While it does have a plethora of material on the Enochian system of John Dee and the concept of a workbook is good, the material is riddled with holes and inconsistencies. It's sort of a convoluted attempt to mix Golden Dawn, Crowley and John Dee but there are no clues to where anything comes from. Crowley and John Dee alone were two very different people and had two very different approaches to the subject. While I tend to be a purist I can't actually see how this book would help a beginning student grow in the subject matter (unless they are only reading the Schueller's other books) and as for an advanced student it really useless. I don't want to knock the Schueller's as Gerald Schueller's Enochian Physics is actually very thought-provoking. I just tend to think that this one of Llewellyn's books that are put out for mass consumption with very little regard for scholarship or the editorial process.

Please heed my warning and save yourself some money. Do not buy this book. There are many, many other books on the market by people who actually use the system of Enochian Magick that will be able to explain concepts and procedures much more accurately and succinctly then Gerald and Betty Scheuler will ever do.

One of the things that the book engaged in was a belittlement of my intelligence. The "Educational" approach seemed to be nothing more then a guis in which the Scheuler's hid their absolute ignorance of the subject. The chapters looked like they were designed to be read by a person of the first grade! Not only this, but they interjected a lot of their own speculations on the subject with no citations at all, or even excerpts from any attempted scryings or workings that they may have performed.

Another downfall of the book is their attempt to "Enochianize" other rituals. Rather then going into a detailed explanation of the Calls, they present other, more obtuse items, such as an "Enochian LBRP". Upon close study of these rituals, however, you will notice that they even lack a thorough understanding of the Enochian language itself!

I could go into many, many more points of the book, and why it is a complete piece of drivel, but that would be beating a dead horse. If you are interested in truly studying the Enochian system, then please buy Donald Tyson's book on the subject, as well as Geoffrey Jame's rendition of the original Diaries.

LVX, Cyrdwyn

This book is great for someone who has a hard time understanding the principles of the enochian. This book starts with the basics and slowly introduces the student into practical magic. It is also a great reference book to their other works and offers information not found elsewhere.

this book [stinks]! the examples are skecthy and only show one type of the problem the certain trig section is on (when there are many situations and scenarios trig problems could be in). this book makes self teaching impossible. I would suggest another book to use.

*this is a student prespective

This is an absolutely dreadful book. While it does state the principles and/or formulae you need to know at the beginning of each chapter, the resultant mess is nearly impossible to work through. The explanations and sample problems are confusingly explained and walked through, and even after going over them several times, I would find myself with no idea how to go about solving a problem.

In fact, after going through a chapter, you realize that it would have saved a lot of time and effort just flipping to the chapter summary, where they outline everything you need to know, so even if you still don't understand the materiel, at least you'll have it to work with.

There are plenty of other, and much better, trig books on the market. Don't buy this one.

One nice aspect of the text is the examples which are worked out very well for the reader.

I'm looking to buy this to supplement a trig course that I teach. The other bozo may have written 800 reviews, but he doesn't know much about math texts.

This book has good pictures but does not help much at all. Too many planters listed as unmarked, if you want a book to identify the unmarked planters go to another book. When it list a maker the piece is already marked by the maker. If you want this book don't pay too much for book under 8.00 would be ok.

This book is full of large color pictures. Unfortunatly few pieces,that are not already Marked by the maker are identified. I also found the values did not run true to other reference material. There were several misidentification of pieces the even an amateur, like myself, could spot. Good photography-as a reference and value guide poor.

This book is not about a party planning business, as the title suggests. It is about selling products via a party plan (Tupperware, Magic chef, et al)

The actual market for this book is very limited and even then, most of the parent companies provide most of the information included here in their own training. Not worth the price to much of anybody!

This book is for the "PARTY PLAN" business, not party planning. I thought that it was a book about how to start your own Party Planning business. I got the book and was disappointed because it is a guide to being a saleswoman. Like Mary Kay, Pampered Chef, etc. It is about merchandising a particular product and trying to teach you how to get bookings. It's not actual Party & Event Planning like I had anticipated. It is good if you are intended to be and Avon, Mary Kay, or Pampered Chef woman but not if you are looking to plan your own Event Planning Business.

I've tried out a few recipes in this book, and I wonder if the recipes were ever tested. Everything I've made has been sub-par. For instance, the meatloaf recipe came out with an inch layer of water on top of it! Did they even account for the water content in vegetables? Although the pictures look good, the actual products are not. I recommend recipes in Cooking Light magazine, everything I've ever made there has been phenomenal.

For someone wanting to learn more about British idioms and speech, this book is a great disappointment. Nearly 99% of the idioms listed are common American usage (e.g. "hold your horses") and provide little new insight or help in understanding our U.K. counterparts. In the entire book, there are only a a small handful of uniquely British idioms (e.g. "play gooseberry" or "dance attendance"), and there were some glaring omissions. There was no mention of "sticky wicket", for example. If you want to understand the Brits, I recommend you look at Margaret Moore's Understanding British English.

As an expectant dad I found this book easy to read and adequate. It reviews the basics: your wife's changing mood, sex, labor, c-sections, etc. If you're in the dark, this book will help lighten things up.

However, the book is written in an old-fashioned tone. The pregnant woman is always referred to as either "your wife" or a "girl." Also, its expectations of fathers are quite low: be patient, don't sulk, be nice. The message seems to be: "You're used to getting your way, but now you need to compromise just a bit." For a sexist guy, this book could be of some help, but for the sophisticated man Naomi Wolf's _Misconceptions_ is much better.

Back Cover description: Could she cope with the Savage family? Louisa didn't want to marry the boring Frank, nor did she want to live with her stepmother. She was fortunate to get, after completing her training, what sounded like a pleasant and challenging nursing job--in Norway! Louisa was delighted, even though her patient, Claudia Savage, did cause some problems--not helped by the austere unco-operative attitude of Claudia's brother Simon. She couldn't understand why he was so disagreeable...

This is the first Betty Neels story I've read where the hero wasn't a doctor and the setting wasn't Holland/Netherlands. The descriptions of Norway were fine. What I didn't like was the plot. The patient is an alcoholic. No one tells Louisa that, not the two doctors, not the brother (until halfway through the book). This is the first book of Ms. Neels where the doctors actually are incompetent. What else could you say it is when the two doctors never say to the nurse what the problem is-they gloss it over with euphemisms. I never warmed up to the hero, there was just something I found unattractive. If that wasn't enough, Claudia has a miracle cure for her drinking-she falls in love. Sorry, I just can't buy this storyline.

This is NOT a revenge book. The title is completely misleading.

This is NOT a book that you want to waste time reading if - uh - well, if you have a purely theoretical interest in how you would go about getting even with someone without going to jail.

My edition has, on its cover, not only the misleading title, but a cartoon of a man in prison stripes sitting on a bunk with the standard crossed red-circle (signifying "No") drawn through him, and I have no idea what this cartoon is doing here.

This book is pretty much a partial story of the life of a man, the author Maxx Robinson, born in 1915 and some of the grifter-like scams that he used in order to get an honorable discharge from the military and to make a buck as an entrepreneur.

I could hardly care less, and I should really give this book only one star for being something completely different from what was promised.

I'll throw out another star because, for a short time, it held a modicum of interest for me. Robinson has some interesting stories about life in the Depression and during Prohibition and of his own World War II experiences, though none of the latter involved combat.

Also, there's some interesting tidbits here about life in Southern California during the post-war land boom. I pretty much lost interest in the book after that, and so will the average reader unless he has a burning passion to acquire as much information as possible on how to build and operate a sawmill.

I AM mildly grateful for the author's honesty, and there is no reason to doubt that honesty. His schemes won't upset the average reader, but he also has a frank portrayal of how he engaged in a racially-motivated and otherwise unprovoked attack on a zoot-suited Mexican on the streets of Anaheim following the post-victory celebration of the war's end.

The book should operate as a good antidote to Brokaw-induced nostalgia about the graciousness of the Depression/WW2 generation and the selfless patriotic service that the people of that generation rendered to the nation.

Yeah, yeah, yeah - but even setting aside the racial animus which was a dark side sometimes shown by that generation, it's pretty clear from Robinson's descriptions of his own corner-cutting schemes, and the settings in which they took place, that these schemes were not isolated incidents from this era but were simply his own renditions of what many people were doing at this time to get ahead or stay ahead.

Robinson provides little evidence of the existence of a generation of Good Samaritans who set aside all self-interest and internal differences and put their common shoulders to the wheel in order to pull the nation out of crisis.

I still think that we are living in the worst of times today, but it's clear from Robinson's account that the Depression/WW2 generation was not THAT much different from succeeding generations in terms of self-centeredness and moral shortcomings.

And for that admission, I suppose that the reader owes Robinson some gratitude. In tribute to this, I have given him the extra star, and I'll even refrain from seeking revenge for having received something other than what I thought I was paying for.

First of all, never trust a guide book to Vegas which states "we don't gamble" (p. 31) and then tries to tell you which casinos are the best. This book is full of opinionated "top ten" lists which only appeal to a certain demographic. (Namely, the demographic which would drive all over town to find the number one 99-cent shrimp cocktail, and then would look for the number one spot to park the RV. Lucky for them, both lists are provided.)

Every traveler to Vegas should see Sehlinger's Unofficial Guide to Las Vegas, which would appeal to a wide variety of tourists. The younger crowd needs to check out Frommer's Irreverant Guide to Las Vegas.