Basically a collection of her answers and speeches, that she has presented all over the US. Her views on American lifestyles and how important a secure family is to a child. Hillary Clinton's years at Wellesley. It is a no nonsense kind of book. Written in a very down to earth style.

Llewellyn's Worldwide has proven itself to be a 50/50 publisher. Half of the books they publish are absolutely wonderful, while the other half are disgustingly New Age and absolutely horrible. Unfortunately, "Development of Psychic Powers" is one of the stinkers from the New Age sink-hole. Any serious Occultist knows that Psychic abilities come through Magick, and do not require any outside studies to be obtained. Any true student of Magick and the Occult will should likely avoid this book, unless you'd like to get a good laugh out of some lovely New Age hogwash.

I got through about 75% of this book and lost interest. I have read many books related to this subject and did not find this one very helpful.

Psychic powers? God given gifts? Or are they? In this text, you too can start on the development of your birth-right. From the text, everyone has psychic ability. Through the teachings in this book, you too can unlock the powers of your brain, and learn to use them in your day-to-day life. Add it to your shopping cart. This is a definite curiousity builder . .

More garbage from radio's favorite occultist and snake oil salesman. Save your money, give it to charity, burn it, even give it to Osama Bin Laden if you have to...Just stop making this con artist even richer than he already is.

Not a bad book, but I wonder if Art is just experiencing aging....

Excellent book! Every chapter held my attention. I received it within five days.

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Do not buy this book. Buy the book from William Buhlmann or Pamela Weintraub, but certainly not this. This book offers absolutely non-practical and bogus methods (if you can even call it that). Even if you did want to try some of the stuff this work suggests, you'd have one hell of a time cause it's confusing as hell and plus it hardly makes sense; as in, the methods could be interpreted as 20 other meanings.
The more I read this, the more I get the impression that the authors are schizophrenic.

I was interested for some months in Astral Projection (since I heard about it), so I decided to give it a try by buying this "practical" book. I tried, and I tried, and I tried, but nothing happened, besides some positive effects on my life, which were results of the chakra technique.

The bad thing about this book is that it is NOT practical. Noone can do the painstaking and time-consuming techniques it describes without getting either frustrated or bored. There are so many unnecessary and goal-distracting little things it tells you, that it could get you to even hate Astral Projection (AP), which is the contrary to the writer's intentions!

My advice to the potential Astral Traveller (anyone can do AP, don't be afraid to try) is the following: Don't read this book. Or read it but don't take it too seriously. I acknowledge the effort of the writer but unfortunately this book is goal-distracting and it provokes unnecessary fears, prejudices and drawbacks. You wanna do AP? Search the web with many different search engines for "astral projection" or "out of body experience" and read. Read A LOT. Read EVERYTHING. In the end, you'll understand what AP is, and figure out what's the best technique for you.

I give it 3 stars for some good info contained, and for the chakra technique. Nothing more in this book is useful.

I've been reading these negative reviews and find that they are based primarily on a fundamental lack of knowledge and in a couple cases easy solutions to the complexity of this kind of work. One reviewer claims that this book is too "occultish". That's laughable, becuause not many things are more "occult" that trying to force your spirit from your body with the intentions on traveling to other dimensions of reality.

Having said this, the book is challenging because it actually asks something of the reader......dedication and commitment to the process. These authors are practicing metaphysicians/magicians for many years and are the head of a magickal order based in England called Aurum Solis (Denning recently passed away).

There is a lot of experience between these pages and it can work for you if you work with the techniques within.

Namaste

This work contains a complete listing of the operas of Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini. They are presented in chronological order by composer, unnumbered to make reference to the discography more difficult. The latter is fairly useless. In most cases, only one version is listed, often one no longer available, with absolutely no discussion of the merits of the recording, either in absolute terms or relative to others. The text is very long on trivia connected with the first production with no analysis of what effect any of this had on the composition, and virtually no discussion of subsequent revisions and changes. In the case of the more obsure opera, there may be some trivia about performances in the twentieth century as well. Analysis where it occurs at all is usually superficial. One gets no idea of the composer's development, or the development of bel canto writing. Most of the few connections drawn among the various composers comes through rather snide comments that one piece or another reminds the author of someone else.

In this book, Osborne covers the entire operatic oeuvres of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini -- both the well-known standards and the rarely performed works. For each opera, the author provides a brief history of its composition, a bare-bones plot summary, and a very short (usually just a paragraph) critical evaluation. The entries are somewhat longer for the standard repertory pieces. For the rarities, Osborne also lists significant performances through 1992. There's a recommended discography, helpful though by now somewhat dated.

If you're looking for in-depth musical analysis, this will disappoint you. It's more of a Kobbe's for bel canto.

THE POISONED EMBRACE is about something called sexual pessimism, which the author never defines adequately so that one can understand what exactly it is that he is refuting and explaining.

Offered here are some nonsensical and boring anecdotes and speculating psycho-babble about some archetypes that are never presented in a coherent light with any percievable "proof of thesis" scheme attached to them.

This is that unusual mix : a scholarly intellectual polemic which is also hilarious in a dry Brit way - by a young scholar-writer who I hope will soon publish something else soon. The stuff on witchcraft and the conquest of the New World is fascinating and really elegantly done

Having read most, if not all, of Milton Osborne's previous books on Cambodia and S.E. Asia, I found this book a big disappointment. The author seems to have re-written chapters from a previous book and added a few new ones but did not undertake new research for this book about Prince (now King) Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. I served as Private Secretary to King Sihanouk from 1981-1991 and I believe that the Cambodian monarch is a much misunderstood monarch. Certainly not a perfect human being but neither a "prince of darkness". It is a great pity that Osborne does not pay much attention to Sihanouk's leading role in bringing a certain peace to Cambodia.

the author's description of the subject's adept manuevering between larger powers in a time of considerable instability is enlightening; Sihanouk is portrayed not only as monarchist, but politically keen and not above his own level of terroristic manipulation of events (as depicted in the Sumlaut rebellion)

...I had been using this publisher for all of my exams followed with Transceder software, but this book is the worst. The typo are numberous aand horrible. Several statements were just wrong and the book contradicts itsself in multiple places...

UPDATE:

I finished reading the book and it was an 80% waste of time. I finally found a good practice test and found that I was completly unprepared. This book doesn't even scratch the surface of what the exam requires you to know. Furthermore it spent great deal of time on simple subjects that (since you reading this book you have probably passed the other required exams) you probably already know. I have decided to just take the designing AD exam, there just isn;t enough good study material for this exam. This book was a complete waste of money. At least I bought it used.

Argh there are tooo many repetitions in this book. It talks about NBL and tell readers what it is 5 time all virtually the same...and it explains each RAID 5 times using the same tables.. and it talks about stuff that you already know... and also stuff that are WRONG!!!...ok well if you are taking this exam, it is likely that you have taken all the core exams as you are planning to design a network using them.. instead of teahcing you how to design the network, this book goes through what each features do.. EG. it tells us what AD and DNS and DHTP server do...but doesn't tell us like the benefits of them and their design tips or topologies that are required in "highly avaliable websolution" design.. instead it tells us AD is really cool and DHCP is really cool too.

Give me my 50 bucks back...

Good material on setting up web farm. Exam 226 is difficult to pass this is a good reference point.

The fact that you are even reading this review indicates that you are considering buying it. Please, I beg you, listen to me - I have something vitally important to say.

This 'book' sullies the good name of Greek scholarship. That the other academics involved allowed themselves to appear in a book with Simon Goldhill should cause us to scorn and dimiss them - from their jobs, should they repeat this offence.

His filthy chapter is offensive, unpleasant, depraved, and yet somehow also excruciatingly boring - almost coma-inducingly so. Every word drips with the bearded contempt he has for women, for Greeks, for life itself.

This book does not only sully the name of Greek scholarship - it sullies the good name of drivel. It plumbs new depths for the human species. I beg you not to buy it, ever.

For the Greeks, for those who have gone, and for yourselves: just say, "Goldhill: never!" We must fight him in our lecture halls, we must fight him in our libraries, and we must never surrender.

If we resist him now, if we defeat this menace, then even if Greek scholarship lasts for a thousand years, people will still say: this was our finest hour.

I don't agree with the review that has been posted on this site. In a paranoid and weird way, it seems to accuse the author of being a member of the far right. I think that is cruel and unjustified. However, it is fair to say that Simon Goldhill - as the academic consensus internationally indicates - is simply (a) a profoundly unpleasant man, and (b) a pretty useless scholar.

So, criticise him within this framework - as a failed academic and a failed human being. But don't make accusations about his political outlook which cannot be derived from his scholarship. Unless Mr Seddon knows something we don't?

I can't comment on the book. However I must point out to anyone who has read the two other vicious reviews/character assasinations that Simon Goldhill is a profoundly good man.

As the previous reader summarizes, the author "considers the subjectivist epistemology of postmodern philosophy to be the only valid way in which we can now express our theological affirmations." But is this very statement objectively true? If it is not, then what does it have to do with me, and why must I accept it? If it is objectively true, then it is self-contradictory.

Let us get back to the objective epistemology of the Bible and MAKE it relevant by preaching and converting people, instead of bowing down to culture's intellectual fads, and being blown to and fro by every wind of doctrine.

Prof. Osborne, in this book, critiques the traditional theological paradigm (which is based upon an objectivist ontology) and shows us the direction in which theology and sacramentology must go in order to be relevant to contemporary people. He considers the subjectivist epistemology of postmodern philosophy to be the only valid way in which we can now express our theological affirmations.

This book is NOT for the general reader, as it assumes a lot of philosophical knowledge, but is directed to his fellow theologians and students of theology. The book is well outlined and very thorough in it's coverage of the topic.

I found Prof. Osborne's book to be interesting and I agreed with his basic conclusions concerning sacramentology and postmodern thought. The older theological paradigm (which is based upon an objectivist epistemology and ontology) is frought with too many difficulties. It is becoming more and more irrelevent. Postmodern thought, however, allows us to get fresh look at the philosophical basis of our current theological affirmations. With this fresh look we can then move forward in expressing our theological affirmations in such a way that the Christian sacraments are seen in a phenomenological, existential and subjective way. In short, in a way that will speak to the postmodern person.