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The chapters written by the four professors have a strong academic/pedagogic orientation. Dealing with basic issues in extreme analytic detail, they frequently belabor the obvious and often come across as though they have all the answers (chapters written by Sahlman were especially bad for this). The book does, however, provide some thought-provoking discussion and a reasonable introduction to the issues of assessing viability, planning and managing a new business, and of attracting resources. Some of the chapters not written by the professors provide a good "textbook" reference for subjects such as patent law, raising venture capital, and management technique in checklist style.
I give the book three stars for its rigorous analysis but not five because of its presumptuous tone and the fact that too many of the chapters lean toward the hypothetical. It lacks the genuine, practitioner-based input this subject deserves.

However, I often felt that it was missing more on the practical side. For example, there are a few case studies, but only on certain topics. It was missing more of the "been there, done that" perspective. Definitely there were stories, but in those there was more of a strategic analysis rather than visionary or inspirational.
Overall, this is a very good book to use as reference to certain topics, especially in an academic environment.


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All I can say is:BUY IT!!!

I really like the part where Mary-Kate have 2 go on-stage and then find out she got the wrong "Sugar" (by the way.. that's a horse) .. and the "sugar" she got now doesn't listen 2 her at all!!! But it all works out anyway...
In this book, Ashley get's in a fight with her boyfriend Ross because of a magic-trick, And Ashley didn't know you can't open the magic-box from the inside, so when Ross walks away from her, and she's going to practice by herself.... well she get's stuck in the magic-box, but at the end Ross saves her!!! It's a pretty funny, nice and cute book.. but, i still like "Surprise,Surprise" better!!!


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A 'Must Have' for Weird Tale, Lovecraft, or any horror fan.

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People of the Black Circle (REH)
The Slithering Shadow (REH)
The Drums of Tombalku (DeCamp, REH)
The Pool of the Black One (REH)
Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) created the premiere sword-and-sorcery character Conan the barbarian for the pulp magazine "Weird Tales" in the early 1930's. L. Sprague De Camp, an academic and literary fantasist, edited the stories for re-publication in the 1960's. He also obtained outlines for never-completed Conan tales from Howard's literary agent, Glenn Lord, and used them to produce pastiches in the Howard manner. "The Drums of Tombalku" is one of these stories; although REH is listed as co-author the story is really assembled from such adventures as "Jewels of Gwahlur" and "The Slithering Shadow". Oddly Conan plays an incidental role; it is Almuric the Aquilonian adventurer who discovers the lost, decaying city of a dying race who are preyed upon by a supernatural monster, and rescues the damsel in distress. Conan is tacked on at the end in a bit of mercenary intrigue that appears to be included only to give him a role in the story - as a fairy Godfather?
Of the real Howard stories, "People of the Black Circle" is the best, a neat mixture of sorcery, intrigue and action. "The Slithering Shadow" is a formulaic lost-city- decayed-race- monster-threatens-the-ingenue story, and "Pool of the Black One" is only a minor variation on the theme.


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"Red Nails" is one of REH's best. Unlike the typical tale of the lost city, dying race and monster-menaced ingenue this tale gives us the tough female pirate Valeria, who I wish we saw more of (in a different sense from what Howard provides!)
"Jewels of Gwahlur" is more typical of the lost- city genre, with Conan breaking up an attempt to defraud an African kindom of its mystic gems and rescuing the girl at the same time.
"Beyond the Black River" is classic Conan, as the mercenary- barbarian fights the Picts on behalf of Aquilonian colonizers.
Great stuff!


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...if there is a connection between crop circle formations and supposed alien-contact, ...how physical objects can manifest before the eyes of several (fantasy-prone) individuals at once, ...the spiritual significance of the UFO-encounter phenomenon at a time when "the shift of the Ages" is in progress.
There is a stunning lack of curiosity here--a profound narrowness of mind which elevates pragmatic (and psychological) comprehension while excluding a wholistic evaluation. It simply isn't true, for example, that there isn't evidence of UFOs (or ooparts) in earlier centuries. The excuse that the authors haven't experienced the "faith" required to believe in aliens is lame. And their failure to return to the framing question which begins the work in an epilogue, begs the question, "Isn't this simply evidence of the 'publish or perish' syndrome?"
What this text does, it does well. But it doesn't do what we want an exploration of "the mysteries" to do! The subtitle is betrayed from the get go. Buyer beware, indeed.


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A decent read, and better than most crappy Conan-novels not written by Robert E. Howard, though still lacking that certain pulp feeling.