This was a very disappointing ending to one of the best roleplaying series I've ever seen. The first three books built things up to appear as though there would be a confrontation in the modern nights, but this epilogue ignores that entirely. Maybe the showdown will appear with the Time of Thin Blood or other Year of the Reckoning titles, but the final showdown should've happened here. Sure, storytellers can whip one up, but trying to cap the previous three books with a homebrew scenario smacks of hubris.

Anyway, the previous reviewer has good info on what's in it. I'm just disappointed with what isn't in it.

This module is a wonderful start for a Giovanni campaign. The players start out as ghouls of the Giovanni during the 20s and it follows their progress from there to the status of Neonates in the city of Boston through three more historical periods. A great introduction to a modern nights game.

However, as the 'epilogue' of the Giovanni Chronicles series, it is very, very lacking. First off, the writer decided not to have the players reprise their roles as the characters they have been following since the first book. This, in itself, is enough to turn most groups off of it. What's the point of calling part of the series if it has only a periphery relation?

Second, most of the material which does cover the plot line from the first three books is very weak, involving a flashback which is not so much a role-playing experience as a novelization of the signature characters taking over part of the plot line from the their previous characters for no particular reason and several other poorly developed tie ins.

All in all, I would recommend this to anyone who wishes to start a campaign centered around the Giovanni. I would STRONGLY NOT recommend it for people interested in the continuing story of the series.

The constant berating of people who's voices aren't 50's style radio "pukers" as "being totally devoid of emotion" or "unable to express emotional content" belays an inherent lack of understanding of the blues and how the music expresses emotion. This book smacks of a pampered academic trying to compare workin' folks' music to slick city jazz enjoyed by the priveleged upper class. I bought this book used for $8.00 and refuse to sell it or give it away. I have hidden it at the back of my closet in the hopes that it will NEVER see the light of day. I give it 2 stars for the accuracy of the listing of the players on the discs and the slightly more accurate reviews of the instrumental playing.

When i went to buy this book, i thought i was buying a guide book to Tahiti, as i wanted to travel there. It turns out that this book is fiction. It is not a travel guide, Dont make the same mistake i did. Ps. Sort of an interesting read though

As a avid reader of books on evolutionary psychology and sociobiology, and a foreign language graduate, I thought I would be able to cope with the degree of difficulty of this "Introduction". In fact, I gave up trying one third into the book. Not only are the technical terms not defined, but any attempt to derive their meaning or establish relationships between concepts failed.Much of the argument is enigmatic rather than explanatory. Many utterances seem to be drawn out of context.

At least as an introduction to a difficult subject, there's nothing for it but to regard this book as a failure.

I bought this book at the book store which didn't have any of Chomskys political books (I wonder why). All there was was this one which had some of Chomskys ideas. The majority of the content in this book is about linguistics. To tell the truth, I didn't really know what linguistics was until I got this book. I agree with the other reviewer who said that this book didn't explain all the technical terms too well, or at all. I finished this book with hardly anything learned about linguistics. The Social Critic section didn't define too many terms either, but I already knew most of it so it was ok. Next time I'll buy a real Chomsky book because I like his essays that I find online, but this book wasn't so great, but then again, it also wasn't written by him.

Introducing Chomsky is divided into two sections:

a) First 122 pages: concerned with his theories of linguistics. Utterly fails to make it understandable for begginers. I found myself drowning in a subject I didn't particularly want to read about anyway (I bought this for the second section, which is:)

b) Last 70 or so pages: concerned with Chomsky's social critique. Extremely interesting, worthwhile read and a good introduction for begginers. Even this opens our eyes to a lot of truths and should push any reader who can get past the dreary linguistics section on to Chomsky's own works on government, propaganda and politics.

who is barney groves??????........and who are the supposedly national and world champions he presents in his book?????

as one who had been involved in powerlifting since it's inception as coach.....international referee.......and a 5 time world champion........i find this book to be a joke......mr groves may have meant well...but i find the book to be a piece of junk...written by a no name author ...giving incorrect information....using made up national and world champions to promote a book that teaches nothing........i guess anybody can make money on anything today in the good old u.s.a.

it does my sport a great disservice to present information like this to the general public......

the book should be rated as a comet not a star......i.e falling to earth and burning up is it's best chance of being useable
rickey dale crain

This book is perhaps only interesting if you are a absolute beginner and want to learn a bit about powerlifting. The exercises are in my opinion very poorly displayed. Also the text is sometimes vague and uninspered.

It looks like this book is put together fast for sales, with no creative ideas or innovating routines. All the information in this book is well known to everybody, easily obtained through websites , and in places outdated.

I am sorry that I bought it, since I ecspect more from a recent publication by Human Kinetics.

I purchased this book to add to my general knowledge of powerlifting. It was extremely basic and utterly useless to anyone who has some knowledge of the sport. I hoped to gain information about training methods and routines, but the book did not deliver. The book also contradicts itself on many occasions. At one point, it claims working the calf muscle will not increase power, yet later it gives information on calf exercies to supplement the squat.

This is not a book per se, but a blank journal with printed
lines for fathers to enter their pearls of wisdom etc. for
their child. There is no text--only page headings.
I feel its title is deliberately misleading. This should be
sold under notebooks.

This is a highly misleading listing. This is NOT a "journal
of fatherly advice," but rather a book of lined pages for a
father to inscribe his own "favorite sayings, quotations, life-lessons and memories." The volume is titled "The Priceless book of Fatherly Wisdom," on its cover, and "The Priceless Book of Fatherly Wisdom, A Father's Journal of Timeless Advice" on its frontispiece. I consider this listing and the title to be a marketing gimmick and deliberately misleading. Its preface invites "Dear Dad" to record "some sound advice to future generations." My advice is not to order books without reading sample pages.

I was initially delighted to see at long last the appearance of a work in English on Okinawan ethnology, a subject of enormous intrinsic interest that throws light on Japan's neglected "other half" (i.e. the Ryukyuan cultural sphere). Furthermore, this is a field which should fascinate anyone with an interest in Japanese culture bearing in mind that, ever since the work on the subject in Japanese of Iha Fuyu, Shimabukuro Genshichi, Yanagita Kunio, Orikuchi Shinobu and many other illustrious scholars more than 50 years ago, Okinawan religion and ethnology have been considered to constitute the earliest stratum of Japanese ethnic culture. This is perhaps one of the most extensively researched fields of Okinawan culture (one might even say of Japanese culture), with a vast body of research literature ranging through the disciplines of ethnology, history, oral literature, the performing arts, etc. But what a scandalous disappointment this work by Sered is! How can it have got past the OUP readers? There are almost no references to any of the vast Japanese literature on the subject (which is summarily dismissed as being virtually unworthy of consideration; perhaps because of the author's inability to read it?), the author shows no awareness of any of the historical and literary antecedents of relevance to her field, no attempt is made to expand her findings historically or geographically, etc., etc. The whole enterprise is a truly disgraceful example of faulty research. Considering the dearth of material in English on Okinawan and Ryukyuan culture and its relevance within the overall corpus of Japanese studies, this is a great pity, and one can but hope that the situation will be remedied through the appearance of an informed study on the subject in English in the near future.

Susan Sered's book "Women of the Sacred Groves" was not only a disappointment to read as a so-called "scholarly work", but disenheartening to read as as an Okinawan woman. Solely dependent on the lifeline ofinterpreters to conduct her research, the end product of her study is deeply colored. Since she is unable to read Japanese, she missed the rich accumulation of research on Okinawan women carefully discussed since Iha Fuyu's History of Okinawa. Also, because she bases most of her background research on the works of other white anthropologists and historians, many of whom were doing their "field work" during military occupation (thus fraught with political agendas) her work is tinged with bias. It amazes me how this book got published, since it was slapped together in such an unruly fashion.

Above all a book on bird photography should have good pictures of birds. This book fails miserably. Many of the photos are grainy, out of focus,or under exposed. This is an amateur book written by an amateur photographer. - Do we really have to be told that a telephoto lens "Causes a subject to seem closer than it really is"? The images on the included CD bird screen saver are of the same poor quality. Save your money, or better yet buy Arthur Morris' "The Art of Bird Photography".