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Neo-Tech is the name given to a way of thinking, a way of life, committed to text by Frank R. Wallace over twenty years ago. Its fundamental concept is absolute freedom to do whatever you want, so long as you harm nobody else. It sounds like a utopian dream world but, unfortunately, it is flawed in a few basic concepts.

Since we all live in a real society, few of us are in a position where we don't have neighbors. The Wallace theory says that (for example) if you want to fill your garden with rubbish, that's fine. Society rules says that, if your neighbor's garden is full of junk, your own quality of life deteriorates.

The Wallace theory says that EVERYTHING should be run privately (he makes possible exceptions of defence and highways), and that folk will get what they can afford to pay for. Again, this works fine for those who have incomes or private means. But are we REALLY going to ignore those who have nothing? Can we REALLY say 'Sorry buddy, but you don't count.'?

In its conception, Neo-Tech holds up the values of truth and honesty as opposed to the lies and deceit of politics today. Few people (save for the politicians, weak-minded followers and corrupt big business) would disagree with this philosophy. However, Neo-Tech is an extreme point of view and, if you delve into its ideology, I would suggest you do so with half an eye on the truths that are written BETWEEN the lines.

If you believe that politicians are basically good people and that 'they know best', then you owe it to yourself to read any Neo-Tech book and consider revising your opinions. Wallace's books will lead you to understand how we are all being cheated by our so-called leaders.

Finally, Neo-Tech deals with the mysticism of religion (ANY religion). In its carefully though out arguments, it blows away any vestiges of religious belief that the average reader may still have. On the other hand, of course, if the reader is so blind and bigotted that his[her] religion may not be questioned or doubted, Neo-Tech will not improve the situation any, so delve into this philosophy only if you believe yourself to be open-minded.

Frank Wallace's 'Neocheating...' was written over twenty years ago. At the time, it discussed a revolutionary method to 'Neocheat' your way to success at card games.

So what's 'Neocheating'?

Wallace describes it as white hat cheating (as opposed to the obvious black hat cheating). A method where, by sleight of hand and sleight of mind, you can take from the rich and give to the poor (or, more accurately, take from the cheats and give to the non-cheats). Why? because it keeps them in the game and, eventually, gives you the opportunity to (honestly) win the money off them.

But Wallace's book is about far more than card-sharping. It's a metaphor for life itself. In fact, Wallace went on to write many books and articles based on the 'Neo-Tech' way of life - to live to the fullest without usurping the values of others, without coercion, without mysticism. Though many of these books are now difficult to obtain, I recommend you make an effort to do so, since the message they contain is worth every cent you'll pay for the printed word. My five stars are not for the book itself, rather for the message that Wallace puts across.

First, this is not a sex book - it's a libertarian philosophy book. A compendium of history and attitudes on how to get the most from life. Frank R. Wallace, like other great thinkers before him (Freud and even Einstein come to mind) combines brilliant, unique insights with pure crap. I am 41 years old and have read thousands of books, and this one is, without exaggeration, the most powerful I have ever picked up. Wallace is an almost unbelievably charismatic writer, with ideas which nobody else has seemed to touch that ring true. It's hard to read it without ending up with at least some libertarian tendencies.

As to the brown matter, this book was first published in 1975 - 24 years ago - and there is simply no evidence or literature that suggests that "psychuous sex" as he explains it even exists. On the nature of homosexuality, and in some aspect of romantic attempts, he now seems less like a prophet than just badly dated. He also, in all his books, seems to write them in outline style, leaving it to the reader to devise nearly all specific methods of following his romantic, life, or poker tenets, sort of like a very high-level theory course. His latest forays into "Zonpower" and the like, available free on the Internet, take this to an extreme. The book crosses over into raving near the end, and he totally blew the review of Future Shock.

With that said, two-thirds of the book is material the likes of which you have simply never seen. If we can count just the good stuff, and it will be fairly easy for you to tell what that is, this book could be one of the best of the 20th century (!!!!).

As far as I can tell, this book has been pretty well ignored by history. He said it was "not a commercial success," and he reissued it in his Neo-Tech series, but I haven't even heard of any other serious writer quoting his work or even debunking it. Did anyone ever debate him? Did anyone say this book was garbage and why? Did anyone ever communicate an opinion between loving him (which I gather a lot of people do) and detesting everything he has ever written (likewise)? I would love to hear from anyone who has any comments about this book or the nature of his other non-poker writings.

Neo-Tech is the name given to a way of thinking, a way of life, committed to text by Frank R. Wallace over twenty years ago. Its fundamental concept is absolute freedom to do whatever you want, so long as you harm nobody else. It sounds like a utopian dream world but, unfortunately, it is flawed in a few basic concepts. Not that these few flaws are important insofar as they relate to Psychuous sex.

In its conception, Neo-Tech holds up the values of truth and honesty as opposed to lies and deceit (particularly as it relates to politics and big business). If you believe that politicians are basically good people and that 'they know best', then you owe it to yourself to read any Neo-Tech book and consider revising your opinions. Wallace's books will lead you to understand how we are all being cheated by our so-called leaders.

Neo-Tech also deals with the mysticism of religion (ANY religion). In its carefully though out arguments, it blows away any vestiges of religious belief that the average reader may still have. On the other hand, of course, if the reader is so blind and bigoted that his[her] religion may not be questioned or doubted, Neo-Tech will not improve the situation any, so delve into this philosophy only if you believe yourself to be open-minded.

And how does this Neo-Tech philosophy relate to sex?

Simply that, by removing society's (stifling) measures of what is acceptable or otherwise, we release ourselves to make the best of the joys of sex and the ultimate fulfilment that can be ours. Unfortunately, Wallace takes his theory over the top. His claim is that people will lose the need to hold to one partner, and will be free to indulge all physical and conceptual needs with any partner they choose. Sounds great in theory but, in practice, Wallace misses the fundamental point that most peopel WANT to be with a partner. Having said that, however, this book is still worth five stars for the insight into a philosophy of freedom and honesty.

This book integrates objective values with consistent romantic love values. It has terrific information as well as many books analysed in detail. The information about sex is very well researched and honest. In addition, it gives clear distinctions of what is morally right and wrong. The author is a great champion of individual rights, and holds them as the absolute law to be respected. He cites many examples where governments and religious organizations have restricted and deprived these rights, especially of women. Overall an extremely valuable book.

OK so I'm not a trained critic and this is just my opinion. Does anyone else see the obvious artifice in his poetry? Constructed to tried and trusted formulae. The other reviews speak of his broad spectrum of subject matter. Reading some of his material, he knows nothing first hand of what he is writing. Maybe I am a sentimentalist, but I prefer poetry to be written from real expereince, from the heart. I find Stevens' writing literally competent, but I can't ever imagine it moving me. I need something deeper, truer.

Stevens is a national treasure. This is poetry of and about the imagination, but it is grounded in our real life experience of things. One should read his work as one would listen to great music, let it flow through you...but don't try too hard to comprehend it intellectually, at least, not on first reading it. If I had to choose one book to take to a desert island it would be this one.

Who knew that the self-possessed and elegant verse of Wallace Stevens actually masked an insecure, nervous man of choleric temperament? Not me. Kermode, a Stevens scholar and biographer, has done a good job of not merely reprinting here the familiar but of finding some true surprises, too. For example, this verse, written in Stevens' 40th year to a college literary magazine that was sponsoring a competition:

I Want to Win The Darned Contest

Please let me win
your poetry contest
I'd like to be a lucky winner today.
I'm dreaming of the fame that will
ensue if you call me to utter
the words that make it worth while:
You're a winner, you're not a loser
any more
you totally have what it takes to
write a poem
that moves us
without making us puke.
Please god, that's what I need to
hear from you.
OK? OK.
Thanks again.
Very Truly Yours,
Wallace Stevens
Vice President.

The book taught me a lot about this great American poet.

This book has some unintentional entertainment value, as the author lays out his Machiavellian mind set. But I found almost nothing of actual use at the poker table.

Wallace's is surely one of the best books ever written about playing poker. His is not the scientific how to manual that will make you more technically proficient. For that read any of a number of books about specific brands of casino poker (Sklansky, Malmuth, Caro, Kreiger, Jones, Carson can help you there). But if you want the quintessential book about how to take advantage of poor home game players then this is your bible.

Intentionally or otherwise, in the process of showing you how to best fleece your friends and acquaintances at poker Wallace forces the thoughtful reader to examine the underlying reasons we play this game. Do we really want to get friends into feeder low stakes games, dupe them into thinking they're pretty good, convince their spouses that they're doing OK at poker, while luring them into higher stakes games where we can go for the kill? If we do, this book shows us how. But even if don't, by showing us how, Wallace forces us to come to grips with how far we're willing to go to win at this fascinating game.

The book is not without its flaws and holes however. Wallace's statistical tables in the back are in error. Check out Scarne's tables in his books or Caro's from the MCU on line. And Wallace doesn't even touch on tournament poker or playing in a casino or on the now-popular forms of poker like Hold Em and Omaha. But then, Wallace begins his instruction as if you are already a solid technical player. His tutoring is on how an already good poker player can win the most money from other home game players. In that regard his book is a masterpiece.

As a final aside, it's interesting to note that in Wallace's later works -- the whole "Neo-Tech" genre -- he clearly has gone off the deep end. But this book was written before these bizarre excursions into psuedo-science and seems sane, though obsessive.

This should have been the poker book that ended poker books. At the time it came out, it was far, far deeper and more sophisticated than anything else in the field, and in some ways, despite the exponential improvement in poker literature, still is. When the Jacoby's and Rubens's were telling us to keep stakes down, quit by midnight, and don't let players get hurt, Wallace knocks down those barriers like wooden fences in a category 5 hurricane.

As with Wallace's other writings, he purports theory without many specific examples. that's up to you, which demands a lot of the reader. But this book is the only one I know of which provides a framework for working a maximum-win approach in home poker games, with stark amorality and requiring a tremendous amount of work (and patience, a necessary poker virtue which Wallace severely underemphasizes). That approach isn't what most poker players want, and few of those would work hard enough to implement it decently, but for the handful of others it could work.

The book gets its true greatness at the end, when he explains that for all the possibilities inherent in poker, it's a losing proposition. After teaching us to be "good players," he explains why the "good player is the biggest loser in poker." Why, you'll have to read. This book is no match technically for the products of Sklansky, Malmuth, Zee, and others, but has a vision which stands tall even today. Poker is work - if you want it, you can excel at it. and that's true for a lot of the rest of life as well.

This book is very good, especially at the soft cover price of about 50 dollars. You can't beat that price for the information you get.

The book is a translation (translated by Ken Wallace) of a german book by Pahl and Beitz.

The presents a comprehensive systematic approach to engineering design and is HIGHLY referenced in academic publications regarding engineering design.

The text is clearly worded, the graphics are good (and numerous) and the index is excellent.

His views on life were timeless, what a better way to get to know Frank L. Wright as a man than hearing his own words. The interview covered many topics, media(they did not even have a word for it), sex, politics, etc. Frank Lloyd Wright favored 'bottom-up, non-artificial' approach to life and his philosophy reflected in all of his work.

Moby Dick and Frank Stella are both American classics. And in this book the author provides a thorough, informative and stimulating analysis of the Frank Stella "Moby Dick" series wherein Stella produced at least one interpretive art piece for every chapter of Herman Melville's classic novel. This is probably the most insightful description I have read for how a modern, abstract artist goes about putting his pieces together, what the artist is thinking, what the artist is attempting to communicate and how those thoughts are reflected in the abstract lines, shapes, colors and symbols. I have to admit that at times I didn't get all of the points that the author was making however this is to be expected when providing analysis of an abstract artist's interpretation of a challenging novel like Moby Dick. All in all, a must read for lovers of great fiction and/or modern art.

This book was terrible! Choose your own adventure books are hard to keep up with where the choces are. It's better to read a book with a set plot. Also, it has hardly anything on everyday life on the ship. It's okay if you like Choose your own adventures, though

This book is great,I am a Titanic lover and also I wanted to know what it was like on the Titanic and it gave a chance to what happen on the titanic.So your not a titanic lover like me,Its ok if you don't have to read this book,but I think its.So give this book a try.

This book was good enough to grab my attention, especially because there weren't choices at every page, like some books which I don't like. This book was also exciting enough so that I was tempted to read on and on. I am also liking the fact that there is a VHS tape, and I can't wait to get that!

So if you're looking for a good Choose Your Own Adventure story, you've come to the right one.

Kind of fun to read (and not without one or two moments of genuine value), this book lays out a plan to win money at home poker games on a regular basis. The theme of this plan: Surround yourself with losers -- the bigger the losers they are, the more time you should spend playing with them. Wallace's "moral" is that it's a good thing to deceive and manipulate people who are of weak constitution, because they can be controlled and you can get in their wallets. This is rather pathetic, but it's the thrust of all Wallace's work: If you find yourself losing, bully the winners out of the game and fleece the losers yourself. You may win a few bucks, but your poker will suffer. And if you adopt a general "Wallacian" mindset, expect your non-poker life to suffer the same deterioration from avioding anything challenging.

Many years ago, this book had a major impact on me as a poker player. While certainly not a "how to" book like (as in what do you do when dealt a pair of Aces) it revealed to me for the first time how much of a skill game poker is. Its written around story lines about a fictional character who is pretty ruthless. Critics who call the book "How to hustle your friends" aren't completely wrong. But it offers much more than that. It offers so many unique insights into the game of poker that you will never get from other traditional books that I must recommended it. The section on tracking your earnings and losses was worth the price of the book.

This book has deep meanings and concepts that may not be understood by beginners but lots of these concepts will not be lost and will work for inexperienced as well. If you are moderate then this book is a must.