This is a great book. It has beautiful illustrations, very clear and helpful. It also has maps on each page showing where the snake lives. One minor problem, it uses a lot of technical terms like "Fossorial" and "Riparian". But (I discovered after my fourth trip to the dictionary) it has a glossary in the back.

However, one major problem. There is no clear indication which snakes are poisonous, which are a little dangerous to humans, and which are harmless. This is a big drawback. I want to know without having to read through the text for a clue if the snake that just entered my tent is going to kill me or not. Some of the time it doesn't tell you even in the text, as in some of the rattlesnakes. Of course, you assume that rattlers are not exactly friendly, but a clear symbol or icon would really help. So would a section letting you know what to do if you've been bitten by a snake.

Great descriptions and beautiful pictures of the snakes found in Utah. Anyone spending time in the natural areas of the state should enjoy this small field guide while getting to know some of Utah's scaley residents!

There is no such thing as doing too many calculus problems. This is the book you need to get ready for calculus exams. It's quick, easy to use, portable (a rare thing in calculus books). The only thing I would suggest is to include some harder problems. If you are able to do all of the problems in the book flawlessly, but no more, I doubt if you would get above a C in our calculus program. It's good only through Calculus I. If you're in Calculus II, it would be appropriate to review what you should know.

This book presents a very sympathetic picture of its subject, based on Hurd's readings from his diaries.

Nonetheless, the author keeps his independence of mind: he writes that Hurd's basic "idea of the enabling state was flawed. First, it was highly undemocratic. The National Health Service Trusts, self-governing schools and Housing Associations took power away from democratically elected councillors and placed power in the hands of unelected local appointees, modern local elites. Second, the Conservative reforms to local government which Hurd endorsed saw a massive centralisation of power in Britain. Third, Hurd's belief that active citizenship was compatible with free-market economics because private property gave the citizen a stake in the economic power of the country, simply did not work during the 1980s."

Stuart writes, "The Conservative Party's raison d'etre in the late 1970s and during the 1980s became the defeat of organised labour." But Thatcherism, the attack on organised labour, undermined all the institutions - family, community and nation - that Hurd claimed to support.

In passing, Stuart reveals something of Parliamentary 'opposition'. On 21 January 1991, in the last Commons debate before the war against Iraq, Gerald Kaufman, Labour's Shadow Foreign Secretary, "asked Hurd to let him see the Government motion before they tabled it, to make sure it was one which the Opposition Front Bench could support." Hurd then asked Kaufman to amend this motion, to prevent Labour backbenchers doing so. "Kaufman showed Hurd the revision beforehand to make sure his side could support it. So the Government drafted a motion subject to Labour's approval and Labour drafted an amendment subject to the Government's approval."

As Foreign Secretary under Thatcher and Major, Hurd backed the onslaught on Iraq. He supported the EC's recognition of Croatia and Slovenia, which widened the Yugoslav war. He backed Patten's mischief-making in Hong Kong. He supported the Maastricht Treaty. All these misguided policies stemmed from his support for capitalism's dictate of economic internationalism, with its consequent hatred of sovereignty.

Sometimes you wonder what statistics can contribute to science, especially one dominated by deterministic and physical approaches. Surprisingly there are plenty, at least this is the trend of future. With more computing power and more model improvement, quality of today's weather forecast depends as much on computer code as on the data input and assimilation of data from land, satellite and other sources. This is book of a succesful attempt at introduing modern statistics into current atmospheric research. Some breakthroughs have been made, such as a systematic statistical design approach to improved weather prediction, and the hierarchical modeling approach to modeling space-time processes. I especially like the fact that this book contains excellent papers on a variety of topics which are of interest to atmospheric scientists, and that a variety of modern statistical techniques have been covered such as spatial statistics, modern prediction methods, functional data analysis, and chaotic dynamics. I expect students and young researchers from statistical sciences will find this book offers totally new challenges and interesting research topics, and experienced researchers in atmospheric sciences will find in this book some new techniques which may help in their research.

In Obsession, John Douglas gives the reader a brief glimpse into the criminal mind and a short overview of the process of criminal profiling. I like the fact that he refuses to make any excuses for criminals (coming from a dysfunctional family, childhood abuse, insanity, etc.) He makes it very clear that regardless of a person's background or previous experiences, the execution of a crime is always voluntary....that the criminal made a choice to disregard the consequences of his actions, and inflict consequences on an innocent victim. The only thing I didn't really care for too much in this book was the fact that so little was devoted to actual criminal profiling. Most of the book is dedicated to victim's rights and how to prevent yourself from becoming a victim. While there is nothing wrong with such topics, and he does make some very excellent points, I felt a little bit shortchanged after becoming intrigued with the coverage of criminal psychology...intrigued enough to look into it further as a possible career, and then the rest of the book jumps into victim's rights and never looks back.

Yet another classic expose of the sadistic sociopath written by the man who knows them best - John Douglas. In this book, John meticulously describes 2 types of obsessions - the obsessions of the sociopathic sex criminals who prey on society, and the obsessions which drive law enforcement officials who, very often risk their own safety and sanity in order to capture these monsters and bring about justice.

Throughout his quarter century in the FBI, John gained valuable knowledge. He learned how serial offenders "profile" their potential victims to test their vulnerability. He learned what ruses they employ to lure unsuspecting victims away from areas of safety. And as he graphically illustrates in the tragic stories of Jennifer Levin, Katie Souza Hanley, and Stephanie Schmidt, he learned how sometimes we can unfortunately place our trust in the wrong person, a person who is quite literally "a wolf in sheep's clothing."

So instead of speaking disparagingly about John, we should realise that we have cause to be grateful to him. He has such great insight into the minds of these human demons, and because of his lecturing and writing, he has undoubtedly saved many lives. We should thank him in any way possible - one day his experience and insight might help save our own life or the life of a loved one. He has given us valuable advice about how to keep ourselves and our children safe. He has showed us how we can turn profiling to our own advantage, how we can use it and our own survival instincts to keep ourselves safe. Undoubtedly this type of knowledge is certainly just as important as the knowledge of how to perform adequate, life saving first aid treatment.

Without a doubt, John Douglas is extraordinary and a very dear man. He has dealt with, on a DAILY basis, for years, into the horrific and graphic details of the aftermath of serial killers, serial rapists, stalkers, mutilators. He has gotten into the minds of those criminals and looked at the crime through their point of view. Being able to do this process, called profiling, he has identified these killers and sexual predators. Still with all that he has seen, he has given so much compassion and empathy to the victims of these acts of violence. John Douglas has tried to also get the knowledge to the people so that we can all become more aware. He has traveled to hospital emergency rooms to inform doctors and staff about evidence needed for rape cases. He has also conducted seminars in colleges. This is an excellent book that John Douglas has written. Mr. Douglas is very respected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in which he worked for over twenty-five years. He became head of the Investigative Support Unit in 1979. May John's story go on. He's one of the real American heros. As a victim of attempted rape and child molestation myself and from all of the other victims in the U.S. that he has helped, I would like to extend a very heartfelt and deep appreciation to John Douglas.

Douglas may present a clear chronology of events relating to the investigation of Unabomber. However, that is the sole limit of the books's worth. The remainder of the book is a staging ground for Douglas' brand of psycholinguistics, the analysis of a person's patterns of expression and thought in order to provide a psychological profile of the person. Instead of accomplishing that, though, in any meaningful way, Douglas perpetrates a sort of freehand poetic literary criticism on the so-called Manifesto. He completely fails to gain any insight into Unabomber's own statement of policy in "Industrial Society and Its Future". On page fifty-three, Douglas boils down his view by claiming simply that the Unabomber's fixation on wood and nature "...probably served as his rationale for setting the bombs off, his substitute for whatever deeper psychological problems had actually caused him to commit the crimes. A lot of violent terrorist activity is the result of political beliefs, but at the same time, I've never seen a violent terrorist yet who I didn't feel had deep psychological problems and a serious character disorder." Oh, yeh. Lest we forget, Douglas goes on: Unabomber "diabolical" too.

Douglas essentially claims that the Unabomber's activity is irrational and eludes sensible thought. That is Douglas' most egregious fundamental flaw. If he's serious in that claim, then he is less insightful than he himself seems to think he is. On the other hand, Douglas' apparent perspicasity in his craft leads me to think that he has another goal in mind: distributing disinformation to the segment of the citizenry who haven't yet bothered to read, consider, and ponder Unabomber's veritable position. That can be accomplished only by directly encountering "Industrial Society and Its Future", not the perverted and oblique interpretation of it which Douglas works so stridently to champion under a charade of sophisticated psychoanalysis.

Basically, and to his credit, Unabomber provides an analysis of the sociology of technology. His central point is that being human and organization-dependent technology are inherently antagonistic and mutually exclusive entities. This basic tension provides the battleground for a choice: remaining human or allowing everyone to be psychologically, physiologically, and anatomically re-engineered in increments to fit the needs of the aloof and impersonal organizations that determine the course of industrial society; instead of allowing humans to put an upward limit on the intrusion into the psychological sphere that is demanded by the ever-increasing velocity and volume of conveniences that ultimately, and ever more quickly, become indispensable for the functioning of society and any given individual's participation therein. (E.g., ATM, FAX, refridgeration, pharmaceuticals, genetic recombination, etc.)

A careful reading of Unabomber's own words is very much worthwhile. He's talking about us, you and me, not some creature on another world.

And let us not forget what Douglas carelessly sweeps under the rug: Theodore Kaczysnki was arrested in the course of the execution of a speciously expedited search warrant that originated by his brother, David, ratting him out. The government's role in the story should be considered under the optic of a triple treachery: the government policing agencies, fraternal back-stabbing, and Douglas' attempt to obfuscate the truth about Unabomber's quite rational motivations as articulated in "Industrial Society and Its Future". Read Unabomber before you read anything about him.

The book was intersting, but a bit to brief for my liking. The actual story of the Unabomber life took less than 150 pages. The book details each of his bombings and suggests the reasoning behind the target and M.O. Douglas also takes you through his thoughts in the investigation. Many readers feel Douglas is a bit arrogant in his writing. I do not agree with that opinion, nor do I feel this book is written that way.

The rest of the book was not very interesting outside of the inclusion of the full manifesto of the Unabomber. The manifesto contains nothing shocking, but contains what you might expect an outsider hermit radical to say. I'm sure there are better books about the Unabomber than this, so I suggest you try a more detailed account.

I had never heard of John Douglas until one day my sister told me about this great book she was reading. She gave me a copy of 'Obession'. Now I am hooked ! What great reading all of his books are, from start to finish. I am now a fan. Looking forward to more books from this author.

This book is not worth buying - it is already outdated. If you really want information on Furbys, browse through websites from Furby fans. You will probably find more current and helpful information there. A true disappointment!

I bought my Furby from a second hand store, and I had no idea what my Furby was talking about most of the time. I bought this book, and it explained everything about Furbys from what the Furbish words meant to instructions to play all of the Furby games from Hide and Seek to using your Furby as a fortuneteller (for fun "yes/no" questions). It even includes tricks that kids (and adults!) will love, like how to make your Furby burp eight times in a row or get a case of hiccups. Also included where photos of other Furbys available, Furby accessories, and Furby history. It contains a lot of information within a short number of pages. I am not sure what, if any, imformation comes with the Furby in the original package, but for me (having no instructions) this was a fantastic book that has led me to have a great time with my Furby, Delola!

This book is just GGGRRRREEEEEEAAAAAAAATTTTTTTTT!!!It has EVERYTHING you would ever need to know about Furbys!!! BUY IT!!!!!!!!!

Its safer to go with more accepted companies when choosing a guide. Avoid this and buy a Nintendo or Prima version. This guide, although fair, could use a lot more. Its simply not worth paying the money to buy this subpar material when you could be getting some actually well-written and thoughtfully putout guides. It seems Douglas Arnold and Mark Elies, if they have written over 30 guides, could have done a better job on this.

Boo

Mike London

I swear I cannot get thru a game without some sort of guide. This one did not help me so much. First of all, it is in black and white, which I was not expecting. So that makes it hard to tell what part of the game they are talking about. It really is not much a walk thru either. I guess I have been spoiled by Primas' full cover step by step guides for playstation. This guide is ok if you are already a video game pro and just want to see what you may have missed. But for those of us that can't get past the first few levels without a guide - I do not recommend this one. It also is over priced for what you get.

This book is awsome.It has helpful information

I enjoyed the Final Fantasy VII: survival guide because of its details and writting format. It gives a great walkthrough of the game in a reader-friendly format. The illustations in this book let you see perfectly what the writters are talking about. Without a walkthrough of any role-playing game, you are bound to overlook several items throughout the game. This walkthrough is a perfect book to read if you want to get the maximum amount of enjoyment out of the wonderful game. While this book is not as well written as the offical walkthrough, it is a great, less expensive substitute.

This is a good step by step guide to defeat Final Fantasy VII. Well, the game is so linear and there is no plot twist in this game.. However, in order to survive, you have to collect various type of material orbs. You can follow the guide book and save your time searching for all the material orbs. FF VII fanatics know that the ultimate challenge is to defeat Ruby Weapon.. This book doesn't give any hints on defeating this monster...

This is a great book! It's the ultimate resource for any Final Fantasy VII Player. Even if you don't need the help to beat the game, you can beat it on your own and then come back to this book and beat it with it to make sure you get everything. It has colorful pictures and very useful maps. It also has good tips on beating the bosses. I've gotten Level 99, 9999 hp, 999 mp, 3 mastered double cut materia, dead Emerald Weapon, dead Ruby Weapon, three gold chocobos, 3 master summons, 3 master commands, a master magic, and just about everything you would need to be virtually invincible! This book can help you get all this too!