This is a comprehensive guide to the basic movements we can observe in the sky. Schultz describes the daily movement of the stars from different parts of the earth (including southern hemisphere throughout). Included are the sun's pattern of the day and of the year, the moon's various periods, nodes and eclipses, as well as the planets' apparent movement and loops, conjunctions and transits. The appendix contains tables of periods and rhythms, and a guide to important occurrences to the year 2010.

Brahan Lodge # 226 in Lavernia, TX is my home in Texas. I was only there for about three weeks, but it left a mark on my soul that I cannot scrub off even if I used the proverbial metal scrub brush. And this book is my contribution to that wonderful lodge whose brethren who were so kind to me. Usng full-color photography, this book highlights the unique aspects of of this Lodge - from the most subtle (the Rug at the entrance) to the most overt (the Rebis in the Northwest corner of the Lodge Room). Taken as a whole, Brahan Lodge is a Book of Masonic Symbolism and a repository of living Texan history. $1 will be donated to Brahan Lodge #226 in Lavernia, TX for every book that is sold.

Bogey Dawson is down on his luck. A horse trainer with big dreams and limited funds, he is passionate about Final Gift, a young filly with the potential to tear up the track, pull him out of his financial straits, and rebuild his reputation. Set in 1994 and the Charles Town racetrack, Bogey's Final Gift, written by thoroughbred racehorse breeder and owner John Meeks, leads readers into the exciting, highly competitive, and often dangerous world of horseracing. In this richly created novel, we meet Becky Friedman, an exercise girl who has won Bogey's heart, and the villain Edmond Huddleston, whose only goal is to get his hands on Final Gift, no matter who gets hurt...or killed. As the story unfolds, the classic Will the underdog win? question hangs over each page. This is more than a story about a horse, or a trainer who falls in love and is desperate to win the girl and the big race; it is about commitment and devotion, heroism and tenacity. Readers who love a good adventure, an action-packed story, and a drama built around the exciting and unpredictable world of horseracing will revel in this discovery: Meeks has delivered a gritty, edge-of-your-seat novel that pulls us into the action and keeps us holding on until the final page. "a must read for racing fans," "Meeks uses his experiences on the "backside" of thoroughbred racing and his history in dealing with human emotion and how people think to put together an irresistible tale of a struggling underdog. The conflict between man and woman, father and son, brother and brother and hero and villian are intertwined with splendid descriptions of the characters and scenes that are found only in horse racing." Robert Turbeville, sports editor Pine Bluff Commercial, March 25, 2011

In the suspense drama Footsore on Wisdom Road, author John Meeks drafts a tale that illustrates the power of education, as well as the necessary strength of will that some must have in order to achieve it. The Ellicott Center is doing great things with troubled kids. While the school has a tough task educating the variety of emotionally disturbed children that make up the student body, the patience, persistence, and wisdom of the center's founder, Duncan Rhymes, meets the challenge head on. In Footsore on Wisdom Road the story of the real world challenges that face teachers and students are fully explored in a fast-paced, action-packed, suspense story. Getting through to emotionally disturbed kids is complicated enough, but in the case of Tyler Matthews it was a veritable impossibility-until Rhymes adopts him away from his abusive father. The drama peaks with the threats to Ellicott, based on financial motives, impatience, the search for an easy one-size-fits-all solution to educational problems, and more sinisterly, the revenge plot of a jilted, power-hungry, control-freak father who seeks to get back at Ellicott, and the man who stole his son away. The central themes of Footsore on Wisdom Road include issues that many students and their schools face. Most notably the value of the human connection between teaching staff and the children they are charged with educating and inspiring. This connection is of utmost importance for real learning to occur. The book juxtaposes this significant bond with the stress of the many threats to the student-teacher connection. Meek layers his novel with a myriad of dramatic story lines, creating a whirlwind effect of suspenseful, interesting hooks. How they will all play out is the ultimate cliffhanger that climaxes amid multiple surprises and plot twists, as well as a touch of humor.

This book aims to offer the reader a short but intense journey into Italian Freemasonry and, specifically, in its most characteristic rite: the Italian Simbolic Rite. This is a purely national ritual form of Italian Freemasonry, traced back to its sources. It was born in 1859, by the Lodge Ausonia of Turin, which gave birth to Grande Oriente d'Italia, for the main purpose of determining the birth of a regular and sovereign national Masonic Order.