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Author and member of the "Gen X Generation", James Denton's The X $eries: The Money Guide With Gen X Appeal is a compact money guide tailored specifically to appeal to America's Generation X, with a "don't beat around the bush, cut to the chase" approach to teaching how to manage and invest money in the new millennium. The X $eries is a "how to" and "why to" book for people who hate to balance their checking accounts, let alone an investment portfolio, and offers strategies to make your money work for you without constantly bean-counting to make sure you're in the black. Written in plain, ordinary language with a friendly, entertaining atmosphere and the occasional black-and-white picture of energetic men and women, The X $eries is truly a financial book that anyone and everyone from any generations can read, enjoy, and soundly understand. An excellent and highly recommended introduction to the art of in-vestment.

Whether a Gen Xer or not, you will not put this book down. The author presents real practical solutions for those who are living paycheck to paycheck, overwhelmed by debt and not saving or investing for their retirement. At last a better system for planning personal finances for those who hate budgets. Also, by using the tips on "Negotiation-the art of asking", I recently saved ... on an appliance purchase. The X-notes at the end of each chapter provide great summaries to refer back to later. Anyone who reads this book will come away with at least one valuable and easy to implement idea.

This is a great calendar! It has sexy poses of Cortana, 343GS, Dr. Halsey, John, and Sgt. Johnson! In bathing suits! On Halo! You HAVE to buy this. In fact, Im going to go look at it again right now....

This calendar is the bomb! It's really great.
If you read the other persons review don't beleive him. There are no pictures like that. They are all of master chief with guns blazing and things exploding. This is a must buy!!!
Once you order it you will know why it is almost always sold out.

This is one of the best guitar books I've ever seen, both because of it's music (being from Iron Maiden explains everything) and especially because of its strictness! It's an authentic guitar transcription. If you are a guitarist and Iron Maiden fan I recommend it to you. Take in consideration that not all the songs are easy to play and learn though...

I think this book really is just awesome.One reasons is that Dave Murray is just the best guitarist. Another reason is that it's just great to play the right notes to a Iron Maiden song because Iron Maiden's is just the best and these people on the tab web sites make the notes all wrong and it just pisses me off, you know.This is actually a funny reason why the book is cool, the Eddie on the cover is just amazing and freaky. This is why I think the book kicks total arse. Hope you like it, PEACE OUT and UP THE IRONS!

This is a great book. I am using the knowledge gleaned from this book to manage windows for a product platform using Java to talk directly to the XServer via the protocol. I knew almost nothing about X but had great deal of experience with other UI Toolkits. Within a few months I had a deeper and more satisfying understanding of X and its capabilities. Not for the faint of heart, but perfect for the inquisitive programmer...

This book reveals X at its most raw: the underlying bytestream that is truly X. If you've been confused by GUI toolkits and widgets galore, this book will strip away everything that isn't part of the core concepts that you need to know to understand what happens during an X session.

This book is not for the faint of heart, however. If you're wondering about learning how to write an X application, this book is probably not for you. This book is a good reference for implementors of X servers and X libraries; it may also be of some use to advanced X application programmers that need a reference for debugging purposes.

Looking for a wine guide that will actually help you in selecting wine at a restaurant, supermarket or wine store? So was I! This book reviews wine you can actually find and does so in a very entertaining and witty way! This book will stuff the stockings of every adult in my family this holiday season. Can't beat the price either!

Finally a book that is written with the average consumer in mind. I enjoy the colorful reviews that are straight forward and understandable. I take it with me every time I go to buy wine. The "Under $15" section is the best. I have found some really outstanding wines that don't cost an arm & a leg. I highly recommend this book for anyone that likes wine but doesn't like the pretense that is usually associated with it.

This book is in print and is available for $45 retail price. Since it is a government publication it is hard to find on Amazon but is currently available from both the NASA HQ information center and CASI, the Center for AeroSpace Information. Reference the NASA publication number, NASA SP-2007-562

Having started with "Madrox" and then moving on to volume 1 before reading this, I can easily say this is a great book. It's a little slower than the first one, but the payoff in this book is mind-blowing. Layla is still a part of the team doing her "I know stuff" thing, Quicksilver drops by for a scary guest stint, and there's an incredible moment of betrayal by one of the members of X-Factor you'll never see coming. Banshee's daughter deals with his death (from the pages of X-Men), and perhaps the coolest thing of all is how a simple plot thread from the very first issue of the series plays a huge part in the end of this book. Trust me, the story doesn't always move along at a fast pace, but there are enough shock-and-awe moments to keep you reading.

And through it all, Jamie continues to deal with the multiple personalities that are born whenever he's hit. The difference this time around is that he's slowly growing more in control and that's good. The plot device was a good place to start, but if it hadn't changed in a dozen issues the novelty of it would have worn thin.

This is not the book to start the series out on. Go back to the "Madrox" limited series, then get the first one before coming back here. Peter David is doing an incredible job of storytelling here, and you don't want to spoil anything by missing a key point early on.

the story seems to get more and more interesting to read. can't wait for the third arc

if you are like me, you read all three of the "essential x-men" books cover to cover. Sure, the third installment was a little weak, but i still enjoyed it. I was pretty sure that an essential x-men 4 was an impossibility due to marvels tight budget so i thought i was doomed at a fate of never reading an issue past issue #161. A month later, i saw "the brood saga" available at amazon.com. I knew that that title directly followed the essentiel x-men 3. But its sole review was a bad one, telling me it was a no-buy. So i didnt buy it. I then saw "x-men from the ashes", which recounted issues about #167 to #173. i ordered it only to find it not available. I then truly thought i was doomed until i found this book, which succesfully reprints 167- 173 in chapter book size. these are good stories that can fit in you pocket. Buy this.

Give credit to Marvel Comics for their aggressive and wide-ranging program of re-printing classic comics: in formats for all ages and budgets, Marvel has released reissues of their groundbreaking comic books in hardcover (Marvel Masterworks), softcover (graphic novel reprints and the b/w "Essentials" collections), comic book format, and now the new "Backpack Marvels": digest-sized collection of 7-8 comic book classics. This book reprints Uncanny X-Men #167-173, featuring top X-Men scribe Chris Claremont's writing and artwork on the book by Paul Smith and a fill-in issue by the great Walt Simonson. Fans of the recent X-Men movie will find this collection easier to get into than the current comic book (most of the characters in this collection appear in the movie: Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Storm).

This truly is classic, almost 'primal' X-Men: originally published in the years before there were ten or twelve X-books with complicated and conflicting storylines, month after month Claremont told some of the most entertaining and eloquent tales in the four-color medium. There's such a good range of stories in here: the X-Men's return from battling the Brood, the introduction of the Morlocks and Madeleine Pryor, Rogue's admission into the X-Men--much different than the movie version!--and best of all, a Wolverine/Rogue team-up story that's so well-written, so powerfully drawn (check out the amazing, Frank Miller-inspired silent fight sequence) that the ending leaves a tear in your eye and you hardly notice Wolverine is absent for the first half of this collection. Smith's artwork is clean and crisp and reproduces well in black and white at this slightly reduced size, and even with today's computerized lettering companies, for my money there's still no better letterer in the business than Tom Orzechowski.

Only one complaint: I would have liked to see a "story so far" introduction. The collection starts abruptly, dropping the X-Men into a conflict with the New Mutants after an adventure in outer space (the ramifications of which drastically affect Professor X). A summary of what had gone on before and a brief introduction to the characters would have been useful to the first-time reader.

That said, I'm hoping there *are* plenty of new readers for this book and this format: one of Marvel's challenges in the 21st century is to find a wider and new audience for comic books as a whole. This attractive package, affordable price, and classic collection of stories may be what the industry needs to sell comics outside the traditional comic book store market. I can easily see this attractive little volume being sold at newsstands, airport gift shops, bookstores, and more.

Seriously, you have no idea how many inside jokes me and friends have that originated from some stupid cartoon that one of us made using this game and it's spiderman cartoon maker counterpart. The movie making utilities in this may seem primitive, especially from todays standards but that's part of the charm. Things seem so much funnier when the limitations cause certain things to be corny. It's like watching Ed Wood films, so bad it's good.

What a great game! Just like all the others! Make your own REAL LIVE cartoons! It's so cool! I Love this game!

A nice collection of stories drawn by renown artist Arthur Adams. All are just spectacularly drawn, and well told. A personal must have for any X-Men collection.

I'm amazed I'm the first to review this here. Ask any longtime Art Adams fan: it's really a must-have item. Many comic artists in particular have been influenced by his work; this paperback is among his best.

Highlights here for me...
*New Mutants Special Edition- It's 64 *amazing* pages of new mutants & Asgard! Yes, I said it: 64 crazy-ridiculous pages! One of the single, best-illustrated comic book issues I've ever seen. Insanely beautiful, detailed artwork throughout. If you thought Walt Simonson was the only one who ever did Asgard any justice, you might be surprised here. You don't have to be a New Mutants fan to appreciate this. It reportedly took Adams months to draw this; one look at it and you'll understand why. I especially like the scenes of Karma in the desert.
*X-Men Annual 9- Loki & Hela. The Asgard angle continues in another over-sized issue.
*X-Men Annual 10- Longshot, X-babies & Mojo. Yet another famous, over-sized comic issue.
*X-Men Annual 12- Evolutionary War, X-babies & Terminus. 64-pages again! For some reason, Adams specialized in big individual issues throughout the eighties. It may have had something to do with his challenge meeting deadlines, but his artwork is certainly worth it. He even makes a cameo in this issue.

Also included: his FF issues with the crazy team of Spider-Man, Wolverine, Ghost Rider & the incredible Hulk. This pristine, high quality paperback has super-slick & sturdy, glossy paper, and it's currently hard to find. Future editions will likely feature a cheaper yet still decent grade of paper. If you can find an ok price, get it!

Included in this volume:
*New Mutants Special Edition #1- Chris Claremont writes; Art Adams pencils; Terry Austin inks
*X-Men Annual #9- Chris Claremont writes; Art Adams pencils; Gordon, Mignola & Adams inks
*X-Men Annual #10- Chris Claremont writes; Art Adams pencils; Terry Austin inks
*X-Men Annual #12- Chris Claremont writes; Art Adams pencils; Bob Wiacek inks
*Fantastic Four #347- Walt Simonson writes; Art Adams pencils; Art Thibert inks
*Fantastic Four #348- Walt Simonson writes; Art Adams & Gracine Tanaka pencils; Thibert & Milgrom inks
*Fantastic Four #349- Walt Simonson writes; Art Adams & Gracine Tanaka pencils; Thibert & Milgrom inks