The advertised book is "Batman: Legacy." However, the synopsis, and both customer reviews, are for an earlier graphic novel, entitled "Batman: Contagion." The aforementioned plague is released, confronted and eventually cured in "Contagion" and in "Legacy" the source is traced.

Ras Al Guhl plans to unless a deadly virus upon the world...and only Batman, Robin, Catwoman, and Nightwing can stop him! Awesome artwork and plot line.

I was expecting more really. Not much has been written on the 1929 Athletics dynasty but lots of good information is out there on this team. I figured the author would collect all this info and give us the best of it in his book. We get a few good tales about Connie Mack's boys but nothing new or spectacular and this book is not cheap. I love Foxx, Grove, Simmons, Cochrane, and so I bought it, but it was very average. In fact, kind of dull sometimes. Buy it because it's the only book out there on this team (29-31 A's) but don't expect too much. Buy the biographies on Foxx, Cochrane and Grove and you will learn just about as much, if not more. The Sports Illustrated article on this team with Simmons on the cover got me interested in this team-it was awesome-but don't expect the same from this book. Give me a good Biography on Al Simmons to go with the others mentioned above and we got the complete story on this greatest team of all-time-even better than the 27 Yankees.

THIS IS A BOOK I DID NOT WANT TO END. AN EXCELLENT JOB OF WRITING ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING OWNERS AND ONE OF THE LAST DINOSAURS OF BASEBALL. (CONNIE MACK) THIS BOOK'S TELLING OF THE A'S DYNASTY OF THE LATE 20'S AND EARLY 30'S IS EXTENSIVE AND MASTERFULLY WRITTEN. THIS BOOK IS A MUST READ FOR ALL BASEBALL FANS. ONE OF THE BEST I HAVE EVER READ.

Fascinating account, even for one raised on horseback and skis. I have never understood the intricacies of The Great American Past Time, however, Mr. Kashatus' story telling is illuminating.

This book is great! I especialy enjoyed the section on vi. An extreemly helpful book, even though I've been using unix for almost 10 years, I learned some new tricks. I recommend it to anyone who needs to learn unix. My customers who need telnet access or wnat to have their own server for example. The only reason it didn't get 5 stars is that the author sometimes talks down to the reader. And his humor is too dry for my taste.

This book got me up and running with Unix in (unfortunately for what the title claimed) about 2 weeks (I'm a slow reader). It served as a springboard for me with the Unix OS. Now, I've moved on to more complex subjects in the Unix world.

Along with one of the now-famous Nutshell books, this book got me through the initial shock of the infamous Unix shell prompt and made me realize that it truly is a great operating system.

Dave Taylor is very good at explaining the concepts. Sometimes, there isn't enough, but the book would be twice as thick, twice as expensive, and twice as confusing had he included everything. I highly recommend this book!

This book is written in simple language and covers most of basic commands you need to know.

Bowling Strikes was off to a great start. It jumped right into the mechanics of bowling in good detail. Suddenly, after 30 or 40 pages, it just died. It almost looked like the author became bored and just wanted to throw another hundred pages on to make the book longer. A good portion was spent displaying almost every possible spare. First of all, with the title being Bolwing Strikes, was was there more space dedicated to picking up spares? I would have rather the author diagnosed precisely what caused the spare and options to correct your throw rather then spending a page on how to pick up the 6-9-10! Even stranger, the author assumes you're advanced enough that you throw a hook, yet spends several pages on ettiquette, how to score, and injuries. The first 20 or 30 pages have some helpful tips, but you're better off spending the money on practice. Best suited for someone who just bought a fingertip ball and wants to learn how to hook.

Ive been bowling for 2 years now and messed about with bowling straight then spinning the ball but my averages were always around 140. Ive had this book for 2 weeks and I now have a comfortable style and bowl 160 average (top score 210). The author tells you how to apply spin to the ball via the "squeeze"...excellent book and judy is very pretty! Nice one amazon

this book was great. It had all the info you need to know if you want to be a good bowler. all you beginners,this is a must read. It has lots of helpful tips and stratiges from todays top professionals, such as Ernie Mcrackin and Roy Munson. All of you beginners out there, I have three words for you; BUY THIS BOOK!

Overall a great book. Gotham City faces something worse than even the Joker or Penguin could do to it, Earthquake! Batman battles those who come out of the darkness to take advantage of the destruction while Bruce Wayne fights to save his city politically. Only mistake I made was reading the No Mans Land Comics(which were even better) before I read this so It spoiled some of the suspense for me. I would advise against doing that.

Batman: Cataclysm was overall a great comic book, and very enjoyable. For Batman fans, the comic is much different than most Batman books. For example, you won't see too many of the regular vilians (Joker, Scarecrow, etc.). Instead Gotham is rocked by a huge earthquake destroying everything, even the Batcave. Batman is left to fight something he has no power over, mother nature. It makes for a very interesting tale, as Batman sees the city he loves burn and crumble into oblivion, and he can do nothing to stop it. Along the way, heroes like Nightwing, Robin, Huntress, Spoiler, and Catwoman join forces to help trapped citizens and fight off escaped convicts. Then, a man calling himself the Quakemaster takes claim for the earthquake and threatens Gotham with another one. In the end, the identity of the Quakemaster is very suprising. Batman: Cataclysm is one of the best storylines and definitely one of the most emotional storylines for a Batman series. It is a good read with great artwork, and it leads to the aftermath story of Gotham, Batman: No Man's Land.

They actually were able to pull it off. An awesome book. It starts off with the one villian that Batman can do absolutely nothing to it. An earthquake that measures 7.6 demolishes Gotham. Wayne Manor is in shambles and the Batcave is fully exposed. The Bat team must rush to save the survivors whether they be wondering the streets, under collapsed buildings, or just plain lost in this new land. An excellent ending with great art the entire way through. Wonderfully written and you need to read the followling five volumes entitled No Man's Land to find the finish.

I found the book had lots of problems and gray areas. Although the book professes to be about creating cool web pages, the author doesn't provide the insights or design tips that would help you create a truly cool web page. If you are looking for a book that covers the basics, this one may be what you are looking for. If you want to go beyond the basics, look elsewhere. A personal favorite is William Stanek's Web Publishing Unleashed

This book was outstanding. I had no prior knowledge of HTML before reading this book, and now I know HTML very well. It tells you how to add everything you need to add to a webpage (links, images, bulleted & numbered lists, frames, music, et cetera). It even shows an introduction past HTML like JavaScript, VBScript, Style Sheets, and CGI. Another great addition is the chapter which shows you how to promote your webpage, and even some links to free providers (some are outdated).

Bottom line -- if you are a beginner wanting to learn HTML, then this is the book for you. It is everything you need to know to start making webpages today!

I've been doing my own personal web pages for a year now and I LIVE by this book. I keep it right next to the computer at all times and I still refer back to it ALL the time. For experienced or beginners it's great! I just can't say enough good about, it's just so awesome!!!!

Of the modern commentaries of the New Testament, this may be one of the most easy to grasp. The writing style is friendly, and it doesn't bog the reader down scholarly analysis of every other word. As is the case with many Bible commentaries, I wish the typeface were a bit larger.

If you are a Bible Study teacher and would like one reference book on the NT, Raymond E. Brown's may be the most scholarly, but Barton's book is more friendly and, ultimately, more useful from the standpoint of your students.

Very useful tool to aid in your Bible studies. If you have trouble understanding what a particular verse means, or what it means in your life today, this is a good book to have. I looked at a few other books like this, but like the layout, and price of this one best.

HTML, as a language, is platform independent, so even though this book is put together by Macworld - a magazine for Macintosh users, there's a lot to learn from this book. The only problem is that the floppy disk that comes along with it is of no use to PC users, which means you'll miss out on the software and example files on the floppy.

Having spent over 15 years on the Internet, and designed hundreds of web pages himself, Dave Taylor goes beyond teaching you the nuts and bolts of HTML to show you how to design and create useful, attractive webpages, and then publicise these pages.

After the customary introduction to the Web and HTML, the book slowly slips in HTML tags, organised very logically (unlike the Dummies book that forced them all together). Learning HTML in this step-by-step manner is less overwhelming, and a pleasant learning experience. Each of the chapters introducing different HTML tags has an easy-to-refer summary table to help you refresh your memory.

When you're sufficiently comfortable creating bare-bone text-only pages, the book helps you spruce up your pages with graphics, photographs, audio, and video. All this, while reminding you (and showing you how to) keep those pages shell-account-friendly.

There's an entire chapter dedicated to discussing search engines, and teaching you how to register with some of them, so that you'll be able to use that knowledge to your advantage when you start publicising your pages. This is followed by other ways and means to announce your site to the world.

The book briefly touches upon the more advanced elements of webpages - forms, imagemaps, and CGI scripting. And for those who plan to design full - blown sites instead of just arbit. webpages, the book ends with a very useful step-by-step guide to planning the entire site. Dave has also put together a list of common HTML mistakes that he's committed or been victim to, and has shown how to avoid those mistakes.

Now if only this book was available with software for the PC...

Here's a book on e-business that is actually entertaining in the way it approaches its subject. This book takes on the ambitious task of addressing both the B2C and B2B aspects of e-commerce, full of good insights and constructive advice in both areas. Mr. Taylor and Ms. Terhune combine the best of their experience from Gartner with new, independent research and conclusions, all written in an entertaining, informative way. While not outright funny, but written in a light style that makes it more readable that most of the E-Business books I've read.

The author weakly covers Linux and other flavors of unix but does not provide any additional value over the documentation. I would suspect that the author merely rewrote freely available manuals.

The author does not cover important topics such as clusters, backup and recovery, high availability and security. I suspect this book will be available for clearance soon.

I'm not sure what the 1-star reviewer's problem is. Who wants to wade through MAN pages for hours? The whole reason I buy books is to compile the information in one handy place. This is a useful source to fill in general holes in your knowledge. If you already know this stuff cold, I'm not sure why you'd be interested in the book at all (either to praise or pan.) Bottom line: good, general book for those who want to bootstrap themselves.

I have seem many different UNIX SA books, but this one is the very best. It covers all the important topics and concepts, and has detailed examples for everything the author discusses. This book is very easy to read and follow.