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To tell the truth I didn't finish this book. Mainly for two reasons. 1.I lost it, and 2.Because it's boring and whenever you pick the wrong choice you have to go back to the last page and use the other option. But now I'm going to buy it because it was not my book it was the librarie's!!! So in conclusion this book is only good if you like flipping to far away pages all day long!

I gave this book two stars beacause it wasn't so scary like it said on the cover.It starts when you and your friends are at your house and they dare you to go bat wing hall because you are a new kid.When you enter bat wing hall you get trapped inside.I reccomend this book to you if you like spooky stories.

I gave this book two stars beacause it wasn't so scary like it said on the cover.It starts when you and your friends are at your house and they dare you to go bat wing hall because you are a new kid.When you enter bat wing hall you get trapped inside.I reccomend this book to you if you like spooky stories.

This book was really cool because you get to pick your own ending and you can keep reading other stories in the book, reading different stories even when you're reading the same pages. This is not like other books that you can only read over with one story. I think it's cool when Greg got three hairs from the warewolf. There are still more stories in the book I haven't read. Maybe I will get it from the library and finish all the versions

I think that this book is fun and great because you get to make the choices! You get to choose the endings. And in my opinion that's fun it also makes you think! And , i read this with my mom , and she agreed that this book was fun and great. I mean, if you read this book , you will be cursed! I'm kidding , but do read it! It is ''perfectly obstrondosis''[ob-stron-do-sis] or ''wonderfully made''. And , if you compare this with Stay out of the basement , this will be the best!Read it for yourself!

Provided that you can swallow the bile collecting in your mouth after reading anything relating to Claude Brochu, the book's not a bad, albeit biased, version of the Expos' tragic history. While Brochu spends most of the book shifting blame (as he should being as the Expos' tragedy is greatly his fault) the book does give insight into the financial mess that MLB has become. It does seem that the title is a bit ironic, as Brochu stuck out when he got up to the plate. Vive les Expos!

First of all, I was deeply saddened when the wonderful city of Montreal lost its baseball franchise. It was an amazing experience going to an Expos game and hearing the names being announced in French! It was quite a cultural experience, ironically Bud Selig claims to want to internationalize MLB, but ridding the only French-speaking metropolis in North America of its team seems counter-productive.

Anyway, I've followed the Expos saga for years and in case you don't know, Montreal likes baseball, in fact Montreal LOVES baseball! But the way this team was run would make it hard for anybody to come out to the stadium. So don't believe Major League Baseball when they blame the fans. They sabotaged the team, not the fans. If you ever saw the movie "Major League" you'd understand better what MLB did during the last few years of the Expos existance to diminish fan support. They also did a good job keeping it on the down low to those who don't live in Quebec. But that's a whole different story.

Anyway, the book... It was originally written in French and was translated to English, I found it at many times hard to read and this probably had something to do with it. I may try to pick up a french copy someday and see if my 4 years of studying la langue did me any good.

So the book is basically an "I didn't do it!" for Claude Brochu, but he's probably just as guilty as anyone in the team's demise. So it's basically Claude pointing fingers at others who were also responsible. If you want to find out what went wrong with MLB in Montreal, I suggest doing your own research on the net, you can start by googling previous owner Jeffrey Loria. Then come back to this book when you understand Claude's role because you're not going to get it here.

I for one hope baseball returns to Montreal one day, but many obstacles need to be cleared, Bud Selig must not be commissioner and the city needs to regain the trust of MLB. A salary cap wouldn't hurt either!

Mr. Brochu offers both a personal vindication story aas well as the story of the downhill spiral of the Montreal Expos franchise. Most Americans may not know that Montreal has over 100 years of baseball history, including interactions with Tommy Lasorda and Jackie Robinson. In the Expos era, the team was an amazing success in the 80's, outdrawing the New York Yankees and producing great players who often left when free agency beckoned them to larger markets and more recognition than French Canada could offer. But the Expos, fighting for their own identity in the hockey capital of the world, made great strides in establishing the franchise as a model of production for young players. Some of the great "home grown"
Expos include Hall of Famer Gary Carter, Andre Dawson, Steve Rogers, Tim Wallach, Marquis Grissom, Randy Johnson (yes -that Randy Johnson), Ellis Valentine, Larry Parrish, Orlando Cabrera and one who could be among the all-time greats - Vladimir Guerrero. Baseball fans and Expos fans alike should hear how the greed and personal agendas of some can take away the team that we fans give our hearts and souls. As a life-long Expos fan in the US, baseball will never be the same without "Nos
Amours."

Most helpful insight: This book is for fans of the business of baseball. Sort of a Barbarians at the Gate in Montreal. The book has it's fascinating political spins too.

What I learned and found most interesting was that the government/structural issues in Montreal appear as powerful as the cultural issues. Of course hockey will always be the dominant sport in Canada; baseball is way down the list. However, the Montreal Canadians faced (and continue to have) similar problems as the Expos.

Yes, Brochu wastes a great deal of ink defending himself (time he should have been spending coming up with a better title than My Turn at Bat!) Still, it is worth the read.

Claude Brochu reveals just what it takes in running the Montreal Expos. The first-third of the book starts off well as details are provided on what are key ingredients to keep a sports franchise running: Mr. Brochu is appointed the chief of operations of an ownership consotium.

The middle-third is still entertaining but the storytelling starts to get uneven. The good parts are the downtown ballpark project and his views on each of the partners of the consortium: they were either with him or against him. However, Mr. Brochu does not shed much light into some other significant events that happened to the team during this period (such as the hiring and competence of then General Manager Jim Beattie).

The last-third imitates Brochu's last months on the job: everything starts to crumble. This is the most frustrating part to read. Only bits and pieces of a much larger puzzle are revealed.

There is an appendix at the end, with copies of faxes and letters in response to serious issues that arose with the ball club during Brochu's tenure.

All in all, a whole lot of what went on behind the scenes that was not originally revealed accurately (or without personal bias) by the Montreal press core finally is described in this book. The biggest surprise is who Mr. Brochu classifies in his good book and in his bad book.

This book is not for everyone. I found this book extremely intimate and amazing. Why? I enjoy "getting to know" my favorite authors in a way that depicts them as "human just like you and me." Alice Walker let's us into her mind and emotions. She shows us that behind her great literary talent, she too goes through self-doubt, worry about what "other people think", etc.
I remember when The Color Purple movie was released and the backlash it got from black men in my community who perceived it as "male hating." I always wondered what it was like to put your heart and soul into a literary piece, have hollywood create a visual experience out of it in a way that you didn't expect, then sit through people "attacking" you as a "black male hater." Well, this book reveals what Alice went through, emotionally, spiritually and psychologically. We get to read exerpts from her journal. Furthermore, I felt more connected to this book than perhaps other readers because I myself am a novelist writer trying to publish my first book. Alice Walker brought up "controversial issues" in the book, The Color Purple (the most controversial being the "lesbian" relationship between Celie and Shug). My own work brings up "taboo" subjects within the black community. Reading Walker's intimate experiences with the public's (and her family and friends') reactions to her work and her bravery to "keep on keepin' on", inspired me to continue writing about subjects that have often been "silenced" within my own black community. The Same River Twice is an excellent book for someone such as myself who is often intimidated and worried about how their community may respond to their literary pieces.

I felt this book was one of her most personal, and from the start I could not put it down. The Color Purple was the finest book (and film) I have yet to see, although a better book than The Color Purple I don't think can be found. I am very grateful to Alice for publishing this book, as it gives insight into both the book and herself, and I feel it is the most revealing of all her books (so far). Reading it opened a window onto her life, albeit a small window, a window none the less, and for an author, I feel that is one of the bravest and most honourable feats. It allows you to step into her life for a brief moment, which can also heighten the journey taken in some of her other novels. Such as The Temple of My Familiar, which takes you further into the lives of the characters from The Color Purple, and knowing the motivation behind the novel from Alice herself, opens up a whole new aspect of Temple. I feel that to be a true Walker fan, this is a must read.

Reading Walker's prose can be like talking with a live person face to face. There is no aloof distance between Walker and the reader, one feels that she is addressing them personally; the drawback to this is that when she says something you may not agree with, you can feel a little hurt or even betrayed. The Color Purple is a story that so many people lay "claim" to, and is one of the most important books of the twentieth century. Readership of the novel has only grown since its initial publication in 1982, and it's no wonder that Walker feels such a bond to this story of hers. The problem is that the rights were sold to make a movie version and Walker wasn't entirely pleased with the results.

While I am sure any writer would feel very ambivalent about a film version of their novel (as Ken Kesey did for "Cuckoo's Nest"), when one signs the film rights away, they should brace themselves for the disappointment. Walker takes us step-by-step through the disappointment but the final conclusion is a feeling of ingratitude. What is important to me is that because of the movie I became aware of the book and thus began my love for Alice Walker. As a teen I loved the movie, but being older now I do see many moments in the film as rather embarrassing. But again, had it not been for the film I would not have read the book.

But why did Walker choose to write this book? Parts of it are very interesting, but much of the book is just a bunch of journal entries and news clippings. Walker does submit her entire screenplay that she proposed; Her screenplay is actually less streamlined than the script that made it to the screen and has too many moments involving the patterns in a quilt that stop the story dead in its tracks. For all the flaws of the screenplay that was adapted, (and there are many), it's a much less rambling script than Walkers.

Despite Walker's intentions, the book comes off as ungrateful. After all, she was able to make a nice home for herself. But this book is interesting to see the author's point of view. Had Purple been made in the 50's, it would have been damaged beyond repair and probably taken the point of view of one of the minor white characters ... if it would have been made at all. We've all seen movies that ruined a book, Walker is one of the only ones who has been voal about it.

But Walker should also take heart, at least she didn't write "Beloved" and watch that transition to the screen.

"The Same River Twice" was a very good book and it gave so much insight into who Alice Walker is as a person. I never knew that Ms. Walker has Lyme disease and that she loved to garden. The casting of certain individuals in certain roles shocked me it never dawned on that Tina Turner was their first choice in playing Shug Avery and that Lola Folana and Diana Ross were also considered for the part. Also I did not know that Ms. Walker had a problem completing the screenplay for the actual movie due her disease. Ms. Walker is one of the best authors of our time and it is a shame that people cannot see the beauty in her work.

I do remember all of the controversy surrounding "The Color Purple" when I was a teenager and how I was forbidden to see the movie. When I finally saw the movie after it had been out on video cassette three years later I was shocked and enlightened all at the same moment. I was shocked at seeing two women kiss and enlightened to see Celie break away from her abusive husband and flourish as person. The book and the movie are different and people should read the book before passing judgement on Ms. Walker's character if they have only seen the movie. I know now Ms. Walker had somewhat of a different vision of her book being made into a movie than Steven.

Several years ago, I had a conversation with a group of filmakers who angrily debated the merits of "The Color Purple". Chiefly, we all wondered "What did Alice Walker really think of the movie?"

Well, she tells us here. In the most dull, pretentious and boring prose I've ever read. Self-serving and rambling journal entries. Tired cliches about what it means to be a black bisexual woman. Overreaching liberal claptrap that is better suited for a late-night college bull session than a serious piece of literature.

Not as in depth as I would have liked, but I guess it's hard to do that in a "coat-sized" book. Overall, it's okay ... just nothing that lights my world on fire.

This pocket manual really does contain everything you could possibly need for an excellent pocket reference during your internal medicine rotation. Also clearly references the larger text, in case you want even more information.

I understand the intention of Harrison's editors to provide us with a little version of this standard textbook, but honestly, I don't like it. I have owned several editions of this book, but I have never used it, because it is not a practical book. It is short in practical details (like disease management) and long in some other details. If you are looking for a handbook that can help you in clinical practice, forget about this one. There are so many better books out there (Washington, Ferri's,...). This book can be helpful for medical students to review medicine before exams or rotations. However, I have to say that new edition is much better than previous ones. At least it has more algorithms. Also, stay away from PDA version. It is even more stripped down! For your PDA, I highly recommend Ferri's Practical Guide or Washington Manual or 5 Minutes Clinical Consult.

I bought this book at the beginning of my 3rd year medicine rotation and used it for several weeks. It was good... but I did not find the layout and algorithms to be user friendly. It has the information.. but I found myself searching in various sections to find what I needed many a time. Overall a good book, but having experimented with others for my other medicine and family medicine rotations, I would recc that you peruse through either Medicine Recall, Consult Manual of Internal Medicine, &/or Pocket Medicine. All are great... and have different styles. Its simply a matter of personal preferance.

This handbook is meant for doctors in the wards but cannot be called "Harrison in Hand". It can never be a substitute for that book. The algorithms are mind boggling if a physician has no access to the bigger text. It is nothing but a consolation of having the bigger text in hand.
Professor K.N.Viswanathan , AVMC, Pondicherry, India.

Yet another book giving bats a bad rap. A horror tale in the vein of large numbers of flying things run amok, if not stopped by plucky locals and the odd person with a modicum of knowledge. Think more along the lines of The Birds. Much better than the bad movie, being quite competently handled by Cruz Smith. A sheriff and a woman have to stop some very nasty chiroptera before they cause a lot of problems.

"Nightwing" didn't particularly spark my interest when I picked it up a few months ago at a book sale. But after reading "Vespers" by Jeff Rovin, I wanted to continue reading anything scary about bats. Finally, I decided to give it a try after seeing Stephen King's review on the front cover: "I consider it to be one of the best horror novels in the last twenty years."

From the beginning, "Nightwing" doesn't appear like a horror book. We meet Youngman Duran, a Tewa Pueblo deputy, conversing with an old Hopi priest, his uncle, who predicts death and a new beginning for the Hopi people. Youngman doesn't pay much attention to the datura-addicted elder; he finds his prophecies almost comical.

Next Youngman is called to a ranch where three horses have been skinned and left to suffer and die. Nobody knows how it happened. Then the same thing later happens to Youngman's Hopi uncle previously mentioned, Abner Tasupi.

While Youngman is preparing the old man's body for burial, a stranger (Hayden Paine) intrudes and attempts to perform an autopsy on Abner. Paine is a bat specialist and has come up from Mexico to conduct a medical survey. Although Paine and Youngman don't get along at first, they later team up with Youngman's lover, Anne Dillon, to destroy the disease-spreading vampire bats.

The bats, however, play a very small part in this book. I wouldn't even consider it a horror book since the rough Southwest Indian lifestyle overshadows the bats. Furthermore, I'm not sure why the synopsis on the back cover focuses on a deadly mass of bloodthirsty bats when they only dominate a few scenes. I suppose it was the only way to lure anyone into reading this book.

There are some gruesome parts in Nightwing, but the worst ones I can remember are done by humans to animals. For example, a dog is suffocated in a bag instead of quarantined for the plague; a rabbit is slowly drained of blood for a sacrifice. The bat attacks didn't bother me (I expected them), but I was disgusted by the gratuitous animal torture.

The only reason why I gave this book three stars instead of two or one (which it deserved) is because it was written pretty well and there were a few times when it got exciting. Still, it was a waste of my time and I wouldn't recommend this book. It seemed pretty long too for a 210-paged book. That was probably because the chapters were on average 20 pages and paragraphs could run up to a page or more in length.

However, someone must have loved "Nightwing" because it was made into a movie in 1979. I never saw it and I doubt I will.

I do regret reading this book for the sake of bat horror. If you're looking for a good scare, read "Vespers" by Jeff Rovin, which is by far a better horror book than "Nightwing".

Without a doubt, the worst movie I ever had the displeasure of paying to see, Nightwing turns out to be a fine thriller. It's Stephen King by way of Tony Hillerman as plague ridden vampire bats descend on a Hopi reservation.

Replete with a lone hero tribal policeman, corrupt Indian politicians, a mad scientist, bigoted evangelists & a vengeful shaman, this early effort from Martin Cruz Smith does not measure up to the Arkady Renko series, but it's fun.

GRADE: C+

I felt compelled to write this review after seeing the negative nature of the other posts. Why are there only four reviews anyway? It is not hard to be critical of "Nightwing" when you consider it next to Smith's other works. It isn't a particurly complex plot and the protagonist (though you get several different first person accounts) is somewhat flawed. And not in the traditional "likable tragic hero" sense, he is more just passive and melancholy. Once into the book, though, you do begin to develop a connection.

In the story vampire bats come across the Mexican border into American Indian country, and various bedlam ensues for our characters. Smith actually presents a supringly plausible plot for a novel involving migratory, ravenous bats.

It should be noted that the novel is not exclusively a bat adventure. The stoic Indian protagonist battle against the bats forces him to make hard choices about his identity and the future of his culture. I really did enjoy reading this book. In the last twenty pages I came to realize I had developed more empathy for the characters than I thought. Might not be Smith's best, but the bredth of what he attempts on the subject of personal identity is commendably ambitious.

Written 25 years ago, Nightwing has only one of the talents we have come to admire in Martin Cruz Smith. Great research. Apart from that, the hero is not Renko and the story is basically a big yawn. Unless you 're really into that indian thing, move ahead to Gorky Park.

My accidental encounter with an earlier edition of this book was the catalyst for my taking up film studies. The book is a clear, well written and systematically organized history of movies. It has a comprehensive and up to date bibliography and filmography. Chapters are chronological in sequence, but are organized around a particular theme. The authors introduce major influences in the cinema (whether directors, 'schools', actors or events), identify principal directors and films, and analyse major issues and advances. It is an excellent introduction to the history of movies and great jumping off point for further, more specialised study. It is refreshingly free from post-modernist jargon and abstractions. If you want a comprehensive introduction which is also a good read, I recommend this book most highly.

This was a required text for an Intro to Cinema class I took at college. To put it bluntly Gerald Mast is a bore. I've never met the guy so I'm not going to comment on what I haven't seen but I have attempted to read his writings and fell asleep before I could finish the first paragraph. I'm an avid reader and have no indications leading me to believe I have ADD or ADHD but this was simply put the worst text I have ever seen about film. The author's subject matter is not only unappealing but at times also irrelevant. For example, Mast dedicates numerous pages to many shallow commercial filmmakers and leaves one paragraph for Stanley Kubrick. I'm sorry but Stanley Kubrick's impression on the medium is worth more than a paragraph. All in all a very boring read.

My accidental encounter with an earlier edition of this book was the catalyst for my taking up film studies. The book is a clear, well written and systematically organized history of movies. It has a comprehensive and up to date bibliography and filmography. Chapters are chronological in sequence, but are organized around a particular theme. The authors introduce major influences in the cinema (whether directors, 'schools', actors or events), identify principal directors and films, and analyse major issues and advances. It is an excellent introduction to the history of movies and great jumping off point for further, more specialised study. It is refreshingly free from post-modernist jargon and abstractions. If you want a comprehensive introduction which is also a good read, I recommend this book most highly.

As a writer, Mast is without equal as a teacher, historian, and critic. The most readable, valuable film history text, in my opinion. Thank goodness it's still in print.

This book should only be read by master level film students highly interested in every single director, film and plot summary of every movie ever made. There are no summaries of the main points and this book should NEVER be used as a college core classroom book. I have never been so bored and overwhelmed by such trivial and useless information in my life!

Jake's father has never wanted to bring him along on any of his scientific expeditions. He thinks Jake is too immature and silly to be of any help in these adventures. Jake is now in high school and desperate for his father's approval. He is unhappy that his father hasn't noticed that he has changed and is a more grown-up person now.

Now Jake's father is off in the Amazon gathering specimens of bats. Jake has read a great deal about bats and even did a science fair project on a device that would allow him to use echolocation like bats do. During his school vacation Jake travels to his father's work site to try again to help and to convince his father to come home.

Things are no different between Jake and his father when Jake first arrives. His father expects him to be the same kid he has always been, and is not interested in having him there, despite Jake's insistence that he can help. But then something starts stalking and killing the men in the camp, and it seems as though Jake's science fair project may come in useful after all.

I liked the scientific information about bats in this story, and I liked the relationship between Jake and his father; it seemed like a typical father-son relationship. The rest of the story, though, was pretty predictable, and the ending showdown wasn't very believable.

Plot: 15-year-old Jake Lefkovitz travels to the Amazon, where his father (a bat biologist) and his research team are on an expedition. Two of Dr. Lefkovitz's workers are missing. As it turns out, the two workers were mutilated by a giant bat. Jake, Dr. Lefkovitz, and the workers must find a way to stop the bat.

This was an okay book, but it wasn't the best I've ever read. First off, there's a small subplot about Jake and his father not being very aquainted, and Jake trying to earn his father's trust. I think Paul Zindel just used that for padding. Second, with all due respect, Zindel doesn't put much detail into the book, especially when describing the traps the characters create to capture the bat.

Also, this book is heavy, though not extreme, on blood and gore. There is a total of six deaths in this book, and only one is not causes directly by the bat (i.e., a man falls down a waterfall). All the other deaths are very violent. The descriptions of the two mutilated workers is enough to make someone quesy. Also in the book: the bat bites a man around the neck, and later does the same thing, tearing the head off; the bat sinks its fangs into a man's eyes and sucks his brains out; and the bat guts (rips open) a man and tears his upper body apart. So I think anyone who's good with Friday the 13th and some of the later Halloween films shouldn't be too grossed out by this book. I'd say if this book were to be made into a movie, it would most likely be R just for the graphic bat attacks.

It was an ok book but there were definite flaws in it. First off he does a bad job of describing some of the traps used in defeating the bat- that could just be me. Once the boy was left to face the bat alone it was pretty unrealistic that he could kill it when they couldn't when the whole group was there. Zindel is capable of much better but it is still worth the time.

Zindel's newest and last book depicts a boy and his father fighting a giant bat. 15-year old Jake, flies to the Amazon where his father is having a expedition. His father is a zoologist, a person who studies bats. 2 men have gone missing. Jake and Hanuma go to see where the men are and find out they have been devoured by bats. On the way back Hanuma is killed by a giant bat. {Hanuma screamed as his chest was torn open and his blood spilled onto the pathway}. Next is the cook, who meets a gruesome fate. Finally, after Rasdyr is killed Jake and his father set out to kill the bat.

I really liked the book because it was gorey, scary, and etcitiny at the same time. It told lot's of good detail that helpp to get a clear picture. It was clear were I could under stand it all.

The best part of the book I thought was when the giant bat came down from the sky and grabed one of the workers. The giant bat ripped the workers neck open blood went all over. The canupe spelit off in to the river.

The auther had a good plot. Like when the auther gave all the details Like when the giant bat kiiled the guy and the crabs were eating him. He also did good on the setting on how they were in the jungle. It was hot and moist.

There are several altered versions of Thayer's classic poem in existance.
This book uses one of them.

I love this poem, and I wish the author had stuck with the original.
Especially when Ernest Lawrence Thayer is listed as the author!

Also- the images of Casey and the spectators are of modern
day participants. Casey is wearing a helmet and his name and
number are on the back of his uniform. Not like a player
in 1888 at all.

Leroy Neiman is a great artist, and that is the only reason I give this
2 stars.

Having a son named Casey, I have many copies of "Casey at the Bat". Each and every one of them has Cooney and Burrows die at first. The new Harper Collins edition reads.."And then when Cooney died at second, and Burrows did the same..." Not only does this interrupt the meter of the poem, it doesn't make any baseball sense. Mudville is losing by two runs in the bottom of the ninth. When Cooney gets up there are no outs. How does he die at second? How does Burrows do the same? Did they try to stretch a single into a double? I can just see the veins popping out on the managers forehead when they pulled that stunt. This line is really something to think about and I am wondering where the editors at Harper Collins came across it.
The illustrations by Leroy Neiman are wonderful. Here you see a very Mantlesque looking Casey straining every muscle to connect with that pitch and end the game with a towering blast. I also loved the fact that they are not in color. The only disturbing part is that before the final verse of the poem, you are clearly shown that Casey has missed the ball. Now we all know that Casey struck out, but you don't want to know that until the text tells you. To this day I always hope that air which is shatterd has been the result of his hitting the ball. The placement of Mr Neiman's illustrations takes that hope away. If I had been reading this to my son for the first time, he would surely have seen that the mighty Casey had failed. There would have been no need to read the last stanza. I certainly do not recommend this as a childs first introduction to this poem. The format and illustrations are wonderful, but save it for your second purchase!

Ernest Lawrence Thayer's classic baseball poem about the small town of Mudville and its beloved baseball hero is superbly enhanced with LeRoy Neiman's charcoal drawings in this illustrated coffee table book. This splendid edition of Casey At The Bat is enhanced with an introduction by Yankees manager Joe Torre and filled with soulful, blending of Thayer's words and Neiman's illustrations blending together to bring the spirit of this memorable and beloved poem to life. Casey At The Bat is to be treasured by all baseball buffs, and heartily recommended for school and community library collections.

What do you get when you combine Ernest Thayer's beloved, boys of summer poem and artist, Leroy Neiman's rich, charcoal illustrations? A unique and evocative rendering of Americana that adds an additional rare gem to the rich collection of Casey At The Bat books. Mr Neiman's unique, expressive, and dynamic artwork brings the poem to life in all its emotional splendor and glory. From the introduction by New York Yankee's manager, Joe Torre, to the very last page, as muscular Casey, bat in hand, hangs his head and takes that lonely walk from the plate into fictional history, young and old alike will be entranced by this powerful and engaging, larger than life story. Perfect for youngsters 8 and older, Leroy Neiman's, oversized, coffee table-like Casey At The Bat is a combination of verse and artwork at its finest, and a must for both baseball fans and art lovers everywhere.

I thought that the book would have the full beginning of Bat Out Of Hell but it is shortened straight down to the start of the song. It's not an accompniament u play the actual song and it is the same through the whole book.It's very very poor!

I thought that the book would have the full beginning of Bat Out Of Hell but it is shortened straight down to the start of the song. It's not an accompniament u play the actual song and it is the same through the whole book.It's very very poor!

Meatloaf, Bat out of Hell, 1977 with Songs by Jim Steinman Easyt to read guitar notes also work with any wind instrument

I wanted to play my guitar to songs I grew up with. This record was a big hit here, so I thought it would be good to be able to sing some of the songs with my frinds. I was disappointed that many of the songs are so bombastic that when sung just with guitar/vocal they sound dreadful. TWO OUT OF THREE AINT BAD is manageable, but many others aren't. This isn't really a criticism of this book, which is very good, but of its utility to those of us (most?) who don't have Meatloaf's huge voice.

It is about diagnosis of cardiac diseases with cardiac pacing

This book was written by one of the best in the cardiac pacing field. The only problem is his dry and wordy compilation of cardiac pacing.

I purchased this book to assist me in cardiovascular schooling and found it to be a great book for gaining an understanding of the principles of pacemaker therapy. At times though, the text is a bit wordy and dry. However, I find it very useful for reading up on anything from the indications for both temporary and permament devices to post-implantation evaluation, complications, and interventions. Unfortunately, with the rapidly changing world of pacemaker therapy, this book may soon find itself obsolete. Hope for an updated edition.