We keep receiving books for review from various publishers. However some books are of such paramount importance that we at the journal office thought one review may not be able to do justice to that book. One opinion may be slanted, perhaps by the individual tastes and preferences of the reviewer. Reviewers from different continents, nations, even different parts of the same nation may perceive a book differently. Why not send books to two or more different reviewers and get their opinion. We requested several authors/publishers to do that and they gladly obliged.

In our sister publication "Anil Aggrawal's Internet Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology", we have been featuring books for quite some time now. However in THIS journal, we started featuring books (reviews from multiple experts) only from Vol. 1, No. 2 (July - December 2002). We hope to continue featuring books in our subsequent editions.

 Taking the lead from our sister publication, from the last issue we started reviews of certain books of paramount importance as "featured books". The first book to be featured on our journal was The Second Highest World War - The Rama Theatre by Anoop Chandola (Published by Authors Choice Press, an imprint of iUniverse, Inc.), which was published in our last issue. If readers' reactions, and emails are any indication, this feature was a tremendous success.

 One of the most important books to hit the literary scene in recent times is Eternal Treblinka written by Charles Patterson. The title of this book is from "The Letter Writer", a short story by Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904-1991). In this book, Patterson - in his unique style - examines the origins of human supremacy, and argues that human violence could be a by-product of our non-vegetarianism. In this stunning book, he draws parallels between Nazi's concentration camps and our own inhuman treatment of animals. For animals - he argues - our world is an ETERNAL TREBLINKA, an eternal hell, from which these hapless animals have absolutely no hope of reprieve.

 So important has this book been, that it has been published in Italy (Eternal Treblinka) and Poland (Wieczna Treblinka). Later in the year it will also be published in Germany and the Czech Republic. Publishers are also reviewing it for publication in several countries including India, Spain, The Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece, and Israel.

 A book with such a revolutionary thought ought to be examined by more than one reviewer. We at the journal office sent the book to eleven reviewers around the world spanning five continents and eight countries. The reviewers were not only requested to send us detailed reviews, but were asked to rate this book on a scale of ten. The following rating scale was provided to the reviewers.

0: Waste of time
1: Of minimal interest
2: Of little interest
3: Of some interest
4: Slightly below average
5: Average
6: Slightly above average
7: Good
8: Very Good
9: Excellent
10: Truly Outstanding

 By and large, our reviewers rated the book above 8. Here is a detailed break-up of our reviewers and the ratings they gave this book.

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