This book is a great addition for the storyteller in general. Players may even use it, but you, the master of the world is the one to really explore it. In a few words, this book, and specially the rare artifacts in it, gave me great plot ideas, and not only for a technocratic based chronicle, but all kinds of ways. The weird item section is a great source for dealing with marauders, nephandi and some disconnected mages. Another good thing in the book is that, with it, you can control the "overpowered" kind of player, you know, the one that spends every xp he got on ways of busting .... Put a X-14 A Thunderhead on his face and see what happens... good to shut some mouths... In short, it's a great source book, note the best of them all, but a good one. But be wise to what you give to your players. And a recomendation: never ever let a player got the technocratic exo-skeleton. Believe me, you'll regret it.

The Sons of Ether and the Virtual Adepts are two very interesting Traditions, but the material provided before this book barely touched on the gear they used to battle their former colleagues in the Technocracy. The first edition Technocracy books had a lot of neat gadgets included in them, which really gave players and storytellers a feel for what they do. One can learn a lot about a society by studying their tools. Though the Tradition books written for the Sons of Ether and the Virtual Adepts were entertaining to read, there was little mention of specific gear, thus there was a large hole in their cultural development. The Technomancer's Toybox remedied this problem. This is a no nonsense book about the devices (talismans) of the Virtual Adepts, Sons of Ether, Technocracy, and other technically inclined cliques (mostly Cult of Ecstasy). Split into their own sections and narrated from the viewpoint of a Virtual Adept, level 1 to 5 and unique devices for the groups were presented.

The whole hacker-mage angle of the Virtual Adepts was played up in their section. Most of their devices were centered on computer technology and compact gadgets. There was also an emphasis on being elite, which was expected. Overall, the Virtual Adepts have some nifty gear that would make any reality hacker proud.

The Sons of Ether section was very entertaining. The outlandish gear of the Etherites ranged from silly to deadly. They have many weird gadgets such as rollerblades that can go faster than most cars, death rays, soul-bonding suits, pulp hero lightning guns, and more. This is fantastic and enjoyable chapter.

The Technocracy chapter was unlike the Virtual Adepts or the Sons of Ether. The masters of Reality have gadgets that are often coincidental to the public. Most of the gear presented here were from the New World Order, Iteration X, and the Progenitors. There was a focus on equipment used by field agents on Earth rather than in alternate dimensions. The Void Engineers had a few gadgets detailed in the chapter but the Syndicate normally doesn't make high-tech gear so there was little mention of their devices. The equipment in this chapter was very interesting and further pushes the big conspiracy image of the Union. There were lots of spy equipment, weapons, vehicles, stuff Fox Mulder fears, and others. The gear featured here are very useful. There was an emphasis on usefulness over style.

The chapter that dealt with the other technomancers had gear used by other Traditions, Naphandi, and Marauders. There were some disturbing devices shown here. Even Dreamspeakers use devices and the one presented in this chapter deviated from their norms.

The Technomancer's Toybox is a very good book. Not only does it flesh out two Traditions and three Conventions of the Technocracy beyond their source books, it was also entertaining.

This book has one of the most comprehensive list of Devices that White Wolf has ever made! Not only that, but It is written in the view piont of a Virtual Adept who rocks!

This is the type of book that should be available in reference to all great bands (eg., The Stone Roses, the The, New Order, etc.), but it is especially apropos that it is a book about songs by the Smiths. Each chapter is devoted to what people think concerning all the Smiths' songs, and the most interesting stories by far are those concerning the first time someone heard a specific song by the Smiths and how it touched them. "All Men Have Secrets" is not only wonderful for those who identify with the songs, but also for those interested in the general melancholy undertones to the 80s that are often not depicted in films from the time period. It's unfortunate that this book is out of print. Really it is quite splendid. Most Smiths fans will identify with at least one of the pieces concerning a song - and all will find differences between themselves and the opinions of others.

Well, I was amazed to read that the reviewer above thought the book contained some lies...well, I contributed several pieces to the book, and can say, hand on heart, all mine were true.

The book is, agreed, more of a fan's thing, but anyone who's just getting to know this wonderful band should have a peek....it always fascinates me when I read or hear about other people's interpretations of what they think a song means, or what the track means to them personally.... it deepens the whole meaning of a song, and helps you look at the track with a different perspective, from a new angle....

Anyway, the book's a gem, highly recommended, I just hope it's not been deleted?

I like this book very much. I think the best thing about this book is that perhaps not only Smiths fans will like it. There are lots of really awesome stories in it, that any miserable person would like to read. The stories all relate to Smiths songs of course, but some of the writers are really good at telling and the result is very emotional stuff. I am a devout fan of the Smiths and Morrissey, and I enjoyed not only seeing how other people found the music to be life altering, but also seeing how these people lived in their own words. It's an awesome book.

(This review refers to Volume One only.) Asimov has collected eight stories in this anthology that were influential in his own writing. Asimov read most of these stories when he was about 12 years old, being fortunate enough to devour most of them from pulp magazines that were sold in his father's candy store. As might be expected with any anthology, some stories are better than others, and some have held up better through the years than others. Yet these pieces are not included for comparison to current stories, but to show what Asimov read as a young person and how the works influenced him. Asimov's mini-autobiography alone is worth the price of the book. After each story, Asimov tells how an idea or a concept from a story led to the formation of one of his own works. A very interesting idea. "The Jameson Satellite" is a forerunner of "I, Robot," and "Submicroscopic" is a small step from "Fantastic Voyage." As mentioned by another reviewer, the reader will have to deal with several prejudices from the time these stories were written (especially racial), but overall this book is a great insight into what makes Asimov Asimov.

This collection of early, pulp-style scifi works is a great joy. Asimov's introduction to the stories is exceedingly interesting and helpful. The stories sometimes show flaws or problems in their writing and in their attitudes (while several stories are forward-looking, most show the racism and misogyny common to that time), most of the stories are entertaining and all of them are interesting from a historical perspective. Check it out if you can get your hands on it, it's a great find. I really got a kick out of several pieces, which run the gamut from more reasonable 'conquered man, driven underground, strikes back at his evil alien oppressors' to the completely ludicrous story about the planets of our solar system hatching into giant space chickens. (That last story is meant to be taken seriously, by the way.) A veritable laundry-list of great, long out-of-print authors and some wonderful writing from the early days of popular science fiction.

This book contains the good old stories from the 1930's. There is nothing great here, but it is till worth reading. You can see the evolution of the Science Fiction field by reading the stories in this book.

Collecting the first seven issues of the Gen13 regular series this book has excellent artwork and entertaining stories. The big disappointment is the poor quality paper used. Worse than that used by most comic books, the paper is grey and makes all the colors murky. And whoever decided to print the original covers of the issues at 80% size and rotated so that the corners are cut off should be fired.

One of the Best Wildstorm Graphic novels of all time! This particular Gen13 Tradepaperback reprients the first Seven issues of Gen13: the regular series. It takes place where the first Gen13: miniseries left off. This one of Brandon Choi's Best writtem works! Brandon Choi, Jim Lee, and J Scott Campbell created this superhero team of Gen-active teens! These young people are lead by the mentor, Lynch or I/O from the WildCats: miniseries. the Gen 13 team leader is Fairchild,former college student who discovered she had more abilites then just brains! Then their is Burnout who is like Wildstorm's human torch! Grunge and Freefall, Gen-active teans who love to party! They have a love and friend relationship which is essential to the story! The RainMaker is the native-American superheroine who is also a Lesbian! She finally admitts to her sexual perference after having an on and off relationship with Bobby Lane aka Burnout! This book has wonderful characterizations and art and is considered one of the best Wildstorm titles ever made. With an acclaimed story by Brandon Choi, Jim Lee and Campbell, Art drawn by J. Scott Campbell with Alex Garner, This is a great read with Beautiful art! Also, Jim Lee and Scott Willaims apply the artwork for issues #6 and 7! Buy it! If you love comic books I know you will want this!

EXCELLENT,EXCELLENT,EXCELLENT, This graphic novel has the best artwork and the best stories and has humor (something rarely seen in most except for Young Justice). It should have had a few fold out wall posters of the girls too. I guess you can't have everything. This is just a little better than Young Justice because it's a little more adult and the girls are breathtaking. Too bad their not based on real women. If Image kept J. Scott Campbell for all of Gen 13 and not just the beginning they would have sold a lot more comics. Too bad he now works on Danger Girl which isn't near as fun to read as Gen 13. Art alone cannot always sell a comic book.

Lisa Fortini-Campbell is a professor at the prestigious Integrated Marketing Communications graduate program at Northwestern University. Her book gives sound advice about getting to know consumers, and gives superb, real life examples for each of her major points. She describes various tools used to both understand consumers and to convey the knowledge learned to others, such as "attribute mapping," "benefit mapping," "creative briefs," and "laddering." HITTING THE SWEET SPOT should be required reading for anyone working in Marketing or Advertising.

Who would have thought that a book that tells us how to
market something we may not need to people who may
not want to buy it could be bright, interesting and worth
the price?

"Hitting the Sweet Spot" is written to teach students and
professional marketers, and advertisers and others how
to stay in touch and truly understand their target
audiences. That's not necessarily a bad thing, even for
those who think we're too busy buying and selling
already.

I read this from a consumer's perspective and found it educational. Not once, after I opened the pages, was I tempted to sneer at the point of the book--teaching people how to sell. Why? Because the book strikes me as honest.

Yes, it's teaching kids and others to persuade someone else to do something, perhaps something they don't want. But at no time is there a hint of deception or arm twisting. It's simply a guide to knowing your market.

That's something anyone who works with potential customers in any
venue--and that's a lot of us, folks--needs to understand.

This book will teach you some terminology--early adopters vs. laggards, account planning, laddering and more--that is creeping into ordinary vocabulary, has applications well beyond plain old advertising and therefore must be understood. For those of us who live in this intensely consumer society, I recommend this book because it's really, after all, about us.

The book is written in a comfortably breezy manner, easily read by high school students and up, by Lisa Fortini-Campbell, a top-ranking woman in the advertising/marketing field. She offers us both theory and practical help, in sections ranging from defining the reason for understanding consumers to working with others to achieve goals.

Hitting the Sweet Spot is a classic in the field of marketing literature. Fortini-Campbell's insights came before the dot.com revolution and they have even greater application with the marekting evolution that has come with the web and permission marketing. She combines theory with practical exercises. The Sweet Spot provides a highway from Data to Information to Insight to Inspiration and leads you to becoming an urban anthropolgist and savvy marketing strategist. Whether reading it for the first time or the fifteenth, you will find it indispensable. If you are a marketeer who wants to be continue learning and getting better, sharper, and smarter consumer insights, this is one great road to take.

This was the first book I read by Terry Campbell and found it a delightful read. I plan to buy and read any I can find by this talented author.

Almost every woman, at one time or other, has written a list of those features and qualities of the ideal man, her "Mr. Right." Single Mom Kat has done this, too. The problem is, she's so determined to find this ideal forest, she has missed the trees: old friend Roarke, who has loved her forever.

With blind dates from hell and other situations that will have you laughing out loud, Roarke tries to help Kat find her perfect man, hoping her path will lead her back to him.

The team that writes as Terry Campbell has created another screwball comedy romance that is sexy as all get out, yet still qualifies as a traditional "sweet" romance in that the sensuality is in the head instead of the bed. The story is fast-paced and very funny. The protagonists are real and the child character speaks and acts like a child her age.

But you don't have to take just my word for it. This book was a finalist for the Booksellers Best Bet Award in contemporary romance, meaning both Mr. Wrong and Fat Chance, both by Terry Campbell, have received this honor in consecutive years.

Whether you read this book in hardcover, trade paperback or electronic format, this book is a great read when you want to spend a delightful few hours with characters who may stumble a bit on the way to true love, but actually find it.

Devoted romance readers expect snappy dialogue, characters to root for and a happy ending. They'll absolutely love this fun, well executed romance from Terry Campbell, who knows well what readers want and deserve and gives all to them every time!

Like so many books in the furturistic romance genere this book contains many nicely done originial concepts along with the usual plot holes big enough to fit a mac truck through. The romance was rather dull and although non-stop sex was alluded to most of the romance scenes consisted of a brief description to the effect of 'and when hours later they were finly sated they cuddled'. Not my idea of steamy, that's for sure. All in all, about average for this kind of book which is really not much of a recommendation.

I had just finished reading Dara Joy's Matrix series when this book was recommended. It was really a treasure to find.

I really enjoyed this book for the most part. There were things that I thought could be explained better about the whole "plot by the evil race." But overall this book was very enjoyable for people who like futuristic books. The woman is not totally a "slave" to the man and can defend herself both physically and with her mind,which is unusual to most romance books. I think that is what made me keep reading this one. I could not put it down.

What I liked most about this book was that it covered things like etiquette and some of the history of golf. Two areas that I think are ignored these days. Also, there are plenty of drills and every page is literally packed with illustrations that will help beginners quite a bit. The drawback to this book is that there are times where Campbell ends a section and I felt there were several other points to be made about that particular subject. But, overall, I think it is an excellent book for helping beginners visualize the swing and be exposed to the many different techniques used by the pros, but not as helpful for more experienced golfers.

I tend to judge the worth of a golf instruction book based on how many times I mentally refer to it during a practice session or in a round. After reading tons of golf books, I really never found myself referring to anything in this book I hadn't already been exposed to elsewhere. But if you're just starting out, this is a great place to start. Especially for the price.

much of the information I have heard before. If you haven't read many golf books this is a great one to start with. It is full of great suggestions from A-Z. For something a little more unique you might also check out Par Golf by Schnackenberg.

Malcolm Campbell has written a useful book to encourage the improvement of your own golf game. There are over 1,000 specially selected images, overhead shots and photographic sequences to teach you key techniques that have help the world's top golfers.

You will learn to:

Play the gold course with the knowledge of a professional.
Drive a ball farther and more accurately
Start to hit irons with crispness
Learn to pitch the ball close to the flag
Save valuable strokes
Escape from the sand
Tackle Trouble shots
Improve your Putting stroke

Malcolm is a former editor of Golf Monthly. His love for gold shows and he has been a low-handicap player, gold administrator and member of several gold clubs, including the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews.

Some of the highlights include:

Improving your Flexibility through stretching
Preparing for the Game
Getting into Shape
Playing within the Rules
Course Management

A book you will want to add to your golf book collection!

Transylvania chronicles is one of the most rewarding campaigns I have ever played in Vampire. It takes the characters in a 800 - year long journey through all major events in vampire history, and gives you a lot to think about. It is structured to be an adventure that quickly escalates to epic proportions,with characters that are bound to become important.

The only major flaw of the series is that the storyteller may easily find himself in the situation that he know TOO LITTLE of the plot. Regarding the prophecy of Gehenna, for example, the first three books hint on the apocryphal signs of Gehenna. What these are, the players should not know until the end... but the storyteller? There are various times that you will find yourself not knowing the importance of the events you are playing, the role of major npcs in the story- you will have to improvise, and chances are, the next books in the series will make you have to adjust your earlier options heavily.

For people wishing to go into transylvania, take this campaign seriously. It needs a lot of play time to enjoy it. It took me more than 90 sessions to complete, and I enjoyed every one of them. If you can, buy all the books before starting the campaign - if not, book 4 is a must.

This is an excellent book to start with if you are just starting out as a story teller. Has all possibliltes already planned out for you and has nasty little turn abouts in it to keep players on their toes. One thing it lacked was some tiny details about some characters that would have been useful.

Though I played in a Dark Ages chronicle, it was years ago and I wasn't running it. I wanted to see how the "pros" did it rather than learn on my own (the hard way), so I picked up this book.

A good story that will let you shape it to what you want it to be, I've found it the best way to get started in the Dark Ages (both from a Storytelling and a character creation standpoint).

This book is one of my favorite because it takes place in my state.It takes place in Tucson,Arizona.Its kinda mysterious.
Petey,the cook's son keps on wanting to be with his family in
some sort of a cave.If you read this book i think you'll enjoy it!

Christmas at Uncle Monty's dude ranch in Arizona sounds like heaven to the Bob-Whites, until they find that the ranch may have to close when the family of Mexicans that keeps the place going mysteriously disappears. Who can Uncle Monty ever find to tidy the guest rooms, wash the mountains of dishes, and serve the dinners? Hmmmm ... On top of it all, Trixie has to bring her grades up before the midyear exams, so Brian and Jim tutor our distracted heroine. But throw in in the secrets of some unhappy guests and add the cook's little son Petey, who inexplicably wants to run away to join his Granddaddy in a surreal "cavelike place," and Trixie is in her sleuthing element. The book also slides in lots of Arizona and Mexican history and customs, so it gets points for being educational too!

This is one of my very favorite Trixie Belden books. There's a lot of the southwest culture in this book, and it's exciting just by virtue of the fact that the group gets to spend the book at a dude ranch in Arizona.

I think that the mystery in this book is wonderful... particularly for people who don't know much about Hispanic and Native American culture. Since the book is also a Christmas book, it teaches the reader about different holiday customs. Plus, there are a couple of side-mysteries in the book that keep the reader's attention.

This book is a great book. If you aren't already a Trixie fan, you will be after you read this book!