I personally think that back then this guide was good for Prima (I really hated their guides when this first came out). But I really hate a lot ofthe things they do in this guide. You should go with the one from Konami or VERSUS BOOKS (but Versus is sold out....).

On the positive side the guide explains things in detail (a little too much detail if you know what I mean *plot spoilers*).
Sure, its nice that Prima gets down to business and doesn't joke around but because they get down to business they miss points in the game that could be important.

The guide has a good walkthrough and the maps are pretty good if you could deal with the soliton radar. Boss strategies aren't as in-depth as VERSUS BOOKS and they don't tell you everthing you can do.

Also, the guide is full of plot spoilers. You thought BradyGAMES was bad? Try this! They spoil the ending! After going through the game the ending is what we strive for! And if they spoil it I don't know about you but it kinda takes the fun out of the ending.

OVERALL:
Positive
+Map are good
+Gets down to business

Negative
-Spoils plot
-spoils endings
-not many secrets
-not quite as in depth as most other guides

This guide goes into things in way too much detail . But the maps and item and weapon lists are great. And it does not fall apart like Final Fantasy Tactics Guide... If you still haven't completed Metal Gear solid I suggest you get this Guide now! You won't get lost with this guide!

I have gone over this book in it's entirety and I must say that it's put together very nicely but the most important missing are the tapes. It would be excellent if it came with tapes.

The "Cantonese Basic Course" is / was published in two separate volumes. The ASIN # 4400012685 should be just volume 1. If you search amazon by the author's name (just click on the name) you will find volume 2, as well as the audiotapes. (ISBN 0879506792.) This book is the required text for Chinese 10A at City College of San Francisco.

I have audiotapes for learning Cantonese from 4 different "systems". The audiotapes with this textbook are the best by far. The actual methodology for teaching Cantonese is fairly clear. Cantonese is a tonal language with as many as 7 "tones" for a given syllable. This text is the only one of the four which gives a clear explination of the varous tones.

There are several different "printings" of this book. Be warned that the spiral bound volume 1 looks like a photocopy, and may be harder to read than the smaller sized paperback. The spiral bound version is also priced higher than the paperback version. I rate this textbook as a 3 out of 5 as the print job is horrible (for ALL the versions I have seen.) The text has been used for many years and is considered to be one of the best to learn Cantonese - so don't judge this book by my review.

This is a very good course to work from. Its vocabulary is the most useful for a beginning (and intermediate student), its explanations of both pronunciation and grammar are extremely well organized and easy to follow, and there are many excellent exercises and drills. Although this book quite clearly was originally intended to be used in a classroom setting, it is not difficult to adapt the exercises for self-study- since there is usually Cantonese on one side, and English on the other, just cover up one side- then, later on, review by doing it the other way around.

Two negatives: First, the book should be sold with tapes. There are other courses on the market which have audio support, so if you also have one of these, you can learn Cantonese pronunciation from them while using this course. "Colloquial Cantonese" (from Routledge) is a particularly good fit because it uses basically the same system of transcription found in "Cantonese Basic Course". Otherwise, the help of a native speaker will be needed, and from my own experience, many native speakers will be baffled by the transcription (which was originally developed at Yale). Second, the original State Department Course from which this was taken had thirty lessons, but this edition includes only the first fifteen. I would certainly give this book more stars if it contained the full course of thirty lessons.

I was very surprised when I ordered this book and found out that yes, indeed, it was merely a very tiny portion of what I had expected. I suppose I should have known from the price, but the description (at least at that time) did not make it clear that it wasn't the entire dictionary.

While this may be a very thorough source for the words it covers, it should be noted in the basic information that this is ONLY 128 pages of a 15,000 page work. The description above is very misleading.

itz a dictionary. what more can i say

"Data About Us: Statistics" is one of the Connected Mathematics Project units, a set of units designated for grades 6-8. "Data About Us: Statistics" explores 4 different types of graphs- line plots, bar graphs, stem-and-leaf plots, and coordinate graphs, along with the 3 averages- mode, median, and mean. Instead of chapters, the book has investigations, and has 5 of them. Each investigation explores a different concept. In each investigation, there a certain number of sections. Each investigation has up to 5 sections. In each section, there is a problem. The problems are named according to what the investigation and section is. For example, if the problem is in Investigation 1, Section 1.2, the problem is called Problem 1.2. Following each investigation is a lengthy set of ACE (Applications-Connections-Extensions) questions. They are mostly reasoning and critical thinking but also include drawing graphs. At the end of the unit, there is a unit project in which you conduct a survey regarding typical characteristics of a middle schooler, make graphs, analyze the data, and conclude what the typical characteristics are. So, all in all, I would give this text 3 out of 5 stars because some of the questions are quite repetitive and moronic (e.g. How do you find the mean?) and require sentences and sentences of reasoning.

I was looking on a resource on daily life in Victorian America. This seemed like the perfect find. Upon getting it home however, I was badly disappointed. Sprinkled with the dryest English wit imaginable, it is essentially the story of a regular person. Apart from her distinguished company, there is little of interest in her life. She travelled frequently, but only did the same thing in other countries as she did in her own - attended cocktail parties, operas, balets, balls and the like. It is reminiscent of the peaceful chapters in War and Peace. On and on, in droning monotone, event after tedious event is described to her somehow interested mother. It does say one thing about rich Victorians: they were boring!

When is it going to dawn on writers/Mainlanders running from their mistakes that we in Hawaii don't want them to come here and bring their "baggage" with them? No matter how "at home" you feel, what kind of spiritual moments you think you have here, you will be an outsider until the day you die-preferably somewhere else. Lowell buys into every tourist cliche ever contrived when she misuses famous Hawaiian names and then names her heroine Pele:that alone should be enough to make Kilaeua erupt in indignation. Using the hula for sexual tension and having onstage clinches is another major no-no. Did she do ANY research with local Hawaiians? This is a formula book with the requisite cute meet, sexual tension, sloppy sex, the "bump" when there is a misunderstanding, and the reconciliation. Romance readers should skip it because it appears hurriedly written and poorly edited, not to mention the commodification of Hawaiian culture for a draw, and just plain bad research - I was a fan until read this one. Now it'll be a while before I buy Lowell again and I hope she rewrites this one with more sensitivity to the culture she pillages for material.

I expected a love story, a romance. If there was any doubt in my mind it was confirmed by the ending which was all about sex. I have only read one other book by Lowell so I am not a particular fan of hers or the genre. This book was not that bad. I was particulary moved by the misunderstanding in the middle of the book. But from that point on the book lost all credibility. Nicole never held Chase accountable for his rudeness. And later she did not challenge him on his assumptions about her motives. No way would I forgive someone without having that conversation!
The only other gap I will point to in the story is the absense of the other characters toward the end of the book. I think Lowell could have done a better job of developing some of the other adult characters and making them a part of the story. What about Jan? She is such a great person but she does not have a line past the first chapter. And Dane. Give us some of the conversation between he and his brother at the end. Okay, one more gap... how does Chase know how to drum for Tahitian dance? I thought he was from Hawaii but later it seems he is not. Oh well. It is not a mystery novel, it is a romance. Boy gets girl - boy loses girl - boy gets girl back. I just wish Lowell had ended the book with Nicole's clothes on. Nicole said she did not want to be a man's "thing" yet in the last scene she is naked in the lap of a fully clothed man. Duh?

I purchased the audio version of this book knowing it was one of the author's earlier books. I've always been a fan of Elizabeth Lowell's and when you compare her early works to her current books I can see the difference in character and plot development. Eden Burning lacks depth, though I do give the author points for trying to incorporate some of the technical aspects during a volcanic eruption. I thought the addition of drums as a sound effect on the cassette was a little silly and distracting as it made me think of cannibals rather than Hawaiian dancing. I felt the book ended too abruptly (at least it did on the audio version, I don't know how it is on the text version) and there was a brief message from the author noting she had revisited the characters and had beefed up the storyline. Some things are best left unvisited, and Eden Burning is one of them. Only the most die hard of Lowell's fans may want to read this and appreciate the literary growth of Lowell's skill in her more recent work.

The first person is right this book does nothing for the parents,there is no way you can figure out what is going on unless you have had algebra before, no examples no help what so ever.

These series have not examples to follow, no parent helps. No other books are taken home to show how to work the problems! Unless you (an adult) have extensive algebra training, forget this series.

My daughter is being taught from this book. It has no instructions in it what so ever. When she brings it home for homework and unless you know algebra already it is totally useless. It is the most confusing book to work from. Some of the stories in it are not even relevant to the problem or the answers, which make it totally confusing for the student. My recomendation is not to purchase this book and if you school is using it, GO IMMEDIATELY TO THE SCHOOL BOARD AND DON'T TURN BACK!!