This book is a waste! I would never feed my dog cheddar cheese, omletes, brown sugar, or most of the ingredients found in these receipes. I was looking for a book that would have receipes for healthy biscuts to supplement the all natural diet I'm currently feeding. This is definitely not it! This and it's companion book Cat Treats uses ingredients I would not feed my dog or cats, and the receipes are fairly long and time consuming and usually make one serving. Who has the time? My advice is unless you have plenty of time and feel like spending 35 minutes in the kitchen making Lamb Loaf Bedlington, you should look elsewhere for treat receipes.

This is basically a pamphlet. There are 3 juice recipes, all using a green drink powder. The author talks about all the natural benefits of fruits and vegetables yet uses commerical drink powders. If you are looking for juice recipes (i.e. best way to blend different fruits and vegetables) this is NOT the "book" for you. I will be returning this to Amazon.com. Signed, Ripped-off in NJ.

Those who've read my reviews know that I give very few 1's (even less than I give 5's). This book earned it due to very sketchy adventures, numerous typographical errors and the limited use of the book.

The production quality is good. Decent maps, nice cover and back and nice drawings for the ImageQuest system of showing your players things that their characters see. They're all consistent in look which can't be said for some of their other adventures. I do have a significant problem with some of the drawings though in that many of the last two adventures' drawings have hidden things in them that your players can spot instead of having to make spot checks. In some cases it's suggested to not make spot checks if the picture is shown, in others it's suggested both the check and the picture... I really dislike this, it makes the player, and not the character, the primary searcher for hidden things.

The biggest problem is that none of the adventures link with each other (except for the last - for highest level characters of all of them, and that one links back to the first adventure... which would be far too easy then without significant modification). Instead, they link to other modules produced by Kenzer & Co.

The errors start right at the beginning in the credits, one of the modules isn't listed with the author, instead the 4th adventure listed is one from "Harvest of Darkness". In other cases a priest of a god will be referenced by the god's name and not his, in some cases a NPC is referenced by his race name and not his own. Just some sloppy editing involved.

I'll review each adventure briefly: (spoilers below)

1. The Sirocco's Kiss: This looks to be an extremely short adventure if the characters pick up on the clues in an opening encounter (or have read the Monster Manual and know the trick to killing the creature they face). If they don't figure out the right combination, the DM will end up killing his first level party, or 2nd level part, or... up to probably an 8th level party. Basically this adventure seems designed to flesh out the seaport district of Bet Seder (5 1/2 pages for the adventure, 9 1/2 pages on the background). The background is well written and interesting but there's not much advice how to use the info to flesh out the adventure itself. Individual rating: 1 (Way too easy, or way too hard... and in most cases, way too quick). 3 If you base your adventures in Bet Seder for awhile.

2. In Too Deep: This is basically 5 separate tiny adventures in a very non-descript, tiny town. Some minor connections between a couple of adventures, but the 'adventure' feels quite disjointed. It's a few decent ideas, none of which are fleshed out beyond synopsis level (kind of a summary of the whole module actually). Individual rating: 1.

3. Night of the Rot Lord: This one is just rotten. It seems more designed to create some 'spot the monsters' in the ImageQuest illustrations, provide 4 pages detailing some diseases of Kalamar, only 2 of which are actually in the adventure (compared to 1 page actually detailing the encounters of the adventure... and 4 pages of NPC/place info). Numerous errors in this one.. Characters being called by the name of their god, being called 'him' when it's a female, having names mixed up, and also right in the beginning the village is described as having no mayor.. And then one of the NPCs is the mayor. Pitiful. Individual Rating: 0.

4. Unguarded Hoard: By far the best of the lot. The characters get to interact with a village protected by a Gold Dragon rumored to have been killed. The characters have some interesting encounters on the way and there's a possibility of ending up with a powerful ally depending on how the adventure plays out. However, numerous uses of "spot the monster" in the ImageQuest pics, and a pretty pathetic directive to the DM to use the character sheets of the players to create an enemy that almost exactly matches them (even to the extent of simply using those sheets for the foes) with no reasoning as to _why_, just that it should be an even matchup. There are 9 pages describing the city of Bromish, 6 for the adventure itself. Individual rating: 2 (good idea, lazy execution).

This book felt like the editors just grabbed random adventure ideas, slapped a minor layer of polishing on it, and then added information to flesh out the Kalamar setting. If you want info on diseases, or two of the cities in the setting, then it might actually be worth it. If you want 4 well done adventures, buy something else.

This is barely what it purports to be- "an in-depth (collection of) case studies of the "state" of e-government today". At best, it's a lazy summary of the fits and starts that some agencies have experienced in demonstrating their good intentions in practicing e-government- even as they bungle this unique opportunity.
Unfortunately, the editors failed to capitalize on a prime value-added of e-government- ubiquitous Democracy .One would have thought that election 2000 would have spurred some reference to e-voting and perhaps the potential for e-mediated direct Democracy. Instead, readers are treated to a litany of inconsequential and lukewarm anecdotes that do little to support a picture of e-government revolutionizing our lives. One would have to wonder just how serious these two people are as journalists and thought-leaders.
Considering that US Governments at various levels spent between $45 billion and $70 billion per annum on IT from 1998 to 2001, I'd hoped for a truly in-depth study of exactly where all this money has been going and some indication as to how the next $45-$70 Billion will be spent on "E-Government 2002".

This is a 114 page book that could've easily been written in a third of the space. It took only 20 minutes to read. It is badly edited, with several typos and bad internal references. A good deal of the information in it is out of date, and there is very little technical information at all. It seems to be a small expansion of a magazine article written for purchasing people. It is addressed to senior management, but I don't know of any senior management who would listen to the hype. It would be a good book to give a senior management person whom you don't like, but wants to know something about EDI.

Not really very detailed -- lacks content and structure. Was written for managers but achieves little in explaining the workings of the technology.

I purchased this book sight unseen based on the author's description. Once I received it, I was disappointed in the lack of new information or insights. Most of what is provided in this book is more thoroughly presented in other machine quilting books. The only "new" technique presented is a description on how Caryl Fallert creates her machine quilted feathers. I also found the exercises and sample quilts uninspiring. I would heartily recommend Guide to Machine Quilting by Diane Gaudynski and Infinite Feathers by Anita Shackleford instead. At a minimum, view the book in person so you can decide whether its worth spending your money on.

This book was OK, 10 editions ago when there were few competitors. However, currently there are several introductory Accounting books which handle the subject matter in a more topical and more interesting fashion. Skip this one!

This is quite possibly the worst bok I have ever read. Mr. Pryce glosses over many important aspects of the men's movement as well as the creation of the men's movement created by the feminist movement. I was unlucky enough to have read this book in a recent class. At the end of the semster we re-created the class and this book was the first thing cut. Perhaps Mr. Pryce needs to revise this "work" and update the ideas, and above all else stop whining!

This alleged biography of Ella Fitzgerald is seriously flawed and not recommended. At its most basic, the book is simply not a serious biography written in a professional manner. For example, the author CONSTANTLY interupts the narrative to give the reader HIS opinions of each and every song she sings, her weight and even her wigs. Even the captions to the photos are annoying ("Still hiding her figure for Verve"..."Oh those awful wigs") This is not acceptable or serious writing for a biography. He also seemingly attempts to convince the reader that he knew Ella personally, sometimes referring to her (annoyingly) as "Miss Fitz." Another complaint: the author talks knowingly about live recorded concert albums leading the reader to believe he has some inside knowlege of a concert, when in reality he is simply relating what is on the actual album for everyone to hear. He also refers to others he supposedly interviewed by their first names ("Keeter" Betts, "Danny" Kaye). Was he really on a first name basis with these people? Of course, we don't know who he interviewed, or when he interviewed them, because there aren't any notes in the book to prove it. If you want a serious bio of the great singer, instead of this thing, I recommend the much-respected "Ella Fitzgerald" by Stuart Nicholson.