Agnew Books

I have to chime in. It is quite obvious to me that Mr. McNaughton has reviewed the wrong book. This book, The Ark of Millions of Years, Volume TWO, which I own, is all about the 2012 Mayan End Time date. Because the authors are the first to "crack" the 2012 Mayan calendar code meaning in a very unique way, I rate this book highly.

Now, I believe that Mr. McNaughton is referring to the Volume One of The Ark of Millions of Years. He mentions several books that are not even in the authors reference list. Regardless, the questions that he raises were indeed answered in that book, in fact every one of them.

The authors bring to the table a new version of the creation as told through many ancient reliable texts, including the Bible, that answers the questions about the flood of Noah, origin of the Jews, whether man was created or evolved, the true age of the earth, the role of the fallen angels, and much more in a new light from ancient Jewish texts recently translated.

The authors make the claim that it is the most comprehensive book on the creation; and they did it admirably, in a most remarkable way. They also claim the book restores a key piece of knowledge that was lost about 6,000 years ago pertaining to the understanding of the creation; this loss caused the chasm between creationists and evolutionists. Additionally, the book actually fulfills an ancient Jewish prophecy found in the Zohar and its publishing was heralded by a Grand Sextile (Star of David) alignment of heavenly bodies announcing the return of the lost "key." I love this book, have read it twice, and highly recommend it to others.

Item as described and received in a timely manner... an excellent buying experience!

This work was a good extention to my quest for knowledge about 2012

The recent publication of The Ark of Millions of Years Volume Two sounded interesting, since the subtitle is 2012 and the Harvest of the End Times. The 331-page book has very poor quality graphics, many of which are blurred and pixelated images downloaded from the net with no acknowledgement to their origin. There is an acknowledgement of the author's cat, however - the book is dedicated to it! The authors, E.J. Clark and B. Alexander Agnew, Ph.D seem to see themselves as archaeologist-explorers in the vein of Indiana Jones, but their book shows that they have simply read a few New Age authors such as Arguelles, Yaxkin-Joy and/or Hunbatz Men, (or more likely, got the information second hand, off the internet), have misunderstood them, not done any proper research or checking and have mixed in the Nephilim of Sitchin and a large dose of biblical material. They even attribute the Tzolkin to Abraham or Shem (p.142). In fact it seems that the whole book is an attempt to prove and justify the bible (p.147-148). Their list of errors is huge. Here are a few:

1. Talking of Dreamspell's "galactic tones" and other concepts as if they are genuine artefacts of the Maya calendars (p.117-131)

2. Announce that Arguelles is deceased (p.120)

3. Show 2 Dreamspell Tzolkin grids and say one is the original design, while the other is modern (just because the former includes Maya numerals) p.121`-122.

4. Wrongly state that the Maya used wheels to measure time, since many people use interlocking wheels to help explain Maya calendars. (p.129-131).

5. They call the 52-year Calendar Round and 104-year Venus Round the "short count". The Short Count is actually a 13-katun cycle of just under 260 solar years (260 tuns). (p.132)

6. They state that the Maya had a 28-day lunar cycle. (p.132). The cycle was in fact alternately 29 and 30 days, with extra interpolated 30-day months.

7. They state that "The Tzolk'in (pronounced Zol Keen) is the divine or religious long count calendar of the Maya used to measure the cycles of the Pleiades, a cycle being 26,000 years." (p.132 and also p.141). The Tzolkin is NOT the Long Count, and the rest is an over-simplification - the movement of the Pleiades was used to check the precessional movement towards the alignment in 2012, (by the Maya of Chichen Itza), which only happens every 26,000 years.

8. Another misunderstanding: "The Tzolk'in calendar ends on December 21, 2012, at precisely 11.11.am GMT". (p.143). No, it is the 13-baktun cycle of the Long Count calendar that ends on 21 December 2012, but not at 11.11. That is when the Winter Solstice occurs. It is debateable amongst Mayanists as to when the date rolls over - either dusk, dawn, or midnight.

8. They state that the Haab is the Calendar Round. (p.135)

9. Mixed start and end-dates: start date: Aug 13 3114 BC (p.136) end-date: 23 December 2012 (p.139), buit also talks of Galactic Alignment, (p.136), which is applicable only if the other correlation is used - start date 11 August 3114 BC; end-date 21 December 2012. On p.153, both dates are given, "December 21-23") showing the authors' confusion.

10. "The Aztecs used a sacred calendar called the Tonalpohualli, a long count calendar borrowed from the Mayan Tzolk'in system with some modifications added." The Tzolkin (and Tonalpohualli) ARE NOT the same as the Long Count!

11. The central panel of the Aztec Sunstone is presented as the entire Sunstone. The reason is that it was copied from the internet, and only the central panel of the colour rendition by Roberto Sieck Flandes can be found online. If you want to see the whole painting, see Beyond 2012 colour plates.

12. Galactic Alignment is stated to be "the winding down of precession". Galactic Alignment is a 36-year time window in the 26,000-year cycle of precession - not the end of it.

There are many more errors, but I'm sure you get the gist of this. This book is actually an insult to the intelligence!

If you read the first book, this is a worthy sequal. I hope there are more books coming in the future.

I have not finished it yet, but from what I have read thus far, it seems to have very important information that could and will benefit all. I even bought one for my mother who is ranting and raving about its contents!

Thank you for the insight!

I have to admit, when I reached page 9 I was encouraged somewhat that the authors stated a truth. Then, science sort of took on a whole new dimension. If I am to understand this concept correctly, our Solar System on a completely different trajectory than the rest of the stellar system within our own Galaxy. We are somehow traversing inside out, and doing a polor orbit which the rest of the Galaxy is rather immune to. The book would make a good movie no doubt, all one needs to do is look at Saturn as a miniature Galaxy. Now ask the all important question; "Is there another ring running North and South in opposition to the equatorial ring? The Galaxy works like this only on a much larger scale, and while we are holding a orbit of sorts, and there might be changes that are going to take place, I do not see where we are going to be in any great or grave danger although it could happen as Edgar Cayce mentions in his readings.
The changes that do take place and have taken place as one age ends and another begins, it has been the hand of man that destroys one civilization in order to begin another one. One myth ends, and another introduced, those who do not accept it are summarily killed. What ever story is going to take the place of our present Myth, will be done in a manner that I doubt anyone here will appreciate.
This book like so many has attempted to glean information found in the collection of books known as the Bible as a means of predicting the future. Since there is no explanation as to why their statement on page 9 is true, I suspect they are merely going on what they have read elsewhere. Reading alot of books can take you in many directions which might lead to a truth here and there, I just find it incredible that anyone with a science back ground would make a claim such as this. The Galaxy itself would have to do a flip flop, in order for anything like this senario to take place. Since I have never seen it happen, it doesn't mean that it won't or can't, but a magnet if held in one location, doesn't change it poles for reasons that I know of, nor have I ever seen it explained as a natural phenomnon in science. The massive amounts of information which the authors seem to lay claim to, are being pressed on a date and time which if anyone looks, knows astronomically, the larger clock is resetting itself. It began in 2000 and will end in 2032, going from an eight count to a four count, sort of like a quickening, and will return to an 8 count after that date.
The spiritual awakening that one might encounter during this time, may indeed have to do with what was written on page 9, where many wake up and ask themselves, "Why have I been a sheep all these years?" This of course would scare the hell out of governments and religions all over the world. If you do recall, when we were but little boys and girls, they did tell us that Satan was cast out of Heaven and down to Earth where he was given dominion, and Rules. Now, this supposedly happened before we got here, now, if you can think, what makes you think anything here in this world has any truth in it at all? That would be a good reason alone to wake up, and give your world some thought. Do you really like being a sheep?

Buy it, read it, prepare for it: 2012!

No I don't have time to write more at this time; the Mayan calendar is ticking and the celestial clock is clicking, tic-toc, tic-toc, tic-toc towards our date with destiny on 12-21-21 at 11:11 GMT!

However, in brief, let me say this much: Every single book that can offer me one big IDEA that I had otherwise not given a second thought until the author brings it to my attention is worth the investment. My home library numbers in the thousands on topics of physics and metaphysics and this is one of the better series on these subjects no doubt about it now. Indeed, I quote hundreds of these same authors in my own works and so the ultimate message is this one: Prepare for the end-of-time as a celebration but do not panic! I mean there is no death, only a change of worlds as Chief Seattle stated in 1854.

Dr. John Jay Harper is the author of Tranceformers: Shamans of the 21st Century and Science of Soul: The End-Time Solar Cycle of Chaos in 2012 A.D..

This book was extremely helpful in explaining Hegemony and the global environment to me as a Global Health Student.

This is perhaps one of the worst books I have read on the subject as it circumvents real answers and provides circular logic without taking a definitive stance. After talking to the author, I believe the book falls into the author's "opinion" and nothing more substantive than that.

This is an original book which claims and makes an argument with historical analysis that contemporary globalization has developed out of the US geopolitical role in the world. So, rather than technology or capital simply driving globalization, the US has mediated the emergence of the world of flows that we see around us now every day. This argument will not be popular with either parts of the extreme left which sees the world as on automatic economic pilot or the US nationalist right which views the US as a blameless victim of foreign plots and subterfuge (pace Lou Dobbs). For the rest of us, except apparently a student of the author's who got a bad grade (see the other review), this book is well worth reading.

This is a change from the usual blether about the media in politics any why Berlusconi's ownership explains all there is to know about why he has been electorally so successful. I suppose in the US the equivalent would be explaining why Dubya had so much support even in the face of utter incompetence without resorting to all the false consciousness of religious zealots stuff. The authors show how Berlusconi put together a nationwide coalition in Italy from disparate political elements with roots in different regions. Anyone who knows even a little about Italy will get it. Lots of maps to illustrate the text. But anyone who graduated from college should be able to follow the empirical evidence. There are also lots of anecdotes to relieve the heavy duty stuff. It's also short. Most of the journalism about Berlusconi is much more verbose.

This book has the potential to be an interesting and provacative analysis of Berlusconi and Italian politics with a geographic focus. However, written by academics apparently for academics, it is the usual blah blah blah without much clarity or focused points of interest for serious non-academic readers.

Vice President Spiro Agnew was famous for his verbiage against critics of the Nixon White House. He became infamous for resigning from the post in 1973 to plead no contest to criminal charges of tax evasion and money laundering due to accepting bribes when governor of Maryland.

His novel explores a Vice President whose political career is in great jeopardy when caught in a maelstrom of controversy, which is not what it all appears to be within the court of public opinion. Agnew depicts the depths that politics can plummet and how the real story may be lost in the games reserved exclusively for The Beltway.

The theme is timeless and Agnew does an excellent job in telling the rest of the story in the chess match of power, where fact and fiction becomes as garbled as truth and lies.

This book is not the best political novel ever conceived. It's the story of a vice-president who falls into disgrace. It's a bit dated, especially after the events (affairs) of the Clinton Administration (the guilty VP in the novel has the character of a Sunday School teacher compared to the shenanigans of the last 8 years).

It is interesting, however, in that the author is none other than Spiro T. Agnew -- an insider who knew something about the way the vice-presidency operated -- and who was no stranger to controversy.

A modest effort, but worth the read for those who enjoy the genre of the political novel, or for those who wonder what Agnew did in his spare time after leaving Washington!

The compilation of Spiro Agnew speeches from 1968 to 1971 will prove an invaluable resource to anyone who wishes to study the first half of Nixon's tempestuous presidency; indeed, even the unsavory introduction to those speeches prove useful in helping the reader enter the mind of the far right-wingers whose ideological bile would eventually evolve into the neo-conservative movement. However, for those who fall anywhere to the left of the O'Reilly Factor, I would strongly recommend using this book as a way to understand an era, and not as a volume to take seriously on its own terms. Even the staunchest conservative will probably pick up immediately on the massive factual inaccuracies and logical fallacies that are ridden throughout the text (both Coyne's introduction and the several dozen Agnew speeches); thus my two stars come from the same logic that would force me to partially prescribe a book by Pat Buchanan - it is worth reading as a means of thoroughly understanding both a historical period and a political/social way of thinking (indeed, I learned more about the philosophy of the Nixon Administration through this book, the declassified White House tapes, and the analysis of objective historians like Bruce Schulman than I have through the irate tirades of dozens of faux impartial academicians), but it is not to be admired (and G_d help us the day it is emulated).

Unlikely that this book will ever be reissued, but this is the best collection of Agnew's speeches ever published. The first half of the book is a frothing defense of Agnew, but the second half is composed of meticulous transcriptions of the bulk of Agnew's speeches up to the time of publication. Of interest to any Nixon and/or Agnew scholar.

This is mainly towards the high end soft toy collector. Very good book, too small, too little information but packs a punch!

This new Miller's Guide is a very special one. Leyla Maniera and David Agnew present a various range of soft toys, classified in several chapters as animals, disney characters, comic characters, oddities, manufacterers, care & restoration. Many of the described toys are very unusual and you won't know many of them from other collector's guides. Beside nice photos, the descriptions contains informations about the manufacter, the history of origin and a valuation. This is the only point I would like to criticize: the valuations are not very helpful.

But summing up, it may be said that this soft toy guide is highly recommended!

An excellent expansion of the Terran Trade Authority universe. Includes a wide span of back ground information, primarily focussed on the Alphan and proximian species. Less usefull for a techinical orintated reader, but firsrt class for a social , historical and biological background. Overal, well worth a look if you have read any of the other TTA books.

This book was a major and expensive disappointment!
No colourfull pictures as in the TTA series from the seventies.
An absolutly redicoulous story about the different species in space.This book is only good for the role-playing gamers that this producer has recently introduced.But i do not see the connection to those wonderfull picture books series of the seventies.
Some say that the " Galactic Encounter " series are " non-canonical" . Well,they are far more canonical than this "Local Space 2200 " book.I gave it one star,but actually it deserves no stars at all.I hope that the next book called " Capital Ships" is going to be much much better!It will have to be,if it is going to make up for this " Local Space 2200 " disaster.

Its great! While keeping with the style of the former series,
the new ones go on to inprove on it!!

This book has been written solely as a resource for the TTA RPG and repeats much of the history within the TTA RPG.
It gives just enough new material to make it interesting and its graphics are exceptional but these are its ONLY good points

It almost seems like this book was cobbled together, with bits and pieces from the other books and even role playing games.

Here are some things that i found very uninspired:

The Alpha Centaurians look alot like elves
The Proximans look like a cross between chimps and dwarves
They seem to spend an inordinate amount of time on the reproductive
habits of both species
Entire sections of diologue have been lifted, word for word, from the
original series.
There are numerous spelling and grammatical errors.
The world of the TTA seems to bear a striking similarity to the Shadowrun RPG.
- The megacorporations seem to be in almost total control.
- There are a few privilaged elite, and the remainder are poor and at the corps & governments mercy.
- Corps and governments seem to be in a constant state of conflict.
- The government seems to have little or no control.
- Crime seems to be rabid and uncontrolled.

I know it sounds like ranting, but I was expecting alot more.

I purchased this book after reading several very positive reviews of it in PC Week and EMEDIA. Despite being a couple of years old now which is very long in this business, I find myself frequently taking this book off the shelf to read about the basics and framework in this changing industry. Well worth having

As a required text, this book was a dismal waste of my money. Not only is the book long-winded and filled with useless and sometimes inaccuate information, it is written by professionals that appearantly stumbled into the multimedia arena after trying their hand at other work. (A degree in Applied Mathematics proves to be of little value to Mr. Agnew when he speaks of multimedia.) This book reads like a high school research paper that the student was not interested in completing... There is little organized thought, facts are found every 30 pages or so, and are based on out-of-date information. Pathetic interjections of dry, witless humor make the reading all the more painful. Disagree with me if you wish, but I have seen far better analyses on Multimedia and its current trends out there. Purchasing this book for any personal reason is just plain stupid, and purchasing it for a required reason is unfortunate.

Spiro Agnew is from Maryland, and all of Maryland should be proud of that fact. This book gathers together many of his speeches into one convenient location.