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| The Encyclopedia of Crystals | 
 enlarge | Author: Judy Hall
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 19193
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 10.9 x 9.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1592332668
Dewey Decimal Number: 133
EAN: 9781592332663
ASIN: 1592332668
Publication Date: April 1, 2007
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Product Description
The ultimate guide to crystals and how to use them!In The Encyclopedia of Crystals, Judy Hall draws on over 30 years' experience of working with crystals to provide the definitive reference. Lavishly illustrated, featuring newly discovered stones and providing new materials on geology and fluorescent properties, this is an essential addition to the libraries of everyone working with crystals. Organized by crystal color for easy reference, this gorgeous guide relates the colors of crystals to the chakras, tells readers how to cleanse and activate them, and provides helpful, authoritative advice on healing with crystals.
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Her best yet April 10, 2007
23 out of 26 found this review helpful
While I may not be the biggest fan of Judy Hall, I really think this book is very lovely. It has many of the newer materials to appear on the market, and many unusual pieces as well.
The book is organised by colour, which is confusing inasmuch that most minerals are available in more than one colour. She also breaks down classification to create multiple entries for one type of crystal (Herkimer diamonds, for example, versus citrine Herks, amethystine Herks, Smokey Herks, Golden Enhydro Herks, etc...) thus scattering them all around the book rather than having them in one place. To counter this effect, there is an extensive crystal index in the beginning, affording a supplement to the table of contents.
The scientific information included is not very comprehensive, and not the most sound, but it is nice to see even the most basic of introductions to these concepts in more books today.
Like her other books, there are photographs of most specimens, and some may be mislabeled, but this is still a great book, overall.
 Very impressive! April 29, 2007
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
I have many other books on crystals, including Judy Hall's Crystal Bible, and I must say I just fell in love when I saw this book. Right off the bat it was able to help me identify crystals I had purchased that were mislabeled by the shop. It had photo examples of almost every crystal in the book and some having multiple examples. The photos are beautiful and really helpful. What made me bring it home was I found crystals that can help children with ADHD, which my oldest son has. This is the first book I have found so far that covers it.
My only real complaint, like the other reviewer, is that the crystals are listed by colors. In actuality, it is probably a good thing as most other books are by name. You may not know the name of a particular crystal, but know its color. So you can search in that color section to hopefully find a photo resembling the crystal you have.
With each crystal it gives you the crystal system, chemistry, hardness, source (or origin), chakra, number, zodiac sign, planet, what it is beneficial for, and additional information of what the crystal is useful for. This is more for knowing the stones. If you are looking for a book where you can look up the crystal that meets your needs as far as ailments or any healing, I'd recommend Judy Hall's Crystal Prescriptions.
I would definitely recommend having this in your library for anyone interested in crystals and crystal healing.
Wonderful continuation and expanding of Crystal Bible May 12, 2007
19 out of 19 found this review helpful
Judy Hall (author of Crystal Bible, a condensed hand held 7"x6"x1" plethora of stone knowledge and medical application of stones) continues and expands her previous work in a HUGE legal sized version of acension stones divided by chraka color. If you loved Crystal Bible you will also love Encyclopedia of Crystals a companion and expanded version that includes beautiful photographs of newly discovered stones. A Wonderful
addition to any stone library. Thank you Judy Hall!
 terrible book January 20, 2008
16 out of 16 found this review helpful
As you know I LOVE crystals, and enjoy using the metaphysical properties of Crystals for my and others benefit.
I LOVE and recommend the following books
"Love Is In The Earth: A Kaleidoscope Of Crystals" A. Melody
"The Crystal Bible" Judy Hall
"The Crystal Handbook" Kevin Sullivan
These books are listed in the order that I recommend them.
This review is about "The Encyclopedia Of Crystals"
I will NEVER recommend this book because of the following reasons.
1. This book is BIG and unwieldy for me 8 1/2 by 11 inch footprint.
2. This time she decided to categorize the crystals by COLOR instead of alphabetically. This makes it difficult to find the crystal you are looking for.
3. Some of the information is plain wrong especially the moh's hardness rating for some of the stones.
4. Many of the pictures in this book are very poor in quality.
In my personal opinion she should have released an updated version of "The Crystal Bible" that had information on new stones not covered in the earlier version.
I disliked this book so much I actually gave it away.
Overall rating 1 star. "SAVE YOUR MONEY!"
 Questionable Pictures Sometimes October 24, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is overall a very good crystal and gemstone book. Much of the information meshes well with Melody's books and I like that they identify which chakras each stone works well with. It's easy to navigate and designed well. However, some of the images that they chose to represent the stones are really not good, in fact, some of them barely look like any specimen I've ever seen of the stone and are not good for identification at all.
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