This is a comprehensive and detailed guide of the fighting fantasy series monsters. Even if you are not intrested in fighting fantasy, it gives good inspiration on other adventure games, e.g:Dungeons & Dragons.

This book is a classic. It is not a role playing book but an A - Z of the all the creatures and their profile that writter's Ian Livingston and Peter Jackson created in their role playing books. The book is large and contains amazing illustrations that are out of this world. This book is in a world of it's own. I recommend getting it as an Adult and thinking back to when you where a kid and you thought some of these things could be real. From under the bed monsters, to the living dead, angels and gods...this book has it all. Fantastic stuff!

Ralph J. Roberts has found that a devotion to family and geology can lead to a life well lived and he relates the story of his life well in A Passion For Gold. Roberts spent 44 years with the United States Geological Survey and after retiring, became a private consultant. His most important discovery was the Carlin-type gold deposit. The reader with a non-geologic background will want access to a copy of the Glossary of Geology to help with the few technical sections included in the book [there is a glossary at the back of the book, but it is not thorough enough]. There are a few awkward sentences and some extraneous commas [I think, being the extra comma and awkward sentece king myself], but this is a suprisingly comfortable read considering that most of Mr. Roberts' earlier writings were technical papers. I trained as a mining/exploration geologist and so it was easy for me to relate to this autobiography, but non-geologists should find much of interest in Ralph Roberts' life story. It was on top of one of the mines near Battle Mountain, Nevada that Mr. Roberts writes about that I found myself deciding to abandon my masters thesis in geochemistry and to devote my life to the education of America's younger citizens [I teach earth science at the high school level]. I knew I couldn't help folks did big holes in the ground just for a little gold. I enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone with an interest in geology, but I can't give A Passion For Gold a full five stars because I think the technical sections could have been handled in a way that would have made this book a little more accessible to a wider audience.

Excellent read with good intermix of personal and professional history. It is inspiring to read as well as educational. Thank you Dr. Roberts.

Yoichi Taba just showed up for his first day of work at the Kagura Security Agency, and already he wants to quit. The pay is good, the employees are friendly, and there's never a dull moment. It's the maniacal cat-spirts that are trying to kill him that he's not thrilled about. In Geobreeders, creator Akihiro Ito tells the tale of the infamous Kagura security agency, five beautiful women and one unhappy guy who's business is to protect the world from the destructive phantom cats. This manga is very action packed, with roots in Japanese myth(the phantom cats used to lick the fuel oil out of lanterns in the old days). In addition to the constant action, there is more than enough humor to keep things light. Well developed characters and excellent artwork compliment an overall top notch work. Readers quickly begin to empathise with Taba and quickly choose their favorite member of the otherwise all female team (my favorite is Maki, the gun-toting snappy dresser who emulates actors from 70's Japanese action movies). Hot chicks, evil cats, an average guy who hates his job, what more do you need to know? Buy it, you'll love it!

If you have seen the anime of geobreeders by U.S. Manga corp. Then you will love this book because it will explain so much of what you haven't seen. Without lacking on the comedy, or the great looking girls that Taba works with.

This book is quite comprehensive and up to date with all of the current moves. It not only describes how to do each move, but opens with a section on training and competition tactics. It then breaks all the moves down by wave, hole, eddyline, or flatwater. I particularly like the way EJ starts with the easier moves and progresses to the difficult ones, each move being a building block for the next one. If you enjoy EJ's style (perhaps you like his Strokes & Concepts book) and you're into playboating or want to get into it, this is a great book. I rank it a notch better than Ken Whiting's, and in fact I think both of EJ's books (Strokes and Playboating) make good complements to Ken's videos (Play Daze and SOAR).

I bought this book after buying EJs Strokes book (also recommended) and was expecting a book which covered how to get fit to paddle and strengthen injury prone muscle groups. The first thing that struck me was the similarity to the playboaters handbook, however after reading the whole book I can say that it is different enough for me to recommend this over Ken Whiting's book.

The first section covers the attitude you need to learn moves and win rodeos. I had never seen this anywhere else and anyone who is serious about their boating will find this section helpful.

The middle section includes all the modern moves. EJ goes through his usual Body, Boat and paddle breakdown which helps a lot. The photos are spectacular (although missing on some of the harder moves).

The final section was the section I bought the book for and was discouraged to find that it was only a couple of pages long. However it still managed to contain everything I was looking for.

To sumarise, buy this book over any other playboating book out there but try and get a look if you already own something like the Playboating Handbook.

This book has some of the most practical advice I've ever seen for people that have no clue about how to build a home! A very good guide and reference - highly recommended!

"Practical Housebuilding for Practically Anybody" describes the steps needed to build your own home: from the decision to self-buld, the design, permits, construction skills, and understanding the systems (floors, walls, roof, windows, doors, plumbing, and electrical) that make up a house. It contains detail and encouragement for the first-timer and a humorous and enlighting account of the author's own house building for the more experienced. I'm looking in Amazon to replace my worn-out copy.

The other "CV" book "The Curriculum Vitae Handbook : How to Present and Promote Your Academic Career" by Rebecca Anthony and Gerald Roe cover more materials although this one provided some pratcical tips, such as Tips for Producing a Scannable Curriculum Vitae, 3 Listing Competencies and Skills Step I: Competencies Step II: Credentials Step III: Skills Step IV: Levels or Degrees of Proficiency Step V: Review and so on. I found this book helpful, although if you only have the budget to buy one CV book, I'll probably recommend the other one..

In this time of traumatizing economic upheaval, every advantage in the competition for jobs, no matter how slight, matters. As such, how one presents oneself is often more important than what one presents to the public. Jackson's book, Prepare Your Curriculum Vitae, gives the intelligent job seeker an advantage in the job search in two ways. First, it prepares the reader emotionally for the task of charting one's life and career via detailed documentation of events and achievements. Second, it clearly and skillfully guides the reader through the mechanics of putting one's best foot forward on paper. As such, the book combines an emphasis on content with important dimensions of style to give the job seeker a crucial and badly needed advantage in the competition for jobs.

The first chapter, 'Getting Started: The Emotional Dimension', offers excellent, quality exercises to put the reader in the proper frame of mind to write an outstanding and noticeable CV. A strong and successful CV is the product of considerable time and effort devoted to personal reflection. As such, the chapter helps to build a positive and realistic attitude toward CV preparation, and makes the writing process much easier to perform. After making an honest attempt to do the exercises in the first chapter, I was truly amazed at my own perspective, and what I as a person had accomplished. Before completing the exercises, I had held my accomplishments in very low regard, and I had the general impression that I did not know anything and had not done anything of true significance or value. As such, I see the first chapter as a psychologically beneficial means to boost both self-confidence and self-esteem.

Given the format and structure of the text, the second chapter on electronic resumes should have logically followed the chapters on drafting and preparing CVs and the chapter of sample CVs. The real work associated with CV preparation and writing begins with the third chapter, 'Listing Competencies and Skills'. Here, in a five-step process, the text encourages the reader to identify his or her competencies and skills. For each competency and skill, the reader learns how to make both broad assessments and exacting statements about his or her level, or degree, of proficiency. The reader finally reviews his or her competencies, and then chooses which to state on the CV based on individual career objectives, position sought and the degree of importance of each competency. The fourth chapter immerses the reader in the preparation of working drafts. After presenting the contents of a typical CV to the reader, each portion of the CV, from the objectives and education to the interests and references, are subjected to a three-step process of draft, revision and final version. Once each part of the CV is completed, the entire CV is stylistically assembled in a way most pleasing to the potential viewers of the document. The fifth chapter gives the reader the usual advice regarding the polishing of the final draft of the CV. Chapters six and seven go through the mechanics of writing effective cover letters and other correspondence associated with job seeking, and provides numerous, detailed samples of each type of correspondence, as well as the successful distribution of your CV. Chapter eight offers numerous examples of CV organization and style across all disciplines at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels. Four appendices round out the book, and offer information on abbreviations, a list of action verbs used in resume preparation, contact information for selected professional organizations and societies, and a select list of books on style in writing.

The book repeatedly emphasizes that care should be taken to describe accomplishments in clear, concise terms, and that the content of the CV should be slanted toward the particular objective in mind. The text also stresses that because the CV serves simultaneously as a calling card and as marketing, sales and promotional material for the individual, it pays to be a strong advocate of oneself and one's accomplishments.

Apart from some minor organizational problems, the book is an excellent source of information and inspiration for those who have no previous experience writing CVs. More experienced and advanced individuals can still use this book as a basis for CV preparation, albeit at a faster pace than those new to the endeavor. No graduate student or professional should be without this important and invaluable text.

Dewey, a profound contributor to the field of education, displays some of his beliefs of the best methods to teach children in The Child and the Curriculum. To begin Dewey's discussion, the child's world is examined. In this examining, a sense of how the child's world operates is formed. Children learn through the process of experiencing things, life. In this book Dewey, finds that the schools in which children are educated contradict their very learning style by nature. "The child's life is an integral, a total one," (p.183, 1902). The way the school disseminates the curriculum is not the most optimal method for students to learn.
A child's life collects all the experiences, thus the child learns. Dewey postulates a change in the formula for teaching children, the curriculum. Why change the curriculum? As Dewey states, children need to be intertwined in the process of doing. Children will learn by doing, making clothes to wear, furniture to sit on, and growing food to eat. The idea of the separate subject area is a key area Dewey analyzes because of how children learn. When a child wants to build a chair to sit on, they examine disciplines across the realm of mathematics, science, and language skills while building the chair. Instead of separating this activity into different disciplines, it is woven throughout the activity. Throughout this book, it is stated that their needs to be a link to what the child is learning and what the child sees as a benefit to themselves.
As an educator, it is important to be exposed to varying ideas as to how the school systems have functioned and are functioning today. There are ideas in this book that a pre-service or current educator should consider during their teaching career. Are Dewey's ideas relevant for today's society? I believe this is a question one has to answer for themselves, construct your own meaning.

From a high school student's point of view, reading Dewey couldn't provide something else than hope for educational systems, most of which, despite the efforts of making a school a more living atmosphere, organizations still remain too mechanical in learning procedures and detached from social applications regarding the capabilities they serve.

Originally from Cameroon, I've had the opportunity to explore three educational systems from different cultural influence each. It was an advantage that surely opened my mind to different perspectives by interacting with different cultures in different social contexts, but especially carried me out to realize how the so called "education" - in general, but in high school in particular - shortly addresses fundamental needs as much individually as socialy, since people tend to ignore its essential functions or misunderstand the concepts it involves, precisely because their implications are so general that they shouldn't be analyzed in separated contexts, school and society, as far as they are, with respect, one a component of the other but the other being the expression of the first one in a long term.

By observing both components as a whole, Dewey proposes a model that doesn't necessarily apply to actual issues or give factual solutions, but at least redefines "education" by integrating inherent aspects to human nature in its double acception - as a group as much as an individual -, which reveals the values traditional education still mostly hides.

I delibarately took the initiative of question what high school didn't explained to me, and probably often forget to ask itself. In what ways education serves people in the aim of blooming personally and socially ? which role schools are therefore supposed to play and in which patterns ? The questions are so simple that the answers appear obvious. In fact, they should be when the problematic is carefully put. this is the reason most people can get it wrong and sometimes don't even try to question what is already established. Dewey was an excellent starting point for my research and I recommend it to EVERYONE, not especially those concerned with education because it shouldn't be a matter of a restricted segment of people. Education is everywhere. Sorry for my english :)

As part one of the Sorcery series, this book starts slowly, but grows in stature by the end. Published initially as a boxed set with the Spell Book (which was to be required for all the successive books) but later all books were republished with the spells in the back. A copy of the original set is very rare

i do recall it being a very fun read, however - lone wolfish, but with a bit more class, a bit more taste. i'd like to get my hands on a copy again; mine has long since been lost.

This was a very good book for younger readers. It was full of action and adventure. Karl Schumacher was a student of Martin Luther who chose to risk his life just being accosiated with him. He makes a trip with Martin Luther in spite of the possible danger. Read and find out what will happen to young Karl Schumacher.
Not only was this an interesting retelling of Martin Luther's life, it was also very accurate.

My children, and I are using these books for a time of literature, history, geography, and Devotion. I got into this story just as much as my children. I used a curriculum guide with the book, and we are able to have more of an understanding of our character. Our character was Doctor Martin Luther, and having Karl as his companion was very neat for the children to follow him through the story. We just finished the story, and we plan on reading another Trailblazer Book. I hope your child/ family will get as much out of the story as ours did.