I agree with the previous reviewer that the book is well-designed. The spiral notebook spine makes it perfect for laying out while you practice. Everything is illustrated with photos, including blow-ups/close-ups for the more complicated aspects of the asanas. I also enjoy the fact that routines for all age groups, levels of mastery, and states of health (e.g., menopausal and pregnant) are listed with clear, easy-to-follow directions. In short, the book is a great guide for beginners and experts alike looking to try yoga or refresh their memory in the absence of an instructor.

My only caveat is that if you are looking for a blend of the spiritual/metaphysical/philosophical aspect along with the physical aspect of yoga, you will definitely not get it here. The yoga in this book is presented in a very Western, I daresay clinical fashion. The philosophy is implied or sprinkled throughout only to be glossed over, since you can't get into this much detail about yoga without making a few references, however fleeting, to the "other side" (non-physical) of yoga. Any persons who are new to yoga and fear any of the "brain washing" aspects from philosophical indoctrination (which I think is a bogus notion to begin with) need not fear any of that here. The book is very good, low price or not, and thorough in many respects - all the ones most beginners will be concerned with - but it doesn't quite merit the "total" part of its title.

I don't know why all yoga books that show poses aren't all made like this.

This one has a spiral binding and it lies flat so you can see it while you practice. There are photos of each pose, often two or three photos on the page that show you the way you should move into the pose. The photos are large and can easily be seen as you practice. In the back of the book are several suggested practices that put the poses together.

This book focuses far more on the poses than on the underlying philosophy, the branches of yoga, etc. This is a great book to practice with, the best of its kind. And the price is very reasonable for such a quality book--it's an excellent value.

... a good introductory book.

I'm a tech writer with a background in the sciences, and used this book in a "Computers from the bottom up" class. We had an excellent teacher, and without her the obscurities of presentation would have defeated several class members.

On the minus side: From a writer's point of view, what is needed is another editing pass to get rid of poor sentence sequences and poorly explained exercises. Also, it's sometimes difficult to follow examples with illustrations on one page and verbal description on another: production values need to be rethought. From a student's point of view, much of the essential information is buried in small print sections, which make the book frustrating to use.

But-- on the plus side, the book, used with the excellent Power Point slides provided online, is the best thing available for a true bottoms-up approach. It discusses the basic logic components and their relationship to Boolean logic, instruction sets, and programming at a basic level. Personally, I found the LC-2 simulator great fun to use, very helpful to my understanding of "how things work".

I am a self taught programmer, and there were large gaps in my fundamental knowledge of computers and how they operate. This book did a fantastic job in filling that void. It should be required reading for any aspiring programmer. There are a few typo's, but nothing major. The authors walk you through a basic understanding of computer architecture and binary logic, all the way to understanding C language. An easy and interesting read. It really helped me a lot!

Thank God for the clarity and simplicity of these authors! Excellent teachers can take the seemingly impossible and make it comprehensible, and that is what these authors have done here! I had to repeat this class because of poor teaching, and even worse authorship! I felt like a real moron after my first failure and was not looking forward to taking the class again! Thanks to these professionals my grade for the class came up to a B, but even more importantly my understanding of the subject (which is crucial to my future in computer science) flourished! The CD with its interpreter and debugger are priceless in the process of understanding the subject matter! My hat is off to these fine writers! Thank you! :-)

This book should be called "The Basic Tips of a Trader" because there's almost nothing about the psychology behind their trading tactics nor a psychological insight into what makes the markets behave as they do. Supposing that the word "Mind" in the title isn't meant to be taken too literally then one may still find the tips somewhat superficial. If you're a novice to trading then you might be interested to hear comments like "take your losses like a man" or "pick a trading style suited to your personality", but if you are a novice then you probably don't want to be confused or bored by drawn out messages. The essence of this book is worth a chapter in a good general book on trading but wasn't worth the time sifting the mostly common-knowledge or common-sense tips from a well padded book.

I am surprised that this book has so many excellent customer reviews (ignoring those of the big traders themselves). The title may sound interesting and useful but I found nothing profound or enlightening. A few of the tips can be applied to generally being successful at anything, not only trading. It would be useful to know the psychology behind the market-makers and big traders but if this book expresses all that they think then be assured that most semi-intelligent people with a fair education have little to learn from this book. As one trader said, you don't fight the markets, i.e. go with the flow. Useful. They may have a knack for making money but this is probably more to do with intuition than anything they have been able to consciously identify and translate into words that may be of some use to us mortals.

Patel's later book, "Net-Trading", covers many of the more interesting points of this book in a book which is worth a read for beginners or those wanting to use the Internet as an info source and need good pointers through the proliferation of cyber-confusion. He puts the best points from "The Mind of a Trader" into better context and without the padding.

Nice idea for a book for traders, but in my opinion it doesn't hit the spot.

If you go through the reviews, you might notice that the opinion of many readers had been much influenced by the "title" or even "background" of the traders interviewed in the book. A self claimed successful trader and reviewer just gave only "one" star to the book because he found one of the interviewee a liar and that the author had failed to verify the history of his interviewees.

Discounting the above, and taking in account that the book focused on the minds of options and futures traders (vs the all walks of life type in Market Wizards I&II), the primary objective had been delivered. In short, discipline, cut loss short, let profit run had been quoted in all the interviews, though in different style and wording. The book is well written by the ex barrister author, who intelligently and vividly merged his opinion with those of the interviewees, without going through the common Q&A format.

You may like or dislike the book after reading it. But for sure you will remember its strong emphasis on discipline for quite a while. In this respect, it's worth the time and the price.

It makes a difference to find a readable book on trading with real insight not trite cliches. Clearly an effort was made to get inside the mind of the traders. I have 14 years trading experience at a major US bank and this is recommended reading for all new recruits and old hands too.

... do not believe the foreword: this is not for a starter, even if in the very first pages the author uses often the magic words "for beginner". I would call it the critical yellow pages of net trading. Lots of internet sites listed that can be of interest, but if you are the kind of person that can find everything through Altavista or Yahoo (or any other search engine), then you are better off by yourself: you will find much more. If you want to be fast and do want to invest your money but not your time, then the book can be useful. If you are a beginner, the strategies explained are clear only after you have studied a good book on Technical Analysis (TA) and studied on the net for few weeks: then you'll appreciate the book (sometimes some indicators achronyms are not even explained!). If you know TA and Stock and Future market, it is a very good window on the web, but again, only if you think that you are not a good web explorer. Why three stars? In the preface to "Beyond the Good and the Evil" Friedrich Nietzsche clearly states what's the scope of the book, and if you are brave enough to go further on, you'll discover he did what he promised. Not the same with this net trading book. I am not saying the author is lying to sell more copies, I am saying that he was not able to judge his own level of complexity.

I think alot of these people missed this book; it's about NET trading or using the Net to increase or give you NET gains. It's about building your own trading system and not relying on a canned one or at least knowing why the canned one works the way it does. It's not about surfing the NET for the latest site. .... I had some sour trades & by working with Al & his links I was able to refine some of my methods & see (backtest) why they had gone wrong. Two caveats are in order: Some of the links are either dead or will redirect. Second, if you are not using Metastock for your technical analysis you're gonna wish you were. When I started the book, I was using Worden's TC2000; thanks to Al I went to Metastock & again another improvement. And that's what I think Al is best at; helping you refine and organize your system & feel 'comfortable' with it i.e. refine & tune it so you can stick the bear and not he you. I liked this book so much, that I am going to buy another Al book. And read this one again; I think there are sections that are real gems. Thanks Al. All the best, mate.

As well as introducing online trading sites and brokers, there is coverage of some new trading strategies, trading systems, psychology, and money management.

The actual process of choosing an online broker or finding a useful website can be quite an ordeal searching directly on the Internet so this book is a good starting point. I imagine that these sections need to be updated every 2 years or so because they will be prone to rapid change while the Internet is a new medium.

Technical analysis is at least introduced but the new trading strategies given are not explained well enough even for experienced technical analysts. They'll certainly be of more harm than good to novices. These strategies seem hurriedly written - they lack detail and charts were incorrectly numbered and sometimes inappropriate.

The remainder of the book has little to offer the relatively experienced trader who would need more detail if any at all in the above mentioned topics. However, they are introduced well and are valuable for novice traders. There are lots of insightful passages taken from bulletin boards and interviews with professionals.

A good collection of different problems and situations in Bombay. Excellent blend of writers.

I would love to review this book as I have written several reports for the UN on Mumbai. I haven't seen this book. If you wish a professional review please send me a copy. I'll read the book and return it to you.

Dr. Jon L. Rau, 199/10 Ploi Villa 2, Udon Thani 41000
Thailand

The lecture notes that were provided provided excellent guidelines and addendums to the already present techning syllabus teaching syllabus that I have. Would be good if there were a CD_ROM version as well.

In a book that gets this reviewer's award for best title of a photographic essay collection, Ketaki Sheth offers an interesting (if not limited) subject matter, the photography of twins named Patel in both India and England.

Sheth photographed more than 100 sets of multiples named Patel (the name originates in the 15th century and means record-keeper of crops) and chose 78 sets of twins and four sets of triplets to appear in her book.

Posed in banana fields, schools, streets in India and England, backyards, parks, weddings and other locales, the book offers beautiful photos that may be of special interest to two unique audiences--people with the surname Patel or twins of any type.

I was hoping that this book would cover tips and tricks for online day trading and describe strategies for knowing when and how to execute trades. I did not find this information anywhere in the book and I was disappointed to discover that much of the book described how to choose an ISP (if you are reading this, you are obviously already connected) and listed several web sites for doing stock analysis, many of which I already knew about. In fact, the only useful things I found in the entire book were a couple of sections in the appendix that described things like options and futures trading, but even these were very poor with their lack of detail.

An excellent book. When I first received this book from Amazon, I have to admit I was a bit worried, because flicking through section 1 (which the basics for beginners) I thought this was going to be a beginners guide. I was wrong.

Looking deeper I realised Section 1 is to be ignored by intermediate and Advanced Users. The author provides detailed Action Plans and Skeleton Plans for trading online in every type of product and time-frame (different skeleton and action plans for each one).

These plans are excellent. They have re-organized the way I trade. They should be pattented.

My only complaint: I had to photocopy the plans for easier access on my desktop - could the publishers have made them detachable.

The book is divided into Sections.

Section 1 deals in the basics for the novice of getting online, choosing ISPs, computer hardware, printers etc. This will be basic for most online traders, but as the author says, it can be skipped by those already 'up to speed'.

Personally, I would have prefered this section at the end. The final chapter(8) of Section 1 offers some interesting tips on speeding up access to the internet - which strictly do not fall into the field of Trading Online, but are appreciated.

Section 2 "The Road to Profit" represents the start of the book proper in my opinion. The section begins with an introduction to action plans. At first I was doubtful if this method of organisation would work, however, having tried them it does tend to provide a useful framework for trading.

These action plans, are composed of 7 steps, each necessary for trading online. The steps include price data, fundamental analysis, technical analysis, broker execution methods, portfolio monitoring etc. The book explains the importance of each, and for the important step of analysis for determining likely price moves, the book details some strategies and systems.

Having explained the significance of eaxh step and how it relates to each further step, the book moves on to Section 3, which is a list of recommended sites for each of the steps. The sites listed here are cross-referenced to Section 4 of the book, where they are grouped according to whether they are online brokerages, Mutual Fund Sites, Technical Analysis sites etc.

The idea behind Section 3 is that you go through each step, say for example Step 3 (Analysis) choosing the sites you think are worth visiting by looking at their description, review and summary of contents provided in the book. You then settle on the core sites for each Step, and stick to them each time you trade. As I have said, how best to use the sites as part of your overall plan is well explained.

At first I was a little sceptical of whether this would work, and admittedly it helped when I photocopied the action plans. This then meant that a lot of the hard work had been done for the reader.

The sites covered in Section 4 are quite exhaustive, but the book makes it clear, only sites considered worth visiting, in the opinion of the author, are listed. Sites are listed under, 'a little bit of everything', 'technical analysis sites', 'Brokerage sites', 'Mutual Funds', 'Futures and Options', 'Exchanges', 'Bonds', 'Forex', 'Options Analysis', 'Gurus and Newsletters', 'Discussion Forums', 'E-Zines'.

As one would expect stock traders are given the most space and are catered for best, and one complain.

Section 5 is the end-part of the book, and is aimed at further research. 3 chapters cover the issue of using Search Engines properly, Financial Directories and Online Bookstores.

There are a plethora of appendices covering tech analysis, fundamental analysis, options and futures. I take issue with some of the books in the recommended reading list, in that I definately disagree on some of the recommendations, but that is not a critical issue. For good measure there is a glossary and index.

The graphics and layout are very good, in that the font is easy on the eye, the layout helpful - with a side bar for comments, lots of screen dumps etc. The nature of trading books seems to be following those of internet books generally in design and that is no bad thing.

All in all very useful

Written in a very straightforward, boring way. A fair amount of filler. For example, in the section on Subway Stations, one of the items they point out is the "Ticket hall: Passengers buy tickets or tokens from staffed offices or from vending machines." Not very informative...

Any of the David Macaulay books would be much more interesting.

for all those who are fascinated by SCIAM's "working knowledge", this book is going to keep you awake nights wondering about escalators, cell phones and holograms. for others who are nevertheless curious, inquisitive and have a scientific bent of mind, this book would be poetry for your brains. read this book and the next time you see a car, you would look beyond the 4 wheels and the steering wheel! amazingly wellwritten.

I have had a blast reading through this book, and have learned more practical knowledge from it than any other that I can remember.

Each pair of pages in the book describes the inner workings of many of the modern machines that we use every day, ranging from microwaves to photocopiers, from your car's turbocharger to suspension bridges. Cut-away diagrams display the innards of these machines, allowing one to see what normally only professionals and enthusiasts deal with.

The book is written in a manner that most pre-teens could understand, yet it contains more information than even the most technologically-advanced buff would ever know. An appendix in the back describes the basic scientific terms that were used through the book, for those who have yet to learn these things, or have forgotten.

I truly loved this book. It is a great feeling to have a basic understanding of how nearly everything we use works. You will never look at an escalator in the same way! This book would make an excellent gift!