Ken's Staff Picks

Dr. Raymond Bernard was a pseudonym, and his bizarre book was a 60s classic of weird UFO literature. Said the original back cover copy for the book: Revealed! The Underground World of Supermen Discovered Under the North Pole! Can you explain the following? Why does one find tropical seeds, plants and trees floating in the fresh water of icebergs? Why do millions of tropical birds and animals go farther north in the wintertime? If it is not hollow and warm inside the Earth at the Poles, then why does colored pollen color the Earth for thousands of miles? Why is it warmer at the Poles than 600 to 1000 miles away from them? Why does the north wind in the Arctic get warmer as one sails north beyond 70° latitude? On top of all of, Admiral Byrd supposed made several journeys inside the earth by traveling through the holes in the poles. Could there be anything to Bernard s bizarre claims? Chapters include: UFOs and Governmental Secrecy; Admiral Byrd s Epoch-Making Discovery; The Hollow Earth; William Reed s Book, Phantom of the Poles ; Marshall B. Gardner s Book, A Journey to the Earth s Interior ; Was the North Pole Really Discovered?; The Origin of the Eskimos; The Subterranean Origin of the Flying Saucers; Description of a Theoretical Aerial Expedition into the Polar Opening Leading to the Hollow Interior of the Earth; Agharta, The subterranean World; Flying Saucers, Propulsion and Relativity; more. Heavily illustrated.

The New York Times bestseller about the strange history of NASA and its cover-ups regarding its origins and extraterrestrial architecture found on the moon and Mars is even more interesting in its new edition.

Authors Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara include a new chapter about the discoveries made by ex-Nazi scientist and NASA stalwart Wernher von Braun regarding what he termed "alternate gravitational solutions," or the rewriting of Newtonian physics into hyperdimensional spheres.

Buyers of the new edition will be provided a code that will enable them to log on to DarkMission.net to download hundreds of images discussed within the book.

Twenty years after his death at age 27, Hendrix's stature as an Afro-American musical innovator continues to grow. But until now discussion of his contributions has been limited to either biographical accounts or purely technical analyses. British pop journalist Shaar Murray'scq multifaceted study rectifies this by attempting to unravel the cultural contradictions that the guitarist embodied as a black performer with a white audience, who excelled in a genre that was popularized by whites yet rooted in a black musical tradition. Hendrix's catholicity crossed barriers within black culture as well: his sonic explorations with feedback and distortion paralleled developments in the Free Jazz movement but he could suddenly shift into the deepest, most primitive Delta blues, a language pointedly neglected by his black contemporaries. Clearly, Hendrix's achievements are broad-based and central to his era, as well as a daunting challenge to those wanting to digest his work whole. Shaar Murray (coauthor of David Bowie ) augments solid musical scholarship with astute social and historical commentary, and meets the challenge admirably. Photos not seen by PW .