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DAY HIKES IN GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK AND JACKSON HOLE, 3rd Edition (Day Hikes)
Published in Paperback by Day Hike Books (01 February, 2000)
Author: Robert Stone
Amazon base price: $8.95
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Dilettante hikers-this is your book!
This book is fine for beginner climbers who want to hike the easiest and best known trails in the area.

Stone gives a brief (maybe too brief) description of over 40 hikes and good directions on how to get to each trailhead.

For those of you looking for longer, less well known, and more challenging hikes, I would recommend Hiking Grand Teton National Park by Bill Schneider. This book lists more hikes (easy, moderate, and hard) and gives more complete descriptions on what to expect on each hike.


Gurps Autoduel (Steve Jackson Games)
Published in Paperback by Steve Jackson Games (1997)
Authors: Chris Burke, Robert J. Baritta, Christopher J. Burke, Robert Garitta, and Dan Smith
Amazon base price: $13.97
List price: $19.95 (that's 30% off!)
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Incomplete
The problem with GURPS Autoduel is that it doesn't give you what you need to run an Autoduel campaign. Almost all of the rules for designing cars and for car to car combat are in GURPS Vehicles. Given that Vehicles is a terrifying mass of badly organized systems, this is a pretty serious problem. They really should have gone ahead and reprinted the relevant rules here, hopefully in a more organized form.

Autoduel spends most of its space giving write-ups of every major city in a degenerate USA. It is essentially a pre-made campaign setting, but without a lot of details.


How to Get a Job in Atlanta (How to Get a Job in Atlanta, 4th Ed)
Published in Paperback by Surrey Books (1997)
Authors: Robert Sanborn, Rosita Jackson, A. Tariq Shakoor, and Diane C. Thomas
Amazon base price: $16.95
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I wont to job to usa
I am from sri lanka i am a student 19 years old and i have qualification sport and computer and many more and i wont work to usa any job so pleas sir send any work shope or any plas i like contry os pleas send soon


The World War II Warship Guide
Published in Hardcover by Book Sales (2000)
Authors: Robert Hewson and Bob Jackson
Amazon base price: $12.99
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World War II Warship Guide
The illustrations in this book are excellent, accurate and well-detailed, although I wish they'd done the full hull rather than waterline views -- it gives a much more accurate picture of the relative size of these ships. My one complaint here has to do with picture of the Flower class excort corvette HMS Anchusa. If the text is going to talk about the "Hedgehog" anti-submarine weapon, then why doesn't the illustration show it?
The text itself is a different matter, containing, as it does, an appalling amount of misinformation. The battlecruiser HMS Hood, for example, had 15-inch guns, not 13-inch, and she was not top-heavy and slow; she sat lower in the water than her original design and for 20 years was one of the fastest capital ships ever built. The battleship HMS Prince of Wales was not sunk by "a small and outdated German torpedo," she was sunk by Japanese bombs and torpedoes, the latter having at the time more speed, better range and more explosive power (to say nothing of better reliability) than anything the Allied or Axis navies had produced. The cruiser Prinz Eugen participated in the "Channel Dash," but this is defined as the voyage (in company with the battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau) from the French port of Brest back to Germany, not, as this book would have it, to the North Atlantic with the battleship Bismarck. The information on the dimensions, machinery and complement of the armored cruiser HMS Jervis Bay (described as "unavailable") is readily available if the author bothered to look it up. And some of the weights and crew numbers of these ships make no sense at all. I could go on, but what's the point? Doesn't anyone check these facts or do elementary proofreading? For a work that purports to be a reference work (and even if it isn't), there's no excuse for this kind of sloppy research.


Secret Codes
Published in Hardcover by Running Press (1996)
Author: Robert Jackson
Amazon base price: $19.95
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Short on content, includes stuff that doesn't work
This is a short book on codes with some devices to be used for study. I thought it would be good for my 10 year old nephew. There is a set of code keys with lights and wire to allow morse signaling from room to room; these items could not work as assembled, battery requirements were listed as 2 AAA, the unit needs 4 AA, and it needed to be rewired since the interconnecting wire dropped too much voltage to signal the other key. I also needed to replace lamps (one was bad) with 3 volt lamps. There is obviously NO quality control even at the design stage. The text is too thin to be of any use. Overall, very dissapointing. If you bought this item, email me for instructions on making it usable.


Graham's Petersburg, Jackson's Kanawha, and Lurty's Roanoke Horse Artillery (Virginia Regimental Histories Series)
Published in Hardcover by H E Howard (01 January, 1998)
Author: II Robert H. Moore
Amazon base price: $25.00
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Making Special Events Fit in the 21st Century
Published in Paperback by Sagamore Publishing, Inc. (1997)
Author: Robert L. Jackson
Amazon base price: $26.95
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Special Events: Inside and Out
Published in Paperback by Sagamore Publishing, Inc. (1997)
Authors: Steven Wood Schmader and Robert Jackson
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A6m Zero: Combat Legends
Published in Paperback by Airlife Pub Ltd (2003)
Author: Robert Jackson
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Aerial combat : the world's great air battles
Published in Unknown Binding by Weidenfeld and Nicolson ()
Author: Robert Jackson
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