The Star Wars Trilogy, Episodes IV, V & VI

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Luke Skywalker dreamed of advantues out among the stars and alien worlds. But when he intercepted a message from a beautiful captive princess, he got more than he had bargained for--and that was how the adventure of his life began....

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"That's the second time you've mentioned a 'Force.'".......2007-07-13

This neat little anthology contains all three of the original STAR WARS novels---STAR WARS, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, and THE RETURN OF THE JEDI. Given the glutinous mass of material that's grown up around STAR WARS (now numbering tens of thousands of items in every media category and form of product, and an entire "Expanded Universe" beyond the six theatrical films) it is amazing to think that STAR WARS all began with one script treatment turned into a novel.

I recall reading it while sitting in the Orlando airport on my way back from Disney World on my seventeenth birthday, just before the movie opened and formally introduced us to Darth Vader, Han Solo, Luke, Leia, See Threepio and Artoo Detoo. At first I thought the cover blurb, "Luke, armed only with his father's light saber" meant a cavalry weapon.

Sci-Fi pulp fiction yes, but these are still the best STAR WARS stories, and if they've become overly familiar, it's only because they've become so much a part of our popular culture. Having all three books in one volume is like having your cake and eating it, too.

So, if you've never read the original trilogy do so. And if you read it a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (that would be the Carter and Reagan Administrations), read it again. IV, V, and VI---hah! They're still numero uno in that world.

If you've got nothing else to do, pick it up..........2007-02-02

This book lets you experience the adventures of the Star Wars movies for yourself without a director's interference. That's the fun part about it--but don't expect some new revelations on characters you've known for 30 years.

It's a fun read if you're yearning to see some familiar characters.

the review on one of the world's most popular saga.......2006-10-24

every saga has a beginning. like "STAR WARS" a saga is a series. "STAR WARS" began with Episode I THE PHANTOM MENACE and ended with Episode VI RETURN OF THE JEDI but the film was connected from episodes I-VI by episode III REVENGE OF THE SITH. the worlds shortest episode is Episode IV A NEW HOPE and the worlds longest is Episode II ATTACK OF THE CLONES if you watched this 6-12 hour saga, you will foolow the story.

Star Wars... the book.......2006-09-08

Callenging to me because I'm not that good at reading. I really liked the story line.
It is an action story. I would change the price to a lower price
so I could buy another book.

interesting look into back story.......2006-07-19

I would recommend these for any fan. Some interesting insights into the films. The prologue to A New Hope has a two page write up that describes the back story for all the prequels. You'll also find some conflicts with the prequels ie, Luke's uncle is said to be Obi-wan's brother and Anakin's unnamed wife lived after Luke and Leia's birth.

The Complete Star Wars Trilogy Scrapbook: An Out of This World Guide to Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi (Star Wars Series)

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Easy reading for a young star wars fan but..
Small book BIG memories! A real Star Wars scrapbook
Very Good!
Pretty Good
I agree with JakeH

The Complete Star Wars Trilogy Scrapbook: An Out of This World Guide to Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi (Star Wars Series)
Mark Cotta Vaz
Manufacturer: Scholastic
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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The Visual Dictionary of Star Wars, Episodes IV, V, & VI: The Ultimate Guide to Star Wars Characters and Creatures

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Do you know your dewbacks from your banthas? Could you tell the difference between a stormtrooper, a scouttrooper, and a snowtrooper? Could you pick a Rodian out of a lineup? The Complete Star Wars Trilogy Scrapbook can help you acquire this vital information. Illustrations and over a hundred photographs from the original trilogy help you put names to faces--so you'll know that Salacious Crumb is the name of that tiny, cackling animal at Jabba's court. Though the book contains an abridged version of the events covered in the Star Wars trilogy, readers should be advised to see the films first as the book discloses crucial secrets best left to the film to reveal. The book is aimed at younger readers--but SW fans of all ages will enjoy this photo-filled volume. --C.B. Delaney

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Easy reading for a young star wars fan but.........2007-04-11

My 7 year old son is a Star Wars fan, I bought this book for his reading practice taking advantage of one of his favorite movies and the continuos interest of knowing about movie facts. I rated three stars because the print out has a lack of quality which makes reading a little bit difficult because of gray letters over a black background. Besides this small drawback he enjoyed very much. My recommendations is to look forward similar scrapbooks with a clearer reading.

Small book BIG memories! A real Star Wars scrapbook.......2005-08-12

Ok yes it has great pictures. Yes it covers Episodes IV, V, and VI. Glossy pictures (some I haven't seen anywhere else) and nice tidbits of background lore. It even alludes to Episodes I, II, and III. It says ages 9-12 but I even liked it (ok 44 year old Sci-fi fan). A real bargain for the price and a nice summary of the Trilogy. I would put it up there with the Star Wars Visual Dictionaries for the pictures. For the price you can check it out but I bet you will be glad you did. As always I love Amazon's packing. My stuff always arrives in great shape - they care. It really is a cool little book. As a gift I think any Star Wars fan would really enjoy it (no matter their age). Peace on.

Very Good!.......2002-03-22

I loved this book very much, and I was surprised how much information it gives you. I love Mark Cotta Vaz and I read his decription books. The book is exellent exept for one thing, it is not very detailed. It has the best pictures from the Star Wars Special Edition and it covers everything. I would definatly recommend this book.

Pretty Good.......1998-04-24

This book is a great starter book for the ameture Star Wars fan. It has great detailed pictures and gives a good amount of info of different things that exist in the Star Wars universe. If you want a lot on info (instead of pictures) get The Guide to the Star Wars Universe. I'd rate it 9.9 it's not perfect but it's about as close as you can get! Still if you want picture, get this book.

I agree with JakeH.......1997-04-27

I very much agree with JakeH. He is actually the one who got me the book as a birthday gift. It has photos and fairly detailed discriptions

The Star Wars Trilogy: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi

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The Star Wars Trilogy: A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi
George Lucas , Donald F. Glut , and James Kahn
Manufacturer: Bantam Doubleday Dell
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3 Titles From The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition : Star Wars... The Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi/A New Hope

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3 Titles From The Star Wars Trilogy Special Edition : Star Wars... The Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi/A New Hope
George Lucas , James Kahn , and Donald Glut
Manufacturer: Del Rey
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The First Ten Years - Star Wars Movie Storybook Trilogy - Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi

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The First Ten Years - Star Wars Movie Storybook Trilogy - Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi

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Star Wars Trilogy Original Movie Scripts Collector's Edition/ Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars Trilogy Orignal Movie Scripts)

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Star Wars Trilogy Original Movie Scripts Collector's Edition/ Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, The Empire Strikes Back (Star Wars Trilogy Orignal Movie Scripts)

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3 Large Softcover books in Hardcover Box Set with the original movie scripts for the following: Star Wars, Return of the Jedi, & The Empire Strikes back. Collector's Edition, Premiere the movie magazine, & the Movie script library

Star Wars: Trilogy (classic Star Wars: Star Wars: A New Hope; The Empire Strikes Back; Return Of The Jedi)

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Star Wars: Trilogy (classic Star Wars: Star Wars: A New Hope; The Empire Strikes Back; Return Of The Jedi)
Stan Shank
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The Complete Star Wars Trilogy Scrapbook: An Out of This World Guide to Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi

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The Complete Star Wars Trilogy Scrapbook: An Out of This World Guide to Star Wars, the Empire Strikes Back, and Return of the Jedi
Mark Cotta Vaz
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The Star Wars Trilogy, A Special Omnibus Edition - Star Wars; The Empire Strikes Back; Return Of The Jedi

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The Star Wars Trilogy, A Special Omnibus Edition - Star Wars; The Empire Strikes Back; Return Of The Jedi
George - Star Wars; Glut, Donald F. - Empire; Kahn, James - Jedi Lucas
Manufacturer: Del Rey/Ballantine
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ASIN: B000RIYXVM

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Falsely accused of murder, the seduced and abandoned heroine of this powerful drama ultimately finds forgiveness and reconciliation. Czech composer Leos Janácek set Jenufa in a village of his native Moravia; 8 years in the making, it premiered in Prague in 1916, where it was an instant success and remains a popular favorite around the world.

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Warning, Libretto not in English.......2005-09-08

Despite the Description in the Amazon listing, the text of the opera is in Czech and German, not in English.

Janácek Studies (Cambridge Composer Studies)

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Janácek Studies (Cambridge Composer Studies)

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This is the first major set of essays on the Czech composer Leos Janá^Dvcek, widely considered one of the most important composers of the early twentieth century. The essays deal with a range of subjects relating to opera, symphonic poem, instrumental music, cultural context, reception, and Janá^Dvcek as music theorist and analyst. Some topics, such as the sources of his musical expressivity, narrative, and Jan^Dvacek as musical analyst and realist have hitherto received little attention, while other, more conventional topics, such as "speech melody" and Janá^Dvcek's ethnographic activities, are reappraised.

Czech Piano Music: 42 Works by Dussek, Smetana, Dvorak, Janacek and Martinu

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Czech Piano Music: 42 Works by Dussek, Smetana, Dvorak, Janacek and Martinu

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Music of great beauty, charm and simplicity, reproduced from authoritative European editions. Dussek’s Leaving for Syria; Bohemian dances and polkas by Smetana; seven pieces from Dvorák’s Poetic Tone Pictures; On an Overgrown Path by Leos Janácek; complete Puppets, Books I and II, by Bohuslav Martinu.

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Good reference material. BUT...
It's not all there......
A must buy book about DB2 Clusters

DB2 Cluster Certification Guide, The
Jonathan Cook , Calene Janacek , and Dwaine Snow
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Good reference material. BUT..........2002-01-11

This is a useful reference manual. However, it doesn't appear to be as tailored to the cluster exams as it might claim.

Also -- and more painfully, IMO -- this book STILL uses concepts as of version 5. It's 2002 and the book hasn't been updated from 1998 principles. That's an eternity in this business! Nevertheless, many of the same concepts apply, but it is still in desperate need of a revision to include UDB V7.

It's not all there.............2001-11-17

After pouring over the book, and practicing the test questions over and over, I still did not pass the certification. I found that a great number of the questions asked during the certification were NOT covered in the book. The sample questions did not address the many SQL and EXPLAIN questions on the certification exam. It would be nice to not only have the answers to the sample questions, but also the "why is this the correct answer" information as well. Since this book was written with the knowledge of IBM, why didn't the authors provide a representative sample of ALL of the certification test questions, instead of just a few? The certification test is broken into several groups. While the book identifies these sections, it does not organize the questions in the same fashion.

The book appears to be a rehash of the IBM EEE class that is still being taught today. Also, the current level of DB2 is 7.2, the book is written to version 5.

On the plus side, it is the only book for DB2 EEE certification.

A must buy book about DB2 Clusters.......1998-10-13

There are no other books on the market quite like this one. Although geared towards DB2 Cluster Certification this book also offers the reader a lot of readable informatiuon on setting up a clustered DB2 enviroment.

It is very well laid out and an easy read. It expects a certain amount of understanding of DB2 UDB already, however, there is a lot of detailed information as and when required to help you along.

No serious DB2 Developer/DBA/Consultant should be without this book if they wish to understand how DB2 EEE works and can be configured.

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Leos Janácek met Kamila Stösslová in 1917, when he was 63 and she was 25. She--not his wife of nearly 50 years--was the Czech composer's great love. Janácek's passion for Stösslová coincided with the astonishing artistic flowering of his last decade, and he considered her the inspiration for several works, especially Kát'a Kabanová and the String Quartet No. 2 ("Intimate Letters"). Since both were married to others and lived in different cities, they interacted largely through their correspondence, which provides an incomparable view of one of the 20th century's quirkiest and most rewarding composers.

Janácek's letters are filled with an ebullient poetry; he invented fanciful metaphors--to describe Kamila's breasts, his loneliness--and wove variations on them in letter after letter. (Selections from Stösslová's few surviving letters are interspersed; Janácek burned most, at her request.) After the relationship became more intimate in 1927, he wrote almost daily and his language grew rapturous. He refers to her as his wife or imagines that she's pregnant (though they evidently never consummated the "marriage").

While holding to the busy schedule of an increasingly famous composer, he was more and more obsessed with Stösslová. Janácek's late music jumps with restless invention from one theme to another; it's not hard to observe a similar habit of mind here, as he shifts from Wagnerian flights of ecstasy to fussy advice about Kamila's health. Janácek scholar John Tyrrell, who edited the memoirs of the composer's wife, My Life with Janácek, provides illuminating editorial guidance. --David Olivenbaum

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These are the letters of a great love story. In 1917, the Czech composer Leos Jancek met Kamila Stsslov while on holiday at Luhacovice, a spa resort in Moravia. He was sixty-three and locked in a loveless marriage; she was twenty-six, the wife of an antique dealer frequently away from home. After the holiday, Jancek began writing to Stsslov. Undeterred by her lack of interest in his work and her spasmodic replies, he continued to send her letters until his death eleven years later. An extraordinarily self- revealing portrait emerges of an isolated artist at the height of his creative powers and the beginning of his international fame. It is also a portrait of a lonely man who, as the years went by, came to fantasize about Stsslov as his true "wife"--the inspiration for many of the works of his old age. Most of these letters were suppressed until changing conditions in Czechoslovakia allowed their full publication in 1990. John Tyrrell has edited and translated a comprehensive selection, concentrating on the almost daily letters of the final eighteen months. Supported by a diary of meetings between Jancek and Stsslov, a decoding of the erotic references in the letters, and a selection of mostly unknown photographs, this remarkable book breathes life into the story one of the greatest of operatic composers and provides vital clues to the nature of his creative genius.

Janacek As Theorist (Studies in Czech Music, No 3)

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Janacek As Theorist (Studies in Czech Music, No 3)
Michael Beckerman
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The case for speech melodies, reopened.: An article from: Czech Music

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The case for speech melodies, reopened.: An article from: Czech Music
Jonathan G. Secora Pearl
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Release Date: 2005-07-31

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Title: The case for speech melodies, reopened.
Author: Jonathan G. Secora Pearl
Publication: Czech Music (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Czech Music Information
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Every era has to give new substance to the ritual: an interview with Milos Stedron.(Cover Story) : An article from: Czech Music

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Every era has to give new substance to the ritual: an interview with Milos Stedron.(Cover Story) : An article from: Czech Music
Miroslav Balastik
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Release Date: 2005-11-09

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Title: Every era has to give new substance to the ritual: an interview with Milos Stedron.(Cover Story)
Author: Miroslav Balastik
Publication: Czech Music (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2005
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Issue: 3 Page: 2(8)

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Gabriela Benackova--Jenufa, Nadezda Kniplova--Kostelnicka, Vilem Pribyl--Laca, Vladimir Krejcik--Steva, Choir and Opera of the Janacek Theatre in Brno, ... review): An article from: Czech Music

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Gabriela Benackova--Jenufa, Nadezda Kniplova--Kostelnicka, Vilem Pribyl--Laca, Vladimir Krejcik--Steva, Choir and Opera of the Janacek Theatre in Brno, ... review): An article from: Czech Music
Eva Velicka
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Release Date: 2007-01-10

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This digital document is an article from Czech Music, published by Thomson Gale on October 1, 2006. The length of the article is 450 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Gabriela Benackova--Jenufa, Nadezda Kniplova--Kostelnicka, Vilem Pribyl--Laca, Vladimir Krejcik--Steva, Choir and Opera of the Janacek Theatre in Brno, Josef Pancik--choir conductor, Frantisek Jilek--conductor.(Jenufa)(Sound recording review)
Author: Eva Velicka
Publication: Czech Music (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2006
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Issue: 4 Page: 44(1)

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Janacek Studies.(Review) (book review): An article from: Notes

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Janacek Studies.(Review) (book review): An article from: Notes
Mark Audus
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Title: Janacek Studies.(Review) (book review)
Author: Mark Audus
Publication: Notes (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2000
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