This book is filled with facts about the flute and its history. However, a great number of the great flutists are women (Robison, Wincenc, Zuckerman, Dwyer, Milan, and many others. But this book pictures only men.

This book is attractively illustrated and would be appealing to a budding flutist; however, I noticed that a key illustration of a young flutist playing the flute is reversed. The photo shows the flute being played on the wrong side.

This guide provided fairly reliable, basic information when I was trekking through Southeast Asia for seven months. When I landed by bus, taxi, motorcycle, truck, boat, trishaw, foot, or (sometimes) horse in a strange town at night where I didn't speak the language, it kept me alive. With its help I could always find the town center, the police station, and a bus stop.

Just don't expect it to enhance your experience, or even guide you safely. It's written in a rather smug, perfunctory style, and despite its budget approach seems aimed at very conventional travelers. There are none of the colorful, devil-may-care suggestions one finds in other guides, and it brings to mind the dour, conscientious tourists one meets on the road who are very nice but could backpack through Borneo without bringing back a single interesting story. This book has no spirit.

Maybe the reason it seems a bit inflexible and "un-hip" is because the editors are not responsive to the feedback of readers. I was very badly robbed a couple of times while using services recommended highly by this guide (for instance by the owners of the "Good Luck" Guest House in Bangkok), and after writing Lonely Planet with a polite request that they caution future travelers, I received no acknowledgment of my letters, and in fact the services in question are still touted by their guide.

This sort of apathy illustrates to me why their latest editions often seem years out of date, and why hotels and restaurants highly praised by them turn out to have closed down years ago. I understand that they have a limited number of researchers, but if they ignore input from readers who actively explore these regions, their book is naturally going to be out-of-touch, behind the times, and useless.

My advice is to buy the book if nothing else is available, because it does provide detailed factual information like phone numbers, addresses, etc. Just don't assume that it tells you all the interesting places and activities in a given city, because that's a laugh!! And don't ever take its advice on quality or safety.

A very useful and reliable, concise guide on South East Asia. Very good information on different highlights in each of the countries, good info on getting there and travelling around. Good to know where and when to go, as every other Lonely Planet guide featuring multiple countries.

I have used the Friends of Ed books in the past and found them to be excellent tutorials. The Foundation Flash book and the Flash MX ActionScript aare well-rounded, and cover the ground they set out to do, albeit wwith errors here and there.

I bought the Friends of Ed Macromedia Flash MX Studio, expecting similar coverage reflecting advanced concepts for design. Much to my regret, I found this to be a book on ActionScript. The examples are essentially trivial tricks done with ActionScript, with descriptions that suit some aspects of game design.

To contrast, the Flash MX ActionScript book published by FOE focuses on many of the concepts used to build Flash applications... and is a book that would be useful to designers who wish to use Actionscript when developing a Flash Project.

Macromedia Flash MX Studio was a waste of time and money.

I own previously owned 7 friends of ed books, and i'm used to their style of writing so i had high expectations.

This new release gets you right into to bussiness this time, no usability lecture or do's and dont's. It handles all the new features in MX illustrated with in depth excercises or complicated case studies.

If you are a solid flash 5 user, it gets you up to date !
(But DON'T BUY this book if you want to GET STARTED WITH MX)

This is the first release so there are still mistakes in some scripts, but that's a plus, IT MAKES YOU THINK why it doesn't work !

It's the best advanced MX book to upgrade to MX !

These tapes may be a good summary of the ideas covered in an MBA program however the ideas are of average quality meaning that someone with an MBA would be qualified to maintain the status quo vs to seek a higher level of serving customers better in my view. The material may be more a reflection of University academia vs the real business world it seems to me. Several observers have noted that much of what is taught in many universities is material 20 years old (aka living in the past vs today).

I found the series of tapes to be a bit flat and not all that useful. However, Lerman and Turner have such thick accents that the series is worth a listen, if only for the humor of it all.

Bottom line....The Aikido that is being taught today is not the Aikido that O-Sensei taught. Todays Aikido is a watered down, softened version so we Americans can deal with it. O-Sensei original Aikido or Aiki-budo, was more like Aikijutsu were it at least had some martial art value. Today people enter into Aikido believeing they are going to study a Martial art. what they get is square dancing in a circluar fashsion. Alot of people will read this review and state "This and that" in defense of their Aikido, but bottom line is , If it isn't Aikijutsu, its not worth anything as a martial art. Sokaku Takeda was a true warrior. He taught O-Sensei Aikijutsu. Thats why O-Sensei was so amazing! Wake up!

This is an interesting book for anyone just getting started in aikido. I found it to be a good primer to share with other foreign students when I was studying aikido in Japan when our instructors' (who spoke mostly Japanese) teachings became difficult to understand and then explain to others. It's not a book to learn techniques and such, but it's good to give the new student a proper focus in the dojo.

Fortunately, the Paul Turner series gets better as does Zubro's crafting of enjoyable cop mystery stories. With this one, the debut of Paul Turner, Zubro tackles an interesting premise: are gay activist orgnizations behind the murder of an anti-gay televangelist's daughter? It's a question Paul Turner, a gay Chicago homicide detective, doesn't like having to look at, but one he realizes he must if he is to solve this case. The reader gets taken in a lot of different directions and one has to wonder if the poor cop will ever solve this case. Maybe Zubro hadn't made up his mind "who done it" until the final chapter because there are no really good clues, but plenty of motive to go around. All in all it was an enjoyable read, but it's not among my top 25 murder mysteries, regardless of genre (gay or straight or whatever)or author.

This is the first of Zubro's many books that I have read, and sorry to say it will be the last also. I love gay mystery as a genre, but this book disappointed on many levels. The plot, about the murder of a bigotted televangelist's daughter, and the gay community's possible involvement as a means of revenge undoubtedly has potential, but isn't developed, with the result that I didn't really care how the book ended. Undoubtedly the biggest let down is the quality of the writing. It's pedestrian and leaden, making the promising idea of the central character, a gay cop and father a crashing bore.

How in the world are we supposed to order a book that is listed as: No price is given? I have seen it at the local CSAA office in Auburn, but am reluctant to purchase it anywhere, when it is controlled the way it is.

This book is a beautifully produced pictoral voyage through scenic Northern-California and the coming of the automobile to the West. "Spirit of the Road" includes hundreds of great photos, sure to amaze any car enhusiast or California loyalist, backed up by captivating text, to boot. One of the best gifts I've ever received. As a recent western transplant from New Jersey, rarely does a night go by that I don't pick it up from off of my coffee table and finger through the pages to check out archival and color photos that never cease to impress me, no matter how many times I see them. If you love cars or if you love California, and especially if you're a fan of both, this is a fantastic volume!

It's one of the worst things I've ever read or seen. I used to be a fan of Top Cow trade paperbacks but this thing is unforgiveably bad. Try some other comics like Sin City, you'd be better off.

i have ta give this one the five star rating, simply cause the witchblade and darkness comics are the greatest comics to ever exist, well, ok, maybe not the greatest, but they're sure as hell my favorite. GO CHECK EM OUT! IF YA DONT LUV IT, uh......um......well.....thats ur opinion.

Naff takes an interesting look at Japanese history and combines it with his own personal entries from his experiences of living in Japan. Naff tries to combine the historical parts of the book with short stories of his own experiences with the historical aspect previously written about. Naff's readers enjoy looking at Japanese society through the eyes of an American man having fallen in love with a Japanese woman.

I thought this book was quite entertaining and that it contains a good deal of knowledge in tactical and leadership techniques