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Then this is what would happen. It was a kinda funny story, but totally pointless. Nice art though. I think the moral in this story is "Don't date shallow girls and turn ur back on ur friends." U deserved what happened to u in Decimation, Jono. lol ok maybe not...
As for the supposed anti-americanism....WTF?
How?
Where? Do u even know what ur talking about?
(I'm having so much fun reading r reviews though.)

This volume collects Joe Caseys first 6 issues on his run on Uncanny X-men with a sassy contemporary take on the X-Men. The main part of this trade is the 4 part Poptopia storyline about the young mutant Chamber getting a taste of the life of the rich and famous through an affair with a teen pop star. This quickly turns into a media scandal as dating a known mutant is a controversial career move for the Britney-copy. Ian Churchills colerful and playful art fit the story very well. On of the issues is drawn by a different artist in a much more moody but effectful style. The last story has the X-Men turning up at a mutant brothel (the 'X-Ranch') and one of the girls there, Stacy X, joining the X-Men

I'm not real sure what to say about this colletion. It's a middle of the road story. Not real great, but not real bad. It brings up some issues, but never really deals with them. The art is good except for #398. I guess the hard core fan would like it.

I understand the X-Men have undergone a revolution by the time this trade paperback gets out.

Grant Morrison, Frank Quitely, and Ethan Van Sciver do a fantastic job of revamping the books in the partner New X-Men series and its first story arc, E is for Extinction.

Joe Casey however, seems to have the right intentions, but just isn't apparently comfortable yet. He plays around with pop stars, and genetic cleansers, and mutant whores (to come after this trade paperback in the form of Stacy X), but he never really seems to be heading anywhere with his storylines.

The art for the first half of this trade paperback is gorgeous, thanks to Ian Churchill. He makes everything look good, even the ugly people look fantastic in an ugly way. But then he leaves halfway through, and the art takes a drastic turn for the worst. Without a good artist around (such as Marvel has always relied on to support the mediocre writing), the book falls flat. Ashley wood's art in the fourth book is just..repulsive.

I bought the Poptopia books separately, and have only read them maybe twice each. And that was for Ian Churchill's art. Don't buy it, go buy E is for Extinction by Grant Morrison & Frank Quitely instead.

Heroes Reborn: Avengers is the weakest of the four books! Back in 1996, Marvel comics launched Heroes Reborn and asked Image comics artists, Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, and Rob Liefeld to work on these comics, Fantastic Four, Captain America, Iron Man, and Avengers. Of the four books, Heroes Reborn: Avengers is the weakest because Rob Liefeld is not a great comic creator. The plus side about this book is the artwork done by artist Rob Liefeld and Ian Churchill! Rob Liefeld's artwork and Ian Churchill's artwork is very good. The weakest part of the book is the bad storytelling By Liefeld's team and artwork done by Chap Yaep. Rob Liefeld should not have hired Chap Yaep to draw for Heroes Reborn: Avengers because he does not have enough art trainning! Chap Yaep's artwork makes the book look weak. Then After seven issues, Wildstorm Productions takes over and they do a better job with the book. the Heroes Reborn: Avengers is okay but It's not one of Rob Liefeld's best runs. C-

In the mid-90's, Marvel decided to conclude their much maligned Onslaught storyline with the deaths of many of their top tier heroes. The Fantastic Four, Captain America, Iron Man, and the rest of the Avengers, all bought the big one as their respective titles were canned and re-launched with a new direction (allegedly) as Marvel teamed up with Wildstorm (before they became part of DC) to produce some new takes on old stories. Heroes Reborn: Avengers finds the supergroup re-imagined from the inside out. Captain America, Ant-Man, Thor, Scarlet Witch, Swordsman, and plenty of other members all get a somewhat different twist here, as villains like Ultron, Kang, and the Savage Hulk make their mark on Earth's mightiest heroes. There's also some appearances from Iron Man, the Fantastic Four, and Nick Fury to boot; all of which pop up in this incredibly inconsistent TPB featuring a barrage of writers and artists, including the much maligned Rob Liefeld. And, as the previous review has pointed out, don't let the cover fool you. Jim Lee may have done an old cover that Marvel chose to use as the cover of this TPB, but he provides zero art for the book itself. If you want to see some Jim Lee Marvel stuff, check out Heroes Reborn: Fantastic Four instead, which also happens to be the best of the Heroes Reborn lineup. All in all, Heroes Reborn: Avengers may be worth a look for Avengers fans, but this can be easily left on the shelf.

Here it is: Image creators return to Marvel- And they get to re-create the Marvel Universe! *The* biggest event of the mid-90s, it sold well, but had very mixed reactions critically speaking. Being a *big* Avengers fan I had high hopes, but this is an inconsistent effort...

-A quick 12-issue breakdown:
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-1. The government-controlled Avengers find Thor in Norway's ice; they fight Thor & Loki; Thor joins team.
-2. Avengers Island New York: The team gets sent by Nick Fury to face someone attacking NY: it's Kang!
-3. Commander-in-Chief of SHIELD Nick Fury & Avengers continue to fight Kang; conflict gets resolved; Vision hurt.
-4. A newly designed Savage Hulk begins to attack Avengers; Ant-Man & friendly Ultron try to get Vision back on track.
-5. BIG, GIANT PIN-UP style battle between Savage Hulk & Thor, since the other Avengers really aren't up to task.
-6. Industrial Revolution part 1. Interlude in Hulk battle; Avengers, FF, SHIELD, and Iron Man try to deal with Hulk.
-7. While Iron Man & Nick Fury argue over who owns Vision, Loki's scheming against the team blasts full speed ahead.
-8. Jim Lee cover. We near the source of Vision's problems, as battle between Avengers & Loki and "friends" continues.
-9. As the Avengers regain control, Loki still schemes, the Vision's problems are resolved, and a surprise guest drops in.
-10. As the team finally starts to figure things out, they're torn by conflict within. It's all-out Avengers vs. Avengers!
-11. Loki wins! He begins to remake the world in his image. How to beat him now? The solution has to be extraordinary.
-12. Heroes Reunited, part 2 of 4. Everything is wrapped up into a neat little package. See HR: Captain America for finale.

I credit the writers with holding this thing together- *Everything* kept changing throughout this entire TPB: pencilers, inkers, colorists, letterers, writers, plotters & even editors(!). Many big names are attached to this, yet not a single creator comes even *close* to doing their best work here. It's as if nobody wanted to be committed to all 12 issues- strange for such a high-profile project. The art is especially inconsistent; very distracting to say the least. Liefeld only pencils parts of the 1st & 5th issues. The coloring is sometimes great, but is at other times often dark, muddy, and low-contrast, with some pages even being slightly blurry in their reproduction here. Miraculously, I actually somewhat enjoyed this TPB(!), in spite of all the problems. Every now & then, it's nice to see Marvel's famous characters reinvented & reimagined. Interestingly, maybe the best artwork, the cover to issue #8 by Jim Lee, has been chosen as this TPB's cover. Lee does none of the interior art here, and I think people need to know this up-front.

In conclusion: I mainly recommend this TPB to die-hard fans & completists. A high-profile event: inconsistent at best.

For beginners, souhami's textbook isn't what you are looking for. The link between the basic medical science and the clinical aspects is not adaquate enough for beginning medical students.

An excellent textbook of medicine. Covers both basic and clinical. Could be difficult for beginners but absolutetly interesting for doctors and senior students. I look at it as bridge between (Davidson, Kumar) in one hand and (Harrisons, Cecil Textbooks of medicine) on the other hand.

An excellent textbook of medicine. Covers both basic and clinical. Could be difficult for beginners but absolutetly interesting for doctors and senior students. I look at it as bridge between (Davidson, Kumar) in one hand and (Harrisons, Cecil Textbooks of medicine) on the other hand.

Considering that this is a very short and factual biography of a very famous Prime Minister of Great Britain - from the time when it was still great - it is hard to not write enthusiastically about it. But unfortunately there is always the attitude of the author to contend with. An overly enthusiastic biographer glosses over the less glamorous parts, and the events which show the man in a lesser light; but the underwhelmed biographer (probably writing out of hack necessity to earn an honest commissioned crust), simply plods dutifully through. This author seems to me to fall into neither of these categories, but nearer the latter than the former.

The nearest attitude analogy I can come to is that of the `hostile witness' in court, who, having been legally required to give evidence, has his own reasons for not wishing to co-operate. But once sworn in, he is compelled to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth (there are penalties for perjury), but not necessarily the whole truth that a willing witness would tell. The counsel for the defence or prosecution always points out the unwillingness of the hostile witness, making everyone aware of the potential bias that this may introduce. And so it is, as counsel for the defence of the Great Man, I am constrained to point out that this author is very much less than fulsome in his praise of our Winston. There are harsher ways of asserting this point, but the greatness of the greatest of our war leaders comes through anyway, and I would not dissuade anyone from at least starting with this book as quick overview of some of the main facts. I myself suspect that the author is a Socialist [ugh], and as such is simply unable to warm to the certainly-not-Socialist Winston [hurrah]. Also, I have so far greatly enjoyed several of this Sutton biographical series, and find them to be value for money quick-readers, and through pure natural variance would not expect each and every one of these baby bios to satisfy equally. One slightly sour grape in a bunch is no bad average.

CONTENTS
List of Plates - 15 standard shots, black-and-white, good quality
Chronology - born 1874 at Blenheim Palace, became PM 1940, died 1965
1. Youth and Adventure - born into the aristocracy, went to Harrow public school, joined the army with some difficulty as a cavalry officer, saw action in Cuba as journalist, left army for politics around 1900
2. Member of Parliament - marries, gains experience in political home affairs
3. Admiralty 1911-15 - becomes First Lord of the Admiralty, improves conditions for the naval ratings, naval arms race with Germany, expands defence expenditure, First World War started by Germany, Winston dismissed from Admiralty
4. Recovery and Relapse 1915-39 - returns to active service in the army on the Western Front, return to politics 1916, becomes Minister of Munitions 1917 where he is very successful, loses seat in Parliament, stands unsuccessfully as an `Independent Anti-Socialist' [hurrah, but never let yourself be negatively defined, tactical and strategic error] in 1924, gets back in next year and is made Chancellor of the Exchequer much to everyones' surprise (including his), his criticisms of Herr Hitler the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazis) go largely unheeded, his reputation declines, WWII breaks out as he predicted
5. War 1939-45 - Churchill back at the top as First Lord of the Admiralty again, British government in disarray with vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, on 9 May 1940 Winston Churchill is made Prime Minister of Great Britain at age 65, against spectacular progress by Hitler Churchill persuades the nation to stand and fight, RAF wins the air Battle of Britain, Hitler attacks USSR, Japanese attack Pearl Harbour, USA enter war, Britain becomes de facto ally of communist Russia and USA, Germans surrender 8 May 1945, Churchill tired and ill after strains of war, immediate general election called, Conservatives and also Churchill defeated
6. Coda 1945-65 - Churchill makes the famous `Iron Curtain' speech at Fulton, Missouri, speech not well received but history proved his judgment right again, Churchill becomes Prime Minister again in 1951, refuses to join the European Coal and Steel Community (ancestor of the EU), and surely history will prove him right again on this one, retires 1955 a living legend
Notes
Bibliography - very short considering the Great Man's many admirers, so do not trust to this list for a full sample

This is a brief, accurate, excellent summary of the life of Churchill. It's about 100 pages long; you can read it in an evening and still have time to catch the late news. The first duty of a biographer, said Lytton Strachey, is a "becoming brevity" (he was reacting to the huge, ponderous biographies of the Victorian era), and this work fills the bill. I had always wanted to learn more about Churchill, the greatest figure of the 20th century, but I put it off because I didn't have the time or desire to wade through a massive tome. Now, finally, I know how how he arrived at the Prime Ministership at exactly the right time. I know about his incredibly broad training for the leadership position. I know some new things about the Second World War. And so on. This book is part of the "Pocket Biographies" series published by Sutton located in England. I'm sold on the concept; I'm going to buy more in the collection - Lincoln is next and then Beethoven - i.e., people I want to know more about but not necessarily every single time they had toast for breakfast. One of the offbeat things I like about this volume is the quality of paper used for the cover - it's that creamy thick stuff that a lot of smart publishers are using these days.

I don't like for a biography to lie, but I think it should portray the subject in a favorable or atleast interesting light. This biography is frustrating because it makes Churchill, who I thought was a very inspiring figure, into a rich spoiled man who stumbles into situations which brought him fame. If he was really as uninspired and unfocused as this biography portrays him then he has a false public reputation.

The American Civil War should have been named Robert E. Lee's Civil War. 85% of the books attention is paid to Lee's character, Lee's battles, Lee's brilliance, Lee's nobility, Lee's wisdom. At the end of the War Churchill rightly criticizes Lee for his faulty generalship in sending thousands to die in frontal assaults when the war was clearly lost, but his fixation on Lee still borders on worship. There were other things going on in the War, like the War in the West, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta campaign, March to the Sea, etc., but Churchill concludes these events did not require any full discussion. Either Winston had a deadline to meet and was out of time or he displays a surprising lack of knowledge by leaving out at least half of the Civil War. But of course if you are a Lee fan, then you'll love this one.

Churchill's view of our War Between the States is in keepingwith the most prominent mythologized history of that conflict, onefeature of which is a perception of "near-divinity" inGen. Robert E. Lee. That perception was begun during the war andboosted to completion shortly afterwards by Gen. Jubal Early and hispowerful influence over the Southern Historical Society Papers (amajor source for most Civil War history). An excellent ifcontroversial review of these issues is found in "The Myth of theLost Cause" ed. by Gallagher and Nolan.

One can readilyunderstand the appeal of such a myth to Winston Churchill as he triedto come to terms with his own witnessing of the Fall of the BritishEmpire having just been totally dependent on American aid to survivethe war with Germany.

Joseph Campbell understood "myth"to be a psychosocial system (expressed through the arts) that allows aculture to get into accord with an awful fact that cannot be dealtwith as raw, factual history. It would seem that witnessing one'ssociety crumbling into oblivion calls for such a myth.

Churchill'swork is fascinating. His use of the English language is mostsuperb. This work will provide the reader (or listener) with somepowerful insights into the American Civl War, World War II, and theuse of myth to connect us with the awful human experience of havingthe very structure of one's World vanish forever.

I bought this book because the photographs were beautiful and I wanted to learn more about this incredable animal. I was gravely disappointed for I not only found the captions didn't describe the photo but they were boring. It was as though someone cut statements from the text and tossed them in a hat then, picked each photo and caption randomly. I didn't find the text much better. I wanted facts to learn about moose but the author never seemed to commit himself. He prefaced statements with "apparently" or "evidently" or "it seems". I've learned more watching moose out my window than I did from this book.

Great book, well written, with pages of breathtaking colorful pictures. This book is very easy to read and will fullfill every curiosity you have about the moose. It should be a must for every library.

This book is part of the Foundations in Diagnostic Path series. As a practicing general pathologist, I perform a great amount of breast pathology, and this book suffers from its own brevity (I have the same complaint with their GI text--the GU books seems a little more complete). YES, this book might certainly be useful for a trainee looking for an alternative to the breast chapter in Sternberg or Rosai, but it just isn't comprehensive enough for daily practice---every time I try to use this book to answer a question, I end up having to pull out the larger Rosen book anyway.

This book, belonging to the Foundations in diagnostic pathology series, is one of the good introductory text in breast pathology. There are only a handful few new textbooks on the topic, some of them are too encyclopedic (like the Rosen's monograph) and some are too brief. This book tried to make a balance between the two. After reading this books, here are my comments about this books.

Good points:
1. Comprehensive in coverage, in particular included hot topics like immunohistochemistry in breast pathology, sentinel lymph node biopsy.
2. Include discussion on different diagnoses, BRCA associated cancer and some molecular aspect of breast pathology.
3. The topic on LCIS/ALH is excellent in coverage and current understanding of the disease, in particular contrasting the difference with DCIS.
4. Summary tables for fast retrieval of information.

Points requiring improvement:
1. Although the scope of entities included is wide, the treatment of individual entities are sometimes too brief. In particular relating the subtypes of breast cancer.
2. No picture for a lot of subtypes of breast cancer, which is very disappointing.
3.The topic of microglandular adenois is not even included.
4. The treatment of papillary lesions is too brief.

On the whole, this is a good introductory text, in particular for residents sitting for membership and fellowship exams because it included some theoretical stuffs that is often missed by other textbooks. However, for a more detailed discussion on the subject matter, I think the Rosen's monograph is still better.

This could have been a very interesting book; however, in order to truly examine how Churchill's faith and worldview made him a great leader, Mansfield would have risked disproving his primary "black and white" thesis: Winston Churchill was a great leader because he was a Christian... or at least "Christian" as defined by Mansfield's largely conservative, evangelical American audience. However, much of this audience would likely have major issues with Churchill's Freemasonry and later Druidic involvement, or in Churchill's belief in and reliance upon oratory-which included evoking British mythology-to rally the undermanned and underarmed British and hold the Germans at bay until more substantive military assistance arrived. In some Christian circles, particularly those up in arms over the Harry Potter books that draw upon much of the same British mythology Churchill did, this might be considered borderline sorcery. As the Nobel committee noted when awarding him the 1953 prize for literature (not peace), "His every word is half a deed."

Going to the other untenable extreme as conspiracy theorists across the `Net have done, claiming that Churchill's involvement with the Freemasons (like FDR's) and Druids proves that he is just as Satanic as Hitler, is certainly not an academic nor intellectually honest alternative; however, glossing over and outright avoiding relevant facts and sketching Churchill as a two-dimensional "Christian" hero any good card-holding Christian Reconstructionist could proudly hold up as a Christian leadership paradigm does nothing more than cast this complex man (who apparently had a more complex, idiosyncratic, and potentially problematic faith and worldview than Mansfield lets on) as a modern-day King Arthur. However, given Churchill's love of and belief in the power of myth, particularly English myth, perhaps Mansfield's speaking the Myth of Churchill into existence is perfectly appropriate in Churchillian terms. If this were truly Mansfield's motive, the book might have been more accurately titled, The Greatness and Power of the Churchillian Myth. [...]
Structurally, Mansfield's brief case-study examination of Churchill as leader bears a passing similarity to how Howard Gardner examined the various internal/cognitive and external influences that create and shape leaders in Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership (even though I personally thought Gardner did a better job of applying Mihalyi Cszikszentmihalyi's theories in an earlier book, Creating Minds). Based on a passing reference to Gardner's multiple intelligence theories in one of his other books, The Faith of George W. Bush, I wonder if Mansfield's treatment of Churchill isn't at least somewhat inspired by Gardner's work. However, reading this glossed-over, thesis-driven "study" just made me wish that Gardner had conducted this case study of Churchill in the first place.

To his credit, Stephen Mansfield illustrates the decisive importance of religious faith in the life of Winston Churchill since his encounter with his influential nanny, Mrs. Elizabeth Everest (pg. 41, 50, 192). The vision of death that Churchill experienced when he was a teenager could also have fortified his faith (pg. 212). Too often, Churchill's faith is downplayed in the abundant literature available about his words and deeds (pg. 34, 221-227). Churchill was a strong-willed nonconformist who rarely chose the well-worn path for which he sometimes paid a heavy price in his life as Mansfield correctly states (pg. 43, 99-100, 203-206). Randolph Churchill, his emotionally distant father, had no much faith in his son until his premature death in 1895 (pg. 160). Randolph Churchill thought that Winston was just good for a military career, not clever enough to go to the bar (pg. 47, 96-97).

During his military service in India, Churchill realized that he had huge gaps in his learning in contact with men of his own age who benefited from both breadth of knowledge and ease of discourse. Driven by curiosity and ambition, Churchill embarked on a demanding program of readings on his weakest subjects. This eager pursuit of knowledge was a turning point in Churchill's life (pg. 54, 99-102, 161-162). It marked the end of youth and progressively revealed Churchill's emergence as an exceptional man (pg. 101).

Churchill probably best summarizes his life's philosophy in a three-tier question and answer in Savrola, his only novel:

1) Would you rise in the world? You must work while others amuse themselves (pg. 57, 131). To merely exist was no better than death (pg. 134). Churchill's high talent and amazing energy were both praised and criticized (pg. 69-70, 85-86, 120, 129, 178, 188-190). Churchill could not stand the routine and the tedious. He was never idle. History transfixed Churchill and fed his vision of the world (pg. 70, 108, 139-141, 144-145, 209). Churchill deeply believed in action; he had a goal, a plan and an iron will to get things done (pg. 109-110). Churchill possessed an almost mystical knowledge in knowing the facts and seeing them as they were, as a critical step towards ultimate triumph (pg. 144). As Mansfield correctly points out, Churchill's weapons were his words, passionate words loaded with faith and vision (pg. 84, 147-150, 174, 179).

2) Are you desirous of a reputation for courage? You must risk your life (pg. 57). Churchill had little regard for his personal safety, was not concerned with criticism where his principles were involved, and regularly stood firm before the most determined opposition (pg. 77, 79, 82, 120, 123-126, 130, 195-198). Churchill, however, was open to genuine self-criticism (pg. 155-158, 160). Unsurprisingly, Churchill was perceived as a political opportunist, a maverick without deep loyalty to any political party as he switched back and forth between Conservatives and Liberals between 1904 and 1924 (pg. 66). Furthermore, Churchill regularly flirted with death first during his military career and then in politics (pg. 57, 104-106). Yet behind the public persona that radiated an aura of power and confidence, Churchill could sink in periods of depression that reminded him of his weaknesses (pg. 155-156, 171, 213). Churchill acknowledged that without the help of the Almighty, he could have never succeeded (pg. 64, 72, 84-85, 115-117, 152-153).

3) Would you be strong morally or physically? You must resist temptations (pg. 57, 132, 161). Churchill only asked of others what he required of himself (pg. 57, 106). Churchill never gave in except to convictions of honor and good sense (pg. 151). Churchill was not ashamed to show his emotions and compassionate nature (pg. 163, 172, 184). Churchill's happy marriage to Clementine Hozier is a testimony of their faith in each other, despite the many differences existing between them (pg. 119-122, 135-138). Churchill and his wife had to show much fortitude when dealing with the troubles of three of their four children (pg. 138, 153-154).

Churchill's character was forged in adversity. Churchill often learned the hard way. This rich experience he gained progressively turned him into a towering presence that could see farther than most people did. Churchill's enduring faith in both his destiny and the future of mankind was the ultimate driving force behind his greatness.

This book covers a facinating and underexamined area of US history. I was very much looking forward to reading it. The author clearly is extremely well-educated on this subject. The problem is -- he's boring. Ward Churchill writes like your typical college professor who turned you off history forever by being pedantic and uninspiring. I've worked as a book editor in the past and I have found that often the more education a writer has the worse his or her books are. Churchill seems to be underlining his scholarship with tediousness and seems to be over his head in information with no way to convey it in an readable manner. His editor should be fired for not making this book comprehensible to a wider audience. It isn't a doctoral thesis, for crying out loud. It's a disappointing treatment of what should have been an enlightening and educating experience. I wish I'd saved my money and hope, considering all the books Churchill has listed on Amazon, that he has, or will, learn to write well.

From 1880 to 1980 the families of Native Americans were cruelly disrupted by the United States and Canadian governments who forcibly removed children from their homes and relocated them in residential schools. The stated goal of this intrusive and brutal governmental program was to "kill the Indian to save the man". Half of the children died in this process of cultural remodeling refashioning aboriginal children into the clothing, hairstyles, attitdudes, and langauges of the larger white culture, and those who survived were often left permanently scarred resulting in alcoholism, suicide, and the transmission of trauma to succeeding generations down to the present day. A core contribution to Native American Studies curriculums and academic library reference collections, Ward Churchill (a Keetowah Cherokee and Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder) clearly lays out this unhappy chapter in Native American history with considerable detail and expertise in Kill The Indian, Save The Man: The Genocidal Impact Of American Indian Residential Schools.

This book is the least helpful OB text I've ever read. It is limited on info, silent on treatments, and out-of-date. Lots of good drawings, but save your cash, and your time.

I would reccomend this book to anyone Who is not only interested in being a doctor, but anyone that really wants to know what child birth is all about. The drawings are excellent and the author gets right to the point without a lot of excess verbage. This book would be a plus to anyones library.