The book is supposed to serve as a guide to users of the LISREL program. I did not quite like the book because I am a fresh user to the program and the book does not take you step by step to what is required in doing structural equation modeling. this book assume that the reader has an understanding of statistical techniques involved. the book is good for the examples they give which are found in the program itself and the detail they provide on the syntax of using the LISREL program.