Wilson Books

I highly recommend this book for women wanting to build a closer relationship with God and themselves. This book offered eye opening points that are happening in my life at this particular time. The information Mrs. Wilson offers can be used by any women in any stage of your life I have passed it on to someone else so that they to can be blessed and helped. Also, this book is a keeper and can be reflected back upon at any given time when the secrets needs to be refreshed.

This book was awesome. It really made me look at myself as a woman and a wife and realize that I needed to make some changes. It is a good book for Christian women that want to truly live life as it should be.

It's a essential book guide to start the study and discussion on sexual selection and sex evolution. I highly recommend, specially for animal and human behavior college students.

Very useful textbook!

I read this book in a college class. Mind you, I didn't read most of my college books, but I couldn't put this one down. It gives a clear, intelligent, remarkably well-documented, fascinating description of how sex evolved and how that evolution effects the behavior of everything from bacteria to modern social humans.

This book is very accessible to any reasonably educated reader, regardless of your knowledge of evolutionary biology. And each idea is punctuated with a fascinating example taken from nature.

Why do lightning bugs flash, and what controls the pattern to their flashing? Why are there two sexes? Why is a red sports car sexy? You'll learn the (evolutionary biology) answers to these and countless other intriguing questions. This book is a great lesson in evolution and a revealing investigation of why aniamls do the things they do, from an African hamster to... you.

Book arrived as quickly as advertised, which was great because I needed it to write my New York Times antiques column (published today). THanks!
Wendy Moonan

Although not as thorough on the music of the great composer itself, this book is a must read for anyone interested in Shostakovich, or music and Soviet history in general.

Wilson lucidly supports her interviews and articles from colleagues, friends, and family of the composer with a curious detachment that serves to clarify rather than alienate the subject matter. The articles and interviews themselves are priceless artifacts, and presented here in an intelligent fashion.

Shostakovich's life is portrayed here with startling intimacy. The reader will find him or herself able to visualize the genius composer and his quirks, and those who listen to the relevant works of music will find their messages so much more meaningful.

Shroud Magazine keeps on getting better with every issue. Issue 3 is the best yet. With more pages of strong tales, interviews, dark art, and flash fiction, Shroud Magazine is by far the new king of dark fiction.

With authors such as D. Harlan Wilson, Joseph D'Lacey, JG Faherty, Shaun Jeffrey, Joseph McGee, Jeffrey Jewett, and Sheldon S. Higdon, Shroud Magazine has upped the pressure on other horror mags to keep up with its pool of talented writers. This is a must. In time these writers will be the new crop of terror. And with best-selling writers such as Brian Keene, Tom Piccirilli, Jack Ketchum, and many, many others these guys will be in good company!

An excellent collection of horror fiction, articles, and interviews. This is the third in a series of volumes. The first one: Shroud 1: The Journal of Dark Fiction and Art and the second one is: Shroud: The Journal of Dark Fiction and Art. Shroud publishing also has produced two anthologies: Beneath the Surface: 13+ Shocking Tales of Terror and Abominations: 17 Spine-tingling Tales of Murderous Monsters and Horrific Creatures. Featuring authors such as Joseph D'Lacey Meat and JD. Harlan Wilson Dr. Identity (Scikungfi Trilogy); and much much more!

Fascinating book about the mysterious shroud. The history and background research done by the author is mind-boggling.

A lot of research has gone into this book. The author also gives graphic, medical details about the passion of the person depicted. It leaves on e in no doubt about the authenticity of this cloth. I have read many books on this subject, mostly biased, one way or the other. This is a classic and will stand the test of time. I cannot recommend this book too highly, or rather highly enough.

What a great cast of characters:
Ethan Snow - who helped out John Edmonds [in the previous book]is still tracking The Covenant and getting nowhere. Now he tracks down the psychic, Raine McAllister.

Raine McAllister - she is a sculpter now and has helped the police locate abducted children. She is bothered by the vision that invaded her when she touched her work "the running man". Then Snow shows up.

Griff Cabot - is back on the scene with Snow who found the descrepancy in how the charity funding was distributed. Raising the question of terrorists operating in this country. He is the undisputed head of Phoenix.

Montgomery Gardner - as the former DCI he oversaw the Agency's experiments in the paranormal. Does he know about the "Project Cassandra" and what went wrong? He is also Griff's wife's grandfather and supporter of Raine.

Carl Steiner - the assistant deputy director of the CIA is always causing trouble for the Phoenix. What does he know about "Cassandra" and what is he hiding? He is not liked by many of the Phoenix agents.

Sabina Marguery - What does she know about "Cassandra" and Raine McAllister? she sounds like the wicked witch of the west.

Charles Ellington - He wrote the book on the CIA's involvement in parapsychology. Why was "Cassandra" his only omission. Does he answer all of Griff's questions?

It is a great blending of all of these characters that fill out and deepen the plot, plus some harrowing escapes that keep you on the edge.

To get the whole effect of Griff Cabot and his men, you need to follow them through the series. 12 books and I am still not ready for the stories to end, love these men and their goofy women. Independent women who step in and mess up the men's contration causing no end of trouble. [not just here in this set of books].

Definitely Recommended - m -- if you like mystery with your romance these are it.

Sight Unseen is a very impressive read. In the Phoenix Brother series, the men are operatives working as a secret branch off the CIA, trying to fight terrorism inside the US. Agent Ethan Snow has been trying to break a group called The Covenant, an elusive, tight-knit groups of terrorist planning a big attack. For six months, Snow as tried to get close to them, but nothing. Trying to catch them is as easy as catching smoke. He is at a dead end and willing to try anything.

When the former head of the CIA branch in anti-terrorism suggests snow contact Raine McAllister, he is surprised to find he was sent to a psychic. And he is not sure he likes this. But there is no other option.

Raine was a former profiler, a manhunter for the CIA. She has a special gift that permits her to know things no one else could. Coming from a rough life of Carney sideshows, where she read tarot cards to survived, she was put into the CIA's program of testing children with "special gifts". When Snow learns of this, he is angry at a child being used in such a manner. A tougher Raine tells him playing games with the CIA behavior scientists was a damn site better than the life she lead before.

She is not happy to find Snow on her doorstep. Not happy to be sucked into the life. Worse, there is a deep attraction between them. One Snow tries to ignore; one Raine can already see the future of. As they track The Covenant, Raine discovers she has repressed childhood memories of a brutal murder, somehow connected to Snow's case. As the still waters of the past are disturbed, they must also uncovered the secret within Raine's brain, as the hunters are now the hunted. The killer is waiting to silence Raine for the key her mind holds.

Wilson has an easy voice that allows to reader to slid right into the story. Her understated, no-nonsense style gives strong credence to this paranormal story. A nifty tale, just right for summer reading.

Well I am French and love good food and wine. These Sirens are the equivalent of a five star meal in Paris: balanced yet surprising, beautiful,well paired, stylish... What else doesone want? Ah ok... good food is like good erotica it teases you to no-end... Well guess what: eroticism and fear are two main ingredients of their dishes... So for the fraction of a price of that good meal in Paris you can own this great anthology (plus you do not have to put up with arrogant Parisians like me!). Run do not walk... these kind of deals do not last....

Anybody who is expecting a collection of tales here of cuddly vampires seducing shy Goth chicks by candlelight is in for a seismic eye opening. SINS OF THE SIRENS offers up (mostly) erotic horror stories by four of the best femme writers in the genre, and these little gems are anything but cuddly.

Loren Rhoads kicks it into high gear with a quartet of stories which reach delirious heights with "Still Life With Broken Glass", an incredibly tense and disturbing story about a female photographer whose death obsession takes some unwholesome turns. Loren's "Sound of Impact" is a quiet piece with a sock-to-the-gut ending, and would be right at home in any Joyce Carol Oates collection.

Next up is Maria Alexander's trio, the centerpiece of which is the novella-length "Pinned", a trip through L.A.'s BDSM scene which feels so real it's almost too real - Alexander's writing makes you equally experience every prick of a needle or shiver of pleasure. "The Dark River in His Flesh" is a tasty reprint oozing fog and absinthe, as the author paints an evocative portrait of Victorian London.

Mehitobel Wilson offers up four of the volumes most downright squirmy works, especially "Close", in which the twist endings reverse themselves at least once after examining the psychology of a hotel employee who hides under a bed to become part of the sex happening above him. "The Wild" and "Parting Jane" both effectively examine the American club scene with a twist of Southern Gothic.

Rounding out the volume are three tales from Christa Faust, including "Love, La Llorona", which mixes a south-of-the-border setting with Japanese-style video obsessions to create one of the creepiest stories in the book. The big surprise here is Faust's "Firebird" a long tale which is more science fiction than horror, as a young woman in a bleak future sets forth on a urban quest to find the source of a new lethal drug. The story, which is both superbly imagined and emotionally detailed, should be a welcome addition to any book, regardless of genre.

The sheer craftsmanship in SINS is uniformly good, and occasionally dazzling, with all four Sirens demonstrating style to burn and chills aplenty.

The book is attractively designed, and kudos are also due to editor John Everson for an insightful introduction.

The introduction notes that Wilson's journals are a collage. He was always the critic. In his gift for portraiture he is the equal of Dr. Johnson, Taine, and St.Beauve.

Wilson died at age seventy-seven at his desk, in the manner of Karl Marx. In the beginning of the decade he is at Harvard. He realizes that he drinks too much to get himself out of a depression. His wife Elena enjoys talking with their friend, Dawn Powell. Wilson feels, after watching Malraux at a dinner at the Kennedy White House, that Malraux practiced deception as a matter of course.

In Toronto, EW sees Morley Callaghan and his two sons. Callaghan had worked with Ernest Hemingway on the TORONTO STAR. Wilson travels to Quebec in the early sixties for the first time since a childhood stay in 1906.

Dickens, Kipling, and Upstate New York were matters of importance in EW's childhood, and Quebec falls into the category, too. Wilson finds he likes Isaiah Berlin's international personality better than his Oxford aspect. EW reads some Balzac who specialized in brazen cynical careerists. Zola and Proust were influenced by Balzac.

In Italy with Elena and his daughters Helen and Rosalind, Ew sees Lampedusa and Mario Praz. In Hungary he learns the inhabitants don't want anything having to do with Russia mentioned. The state controls housing. Everything is censored. Wilson believes that Hungarian, for reason of its stresses, is particularly appropriate for translating Greek and Roamn poets. Visiting Hungary, he is saddened because the 1848 Revolution was crushed and the same fate awaited the Revolt of 1956.

In London Wilson sees Sonia Orwell, Natasha Spender, Wystan Auden, and V.S. Pritchett. Wilson likes Hemingway's MOVEABLE FEAST because it shows his younger brighter self. He cites Hemingway's capacity to bring out personalities.

Wilson is appointed to the Center for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan. The Wilsons find Middletown to be down at the heels and Hartford, by way of contrast, a happening place. Wilson learns from Brendan Gill that the gold dome in Hartford memorializes the fact that Russia was the first customer of the Colt factory located there.

When Dawn Powell visits Wilson at Talcottville, his family house in New York, she takes an interest in the events in the village. Dawm Powell dies in 1965. EW believes that dinner and drinks in Boston tend to be skimpy. He comments on this apropos a discussion of a dinner he attends at the American Academy of Arts and Science.

Wilson is cheered by reading the diary of Anais Nin. He is a kind of Literary anthropologist in many respects including a task he sets for himself of indentifying novelists and others in the region of Talcottville. He remarks that art centers are coming into vogue as the mid sixties mark the beginning of government subsidies for the arts.

When EW goes to the funeral of Waldo Frank in Cape Cod he thinks the undertaker is paying attention to some of the funeral-goers with a lecherous eye. Near the end of his life, EW visits Lily Dale where only spiritualists may buy property.

Meticulous account by Wilson of his coming to terms with old age. His precise observations of his increasing enfeeblement, and of the "glitterati" with whom he socialized, make for fascinating reading. His restless movement from Manhattan to the countryside to the beach to Europe contrasts with the subtle melancholy of his narrative; it's a page-turner with a wintry mood. Disappointed by the surprising shabbiness of the Princeton Club, for example, Wilson says, "I doubt that I shall go there again," and it's as much an acknowledgment of his own mortality as a comment on the flaking plaster. The occasional summer breeze blows through, as when he indulges his passion for Hungarian culture in a suprisingly jaunty European excursion. Gossipy and detailed insider's glimpses abound: Wilson shows us the "Camelot" White House, visits Scottie Fitzgerald, and comments on the star-crossed relationship of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. (A bonus: The paperback is beautifully "packaged." Fine design, wonderful photographs, and the heft and feel of an expensive hardbound book.)

See, this is why sometimes I think I'm jut not cut out for this reviewing stuff. I get a great book like this, I read it, I love it, but then I gotta explain why I did or didn't enjoy it, what I did or didn't enjoy about it.
Well, um, see it's, um, it's, there's this, uh, see . . .
It's just a great book, alright?
Skins of Youth is the 2nd in Necro Publications's chapbook line, a pair of stories about youth by Charlee Jacob and Mehitobel Wilson.
You remember youth, don't you? The time you spent between playing and realizing there's more to life than playing? The growing up period when everyone was wrong and you were God and to hell with everyone who disagreed with you, which was pretty much everyone? Charlee and Mehitobel remember that time, and they capture that "outcast" theme perfectly here. This is a very dark book--not necessarily a real HARDCORE book like you'd expect from Necro, but very dark, and very good.

It's been too long since I've read Charlee Jacob (okay, there was a story in Dead Cats Bouncing, but that was Charlee Jacob after Gerard Houarner and that's not the same thing as Charlee Jacob), and dammit if "Immortality" didn't remind me why I love her work in the first place.
A hell of a story from one of the best short story writers I've ever read, hands down.

Next is "Growing Out of It", by Mehitobel Wilson, a woman I'd never heard of before this, but one I'll be watching out for in the future, I guarantee.
If Charlee's story was all about being the outcast, Ms. Wilson's story is about finding the normalcy in that, and in building your life around it.
This woman's got a great style with a terrific sense of pacing and she writes dialogue like you wouldn't believe. Can't believe I'd never heard of her before.
There I was reading along and before I knew it--damn--the story unfolded itself to me and I understood and sat in awe until the end.

One of the things I like about this book is that these aren't just two random stories tossed together and published. These are complete stories, both authors given room to develop their plots and characters, to draw us in and keep us reading.
Top notch effort from both authors, and a fine choice for publication by Necro.
Applause all around.

There are two stories in Skins Of Youth, the first "Immortality" by Charlee Jacob is the tale of a young circus acrobat longing to become one of the Vampires in his Grandmother's strange tales. Along his search and active intentions to kill himself, he discovers a strange family secret about his mother, why she went missing years ago, and the truth about Grandma's traveling, pickup-bed herb garden.

Intensely well written, there is subtlety in Ms. Jacob's prose that haunts your mind with the images and thoughts that should be abnormal to the human brain. Very, very good story. Enjoy!

The second story "Growing Out Of It" is by Mehitobel Wilson, a talented up-and-coming new writer. In this dark tale of maturing out of the frivolities of youth, she has imagined a story of a disgusting and intriguing way of getting rid of the irresponsible things we do when youth still blooms within us; those actions that take us from the clubs and nightlife to suits and minivans and eight-to-five jobs.

Ted just wants to party with his friends, Meg and Dannyboy, especially after loosing his guitar gig with the band Fister Faster. Drinking himself into poor health and a wasted state of being, he hardly notices that his skin has been itching a lot, though he notices that Meg has what seems to be a case of ringworm on the back of her neck.

Ted winds out bumping into Gary, a guy in smelly dreadlocks who is looking for a guitarist for their new band; and while Ted contemplates the offer, Meg grows strangely insulting towards him and Dannyboy.

Ted's drinking escalates to the point where he hallucinated vomiting up body parts; or are these hallucinations real? Did he really wake up in a pool of gummy stuff on his couch, did he really vomit up a tongue? What is happening to him, and why has Meg and Dannyboy begun acting so particularly? Don't miss out on this creepy tale of purging the past in order to move into the future; a future so bright you'll have to wear shades.

Also, I recommend taking the time to read the brief bios of these two talented authors at the end, and watch for more to come from these rising masters of the horror genre. Enjoy!

This book was indeed a welcome and valuable addition to our high school library. It provides an interesting and comprehensive commentary on each mammal, including such topics as the special features or habits, the risks to the animal in today's world, efforts being made for its protection, descriptions of typical dens or living quarters, social group characteristics, food preferences and hunting, etc. Each article is signed and then followed by a summary such as would be found in a field guide (size, common names, references, etc.). Includes indexes by both common and scientific names, a glossary, bibliography, and photography credits.

This is the book I have been looking for all my life! It is the magnificent accomplishment of numerous experts in the field of Mammalology. The level of authoritive detail is unparalleled in any Field guide, Book of Mammals, or Wildlife manual. Coupled with excellent Photos (almost all color) and plenty of information on every species, This book dominates the literature on the subject. As informative as a species account in a scientific journal, but easy to read, this book is an absolute must have for nature lovers, wildlife professionals and everyone in between! The hands down winner of my extensive animal library. Deserves more stars (10! ).