Book reviews written in 2009 by Brendan Tripp.
Titles covered in this volume are:
The Jesus Papers
Michael Baigent
Flatland
Edwin A. Abbot
Greece Before Homer
John Forsdyke
The Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Quality Management in the Nonprofit World
Larry W. Kennedy
The Starseed Dialogues
Patricia Cori
The Sion Revelation
Lynn Picknett & Clive Prince
Buddha for Beginners
Stephen T. Asma
Secrets of the Widow's Son
David A. Shugarts
Ticket To Ride
Larry Kane
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales
Gahan Wilson
For This Land
Vine Deloria, Jr.
The Kuan Yin Chronicles
Martin Palmer
Home of the Brave
Caspar Weinberger & Wynton C. Hall
The Mars Mystery
Graham Hancock
The Garden of Heaven
Hafiz & Gertrude Bell
A Foreign Policy of Freedom
Ron Paul
The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton
Amanda B. Carpenter
The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace
His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Without Marx or Jesus
Jean-François Revel
Fight Back
G. Gordon Liddy
Secrets of the Unified Field
Joseph P. Farrell
Competitive Intelligence
Larry Kahaner
Masters of the Living Energy
Joan Parisi Wilcox
Are We Alone?
Paul Davies
Anasazi
David Muench & Donald G. Pike
F5
Mark Levine
Ning for Dummies
Manny Hernandez
Treasures of the Library of Congress
Charles A Goodrum
The Russian Version of the Second World War
Graham Lyons, Ed.
Views from the Real World
G.I. Gurdjieff
The Republic
Plato
Religion In Practice
Swami Prabhavananda
Google AdSense for Dummies
Jerri Ledford
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ
Levi H. Dowling
Understanding the Enneagram
Don Richard Riso
What On Earth Have I Done?
Robert Fulghum
Civilization One
Christopher Knight & Alan Butler
The Woman with the Alabaster Jar
Margaret Starbird
The Holy Place
Henry Lincoln
Cosmic Jackpot
Paul Davies
The Path of the Pole
Charles Hapgood
The Passover Plot
Hugh J. Schonfield
What About the Big Stuff?
Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
The Tipping Point
Malcolm Gladwell
Biomimicry
Janine M. Benyus
The Subversive Imagination
Carol Becker, Ed.
Love, Sex, Fear, Death
Timothy Wyllie
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Richard P. Feynman
God and the Evolving Universe
James Redfield, Michael Murphy & Sylvia Timbers
Never Again
John Ashcroft
Painting the Map Red
Hugh Hewitt
Winning The Future
Newt Gingrich
The Intention Experiment
Lynn McTaggart
The Jasons
Ann Finkbeiner
Almost Home
Kevin Edwards (Prakash)
The Master
Kevin Edwards
Civilizations of the Indus Valley and Beyond
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
The Career Guide for Creative and Unconventional People
Carol Eikleberry
The Riddle of the Pyramids
Kurt Mendelssohn
Occult America
Mitch Horowitz
The Presence of the Past
Rupert Sheldrake
... (oops - not enough room here - see the full list at EschatonBooks
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).
