I liked this book quite a bit. It focused on helping you acheive astral projection which is quite hard to do. It takes you step by step into the astral projection process. It is a good paced book for beginner's and intermediate readers. I would not guarentee that this will definately help achieve astral projection.

The instructions contained in the book, which is available separately, are wonderful suggestions for strengthning the etheric body, projecting its energy, and finally injecting your consciousness into that energy. The cautions are somewhat elaborate, since the author's point of view is that of Ceremonial Magick. Overall, though, the book is very useful. The tape contained in this kit, however, is totally unnecassary. The relaxation can be memorized and elaborated on by the practitioner. Once one is truly outside of their body, having a voice tell them what to do or music playing in the background is an invitation to be pulled back by any transition or variation in the tones. I find the best tool for this sort of work to be a pair of earplugs! Of course, that's just me. If you want to have the security of a voice guiding you, that's legitimate as well. If you think you might feel this way, but the kit. If you're a silent type like me, buy the book by itself.

I had been looking on a good book on Astral Projection, till one off my friends lent me her copy of her Astral Projection Kit. I finally succeeded where I always failed before. The book is a very good guideline, but what made it really interesting was the audio-cassette. I would recommend this to anyone who is trying to reach that "other level". This will be a classic in my bookshelf!

Only tells me what is a collectible. But didn't tell me how to evaluate the pricing and the worth of the items. How could it be titled "Buying and Selling... " Maybee it should be titled Introduction to collectibles. An summary"

Of all the books on collectibles I've ever read, this one is by far the most comprehensive and useful. It covers a wide range of subjects and despite the title, it's not written for idiots. Rozakis has a breezy, enjoyable style to go along with the wealth of information on every aspect of collecting. Highly recommended.

This guide is a great resource for the beginning or experienced collector. No matter what you collect, there's certainly plenty of tips and tricks of the trade that you'll find helpful. The book includes information on building and caring for your collection, and what to do if you decide to sell some items. If you're looking for a price guide, look elsewhere, but this book has everything else! Susan Petersen, Editor, The Beatles Collector

Salome Waterhouse finds Palmer Fordham dead. He rents the house from her that has been in her family for years. She is a Feng Shui practicioner. She had received an anonymous payment and request to perform a Feng Shui consultation for his birthday.

Her cousin Phyllis Waterhouse is the Chief of Police. Their relationship is strained because their grandfather left the Perfume Mansion (the house she'd rented to Palmer and surrounding land) to Salome. Dora Whalen, the Perfume's housekeeper, lives in the caretaker's cottage on the grounds of the Perfume. Salome's ex, Gabe, is a famous mystery author. Salome did lots of research with him when they were married. Palmer was a famous artist.

Salome looks into Palmer's life and tries to help figure out who would have wanted Palmer dead. It ends up putting Phyllis and her in danger.

This book was not one of my favorites. It is well written, but I found it to be VERY heavy with Feng Shui. I would have liked the story better without so much description of Feng Shui. I don't think it contributed to the story.

I will say that I have read the 2nd book in this series and liked it much better.

I enjoyed this book, and look forward to reading the rest of the series. It was a fast read based on a feng shui practitioner -- and with feng shui thus interspersed throughout. (Knowing virtually nothing about feng shui, I found that very intriguing.)
The mystery/solution seemed hopelessly convoluted and far-fetched, but this was probably the result of it being the author's first book ... I'm sure that the rest of the series will be more believable -- and, as previously stated, the feng shui connection was unique and intriguing.

For five years, bicoastal traveler Salome Waterhouse rented out the Perfume Mansion in Holyrood off of Monterey Bay to artist Palmer Fordham. Because she feels the place has bad vibes, Salome, a practitioner of Feng Shui, has not entered the place in years. However, this morning she goes there because an anonymous person hired her to Feng Shui the place as a birthday present to Palmer.

Instead of her usual scenario, Salome finds a murdered Palmer in the house and immediately calls her cousin Phyllis, chief of police. Phyllis arrives and takes charge of the crime scene while treating Salome with contempt and as the prime suspect. Phyllis always blamed Salome for inheriting the Perfume Mansion, a place she covets. After feeling her cousin's negative vibes Salome knows that she need some strong Feng Shui medicine to prove her innocence and to clean the evil that resides in her mansion.

A DEADLY ARRANGEMENT is a different type of police procedural-amateur sleuth tale due to the large amounts of Feng Shui incorporated throughout the plot. The story line is cleverly designed but is disrupted by the swings back and forth in time. Salome is an interesting and refreshing lead character and the cast's varying degrees of acceptance of her leads to greater understanding of the protagonist and her practice. Followers of Feng Shui will feel the positive vibes emanating from this plot while other readers will say phooey to way too much Feng Shui.

Harriet Klausner

I was hoping for a children's book that would help to explain the concept of God in a fun and interesting way as the author promised. What I got instead was a very disturbing and extreme literalist view of God. Concepts in the book are misleading or misrepresented. Definitions for agnosticism, pantheism, and others are excessively biased and incorrect. The author writes that agnostics think faith, believing without proof is foolish. When in fact, agnostics actually argue that belief in the divinity can rest only on faith. Buddhism, Hinduism and Islam are discribed as false beliefs. The author goes on to write that because of Adam and Eve's bad choice, nature is dangerous. Predators kill, bacteria cause disease, etc. How unfortunate that this harmful discription or our world attempts to wipe out the wonderful and miraculous idea of balance in nature. This book should not be shown to children lest your intent to is distort, disturb, and misinform them. A book about God should focus on the wonderous quality of a being we cannot fully comprehend. It should not attempt to prejudice children against the thoughts and views of others.

I Want To Know About God is an excellent resource. This book was wriiten at an level where children, teens, and adults can absorb this rich theology. I am going to buy five of these books to give away. In a day and age where sound doctrine is ignored it is great to see such a profound work. The use of apologetics was superb also. Thank You.

Derwin L. Gray

I use Rick Osborne's "I Want to Know" series as an excellent resource for how to explain spiritual topics in a language elementary-aged children can understand. I've found the series Biblically accurate and theolocially sound as well as very visually appealing for children.

It's a little too defensive, a little too closed up. I think, with time to look back, he creates a more persuasive work with Faith in the Game. Coupled with Osborne's eventual retirement two years later, the book seems even more like a cover than it might as first. I imagine it was a hard work to complete with full honesty.

Nebraska fans may love this chapter in the Osborne trilogy the most, however, because it acts as a direct refutation to the media's charges during the 1995 national championship season.

This book is disappointing in that Osborne does not reflect very much on the 1995 seaso except in aknee jerk defnse attorney manner. He is more thoughtful about this controversial season in his later book FAITH IN THE GAME.

Nothing is held back by this unique, wonderful, spiritual, brilliant and humble Coach of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team. In this book Tom Osborne talks openly about the many problems facing the team during the 1995 season. Problems which would have driven most coaches out of the profession. Coach Osborne and the team took a real beating from the Media that year. A Media which went for sensationalism rather than truth. The Media owes this fine gentleman an apology. If I were a parent of an outstanding football player who was being highly recruited, I know where I'd want my son to go to school. Coach Osborne set an example that will remain at Nebraska for decades, no matter who coaches. The book covers one year of football, but a lifetime of experience.

When I first saw this book in hardcover, I jumped on it. After seeing the hardcover price, however, and what was "inside" I found I could leave it on the shelf.

This book is basically the aircraft history of every single B-17 ever built. Now, if that's what you're looking for - then this book is for you. If, however, you're looking for the comprehensive narrative history of the B-17 Flying Fortress that you "thought" this book was going to give you -- keep looking. That's not what this is.

Now that it's in paperback, I MIGHT consider purchasing it. As someone has said, this is like the "B-17 telephone book". It's an awesome reference work on each individual aircraft just like they maintain at the USAF Historical Research Agency in Montgomery, Alabama. For many, this book is ideal. For most of us, that's probably way too much detailed airframe information than we care for.

I was rather disappointed with the content of the book. Over 70% of it has little to do with "story" as the title promises. The majority of the book is more like a telephone book, with a 250-page (out of the total 319 pages) listing of 12,731 B-17s. Each of the entries starts with a US Army serial number assinged to the aircraft, followed by a series of dates and proper names (i.e., the aircraft's base assignments while in the U.S.). The length of the entries can be anywhere between 2 to 10 lines. The book is a valuable companion for B-17 experts or for people who has a passion for certain recorded facts about those 12,731 B-17s listed. And the 250-page listing is obviously an admirable outcome of strenuous work. But I would not recommend this book to people who want to read touching and exciting stories of or about the Flying Fortress. I have a feeling that I was misled by the book's title.

This books announces itself on its back cover as the "ultimate illustrated history of the B-17." But it certainly doesn't qualify as that, and even the title is rather deceptive. The book really is devoted to giving a very short, condensed history (about four lines, in three columns) of every single B-17 ever built. It is a work of reference, and an impressive one, rather than a story. This compilation fills 249 of the 319 pages of the book, leaving just 60 pages devoted to telling the story of the B-17. And that is too short, of course, to contain a complete, thorough treatment of the B-17's service life: Better accounts of that have been published elsewhere. This part still contains contain some quite interesting information, nevertheless. To conclude, this is a very valuable book to have if you are deeply interested in the story of the B-17, but it isn't what it pretends to be. Therefore, it rather disappointed me; but for some readers this will be exactly what they want.

This is a very small book - it fits in the palm of you hand. The type is hard to read and the illustrations are small. I would only recommend purchasing this book if you collect books on witches and want to add it to your collection. You will not get anything else from it.

At first glance after opening the parcel that this book is shipped in, you will think that you have wasted your money:Both the book and type are small and the book can be completely read in less than an hour.
However, this book contains a detailed -- albiet succint -- general history of witchcraft that will enlighten the tollerant ignorant, inflame the intollerance of bigoted Christians, and please the casual reader.
I strongly recommend that the young and uninitiated read this book;however,for those with a detailed knoledge of, or skill in witchcraft, this book has little -- if any -- real value.Book collectors may also have a great interest in this book as it's illustrations are exquisite.

tiny but informative. compact and easy to carry where-ever you go. this is not just a novelty, it is a condensed mini-book to give the reader a little info. for the price you get quite a bit of info, most books like these are quite pricey.

The installation procedure is in some points wrong. so a beginner has no chance to run the samples. The theory part of this book is not bad but in some chapters more or less stuff for kids! A frank advice, try to find another book.

Oracle Portal allows you to "Webify" a database, as well as to create a general-purpose portal for your users. The ideas and techniques from this book helped me get a database of mine onto the Web quickly and efficiently. Everything you'll need is there, from the initial installation of the product, to on-going administration of your portal(s). In between is a thorough treatment of what should be done to facilitate browser-based access to your data.

The book doesn't just dump syntax on you. It explains what portals are, and how to plan for one before building it. Key features of the Oracle product are explained clearly, first at a high level, so that you will later understand what you're doing when it gets to "click here, and type there." And, when it does get down to the lowest-level details, the book reflects the care that the authors must have taken to ensure accuracy.

All-in-all, a thorough treatment that should be indispensable to new Portal developers, while still offering value to all but the most advanced and experienced ones.

Outstanding in its clarity. Especially useful in first giving an overview/purpose for exercises, and, then, going thru an exercise step by step. Remarkably error and typo-free compared to many other technical, more expensive computer textbooks I've used in a classroom.

This book, originally published in the early 70s, is WAY outdated. Osborne maintains (I am not far from quoting) that unless a woman gets married, gets pregnant, and has a bunch of kids she will never be satisfied. A woman's place is in the home, a man's is at the office, and apparently realizing this is supposed to let you and your mate in on your true identities and lead to blissful lives. Furthermore (and perhaps worse), Osborne insists on stereotyping males and females in ways that were very offensive to both me and my husband. Example: women like to fight to test whether their husband will dominate them, because in the end they like to be dominated. The further we read, the more disgusted we became. Unless you live on some other planet or possibly in some other time period, this book will only lead to MISunderstanding each other. Don't waste your money.

Understanding Your Mate reflects only a small part of the wisdom shared in Osborne's earlier work - The Art of Understanding Yourself - If you can find a copy of this don't pass it up! Although "Art of Understanding Your Mate" may seem dated in some aspects, most conflicts and behaviours in a relationship have the same root now as they did a generation ago. Osborne helps us understand the source of inter/personal conflict and strategies to resolve the cause, not just the effect - We cannot change another person directly. We can however change ourselves and give the other person room to respond in kind. The art of a successful Christian marriage is not wait for your spouse to serve your needs, but first to satisfy the needs of your spouse. If your spouse in return seeks to understand and answer your needs, both will be generously fulfilled. This book came into my life when it was most needed and I am grateful. It would make an excellent resource for small group study, even better when combined with "The Five Languages Of Love".

This is a timeless guide to the principles which undergird a healthy marriage. The ability to see a problem or a situation from your spouse's perspective is what makes Dr. Osborne's book so helpful. He uses anecdotes and scriptural references to help the reader see beneath the surface of our mate. Men and women are different and knowing how those differences affect our interpersonal communication leads to understanding. That, and the realization that marriage is about sacrifice and putting someone else's interest ahead of our own. There is no such thing as marriage being a 50/50 proposition, or even 60/40. Those kinds of expectations inevitably result in disappointment because our spouse rarely has the same expectations we do. Changing our own expectations and our own behavior first is what Dr. Osborne teaches will effect changes in our mate and ultimately our marriage. My first exposure to this book was 16 years ago when my wife handed it to me with the admonition, "Read it or else." Naturally I followed her excellent advice and it saved our marriage. Since then I have used it as a tool to help others whose marriages are in difficulty. I keep several copies on the shelf to hand out as needed. Definitely worth the read.

This book attempts to address two needs and fails at both. First, as an introduction to basic computer science, the author's ambiguous style of writing seems to confuse most students. A poor sense of English grammar permeates the book. Secondly, as an introduction to Java, the book glosses over important details such as how to handle Strings properly. Don't bother... it is not worth your time.

This book is a good intro for those who want to start learning computer programming in general and Java specifically. The authors ease you through basic programming concepts, including control statements, user defined methods, and loops. Eventually the get into heavier subjects like object-oriented programming, inheritance, and abstract data types.

The authors have even created their own library called BreezyGUI, which helps make web/GUI programming easier. While this is o.k., I would have prefered that they focused more on Java's AWT instead.

Although I thought this book was good as an intro to programming, if you're an experienced C or C++ programmer, this book probably won't work for you. I have a year's C++ experience, and the only reason I used it was to do an independent study comparing C++ and Java as a first programming language. I probably would have selected a more advanced text if not for the nature of my independent study.

That being said, I still think the book does a good job of presenting programming/Java concepts, and I do like the fact that the authors decided to go with a GUI approach instead of a CLI (Command Line Interface) approach. This will help keep the interest of those learning their first language, because they can make "cool" looking apps quickly.

This book doesnt baby you, its simple and can be easy if you apply yourself and it comes with its own builder software (make sure the book you get has the disk or you are screwed!! you need it to do the work).. you will not be disappointed!