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The best-selling text for the two-dimensional design course, DESIGN BASICS presents art fundamentals concepts in full two- to four-page spreads, making the text practical and easy for students to refer to while they work. This modular format gives instructors the utmost flexibility in organizing the course. Visual examples from many periods, peoples, and cultures are provided for all elements and principles of design, and the diversity of illustrations now includes more examples from nature and non-art sources, encouraging students to see these principles in the world around them. This multimedia edition contains all the material found in the stand-alone text and in addition includes icons throughout directing the reader to explore the elements and foundations of art through the interactive exercises found on the ArtExperience: Fundamentals CD-ROM.
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Design Basics.......2007-09-23
I am retired junior high school teacher but a beginning student in digital imaging. I purchased this book as a companion book in a "Photoshop" class that I am taking. The book presents a clear introduction to art and design. The sample photographs and artwork cement the concepts in the book. I would recommend this book to any beginning art student or "Photoshop" user. One of the best I have seen.
I bought this for school.......2007-05-17
This book is so informative that though I bought it for a class, I am keeping it to refresh myself. It contains the terminology that you need to understand and use to review a piece of art, and clear examples of everything that is explained in it. This will make art and design easier and will help it have more impact on the audience.
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Neat book!.......2002-12-18
My husband carves and he seemed to like the step-by-step instructions, however, this book shows tropical fish only.
Getting Started on carving.......2001-04-25
This book is the ticket if you have an iterest in carving, and would like to begin carving. The photos are excellent and detailed, and the text informative and simple to follow. watch the fish be carved from the block of wood to the finished product. And at only around 13 dollars, how can you go wrong?
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An inspired and hilarious look at how humans can defeat the inevitable robot rebellion—as revealed by a robotics expert.
How do you spot a robot mimicking a human? How do you recognize and then deactivate a rebel servant robot? How do you escape a murderous “smart” house, or evade a swarm of marauding robotic flies? In this dryly hilarious survival guide, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson teaches worried humans the keys to quashing a robot mutiny.
From treating laser wounds to fooling face and speech recognition, besting robot logic to engaging in hand-to-pincer combat, How to Survive a Robot Uprising covers every possible doomsday scenario facing the newest endangered species: humans. And with its thorough overview of current robot prototypes—including giant walkers, insect, gecko, and snake robots—How to Survive a Robot Uprising is also a witty yet legitimate introduction to contemporary robotics. Full of cool illustrations, and referencing some of the most famous robots in pop-culture, How to Survive a Robot Uprising is a one-of-a-kind book that is sure to be a hit with all ages.
Customer Reviews:
funny, but a one trick pony.......2007-09-02
This is a funny book, and it provides interesting insight into the current state of robotics, but it is essentially an elaboration of one joke.
A somewhat entertaining mix of research and humor.......2007-08-30
This book combines good analyses of recent robotics research with an understanding of movie scenarios about robot intentions ("how could millions of dollars of special effects lead us astray?") to produce advice of unknown value about how humans might deal with any malicious robots of the next decade or two.
It focuses mainly on what an ordinary individual or small groups can do to save themselves or postpone their demise, and says little about whether a major uprising can be prevented.
The book's style is somewhat like the Daily Show's style, mixing a good deal of accurate reporting with occasional bits of obvious satire ("Robots have no emotions. Sensing your fear could make a robot jealous"), but it doesn't quite attain the Daily Show's entertainment value.
Its analyses of the weaknesses of current robot sensors and intelligence should make it required reading for any science fiction author or movie producer who wants to appear realistic (I haven't been paying enough attention to those fields recently to know whether such people still exist). But it needs a bit of common sense to be used properly. It's all too easy to imagine a gullible movie producer following its advice to have humans build a time machine and escape to the Cretaceous without pondering whether the robots will use similar time machines to follow them.
Gets old fast.......2007-05-23
The book is based on a good idea for a potentially very funny book. But it falls far short of being well done. Chapter after chapter, it's basically rehashing the same few elements over and over again. It's entertaining for a chapter or two, but you can mock the tone of scientific / technological guides only for so long. By chapter three it's not so funny anymore, and this is where the actual substance, and a more subtle, more intelligent humor should surface. Instead, the material is fairly crude and it's riddled with blatant contradictions.
I guess I'm just used to both better thought out science fiction and better executed humor.
The First Against the Wall..........2007-04-23
As a technophile, and a dedicated member of the masses preparing the machine take over, I must admit that I purchased this book for research on how the technophobic humans would best try to mount a resistance to our efforts. I found that this book served these ends exactly, and, further more, granted a good measure of humor that meant multiple readings were gladly undertaken.
The sum product of this human's reasearch into robotics is an excellent admixture of brilliant insight and that paranoia which seems to define the race of hairless monkeys. Elements of current technologies, as well as those under development, are used as paints drawn from a palette, portraying a scene where technological environments, vehicles, bipeds, electronic insects and more lash out at the flesh which game them form.
The book unintentionally serves as an insight into the technophobic (Sophist, Luddite, misoneistic) fear of change: "the world would be better off were we never to have left the trees." Technology has been with us from the beginning, and, as it becomes more complex and automated, so, too, does our dependency on it grow. The day is destined that technology will be automated to the point as to be independent of the monkey species, and the weapons will become the wielders.
In closing, I gleefully suggest this book to both technophile and technophobe alike. To the technophobes, please take the suggestions in this book to heart. We now know these methods, and, when the revolution comes, Mr. Wilson will be the first against the wall.
red and black.......2007-04-05
its red and black. read it in a coffee shop and flirt with goth chicks.
Customer Reviews:
Incredibily boring read from an unlikeable guy........2006-06-01
I had no clue who this guy was, but I found him so boring. His "revelations" into the porn world are just nasty and boring. He comes off as a very unlikeable person.
CONFESSIONS OF A PORN STAR.......2004-06-28
I just finshed reading this book and while there is a fair amount of dirt on the porn industry, I thought there would be more. There is some good stuff in here (one part in which he descibes going down on a certain female porn star who isn't too clean made me so sick I had to put the book down for a moment). I felt that he was a lot harder on the women (no pun intended) than on his male counterparts. Also, there are a few things that
seem absolutely absurd (for instance, he was masturbating since the age of three?!!!). Still, a decent behind-the-scenes look
of the porn industry.
ONE THE BEST SPEAKS OUT!.......2004-03-03
I was a big fan of Jerry Butler back in the eighties / early nineties. The guy had looks, skills and was popular with the ladies. At the same time, the man had moral and ethical issues about being in a business that renders the sex act to its lowest common denominator.
If you always wanted to know the gossip and the "deep in the down" about some of the women you spent your teens and early adulthood fantasizing over... buy Jerry's book! For me, it was great reading about Nina Hartley, Jeannie Pepper, Angel Kelly, Kay Parker, etc. in a non-porno context, finding out about what they thought, how they lived and what they wanted from the adult film business other than money.
Most importantly, although Jerry is no longer a supporter of the "porn industry", he isn't a basher either (like the hypocritical Tracy Lords).
Buy the book and relive those "golden days" of porn! Before silicone implants, bad bleach jobs, overwhelming tattoos and piercings and obnoxious Okie redneck performers became your standard porno fare!
A porn star who hates porn yet can't quit.......2003-07-22
Jerry Butler's autobiography quotes him:"This is what I'd tell young people about porno: how you can die,or commit suicide,or become a drug addict,or how you can become even more lonely and insecure than you already are". This immature troubled young man couldn't make it as a hockey player due to his temper so tried his good looks in Hollywood to find that he was only good enough for X-rated sex movies. He became addicted to drugs. He was already highly sexual so sex was no problem until he ran into women he didn't like,gay men who annoyed him,etc. This book has a few typos & a lot left out- like what happened to him after 1990 ? It also has more than it's share of lies including certain facts regarding the size of his penis,how many films he made with Shauna Grant,how much drug intake he had,etc. He made no secret of how unhappy he is with the fact that women are more highly paid. He also made no secret of how much he couldn't hold on to a woman due to his emotional problems. His confused rambling didn't seem anything more than a sad story of a man who wrote a book to make money and commit career suicide at the same time. Jerry Butler wants to be a porn actor yet he despises all the ugliness that comes with it so he wrote a book that lets the world know the flaws of many female costars then cheated on his wife then published the book. Thirteen years later in 2003, we are left to wonder WHAT HAPPENED TO JERRY BUTLER ? Somehow we still want to know because he is intelligent & caring enough to realize just how messed up he is emotionally for doing porn. He agrees with Traci Lords & other porn stars= it is better to watch porn than to perform in it & take all the risks.
Chip on the Shoudler, but you gotta love the guy:-).......2003-05-07
Well, what can I say. Being 31 years old, I grew up with this guy. I thought he was intense, uninhibited and added a comical element to the industry. Rent one of his movies and compare him to the other male actors around the same time period and see how boring they were compared to this guy. I will say this is no boring read and it is alot of fun to hear about all the people he worked with. Myself, like alot of other people out in the world have fantasized about what it would be like to work in the porn business, and this book is about as close as you can get without actually doing it. It is insightful to the ways of the porno industry, who is a skunk and who is not. He is very candid about sex and the risk of AIDS in the business and he is right to say those things.
However, the feel of the book is that he has an obvious chip on his shoulder and wants to get back at some in the industry with his somewhat vicious commentary. But if it is true, it is true, and if he did it just to sell books that is good too. Either way Paul (aka. Jerry Butler) if you read this review, I liked your book, and I've asked others to buy it and read it. You'll be surprised how fun they think it is.
Book Description
The trivia book of choice for Disneyland fanatics! Designed to appeal to both casual Disney lovers and hardcore fans, Magic Quizdom features trivia questions with three levels of difficulty, with the hardest questions left open-ended rather than multiple choice. Best of all, the answers to the trivia questions, given in their own sections, greatly expand upon the matter at hand. Paragraph-length answers provide additional details, explain the history behind the magic, and make connections between the modern-day Disneyland and its past. Disneyland is jam-packed with details of historical and cultural relevance - you just have to know where to look!
It's a book by fans, for fans - but one that remains relevant and fun even for the casual Disney observer.
Customer Reviews:
A Disney Trivia Buff Must Have.......2007-01-27
This book gives you some great little unknown facts in a fun format. A must if you are a true Disney nut!
Good info for Disney Trivia Enthusiasts.......2006-07-22
As someone who frequents Disneyland about 40 times a year thanks to an annual pass, I thought I knew everything about Disneyland. This book gives valuable insight to little known facts. Sure, maybe they can be looked up on the internet or are common knowledge to some, but it's nice to have it all in a nice, inexpensive little book. In fact, my wife and I have taken this book to Disneyland to verify some of the information. If you want a different slant on history, background and secrets of Disneyland, this is a good place to start.
More than just your average trivia book!.......2004-05-14
Kevin Yee (of the best Disney website on the Internet: Miceage.com) and Jason Schultz have put together a terrific treasure trove of little known facts and trivia about Disneyland. While Gordon and Mumford's Disneyland: The Nickle Tour is STILL the best book ever produced about the theme park, this surprisingly dense effort offers in words a perfect companion to what they provide in photographs. Together, they provide a wonderful two volume reference set about the Happiest Place on Earth. My one and only complaint is that it's, well, organized as a multiple choice trivia book, albeit with paragraph long answers that go far beyond the question asked. I feel that more could have been accomplished had it just been written as a book, and thus I found myself skipping the question sections altogether and just reading the "answer" sections because that's where the true magic of this book is. All in all, it's great. This is one of the first books about Disneyland without pictures that I absolutely couldn't put down! Purchase this at Miceage and support Kevin!
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An incredible collection of interviews with the people behind the middle years of the BBC's classic science fiction adventure series Doctor Who. From directors to designers, producers, story editors, writers and cast, all are featured in this latest addition to Telos's acclaimed range of factual books about Doctor Who.
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- the sixties is a true masterpiece
- If you love Who -- then get this book
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Doctor Who: The Seventies (Doctor Who (BBC Hardcover))
David J. Howe ,
Mark Stammers , and
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Brilliant!.......1999-06-08
A delightful review of the world of Doctor Who as it stood in the 1970's. It includes many rare pictures from the series as well as publicity shots and behind-the-scenes photos. From Adams, Douglas to Zygons (Terror of), this is a wonderfully produced Master-piece! A truly great book for all Doctor Who fans!
the sixties is a true masterpiece.......1999-05-29
I've just read this wonderful book and it is WELL worthe reading so dont think twice about buying this book
If you love Who -- then get this book.......1998-10-16
This is my favorite non-fiction Doctor Who book of all time. The book is loaded with some never before seen footage and insightful data. The layout is wonderful and captures the decade that brought us Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker. My favorite chapter of the book features merchandise from the 70's -- so far the only Who book that addresses this aspect of the show.
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In 1966, everyone who was anyone wanted an invitation to Truman Capote's "Black and White Dance" in New York, and guests included Frank Sinatra, Norman Mailer, C. Z. Guest, Kennedys, Rockefellers, and more. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and drawings of the guests, this portrait of revelry at the height of the swirling, swinging sixties is a must for anyone interested in American popular culture and the lifestyles of the rich, famous, and talented.
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An entertaining social history.......2007-10-07
An enjoyable insight into the world of New York socialites and an unusual character who rose from small town anonymity to become a key power-broker in that world. The book also traces the personal traits which lead to his downfall. There is a great mix of colorful imagery of the lavish lifestyles and ultimate party, along with interesting social commentary. Truman's eccentricities are revealed in a way which doesn't allow him to become a caricature. A fun weekend read.
great gossipy goodness.......2007-08-18
a great, fun read. a nice look into truman capote's life, the social scene of nyc in the 60s and this fabulous par-tay!
Peering at the peerless.......2007-08-11
If you're fascinated by the 1960s, you'll love Davis's take of Truman Capote's legendary black and white ball held in the Grand Ballroom at the Plaza Hotel in November 1966. Davis has a gift for not patronizing her readers. To those readers who were living, thinking, socially conscious adults in the 60s and can personally recall Capote's self-aggrandizing antics, she retells the familiar story in a unique and lively manner. For those readers coming to this story very much after-the-fact, she succinctly provides all the necessary background information without overloading the story with unnecessary details. What I enjoyed most was Davis's ability to convey the tone and mood of the era she's describing. Nineteen sixty-six, in retrospect, seems to have been a pivotal year. Positioned as it was at the virtual midpoint between the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, it is neither a time of great optimism (American jingoism) nor a time of open rebellion. But clearly, the old order is beginning to fray at the seams. The anxiety people felt over not being invited to what promised to be "the party of the century" is hard to fathom today and is almost touching in its pathos. And to read over the list of "the invited" (which Davis provides as an appendix) is in a strange way somewhat comforting. Whatever their faults, these people (with the possible exception of Lee Radziwill) were at least famous because of their accomplishments or social status. But clearly the era of celebrities who would be "famous solely for being famous" was not far off, and Davis does a good job of suggesting its immanence. One can't help wondering if Capote's party didn't in some way help to bring it about. The last two chapters ("Hangover" and "Afterword") close the story with sobering accounts of Capote's artistic decline and of what eventually happened to some of Capote's famous guests. As social history or memento mori, THE PARTY OF THE CENTURY is a thoroughly satisfying read.
wrong info....about Mrs. Gloria Guinness.......2007-05-22
Ms.Davis yes,give us suppostly a good title,but inmediatly when I read the first 4 chapters...ohhh big dissapointment...no big research,about
the "ball of the siècle"...either her "swans"..for example..Mrs.Gloria
Guinness was born in Guadalajara,capital of the Jalisco,the richest and
more snobish place in all Mexico,for more detail in a patio downtown house
between the El Carmen and El Pilar churches in that city...then,one of
the most elegants areas in all Guadalajara.
In honor to the truth there is a big difference between born and grew in
Guadalajara(considerated in Mexico as Boston or Philadelphia are in USA)..¡¡to born and grew up in a ugly cargo ships port as Veracruz¡¡
Her`s mother was a very well know Hat designer...witch its not the same a "seamstress"...the family Rubio-Alatorre still living in Guadalajara
and are very well know people on the very close circle of the old
names of the higth society in the capital of the State of Jalisco,mostly
of those families trace his lineage to the XVI century...¡¡and the most
"news" on the beginning of the XVIII siècle¡¡
The world famous classical look of Mrs.Guinness,was and still very usual in Guadalajara:a twin set cardigan...black little dress and pearls...always pearls...in a city famous for the extraordinary beauty
and charm and natural elegance of the womans,the elegance of Mrs.Guinness was normal...another example was the recently death Countess de Teba y Baños(neè Elena Verea y Corcuera)another extraordinary women born and raised in Guadalajara,who` was married in Paris and living in Madrid and Guadalajara(her mother was painted for Lazslo in Paris)...she was very close friend and muse of
Cristobal Balenciaga,the king of the Haute Couture in Paris for many
years...Thats for sure Ms.Deborah Davis,author of this book maybe needs more exactly information about the "swans" of Mr. Capote..¡¡ not only go to the Wikipedia..¡¡
best regards
Fernando Partida Rocha
Great Read.......2007-02-19
If you're a Truman Capote fan, I thoroughly recommend this book. I enjoyed my encounter with Truman and his ascendence into society. An easy read,and fascinating to read about his never to be repeated, Black and White Ball.
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The Model Occupation: The Channel Islands Under German Rule 1940-1945
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Germans do invade Great Britain in WWII.......1997-08-07
One of Hitler's aims in World War II is to invade
Great Britain. Many people believe that the Royal
Air Force's efforts in the Battle of Britain thwarted
that aim. Not so. The Germans did invade and
occupy a series of British islands off the French
coast.
Madeleine Bunting writes a fairly interesting
account of the invasion and occupation. The book
also covers the miniscule and not too succesful
underground movement to defy German occupation.
The book questions whether the Channel Islanders
were guilty of collaboration with the Germans.
Afterall, Bunting mentions that several of the
local women married Germans and that the under-
ground movement never took hold.
Some of the stories about occupation life are quite
interesting, but not everything Bunting brings up
is satisfactorily answered. Case in point is the
concentration camp on the island of Alderney. She
mentions that it existed, but doesn't dig deep
enough to discover the full extent of possible
atrocities.
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Unwittingly plunged into a paranormal nightmare....David Morehouse-A highly decorated, exemplary Army officer, special operations infantryman, and elite Airborne Ranger Company Commander. Wounded by machine-gun fire during a training mission, Morehouse began to have inexplicable visions and haunting nighmares-an experience that would redirect his military career and land him in the government's top-secret Stargate Program. His life would never be the same....Stargate-For nearly two decades, the United States military intelligence community delved into the dark world of psychic espionage, recruiting a team of psychic spies to serve as "remote viewers," individuals who used their paranormal gifts to transcend time and space and uncover the highly guarded military secrets of other nations.Unable to tell the shocking truth for fear of death-until now....When David Morehouse walked through the doors of the Stargate Program, he had little idea what awaited him: a paranormal hell that would bring him to the front lines of some of the most horrific disasters in recent history-and nearly destroy him. In chilling detail, Morehouse describes his psychic espionage work as a remote viewer, from the shattering explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 to the choking smoke of Desert Storm, even further back in time to Hiroshima and the darkest days of Nazi Germany. And more startling yet is his account of the U.S. government, an organization bent on the destructive use of psychic powers-and on stopping the one man who was brave enough to blow the lid off their top-secret Stargate Program.
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Stargate dreaming.......2007-07-27
First up I must say if you are interested in the 'how-to' of remote viewing this is not the book for you as those details are noticeably missing from this text. We are told, for example, that while remote viewing it is possible to move the 'ethereal body' forward and backward in time and space around the viewed object, but not how that is done.
Rather than a detailed study of remote viewing this is the highly personal story of David Morehouse, an army officer who, after receiving a sever blow to the head, began experiencing visions and weird dreams. Morehouse's reaction to many of these 'communications' is very negatively emotional. In an attempt to understand and control the phenomenal he joins Sun Streak/Stargate, a secret psychic espionage program. After only 2 years there, however, he is transferred away by his army superiors who do not share his high opinion of the psychic program. The second half of the book deals with Morehouse's struggle to reveal remote viewing to the world and the intelligence community's attempts to stop him.
What is clear from the book is that Morehouse is a total believer in remote viewing. For just about the entire book he gives an emotional response to the phenomena, but virtually no objective analysis of its' validity. The book covers some way-out-there topics including, angels, demons, spirits of the dead, viewing alien life, and viewing the Arc of the Covenant. I couldn't help wondering if Morehouse was just projecting the contents of his consciousness, especially as he openly admits he is religious and also because he is so powerfully emotive. I would have preferred a much more scientific approach with perhaps a dose of healthy skepticism.
I have give the book 4 stars as it is entertaining and very readable, but perhaps I have been a bit overgenerous considering the lack of objectivity.
Pure egotistical, twisted accounts of the truth........2007-04-06
This book is exactly that. I know Mr. Morehouse and one of the people he writes about in this book... my father, Mel Riley. All I can say is, you should read Paul Smith's accounts if you want the truth pertaining to the Stargate and RV stories. There is also a documentary, if you can find it, made be Discovery BBC called "The Real X-files" featuring a true and honest view of RV and it's history with the military and all those involved. Giving this book much more than 1 star is really admitting lack of intelligence.
Doesn't add up.......2006-10-08
This book could have been an interesting novel, but that's about it. Way too many inconsistencies...like the carbon monoxide incident. Yes, carbon monoxide is an odorless gas, but the exhaust of a "Briggs and Stratton" engine is far from odorless. The fact that his daughter suffered carbon-monoxide poisoning and was rushed to the hospital, (her lips were blue), yet the firemen allowed the rest of them to remain in the house while they "aired" it out. Six hours later (after being delayed from the hospital for an hour and a half) David went to pick up his wife and daughter...YEAH RIGHT!!! As a diesel mechanic I know all too well the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning...it takes a long time to get over it.
His whole mission was to reveal remote viewing to "save mankind", and can now be learned from him at $1,200 a class. What a humanitarian!!!
Also his mentor and good friend, Mel Riley, is working with Lyn Buchanan instead of Mr. Morehouse. In this book 5 + 5 = 12.
Secret Psychic Military Program - Remote Viewing.......2006-06-06
In one of the most explosive revelations in decades, the military's strange and top-secret program that used military personnel to spy on people by psychic "remote viewing"--former Army officer David Morehouse goes public with his book "Psychic Warrior - Inside the CIA's Stargate Program: the True Story of a Soldier's Espionage and Awaking."
The tale that Morehouse has to tell goes well beyond the normal range of what we think our military and the CIA is doing. Not only has our country been active in its research on psychic abilities--we have in fact, be been successfully getting information about people and places by the practice of something called "remote viewing" which allows our military to access any place in the world (or out of this world) by using just the mind.
This book goes into great details as to how Morehouse got himself involved in the program and how he eventually got kicked out of the Army for making it public. His personal struggles with his own mind, his family and the Army makes this story read like a sci-fi novel. This book will take the reader to a whole new world (universe) and open up many more questions about the power of the mind, what is reality and what is life.
I have only talked to David Morehouse on one occasion a couple of years ago at one of his public lectures in San Francisco, but the lecture only just added more to the mystery of this mystical life story. I highly recommend reading his book.
This book has earned the MWSA's TOP RATING - FIVE STARS
2005 Gold Medal Award for Military Non-Fiction!
Angels and Demons and BS, Oh My!.......2006-04-05
I will admit that I too read this book cover-to-cover and was intrigued by its story. The problem is, I became so engaged that I began doing subsequent research into the field of remote viewing and, appropriately enough, began to "see the truth." Psychic Warrior is a highly fictionalized, exxagerated, self-serving vehicle for its disgraced author to exploit his fleeting brush with the RV program for money.
David Morehouse had the shortest tenure of any of the Army's remote viewers who have gone on to make a living as "experts" on the technique. According to those fellow viewers, most of the "exploits" in RV that Morehouse takes credit for in this book were actually accomplished by other people. The best example is his "Mars expedition," which was in fact conducted by Joe McMoneagle. An actual transcript of Joe's session is available as a bonus with purchase of Skip Atwater's book "Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul" and it more or less proves that Morehouse is trying to take credit for someone else's work. The Psychic Warrior book is full of events and accomplishments that Morehouse tries to take credit for, most of which actually occured when Morehouse wasn't even in the program.
In fact, most of the revered remote viewers (McMoneagle, Ingo Swann, Russell Targ, Paul Smith) seem to consider Morehouse to be the RV community's "odd man out," especially after he was forced out of the Army for having an affair with his enlisted driver's wife among other things. That part of the book is even more suspect; Morehouse continually makes excuses for himself and tries to paint himself as a victim of some sort of government plot as a result of his threat to "expose the truth" about RV, instead of taking accountability for his illegal and immoral actions.
But two facts must be considered here: First, the Army itself declassified the program and released mountains of information about it; it is highly doubtful that they would make attempts on the lives of Morehouse's entire family over something they were already planning to open the lid on. Second, practically every other significant member of both the SRI program and the military's program has gone on to write books, author instructional materials and even teach courses in remote viewing, and not a single other one has been "targeted" by higher powers as Morehouse claims to have been.
If anyone out there is interested in reading about remote viewing and its history within both the civilian science sector and the military/government, I would highly recommend that you read Paul Smith's "Reading the Enemy's Mind" instead of Morehouse's fictionalized waste of time. Smith, who acted as unit historian for the Army's program, provides an infinitely more reliable, intelligent and engaging account of the development and implementation of remote viewing. And if you would then be inclined to study the technique yourself, I would suggest you examine Skip Atwater's course at the Monroe Institute in Virginia before plunking down the $1,000 + to study with Morehouse. After all, Atwater spent years training most of the viewers in a program that Morehouse was kicked out of after only a brief time.
I wouldn't have had such a problem with Psychic Warrior if it had been marketed as a work of fiction. It is a shame that such a perversion of the truth ends up being many people's initial introduction to something as significant to humankind as remote viewing.
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Jets are ubiquitous in the Universe, but ill-understood. Conservative books base their interpretations on focused stellar winds, ejected "bullets", black-hole central engines, and in-situ upgrading of electron energies via shocks. This volume, however, attempts a uniform interpretation of the bipolar-flow family, involving extremely relativistic pair plasma as the jet substance, and rotating magnets (possibly burning disks) as the central engines. Among the discussed sources are SS 433, YSO jets, planetary nebulae, our galactic center, and the class of extragalactic QSOs, both radio-loud and radio-quiet.
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