Also, while tempting to consider this "wise guy" poetry (and it is), there is an (often subtle) undercurrent of lyricism (e.g. the lines "It touches every facet/ of our lives in a way/ punch cards never could" or "The color of the day expands and springs through the checkerboard/ Where a truck twists in the wind") that is just one of the many ways this book offers a long-lasting, enjoyable resonance through multi-dimensionality.

Each chapter is a fresh look at aspects of the prenatal in our daily speech and act. This may seem farfetched, but the author's discussion of mental pressure, the sense of strangeness and human speech are nicely linked up to prenatal experiences.

This book is wonderful.

There are a couple of mistakes in the book that can inhibit your code from running. In addition, the database supplied has dates of 1998 and 99, but the book uses dates in 2001, so you have to adjust your code in order to get results. And unfortunately WROX has shut down its errata area so you can't really get help with these problems. So don't assume if your code doesn't work, it is your fault. This is where the code on the CD can be helpful - if it doesn't run right it's the program, not the programmer.

Overall with a little patience and work, you can get a huge amount of help from this book.

The main focus of the work is on the U.S.Supreme Court and its dominance for the first time in history by Justices who were members of the secret Brotherhood. The author provides a penetrating insight particularly to Justice Hugo L. Black, a man who was exposed by the Pittsburg Post Gazett and the New York Times as a lifetime member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Integral to the book's focus is the author's detailed evidence of Masonic influence on the high bench. This is authenticated by citations from numerous articles in the the New Age, the official organ of Scottish Rite Freemasonry of the Southern Jurisdiction. Those articles demonstrate that the Fraternity, as it is known, opposed any possible government aid to religious institutions, particularly parochial schools. Strangely enough, the high bench handed down a series of decisions in the 1940, '50s, '60s, and '70s, the reasoning of which paralleled arguments frequently advanced in the New Age magazine

As a result of those Court decisions, Christianity has been emasculated in public life.

Two other major sections of the book document how Masonry was involved in setting up secret lodges in the Civil War; how it was the generative force which precipitated the Philippine Revolution at the turn of the last Century, as well as other political events. Of interest, too, is a provocative evaluation of how the Craft targets men to join the secret Fraternity, including U.S. Presidents, Members of Congress, major military leaders and others to advance its goal of completely overthrowing Church and State and establishing a World Government under Masonic control.
This is a "must read" for anyone interested in the intrigue and secret forces who are so dominant in shaping world society. Don't dismiss this work out of hand> READ IT! Then refute it, if you can.END.