Great Book! Well written and very understandable! I was able to get up to speed on WORD in no time! I learned more spending two days with my nose in this book than I did taking a class on word! It was money well spent! I know more about word now than my secretary does ... she hates that!

St. Symeon the New Theologian is often overlooked in the Western Church, but thankfully this is changing. This selection of his homilies concerning the fall of Adam and the nature of the Fall-Redemption relationship is very good; I recommend it highly. Father Seraphim's translation reads very well and allows one to focus upon the message of the text rather than on deciphering the writing. All in all, this is a wonderful book for anyone interested in Christian thought, be they Orthodox or no.

The author describes how he met a healer-sage in a himalayan retreat and learnt about the five lessons about life. ( The author claims it as a true story). He is a westerner settled in India. He goes for a retreat to mountains with his wife and kid. There he comes across a healer-sage who always goes with a dog. In the first meeting the healer calls him by name and welcomes him. The healer-sage goes from village to village to treat people. In a series of meetings he give the five lessons. The lessons are not new for any one exposed to spiritual/self help books. Basically one should meditate on one's situation, find proper value to guide life and appreciate interdependence of all forms of life. But the story telling is very good. For instance, one night the author goes out and meets the sage at a place with a warming fire. He stays whole night with him. While he returns in the morning, he is worried about that his wife would have been anxious looking for him. He finds her sleeping. When he asked her whether she worried about him, she answers that the old man came and gave a message that he would be away whole night. The description of the feature of old man fits with the features of healer-sage. One of the main episodes deals with how the healer-sage prepares a family for death of the family head.
The author ends the book with some prophesies of the sage. The section could have been avoided.
The lessons are extremely meaningful.

Penned by an eminent historian, this book is superb! Very striking is Brucker's unique narrative style. He makes the readers think as if the events happened only yesterday. I strongly recommend his other works as well: You will feel enlightened. No other historian can capture the cultural richness of Florence with such delightful charm. I guarantee you'll fall in love with the city, her citizens, and this historian, Gene Adam Brucker.

This book is enjoyed the best when sat down with two bottles of Buckfast Tonic Wine.

Flick through chapter one after 1/4 of a bottle. Bounce the book off the wall after a 1/2 a bottle. Wreck the house after a full bottle.

Ahhhhhhhhhhh..... the wine, the wine.......

Dont you just love it. Respect to Brother Adam

"A collection of white-hot stories from one of contemporary gay erotica's hottest writers. Adams has selected a baker's dozen of sexy scenarios from the experiences of a young lawyer to the antics of an ex-construction worker and a photographer." - From Zipper Books

Many technical analysts like to forget that they live in the real world. Technical analysis is based on the idea that the patterns drawn by stock prices can be used to forecast the financial markets. The field of behavioral finance essentially looks at this psychological give and take from an academic perspective, while technical analysis is largely a real life application. Tony Plummer brilliantly bridges this gap by showing how and why these patterns develop. He also discusses his own take on Elliott Wave Theory in a cogent and interesting manner. (Disclosure: This reviewer wrote "Applying Elliott Wave Theory Profitably" and Mr. Plummer wrote the foreword to the book.)

I need to know something about demand of natural gas

There are precious few books which address the history of the occult in a sensible manner. Foreseeing the Future: Evangeline Adams and Astrology in America does it very well indeed. Though author Karen Christino is obviously sympathetic to her biographical subject, the early 20th century astrologer Evangeline Adams, she tries to be objective in assessing her life and work. I personally found this refreshing, as it allows the reader to make up his or her own mind. Do we believe that Adams was a terrific astrologer or someone who exaggerated her successes in order to impress the public? Did she really forecast World War II or the stock market crash of 1929? It's up to the reader to decide, since Christino documents the facts and examines Adams as a real person and not just a legend. We're given insight into what drove Adams to such an unusual profession in 1900, her troubles with the law and her unfulfilling marriage to a much younger man.

I especially enjoyed the sections describing the development of the occult in the U.S., including information on palmistry and spiritualism and Adams' relationship with the infamous magician Aleister Crowley. If you're intrigued by astrology, the occult or New Age topics and are tired of all the flaky, off-the-wall books out there, you will enjoy Foreseeing the Future. It brings a sometimes mysterious topic down to earth and tells a terrifically entertaining yarn at the same time. I loved it!

I read this book in 1981 when it first came out. I was deeply moved and purchased the sequel, THE DIVINE QUEEN, the following year. The ending was heart wrenching -- but also a cliffhanger. The third book never came out, and I don't know why or what became of the author. My poem, `Elnavis', in A CHILD POSSESSED was based on this series. It starts out like this:
A deathbarge washed up on the shores of the North,/ It bore a strange manly form/ His eyes were of jade, and we watched him, afraid/ as he waded in toward the shore.