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Pictures of the F-4C, F-4D, F-4E, and the RF-4C Phantoms in the ANG. High quality Phantom pictures in different paint schemes. Most photos are suitable for hanging on the wall.

Although there is no technical data of the F-4 in this book, the color photos of the Phantoms in this book are very nice.It shows the Phantoms final days in the late 80's. Very well done book. But if you really love the F-4, you should also buy "Spirit In The Skies" by Jon Lake.....it is by far the best Phantom book written to date.....I still recommend the book "Phantom Guardians" to any F-4 lover.

I really enjoyed this book. Although written 50 yrs ago, it is still timely and interesting. An original Philadelphian myself, I enjoyed the local references. I would highly recommended it.

AS SOMEONE BORN AND RAISED IN THE AREA, I CAN RELATE TO THIS STORY IN MORE WAYS THAN THOSE FROM OUTSIDE OF MAINLINE PHILADELPHIA BUT THE STORY IN AND OF ITSELF IT GREAT. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK.

I used this book as my primary source in an independent study I did in my Junior year of High School, entitled "Issues in Modern Urban Planning". It was absolutely indispensable. The case studies and the clear, logical, empirical approach to the matter broadened my perspective of the very real issues facing the modern world tremendously. I cheer Mr. Cullingworth for this fantastic tome.

A comprehensive review of the policies and problems of planning in the USA. Also of interest to studies of comparative politics. An excellent read.

this book by penny birch is a long line of the best erotic books available, most of her books follow the main character 'penny' as most 'nexus' books it has a background in submission and humiliation, but in these particular titles the author (penny birch) is not affraid of exploring the darkest of our fantsies, particularly knicker-wetting, which was until recentley a very underground fetish, it even has knicker-messing/panty-pooping in a couple of the titles, in my humble opinion penny birch is by far the best erotic author around, keep it up, and even more knicker-wetting/messing please.

When Penny refrains from having sex for a month, before she is due to leave university and reunite with her lover Amber, there seems no doubt their meeting will be a wild and passionate one. Unfortunately, Professor South has other plans and instructs Penny to set up a departmental field course in Brittany, delaying her return for a further three weeks. Annoyed and frustrated, but with no excuse, she accepts. Although, all is not lost, as she had the delectable Wendy, her recently graduated research student to play with. Don't worry though; Amber doesn't mind, in fact, she encourages it, if only to provide an excuse to punish her later...



When Penny rings Amber to tell her the bad news, Amber is disappointed to say the least. However, in an effort to strengthen the tension between them, Amber arranges an unexpected surprise, but will not reveal what it is. Knowing her, Penny suspects it's a sexual encounter of some sort, but who has been planted to substitute her needs? Is it the flirtatious couple, Natasha and Percy whose classic car has conveniently broken down? Or maybe it's the peeping Tom, who watches her and Wendy whilst they sunbathe with barely a stitch on?



A really dirty book, written as the author Penny Birch's alter ego. It will have you reading fast, curious to find out what happens next. I must admit, when the subject of peeing cropped up, for an instant, I wondered if I was the right person to read this book. However, it didn't put me off, I couldn't put it down, read it all, and with a satisfaction I can't explain, reached the end completely impressed. Tell a lie, I can explain. Penny Birch has the ability to write smut, albeit very good smut, with an intelligent, well crafted plot. If you are the adventurous type who can handle the highly erotic, submissive content -- do not miss this book! By the way, Percy's car is not the only classic I have to talk about. Plaything has now been re-released as a Nexus classic! Well done Penny! Keep up the good work! Another engaging and arousing read!

Knight continues putting out a fine historical murder mystery product. I hope that he has some books left in him. We are of an age that I hope so.

December 1194 and Crowner John is away from Exeter in his capacity as Coroner of all Devon. He is called to the remains of a shipwreck in Torbay, but not everything is as it seems. Bodies from the wreck have been found among the debris and some of them carry injuries not conducive to being drowned.

While Sir John is away with Gwyn his bodyguard and his clerk Thomas de Peyne, trouble is brewing in Exeter, a rape has been committed on Christina Rifford, the daughter of a rich merchant. Sir John returns to Exeter to find the city in uproar with accusations flying around from the families involved. Then just before she is due to be married Lady Adele de Courcy is found dead underneath a pile of rubbish in the poorest part of the City. She also appears to have suffered a sexual attack. Suddenly Sir John has most of the influential people of Exeter banging on his door for justice.

The common factor in both killings appears to be the silversmith, Godfrey Fitzosbern, who by chance is Crowner John's next door neighbour. Can john protect the man until the truth emerges . . .

Bernard Knight is a consummate writer of the medieval novel and this is as good as any he has written.

This is a wounderful fairy tail filled with imagination. As a small child I would study the pictures finding little details I didn't notice at first. The copy I have now was my mothers as a child, it was very worn when it was given to me - the sign of a good book. I'm now going to buy new copies to read to my children and pass the story along to them. It is a fairy tail- with fairies, no witches nothing that I remembered being scary, unlike some stories I've tried reading to my two year old. It is heartwarming, simple to read and understand. Fun to look at the pictures(in my old book, I hope to new one is the same).
In all a great story.

A Children' Lit. class at the University of British Columbia selected "Pookie" as our all time favorite pre-school book as remembered from childhood. Pookie, a little white rabbit with bothersome wings sets out to seek his fortune, not knowing what a fortune is or where to find one. He has adventures and finally as he is bemoaning his fate, lands on the doorstep of Belinda who loves him and his wings.
The prose and vocabulary are challenging (I only remember this as being read to me, not reading it myself) and it conveys a lovely message about our differences from others being blessings, and the power of unconditional love. I love this book!

This cookbook is a must-have staple cookbook. Wanna cook chicken right? Check out this book. It teaches you the most essential techniques for handling chicken: slow braising, basting, roasting, stuffing, correct cutting, carving, etc.

I've made a lot of fantastic dishes from this non-descrip book, but it truly is an American classic. It even had some recipes that I didn't expect, like claypot chicken recipes. So many chicken dishes to peruse. I always turn to this cookbook for everyday fare.

I purchased a copy of this book originally in 1985. back when I didn't know what to do with a chicken except shake & bake.I have lived through my entire married life with it. I lost my original copy when I moved this year, and I was honestly heartbroken, as it is long out of print. I sit here on the verge of processing my shopping cart, wiping tears from my cheeks. I love this book, I can't make a bird without it. There is no substitute for the instructional pictures. I was lost at Thanksgiving, as I always open this book before I turn on the oven, and I never carved without it beside me. My Turkey was a little messy this year!

I can't add much to the excellent review by bluesfan with the exception that this is indeed a wonderful novel. I have been reading Alastair's books since the first revelation space novel came out some years ago and have read everything he has written. He has a gift to get the reader so emotionally involved in the novel that you start cursing outloud at the protagonist while reading the book, leading some in one's family to think they have gone daft.
I bought all of the revelation space series in hardback, and then bought them again in paperback. Along with Banks and Asher, Reynolds is writing some of the best space opera and science fiction that has ever been written.
The late Poet laureate of science fiction, the much beloved Arthur C. Clarke, has seemingly had his torch picked up by Alastair. Good going.Keep it coming.

Reynolds is normally considered to be in the `space opera' sub-genre of sci-fi, although his PhD in astronomy and his day job as an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency qualify him for `hard' sci-fi as well.

The Prefect takes place, pre-Melding Plague, in the Revelation Space universe. The protagonist, Tom Dreyfus, is a Prefect, a Panoply policeman for the Glitter Band of habitats that orbit the planet Yellowstone. What starts out as a straight-forward murder investigation (the destruction of one of the smaller habitats) quickly spirals out of control as Dreyfus' detective work uncovers a conspiracy to thwart his investigation. And, like peeling the layers off of an onion, the deeper Dreyfus digs, the more he uncovers (conspiracies within conspiracies) until ultimately he is confronted with a grand conspiracy that threatens the very existence of the entire Glitter Band - 10,000 habitats and 100,000,000 people. The character mix includes the sole surviving member of The 80, from the first attempt at uploading human consciousness into a computer environment, and the Clockmaker, a mysterious and murderous computerized being, which Dreyfus has previously encountered.

Extremely well-written with well-developed characters and a fast-paced plot, The Prefect reaffirms Reynolds' place among the very best sci-fi writers today. Highly recommended without any reservations.

Oh, one last thing. Reynolds leaves the door wide open for a sequel.

As a bike-mad teenager growing up in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, Tom Simpson was the closest thing to a childhood hero that I had. His racing exploits used to make the headlines in the local paper, and I went to the cinema to see the Movietone News reports of his Classic wins in Europe. On a gas-pipe special bike that was far too big for me I tore around the lanes thinking that I was almost as fast as Tom. Along with thousands of other naive bike racing fans I stood out in the rain the day he was buried in Harworth, and cried, and did not understand.

I read all the books and articles subsequently written about Tom, watched all the programs and videos, and over the years have been left with a cardboard-cutout impression of a talented, ambitious athlete who just tried too hard. Nothing wrong with that I suppose, after all, a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Now William Fotheringham's new book has added a whole new dimension to that flat cardboard cutout, and put real flesh and blood on the dry bones of Tom's story. Far more than a seedy drugs expose, the book puts the many aspects of Tom's character and the various pressures on him in his chosen career into perspective, and into the context of his life and untimely death. There is neither commendation nor condemnation of Tom, but he emerges from this book, as from no other book, as a real person, a real character, a real "lad".

I am now in my second childhood, and Tom is still my hero, and tears still come to my eyes when I think about him, but now I do believe I finally understand.

A quick and engaging book for anyone interested in professional cycling and a historical perspective on one of the most impactful events of TDF history. Written without judgement and very matter of fact regarding drug use and how the "wink and a nod" attitude about it was so pervasive in the early 1960's cycling scene.

It is now fashionable among a set within academia to see racism primarily as a problem of identity and culture - and its removal as a strategy of cultural and mere psychological change. Here is a book that argues that the only way to contest racism and its economic and social causation is to struggle consciously against it.

Louis Kushnick's restorative words in Race, Class And Struggle give back the link between these three essential and indivisible concepts, lucidly and unambiguously: In a racist and highly class-stratified society, the struggle of the black community, essentially against the racism that permeates society, is also a struggle against the class system.

These words come from his essay Parameters of British and North American Racism, and crystallise not only Kushnick's uncluttered perspective but also his trajectory on racism from the heart and thinking of two continents.

The author moved from his original New York Jewish family upbringing to that of adopted Mancunian, and his breadth of perception brings studied insight to both American and British race realities.

Kushnick is one of those rare thinkers and teachers who lives, agitates and writes from a truly bi-continental understanding, carrying through his words the insight from all he has experienced.

So much so, he can move from writing, as an insider, of the American civil rights movement to a critical chapter on British anti-discrimination legislation; from racism and anti-racism in Western Europe to the political economy of white racism in America, marshalling his commentaries and strategies with an impressive authority.

This is a profoundly basic book in the truest sense of the adjective. It exposes the ugly historical foundations that continue to bolster the economic and social structures and practice within which we still live.

From his first page, he traces the current plight of the working class throughout the world to black slavery in the Americas on which modern commerce and industry was founded.

From such beginnings was fostered the centrality of racism in the creation and reproduction of hierarchical and unequal class-based societies. For Kushnick, the price of racism was, and still continues to be, human flesh.

His clear and visceral arguments develop over the 27 years of writings from which these essays are culled. Thus he writes not only about the struggle for human rights, but also their erosion and revocation through the cumulative attacks of the American new Right over the past 20 years. He follows this with the sharpest of essays on the racism within the National Health Service.

Kushnick's book does much to re-awaken the debate about the state, and the need to tackle stereotypical racism, in an edifying and rational focus. This is needed urgently. His work with the Institute of Race Relations, and campaigns against racism and fascism, means that he writes from an activist commitment, and we need that too.

All his arguments stem from a belief in the ends of an inclusive and non-racist democracy. We need to keep on telling New Labour that we cherish that objective too. The crushing of racism is integral to our way forward. CHRIS SEARLE.

Review in major academic journal: SAGE RACE RELATIONS ABSTRACTS vol. 23, No. 2 MAY 1998.

We are only now beginning to reckon with the effect which the collapse of the old Eastern Block has had on social thought. Many commentators prefer to address the spread of globalisation - i.e. many countries, one economy, and that the Americans are the pathfinders. Challenging this nostrum is proving to be a thankless task. How does this book relate to these themes? For a start, the author has broken with the received wisdom now current in Britain, that you do not mention Race, Class and Struggle all in one book!

This work is a collection of essays published over a period of twenty years. The importance of this book is that it encourages us to rethink the link between the three in our confrontation with the scourge of racism at the tail end of this century. Kushnick explains, where others frighten. While he provides eloquent testimony to how racism blights societies and communities, he avoids the pessimism of race debates by showing the capacity of communities to transcend racial divide through class alliance. The theory running through this important collection is the hegomonic significance of class relationships in the construction of anti-racism politics. The impact and effects of racism vary from country to country and from continent to continent. It is this variance that makes the task of constructing a comparative study of racism daunting. It is here that Kushnick is at his most masterful. He provides a synthesis of the nature and impact of racism in the US and Western Europe. As a social scientist, he writes with the ease of a person with many skills. His historical account of the origins of racism in the two hemispheres is rigorous - above all he takes the reader through the labyrinth of causes as well as the many struggles that have been waged to counteract the pernicious nature of racism. He notes acutely the attacks on gains that have been made in containing the worst forms of racism and notes the relentless pressure both in the US and Western Europe to retreat from anti-racist measures. He writes that there will always be among the majority population, those who feel indifferent to the plight of those at the sharp end of racial discrimination. However, those who thought colour would offer them a shield against inequities and social injustice, are now forced to confront the real meaning of

globalisation in a one-world economy. This is why the class dimension is essential in the thoughtful way in which Kushnick has developed this refreshing analysis. He makes it clear that the most successful achievements in the anti-racist policies came through collective action across the racial divide. Atomisation of struggles weaken rather than strengthen the holistic approach to the worthy effort to rid society of racial injustice, prejudice and social exclusion. Racism defigures society and getting rid of it does not constitute a favour to the socially excluded. This is why the discussion in this book is also anchored around the way opponents of racial injustice and prejudice combine their energies in achieving social transformation in the field of discrimination. For all of these reasons this will prove to be one of the most important books on race because of the way in which events in the US are mirrored in Western Europe This book should be a primer in any undergraduate and post-graduate programme.

SAGE RACE RELATIONS ABSTRACTS vol. 23, No. 2 MAY 1998.