Category: Book Reviews

After a year of bailouts and a barely-breathing economy, many Americans want to know what 2010 will bring. Has corporate America really learned its lesson? Author Blaine Loomer isn’t waiting around to find out. He offers up a holistic solution to ending corruption in America’s big businesses that will also create some much-needed progress in [...]

Last Day of My Life Jim Moret Phoenix Books Review by Christine Gertz While driving on a winding road outside of Los Angeles, Jim Moret, a well-known anchor and analyst on several news networks and television programs, thought about seriously ending his life. He was worried about his career, his family and his future, but [...]

Craft of the Wise: A Practical Guide to Paganism and Witchcraft Vikki Bramshaw O Books 405 pp, $29.95 Review by Christine Gertz Craft of the Wise is a witchery textbook, but don’t assume by the use of the term textbook that it is dull and dry. On the contrary: it is informative and a useful [...]

Cosmic Conversations: Dialogues on the Nature of the Universe and the Search for Reality Stephan Martin New Page Books 287 pp, $16.99 Review by Christine Gertz An astronomer and educator, Stephan Martin, the author of Cosmic Conversations, sought out scientific, spiritual and cultural leaders to interview to discuss their perceptions of the universe, and to [...]

The Novice: Why I Became a Buddhist Monk, Why I Quit and What I Learned Stephen Schettini Greenleaf Book Group Press 345 pp, $24.95 Review by Christine Gertz In a hotel room in Teheran on his way to India, Steve Schettini casts the I Ching and the coins respond to him with the result of [...]

That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals: A Book about Vegans, Vegetarians and All Living Things Ruby Roth North Atlantic Books 48 pp, $16.95 Review by Christine Gertz Artist, teacher and vegan, Ruby Roth wrote That’s Why We Don’t Eat Animals because the children in her art classes were interested in vegetarianism when they found out [...]

Claude Lecouteux Inner Traditions 273 pp, $19.95 Review by Christine Gertz Revenants are spirits that return from the dead to perform a task or to harass the living. They can assume a corporeal form and are strong enough to overcome and kill armed men. In many of the stories a revenant is malevolent, often harming [...]

by Marlene Buffa A Boulangerie is a bakery which sells breads and rolls. A pâtisserie is a French bakery that specializes in pastries and sweets. My friend Ann and I walk two miles to the nearby gourmet grocery store.  Contained within the store, resides a most decadent Boulangerie.  The bakery also sells pastries and sweets, [...]

David Stubbs Fear of Music Why People Get Rothko But Don’t Get Stockhausen First published by O Books, 2009 144 pages/ $19.95 US Review by Kate Russell

The Akashic Experience: Science and the Cosmic Memory Field By Ervin Laszlo Inner Traditions (February 12, 2009) ISBN-10: 1594772983 288 pages Review by Zareen Khan This book is about an idea whose time comes again and again throughout human history. An attempt at a new interpretation of a concept literally as old as the very [...]

Unlocking the Power of Glyphs Jean Logan, Ph.D. Holy Ground Farm, Inc. 203 pp, $24.95 Review by Marianne Hooker According to the author, Jean Logan, Webster’s Dictionary defines a glyph as a “symbol that conveys information nonverbally.”   This book is a compilation of glyphs that the author felt led to design to help heal the [...]

MANDALA The Art of Creating Future June-Elleni Laine O Books, 2009 105 pp, $19.95 This book presents the art of mandala for use as a tool for creating the conscious future of your choice. The author defines the mandala as a container for essence, a prayer, a way to bring the unconscious to the light. [...]