If you want to create a golem to scare the hell out of your players, this book is a must. It's well writen, with both the character view point and simple, easy (for a DM) to understand statisical information on what is required to create a truly compeling(SP?) golem character. Tons of interesting powers and weaknesses, including the dread hyper-regeneration, which makes golems even more frightening. If you plan to run a Frankenstein-like plot, this book is priceless!

This is a most excellent book. It explains how to create golems of all kinds, although it is specifically meant for flesh golems. These can mean quite some trouble even for the toughest parties. It is written in first person, as if Van Richten himself was teaching you about them. Gruesome combinations are possible, such as a golem with claws from an umberhulk, wings from a wyvern, or anything else you can think of. It presents a completely different point of view about golems as they are known from monstrous compendiums. After you read this, that tough iron golem looks like a puny and weak piece of junk. In my opinion, this is one of those "perfect" rulebooks, such as drow of the underdark or the complete book of necromancers, a must for any DM, even if you don't play in Ravenloft..

Maybe 5 strars is to much for this book... If you are not a Ravenloft (A Dungeons & Dragons World, for those who don't know what is Ravenloft) Fan.

I have almost all the Van Richten's Guides and I think this is the best one.

Are you a DM?, you will need this book to create the best golems of all. With this guide you can make an adventure with one of the best monsters in Ravenlof.

Are you a PC?, you will need this book to hunt down all the golems your DM put in his adventures.

OK this is all.

Dear. Amazon We liked the story Wing Shop because the boy had a sence of humor, different type of wings, colorfull wings, bat wings, the buter, And how the bee wing got the little boy homw

The author and publisher of Whing Shop as Elvira Woodruff and are publiser is Holiday Hose. We hope to actually meet Elvira Woodruff in our school in March. We have some questions for her when she visit. 1. What is your favorite book? 2. Why did she write Wing shop? 3.How did she get all thos wings in the wing shop 4. What was your favorite type of wing in the wing shop. 5.How did you get this job.

The superb illustrations attract the reader first. Then the story takes over. Reading the pictures turns out to be as rewarding as reading the story over and over again. The story explains moving and change to little ones and is not boring for adults who have to read it several times in a row several days in a row, ........

The illustrations make this book come alive and provide the adults with some good belly laughs. You can feel yourself flying with Matthew and yelling "whoa!!!" as different pairs of wings take you on all kinds of unexpected rides. Great fun for everyone

This Monster Hunter's Compendium combines the full text of "Van Richten's Guide to Vampires," "Van Richten's Guide to Werebeasts," and "Van Richten's Guide to the Created." It provides a large amount of information that any DM can incorporate into a campaign, whether it's based in Ravenloft or not.

This Monster Hunter's Compendium combines "Van Richten's Guide to Vampires," "Van Richten's Guide to Werebeasts," and "Van Richten's Guide to the Created." In doing so it creates a wealth of information that allows any DM to throw a few curve balls to even the most jaded of Players. Vampires that bask in the sun, caste magic, and can look apon a holy symbol with no ill effects and yet be killed by the old standby of holy water. Contained within these pages is the instructions to create vampires and werebeast that cannot be killed with the information that everyone has. This guide is especially usefull if you have player or two who have a habbit of reading the Monster Manual in their spare time. I highly recomend this to anyone who wants to make the traditional "monsters" just a bit more frightening and a little less predictable.

Here you'll find: Van Richten's Guide to Fiends, Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani and Van Richten's Guide to Witches . If you are looking for rare monsters you sould look in this accessory.

This is the one you HAVE to get. I have ALL the Van Richten "Guides", but this one carries the "Guide to Witches" which has never before been published! So, if you thought you had it all, you don't. Don't be fooled, however, with volumes 1 & 2. If you have ALL the Van Richten "Guides", you already have ALL of 1 & 2 and most of 3. The "Guide to Demons" is nothing more than "Van Richten's Guide To Fiends"! It was renamed for these publications. Volume 3 is the one to get!

I liked this book alot it was really good. I would suggest you to read this book if your into adveture book,because there is this girlnamed Nelly and she wants to be a scientist. Her grandmother takes her on a vacation. She takes a bunch of with her, and when they get there she finds a scientist kit. She wants to make a potion that makes her Granma grows younger. But from there on your going to have to find out the rest by reading it.

The summer I shrank my grandmother BY: Elvira Woodruff

I really enjoyed this book! It is a fiction story about a girl who wishes her grandmother would get younger. Therefore, she creates a potion that she shampoos into her hair. Then her grandmother keeps getting younger and younger until she is almost not born. I recommend this book to anyone who likes a short funny story. I enjoyed this book because it was unpredictable you could never tell what was going to happen next!

Have you ever wondered what your parents or grandparents were like as children? Well, in this book Nelly Brown is playing around with her Grandmother's old chemistry set and shrinks her Grandmom. Instead of getting older and older, her Grandmother keeps getting younger and younger. Will she shrink into nothing, or will Cousin Ben come and save the day? Read this wonderful book to find out.

This is a mediocre book at best. The tests give you an illusion that you are a genius too. It is full of self fullfiling falacies. If you think you are a genius, you are... maybe not. Just review your scores on the SAT, GMAT, GRE, or whatever test you have taken. If you did not score in the top percentile, don't call yourself a genius because the tests within these books said so. That is if you don't want to embarass yourself in public, or even in private company.

There are far better books out there on how to train and develop your multiple intelligences. This is not the one.

Check authors like Michael Gelb, Tony Buzan, Thomas Armstrong, Howard Gardner, and David Coleman. They have developed a ton of serious well researched materials and methods on this subject. They all provide far better stuff than this book.

Mary-Elaine Jacobsen brings the largely invisible plights and possibilities of the gifted adult to our attention. As an intense, complex and driven gifted adult, myself, I truly appreciate her contribution to my life and the lives of others I know who've read the book. As a therapist to gifted adults for many years, Jacobsen knows what she's talking about and gives us many moving stories to find ourselves, our friends or our parents in. I cried many tears reading this book, remembering experiences in my own life and seeing them in a more self-compassionate light.

I've known I was smart, intense and driven but Jacobsen helped me to see why and what to do about it to have a happier, more fulfilled life. I'm probably writing this review right now because of the influence of this book. I've always craved to get my ideas out in the world and here on the Net and in my blog (tokerud's technology treats) I've sought out ways to do that. Jacobsen gives the gifted adult the good news and the bad news. The good news is great. I can forgive myself. The bad news is, that the only way things are going to change is for me to change some bad habits and be constructive and persistent in the world and express my gifts. If you know you are intense and driven and probably pretty smart, pick this book up. It could change YOUR life too.

This book is a well-written but occasionally dense read. However, it will be a page-turner for a gifted adult. And, for that matter, gifted adults tend to like dense books. One of the unfortunate facts that Jacobsen points out is that gifted adults have usually learned to keep a low profile about their giftedness. They've learned to cover it up and at a certain point in their lives, many gifted adults forget they are gifted. It is a convenient but, ultimately, very harmful defense mechanism. That's why I said earlier that if you merely suspect you might possibly be a gifted adult, read this book! It will shake you out of your unconsciousness and get you back on the track of getting your gifts out into the world where they belong!

This is an excellent and useful book based on the kind of radical premise that seems obvious once it's articulated.

The author asserts that "giftedness" exists, (even by conventional, inadequate measures such as IQ), in 5-10% of the population. She believes that the set of traits that leads to exceptional talent is not mere "intelligence": it is a collection of cognitive, emotional, physical, and other traits that causes the gifted person to process infomation differently than other people. The way this works, she says, is most comparable to the way a learning disability works; in fact, the divergence from "normal ways of thinking" often causes gifted people to meet with great difficulties.

Using anecdotes and quizzes, as well as exposition and a little bit of cheerleading, Jacobsen illustrates how and why gifted people will have trouble conforming and may seem (to themselves and to others) too "intense," "complex," and "driven." She includes tips for self-management in the workplace, in relationships, and in the arduous process of "liberating" the self and the talents.

"The pot of gold" is for all of us, gifted and "non-gifted." Jacobsen insists that "everyday geniuses," with their outside-of-the-box thinking, are the people who catalyze society's progress and change.

For anyone who still does harbour the received notion that the USA lost the Vietnam War to a tiny 3rd-World nation of peasant farmers, Mark Woodruff's book will come as a surprise. To his credit he does make clear at the outset that this IS a partial review of the war. He's an ex-Marine and is determined to make the point that - taken purely as a military operation between the years 1965-1973 - the US Armed Forces can justifably consider themselves `victors'. However, noble as that undertaking is, he'll also be aware of Von Clausewitz's statement that "war is a continuation of politics by other means". As he points out, the Vietnamese were fighting other foes long before the Americans appeared, and the Northern Vietnamese continued to fight their Southern counterparts for two, ultimately successful, years afterwards. He does a fine job of refuting many of the myths that have been handed down since the end of the war and is clear on exactly what the scope of his book is, and crucially isn't. But the reader seeking a wider view of S.E.Asian history and politics will be entitled to ask about just WHY the USA became as heavily involved as it did (particularly after having supported Ho Chi Minh and Viet nationalists against the Japanese during WW2, and after been so closely involved in financially supporting the abortive French attempts to `hold onto' French Indochina in the 1950s), why it allowed such a corrupt regime as Thieu's to develop, what ultimate effect Nixon and Kissinger's secret bombing of Cambodia had (unleashing the Khmer Rouge?) and why it did ultimately decide to pull out? Having said all of that, within its own narrow parameters `Unheralded Victory' is a welcome addition to the histories of the S.E.Asian conflicts.

After reading Jeff Thurston review, I am at a loss. He obviously did not read the same book I did. His review did the usual liberal hatchet job that the Vietnam newsies did from the No Name bar in Saigon.

I went back and read the newspapers, Berkeley Barb, L. A. Free Press, U. S. News and World Reports, Time, and Newsweek, of that period. The difference in attitudes is astounding. We lost the propaganda war. Jeff Thurston is still perpetuating the myth the North Vietnam was better. They were better at atrocities on a large scale.

In Mr. Jones book, he talks about the North Vietnamese Government admitting the subterfuges they used. When the other side admits to doing, what we have been saying all along, it is not a stab in the back.

A must for any Vet or serious student of the Vietnam Struggle.

Woodruff's well researched book finally puts the correct perspective on the Vienam War. Unheralded Victory makes it clear that, by any yardstick of military activity, the Vietnam conflict was an endless series of crushing defeats for the North Vietnamese forces and a long, small action, hard fought victory for the US (and their allied) forces.

What escapes most observers of the Vietnam War is the distinction between winning the war and ending the war, something that Woodruff clarifies. He points out that while Westmoreland submitted plans for winning the conflict (the invasion of North Vietnam), this was totally unacceptable for political reasons, leaving only the ending of the war in the best available circumstances as the most realistic option.

In cataloging the allied victories, Woodruff draws into sharp relief just how ill-served the world's public was by the western press corps. A group of people who were in the main (and there were some notable exceptions), a self serving, self appointed tribe of freeloaders interested only in getting a good story, rather than telling the truth. Aiding the western press corps was the propaganda machinery of North Vietnam who must have viewed the western journalists as the best free advertising on the planet.

Unheralded Victory draws no specific conclusions as the right or wrong of supporting the government of South Vietnam. Many antiwar commentators gleefully point out that the Saigon regime was despostic, cruel, repressive, corrupt and undemocratic, while failing to acknowledge that the North Vietnam government was essentially the same. Additionally, the Saigon government's stated position was to be left alone to mismanage its own affairs, while North Vietnam's stated position was to invade the south by force of arms and mismanage the whole country - something it continuously denied during the conflict, claiming that the war in the south was due to local action.

The book itself relies exclusively on facts, documenting both the sacrifice and valour of the individual soldiers and the overall conduct of the war. It dispells the myths of fragging, combat refusals, drug abuse and most other icons of the antiwar factions. In place of these it demonstrates the war could not have been concluded in the sense of a clear cut victory, but that up until the last combat troops left the country, there was no question that the allied forces won every decisive engagement. This is what makes the book so readable - the bald statements of victory all speak for themselves. There is no 'stab in the back' concepts, no political rantings, no finger pointing, no revisionist history, just plain good old 'political theory' destroying facts.

It doesn't matter which side of the political fence you want to sit on, Unheralded Victory shows that something went on in Vietnam that was missed at the time (for whatever reason) and it is opportune to revisit the scene - not to rewrite history, but to try to understand why the glaringly obvious victory by the allies, and patent military failure of the North, was so badly misunderstood both then and now. Woodruff has done us a great service in presenting the truth as it was and in doing so highlights the price paid by those who fought and didn't come home.

A first class read.

A heart problem requires that I eliminate fat from my diet. This book allows me to contine eating a lot of yummy bakery products. I have used a variety of the included recipes, and have been quite pleased. Its great to have delicious, fresh scones for breakfast that contain not a bit of cholesterol or fat in them.

This is a great book, it teaches you how to modify your favorite recipes for lower fat and cholesterol content. The recipes are simple, fun to make and have ingredients that are easy to find. Best of all - my family will eat this food! they love it and don't know it is healthier, except of course that they feel better! Good job Ms. author, I will definately check out your other books.

As a baking fanatic, I was in search of a cookbook that would allow me to continue baking, while not expanding my waistline in similar proportions. This book is the answer! I was somewhat skeptical at first...as I am a firm believer in shortening and sugar. But Ms. Woodruff's book is filled with delicious recipes! I was thoroughly surprised, and very happy. I make a different muffin recipe each week, and bring these low-fat muffins to work as breakfast all week long (sure beats Pop-Tarts or hi-fat muffins). A favorite is the Mandarin Orange Blueberry muffins. And for cookies, the Butterscotch Crisps are sure to satisfy the sweet tooth in all of us. I can't wait to purchase Ms. Woodruff's OTHER cookbooks!

You buy this type of item for the price. The price was low, and you can wear the book out without worrying about it. Good if you don't want to pay too much for a book.

"Antigone," the drama by Sophocles, has been published as part of the Dover Thrift Edition series. The Dover version is translated into English by George Young. An introductory note states that the play was first performed in the 440s BCE.

The introductory note also includes a brief summary of events leading up to the events of this play. "Antigone" concerns the family of Oedipus, former ruler of the city-state of Thebes. As "Antigone" opens, Thebes is ruled by Creon, the brother-in-law of Oedipus. Creon is at odds with his niece, Antigone, because he denies a proper burial to Antigone's brother Polynices. Antigone's intention to defy her uncle sets this tragedy in motion.

This is a powerful story about familial duty, social customs, gender roles, and the relationship between the individual and governmental authority. The issues in this play remain relevant today, and are powerfully argued by Sophocles' characters. At the heart of the play is this question: Is it right to disobey a law or edict that one feels is unjust?

But "Antigone" is not just a philosophical meditation; it's also the story of a very personal clash between two strong-willed members of a very troubled extended family. A bonus in the play is the appearance of the seer Tiresias: it is a small but potent role. Overall, this play is a solid example of why ancient Greek drama has stood the test of time.

Following the ending of "Oedipus the King," Oedipus was exiled from Thebes, blind and a beggar. We learn from "Oedipus at Colonus" that his sons, Eteocles and Polyneices engaged in a civil war for the throne of Thebes (covered in "Seven Against Thebes" by Aeschylus). The two brothers kill each other and Creon (Manos Katrakis), brother of Jocasta, becomes king. He orders that Eteocles, who nobly defended his city, shall receive an honorable burial, but that Polyneices, for leading the Argive invaders, shall be left unburied. This leads Antigone (Pappas), sister to both of the slain brothers, to have to choose between obeying the rule of the state, the dictates of familial binds, and the will of the gods. This, of course, is the matter at the heart of this classic tragedy by Sophocles.

It is too easy to see the issues of this play, first performed in the 5th century B.C., as being reflected in a host of more contemporary concerns, where the conscience of the individual conflicts with the dictates of the state. However, it seems to me that the conflict in "Antigone" is not so clear-cut as we would suppose. After all, Creon has the right to punish a traitor and to expect loyal citizens to obey. Ismene (Maro Kodou), Antigone's sister, chooses to obey, but Antigone takes a different path. The fact that the "burial" of her brother consists of the token gesture of throwing dirt upon his face, only serves to underscore the ambiguity of the situation Sophocles is developing. Even though the playwright strips Creon of his son, Haemon (Nikos Kazis) and wife, Eurydice (Ilia Livykou) by the end of the drama, it is not a fatal verdict rendered against the king's judgment, but rather the playing out of the tragedy to its grim conclusion.

Note: I have always enjoyed Jean Anouilh's "modern" version of the play, produced in 1944 and loaded with overtones regarding the Nazi occupation of France. The two plays offer a fascinating analog and students are usually quick to appreciate how Anouilh revitalizes the ancient myth with the political situation in which he lived.

Have recommended Organizing for the Creative Person to many people. The approach is easy to understand and not judgemental. It starts with the idea that people need to understand and accept their messy tendencies before they can cope with them. Problem solving approaches may at first seem simple but they are not. Just recently a young graduate student told me nothing had helped with her tendency to clutter and to have trouble with time except this book. The only problem she had with it was keeping it. Her sister kept borrowing it!

This book is a comfort and a guiding hand for us "creative types." It first grants permission to be the way we are, which is a relief, and is the first step toward taking control of our surroundings. Excellent insights into the idiosynchrasies of the right-brainer, and practical suggestions for handling many organizational problems which interfere with the creative process. Helps cure that overwhelmed feeling and get you going. Worth its weight in gold!

This book is a life-saver for a creative person who can't find things, always feels overwhelmed, and has never been able to "get organized." The authors explain how creative people, who frequently are right-brain dominant, perceive and organize their world differently from left-brain dominant people. In other words, you're not necessarily *dis*organized, but you are *differently* organized. Just understanding the difference takes a huge load off your mind. Then they proceed to give very useful and practical advice for how to get and stay organized--*your* way