Peter Watt Books

Rejuvenation is a huge topic. The problem is not that there aren't ways to rejuvenate
our bodyminds, but that one can get lost in the maze of the multifarious approaches.
This little book (107 pages including the Appendix) details the original, powerfully rejuvenative Tibetan Rites as described by Peter Kelder in the 1946 edition of Eye of Revelation. The book was significantly altered, and not necessarily for the better, in subsequent editions by Harbor Press and others. We owe a debt of gratitude to the editor Jerry Watts for making the original edition widely available, for his
editorial notes, including those detailing those differences between Eye of Revelation and later editions, and
for his pointers on making them even more user-friendly, such as his innovation of using
a "pushup stand" for the fourth Rite, which many find difficult in the beginning.

I would take issue with his caution against eating raw eggs (raw egg
yolks are advised in Kelder's book). I think there is more than enough evidence of the safety
of raw eggs; in fact I prefer raw eggs whole. If one eats
raw organic eggs from free-range chickens, the risk is infinitesimal and the nutritional benefits are great. Hopefully those comments will be modified in a later edition.

But overall, this is a fantastic contribution to the literature of the ancient, magical Rites, which apparently
do indeed act to synchronize the chakras and thus the glands. The chapters on Mantram Mind Magic, diet,
and voice exercises (including the simple yet powerfully effective chanting of "Aum") round out the book
to make it practically a total guide to rejuvenation. I myself have benefited greatly from
the Rites, though I am always seeking to improve my practice, and there is much for me to learn from and
ponder in the pages of this book.

Those who are interested may find support in their practice at the FiveTibetanRites forum
at Yahoo.com: [...]

This little good gives the story of tree conservation, it history and the history of some of the men who who helped develope our forestry programs. The old photographs are great and the text goes quite well with them. This is a great starter book for the youner kids, and the adult reader will pick up all sort of facts. recommend this one highly.

My son is in first grade and an avid reader. He selected this book from his school library and reading two chapters a night, we finished it in less than a week. Even thought it looks complex, the text and the illustrations in the book are wonderful. It's very well written and easy to read. My son knows most of the words in the book, and there is a glossary in the back for specific terminology. It's very engaging and stimulating even for an adult. I love reading it to him!

This is a great book for teaching units on India to gradeschool age kids. The format is simple and interesting. It applies itself well to kids and offers hand-on projects to make the country more real to children. My daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

This book is packed with interesting facts on naturalist John Muir. Students will stay interested listening to all of his wild adventures. This book creates the desire to make a contribution to our wilderness.

I remember this picture book from my childhood. There are 2 male characters, friends, and one of them (the one with wings on his back) decides to take a trip into the land of red (or is it green). The dialogue and narration are dated and very "groovy" and "far out" "zing-zap zowie wowie" and so forth. Each page is an artwork with a caption at the bottom, inside an artful border, to tell the story. It is an extremely trippy book.

Great follow-up to Cry of the Curlew! Couldn't put the book down and am now anxiously awaiting the completion of the triology. Peter Watt is one of the best writers I have encountered. He has a way of capturing your attention from the first page to the last.

As soon as we opened this book, my inquisitive 5-year-old was hooked. It is filled with interesting facts about our solar system, written on a level just perfect for ages 4-8 (the target age group for these books). The pictures and graphics are rich and colorful. I bought "Ocean", too, and now we often read these books instead of good-night stories. Each 2-page spread contains so much to see and discuss that it takes the place of a standard good-night story.
Here's an example: "A planet's year is the time it takes to make one full journey (orbit) around the Sun.... Planets with the biggest orbits have the longest years." For a kid who is just beginning to comprehend how long a year is, it's interesting to toy with the idea that a "year" is a different amount of time on each planet. Ok, it's a stretch, and I don't think my 5-year-old really understood, but that's just one example of the types of things we sit and talk about after looking at this book. Fun!
So if your child is curious about the sun, moon and planets, I would really recommend this book. (Even for older kids, frankly. My mother and I both enjoy it and learned from it. And it's much more interesting to read and look at than a typical story book.)

Catherine Storr picks up on Peter's life on Easter Sunday and continues it until Peter is led out of prison by an angel.
Paul's life is followed from when he was a witness of Stephen's stoning until he arrives in Rome for he second time. The well done pictures cover the pages of this book except for the area where about 6 lines of typing about the story is placed. Preschoolers will enjoy the pictures in the story which is written on about a third grade reading level.

This is probably the best book I've read on WW1 (along with "All quiet on the Western Front"). Weaving a tapestry of songs/doggerel, poetry and opinions from the famous (like Siegfried Sassoon, Rudyard Kipling and Apollonnaire), the infamous (like Adolf Hitler), the legendary (like Winston Chruchill), to the unknown (soldiers, captains and villagers), Peter Vansittart has done a wonderful job with this book.

Charting day by day, month by month, year by year, we (the readers) are invited to have a peek at the shifting kalaedioscope of the war, from the glorification, denunciation, and the propaganda, from the causes to the Armstice, and the ironic hedonism of the post-war era.

A must read book.