Why this entertaining and informative book is so hard to get is beyond me. Hancock House needs to republish this book. This is a massive book that needs to be in every Bigfoot scholar's library. An updated edition would be great. Think about it Mr. Green and Hancock House. A ton of these would sell. This makes a great fireside book too.

This book is great. For anyone who really believes in sasquatch, it is full of information about the creatures. Green is perhaps the #1 expert on bigfoot encounters. After reading this I felt I knew a great deal more than going into the book.

Newspaperman John Green of Harrison Hot Springs, British Columbia began investigating the reports of bipdal hair covered man like animals in the late 1950's. Over the years he has amassed one of the largest databases of sightings. Mr Green published "On Track of the Sasquatch" in 1968 and subsquently "Year of the Sasquatch" and the "Sasquatch File". Mr Green has personally investigated many of the sightings he reports in the Pacific Northwest. This volume is considered by many to be the definitive work on this subject by a lay person. In the mid 1970's Mr Green began putting his reports in format for computer analysis The results of this are discussed at length in this book. Mr. Green's work is significant for the objectivity and also the fact that he has worked with leading Scientists such as Dr Grover Krantz of the University of Washington. Unlike many books on this subject, there are no digressions on paranormal, Mr Green feels the evidence clearly indicates this is a upright ape, a perfectly normal animal. He does cover sightings in other parts of the United States that he has recieved reports of, some of which have been investigated by other researchers. Mr Green reviews the evidence and concludes that it is likely that this creature is nocturnal and is most likely to be seen by humans crossing the road at night in remote forested areas. This book is a MUST for anyone interested in this subject, and it probably the most level headed book on the subject not written by a Scientist that is available. Unlike other "Bigfoot Hunters", Mr Green has worked with Scientists, freely sharing his database and information in order to solve this mystery. My interest in this subject began in the 1970's as a teenager mostly in response to Mr Green's books and also lead to my interest in anthropology and natural history. Since this book is out of print, it is hard, but not impossible to find and definitely worth the effort.

I was sad to learn that this priceless book is now out of print. It is honest, accurate, and first-hand in its content, and it is organized in a marvelously useful and clear way. The reviews of pistes and of non-skiing facilities are right on the mark. Our ski trips in North America and Europe have made it possible to know how accurate the descriptions in this book really are. The comments directed at various kinds of skiiers are most helpful. The cost of a ski trip is not trivial, and this book can help you to get the best bang for your buck. We hope that this series will be resurrected and made into an annual VERY SOON!!!!

I have followed these authors from their original project (The Good Skiing Guide) to 'Where To Ski' and they really tell it as it is. The layout of the book is very attractive and clear and better still they preface each ski region reviewed with a good points/bad points summary which makes reading about areas that your not really interested in very quick and informative (I found Ischgl by this process of reading ALL the summaries in every country).

I have skied in many of the resorts listed and I can't fault their opinions anywhere. Apparantly the authors do not anticipate writing a new edition. Why not? This is my ski bible.

If you love skiing, and you are a ski nut like I am...... Then this is the book for you. It has it all, The best is that this book does not lie. It is like a SKI BIBLE of the world. I recoment it to any skier who plans on skiing Europe. I did only after I read "Whare To Ski - The Up-To-Date resort gide"

The Burning Bush is essential reading for anyone interested in a deeper understanding of the Bible. This large volume is filled with amazing insights. It combines the author's own life-long search for the deeper meaning of the Bible with the discoveries of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the founder of Anthroposophy (The Wisdom of Man). The book unveils what people have had to believe only through faith. In a series of penetrating essays the author explains such mysteries and seeming contradictions as the accounts of the Nativity, the nature of the second coming, and the meaning of the Burning Bush.

The Burning Bush is an extraordinary reference work by a skilled theologian and lawyer. He discovered the work of Austrian born Rudolph Steiner and all the "seeming contradictions" in the Bible were resolved for him. This book will become as famous as the dictionary by Webster or Oxford Press. If you ever wanted to read the Bible but found it strange, read this book and the Bible will be unveiled. I hold my breath for further volumes.

As the weeks of the year go by, the human soul may find a clear reflection. The attentive reader may discover subtlties he/she had not been aware of within themselves or the world around them, prior to picking up this radiant nugget. New insights may develop leading to living streams, strengthening his/her striving toward our(human, animal, plant, and let's not forget the mineral) common, healthy, spiritual evolution. Though centered around the sun, all may relate.

This little book addresses the needs of the soul and spirit according to the week of the year. The seasons are known to affect us deeply and this book helps people to find more meaning in their lives through short meditations based on the season. The verses mainly focus on the spiritual beings of the Judeo-Christian cosmogeny and how they affect our lives.

This book is great. It has definitions of the buzzwords of construction, discussion of all aspects of construction, and hundreds of drawings detailing what you need to know.

Carpentry is the most comprehensive book on the subject out there. I bought my copy in 1986 when I was building my house and found every answer to every job I was doing. When the building inspector came for the rough inspection, his coment was " if the contractors in town did this good of a job, my job would be easy". Today I am searching for this book for my brother inlaw who like myself, before I bought the book, has no clue of how to build it right.

Excellent, excellent material. Non-sensational, matter-of-fact cases dealing with 'ghosts.' As a psychic therapist, Eddie Burks gets down to business, and with no expectations of fame and fortune, and no desire to convince anyone of the afterlife, he lends credibility to his contacts with those beings trapped just on the other side of life. Background information added by Gillian Cribbs gives the reader additional reason to embrace the information offered by Burks, and, no doubt, raise a bit of hope in the heart of even the staunchest cynic. . .a must-have for those interested in the afterlife, but maybe even more of a revelation for those who do not believe.

I found this book to be one of the most interesting books about spiritual cleansing that I have ever read, and recommend it thoroughly to anyone with an inkling of interest on this topic.
The indepth knowledge of the history behind each visit,which Gillian Cribbs includes, shows her genuine interest in the talent possessed by Eddie Burkes.
I have re-read this book three times and still find the cases absolutely amazing/stunning!
I would be very interested to know if either Eddie or Gillian have any future works in the pipeline?

This book provides a wonderful overview and condensation of the important threads in Rudolf Steiners writings. If you are interested in getting the gist of what Steiner was talking about in all those tomes he wrote then by all means get this book and make it easy on yourself. Also brings to light where current spiritual ideas (ie. channeling) fit in to the overall sceme of human evolution. There are too many amazing ideas to go into here but I can say this is a fantastic book! The best "Steiner" book I have read.

This book is one of the very few that are quite simply - important. The author is in the position to evaluate, "refresh", and putting into perspective deep esoteric matters. The book offers comprehensive, and integrated understandings. A truly wonderfull reading experience. A "Tour de force".

This is a good book for anybody who reads a lot of science fiction/fantasy and has a real interest in the people who write it. Robert Silverberg is an author who will be given the Grand Master award from SFWA in the future. His novels like Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, and A Time of Changes are classics of the field. Even some of his later works like The Face of the Waters and The Alien Years show signs of greatness.

But, this book is a collection of essays that RS has written over the years. They show us inside his thinking process. He also tells us about the world of an SF writter and about the other personalities who make up the field.

Good book for people interested in the author and his work.

I discovered Robert Silverberg's work while browsing the library. I was a book called The Book of Skulls. I thought it looked interesting so I took it home and read it. I haven't looked back since. I have read nearly everything I can find by this wonderful man. That brings me to this book. When I finished this book, I had reached a turning point in my life. I began reading Golden Age SF. It really bothers me when younger people say why should I read that? A bunch a dead guys wrote that smelly stuff (since most/nearly all SF was in the pulps). I have read Cliff Simak, Lewis Padgett (who is really C.L. Moore and Henry Kuttner), Robert A. Heinlein, Lester del Rey, John W. Campbell (Night is beautiful), A.E. van Vogt, and many others, and I must say, though some is extremely corny (The Vault of the Beast by van Vogt..."Ha! We're going to take over mankind!), it provided much of the richness that is now in the field. Before reading Reflections and Refractions, I had no idea about this other world. Now I have begun reading about the authors themselves, and the editors, and definitely believe my life is fuller because the great Golden Age.

What a heady time were the late 1700's. For hundreds, even thousands, of years, Western man had been saddled with monarchy; kings who were said to rule by divine right. But by the end of the 18th century, Martin Luther, John Locke and Adam Smith had propounded the essential framework for modern liberal capitalist democracy and the Revolution in America had launched a grand experiment based on those ideas. Then came the French Revolution and it was blithely assumed that here again Liberty was on the march. When suddenly, rising to meet the tide of history, came Edmund Burke to excoriate the Jacobins and denounce the Revolution. In so doing, he not only did mankind a great service, by sounding the alarms against unchecked liberty, he also basically gave birth to modern Conservatism. Today, after a long period in the wilderness, particularly during the Cold War, Edmund Burke has come roaring back into fashion. In a sense, he has finally won his argument with the defenders of the French Revolution, two hundred years after the fact, and is reaping the spoils.

For two centuries a controversy has raged over Burke's political philosophy, in particular whether the great defender of American, Irish and Indian rights was inconsistent in opposing the French Revolution. The very existence and the stubborn persistence of this controversy seem to demonstrate either a complete misunderstanding or a willful misrepresentation of Burke's basic arguments. One suspects it's a bit of both. The greatness of Burke lies in the fact that he was among the first, and certainly the most eloquent, defenders of democracy to recognize the dangers it entails; that power in the hands of the masses is just as great a threat to liberty as when it lies in the hand of a dictator or king. This point had been amply demonstrated in France, where the revolutionists had quickly abandoned any concern for personal freedom and had moved on to a bloody demand for equality--freedom's enemy.

It is here that we arrive at the key point that divides the modern Left and Right. The Left believes (a la Rousseau) that man is by nature "good" and all men are born with equal abilities, but that environmental factors and corrupt institutions warp individuals, making some evil and keeping others from realizing their full potentials; which if realized would make them equal to other men. The goal of the Left is therefore to remove, by any means necessary, these environmental and institutional impediments and return to an imagined state of nature where all men are good and are equally able; where Man will be governed by pure reason.

The Right, on the other hand, recognizes that man is inately "evil"; that is, evil in the sense that he is self centered and will generally act in his own interest not the interest of others. Moreover, men are inherently unequal; in the state of nature, the able will tyrannize the less able. It is for these reasons that men form governments in the first place; to protect themselves from one another. The goal of the Right is to provide each individual with the greatest personal freedom and utmost opportunity to realize his potential, consistent with the basic safety concerns that gave birth to the state in the first instance. Conservatives realize that pure reason will not lead men to treat each other with justice, by nature, men will always seek advantage over one another. The State and other institutions safeguard us against this eventuality.

This fundamental difference can not be overstated. Prior to the 18th century, the Left would have included all democrats, while the Right would have been made up of monarchists and supporters of aristocracy. But beginning with the French Revolution, this fissure separated the regnant liberal forces into two competing camps, setting the stage for the two century long contest that ended in the early 1990's with the fall of the Soviet Union. Both sides would produce great men, original theorists, brilliant writers and magnificent orators, but none of them would ever surpass Burke and his mastery of all these fields. Rare are the men who so clearly perceive the fundamental issues that confront mankind. They seem at times to be travelers from the future, come to warn us about what horrors the years to come will hold unless we obey their counsel. Rarer still are the occasions when we heed them. We can only imagine the millions of lives that would have been saved had people followed Burke's vision rather that that of Rousseau and Jefferson and Marx.

Happily, here in America, James Madison's Constitution embodies many of the same ideas and protects against many of the concerns which Burke expressed. The adoption of representative, rather than direct, democracy; the bicameral legislature and tripartite government; the careful system of checks and balances; the protection of basic rights from government interference: these are all, though we seldom discuss them in these terms, intended to protect the individual from the potentially tyrannical effects of democracy. When commentators speak of the genius of the American system, whether they realize it or not, it is to this central fact that they refer. So while critics have struggled to understand a false dichotomy in Burke's thought, we (and to a lesser extent the Brits) have enjoyed the fruits of a political system which assumes that his critique of democracy is less theory than received wisdom. For whatever reason, it took two hundred years and countless millions of lives before the rest of the world recognized what Burke (the bard) and Madison (the draftsman) had known all along; two centuries that proved them indisputably correct.

GRADE: A+

If Ronald Reagan is the great communicator, Burke must be the extraordinary communicator. Someone once said that pages of Burke are like sheets of fire.

        During the time he lived, in the 18th century, most political leaders were hereditary aristocrats, but Burke, like Cicero, did not descend from generations of prominent leaders. He earned his leadership in British politics through the power of his mind, by studying political principles and applying them to real circumstances. A superficial look at Burke's career might tempt one to dismiss him as a failure. Most of the causes to which he devoted himself were not successful in his lifetime.

        Prior to the American Revolution, he wrote brilliantly on behalf of conciliation between Britain and the American colonies. He argued for fair treatment of India by Britain. He argued for fair treatment of the Irish by the British and for Catholic emancipation in England. In time these positions won acceptance, but the acceptance came after Burke's death.

        Fortunately, he did live long enough to see the triumph of the greatest work of his life: his effort to awaken his country to the fundamentally destructive but superficially attractive nature of the French Revolution. His thorough and, I believe, inspired condemnation of the French Revolution swept British majority opinion. To Burke, more than any other politician of his time, goes the credit for creating the intellectual force which saved Europe from revolutionary chaos and dictatorship.

        Modern-day conservatives are also profoundly in his debt, as his writings against the French revolution provided the philosophical foundation for anti-communism in particular and ordered liberty in general. Read Burke. All his writings on government and politics are a rich ore, studded with gems of wisdom.