This book when first published was not that great, being most a list of what cards were available. If you wish to start an Access database for Magic, this book is useful, but is of very little use otherwise. This book doesn't even include ALLIANCES!!!

I am not certain what book review Adrian Cole thought this was. This is NOT a book of card tricks! This is a book of reference information for the collectable card game "Magic The Gathering" and includes information on the various cards of this huge game as well as various probablities of getting multi-card combinations.

"The Tables of Magic" is a rather good book for beginners and the more advanced magician. It deserves 4 stars for it's excellent content on tricks, presentations, and subleties. Overall, it is a great book and belongs in your collection.

I happen to have first-hand knowledge of what went on in the making of this movie, and this book bears no resemblance to that. It's inaccurate to the point of being slanderous to some involved. This book is just ignorant gloss designed created in hopes of recouping some of the buckets of money that were lost on this film. The movie cost about $30-35 million and still hasn't earned half of that back in the US. Of course there's overseas, but unfortunately the film was pre-sold over there so there's no more money to be made. The descriptions of the live action shoot and of what went on with the effects displays more imaginative fantasy than there was in either the writing or (especially) the directing of the film. Save your money. But then I'm sure you knew that already. PS: If I were allowed to give this book 0 stars, I would have.

I got this book after I saw the movie for the 3rd time. I was interested in how they made the movie with all the cool stunts and stuff. I was surprised to learn that most of the actors did their own stunts and the two things about the making of this movie that had me the most surprised were the fact that the actor that played Ridley did all his own stunts, including the axe jumping sceen in the Thives Maze. Another part was in the part of the movie where the characters Elwood, Ridley, Snails and Marina went into the sewer under Sumdall that it was really a real sewer. The book also tells how they created the red and gold dragons and other stuff. This book is a diffent must have for any Dungeons and Dragons movie fan.

First Peter 1:20 admonished us that "no prophecy is a matter of one's own interpretation". Baxter's work represents his own extremely unique and totally illogical interpretation of Scripture. It is best to be avoided.

This is the revised 1994 edition, the first copy was written in 1986. In this book Irvin Baxter shows where the U.S., Britain, Germany and Russia are prophecied in scripture. If you like this book I strongly suggest you order his Bible study "Understanding The Endtimes".

Please, for the love of god, don't buy this...! Many terms and concepts key to field are simply absent, and the entries, when present, are so curt as to be practically useless. One could expect as much simply looking up the terms in a standard Webster's Dictionary.

Trust me, spend the extra bucks and buy one of the alternatives. I'm looking into the MIT Press version myself . . . .

I disagree with the reviewer. I think it is a good quick reference for simplie and complicated economics terms as well as well-known economists and the theories they are known for. I have an economics degree and find this useful to help trigger my memory about my economic studies.

The guide is missing some US economic terms, but it is still a useful guide for the price.

I enjoy reading anthologies whenever I want a quick, light read. You really can't expect too much since the stories are so short , the romance does seem rushed and the characters don't develop like they would in a full length novel. However I did like this book. I enjoyed all the stories. I loved the holiday theme and the way the stories all interconnected. The first story especially seemed to have a rushed ending. The conflict and resolution happily ever after happened within a page pratically!Read this book if you want a quick, sweet read. Otherwise you might want to try a full length romance.

It was the first book I read from the author and I thought it was alright. The only problem I had was keeping up with the different locations. Other than that, it was fine. I thought the opening scene was a little cheesy but it was good cheesy.

Very insightful to the history of Bangladesh. At times it seems to be a little judgmental and may not give an accurate representation of how people actually felt at the time. Also, readers may get confused with all the names, dates, and events that take place, but this is part of Bangladeshi history. Overall, the book was very good and helped me make more sense of the confusing history of Bangladesh.

Those familiar with Glen Baxter's work - _Boy's Own_-style cartoons with breathtakingly incongruous elements and captions - can probably guess what to expect here: a mock-earnest mystery, illustrated throughout in fine Baxter form, with much to offer the reader.

That said, it lacks the impact of his single-frame cartoons, and for some reason the entire thing is set in his favourite font which, while certainly atmospheric, isn't exactly readable (especially since it's ALL IN CAPS).

Baxter fans should definitely get this. Others should try _The Impending Gleam_ first.

Like the other cosmic impact novels of the late 1970's, most notably Lucifer's Hammer and Shiva Descending, The Hermes Fall tends to get lost in its characters. Still, for those who can find it, it is a rather intriguing read.

What sets The Hermes Fall apart from other cosmic disasters is that it focuses on a known asteroid. A five-mile-wide behemoth, Hermes passed within half a million miles of the Earth in 1937. Although much better than Lucifer's Hammer as far as complexity of story, it isn't as good as Shiva Descending or Thunder Strike, by Michael McCollum, because it lacks the emotional elements.

If you can find The Hermes Fall, it's worth the read.

I have heard Baxter Black on a several occations on NPR (National Public Radio just in case you don't know. Check them out...) over the last couple of years. Most of what I did hear I liked so when I found this book I thought it would be great.

This is a collection of short, and I mean less than 2 pages short, stories as told by Black on NPR during 2001. (I think that's right...) Admittedly, something is lost in the translation from radio to book form. Baxter has a way with words and the way he says them is as meaningful a part as what he says. I was glad most stories had a brief introduction and for the glossery at the back of the book for those "non-cowboy" types like myself. I also liked the fact that I could read a story or two, put the book down and be able to come back to it a few minutes later or a week later.

I read all 75 (ish?) stories; I found my dad in one story (you know which one, Dad!), really enjoyed about 10, liked probably 40 or so and missed the point, didn't "get" or just didn't like the rest.
Perhaps it is the differences in age and sex (me being a 30-something married woman) or the generational differences or just the lifestyle differences but in some of the tales I had a hard time relating. I did, however, send the book on to my father who is older and wiser and much more learned in the ways of veterinarians, cowboys and politics and I bet he gets much more out of the book than I.

If you are already familar with Baxter's other stuff and like it then I believe you will not find any fault with this newest book. If this is your first Baxter Black book as it was mine then I suggest one of his more favored volumes to see if you like it first.