This book is awesome! The pictures are excelent and the information is great. Nice to know what Mammoth used to look like before it became the famous place that it is today.

Anyone who likes skiing will love this book. Forstenzer's familiarity with the Sierra makes it one that won't just sit around on the coffee table. He writes engagingly and tells great stories about the early days of skiing in Mammoth and its culture, how the ski area was built and some of the people involved. The photographs are astonishing and well worth the price alone, but in combination with the writing Forstenzer lets us glimpse what made Mammoth Mountain the great ski resort it has become. This is a terrific book about past and present skiing days at Mammoth. Like most any ski item associated with Warren Miller - breathtaking!

Absolutely the most beautiful collection of photos of Mammoth and the surrounding area can be found in this book! It provides a wonderful history and insight into the creation and life of this skiing Mecca. This is a must have for any Mammoth lover!

This is a super book with loads of great stories and wonderful photographs! A must own for any skiier.

Ray Atkeson was the premier skiing photographer in the 30's - 50's. Through his beautiful photographs you'll enjoy seeing the early days of skiing in the Pacific Northwest, Utah, Colorado and California. It's remarkable not only for the photographs, but for the camera equipment Ray had to use to capture these scenes. See the ski areas, equipment and clothing from this early area. This is a terrific coffee table pictorial of a bygone skiing days.

First saw this book in the Denver, CO airport. What a great book. If you like skiing you will enjoy the photos in this book - particularly if you frequent any of the resorts featured in the photos (most of which are in the western US - WA, CO, UT, CA). Like most any ski related item associated with Warren Miller - awesome!

i loved this book! this is one of the best books on the town of natchez, anyone looking for info on anyone of the many fantastic houses in natchez should bye this book! i looooooooved that one house, longwood, interesting architecture.

This is a fabulous book, filled brillant color photo's of manywonderful ante-bellum homes. I am proud that someone finally wrotesuch a great,detailed, and informitive book. If you like classicsouthern architecture than this is the book for you.I give this book 5stars!

You don't have to believe in conspiracies to believe what this book tells you. Just use your common sense. For example, the financial pundits keep telling us inflation is very low, but if that's true, why is everything seem more expensive now than, say, 10 years ago?

McAuliffe says that the reason is that we are more in debt--everything we buy has debt attached to it (like the Mafia tax, but legal). Bonds are debt, stocks are debt, our credit cards are debt, hostile or friendly takeovers add debt to the cost of manufactured goods and services.

But he offers some solutions as well, which makes this a hopeful book, not just a damning one.

Read it, you'll like it.

This book is a major wake-up call! Like most of us, I've been lulled by government and media into believing that our economy is golden. McAuliffe proves that it's fools gold.

The biggest revelation for me in this book is the documentation of the inflation controversy. I realize that I hadn't understood until now what inflation really means. And I think that most of you won't know until you read "Disarming the Debt Bomb."

McAuliffe's convincing bottom line is that there has never been an economy in history with more inflation than we have right now in the U.S.of A. He calls it an "inflationary cancer" that will take us down if we don't make some radical changes, especially in the banking system, which he sees as the core of the problem.

Furthermore, he makes a great case for how inflation leads to family breakdowns, the expansion of crime, corruption and despair.

The good news is that he offers a cure, hence the book's title.

My eyes usually glaze over when I try to read about economics, but McAuliffe's passion for his subject and reader friendly style make this book a page turner.

He urges us to take the corrective steps he lays out. Otherwise, he says, we could end up like a banana republic with most of the money in the hands of an elite minority and everybody else scrambling to survive.

Yes, I'm a conspiracy theorist. But only the ones that impact society and are provable interest me. There are more smoking guns in this boom market deceit than there were at the Saint Valentine's Day massacre, and McAuliffe spots every shooter.

Read this book, weep, get angry at how you've been lied to by the economic spinmeisters, then join the McAuliffe brigade and let's turn this sucker around before we enter the dark tunnel of recession.

I may be considered a roudy teenager to some and might not be taken seriously when I feel strongly about a subject of my interest, but Warren Miller's SKI FEVER is amazing. Every time I read it,(which is a lot) it sends shivers down my spine. The way the writers describe everything is tremendous. Once I finish the book I have the urge to go skiing even if it is down the snowpacked steps of my deck, I have the "fever". Durring the humid summers I have to suffer through, longing for soft white powder to float down upon me, I daydream about slaming through rapid gates and I pick up his book and I am satisfied. I am satisfied because even though I am not present as the skiers fly down the mountain I feel as if I am. So thank you Mr. Miller, Thank You.

Warren Miller's Ski Fever is a wonderful addition to any skier's library, not to mention a film guru's library. This book tells the tale of skiing's presence in family, sports, and in the heart and soul of a skier of any ability. Alike all of Miller's other works, the brillant action photography places the reader in a plesent state of euphoria.

In this book, ex-Surfer Magazine editor Matt Warshaw captures the voice of surfing. By picking out the essential moment in a dleuge of interviews with the each of history's most influencial surfers, Warshaw exposes the true soul of surfing. This book touched me deeply.

i read this book 30 freaking years ago.its still an important part of my mind.it gave me a look into the ghetto that was all around me as i grew up in a working classcommunity that effectively exclude persons of color.thank you and "good night".troll.

This isn't exactly a fair and impartial review. I've been asked what I thought of this book before and you'll find that reaction within its pages. If your afraid this is yet another book pontificating the virtues of a fine claret, it's not. Through laymans words with cheerfull illustrations, this is a perfect gift for anyone with any wine ambivalence (love the taste, hate the sonorous sound!)

"...My overall assesment of this book is quite positive... I believe Miller and Rodgers' discussion will be of interest to personal relationships scholars from across the epistemological spectrum. One reason is that nearly every type of personal relationship is attended to, in some way, in the OBS; there is insight in Miller and Rodgers' discussion to be found on friendships, marital and sexual relationships, and parent-child pairs. Bonding is at the heart of attachment, relationship development, affection, and other processes that are often the focus of research in the personal relationships field. As such, I expect Miller and Rodgers' book to be a useful contribution to these endeavors." - Kory Floyd, Arizona State University

This game is the best. The only problem I have is that every page you read falls out after you turn the page. Spiral binding would be great for this game because the game master has to use the book often if he is following any of the preplaned adventures. I would give it 5 stars if the binding were better.

This is a great game for anyone who has ever wanted to be a chartoon character. Or just for anyone who loves cartoons. Like the best board games (Balderdash, Malarky), the important thing is having fun and making the other players laugh. ...

Toon: The Cartoon Role-playing Game was published by Steve Jackson Games in the mid-1980s, and many copies of the sourcebooks are still available with a little effort. This RPG primarily focuses upon American-style cartoons where truly anything goes!!! The entire focus of Toon is to be funny and to do and say things which are funny... and many anime characters and series fit quite well into this worldview: Debutante Detective Corps, Project A-ko, Otaku no Video, Galaxy Fraulein Yuna, Idol Project, the Slayers saga, City Hunter, D4 Princess, Mezzo Forte, etc.

One of the most popular Toon campaigns is the Toon Olympics. Those familiar with the Hanna-Barbara Laff-a-Lympics series already have an idea of the premise of Toon Olympics: Bring together many animated characters from various series/genres and have them compete in a number of sporting events. When I first played the Toon Olympics, one player created his own cursed medieval knight character with a sentient sword which didn't always do as he commanded (which he later played in a Sailor Moon RPG campaign I was then running), someone else played a unicorn (who eventually had to drive a car), another played as Lara Croft, and I personally played as A-ko - truly an eclectic bunch!!!

However, anime fans should NOT overlook Toon as a role-playing option. Granted, Toon is not as adaptable to a wide variety of campaigns (for campaign genre/character adaptability, see the Big Eyes Small Mouth second edition sourcebook); however, for a change of pace, Toon can be used to give almost any anime character (pre-existing or original) a chance to be a comedian. For example, when I played in another Toon Olympics as A-ko, I called upon B-ko to fight a Pokémon in my place, with the promise of conceding C-ko to her if she should win (that was funny enough to earn me an extra Plot Point)!!!