I've been practicing witchcraft for a while now, and I read books on the subject whenever I can. I was really excited to get this book since this is my first year in the dorms and I'm at a new college.
The book is a fine book, but there are some things that the book is not. And that's something I think prospective buyers need to be aware of. The book is a basic book on Wicca that seems to be aimed at the new witch who is also a new college student. It's sort of like a "teen witch" book, but since it's for college students it's a "college witch" book. If you've been practicing for the craft for more then a year or so most of the information probably won't be new, especially since books on the craft are a booming industry. And so the book won't be much help because of this. I would say the only section of the book I haven't seen before is the section on pagan bands.
However, Anthony Paige is a fine writer, and sometimes his writing is sheer poetry. And for those people new to the Craft I would recommend his book.
For those who have been practicing for some time I would say the book is a nice read, but not very helpful.

I know when I started practicing Wicca several years ago my freshman year at university I felt I was stuck in the middle between the Teen Witch books and the somewhat intimidating Farrar, etc. books. I made do with the Ravenwolf selection, but I wish I had had this book back then. It's written in a very clear, brisk manner, and relates to many of the concerns of the college Witch. I especially like the chapter where Paige does a little 'human interest' background, relating the inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking stories of the college witches he has encountered. Buy it for these if you buy this book for no other reason.

ROCKING THE GODDESS, the new book that explores the widespread practice of Wicca and Paganism on college campuses across the country, is as important as it is informative and entertaining. What's amazing is that writer is a college student himself. His writing is very polished, and he actually approaches the subject from the point of journalist and practitioner (like Margot Adler did two decades ago.) Young and aspiring Witches and Pagans will find within these pages a lot of personal stories, rituals, spells and meaningful points about what it means to be young and spiritual. I myself am not a college student (graduated a few years back) but I wish I had had a book like this when I was on campus and trying to practice Wicca. The directory at the back of the book lists Pagan/Wiccan student associations all over the U.S., which I think makes for good networking. For older Wiccans, this book shows how much of a movement Wicca is, and it gives us an insight into what the next generation is thinking and where and how they're practicing. Paige has written a very original and thought-provoking book. An excellent resource guide for young Witches, Wiccans and Pagans.

Never before has a Rendell novel left me so cold. Totally untypical of its brilliant author, "Some Lie and Some Die" is dull and unsatisfying, and offers little to reward the reader for enduring such tedium. The characters--with a few exceptions--are uninteresting; detection is slow and scarce, and the motive for the murder turns out to be highly improbable. It's as if Rendell wrote a mystery starting with the body but forgot to include a plausible reason for it. Where is the seamless manipulation, the ingenuity, the stunning surprise twists interlaced with brilliant psychological insight, that are the hallmarks of Rendell's work? Not here. The few bright spots are the scenes between Inspector Burden and his son, which show us a humor, an energy missing from the rest of this dead, bleak novel. Let's just toss this one along with "Simisola" into Rendell's "Forget about it" pile.

Rendell portrays her own era and environment with subtle language use and style. This book is a description of a Woodstock-type gathering that uncovers a murder mystery. Rendell somehow remains non-judgmental while giving an accurate portrait of much that went on during the "hippie" decades. The plot is great and any Rendell is worth a read, in my opinion.

"Some Lie and Some Die" is a superbly crafted mystery novel. It's short--in pages, and in time-line, and it's not overly burdened with plotting or diverting details. It is, in a word, elegant. The events (a murder, a missing girl, a palette of suspects) are set against the backdrop of a rock concert, complete with egotistical stars and fawning sycophants, spoiled fans and irate neighbors. But underlying it all are the basic human failings of self-absorption and greed and it is these motivations which lead to the horror and the desperation of the characters and their actions. Rendell is, as usual, an incisive observer of the dark side of humanity, and a writer who can portray the consequences with the short, deft strokes of a master craftsman.

This is a novel written by an honest, hard-working seaman, who undoubtedly decided to leave out some of the nastier parts associated with our occupation of The Philippines. All in all, it's a well-written novel and it takes you back to how things were. I visited Olongapo 5 years after the Base closed down, and walking down Magsaysay, I saw the Subic that used to be in the form of ancient ruins. Many of the buildings, bars and discotheques long abandoned. This novel let's you relive the sights sounds and smells of the "Old Sailor Town". I only reccomend this book to people who have been there.

Interesting book, written as a novel from the perspective of a deck seaman serving on the USS Spice, a fictional Military Sealift Command ship (probably based on the USS Spica (TAFS-9) that was actually homeported at the Subic Bay Naval Base). Takes place in the late 80's/early 90's, ably relating the story of everyday life at Subic and aboard an underway repenishment ship (my personal experience is from USS Mars (AFS-1)). The book even tastefully works in the readily available prostitution and its affects on the local inhabitants. World events intrude into life at Subic as the Spice deploys to the Persian Gulf for Desert Shield/Desert Storm. The ship returns just in time for the devastation caused by the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, as well as the rejection of the U.S. Bases agreement by the Philippine Senate and the end of the U.S. military presence in the Philippines. A must read for any Navy/Air Force man or woman who ever set foot at Subic or Clark Air Base, it will certainly bring back memories. The one drawback to the book is that it appears to have been printed without the benefit of proofreading, and the many spelling and grammar errors can be frustrating. Also, military acronyms are broken out differently in different chapters of the book. Even with these drawbacks, it is still a fascinating look into a place that is gone forever, except in the memories of many service men and women. Many thanks to Mr. Mills for telling this story.

An excellent read for anyone that has ever been stationed in the Philippines while in the service, or for anyone that has ever had the pleasure of making a "port of call".

Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945 is the culmination of three German naval historians in ttempting to document every combatant to serve in the Imperial Japanese Navy. This is the most complete book on the IJN available and contains excellent data on all major and minor warships.

A useful reference for the modeler, the only weakness is the size of the illustrations, which are mostly in 1/1200 scale. The original German edition had better line drawings, but few photos. The strength of this English edition is the collection of photos, many not seen outside of Japan until now. I would rate this as a 4 1/2 star effort and definitely superior to the book by Watts on the same subject.

An excellent reference. This book contains listings for nearly every IJN ship up to the end of WWII. This book does not have pages of descriptive info concerning ship types, instead this book's info is listed in short tabular layouts. All in all a great book to have if you are interested in the IJN.

The book is very complete, listing almost EVERY warship, of every size and type, manned by the IJN during the covered period. The data are quite detailed and the book is filled with a lot of fine drawings. The photos are not so numerous but all of them are of good quality. Every class is briefly described in all respects: technically, historically and as regard the operational career of each ship till her life's end (scrapped or lost, it doesn't matter). If you are looking for a complete reference on the IJN's warships, you can't miss this book: I own a good warship library, comprising other books dealing with the IJN, but I regard this one my true reference on the matter!

I noticed that Tony DeRose, one of the authors of this book,
was a project lead in Pixar's wonderful film "Monsters".
Computer graphics, especially at the cutting edge practiced
by Pixar is deeply mathematical. This is certainly reflected
in this book.

This book covers a number of areas that are not covered outside
of journal articles. For example, there are chapters on
interpolating wavelets (e.g., wavelets built via splines or
polynomials). The coverage of interpolation and splines to
construct wavelet is good, but the authors quickly gloss over
the other critical half of the problem: how to construct a
scaling function for a given interpolating wavelet. I have
read over this material several times and I have not found the
answer. I have come to doubt that the answer is there, at
least in a complete form.

This characterizes much of the book. The authors cover
important material, but if you are not already deeply
familiar wavelet mathematics, it may be difficult or
impossible to implement an algorith from the coverage
provided in this book. Many practical issues are missing.
For example, many wavelets calculated on a finite data set
like an image can have edge effects. There is little
in this book on minimizing edge effects.

If you are already familiar with wavelet algorithms and their
implementation, this book may be a great reference for wavelet
applications in computer graphics. But it is by no means
an introduction for the novice.

This is a fine introduction to wavelets for computer scientists, with many fun applications in computer graphics. Easier than other introductions I've seen, in part because it avoids the frequency domain. I'm using it in a graduate course, but it would be easy to use by yourself or in a special seminar for undergraduates in CS or math.

I shall be brief and skip saucy words and go to the main point: Why you should acquire this book? 2 Reasons. 1)Michael Lounsbery, Tony D. DeRose and Joe Warren, "Multiresolution analysis for surfaces of arbitrary topological type" 2)"Multiresolution curves", Adam Finkelstein and David H. Salesin.

The authors offer their knowledge in an early stage and this honour them in the largest extent! This book provides an expleantion for these two papers and their branches(papers originating from these theories).

This book contains a number of stories written by such notable authors as Paulo Friere. My biggest problem with this book is that it is too left wing for me. A few examples are

Friere's overview of the "banking concept of education", an essay wit serious marxist overtones

Joh Edgar Wideman's essay on the hardhips that an author has when he visits his younger brother in prison. More of a commentary on prison conditions, as well as the tragedies happening in the inner city.

Susan Bordo's esssay on "hunger as ideology" and how ads still target womens insecurities about weight

If you're going to write a book such as this one with essays from writers, at least have the decency to make it fictional essays instead of either a left or right wing perspective. My beef is that this book is used extensively by freshman college students and showing them one side of the political spectrum is not fair.

This tremendously rich and rewarding book is probably the best collection of essays, with the best apparatus (the most interesting questions, the best ideas for writing) of any teachable collection out there.

I teach at the University of California, Berkeley, and use this book, as do a number of my colleagues. Each one of these essays will unlock a world. Some of them, like Clifford Geertz or Paolo Freire or John Edgar Wideman or Adrienne Rich are centerpieces of my courses. History, anthropology, literature (the new addition of Alice Munro is a brilliant stroke), fieldwork, sociology... but to say that one can introduce any of these fields using this book doesn't do it justice.

These essays are complex and balanced, representing a wide variety of world views, whether political or aesthetic. Reading them requires some effort, but the essays will well repay that effort. They will transform any reader's ideas of what an essay can be.

This book contains great argumentative writing in it. We used this book when I was a freshman in college for my argumentative class at the Universoty of Florida. It has classic scenarios of critics and advocates of movements expressing themselves in essay form. This book contains arguments about real life events that occured recently and discusses them in a very intellectual level. One of the best things about this book is that you can compare the essays within with other essays in the book. Sometimes the essays are foils of one another and through this you can see their subjective viewpoint more clearly. Most of the time the essays do compliment one another and intensify the other's argument tenfold.

The Nobel Prize for Medicine has been given to psychiatrists three times--once for lobotomies, once for injecting the blood of tertiary syphilitics into schizophrenics, and once for discovering certain neurotransmitters. Both of the first "accomplishments" were hailed to such heights solely for their clinical effectiveness, since no one even pretended that science could explicate their effectiveness.

In all of medicine (except, apparently, psychiatry), a distinction between science--which tries to understand what is true--and clinical studies--which ascertain what works--is fairly standard. That's because "what works" may be ill-understood or completely misunderstood and ultimately not very wise--an idea need not be true to be effective, a procedure need not be based on true ideas to "work," and what "works" may turn out to have undesirable effects on other systems.

If you are unconcerned with the distinction between truth and effectiveness, this book is very good. If, however, you know that historically very terrible things have been shown to "work" to the satisfaction of the doctors, you may find the emphasis on effectiveness very troubling.

The book by Roth and Fonagy is a comprehensive and balanced summary of research on psychotherapy. Principly it covers outcome studies and is organised according to DSMIV diagnostic groups. It also covers a bit of process research, particularly the research on therapeutic alliance. There is much to recomnd the book: it is accurate, comprehensive, well written and balanced. It also offeres excellent summaries and impications ections at the end of each chapter. I don't know of a better summary of psychotherapy outcome research.

This book would lend itself well to a research oriented graduate course on clinical psychology and treatment. It is also an excellent resource for writing lectures. Practicing clinicians should find it invaluable. It is concise and synthesizes an extensive body of research well (with appropriate and useful references). Selling points include specifics on clinical description, prevalence, co-morbidity, and history for each disorder covered. Reviews (and summaries) of treatment efficacy are excellent. -W. Born

Willy is the ultimate boy, uuups, sorry, monkey that still lives in most of all. Full of insecurities, full of dreams, full of fears. Its very easy to relate to him, specially by every little child who at least once in his or her short life has felt left out. In Willy the Wizard, Willy isn't good enough to be a part of the soccer team, but more than that he is a supertitious little monkey who feels that if he doesn't follow his rituals, well, who knows?. Full of love, full of magic, with wonderful illustrations, the Willy series is a must have in every little child's library.

This is a cute story, and would be an excellent ice-breaker for a child who might be a bit superstitious or obsessive-compulsive. After reading this book to the child, the adult could follow up with a discussion of the story's moral which is that it was Willy's skill and not magic that made Willy a great player.

My son and I like this book a lot because it relates tosomething my son likes, soccer, and it's told in a language that alittle kid can understand. Willy is also in the predicament of not being able to have something that he really wants--something that we want our son to understand. What happens to Willy will delight you, and your child will want to reread this book a hundred times over. As for my son, we read this book every day at naptime and bedtime. We love it.

I have the problem with the game on line internet and not easy to find out the games list on around the machine shop with aracde , n64 , playstation and other but we want to know everygame should have cal Priject Master Zone Game or Games Master Zones 2000's. The List i want to be make sore all the front is logo of new World like the Internet Program on top pf right moving around and this look great. But the front of the inetrnet should say which game would the list i playstation , n64 and other to click whatere they want. Then make sore they topic one each time and show which they want then. show the list anything with picture and game or need to have logo of name of games. I will make the games information and this couldn't easy because they i cant find internet game and picture and how to play on naything joystick to supply the right things for everyone. If you wish to mail me and i dont have the internet i just in the Northern Melbourne Institute of tafe student is Building House. Paul Tsinas 46 elsey rd reservoir 3073 Vic Melbourne.

I think this book is great for those beggining computer game players. I just got some new game and it told easy to follow codes so it didn't lose you. I think the book is great for all the beging computer game players. Mike Plant

definately recommended to those who enjoy short stories, a couple keep ya hangin' a little at the end, but that just keeps it more interesting.

These short stories by the well-known Piers Anthony are an interesting and diverse collection which I really enjoyed, although they do not compare with his Xanth or Incarnations of Immortality Series. I especially enjoyed "Alien Plot"(the short story) and "Soft Like a Woman," which is a SF story about a woman who is anything but soft, contradicting those who label Anthony a sexist. This is a good read, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys Anthony or short stories in general.