Done in Oil: An Autobiography

I Remember Woody: Recollections of the Man They Called Coach Hayes
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outstanding!

Woody is one of the greatest men of all time.

A good portrait of the man, but it tends to run together....

The man his competition loved to hate

I Remember Woody: Recollections of the Man They Called Coach Hayes
Steve Greenberg , and Dale Ratermann
Manufacturer: Triumph Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1572439149

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Woody Hayes, arguably, was one of the most colorful characters college football has ever known. Most coaches today are more computer chips and board chairmen than they are hands-on coaches. The real coaches rant and rave, they make mistakes, they wander through hospital wards cheering the infirm, and they deeply care about whether their charges graduate and make lives for themselves after football. That describes Woddy Hayes perfectly.

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outstanding!.......1999-11-18

This book was amazing. I could not put it down. It is a must for Ohio State fans. I will remember Woody after reading this.

outstanding!.......1999-11-18

This book was amazing. I could not put it down. It is a must for Ohio State fans. I will remember Woody after reading this.

Woody is one of the greatest men of all time........1999-08-16

This book shows Woody Hayes as the true person, not just the ranting coach on the sideline. As an aspiring coach, I see Woody as an excellent model for success. His genuine love and concern for his players is unique and inspiring. This book is a must read for those who want to see Woody as his players, friends, and family see him. Great book about a Great man.

A good portrait of the man, but it tends to run together...........1999-06-18

being woody's grandson, i liked it, there was a wide array of people talking to the author about him. I thought that my favorite section was the last, the friends, foes and fans part. it seems as if many people here in columbus have their own personal run-in or encounter with him and for me, those stories are infitley more interesting than anything else.

the recollections from the players and coaches were good, but they kind of blurred together under the "they may be smarter than me but i can outwork 'em" mantra.

overall, good job. the photos were pretty interesting. we have a few at home that will never make it out, including one of woody in my darth vader helmet at christmas (i must've been ten or less).

The man his competition loved to hate.......1999-01-30

I was surprised that such a complete collection of stories and experiences existed. Woody was bigger than life but at the same time he was only a simple man that expected the best from everyone he touched. A must read for all fans--not just Buckeyes!

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Building a New China in Cinema introduces English readers for the first time to one of the most exciting left-wing cinema traditions in the world. This unique book explores the history, ideology, and aesthetics of China's left-wing cinema movement, a quixotic film culture that was as political as commercial, as militant as sensationalist. Drawing on detailed archival research, Pang demonstrates that this cinema movement was a product of the era's social, economic, and political discourses. The author offers a close analysis of many rarely seen films, richly illustrated with over eighty stills collected from the Beijing Film Archive. With its original conceptual approach and rich use of primary sources, this book will be of interest not only to scholars and fans of Chinese cinema but to those who study the relationship between cinema and modernity. Visit our website for sample chapters!

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The game of football has undergone massive changes in the past few decades. The creation of the F.A. Premier League, the influx of television revenue, the commercialization of the game, and the growth in the numbers of foreign players have all left their mark. One area that has attracted increasing interest in the media and amongst the pages of football magazines is the issue of race and racism in football. But until now, the complexities of the situation have often been neglected in the midst of moral activism. Why has football become such an important arena for the expression of racist and xenophobic attitudes? How are racial and ethnic identities constructed and re-constructed in everyday social interactions and ritual gatherings?This highly readable and accessible book provides the first systematic and empirically grounded account of the role of race, nation and identity within contemporary football cultures. Focused around the four clubs on which the authors did their research, the book shows how different clubs understand and experience race in different ways. Looking at football at a national level, the authors trace the history of racism and its impact on the contemporary game. The emphasis throughout is on the changing role of racial and ethnic identity in football over the years.This book draws on research conducted at the height of campaigning activity within the game, as well as on contemporary scholarship about racism and sport. It will be essential reading for anyone interested in football, sport, race and ethnic studies.

Cardboard Heroes Cavern Floors: 83 Full-Color Rooms and Corridors (Cardboard Heroes)
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Cardboard Heroes Cavern Floors: 83 Full-Color Rooms and Corridors (Cardboard Heroes)
Steve Jackson
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Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 - Inside Out - reference book - CD

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Very useful.... a total package.......2007-06-27

I found myself as the Outlook support for a new small business and I had only used Outlook for e-mail and contacts previously. This book has quickly become my total reference guide. It has helped me solve several problems. It's easy to read, well organized and very complete.
I recommend it to anyone who needs to support an Outlook installation or an Exchange Server installation.

Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 Inside Out.......2007-03-08

Comprehensive and approachable. Good index and highly illustrated.

micro office outlook.......2007-01-10

Too much said about the various steps. Not brief and to the point. Found it difficult to go step by step without reading, and reading, and reading.

Comprehensive, but still some holes.......2005-11-22

Previous reviewer's comments are noted well, but I was somewhat disappointed in the coverage of forms development. I really wanted to learn to move/place fields on a contact form and designate them drop-down, etc. Simple enough, I thought, for a book of this coverage. But even though the author talked about the abilitiy to do this, there were no directions, no examples, and no description of the 'Controls' options required to do it. For a book of this size and price, I had hoped for more meat. No, not to the detail of VB scripting, but certainly more detailed coverage of Outlook's powerful forms and macro abilities. To my chagrin, I'm finding my answers under the Outlook 'Help' section in the program itself!

Most comprehensive.......2005-09-04

A most comprehensive treatment of Outlook. Extremely well suited for an experienced Outlook user, with many details on the use in a server/business environment. Describes the interrelationship with Windows Outlook Express. Probably a little too comprehensive for the single system user just trying to read and write a few email messages. Subject matter is exceptionally well presented and thorough.

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Our matching folio to the historic hard rock album features complete note-for-note transcriptions with tablature. Twelve songs in all: Anything Goes * It's So Easy * Mr. Brownstone * My Michelle * Nightrain * Out Ta Get Me * Paradise City * Rocket Queen * Sweet Child O' Mine * Think About You * Welcome to the Jungle * You're Crazy.

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The Bass Bible.......2007-09-25

This truely is a great bass tab book for a great album! Beginners to experienced players could do alot worse than learn from the basslines Duff McKagan plays on Appetite!

Buy this book!

Great tab book.......2005-02-25

All the songs from Appetite for Destruction, with detailed transcriptions, song notes and an introduction at the face of the book, lyrics, and more! I also bought THE STYLES AND TECHNIQUES OF SLASH, which was a breakdown of some of the songs from Appetite with a bonus CD. Both are recommendable but this is definitely more straightforward. If you want to learn Gn'R, start there. If you're already good at guitar, get this book. It's hard, and takes practice, but the songs are ALL great. Even Think About You is fun to play, and it's my least favorite song on Appetite.

Appetite for Destruction .......2004-11-19

In Appetite for Destruction, Gene writes about how guns and roses emerged from an LA club that legends Van Halen, Motely Cure and poison, also emerged from. Gene gives an excellent point of view of how hard they had it when they first started. He continues to write about how even know they had numerous albums and concerts, the luck for the band, just kept on getting worse. From someone's head getting stumped in ar a mush pit at one of their concerts, to alcohol and drug overdoses.
It talks of how slash tried to over came his drug problems and how Axel had a huge control issue over the band. This band was created of friendship and ruined by greed, corruption, drugs and alcohol. It even tells you secrets of songs and stories of them. I would give it 5 stars.

Appetite for Destruction : Bass Guitar.......2000-06-23

i thought ''Appetite for Destruction : Bass Guitar'' was reallya great transcription for bass guitar of a great album. i has musicand tab for all the songs. my favorite song is "Sweet Child of Mine" the bass line is modereratly easy and fun to play. i gave it a 5 because it is well written and easy to figure out

the best in the world, ment for hard core fans like me........1999-05-21

i think this is the best book in the world, i didn't buy it, but one of my dad's friends gave it to me. I'm such a fan of GNR, it is not even funny, so i realy enjoyed the book, i can't single out any spot that i like the most, beacause all of it is great

Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns N' Roses

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The Days of Wine and Roses
Doesn't do what it says on the jacket
awful
This Book Blows!
Carried Away

Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns N' Roses
Danny Sugerman
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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The Days of Wine and Roses.......2007-04-06

Man this book is such a guilty pleasure for me. I love how Sugerman can weave Rimbaud/Baudelaire, William Blake, William Burroughs, Jim Carroll and Axl Rose. A lot of us were living on the nighttrain to the "Palace of Wisdom" back in 1989. That was my season in hell with GNFR as the soundtrack. Although Axl has revamped them as a karaoke group, it makes you wonder what might have been. Guns and Roses was truly onto something legendary if they didn't implode. But hey wasn't it inevitable. No one in music today is even close to the insanity of pre-illusion Guns. Only the Lizard King's Homer could mythologize the late 1980s of the Sunset Strip. RIP Danny

Doesn't do what it says on the jacket .......2005-11-10

I have to agree with the consensus here. This book is not a useful biography of G&R.
As an intellectual analysis of the cultural significance of rock music in general, with special reference to G&R it's quite a good read, in the manner of an enthusiastic undergraduate media studies essay.
Sugerman's style is amusing at times, but usually for the wrong reasons, (eg his frequently 'creative' grammar and the excruciatingly over the top parallels between Axl and a pantheon of historical and legendary greats from gods to poets.
G&R are a great band, you're unlikely to be reading this or the book unless you agree, as to "undoubtedly the best rock band performing in the World today", I'm not sure I'd put it that strongly, especially as the book was written when the band had actually only produced one album!
Of course we now know that after Appetite for destruction the band survived to record more material. I dont think that hit the same heights again since that brilliant debut. So it would appear that G&R failed to live up to Sugerman's predictions for greatness by either burning out in a blaze of glory or by continuing to achieve increasingly spectacular musical triumphs.

awful.......2005-05-10

This is the worst book i have ever read on a autobiography of a band. Just rambles on about nothing. Nothing new in this book to learn. This author should change professions.

This Book Blows!.......2003-04-09

I would highly recomend that any fan of Guns N'Roses do not buy this book. It is a complete waste of money. The book is boring and pointless. The author just rambles on and on, until you don't even know what he is saying anymore. If you are wanting a good book about Guns N'Roses, this is definately not it.

Carried Away.......2002-07-25

The author of this book gets carried away to say the least. He strays far from actual facts and delves into his crazy theories and parallels of Axl and Slash (forget about the other members in the group) and some ancient figures. It got quite tedious at some points and was not interesting at all. Buy another GnR book!

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Appetite for Destruction
N. Roses Guns
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Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction - Drums

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Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction - Drums
Guns N' Roses
Manufacturer: Cherry Lane Music
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0895245566

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Matching folio to the hit album. Drum transcriptions of twelve songs, including "Sweet Child O' Mine," "Welcome To The Jungle," and "Paradise City."

Guns n' Roses Appetite for Destruction Guitar Vocal Songbook

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Guns n' Roses Appetite for Destruction Guitar Vocal Songbook
Guns n' Roses
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Guns 'N Roses: Appetite for Destruction (#6953)

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Guns 'N Roses: Appetite for Destruction (#6953)

Manufacturer: Alfred Pub Co
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Appetite for Destruction : The Days of Guns 'n Roses
David Sugerman
Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OT0SRM

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Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns n' Roses

Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Hardcover
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Appetite for Destruction: The Days of Guns n'Roses
Danny Sugarman
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GUNS N' ROSES APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION

Manufacturer: Cherry Lane Music Company
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HTAFAY

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"Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890: Conquering the Southern Plains" is the third in a planned five-volume series that will tell the saga of the military struggle for the American West in the words of the soldiers, non-combatants, and Native Americans who shaped it. "Volume III: Conquering the Southern Plains" offers as complete a selection of outstanding original accounts pertaining to the struggle for the Southern Plains and Texas as may be gathered under one cover. It contains accounts from such notable military participants as George Armstrong Custer, Nelson A. Miles, Wesley Merritt, and Frederick W. Benteen.

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A great series of books.......2006-09-07

The first book in the series that I read. Cozzens provides a nice introduction, followed by a great series of primary documents, grouped by event. Beecher's Island is an example of an event, and there are several accounts from the men who fought there. Each account is well footnoted, and the footnotes themselves make for great reading. Maps are included inside front and back covers showing forts, battle sites, etc. Illustrations throughout.

Eyewitness to the Indian Wars.......2005-08-24

Great historical work. Chock full of differing accounts of incidents from the regular foot soldier to the Indians themselves. Every page lends insights to life in the late 19 century and the fate of the American Indians battle against civilization.

Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890. Vol. 3: Conquering the Southern Plains

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Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890. Vol. 3: Conquering the Southern Plains
Peter Cozzens
Manufacturer: Stackpole
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000V0K3YM

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Each chapter devoted to single type of problem with accompanying commentary and set of practice problems. Amateur puzzlists, students of mathematics and geometry will enjoy this rare opportunity to match wits with civilization’s great mathematicians and witness the invention of modern mathematics.

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Very Good for the interested reader.......2002-03-19

Although not reasonable for most high school students, this book does bring to light the background of modern geometry through its treatment of impossible and hard to solve problems.

Excellent background reading for a teacher!

Classic problems of geometry made simple.......2000-11-26

The principles of geometry are both elegant and timeless. One cannot help but understand why the Greeks considered it a pinnacle of intellectual achievement. This book sets down several of the classic problems, explaining them in such a clear way that it is easy to forget that it sometimes took centuries of work before the problem was resolved. Of course, those who first toiled on the problems did not have some of the additional machinery that we so take for granted today.
The problems covered are trisecting an angle, squaring the circle, constructing regular polygons and constructing a cube whose volume is twice that of a given cube. The background needed to understand the problems and solutions is nothing more than a solid grounding in basic algebra and trigonometry. Calculus is mentioned, but not used. Problem sets are included in all chapters and solutions to all are in the back of the book. They are well-posed, solidly reinforcing the points made in the text.
This is a book that covers several thousand years of progress in geometry in a little over one hundred pages. It is done well and it can be used as a supplement in any course in geometry, from high school to college.

Well done.........1999-07-22

Bold has a gem of a book here. It's only a little bit over a hundred pages, but it's packed full of the great geometry problems that occupied the minds of the world's greatest thinkers for the past 2000 years.

The title describes the book perfectly. These really are "Famous Problems from Geometry" and he does indeed explain how to solve them.

The book has four major sections/chapters. He discusses in detail the three problems from antiquity (one section each): squaring a circle, doubling a cube, and trisecting an angle. Furthermore, he spends significant time with constructions of regular polygons (the fourth section) - which ones can be constructed and why. He also discusses which ones cannot be constructed and why.

The reader will be expected to understand concepts from Modern Algebra, particularly the concept of a Field. While Bold does spend time explaining what a Field is, his definition is quick and is assumed to be more of a refresher for someone who has already learned about them. Bold also has a section on Complex Numbers where he derives one of the formulas used later in the book. Again - this section is assumed to be a refresher on Complex Numbers. High School Geometry or Algebra students would have significant trouble understanding his explanations and proofs.

Bold provides problems for the reader to work along the way. These are problems that logically lead to the proof of the problem being studied. The problems are good. As a third year college student majoring in mathematics, I found the explanations/solutions to be sometimes hard to follow. He assumes a great deal about the reader's level of proficiency in math and in geometry. As a result, he liberally skips steps in proofs that are assumed to be "obvious."

If you're expecting simple proofs to these problems, you're not going to find them. If they were simple, they wouldn't have taken 2000 years to solve. But they are explained clearly here in terms that anyone with a college degree should be able to understand.

Overall, a superb book. A must have for anyone interested in the famous problems from the history of Geometry.

Famous Problems of Geometry and How to Solve Them
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Famous Problems of Geometry and How to Solve Them
Benjamin Bold
Manufacturer: Dover
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MXWUL2

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In 1891, New York Sun reporter and travel writer J. R. Spears accepted an invitation to visit Death Valley to write about the region and explore its borax mines. Spears, the first professional journalist to visit, photograph, and report on the region, provided the American reading public with an engaging and informed account of Death Valley and its surrounding desert country. Through nineteen chapters, Spears examines the 20-mule teams used in borax mining, freighting in the rugged desert landscape, and various desert characters--including "Desert Tramps" and a California bear hunter.

Long considered an important literary and regional history of Death Valley and a primary source of information, Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast will appeal to enthusiasts of the region and of the American West.

Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast

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Illustrated Sketches of Death Valley and Other Borax Deserts of the Pacific Coast
John R. Spears
Manufacturer: Rand McNally & Co.
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000JJKVFG

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