The Practical Encyclopedia of Feng Shui

I have enjoyed using the encyclopedia as well as other members of my family. It helps by giving tools to work with and helpful hints of how to go about creating balance in your own particular situation as well as tips on what not to do. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Feng Shui.

Great book. Very intersting to read and follow. Full of helpful images and case studies.

I went from a curious neophyte to a well-informed practitioner!(Well actually, just really good at noticing all the Feng Shui faux pas around me! AND BEING ABLE TO EXPLAIN THEM!)The case studies, the diagrams and detailed chapters are a joy to experience. I call this an "armchair book", just as enlightening as a beloved novel. Everything is included and categorized to the point that I felt as if I was reading an enjoyable college text. If they have Feng Shui as a college course, this better become the required text-book.All this book needed was the review questions at the end of every chapter! Hah!

This is a beautiful coffee-table book on Feng Shui, with literally hundreds of excellent color photographs, drawings, diagrams and other illustrations to help make visual sense of the concepts. One of its greatest assets is that it generally supports the excellent writings of Sarah Rossbach and Master Lin Yun on the subject, while some other illustrated volumes I've seen completely contradict them. Gill Hale knows his subject and writes with common sense and authority. The book is arranged logically, with chapters on clarifying your personal preferences (or type), placement of the home on the property, treatment of each major room, a major section on Feng Shui in the garden, the uses of water, color, sound and other enhancements and cures, and a concluding section on Feng Shui in the workplace. It features a wealth of design ideas that can be incorporated into real-life settings without costing a fortune.

This book is thorough and detailed. It provides information that is not readily available in other Feng Shui books. The illustrations and pictures are very insightful and helpful. It has a good blend of content and depictions. The only drawback is that it is a big and bulky book. Considering the depth of the material, maybe big and bulky is unavoidable although I don't like it.