A friend gave me the loan of this book when I asked some questions about synthesis. I read it twice before I reluctantly gave it back. After that I order my own copy from amazon. I really love this book. It is so well written. Enjoyable and informative. There is no maths and everything is explained in a simple fashion. I would like to see a series written by these two authors going into further detail on each of the types of snthesis covered.
I'd thoroughly advise it to anyone especially Music Technology students or Computer Music students.

I got into computer music with Sonar and using only software synthesizers I opened up a whole new universe of sound. This book will help you on your way. A little history not much math but a lot of help. If you intend to follow this path give this book a read!

If you have interest in finding out exactly what's happening with the sound as you twiddle those knobs, this book is an excellent choice. The author does a fine job of presenting an extraordinary amount of material - you will learn real, in-depth background about acoustics and synthesis techniques. I find myself constantly referring to this book when I am in my studio.

Good, Better, The Power Behind the Throne. If you enjoy playing adventures that challenge your brains this is for you. You can not solve problems with your blade this time. Someone will put Middenheim in to a great danger. This person is much more smarter than you can even imagine. You are to find out who is behind everything. I am not the only one who thinks that this is the best adventure ever made. I would give 6 stars for Power Behind the Throne if I could. If you do not have this book I recommend that you go and get it. As fast as you can... This book is the king of roleplaying adventures.

When it was first released in the 80s, The Enemy Within campaign was an amazing accomplishment in what was a "hack 'n' slash" era of RPGs. It boasted fully-developed non-player characters (NPCs), political intrigue, moral dilemmas, and the chance for players to expand their roles beyond the requisite magical armor and damage bonuses.

Power Behind the Throne was (and is) the high point of the entire campaign. All the players have to do is find out who is behind a new set of taxes in the city of Middenheim. Sound simple? It isn't. In order to accomplish this goal, their characters will have to mix with members of Middenheim's high society, each of whom has their own secrets, motivations, and knowledge. But it is only by getting to know these people and finding out what makes them tick that the players will ever be able to achieve their goal.

Since the NPCs play such a prominent role in the game, their description takes up the majority of this book. Game Masters are given complete details as to why NPCs act as they do, how they react to their fellow NPCs, and what skeletons are hidden in their respective closets. There is also a map of Middenheim, handouts to be distributed to players, reference cards to make the Game Master's job more manageable, and a spiffy new introductory adventure that more closely links this adventure with the book that proceeded it (Death on the Reik).

Power Behind the Throne can be played as a stand-alone, but I would recommend that you put your characters through the first two books of the campaign first. This will allow them enough time to get to develop their own characters.

I played in this campaign when it was first released, and now that it has been reprinted, I plan to run it for my gaming group. There are precious few scenarios out there that I can say that about.

Library Journal's review of this guide: "Combining encyclopedic coverage of destinations with loads of practical information and atlas-type maps, the series illuminates the wonders of nature but emphasizes the peculiarity of a place's people and their folklore."

I am a longtime gamer who probably has spent more on rolegaming then I can afford since the late 1980's. My shelves are filled with books for dozens of game-systems but Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (WFRP) remains one of my personal favourites.

This superlative product was originally published by Games Workshop as two separate books: Power Behind the Throne and Warhammer City - Middenheim. This Hogshead version has the full material from both books in one handy volume. The first section of the book, Power Behind the Throne details an extremely intricate conspiracy by the forces of Chaos in the city Middenheim.

A distinct contrast to the wimpy plots so prevalent in the fantasy roleplaying industry, this is a grade-A, master-level investigative scenario for the veteran player. The huge cast of characters each playing a part in the adventure, yet having motivations and plans of their own, make this adventure a real challenge for players and gamemasters.

This book should be on every gamer's shelf, regardless of which game system you play as an example of how it should be done. Be warned though, the deep roleplaying and many conversations required will bore the combat-oriented player to tears. Real roleplayers who fancy themselves as the fantasy equivalent of Poirot or Holmes will have the case of their lives to unravel.

I must temper my rating with the fact it has been many years since I read it... I'm looking to obtain a copy and reread it soon... What I can tell you... A good book war book, from a soldiers point of view, at least I enjoyed it as a Sophmore in HS... well, it had the 'F' word in it and I had to do a book report and thought that would be cute... It is the journal of a 19-20 year old Marine in Korea... no grand stragegy here, just day to day glimpses of the elephant... The one episode I recall was where a Commie sniper had been bugging 'um for weeks, keeping their head down pretty much all day... he had a favorite spot he shot from and it was pretty good cover cuz our guys could never get a good shot off at him as he'd pop up, fire and duck... so when the sniper took a day off, they sandbagged an M1 and carefully 'walked it in' on the spot they thought the sniper's head would be when he fired... put a string on the trigger and the next day they waited til this turkey started opening up on 'um again... when they were ready, they pulled the ol 'helmet- on-a-stick' gambit and at the report of the sniper's rifle yanked the sting... things were somewhat more peaceful after that... Ya gotta luv it... db

I read this book a long time ago, and have reread it several times since. Mr.Russ's tour of duty almost paralleled mine, although I arrived in Feb. of 1952, and assigned to the 7th Marines,not the 5th. His experiences were so much like mine, it was scary at times. He did not glorify his experiences, just wrote them down as they happened. The diary format kept you going on and on, and held your interest. Maybe I was so interested, because I felt it was a life I had experienced. Objectively: Very well written, and not over dramatized.

Russ hits the nail on the head when it comes to the boredom and then instant terror of war. The smells, sounds and foolishness of what we went through is already being glossed over by the liberal revisionists of our history. I was there, a good 11 months before Russ, and we had just come from Chosin and 1st Mar Div units were sectoring to the west. God (and a Navy Corpsman) kept me alive to at least read this narrative and comment on it. From where Russ begins his story he is right on, as scores of Marines I've talked to who were there in '52-'53 corroborate his view. We lost as many dead and wounded during his period as the Inchon to Seoul to the Yalu and back to Pusan period. As the "notebook" diary he kept was a no-no, at least he can quote times and places that I have long since refused to remember. A must-read book, along with Brady's "The Coldest War" narrated from an officer's perspective. Both books tell it as it was. In case anybody wants to store a trivia fact,
there is no such label as an "ex-Marine". Semper Fi---

The Last Parallel is one of the great combat memoirs; Russ provides the reader with a "you-are-there" experience, thoroughly illustrating the constricted, bottom-up view of the Marine infantryman. The unique, static environment of the Korean War at the time of his participation, and the intense, dangerous, night-time patrolling activity that occupied much of his time is well detailed. The book contains reproductions of numerous sketches and drawings he made in his journal, illustrating particular features, locations and incidents. While very simple, they add considerably to the context and are a unique element, further drawing the reader in. If you are at all interested in the Korean War, or the experience of the foot solider, then The Last Parallel is worth your time. Finally, it is, in moments, extremely funny. The source of the humor is often self-deprecating, or drawing on the absurd human circumstances that accompany war. Of course, war is not funny, but people, and soldiers, can be, and Russ has a talent for illustrating those moments.

I bought this book in 1955. I served a combat tour just previous to the author's tour of duty. I knew the USMC's mission during this maelstrom; more so, I read this book with a very scutinizing eye. Martin Russ presented an absolutely true and literary picture of the grunt Marine--in trench warfare.The heated fire-fights, the quick/short ones and the boredom of waiting, plus the side trips to tedium too.Not to forget the mental burden the mud Marines had to endure under a new trend of ... positional warfare, implemented by a tired and harassed President, running the war from the Oval office.Russ demonstrates ever so clearly, how war by committee, is sheer folly and madness to the combatants, whom must do the bleeding and dying. I was especially elated about his visionary acumen about how the, Japanese girl of that era, was defined by by this man of letters. Russ penned a perfect projection about R+R in Japan. Sad to say,to most of us,R+R was a nonpareil experience never to be repeated. I'm very glad this is a re-print to when I purchased the original released in 1955. Martin Russ knows his [USMC] War in Korea. This tome is about the mud/Marine in Korea..buy it !! Lock-n-Load and Semper Fidelis.

This is a moving tribute to the extraordinarily brave men of the 1st Marine Division and their epic struggle for survival against overwhelming odds at the Chosin Reservoir.

I am awarding this book our highest recommendation of 5 stars because it tells the stories of many great acts of heroism and self sacrifice that should never be forgotten. This work is well researched, organized, and well written, and I recommend it to all audiences. It would fit well into the halls of academia as required reading in either world or military history. Those at our military academies should be required to read it.

I was pleased that the book gives credit to the bravery of the Chinese soldiers that also suffered under severe conditions. I was stationed outside Fairbanks Alaska and know first hand the effects of freezing weather. It is amazing how these marines and soldiers could function in such conditions, as well as fight, as both sides did indeed do. Warning! If you are associated with the U.S. Army, you might take exception to the actions and behavior of the Army units and officers involved in the campaign, as described in this book. But, the facts are the facts. Semper Fi!

Breakout: The Chosin reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950 - Fromm InternationalIf you read only one book this year about men at war, let it be this oneYou will read of the men of the 1st Marine Division and their fight out of the trap set for them by 7 divisions of Chinese whose sole mission was the extermination of the Marines.You will read of the men of the 1st Marine Division and a small commando of British RoyalMarines fighting in incredibly difficult terrainand in flesh-killing cold, cold so deep and bitterthat weapons froze and exposed flesh turnedleper-white with frostbite.You will read how the Division fought, regiment by regiment, battalion by battalion, company by company, platoon by platoon and, finally, in smallgroups of 3 and 4 to repulse and win through attack after attack by a sea of tough, seasoned Chinese troops.You will read of individual acts of simple but great heroism and fidelity, for the men who fought in those frozen wastes remained faithful to one-another and their unit and their Corps.And throughout it all you will hear the voices of the men Russ interviewed and set down in their personal narratives, which he seamlessly wove together with his superb exposition. And always they speak simply of the extraordinary events in which they took part when they were young and slim and quick, events which remain fresh and immediate after almost 50 years. And they speak in the rhythms and accents of Americans from every region - from the barrios of Los Angeles to the privileged precincts of Westchester County.And, at the end, you will feel joy and pride as they stride out of the trap in step, marching and singing a paean of triumph, having destroyed 7 Chinese divisions and bringing out all their wounded and most of their dead. And you will weep for the dead. And you will weep for the survivors, not in pity but, perhaps, in envy for men who have lived out a personal fidelity to something larger than themselves, men who, in a paraphrase of Norman MacLean¹s words, went through, and not around the experience of combat. And you will thank Martin Russ for his craft and art in creating this superb book. - Reviewed by R.A. Clark -

Seldom does a reader get the opportunity to read a true account of modern battle that is so gripping, so detailed, and so unforgettable as is this story of the attempt by 12,000 American Marines to fight their way out of an encirclement by seven divisions of Chinese and Korean troops at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea. Written by an ex-Marine who was himself a wounded veteran in Korea, its lines wring of the accuracy and poignancy only eyewitnesses could tell about the plight of the men caught in the snow, wind, and sub-zero cold to fight off the vastly superior number of Chinese and Koreans and escape from the trap that had been set for them. This is a riveting story well told.

The situation was bleak; it was mid-winter, and the Marines were cut off from supply lines and exposed to the extremes of weather, surrounded by seven divisions of better equipped and better situated Chinese and Korean troops who were most fanatical in their pursuit of them, ready to move in and annihilate the whole Marine force. The Marines, meanwhile, had little or no air support due to the terrible weather conditions, were relatively low on ammunition and other supplies, and the terrain was so formidable that they were quite effectively cut off and isolated and on their own. There could be little or no help from outside to save them.

Yet through all these obstacles and with the numbers so much against them, the Marines slowly but methodically fought their way out, hill by hill, bluff by bluff, regiment to regiment, battalion to battalion, company to company, whatever it took to inflict such terrible casualties on the Chinese and Koreans as they went, as they fought, from Division level all the way down to small groups of 3 or 4 men fighting with unvarnished tenacity to kick ............... out of the opposing force through sheer guts, grit, and courage.

This is a tale that will long be told in beer halls and at all Marine functions with pride and enthusiasm, for it is truly one of the finest moments for the Marines in modern combat, detailed here with such verve in the words and recollections of many who fought there. The reader feels like a member of the force as he reads through stirring accounts of men who just would not surrender, retreat, or desert their friends and buddies, who instead fought back with sustained vitality and surprising tenacity under the worst conditions imaginable. This was a fighting force that single-handedly destroyed seven opposing Divisions of enemy forces to walk out of the Chosin Reservoir under their own power, through the crucible of combat, and out the other side to a victory so memorable it will love forever wherever Marines gather. Read it and understand. Enjoy!

I read this about 18 years ago and still remember being moved by the horror of the battle. This book is a good introduction to anyone wanting to learn more about the war in the Pacific. Many hard lessons were learned in this battle that would save American lives in future battles; the lessons came at a ghastly cost, however.

I have purchased this book used three times and made a gift of it to three people. I was introduced to it by a retired Marine who fought at the Chozen Reservoir in Korea and again in Vietnam. I was a Combat Engineer attached to the 1st Inf. Divison. This book brings the reader as close to a combat experience as possible without being there. I recommend this to everyone. Let us not forget our mistakes as well as those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, our real heroes. Reading this book will help us not forget.

Russ Martin is as good as it gets in the scary world of sex, sadism and the sexual delights of evil. His women are some of the most alluring and evil creations in this genre. The guys? Mere catspaws. In this case, Sally Wing is a lovely young lady blessed (?) with the ability to taste the flavor of other people's emotions. Sally also is a young woman with a taste for the exotic emotions--not love and joy, but those emotions that plumb the horrifying depths of the human soul. To satisfy her tastes, Sally must CREATE the emotions through a judicious blend of sexuality and terror. Eventually, her victims die as she crushes the life from their psyches. The thrill of the tale lies in watching this happen. Ultimately, Sally gets her comeuppance. Her ravenous appetite puts at risk the secret organization of evil for which she works and which granted her this power in the first place. This is mere last-chapter moralizing. The charge in this story lies in what comes before. I wonder whatever came of Martin, whose books all seem to be out of print. Maybe some lethal lovely devoured HIS emotions.

Russ Martin has created a world in which the forces of evil are capable of enslaving men and women by increasing sexual desire to the highest possible level. Many of the characters in this book have been introduced to us in Martin's previous books, and it is probably a good idea to read The Education of Jennifer Parrish only after reading the earlier books in the series. If you are turned on by stories of sexual domination, you will probably like this series.