Hey, this is a good book and a valuable primer to those who want NO RESPONSIBILITY in life. Just the power, y'know? Mr. Goll is a funny man and deserves our support!

I love the cartoons in this book -- and the great excuses! Mr. Goll's drawings are so funny! This is a great collection of cartoons of famous people, famous events, and just everday people and events, too. As the back cover says: "Amaze your friends! Confound your enemies! Dodge grand juries!"

I didnt see this movie , but ewj himself is best hero in the world i was watching this cartoon in 1997 (i think).I am 13 now but i still remember him.This guy is BESTESTEST in whole universe(and further)!!!!!!!!!!

Satellite photos let us see the lands as they really look like. However, the coloring of the pictures may be artificial or real, depending on whether they have been tempered with. Artficial coloring is sometimes done deliberately (like for the purpose of contrast), of course.

This atlas is too short. We can use far more detailed photographs. For instance, California alone requires a whole chapter unto itself. Also, it's been five years since publication, and far more powerful satellites are now being used for cartography.

Still, this book is a good start, and the quality is excellent. For those of us who aren't planning wars, we don't need photos of the Predator or the Global Hawk quality. This will do.

Shows the world in all its glory. Get a full color birdseye of pollution, urbanization, natural/industrial disasters, and many amazing natural phenomena.

Really excellent.

The National Geographic Satellite Atlas of the World, is a must own for anyone with any amount of interest in geography.

Satellite imagery itself is still relatively new, and so the imediate impact of these pictures on a viewer is overwhelming. To look at these images and realize that this one of the many views from space is mystifying. But thats not the only reason to look at these pictures.

National Geographic selected an excellent assortment of images for this atlas. From natural phenomenon (such as a three part image of Mt. St. Helens before, during, and after eruption or the beautiful image of Hurricane Fran) to social phenomenon (the Mexico-California border, and the three part image of the construction and land reclamation of Singapores Changi Airport)this atlas adds to the value of a traditional atlas because the relationships it does show expand on the story that is geography.

Also, it is far worth the cost, in that the paper stock is very high quality, the image resolution is amazing, and the color printing is excellent.

There has to be something wrong with it you say? Well, merely the same problem with every hard cover book that has a paper dust jacket. The jacket is fragile.

Author Harper Lee said she never thought of her Pultizer Prize novel to be more than a love story of a single father for his two children. It is that, but so much more. "To Kill A Mockingbird" is also a simple social commentary on racism, wonderfully and innocently seen through a child's eyes, and man's rejection of others he doesn't understand. The commentary, 40 years old now, remains as relevant as then. As southern lawyer Atticus Finch, Peck garnered a Best Actor Oscar for his powerfully moving performance that, as one scene elicits, also commands a deep respect of the screen character. As defense counsel for an African-American (a contemporary poltically correct term; then, they were "coloreds") man falsely accused of raping a white woman (not popular in the south), Peck evokes a sense of outrage at the injustice of his client's position. The genius of the film, though, is its perspective of Peck's screen daughter, Scout. And it is her innocent confusion in not understanding why her father becomes chastised by the white community that hopefully gets across the sublimial message that there is no understanding of any form of discrimination. Ranked the 34th best film ever by the American Film Institute, this one will remain always relevant as long as injustice based on discrimination exists. The closing scene is gut-wrenching, but the film as a whole it is truly a moving experience.

In a twist of time and fate I was viewing 'To Kill A Mockingbird' on DVD when AFI released their choice of Gregory Peck's portrayal of Lee Harper's character Atticus Finch, the Southern lawyer who defends a black man unjustly accused of rape, as Hollywood's all-time movie hero. No character in film history has more deserved to be designated as the best 'good guy'. Peck garnered a well-deserved Oscar for his role as a man of understated wisdom and quiet courage and the quintessential father-figure all men should aspire to be and all children long for in their lives. The fact that this film, it's participants, and the basic story are still being honored after 40+ years is a testament to the solid message if offered and the effective manner in which it was presented.

I read this Pulitzer Prize novel when it was published and saw the film upon its theatrical release. The memory of both have long lingered. Enough can't be said about the wisdom of Universal's decision to release this Collector's Edition DVD. The public owes them a monumental 'thank-you'. Interviews with Gregory Peck and commentary by director Robert Mulligan and producer Alan J. Pakula make us privy to their precious memories surrounding how the charming novel was transformed into the perfect film. Seeing Mary Badham (Scout) and Philip Alford (Jem) (non-professional southern children starring in an Oscar-nominated film) as adults offering insights into their unique experiences was an unbelievable treat. To watch Robert Duvall make his screen debut as 'Boo Radley', and what a debut that was; and to hear his comments nearly a half-century later proves as never before the value of the DVD format and special features.

Watching this film upon its release it was inconceivable that we could one day far in the future hear and see the inside story of its making in the comfort of our homes and from the mouths of the individuals so instrumental in the process of creating a legend.

This DVD is priceless. The details of the making of this time-honored film have now been documented forever in a piece of movie-history that deserves to be savored by any true movie-buff as well as by a generation not yet born at the time of it's release. The message and the method of communicating it are timeless and dear. Please do yourself the honor of viewing this film.

The film, truly an American classic and, for my money, one of the 10 best American films ever made, is splendidly rendered here with a mint-condition print. The DVD also offers a superb mix of additional features, most especially the remarkable documentary on the film, "Fearful Symmetry," by Charles Kiselyak, and compelling yet unassuming commentary by the director, Robert Mulligan, and the producer, the late Alan J. Pakula.

Besides interviews with Mulligan and Pakula, the documentary includes interviews with the actors who play the children, Mary Badham as Scout and Phillip Alford as Jem, as well as with the screen writer, Horton Foote, and the composer, Elmer Bernstein. The documentary also includes interviews with several residents of Monroeville, Ala., the real Macon, to round out a sense of "Macon" then and now.

Among the revelations in the commentary is that production designer Henry Bumstead (Vertigo) masterfully recreated the children's neighborhood on the Universal backlot using houses that would have been demolished by the construction of a freeway. The main titles, by Stephen Frankfurt, with Bernstein's theme, manage brilliantly to capture not only the essense of the film but an essence of childhood, about which both Harper Lee's timeless only published novel and the film itself are very much about. Only later do we discover the nature of that blend of innocence and experience alluded to in the William Blake poem from which Kiselyak takes the title of his documentary.

My only regret is that Harper Lee, though she helped Kiselyak in producing the documetnary, declined to be interviewed for it. In its stead, however, we have another evocation, that of Ms. Lee's voice in the rich tone of nostalgia and reminiscence with which Kiselyak infuses his own small but mighty masterpiece.

I ordered this book based on the glowing review - don't make the same mistake. Because the # of pages is not listed, I assumed the book would be somewhat long - wrong(it doesn't have page #s, but trust me, it is very short nonetheless).

And I thought it would be funny - maybe not great, but at least somewhat funny. I did not laugh at anything. To say this book is lame would be the understatement of the year. This author wouldn't know funny if it hit him in the face.

Examples: Is the coffee hot? No. We serve it frozen on a stick.
Going up?(elevator scene) No. Today is the day we go sideways.
Care to see a menu? No. We want to guess what you have.

This is the first book I have ever returned to Amazon[.com] - and with good reason. Don't waste your precious time. Life is too short to subject yourself to this torture.

I got this book quite a long time ago but I keep going back to it time after time for a quick laugh. It's very short but it keeps you laughing from the first page to the last. It's full of all those things you wish you could say to all the stupid questions you're faced with every day. By the time you've reached the last page you really wish there were more. If you get frustrated with all the imbecile questions you get asked every day then I guarantee you, you will like this book.