This book was written by Kirk Marshall, and is 135 pages long. I liked this book because it had a lot of different settings and cool characters. It was also an intence story and was pretty much always exciting to read. Plus the author gave a good feel of the basketball games.

The Best part of this book was when Brain a sharp shooter for his basketball team went to the Mighty Mites basketball practice to see there dribbling skills. While he was there he learned some new tricks and got better at the game. It was also exciting because the Mighty Mites are 12 years old and are experts on dribbling. I thought that was the best part of the book because it was exciting to see what tricks the Mighty Mites did.

The most vivid story elements in this book were the theme, conflict, and the plot. The theme was very vivid because the whole story was about basketball and they were always playing it so it was evident. The author did a great job on the plot because every major part in the book would have something to do with the patriots winning the championship. He also did a good job on the conflict because at the very begining of the book it points out the conflict that they would have to get the two main players grades up before the championship games. Thatis why i liked this book, because of all the elements and action that Kirk Marshall put in his book.

I liked this book because the characters talk like it was real life people. It's a fast paced book. The setting is at alot of different places; the story moves around. This book explaines special terms so that you would enjoy it even though it's about baseball. I would reccommend that you read it!

This is an excellent starter book for stargazers, and fits into your pocket.

I've just completed my managerial accounting course with an "A" grade DESPITE having been assigned this text. These authors, like many accounting authors, don't know how to use language to convey the concepts they're attempting to get across. (Does that mean they're "numbers people" who can't use language correctly to develop ideas?? Perhaps!!!) Even more so, the way they choose to conceptually develop managerial accounting theory is somewhat farcical. If you've been assigned this text from your instructor, RUN OUT NOW AND INVESTIGATE OTHER MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING TEXTS TO USE IN CONJUCTION WITH IT. (Try "Managerial Accounting" Weygandt, Kieso and Kimmel) The problem with "Management Accounting" is that it has little precision in describing the main issues of managerial accounting and wants to be an Operations Management text or Management text rather than an authentic Managerial Accounting text. As students, let's vote with our wallets and tell these accounting authors to get a 2nd degree in English so that they can actually convey to us the ideas they're attempting to convey!!! Tell your professor he/she needs to wake up and change texts! The book was written for people who really don't want to actually learn Managerial Accounting theory, but want to pretend to have learned it. It can't describe the critical concepts in enough detail for you to get a good grip on the material - and it's conceptual development of the theory is confusing. Switch it!

I would not recommend this book to anyone who has not have any prior Managerial Accounting classes or sufficient work experience in this area. The way the topics are presented in the book requires familiarity with a number of related concepts in order to gain full understanding. Additionally, there is a number of instances in which concepts are introduced in a given chapter, but not explained until a later one, which makes it really confusing for those exposed to Managerial Accounting for the first time.

My MBA program used this book. I found the book easy to read and liked its consideration of behavioral issues usually ignored in other books. The book covers new and important topics in management accounting (activity-based costing, balanced scorecard, JIT, target costing, kaizen costing, environmental costing and benchmarking). A companion book (Readings in Management Accounting) has lots of articles describing applications of material presented in the textbook.

Marvel really seems to be scraping bottom by reissuing this already--although the Perez art is nice, the multipart story with Warbird doesn't make a whole lot of sense, and the Squadron Supreme story seems to have been written in 1975.

This book is not wholly an Avengers title. In actuality, it is the story of a Kree invasion crossing over into Captain America, Iron Man, and Quicksilver, as well as into the Avengers. As a result, the storyline is a bit confusing, and the writers try to put too much action into each chapter. As is the case with most crossovers, the storyline becomes jumbled and the original intent seems lost in the mix. The secondary story is the story is Warbird's alcoholism and how it affects the team. The resolution is to dump her off of the team rather than to offer help, which seem unsatisfactory. Perez art in the Avengers chapter is nice, as usual. We also get a Squadron Supreme story tacked on the end which is not really related to the main story at all. All in all, this book seems hastily thrown together to cash in on the current Avengers' popularity. However, haste makes waste.

This book is of no educational value whatsoever. A waste of money. I myself in the future will go to Barnes and Noble to physically scan a book I'm interested in before purchasing. You made me give this book 1 star because you only offered 1 through 5 stars. I would have given it a minus -Star rating.

Words have always facinated me. After reading this book and following the exercises as was suggested in the book have created for me, a much deeper yearning to further enter into Greek & Latin. Living in the Caribbean is already quite interesting because of the many different languages and dialects. I myself speak more than one language but to really take the time and make comparisons to words and understanding the stems, roots really gets me going. It's a fabulous way to get any true lover of words, history and understanding of who and what we are all about absolutely going. Great way to get started.

1) This is the thinnest plot I have ever seen. It's like they called Kevin J, said "Hey, we want a comic related to the Jedi Academy, but we need the whole script in five minutes" and this is what they got. Nothing is ever explained, nothing makes sense, the characters repeat themselves constantly, and the whole point seems to be to make Dorsk 82, who never really shows up again anywhere else as far as I know, feel good about himself. And I'm not even sure he does that!
2) Luke looks like He-Man on a bad day, and I originally thought Leia was some totally new character. Does Dorsk 82 have to be drawn *shaking* in every frame? Why must everyone have spit lines between his teeth? The art in this comic is rock-bottom awful.

It seemed more like Alien to me. It a good 'monster'-type story, despite Anderson's horrendously forced dialogue. But it has almost no elements of Star Wars, some bordering on the line of obscenely un-Star Wars-ish. My biggest complain may be regarding Dorsk 82. The idea behind him was by no means bad, but Anderson's writing turns him into an annoying, craven fool. Sometimes I wished that Leviathan would just step on him and put the reader out of his or her misery.

The art's good, although once again, not Star Wars-ish. It worked far better in the 'Tales of the Jedi' series than in the modern SW universe.

You wants real 'Star Wars' comics, see something like the X-wing Rogue Squadron comics, especially 'In the Empire's Service' and 'Mandatory Retirement'. You want a story transplanted to the SW universe, read this. I'm grading this as a Star Wars comic, and as a Star Wars comic its just plain bad.

This specific collection of chapters that form, "Leviathan", is one of the weaker installments from Dark Horse that I have read. The two key elements that are critical, a good story, and good illustrations are glaringly absent.

I generally don't enjoy when artists take great liberty with the appearance of characters that have been solidly established for nearly three decades. A way to get by this fault is to offer readers a great story, however this does not happen here. Luke starts the story by musing to himself about nothing of great importance, and this is followed by a task for his newest Jedi Knights that is vague and one dimensional. A planet appears to suffer total destruction on a fairly regular basis, and even though this is documented, new colonists keep coming back for more. For some unknown reason nobody ever catches on that this planet is a less than hospitable spot, and invariably the cause of destruction is routinely disturbed.

The only other consistent theme is how unsuited Kyp is as a Jedi, and how hopeless he would be as a Jedi Master. His treatment of a new potentially force sensitive recruit is hopelessly inept and abrasive. When the central conflict does arrive it is terribly predictable and not worthy of the material Dark Horse generally offers. It is rare when a written installment of this saga does not offer any new insight, however this one is nearly vacant.

This is a big DC crossover involving too many different titles. The two volumes attempt to collect stories involving Superman, Wonder Woman, Young Justice, and Impulse. A lot of back story seems missing and the artwork often looks like bad manga. I am really hating these kinds of crossovers, and reading these stories in this GN format is extremely confusing.

One of the staples to Supes personal history is the fact that he's held to standards that other superheroes might not be able to match ... until now. Reading Superman say the words, "I'm going to kill him," is perhaps the most startling revelation in the two-parter trade paperback OUR WORLDS AT WAR. Despite some negative reaction from a large part of the Super-fan base, OWAW is a good read but far from great. It presents a Superman that readers largely haven't seen before, one driven by a passionate instinct for revenge. While the books do possess some continuity issues, there are parts of the story important to our time: acts of terrorism, good surrendering to evil, the loss of life in times of war, etc. However, these two books do suffer from one crucial shortcoming that appears to be a growing trend in crossover / trade paperbacks, and that's the fact that the reader might be told of pivotal events several times from differing perspectives ... once from the Superman installment, once from the Young Justice installment, and once from a Wonder Woman installment. Whereas the end result should be interesting, it's far more confusing here, as some events toward the climax are reviewed slightly out-of-sequence. That said, a Darkseid story is always welcome at my house, and I enjoyed the pure escapism of a reasonably entertaining Superman story for what it was worth.

Would I recommend purchase? Erg. These two books are rather pricey for a story that isn't as tightly woven as it could've been. I would have rather seen the publishers create one volume, with a reasonable price, than two with a slightly higher than necessary pricetag. Damn capitalism. Damn commercialism. If you can get your hands on copies to borrow, I'd take that route first.

I'm giving this 3 stars, but this is a VERY GENEROUS 3 stars. The only reason I'm doing that is because the action is pretty good and there's a lot of it.

What is going on here? I know Superman doesn't quite have the resolve of Batman, but Superman is supposed to be the standard of the DC Universe. The one they turn to when all else fails. So why is he whining so much? Why is he neglecting Lois? Why is he so annoying? Who knows. They don't explain it to us.

It should be noted that there is a lot missing. Most of the DC Universe books touched upon this crossover & they can't all be included. However, that doesn't explain why the plot is so confusing. There are parts that are just cryptic.

There are some genuinely suspenseful parts, the subplot between Lex and his Brainiac'd daughter being the highlight.

Again, there's a lot of pretty good action (including a good slap 'em up between Supes & Darkseid). But what separates the guys who wrote this from the truly great writers is plot. And that is lacking here.

Fior those born after 1975 who have no real grasp, in the gutt, of the wrenching choices young American males often made when they faced the draft, and sometimes went off to Canada, this is as good a book as one can find. It's contemporary relevance is quite limited, except as a window onto the past. Mark Satin is a prolific writer whose more recent books are extraordinary in their grasp of the underlying politics of the American scene and psyche. But this book, even with its special place as a valuable memoir, has limited value beyond historial reflection by the reader.