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All Things Reconsidered: My Birding Adventures

3 reviews
Roger Tory Peterson

Houghton Mifflin, 2007

Fitting Tribute
The author, who died ten years ago, is the well-known originator of the Peterson's Field Guides. This book makes available to a wider audience a selection of columns he wrote for a bird magazine. In them, he takes us all over the world and familiarizes us with a wide variety of birds, other wildlife, and people. His prose style is a beauty in itself. The editor has updated the articles in ...

Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine

1 review

New Press, 2008

Generation of Swine
Brilliant collection from a brilliant periodical. Some of the articles expose such venality that you may become mad enough to spit. Especially scintillating is Ken Silverstein's expose on the lobbyists who were eager to help his (imaginary) firm cover up human rights abuses in Central Asia for the opportunity to exploit natural resources... for a price, of course. It just doesn't stop in this ...

Essential Luke Cage/Power Man, Vol. 2 (Marvel Essentials)

1 review
Don McGregor, Bill Mantlo, ...

Marvel Comics, 2006

"Who is the man that'd risk his neck for his brother-man?" (Has it already been used?)
One of the good aspects of Mr. Cage (and I don't mean Nicholas, of course!!!) is that he doesn't want to be a world-saving superhero; although he wears a rather flashy costume and, sometimes, goes toe-to-toe with superheavies like "Dr. Doom" (but, then again, who hasn't had a run-in with him in the "Marvel Kingdon?"), he makes it quite clear that he's only trying to make a living, and, if he has ...

Marvel Visionaries: Steve Ditko

4 reviews
Stan Lee, Steve Ditko, ...

Marvel Comics, 2005

beautiful, but frustrating
A beautiful but frustrating book. Ditko left a deep impression on me when I was young, and his work is one of the things from my youth that I still enjoy greatly now that I'm deep into middle age. The layout of this book-- the size of the panels, the color, and so on-- is better than the original comics were. But it's a Ditko sampler-- bits and pieces from various phases of his Marvel career, ...

Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, Vol. 2

2 reviews
Brian Michael Bendis, Bob Kane, ...

DC Comics, 2007

A COUPLE OF SILVER AGE STUMBLES BUT OTHERWISE SOLID
The second volume is DC Comics' Batman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, proves to be vastly superior to first, featuring stories culled over a period of sixty-plus years of Dark Knight history. While the stories are usually presented chronologically, this one deviates slightly in order to present the origin of the Golden Age Batman as the first story. This story was originally published in ...

Essential Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Vol. 3 (Marvel Essentials)

1 review
Roger Stern, Bill Mantlo, ...

Marvel Comics, 2007

Spectacular
Some people are turned off by the black and white reprints like these essentials. But you get so much for the money, and there's hours of reading enjoyment. These essentials are a great way to read or reread comics from the past, without having to fork out the large bucks that the after market sellers are asking. Granted some of these issues are corny, but they're still enjoyable to a 40 year ...

Daredevil By Frank Miller Volume 1 TPB
Frank Miller, Bill Mantlo, ...

Marvel Comics, 2008

A classic Marvel hero defined by one of comics' greatest visionaries! A Marvel Comics mainstay since 1964, Daredevil got a new lease on life in a landmark 1979-1983 run by writer-penciler Frank Miller and inker-penciler Klaus Janson, whose daring reinvention of the character quickly made Miller one of the biggest and most influential stars in the comic-book industry. Miller put his own stamp on established cast members such as reporter Ben ...

Essential Defenders, Vol. 2 (Marvel Essentials)

3 reviews
Len Wein, Chris Claremont, ...

Marvel Comics, 2007

Defending good taste in comic books
Essential Defenders Volume II: from the very start (the confrontation with Magneto and his Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in issues 15 and 16, by far the best ones there) to the ending (Tapping Tommy and the Maggia goons in issue 30) it's a hit!!! Fine storytelling and artwork (especially by a certain Mr. Buscema), rather interesting characters and the "non-team status" that made this a supergroup ...

Goosed!

9 reviews
Bill Wallace

Aladdin, 2004

Goosed
Goosed by Bill Wallace takes place in present day life in the woods. is a story that can happen; it's a realistic story. The main characters in Goosed are T.P, Jeff and Mocha. TP is Jeff's dog and he gets upset. When. Jeff takes in a puppy named Mocha. Mocha drives TP crazy with all his questions. Will Mocha stop bugging T.P? My favorite part is when Mocha goes to live with Jeff and TP ...

Essential Punisher Volume 3 TPB (Essential)
Mike Baron, Roger Salick, ...

Marvel Comics, 2009

He's a boxer, he's a ninja, he's a corporate whistle-blower, he's a biker, he's an armored warrior - he's the Punisher, and he's taking his anti-crime obsession across four continents and beyond! He wants nothing to do with the superhuman shenanigans of the rest of the Marvel Universe, but is nonetheless thrown against Doctor Doom, AIM, the Reavers, Jigsaw, Madam Hydra, and more! And introducing the sinister Saracen, one of the rare wrongdoers ...

Outdoor Inquiries: Taking Science Investigations Outside the Classroom
Patricia McGlashan, Kristen Gasser, ...

Heinemann, 2007

What If? Classic Volume 5 TPB (What If Classic Volume 5)
Mary Jo Duffy, Michael Fleisher, ...

Marvel Comics, 2009

The fifth installment of alternate-Earth action! The Phoenix lived, but the Hulk died! The Avengers take on the world, but Korvac destroys it! Plus: Eternals; Inhumans; and gods, gods, gods! Featuring Daredevil, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.! What If? #27-32

Memories of a Ballplayer: Bill Werber and Baseball in the 1930s (Society for American Baseball Research)

3 reviews
Bill Werber, C. Paul Rogers

Society for American Baseball Research, 2000

Another time, another place...
Bill Werber shares his experiences and remembrances of playing the National pastime in the 1930's. It was an era that is difficult for modern fans to imagine. Thanks to the memories of Werber and the skill of co-author Paul Rogers at detailing them, the life of a ballpayer pre-intercontinental travel, airplanes, multi year contracts and night games comes alive for the reader. Werber was somewhat ...

The Incredible Hulk vs. The Marvel Universe
Stan Lee, Roger McKenzie, ...

Marvel Comics, 2008

Before World War Hulk, before Planet Hulk, the Green Goliath spent years fighting the finest the Marvel Universe has to offer! Hulk vs. the Thing! Hulk vs. Thor! Hulk vs. the Silver Surfer, Wolverine, and more! Whether facing a tag-team match from the Fantastic Four and the Avengers or going one-and-one against Spider-Man and Daredevil, the Incredible Hulk's the strongest one there is no matter who his opponents are! Also featuring the X-Men and ...

Essential Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man, Vol. 2 (Marvel Essentials)

2 reviews
Bill Mantlo, Tom DeFalco, ...

Marvel Comics, 2006

CARRONE
THIS ESSENTIAL PETER PARKER, THE SPECTACULAR SPIDER-MAN WAS ONE OF THE BETTER VOL. OF STORYS THAT I HAVE READ IN SO TIME. WHEN WAS YOUNGER I HAD STOP READING SPIDER-MAN STORYS, THIS KIND OF BRING ME BACK TO THE 80'S.

Working With Men's Groups
Roger Karsk, Bill Thomas

Whole Person Associates, 1995

Help men strengthen their relationships, deal with conflicts, and become better partners and parents. Encourage men to open up by using structured exercises developed to engage them in powerful self-exploration and personal discovery.

Essential Doctor Strange Volume 4 TPB (Essential)
Roger Stern, Don McGregor, ...

Marvel Comics, 2009

Dormammu, Ikonn, Tiboro, Ningal, the Dweller in Darkness, names to conjure with - literally! Yet, they're only a few of the occult enemies who confront Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, challenged by Baron Mordo, the Eye Killers, and sorcerers from across the world and throughout the dimensions! Weirdness awaits in the Realm of the Shadowqueen and an unfallen Roman Empire, but with Nightmare and D'Spayre around, the human psyche may be the ...

Essential Marvel Two-In-One, Vol. 2 (Marvel Essentials)

3 reviews
Marv Wolfman, Roger Slifer, ...

Marvel Comics, 2007

The next chapter in a great collection of stories.
Marvel Two-In-One was an opportunity for Marvel to continue on the "Team-Up" bandwagon of the 70s using The Thing as the stable character throughout. While the first volume of this collection dealt mostly with one-shot stories, this second volume picks up as the series had started to catch its stride. There are several stories that spread out over multiple issues, and we see the inclusion of such ...

Business @ the Speed of Thought : Using a Digital Nervous System

149 reviews
Bill Gates

Hachette Audio, 1999

The Bible: by Bill Gates.
I have been a software engineer for over 10 years now and have been a paperless office evangelist from the get go. Bill Gates takes you not only into the inner workings of his passion, the "Digital Nervous System" but also some of the inner workings of Microsoft® and the business model of Dell® computers. I love Microsoft® and their technologies and I have read everyhting that I can possibly ...

Tales from the San Francisco 49ers Sideline

6 reviews
Roger Craig

Sports Publishing LLC, 2004

Great read.........
Being an avid Niner fan, I was pleased to come across this book. I grew up watching the Niners during the dynasty days in San Francisco. This book gave me some great insight and brought back some wonderful memories from one of the best teams of all time. Roger Craig proves to be a fantastic story teller, and his passion for the game, and the Niners, comes through in this collection of stories. ...

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