History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)

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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

8 Minutos Por LA Manana: Una forma sencilla de empezar tu día quemando gras y eliminando las libras de más

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8 minutos por la mañana de Jorge Cruise

8 Minutos Por LA Manana: Una forma sencilla de empezar tu día quemando gras y eliminando las libras de más
Cristina Saralegui , and Jorge Cruise
Manufacturer: Rodale Books
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:n immediate success when published in English last fall, 8 Minutes in the Morning hit a nerve with health-conscious, time-challenged readers of all ages. In this breakout book, Jorge Cruise, the incredibly popular online fitness instructor, has crafted the perfect weight-loss fitness training routine for all of us whose lives are too busy to get to the gym or whose motivation gets them nowhere. Now available in a Spanish edition, 8 Minutes in the Morning targets just two basic strength moves each day and adds an innovative metabolism-boosting eating plan, guaranteed to take off the pounds.

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8 minutos por la mañana de Jorge Cruise.......2002-06-12

8 Minutos por la mañana :Una forma sencilla de empezar tu día quemando gras y eliminando las libras de más by Cristina Saralegui , Jorge Cruise

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Moving towards an inescable end...
Literary potato chips...you just can't stop reading
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Struggle
Libra sets the Balance.

Libra (Contemporary American Fiction)
Don DeLillo
Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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ASIN: 0140156046

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A gripping, masterful blend of fact and fiction, alive with meticulously portrayed characters both real and created, Libra is a grave, haunting, and brilliant examination of an event that has become an indelible part of the American psyche. In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from a troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. In his new introduction, DeLillo reexamines the evidence surrounding Oswald's role in the assassination as well as Oswald's place in popular culture. BACKCOVER: Now with a new introduction by the author—“a thriller of the most profound sort”
—Chicago Tribune

“Libra operates at a dizzyingly high level of intensity throughout; it's that true fictional rarity—a novel of admirable depth and relevance that's also a terrific page-turner.”
—USA Today

“DeLillo's novel is like a stop-motion frame of the crossfire, a still picture of an awful moment.... [His] prose has a quality of demented lyricism.”
—The New Yorker

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Moving towards an inescable end..........2007-02-19

Oswald appears to the American public as a cipher-the basics are known but his interior life remains a mystery. Because of this, Lee Harvey Oswald proves to be the perfect subject for Dellilo's penetrating examination. Delillo presents the reader with a lost soul; a man searching for something to fill the aching void that is his life and finding only pain; most of which is of his own making. Oswald wanders from place to place; adrift in a life that he constantly tries to control but fails repeatedly. Family, school, the military, and political beliefs all leave him further and further from finding a purpose, and a little further from a rational point of view. Finally he becomes a pawn for conspirators who are trying to make America aware of the dangers of Castro's Cuba, and it is then Oswald realizes that his life is not what it was supposed to be. The conspiracy is only important for the purpose of giving the novel a foundation, just another device to move Oswald forward to his inescapable end. Amazingly, Delillo creates feeling compassion for his character, who while rooted in history, remains purely a fictional being, Dellilo's interpretation of the interior life of one of America's most infamous figures.

Literary potato chips...you just can't stop reading.......2007-01-30

*Libra* is Don DeLillo's fascinating take on what has become an American version of a classic Greek tragedy: the assassination of John F. Kennedy. You'd think by now that this subject had been pretty well drained of any interest by all the books, movies, TV mini-series, articles, exposes, interviews, etc., but, to his credit, DeLillo has managed to reinterpret this mythic event for the commentary it makes on our contemporary culture. Conspiracy, paranoia, corruption, secrecy, violence, racism, consumerism, moral ambiguity, relativism, the sense that reality itself is up for interpretation, that the center does not cohere, that even with all the tapes and cameras running we still can't say for sure that this happened or didn't happen...this nightmarish landscape is the one DeLillo delineates in this absolutely fascinating novel.

DeLillo's Oswald is a construct particularly suited to our postmodern times--the archetype of the outsider as a total enigma, a blank, an empty container, a chess piece neither black nor white, waiting to be given a designation, a purpose, a place on the board of history. He has a gripe, but he's not exactly sure who it's against. Everyone is the enemy. He is the true idealist: good always exists far away, in this case, in the idea of communism, the ideas of Russia, Cuba, Castro. Always in an "idea." Reality, however, is something much different, much more ambiguous.

I somehow hadn't realized how young Oswald was--24 when he was killed by Jack Ruby. Only 24 and yet he'd already been in the Marines, traveled to Japan, defected to Russia, married and had babies, returned to the U.S., engaged himself as a pro-Castro activist, shot the president of the United States. DeLillo tries to make some sense of this, portraying Oswald as an angry young man burning with purpose and a desire to make his mark on history, but ultimately unfocused, confused, and tragically misguided.

*Libra* is a novel, a work of fiction, and as such, DeLillo speaks through all the characters, not only Oswald and other historical personages, but composite, as well as entirely imaginary characters, giving them emotions, thoughts, motivations, obsessions, and memories that he could not possibly verify as belonging to the actual persons, but he does a perfectly credible job of rendering these people believable. You feel they very well *could* have felt and perceived things the way DeLillo describes...and that seems part of the deeper theme running through the novel: that one's interpretation of what happened leading up to and on November 22, 1963 and forever after that fateful date is just as valid as any other interpretation. The events recounted in *Libra* are so compellingly told, so `realistic' they now seem a part of the official record of not only the assassination, but of `history' itself. I'll have a hard time from hereon out separating the `facts' of the Kennedy assassination from my memory of DeLillo's retelling in *Libra.* Reality itself, as DeLillo implies, is a fiction. All plots have their own logic and lead to death.

I find it interesting, that nowadays the vast majority of Americans ((last I heard it was something like 75%)) find it more likely that JFK was murdered as the result of a conspiracy and government cover-up than they believe the official government record of the event. What does that say about what we've learned about our government in the days since November 22, 1963? Of what they are capable of doing? What does it mean that we no longer trust authorities to give us the truth, that the very standards for truth have been called into question, that, as a result, no "truth" is unquestionable, no "truth" is certain?

Underneath the compulsively readable surface of this literary potboiler, this postmodern political thriller, DeLillo, as always, asks the serious questions that matter most. And, as always, the answers are maddeningly elusive.

An incredible novel in every regard--five stars easy.

Well Done!.......2007-01-07

Well packed and arrived in a timely fashion. A pleasure to do business with.

Struggle.......2006-08-11

He lived in the basement with his mother. He adjusted to life in Fort Worth, but not in NYC. Without normal schooling he learned a number of things. Lee's mother, Marguerite, talked to herself. (Don DeLillo's portrait of her is priceless.)

Nicholas Branch, retired CIA, writes about the assasination of JFK. David Ferrie is bald. Win Everett, former CIA, teaches at a Texas women's college. Laurence Parmenter, CIA, is part of the Groton-Yale-OSS network. There had been an attempt on the life of Edwin Walker. It is the second anniversary of the Bay of Pigs disaster.

Lee feels pity and contempt for his mother. First they lived on French Street in New Orleans with Marguerite's sister, Lillian. Then they lived on St. Mary's Street and next they lived in the Quarter.

Laurence Parmenter is five years younger than George de Mohrenschildt. Larry encountered George in Guatemala. George, well-traveled, knows Jackie Kennedy. George thinks he knows who shot General Walker. The boy is grindingly poor. Maybe he is Marxist. George committed suicide in Palm Beach in 1977. David Ferrie was found dead in his apartment in 1967. Branch started to write the history in 1973 and, except for the curator who gets him files, no one knows he is writing the history. Guy Banister has raged against the Kennedy administration. Exile leaders are confined to Dade County. JFK normalized relations with Cuba and the Soviet Union.

Mackey, CIA, speaks with Guy after the Walker attempt. Banister complains that Kennedy is in a hurry to be great. Mackey has trained people and he has seen too many people abandoned. Banister is an easier source of weapons than the Farm, a place in Virginia. Win Everett is asked if he knows George de Mohrenschildt. Larry Parmenter wants Win to tell Mackey about Lee.

In Japan in the Marines Lee ended up in the brig. He had been on the path to OCS. In Tokyo he lined up lessons in Russian. His teacher, handler, wanted him to stay in the Marines. There was interest in the U2 flights. Banister installed Lee in an office above his in New Orleans. He is anti-Castro, Lee is fair play. Win Everett works on the papers, the false leads, for his shooter. It is just supposed to be an attempt. No one is supposed to die. Not getting a visa extension, Lee had attempted suicide in Russia. After being released from the hospital he visited the American Embassy to nullify his citizenship and to give back his passport. He ate sparingly. There were days of utter loneliness. The state security officer, Kirilenko, liked the boy, but of course idealists were always unstable. He was not agent material. Lee was told he was being sent to the city of Minsk. The Red Cross gave him five thousand rubles.

David Ferrie had attended Baldwin Wallace in Ohio. He understood the gestalt of serious talks. He could fly a plane and assist the conspirators in other ways. Carmine Latta and Tony Astorina interested Ferrie. They knew Havana before Castro and wanted to set up a casino afterwards. Ferrie met the men through Guy Banister. Other discontented people, Frank Vasquez, Raymo Benitez, and Wayne Elko were in Florida. Win Everett in Texas had to face up to the fact that Lee existed outside of the plot. Oswald has his own forged documents and his fictitious names. Branch is given a slew of material to get stuck in the web of the assasination story. He is haunted by the twenty six volumes of the Warren Report. Banister dies in 1964, Vasquez in 1966. The latter was shot three times in the head on Flagler Street. The agency pays Branch a per diem rate at his old pay scale.

Marina loved hearing English. Lee learns from his mother the Marine Corps have given him a dishonorable discharge. He is stateless, word blind, and he has a wife, Marina, and a baby, June. Mackey doesn't trust Ferrie who knows that Banister has supplied the weapons, can supply the shooters, and has offered to get money for the plan from the New Orleans rackets. Everett figures out that the man they really want is not Castro, it is JFK. Lee likes to talk to George de Mohrenschildt in English and in Russian. George wants Lee to tell him about Minsk and so he can bring information about his stay to the attention of the CIA. Lee is visited by an FBI agent.

Jack Ruby has the Carousel Club, strippers. The FBI has opened a file on him as a potential informant. Jack's car is a movable slum. Clay Shaw wants to know Lee's birth sign--Libra. Don deLillo shows convincingly that Lee Oswald is a character out of Dostoyevsky.

Libra sets the Balance. .......2006-06-26

When we think of Lee Harvey Oswald we think of a few tiny moments, which signify one of the biggest events in our nations history. In the book Libra we see more of the story of Lee Harve Oswald, in a fictionalized form. But a story behind the imfamous man and his life, and the lives of those around him.
When I finished this book I wondered how many people saw Oswald as a victim. How many saw him as a hero? How many still would see him as a villain?
I also found myself wondering whether anyone could have been the villain in these events. Could someone else have been in that window that day and shot at President Kennedy, or was it going to be Oswald or no one at all.
The author does a good job of blending the stories of the various people in Oswald's life and telling the story through the point of view of various people, from Oswald, to a third person observer, to Oswald's mother. He seemlessly moves from narrator to narrator in the story giving you more than one perspective on the imfamous Oswald and shows what the other people in his life must have thought and gone through in his lifetime.
If you aren't interested in this part of history, then this book is not for you. But if you ever wanted to know what make a Lee Harvey Oswald become the man we remember him for, then Don DeLillo's fictional account is definitely worth the read.

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95 Libras De Esperanza
Anna Gavalda , and Isabel Gonzalez-Gallarza
Manufacturer: Lectorum Publications
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AstroAnalysis: Libra (AstroAnalysis Horoscopes)

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good but not excellent
Easy to read and surprisingly accurate
Not the definitive, but darn close

AstroAnalysis: Libra (AstroAnalysis Horoscopes)
American AstroAnalysts Institute
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
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ASIN: 0425175642
Release Date: 2000-09-12

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The ever-popular guide to knowing yourself through astrology.

Filled with updated cusp charts and color-coded planet tables, AstroAnalysis enables readers to create their own self-portraits based on the positions of nine planets-not just the Sun. With an individual book for each of the twelve signs, the series offers comprehensive and astonishingly revealing tools for self-analysis and includes planet and cusp tables through 2015.

Readers can astroanalyze:
- Their lovers to determine character and motivation
- Their business partners to find out if they're compatible
- Their rivals for strengths and weaknesses
- Their children to learn their innate abilities and direct them along promising lines
- Their boss to see if he or she can help them succeed
- Themselves to avoid the roles in life for which they aren't suited

The ever-popular guide to knowing yourself through astrology.

Filled with updated cusp charts and color-coded planet tables, AstroAnalysis enables readers to create their own self-portraits based on the positions of nine planets-not just the Sun. With an individual book for each of the twelve signs, the series offers comprehensive and astonishingly revealing tools for self-analysis and includes planet and cusp tables through 2015.

Readers can astroanalyze:
- Their lovers to determine character and motivation
- Their business partners to find out if they're compatible
- Their rivals for strengths and weaknesses
- Their children to learn their innate abilities and direct them along promising lines
- Their boss to see if he or she can help them succeed
- Themselves to avoid the roles in life for which they aren't suited

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good but not excellent.......2005-05-26

this book is very good. it has many things that are accuarte and things that arent. the charts are kind of hard to understand but it was totally worth what i paid for it.

Easy to read and surprisingly accurate.......2001-01-21

The breakdown of the individual effects that each planet has on a person's personality is extremely well done and offers very good descriptions of personality traits. I own several of these books and recommend trying any of them.

Not the definitive, but darn close.......2000-06-08

The Astroanalysis series ends up being a comprehensive blurb at the beginning that is followed by an astroanalysis that is repeated in each book in the series. Nevertheless, the comprehensive blurb for Libra is extremely compelling, as is the astroanalysis, which details each and every planet in each and every sign, and also provides an ascendant table and corresponding analyses in the back. Owning the book is a good idea because you can go back and refer to its text when necessary. Not only that, all the chart work is done for you, so you need neither a computer nor an ephemeris. And Amazon's price is better than what I paid for it in the bookstore. I have recommended this book repeatedly, and even given others of the series as gifts. It is ultimately my goal to have one of these books per sign for my very own; that's how good it is. Highly recommended.

The Astrological Guide To Seduction And Romance: How to Love Libra, Turn on a Taurus, and Seduce a Sagittarius

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Best Love, Sex and Seduction astrology I've found

The Astrological Guide To Seduction And Romance: How to Love Libra, Turn on a Taurus, and Seduce a Sagittarius
Susan Sheppard
Manufacturer: Citadel
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Release Date: 2000-09-01

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Find Another Book.......2007-02-20

I'm not an astrological expert. In fact, I take this stuff with a grain of salt. Having said that, I have read a few books on the subject and this one is pretty lame. You can find much more enjoyable and interesting books on the subjects covered.

Best Love, Sex and Seduction astrology I've found.......2002-08-24

I've read several astrology books that deal with love, sex and seduction and by far, this is the best one I've come across. No, it's not perfect, but it's better and more accurate than any other book I've read of its kind. I was surprised at how well it was written, and the accuracy for the sun signs. Of course you can't pin down anybody by their sun sign alone, however if you want a little insight on what a sun sign might be turned on by, then this is the book I'd recommend.

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A bestselling husband and wife team bring fresh revelations to the zodiac in this beautifully illustrated guide. Their easy-to-understand descriptions of the distinctive attributes for each astrology sign will provide clear insights into what makes you—and those you care about—tick.

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The Sign of the Scales.......2007-01-16

"Ask a Libra if you want to see both sides of a difficult or troublesome situation. Libras are notoriously good at being able to size up any situation and discover the pluses and minuses of it." - From the book

Skilled metaphysicians and artists, the husband-wife team of Monte Farber and Amy Zerner--also known as The Enchanted Couple--have birthed a great new book series dedicated to each of the 12 Sun Signs of the Zodiac called Astrology Gems.

I had the pleasure of reading the entire Astrology Gems series and was surprised and delighted with both the format and content.

Although the Astrology Gems series are small gift books, they are jam packed with practical, eerily incisive information. Some of the tidbits found in the Libra book include:

* Charts on related planet, element, quality, day, colors, plants, gemstones, metal, etc.
* Extensive keywords
* Lists of Typical Behavior/Personality Traits, Positive Traits, Negative Traits, Behaviors/Abilities at Work
* Behavior/Abilities at Home, Attitude Towards Money, Leisure Interests/Pastimes, Likes, and Dislikes
* Romantic Pairings, Health, Libra as Parent, Libra as a Child, Libra as Co-worker, and Libra as Friend
* Libra as Employer and Employee
* Typical Occupations, First Dates, and Libra in Love
* How the sociable ruling planet Venus influences Librans

Idealistic, fair, and cooperative, Librans are highly attuned to aesthetics, craving both harmony and beauty in their surroundings. They don't like to be manipulated and are unlikely to stop to this tactic themselves.

If you're a Libra--or someone you love is born under the sign of the Scales--the Astrology Gems series for Libra will show you:

* Why Libran children shouldn't be hurried
* The root of Libran indecision
* Why Librans make good negotiators
* What Librans bring to a party

In the Astrology Gems series, I have found the Health profiles to be exceptionally accurate. For example, Monte explains that Libra rules the skin, among other things, that eczema can be a problem. My 8-year-old son is a Libra and he has had minor bouts with eczema for several years now! And the description of Libran children? Again, amazingly accurate from my experience as a Mom to a Libran child.

If you're looking for piercingly insightful information on Libras that goes beyond the usual cookie-cutter astrology book, the Astrology Gems series abundantly delivers.

Astrology Kit - Libra (Little Books Astrology Kits)

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Astrology Kit - Libra (Little Books Astrology Kits)
Ariel Books
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Too much romance !
What a Great Gimmick! Wish I'd Thought of It!
Interesting Reading but.....

Cosmic Grooves-Libra: Your Astrological Profile and the Songs that Define You (Cosmic Grooves)
Jane Hodges
Manufacturer: Chronicle Books
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Are you "Hot Blooded"? A "Ramblin' Man"? "Do You Believe in Magic"? This exciting new series sheds fresh light on the power of the stars. Rhino Records, the leader of great music retrospective collections, and Chronicle Books have come together to assemble this astrological extravaganza. Colorful and vibrant, each of the twelve packages (one for every sign of the zodiac) contains a book as well as a tell-it-like-it-is CD with songs reflecting characteristics of that sign. If it's written in the stars, it's written in these pages--everything from personality assessment to insight into the work, home, style, health, and love arenas. Heed the valuable advice for avoiding potential relationship fiascos (Capricorns and Aries: steer clear!) and learn from references to famous couples. Discover why the Libra/Aquarius couple John Lennon and Yoko Ono came together blissfully while the volatile Scorpio/Sagittarius duo of Ike and Tina turner sent sparks flying. All this and more, plus a personalized CD that will have the sentimental Cancer reflecting on "This Magic Moment" by the Drifters and the honest and sincere Virgo jamming out to Aretha Franklin's "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing." Cosmic Grooves is not only an astrological guide to life but also the soundtrack for the journey.

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Too much romance !.......2004-03-25

I am new to astrology and recently purchased the Cosmic Grooves book on my sign,Aquarius. The book gives a brief overview of the Aquarian personality, but nothing that I had not read before. My main complaint is that 26 of the 47 pages are dedicated to describing every possible romantic combination between Aquarians and the other signs. If this information interests you, you might find the book worth your while, but I don't think it's worth the asking price. I bought my copy for $3, mainly because I think the CD is a clever idea and I like some of the songs on it. I agree with the previous reviewer; if you're really interested in astrology, invest your money in something more substantial.

What a Great Gimmick! Wish I'd Thought of It!.......2002-03-01

This is a little CD sized hardcover mini-book that is one of a 12 part series featuring all of the signs of the zodiac and it comes with a CD. I'm Pisces so I chose to review the Pisces book and CD. I've also been an astrologer for over 30 years so while I'm envious of the money making power of this clever gimmick package, I must say it is light-weight pop astrology on a par with the newspaper astrology columns and that's about it. There is cursory coverage of the "typical" Pisces, Pisces at work, in careers, in love, in relationships, home, health, style, entertaining, etc. The information found in the 47 short pages of text is accurate as far as it goes and provides a good sketch of the Piscean archetype. The book is accompanied by a music CD containing 12 tunes by twelve different artists each corresponding with a trait attributed to the Piscean character. Some of the tunes hit the mark pretty well while others are obscure and contrived. For example for the "appreciative" trait the selection is "Thank You For Being a Friend" by Andrew Gold...pretty good choice, however the tune for the trait "Empathetic" is "I Can Help" by Jo-El Sonnier and I really don't think the point of that song is empathy but alludes to a more hands-on approach to caring, if you get my drift. If the song choices on this collection of book/CD sets were better...and they easily could be...I would applaud this as a wonderful innovative way to teach Astrology, however as it is I think a person would be better off spending half the money on a good astrology book that covers all the signs not just one, and taking the other half of the money and buying a used CD that REALLY suits you. One very good thing about this is that it comes from Rhino Records so at the least the tunes aren't cheesy remakes. I've checked out all twelve of the sets in this series and the same comments would apply to all twelve.

Interesting Reading but............2001-11-26

This is my first review so it might sound wierd, anyway. I read this book in Borders bookstore, so before you consider buying the book think about the pages you have to read for the amount you have to pay. I think it's a good book to read while someone is on their launch break but that's it. It's 48 pages but I read the whole book in less than a half hour. They do have a CD but most of the songs on their I already heard so it's not worth me paying that much money. Just think about it before you buy. It's a good book, interesting to read but not worth 15.95 in the bookstore or 12.95 here.

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