I went into this expecting something funny and fantastic- Peter David being the genius behind the best novels of the Star Trek series, a phenomal run on The Incredible Hulk, and the longtime scribe of Captain Marvel- and I emerged, horribly dissapointed, from the burnt-out wreckage of this train accident of a graphic novel.

Reading this tripe is like being a teenager all over again: a grinding headache, an overwhelming urge to roll your eyes and a complete and utter contempt for your fellow human being sets in after less then five pages.

The characters are flat, the jokes revolve almost entirely around bad puns and are altogether lame, moments of angst are forced and uncomfortable to read, and out of four primary villains only one is actually defeated by this 'super-team'and not some other character or lucky circumstance.

The one shining moment in the whole book is a story taken, not from the series, but from the Young Justice Secret Files one-shot and is written and drawn by D. Curtis Johnson and Ale Garza, respectively. In this issue Robin and Superboy do not sport interchangeable faces, Arrowette is not an annoying priss who turns to submissive mush whenever she gets around a super-male and the story is actually engaging. I was dissapointed when this secton was over because it meant I had to go back to slogging through David's unfathomably bad mire.

For a decent read about teen superheroes try graphic novels of Marv Wolfman and Georege Perez's run on the New Teen Titans, Claremont's stint on Uncanny X-men, or (And believe me, it pains me to say this) even the Brandon Choi, J. Scott Campbell incarnation of Gen13, at the very least you'll enjoy the art.

As for Peter David, please don't let this sour you on his work. His talent is enormous and I'd like to think of this as just a minor misstep; spend your money on one of his great paperbacks or on any other of his graphic novels instead. I'd hate to think anyone passed on other highly entertaining works just because this drivel tainted their perspective.

{MAJOR SPOILERS} a enjoyable comic, that at first has just id, ego and superego, fighting evil werever it lurks and soon the girls join in. I liked the story of "harm". a teenager who plans to be the worlds greatest super villan, and belive it or else, he is pretty stong, fast, and smart. his dad is forced to shot him, which is pretty bad because he was a cool villan.

this gets only three stars because robin is out of charicter, {he's smart but not THIS smart} and because the parent/teacher conference is just unreal. {wonder girl and arrowette's moms, nightwing for robin, dubbilex for superboy and max mercury for impulse.

heros: robin, superboy, impulse, arrowette, secret, wonder girl, superman, batman, wonder woman, martian manhunter, aquaman, flash, green lantern, max mercury, nightwing, oracle, supergirl {mentioned}, dubbilex, green arrow {illusion}, red tornado.

villans: harm, despero, mr. myxzptlk, tora, rip roar, mighty endowed.

While SUperman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the JLA seem to hog a lot of the DC spot light, we sometimes forget about the younger side of the DC world. Granted Robin continuaously teams wiht BAtman and we more often than not see Superboy help out Superman, but what about the other protoges that include Impulse, WOnder Girl, and Arrowette. This novel focus on these teen heroes as well as the return of Red Tornado and the joining of a rescued MEta human from a previouse Novel, Secret.

The book starts off with Robin, Superboy, and Impulse just hanging at the former JLA HQ when they meet a retired Red Tornado. From there the story leads to their battles with a young Mxplyx, Desparos ghost, rescuing meta human children, and facing off against their most dangerouse (and short lived) villian Harm.

The book features cool action that you would see in any DC story, but also features comical moments as RObin is as serioue as his mentor Batman (to the point he won't even reveal who he really is) Superboy is running on Hormones as he falls for Arrowette and inadvertadly makes Wodner Girl Jealouse, and Impulse is so childish and silly that one can't help but laugh.

Overall this is a really silly yet action packed novel that is fun to read and loaded with laughs and suspense. I would recomend this to any DC fan or any one in need of some cheesey fun.

Dave Johnson spends more time bashing previous authors than he does on the facts of the life of John Ringo. Despite bashing other authors and talking about bias, he is decidedly anti-Earp -- to the point that it dominates the book. In this book he becomes exactly what he criticizes others for being. I expected more...

Like many people I have been intrigued for a number of years about the mysterious life of John Ringo. So it was with much excitement and eagerness that I picked up this book. I was soon left extremely disappointed.

It is a book of two halves. The first deals with Ringo's early years, from childhood to his participation in the Mason County War. This seems to be well researched and offers some interesting insights into his life, and certainly seems to clear up some of John Ringo's movements at that time.

Thereafter, the book takes an alarming turn for the worst. Much of the second half is a blatant attack on Wyatt Earp and anybody who dares to have a good word to say about him. For the record, I am neither pro-Earp, or anti-Earp (nor for that matter am I pro-Ringo or anti-Ringo) - I am just interested in learning more about these fascinating characters and the truth behind their lives. In no way can I condone such a biased, and at times, childish attempt at a 'historical biography'.

I found that I began to question the author's motives for writing the book. Was he really trying to write a biography on Ringo? Or was this another tedious, and pointless excuse to attack Wyatt Earp. It would have been much better had the author concentrated more on his chosen subject.

Instead he writes a lengthy account of the gunfight at the OK Coral (For which Ringo took no part) and events leading up to it, but paints only half the picture. He does not make mention of many contributary factors leading to hostilities between the two groups ie. Earp and Behans affections for Josephine Marcus; Ike Clanton supposedly double-crossing Earp - to name only a couple. Constantly through his book Johnson cites evidence that portrays Earp as the villain, and the the 'cowboy' elemant as honest ranchers. Remarkably he even states that John Ringo was not involved in criminal activity because he was not particularly known in local towns. Johnson says this is proved because they always spelt his name wrong. How naive! Anyone who studies Western history knows individual names were often spelt wrong eg. look at how many ways contemparies of Wild Bill Hickok spelt his name, and surely he was well known.Certainly I do not believe Ringo was as bad as he has been traditionally portrayed, but this kind of arguement is ridiculous.

The author continues his attacks against many authors. He clearly detests Stuart Lake's biography of Wyatt Earp - certainly not a new or unique opinion. Yet the irony is that Mr. Johnson has achieved a biography as one sided (if not more) than Lake's.

He continually criticizes other authors such as Jack Burrows and their arguements, using the phrase 'without documentation'. Yet 'without documentation' Johnson claims that the reason for Ringo's heavy drinking and dark moods, were because of his experiences in the Mason County War. Maybe, but the author takes this for fact. He also states catagorically that Ringo committed suicide, and does not even enter into discussions about the other possibilities. He only uses the evidence that fits into his opinion.

Surely the purpose of a historical account is to present both sides of the arguement, and draw sensible, logical conclusions. This book fails miserably to do that, and for the most part can not be taken seriously.

It is a shame that Mr. Johnson believes his opinion to be far superior and important, than historical facts and truths.

This book provides a very interesting (and researched) counter-point to the "Gunfighter Who Never Was". It is a fairly dry recitation of names, dates and facts, however, it does provide a very interesting perspective on one of the least factually known characters in the Tombstone mythos. This book will probably stand as the definitive John Ringo resource book for many, many years.

As an experienced MCT, and having taught from the MOC courseware, I can say that this book has some of the worst labs I've ever had the inopportunity to use. Especially the REGEDIT labs, where they had you looking for keys that didn't exist! (HKEY_LOCAL_COMPUTER?!? Come on!) There are a lot of end of chapter test questions that are answered in the Instructors Resource CD that are just plain wrong. Sometimes, there will be 21 answers given, but only be 20 questions in the text book! Also, the cover ripped off my copy in the first week I had it. So, use caution when using/teaching from this book. If the web site had a errata that was easy to locate, then I may be more forgiving, but it doesn't so I'm not!

This book and others in the same series,(Server, Enterprise,Essentials..) is the required text for my Network Tech. classes. We do the review questions after each chapter and have found that some answers were just plain wrong! NT has been around a few years now so there no reason why the editors should allow these faults to continue. This particular book was published in in 1998. The book refers to Windows 95, no mention of Win98 and Windows 2000 is refered to as Windows NT 5.0. They need to update this book and fix the errors!

Excellent book for the price! I used this book to pass my MCSE exam

The tendency of this book to ridicule America (its history, its culture, its priorities, etc.) really calls into question the objectivity and political persuasion of its authors. Whether it's the destruction of the environment or world poverty, America and the American people are always to blame. We use too much energy; we don't share enough; blah blah blah. America does more to promote peace and economic development throughout the world than any other country. While the authors of this book don't seem to be so, I, for one, am PROUD to be an American

The general feel of this book is dark and dull. Graphics are oddly benign,upside, the Geography in Action sections offer realistic insight into Geographic concepts. Clawson and Fisher tried.

I thought that this book had difficult wording and was more a college-level book rather than a high school-level book. However, it covers a wide range of civilizations and concentrates on a fundamental theme to compare different times, places, and societies: the interaction of human beings and the environment. Emphasis is placed on technological development and how technology underlies all human activity. It also caught my interest because it included a unique phonetic guide to unfamiliar words.

Murder on the Aisle Four mystery stories entitled "It Was Bad Enough", narrated by Ron Goulart, "Snookered", narrated by Gerald Tomlinson, "The Waste Pile at Apple Bow", narrated by Joan Richter, and "A Slip of the Lip" narrated by Lawrence Treat. We listen to audio tapes in the car on vacations, and this is a very good one for that purpose because each is short enough to keep your interest yet long enough to make the miles go by quickly.

Almost half of the book is devoted to the appendices, which contain numerous useful checklists, forms, financial spreadsheets and sample agreements.

Since this is an easy introductory text, the book does not delve into the difficult (but much more interesting) topics such as feasibility analysis, community opposition to development, and equity financing.

Don't waste your time. Way off on prices-(low). Looked up the first ten tombstone radios on ebay and only one was in the book.Take the money you wound spend on this and get something with a high recommendation.

If you never collected a radio, then this is for you. Other than that, there is not enough information to be of help if you have restored one radio. Also, sad to say, the information and sources are not current.

For those who are relatively new to the hobby of collecting and restoring antique radios, the frustration stemming from the lack of material devoted to the beginner in this field is all too often the cause of those with high initial enthusiasm to give up prematurely. If you are one of the many who may have found their entry into this potentially facinating pastime to be a bit daunting, take heart. Now in its second edition the "Antique Radio Restoration Guide" provides an abundance of information for the beginning to intermediate antique radio enthusiast. Throughout its twelve chapters the reader is guided through the basics of choosing a radio, the fundamentals of radio theory and repair as well as cosmetic and cabinet restoration. There is also a section on setting up your own repair shop including resources for obtaining test equipment and instructions for actually building some of your own. Though beginners may find some of the technical material in a few of the chapters a bit challenging, this book is nonetheless a fine reference work that, providing the reader's enthusiasm for the subject prevails, he will likely refer to often and will grow into in no time.

Not a bad layout, but the technical inaccuracies and wrong or mismatched answers to end-of-chapter questions make this book a frustration for students. Some of the problems include mention of non-existent control panel applets, confused and inaccurate explanations of Master Boot Records/partition boot sections, and more.

This is one of the "junk book" I have ever read in my life. It is true that it gives everything you need to pass the exam, but almost 60% of the content are not covered (on the exam). Worse than that, the book doesn't even mention a word "exam tips" to emphasize what to be aware of when you are writing the exam. This book is inaccurate -- I found conflicts between the "exam prep" questions and the actual content of the book -- and it is extremely lengthy (616 pages in total and on average 30 pages / chapter). I personally belive that only the "Hands-on practice", "Case study" and the CD-ROM are parts that are useful only. If you really want to pass the exam, look for other resources such as Exam Cram (from the same publisher). This book should be named "NT Workstation 4, a reference guide" rather than "NT Workstation 4: Exam Prep".

This was enough for me to pass with 830. It took me about 2 months. I cannot recommend it enough. It is designed for passing the exam and does not skirt around the subject. I wish I had got the network essentials one for the previous exam.

This book does not have many examples to learn from and what they do have do not make it clear on how to procede with working out the equation. I strongly suggest that you buy the solutions manual for this book if you are able to locate it.

I'm using this book for review and like it very much. The presentation is simple and thorough, the examples are clear, and there are plenty of problems to solve (with solutions for odd-numbered problems). It incorporates using a graphing calculator into the instruction, and some problems ask you to use the graphing calculator to solve them.

I like the graphing and modeling approach to learning. Somehow it helps provide perspective to see the solutions numerically and/or graphically. I'd recommend this book over many of the others I've seen/used.