The 131 pages tell you little about playing the game other than to "bet the pass line and take full odds" and if the table is really good "make a couple of come bets with full odds".

Stories of casinos are generic in nature.

In one section the author talks of two casinos in Elko Nevada and the fact that neither had a craps table. He missed the largest casino in Elko (Red Lion) which does have a craps table. This was the only inaccuracy I knew of for sure but questioned a lot of other ststements.

Thumbs down on this one!

This is a sweet book! It is beautifully written by a guy that obviously has had many years of experience in casinos. The advice on money management is right on, though different from most gambling books that advise you to budget your losses! This author says it is better to manage your money plan to win. The stories of his visits to casinos around the world are fun and insightful. And the words on casino psychology may well turn a disasterous visit into a profitable experience. He demonstrates why you should ONLY make bets with the lowest casino advantage. This is a different kind of book!!! You will love it.

50 Years At The Craps Tables by gambling expert Malcolm Jay is a hands-on, "reader friendly", personal account to the nature of the game of craps and the house odds that back it. Written by a veteran casino-goer who has indeed spent a full five decades observing craps play and how to shave the casino edge, 50 Years At The Craps Tables offers a fascinating wealth of insights as to why noisy tables are best to play; why one must never play simply because of "comping"; and much more. A fascinating read from first page to last, 50 Years At The Craps Tables is very strongly recommended for any casino patron interested in playing the game of craps and/or improving their skill at this particular form of gaming.

A very thorough and easy read for beginners to start thinking what lies beyond the computing technology. This book may be similar with Gate's The Road Ahead, but does not intrigue much ecological vision into abstracting the craft.

A book which explores many issues around the role of the artist utilising new-media. This re-affirms the fact that in all art forms responsibility is upmost. Great read for artists considering using new technology, especially students.

One fear of digitizing art concerns the loss of craft needed to produce objects in physical media. McCullough may not set this fear to rest, but he does present a persuasive case that craft as we know it remains present in new media. He is able to define tools, tool use and tool systems so as to convince one that the tools of program interfaces are as much tools as their physical kin. The distinction between a tool and a machine and how both are represented in a graphic program's interface is especially intriguing. This book would be of interest to the many sculptors who have adopted digital methods into their work, but it may be of most use for human-computer interaction professionals designing 3D interfaces.

This book has nothing to do with Albert Einstein, the scientist, apparently. I can't imagine why the author chose this title for his collection of strange and disjointed thoughts. I am careful about what I feed my mind and will not read anymore of this book. It is the most diappointing book I have ever tried to read.

either the other reviewer of this book is a practical joker, or there is a different book called the autibiography of albert einstein that was written by gerhard roth and translated by malcolm green.or perhaps there is indeed a third possibility. one that is much more sinister. this book has nothing to do with einstein. if you want to read his autobiography look elsewhere. this book is a post-modern experimental obsessive-compulsive sort of investigation into the chemicals which spurt around the body of einstein and create as a biproduct his subconcious. and maybe its not even that. if you like your literature to be bizarre and have nothing to do with albert einstein, go ahead and read this. i really like it. but i also like to drink cough syrup, so...

This is possibly the best book ever written. Its a wonderfully crafted book by Einstein that portrays the truths of ambition, love, and skill that go against modern views of success and status. A must read for anyone interested in science, knowledge, and life.

I bought both "Badges and Insignia of Third Reich" and "German Uniforms of the Third Reich" from Amazon.com. I was disappointed. I'm a modeller and looking for reference books for the German uniforms and insignias. But I found out those books may be good sources for the collectors or historians, but not for modellers. It should use tables for the illustration and catagorize the shoulder strips and insignias by ranks. It does not have enough information for the representation of color used around/on the shoulder strips and insignias.

This is an okay book. It has some interesting facts -- good for reference. I was hoping for rank and insignia tables; e.g., a sergeant has so many stripes and a captain has this many bars or whatever. The layout is confusing -- you have to flip from the area with insignias to another area that provides a description. I was disappointed.

If you are a collector of WWII German militaria and you do not own this book, you should. Classic volume, features 64 color plates (illustrated by Malcolm McGregor) depicting virtually every patch or badge issued by the Third Reich. Each Item is accompanied by an incitefull description of each item. All-in-all, an excellent sourcebook by a world-renown militaria author. I also strongly reccommend any of Mr. Davis's fine books.

I picked up this book with high hopes. The promise of a Bill James-like book kept me alive throughout the winter. Alas, the BBBA failed to deliver. Although it has some interesting features (I particularly liked the QMAX), much of the other statistical discussions were dull. Lots of pretty charts and graphs to look at, but dull, dull, dull.

The authors tried to be witty and irreverant like James was, but most of the time came across as just being mean.

And, to top it all off, there are many typographical and grammatical errors scattered throughout the book. My favorite was the pitcher with the "soar" arm.

Spend your money somewhere else.

Interesting read. Lots of writers give you a lot of different perspectives. Some of the statistics are interesting. The graphic design is a nice counterpoint to the content. The layout breaks up the numbers well.

As a contributor to the Big Bad Baseball Annual, I can assure you that this book will make you look at baseball in a different way. In the team essays, you will find out things about your favorite team you hadn't known before, and the statistical breakouts will give you greater insight into the season that was and also what may happen in 1998. Anybody who was a fan of Bill James' Baseball Abstracts will enjoy this book.

After reading Updike's other brilliant slice-of-americana, the Rabbit Angstrom series, this collection was very disappointing and a bit hard to choke down. It deals with an aging Jewish writer who suffers from writer's block and a promiscuity that is simply ridiculous. It doesn't contain any of the historical socio-political markers that add a dimension to the Rabbit series, nor a pinch of the art that made that compilation so involving.

The author has his decaying protagonist bedding down with young women left and right. What 26-year-old would screw a 73-year-old, unless there was mucho dinero in the mix and she showered with lysol afterwards to relieve her disgust? I mean, come on! As a young woman, the thought strikes me as revolting...as the perverse fantasies of an aging man that should best be kept to himself, not published for public ridicule.

Do yourself a favor, buy Rabbit instead.

I've always considered Updike much more valuable for his superlative book reviews than for his, to my mind, more-sizzle-than-steak fiction. (If you dig past the nostalgic plethora of period detail in the Rabbit books, there really isn't a great deal there.) But 20 years after accidentally discovering Henry Bech on the shelves of the public library (just as Updike has said he likes to imagine people encountering his books), his hapless exploits with women and the Muse continue to provide me with unfailing pleasure. It's a fine service to American literature to have them all - including the previously uncollected story "His Oeuvre", one of the best - gathered together between one set of hardcovers.

There is however, I'm sad to say, a big ugly boil on the butt of this otherwise handsome volume: the semi-infamous "Bech Noir", in which Updike, seemingly grown disgusted with the continuing durability of his character, jerks him through a sour ludicrous pantomime - the sheer awfulness of which makes it almost impossible to look at him the same way again. .... It's as if Frank L. Baum, around the fourth or fifth Oz book, had Dorothy move to Los Angeles where she became a crack whore. After that, the valedictory tale in which Bech most implausibly receives the Nobel Prize comes across as simply another gesture of contempt - whether towards the Swedish Academy, for honoring the even-less-qualified Toni Morrison rather than himself, or towards the reader, I can't say. All I can tell you - strange advice, I know - is to skip those two stories if you haven't been contaminated by them already.

Henry Bech is John Updike's playfully irreverent alter ego and has charmed readers with aesthetic dithering and a seemingly inexhaustible libido. Now all of Updike's Henry Bech stories have been compiled in one volume, including the final, series-capping story "His Oeuvre". This outstanding Everyman's Library edition of The Complete Henry Bech is "must" reading for all John Updike fans and a very highly recommended addition to school and community library literary collections.

This book has excellent pictures, but the text could cure insomnia. While its useful to have some guidelines as to where to cut when if this is your first time in anatomy lab, you might be better off letting your lab partners buy this one and getting a bigger and better reference book instead. I highly recommend the entertaining anatomy books from Sudz publishing by Chris Pasquini.

This book has good information, however the diagrams get confusing, and I found myself flipping through numerous pages to find references to diagrams in the text.

This book is really helpful in low to medium level of veterinary anatomy. It is easy for begniners to look and find, but professionals might want something else...
I still think it is a great book.

Comments on the previous review and the book. Overall it should serve as a warning to check the author of the book carefully. While Canadian by birth, having lived in the USA for most of his life, skews his perspective to say the least. That he didn't know the size of "his" country is one such example. The obtaining alcohol from a store clerk that is distributed via conveyor belt?? That I would have to see in person to believe. I lived most of my life in Canada and have never witnessed such a thing!

Regarding comments about the Canadian psyche - it is amusing how some people assume that aggressiveness equates competitiveness or pride. Mr. Malcolm commits a cardinal error in assuming that his Americanized interpretation of events, characteristics and values is the same for Canadians. That is not necessarily the case. For instance, that Canadians do not go around bragging about their country does not mean they have an inferiority complex or that they don't love their country - just that they don't feel the need to get in someone's face about it. They are much more aware and tolerant of the existence of other countries and customs in the world and realize that, while they love their own country, others may enjoy theirs just as much. This is something Americans seem to find difficult to understand and assume it means they have no pride or are unpatriotic. The 'defensiveness' he refers to is not an 'inferiority complex' but an annoyance of American assumptions. It's rather funny actually since it is the pot calling the kettle black. Having lived in the USA for a couple of years now I have noticed that Americans are the least likely to accept any kind on negative observation about their country whether it's true or not. But here it wouldn't be called defensiveness, it would be called patriotism!! :-) (and in many cases, rightfully so!)

The list of examples could continue but shouldn't be necessary. The bottom lines is that while there are great similarities between the two countries, there are fundemental cultural differences that are not often apparent at first glance, but they do exist. There are pro's and con's to each. Don't make assumptions about motivations or belief's and everyone will be just fine.

My hopes for this book centered primarily around history. I wanted to get a good introduction to Canadian history from the earliest times to recent developments. Alas, 'tis not so with this Andrew Malcolm book. Malcolm makes it known to all that he is of Canadian ancestry, although he spent most of his life here in the U.S. He mentions in the text that he taught history at a university and that he was a "Canadian Bureau Chief" at the New York Times. Despite his association with anything New York, he is still eminently qualified to do some serious work on Canada and the Canadian mentality. "The Canadians" is the result.

This is more travelogue than history. Malcolm spent four years rattling around Canada trying to get a feel for the country. The scope of the book is impressive. Malcolm examines geography, people, and economics to show his readers where Canadians have been, and where they are going. The chapter on geography is definitely illuminating. Most of us, especially here in the U.S., probably don't have an adequate idea of how huge Canada really is. Almost the entire population of Canada lives right along the border. Behind them stretches an amount of territory that is amazing to behold. Even all of the provinces of Canada are enormous. Most of the provinces could hold several major U.S. states within their boundaries with room to spare. The northern regions, namely the Yukon and the Northwest Territories (isn't it known as Nunavit now?) are almost beyond description, with many areas unexplored by man. The task that Canada has had since its inception has been making use of the vast resources within these regions while preserving the fragile environment. Most of the natural gas mined here goes to other places, such as the U.S. Actually, most of the stuff scraped, panned, cut or dug goes other places, as Canada's main source of economic livelihood is trade. Of course, the U.S. is Canada's biggest trading partner, with billions of dollars of goods flowing across the border. The U.S reciprocates this trade. This trade and emphasis on Canada's economic condition is detailed by Malcolm in his chapter on Canadian economics. Malcolm spends a huge amount of page space showing how Canadian business has moved into the U.S., buying up real estate and companies with impunity. The Canadian banking system is discussed in detail (it's monolithic) as is the growing trade relationships with Japan and the Pacific Rim. The best factoids from this section: Canadian beer. Most of the Canadian beer we see in the U.S. isn't even available in most of Canada due to strict production laws at the provincial level. Buying alcoholic beverages in Canada is a bit different, too. Special stores are set up strictly for alcohol. People go in and order what they want from the clerk. The drinks then come through the wall on a conveyor belt. I laughed when I read this because I remembered the scene in "Strange Brew" when Bob and Doug went to the liquor store and tried to claim they found a mouse in a beer bottle.

Malcolm spends a lot of time discussing the psychology of Canadians. It seems that most Canadians suffer from living in the shadow of the U.S. Canadians are quick to criticize the United States, even though they benefit from our presence. They also seem to suffer from an inferiority complex. Canadians are less competitive and less willing to attempt new things for fear of failure. They don't want to toot their own horn, but they hate criticism of their culture and country. Malcolm also makes much out of the regionalism of Canadians. Due to the vast geography and inclement conditions, Canadians tend to stick closer to home and have not developed the type of national unity that the U.S. or other countries have come to take for granted.

Malcolm has a great love for Canada, although some of his writing has an "aw, shucks" mentality to it that can be annoying at times. His descriptions of life in the Arctic Circle are fascinating and informative. I give this book three stars, not because it isn't good, but because it wasn't what I was looking for. To be fair, that's more my fault than his.

I,WE BOUGHT THIS BOOK IN HOPES THAT WE COULD LEARN SOME BASICS ON CANADIAN WAYS BEFORE VENTURING INOT CANADA TO START, SHARE SOME INCREDIBLE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITES WITH THE CANADIANS AS NOW PARTNERS WITH THE USA IN A GROWING INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT.

Personally, I think this was a big mistake on WW's part. While I like the Akashic Brotherhood and many other things, to make such a big difference between (for example) the Western Technocracy and the Asian Zaibatsu is unnecessary. A great story could have been told with the Asian Technocracy trying to gain a foothold in the established land of tradition that is China and Japan, but instead that was all thrown away in light of "Everything in Asia is cooler." For the other games, it made sense, but for this one, it was baffling.

I bought this book thinking that it would be great, I have the book "Kindred of the East" and I love it, my friends and I really love this game and when I saw the title of this book I thoght "Great, Mage in the East, not only the Akashic Brotherhood exists in this game, so I bought it. I have to say that it is really interesting, but some parts are really boring and it could be a bit more complete.

I was expecting to enjoy Dragons of the East as soon as I picked it up; in my opinion, the only thing the Mage line had done with the far east, to that point, was lousy (The Akashic Brotherhood Tradition book). Anyhow! I was thrilled with this book! I wanted in-depth material on cultures, magickal styles, and factions, and it DELIVERS. The far east now consists of more than a couple of Shaolin temples. THANK YOU!

it's a brief introduction to the physics of gravity, not the mathematics. by the word geometric, the author means indepedence from coordinate, but he doesn't use tools of modern differential geometry(curvature form, connection, fiber bundle, pullback). it deals Killing field, Schwarzschild, and Kerr, but anti-deSitter nor variational formulation. if you want a mathematically elegant treatment, look for other books.

I have taught electromagnetism at the advanced graduate level, and am reasonably familiar with classical differential geometry and general relativity (e.g. as presented by Weinberg). I am finding Ludvigsen's book a tough read, though a worthwhile one. A considerable amount both of the physics background and the mathematics background of the subject is omitted or treated very briefly. Three paragraphs cover the Coulomb potential *and* the plane wave, for instance. Definitions tend to be ostentive - by example.

Ludvigsen's book has the virtues of brevity as well as its difficulties, however: the reader can see where he is going at all times, and the author takes the reader through the modern approach to differential geometry, and deeply into the results of relativity theory, quickly and efficiently.

I hope to see a second edition of this book. A little more explanantion, here and there, would do much, if not to reduce the steepness of the learning curve, at least to provide a few handholds on the way up!

It includes all our knowledge about the modern physics.It has plenty of exercises so you can be sure that you've understant what you read! I recomend this book to all who want to know something about our universe. Buy it right now!