Simon Furman had been writing Movie spin-off storylines in the UK Transformers comic for a while before The Legacy of Unicron. It allowed him to tell new stories without clashing with the US stories, which featured pre-Movie characters.
That said, The Legacy of Unicron was the first true sequel to the Movie, as we find out what happened to Unicron's head after the Movie's climax, as well as how the uplifitng ending of the Movie actually panned out (let's just say that Furman went the cynical route=D).
The 2006-era Transformers are forced to face Unicron once more, this time with the help of popular bounty hunter Death's Head (who exits the Transformers continuity in this issue) and trash-talking Junkion Wreck-Gar. This plot also paves the way for the Time Wars (to be reprinted in July).
There's not much to the story, in all honesty, but it is exceptionally well-written, and the art is simply lovely.
There's also the tantalising prospect of the origin of the Transformers, which stands as canon because the US writers couldn't be bothered to do one before Furman did! =D
All in all, a great addition to Titan's Transformers library.

A number of books have been written about America's bloodiest conflict - the Civil War. This book concentrates on Union river ironclads, which formed the nation's first "brownwater navy." The book details the design and development of the ironclads, major operations involving them, and a catalog of vessels with specifications. What makes Konstam's book different is that it focuses solely on Union river ironclads and subsequently has more technical data and photos of these particular ships than any other tome that I have encountered. The book does focus on this particular class of ships somewhat in a vacuum and pays little attention to the overall strategy of the riverine campaign or wooden support vessels. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in naval warfare - especially those who enjoy reading about the transition from ships of wood to steel. Union River Ironclads has a wealth of technical information and dazzling full-color drawings and schematics of the ships. I have enjoyed both its academic utility and just looking at the pictures.

If you are into learning rock / hard rock guitar, this book provides the key to exploring some of the most brilliant electric guitar composition to date. Although this music is somewhat dated, the guitar virtuosity of Edward Van Halen is timeless. The book provides excellent guitar tablature of all of Van Halen's fist two releases. Recommended accompaniments to this book are 1) Peavey Wolfgang Electric Guitar, 2) Peavey 5150 Combo Amp, & 3) the CD's of the first two albums.

I enjoyed Morgan, et. al., writing style. They authors move quickly through introductory information related to the Java programming language not just J++. There are plenty of examples and coverage of COM, HTML, and scripting. I found their analogies of encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism one of the best and understandable for concepts foreign to monolithic application builders. I hope they write a second version.

I actually found this book kind of hard, and difficult. I really hated how it started and ended. I really loved all the other ones but in a sense, if you read the other ones you sort of have to know what happends but it will kill you to get there. I really did not enjoy it. :|

I must say I was pretty disapointed in the ending. I like the first one because I thought the characters were so realistic and loveable you just had to like them. Of course the plot of all the book hasn't been the same since "Of TWo Minds" but it was been ok. I thought this book was kind of a waste of time. And when are they gonna get married? The authors have pro-longed this stupid wedding for 4 books. Each time something total un-realtic happens. I really hope that the authors keep the books alive. I hope there will be more cahracters and a better plot.

Lenora and Coren suddenly find themselves trapped in a different world. Just seconds before, they were standing in Coren's palace, discussing their wedding plans. Previously, Lenora's powers had landed her in mysterious worlds along with her fiance, Coren. Normally, Lenora would be able to use her imaginative powers to imagine herself and Coren back to the palace. But in this new world, her and Coren's powers are not functioning. As you can tell, Lenora has the power to imagine herself places, along with imagining any item she desires. Coren, on the other hand, has the ability to read peoples' minds. Now, instead of worrying about their powers, they must figure a way out of this confusing world. The people here use paper money to trade for things and worship a god named Sayley ( which has an extraordinary resemblance to a child they know). What does this all mean? More importantly, who transported them here? This is an exceptional book. If you liked the Harry Potter series, you will definitely enjoy this book. This complicated, yet easy to comprehend story will never let you down. Lenora and Coren's antics will keep you reading. Although this book is quite interesting, I would rate it four stars out of five because the end is a bit of a letdown. The authors do a wonderful job describing and animating the characters, but when it comes to the end, they skimp on the descriptions. Even though the ending is disappointing, the rest of the book is great.

By Amanda H

I ordered this book after a recommendation from my local electrical distributor. We use a lot of different PLCs in our plant, so this book was very helpful. While it doesn't cover the intricacies of a specific brand, it's the best all-around reference I've found.

I found this book to be an outstanding learning and reference tool. It is loaded with examples and charts and graphs that show you how to fully understand and apply a programmable controller. Since the book has over 1000 pages, I also recommend getting the workbook that goes along with this book. The workbook makes sure you understand what you are reading in the text.

I am using this book in my PLC class. I found that it gives me very very clear explanation on many general PLC topics. It really helps me to build up the solid foundation for PLC programming. It will help you a lot if you want to be a PLC programmer in the future. Trust me! This is the best PLC book I found, at least for beginner like me.

My workgroup purchased this book some time ago. Judy writes excellent, no-nonsense books about RPG programming. We all find this to be a very helpful text. Especially our junior programmers find it useful. For example, she has a whole chapter on structured programming. That's something the senior programmers don't care about (and one therefore doesn't much like the book), but still it's an excellent text. It's usually pretty easy to find what you need in the index, and her examples are easy to follow.

Good learning tool for the beginner, but too much "deja-vu" for the RPG III programmer. Errors in the text of her RPG/400 book are still present in this one: Specification of AND/OR SELECT/OMIT lines in Logical File DDS, and erroneous from/to locations for user ID in Program Status Data Structure.

This book was issued to me while I was in school. (Yes, there are school out there that actually teach RPG, CL and other AS/400 concepts) I have read many books on RPG and this one definitely made a difference for me in learning the concepts clearly. For beginners there is really no substitute for this book. Once I got into the workforce and saw the huge amounts of RPG III programs that my company had, I felt a bit dismayed, but Judy has a chapter in the book entitled "Maintaining the Past", and that chapter helped me out so very much. Once again this is a beginner book, but a very good one. I still use it as a reference too. I might add that Robert Cozzi's book is the best for reference information that I have found.

Having studied under the late Bill Sosa for a year and a half, and after reading this book, I can tell you don't waste your time with Aikido. Except for the black and white pictures, and both the defender and attacker wearing hakimas which makes it difficult to see the foot placement, this is a great book. That's if you truly believe that multiple attackers will get tired and give up after you have thrown them multiple times without causing any permanent injuries to them. Instead, I would suggest studying Aiki-jujitsu and supplementing your studies with "The Way and the Power: Secrets of Japanese Strategy" by Fredrick J. Lovret. Only then, will you have a true understanding of the essence of Aiki.

This is an excellent book for all Aikido students. Easy to read and follow. Great book to understand what it is to start a martial art, espcially aikido. Basics are answered and this book will help you from your very first class. From dojo etiquette, how to fold your hakama, history, philosophy, basic techniques and waza.

Co-authored by an outstanding Aikido Sensei and one of his former students (an accomplished practitioner and instructor of several arts in his own right), "The Essence of Aikido" is precisely that. It contains an exploration of the philosophy, without which the true understanding of the art is (in my opinion) impossible. It also illustrates several of the basic techniques, including both empty hand techniques and more practical Aiki-based defenses to attacks with weapons, kicks, and the like.

A must for both those new to the art and the more experienced Aikidoka.

Of all the technical books I've read this one qualifies as the worst. It's out of date, but even when it was new it would justify my opinion.

It attempts to cover too wide an area of subjects, and manages to either state the obvious (as in the first chapters that make a sophmoric attempt to define e-commenrce), to display questionable knowledge on the part of contributing authors, as in the section that lamely attempts to discuss architecture. The section on architecture should have been written by someone who could write and who understood architecture. Unfortunately I got the impression that the authors had neither qualifications.

The case studies were interesting, but were not sufficiently insightful to warrant buying this book that those alone.

There are positives to this book though. It weighs nearly 6 pounds, making it suitable as a doorstop. Having photos of all of the authors who contributed on the front cover is helpful if you conduct interviews since it helps in the screen process in case one of them shows up for an interview or tries to come in as a consultant.

My advice is to avoid this book. There are much better ones that cover the subjects in it.

There are a few good sections in this book (mainly the chapters that deal with WebLogic and the appendices of primers and reference material that comprise Section 6). However, considering that this book weighs in at over 1000 pages, its mainly fluff or glib (but not helpful), with too much material that states the obvious.

Much of the fluff is found in Section 1 (The E-Commerce Landscape), and Section 2 (Architecting Java-Based E-Commerce Systems) was, in my opinion, a glossed over, high-level overview that was used as filler.

Sections 3 (B2C E-Commerce Solutions) and 4 (B2B E-Commerce Solutions) have a few interesting chapters in each. My main complaint here is that Section 3 is a mix of solutions and techniques, while Section 4 is purely solution-focused. Section 5 (M-Commerce) is too light to be useful, and most of the material is already woefully out of date.

My recommendation is to pass this book up and, instead, seek out single-topic books that address the subjects in which you're interested.

This is the only book that covers such a wide range of issues relating to the application of Java to e-commerce. Although there are subjects that experienced users would certainly prefered to see treated in more depth this is an invaluable resource to those that need to get the big picture to a level that is practical and useful for understanding application and designing solutions. Well done.

This is a fascinating view of a woman who has been stereotyped throughout history as a grandmotherly type, comfortable and full of fluff as as a pillow, when in actuality Martha Washington was a far more complex, interesting,and strong, person than we have been led to believe. This book has been well researched and gives a good account of what it was like to have lived in this time period. I teach at an all girls' school and we are considering it for summer reading. We are interested in our students studying about powerful, strong , dynamic women. Helen Bryan's book certainly gives us a new and richer perspective on an old icon of American history.

"First Lady of Liberty" is a well-documented, yet easily readable, account of the life of Martha Washington and the cataclysmic times in which she lived. Martha emerges as a complex character, not just the one dimensional figure about which most Americans learn in school. Privately preferring a life at home with her extended family,she becomes an active participant in George Washington's military and political career, doing much to ensure his success.

Bryan's extensive research reads lightly. There is a wealth of new material about each of her husbands, her little known half-sister who was part-African, part-Cherokee, Martha's views on slave owning, and indiviual stories and dramas involving many of the people to whom she was closest. (Look, for example, for the mystery of Mulatto Jack and the story of the Dunbar suit.)

Readers of biography, American history, Black history, feminist history, and those who enjoy a good read will all come away fulfilled from reading this book.

I never realized what a central figure Martha Washington was in our country's history until I read this book. The author, Helen Bryan, does a superb job of uncovering Martha Washington's complex and intelligent character, in a fresh perspective and voice. Anyone interested in colonial life, women's studies, the American Revolution, or just an entertaining read, should pick up this book.