that abandon their families -- are real and just as applicable today as they were back in 1982 when the book was written.

This book is very good for teens to read. This will allow them to see that maybe they are not alone in their journey also it will allow other children who are blessed to have good parents to see how it could be. I'd recommend this book to be read by everyone.

Atlantis And The Power System Of The Gods: Mercury Vortex Generators And The Power System Of Atlantis is an articulate, detailed, hard-hitting metaphysical study and a very welcome contribution to Atlantean Studies. Part I is reprint in its entirety of the hard-to-find 1990 book "Mercury: UFO Messenger of the Gods" by Bill Clenendon, a fascinating, impressive look at ancient flying vehicles. Part II, by David Hatcher Childress, cogently addresses in depth the theories that the ancient civilization of Atlantis used broadcasting power from gigantic towers of crystal. Connections between Atlantis, Egypt, and Ethiopia are drawn in this fascinating, iconoclastic hypothesis of a power that transcends centuries and predates the era of western science.

Having read Ronda's first book, I knew she was a talented writer with great stories to tell. Being a NASCAR fan, I knew that this was going to be a good book. I was not dirappointed!

The book is written in 27 short, easy-to-read chapters; each having a wonderful story about the legends of the sport. Each chapter also concludes with Ronda's life-lesson learned as a result of the events described. Once I began reading it, I lost a lot of sleep staying up into the night reading.

There are fascinating stories about Bill Elliott, Dale Earnhardt, Michael Waltrip, Bobby Allison, Ken Schrader, Alan Kulwicki, and Tim Richmond (a name many newcomers don't know, but know about--this is the life portrayed by Tom Cruise in "Days of Thunder"). As a reluctant newcomer to NASCAR, Ronda quickly became an avid fan and supporter of the sport while covering it as a sportswriter and then as a promoter for the manufacturers.

This book is a "must read" for any fans of the sport.

My wife bought this book, read it and kept bragging on it. I was reluctant to read because I'm not a big reader and I just didn't think I'd enjoy it that much. One day, I picked up the book and read the chapter about the late champion Alan Kulwicki. That did it. I then had to read the entire book. I enjoyed it very much. It shows the human side of a sport that is becoming so slick and so polished that it's easy to forget that the drivers are often regular guys with problems and struggles just like the rest of us. This book reflects on many of the heroes and legends who made the sport like Darrell Waltrip, Richard Petty, Dale Earnhardt and others. There are places, like where she talks about her friendship with and the death of Tim Richmond, that really put a lump in my throat. As in the case of Kulwicki, who is displayed here to be a serious loner who saw too much death in his young life, his mother included, that shaped his life and personality, you are shown an inside to the sport that is seldom seen. The men in this book are true heroes and the author is to be commended for writing it in a way that we feel we are being treated to VIP look at these guys.

Wow! What a great read! I am so glad I bought this book - it will be my stocking stuffer of choice for this holiday season for both guys and gals. This is a great book for Winston Cup die-hard fans and for novices! Ronda Rich is hilarious. It's full of anecdotes about all of the greats, including Earnhardt, Petty, Childress, Schrader, and more ... and all from the female perspective with plenty of stories that could only come from an insider. I read Ronda's last book and thoroughly enjoyed it, and this book stays the course. I found myself laughing out loud and feeling sorry when the book was over! More than just a book about racing, the book serves up some deep life lessons in each chapter - the author looks at the truth behind the losses and disappointments that come with the industry. She's quite a teacher - obviously a spiritual woman - it's a great read for kids too. I'm hoping this is the first in a NASCAR series for her ... if you see this Ronda ... please give us another one! Can't wait!

You will laugh, cry and be confused when you read this book. This book can teach you that what you think is good is not always good.

There is a boy named Peter Pan. He sprinkles fairy dust in Wendy and her two brothers. Then he shows them how to fly. He takes them to Neverland and shows them to the Lost Boys who live there. Wendy becomes their mother. She makes up rules, like any other mother would do. The boys have to follow these rules. Everything was fine until Captain Hook came with his crew to where the boys and Wendy were. While Wendy and the boys were at the lagoon, where they go every day after dinner, they see a girl named Tiger Lily, princess of her tribe. She was captured by Smee, one of Captain Hook's men. Then Peter saved her. A few days later Wendy and the boys were on their way to Wendy's house when they too were all captured by Captain Hook. Then Peter saves them. Then the lost boys, Wendy and her brothers go home. All except for Peter.

It is mostly about what the people in the book think is right with childhood. The kids in the book think that if you grow up it is bad, but in our case it is actually good.

Peter Pan is a violent book not really made for children under the age of 10 but people 10 and up can read it. It is violent because of the language that is spoken and the idea that killing could be fun. Also, the vocabulary is very difficult for children under 10 to understand. Even if you're older it is difficult to understand.

Overall, it is a good book but watch out for the violent ideas if you are reading it to little children.

When talking of literature, people tend to look solely at books they read today but forget what they used to read, namely the ones we read as children. It is a common misunderstanding that children's literature is to be read by children and children only, but when we come to think of it, which one of us are not children, at least in our hearts?

One of the best books any child, young or old, can read is Barrie's Peter Pan. Although written in the past century, it has something for any generation at any time. Its humorous views at the world from a child's mind left me rolling over the floor, laughing; the exciting storyline kept me busy with reading until the end; and the serious undertone made me think of whether the world wouldn't be a better place if we realised that deep down, however deep, we are in fact all children. So if YOU are a child, which you most certainly are, get yourself a copy and enjoy your ongoing childhood.

This is an utterly charming work. It has been retold myriad times, but nobody else has done it as well as the original teller, J. M. Barrie.

It's difficult to know what to say about a book like this... everybody knows the story. But I guess that unless you've read this book (not just seen a movie or read a retelling), you don't really know the character Peter Pan, and without knowing the character, you don't really know the story. So read it.

By the way, if you enjoy this, you probably would also like "Sentimental Tommy" and its sequel "Tommy and Grizel", both by Barrie. There are differences (for one thing they're not fantasy), but there are also compelling similarities. Anybody who found Peter Pan a deep and slightly bittersweet book would be sure to enjoy them.

-Stephen

I was saddened to learn that "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Armageddon" would be the last book in the popular Lost Cities Series by my friend and publisher David Hatcher Childress. (David is the Head Honcho at Adventures Unlimited Press who published my 1998 book "HAARP, The Ultimate Weapon of the
Conspiracy"). I have always been an armchair archeologist (well, at least since the third grade). As such I have repeatedly found vicarious delight in tramping the globe with David in these books. Many reviewers have called him "the Real Indiana Jones" -- which I won't deny, except to point out that, on the rare occasions when he's home, he hangs his Fedora in Illinois.

My favorite thing about this series of books written by David Hatcher Childress is that he is an unaffected, unpretentious writer - which is to say, he writes like he talks. Each book reads like a conversation with David. It is easy to imagine one's self in the World Explorer's Club HQ in Kempton, Illinois, as I was earlier this year, listening to David recount his latest adventure in some exotic location, his voice soft with
understatement, his eyes twinkling at his little jests. I can clearly see him, at several points in the story, getting up and pointing out some artifact on the Club House walls, which are festooned with mementos of member's treks about the globe. "Oh! This," he says, touching a strange black object of iron chains and colored glass, "This is a lantern I picked up in a bazaar in Cairo last month." He achieves the same effect in his books by profusely illustrating them with photos and diagrams, facsimiles of ancient manuscripts, and the like.

In "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Armageddon" David invites you to tag along with him as he sets out on his wildest adventure yet, in search of the Apocalypse and The End Times! The story opens with you waking in your sleeping bag with flies crawling over your face somewhere in a Middle Eastern desert on the road to the Hill of Megiddo, the site of the legendary fortress in northern Israel where Armageddon is prophesied to start. It's a long hitchhike around the world from there; David leading you from one adventure to the next -- from mysterious tunnels running for hundreds, perhaps thousands of miles beneath South America, to ancient cities in the deserts of China, to legends of worlds before our own.

In this last Lost Cities book David really cuts loose. You'll find him musing on the rise and fall of civilizations and the forces that have shaped mankind over the millennia; including wars, invasions and cataclysms. In his comfortable, at ease before a roaring campfire style, David discusses such unsettling subjects as ancient wars of the past -- including evidence for
ancient atomic wars -- and relates that dim past with the present, and the much prophesied apocalyptic future.

Like a good roller coaster "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Armageddon" is a fun and scary ride. When I was a child all the rides at Disneyland required tickets, and the "E" ticket rides were the best. "A Hitchhiker's Guide to Armageddon" is definitely an "E" ticket ride!

David Childress' A Hitchhiker's Guide to Armageddon is not your standard travel guide, nor is it for the faint of heart; the voyages so compellingly described within it pages are as much metaphorical as physical, for it charts mankind's heedless path toward self-destruction in the past, present, and future. From the legendary fortress Megiddo in Israel, where Armageddon is prophesied to start, to Namibia and Botswana in 1979, to the Final Stand of the Knights Templar and the space-based Death Star, A Hitchhiker's Guide to Armageddon pulls out all the stops in a chilling, brutal tour of humanity's most precipitous failings. Especially recommended for anyone with an interest in reading or writing apocalyptic literature.

David Hatcher Childress is a curious and brave guy and quite a raconteur. His previous Lost Cities books have become a global cult favorite of avid travellers who are not afraid to hit the trail with a backback, a phrase book, a compass and pepper spray. No doubt an equal number of otherwise occupied but intrepid armchair adventurerers have taken these wonderful books to heart.

In this the last of the celebrated series, Childress in his inimitable style gets cosmic and looks at the big picture. His parapatetic wonderings and musings are in his trademark laid back style that's reminiscent of the best of late night college bull sessions. He has a sly style that is deceptively familiar as he puts the reader at his side as a confidant on his remarkable planet spanning explorations. Childress has a vast store of arcane and obscure and sometimes secret knowledge and is an unusually adept comparative archeologist.

This time around, Childress examines sometimes politically incorrect beliefs and legends and myths and techno secrets from ancient Babylon to future tech "marks" of the "beast" and potential holographic spiritual deceptions that could mandate a massive mindcontrol takeover.

Childress hints that the Last Days are here and it's just the beginning. So buy this book and go some place remote and read of the author's travels to the tunnels of S. America, ancient ruins in New Zealand, the wilderness of Kalahari and the dangerous divided city of Jerusalem -- symbol of the world's info war of belief systems. I could hardly put it down and am sad that it's the end of this remarkable series. Loaded with maps and unusual illustrations. There's nothing quite like it.

This book provides an excellent account of the emotional and spiritual effects of a disease that is even more devastating to Ellen, a loving wife who acts as her husband's caregiver, than it is to the patient himself. The writer shows Herm's slow decline and the distressing consequences it has on Ellen. However, this book also gleans lessons from the suffering of this loving couple. These lessons learned can benefit others who must face life with Alzheimer's, for "Shattered Lives" provides a wealth of practical guidance for dealing with this disease and its effects while offering encouragement to loved ones who must cope with life during and after Alzheimer's. As its subtitle indicates, "Shattered Lives" truly shows readers how to find "Hope in the Midst of Alzheimer's and Other Related Dementia."

Ellen's second husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer's after a nine-year marriage. Shattered Lives provides her first-person account of living with Alzheimers, including many tips on how to find solutions. Mostly, Shattered Lives is a documentation of the emotions and challenges which come from living with Alzheimers, and the relationship between two very special people.

I have known author Paulette ErkenBrack for more than 20 years. Her work as an Activity Director in several facilities and her skill as a writer have given her the tools she needed to share Ellen's story of dealing with dementia. Last year, when I personally faced my elderly father's change in personality, his anger and hostility towards his family, Paulette's experience and wisdom helped me to realize these changes were beyond his control. Education, knowledge of the physical and emotional changes that dementia brings is vital in living through this time. "Shattered Lives, Finding Hope in the Midst of Alzheimers and other Related Dementia" will help to inform and enable you to be a more effective care-giver.

Martha Pope Gorris, Author "Held Captive by Futile Thoughts? Break Free!"