good but appears to be calculation errors in the software ie planetary positions are sometimes 1 minute inaccurate for faster moving planets.also the software only calculates equal house system. Otherwise Ok for beginners.

I don't know about the book, astrology is my partners thing, however the astro program installs fine, runs Ok from install, if you exit and restart and then try to access the town list you get "error 13, type mismatch" and it bombs out. Fine if you don't mind reinstalling every time you want to use it.

As the author of the book, I am responding to the review that the CD is 'buggy'. This was true of version 1, which was released only in the UK and Australia, but not of version 2 (the international version), which is bug free. Anyone who has bought version 1 can replace it free of charge by returning the CD to the publisher, whose address will be found in the accompanying book.

On a more general note the package was designed as a 'first-steps' course for beginners, and therefore avoids the more (highly) complex issues such as House systems. The program calculates planetary movements to within 1 minute of accuracy, which from most astrologers' point of view, is as accurate as you could want it!

As a course, we feel the package is unique: beginners' books offer guidelines for individual charts only. This one deals with relationships as well. I strongly recommend it... but then I would, wouldn't I!

Felix Lyle

Key's book, published in 1976, discusses the Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper" album at some length using language remarkably similar to that in Joan Peyser's 1967 essay "The Beatles and the Beatless."

I put the word "sensible" in the summary since it is believable to those readers who are cynical of the obvious and also psychologically sophisticated. Key's point is that the advertisers who fashion the consumer culture do not solely rely on messages that are geared for the consumers logical,conscious mind. The advertisers have a card up their sleeve-in the form of subliminal (AKA unconscious) material. Because information that can enter the unconscious cannot be defended against or be constructively criticized, it would be money in the bank for merchants to slip their product in there. Key's claim that there are embedded words and pictures in all print media can be tested by anyone willing to train their eyes to it. Besides his damming expose on this illegal procedure, Key does a great job in analyzing cultures taboos and fears and how the advertisers co-opt psychoanalysis for consumerism. Needles to say, if one does not believe in depth-psychlogy, this book will be more difficult to comprehend.

You'll read about (and see color pictures of) ad campaigns, rock albums and movies that Key claims contain subliminal messages of sex and violence to entice and enlist you as a consumer. Find out about the Paul McCartney death hoax, secret sounds of angry bees in The Exorcist, and a cigarette ad in Penthouse that, if held up to light, has an L&M poking out of a certain part of the female anatomy that appears on an image on the following page (in the original copy of the magazine, not in this book). All the examples are pre-1980 and, though it is highly doubtful that any of it is part of any orchestrated effort to enslave people as consumers, some of it surely represents the undercover work of mischevious, underpaid, disgruntled advertising artists and photographers. Take it with a grain of salt, but rest assured that you can one-up your super-hip, cynical, quasi-intellectual friends by having this on your coffee table (mess with their minds! Convince them you believe it!)

Wonderful book for illiterates who may need a large-type, one paragraph summary of the great books of the century. Useless for the serious book-lover. Gracias

It is quite ironic that the New York Public Library's "Books of the Century" would work better as a web page than an actual book. The question put to the librarians was "What are the books that helped shape and define the last hundred years?" The result was a highly popular exhibit during the Library's centennial celebration in 1995 (which explains why it is not about the books of the 20th century; just real close to that). This companion volume organizes 150 pivotal works into 12 topical categories: (1) Landmarks of Modern Literature, such as Eliot's "The Waste Land" and Joyce's "Ulysses"; (2) Nature's Realm, which includes Einstein's "The Meaning of Relativity" and Carson's "Silent Spring"; (3) Protest & Progress, represented by Sinclair's "The Jungle" and Steinbeck's "The Grapes of Wrath"; (4) Colonialism & its Aftermath, including Gahdni's "Satyagraha" and Achebe's "Things Fall Apart"; (5) Mind & Spirit, which covers both Freud's "The Interpretation of Dreams" and Gibran's "The Prophet"; (6) Popular Culture & Mass Entertainment, which takes us from Stoker's "Dracula" to Wolfe's "The Bonfire of the Vanities"; (7) Women Rise, which includes Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex" and Walker's "The Color Purple"; (8) Economics & Technology, which offers light reading such as Veblen's 'The Theory of the Leisure Class" and Friedman's "A Theory of Consumption Function"; (9) Utopias & Dystopias, from Wells's "The Time Machine" to Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale"; (10) War, Holocaust, Totalitarianism, which lists both Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and Spiegelman's "Maus: A Survivor's Tale"; (11) Optimism, Joy, Gentility, which includes both Brown's "Goodnight Moon" and Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"; and (12) Favorites of Childhood and Youth, from Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" to MacLachlan's "Sarah, Plain and Tall."

This abbreviated list gives you an idea of what you will find for each category. Each section has an introduction developing the themes and issues covered in those particular books. Each title has a brief description and an argument for its significance. I tend to think that this book is probably more useful for teachers, who are trying to pick books for a unit or an entire course devoted to a particular theme, but it can also suggest books you might consider reading, especially when you notice you have already read several suggestions under a particular category. Like any and all lists, this one is debatable, although certainly it also has the virtue of consensus. The fact that it includes non-fiction, so that you have the U.N. Charter as well as "The Cat in the Hat," gives it additional validity as well. If you have heard of most of the books on this list, then you are doing pretty good, but I bet there are not too many people who can claim to have read even half of this particular list of 150 books.

It isn't fair to characterize the entries as "summaries"; they're short, to-the-point statements of why the book was/is important. I particularly liked the "Public's Choice" selections. The cutout illustrations from the exhibit are delightful!

This book is decent for a very low-level p-chem course aimed at chemistry minors or those simply interested in the topic. However, for a chemistry or chem. eng. undergraduate major, the book does not provide enough detail to develop a true understanding of the material. Students intending to apply to graduate school in chemistry should consider buying a stronger text, such as Atkins.

From my personal use of this text, it covers most topics adaquately, and unlike some texts, there are many equations available throughout the book, as well as how how the equations were derived. The most notable point, is the summary of equations at the end of each chapter, for ease of use. This is the only text I have used that summarizes the equations, in any portion of the book. This is a helpful book, for Freshman Chemsitry through Graduate school, both as a classroom text, and as a reference.

This book contains some of the most enlightening expositions of thermodynamics and quantum mechanics at the elementary (college) level that would help many layman science buffs understand some of the basic math; moreso than any other book I have seen! This book was designed to educate and not obfuscate or pontificate. All in all an outstanding effort! How about writing a quantum mechanics book at the same level and clarity?
[The reviewer who complains that it's to light provides a good warning to majors but all books are either too light or too heavy depending on the reader's expectations.]

This book was written from a typical skeptical viewpoint. The stuff claimed about the Ballards is hogwash. I found it laughable at times and sad at other times. It's just a pure shame how far skeptics will go to try and drag others down. I'd like to find out how many years the Bryan practiced meditation. I have performed many things that defy logical explantion myself, but it was only after I condition myself through many years of meditation and I became sensitive to subtle energies.
Anyway, nothing in this book proved anything to me...Feel free to read the book yourself, but just remember, I warned ya! : )
love and light..........

When I found this book was available, I ordered it quickly. I had heard some of the stories and have a couple of Gerald Bryan's tracts that he handed out in the 1940s. These tracts were assembled into Psychic Dictatorship in America.

This book is like a 2 x 4 on the head in its effect on the psyche. How do people get swallowed into to these movements? What's been done in the name of religion is to be remembered.

If you read this book, I highly recommend as companion works, 400 Years of Imaginary Friends, Madame Blavatsky's Baboon, Ancient Wisdom Revealed, Purely for Prophet, and Lambs to Slaughter.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Kala Ardis

After many years out of print, I applaud the publisher putting Psychic Dictatorship in America back into print. Without Gerald Bryan's book, the history of the Mighty I AM would be lost. Unfortunately, history has gotten repeated over and over again with the continuation of belief in the cockamamie ideas espoused by the Ballards and the Mighty I AM.

Psychic Dictatorship in America is a sometimes hilarious, incredible, and sad story of how an out-of-work broke couple decided to start their own religion and following of sycophants who jumped when they said jump.

It's always amazing to me the credulity of believers who swallow this pap.

Jim Rizzo

This book is a good introduction to digital fonts, but if you already have other books on typography you can pass on this one. One of the main reasons that I bought this book was because of the claim that it included "A Large Collection" of fonts on the included CD-ROM. I found only three Windows fonts that were of any use to me. The rest of the "fonts" are actually bitmaps pictures of the typefaces. The other software programs are demo versions, most of them old, and newer versions can be obtained on the websites of Adobe, Pyrus and other vendors. Since I don't own an Apple computer I can't comment on the fonts or demo versions of those programs.

This book has a very good overview of typography for a beginner, the development and history of various typefaces, and the anatomy of the characters. The CD contains a few fonts that help make the price of the book a bit better. The actual examples of typefaces in use were terribly amateurish, however, and didn't serve to illustrate the author's point of view very well. I would recommend this book as a reference, but not a guide for using type in practice.

This is a good tutorial book on HTML - it explains concepts that most tutorials gloss over, especially the separation between structure and presentation. In fact, this was the only tutorial I liked out of the dozens on the shelf - none of the others did justice to style sheets. It's a pleasure to read Pfaffenberger's writing, but very disappointing to see the numerous editing mistakes (the Appendices are rendered useless by systematic errors, and there are several cut-and-paste errors in the main body of the book). IMHO he should have left out the ActiveX and CDF chapters, and expanded the layout section; it especially needs more example screenshots.

The strengths of this book are its clearly written, easy to understand style and the fact that it starts you out by using the latest HTML 4.0 way of writing web pages without covering previous use of HTML. When writing my first Web documents, this is the perspective that I wanted to start from.

The book's weaknesses are its lack of depth and detail. You will need to buy another book like "HTML: The Definitive Guide" to get more detail on many topics. The book is also a little out-of-date wrt to features supported by Netscape vs. Microsoft IE. (But that is to be expected.) There are also some annoying technical errors in the examples and illustrations.

For a beginner, this book was well worth the time and money spent, particularly for those who want to learn HTML, not just a web authoring tool.

Simply put, I was disappointed with the book. The material and examples of gay fatherhood seemed dated. The style was also troubling--the book was written from a therapist's perspective, and it was clearly meant for other mental health professionals (although not necessarily marketed as such). With that said, the only therapists who might benefit from reading it would be straight ones, who have had little or no experience treating gay patients (or gay parents). If you are a gay person considering parenthood, spend your money elsewhere.

The book is now nearly 8 years old, but many of the anecdotes and much of the research is still relevant to those of us going through a divorce or parenting a child with an alternative lifestyle. The book includes excerpts from individuals with their personal experiences and their feelings, along with practice pointers for practitioners in the mental health field. It is an excellent resource for anyone going through a divorce as a result of the sexuality issue. However, I think that if the book were written today, the anecdotes would be more relevant to how our society is now dealing with gays and Dads who are gay. I think the book should also include a section stressing the fact that it is possible to have a perfectly normal relationship with your child as raising a child has little or nothing to do with the sexuality of the parent, as parents do not relate to children on a sexual level. There are thousands of gay dads out there that could use even more information such as this. I hope that Barrett will consider a follow-up or sequal that is current with our change in society regarding homosexuals and their contribution to society.

When I decided to buy this title, frankly I worried that how well Osprey would jam so broad story into tiny volume in their well known chronicle fashion. Then alas, I had to ease my mind with a small charge with this book. In summary, if you are a novice then you can think that would be enough for that price. If you're hobbist, some nice illustration of the internal scenes of Sturmg 3 and other case for various vehicles will be referable. If you're bit knowledged, don't give any glimpse at this book. Touched here and there without points and no new photo. Just licking over chewing gum!. sorry for crude my English.

An interesting little book - how it's perceived will depend upon whether you are reading it as somebody new to the New Vanguard series, or if you've read other New Vanguard books.

This is because, unlike so many of the other armor-related New Vanguard titles, it doesn't concentrate on a single vehicle or family of vehicles. It attempts, with varying success, to cover the entire history of WWII German assault guns and tank destroyers in a single 48 page volume.

To do this it skims the surface of the vehicles concerned - if you want to read about the StuG III or the Marder III in technical detail, go check out a title dedicated to the subject. What's covered here is the military doctrine that resulted in the adoption of self-propelled assault guns and tank destroyers, the manner in which they were used, unit structure, and a broad history of the types developed.

The book's major flaws are that you can't really do the subject justice in even a general sense in just 48 pages, and that the book seems to dart around a bit historically - one minute you're reading about Jagdtigers, the next you're back to vehicles based on the Pz.Kpfw. I chassis.

So, not the best title Osprey has ever released, but it's not a complete loss either, since in describing tactics and doctrine it covers some areas that the more technically specific books in the series omit.

The Vanguard series is intended to give a brief introducton to various weapons systems used in the major wars of the 20th century. As such, they include color plates of various paint schemes on campaign, a sectional drawing of a representative vehicle, and plenty of B&W photos in the text. All this is wrapped in an elementary text based on new research in newly opened archives and presented in an attractive format. Useful to war gamers, students, and model makers.

this story really borrows too much from the Alien movies. Humans infected with the DNA of alien life forms, and theyare doomed from the moment that they become infected. The X-Men should have just destroyed them and that would be the end of it. Instead we are treated toanother X-Men story which is just as bad as the Onslaught saga, if not worse then it.

I just got the Claremont/Silvestri/Ostrander/Hitch Brood Trade paperback.

CLaremont's is a good 3 issue arc and I can see how it both gives info on the story as well as boosts the sales for the ostrander/hitch 2 part brood issues/stories inside.

Ostrander is a good writer, i had his whole run on the Suicide Squad (where he got saddled with a bad artists) but though he has enthusiasm for the X-Men and a nice twist/new addition to the Brood mythos---the story lacks a bit in the characterization of the X-Men. And also in the inventiveness in their fight against the Brood.

You would think with Cyclops and Storm on the team there would've been some more original teamwork than "CHARGE!".

The story itself was good as a quandry of what to do but I felt that the Brood were beat not too easily but without the X-Men really putting their backs into it. The nice thing about a Claremont X-Men fight is that it's dog dirty and spreads out a bit and strategy is involved having that in the first part of the trade kinda upstaged the second part---it would've been nice if the first meeting with them was included as well. Especially with Tigra joining the X-Men and the [demise] of Colossus and then the space fight. I would've paid some more for the complete Brood arc to be included. Also the New X-Men arc with Ghost Rider was cool too, should've been added.

This story is a link for several story lines. It shows Madiline Pryor's meeting with demon kind, Wolverine's not so slow slip into the animal, and brood, brood, brood! There is a lot of history given on this annoying species.

The truly excellent part of this story, however, is the fight for morality. Should the x-men just slaughter the brood without mercy? Or should they explore the distant posibility that the people the Brood have taken can be saved? Even if it's possible to save the hosts, do they have the right to risk the world while trying to save them knowing that a fertile queen could infect everyone?

This book is well worth reading!!