The 2007 SteinerBooks Holiday Catalog is available by request or by paperless download here. It includes lots of new books, excerpts, and articles...as well as our annual 15% discount sale through January 15th.

In addition to the many new and recent books featured in this year’s holiday issue, we feature several excerpts and articles. Here is a quick list:

“The Lord's Prayer,” by Judith von Halle, from the foreword to her book of the same title.

Judith von Halle was born in Berlin in 1972. She attended school in Germany and the U.S. and studied architecture, graduating in 1998. She encountered Anthroposophy in 1997 and began working as a staff member at Rudolf Steiner House in Berlin, where she also lectured from 2001, while maintaining an architectural practice. In 2004, her life was transformed when she received the stigmata. Her first book was published in German in 2005, and she now works principally as a lecturer and author. She lives with her husband in Berlin.

“Experiences with the Dying and the Dead,” From the Book by Claire Blatchford

Claire Howell Blatchford was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Connecticut. She became deaf from the mumps a few days after turning six. After attending regular schools and graduating from Bennington College, she studied at Gallaudet University, the Waldorf Institute for Liberal Education, and Teachers College. She has taught the deaf for many years. She lives with her husband in northwestern Massachusetts and works at the Clarke School for the Deaf. She is also the author of the popular Turning: Words Heard from Within (1994, 2001), Friend of My Heart: Meeting Christ in Everyday Life (1999), and Becoming: A Call to Love (2004).

“Cosmic New Year,” two lectures by Rudolf Steiner from Cosmic New Year: Thoughts for New Year 1920, 5 lectures in Stuttgart, December 18, 1919–January 4, 1920 (CW 195).

“The Influence of the Dead on Destiny: The World of the Dead,” by Rudolf Steiner, extracted from a lecture in Dornach, December 9, 1917.

“The Miracle of Birth as Written in the Stars,” a special article from Mary Adams

Mary Stewart Adams combines a degree in English Literature with more than twenty years of researching star wisdom to write, teach, and lecture about the night sky. In the early 1990s, and after a decade of independent research, Mary’s encounter with astrosopher Hazel Straker led her to an awakened understanding of the relationship between Anthroposophy, the star wisdom called astrosophy, and the archetypal stories of humanity, written both in the greatest literature of the ages and in the script of the starry cosmos overhead. Mary teaches at her local community college in Northern Michigan and through the teacher training program in southeast Michigan. She has written locally, nationally and internationally. For more information on related products and programs, visit www.fairytalemoons.com.

“Conversations about Painting with Rudolf Steiner: Memory Pictures from a Time of Intensive Work,” by Margarita Voloschin. This extract offers close, personal observations of Rudolf Steiner and the ways in which he worked with students and workers at the Goetheanum.

“Special Holiday Recipes,” collected by Marsha Post. These include an adventurous recipe for baking a fruit pie in your barbecue grill.

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2007 SteinerBooks Holiday Catalog (8 MB)

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