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Excalibur Classic, Vol. 3: Cross Time Caper, Book 1 (X-Men)
Chris Claremont , Alan Davis , Dennis Jensen , Rick Leonardi , and Ron Lim Manufacturer: Marvel Comics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0785122028 |
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England's premier super-team takes their show on the road as their interdimensional odyssey begins, leaving their earthly enemies to the tenacious Technet! Plus: From the pages of Captain Britain's original series, see Jamie Braddock at the beginning of his reality-wrecking career! Guest-starring nearly every hero and villain in the Marvel Universe - or very unreasonable facsimiles thereof! Magic, manga and more await within! Collects Excalibur #12-20.Customer Reviews:
Giving Claremont a second look, for lack of anything better to do.......2007-02-25
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Jill Oxton's Cross Stitch Australia - Vol. 1, No. 2
Oxton Jill Manufacturer: Jill Oxton Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0646056727 |
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15 DESIGNS -- Includes full-size B&W and/or B&W & Red charts. Charts included in these issues include flowers, animals, Australian scenes and themes, etc. Projects included in these magazines include: pictures, card inserts, clocks, ornaments, miniatures, alphabets, bags, bookmarks, and many others. This issue includes: , Gum Nut , Grevillea , Native Orchids , Autumn Leaves , Hibiscus , Lobelia and Campanula , Red Flowering Gum , Quandong , Toadstools , Sturt's Desert Pea , Jonquils , Archway , Kangaroo Paw , Steps , Dutch Iris Also includes the following: Organize your Thread (Part II).
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Cross Vol. 1 (Cross)
Sumiko Amakawa Manufacturer: TokyoPop ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1595322272 |
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*English adaptation by comic legend Len Wein (creator of Swamp Thing, writer for the New X-Men series) *Appeals to fans of CLAMP's Tokyo BabylonA young Catholic priest, named Amakusa Takara, uses his holy gift to exorcise demons. He is blessed and cursed with the ability to produce a cross from his forehead to banish demons back to where they belong... the abyss of outer darkness. Although the process brings him close to the brink of insanity and physical pain, a fated meeting with a mysterious girl may make his path easier to traverse.
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hm..............2006-04-10
Wow!!!!!.......2005-01-18
Ooooo nice..........2004-12-27
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Ghost Rider: The Most Supernatural Superhero of All!: Fearsome First Issue! Now in His Own Mind-Bending Magazine Because You Demanded It!: Wanted, Dead and Alive!: Police Line, Do Not Cross (201S02900, Vol. 1, No.1, September 1973)
Stan Lee , and Gary Friedrich Manufacturer: Marvel Comics Group ProductGroup: Book Binding: Comic ASIN: 1201029007 |
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Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-linguistic Perspectives -- Volume 2: Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0805813500 |
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Universal Grammar (UG) is a theory of both the fundamental principles for all possible languages and the language faculty in the "initial state" of the human organism. These two volumes approach the study of UG by joint, tightly linked studies of both linguistic theory and human competence for language acquisition. In particular, the volumes collect comparable studies across a number of different languages, carefully analyzed by a wide range of international scholars.
The issues surrounding cross-linguistic variation in "Heads, Projections, and Learnability" (Volume 1) and in "Binding, Dependencies, and Learnability" (Volume 2) are arguably the most fundamental in UG. How can principles of grammar be learned by general learning theory? What is biologically programmed in the human species in order to guarantee their learnability? What is the true linguistic representation for these areas of language knowledge? What universals exist across languages?
The two volumes summarize the most critical current proposals in each area, and offer both theoretical and empirical evidence bearing on them. Research on first language acquisition and formal learnability theory is placed at the center of debates relative to linguistic theory in each area. The convergence of research across several different disciplines -- linguistics, developmental psychology, and computer science -- represented in these volumes provides a paradigm example of cognitive science.
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Colorado Hut to Hut Vol. 1
Brian Litz Manufacturer: Westcliffe Publishers ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1565793846 |
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Great hut book.......2006-11-14
Wonderful descriptions with color pictures and maps.......2001-04-10
Vol. 2 (this book)covers the San Juan Mountains and Crested Butte Area in 31 trips and 232 pages. See also volume 1, which covers Northern & Central Colorado, including 10th Mountain system.
Wonderful descriptions with color pictures and maps.......2001-04-10
Vol. 1 covers Northern & Central Colorado, including 10th Mountain system. See also volume 2 of this book (San Juan Mountains)
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Handbook of Cross-Cultural Psychology: Perspectives Vol 1. 1St-Vol of 6 Vol Set
Harry C. Triandis Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0205064973 |
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(3 offprints). Includes: YUAN, & J. C. BRISSON, et al. “Measurements on the ?±-p Total Scattering Cross Sections in the Energy Range of 0.4 to 1.5 Bev.” Offprint from: Physical Review Letters, vol. 3, no. 12, Dec. 15, 1959.
Luke C. L. YUAN Manufacturer: Physical Review Letters ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000TOVISU |
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Black Cross Red Star: Air War Over the Eastern Front. Vol. 1: Operation Barbarossa, 1941
Christer, and Mikhailov, Andrey Bergstrom Manufacturer: Pacifica ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: B000TC6HTW |
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This spectacular edition demands a reprint! .......2007-08-17
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Black Cross/Red Star : Vol. 1, Operation Barbarossa 1941
Christer Bergstrom , and Andrey Mikhailov Manufacturer: Pacifica Press (CA) ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0935553487 |
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Yet another opinion.......2005-09-27
Could have been a great book... .......2005-03-18
Very Good...But Needs to Examine Larger Scale.......2002-08-05
One aspect of the book which is both a plus and minus is the authors emphasize the microscale aspects of the Eastern Front air war. They provide great detail about the air operations of small scale units or individual pilots and what life was like to be a German of Russian flyer over Russia. But the effects of these operations on the larger scale are somewhat neglected. One wishes more discussions were directed as to how large scale bomber operations affected the ground battles. More could have been written concerning the German attempt to develop a strategic bombing campaign, especially against Moscow. In fact, I would have liked to see more discussions concerning the effects of German bomber and dive bomber operations in general since this is what proves most decisive in any offensive. The authors definitely have a pro-fighter bias, which is the main reason I did not give it 5 stars.
A Semi-contrarian View.......2002-04-19
The material and perspective are unique. It is a serious attempt at a two sided account of the Soviet-German air war on the Eastern front in WWII, in contrast to previous detailed and even scholarly but still mainly one sided acccounts from the Axis perspective and excepting Soviet propaganda, a few post-Soviet Russian oral histories (eg. Loza's "Attack of the Airacobras"). The Soviet photo's, poor reproductions though they are, could alone make this an important book.
But I was somewhat disappointed given all the 5-stars. This book isn't comparable to the best air combat histories I've read, John Lundstrom's books on US-Japan carrier fighter combat in 1942, and falls short of other excellent WWII air combat accounts as well (Ford's "Flying Tigers", Bartsch's "Doomed at the Start", or the many works of Cull, Shores and Franks).
Even though the authors promise, I believe, 6 volumes to tell the story of the Eastern Front air war, even June-Dec '41 is too much to cover in detail in the relatively short length.
The other authors I mentioned didn't have to deal with the massive scale of the Russo-German air war, and perhaps a 1000 page Volume 1 was not realistic, but still I could at least imagine a better way to address the large scope of the subject.
Perhaps only some detailed accounts would be given for flavor (and perhaps this is the intention) but if so this would better have been done in the framework of more complete consistent and clearly presented aggregate statistics (changing orders of battle, strengths, claims and losses). Complete omission of the Finnish effort is another casualty of too much ground to cover.
The narrative seems to have a split personality sometimes, perhaps between the authors? Certain passages and accounts have a decidedly pro-Soviet tone somewhat at odds with expectation in a neutral account. It often seems important to establish at length that there were many brave and some highly skilled Soviet fighter pilots though that might be assumed, and the limited statistics given don't really challenge the conventional negative characterization of 1941 Russian fighter effectiveness. Where detailed accounts are given, it's not always clear that the claims especially of decorated Soviet pilots and elite Russian units are scrutinized as much as possible compared with available German loss records.
The footnoting and source listing is limited if one would consider further independent research.
One can better understand the book with previous knowledge or an accompanying source on the ground campaign.
This is probably the best book to have appeared on its particular subject, I just hope it's not the last word. Based on V.1 I'll probably buy V.2, but not an immediate must-buy.
Sheds Much New Light on the War in the East.......2001-09-18
The book is organized in 31 short chapters, which generally cover a specific area and period in the campaign, like air operations over the Baltic States in July-August 1941. There are three introductory chapters that cover the doctrine, training, tactics and equipment of both the German Luftwaffe and the Soviet VVS. Numerous relevant photographs, many of which have not been published before, enrich each chapter. Additionally, there are six maps and six excellent appendices (Luftwaffe and VVS organization, orders of battle, rank structure and awards). Chapters usually begin with an operational overview of ground operations and objectives in a given area, followed by accounts of air actions in that area on a virtual day-by-day basis. First hand accounts are used to describe fighter engagements and bomber attacks.
The first day of Operation Barbarossa is covered in great detail, much more than I have seen anywhere else. Although there are digressions on minor theaters of action, such as the Siege of Odessa and the Arctic Front, most of the focus is on the three main theaters of action, in north, central and south Russia. The authors skillfully weave together German and Soviet records to produce as objective an account of the air battles as possible. Some striking aspects of the book include the shockingly deficient level of Soviet pre-war flight training; many Soviet pilots went to front-line squadrons with only 10 flight hours accrued, versus an average of 250 hours for new Luftwaffe pilots. Soviet pilots were further disadvantaged by obsolete aircraft, faulty doctrine and lack of combat experience, whereas the German pilots had plenty of experience and flew excellent aircraft like the Me-109E. Anyone who wonders how the Luftwaffe could have so many pilots with 50 or more "kills" should read this books account of the slaughter of hundreds of Soviet bombers during the first weeks of war. The VVS seemed to have an endless supply of SB and DB-3 light bombers that it continued to send in broad daylight and without escort to attack German ground units. The Luftwaffe experten shot them down by the bushel. The VVS was also slow to disperse its aircraft and develop low-level defenses and consequently, Luftwaffe bombers continued to catch large numbers of Soviet aircraft on the ground even three weeks into the campaign. Other interesting aspects include details on the Soviet strategic raids on Berlin, the German strategic raids on Moscow and some industrial targets, and the Soviet predilection for "taran" (air-to-air ramming tactics). Soviet propaganda tended to exaggeration "taran" tactics, but the fact is that it was not unusual; on the first day of Barbarossa alone the Luftwaffe lost 14 aircraft to ramming.
Between June and December 1941, the Luftwaffe destroyed about 17,000 Soviet aircraft at a cost to themselves of 2,000 aircraft, but the Soviets were able to rebuild their air power in a short period despite these horrendous losses. The authors conclude, "the predominant tactical doctrine of the Luftwaffe and the lack of equipment to undertake a strategic bomber offensive proved to be the fatal flaws of Operation Barbarossa." Additionally, the authors cite the role of airpower as particularly decisive in the Moscow campaign, where the declining strength of the Luftwaffe and its ability to contribute effective air cover or ground support contributed to the German ground offensive running out of steam. Massive Soviet air reinforcements to the Moscow sector then tipped the balance and allowed the Soviet army to roll up the over-extended Germans. Finally, the Luftwaffe shifted air reinforcements to this sector from other areas and helped to prevent the collapse of ArmeeGruppe Center.
Black Cross/Red Star is an invaluable book for military historians and future volumes should add to its value. However this book is ill-suited for general readers who lack knowledge of the Eastern Front, since the book is loaded with German and Russian military jargon, and there is little discussion of wider aspects of the campaign (the participation of German allies such as Romania, Finland and Italy is mentioned only in cursory fashion). Readers familiar with the Eastern Front will find this book a feast of information which offers new perspectives on the Russo-German War.
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Healing Outside the Margins: The Survivor's Guide to Integrative Cancer Care
Carole O'Toole Manufacturer: LifeLine Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0895261936 |
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Helps you establish a plan using multiple treatments, and then evaluate the various therapies, physicians, and programs available.Customer Reviews:
Empowering and Respectful.......2002-06-09
Ms. O'Toole teaches us that we must trust our selves and our abilities in this process. For when we do, we make the best possible decisions for our lives. This book is a wonderful guide for those facing treatment as well as their loved ones.
a gift.......2002-04-19
Solid, well researched, and from the heart--indispensible!.......2002-04-15
What I especially appreciate is the author's emphasis on trusting your own intuition---and backing that up with succinct, well-organized information to facilitate rational decision-making in support of one's intuition. This book isn't just another nice book about a cancer experience; it's a well thought out resource to think through and make decisions on developing your complementary health care. Thank you, Carole O'Toole!
My favorite part of the book.......2002-04-14
Gives hope.......2002-04-12
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