Like another Howell reviewer, I found Kelly's diction amateurish and irritating. She should hire a professional to do the reading.
I also do not enjoy having questions planted through the guided meditation, instead of leading you to ask your own questions (the story is full of "and you wonder . . ." followed by a question). Some of the questions are so annoying I have to fast forward past them (which pulls me out of the relaxation and concentration). For example as she introduces the male sage in the story she asks, ". . . is he a mystic or a trickster?" That's irrelevant to the meditation. That type of questioning detracts from the relaxation and jars you out of the examination of your own internal questions.
I also don't like having the sage be gender-specific. She uses a sage who is a man. If the gender was left open, your imagination could fill in a type of person with whom you feel most comfortable.
The 2nd track of just music is good for putting me to sleep, but I'm disappointed with this purchase overall.

I didn't realize this was a music only tape. I only listened to it once, and returned it. It wasn't what I was looking for at all. I find this brand to be very "new age", which I'm just not into, and whether it's the tapes which are all music, or the tapes with words and music, I just can't get into it because of the "new age" feel to it.

This is a workbook/CD text for training teachers in the field of educational technology. The text covers topics which are central to classroom teaching with technology: learning styles, multimedia student authoring, evaluating software, classroom management, presentation with technologies, assessment, and the Internet. The exercises are well done and promote thoughtful reflection as well as mastery of the content.

Unfortunately, the central premise of the workbook/CD package is inside out. Unlike many texts with accompanying CD, the CD in this set contains the central content of the text, while the book is merely the accompanying workbook material. On the one hand, it's nice to have a workbook for students to write in. But on the other hand, it would be much more effective use of the technology if the students could read the texts in book format and then complete all of the work electronically using software on the CD. In fact, many of the workbook exercises are also presented in Webpage format on the CD, but the vocabulary and review exercises do not appear there, even though they could easily be assessed online. (The answers to the exercises are printed in the back of the workbook.)

A more serious problem is that all of the content text is contained only on the CD. Thus, a student must access the CD in order to read the content materials. The content materials vary widely in quality, from excellent in-depth articles to terse PowerPoint presentations. Some of the content texts are a few pages long, but several run to over 100 pages. Most are not in HTML format, but in Adobe PDF, set to display as very short pages, similar to presentation slide format. Since the content does not appear in the workbook, students will either need to read everything online, or else print hundreds of short pages so that they can read them offline. Students who only have access to computers on campus will have no choice but to print the pages if they want to read them at home. I really like the idea of a CD/text package, but it would far more useful if the text included the content, while the CD focused on the exercises, with built-in automated assessment and editing capabilities.

Its always frustrating to spend 25 dollars on a book that claims to teach something and doesn't follow through. That is the case with this book. Nothing here I couldn't have gotten surfing the web for free. Books that claim to be for idiots should be for people who are new to the subject, not for people stupid enough to waste their money on a book that doesn't follow through. I burned it along with some PILOT books fromt he 70's.

If you are having trouble opening the box, taking out the cd-rom and setting up the software, then you might find some use for this book. If you are in need of developing anykind of database driven sites then your best bet is to look else where.

One would think that an "Idiot's" guide would be written for the newbie in the subject covered. Not this book. There are no step-by-step instructions for anything. It goes on and on at great length about the theory of web site development (in simplistic terms), and never really explains how to DO anything that Front Page or many other web page authoring tools can't do.

As its title suggests, Mr. David Howell's Capitalism from within has very ambitious goal to figure out the origin and the development of the modern Japanese capitalism. Although I appreciate his effort, it is quite unfortunate that I have to conclude that Mr. Howell has been unable to achieve his goal.

First of all, this topic (the origin and the development of the modern Japanese capitalism) has been fully investigated and studied by the specialists in Japan so that abundant research accomplishments regarding this topic are already available in Japanese. However, Mr. Howell has apparently ignored all of these research accomplishments so that the toipcs he argues in this book are already well-known and even very stale and obsolete for the people who are interested in the economic history of Japan. To make the matter worse, Mr. Howell is apparently not capable of presenting his arguments logically so that there is a danger that the readers become fully confused on trying to figure out what Mr. Howell wants to say. Also, I unfortunately have to add that Mr. Howell does not have enough skills to read the primary sources written in Japanese: He has made serious misinterpretation on the primary sources he referred to for this research. Thus, his argument in this work is quite irrelevant because, after all, it is based on serious misinterpretation on the primary historical documents.

Finally, I want to point out that although Mr. Howell argues that the Japanese capitalism has its indigenous origin in the late 19th century, this is absolutely incorrect. The Japanese capitalism (i.e., economic system for capitalism) was first prepared by Oda Nobunaga (last name first) in the 16th century, and the spirit (or ethos) of capitalism among the Japanese (which is analogous to the spirit of capitalism argued by Max Weber in his famous The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) was initiated by a zen-priest called Suzuki Shosan (last name first) in early 17th century. Thus, by the end of the 19th century (the era Mr. Howell argues that capitalism first appeared in Japan), almost all the forms of production had been practiced with capitalistic spirit (ethos) already. Thus, the Japanese capitalism was firmly established in the late 19th century already.

For the readers who are interested in studying the origin of the modern Japanese capitalism, I recommend The Spirit of Japanese Capitalism and Selected Essays written by Yamamoto Shichihei. This book rigorously explains how Suzuki Shosan spread the spirit of capitalism among the Japanese. And for those who can read Japanese, I recommend the books written by Tominaga Kenichi and Komuro Naoki (last name first for both). They deeply investigate how the capitalistic system of economy was developed in the era of Oda Nobunaga and the following Edo Era. Also, we must not forget the works of Ootsuka Hisao on the Weberian sociology and its application to the Japanese society. I believe Ootsuka's works will be an appropriate introduction for those who want rigorous introduction to teh study of the the economic history of Japan. Finally, for the ambitious readers who want to spend their life on studying the history of Japan, I recommend the works of Tokutomi Soho. He was the first Japanese who paid attention to the correlation between the modernization of Japan and the economic reforms conducted by Oda Nobunaga.

5-7-2003 article discredits all of Peterson's claims. His research partner, Mathematica, refused to back his claims. subsequent analysis has shown Peterson's findings are more ideology than research.

This novel is a hundred-or-so pages of fluffed-up filler. Common sense is repackaged as 'Auction Secrets' that purport to enable sellers to obtain more money than they would be able to through a real-estate agent. The big question of WHY people would pay more at your auction than they would through a regular sale is left completely unanswered. Annoyingly, the authors have seen fit to arbitrarily replace the letter 'S' in their book with the dollar sign '$', making it much more difficult to read.

I would like to review a field of heat pump