Gillian Anderson Books

THIS BOOK IS GREAT, REALLY GOOD AND FUN TO READ IF YOU ARE AN X-FILES OR GILLIAN ANDERSON FAN. I HIGHLY RECOMAND THIS BOOK

Straight from the cutesy title that X-Philes know and love as one of Scully's trademark phrases, Mulder, it's Me really hits the spot. Gil Adamson and Dawn Connolly's biography about the amazing Gillian Anderson is extremely informative without being invasive of Ms. Anderson's privacy. The well-written fourteen-chapter biography is only the beginning of this stunning masterpiece - the book also includes candid interviews, a comprehensive episode guide of the first four seasons of The X-Files, a section on the 1996 Burbank convention by the renowned Autumn Tysko, a listing of internet resources, and 16 pages of color photos. Whether you are a newbie or a veteran fan, Mulder, it's Me: The Gillian Anderson Files is the must-have biography.

This is the best Gillian Anderson biography on shelves today. But this isn't just a biography, this book also includes television and radio interviews with answers to some of the most frequently asked questions. You get to find out what people did when Gillian Anderson appeared at the X-Files convention and what questions her fans asked. It also includes the speech she made in Washington D.C. for public awareness about Neurofibromatosis, the disease her younger brother has been diagnosed with. This book also includes great Gillian Anderson Internet sources and an X-File episode guide with all the shows from season one to the end of season four. But best of all, this book includes a great section of full page color photographs of Gillian. If you are a Gillian Anderson fan, you have to get this book!

This book is great for people who want t get all the facts and want awesome color Photos .I think Gillian is agreat person and Actress and this book helps you realize that.AS well as info there is a great X-files episode guide section.Many thanks to the athur and gillian for being the great actress she is.

This book has, well, everything you wanted to know about Gillian Anderson (Agent Dana Scully on the X-Files) and more! The colour photo's are excellent, as well as the black and white ones. Each chapter has a unique title, and very good detail into herself, her daughter, and her work. A must have for any Gillian Anderson fan.

This book is a must-read for any young lady that is interested in business. Clear and easy to read, it is filled with inspirational tales that will motivate your fledgling businesswoman. Highly recommended

This book is very easy to read. It has some great links to major associations that I will be looking into further. This is a book I will pass around to others, that need to know how to get started.

Girl Boss seriously changed my life. The book taught meeverything that I need to know about starting, my own buissness. Evenmy mom liked it! Buy this book if you want to work for yourself, become rich, and famous, or just want to earn some pocket change.

This book is a great roadmap for any woman interested in starting a new business. I could not stop reading it.

I always says GA is the best! ...and this calendars show me that...she is smart..and sexy! ..a wild combination! Buy this! ..is great!

Here's what I wrote on About.com about this book:

At nearly 900 pages, "Plates, Plumes, and Paradigms" is the size of a phone book, or a bible. Having followed the research on its subject for the last decade, I am inclined to think of "P3" as a bible that sets forth the next stage of plate tectonics. Every geology library should have it, and every wide-minded geologist and ambitious graduate student should consider it.

Plate tectonics is geology's primary theory of the Earth. A handful of core elements account for its sweeping success in explaining the configuration and dynamics of the lithosphere--the continents and oceans, gross patterns of topography today and the tectonic forces that have dominated the last 2 billion years or so. When these elements of plate tectonics were formalized in the 1960s, among other things they made sudden sense of almost all the world's volcanism.

Except for the leftover "hotspot" volcanoes. These lie within the plates, away from the active edges where other volcanoes cluster. The textbook examples are the Hawaiian island chain in the mid-Pacific and the line of extinct volcanoes that ends in the Yellowstone region in North America. Soon a plausible hypothesis arose: these volcanic lines are the trails made by plumes of hot material rising from fixed spots deep in the Earth's rocky mantle, perhaps from its very base at the edge of the iron core. The hot spots leave trails of volcanoes as the plates move above them, like ink blots and scribbles left on a moving page from a fixed pen. The hotspot or plume hypothesis was born.

The editors of "Plumes, Plates, and Paradigms" make a good case that the hotspot/plume theorists have spent the last 35 years in a blind alley. They do this through 47 papers that (1) undermine plumes, (2) rethink the possibilities in plates, and (3) attack the mental inertia of the paradigm. After a while one gets the unsettling idea that generations of geoscientists, beguiled by a beautiful but inadequate hypothesis, have taken neither plumes nor plates seriously enough.

Plumes Undermined: The original hotspot theory has morphed over the years. It was first elaborated upon, for instance, to explain another mystery--great bodies of lava known as the oceanic plateaus and the continental flood basalts--with a model involving hot plumes of molten rock. Later still the plumes were allowed to wave and shift in the "mantle wind" and to flow sideways as far as needed. The editors of P3 argue that the constant dodging and weaving of plume theory over the years has left it without power or integrity today. They demonstrate a steady record of failure in plume theory's predictions: hotspots are not hot and not fixed; plume heads are not preceded by large swells; plume trails are not orderly successions; plumes are not seen in the deep mantle; plume heads and plume tails do not match up. And progress in mantle studies has displaced the initial assumptions behind plumes.

Plates Reconsidered: Too many modelers have operated with outdated ideas about plate tectonics and the Earth's structure: that plates are rigid and strong, propelled by convection from below; that the mantle beneath is arranged in neat layers of well-mixed rocks; that heat from below forces the mantle into upwellings. It seems we need to recognize a few more core elements of plate tectonics. If one looks seriously for plate-based explanations of hotspot volcanism, they can be found in the interactions of a heterogeneous "plate graveyard" mantle on the verge of melting and a downwelling-based lithospheric cycle. These possibilities are treated in detail at many specific hotspots (more neutrally called "melting anomalies").

A Paradigm Punctured: Paradigms are bodies of accepted evidence, tightly bound together by theory and underlying assumptions, that are shared by communities of scientists. They can keep the community in efficient coordination, giving everyone a common language and program, or they can go awry in groupthink. Newtonian physics is at the one end; the scientific creationism that met its end in the 1900s is at the other. Paradigms can withstand a great deal of contrary evidence and weaknesses in theory until their assumptions must be changed; that's human nature and it can be irrational. Papers by William Glen and by Don Anderson and James Natland are uniquely valuable in tracing the history of plume theory, its hardening into a "quasi-paradigm" and its response to critics (or lack thereof).

The question of plumes versus plates is not just a wrangle among scientific geeks. This problem is a linchpin in understanding the gross structure of the mantle, its thermal and chemical development, and the history of Earth itself. The thesis of P3 is that in our twin quests to explain Earth's surface geologic details and to explore its deep geophysical framework, plumes now obscure more than they enlighten.

Skillful work by P3's four editors (Anderson, Natland, Gillian Foulger and Dean Presnall) has ensured a polemic edge and clarity of expression throughout the book. The articles are unusually clear for nonspecialist readers, a valuable feature because deep-Earth studies are cross-disciplinary projects. The production is first-rate, with good paper and deft use of color. And the copious reference lists are a ready road into the literature, some of it long overlooked. Although much of this material is presented in scattered or preliminary form on the remarkable mantleplumes.org Web site, there is no substitute for the book format in putting it all together in the detail and rigor readers need for full understanding.

"Plates, Plumes, and Paradigms" is a major milestone in planetary science. For graduate students and professionals with a deep interest in plate tectonics, it is instantly essential. For other readers--undergraduates, analysts, and rare members of the lay public--mastering it will be a long-term undertaking. But Earth will abide, and P3 will be seminal and relevant for many years to come.

Buy it! They put it in a folded cardbroad box,and put it in plastic bag then they fold and plastic to fit around the magazine. It's in great shape to, it hight price to pay but I think it is worth it.

I was excited to know that there was another X-files book make by Kevin Anderson because I love how well he writes his novels.

I was disappointed when I finished the book. Here are the positives and the negatives I found.

On the positive side it was detailed.

On the negative side I found that the main plot of the story seemed a long way away from what was happening. I felt lost and confused at the end.

I really wish that it had not been drawn out so much. I understand that it was meant to build suspense but I didn't understand anything until the last seventy pages.

If you are going to read Kevin J. Anderson's novels read: "The X-files Antibodies

I enjoyed this book but i thought i could have been better. While reading this book i felt like Mulder was left out alot. But the book kept my attention. Although i thought it could have been better i reccomend this book.

Now having read 7 books either written or co-written by Kevin J. Anderson,(3 Star Wars, 3 X-Files and 1 Dune) I can say that the man has good ideas, I just don't think that his writing is all that absorbing. As with his Star Wars books, his X-Files books never quite ring true of the characters. As for the cases, they are pretty good, but it isn't Mulder and Scully who are chasing down the monsters. Of all the new X-Files books, Charles Grant's "Whirlwind" nails the characters of Mulder and Scully, but the case isn't particularly involving.

Of the three X-Files novelizations by Kevin J. Anderson, I think I like this one best. The plot is fast-paced and the story line is mysterious.

It's a shame that there are only a few X-Files novelizations by Anderson and other authors. I loved the show and am just discovering these books.

Now, it's too bad there aren't any "Millennium" novelizations!

This is a review of the audiobook version of Ground Zero by Kevin Anderson read by Gillian Anderson.
Set against the world of government sponsored nuclear weapons research , Ground Zero has agents Mulder and Scully investigating the death of a researcher who is blown to bits - but the rest of his office is intact. There is no known personal sized nuke- so what happened? The audiobook is read by Gillian Anderson , and the abridgement has the focus on Scully's part of the investigation and the unlikely supernatural conclusion that takes the agents to the south pacific and the site of a planned above ground test of a new super weapon.
Anderson's reading is great! I got a good chuckle out of her comments about how that Mulder's theories were bound to be way out there and not grounded in science. Well paced, the book moves along with action and theory and some cool supernatural mysticism concerning a lost tribe , wiped out by an above ground nuclear test in the 50s and their long journey to retribution and vengeance from beyond......

I bought this thinking it was a life account of Guiliglon Anderson, famous Yukon dog sledder....Who is this chick anyway?

I think she is the coolest, smartest, prittyest person.
I love the show and want to meet her!
Gillian sounds very intelegent.

This book is great for those fans of the show who like both the character Scully and the actress who plays her (Gillian Anderson)! This book give a wonderful background of her life and of her work on the X-Files. A must read for any fan!

I already knew a lot about Gillian Anderson before I read this book, but it really made some of the information I knew more clear. I enjoyed it very much and would suggest it to any fan of Ms. Anderson. She's truly an amazing person!

Reading this book makes you actually think you know Gillian Anderson in person! It gives you the same amount of info on Gillian as it does X-Files. It also has many photos of Gillian. I recommend this book to all X-file fans!

I thought this book was great! I guess not because of it's format, but because it's about the greatest person alive!

I bought this book to get my first info about the woman behind Dana Scully, so it was all right. But it is rather short and a bit sketchy. Also, the writing is not especially good, the author repeats himself (he even repeats quotes) and often can't resist being a bit to dramatic (perhaps he always wanted to write a novel?). So, I'd say this is a good start, but if you already know a lot about G. Anderson, forget this book!

When I read this book, I already knew the basics about Gillian Anderson. It, however, only had the basics about her. It did not really give a lot of detail in some parts, and was a little confusing in others. I think the pictures section should have been in color, also. So, if you know a decent amount about GA, I do not reccomend this book. It would be all review to you. But, if you don't know much about Gillian Anderson, you should read it.

I found this book rather boreing because it had the information that I already knew from Tv reports and interviews but it did have its good points in the book.I just want to warn you if you are looking for gossip you want find it here, watch The interviews they give more info. Thanks but this wasn't a bad collectors book for the colored pitcures in it.

i read this book and she became my idol,i really admire her for not being affraid of being herself,and not giving in when people made fun of her.i also liked the part about when she goy a nose ring and had to walk sideways around her father or else her father would yell at her,cause im getting ready to get a nose ring.

What can I say about this book? Well, I can certainly say that all you Gillianites and Scullyphiles out there who want to know more about the hardworking actress will want to read this book. Subtract one star for being unauthorized, though.

Although this book lacks color photos like in the other recent Gillian Anderson book "The Anderson Files: Gillian Anderson Xposed", I like this one better. The biography gives information you are likely to see in the other book or in magazine articles, but that's okay. Included in this book is an episode review of all four seasons, among other extra tidbits. I especially enjoy the episode reviews. The author wrote them in a playful, realistic way, implying their own feelings about the invidual episode, and bringing up points I hadn't realized. I'm glad I paid the expensive price for this book

I enjoyed the book immensely, until I read "The Anderson Files" by Shapiro, and I found that many of the sentences were used from Shapiro's book, and this author was rather repetitive, she kept stating the fact that Anderson and co-star Duchovny got along. I think it was a rather light hearted book. It was a good book the first time I read it, but after reading Shapiros book about her, it kind of seemed childish. I did like the fact that she went into detail about trips Anderson took, and that Anderson was a good mother. I also like the chapters about her childhood.

Scully X-Posed is a fairly solid accounting of Gillian's Anderson's life, but not the best out there. It is rather loosely structured and has only a few black and white pictures. The reviews on the X-Files episodes in the back are funny and have some nice tidbits, but overall the book is just an average read.

this book is just so cool. all fanatics(like myself) must read this

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