I hated it. it was a bunch of BULL$H1T

This was the third game strategy book I got (after Master of Magic and Master of Orion II). I was seriously disappointed. In other Prima books there is a wealth of material about how the game resolves conflicts/battles, conducts it's turn, etc. Tables of data and statistics, which while sometimes dry, were often useful and insightful. In this one there was a "walk-through" (and a few tables) with little material about what was happening behind the scenes and what strategies there were to deal with it. It was almost like an Adventure or RPG guide rather than a strategy guide. Very disappointing especially given some of the other (very good) work Terry Coleman has done.

Containing an excellent tutorial of the early missions, this guide takes the novice gently through to the truly tough later missions. Although maps and step-by-step walkthroughs are not provided for the later continents the book tells you what to expect. Treasure tables are *REALLY* nice and the places to find heroes are very useful as well. Excellent guide, a must-have if you love FG.

There are a lot of good books about homeschooling, full of inspiration and practical ideas. Those books cause you to do something different and better than you did it before.
Unfortunately, this book did not do that for me. It was too esoteric and philosophical to be of much practical help, and it did not inspire me to do anything differently than I already do.
A person exploring homeschooling would find the ideas in this book discouraging rather than encouraging. A parent would come away feeling like homeschooling would take far too much time and would be far too complicated. There is so much better out there; this book was a waste of money and time.

I agree with the second review entry.

With the title "Anyone Can Homeschool", I thought the book would offer practical information on how that was possible.

There is some practical info in the first half of the book. I especially found the info on homeschooling laws very enlightening.

However, the second half of the book (written by the other author) I found to be unreadable because of the heavy Christian rhetoric. I gave up and didn't finish reading the book.

I found the content in the last chapters was only very loosly related to the heading of the chapter. I found that to be frusterating. In the chapter on "Choosing the Right Curriculum," there were no references to ANY Curriculum; just references to books as a whole without naming any in particular.

The book does have a nice index in the back of the book with listings of books, cataloges, resource guides, magazines conventions & curriculum fairs, legal services, support organizationsand other resourses.

If you can get it cheap you might find some useful info in it, & if you don't, you wouldn't have lost to much on the chance.

Read this book and especially appreciated the stories about the Tyler family. Though anecdotal were very encouraging.

The beautiful textbook hardly needs an answer key. It is a wonderful book, and highly recommended. However, if an answer key is needed, how could it cost $8.00? It is merely a flimsy pamphlet. The text--which costs $38.00--is a beautiful, hardcovered textbook. It is truly unfortunate that the "answer key" should cost more than 20% of the price of the text itself.

It may be over priced but still it is impossible to use the textbook without this answer key. It is what it is. . . the answers to the questions in the textbook. I was glad to find it available.

I just bought this game and this book. I am not and avid gamer, but I heard good things about this one so I tried it. This book was supposed to teach me how to win. It tells you absolutely nothing useful.

Don't waste your money.

a) 100 pages of campaign info.
b) 36 pages of civ info.
c) 67 pages of hard unit info.
d) 6 pages of scenario design info.
e) 10 pages on the basics.
f) 10 pages on multi-player.

Like many other guides:
a) For campaigns, you get a lot.
b) All the fundamental info on civs is included.
c) The real value is here....in the hard numbers; to really plan a job, you have to know your tools. Fortunately this part is extremely comprehensive. : )
d) A brief view on scenario design is included but it will probably not be enough to really turn on the lights for anyone who couldn't do it before, just enough to make you a little better at it.
e) Some good info in here, but some just re-hashes what is in the manual. It would need longer for people looking to get a lot of help.
f) What would seem is advertised as the meat of the guide by calling it a "strategy" guide is briskly over-viewed. The info included is, of course, good.....but it isn't enough to merit the name "strategy" guide. It is really mostly a handful of solid tips and a peek at attacking vs. defending concepts. These 10 pages are definitely a worthwhile read, but they aren't going to dramatically improve your game, just nudge you in the right direction.

Having trouble figuring out what works and what doesn't against the AI? Go to Sierras forum. You are left to figure the AI out by yourself, not a problem for some, but I would say it is a problem for quite a few that probably expect some specific help in this area.

Easily worth the money! But the 2 sections that should dominate something called a "strategy" guide, AI and multiplayer strategy, are (like in many other guides) the 2 briefest main sections. Once you learn to apply the sprinkled nuggets of strategy help, then this guide becomes the real-deal that you paid for. The hard numbers and their implementation are what it will all boil down to, regardless of how much specific strategy you learn and this guide comes through with flying colors in that department! This guide won't make you a better player without practice, but it does trim the fat from that practice-time.

-true__ibnFrey : )

Text and contents good and useful -- however, printed on thick grey paper with stiff binding, book will not stay open (snaps shut unless held down) making book troublesome and near unusable.

This is a very useful comprehensive reference covering all aspects of civil engineering calculations in an easy to understand format. There are numerous solved problems to illustrate calculation procedure.

Of all of the strategy guides I have read, Prima's Offical Strategy Guide for Return To Krondor is the least helpful strategy guide I have ever read. The walkthrough covers a SMALL portion of the book and is vague in a lot of areas. I found quite a few stuff that was not in the walkthrough at all. For example it doesn't tell you what the code for the tomb in chapter 9 is (Feist; code letters found on one of the statues in the same chapter). Another thing it doesn't cover is what tools to use to disarm the traps; they make you guess yourself. The list for the tools to use to disarm each trap can be found on the net. The strategy guide is good in telling you what ingredients to use to make potions (in case you want to do an experimentation if you don't have a recipe for the potion you want to make).Some strategies it suggests, I have found much better ones. And there aren't any good maps in there; only a vague map for chapter 5. I wish Sierra would make hint books again instead of having Prima doing the hintbooks for them.

If you have read the other review then I will echo it. The book is very narrow with details. There are no maps and the pictures that could act as maps are very dark are not helpful. the book gives you one way to do something but there are many better ways. It tells you exactly what you need to do and that is it, you can run around alot and find many more items and events. It could give you better advice like don't collect money it isn't a big issue, I had over 60,000 when the game ended! The first game had many side quests whereas this one has only 2! The caracter view is very limited and is very hard to see what is going on at times. The first game had a much better hint guide, but then again it was written by serria not prima!

Mr. Hicks has done a wonderful job in compling equations, however, he has missed the practical applications in compressed air and vacuum systems. I initially used his theoritcal position on calculating pressure drop in pipe for compressed air. His position seems reasonable and logical until you compare the results with practical applications. Ingresoll-Rand, the air compressor manufacturer, published tables of pressure drop verses pipe sizes, delivery pressures and ACFM. Futher ASPE has published a data book which leads the engineer into an empirical equation for calculating pressure loss in compressed air piping. The results with both Ingresoll-Rand and ASPE agree. Using Mr. Hicks' therotical approach drives the pipe size much larger than needed and therefore the cost of the project. My suggestion is that Mr. Hicks contact I-R and ASPE to incorporate their empirical approach to sizing pipe for compressed air and vacuum systems.

To: Lost in Air

I respectfully submit, that you need to appreciate Mr. Hicks' position. He has provided a conservative approach that will work in almost every situation. The empirical approach that you advocate may well work in most situations but I'll bet there is little margin built in for contingencies. True, your solution may cost less, which is important. But will the low-margin, low cost solution still work 1 or 2 years from now or will the pipe size be too small to allow for degradation/changes? Customer repeat business must be a consideration, too.

I'm not trying to be confrontational, and I understand what you're saying. But you have to appreciate the position that Mr. Hicks must take in such a handbook, and he takes the only logical one, which is to be on the conservative side. People doing more than a couple of these calculations in a year in fact should consult more in-depth material, as you did.

Regards,

David R. Debo, P.E.

It's true there are interesting aspects to this book, but it's simply badly written. I'm not the only person of my acquaintance who's abandoned this book because of the substandard writing. (One friend actually took the book back to the store in disgust.) Maybe mystery readers--and reviewers--generally have lower expectations for prose quality. Still, I can think of several examples of mystery novels that sucessfully combine good stories with good writing. This is not one of them. (I also found the story overblown, its contrivances too obvious, its dialogue often clumsy. But what's most irritating is the writing.)

My mother first stumbled across this book in the library. Her review? "She's no Sue Grafton, that's for sure." I picked it up when vacationing on the north shore of Lake Superior, which is where the novel is set. My own review? Writing that makes you wince isn't acceptable even for desultory "summer reading." Stick with Sue Grafton, Ellen Hart, and the like.

The dying mother of San Francisco newspaper reporter and amateur detective Tyler Jones makes her daughter swear a death bed promise that she will return to their Minnesota roots to "shake the skeletons in the closet" and learn the truth. With the death of her mother, at 39 Tyler feels a bit alone. Her sister Magdalene will barely talk to her because she and her conservative spouse do not wish to expose their children to the family lesbian. The will is read and Tyler gets her mother's entire estate. Magdalene blames it all on her sibling's lesbianism, a sexual preference of their mother's attorney also. In truth, their mother's decision was only to counterbalance their father's decree to disown Tyler years ago due to her lesbian inclination. For Tyler, honoring her mother's last wish is important because her mother had accepted her as she is. Tyler, with her dog Aggie returns to her grandparents' hometown on the shore of Lake Superior with no real idea what her mother wanted her to learn. As she gets reacquainted with old friends, Tyler realizes that her family has passed down through the generations many lies and half-truths wrapped up in mystery and legend. The community, especially the males, remain silent and refuse to answer Tyler's inquiries. With the help of some strong women, Tyler begins to put together a history of misogyny and prejudice festering inside the hearts and minds of many of the local residents. SILENT WORDS is an interesting entry into the mystery genre. Joan M. Drury brilliantly and colorfully explores family relationships, interactions between neighbors, and sexual phobias (especially homophobia) that makes readers want to relook their own personal beliefs and relationships. Regardless of the audience's gender or sexual preference, Tyler Jones, in her second outing, is one of the better amateur female sleuths in nineties literature. Harriet Klausner -----

I love biographies about famous people but I'm sorry to report this has to be the worst one I have ever read. ... It was one of the only books I didn't even care to finish. Don't waste your money on this one - the stories are half told and the writing is contradictory and confusing throughout.

"Dream On" is the perfect example of a trashy tell-all memoir written out of pure greed. Cyrinda Foxe-Tyler portrays herself as a victim, but she's not fooling anyone. She even says in the book that she wrote it for the money.

This book's only purpose is to trash her ex-husband, Steven Tyler, the lead singer of Aerosmith, who is admittedly no angel, but Cyrinda obviously downplays her own shortcomings and her own bad behavior. (For example, she cruelly left her first husband, David Johansen, for Steven. But the way she tells it, she had to do what she had to do because her marriage to David was a bad joke anyway.) Cyrinda's harrowing description of her abusive childhood only garners a little sympathy.

"Dream On" is entertaining for some of its interesting revelations. Such as: Before she met Steven Tyler, Cyrinda had an affair with David Bowie, got pregnant by him --and had an abortion--and once had a threesome with Bowie and his wife at the time, Angie. Cyrinda was also secretly infatuated/in love with Joe Perry, Steven Tyler's bandmate in Aerosmith...She says in the book that she and Joe passionately kissed just minutes before she married Steven. The fact that she chooses to tell that particular story says more about her than it does about Joe Perry.

A good example of Cyrinda's attitude in this book is that she complains that Steven was a lousy husband because after their daughter, Mia, was born, he wouldn't let her hire a nanny. Cyrinda says she's a "high maintenance" woman, but it's clear if you read between the lines that she was a lazy, greedy wife from hell.

I'd recommend reading this book only if you're interested in seeing how low an ex-wife can go. It contains occasional sex stories about Steven (the opening chapter is the most detailed story), and not enough musical context. Don't expect any insight into Steven Tyler as a musical creator.

Even if Steven Tyler was a lousy husband and deadbeat dad, this book is in poor taste because of the emotional damage it's probably done to Mia.

After reading this book and Cyrinda's almost-never-ending, pathetic complaints about how Steven Tyler left her "poor" after the divorce, the only words that come to mind are: "Well then shut up and get a job, Cyrinda!"

I read this book and I felt for cyrinda. Its amazing that I read this book (feeling compelled to write to her) and found out she had died the day before. To be honest, none of us know Steven Tyler and how he really is. We don't know if all she says in this book is even true. Still as soon as I recieved it in the mail, I read it all the way through. I could not put it down. I was dumbfounded by the kind of lifestyle this runaway girl lived.
She was brave but careless with her life. It's a sad sad story and I cried. I imagined living her life and it made my heart grow heavy. Maybe people don't agree with her book but its how she seen it. It's her personal life and she aired it and now shes gone. Get the book! Enjoy it! Its a roller coaster let me tell ya. But please keep and open mind because some things are really far out! But hey were talking about the ex wife of a toxic twin, what did ya expect!

This book is horrid, I am an investor in real estate and I thought this book was an ...infomercial. BAD,BAD and more bad, need I say more. I will, it's my right to say more since I had to pay to read this... All this guy wants to do is sell you his memberships for him to scam you, this is the topic of the entire book. All of you newbies out there looking to invest in real state...DO IT! Real estate is great, but this book is THE WORST.

This was the second Tyler Hicks book that I have read. In this book as well as the other I found that he spends a little too much time marketing his other services and merchandise. I would say that this book is good for motivating newbie real estate investors, but it lacks vital details on controlling income producing real estate.

I read the other reviews for this book. I am right now browsing through this book and I can't understand how the other reviewers can't find anything valuable in this book that they can use, when I find so many useful information almost every page I look. As for advertising his other books, I only see it mentioned at the end of the book which is quite standard for most authors to do. Perhaps, his mentioning the term "BWB" is what they mean by advertisement, which is a shortcut for "beginning wealth builder". Perhaps this book is not for the more advanced investors, but if you do not own property right now and would like to, then you are a beginning wealth builder. Maybe most of his ideas seem like "pie in the sky" like buying real estate for "zero" cash, but I think most everything that happens in our lives is a matter of "belief." If you believe, as I'm sure Mr. Hicks do and did when implementing his RE strategies, then there is no doubt that you will achieve it.