i love spider-man .i like dd .team them up wow! thats all i can say about.well not all it has the best spidey&dd team-ups there is old ones like from amazing spider-man 15 i think, or Daredevil 17 & 18 and more. i say buy it you will love if you like spider-man

This is an excellent book on inclusion! It touches on restructuring of schools, relationships, curriculum modification, behavior management, and an appendix full of additional resources. Good for any regular or special educator.

Miller weaves a wonderful tale from several personal (and at first glance unrelated) experiences. Enchanting ramblings about the American Southwest will influence anyone's opinion about this spectacular region of North America. This book provides a great read and much anecdotal knowledge that encourages readers to share these stories with others...sometimes as if they had lived these experiences themselves!

Tom Miller brings the quality writing & accurate detail shown in his earlier baja guide books to the west coast of mainland Mexico. We used it to find new surf spots not listed in the Surfer Guide.

Most books on persuasion teach you ways to find you "advesaries" weaknesses and exploit them. This book actually gives you the tools to persuade people through true understanding. It also allows the people involved to come to a decision together, so that no one feels like they were manipulated into the solution.

It is truly ethical!!

Miller has taken a painful condition (Juvenile Rheumatoid Athritis) and written a beautiful children's book that not only explains and educates what the condition is all about, makes the reader see what her son has experienced during his life; coping the best he could with this condition.Triumphant!
The story is well written as well as entertaining, too. And the information in the back of the book is well researched and thorough. Excellent!

Now understand why MOST self-help books DO NOT work. You read, you feel better -- but, do nothing to change your behavior. Tom unlocks the key to true behavior change. What has been holding you back? Why do you feel guilty, mad, sad? Tired of being manipulated? Tom will open the door to true power of your behavior and why you do what you do -- although you know it may not be the best. Thought provoking, irritating, maddening and incredible describe this book. Order it today.

Financial Self Defense is a perfect complement to More Wealthwithout Risk. Before reading Financial Self DeFense, I was one ofthose people who bought brand new cars (I really liked that new car smell) was Insurance Poor (actually a misnomer, I was Insurance Rich, BUT CASH POOR from being overinsured) spent 120% of my income and thought I was doing okay with the few thousand I had put away in my credit union making that pittance of 3 1/2 % (what the heck, that was more than what my bank was payng) and was living from paycheck to paycheck and figured that was okay because so was everyone else that I knew. Now I buy cars 2 1/2 to 3 years old, have better insurance at 50% less cost, earning 15-20% in no-load mutuals and for the first time in years, have money left over instead of having more month left over at the end of my money!

The strategies from Financial Self DeFense came into play recently when I was attending a benefits meeting at work. This was an Insurance Meeting, Health and Dental, and both the benefits director and Insurance Reps were pushing "duplicate coverage" with a lot of emphasis and voice inflection. I asked why we needed "duplicate coverage" when at best we got paid one time, maybe? There was a long pause and no logical explanation so neither I nor the majority of employees elected to sign up for the "duplicate coverage"! If it wasn't for Financial Self DeFense, I would have foolishly signed up for the extra, unnecessary coverages and if it wasn't for my speaking up, so would have most of the others in the room.

There is just so much information in this jam packed easy to read book. You'll find yourself referring to it again and again. I also highly recommend "SUPERSELF" as a personal development and effectiveness equalivalent to Financial Self DeFense. Both are "super books" you'll love them.

Somethingelse that impressed me about th! is book is the emphasis that Mr Givens puts on values and a! ligning them with goals and your dreams. Values are something that are all to often left out in best selling books and in individual lives and a subject that we need to hear more about. Excellent, results, life changing book!

I saved more than $16,000 in my first three months after following the "GIVENS STRATEGIES" as outlined in FINANCIAL SELF DEFENSE. Over 1/4 of that was just on car buying. I also learned how to "debt shift" high interest credit cards to lower interest cards and buy and a new home without credit reference and no cash down, straighten out my credit report and get the maximum from my IRA. If you want to make the most of your money, buy this book, read it and then apply everything. It really works!

Before reading Financial Self Defense, I was suckered in to a 60 month auto loan, because I was told the payments would be lower, that I could afford more car and the interest wouldn't be all that significant! I was one of those people that spent all or most of my money on my lifestyle and I wanted this car in the worst way. (Of course, it was brand new, right out of the showroom)

I saw Charles Givens on the Oprah Winfrey show and was very imressed as he was the only guest that day and held the entire audience and me spellbound for an entire hour! One of money wasters he talked about was buying a brand new car. I felt like he was talking directly to me! I went out that night and bought Financial Self Defense.

Immediately, I began to make extra principal payments. After applying some of the GIVENS STRATEGIES for a few weeks, I had saved enough money to begin making double payments. In short, I was able to pay off a 60 month car loan in 24 months. What was interesting, was the bank manager tried to discourage me saying all of the upfront interest was already paid. Nonsense! I then told him I wanted to cancel the credit life as well and got back a nice refund.

I also found it refreshing that I could use my credit cards to make money when combined with the money market mutual fund strategy that Givens recommends.

I am now investing in No Load Mutual Funds as per the Givens Strategies and for the past 7years have averaged well over 15%.

Most other books are boring and don't offer any type of immediate results. With Financial Self Defense, I got immediate results! Most other books are also too focused on budgeting. With Financial Self Defense, I found that I COULD SPEND MY WAY INTO WEALTH. Before Givens, I always felt that saving, investing and financial management meant deprivation. Not when you GET GIVENIZED! I highly recommend Financial Self Defense and More Wealth Without Risk to live out your dreams instead of just dreaming about living. I also recommend SUPERSELF, to get your personal life under control.

It seems unnecessary to point out that this book is only for the true political junkie, since it's unlikely that anyone else would pick up a 700-page book with Clinton, Bush, and Perot on the cover in the first place. But for diehard politicos like myself, this book is a terrific account of the '92 campaign. The lengthy passages on political strategy may be trying for some, but the behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the three major campaigns (not to mention those of Jerry Brown, Pat Buchannan, et al) are fantastic.

I found this book to be extremely interesting and full of insight about the candidates and their campaigns. It also effectively represents the overall mood of the campaign and the issues facing the US at the time. Fascinating for anyone who is interested in presidential elections, and politics generally.

The curtain is pulled back on SNL in this book to reveal (not surprisingly) that Lorne Michaels was, is, and always will be the Wizard who always kept SNL ticking. Decades of drug use, debauchery, infighting, sleeping around, desperation, and show-biz chutzpah are related courtesy of first-hand accounts of the writers, stars, agents, TV executives, staff members, and guests of the show.

Not all comments are complimentary, and not all that went on behind the scenes was funny. But it all makes for a fascinating read, despite the fact that a few notable surviving cast members chose not to participate in these oral interviews. "Live From New York" is as much a evolutionary history of the business of television over the past three decades as it is an oral history of the show itself. Perhaps SNL isn't as consistently cutting edge and counter-culture as it was in its earliest years. But nowadays the show IS the pop and showbiz culture it lampooned in the past. It cannot ever really return to its fabled glory days of 1975-1979 because the entire showbusiness landscape has changed so dramatically since then. One must credit Michaels for recognizing that and still plodding ahead with the show for most of the years since the days of The Not Ready For Prime Time Players.

Read this book to find the origins of many of the standard conventions and favorite moments of the show: why the band always dresses in tuxedos, the inspiration of Danny Aykroyd's buttcrack-exposing refrigerator repairman, the inhuman writing schedule, etc.

This is better than an "E! True Hollywood Story" any day.

...but ultimately fascinating document of our generation's most beloved variety program.

The stories are told primarily by those involved, in their own words, verbatim, including cast members, writers, hosts and producers. Some surprising tidbits include an almost universal dislike of Chevy Chase, Nora Dunn's harsh treatment of co-stars, and Eddie Murphy's grudge against the show (he is the only cast member who would not appear on the 25th anniversary special and is not interviewed in the book).

The book reads like an interview. There is almost no narrative from the authors. It's like reading a filmed documentary where the camera switches back and forth between the interviewees. This format fails only rarely, and the comments are usually placed somewhat in chronological order, and occasionally are lined up together, highlighting common viewpoints between participants where they exist.

Most of the memorable, gossipy events are covered, such as Nora Dunn's exile from the show when Andrew Dice Clay appeared, Jean Doumanian's brief stint as producer that almost got the show cancelled, Norm Macdonald's ousting as Update anchor, Sinead's unanticipated Pope-bashing, etc., etc., etc.

A fascinating read that will make you look at the show in a different light once you finish it. May also make you feel a bit misty-eyed, as you link SNL memories with memories of where you were and who you were as you witnessed them live.

You won't know exactly who to believe when you read this book, but in the end, it really won't matter. Yes, there are some oversights in the information here; the later seasons are given short-shrift, and, just as an example, Victoria Jackson gets what amounts to the last word on some in-fighting behind the scenes during her run. Some of these oversights you can chalk up to who was willing to talk in their interviews and who wasn't. Other times, it seems to be a fault of the editorial decision to move on to the next subject before the previous one is exhausted. And yes, the first five years get the bulk of treatment here, but that's to be expected, I think--they are, arguably, the most "romantic" of the periods, when it was less a business and more a crusade. And besides, people are a lot more inclined to comment on the [stuff] they pulled twenty years ago than stuff that's relatively current.

Still, this book is fully deserving of the perhaps too-often-ascribed label "page turner." You'll be able to put it down, of course, but you won't want to. You'll want to keep going, even if your head is swimming with factoids, innuendo, inside information, and some of the best tossed-off stories of famous people behaving badly. All the "dirt" aside, though, it's the more positive stuff I really relish about this book--the good stuff about Gilda, John, and the rest. There are some nice tributes here, and they really shine.

Of course, if you're a huge fan of Chevy Chase, you might avoid this book, because, as others have said, he gets torn apart pretty well here. To his credit, he admits that he's been a jerk in the past, but still, from year one to now, he's been reviled by most of the cast. For me, I'm still a fan of his work, but I don't think I want to be in a cast meeting with him. With all the stories, positive and negative, it comes down to who you're going to believe. For the most part, the editors let you decide, and haven't seemed to make a decision for you. And in the end, as I said, it won't matter. It's still a good, solid read.