As a die hard Redskins fan, I was very sorry to see this excellent concept so badly muffed. The idea behind this book is to cash in on the Washington Post vault, providing great photos and articles combined with new pieces by long-time Skins beat reporters to tie it all together. Sadly, whoever edited and proofread this thing reeeally dropped the ball. Sentences at the bottom of the page are repeated at the top of the next, photographs are mislabeled, pieces of sentences are missing, words are chopped off in the middle. Probably still of some value for the die hard Skins fan, but a real black eye for the Washington Post. If their newspaper were produced as shoddily, Richard Nixon would have finished his second term.

Yes, there are some typos and such in the early chapters but the book isn't as lousy as described in the 2-star review. Most of the problems are hyphen-ated words that are not at the end of a page or line. It is like the typeset was changed but the book was not reproofed.

Still, there is a lot of good information in the book. I think it covers items that Loverro's book (very good as well) ignored or glossed over-- how Gibbs wanted to sign and trade Riggo and how Joe Jacoby ended up sticking around in that first camp. The Times summary makes it sound like Gibbs and Beathard were geniuses building a team. This book shows that they were also lucky geniuses. If you are a Skins fan, you should own this book.

I see there is also a newer edition out with the Synder years (ugh).

David Bowie is a brilliant genius with brilliant music, but this book does not quite follow in his footsteps. While it includes many good songs, the singles included just are not his best songs. But that's not my real complaint. My real complaint is that it is only notated and not in tablature. Many people have trouble reading a book that has no tablature, and ( i can read music, but tab much faster) many are delayed by having to turn one into the other. Also the piano, guitar 1, guitar 2, etc. parts are not well enough defined. I wish that they would make an effort a more extensive collection of this legend, but also that they would please do a tablature version. I know i would certainly buy it, being a collector and all. I'm not saying don't buy it, just beware before you do that it's not in tablature.

The story by Mary Shelling has made another big screen debut almost 60 years later then the original one. They movies about the same old frankenstein getting loose in the village and terrorizing everyone only this is 20 times more gory! Changed a little bit for the better but all the same a great horror movie. Frankenstein doesn't have the bolts coming out of his neck. Rated R: for graphic violence

Sheet music for 23 B&D songs. Piano arrangements are on the simple side, guitar chords are adequate (doesn't overdo it by attempting to follow every voicing in the piano part -- but does do this to some extent). Song selection: generally good, with a few odd choices (where's "What's New Pussycat"?): Alfie, Always Something There to Remind Me, Anyone Who Had a Heart, April Fools, Close to You, Do You Know the Way to San Jose, Don't Make Me Over, House is Not a Home, I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself, I Say a Little Prayer, I'll Never Fall in Love Again, Look of Love, Magic Moments, Make It Easy on Yourself, Message to Michael, One Less Bell to Answer, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on my Head, This Guy's in Love with You, Trains and Boats and Planes, Walk on By, What the World Needs Now is Love, Wishin' and Hopin', Wives and Lovers.

This is meant to be a pocket book on ICU problems. it is essentially a list of topics arranged alphabetically. the information is very basic, and unlikely to be of real help.

There are too many handbooks like this these days in medicine. little things with the same bare bones purest common sense information any 2nd year student will know. You get the feeling authors just grab some standard textbook, copy out some of the main sentences in the common diseases, slap together a table of contents, paste some colourful covers that prasie the book as if its Gods gift to all doctors, and then throw it into the market. It makes me positively ill.

So few people put real effort in writing anymore.

As far as handbooks in medicine go, the classic enduring masterpiece is, was and will always be the Oxford handbook of clinical medicine. That is the medical handbook that should be the standard that all so called medical authors should strive for. Clear, beautiful, witty, thoughtful prose. REAL prose - they actually speak to you. When you read the book, it's like you are speaking with a senior resident who has been through that terrifying call before, and knows what to do when faced with that patient draining blood from a GI bleed. Or that really really sick mom in respiratory failure from Guillaine Barre. Sensible approaches to patient presentations, without neglecting any step - what do you look for in the history, in the exam, what labs would be worthwhile, how to put in that IV, how to think it through. The information is REAL, telling you when this approach might help, and when doing it X way will not be helpful. No mindless sentences copied from other terrible books. They never neglect art at the expense of the science. I wish Tony Hope and Murray Longmore and David thaler wrote handbooks for critical care, and neurology, and cardiology...

The best Crit care handbook today is probably the Mass general one. The Irwin and Rippe handbook is not helpful. Just a rip off from the big textbook, telling you the sort of stuff you can read in any basic textbook, but which in the middle of the night is not what you want to know. The marek evidence base book is better, but suffers from a serious defect too - it ridiculously claims to be Evidence Based, but lacks even a single reference!

Oh well... we may yet hope.