In this very readable book, John Randolph Price discusses the secret school, the master teacher and the inner classroom where you can win your wings. He shares insights received from within on issues like self-realization, wholeness, the ego and the raising of consciousness individually and worldwide, also proposing ways in which the reader may write their own textbook through similar dialogues with the divine within. Uplifting and inspiring reading and contains a variety of useful meditations.

This is the work of a bitter misanthrope. Sugar's jokes are predictable and his writing style is stale. Try "When Pride Still Mattered" for a good book on football.

It is obvious from reading the lower rated reviews that the individuals found the title on a search and wrote the review without reading it. Big mistake, guys. Bert Sugar is the editor, not the author. The book does collect various essays from people from both former athletes and from sports writers. Some of the essays do come off as rather dull. Most are intersting reads. There is even a short piece to accompany the cartoon of the real Americas Team, drawn by Bill Gallo, with the real team consisting of the Duke and a handful of other Western heroes. Bill Conlin, a journalist for a Philadelphia paper spends almost as much time ragging on his "Iggles" (Eagles) as he does the Cowboys. Skip Bayless, a veteran of Dallas newspapers, is one of the better writers here. Also interesting is Thom Loverro's imagined future of 2097, wherein a father tries to explain the fall of America caused by the now extinct Dallas Cowboys. Hilarious! Beware, Cowboy haters! The true origin of the "America's Taam" will defeat a myth held by haters for decades.

Have you ever wondered where the balls have gone in american citizens? This guy has them all. To be able to write such an opinionated book takes guts. Help this man to write more books. He hates Dallas So Much but deep down they are his team!

This book lacks any depth to help you study. Would not use as a sole study guide.

in my view. Its too short, lacks detail and needs to be supplemented by other books. It can be used as a supplementary book but not as the MAIN book for USMLE step 3 exam.

This book, much better than the Step II tome from the same series, is written in outline form by people who reportedly took and smoked the test. I believe it. I really think EVERY item in the book was on the test, and those items that are set in bold-face type, frequently represented 3,4, or even 5 questions. Some of these key points were not even to be FOUND in most other study-guides, let alone emphasized. The content is organized into bite-sized chunks, then is reviewable before the test even more rapidly. There is a CD included with lots of questions; be careful, though! The answers on the CD (at least in my edition) were not always accurate, although the answers to the (much fewer) questions in the book were. If you are at all comfortable with multipl-guess questions, and you have practiced medicine in the US anytime recently, this book, memorized, may be all you need. (If you want more, add Swanson) Re-reading this again and again will help you more than filling your head with a bunch of esoteric stuff that may help your real-world patients, but is unlikely to be found in the more typical patients about whom you will be tested in the Boards.

This book is interesting for the first hundred pages or so. In my opinion the narration then becomes bogged down, and the story moves at a snails pace. Mundy spends a inordinate amount of time in some scenarios, which are repititious and lost my interest as a reader. After a really good beginning this book really disappointed me greatly because I really wanted to enjoy this book.

My copy had a series of questions in the back of it, as if the author thought his Civil War tome deserved to be some sort of literary classic studied in schools. I think it would be a good manuscript to be torn apart at a writers workshop. How to lose a reader's interest? How to develop paper thin characters and situations that are not fully resolved?

Two years have passed since fourteen-year old Mundy McDowell observed the rape and subsequent murder of his parents. Since that brutal day on March 23, 1862, Mundy has silently wandered the Virginia battlefield, believing he is invisible. Mundy sees the first hand horror of war accompanied by a "spirit dog, a ghost of a deceased slave, and "baby Jesus". The war forces the teen to grow up fast as rape, sex, and pedophilia occurs almost as much as death.

The concept behind THE SILENT is absolutely brilliant. Seeing the Civil War from the mind of a battered teen is unique and refreshing. However, in spite of Jack Dann's obvious writing skills, he packs too many sub-plots into the novel. The mysticism is too mystical for this reviewer to ken and the too numerous rape scenes slow down the book. This novel remains a good story for Civil War buffs that do not mind seeing their heroes exposed (literally and figuratively).

Harriet Klausner

This book shows a different perspective of the Civil War. How would a child react to all the horrors of a war? Probably much like the way Mundy did...with fear, confusion, fantasy, feverish dreams.....not knowing whom to trust...guilt for not helping his parents (and others), when actually there was nothing he could have done to help. This was an accurate portrayal of a child thrown into the midst of the most horrible of conditions, and how he copes (or doesn't cope) with the madness around him. This book was very good, and I highly recommend it.

This book is so badly-written as to make me wonder exactly who the market audience would be. The only person I could really see benefitting from Albano's and Sugar's frequent factual errors and glossing-overs would be someone who has seen wrestling on TV a few times, found it to be less awful than they expected, and want to know more about what they're watching. Anybody with more than a passing interest in this form of entertainment will be left sorely disappointed.

So many things about this book bugged me: the fact that half the time, the authors act as if wrestling is real (especially Albano, when he is recounting his days in the WWF)...the fact that they suggest that the reader only follow one federation (so we don't bite off more than we can chew, supposedly)...the fact that their description of "the moves of pro wrestling" don't explain that the moves for the most part DON'T hurt the opponent...the fact that they consistently refer to Real Life in wrestling as "real-real" (when any mark or carny knows it's "shoot") and to the bad guys as "villains" (not "heels," as they're known to wrestlers). A thousand factual errors share pages with a thousand typographical errors.

Basically, this is a book which purports to be an "insider view" of professional wrestling, but which is written by two people from the outside who feel the need to keep the illusion of "wrestling as real-life violence." There's some interesting information about the earliest days at the turn of the 20th century, but it's hard to believe it as gospel when ten pages later the authors are telling you that Kane and the Undertaker are really brothers, that the first ladder match was in ECW, that Onita's barbed-wire cage uses real live electricity, and not just fireworks.

Rather than really explain what goes on in the industry (from backstage to in the ring), they try to get the reader to choose one of the two major companies (now, of course, there's only one) and believe that it's real. This may have been the way fans were in the 70s, but by now, for some reason, we are all in on the gag. All of us, apparently, except Albano and Sugar.

If you are in fact a Complete Idiot, and you need to spend 19 bucks to have someone tell you that you can look up a favorite wrestler on search engines for more information, then go ahead and buy this book. Otherwise, steer clear or get it at a Salvation Army like I did.

To paraphrase Bret Hart, professional wrestling is a lot more real than people realize. It is a highly competitive and physically demanding endeavor, both unrecognized art form and brutal, sleazy sideshow. The Complete Idiot's Guide does little to capture this essence of pro wrestling, instead treating in the same half-hearted manner that so many books and articles have in the past. To make matters worse, the Guide contains several factual errors and gaps, most glaringly when dealing with the legitimacy of wresting as an actual physical contest. The reality is that no one really knows when wrestling became "fake," in the sense of matches having pre-determined outcomes and workers co-operating with each other. The real, factual history of pro wrestling will probably never be known. We do know, however, that the wrestling of today is a direct ancestor of 19th century carnival wrestling, where match outcomes were, at best, manipulated.

It is ironic that this book came out only a few months before Mick Foley's Have a Nice Day. The two books could not be more different. Foley is insightful, never talking down to the reader, and avoids the huckster's wink that seems to accompany most wrestling books, including the Idiot's Guide. The very last thing wrestling needs is another "fun send-up."

As alternatives, I would suggest in particular the Foley book, the new Dynamite Kid autobiography, and Dave Meltzer's Tributes. If you can find it and are interested in the early history of pro wrestling, I strongly recommend Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce. Though written in 1937, it seems to be describing the wrestling of today.

If you're a complete wrestling addict, this book will fail to enthrall you. There are a few nuggets of entertaining information, but for the most part, this book is for people who really don't know much about the world of sports entertainment. The bios on the wrestlers are dated and are angled from the character's aspects, rather than the real life stats of the wrestlers themselves.

The authors have tried to cram all the theories and ideas of corporate finance in one single volume- they did a commendable job, but has made it too burdensome for MBA students who have to cover the whole book in a single semester. The initial chapters are a joy to read, but it all becomes unstuck when the reader reaches Part IV (Capital Structure and Dividend Policy). Then the authors become somewhat vague and make a heavy weather of explaining the important topic. That is the reason why I could not give five stars to an otherwise excellent book. The initial three parts viz. Overview, Value and Capital Budgeting, and Risk introduce novices gently to the basic concepts and tools. The writing is wordy, but very simple, and it never becomes irksome to the reader.The part on options is detailed enough to give the reader a basic idea of derivatives and will set him/her up nicely for future courses in advanced finance. On the whole, the book is much more detailed and easily acceptable than the other "classic" viz. Brealey and Myers. The best fact is that the authors are not writing for financial experts, but for people who are new to finance. Possibly, this is the best introductory textbook on corporate finance available today.

I am a student with science background. When I started my research on corporate finance, I had ZERO knowledge of investment and business ! I have tried very hard to swallow through the famous Bryley and Myers text recommended by my supervisor, and what I can conclude was : boy, is this how finance people write their text ? After beating about the bush for tens of pages, you still have no idea what they are talking about !

Thankfully this book by Ross and also another by Haim Levy save my day and correct my almost biased opinion about business academics (disorganized to the extent that can't even produce an honest and sincere introduction of finance with clarity and organized structure, that I sometimes wonder do these people know their work or not ?).

Really I don't know why some people discount Ross completely, because this is really one of the more decent and organized texts available about corporate finance. Anyone who wants to have serious learning about corporate finance should really take a look at Ross and also Haim Levy. Have patience and you will see where the author is leading you to. I am speaking from someone with ZERO background and experience in finance and business.

We use this book for both the undergraduate Intermediate Finance and MBA Introduction to Finance courses at University of Central Florida. This book is very easy to read no what your background in finance is. It serves as an excellent reference as well.

It seems there are a few people here who try to counterbalance each review that is awarded a 5-star rating with one that is a 1-star rating although their arguments do not hold water. My suggestion is to take a look at this book for yourself and simply return it if you're not happy with it. The fact the so many universities have adopted this text AND continue to use it says a lot.

When "My Dog Tulip" was first published in 1956, it elicited both praise and derision from England's literati. Ackerley's colleague E. M. Forster hailed the book; Edith Sitwell declared it "filth." The most balanced and reasonable reading may have been from the novelist Julia Strachey, who noted in a private letter, "though entirely about dogs, [it] is a veritable little marvel of brilliance and shockingness. I don't know when I read anything so indecent, disgusting, touching, beautiful, and stylish." In spite of the critical attention, however, the book sold abysmally: two years later, half the first printing was still in storage, and no American publisher would touch it for nearly a decade. (Most of these details are culled from Peter Parker's excellent biography of Ackerley.)

Although many people consider it a classic (and I too found it moving and extraordinarily witty), "Tulip" has only recently found an audience. The reticence and revulsion that even today greets this little book is usually in three forms. First, Ackerley wrote neither a cute book for dog lovers nor a user's manual; most of the book describes the sex life (real and frustrated) and excretory functions of his dog (whose real name was Queenie). Like Ackerley's other books, this one is intended to shock and occasionally disgust, and Ackerley seems positively obsessed with Tulip's libidinous needs and toiletry habits--so much so that his British publisher submitted it for legal review before printing it. Second, many of today's animal lovers are upset by a scene in which Ackerley considers killing some of Tulip's offspring. Never mind that he ultimately doesn't have the heart to do it: this practice was all too common fifty years ago, when neutering was not widely available. And, third--and perhaps most seriously--Ackerley certainly comes across as a curmudgeon (if not a downright creep), and his scorn of the "working classes" is harsh on egalitarian ears.

But this book ultimately won me over. From the descriptions of Tulip's inopportune venues for defecation to Ackerley's hysterical attempts to find the proper mate for his beloved Alsatian, the humor, warmth, and playfulness of "My Dog Tulip" should appeal to most readers and especially to dog owners.

So much more than a book about a man and his dog--I laughed, I cried. I laughed more than I cried as the author's way with words grew on me. Several months ago I heard about this book and author for the first time. The book was out of print and I could not find a copy online. I stumbled upon this new edition while browsing online and am so glad that I "waited" for this new version. The book is very attractive and unusual and I enjoyed the introduction which is new too. I'm now reading another book in this same new collection about the author's life--My Father and Myself--it puts My Dog Tulip into a new perspective and I may have to re-read it and if I do, I think I might cry more than I laugh this time around. Although when I looked again at the cover I had a private laugh. I'd recommend this book to almost anyone of any age. Parental guidance perhaps for My Father and Myself.

It's hard for me to understand how some of the reviewers could have failed to appreciate Ackerley. If you've ever owned any kind of pet at all, this book is a must. To be sure, it's not for the squeamish--Tulip's romantic life is the one of the chief topics, and the author minces no words describing the tactics deployed by Tulip, her many canine suitors, and even her owner himself in his attempts to produce true-blooded offspring. But Ackerley approaches even this sensitive subject with both humor and a strange sweetness. He once wrote that Tulip was his true love, the only creature who loved him and whom he could love unconditionally, and after you read the book, you understand why. Tulip's character--defensive, offensive, protective, delicate, beautiful, affectionate, and ever-so-vital--is as moving as any portrayal of a mere human. Unmissable.

Ah, it's the Pleidians again! The goofiest UFO cult yet is like Godzilla, the Alien, and Jason (Friday the 13th) in the sense that they won't die. My roomate bought a copy of "The Pleiadian Mission : A Time of Awareness" and I was so bored one day that I read it. I then increased my roomate's share of the rent figuring if he had enough money to waste it on this mindless tripe he could pay a larger share of the rent.

I remember Mr. Winters from the video "UFOs: Best Evidence Ever (Caught on Video Tape)". Mr. Winters was fooled by a video tape of the reflection of a shaded lamp in a window overlooking Miami. It had to be the most amaturish UFO hoax I've ever seen and Mr. Winter's book is just as believable. Now all I have to do is have Mr. Winters endorse the video I have of some prime Florida beachfront property I have for sale I'll be all set.

Although there are fine books available through amazon.com on the Pleiadian phenomenon, this isn't one of them. At best, it reads like a tract given to you by some wild-eyed stranger in the subway at midnight. At worst, it reads like the super-race ramblings of someone in need of psychiatric help and pretty soon! If you admit the possibility of communication with extraterrestrial beings, then you have to admit he possibility that some of them are pulling your leg, or worse, some of them are downright vicious. I suspect the true authorship of this book is one of the above. Most of the book is so lame, I suspected tonge-in-cheek motivation, but some sections (like the idea that Hitler was very intelligent but manipulated and misunderstood) leads me to suspect darker motives. To add insult to injury, although the book rambles on and on about the structure of supposed Pleiadian space vehicles, the "shape" of the universe, and polygomous Pleiadian society, it has very little to say about its title, the Pleiadian Mission. Don't waste your money. If someone gives you this book for free, don't waste your time. Dump it!

This is a "something for everyone" UFO book, covering ET contacts, ET philosophy, ET technology & propulsion systems, Earth's spiritual state & history, and our own spiritual development.

The central theme of the book is the story of Swiss contactee Billy Meier, who had extensive contact with nordic-type ETs ( blonde-haired, blue eyed humans ) from planets in the Pleiades star cluster, also known as the "Seven Stars" or "Seven Sisters", in the constellation of Taurus. They chose him to disseminate knowledge about their civilisation, and provided intimate and ongoing contact. The Swiss press initially showed great interest and a group formed around Meier. Unfortunately, like so many groups, internal conflicts occurred, due to the age-old problem of individual ego, and ultimately the Pleiadeans withdrew, abandoning Meier, when they perceived he was not spiritually developed enough to handle the group. So the story goes.

However, the book contains much more than the story of Meier and his group. There are chapters on Earth's spiritual and human history, the Pleiadian account of Jesus, and the Pleiadians' overriding emphasis of the need for all of us to become more spiritually conscious through the sustained practice of meditation, with instructions for which are included in some detail.

Then there are whole chapters for us physics and technology buffs, who are curious about the way ET craft can transcend Einstein's speed of light limitation, and traverse vast intergalactic distances between the Pleiades and Earth, without taking thousands of years to do so. For anyone up on the latest theories of modern Physics, there is a resonance between String theory ( modern Physics is reconciling Einstein's theory of General Relativity with Quantum Mechanics through the idea that elementary particles are actually vibrating filaments or "strings" ) and the Pleiadean propulsion systems.

String theory implies the revolutionary view that there are more than three dimensions to the universe, but the additional dimensions are microscopically "rolled up" so we don't ordinarily perceive them. The Pleaidian ships cross interstellar space by entering an extra dimension, where time does not exist, and matter is transformed to "fine-matter particles". The assertion is that, during this transition into a Star-Trek type "hyperspace" not only is the enormous distance between Earth and the Pleiades crossed in a timeless instant, but that the ship's occupants experience the original spiritual energy of Creation itself, something they assert is essential for Earth people to experience, without which we are forever caught in the realm of ego and intellect, and continue to destroy our planet. Holding the ship correctly in this hyperspace is evidently a difficult technology to master, and slight miscalculations can leave the travellers displaced in time by millions of years. It is claimed that early pioneers of this technology are now lost forever in time.

Interestingly, the Pleiadeans themselves are being taught by a more advanced race, whose own science has discovered "galaxy canals" - shortcuts within galaxies facilitating easy travel. ( But why use them? is it safer than changing dimensions....? )

Needless to say, the chapters on Pleiadean life show that their first priority is the Ecosystem - their biosphere is considered sacrosanct, and their society deeply rooted in environmental consciousness.

One of the better UFO books, and well worth a read in my opinion.

Mostly bereft of scenery or any notice of local lifeways, hardly a travel book at all, Hindoo Holiday strikes me as being a vicious portrait of his host and benefactor, a maharajah who, like Ackerley, was on the self-defeating quest for the devotion of an Ideal Friend, and, like Ackerley, looking in all the wrong places for love. Ackerley's book is condescending to Indians in the colonial British manner that was abhorrent to Foster both in his time in India and in his masterpiece A Passage to India, Hindoo Holiday is notable for a lack of empathy on Ackerley's part, but, then, in his entire oeuvre, it is only the irritations and heartbreaks of his surrogates that matter. Ackerley was far too solipsistic to be a novelist.

E. M. Forster, whom Ackerley emulated in going to India in the 20s to work as private secretary for a maharajah, has a character in A PASSAGE TO INDIA named Miss Derek, who is private secretary to a rani and who "regarded the entire peninsula as if it were a comic opera." That basically describes the attitude Ackerley adopts in HINDOO HOLIDAY, which treats an indian princely styate as if it were wildly wacky. No doubt that might have been true to Ackerley when he visited in the 20s, but this book's humor has worn somewhat over the years and seems at times a bit condescending. What has remained interesting and vital are Ackerley's observations about Indian (particularly Hindu) customs and manners, and his deft sensitivity and understatement in his portrayal of the maharajah's (and his own) homoerotic desires: Ackerley's keen observational intelligence, fortunately, outweighs the dated cross-cultural comic aspects of the narrative. While this isn;t nearly at the level of one of his later works like MY FATHER AND MYSELF, it's an intriguing read for anyone interested in India during the raj or early 20th-century homosexuality.

This is one of those books that I will always keep by my bed as a reminder not to take myself too seriously in any capacity. I found this a terribly funny book, mostly becuase it rang so true. Ackerley is fabulous company, shockingly observant and brutally honest, even when it plunges him into bad light. We tip-toe so carefully around so many of the subjects he faces head on - racism, homosexuality, class and privilege. He doesn't flinch.

This book reminds me of the fluff book that gordon letwin wrote at the dawn of OS/2. Like that one this book is full of hopeless drivel.

The amount of VB is miniscule, the book is mostly C++. But, It really dosent matter if your looking for VB, or C++ examples, since the chopped up code examples in this book will just confuse you. They have also become outdated in the two years since this book came out.

Dont bother with this book unless your getting it on the 50% off clearance rack.

This book is a poor choice if you want to learn to program in the Pocket PC environment. The back cover calls this a "practical guide" but the book spends most of the first six chapters describing how Windows CE programming evolved from Windows programming. You must be fluent in Windows application development in C++ for this book to be useful. The examples are poor and do not work with the Visual Tools software available at the Microsoft site.

I highly recommend this book as an excellent collection of applet samples of core features needed to develop for the Pocket PC and other Windows CE devices. The ADOCE chapter is very well done and I think that chapter is worth the price of the book alone.

This book has been the first book I've found that is useful for Pocket PC development. The author maintains a web site to make any necessary changes in the text or samples, keeping the information extremely up-to-date.

It was nice to get this book, compile the samples, and see things work first hand. (In contrast, I have been frustrated at books by Microsoft Press that are highly theoretical where the information doesn't make sense until you've already figured it out somewhere else and re-read the chapter. Ex: The Windows CE Programmer's Guide.) Although, I plan to get the Microsoft Press books for reference.

This book is not a beginner's getting-started book, but is a good book for someone who already has a little experience with Visual Basic or Visual C++. It seems to be targted toward the intermediate and advanced programmer.