Customer Reviews:
Tarot to the point.......2005-01-14
Experienced tarot readers will tell you that every deck has a personality. Some are psychoanalysts, some are drama queens, some are gurus, some are polemicists, some are jokers, some are historians, some are dilletantes, and some are, yes, carny-style fortune tellers. Very few are guides.
As one of those experienced tarot readers, I was inwardly dismissive when I was given this deck as a gift. The colors were exquisite, I thought, but the drawings were juvenile, the card meanings to simplified, and hardly on-target.
Imagine my surprise when my first, simple, one-card reading with this deck was comforting and steadying while being simultaneously truthful and direct. This was not tarot for the politically-correct, head-in-the-clouds, eveything-is-beautiful types who are so often the target audience for mass-marketed tarot decks. Several subsequent readings have borne out my first impression.
If you want answers that are simple without being simplistic, and advice that leaves room to ask the next question, this deck is for you. All that, and pretty colors, too!
Good Gift.......2004-04-28
I bought this set as a going-away gift for a co-worker for whom I had done some tarot readings. I was impressed at the quality of the set for its price. The illustrations are nice, and it comes with an instructional booklet and spreadsheet. The graphics are cute, but do not contain as much symbolism as Ryder-Waite based decks. The cards are not too small to use, but are a little difficult to shuffle due to being somewhat thick.
CUTE CUTE CUTE!.......2003-06-20
This little package is great for travel. The cards are tiny, but you can still manage to shuffle them, they are a little on the "hard" side, but they stand up well when traveling. I really liked the drawings, they are kind of folksy and simple. It's a nice break from the intensely drawn packs that I have. The book that comes with it is concise and it has both upright and reversed interpretations. It has a piece of paper with a 4 card layout and a simple explanation. This you can throw out or keep. Great little gift, and cheap too.
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This amazing kit gives you everything you need to get started in the art of tarot. Best of all, the quality components are sturdy, beautifully designed and substantial. First you get two of the most popular tarot decks: the Rider-Waite and the Crowley Thoth. You also get a 246-page book, Introduction to Tarot by Susan Levitt, which explains the history and practice in simple language and lovely illustrations. You also get a 166-page Tarot Journal, so you can track your progress and reflect on what you're seeing. Finally, the spreadsheet and quick reference chart are tools that will help you break down your readings. The whole set comes in a sturdy case with a magnetic closure. A fantastic gift for anyone, maybe even yourself.
Customer Reviews:
The Complete Tarot Kit.......2007-09-12
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This kit is wonderful for those of us just starting to learn Tarot card reading. The card decks fit well in your hands, because they are standard size cards. The book is easy to read, yet very informative. This kit includes charts you can use for the card reading lay-out, and even includes a cheat sheet with the card meanings at a glance. What makes this kit even more outstanding is the card reading journal, where you study, and write in your personal thoughts and progress. This Tarot Kit is by far the best study guide, and with so many tools to use, you don't need to buy anything else. Everything you need is included!
Vey good starter kit.......2007-02-23
im just now learning the way of tarot...and this kit is really helpful although i do like the Rider deck better then the other one that came with... this is a great starter kit if your just learning its very helful in many ways...tells you meaning of cards how to set them up etc...and even comes with a personal journal...5 stars
A misleading set.......2006-03-06
This set comes with two of the most commonly known and respected tarot decks: Crowley and Waite. However, they are printed on mediocre stock and are quite small. This can be useful for an on the go, not easily missed deck should the cards be damaged but it also makes the symbolism of the cards themselves difficult to appreciate. The backs of the cards are also a disappointment, made easy to tell if a face down card is reversed or not. This destroys the sense of overall discovery when one has some idea of what to expect on that alone.
Additionally, the book is highly misleading. This oversimplifies Tarot and gives horrible advice- such as ignoring reversed cards. Susan Levitt may have meant well, but her advice runs completely counter to trying to learn to truly use the cards.
Final advice: save your money. For what this will cost you, you can buy two full sized decks- one waite, one crowley- and get a more sensible book in the little pamphlet types they put in for basic divination.
Great starter set.......2005-06-18
I absolutely love this set. I bought it as a starter kit two years ago and still use the Rider-Waite deck and the information in the book, although I have other decks. I didn't want or like Crowley's Thoth deck (not that there's anything wrong with it, but I gave it away) but the kit is well worth it for the information, techniques and layouts. The journal was especially helpful both as a record and as a study aid, particularly when I was starting out and still getting a feel for the cards. There are some interpretations that are different than what you will see in other books, and I have modified some of the suggested practices for my own use; really, anyone using an oracle will develop a personal style over time. Still, I recommend this to any interested beginner. It would also make a nice gift.
Extremely Helpful Tarot Resource--for Beginners or Advanced.......2004-08-05
I am very impressed with this Tarot kit. Not-only does it come with both the Rider-Waite deck and the Crowley Thoth deck, but the book has excellent pictures of each card, from each deck (for side-by-side comparison, without digging through each deck, to compare cards). The author points-out the diffrerences between each deck and gives a great over-view of The Tarot, with very helpful ideas for readings and layouts.
Bonus materials include a Beginner's lay-out / fold-out chart, a tri-fold cheat sheet of the differences between the two decks, and a nice Tarot Journal--for keeping records of the readings, to study accuracy and ability of Tarot Reading, and to study the synchronicities you might not catch by memory alone.
As the author mentions, "The Book of Thoth," by Crowley (ISBN: 0877282684) is a great resource, as well. However, I strongly suggest Lon Milo Duquette's "Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot" (ISBN: 1578632765) as a first step after studying "The Complete Tarot Kit," by Susan Levitt ....then, move-on to Crowley's Thoth Tarot book, afterward.
For further research, I also suggest: "The Tarot Handbook: Practical Applications of Ancient Visual Symbols," by Angeles Arrien.
However, save yourself some headaches and start with "The Complete Tarot Kit," by Susan Levitt ! :-)
Customer Reviews:
Great Book.......2000-08-08
This book let you proceed into learning about Tarot with ease. It almost took you step by step as you learned facts, and other things such as the different meanings of each card, how to depict what they mean to you and only you, as well as many others! I totally reccomend this book. It is informational as well as fun!
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- Cast the bones
- Buckland makes domino divination easy
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Cast the bones.......2003-04-22
The origin of dominoes is as shrouded in mystery as is the origin of the tarot cards. Both the East and the West claim dominoes however there are substantial differences. Chinese dominoes consist of 32 tiles with no zero or null tiles, such as 0, 0 through 0, 6. The Western "double 6" dominoes consists of 28 tiles. The same number of days to a lunar cycle and the same number of days as a woman's menstrual cycle. Just a coincidence? I think not! The very word "domino" mean "Oh Lord" or "I am Lord" Legend has it that the game was popular among monks who kept vows of silence. However, they were permited to exclaim the word "Domino" when they won at the game.Raymond Buckland makes tapping into the mystery of this devination technique very simple. However, don't be fool by the simplicity of the method. Complication does not go hand-in-hand with sophistication. Domino devination is as sophisticated as any divination method. And it doesn't suffer from some of the arcane clap-trap that surrounds some of the better know divination methods. So grab this kit, grab a set of domino tiles, and learn to "cast the bones."
Buckland makes domino divination easy.......2000-03-25
The Buckland Gypsies' Domino Divination Deck Llewellyn Publications, 1995 Review by Patrick McCallister
For thousands of years, people from Chinese mystics to Welsh pub goers have used the dominoes to look into the future. Indeed, domino divination is, according to the writers of "Predicting Your Future," a collaborative work by the Diagram Group, dominoes are still a popular method of divination in China and India.
Raymond Buckland's 1995 cards with booklet publication, "The Buckland Gypsies' Domino Divination Deck" is the first 20th-century English-language work to deal exclusively with domino divination. Many other writers have given it all-to-brief treatments as sections of books.
Buckland's card publication does an outstanding job of simplifying double-six domino divination, so even a beginner can get accurate readings from the start. Using Buckland's deck, people can divine for themselves in minutes.
The interpretation of each domino is printed on the cards, along with the dot patterns. The divination interpretations Buckland uses are backed by books published as long ago as 1814.
In addition, those taking up domino divination now have Carlos G. y Poenna's book "The Yoruba Domino Oracle" to use. The Samuel Weiser publication was released in March, 2000.
While Buckland and Poenna's works use different schools of double-six domino divination, they compliment each other, making it easier than ever to learn the practice.
About the Reviewer: Patrick McCallister is a domino-divination researcher, and is an experienced domino diviner. He's done thousands of readings using this augury method.
He's written an as-yet unpublished book about the subject, "Ya Pai Shen Po: A Complete Guide to Domino Divination."
He's a reporter for The DeLand Beacon newspaper and free-lance writer, who's published articles about domino divination in By The Numbers and Waxing & Waning.
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Social phenomena happen, and the historians follow. So it goes with Google, the latest star shooting through the universe of trend-setting businesses. This company has even entered our popular lexicon: as many note, "Google" has moved beyond noun to verb, becoming an action which most tech-savvy citizens at the turn of the twenty-first century recognize and in fact do, on a daily basis. It's this wide societal impact that fascinated authors David Vise and Mark Malseed, who came to the book with well-established reputations in investigative reporting. Vise authored the bestselling The Bureau and the Mole, and Malseed contributed significantly to two Bob Woodward books, Bush at War and Plan of Attack. The kind of voluminous research and behind-the-scenes insight in which both writers specialize, and on which their earlier books rested, comes through in The Google Story.
The strength of the book comes from its command of many small details, and its focus on the human side of the Google story, as opposed to the merely academic one. Some may prefer a dryer, more analytic approach to Google's impact on the Internet, like The Search or books that tilt more heavily towards bits and bytes on the spectrum between technology and business, like The Singularity is Near. Those wanting to understand the motivations and personal growth of founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt, however, will enjoy this book. Vise and Malseed interviewed over 150 people, including numerous Google employees, Wall Street analysts, Stanford professors, venture capitalists, even Larry Page's Cub Scout leader, and their comprehensiveness shows.
As the narrative unfolds, readers learn how Google grew out of the intellectually fertile and not particularly directed friendship between Page and Brin; how the founders attempted to peddle early versions of their search technology to different Silicon Valley firms for $1 million; how Larry and Sergey celebrated their first investor's check with breakfast at Burger King; how the pair initially housed their company in a Palo Alto office, then eventually moved to a futuristic campus dubbed the "Googleplex"; how the company found its financial footing through keyword-targeted Web ads; how various products like Google News, Froogle, and others were cooked up by an inventive staff; how Brin and Page proved their mettle as tough businessmen through negotiations with AOL Europe and their controversial IPO process, among other instances; and how the company's vision for itself continues to grow, such as geographic expansion to China and cooperation with Craig Venter on the Human Genome Project.
Like the company it profiles, The Google Story is a bit of a wild ride, and fun, too. Its first appendix lists 23 "tips" which readers can use to get more utility out of Google. The second contains the intelligence test which Google Research offers to prospective job applicants, and shows the sometimes zany methods of this most unusual business. Through it all, Vise and Malseed synthesize a variety of fascinating anecdotes and speculation about Google, and readers seeking a first draft of the history of the company will enjoy an easy read. --Peter Han
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"Here is the story behind one of the most remarkable Internet successes of our time. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to Google, the book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company whose name is a favorite brand and a standard verb recognized around the world. Its stock is worth more than General Motors’ and Ford’s combined, its staff eats for free in a dining room that used to be
run
by the Grateful Dead’s former chef, and its employees traverse the firm’s colorful Silicon Valley campus on scooters and inline skates.
The Google Story is the definitive account of the populist media company powered by the world’s most advanced technology that in a few short years has revolutionized access to information about everything for everybody everywhere.
In 1998, Moscow-born Sergey Brin and Midwest-born Larry Page dropped out of graduate school at Stanford University to, in their own words, “change the world” through a search engine that would organize every bit of information on the Web for free.
While the company has done exactly that in more than one hundred languages, Google’s quest continues as it seeks to add millions of library books, television broadcasts, and more to its searchable database.
Readers will learn about the amazing business acumen and computer wizardry that started the company on its astonishing course; the secret network of computers delivering lightning-fast search results; the unorthodox approach that has enabled it to challenge Microsoft’s dominance and shake up Wall Street. Even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult choices that will enable it to continue expanding while sustaining the guiding vision of its founders’ mantra: DO NO EVIL."
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David A. Vise is a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Washington Post and the author of three books, including the New York Times bestseller The Bureau and the Mole. Mark Malseed, who has contributed to the Washington Post and the Boston Herald, has won high praise for his research efforts on Bob Woodward’s recent books, Plan of Attack and Bush at War.
From the Hardcover edition.
Customer Reviews:
A modern business story that is both unusual and topical.......2007-09-13
This founding and growth of Google is a fascinating story. While this book is very boosterish in its approach, that is fine. We understand what is going on and it is inevitable that the "dark side" of Google will come out elsewhere. Still, at its core and in the surrounding landscape, it is a pretty happy story.
Larry Page, a Ph.D. student at Stanford, wanted to download the Internet to his computer and thought he could do it quite easily and quickly. He met Sergey Brin, also a doctoral student at Stanford, was also interested in working with vast amounts of data, what could be learned from it, an how to organize it. Page came up with the PageRank algorighms that ranked the searches in ways that made them more useful to the person doing the search. (The name is a pun on Larry PAGE and web PAGE).
Stanford approached a number of organizations and venture capitalists to sell the technology, but there were no takers. So, Brin and Page dropped out and started their own company, which became Google. They have always focused on their corporate culture being innovative, oriented towards small teams, doing interesting things and only later worrying about how to make money with whatever comes of the research, and doing the best to live by their motto "Don't Be Evil".
They didn't follow the normal rules for raising money from the Venture Capital community, but were able to raise $25 million. They promised the VCs they would hire a CEO, but put it off for more than a year and when they did accept Eric Schmidt (because the three of them got along) they would not ever report to him nor would they cede control to him. When they finally had to go public (the VC stuff, again), they didn't follow the prescribed and traditional methods the investment banks use and only paid them half their usual fees.
Yes, going into China caused them real spiritual difficulties, and still does. And their goal of gathering all the information in the world and making it available does raise serious questions about personal privacy and freedom that they have not adequately addressed. However, they have great technology. I do use it and love Google Desktop. The book provides some tips about ways to use Google you may not know. Do you know that you can simply type in a math problem and it will solve it for you? That you can type in an address and it will pull up a map? Do you know about Google Book or Google Scholar? Take a look!
Way cool.
Reviewed by Craig Matteson
Excellent business book.......2007-08-15
Very interesting read. The author clearly loves Google but that aside, he covers the story from the start of Google as a research project at Stanford University through to their IPO and after. The best parts of the book for me was the incubation phase where they thought it was a good idea but needed to figure how to make money off it and turn it into a successful business. Lots of details on the key decisions made along the way but not too many details where you'd get bored reading it.
I appreciated how the author covered this as a business story covering the early investors who believed in the value of the idea to the immensely successful branding of the Google name. If business and technology companies in interest you, I don't think you'll be disappointed reading this book.
Great read!.......2007-08-13
This book was a true delight to read! This was so much more than just how two guys from college created a successful company. It was more than that. Those guys were turned away from Alta Vista, Excite, and Yahoo and had suffered disappointment after disappointment but never gave up. Their product (almost overnight) grew to be a massive empire once they got an investor to give $100k to their company. What I LOVED about this book was watching two easy-fun loving guys (who skateboard at their office in jeans and t-shirt) who continued to look to the future in the face of defeat. These guys never gave up and I, for one, was truly inspired after reading the book.
The back-story of how google came to be can be described as the underdog finally reaching the top and overtaking those who turned him down.
Great company summary.......2007-07-31
This book does a wonderful job of explaining that Google's success comes from great timing, great leadership, having a solution to a specific problem, and a bit of luck. A worthwhile read for sure.
Good Book.......2007-07-29
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Customer Reviews:
I've been tricked!.......2007-09-18
I was under the impression that I bought the real book, and I only got the crappy rewiev. Amazon should remove this article, or at least point out what the customer really is buying. I will never use Amazon again.
I've been ripped off!.......2006-09-25
$5.99 for a one page document that only tells you about the other documents you thought you bought what a rip off. Amazon should be ashamed.
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