Ever had one of those days where everything went wrong? For Larry Munro, a day to pick up his pal, Concrete, blew up (literally!) at the gas station. An innocent flirt with a girl leads to trouble as the girl's boyfriend just happened to rob the gas station and ready to runaway. Guest who the gotta be the driver? Will this change his life forever?

This collection is one of the best comicbook that takes on real life situations without letting the superheroes element disturb your attention. A nicely executed story and the ending will ask you a provoking question about the event in the book. What would you do if it actually happen to you?

A CD-Rom jammed with articles from EXECUTIVE EXCELLENCE. I actually got my copy as a bonus for subscribing a couple of years ago. Many of the articles are interesting, but they are all quite short, almost MTV-ish. This seems to be the preferred style for this publication. If you are a fan of Warren Bennis, or one of the writers who regularly contribute to that publication, this is a good way to pick up some new material from your favored writer. The articles are on a variety of topics, which means that there will probably be something for everyone with an interest in this subject, but by the same token, there will be a lot that won't interest you. The CD includes a search engine that is workable. I benefitted from the magazine and the CD, but they didn't set my world on fire.

I think the book shows a lot about antiques and good price guides.

As a teacher, I found this to be a great source for lesson plan ideas, technology for children, and general information on everything on the internet.

This book had some good information to allow the reader a beginning understanding of Tuscan interior decorating. The pictures were very helpful, but as a small book it couldn't go into too much detail.

This is NOT a book for the beginners. This book is sort of an exam cram book which is designed for the people who want to pass Inline Skate Exam, if such thing ever exists.

Probably most of the techniques in inline skating are described in this book - very succinctly, but to the point. You really have to sit down, and STUDY this book. I skate on ice (since when I was 10), and have been inline-skating for more than 5 years (well, on and off). And I wanted to get the proper techniques of inline skating. Because of my experience, I could study this book, and get the feeling of what it is talking about most of the time, but I wonder whether beginners would have any idea.

As noted by other reviewers, this book lacks pictures. Beginners NEED pictures. If this book was titled as "Inline Skate Exam Preparation Summary Book", I would give three or four stars. But since it was titled as "The beginner's guide to in-line skating", I have to give only 1 star. There is no way beginners can learn any skating technique from this book. I know since I have been teaching my kids and my friends how to skate/rollerblade. They need demonstration. They need EASY demonstration. Words alone just don't work for beginners.

While there are good succinct descriptions which really get to the point, there are other ridiculous descriptions, like: . Essentially the paragraph was saying, "Avoid them or roll over". I mean, what's the point ? Obviously, you should also avoid hitting against the cars or other bikers on the street.

In general, I do NOT think that this is a good book about inline skating, and especially beginners should avoid this book.

One day, I went to a used book store, and found this amazing book that other reviewers talked about: "How To Skate" by Inline Skate Magazine. For each technique, it shows at least more than 10 pictures(step-by-step photographs) with four or five paragraphs of explanation. This IS what you (beginners) should buy. Unfortunately, this book won't be available now, since it says "Summer 1995, Display until July 31".

The author of this book should actually have had some experience of teaching BEGINNERS how to skate, before they publish a book for them. If they have had, they wouldn't have written this way.

They say, "A picture is worth a thousand words." In the case of rollerblading, this adage certainly holds true. As previous reviewers have stated, this book is sorely lacking in pictures. Sure, every few pages it has a black and white picture of a skating technique, but the quanitity of pictures is not enough. Another problem is that the book does not have STEP by STEP pictures. To illustrate a technique, the author only places one photograph from only one angle. A more helpful approach would have been to demonstrate a technique by showing the technique from start to finish with a series of freeze frame photographs. I'm guessing that placing more pictures would have driven up the cost of the book, but I for one would have shelled out more money for the extra photographs. However, despite this seemingly fatal flaw of not enough photographs, the book makes up for it with very clear prose. The author has an uncanny talent for describing skating techniques with the right words. Most of the time I had no trouble following the author's descriptions; however, the lack of step by step pictures made it very hard for me to know if I was doing the technique correctly despite the clear writing style. Originally, I was tempted to give this book three stars but the extraordinary writing of the author pushes the book up to four stars, but the lack of diagrams ultimately is too big of a stumbling block to merit the book five stars. However, to put the score in perspective, other roller blading books I have checked out also did not have step by step diagrams for each technique so this book, "Get Rolling," is the best among them until someone produces a book with step by step diagrams -- preferably colorful, glossy ones. Until then, I'm gonna continue looking -- and skating.

Liz Miller has written a great book for the beginner skater. It covers what you need, how to avoid injuries, maintenance of equipment and over a dozen of skills.

Now some people think you can learn to skate by just reading a book, and that is wishfull thinking and NOT what this book is about! If you want to learn inline skating, take a lesson from a certified instructor.( ...) When taking those lessons, you can read through this book and it will give you excellent insights on how and what.

This book makes great reading for both instructors as well as the general skater. This second edition (1998) is a very good improvement on the first edition (1992).

I read this book as part of an English course on late-19th and 20th century American literature. It's the first time I've read a novel by Henry James, having so far only seen the movie adaptations of 'Portrait of a Lady' and 'Washington Square'. Having been wary of reading James (because of his reputation for dense, convoluted prose) I was surprised at this novel's relatively brisk plot and overall readability. The story itself, ostensibly a simple one about one man's inability to understand a seemingly complicated woman, also has interesting things to say about gender, class and the relationship between the United States (personified by the heroine) and the rest of the Western world. I was actually somewhat amazed that the image of America created through the characterization of Daisy Miller still rings true 125 years after this book's publication.

As is often the case for Henry James, there is scarcely a detail of his work that can be made better somehow.

DAISY MILLER: A STUDY, 1878, is among the principal novellas of history and literature. Very simply, the story involves a young girl Daisy Miller, wandering through Europe, and from America. She is sensitive and capricious. Her ways attract attention, such that perhaps she appears a lustrous woman of carnal desires, or disrespectful to cultures not her own, or stupid. At any event, she catches the eye of another tourist, Mr. Winterbourne, a "nice guy" who not unlike the nice guys of our own world lucks out. He does not get Daisy, but watches as she kisses another and loses herself to unappreciatve men. She does this from anger, resentment, and want of attention. She becomes a symbol of many things, and in the end she dies. The book has been debated for decades.

The dialogue is so well crafted as to be sacred. No further editing of this story is possible, for James took very great pains to edit his work multiple times over. And here, we see a flow of talking and happenings that seem to real to even be on the page. As for instance the communication of Mr. Winterbourne and Daisy's little brother (I believe). The little boys talks, and behaves, as a little boy would. And, Mr. Winterbourne likewise behaves as a young man would to a young boy. Greatest of all are the marvellous dialogues between Daisy and Mr. Winterbourne. They flirt at times, and one feels Winterbourne's longing for her. They feel his sadness, a real sadness, as when she is not feeling for him nearly as deeply. I likened myself to to the man.

I am glad to know that Mr. James was credited as having been "the Master."

I hadn't read James for about eight years or so when I came across a copy of Daisy Miller in a pile of discarded books at a local university. It sat on my shelf for a while longer, as I knew full well that James writes in thick sentences, making up for the lack of volume by quite a bit.

What I found was what I have come to expect from James, even in his early works. This book does a great deal in terms of pulling together many levels of interpretaion: Old World versus New World, common versus exclusive, and also the chaser and the chased.

This last viewpoint in particular is what stuck with me. We have a young girl, and a young man. They meet once for a few days, and the young man becomes utterly fixated on her, if for any other reason that she is playing, in his view, hard to get. When she turns her attention elsewhere, the ante is doubled and tripled when, for a variety of reasons most likely centered around our young hero Winterbourne, the American society in Rome starts to give our heroin the "cold shoulder". Given that James writes most often to examine the person most in focus in the novel, I tend to atribute most of the troubles of this young girl to both herself and Winterbourne, not just the society of the time. This is far from a safe academic interpretation, however.

The notes included in the book are helpful for getting into the mindset of the typical reader of James' day, but are not distracting. Overall, this would probably be suitible for an ambitios middle school student, and just right for most high school students.

I was very surprised when I ordered this book and found out that yes, indeed, it was merely a very tiny portion of what I had expected. I suppose I should have known from the price, but the description (at least at that time) did not make it clear that it wasn't the entire dictionary.

While this may be a very thorough source for the words it covers, it should be noted in the basic information that this is ONLY 128 pages of a 15,000 page work. The description above is very misleading.

itz a dictionary. what more can i say

This is a good book, I think, and it helps me with math. But the author has a tone that would be better for someone half my age. I know that a lot of people take a Princeton Review course, but does this author know anything about high school?

Hilliard and Miller do little more than compile an itty-bitty picture booklet of mediocre, vacation-quality photographs of southern Spanish homes, and tout the whole mess "a book on style." Commentary was utterly lacking, and what the authors did include was pseudo-arty and condescending. If I had been able to browse this book at a real bookstore, I never would have bought it, especially at the full price. This book's only value is in teaching the lesson that the online bookshopping experience can mislead the unwary buyer into making a purchase she or he will regret. Read the reviews, and review books you buy! As for this piece of trash, save your money for a REAL book, not a pretend... one like this is.

I have to agree with the previous comment, and i gave the book one more star because fortunately i found the book heavily discounted and did not have to pay the inflated list price. The photos are nice, but this doesn't even qualify as a coffee table book (it's too small). The author seemingly hanged out in Southern Spain visiting her bohemian friends and acquaintances and taking many pretty photos. The commentary is quite lame, and the author has a slight pontificating tone when detailing the Spanish decorating styles. I think it was George Bernard Shaw who said that generalization is the prerogative of the weak of mind, or something to that effect. The author falls under that category when stating that the new generations of Spaniards would rather go for plastic, vinyl and Formica and get rid of old, moth-ridden furniture. In her visit to Spain she obviously did not visit any of the multiple antique stores in any major city. Had she seen the prices that some of those moth-ridden pieces of junk command, and in the unlikely event she understands the laws of offer and demand, maybe she would have refrained from making such a blanket statement.

Anyway, this is a superficial book, certainly not worth the list price.