The Azanians set up the first Outpost in the Wolf 359 system, and called it "Nyotekundu". This Sourcebook covers Inferno, the two Outposts on it, the Nyotekundu system, and the Orbital Mining Station Andrew Carnegie.

Included are a couple of adventures (including a sub-plot that can be used for players who've read the module), extensive information on the OMS, its crew, equipment, and systems. Different ways to bring the PCs into the adventure are also included.

One of the more interesting aspects of this module is the Medusa This race is unknown to man, in 2300.

The _Nyotekundu Sourcebook_ also has new rules and new skills, such as Robotics, Spin Operations, Zero-G, and Scooter Pilot. Lots of neat new stuff appears in this module!

For PCs who prefer a more investigative campaign, as opposed to Kafer-killing, this adventure is made-to-order. Perfect for that team of Troubleshooters. END

Besides an inconsistant flow of material, a good 75% of the problems are not usable, either because they are too complicated at this level or are inappropriate for the material at hand. Thankfully, this book is designed so that every problem does not have to be solved by the student and still understand the material.

All problems in the application chapters are real-world, and the 25% that work, work well. They do the job, and as some student have put it, are enjoyable to work with.

It takes a caring engineering mechanics department and staff to get this book to work in the classroom. When it works, it's the best workbook available. If the students are set out on their own however, expect means in the high 50s. It's one of those books.

The workouts are VERY intense. I'm 36 and in pretty good shape. But after 1 week of following this plan, I was too sore to move. If you are not already in excellent condition, then I can't even recommend this book for its workouts.

I like the workout, it's a plan I can actually follow. The exercises are simple and tough. Getting in shape doesn't require complicated machines and workouts. Simplicity and form are what you need for any effective workout.

If you have any other books in this series, you don't need this one. I don't, so it works for me. All military workouts will have a similarity. A previous reviewer mentioned the similarity of this and the Navy SEAL workout in this series. There should be since Navy SEALs are the ones who design and implement the physical education program (P.E.P.)at the Naval Academy. There may be better books in the series, but I think this one will fulfill any of your needs. Ask yourself what you want to look like and find the program that will take you there. This one will get you fit (which is all most people want to be).

Get the book if you want a good workout. The nutrition information is lacking, but that's okay.

I disagree with the previous reviewer who said the workout is too tough for beginners. Any one can use it. You may not be able to all the reps in the 6-week plan, go at your own pace. Take a look at the exercises and think of how many reps you can do. Do as many as you think you be comfortable with. After you're done with a full set of these exercises go back if you think you haven't done enough. Know your limits.

My only complaint about this book is the way the pictures of the same tractor are repeated again and again at different angles. The captions are written in such a way that the intention of the authors appears to be to make the reader believe they are different tractors. Close inspection shows that they are shots of the same tractor taken on the same day. (For example, the same AC 6-12 is shown on pages 10, 11, and 12).

If you are just an average joe/joan like me who wants to know more about China, don't waste your 28 bucks on this book.

I think the most interest aspect of this book is how it portrays Hu's successor, Zhao Ziyang. Western authors portray Zhao as a reformer. However, Ruan Ming shows us a schemer that is more interested in pushing Deng to the wayside and garnering full authority for himself and his "new elite". In 1989, the West saw a tearful Zhao supposedly working in the interests of the student protestors, symapthizing with their demands for democracy and reform. However, Ruan Ming shows us that this was a merely a tactic in his ongoing struggle to build power for himself within the party.

Overall, I think this book should be required reading for anyone interested in the inner workings of China's government. For once we have an account from a former member of China's government. I feel his account has painted a picture of China's key political players stripped of their masks. We are given an excellent example of how divided China's government is and how that relates to China's ability to develop into a "First World" Power in the future.

Entries on these and other terms are helpful, and the book includes quite a few unexpected little essays on cinema, popular music, etc.

However, many of the entries fall victim to the same kind of jargoneering they purport to demystify; I must fault in particular the writing of one of the editors, Peter Sedgwick, whose entries are often obfuscatory or just plain badly written, e.g., in this description of "essentialism":

"Whether or not adoption of this view commits one to holding that these properties must exist in reality prior to the act of naming an object, so that a definition, if it is true is a priori true (see Lyotard's criticism of essentialism in "The Differend: Phrases in Dispute" (1988), Section 88) is perhaps an open question."

Whew! The editor needs an editor.

In all this is a helpful book (with a helpful index and bibliography as well), but sometimes suffers from the ills of its field.