I don't know what the author intended, but this book is of little value to anyone. It is not useful as a guidebook (the few bits of practical information are written in a way that would be more appropriate in a magazine) and the rest rambles on about the author's personal experience. Much of the book has a superior and sanctimonious tone. Even more irritating is the author's use of shorthand words or non-words, such as "vue" instead of view, or "thru" rather than through. Worst of all is a chapter called "Thots", which I guess was supposed to be Thoughts. Please don't insult readers this way. There is nothing inherently uncool about clarity and good spelling.
Bottom line: Don't buy this book. I can't see it being of any value to someone contemplating a visit to Cedar Mesa. There are two other books sold by Amazon about Cedar Mesa, both of which I found far more useful or enlightening.

First of all, the reader has to understand that this book was self-published and contains many idiosycracies of the author. Second, this book serves as a companion to Jim's website: www.anasazis.com. For whatever reason, the author chooses to spell according to his own vernacular. However, the words still read clearly and the meaning remains intact. While sometimes annoying, one has to respect the right of an author to use his language in whatever way he sees fit.

This book is useful to those experienced in hiking the wonderful canyon country of Cedar Mesa. Many routes discussed can not be found anywhere else (book or Blog type of website). Furthermore, interesting sites can be gleaned out of the readings with enough previous knowledge and insight.

Very few people have hiked Cedar Mesa as thoroughly as Jim Beard, and intrepid hikers looking to get off the standard Grand Gulch, Fish/Owl, McLoyd and Road canyon routes will appreciate the author's information.

When not detailing nearly every hiking route into a myraid of canyons, the author offers his thoughts about the country and hiking (and his dogs..). This desert rat's mind is sharp and his ramblings interesting. But, only if you love this county and avoid the crowds.

A hiking guide book for Cedar Mesa, SE Utah. Also contains essays about hiking, Anasazi, and some imaginary concepts.

A quick, enjoyable read, Boone provides the reader with insight regarding the motivations of corporate executives -- self preservation. T. Boone consistently highlights one theme -- creating shareholder value -- as the justification for his actions throughout the 1980s. The book provided an altogether different slant than that portrayed by the media and by corporate America. The reader should be prepared however, as T. Boone is self praising and absorbed throughout the majority of this book. In fact, one should consider this book to be the "other-side" of the corporate raider story.

Overall, Boone is a read which provides a glimse into the personality which exemplifies the corporate raider. Upon finishing the book I was taken two things: 1. The names of some partners: Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, and so forth. 2. The continued "bloatedness" of big business (regardless of the industry) in America -- apparently things have not changed much in the last 15 years since Boone was originally written.

A great story about T. Boone, his dreams and his company. T.Boone, like David is not afraid to take the Goliaths head on. This book has some great quotes, like "Is you is or is you ain't, my baby". I also learned why you should never borrow neckties or shotguns. Really an enjoyable read about a great corporate raider.

Despite Pickens constantly patting himself on the back this
turned out to be a very good book. You are able to get a good
history of Picken's very own company,Mesa Petroleum.You also get
an insight into Picken's marriages and life. Most of the book
was taken up with the various corporate raids that Picken's had
a hand in initiating on some of the bigger companies in America.
It is a very interesting look at the actions of a corporate raider.Pickens also gives you his insight on the management of some of the big companies that he was raiding. All in all a very
interesting book.

After Children of the Ice, I hoped this would become a moving series of books on pre-historic America. It wasen't to be. Native American lesbians!!?? Sexual torture, wife-beating? Ms.Prentiss went from a very good story of Historical Fiction to some strange ideas about Native American life. A big letdown, none of the rest of her books are worth reading, they are all in the same vein as this one.

Even though I read the book all the way to the end, I found that my interest was waning about half way through. I thought that the whole macho/man-hating/lesbian overtone was silly. not to mention that it took place after the ice-age yet everyone was walking around talking plain English and acting portraying 20th century behaviors. Not a very realistic setting. Very strong female character.....along with her girlfriend!

I enjoy this author. She is exciting. I only wish I could be on her mailing list and that she would write more.

This book is just plain horrible. I am a trader and a cyclical investor. I am also an engineer with Engineering Mechanics background, and very familiar with the complex math explained by Ehlers. But let me tell you, for people without any background in math this book is an absolute waste of time.

The most important thing that Ehlers should have focused, he simply forgot or ignored. The book fails to show real life examples with buy-sell signals using the indicator. It goes on and on along the theoretical lines of cycle analysis and it stays at that throughout the book.

It would have been much more entertaining to explain the indicator and show real life examples. But from my experience as a researcher and writer of research articles, people from this field tend to embelish and emphasize the theoretical size while completely ignoring the pure and simple aspects.

A simple cycle analysis done with moving average detrending as explained by Pring is much easier. Also, a simple look at the charts and the drawing of a simple cycle lines is all that it takes to show you the turning points.

The broad trading public has been slow to recognize John Ehlers work to apply cycles methodologies (from the sciences) to trading markets .... which is good for those of use who have discovered Ehlers' work with MESA (Maximum Entropy Spectral Analysis).

The first edition of this book is still the clearest and most concise discussion of applying cycles theory to markets I've ever read. This new edition retains all of the content of the first edition, but updates it with a lot of new and additional information from Ehlers' recent research into cycles and his development of trading indicators and tools.

Many are familiar with the J.M. Hurst classic: "The Profit Magic of Stock Transaction Timing". Ehlers goes far beyond Hurst's pioneering work. Ehlers is an original thinker, applying new techniques and research using MESA to the market. Hurst was using a multi-million dollar mainframe in the 60's .... all of us have 10,000X more computer power sitting on our desktops than Hurst had .... Ehlers techniques can help the serious trader and investor turn all that "horsepower" loose on the market today, making it accessible to even us small traders.

Hurst was also constrained to using Fourier Analysis for cycles detection .... Ehlers' MESA overcomes the need of Fourier for long data spans to compute cyclic content.

If you're serious about the markets, this book needs to be part of your library .... along with Ehlers other book: "Rocket Science For Traders"

This book is a quick, interesting read for a grade-school kid, but it's coverage of both the history of Mesa Verde and the Anasazi people who lived there is shallow and sheds little light on the subject. Few of the assertations in the book (for example, that the male members of the community built the cliff dwellings and that the kivas were used for ceremonial purposes) are backed up with any documentation or reasoning. The photos are just average in quality, and the reader finishes the book not knowing much more about the cliff dwellers than when she started. Even kids want more info than this!

I realize that the above description of this book states it is only 52 pages long but I was still surprised that it's basically the size of a pamphlet. I have been looking for this book for years because I have an interest in Southwestern history and was elated to find it on Amazon. Then it arrived in the mail... "Our Trip to Mesa Verde" reads like a private diary: characters pop up and disappear just as quickly with no explanations, little backstory is given for each situation the girls find themselves in, and the writing style is personal and chatty. While it's a charming 30 minute read--the photographs are priceless--I wish there was more and I'm vaguely disappointed I spent money on it.

Even though this story dosen't stack up to "Voice of the Eagle", it still is a good light read. The creation of the cliff houses is really kinda skipped over, and about 10 years pass by in less than half a page and I am still trying to figure out the "gift" that Uhtatse has, I think it my be that he is an empath or something.
A nice light read.

Perhaps with time Ehlers writing improved but I found most of this book to be unclear - except the parts at the end about how to use the MESA cycles for trading. He has one idea, a ELI (Ehlers Leading Indicator), that sounds intriguing but darned if I can figure out how to calculate it based on his passing description of it. When he tries to explain phasors by "think of an engine" example, he only made me more confused. I really want to understand the mathematical ideas presented herein so I'll keep at it but I'm hoping I'll find a cycle writer with a style I can decipher better. Haven't read his later stuff yet though. Maybe he got alot more clear.