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It's been a while since I looked through this book, I remember a lot of things being in it, including tips for at least one flight challenge. I guess that I'm just not a pilot at heart, I didn't get the information I really wanted on how to get flying.

I should have returned this one, but I didn't think it was worth the time. This book is no better than the documentation that came with Flight Simulator 98 (which was almost nothing). It only has 200 pages of non-appendix material. I can see how someone who never had any flight simulator books might think it is a good book. However, before I purchased this book, I had purchased the Prima's FS Guide for version 5.1 and had the original pilot handbook that came with earlier versions of FS. I thought this book would be as good or better. Wrong! Dead Wrong! The Prima FS Guide for 5.1 was written by Nick Dargahi. I still read Dargahi's book and use it with FS 2000 Pro. Get Dargahi's latest if you are serious about flight simulation (the latest has a 1000 pages for pete sake!). However, if you are stuck with Microsoft FS 98 for a few years, the book's appendix does list navigation information that would be useful (its probably as good as those other guides with 300 to 400 pages, in fact, if you want something in this price range and can get Prima's 5.1, get that instead). I gave this book two stars - for the appendix and a few pages of hints that were interesting.

This book was worth every penny. Unlike most Microsoft programs, the online help available with Flight Simulator 98 basically sucks. I had the game for months, played it many times, but really couldn't do anything with it. After reading this book, I feel pretty confident that I know how to use almost every feature in the game. This book made the game incredibly fun and anyone who wants to learn how to really play FS98 should buy this.

It's not just that Ben and Jerry's ideas are stupid; it's that these guys don't practice what they preach. There is an article that some naïve reviewers on this board should read. It's called "The Evil Empire" in the New Republic (hardly the voice of capitalism or the political right). Amazingly the New Republic finds Ben and Jerry's arrogance just too hard to swallow.

What does the article have to say?

On Ben and Jerry's success:

"With the publicity came the inevitable backlash: that Ben and Jerry are nothing more than New Age scam artists, feeding social consciousness to gullible yuppies and pocketing the cash. The scarier truth may be that they've scammed themselves. Like their fortysomething followers, they believe the most flattering image of themselves: that, despite their millions, they haven't sold out."

How Ben and Jerry discovered why CEOs get paid big salaries:

This doesn't mean the company is built on scandalous lies--just little white lies, mutual delusions that keep everyone happy. For example, one tenet of caring capitalism is to be "real," to "connect with the customer." This spirit is what drove the company's offbeat search for a new CEO. Early last summer, Ben and Jerry held a press conference to announce that Ben would step down as CEO. Profits had plummeted, the superpremium ice cream market was shrinking; in short, the company had grown too complicated for a "multi-college dropout and failed pottery teacher to run," Ben announced. What pained him most was the company's decision to give up the salary cap that had limited the top executive's salary to seven times that of the lowest-paid employee, the $8 an hour scooper (a sacrifice that had always obscured Ben's millions in stock shares).

And my favorite section of the Article when Ben and Jerry show their hypocracy for all the world to see:

"Then there are the inner-city initiatives that fail. If there are any doubts about B&J's bloodless business instincts, they can be dispelled by another holy man, the Reverend James Carter, who crossed the company's path in 1992. Back then, Carter ran a modest New Jersey bakery called LaSoul, where recovering addicts churned out pumpkin pies for the local groceries. A week after he saw Ben on ABC's "20/20," Carter packed up a trunk full of pies and drove to the company headquarters. Ben loved both the pies and "Reverend Carter's vision of building a sound business." In three weeks, Carter had a letter of intent to do business with the company, which he showed to the bank to borrow money for equipment. Ben flew down to New Jersey to tape a TV show of himself helping ex-addicts mix batches of the new Apple Pie frozen yogurt.

After two years, however, sales of the flavor were flagging. In May 1994, Ben and Jerry's drastically decreased its orders, leaving Carter with freezers full of pies. Frantic, Carter laid off all but two employees and called Ben. The next day, Ben flew to New Jersey, "sat down, looked them straight in the eye," and, recalls Carter, said, "Don't worry, we'll stick with you." But orders never picked up, and, this June, Carter received a letter from the company, by fax, that congratulated him on his "good works" and canceled all remaining orders. He was left half a million dollars in debt. "It's pretty cute, this social mission," Carter says bitterly. "But the bottom line is, Ben and Jerry's buried my company."

Ask Ben about the incident, and he sounds more like Gordon Gecko than Robin Hood: "We told Jim to find more customers. We gave him six months' notice." When the normally upbeat Alan Parker is reminded of a spreadsheet dated November 11, 1994, that projected $500,000 worth of orders from LaSoul in 1995, he replies: "That spreadsheet was given to him as a best-case scenario for volume expectations. Nothing about that memo could be construed as a firm commitment, and it's really disingenuous for him to cite it." Do they feel at all responsible? "Sure, we feel sad," says Parker. "But our sadness is tempered with `why are we being blamed?' We worked closely with him to make our demands on him easier, and that's not something many customers would do for their suppliers. In the end, LaSoul was just not a viable business enterprise."

Anyway for those who would rather read a true story than this useless book I suggest getting a hold of the whole article:

Source: New Republic, 9/11/95, Vol. 213 Issue 11, p22, 4p, 1 cartoon Author(s): Rosin, Hanna

These two idealistic lefty entrepreneurs think that there should be a 100% tax on all income over $250,000... This offers a real incentive to work and build a business when the government takes away all the profit. This book should really be called "How to Run a Business While Supporting Anti-Business, Politically-Correct, Leftist Do-Gooder Causes." However, if your IQ is the same temperature as Ben-and-Jerry's ice cream, this will certainly satisfy your appetite for mouth-watering politically correct jibberish.

great book for those who HATE big business and its "selfishness". Although the book, I think, is poorly written at times, it is always very interesting as it offers a perspective one NEVER hears about in the business section of the newspaper or in business/management books. More execs should read this and thing long and hard about their "social mission", as well as their strategies. The social effort seems to have worked well for B&J.

Honestly, I don't know what does this woman think. She has no respect for others or for herself, and if you read her book neither will you feel any respect for her. She begins her story by writing about her teen years spent as a drug addict, now I don't want to judge her by this, nobody is perfect, but it doesn't make me have a high opinion about her. Then she wrotes about how her relationship with Mr Jackson began. Without feeling any shame she describes how she dated a man who was MARRIED with children, then writes about the birth of their first son (Jermaine Jackson was still married to Hazel Gordy then). Now I don't know about Ms Maldonado's standards but if I had morals like hers at least I wouldn't publicly announce it in a book. (I don't say everything is only her fault, though. The book reveals that BETWEEN the births of their two sons Mr Jackson also had a child by his wife.

From the book we get some interesting tidbits about the Jackson family, but those you can find in other books too. We also learn that she is suffering from the infidelity of her common-law husband (I guess nobody has ever told her that what goes around comes back around), then they finally break up. From then the whole book is about Ms Maldonado's endless wailing about not getting any money and her trying to pose as a good mother. She's badmouthing the whole Jackson family, with the exception of Michael (who -- what a strange coincidence -- is the only one who supports her financially).
This book was written as a revenge against the Jacksons. If you love them, don't buy it. Don't support this woman. Go and buy "My Family, the Jacksons" by Katherine Jackson, or if you want a less varnished one, try the unauthorized biographies, maybe not everything is true in them but at least their pages aren't filled with hate towards our beloved entertainers.

This book left me kind of confused and wondering about some of Ms. Maldonado's statements and motives. First, why does she use the last name Jackson? Jermaine never married her. Second, I don't understand why she didn't use some of her producer's fee she received from the miniseries to move herself and her children from the "house of hell". Instead of paying Jermaine's back child support, storage fee, etc., which was well over $65,000.00, she should have used the money to leave. Third, she claims to have suffered physical, mental and emotional abuse, then why did she stay in this relationship for so long? There were organizations that she could have turned to for help. When she first found out that Jermaine was still a married man, that should have been her clue not involve herself any further. Not only did she have one baby by this married man, but she allowed herself to become pregnant the second time! I think she thought she would live the life of glitter and glitz when she found out who Jermaine was, but unfortunately, she didn't prosper as well as she thought she would because he was not the Jackson with the money ... Michael was.

Ms. Maldonado sounds like she is extremely bitter, vindictive, suffers from a bad case of low self-esteem and in desperate need of cash (as she alludes to in the closing lines of her epilogue). She is also a notorious name-dropper and this book was filled with many typos and grammatical errors. Some of it just didn't make sense and I question some of her accounts. She REALLY tried to make herself sound like a saint! Hmmmmmmmm......

I presume her telltale account of some of the Jacksons' private affairs and "dysfunctionality" did little to heal her relationship with the Jackson family. I think her overt viciousness only served to further distance the Jacksons from her boys ... how sad for the children.

I've been an admirer of the Jacksons for many years, and it's so sad to hear of the layers of dysfunction that exist in this family. At the very least, this book talks about the other Jacksons besides Michael, which is a refreshing change. It is also the story of a woman who discovers that even celebrities are not immune from problems, and that fame and fortune are no substitutes for a healthy home life. What is WRONG with these folks? According to the author, it seems that Marlon and Tito are the only ones among the 'other' Jacksons who have made a life for themselves apart from sponging off of Michael and Janet (thank God Marlon and his wife Carol are still together; the smartest thing they did was to leave the whole dysfunctional bunch to themselves at Hayvenhurst!).
I have seen Jermaine Jackson on Feed the Children Informercials, defending his famous brother in interviews, and heard of his supposed conversion to Islam. I sincerely hope that by now he has dealt with his issues of abuse and womanizing, and that he is paying child support for the two sons he had with the author. I would love to see Margaret Maldonado write a revised version of this book, with updates as to whether or not things have improved between her sons and their father, as well as how she has rebuilt her own life.

The author must have come from the late 90's when everyone was "successful" in the dot com game. Everything in this book is common sense. Special things that are revealed makes no sense. If this is really the CTO of Perot Systems, then Ross Sr. really needs to look at where he is spending his money.

The author has no depth in this subject matter. The article read like a boiler plate presentation that was thrown together for a conference where no one is listening.

There are so many better books on this topic that this should NOT be on your list.

The book that both Elliott and Schroth have put together is really quite remarkable. It has won many awards in the year 2002 for the "Best Ethics Book of the Year" and continues to be a strong book in its basic thoughts. While simple by design in its writing, this book gets at the heart of the problem still being faced by corporations and businesses. Yes, it is sad that many of the things that the authors talk about is common sense. Do you think that they may have been making a point to business that with all that's been written on this topic, common sense is the one thing that has been lacking. Maybe we don't need great thinking on this topic, but insead what we need is truly a common sense approach. I loved this book.

This book has some good historical information and the color photos are great, some on full and two page spreads. However, the majority of the content is sketchy at best, with no real info on how or why things were done for what reasons. The BIG problem I have with this book is the LARGE amount of INCORRECT captions on photographs. Example; page 102-103 identifies CN #6400 as a diesel locomotive when it is CLEARLY a steam loco. Pg. 156 calls a GP-38 an "SD class diesel" FYI SD locos have 6 axle trucks while GP locos have 4 axle trucks which is clearly shown in this photo. Pg. 162 ID's an E unit as an F unit and on and on ad-nauseum!!!! Like I said, good photos and some good info, but next time, get someone who actually knows what they are talking about instead of writing a book report about something they have a mild interest in. Don't buy it unless you just like to look at pictures and don't use this book as a learning reference.

For those intereested in the railroad industry! Even if you live in the Eastern half of the U.S. or Canada.

This book has a lot of history on the major railroads of then, and now. Some of the historical roads have long disappeared, but others are still around, under new colors and new names. It's interesting to note, also, that the railroad was responsible for the development of the West . . . many towns were settled AFTER the railroad laid it's tracks. If you want to know about the shaping of a nation, and of an industry, this book is a must read!

Judge Judy's authoritarian, jewish mother-esque take on morality is as brazen and one sided as her television show. Spare us all Judge Judy and stick to yelling at white trash on daytime television.

The book is a great collection of "Cool rules" to follow to make life easier at school. Written for the new student it gives advice on how to avoid trouble in your new surroundings. Opinionated? - Absolutely.

This book gives readers several very important keywords like vision, values, and mission.

This is a small but worthwhile book. It is sold as a "atand-alone," but appears actually to be a workbook for a facilitated process for developing a corporate vision and mission statement called Visioning. The authors are the founders of a San Francisco (US) consulting firm that apparently conducts these "Visioning" retreats. It is nonetheless a worthwhile starting point on its own if you are developing a corporate vision and mission statement (as I am). I was disappointed that there was not a little more in the book, but it is well worth its modest $9.95 list price.

this "book" is the worst book i have ever read. the reason is because the "author" is putting 101 advertizements for harry potter mechandise. i reapeat myself, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!

The amount and variety of Harry Potter merchandise never ceases to amaze me. Rather than collect much of it, just buy this book. The pictures are detailed and printed on high-quality paper. Want to see what some foreign editions look like? It's in here. Want to find out some basic info about J.K. Rowling? It's in here, too.

Sure it resembles a catalog, but what book of collectibles doesn't? Its biggest flaw is being out of date, thereby leaving out quite of bit of recent merchandise, but it's a good start. The focus is on items based on the books, not the movies, which is okay by me. I'm late to HP fandom, so I get to see what I missed out on.

I also had the advantage of seeing this book in a store, so I knew what I was getting. It would be nice if there were an updated second edition, as this one only scratches the surface of HP collecting.

The book definitely has an entertaining value, but as far as a book for collectors, it isn't up to par. Most of the sections on Harry Potter collectables are not up to date, and they feature very vague values or prices. I think the reason is that Harry Potter merchandise is fairly new, and so it is hard to calculate an item's worth when it just came on to the market.

The book also includes several interesting sections on the upcoming movie, JK Rowling, and England, which are mildly entertaining. The thing that I thought was the most appealing in the book, however, was a section on Harry Potter around the world. I found it very interesting to see the covers of the Harry Potter books in Germany, France, Japan, and many other countries. Out of everything, I would say that that section helps redeem this book, which is otherwise a failure.

This book is great for the water and has beautiful art, but it has a disturbing message. The deeper meaning that I want to keep away from my child's subconscious is that he must give away body parts to make friends. Even if one takes the shiny scales as a metaphor for money or toys, any friend that stays for what he gets is an opportunist in my opinion. I will teach my child to share and to make sacrifices for his friends when they are in need but not with this book. When my child learns to read, I will remove this book from the bookshelf.

My 1 1/2 year old LOVES "fishies" so this book seemed ideal for her. Well, As I started reading it to her I was very disturbed by the message. The rainbow fish gives away his scales to make friends...How horrible!!! Everytime I read the book, I change the word "give" to "borrow" which could have easily been done by the author. This book is NOT about sharing. Sharing, to me, means letting someone borrow something for a given amount of time, AND GETTING IT BACK! Children shouldn't be taught that they have to give their things away to make friends, especially, pieces of their body! How bizarre?! My daughter loves this book and I cringe everytime she brings it to me. Like I said, the pictures are absolutely beautiful but the message is terrrible, I really can't believe this book is on bookshelves!

unfortunately, the book is a condensed version of the original story so it does indeed send out a "bad" message. The movie goes into much greater detail, showing that rainbow fish is very conceited and quite selfish and he doesn't listen, share or want to play with the other fish unless it is on his terms, so to speak. my opinion is that this book IS about sharing and learning to take the time to care about someone else's feelings.

The content of this book is easy to understand, however, too elementary. This book is not necessarily for an i-Mac beginner, but someone who has never owned a computer.

I agree word for word with the reader from Brixey, MO. The description should have made it clear what the Kit consisted of. Delightful as anything by David Pogue is, I certainly don't need two of the same book. Major bummer!

I expected David Pogue's delightful and insightful take on using my new IMac specifically to surf the Internet. What I got was David Pogue's IMac for Dummies (a terrific book which I had already bought and which included some info on surfing the Net!) and The Internet for Macs for Dummies, a general thing by some other guy on using any old Mac to surf the Internet.Am I disappointed? You bet!