Good supplement to the marvel universe rpg. It adds a fair number of new powers as well as some good villains and heroes from the marvel x-teams. The mini-adventure in the back is top notch and will help inexperienced game masters and players ease into the gaming system. Not a must have, but definitely a nice addition for the marvel gamer.

What an excellent addition to a library dedicated to Mary of Scotland. This book covered her life in a beautiful way, what with portraits (done during her life and modern), pictures of the places she lived, and members of her court. Although every detail of Mary's life just couldn't be incorporated into this book, there was enough to help a person see the time that she lived in and, perhaps, what motivated her to do some of the things she did. For a thorough understanding of her days, please enjoy the grand bio of her by Antonia Fraser. For a quick synopsis of her life, this coffee-table style edition is just wonderful.

Through a memoir of how "Doug" became a glittering personal success the authors offer a total self improvement advice package centered on using wasted time to read and listen to motivational tapes. "Doug" does this to affirm, list, and build upon his strengths and energize himself (and others through mentoring) to unleash and expand his potential. I am assembling a bibliography of works on leadership and motivation, and this is the best I have found, due largely to concise writing and a "whole person" approach, including physical and moral fitness and including business, family, and the totality of life. A good read that will be referred to often.

Matson has provided an informative and fresh look at the concepts of managing investments in order to achieve market returns. While everyone would be delighted with above-average returns, most achieve below-average returns. This work explains how to get average ruturns, which would be delightful for most investore.

This is another one of Robert's (and others) great works! This book is written well, and is geared towards providing the DBA early in his/her career the information needed to master the Oracle database and take the next step to becoming a senior DBA, and then on to being an expert. Each section provides detail explanations on how each piece of the system works, why it's there, how to monitor/tune/administer it, and special things to look out for. The book goes beyond the "basic" architecture and gives outstanding explanations for many of the advanced features, such as replication and data warehousing, and explains them in plain language that is easy to digest. An excellent reference for any DBA!

This is, simply put, a great book. The layout, selections of music, tab, and explanations are all outstanding. This is a superb book from which to learn this beautiful and fun-to-play style of music. The transcriptions are accurate, and there is something here, I think, for guitarists of varying abilities. This book is true to form with Hanson's other guitar books -- his tab and music transcriptions are very understandable and clearly printed. I can't say enough good things about this book. There are selections here from Sonny Chillingworth, Ray Kane, Leonard Kwan, Led Kaapana, Cyril Pahinui, and others. I have the Masters of Slack Key Guitar (Vol. 1 -- great disk) from Dancing Cat Records, and thanks to this book, I now have the music to some of these selections. Again, a great resource for those interested in learning some Hawaiian Slack Key Guitar music. I regularly browse the fingerstyle guitar books at local music shops, and I find Hansons work to be among the very best. I recommend this without reservation.

This is a very beautiful book. It abounds with treasuered monuments and the marvels of nature across the globe. It is a book for conservationists, sponsered by UNESCO and as such it takes a turn that most books of its kind do not.

What struck me immediately about this book was that the pictures are "different". After a few minutes I realized why. These pictures succeed in making all of these glorious sights somehow more real, more tangible and infinitely more accessible. Sometimes the traditional view is taken from another angle and it shows the section of the building that is crumbling. Often there are people photographs where it's uncommone to see them. Overall, the color is softer, more human than most large picture books and the result is a very beautiful book.

The book is divided by country with informative text in each section. Bear in mind that I bought this as a picture book. Yet I found myself reading the text over and over.

Each item is explained with its location, a description, and its significance, but that is such a dry way to explain this book.

The book has history and life on every page.

UNESCO is dedicated to saving so many things. I will try just to list some of the gorgeous items in these pages: Machu Piccu, Iguazu Falls, Lord Howe Island, The Mausoleum of the first Qin Emperor, Mon St. Michel, Tikal, Ellora Caves, Darien National Park in Panama, Chan Chan, Auschwitz, Tower of Elem, Garajonay National Park, Carthage.

This is a very stirring book. I wish I could do it justice

This valuable collection of Math {teaching and learning strategies}for humans definitely lives up to its name. Superheros like Math Mole, who touts "the best of what moles have to offer" professes that "the real secret of his success in problem solving is his ability to "get his paws dirty,go after subtle leads (always keeping his sense of purpose and direction), then chomp into real results at the end." Like Math mole, Mark Wahl can "sniff a solution from a distance;" what's more, Mr. Wahl can help younsters sniff out solutions and math know-how by appealing to the best children have to offer: their eight basic intelligences! From merely scanning this book, one might pick up tips to use in the classroom immediately. For example,I used a mind map, or graphic organizer,from this book to show my students how to mulitply fractions times whole numbers. It took less than one minute, and my fourth grade math students were enchanted! I can hardly wait to try the other activities Mr. Wahl has developed for students!

In sharp contrast to standard US math education, which
is generally a death march from algebra to calculus, this
book suggests a wonderful new way to organize the ideas
of elementary mathematics. The organizational principle
here is around fundamental ideas that underlie
every mathematical proof ever conceived: parity, the
pigeonhole principle, induction, counting (combinatorics),
etc. Each section starts off with easy problems that anyone
can get, and leads you through to more and more challenging
illustrations of that section's principle; the last problems
of each section are often quite sophisticated and rewarding.
Do the problems in this book, and you can't help but just
be smarter for it.

When I was a kid, I was mystified by puzzle problems that I
had no idea how to tackle, and intimidated by kids who could
solve those types of problems. Had this book been available
back then, it would have de-mystified those problems for me,
and I would have acquired the kinds of skills and insights
that make a real mathematician. Whatever your age, if you
are interested in developing your core competencies in math,
I can't think of a better endeavor than to do all the problems
in this book. If I were the US Secretary of Education, I would
make solving all the problems in this book a mandatory
requirement for all math teachers, and all graduating high
school students. Even a partial implementation of such a
policy would make this country mathematically literate in a
way that we can't even conceive of today. It would de-mistify
mathematical "genius" on a global scale.

In this book you'll find, fully explained, subjects that are only mentioned briefly in other texts on modeling. I liked the chapter (chapter five) on Eigenvalue Methods for the analysis of dynamic models. I wished I had it four years ago when I was taking a course on modeling at the University of Washington. It really shows you how to do it. The same can be said about chapters 2 and 3 on optimization and chapters 7 and 8 on probability models (I liked specially the one on Markov Chains). I'm using it for teaching those techniques. The pseuodocode it includes is particularly helpful when you take the methods presented in the book to the computer. However, I would not recomend it to be used on its own as the only text in a course. It is a nice complement to texts like Gurney and Nisbet's Ecological Dynamics that presents many particular models in detail, while Meerschaert makes enphasis on general techniques. It's also a step up the ladder from "abc-of-modeling-techniques" texts like Vandermeer's Elementary Mathemathical Ecology. With 20/20 hindsight, if I had to learn modeling from the begining (or, if I had to teach it as I'm doing now) I would choose these titles as a step-by-step system, coupled with some Math packages like MathCad or Matlab.