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This book is a great catalog of crystals, minerals and metals. It has plenty of pictures, and is aware of most varieties known to man. But it is mostly that, a nice list in catalog form. Use it only if you want to pin-point what rock you have on your hand. When you actually read the specifics, it fails to be precise. Some examples: - A lot of the book is copy pasted information between entries. Silver and gold entries are good examples, compare them. - She fails to explain that Tiger Eye, for example, heats up and gets warm very fast when there is danger around you. She actually knows very little about each rock. It takes several life times just to understand a few. - The way she says "This rock vibrates to the number 7" is completely baseless, a great insult to crystals. Using her ill applied Pythagorean method (though Pythagoras was a genius, his knowledge is misunderstood by her). If you use that same Pythagorean numerological method, you get a different number with every language there is. "Quartz" in english gets a different number from "Cuarzo" in spanish. These rocks exist since before english was invented, and since Pythagoras was born. You have to look at the crystal, not at its name, to know their numbers. - There is a much better, geometric way of getting their number. For example, quartz crystal is naturally a hexagon, implying 6, actually 7 if you know any geometry (the center is the seventh). She says love a lot, and yes, love is the most important thing in the universe. Still, saying love all the time does not mean you know crystals. I later bought the "American Indian: Secrets of Crystal Healing". That one has not one picture, but its full of true information. The author, Luc Bourgault, has much more respect for mother Earth and the crystals than this "Melody", who hides her name under her marketing stunt.