A collection of illustrated articles published in Popular Science from the 1930's, Dunninger "exposes" magic tricks in this large book. The only problem is that there is hardly a performable trick in it! A real tease, promising to show you "how it's done", yet these Rube-Goldberg illustrations are almost laughable as they "explain" how to do tricks. It is entertaining, however, if for nothing else it captures a real sense of the period

Drawing from the information given through Edgar Cayce, America's most famous psychic, the material presented is helpful in that it provides a background to the methods which Cayce's guides, or as some think, his Higher Self, extracted from the Akashic records. The material covers the uses of oils, with notations for tracing the information back to the source readings.

While the illustrations are of use, it is important to understand a key Cayce concept, that of - the coordination of the nervous systems... This may not be as clearly stated as it might, but it remains as of underlying importance as to what the readings had to offer.

Throughout the Cayce material, over 9,000 of the 14,000 readings were on health issues alone, the coordination of the nervous systems was critical to the progress towards healthful conditions. Additionally, the use of the various formulated oils in combination with the massage techniques especially focusing upon the spinal areas, brings great relief for a large number of conditions.

I gave this a two star because its scope is limited. Limited in that there is so much more that could have been related from the readings to make it a more valuable piece of work. Its downfall is in that it relates the material garnered from the relationship between the authors and the doctor mentioned - Reilly, rather than with Edgar Cayce. And that it has not been updated with a fresh eye to editing for the antiquated speech patterns from the earlier part of the last century.

So, the efforts to extract from the readings - in computer technology terms - a bit of reverse engineering, did not go sufficiently deep.

However, I can still recommend the text for its illustrations and oil formulations.

And I thought I WAS a die-hard Conrad fan! He's one of those writers by whom I must read a book every two or three years -- but this one I did not like at all. Despite the usual brilliant prose, much of it as good as anything Conrad has done, "Tether" is a let-down -- astoundingly depressing! Most Conrad work posits a world that is inimical and uncaring, yet holds out hope that courage and integrity will serve to help us endure it all; "Tether" holds out no such hope. It concerns a captain who continues to pilot his ship even though he is legally blind, doing so in order to provide for his family. Nothing turns out okay, and no one ends up happy. I don't ask for a lot of hope from the books I read -- but at least a little!

After reading Mr. Joseph Estes's book, "The Estes Formula for Breeding Stakes Winners", I was very disappointed with its content and would not recommend it for the established Thoroughbred or Standbred breeder looking to improve their chances of producing a stakes winner with existing breeding stock.

The focus of the author is purchasing broodmare prospects that are the cream of the racing crop that are often overpriced and out of reach for the average breeder. It is unfortunate that the information provided within this book has been known for decades, "Breed the Best Mares to the Best Stallions and hope for the Best." Mr. Estes attempted to support this statement using the Average Earnings Index (AEI) and page upon page of statistics. A major drawback with the book is the author uses a very small percentage of the overall horse population in his examples. It was also disappointing that the author used only the best race mares and offspring from the 1930's and 40's to prove his point.

In summary, the book relatively easy to read and may be helpful for the first time owner looking to start a breeding operation but lacks information for improveing your chances of producing a stakes winner from existing breeding stock. The breeding of racehorses is still a gamble where Mother Nature is the only one who can predict the outcome. Don't be decieved by the book's title, this book provides nothing new and only attempts to support the statement, "Breed the Best Mare to the Best Stallion and hope for the Best".

This has been the text for MAT 105 at the University of Georgia for several years, and I have taught the course from it ten times or so. On the whole, I am quite unhappy with the book.

In writing an elementary math text, there often must be a compromise between rigor and ease of comprehension. This book, however, is poor in both areas. It is both mathematically unrigorous and difficult for students to read. In several important cases, principles are stated which are not merely unrigorous, but are actually incorrect. This would be somewhat forgivable if the book were more readable; but students cannot understand the vaguely worded definitions and theorems in this book any more than they could understand the correct, rigorous statements.

The redeeming feature of this book is the selection of topics in it. The topics, such as graph theory, voting, game theory, and scheduling algorithms, require little or no algebra. In this way, students can improve their mathematical and analytic abilites without being subjected to the streams of equations many of them have been trained to fear. Also, each topic covered is directly applicable in a way which is visible to students, which helps hold interest up.

I purchased this book to be part of a character education program at a Chiristian pre-school. Imagine my surprise when half way through the book the Queen asks Joseph to go to her bed! I know this event was in the biblical original, but for kids it could have been toned down. It will not be included in our progrom - some parents may not choose to face the questions yet.

I really hate to say it , but this book is just not worth 1/20th of any other major respiratory care book (for example Egan's fundamentals of RC or Dean Hess et al, RC: principles and practice) I feel bad saying it since I know how much hard work it takes to get a book to be printed. The whole design, bad fonts,cheap paper, and organization of the book is really bad. You could gather 2 or 3 chapters that are decent, but we all know that for the book to be successful it must have at least 3/4 of its material acceptable to read and enjoy. I doubt this book will make it into 2nd ed.

Take a look at the specs of this book before you purchase: Amazon says it's 9"x6" and 168 pages. If you'll think about that, it's quite small, and the 168 page count includes 42 pages of glossary, index, and front matter. A scant 125 small pages of content, and all of it very introductory (nothing on databases, for instance). Some examples: "Creating an E-mail Link," "Cutting and Pasting Text into Dreamweaver," "Entering Basic Text," ....

I've developed several sites in FrontPage, and this book is of little value to current FrontPage users. Given the title, I was expecting something along the lines of "If you do X in FrontPage, do Y in Dreamweaver to accomplish the same task." Nowhere near: the only thing close is a 16-entry, one-page "jargon guide" on the inside back cover.

The included CD-ROM is completely bogus: it's actually a video capture of screen shots accompanied by the author reading the text of the book! (Or maybe the book is a transcript of the original training material.) In either case, to install and view the CD-ROM content you must download an IE add-on, plus the video content only includes about the first two and a half chapters of the book; the balance of the content is offered to you in the "Platinum Edition" for the truly amazing sale price...

You should be able to glean all this information from the Dreamweaver tutorial. Save your money, buy one of the guy's complete books instead (Dreamweaver 4 Bible, for instance).

Why the two-star rating? The author offers to answer readers' e-mailed questions. That's worth something....

This work is a collection in three parts in defense of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints compiled by Elder Rudolph Etzenhouser. The first part includes "The Book Unsealed", the second criticisms of the criticisms against the church and against the sect in Utah, and the third contains other evidences supporting the 'Missouri Mormon' faith. The time period of these works is naturally from 1830 to 1894, thus generating the title of the collection.

This is not the best resource for investigating the Mormon faith or any of its deviations. What makes this useful is its listing of other resources as evidences for the Book of Mormon and the religion it generates! However, a thorough review of the evidences indicates that much of it is mis-used in support of the faith. In actuality, the 'evidences' are used out of context, or imply the opposite of what the author intended. Also, another major downpoint of the work is its relentless criticism of contrary arguments and their presentations over the argument they present. This is a discouragement. The upswing is that it presents the view of the RLDS apologetics at the turn of the century (rare compared to the number of LDS works of the period). It is for this reason alone that I rank this 2 stars as opposed to the 1 star it truly deserves.

Not happy with this book at all as I purchased it looking to take my sorbets to a higher level. My disappointment came in the limited range for creative flavor combinations. This book is expensive and everything I found in it could be found in any everyday cookbook.