This author is intelligent and provocative! Based on ancient text as well as geological and historical evidence, he skillfully and convincingly reveals the location of Eden and shows you how to find it my name on a map! He covers such eternally important subjects as how the continents split from one central land mass called "Pangaea" ... creation ... Noah's flood ... the race of giants ... Atlantis/Plato ... the Pillars of Hercules ... Poseidon's Temple Island ... how the speed of light is slowing down resulting in an increasing rate of radioactive decay causing 6,000 million years of nuclear decay to have occurred within the limits of some 8,000 years of orbital transits of the Earth around the Sun ... catastrophic shifts of the earth's axis ... gravitic, electric, & magnetic phenomena behind UFO travel ... after death ... out of body experiences ... UFO's & the "Majestic Twelve" & "Majority Twelve" documents ... earth & sun changes ... pyramids ... Biblical prophecy ... Babylon ... The Cosmic Conspiracy ... the New Nimrod ... the 7 churches of God ... and yes, all from a man who loves God and considers the Messiah the light of the world! Highly recommended!

"I have always enjoyed Dorothy Edens work but this book I have loved, read and reread for over twenty years. It is realistic and emotional and always transfers me back to an unsettled Australia. I recomend this book to anyone with a sense of adventure and a big heart."

A fascinating, sound, thoroughly researched, and eminently readable account of efforts to supply Hawaiian with a writing system, from the earliest explorers to the present. Charles F. Hockett, Goldwin-Smith Professor Emeritus, Cornell University.

This book will explain why a man or a woman can be spiritually impure since Adam and Eve, and how he or we can be pure again with the help of natural water, but I mean natural water that can not be processed by a man with any kind of materials (like pipes or things like that), of course this is only in the [jewish] religion.
This book is easy to read which means a lot when you read any book of any religion.

Fantastic Book! McDowell gives background and dissects new trends in the New Age Movement. A definite read!

One never knows what gems you find sometimes. This novel was truly enjoyable on many, many levels. As an historic narrative depicting a period of this country's development, as a story about man's struggle against nature, man's struggle against man, woman's struggle against society, and woman's struggle against man. Mans'/Womans' struggle against Anti-Semitism, The settings and character development were superb. Gloria really makes you care about each and every character time and again as each character comes and goes throughout the entire saga.

In addition to the human struggles depicted there is a real sense of destiny, manifest destiny if you will. As the characters move and grow and mature and achieve success we learn of their strengths and weaknesses, we see their triumphs over adversity and we see adversity triumph over the human spirit.

The Emporium's growth and maturity itself is a highly inspirational business tale. With many lessons for the budding entrepreneur. I literally found myself rooting for a successful store opening, or a that a visit by the President of the United States to come off without a hitch.

Gloria's' depiction of the Arizona landscape and architecture truly transports the reader to those remote spots and takes one back in time to a simpler, more optimistice and hopeful time. This is one of the few books that I have sent out to others with highest recommendations.

Wild Edens. Africa's Premier Game Parks and Their Wildlife, by Joseph James Shomon

It was our pleasant experience to read an extraordinary book! Although lacking in graphics, we do consider this one much richer in content than the more familiar, photo-laden publications covering this subject.

Wild Edens has a very well written, interesting and varied text. The author combines skill with expert knowledge in different areas, i.e., ecology, geography, history and zoology, giving the reader a complete picture of these most important African National Parks. In Appendix 1, a short essay about David Livingstone and his pioneering disclosure of central Africa, is well worth reading.

Appendix 2, with its complete list of the parks, gives very useful information to readers planning to be visitors.

An outstanding description of the killing of a buffalo by a pack of hyenas in Aberdares Park is most impressive (Chapter 3). The reader feels strong sensations while witnessing the "cruelty" of the natural world and the tense relations between hunters and the hunted, in nature's domain.

Because this is a book of major interest and value, we find it unusual to discover a gross mistake...The legend of the colour photograph depicting a zebra and two baboons at Jane Goodall's camp near Lake Tanganika (see colour photographs next to pg. 80, with a similar photo on the back cover). It reads: "Zebra and chimpanzees"... It is clear that the photographed monkeys are not chimps (Pan Troglodites), but baboons (Papio Cynocephalus). Zebras and baboons have the same habitat, ' savanna', while, typically, chimpanzees live in a forest. It would be rare for the two breeds, zebra and chimp, to meet in the wild ... their habitats being so positively different. How an error such as this could have been overlooked by such a competent author is disconcerting. However, this oversight certainly does not, in any other way, jeopardize the special value of a "different" book on wild life.

José Xavier de Basto Coimbra, Portugal with Jacqueline Martin Texas, USA

The band Wire has always been an enigmatic enseamble. In this book, Kevin Eden has gathered the original band members to talk about their history, their creative methods, their goals, and of course their music. The results are very illuminating, not only for those with an interest in this band, but for anyone curious about the dynamics and interaction that come from being in a rock group. All in all, a very readable and complete document (and eyewitness) of an interesting musical experiment.

Throughout East of Eden, John Steinbeck creates characters that are intriguing but pushes their personalities to the extreme ends of the spectrum of good and evil, making them difficult to relate to. Despite this, the characters' interactions and the history that they weave makes a compelling read. The parallel to the Biblical story of Cain and Abel is clear and at times, the familiar struggles of the "Cains" of the book provoke an empathy that the more angelic characters fail to stimulate. Even the evilest of characters such as Cathy, can be identified with more then the more moral characters, such as Adam, and, without a doubt, make for a more interesting read. Still, despite issues with characterization, the book pulls you into its world of interweaving stories and one quickly gets lost in trying to sort out the intricacies of relationships and human traits. Despite puzzling family history stories that will have you wondering about their exact significance to the rest of the book, the parallel themes of guilt and forgiveness tie the book together from beginning to end.

The bible is possibly one of the oldest and most read book in the world. There have been countless numbers of books based on biblical allusions, and "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck ranks top among the ones that I have read. The novel is a modernized re-creation of the story of Cain and Abel, two brothers in the Bible. Steinbeck incorporates the themes of this old biblical story to explore the truths of the human soul.
The story details the layers of good and evil through the characters and relationships of the families of Adam Trask and Samuel Hamilton. Adam Trask is a man who, blinded by illusions and a lost within himself, travels to California with his beautiful, but insidious, prostitute wife. There he meets Samuel Hamilton, a man poor in money but wealthy in life. The novel chronicles the development and relationships of the two men, their families, and the people surrounding their lives. It is an excellent novel, for Steinbeck effectively integrates his message throughout the book.
This is not a carefree, happy novel; rather, it is very dark as it explores the blacker areas of the human soul. Despite the foreboding mood and circumstances of the novel, Steinbeck manages to assert an uplifting message about the strength of human goodness and the perseverance of the human soul. Although the novel is fiction, he magnifies human nature through exaggerated circumstances. We may see a hidden part of ourselves, whether it is deceit on one occasion or jealousy on another, through the characters in the novel. We may also realize that the true message of the novel is indeed a very essential part of our lives. Perhaps this is why I feel that East of Eden is such an exceptional novel: not only does it bravely delve into an exploration of human morality, but it causes us to reflect on our own existence.

I enjoyed East of Eden immensely. Not only was it a very entertaining read, it was also very enriching. Like a previous reviewer mentioned, it is beneficial for the reader to be knowledgeable about the Bible (specifically the book of Genesis) prior to reading this book. It is the type of book that, after finishing it, will make you just sit and reflect. It offers a lot of insight on human nature, focusing on the potential for good and evil in everyone.

The struggle between good and evil is the dominant theme in this book. Steinbeck talks of the choice that everyone has to be either good (represented by the character Adam) or evil (represented by Cathy). The cast of characters is one of the best developed and most interesting I have ever encountered in a novel. All the characters have a purpose and bring the story to life. I highly recommend this book. You will not regret reading it.