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I learned BASIC thanks to this great book, and I was only 8 years old! A great step-by-step book!

The best Atlas of Color Coded Doppler Sonography I've read yet, and I've read quite a few. Well-written, gripping, and altogether masterful. The dexrous manipulation of digits, the soft touch -- a feat. I couldn't put it down. Two thumbs up!

This is the first book that I've ever read through it's entirety. It simply had me spellbound from beginning to end. This is one of the most important books on race relations and political sabatage as there can be on America. It holds up a mirror to our society , so we can see what has been and what is. To know yourself and love your yourself is the most powerful possession that we can have as an American people and as a Black man. Malcom X ,lets us into his world and see things as he sees them. And it's as accurate a description on life in America as a Black man , as I've ever known. Truly inspirational , heartbreaking , and motivational. It changed the way I look at myself , my country , and my destiny.

Malcolm X, along with Dr. King and Huey Newton, were essential to the Movement of civil rights in America. Although his message was viewed by some as rather hostile, was it really? Compared to the treatment of Negroes up until the 1960's,and even into today with the Klu Klux Klan and other ignorant white supremacist leagues, was anything but hostile.
Malcolm X, in his autobiography, exploits the occurances and treatment from whites that shape his character into the person that he came to be. Through a detailed account of his life, X portrays several issues in light of racism and its existence in not only the South, but as well, the North. Yes, Northerners, as truthfully portrayed by X, were racist - however subtle and 'unmeaningly.' His developement into 'Malcolm X' from 'Malcolm Little' is a catalytic event unfortunately unknown to most high school curriculums, yet is AS ESSENTIAL to the Movement as Dr. M.L. King. He held as charged, vociferous, and legitimate message as King, Newton and many others; and, the entire light of this 'spectrum' of characters was essential to the shaping Civil Rights in America.

In my opinion, the autobiography of Malcolm X was an excellent book. It gave me a lot of insight into one the most prominent black leaders of the 20th century. Malcolm X's life was a roller coaster compared to everybody else's. He moved a lot when he was young, since his dad was a minister. Then his dad died at the hand of some white supremacists. After the death of his father his mom went crazy, and this caused the separation of him from his family. I don't want to give you any more information because I want you to read the book for yourself. It may become your inspiration, and influence you to do things that you may have thought you weren't capable of.

As was the life of Malxolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X will prove to many readers to be many things. It tells of his troubled upbringing to his life in Boston. It also deals with his incarceration and conversion to Islam. This book will be glued to the readers hand with its thought provoking words. A must for anyone who enjoys ensightful literature.

On Lord Krishna's birthday, a miracle baby is born into THE prominent Hindu family in Mangalam, a village on the southwest coast of India. The general consensus among family members is that the infant must certainly be the avatar, or reincarnation of Krishna. Except Babli, the logical science student in the family, challenges everyone's leap of faith about her tiny cousin. When she catches a glimpse of his long dark hair and sideburns, she quips that he could just as well be Elvis. Neeli, her older sister and aspiring journalist, writes an article about the miracle baby and includes Babli's "Elvis" comment. But the school newspaper editor rejects her story. So to show him she gives the article to her cousin Raji's brand new husband who is the computer specialist for the Memphis Tattler. After the wedding he returns to Tennessee, and passes the article to the editor who is always eager to publish anything "Elvis". The editor changes the article so that it implies that the miracle baby of Mangalam is the reincarnation of Elvis and publishes it. Maggie Duckworth, a filthy rich Elvis fan and certified nut case, reads the article and decides she must go to India, find this child King and return him to his rightful throne at Graceland.

When Maggie-the-oil-magnate arrives in Mangalam with Alonzo-the-Tattler-reporter in tow, a collision of culture, politics, religion, and espionage ignites an hilarious group insanity that reverberates all the way up to the Prime Minister in New Delhi, reducing government officials to what they do best -- pulling solutions out of their collective butts.

"The Avatar" is a movie waiting to be put on film. Oozing with irony, this tale contains the small town political hi-jinks of "Fuse", the blind faith of "Waiting for Guffman", the family feuds of "Cold Comfort Farm", and the baby antics of "Raising Arizona" -- all in one wacky satire. Tabrizi has a whimsical way of lampooning cultural differences to make us laugh at how very much alike we all are on this planet.

Copyright (c) 2005 by Peggy Tibbetts

Knowledgeable author gives the reader enough mouth-watering ideas for ski trips to keep you happy for years; the reader provides the backcountry know-how, navigation skills and bravado to pull it off. Don't expect connect-the-dots style guiding, do buy the appropriate maps and go enjoy the excellent terrain. A healthy balance of a guidebook.

This compilation of memories from a very dark era is extremely descriptive making every page a pleasure to read. Even the smallest of details are perfectly described in such a way that there is nothing left to imagine.

Sophie Boehm was indeed a victim but not of the Holocaust or concentration camps often discussed in books of this nature. No shooting, violence, or threats from the SS yet very tragic.

An internal perspective - powerful and refreshing. WOW!

I still don't understand why people didn't like this when this first issue of DK2 came out. Frank Miller did something so far outside of their expectations, that they immediately ascribed it to FM's knowingly and intentionally annoying his fans, hence the parody of this first issue's cover that made the rounds on the internet: Batman's fist maliciously turned into his gloved hand giving the world and comic fans and the reader the proverbial middle-finger (you know, the bird). But I took this first issue as Miller's way of doing something new and unique. He may have had some fun doing this series, but I did not then and do not now think he was doing something intentionally devious or mean-spirited. The first issue of DK2 lets us know that some of the most powerful and, to some degree least human, of the Justice League -- Superman, Wonder Woman, and Shazam -- have all been successfully blackmailed into being turned into their greatest enemy's -- that is, Lex Luthor's and Brainiac's -- slaves. At stake are the lives they hold most dear, and those lives don't reside for these heroes on Planet Earth. Batman at one point actually calls Superman "the puppet of dirtbags." All the other superheroes have been incarcerated in various ways. The Atom, for instance, has dropped and left to rot in a petri dish, and the Flash has been running a hamster-wheel-generator so the cities can have cheap electricity. And we know there are others out there, victims to a police state with an iron grip that only Jimmie Olsen speaks out against. We learn that the President is nothing but a computer-generated fake. And betraying all his foremost convictions and best friends, Superman, too, proves himself false. The result of his choices ultimately leads to the imprisonment of all the other superheroes. And this is why Batman hates him. It explains some of what began (Superman's serving the President's beck and call) in and some of what was left unsaid (Batman's not-quite-explained intention to demolish the man of steel) in The Dark Knight Returns. Batman chose to go underground instead of turning hypocrite. Superman stayed above ground and up above in the heavens and becomes the greatest weapon in the hands of ultimate evil. Batman implies he is more Kal-El (alien) than man; he undoubtedly believes he could have found another way. And so the story becomes a lesson in perspective, viewpoint, and the consequences thereof. The Atom chooses to fight to the death in his petri dish and thereby lives (just as Batman did in DK Returns). This issue revolves around the rescue of the Atom and Flash as well as highlighting intriguing chameos by the Question and the Green Arrow. Called a terrorist for breaking into government institutions and rescuing these heroes, Batman knows Superman will be provoked and commanded to attack him and bring him to so-called justice. Superman rumbles through the Batcave and summarily gets his omnipotent butt kicked. In closing, Frank Miller isn't creating a comic story here so much as he is a Superhero Philosophy. Caroline Keene Kelly (formerly Robin in Dark Knight Returns) is a mirror image of Batman in this book, and in a telling scene where a Batboy soldier kills a man claiming that he "had no choice" and the he can "break" her "in half," she disciplines him by breaking him symbolically and literally. And then we know what Batman, as self-appointed field commander of superheroes is dealing with: a discipline problem. And deal with it (in the next two issues), he will.