Like the title says, this is the book (or collection thereof) that started the best (IMHO) comic book series ever. This shows how the GenX kids got together, and it depicts their first adventure together, sadly however, there is one who will not stay with them for very long. A MUST READ for any comic book fan!

This is one of the finest books available on the changes professional salespeople need to make in today's selling climate. Practical. Informative. Thought-provoking. Imaginative. Bob's experience in sales highlights the anecdotes and brings them to life. Very highly recommended.

This book is facisnating, not just because of it's content but also because of the way it is written. Many times guides like these are slanted, but this one is written in a very collected, objectional view that not only makes it super-easy to read, but allows you to draw your own conclusions. You can look up anything from urban legends to recorded unexplained phnomena to the existance of ghosts. It's all presented in an organized manner and in related categories, so if you find one thing that interests you, it's easy to find others. Also has a complete index and accompanying pictures with each entry. Definitly worth buying, if only for reference, but it's an excellent read as well!

if your new to spider-man read it it has a lot of stuff to get you started . i got it just to add to my other spider-man books but it has a lot of info on spider-man so i say get even if you know a lot about spider-man still get it. great art in it also.

One beautiful story after another......how nice it is to feel like you are sitting in someone's living room in St. John while they share stories of life in St.John from their perspective or from their friends'. Every page makes you want to go back to this incredible place in paradise. Gerald Singer has written many wonderful books on St.John but this compilation is by far his best......must reading for those of us who know St. John.....must reading for those of us who would like to know St. John......light and easy......just like their winds....

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I have the hardback edition, published in the U.S. in 1999, but the content is the same as this paperback edition.

The book start with individual skills, with the first chapter on ball control covering receiving, turning, shielding, and dribbling moves. The book has many, many, excellent annotated pictures illustrating each skill. For most skills, the book diagrams a suggested skill-builder drill, which can either be done by players working on their own ("soccer homework"), or as part of a practice led by a coach.

After the Ball Control Chapter, the book also covers Passing and Shooting, Dead Ball Skills, Defending, Attacking, Tactics, Goalkeeping, and Training and Fitness.

The passing and shooting section has helpful diagrams of where on the ball to strike, and where on the foot, and has enough detail to answer most questions players or coaches would have about the details of how a particular skill should be done.

In the tactics area, and throughout the book, there are also many diagrams and color artwork pictures illustrating player positioning and movement in a way that makes the tactics clear.

I have many soccer coaching books, but this one is the one I go to when I want authoritative information and refresher on key points for teaching a particular skill. I've used many of the drills in my practices, and they have always gone well.

The book has excellent information, and realistic and helpful step-by-step action pictures that demonstrate skills.

The only real criticism I have is that sometimes I need more steps in the action pictures, particularly some of the dribbling moves, to see how the player got from A to C, and I feel like step B is missing.

Now my two daughters (12 and 14) play with an elite club team that wins 2-5 state championships a year (out of 8 girls age groups) and I recognize so many of the key components of that program being effectively taught in this book. This book is tremendously sound in terms of both the skills and terminology it teaches, and the highly effective way it presents and teaches them.

If you are a coach looking for an effective organization of skills and tactics to teach, or a player, especially one without access to expert, state-of-the art soccer skills training, I highly recommend this book. Because a picture is worth a thousand words, and this book is loaded with well-thought out pictures, artwork, and diagrams, players as young as 10, perhaps younger in special cases, could read the material and get very good use out of it. This book is simply excellent, and highly recommended for any soccer player and coach who wants to improve by learning and mastering the details of the skills and tactics needed to become a high-level soccer player.

This is easily, the BEST Bob Dylan book ever written. "Voice Without Restraint" deals with Dylan's lyrics in an intelligent and unbiased manner. No matter what period Dylan you prefer, this book will give you new insight to your favorites songs. (The book also makes you re-evaluate great Dylan songs and/or lp's you may have wrongly dismissed the first time around.) A fascinating read for anyone who claims to "love his songs, hate his voice" and certainly essential for any Bob-head.

Frank Miller's groundbreaking 1986 comic book series still packs a punch today. (I first read it only a few years ago.) This was the story which proved superhero comics can be powerful drama and social commentary. This tale of a middle-aged Bruce Wayne returning one last time to fight crime as the Batman is an original and interesting mixture of ironic frivolity and serious themes. It is the themes in the subtexts of the story that most make this work intersting. These themes include the issue of pure justice (as typified by the Batman) versus the corruptible system, and whether the power of justice best belongs in the hands of the legal system or to individuals. Miller offers scathing satirical sketches of spineless politicians, vacuous mass-media, and criminal-coddling pop psychology. Miller's fascinating portrait of Batman as a complex, tortured, and three-dimensional human being cannot be soon forgotten. The Dark Knight Returns is a compelling story of of a troubled hero in an unheroic world.

I've been a comic book reader for many years, and to this day I cannot recall another single work of comic book art that is quite so brilliant as Frank Miller's Dark Knight. Certainly Cerebus, Sandman, Cages and From Hell are to be lauded for their genuine genius, but Dark Knight remains my all-time favourite creation. Frank Miller has written a gripping story of tragic heroism and bitter social commentary. His Batman is truly a larger-than-life, tormented hero, brilliantly conceived with his many flaws and perverse obsessions intact. Miller plays with the comic book universe beautifully, realising a world wherein the so-called "super-hero" does exist, and exploring the ramifications of this fact. Batman's final confrontation with Superman at the end of this graphic novel is bar-none the most cunningly conceived battle in comic book history. It is achingly poignant to see the two old warriors confront one another at last: Superman with his compromised good-guy! agenda and Batman with his twisted, demoniac fixation. Batman loathes the figure that Superman has become, while Clark Kent pities the poor, lost soul who has sacrificed his very existence for that which he pursues with a vengeance. "You Bruce, with your obsession..." Miller has created in Dark Knight a vividly real and passionately affecting tale of Heroes and Madmen, riveting from start to finish.

Frank Miller seems a bit predisposed to violence, especially in his later works (Hard Boiled, Sin City, and on and on), but The Dark Knight Returns is a classic in the superhero genre. The problem with superhero comics is that the story never ends. (Then again - that's why people buy them. It's a continual soap opera without end. Also, as long as it makes money, there it will be.) Frank Miller provides a possible end to Batman's career that is peppered with violence and mayhem and an intelligent, witty script. I loved it when I first bought it many years ago, and I still think it is my favorite Superhero story. Batman achieves a mythical, mysterious status in Miller's hands. Batman needed an ending to define his career and life. Also, this is a showcase for Miller's pioneering experiments in Oriental artwork and storytelling that he first tackled in Ronin. This story is touted as the turning point in comic books, when comics became "mature" and "for adults". That's perhaps true. In his hands, superheroes underwent a partial metamorphis. But this book speaks out for the possibilities of finite series about heroes where there is a beginning and an end. THAT is a trend that I'd like to see continued

This book contains 65 recipes for making things at home that can then be played with. I began using the recipes in this book when my son was three years old. Both children love the idea of picking something out of the book to do; it becomes an activity in itself looking over the pages while I talk about the recipes. The fun is first in making the thing and secondarily actually using it. I recommend that first the adult browse the book and stock up on some items from the craft store that you will need for the projects that you think you may do, for example, buying large quantities of salt, powered tempera paint, cornstarch, borax, and liquid starch. In the end you will end up with a product that costs less than the store bought version as well as having fun making the product. These projects are great for those rainy or hot days or when I want to engage the kids in something other than watching TV or me reading aloud to them.

Some of these things are homemade versions of commercial products. Examples are sidewalk chalk, sidewalk paint, a goo like Silly Putty ™ and another goopier goo that is like the store-bought slime. Homemade finger-paints of all different concoctions from pudding to soap based to gelatin based, and other paint type projects are included. There are many clays, from a simple dough to sand dough, to dough's made from edible products. There is even a recipe for school glue!

Some of the projects are more finished-product oriented such as a squishy-stress squeezing ball, grass head guy, crystal rock garden, a (musical instrument) rain stick, and a tornado in a bottle.

Young children will need the adult to do most of the reading, instruction following and major parts of the constructing process. I think this is balanced out with having young children (toddlers and preschool aged) help with stirring and measuring and then the fact that they are the ones playing with it in the end, is a good balance of work between the adult and the child.

I can't recommend this book highly enough for all parents and grandparents.

If you like Thomas and Pagel's wacky kids' crafts on TV, then you'll love "The Ultimate Book Of Kid Concoctions". This collection of over 65 innovative projects will educate and entertain the kids while they learn to make "knock-offs" of popular toy store items. Parents' will enjoy the book because most projects require zero artistic ability and nothing more than common household items. With out a doubt "The Ultimate Book Of Kid Concoctions" sets a new standard for children's craft and activity books. I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a classic.

I never dreamed kids' crafts could be so much fun. The Ultimate Book of Kid Concoctions is by far a cut above any other childrens'craft book I have ever seen. In fact, it is almost ashame to called it just a craft book. The ideas are fresh new and innovative. Not only do children have fun they actually learn as they create.Hats off to the authors of this wonderful book.