The maps are poorly drawn and hard to follow. It tells how tocomplete the missions, but lacks multiplayer tactics beyond thebasics.

The explanations of strategies in this guide are incredibly straightforward and concise. And the strategies themselves - unlike those in most other guides I've seen - are specific and always work. Take this paragraph from the 10th Soviet mission walkthrough:

"Your Spy Plane should become available in the meantime: Send it a short distance west of the visible water. You should expose the (Turret- and an AA Gun-guarded) Radar Dome complex. Send a Yak to hit the oil drums around the AA Gun, destroying it. Then hit the Turrets with MIGs. Impressive."

I'll say. Works so well it feels like the game designers planned it that way.

The previous review states the guide's major weaknesses- poor maps and limited multiplayer strategy coverage. The maps look like a child's scribbles with computer generated icons superimposed on them. However, they are useful in letting you know what areas are important for a particular mission, and what path you should follow in non-base "special" missions. Still, the guide probably would have been better with the maps left out.

As for the multiplayer advice, it is short but useful and to the point. A lot of it takes place in the chapters that deal with unit strategy.

Treat this guide as a RA walkthrough or encyclopedia. If you're obsessed about the game like I am, it's a great read.

I was inspired by this book to focus on the future more in general, and in particular to deliberately imagine the future as a spectrum of possible scenarios, which I could watch emerge and either became more likely or fall away as possibilities.

The book was very dense reading, really an MBA text, and had some good case studies and methodology description.

Lot's of comment about the author's reputation and consulting gigs.

I was surprised to learn that the French had made so many very, highly, significant, and important contributions to strategic thinking.

Professor Michel Godet is a Frenchman with 14 books and over 200 papers under his belt. A specialist in strategic planning, he emphasizes the careful use of tools such as scenario planning.

The book is a valuable contribution to the literature of serious-really serious-strategic planners. It will be most appreciated by those who have a very strong scientific bent and are comfortable working with models. Godet's approach is considerably more rigorous than futures-thinking approaches applied in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The concept of the book is very long-range, evidenced by quotes like "the faster the car, the stronger the headlights must be" and "the longer a tree takes to grow, the earlier you have to plant it." English-speaking futurists tend to look more short-range and medium-range with more of an application of intuition mixed with scientific research.

Americans have become accustomed to engaging in quite a bit of internet research to gather information needed for evaluation, decision-making, and planning. Godet describes the internet as "a computerized dumpster," all the while acknowledging that one may still find gold in a dump.

This book is complex and slow reading. The content is "heavy." Nine chapters are followed by a bibliography and index. The first five chapters are titled How to Think About the Future Now, Why Do the Experts Get it Wrong, Hunting Down Cliches, How to be Rigorous with Scenario Planning, and Initiating the Entire Process. The balance of the book, save the last chapter on The Human Factor, consists of case studies.

Good marks for content. Marks off for not making the learning a bit easier to move through. If you're not a real pro-or aspiring pro-in strategic planning, save your time and money.

This book has more errors than should ever be allowed in a professional product. There are typo's in both text and examples. The CD does not contain the source code from the book and I vote this the worst source ever of any computer based information I have found to date. It has left me very unsure of the publishers (QUE) standards and I may never purchase another QUE book again. I simply do not trust them. Spend your hard earned money on a different choice

"Special Edition Using Java, Second Edition" is an excellent reference to JDK 1.0.2. However, today (April 15), only a month and a half after being billed as "Computer Programming Expert Editor's Recommended Book, 03/01/97", it is a dated reference and the cover claims of JDK 1.1 coverage fall short--they are preliminary and peripheral to primary Java programming topics. For example, there is no coverage of the major changes in the Java event model of JDK 1.1, which permeate almost every application. I recommend waiting for better JDK 1.1 coverage, hopefully in Joseph Weber's new version, "Special Edition Using Java 1.1" which has not yet been released, but for which Amazon is taking orders today

This book is nothing if not large. This was QUEs attempt to capture the entire spectrum of JAVA and make it easy to understand (a task that they accomplished) but then the standards changed again. This is still a great book for learning Java; but, you will have to move on to other resources for news on the updates

A lot of the facts in this book are incorrect, but the pictures are pretty good...although most can be found in other books.

I have just finished Spice universe and i have to say it did not meet my expectations. I am a Spice fanatic and this book did not tell me anything i don't already know, the book mostly had pictures in it. Though i would reccomend it to a begginer Spice fan, the book does not provide unique information that Spice fans are looking for.

This book has very good pictures and has great interviews and quotes!! Its worth the money, if you like the spice girls, you'll like this book.

I love Joseph Campbell, but these tapes are more about the interviewer, Michael Toms. I was really disappointed at the questions he asked and the way the whole thing seemed to be edited together.

Look for the tapes of Campbell's lectures instead!

This is a fun book to go through and listen to. It tells about how mythology effects us today and how it's evolving for the future. Michael Toms's voice bears a stricking resemblance to Bill Moyer, who made an excellent series called the Power of Myth. To learn more about Joseph Campbell visit the Joseph Campbell foundation or watch/listen to the Power of Myth.

The Bubbling Cauldron was real great. I like it A-Lot. It was real great, it was also real great.

I discuss this book, as well as a volume on Iraq's military confrontations with the West, in an essay in the November 1998 British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

This book is filled full of facts, which are very interesting. The book can get tedious to read, but the content itself is great, and actually makes sense :) Concepts are explained clearly.

This book is related to the hospitality Business in which managers nowadays need thiese type of books to enhance their learning in the aspec of of the hospitality industry. It helps managers oversee problems which they will be encountering on a day to day basis. Perhaps others may say their experience is a good thing and it's enough for them but for me this book will really help you a lot to plan for the future using strategic skills in the the level of management. si i believe that this book is a great help for the industry..

This book isn't very good. The Passtrack is better. The best one to get is from Securities Training Corporation. They have 13 practice tests. I did all of the practice tests and got a 95% on the exam.

I had previously disparaged this text as a poor study guide (in my PASSTRACK review), but now realize the book is well worth your attention if you are just beginning to study for the Series 7. The price is incredible. I would recommend this book as a starting point, however. Once your firm decides to sponsor you, you can consult thier much denser texts and go from there. I wouldn't recommend using the Barrons as your ONLY means of preparing for the spectre, I mean seven.

Unfortunately, the Barron's hasn't been updated in 3 years, so beware. Additionally, I found some typos in the exam sections which leave one vexed and pining for clarity. Finally, the index needs to be expanded so as to facilitate "quick searches." Nevertheless, the Barrons needs to be commended for packing in so much material into 300 pages.

I've been teaching the Series 7 exam for quite some time [...] and for the money [...], I believe that this book is well worth the small cost. If you read what other reviewers say, please keep in mind that they are comparing this book to others costing up to 30 times the price. The Securitites Training Corp's material cost almost [price]. But, if you want a concise inexpensive book that will definately bring you enlightenment on most of the important tested topics, then by all means buy this book. Keep in mind that I can recommend any book I like, but for the money this one is well worth it.