I bought this album thinking that it would sound like their earlier stuff, i.e. well thought out songwriting, exceptional lyrics (especially for this genre) and a voice that is awful at first listen but slowly becomes beautiful and integral to their sound...what a disappointment. I would rate this album as one of the most derivative and boring albums of all time.

I was introduced to this record by a friend, and it was love at the first hearing. The music has an uncanny resemblance to a bit earlier KMFDM stuff (such as Nihil), but has much heavier bass and guitars and more macho singing. The KMFDM influence is evident, as this record has been produced by Sascha K of KMFDM. My favorites on this CD are the most 'traditional' industrock songs, notably tracks #1, #2, #3, #9 and #10. The rest of the songs are a bit too strange mixes of styles to my liking; overall, however, this is a highly enjoyable CD if you're looking for energetic no- holds-barred rock'n'roll. (yes, I call it rock'n'roll even though it's classified as industrial. It's in the attitude)

With "Higher", Treponem Pal shows a way from heavy inductrial rock (Excess and Overdrive period) to crossover like KMFDM and Ministry. This album is made up of dub, reggae, electronic sounds and metal. Marco, the singer, brings a noticeable work on his voice. If you want to discover french crossover, listen this cd.

This book is very limited in its helpfulness. The title is very misleading, because Minot only knows what he's talking about in one of them. He should not even have attempted to touch drama. I wonder if he's ever even seen a play, as his attempts to instruct are completely off. Minot also focuses heavily on "don't do" lists rather than the instruction of helpful insight. In three words: the book blows.

I had fond memories of this book from years ago, so I used it for my creative writing class. I was surprised, upon revisiting it, to find out how little it offers in the way of actual terminology, which is pretty important information when you want to talk about parts of poems or parts of fiction. If the parts don't have names, it's hard to have specific conversations about pieces of writing. Also, I and my class were turned off by the long lists of what NOT to do. My students found this to be somewhat patronizing and definitely an introduction to writer's block as that list of negatives rang its little list of 'not' in their ears. Further, Minot places a lot of emphasis on writing about family and the relationships therein. Most writers know that relying on the familiar is not always a good idea, as it can result in the trite, the sentimental, or the overly dramatic. It takes a long time to learn how to control the elements of the familiar to make it "fiction" that can be talked about with others, so this does not seem a good approach for beginning writers. Minot does not seem to like writing as an exploration of writing. He seems to favor it more as a means of exploring personal relationships. He does present many good ideas in the book, but they are good in the way that most obvious information is good--great to have, but irritating to receive.

This book, which focuses on writing with subtlety and finesse, succeeds not only in discussing writing techniques but through careful study of poems, plays, and short stories, conveys reading techniques as well. Although the best, and really the only way to learn to write well is through practice, I highly suggest Three Genres to anyone who enjoys writing.

Disappointing! At first glance this book does have lots potential in terms of simplifying concepts and formulas, but it is loaded with mistakes - not only in the answer sections, but also regarding some of the methods. I applied their "Method for Finding Square Roots" to numbers other than the given examples, and it did not work. This is not a good buy - even if one merely needs a refresher in math.

Nice review of basic math principles, but there are an incredible number of mistakes in the answer section in the back of the book. Really confusing.

This is a helpful math book,it covers a lot of subjects from basic math to some pretty difficult topics.My only problem with it is that there are a bunch of wrong answers in the "answer" section,but it just made me hunt and work that much harder to find the correct answers.I hope they do a revision of this book because I would like to give it as a gift,but not at this time with all the mistakes in it.

I used this as a text for an undergraduate course in aesthetics. I would never use it again. Beardsley seems to not understand that one need not include EVERY detail regarding EVERY person who ever made a comment on some issue of aesthetics. The result is a confusing and cluttered read that drowns one in a myraid of loosely related facts. A bigger problem is: I'm not sure that anyone else tries to do what Beardsley does - present a survey, with analysis, of the history of western aesthetics.

I disagree with the previous reviewer. Although it might be possible to write a book that covered only the Major figures in aesthetics--Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, etc--I found this book very useful in getting a grasp of what has been said in the field of aesthetics throughout history, particularly medieval aesthetics, upon which it is very difficult to find information. In some cases, I don't quite agree with Beardsley's interpretation, but again, this is best read as an introduction to more serious studies in Aesthetics. Ultimately, only the primary sources are going to give you an understanding of their contents.

I don't know if I agree with this book... my body fat percentage seemed to be right on, but according to this book, the ideal weight for my husband, who is 6'4" is 165 pounds! That is impossible! It said his body fat percentage was 34% while mine was 22%, yet said that height didn't matter at all, and only measurements worked. I can't imagine how gaunt and emaciated my husband would look if he was that weight!

And what about body builders who have biceps bigger than their weight, and probably are less than 7% body fat? This book would tell them, according to their measurements, that they were obese!

I used this book as well as it's study companion from PPI2Pass and it is in NO way representative of the level of difficulty of the actual California Special Civil Engineer Examination. If you have NEVER taken a surveying course before in your life and you need a basic introduction to the elementary fundamentals of surveying, buy the study guide companion to this "practice exam" and not the practice exam itself. It's completely useless as a study guide for the actual exam.

I bought this book as a part of my PE exam preparation. After finishing the exam with some friends, we were so frustrated that many problems in the book were given with wrong answers. One of my friends who failed the exam once commented that it did not reflect the real exams. I would not recommend this book to anyone. It seemed to be hastily written.

I don't feel that the errors in the book that the previous reviewer mentioned were too much of a problem, but do make sure to check the publisher's website for corrections. The bigger problem I had was that I felt the practice exam was a little easy compared to the real thing. I feel it would be much more advisable to go through the practice problems contained in Cuomo's Intro to Survey Principles book. I also wish the book would have contained 2 practice exams rather than 1.

This book is a total waste of money. I thought it would present some relevent research on the effects of Hemi Sync or binaural beats or whatever on states of consciousness, but it was mostly anecdotal reports and the little bit of "scientific research" it rehashes is already available for free perusal at Monroe-Institute.org.

Peace!

I wanted to see what this company had to offer and found it to be a cheap knock off of the Monroe institutes hemi-sync program.The tapes i purchased were of a poor quality and i found it hard to obtain the low alpha state so i bought the CD and found it to be much better yet lacking the spikes .More reviews to follow on all brain-sync prorams.

I disagree with the other reviews that says this information can be found for free on TMI's site. This book, while not exiciting, offers examples of clinical uses for the patented Hemi-Sync technology.

This book seems to be more for doctors or practitioners that want to see some clinical examples, and is not for the those who want to learn about out-of-body journeys or altered states.

I purchased this along with other books on Hemi-Sync just to have the most complete reference material at hand. The TMI site offers a wealth of information, but I don't recall this book being published there.

I don't believe a word of this book. Ted Jordan "claims" to be close to MM but he offers no supporting evidence. He even claims to own MM's diary, but he offers no proof. Unfortunately, when a star such as Marilyn dies, many unknowns get on the bandwagon to make a quick buck. Don't waste your money or time.

Once upon a time, during the early 1950's, a man named Ted Jordan, an actor, nephew of nightclub entertainer Ted Lewis, future husband (1954-60) of stripper Lili St. Cyr, came upon the set of the movie "Niagara" during a break in filming. Being a fan, he asked one of the stars of the movie, Marilyn Monroe, to pose in a photo with him. He lucked out when she agreed.

Later, many years after Marilyn's death (conveniently enough), Jordan spun this tale of being one of Marilyn's most intimate friends, her lover, and even one of her husbands! Holding out that photo, and only that photo, as proof that he once "knew" her.

The title of his book "Norma Jean : My Secret Life With Marilyn Monroe", is quite telling. Apparently, Jordan so successfully managed to keep it such a secret that ALL of Marilyn's friends and family don't ever recall Jordan being a part of her life at all. Her many biographers as well as her many dedicated and devoted fans, myself included, cannot find a single shred of evidence that Jordan was ever a part of Marilyn's life in any shape or form. Jordan also apparently managed to keep himself, with the exception of that one fan photo, from being photographed with her, one of the most photographed women on the earth.

The fact of the matter is that Ted Jordan is a two-bit phony who never was involved in Marilyn's life one way or the other, but that didn't stop him from writing this book in which he claims to have begun an affair with her in the late forties while she was still a struggling starlet and her first husband was stationed overseas and remained a close friend all the way up to her death. Jordan also claims, falsely, to have once married her in Mexico! Jordan can't keep his lies straight. That fan photo of his, for example, he once admitted to it being nothing more than a "fan photo" taken on the set of her film "Niagara" (indeed, in the photo Marilyn is in full "Marilyn" make up and wearing a tight dress that she wore for the movie), but in his book, he changed his story, claiming that it his and Marilyn's wedding photo in Mexico! (He still hasn't, as of yet, to produce a copy of the marriage certificate. I shall not hold my breath.)

His book, his story, is so filled with obvious lies it's incredible. One glaring example is when he claims to have attended a post-production party (celebrating the end of filming) of the Betty Grable 1947 movie Mother Wore Tights. Which is believable enough, but then he goes on to claim that he met the actress Lupe Velez (aka "The Mexican Spitfire") at this party which resulted in him having a steamy affair with her. The problem with that story is Lupe Velez committed suicide three years earlier in 1944! Apparently, falsely claiming a love affair with only one movie star sex symbol isn't enough for Jordan's ego.

Jordan takes real life scenes in Marilyn's life, which he obviously got from books on her, and then somehow magically interjects himself into the scene when no one remembers him being around at all. And in conversations that he claims to have taken place between him and Marilyn privately, the dialogue is so stilted, so laughingly, badly written, it's an obvious fraud. Next time, Mr. Jordan, hire a Hollywood screenplay writer. They specialize in making fictional dialogue sound realistic.

If you want to read about the real Marilyn Monroe, skip this fictional book and find something else.

God bless you, Marilyn.

This particular biography of Marilyn Monroe sometimes seems plausible in dialogue and description, but a few of the events seem exaggerated and contrived. Ted Jordan is another person who claims to have been Marilyn's lover, secret boyfriend, and confidant throughout her entire career. I can't help comparing it to Robert Slatzer's _The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe_ because he claims EXACTLY the same things in his book, portraying himself as the most important person in her life with even less corroboration than Ted provides. In fact, the two books often directly contradict each other. For example, Bob claims that Marilyn had no interest in finding her father because she knew him to be her mother's former husband Ed Mortenson, who died in a motorcycle accident; Ted writes that Marilyn (or Norma Jean, as he calls her all the way through-- without the "e") knew the identity of her father to be her mother's co-worker, C. Stanley Gifford. Both men say they knew her so well... is one or both of them lying? (I think it is more likely to be Bob Slatzer who is lying, as his book reads as one long fantasy that he created in his head. ) And if about that, what else? _My Secret Life_ makes a lot of outrageous claims, including Marilyn having a lesbian affair with his stripper wife, Marilyn aborting their baby, and Marilyn calling him on the night of her death. The uncomfortable thing to me is how Jordan portrays her as a horribly ambitious, mentally ill prostitute, repeating several times that she had no talent and used everyone to get what she wanted. Maybe some of that is true, but in a book such as this one (as well as _The Mysterious Death of_), the reader never knows WHAT to believe.

Judy Monroe is meticulous in documentation. Some might say documentation is one notable strength of her book. See, for example, how she documents her information on "Vanzetti's Alibi," page 72. Will not discerning readers find proof of Monroe's careful documentation on the alibi if they turn to page 30 of "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti: A Critical Analysis for Lawyers and Laymen"--the very book Justice Louis D. Brandeis received on March 7, 1927? Monroe makes amends for omitting Mike Boda (Mario Buda) and Orciani by her cogent analysis of Nicola Gatti (p. 62). Surely young adults will be enriched by Monroe's book with Enslow Publishers, Inc.

Judy Monroe's book--The Sacco and Vanzetti Controversial Trial-- is a bit thin. Her excerpts of the Dedham trial give too little attention to the three witnesses on Vanzetti's gun--Atwater, Slater, and Falzini. Testimony by defense witness Gatti is slighted. Her excerpts slight testimony by Vanzetti's alibi witnesses and testimony by Sacco's alibi witnesses. Do readers of Monroe's book know that James E. Burns, ballistics expert witness for the defense, amended his Dedham testimony in 1927, just weeks before Sacco and Vanzetti were executed? In 1927 Burns said Shell W was fired by Sacco's Colt automatic. Monroe offers no hint that Upton Sinclair, years before Erhrmann published his first book on the case, declared Sacco a militant anarchist, an assertion contradicted by many editors of encyclopedias. Moreover, Sinclair published in 1953 his concession that Sacco was probably guilty, and Vanzetti very likely may also have been guilty.The bibliography omits critical commentary in post-trial debate. See publication on 1983 ballistics study by James E. Starrs, a copy of which this reviewer received from the professor of forensic sciences.