This writer wasted time and paper writing such hogwash. The book is nothing more than a bunch of negative comments about a psychology he has never practice or research. He offers no valid reason other than personal bigotry as to why transpersonal psychology doesn't work. His whole book read as a fear of the new and unknown. Don't waste your time buying this book.

Albert Ellis, One of the most prolific writers of psychological self-help books (do an Author search on his name to see the breadth of his output) and the inventor of Rational Emotive Therapy, is a man who has zero patience or tolerance for the fuzzy, the vague, notions of the supernatural or dogmatism in any form. In this book he surveyed the writings of many people associated with, or known for promoting, Transpersonal Psychology (as of the late 80's). Over and over he finds them promoting "mysticism, occultism, supernaturalism, and religiosity," and say all of them, including the well-known Ken Wilber, "foster absolutistic and dogmatic thinking."

missed are special strategies and techniques, shortcuts, more than just the rote recitation of what you get with the game itself.
I love CIV III despite the almost absurdly long times at the end. Especially fun are the huge games in which you are sometimes centuries meeting your nearest neighbor. The most annoying facet is control of enemy territory. It is nearly impossible to keep a city once it is captured as it almost always reverts back to its former owners. Fix this bug!

If you purchase the game and take your time, you can soon learn almost everything that is in this book. What is missed are special strategies and techniques, shortcuts, more than just the rote recitation of what you get with the game itself.

I love CIV III despite the almost absurdly long times at the end. Especially fun are the huge games in which you are sometimes centuries meeting your nearest neighbor. The one thing I don't like about the game: It is nearly impossible to keep a city once it is captured as it almost always reverts back to its former status. Fix this bug!

I thought this book was pretty good. A lot of it is review (for me) but I did learn some other strategies and tricks. The tricks weren't as useful as I thought, but besides that, the book provides good information for beginners and veterans.

Got MOO3 and the guide for my birthday. Both are pretty wortheless, but the guide especially so since it is no guide. If you loved Alpha Cnetauri or the Civ games, you'll be severly disappointed with MOO3 and the strategy guide.

See other reviews for details. Don't waste your money on this...

its more like a manual spin-off than a strategy guide. It doesn't tell you how to do anything. It has lame tutorials for all the races and it only gives you some *hints* (all of which you can find out online). The whole book basically leaves it up to you figure everything out.

It could have been so many times better. Its almost like the person who wrote it never played it and just read the manual and interviewed the staff to get some details.

Instead of giving you strategies and tips on how to play more effeciently or giving you different styles of play, it just goes through all the screens one at a time and repeats most of whats in the manual.

The name of book is false advertisment. It should be named:
Master of Orion 3: The Ultimate Space Strategy Game: Prima's Official Redundant Manual

this "guide" is practically worthless! it does NOT explain ANYTHING that is not explained in the manual, even with as much as there was that was left unexplained by that dicument. there are not really any "strategies" in this "strategy guide". i know that it is not possible to write a walkthrough for a game of this type, but i was hoping for a guide to explain the many things that the manual did not, like specific measures to combat unrest, etc. this book does not do that. the only things i found useful in this book are explanations in game terms of what each Orion Senate proposal does and explanations for what tone of voice, so to speak, to use in diplomatic offers to the different races. it also rates each race in terms of "playability" that is marginally useful. if i had it to do over again i would NOT buy this book.

Don't waste your money on this text, it is rotten. I had it for a class and found this book to do very little in aiding the learning process due to its lack of any sort of coherent explaination. I ended up purchasing another text and used it from then and until now, after college.

this is the only textbook i have ever sold back after the semester.

This book discusses algorithms in computer science but does integrate enough C++ code into the text, in spite of its title. Also, a lot of the code still has remnants of C philosophy, such as #define statements, in spite of the authors frequent use of "class" in their code. Buy this book with caution, as it is very expensive.

... If the primary complaint against this text is that the authors have not provided enough C++ source code examples for the types of algorithms explained, take a look at the price tag. At a list price of [price], one can logically deduce that this text is for a university audience, emphasizing the theory behind the algorithms, as well as the synthesis it takes for you to generate modified versions from the templates presented. If you are looking for a more "how to"-oriented text (you know, the kind that "spoon feeds" you) with excessive source code examples, you definitely should look for another text. Nevertheless, I consider this book to be both highly appropriate and effective for its intended audience.

I took Just Enough Chinese with me to China in October 2001 but never used it because I found its phonetics to be faulty. For example, the first phrase to learn is Xiexie, which means thank you. This book would have you say "Sie-sie," by which I guess it means "See-see." However, "ie" in pinyin spelling is said like the "e" in "yes." Furthermore, the pinyin "x" is much closer to our "sh" than it is to "s," so nothing about the pronunciation offered is sufficiently accurate. Our tour guide in China said that "see-see" is the Chinese equivalent of what we euphemistically call "tinkle" (urination by a small child). Is that what you want to say instead of thank you?

This book is better than nothing. But don't fool yourself by thinking that the subtitle of the book, "How to Get By and Be Easily Understood," is anything near accurate. There is NO WAY any Chinese speaker is going to understand a thing you say from this book, unless you have had a semester of college-level Chinese. On the plus side, the contents are divided nicely into useful sections such as everyday expressions, meeting people, shopping for food, etc. Since the Chinese characters are included with each phrase, you can at least show the person with whom you are trying to communicate with.

Kathy Marshall is enjoying her settled life style as the owner of a successful health food business when she receives a frantic phone call from her daughter Marcie reporting that her husband Frank has been killed and she is the prime suspect. Lee Ramsey, long lost acquaintance from Kathy's teenage years, is back in town trying to rebuild her life as a newly minted lawyer. Lee, who doesn't realize that Marcie is the daughter of her old friend, Kathy, intends to build her reputation by prosecuting Marcie during her murder trial.

Kathy hires Scott Lazarus to defend Marcie. Scott, a successful big town lawyer who returned to the small town of Madison in upstate New York for the slower pace of life, is sincere and concerned about Marcie and believes in her innocence. He becomes a staunch ally of their family against the ugly allegations and threats from the community, and Kathy feels herself drawn to him and becoming dependent on him.

In an effort to make the main plot more interesting, the author also develops several sub-plots including the marriages of Kathy's best friends from childhood, Angie and her husband Joe, who are still happily married, and Ellen and Phil, whose marriage is falling apart. Kathy's unhappy marriage to Glenn ended years ago, and she remains bitter towards him. Glenn is more concerned about the impact of the murder trial on his career than he is about Marcie. All the subplots and the many characters that are paraded through the book but never well developed make it difficult to keep track of the main plot.

The search for Frank's killer gets ridiculously complicated with allegations that a local secretive militia group is involved, as well as money launderers and drug lords from Miami. It's all rather preposterous and improbable in this small, quiet town. By the end of the novel, I was relieved that the killer was found and all the loose ends were tied up.

Luckily I did not purchase this book - I only checked it out from the library. The story is about a group of children who try to figure out what kind of bug layed the golden eggs. They think they find out, then they are wrong again and again. This book is too wordy for a new reader. My daughter, 7 did not enjoy reading this book at all.

In this collection of essays in honor of Professor Aaron Wildavsky you may found and interest approach the the cultural theory. Eventhough it is a very good compilation of about the relationship among culture and politics, it lacks of the relation culture-development, which must be seen as the forgotten piece in the definition of development models and theories in the next century. However this is a must read book for every political science student and for political scientis, politicians and academicians. but it need to be more developed the relation culture-development in order to understand why some nation develop better than others.

This book is about greed, lust, and sex. Those three themes consume the characters's existences. It shows how those born to wealth sometimes abuse their privileged positions and lose all they own. Although these things make most other books interesting, they don't work too well in this book. First, I know that this book is not exactly literature, but as an entertainment piece the three themes above do not enlighten me about the characters until the middle of the book, and by then, I just don't care.

Ellis Amburn continues his reign of biographical terror. In the same vein as his hideous Elizabeth Taylor biography, he now has penned the basic outline of the bedroom life of Warren Beatty, a guy whose teenage years extended well into his fifties. (Or until people stopped taking him seriously -- whichever came first)

It traces the career of Barbra Streisand's old schoolmate, an emotionally-needy Don Juan who went to bed with just about any woman he came across, married or single, famous or not. He remained a heartthrob in Hollywood for many years, reappearing with a bang and a flash when critics had declared his career dead. He dated women like Diane Keaton, Madonna, Michelle Phillips, and finally settled on Annette Bening, whom he married.

This book is less about Beatty's life than his bedroom life. We get extensive chronicling of, if not every woman he ever slept with, then quite a few of them. Most of these affairs add nothing either to the book or to our understanding of Beatty. And, as he did in "The Most Beautiful Woman In The World," Amburn is not satisfied merely to present Beatty's sexcapades: he does so for just about everyone else in the book. Madonna, Lara Flynn Boyle, Roman Polanski, and dozens of other people have their randy bedroom lives outlined in this book, usually with plenty of detail. Why? No reason. It makes for more titillating reading, I suppose. (The description of videotaped sex games by Sharon Polanski, who was stabbed to death while pregnant, and the first-person description of seduction of a thirteen-year-old, crossed the line into insensitive, tasteless, even pornographic)

The actual writing style is plodding and repetitive. Like many bad biographers, Amburn feels the need to spread anecdotes about the main personality traits of his subjects throughout the book. He repeats constantly on the predatory attitudes of Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, or the strained relationship between Beatty and his sister Shirley MacLaine, or Madonna's liking for other women.

Perhaps the most unforgivable aspect of this book is the lack of insight into Beatty's mind. There are a few half-hearted attempts to explain why he tries to bed all these women, to the point of threatening to rape one girl and stalking another, but it's skimming the surface. Near the end of the book, he inexplicably decides to grow up and be responsible -- but by that time, the readers may be so disgusted by him that they will no longer care.

If you're hunting for a compendium of every tabloid article ever written about Warren Beatty, this is the book for you. But for a serious biography, look elsewhere.

This is a poorly written, slapped together (from lots of old magazine articles) Hollywood bio that COMPLETELY fails to explain one of the more complex, artistically daring figures of the film business. Of course, any book about Warren Beatty is going to have a lot of sex in it, but Amburn is not gutsy (like the late Julia Phillips) or salacious (like Kitty Kelly); his recounting of Beatty's numerous liasons is just recycled National Enquirer stuff. What really sinks this pathetic book is Amburn's inability to suggest just what makes Beatty tick: why does he take so long to make a film? why are his best films (Bonnie and Clyde, Reds, Shampoo, Bullworth) all about dreamers who wind up dead or deserted? Don't look to this book for the answers. Most annoyingly, the author seems to have scores to settle, having managed (appearantly) to live on the edge of the film/literary world. He constantly disses Shirley MacLaine, largely because she didn't pick up a check when they had a publishing lunch decades ago! His opinions of Beatty's films are frequently off the mark: he brushes off Bonnie and Clyde as too violent, paying little attention to the film's artistry, and he totally misreads McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Even if he hates the movie (and he does), Amburn should note that many consider it a classic. Beatty has spent much of his public life trying to appear as an enigma; Amburn has been unable to pierce the veil of secrecy, largely through his inept writing. Avoid this piece of junk and rent Splendor in the Grass or Shampoo instead. You'll have a much more rewarding evening.

As a Warren Beatty fan I didnt dislike it enough to not finish it but I remember thinking .. Is it over yet? Not much new information and mostly quotes from other books or articles. There seemed to be a good bit of information on other celebs (also quoted from other sources).

I was left feeling as if I really didnt read a biography. In fact I left it at a friends house and I really feel no need to get it back.

My advice would be .....SKIP IT but if you really, I mean really, think you want to read this, wait for the paperback or get it at a flea market.