Chilton Reviews

The archetypes of Adam and Eve represent the masculine and femine aspects of personality within each of us. Our masculine qualities are outward-looking, rational, direct, practical and assertive; whilst the feminine is introspective, intuitive, sensitive and more connected with the heart. The balance of male and female makes us whole. Glynda-Lee explains how the Garden of Eden story represents the inner life of the psyche. It is actually an instructive analogy that demonstrates how to transcend our sexual stereotype and truly know ourselves, to become fully human.

The church has represented this story in a way that implies Eve's subservience to Adam, and that she was responsibile for the Fall of Mankind. Women have suffered plenty because of this! But on the contrary, Adam needed Eve's aptitude for integration and intuitive wisdom to perceive the real meaning of his situation; the rationale and logic of the intellect would not be enough. Adam needs to have his eyes opened and it is the woman who provides him with this opportunity. Therefore it was permissible for Eve to eat the apple of knowledge that was forbidden to Adam - this was Eve's dowry. It wasn't a negative action to eat the apple, it was a gift to humankind of its inner awareness, its spirituality. Apparently even the symbols 'good' and 'evil' were interpreted in the Bible opposite to their original Hebraic meaning.

Hoffmann goes on to explain how each of the characters in Genesis represents an archetype of the human personality, so that the story is symbolic of the struggles and conflicts we face within ourselves daily, as people have all through history.

It is easy, as I did previously, to dismiss the Genesis material as manipulative, patriarchist propaganda. Taken at face value that is how it has been used. It took Hoffmann's profound knowledge of the Quabalah and its original Hebraic language to unlock the real meaning, and that is brilliantly laid bare in this book.

But it's not a heady, intellectual read - it's easy to follow and insight follows insight as Hoffmann shines the light of her scholarship on the original text and its wide implications. The book can open our minds in a way that perhaps the original authors of Genesis intended but which has gone unrecognized until now.

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This is the only low fat cookbook I reach for anymore, and I have lots! I have no fear trying new recipes, or ingredients with this cookbook because everything always turns out delicous!!! Even my non-dieting husband can't tell that he's really eating healthy. No one would ever know they weren't tasting a bite of the high-fat version of these delicious creations. Aside from great recipes, the authors make this book an enjoyable read as well. Throughout the pages you'll find interesting exercise facts, and other trivia items to help you along as you strive towards better health.

This book, as well as the previous one, Looney Spoons, is filled with recipes that can be enjoyed by the whole family. I have many cookbooks but these are among the most frequently used. The ingredients are readily available and the nutritional information is right at the end of each recipe. Every recipe I have made I would use again. So nice to have a cookbook of recipes that are good for you but that don't seem like diet food! I also appreciate the humour that the authors show.

Within the first two weeks after I had purchased this cookbook, I had prepared seven dishes - and each was delicious !!! The sweet and sour pork recipe was better than even the best restaurant version I've had. Don't miss the enchilada casserole either - everything in the book, so far, takes little time to prepare and is wonderful - especially great to use for dinners after you come home from work - as long as you have some fresh vegetables around the house, you'll be able to find a tasty recipe.

I think this cookbook is so great - I've given it as a gift to my mom and a couple of friends.

I agree with the other reviewers that this is an
excellent book to teach financial planning to novices.
The in-depth situational analysis on saving, insurance,
retirement planning, etc. will prove a solid foundation
for people looking for a place to start building their
net worth, and looking for something that doesn't require
them to already have several tens of thousands before they
can start.

One caveat, though, for readers (like myself) who read
the original, CANADIAN, version ... this one available
at ... has been rewritten with the US market in mind.
The story is now set in Port Huron instead of Sarnia (no
big deal), and the retirement planning section focuses
on IRAs and 401(K)s instead of RRSPs and SDRSPs - a major
difference if you were expecting current Canadian advice!

I bought this book expecting to have an update on current
Canadian treatment of RRSPs and their allowable foreign
content, the phasing out of the old [$$$] lifetime
capital gain exemption, etc., and was rudely surprised
at the all-American content. So, be warned.

The book is still an excellent read, and for anyone living
and/or working in the US, it's probably a must-read.

I'm not sure where the Canadian version of this book
is available, or even whether it _is_ any longer being
kept current in a Canadian version, but if you're looking
for that, try a Canadian bookstore. :)

I really enjoyed reading the Wealthy Barber. This book has some excellent information in it. By using fictional characters to illustrate his points the author succeeds in holding his readers attention. The Wealthy Barber contains everything you need to know in order to get started in saving and investing for the future. It is one of the best books I have read on the subject of investing. It covers some of the same ground that the Richest Man in Babylon does and does it even better. I highly recommend this book!

"The Wealthy Barber" is a financial primer written in the form of a fictional story with characters who grow in the area of financial management and independence. I would describe it as sort of a financial parable. There is a lesson to be learned here and instead of telling the lessons in either a boring, or too-technical book, this author has chosen and woven a fictional story with a lesson or a parable. Cathy, Tom and Dave get together with the local barber, Roy who shares his years of wisdom. There are chapters in the book involving wills, life insurance, retirement planning, personal residence, saving, investments and income tax. The lessons are basic and conservative. No day trading here or get rich quick schemes. Seasoned investors will probably find this book too elementary and simplistic. But some knowledgeable investors might find it to be a refreshing, thought provoking, simple overview. The primary reader target is really the novice or the uninformed. For this group I would heartily recommend the book. I would even recommend it for teenagers curious about investing and financial subjects. There are so many people that don't have a financial clue, for them this book would be excellent. The message is easy to read, simple and easy to follow. After reading this book an excellent follow on would be "The Millionaire Next Door" which expands some of the same themes of conservative saving and investing being a path to financial security, independence and a comfortable retirement. The book does not have an index, which I consider a shortcoming for the reader's future reference. I would also recommend as a companion read "The Only Investment Guide You'll Ever Need" by Andrew Tobias.

This book is a vast source of useful information about hypnosis, past-lives, the subconscious mind, and how to use this information to re-program your life for the better. The book ends with a fascinating message from "Master of Light," a channeled being who asks the people of the world to remember to enjoy life with pure delight and joy. He also reminds us to meditate for peace and harmony as we move toward an upcoming age of great enlightenment. I highly recommend this book.

In this most outstanding book, I found the back ground on the authors both fascinating and remarkably bold. Opening to the reader a very intimate aspect of themselves that most of us would hide in the secrecy of our own minds. Following the authors history, the book began to take on a life of its own. Clearly this book was written from the stand point of experience not just theoretical jargon.While guiding me on a journey through the different levels of mind and its relationship to Spirit, the authors have convinced me of the great value of this book. The tools, the perceptions, and the graceful explanation of them in this book, have already made quite a difference in my life. The real life cases and the written dialog are brilliant. I highly recommend this book, especially to those who are interested in doing any kind of spiritual work, either with themselves or with others. I sure found the chapter from Master of Light both compelling and enlightening. I excitedly am waiting for the next book in the series.

It is difficult to give a description of this book that does it justice because it covers so much material from hypnotherapy to psychic ability. If you are fascinated by Sylvia Brown, John Edwards, 'Conversations with God' or any other metaphyical books, you will probably find yourself enjoying this book.

I love this book because I am a hypnotherapist and in reading this book it helped me to become a much better hypnotherapist through understanding past lives and spirit attachments. I use the muscle testing techniques everyday in my practice. They are invaluable. The light meditation and the information on light is extremely powerful. I have used it for myself and my clients on a regular basis. In sending light, I find that I'm manifesting my dreams much more quickly - sometimes in a matter of minutes.

Even if you aren't a Hypnoherapist, you will find that by reading the book it opens you up to discovering your own spirit.

I recommend to anyone who is open to learning about the nature of spirit.

"Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" is the latest offering from best-selling author Thom Hartmann. It is one of the most intense and disturbing books I have ever read. Yes, the book is highly recommended and was selected from among many other worthy titles, along with "The Prophet's Way", as book of the month because of the potential for far reaching positive effects upon readers' lives. And as Thom Hartmann says in his introduction the "...book is ultimately about hope, and - once we understand how things are and how they got this way - offers concrete solutions for a brighter, and more meaningful future." It's true, the book provides, in the end, an optimistic message. I strongly urge you to read this book, but I'm not going to minimize its initial impact. The first two-thirds are tough going. There's no getting around it. Yet it is a journey of great Purpose, taking you, with your eyes and heart open, into the message of the final third of a book which may be the most important book you can read for our Now and our Future.

The book begins with a striking look at the conditions of our world today. Some of this is going to be familiar reading because of the increasing frequency of published reports of impending ecological disasters and environmental collapse. Yet Thom Hartmann is not simply sounding the alarm or preaching to the choir of environmentalists. He truly gives us a fresh viewpoint of the current state of the planet, and how things got this way.

"It all starts with sunlight". We, and everything else came from it, and all that sustains us is fueled by it. When we as a species were in harmony with nature and consumed our share of the sunlight without destroying and dominating the environment, our resources were renewable and our populations stable. We lived in a state of harmony and cooperation for hundreds of thousands of years. But, as we know, something went wrong in the Garden of Eden. Actually there were several things occurring over tens of ! thousands of years, and Thom Hartmann chronicles 4 pivotal events.

First was the introduction of herding - approx 40,000 years ago - which was our initial departure from hunter-gatherers. Then about 10,000 years ago was the rise of agriculture, and following that the discovery of minerals, mining, and smelting metals. More food production, more energy, and thus more growth in population. This of course is widely known. But what has not been generally known, or at least discussed in depth offered by this book is the change in attitude that also occurred at that time. Thom Hartmann shows us that with so-called civilization and the rise of city/states came the idea that it is our destiny to rule the earth, that it is "...acceptable not just to compete with nature for our food supply, but to bend nature to our will, to destroy competing species and peoples, to dominate nature."

The results of this have been the rise and fall of civilizations across the planet, each time collapsing when the sources of available sunlight became depleted or taken away by the next conquerors. Each collapse, each layer of history, left woundings in the earth, and in the human psyche. And this pattern (the occurrences and reasons for which are explored in depth in the book), continued again and again right up to the present. Still, as bad as they were, the overall planetary destructions of the past were minimal compared to what we have been seeing since the 4th pivotal moment in modern history.

That "moment" was the discovery of sources of Ancient Sunlight that had been stored in the earth for millions of years. Around 900 years ago people began using coal for fuel. This allowed for more forestlands to be converted to croplands, and with the increase in food the world human population doubled (from 500 million to a billion) by 1800. The key is that here is "...when our ancestors started living off our planet's sunlight-savings". In the middle of the last century, the other great source of ancien! t sunlight - oil - began to be used. And since then we have discovered (just look around you) countless uses for this resource in the form of fuels, fabrics, and plastics. We were then, and are now more than ever, living well beyond the means of our daily sunlight income. Our supplies of Ancient Sunlight are vanishing. They may well be gone within our lifetimes, certainly within our children's. Yet rather than use the remaining fossil fuels to create new sources of energy and new ways of living, we just keep consuming, consuming , consuming.

Thom Hartmann calls the people promoting/living in this way members of "Younger Cultures". They/we are called this not just because of their/our relatively recent appearance in history, but more importantly because of their/our immature, and dangerously irresponsible attitudes. Younger Cultures see themselves as separate from the world. Their "mission" is to dominate and conquer. They expend vast amounts of energy to establish ownership and control, and so the harming of others becomes an accepted part of the culture. Of course the lack of regard for others, and the separation from nature is echoed in the ever increasing destruction of the environment.

Here in the West we, with all our comforts and shielded from the devastation growing at alarming rates in other parts of the planet (not to mention the poor and homeless living relatively close by), are generally living in survival by denial. We support a growing variety of addictions, from ingested substances to the much more devastating forms of energetic addictions such as television. And we have become adept at inventing ever more refined methods of treatment, as well as "fixes" for the environmental challenges.

We need to be willing to look deeper into the root causes of these personal and planetary illnessess, into the abyss we call civilization, into the past unveiled for all it was/is in terms of the events and effects and even more importantly in terms of the attitudes that m! ade them possible over and over again. The first two-thirds of "Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" will provide that vision, that first step in personal and planetary healing.

In the part 3 of the book, Thom Hartmann shows us what we can do, beginning now, to restore our planet by transforming ourselves and healing our relationships with each other and all other living things. The model for this can be found in the essence of the Older Cultures. We are blessed with the presence of a few remaining Older Culture peoples such as the San, Kogi, Kayapo, and many of the Native American tribes, and if we listen, really listen, they have much to tell us. In their view we are not separate from the world but part of it. It is not our destiny to dominate, but to cooperate. Their stories of the world, their descriptions of life, are very different from our Younger Culture ones. It's time to change the stories we tell each other and our children about what happens in life, and our reasons for being here.

We can begin to reconnect simply by paying more attention, being more awake, to the here and now. Meditation is the first and most powerful way to do that. When we find our center, that "...quiet place within where *thinking* ends and *consciousness* begins" we then "...find the ability to transform others and ourselves in ways which can and will transform the world." As we transform ourselves, we can create intentional communities, grounded in a new vision of reality that supports all of life. We can take the best of what we have now, and use it in more positive ways for a healthier future.

It took great courage to write this book. And it takes great courage to read it, move through it, and begin to take action. Yet the choices are clear. We can continue to allow the accelerating destruction of the planet while living in denial of our own complicity and fearing the outcome. Or we can choose each day to reconnect to the Sacred and reawaken to our Oneness drawing our strength and energy ! from a truly infinite and renewable source: Love.

Bottom Line -- Consider "Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight" as essential as any book or manual you have ever read, and one of the greatest gifts you could give another. Read it, use it, share it and together we'll write a new story and create a healthy future for our beloved planet.

--- Steve L

This was not an easy book to read. Hartman outlines very clearly what a dangerous predicament the planet is in right now, and how it got to be this way. However, unlike a lot of books which tell you how bad it is and then leave you in a state of desperation (supporting you in going back "to sleep"), Hartman lays out very clear actions anyone can take to help the situation. He backs up his highly spiritual ideas with hard core science (though clear enough for the layman), all to assure the reader that one person can and does make a difference every day - whether consciously or unconsciously - and this is the key to our salvation, and the salvation of the entire planet.

I believe it is our responsiblity to wake up and look at the reality we have created and figure out a way to change it. Thom Hartman gives you the gift of the opportunity to do so. PLEASE READ THIS BOOK -- AND PASS ON THE INFORMATION! We need all the help we can get!

Beautiful book, with a lot of interesting history.
An absolute read.

I couldn't wait to get ahold of this book after so many rave reviews. I didn't find the recipes all that appetizing (their other book CRAZY PLATES was better in this regard), the recipe titles were confusing, and I found the comics mostly annoying.

What do you get when you cross animated cartoon-like pictures, low fat recipes, funny headlines and titles, jokes and funny stories? No it's not the entertainment section of your newspaper, but it is entertaining. Two Sister, Janet and Greta Podleski took all of those items and more to put together their fun cookbook, Looneyspoons published by Granet Publishing.

The Podleski sisters compiled over 150 "outrageously delicious low-fat recipes" to create this book. Looneyspoons, also has a funny joke on almost every page. For example on the Another One Bites the Crust bread recipe page is a cartoon that says, Wife: "What wrong with this cake, Dear? It tastes kind of gritty." Husband: "Nothing, sweetheart. The recipe called for three whole eggs and I guess I just didn't get the shells beaten up fine enough." Some other recipe titles include: Don't Worry. Be Crabby; I Yam What I Yam; Beyond Be-Leaf Garden Salad; No Peeking! We're Dressing!; It's Only Brocc 'n Bowl (with the cartoon "I'll have the turtle soup and make it snappy!"); Chowdown Chickpea Chowda; Much Ado About Nothing (What did the leftovers say when they were put into the freezer? foiled again); Go Ahead, Bake My Bread; Sky High Vegetable Pie; Chili Chili Bang Bang; Lasagna with Mex Appeal (we all have a washboard stomach. It's just that some of us have a little extra laundry on top.); Luciano's Panzerotti; Eenie Meenie Fettuccine; Thai It! You'll Like It!; A Penne For Your Thoughts; Dillicious Lemon Chicken; Grocery Cart Chicken Chili (Did you hear about the boy who drank 8 Cokes? He burped 7-up.); Chicken Catcha Tory; I'm a Sole Man; Happily Marri-nated salmon Steaks; Mission Shrimpossible; Veal of Fortune; "Dressed to Grill" Pork Chops; Pork-u-Pine Kabobs; Glazed and Confused Carrots; All in the Yamily; Cookoo Over Couscous; Dream Team Cream Pie; Say "Cheesecake (Did you hear about Snow White's brother? His name is Egg White. Get the yolk?); Rude Barb's Strawbapple Crisp; Viceless Riceless Pudding (did you he! ar about the new restaurant on the moon? The food's great but it just doesn't have any atmosphere.); and Ross Perogies. Every recipe also contains a "what's in it for me?" section that outline the per serving nutritional information. These two beautiful women have made a really fun cookbook. It may be one of the only cookbooks on your shelf that will not only offer some good recipes, but it will also make you laugh time and time again.

Thank heavens there is finally a tasty guide to low fat eating. Not all of us love fish with lemon juice, after all! I can't recommend this book highly enough. I've tried at least 20 of the recipes and I've yet to find a dud. Best of all, it's written by people with a sense of humor--and ain't that rare in the low-fat cookbook world!

I've only gotten half way through it but this is a wonderful book! Dr. Pearce writes with authority and grace, and has read widely and compiled the most essential findings from the ongoing revolution in the biology of intelligence. Surprisingly, it turns out that our hearts are largely composed at the cellular level of glia and neurons, and connections with our brain and nervous systems are so extensive that one could refer to the heart as the fifth brain. I've read in the other reviews where one reader refers to the author as a "psychopath". This is really hard to swallow, especially considering Dr. Pearce's straightforward honesty, humility and humour in describing some extraordinary experiences from his quite extraordinary life. It's also rather ironic that such slander should be thrown at a person who has devoted a lifetime to investigating and exposing how our industrial, materialist society twists our youth's natural processes of intellectual and emotional growth... and spurs instead, at a biological and neurological level, the deformity of violence against self and others.

This book will make you giggle with glee if you've ever had a major Ah ha! or Eureka! in your life. He shows scientifically and tells philosophically how consciousness elevates. Included in this thesis are the landmarks of development of the brain and then the consciousness -- and then he tells you how to really turn on the juice to uplift your consciousness. It's theory, no doubt, but there's enough credence that it's very interesting reading. As in all things, each of us comes to the world from a particular point of view. This one struck me as fantastically interesting.

Reviewed by Elliot A. Ryan and Charles O. Bubar

Many books have one or a handful of fundamental concepts. This book has dozens, woven together in a powerful fabric to provide intelligent clothing for a new paradigm of transcendence. A major argument of this book is that transcendence, the ability to go beyond limitation and restraint, is our biological birthright, built into us genetically, and blocked by enculturation. It is an inspired and heretical work as all great truths are heretical in the context of the culture that encounters them.

Depending on your cultural and religious background, it will be either joyful or somewhat disturbing to read. Nevertheless, for those who deeply understand its profound implications, The Biology of Transcendence can be a blueprint for a new paradigm in child development.

In this powerful work, Pearce draws on research from a wide range of the physical, social, biological, and medical sciences. His bibliography contains over 100 sources from Frederick Leboyer on birth and bonding to Paul MacLean on the brain, Jean Piaget on development, John and Beatrice Lacey on the heart, the Holy Bible on religion, David Bohm and Rupert Sheldrake on science, and Rudolph Steiner on spirituality.

Joseph Chilton Pearce reveals the biological and neurological underpinnings that help us discover the underlying principles of our own deepest nature.

This is a book which can be productively read numerous times, each time grasping more of the interrelationships among the fundamental concepts and understanding their implications for our own lives and those of our children.

This book deserves to be a best seller, yet even as the Bible is a best seller, the Bible is often not read by those who own it - or if read, may be fundamentally misunderstood. In the same way that the Bible is a profound affirmation of spiritual possibility and an indictment of "the world", The Biology of Transcendence is an affirmation of our transcendent birthright and an indictment of cultures which oppose this birthright.

An important goal of culture is to inhibit destructive impulses and behaviors. Unfortunately, culture can result in a failure in nurturing and a consequent failure in the brain development of the child's prefrontal cortex - the brain system which, when developed and integrated, internally inhibits the same destructive impulses and behaviors in children and adults which culture has failed to externally control.

Pearce offers evidence of the growing failure in nurturing of children in the United States and the increase in destructive impulses and behavior. By the end of the 20th Century, 6000 American children and teens were being killed annually by their peers. Further, suicide has become the third highest cause of death by youth between ages 5 and 17, with suicide attempts in this age group occurring on the average every 78 seconds.

Pearce shares many of the transcendent experiences of his own life of 83 years, which provided his powerful personal motivation to understand the true nature and source of these experiences and the framework of child development principles which can open this potential to our children.

In explanation of "unconflicted behavior" he describes two such instances from his own life that occurred due to his discovery in his early 20s of how "to bypass my body's most ancient instincts of self-preservation, which resulted in a temporary absence of all fear and subsequent abandonment of all caution. This enabled me, at particular times, to accomplish things that would have been considered impossible under the ordinary conditions of the world," (1) such as sleep and operate a check-proofing machine at the same time plus take customary coffee breaks and (2) climb a sheer cliff straight up from the ocean with an overhang at the top. His implicit trust in the force of unconflicted behavior operated the check-proofing machine and propelled his body up through an avalanche of dust and debris. Unconflicted behavior allows no space for doubt.

Pearce sees these fundamental concepts as part of the process of building lifeboats to ferry humankind out of a growing chaos and into a new realm of transcendent possibility. These concepts provide affirmation of the innate intelligence of mothers who possess strength and self-confidence, who are deeply spiritual in a personal sense, who exhibit freedom, and who exude inner security, confidence, and the intelligence of the heart. For fathers, their most important role is to provide mothers with a safe space, free from fear during pregnancy, childbirth, and their son's or daughter's early childhood years, so that the child's safe space is never in question. After the first three years, the father provides the model for bridging between the nest and the world.

George Jaidar's book inspires, in those who are ready, a deeper experience of their own unique spiritual journey. I've bought the book for many like-minded friends, and we each have our own description of why and how it works. That's the beauty of it: it's not a one-size-fits-all remedy for what ails you. Rather, it's an invitation to recognize and commit to the uniqueness and beauty of yourself as experienced through the search for a life of fullness, or the soul. Heady stuff, yeah, but well worth the time and effort required to complete the book. Try it, you'll like it.

In checking back on reviews of some books I've loved over the years, I laughed aloud when I read "A reader from Santa Fe" 3/11/00 review of Jaidar's book. And my second reaction was sadness for that person.

Never was there a clearer example of the necessity of having the eyes to see and the ears to hear!

Readers, take a look at what some of our best thinkers and researchers in the fields of consciousness studies and spirituality have to say about this book:

Larry Dossey, M.D.: "All truly great and enduring spiritual documents are jewellike - luminously clear and radiant....Anyone who reads THE SOUL will have found a precious gem, a treasure of immense worth. This book is about the Great Constants - those insights that have changed lives throughout human history."

Joseph Chilton Pearce: "For generations we have needed a new framework and lexicon for talking about the human spirit, and HERE IT IS. Everything that I (and others of similar bent) have written has only groped, at best, toward what is spelled out here. With the power and assurance of personal knowing, rather than conjecture, and with an admirable simplicity and clarity of style, George Jaidar shares with us a revelation he experienced nearly a quarter of a century ago..."

Professor Charles Tart: "....George Jaidar's book is one of the clearest, most sensible guides I've seen to real development. I strongly recommend THE SOUL to those seriously interested in finding and growing that deeper self."

Read through the other reader reviews. Don't miss this book. For those who do have the eyes to see and the ears to hear, and who are ready, THE SOUL holds the keys to transformation - not just thinking about it, or reading about it - but actually living out this unfolding new mutation in human consciousness.

One of my very favorite books in this genre - a wonderful book that gets richer with each reading. Anyone looking for a simple message and an easy, "feel-good" read should perhaps look elsewhere. While this book is certainly comprehensible to the average inquisitive reader, those that I've recommended it to that have most enjoyed it seem to have open minds and a frame of reference that includes a wide variety of other books about spirituality. For me, this book "transcends and includes" many other spiritually-themed books I've enjoyed by Wayne Muller, Joseph Chilton Pearce, Pema Chodron, George Leonard, Joseph Campbell and others. Both very practical and deeply insightful, I refer to it again and again.
This is an extraordinary book of inspired and delightful teaching. The criticism in some reviews appears to me to be silly and groundless, and mostly beside the point. Don't be discouraged. Buy it. You'll love it. Unless what you really want is a pleasant, mindless diversion, in which case you simply stumbled into the wrong department in this bookstore.

This book is a excellent reference and guide for the intermediate to advanced mushroom grower. The emphasis is not necessarily on growing at home because the techniques described in the book require a pretty sophisticated lab. To grow mushrooms in the average kitchen with the dog walking by and shaking would be difficult using the info from this book. Of course if you buy the laminar flow hood from the author then things will be much easier for 800 dollars. The book is weak on sterile technique methods needed to sucessfully cultivate without laminar flow hoods.
Overall the book is a very comprehensive outline for successful cultivation indoors and outdoors. I reccommend it

I did not really understand just how comprehensive this book is until I recieved it in the mail. This book has everything and it is all in large print and worded well so it is easy to read. The majority of photos are black and white However there are some high resolution color photos in there as well. This is one of those books that you can pass down to your kids. There should not be a reason why your not going to buy this book.

Great price and Great Service! Ordered and received in five days.