As with the vast majority, but not all, books that bite off huge taxonomic groups this one fails to provide detailed updated information on this group but does provide an overview and excellent illustrations. If you desire more than the basics purchase Johnsgard's books or some other title that limits its treatment. If its the basics that you desire its worth the money.

Based on the movie's original, uncut screenplay. Without giving too much away, The Sword and the Sorcerer delves deeper into each character's history, and helps to fill in many of the plot holes from the 1982 motion picture. Reading this novel after watching the movie will give you a much clearer sense of this little-known cult classic.

If you're a fan of the movie, or if you're buying the DVD, I highly recommend picking up this book.

When John Norman began his Chronicles of Counter-Earth with "Tarnsman of Gor," it was clearly modeled on Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter series and "A Princess of Mars" (I am talking only in terms of the bare essence of the plot and not the cultural details). Norman then went his own way, with Tarl Cabot's quest to learn the secret of the Priest-Kings and the development of what is now called the Gorean philosophy. But by the time we get to "Tribesman of Gor" the similarity to Burroughs has resurfaced, only this time with regards to the Tarzan novels. By the time Burroughs was into double figures with his series he had the Lord of the Jungle discovering lost civilizations of Crusaders and whatnot, secreted away in the interior of Africa. Now we see that Tarl Cabot, having traveled north to have an adventure with the descendants of transplanted Vikings in "Marauders of Gor," turns this time to the desert of Gor to deal with the descendants of transplanted Bedouins in "Tribesman of Gor."

The Priest-Kings have received a message from the Others to surrender Gor (with the fate of Earth in the balance as well). Tarl Cabot leaves Port Kar to travel to the great desert of the Tahari, where he encounters fierce warrior tribes, slavers, salt mines, and such. There he will encounter as well as woman warlord, whom he will bend to his will, and a bandit chief, whom he will befriend. The only problem is that Tarl Cabot has already been there and done that before, several times, with regards to both of those achievements. Furthermore, we have seen both done better. At its best "Tribesman of Gor" is an attempt to duplicate the success of Norman's most popular Gor novel (from a storytelling standpoint anyway) "Nomads of Gor." When I look back over the second ten books in the series it seems evident now that Norman was losing interest in the series, no doubt plagued by the fact that a new Gor novel had to come out every year when he switched publishers ("The New 1976 Gor Novel!").

If you want to learn how to design plastic parts on Pro E this book has absolutly no interest... It shows beautiful models but figure out yourself how to create them on Pro E. Good luck!

I am in between a novice/intermediate user level in Pro E 20. I have a small background in plastics injection molding but mostly silicone molding. This book spends most of the time explaining basic injection molding design (things like draft, runners, core/cavity). But very the discussion of these features is very basic and mostely antedotal. You could learn just about everything covered in this book in about 1 hour talking with a mold designer and probably alot more with the mold designer. If you have been commissioned to start designing molds then you will need a hell of alot more then this book offers you. The final section of the book has work excercises designing parts. But it just tells you to design some parts on Pro E, NOT how to use Pro E to design the parts. I have done several tutorials that cover general features of Pro E but was looking for something that gave some new features in Pro E and HOW tos on those features. Not in this book.

Excellent book for people new to the design of injection molded parts. A good introductory text with an overview of some common processes used to manufacture molded plastic components. If you are new to the design of molded plastic components and are a novice or intermediate Pro/E user then this book will serve you well. Basic design considerations are presented along with techniques on how to capture them using Pro/E.

Volume 3 of the Jason Marshall trilogy is a book with a split personality. The first 136 pages is nearly nonstop action and the last 162 pages is nearly nonstop bondage play. When I started reading it, I thought that John Norman had gone back to the good old days of emphasizing the adventure aspects of his creation. It even took about 60 pages before a slave girl showed up, surely a record for all but the earliest volumes in the Gor series. That said, the action in this volume is not up to the level of the Tarl Cabot books. Basically it consists of a protracted battle between pirates and the forces of the defending towns on the Vosk River. As such, it somewhat lacks variety compared to Cabot's adventures but has scenes which are just as ludicrous, such as the one where Jason finds himself bound to the ram of an enemy ship but escapes by inducing eels to bite off his bonds. Yeah, right! I've discovered that you can pretty much tell when you are in for a dissertation on the glories of bondage. Just count the pages in the chapter. The chapters in the first part of the book range from 2 to 19 pages. Those in the second part range from 16 to 58 pages. Figure it out. It's not like he has something new to say that he hasn't already said far too often. Enough already! Give it a rest! It's really a shame. The Gor books could have been one of the all-time great action-adventure fantasy series. If only John Norman hadn't ruined it with his obsession with bondage...