Book reviews written in 2007 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:
Bias
Bernard Goldberg
The Equinox, Volume III, Number 10
Aleister Crowley / Hymenaeus Beta X°
Shabono
Florinda Donner
The Wheel of Time
Geshe Lhundub Sopa
Kalacakra Tantra
Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey
Black Holes and Time Warps
Kip Thorne
The Practice of Kalachakra
Glenn H. Mullin
Freedom In Exile
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Tibet: The Sacred Realm
Lobsang P. Lhalungpa
Mountains of the Middle Kingdom
Galen Rowell
Wisdom and Compassion
Marylin M. Rhie & Robert A. F. Thurman
Healing and the Mind
Bill Moyers
The Monuments of Mars
Richard C. Hoagland
Might is Right
Ragnar Redbeard
The Andean Codex
J.E. Williams
The Wheel of Time
Carlos Castaneda
The Active Side of Infinity
Carlos Castaneda
Magical Passes
Carlos Castaneda
Mending The Past And Healing The Future with Soul Retrieval
Alberto Villoldo
Hypnosis
Shelley Stockwell
The Demon-Haunted World
Carl Sagan
Moral Minority
Brooke Allen
The Secret
Rhonda Byrne
The Four Agreements
don Miguel Ruiz
Creating Money
Sanaya Roman & Duane Packer
The Power of Now
Eckhart Tolle
Spirit & Reason
Vine Deloria, Jr.
The Power of Intention
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Fearless Living
Rhonda Britten
Careers for New Agers & Other Cosmic Types
Blythe Camenson
The Law of Attraction
Esther & Jerry Hicks
Letters to a Young Contrarian
Christopher Hitchens
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
The Mind's Sky
Timothy Ferris
Libertarianism In One Lesson
David Bergland
Art & Physics
Leonard Shlain
The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader
John C. Maxwell
Who's Looking Out for You?
Bill O'Reilly
Mayan Vision Quest
Cynthia MacAdams, Hunbartz Men & Charles Bensinger
Sacred Journeys
Jennifer Westwood
Gurdjieff
John Shirley
The Jesus Dynasty
James D. Tabor
Real Success Without a Real Job
Ernie Zelinski
The Cosmic Landscape
Leonard Susskind
The Englishman's Handbook
Idries Shah
The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People
David Niven, Ph.D.
A Devil's Chaplain
Richard Dawkins
Useful Idiots
Mona Charen
Mind Sights
Roger N. Shepard
Parenting Beyond Belief
Dale McGowan
The Whole Shebang
Timothy Ferris
Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
Oscar Wilde
Great Speeches by Native Americans
Bob Blaisdell, Ed.
The Genealogy of Morals
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beowulf
R. K. Gordon, Trans.
Chicago Then And Now
Elizabeth McNulty
The Nibelungenlied
D.G. Mowatt, Trans.
The Constitution of the United States with the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation
R.B. Bernstein, Intro.
Letter to a Christian Nation
Sam Harris
McIlhenny's Gold
Jeffrey Rothfeder
Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans
Ann Coulter
From Clocks to Chaos
Leon Glass & Michael C. Mackey
(oops - not enough room here - see the full list at EschatonBooks.com)
About the Author: Brendan Tripp began writing poetry in high school, continued into college, and expanded his writing in his years as a P.R. Executive and Publisher. He eventually settled into a pattern of writing 250 poems per year, and continued doing so for a dozen or so years in the 80's and 90's. Every year he'd produce a comb-bound collection of all of that year's output, and this new series of releases is replicating those collections, but in perfect-bound paperback editions. His better-known chapbooks were put out every couple of years, and were essentially "best of" collections featuring 10% of the 500 poems composed during a particular 2-year span. Eventually these will likely be pulled together into one volume and re-issued here as well. Brendan has been very active on-line from the very early years of the Web, and has published a good deal of his poetry on his blog, which he began in 2000. This, from time to time, included reading audios of various poems. Due to the large number of pieces involved, this has never been been systematically addressed, but that is an element that is being considered for future development, possibly through a Blog Talk Radio channel, or via YouTube videos. As is evident from even a cursory reading of Tripp's poetry, most of this is dark, brooding, anguished, and fraught with despair. Eventually the process of giving these sorts of inner states a physical form began to take a toll, creating something of a neuro-linguistic feedback loop of increasing morbidity, and around 2004 he took the dramatic step of no longer writing poetry on a regular basis. After having composed so much for so long, this came as quite a shock to Tripp's system, and the various publishing projects that he had in the works (including a web site with three decades' worth of poems) fell by the wayside. It was only in the past year, following his being hired to consult on a book project, that the idea of using one of the now easily-accessible on-demand publishing services (Amazon's "Create Space") came up, and he has begun the major process of developing new editions of these annual collections. While Brendan Tripp has no plans to resume writing poetry, he is quite interested in getting his "life's work" out there, both in print, and eventually in e-books and other media. Tripp lives in Chicago where he is a consulting Marketing Communications pro, and freelance writer. He can be found all over the Internet as "BTRIPP" (except for where he's not).
