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The canary caper is a good book Itlls about two boys and one girl who are looking for a lost bird they also found out other animals were being stolen around town you shound read this book to see what happens.

My son hads me read the A to Z mysteries to him, and this one we read in two nights. Great book!!

My name is Arden Feldman. I think that the book was very good. I liked how they solved the mystery. I really liked the part when the kids came out of the bushes and they looked like ninjas. I could not stop reading the book because it was so good.

What I like about the book is that the book has a lot pages to read and is interesting about A canary.
The canary is lost and there are three kids, Dink Josh and Ruth that found the canary.
The book is a good book for kids who like mysteries.
I like to read too much.

My 5 year old son loves this series -- we read them as quickly as they come out. In this one, pets are disappearing -- but why? These are not exactly mysteries -- unlike, say, the Clue Jr. books there's no way for the reader to solve the crimes before the crooks are caught -- but they are interesting and fun to discuss, chapter by chapter, as the plot thickens!

I have been waiting a long time for a book like this! While the Spanish style homes of California have been documented in numerous books, the large amount of this architecture that was built in Florida during the same period has never gotten the amount of press it deserves. There are books on the architecture of Addison Mizner and a few other noted Florida architects, but nothing comprehensive on the style that was so prevalent during the boom years, and which was used in big cities like Miami and much smaller towns all over the state. This book covers houses from Miami to Winter Park and gives a nice overview of the style. I was very impressed not only by the amazing photographs, but by the histories that went along with each home featured. These histories allow the reader to put the home into its proper context and can be used as guides for people like me that are restoring similar homes. I wasn't as impressed with the newer homes in the back of the book, but there are only three relatively modern houses covered, so it does not take much away from the overall content. Since many of the homes built in this style were smaller bungalows it would have been nice to have seen some of them included, but the homes pictured are stunning! This book is must have.

This book has a terrific collection of photos of old Florida, Tuscany-type homes. We've looked all over for a book like this. Hope others enjoy it as much.

we are having a new villa style home built and have gotten many wonderful ideas from the camera art in this book. page after page of wonderful spanish/mediterranean homes are pictured in this beautiful volume.

The first town in the New World was in Florida and it was a Spanish town. Since then the Spanish influence on the arthitecture and culture of Florida has been large.

In this book a selection of buildings has been carefully selected to illustrate the history of Spanish-style structures from across the state. From an age standpoint, there are some quite old (but certainly not run down) homes varying up through some modern homes built using traditional styling. A few commercial buildings such as hotels are also included.

From a style standpoint, the homes of Florida seem to have been influenced more by a Mediterranean, even Moorish, look than the Spanish architecture houses more common in the Western States that have more of a Mexican influence.

Beautiful pictures beautifully printed on a high quality matte finished paper add a warmth to the book that glossy magazine style printing imparts.

In my hunt for more information on Spanish Style homes, (I own a bungalow in California), I have been frustrated at the limited amount of books out there. I work at a Library, and many of the patrons share the same frustrations. In order to be able to find books on these subjects, I have had to self-teach about the many surrounding subjects; ie, tiles, Mexico, Moorish, Morocco, Spain, etc. This book is one of the better ones. It has beautiful pictures on how to decorate and landscape. I learned that air-conditioning changed architecture in a substantive way. I had also never heard about concrete ceilings made to look like wood before, apparently a Florida staple, due to humidity. These houses are oh-my-Gorgeous! The only problem was that the author frequently discussed beautiful rooms and details of the houses, then didn't show pictures. Maybe/hopefully, they're saving those pics for a follow-up book on interiors and details? I agree with the previous reviewer, how about a book now on Florida Spanish bungalows?

I cant seem to put it down. when i do, i switch the lights back on and read more. it's pact with action and energy. the xmen after a mission on another earth returned to find out no one remembers them even their friends. their mansion became a death camp, Doom was the emperor of everyone and ororo is his empress. read the book, its more than worth reading.

This Book was great. I recomended it to any X-Men fan. It has alot of action and a good story. My only warning is once you start this book you won't be able to put it down!!

This book ruled!. The only part that suprised me greater than Gambit's death was the ending. Get this book if you like Dr. Doom

This is an awesome book. Once you finish the first chapter, you just want to read more. Once you read the first page, you become captivated to read the book. The first page is totally awesome.

THis is truly a must buy for any x-fan out there. Just buy this book!

This is an excellent book. It outlines the important issues of clinical trials well. It is understandable and thorough. A must for anyone who is interested in actually doing trials. Not a good book for a brief, superficial overview.

Covers many aspects of trials (particularly facets of design and analysis)not yet covered by other books, eg randomisation with minimisation, and meta-analysis of trial results. Readable, applicable, practical, good references, well structured.

The amount of knowledge and the scope of this book are the exact need for the first contact with clinical trials. Yet, it is not a simple or superficial text. Instead, it not only will guide the reader through the basics of trials (and there is so much that is not basic in it) but the author points the reader to hundreds of papers and books that are landmarks. I regard this book itself as one of these landmarks!

This book is very unique. Basic statistical concepts are clearly presented but only those concepts that are important in clinical trials. The author presents all the issues with clinical trials including ethical issues with some historical perspective. Principles of randomization and statistical design are clearly presented. It offers discussion of Bayesian techniques and meta-analyses, cross-over designs and group sequential methods (interim analyses). For statisticians doing clinical research like myself, this is a valuable reference source.

This book is very unique. Basic statistical concepts are clearly presented but only those concepts that are important in clinical trials. The author presents all the issues with clinical trials including ethical issues with some historical perspective. Principles of randomization and statistical design are clearly presented. It offers discussion of Bayesian techniques and meta-analyses, cross-over designs and group sequential methods (interim analyses). For statisticians doing clinical research like myself, this is a valuable reference source.

This book is the most complete and up-to-date book on cosmology I know of. It's extremely well written and very detailed. It's all so good, it's hard to say anything especially stands out. Nevertheless I especially enjoyed the discussions (done throughout the book) of the cosmic microwave background fluctuations, dark matter and dark energy. If you're read authors three volume set on quantum field theory or his graduate level text on gravitation, the writing in this book is exactly what you'd expect.

Obviously one can't understand cosmology without knowledge of general relativity, but this book doesn't require an especially strong knowledge of it. In addition to basic general relativity a couple of other things perspective readers would probably want some background in are statistical mechanics and the standard model of particle physics. The Robertson-Walker solution is pretty much taken as a given, solutions like Taub-NUT that clearly don't describe our universe are not covered. More speculative aspects of cosmology are not discussed. For example you won't find coverage of things like the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, quantum cosmology, non-standard topologies, topological defects (monopoles are mentioned briefly) or higher dimensional theories.

Aside from the speculative topics it covers everything most people would want to know. The topics include: the cosmological distance ladder, the cosmic microwave background, nucleosynthesis, structure formation, inflation, dark matter (baryonic and non-baryonic) and dark energy.

One of the striking features of this book is that it makes it very clear how precise the measurements in cosmology are. One example is Hubble's constant is give as 71+/- 6 (in the usual units), while in Peeble's excellent book (from 1993) was only known to be in the range 50-85. Another is that many measurements have been made to a fairly high precision and they fit together beautifully, the very realistic possibility (if the current model did not reflect reality quite well) that there are some conflicts is not realized.

All-in-all this is an excellent book that I would expect anyone seeking a deep knowledge or cosmology would enjoy. If one's interest in cosmology is more casual it may be too detailed.

The first chapter of this book is something that I've never seen on any Cosmology book. It has a very complete and up-to-date description of observational Cosmology that is missing on other texts.

As a graduate in experimental nuclear physics (MSc, also now a retiree of 65), I read Prof. Weinberg's The First Three Minutes, and Dreams of a Final Theory, when I was actively working in the field of nuclear engineering. I bought the author's three volume books on the QED, and, of course, this book too, because of his mathematically rigorous descriptions of theoretical models of Nature. Because I have also read Prof. Andrei Linde's "Particle Physics and Inflationary Cosmology," I have wondered if Prof. Weinberg also writes something about "Consciousness," but no mention of it, maybe simply because "Consciousness" cannot be put on a mathematically rigorous basis as yet. What I have confirmed from this book is Prof. Weinberg is, apparently, mathematically rigorous a Materialist.
We know that there are many Dualists in the field of parapsychology, John Beloff, for example. I can understand these Dualists' position; they cannot deny the existence of Non-physical Realm as well as Physical Realm, both based on their convincing facts. But from my point of view, these Dualists are dualists because they cannot deny the existence of at least One Objective Physical Realm, i.e. our Universe. How can we, conscious Egos, (not the Unconscious) deny it! Maybe, our Universe was created as explained in this book, or as in Genesis, for example. However, we also have "Psychical Knowledge" given by the non-physical entity "Seth" through the trance-channeling of the late American writer-poet Jane Roberts (1929-1984); the knowledge tells us, the conscious Egos, that "Consciousness" is the origin of everything!

Wow! This is the first review of the book in the whole of internet (had reviewed it in the amazon.co.uk website). I got a copy of Steven Weinberg's Cosmology two months back though Amazon and am happy! Reminds me of the day back in early 2000 when I pre-ordered Weinberg's Supersymmetry and the day I got it was full of intellectual thrills. All the other texts had a very superficial treatment of Supersymmetry and this was also the case with Cosmology - until now, when the biggest physicist in the post-world-war-2 era wrote on the subject!

Any review of Weinberg's texts is far from complete without having to say something about the Preface. The reader will remember the preface of his book on Gravitation and Cosmology where Weinberg tells us how dissatisfied he was with the usual approach to studying Gravitation and how he sees General Relativity as a consequence of constraints imposed by the quantum theory of massless Spin-2 particles. The reason for Weinberg to write the texts on Quantum Field Theory was also spelled out in the preface - he wanted to address a deep question: "Why Quantum Fields?". In the preface of this book, the author tells us that he wanted to share his experience of learning the latest development of Cosmology, since lots has happened in this area recently. Plus of course, he indirectly (and correctly!) points out how incomplete the usual review articles on Cosmology are.

That indeed is true! And this book precisely will help the reader in learning Cosmology in a way where equations are actually derived and not just mentioned with a reference. Usual treatment of cosmology is vague and superficial and in this text the reader will find not only the full derivation but also good explanations.

The book can be divided in 2 parts. In Chapters 1-4 the reader is introduced to topics ranging from the Robertson-Walker metric to the expanding universe to inflation. The reader has to be familiar with General Relativity to start reading this book. There is a small Appendix in the book on GR: however it should be seen as a write-up for establishing conventions. The remainder of the book (Chapters 5-10) consider advanced topics such as anisotropies, growth of structure and multi-field inflation. Weinberg mentions that he did not want to cover speculative topics and this seems to make sense for such a book. (Though I would have loved a section on the Cosmic Anthropic Principle)

To summarize, this is simply the best reference for Cosmology and Weinberg has once again written a text, noboby else could have.

How do modern scientists form a basis for their research? "Cosmology" is a complete and comprehensive manual to anyone who is curious about he functions of this science and wants to learn more. Covering countless topics in nearly six hundred pages, such as microwave background polarization, leptogenesis, multifield inflation, and others, "Cosmology" is an ideal text for students. Enhanced with appendices containing formulas, glossaries, and more, "Cosmology" is almost a science college course on its own. A top pick for college library science collections.

Thank you for the great quality book that I received. It was perfect and the students loved it.

My son loved the book as a young boy now the grandchildren are having it read to them and beginnning to love it.

This is a fabulous book integrating math and literature. Frank reminds us of someone we all know. You will laugh yourself silly, no matter what your age is!

This is a story for younger children, about a boy who likes to ask questions. Not about dragons, or witches or monsters, but about the ordinary things around us like ball-point pens, and peas, and his dog Frank. The best and biggest question is of course 'What if?' "What if I drew with this ball point pen until it ran out, how long would the line be?" "What if I ran this bath until the room filled up with water, how long would it take?" These are the sort of questions that all kids ask. The difference is that this kid has the answers. I found this book a delight with colourful and amusing illustrations. I would recommend it to anyone with children aged 4-10. Also to grown-ups who still have the enquiring mind of a child

This book contains wonderful illustrations of a boy and his unforgetable dog Frank. The boy, as he's referred to in the book, uses Frank as a unit of measure. The boy also calculates fascinating and interesting facts about peas (his least favorite vegetable), humpback whales, his father and the bathtub. It inspires readers to reconsider measurement and allows them to laugh at the same time. It is a wonderful book full of intresting, if sometimes seemingly useless, facts about numbers, calculation and one amazing dog name Frank!

I found John Morgan's book totally gripping. It is a must read book for anyone seeking the truth of Princess Diana's death. John Morgan has written much about mistakes and crucial evidence in the Paget Report. It opens ones eyes to think that this report is being used in the enquiry into Diana's death. It is a fallacy. The author has made it clear that her death was not accidental, but a conspiracy to murder.
A good deal of information was left out of the Paget Report. For example, some witnesses were not interviewed or investigated or if they were, their information was not included. The treatment of Diana's injuries and the time it took to get her to a hospital is another issue. If she had had appropriate treatment she could have lived. That obviously wasn't wanted. Also evidence at the scene of the crime was removed before the experts arrived. This is an amazing book and one I will read again.
It has given me an interest too into the enquiry being held now in England. If it is based on the Paget Report, it will be a grave miscarriage of justice.

This book "Cover-up of a Royal Murder;Hundreds of Errors in the Paget Report" by John Morgan, covers very adequately all the events leading up to and including the crash of the Mercedes that Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed were involved in on August 30,1997. In this book, Morgan also contributes much to the later investigation of the said events by exposing the inadequate conclusions arrived at in the Paget Report, as well as the obvious sifting of evidence by ignoring certain witness statements while accepting others,as well as the assignment of certain characteristics to witnesses,without qualifying their reason for doing this;the handling of contradiciive statements in the interrogation of witnesses;the conflicting testimony of those involved in the handling of tissue and fluid specimens from the bodies of Diana and Dodi Al Fayed;the reluctance of French authorities to respond appropriately to the investigation;etc.
Mr.Morgan has a clear and excellent, very readable writing style. His putting together of the actions and interactions that took place in the Alma Tunnel in the minutes prior to, during, and immediately after the crash, are very dramatic and well organized.

He adequately points out the flagrant negligence of the Paget report in so far as giving accurate evidence of their conclusions;the possible tampering with, of evidence, and dogmatic conclusions that are baseless in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary;the fact that Paget focuses on what witnesses did not see, rather than what they actually claimed to see(ie, evidence of the white Fiat Uno is described by several witnesses as being a central part of the collision and yet is discounted by Paget even after finding paint from the Fiat on the Mercedes);the altering of witness accounts as to locations,times,descriptions given;failure to adequately address the accusations of assassination("Franz Klein...told him that John Macnamara had said to him that he suspected murder rather than an accident...."-Pg 451 of "Cover-Up"),claims of threats against the bodyguards;the refusal of NSA/CIA to allow Paget access to their files on Diana;etc.

Mr.Morgan shows through a very thorough investigation of the facts, as compared with the Paget report, how the report is riddled with errors, dogmatic statements, third person summaries, failure to connect in a timely and factual manner, events and circumstances that led up to the crash, as well as failure on the part of the Paget report to adequately record testimonies of the persons and witnesses involved in these events, including crucial evidence of there being possible intent to deliberately distract the Mercedes driver and cause the crash;the questionable actions and statements of the physician who stopped to render aid;the destruction of photographs taken after the crash showing that Diana was alive and responding to caregivers;etc.

Mr Morgan exposes the generalization and speculations of the Paget report for the lack of evidence to prove their conclusions;ie, the altering of certain witnesses' testimonies in order to change the meaning;lack of specifics regarding pertinent details;inadequate timelines related to events leading up to and including the crash;acceptance of certain witnesses testimony without sufficient evidence to support their testimony, which did not agree with other witnesses;changing of testimonies of key witnesses;autopsy errors(ie,"there is no biological analysis of the liver, pancreas or other viscera [of Henri Paul] - yet Henri was accused of being an alcoholic"). According to this investigative report, the same incompetent person did the post mortem examination on Diana, and she was(for some unknown reason) embalmed before turning her body over to the family-"rendering any toxicology and pregnancy test pointless."

It is very obvious, from the evidence presented by John Morgan in "Cover-Up," that Henri Paul was not legally intoxicated, in fact not even to the point of it being detectable by those around him who knew what to look for(ie, the bodyguards) The evidence Mr.Morgan gives shows that without a doubt, the original pathologist was either incompetent, or very careless in the tests that she ran on the body of Henri Paul, which is why later tests were subsequently necessary.

These failures of the studies done by the pathologists may explain why so many of them resigned from the case, as noted in "Cover-Up."
The ineffective use of surveliance cameras at key points, and the failure of Paget to interview key persons involved in monitoring such equipment;failure to partition off the area of the crash for investigation; failure to provide for adequate lighting to support the investigation, along with the mishandling of information that resulted from the use of inadequate lighting in both cases;the premature cleanup of the said area before completion of the investigation by proper authorities is detailed in "Cover-Up."

The fact that pedestrians saw high tech cameras being used within a very short time after the crash and were witnesses to what actually happened, were being sent out of the tunnel by these cameramen and their assistants. According to John Morgan,these photos were never seen by the public or the police.
Mr Morgan compares the two cars the Mercedes 600 with the inferior S280 that was substituted and in which Dodi Al Fayed and Princess Diana were riding on the night of the crash, and shows how the Paget Report failed to follow through on evidence of pre-crash tampering with the latter vehicle, and compares the position of certain vehicles in and around the Mercedes in which Dodi and Diana were riding, in the final moments just before the fatal crash.

The evidence of error in the Paget Report is glaring. It is obvious that much of what happened in the Alma Tunnel prior to and following the crash, was not adequately followed up on in that investigation. "Cover-Up" mentions that much of the evidence given by pedestrians is not even mentioned in the report, neither is the fact that one of the motorcycles cut across in front of the Mercedes at one point just before the crash, flashing a blinding light into the face of the driver of the Mercedes, according to some witnesses, as recorded in "Cover-Up."

There is also indication according to "Cover-Up," that OPCI was aware of factors involved in the fatal crash, that were not revealed or addressed in their report;ie,interrogation of the drivers of other vehicles not associated with the Paparazzi(ie, the white Fiat Uno & the large black motorcycle);why no attempt was made to track down these vehicles;the mysterious death of the owner of the white Fiat Uno(James Andanson) in 2000, and his former association with Dodi Al Fayed and Diana;witness reports of strange behavior of the drivers and passengers of the said vehicles;why some witnesses claimed they saw a flashing light just prior to the crash;lack of proper witness interrogation by authorities at the scene, and changing of certain witness testimony in later interviews;photos taken before, during, and after the crash are missing and were never followed up on;the obvious negligence in giving emergency care to Diana is thoroughly covered by Mr.Morgan in a detailed report, showing that it took almost two hours to get her to a hospital that was only a few minutes away.
"Cover-Up" shows in detail that the post crash investigation was not thorough and that the evidence was obliterated before the proper authorities could complete their investigation.

COVER-UP OF A ROYAL MURDER :
Hundereds Of Errors in the PAGET REPORT
by John Morgan,
is a MUST READ.

Anyone who cares about corruption, abuse of power at the top and the lies surrounding the timely and conveninet deaths of Diana and Dodi and how it was all covered-up in an attempt to pass it off as JUST AN ACCIDENT , for nearly 11 years, will not be able to put down this book.

This book is an eye-opener into what is happening to a Great nation as it gives in to abuse of power and corruption at the top where even the Police is called in to cover-up crime and withhold evidence from Courts of justice and inquiries.

This is a MUST read for every person who is concerned about world corruption and abuse of power which leads to the destruction of innocent people and those who are trying to help them ,such as Diana the Princess of Wales.

John Morgan's book is a book, which once started cannot be put down as it is excellent from start to finish, easy to understand and follow and serves a very valid purpose as a moral eye-opener and a global awareness alarm.

John Morgan's book astounded me, a must read book. I found the book enthralling and I could not put it down, as I could not wait to see what else was wrong with the report.
The author is also outstanding in the way he has found the evidence that to me proves Diana was murdered and not killed accidentally. It is obvious to me that the Paget Report has mishandled the report with missing evidence and false so-called evidence. To think, the present inquiry uses the Paget Report, what a fallacy.
The author has found so much evidence that is not in or has been changed in
the report. I have to wonder how the report was concocted at such great cost.
I just hope that this book brings to light some of the evidence the
author has found and is taken into account.

John Morgan's book contains compelling evidence of the death of Princess
Diana not being accidental as reported. It is brilliantly written, and a
huge amount of research must have been put into this book.

Reading 'Cover-up of a Royal Murder' convinced me beyond doubt that Diana
was the victim of sinister and deliberate series of acts of conspiracy
that caused her death. As I read the book, I was astounded at
the volume of evidence pointing to criminal involvement rather then an
accident.

As the author shows the Paget Report certainly has many holes and incorrect evidence in it, and yet it has been produced for the enquiry being held. The thought of the enquiry being conducted using the Paget report doesn't make any sense at all, so I hope this is taken into account in the British enquiry.

This is a book that every professional working in crisis management or emergency planning should read and keep in their personal library. This recently re-released book is truly a crisis management standard.

When I "suffered" my own Management Crisis back in 1994, I turned to my library collection to see if there was anything there to help me. I found Stephen Fink's "Crisis Management" and started to impliment his suggestions. What transpired, not only helped me deal with the immediate issue, but started a course of action that I still employ today.

Based on my own experience, and finding that others in my profession have felt lost in their crises, I started to give presentations, using Fink's text as my guide.

I encourage anyone who's in busisness, management, or in some decision making role in an organization, to get a copy for themselves, and pass it on to your colleageues. I also encourage libraries to add this to their collections.

As the subtitle suggests, Crises are inevitable, so why not "be prepared?"

Fink's "yellow book" is still one of the most comprehensive and well-built guide for crisis related subjects. Its systematic approach and case-analyze supported explanations provides readers to understand the issue well

This book covers the subject of Crisis Management with factual review and analysis. It gives practical examples of do's and don'ts while keeping the reader's attention. Anyone dealing with crises, even in their personal life, would do well to read this book. This one goes on my library shelf to keep!

I read this book when it was first published more than 15 years ago and decided to re-read it recently as various corporate crises occur or continue. (Who knows what the latest Enron and Arthur Andersen developments will be by the time this review appears?) What sets this book apart from almost all others which discuss the same general subject is the fact that Fink's observations, insights, and recommendations are (if anything) more relevant in 2001 than ever before. How can this be true? My answer is that he correctly emphasizes the importance of a comprehensive and cohesive process which consists of four separate but related components: anticipation and preparation, rapid response, follow-through, and post-event evaluation. For obvious reasons, each is critically important but post-event evaluation has even greater importance (and value) if it guides and informs subsequent anticipation and preparation. In an ideal world, seamless anticipation and preparation will eliminate all crises. In reality, "the best laid plans" can almost instantaneously become irrelevant, if not counter-productive. Presumably, major airlines such as American and United as well as the City of New York (not to mention federal agencies) involved some exceptionally talented people to formulate a number of "What if?" scenaria. And then the events of September 11th occurred. The efforts to formulate such scenaria were not invalidated by those events; nonetheless, as in Hawaii almost 60 years ago, the challenge was for various corporate and governmental entities to respond immediately and effectively, as indeed they did. In time, as with the events which occurred on December 7th, the events which occurred last September will be evaluated even as preventive measures are taken and new scenaria are formulated, as indeed they should be.

Fink organizes his excellent material within 18 chapters which are arranged in a sequence appropriate to the aforementioned components. With meticulous care, he defines various terms (thus providing a nomenclature for crisis management which most readers probably did not have before) while establishing a context within which to illustrate and apply those terms. Of greater value, I think, is the matrix of different perspectives which Fink provides. This strategy reminds me of the way Henry James develops his major characters in various novels. That is, look at a given situation from every possible angle. This Fink does brilliantly as he explains how to measure the nature and extent of a given crisis, decide who must do what immediately, how to manage information (he devotes Chapters 13 and 14 to crisis communications), and how to make the most effective decisions under what are inevitably severe pressures ranging from shock and fear to grief and anger within compressed timeframes. He also includes what he calls "A Catastrophic Quartet" in Chapter 17: case studies of crises involving Ohio Savings and Loan, Union Carbide, Procter & Gamble (Rely Tampon), and Johnson & Johnson (Tylenol). Having reached this point in the book, Fink's reader is already well-prepared to recognize various dos and don'ts within the four case studies.

Who will derive the greatest value from this book? My response is decision-makers in organizations (regardless of size or nature) who realize or at least suspect the importance of having a crisis management program already in place, especially now. Noteworthy is the fact that the same observations, insights, and recommendations which Fink shares in this book are as relevant to "catastrophes" involving loss of intellectual property as they are to situations in which there is loss of human life and/or destruction of physical property. Those who share my high regard for this book are urged to check out Ian Mitroff's Managing Crises Before They Occur and The Essential Guide to Managing Corporate Crises (in that order) as well as Peter Schwartz's The Art of the Long View. The subtitle of this book stresses the importance of "planning for the inevitable." I could not agree more.

I'd like to read this book, but I have seen the movie, which is one of my favorite movies of all times. I don't think Adam Banks deserved to get hurt. It was also nice that Charlie gave up his spot for adam. I will not tell anything more cause I don't want to give it all away.

D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is a very good book--mostly for boys or girls aged nine to twelve because there are a few tough words to understand if you are under nine. Although this book was written in 1992 and later turned into a Walt Disney movie, it's truly a fabulous book.

D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is about a group of twenty teenagers who play ice hockey at the Junior Goodwill Games in Los Angeles. Coach Gordan Bombay is in a world of sponsors and business. Bombay only cares about Team USA's sponsor, hendrix, and trying to impress the board members of Hendrix.
I enjoy Julie "The Cat" Gaffney, the goalie from Bangor, Maine, because she's a great goalie and she has a nice personality. Jordan Horowitz, the author, wants you to get into hockey. I was surprised how much hockey is mental and not physical.

Los Angeles is a perfect setting for this book although California has a mild temperature. Downtown walls are covered with graffiti and skilled teenagers playing schoolyard hockey. Team USA decides to play these juveniles and actually learn from playing them. They learned how to play like Team USA.

I truly recommend this book although it hasn't won a single award. Jordan Horowitz' style of writing is adventurous but exciting.

Team USA is led by Adam Banks and Charlie Conway, longtime hockey stars. USA fans are shocked when Banks gets checked by Olaf Sanderson from the Vikings of Iceland. Banks tries and proves to Coach Bombay that he can play. He says to Coach Bombay that scouts are watching and he just has to play.

Jordan Horowitz was inspired by the 1980 Team USA Olympic win over Russia and so he wrote this book. This book is like most hockey books by Matt Christopher. I've read all of Matt Christopher's hockey books and D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is much better. D2: MIGHTY DUCKS ARE BACK! is more suspenseful and exciting. I am comparing Christopher and Horowitz because they are both very good sports, although Christopher has written many more books.

Horowitz writes with an athletic edge, because he must know a lot about sports. H eknows what he's writing about. he knows kids will enjoy his books. That's what I love about him.
I was surpised how much hockey is mental and not physical. Even though I have not played much hockey myself. I learned this from the book and hopefully you will, too.

I bought this a few weeks ago from market place. The book wasn't in the best of condition but the book was great! Tons of non movie scenes. I recommend this book if you liked the movie.

I loved this book!!! If you liked the movie, you'd love this book. There's parts that aren't even in the movie!!! It also throughly explains the "Things that make you go hmm..." in the movie.

The ducks are back!, and with more spunk then ever. They are going to the jounior goodwill game in L.A. where they encounter troubles with Coach Bombay, and meet the dreded Iceland team. Can the ducks go for the gold while trying to figure out what happened to Coach Bombay?

Very good book. Fast paced, action packed, and one of the best choose your own adventure books. Only one disappointment...none of the rides actually break down but it is still an exciting thrill ride of a book. You can end up a hero or you can fall off a fake boat and die...you choose.

The only thing I did not like about the stories were that all of them were overly dramatic, which does not take away from the reading of the book at all. It's just a personal preference that I would have wanted one of the endings to be a way to enjoy all the rides and go home happy. None of the scenarios are like that. There's all kinds of drama good and bad, and you can't see the whole picture unless you go through at least some of the endings. The ideas the authors thought up of are very interesting and surprising. It's amazing what you can do with a new amusement park built in New Mexico by a gorgeous hotel with video games in your room. In one of the endings, you get to play video games while enjoying a nice bubble bath, and in another story, you're eating pancakes with two other daredevillers. The picture on the cover is actually a bit misleading in the sense that there are only about 7 characters total in the book. There is even a good twin and an evil twin in the book. Whether it's Southern Comfort, Vampire Island, Blackhole [roller coaster], Ski Mountain/Downhill Racer, Amazon Adventure, African Safari Park, or a wacky ferris wheel, I'm already there!

I myself have never read this book, but i have read almost every other in the series and i am amazed at how well they are written

I like this book because the rides are cool, and because even though it's not right, sneak into the park to have fun--until you go to Transylvania Island and find Dr. Ivring Bok, and get into some trouble with the vampire too. When I read the book I heard about the Black Hole roller coaster I really knew that ride was going to be exciting. This was one of the favorite books of the series that I read and really liked.

The comment above may sound like I don't like this book, but this is one of the Top 5 I've read so far. However, that may soon not be in the Top 5 since I read so many of these books. I can't think of any worst part in the book, except that I couldn't get to Page 12. I read every other page then that one, yet I just couldn't get to that adventure. Maybe I just read the "Turn to Page..." directions wrong. But still, that doesn't mean the book is bad. Besides the worst part, the best parts are where you sneak into the park, capture Dr. Bok, and go on the Black Hole. I especially like the "alternate universe". It must be more thrilling than ever to go in that ride. It's too bad this isn't a real story. Well, that's all I can say about this one. Don't miss it.