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Remy LeBeau (aka Gambit), the modern Robin Hood of this timeline, leads his team called the X-Ternals, to steal from the rich and give to the poor. They're the best thieves there are.
And on assignment of the X-Men, they go after the biggest jewel of them all: the M'Kraan Crystal. This crystal is a way, perhaps the only way, to stop the horrible graps that Apocalypse has on America. But it will be dangerous as there are a lot of obstacles in the way, like the Imperial Guard who serve the Shi'ar empire by protecting it and the crystal.
The art is average and the story is okay. There is an intersting plot twist though. So this is quite an average TPB as a stand alone. But essential if you're collecting the rest of the AoA books. But you can also do without. You find out they get the crystal in the other books anywayz.
What? There are more? Yessiree. These stories won't mean much if you haven't read this AoA storyline from the start. If you get this, I recommend you get all the other AoA TPBs too. For a complete reading list of it, see my X-Men: LegionQuest review.
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Many of the locations are treated in other books and serious study reports whose authors are concerned with evidence of "diffusion", the idea that other peoples and cultures arrived in North (and South) America before the voyages of Columbus. Several groups are organized for the purposes of continuing these studies, and most of them are cited in the book.
From the serious side of these investigations, the author's use of a magnetometer to detect magnetic anomalies around many of the sites is interesting, but lends and air of comedy or strangeness to the visits which then makes it too easy to dismiss the locations as less than important clues to history. It does, however, reflect and improve on the tendency of certain investigators to perform "dowsing" to detect hidden features.
The organization of the "Field Guide ..." by state and province, from North to South, makes it easy to use. It is also interesting reading, even if you can't get there to see the stones.
Sadly, the Druid's Hill site located in Lowell, MA is missing from the text. Perhaps he will consider this mysterious location in his next revision.
Regardless, I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing to do a little amateur archeological work.
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An undergraduate reader might find it a little challenging, but for a graduate level reader already seasoned in every aspect of economics, this would not only be an easy reading, but a very clear and insightful guide to economic rationale behind the theories they had taken for granted w/o giving its practical application much thought.
The beauty of this book for a graduate student, I think, is not in the treatment of highly advanced and feindishly complicated top of the line economic theories, but in the simple and insightful plain-langauge treatment of all the technical aspects of economics commonly and conventionally practiced in the economics discipline.
The value of this book for an undergraduate student majoring in economics or business may not be immediately evident w/o working hard at it, but rather would probably be appreciated a lot later when they are more comfortable w/ matrix algebra, calculus and econometrics.
Overall I rate this book a rare piece that balances well in the middle of the road between both graduate and undergraduate level audiences.
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As an editorial crusader for the Risanimento of Naples, a slum clearance program, he inveighed against the government of Naples for its corruption, venality and hearlessness, its abandonment of a beautiful city and people. He supported initiatives for better sanitation and housing.
As the leading dramatist of Naples, he wrote a history of the San Carlino Theatre. In 1889, his drama, Mala vita, was adapted as a libretto for an opera set to music by Umberto Giordano. His finest drama, Assunta spina, won popular acclaim in 1909. It was filmed twice, more recently starring Eduardo De Filippo and Anna Magnani.
The humanism of Salvatore DiGiacomo has not dated. The lyrics of this supreme dialect poem are sung every day, every hour, somewhere.
they would like the story.