Werewolves: A Field Guide to Shapeshifters, Lycanthropes, and Man-Beasts

By Dr. Bob Curran

Illustrated by Ian Daniels

New Page Books • A Division of The Career Press, Inc.

3 Tice Road, PO Box 687 • Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417

Website: www.careerpress.com • 2009, 223 pages, $14.99 US • ISBN-13: 978-1-60163-089-6

Reviewed by Brent Raynes

Werewolves: A Field Guide to Shapeshifters, Lycanthropes, and Man-Beasts is written by world-famous folklore expert and author Dr. Bob Curran of Ireland. The author of such previous works as Vampires, Zombies, and Lost Lands, Forgotten Realms, Dr. Curran examines the historical, mythical, and fictional material and elements lurking behind such chilling tales, isolating and analyzing the various psychological components of belief, striving to test the scientific bounds and limits of objective reality.

Thoroughly documented and thoroughly entertaining, Werewolves is a scholarly and exhaustive presentation of the werewolf evidence from many different cultures and time periods from around the world.

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History Is Wrong

By Erich von Daniken

Translated by Nicholas Quaintmere

New Page Books • A Division of The Career Press, Inc.

3 Tice Road, PO Box 687 • Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417

2009, 223 pages, $17.99 US • ISBN-13: 978-1-60163-086-5

Reviewed by Brent Raynes

Erich von Daniken, the legendary author of the controversial 1968 best-seller Chariots of the Gods, today weighs in with a witty, kick ass yet thoughtful and reasoned sounding response to all of his long time critics. Entitled History Is Wrong, Von Daniken continues on the same old “ancient astronaut” track, revisiting and striving to clear up the controversial story of an ancient library of metal artifacts in Ecuador that he had written about earlier in his The Gold of the Gods. In addition, he draws thought-provoking links and parallels to the Book of Enoch and the Mormon religion, he takes a close look at the mysterious Voynich manuscript, and is drawn again to his fatal attraction with the Nazca Lines, reporting and re-interpreting upon new archeological findings.

Complete with photographs, easy-to-read text and a snappy and entertaining narrative, History Is Wrong will cause you to further ponder and reflect on the historical truth behind our ancient past.