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Daredevil: Love's Labors Lost
Published in Paperback by Marvel Books (2002)
Authors: Dennis O'Neil, Denny O'Neil, Frank Miller, David Mazzucchelli, John Buscema, and David Mazzuchelli
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Pretty good...
This book picks up around the time that Frank Miller wrapped up his first run on the series and around the time right before Frank Miller started his second run on the series. It's caught between greatness, thus overshadowed by the better-known arcs, but it does a good job of holding the inbetween.

Please, don't pass this book up just because it's not Frank Miller. It does have good stories in it (all except for one...surprisingly, it's the Frank Miller issue [Frank only wrote one issue and co-wrote another out of all the issues collected in here, by the way]), and the art is very good. While none of what you read in Love's Labor's Lost will be forever remembered as some of Daredevil's most defining and infamous moments (save, perhaps, Heather Glenn's suicide), all this book does is give more strength to the character of Matt Murdock/Daredevil, thus showing that he doesn't need Frank Miller to be good.

This book shows that he's great just by himself.


Diseno de Animacion en Web
Published in Paperback by Pearson Education Mexico (1997)
Authors: Nicola Brown, Peter Chen, and David Miller
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Diseno de Animacion en Wed
El contenido de este libro contribuyo de una manera inigualable al desarollo de mi negocio, pues aunque tenia el conocimiento de la elaboracion de animacion en Wed, desconocia ciertos terminos y pasos indispensables para este tipo de trabajo. Recomiendo, pues, este libro para todos aquellos que quieran crear paginas interactivas y dinamicas en la Wed.


Environmental Law Handbook (15th Ed)
Published in Hardcover by Abs Group Inc (1900)
Authors: Thomas F. P. Sullivan, Thomas L. Adams, R. Craig Anderson, F. William Brownell, Ronald E. Cardwell, David R. Case, Lynn M. Gallagher, Daniel J. Kucera, Stanley W. Landfair, and Marshall Lee Miller
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An excellent resource on Environmental law for everyone.
Thomas Sullivan provides a clear, consise, and easy to use reference guide for anyone to use. This book not only contains actual text of some major environmental laws, but it also sites case studies and court decisions, all in an easy to read format. This book is a must for anyone dealing in environmental matters, and is a good source of reference for anyone concerned with the environment and public policy.


Hole in the Rock: An Epic in the Colonialization of the Great American West
Published in Hardcover by Univ of Utah Pr (Trd) (1966)
Author: David Miller
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Outstanding example of courage and fortitude
This book has been in my family for many years. It is the story of Mormon pioneers who were called to settle the Southeast portion of Utah and serve as a buffer between the Navajo Indians and other settlers. They find themselves building a road through country that is impassable, even today. The title comes from a slot in the cliffs above the Colorado River where they blasted and built up a road to the bottom of the canyon, only to find that the hardest parts still lay ahead. An epic historical tale, made all the greater because it is true. Mr. Miller painstakingly researched all the original diaries and histories he could find. He very carefully points out areas of the unknown and discrepancies in different histories.


Human Body
Published in Hardcover by Intervisual Books Inc (1900)
Authors: David Pelham and Jonathan Miller
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The Human Body
I enjoyed using this book to teach my 3rd grader about thedifferent systems and functions of the human body. I especially likedthe moveable features of the display models, they worked remarkably well and gave better understanding to the lessons. The text, although a most of it is in very small print, is more than adequate for teaching. I even learned a LOT! A nice resource!


The Illustrated Directory of Modern American Weapons
Published in Paperback by Motorbooks International (2002)
Authors: David Miller and Ray Bonds
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Well illustrated
This handy volume is a pocket catalog of the latest American hardware. It's quite up-to-date, though I'm in no position to assess its accuracy or comprehensiveness.

The contents are as follow: Intro, Strategic Weapons Systems, Combat Aircraft, Support Aircraft, Special Electronic & Reconnaissance Aircraft, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Air-to-Air Missiles, Air-to-Surface Weapons, Surface Weapons, Submarines, Naval Weapons Systems, Tanks and Fighting Vehicles, Land Warfare-Indirect Fire Weapons, Land Warfare-Direct Fire Weapons, Air Defense Systems, Small Arms.

What this book lacks is an Index, and Sources and Bibilography.

A useful overview of the equipment of the most powerful military in the world. Have it by your side as you watch CNN.


The Illustrated Directory of the Civil War
Published in Paperback by Motorbooks International (15 April, 2001)
Authors: David Miller, William C. Davis, and Ray Bonds
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Overall, pretty good.
This is a great reference book. The pictures are excelent. Great overview of the uniforms, accoutrements, weapons, and such of the different armies throughout the war. I especially liked the individual Regiment pages with illustrations showing what a soldier might have looked like in a given regiment.

Miller did pretty good, but he loses a star here for his biased writing. In the book, Confederate General Braxton Bragg is touted as a man who, owning a Bible, probably didn't read it, given the shape of his troops, while Sherman's atrocities are overlooked, and he is praised as a man whose "place among American commanders remains secure," and Miller speaks with surprise that he is controversial, since it's been "over a century and a quarter" since he burned and pillaged the South. Anyways, this is a great resource for reenactors and anyone interested in militaria of the War Between the States.


Lincoln's Abolitionist General: The Biography of David Hunter
Published in Hardcover by University of South Carolina Press (1997)
Author: Edward A., Jr Miller
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Pretty good insight into how the civil war was prosecuted.
Although General Hunter wasn't an abolitionist in the sense that Frederick Douglass or Garrison were, he may have been the highest ranking military officer to have issued orders freeing southern slaves without authority (before the Emancipation Proclamation) because he believed southerners who seceded were traitors and he needed every soldier INCLUDING BLACK SOLDIERS he could get. Hunter's bland history as a "paymaster" during the Mexican war and the Frontier Indian wars is an added bonus, as the job was much more than it seems. Miller's recounting of how Hunter decided which of the homes of "rebel sympathizers" to burn down is also highly instructive of what it must have been like to conduct a "war" in your own backyard, with family names you know. Hunter was a personal friend of both Jefferson Davis and Abe Lincoln and routinely went around normal military channels to make his points. Miller doesn't try to present Hunter as a hero, but an interesting character in the Civil War who was well in front of his fellow Republicans on the issue of freeing the slaves and enlisting them into the war. (They didn't all want to be free, nor did they all want to fight.) The prose is a little dry, but the story carries it along well. Civil War buffs should particularly like this viewpoint of the Virginia campaign. Recommended.


Lord of BellaVista
Published in Paperback by SPCK and Triangle (1999)
Author: David Miller
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For everyone with a heart for Jail Ministries !!
David Miller chronicles a tide-change in the prisons of Colombia (Columbia, South America). Any reader with a desire to see felons come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ will want to study "The Lord of BellaVista".

The BellaVista Jail in Medellin was exploding with violence. In the recent past, as many as 20 inmates and corrections officers died each month in BellaVista. "At times, the monthly bodycount climed as high as 50." BellaVista has been described as the deadliest prison in the deadliest country in the Western world.

Focusing on the ministry of former convicts, Miller reveals the possibilities when lives are yielded to Christ. Sicarios ( contract killers, specializing in murder, kidnappings and extotion for the drug cartels ) escape the Colombian Death Culture, while still incarcerated in the BellaVista National Jail, the Buen Pastor Women's Prison, the Picalena Penitentiary or one of several other Colombian prisons. Veteran Colombian missionary for OMS International, Jeannine Brabon, along with transformed criminals, now broadcasts a daily radio program from the BellaVista Jail chapel.

"The Lord of BellaVista" tells of the profound effect of the love of Jesus Christ. The obvious impact of that love should bring joy to the hearts of jail ministers and criminal justice professionals. The unyielding love of Christ has already brought that joy to many of the Colombian prisoners.

"The press was coming daily to BellaVista to investigate how many dead and wounded there were. The officers began to say, 'There are none, not even one.' Pretty soon the reporters thought [the officers] were covering up the truth. So, they insisted on entering the cell blocks themselves . . . The reporters were quite impressed because BellaVista had not suffered a single casualty in some time."

"When they asked [the prisoners] why [the murders had ended], [the prisoners] said, 'Look, BellaVista has a new cacique, the Lord Jesus Christ. He has taken over this jail. That's what you're seeing here."

Having devoted the past thirty years to law enforcement, my view of criminal justice and jail ministies has been forever changed by "The Lord of BellaVista."

If you are a criminal justice professional or if you have a friend or family member in prison, I recommend that you read "The Lord of BellaVista," by David Miller. ISBN 0-281-05128-3

( Keywords: BellaVista Bible Institute; Biblical Seminary of Colombia (Columbia); Calarca Prison; Central Pan American Church of Medellin; Colombia Justice Ministry; Covenant Evangelical Church; Guillermo Cano Institute on Human Rights; La Ladera Prison; National Director General of (Colombia) Prisons; New Life Post Penal Centre; Penitentiary Pedagogical Programme (P3); Prison Fellowship of Antioquia; Prosecutor General of Colombia; Rehoboth Jireh Centre; Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ); Villa Hermosa )


The Miller Masks: A Novel in Stories
Published in Paperback by Fithian Press (1900)
Author: Neil David Isaacs
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The Miller Masks
"The Miller Masks" by Neil D. Isaacs is a good book for people who love short stories, but can also appreciate the fulfillment of a novel. It is also tailor-made for people who wear many hats within their own lives, since the main charcter, Jesse Miller, is many things to many other characters. But above all other roles, Jesse is a storyteller. Issacs reviews five-decades of Miller's life through a series of stories, including a majority told by the central figure, who is also a master storyteller. The tales do not link moment-to-moment, but are instead a collection of chronological episodes that capture the feel and the flavor of the life of the novel's hero. The stories are tragic, bittersweet, pathetic, cerebral, fulfilling, and humorous - sometimes very humorous. Also, it is a story about love which never falls into the traps of become a love story. In the end, Jesse Miller is a character with weaknesses, psychological defenses and self-deprecating humor. This makes him likable and, more importantly, very real to some readers. He is a character many readers will be able to identify with and empathize for.


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