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The second collection of short stories by award-winning cartoonist Mike Mignola includes the 1999 hit series Box Full of Evil; "The Right Hand of Doom," which concisely and thoroughly examines Hellboy's history; and "Pancakes," Mignola's most hilarious and surprising story to date; and others - many presented here in color for the first time.

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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

The Right Hand of Doom is also a collection of stories, with the final few dealing with who and what Hellboy actually is, and why he is important to those on this earth, and those not.

To balance that at the beginning is a young Hellboy story, and through Hellboy versus a variety of supernaturals, from dragons to floating heads.

mostly awesome.......2004-08-01

This collection includes the stories Pancakes, The Nature of the Beast, King Vold, Heads, Goodbye Mister Tod, The Varcolac, The Right Hand of Doom, and Box Full of Evil. There are also several pages of sketches at the end. The artwork is awesome, and the stories are usually pretty good. My favorites were Heads (Hellboy steps into a really freaky Japanese folktale) and Box Full of Evil, which is one of the longer stories of the bunch. Pancakes, one of the shortest, was pretty cute. This probably wasn't the best collection for a beginner like me to start with, but it wasn't bad. The only thing I really missed was a better insight into the characters involved - other than the Hellboy movie, I have absolutely not experience with any of the Hellboy characters, and I'm starting find out how different the movie is from the comics.

A grand short story collection.......2003-08-16

"Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom" is Hellboy at its finest. Like HP Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe, it is in the short story that Mignola really shines with his hell-born characters.

This short story collection contains a host of odd and enjoyable adventures for Anung Un Rama, otherwise known as Hellboy. Making his way through the mythologies and folklore of several countries, he encounters beasties like Japanese vampires, King Vold and Roger. Well-researched, Mignola threads together these various traditionals into a cohesive story, with the Christian God and Devil at the center, and Hellboy bridging the gap.

By far some of the most intelligent and well-written stories in modern comics, Hellboy never disappoints. Non-comics readers as well enjoy Hellboy, and my copy has been well-read by many people. "Hellboy: The Right Hand of Doom" is an excellent starting point, and can be read with no previous knowledge of the characters.

"He has eaten the pancakes. He will never come back to us now."

For any fan of the comic books!.......2003-04-30

When hellboy came out I thought he was one of the coolest things to come into the world of comics in a long time. I was takin a liking from the first page to the last and I have alot of the hell boy editions but this one is just as good as the others but it's certainly not the best!

A Remedy for Even the ParaAbnormal.......2002-05-18

The Adventures of Hellboy have gone through many different venues, from short stories collected in obscure DHP issues to one shot trials that are oftentimes easy to miss. Still, many of these are important when trying to understand the entirety of the Hellboy saga, and other, less crucial stories are still worth reading. That's why I'm glad to see the Trade Paperbacks The Chain Coffin and Others and The Right Hand of Doom. Between the two, you can find so many things that are nearly impossible to find.
In the Right Hand of Doom, you get:
1) Pancakes, a short comical approach to Hellboy's youth involving pancakes and hell's fate. Also, it appears in color for the first time here.
2) The Nature of the Beast, a DHP story involving the testing of Hellboy, a dilemma with a dragon, and blood that turns into lilies. Definitely good, and in color for the first time.
3) King Vold, a tale meshing many Norwegian tales together into a very entertain story pitting Hellboy against man's great adversary, human greed.
4) Heads, from Abe Sapien: Drums of the Dead (a comic you should definately pick up because the Abe Sapien story hasn't been reproduced), involves Hellboy's encounter with Japanese folklore and floating heads. Its really nice looking.
5) Goodbye, Mister Tod, from Gary Gianni's The Monstermen, a tale that meshes more Lovecraftian themeage than normal into Hellboy's life.
6) The Varcolac, a completely redone piece that first appeared in Dark Horse Extra, something nice in its new version but not as good in its original. Here's a tale involving Romanian vampires that, according to Mignola's knowledge of folklore, "eats the sun and the moon and is able to cause eclipses."
7) The Right Hand of Doom, a story leading into a pivotal part in the understanding of just what's going on in Hellboy, mentioning his hand and its origins. It makes its first appearance here in color.
8) Box Full of Evil, a wonderful story that explains the "beast of the apocalypse" connotations floating around Hellboy all the time, complete with an extra four page epilogue to help out with clarity.
This is a wonderful collection of tales, and is really worth reading for the Hellboy fan and newcomer alike. To say it strays from the atypical would be an understatement.

Hellboy: la mano derecha del destino / Hellboy:The Right Hand of Doom/ Spanish Edition

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Hellboy: la mano derecha del destino / Hellboy:The Right Hand of Doom/ Spanish Edition
Mike Mignola
Manufacturer: Public Square Books
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Mignola's 4th Hellboy collection, including the 1999 hit series, Box Full of Evil, with a new epilogue. Stories formerly available only in black-and-white, including The Right Hand of Doom, are here in color, a new story, King Volmer, is printed here, and Mignola shares his sketchbooks for the first time.

Hellboy La Mano Derecha Del Destino / the Right Hand of Doom (Hellboy)

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Hellboy La Mano Derecha Del Destino / the Right Hand of Doom (Hellboy)
Mike Mignola
Manufacturer: Norma Editorial Sa
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THRILLING RANCH STORIES - Volume 13, number 2 - May 1937: Six Gun Serenade; Her Mystery Man; Little Wildcat; Desert of the Damned; Love's Rider; Snake River Sheriff; Red Rider's Ghost; La Fiesta de los Vaqueros; Branding Fire Song Book
G. B. (editor) (Forbes Parkhill; Clinton Dangerfield; Lee Bond; Larry A. Harris; Tom Curry; L. P. Holmes; Wilton West; Allan K. Echols; Tex Brown) Farnham
Manufacturer: Rugby House
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Shoddy Work.......1999-08-29

John McCarty has a good reputation as a genre critic, but this book certainly does not bear that reputation out. Movie Psychos and Madmen is a collection of inaccurate plot summaries, with some not-terribly-accurate analysis thrown in for good measure. McCarty even makes review comments about films (such as Black the Ripper) that never got made!

After reading a few chapters of this book, it's easy to get the impression that McCarty didn't see half the movies he's discussing... or that he saw them years ago and never bothered to screen them again before turning on the word processor.

This book, in short, contains terribly shoddy work. Where are the facts-checkers at Citadel when you need them?

This is a killer book.......1999-07-14

One the best books on horror movies yet on fictional and real ones this books has every thing Some one who likes this genere will love this book

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The Psychopath in Film
Wayne Wilson
Manufacturer: University Press of America
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0761813160

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The Psychopath in Film examines the cognitive and emotional proficiency of psychopaths at surviving the goodness juggernaut using a model that takes into account three different levels of cognition and two levels of emotion. The prominent force of the soulless creature created in the cinema schemes as a connoisseur of evil. However, the psychopath must work at making evil work. Wayne Wilson assembles the cognitive and emotional fundamentals essential for evil's success. Cognitively, the psychopaths must possess the ability to maintain a calculating secrecy, they must harbor a flair for misdirection, and they must choose freely to abdicate responsibility while victimizing others. Emotionally, psychopaths should not feel remorse for their actions, and may benefit from the capacity to experience exuberance over their wicked ways, which tends to be the most compelling trait of psychopaths in films. This study delves into these tendencies as represented in the characters created in movies from classics through modern film, focusing on the question of the psychopath's possession of the aptitude to commit undue harm.

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Beginning in the late '60s, hundreds of thousands of Westerners descended upon India, disciples of a cultural revolution that proclaimed that the magic and mystery missing from their lives was to be found in the East. An Indian writer who has also lived in England and the United States, Gita Mehta was ideally placed to observe the spectacle of European and American "pilgrims" interacting with their hosts. When she finally recorded her razor sharp observations in Karma Cola, the book became an instant classic for describing, in merciless detail, what happens when the traditions of an ancient and longlived society are turned into commodities and sold to those who don't understand them.

In the dazzling prose that has become her trademark, Mehta skewers the entire Spectrum of seekers: The Beatles, homeless students, Hollywood rich kids in detox, British guilt-trippers, and more. In doing so, she also reveals the devastating byproducts that the Westerners brought to the villages of rural lndia -- high anxiety and drug addiction among them.

Brilliantly irreverent, Karma Cola displays Gita Mehta's gift for weaving old and new, common and bizarre, history and current events into a seamless and colorful narrative that is at once witty, shocking, and poignant.

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It will make you a more sophisticated traveler........2007-03-18

I read Karma Cola before my first trip to India in 1983. It helped me understand that I cannot fully comprehend this beautiful, exotic culture. It is enough to merely observe and marvel in it.

I appreciate her irreverent tone, which reminds me of Tom Wolfe.

KARMA COLA IS AN AMAZINGLY WELL WRITTEN BOOK.......2006-11-03

Gita Mehta has a real knack for using an economy of words. She covers the vast topic of Westerners misunderstanding of South Asian spirituality in less than 150 pages, and yet she leaft this reader feeling like he'd read a comprehensive summary of the issue.

Mehta has a wicked sense of humor, and excells at deflating the hypocracy of the fake gurus. This is an excellent book - you should buy it.

Amazing..........2006-06-22

Mehta's book is nuanced and wonderful. She's hardly against the mixing of east and west (whatever those cliched labels may mean...) - she's a satirist laying bare the shallowness of hippies who trip and the sadhus who trip them. Mehta's "River Sutra" shows that she understands genuine spirituality well enough. She also understands Indian modernity well enough. (What could be more modern than the commodification of the spiritual and the "traditional"?).

I just wished she had focused a little more on the echo of colonialist greed in the attitudes of the many "spiritual seekers" who throng India's beaches and hills with their drugs and their personal issues. Whether its the hyper-aggressive Israeli military brats or the more clever thieves of intellectual property who go on to patent Indian techniques under their own names in the US and Europe, there's a seamy side to this story that perhaps needs another book.

In any case, this book is a must-read with the insulting exoticization of the "East" underway again...possibly a frightened reaction to the economic ascendence of Asian nations? (Its easier to dismiss the woman taking your job away if you imagine her spacing out in saffron...)

True, but Very Partial and Unfair.......2005-06-04

I read this book during my fieldwork on spiritual tourism in India. Mehta is a professional writer from a highly secular elite Indian family. In this book, she snipes at both Western New Agers and Indian gurus of the 1970s. The former are criticized for being blindly naive in their search for salvation in India; the latter are denounced in their manipulation of naive foreigners, for the sake of their own material (sometimes, sexual) interests. I witnessed similar situations.

However, Mehta was way too selective in choosing what stories to tell, and says nothing positive about spiritual search. Underlying her sarcastic sense of humor, there lies a basic exclusionary assumption: Mehta is against the mixing of East and West. The book clearly shows her irritation with this type of experiments, and she ends up being unfair. For example, contrary to what she depicts, "Bhagwan" does not mean "God" among Osho disciples when referring to their leader. In sum, Mehta ends up throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Amusing but not Moving.......2004-06-02

I bought this book while traveling in India. Mehta offers well-written vignettes in which Western hippies make fools of themselves in "mystic" India. Several of these vignettes are genuinely, laugh-out-loud funny.

Beyond this "culture clash" humor, the book makes no deep statements on the interrelationship of Eastern and Western cultures. Perhaps her criticisms were more relevant when a glut of hippies saturated India in the 60s and 70s, but the glut has dried up. In fact, perhaps if more Americans did travel to other nations, including India, and showed a genuine appreciation for other cultures and belief systems, we would all be better off.

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Karma Cola

Manufacturer: Penguin India
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 014023683X

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Penguin India printing of Karma Cola, originally published in 1979

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Karma Cola Marketing the Mystic East
Gita Mehta
Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000GR7A46

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Karma, Cola
Gita Mehta
Manufacturer: Collins/ Fontana
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000JEBP8S

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Karma Cola
Gita Mehta
Manufacturer: Editorial Kairós
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: 8472454398

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Karma Cola

Manufacturer: Jonathan Cape
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A Divine Read

Ruth St. Denis: A Biography of the Divine Dancer (American Studies Series)
Suzanne Shelton
Manufacturer: Univ of Texas Pr
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Binding: Paperback

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Denishawn: The Birth of Modern Dance

ASIN: 0292770464

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The turbulent career of Ruth St. Denis embraced the whole creative flux of artistic and spiritual movements in the early 20th century. Drawing on St. Denis's own diaries and letters, as well as on interviews with students and colleagues, Shelton illuminates both the tumultuos life of one of dance's most charismatic first ladies and the origins of modern dance itself.

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A Divine Read.......2003-10-06

I have always shared a close bond with this book, due to the fact that we were formed by the same person. I admit to being further biased because I learned the alphabet while usurping the typewriter during its writing to peck out lines of nonsense, and because its heroine shared the same name as my first best friend, Ruthie. Until recently, however, our relationship didn't get much farther than my poring with admiring friends over its much-beloved photographs of St. Denis, ethereally beautiful in her fantastic costumes. I'm glad I waited to appreciate the writing, and I'm glad I didn't wait any longer.

Ruth's story as a pioneer of American dance is mesmerizing, from how the St. came to be in her name to her travels across the U.S. and the globe, her feminism and her frailty. Ruth was convinced she danced to express the divine, and performances usually portrayed her as a goddess - Eastern, Western, even a sea spirit - with her handsome husband Ted Shawn, 12 years her junior, enacting the role of mortal acolyte. One of my favorite photographs even shows Ruth on a pedestal, all in white down to her prematurely gray hair, looking deceptively like a statue as Ted leans unconcernedly against her. Offstage, however, their partnership was less divine...

The history in this book, including Martha Graham's early days as a student at the Denishawn school, would delight anyone interested in modern dance. What I enjoyed the most in reading it, though, was discovering Ruthie's human side, her plucky character. A small-town girl with an eccentric family (including a brother named "Brother"!), from sharing a bill with freak shows she rose to become an internationally celebrated dancer, yet kept her head and her sense of humor.

Her humor continued unabated to the end of her career: to celebrate their Golden Wedding Anniversary, Ruth and her husband performed a duet, titled "Siddhas of the Upper Air", a slow dance which involved the two walking up a ramp together while he held her about the waist, arms reaching upwards. Ted lyrically described their dance (p. 252), "The two of us were going up and up and up, remembering all the love of the earth but still lovers in infinite distance and infinite space, but still always up, going up." Ruth's remembrance, however, was more candidly down-to-earth: "Ted was scared to death. I wasn't, because I didn't think about it, but neither of us could see without our glasses"!

In art and life, St Denis' quest for the divine continued until her dancing feet's final curtain. Before her earthly light was extinguished, however, it might be said of the `divine dancer' that she had achieved, however fleetingly, that aspiration which Goddard once attributed to Cleopatra, "...to rise into that region where art is lifted into life and life into art, the goal, alike, of art and life." Like a star whose light is visible beyond its time, her soul shines, dancing on.

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Divine Dancer: A Biography of Ruth St. Denis
Suzanne Shelton
Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Suzanne SHELTON
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Ruth St. Denis : A Biography of the Divine Dancer (American Studies Ser., No. 21)
Suzanne Shelton
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A highly portable, easily digestible road-map to configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting essential Exchange Server 2003 features. The book is organized around the 11 "MMCs" (Microsoft Management Consoles) that contain the configuration menus for the essential features. The options within each menu are explained clearly, potential problems are identified up-front, and configurations are subsequently presented in the aptly named "By the Book" section for that MMC. Readers will also appreciate the "Reality Check" sidebars throughout, which present valuable cost/benefit analyses of situations where there is no single "right" answer.

* Walks the reader through step-by-step configurations to assure they have been thorough and responsible in their work
* Clearly identifies those features of Exchange Server 2003 that represent the highest risk factors for attacks, performance degradation and service failures
* CYA comes right out and says what most IT Professionals are already thinking

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CYA comes out and says what most IT Professionals are already thinking, and on that point alone it will quickly capture the attention of its target audience. These are books with a clear message that will be heard above the noise level of the typical computer book shelf. And while the message may be a bit edgy, the content is Syngress-tested and rock solid.

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Its all there.......2005-02-18

Great book. You made it simple to read complex information.
Say what you want, screen shots do make a difference. I would rather see your step by step instructions in conjunction with written directives, then spend the time reading 10 pages trying to understand what you are trying to say. Meat and potatoes book. I love it.It was my one stop book for Exchange Security

Thanks Guys.

Empowering Tidbits, Somewhat Incomplete.......2004-12-01

This book is stock full of potent tidbits that are darn hard to find anywhere; I know because I was scavenging the net, MS articles, several books, etc. for eons and I couldn't find any adequate material that can help me secure Exchange 2k3. Thus far, thanks to this book, I was able encrypt IMAP, POP, and OWA (Outlook Web Access) traffic. I am still working on the RPC over HTTP bit, but definitely a lot further along in the process thanks to this book.

Though despite my delight with the book, there are some short-comings that I would like to highlight:

IMAP/POP configuration
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- no coverage of client configuration
- no mention of secure ports used (non-obvious to us newbies)
- no mention how to get rid of pesky Un-trusted cert message in Outlook
- public folders no longer accessible after turning on SSL/TLS (IMAP only issue as POP cannot access folders in general)
- no mention of SPA for IMAP/POP and Exchange 2k3 setup (maybe not possible)

OWA configuration
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- works like a charm, but should mention that port 443 needs to be opened on the firewall if applicable (though this is a no-brainer)

RPC over HTTP configuration
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- instructions not completely applicable to Exchange 2k3 SP1 as this portion is now integrated into Exchange UI, rather than IIS
- mention of configuring RPC ports for GC, DS, Store is for "multiserver Exchange environment" according to authors. However, MS's "Exchange Server 2003 RPC over HTTP Deployment Scenarios" has this as a requirement for single server setup.

Relay security
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- think the Exchange UI interface lies to me, as spammers having field day; couldn't readily discern how to open outbound up for a list of users, and open inbound to list of users. :-)
- What is Authenticated Users group. In practice, this seems to be everyone.

IMF spam filter
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- book is outdated as IMF is now free for all to enjoy, not just SA members

I looked at the electronic support site for any updates, and there was nothing. The support site is abysmal, bad URLs, little author participation, no updates, etc.

Overall, great book, despite any faults, this book is so resourceful and accurate and doesn't have fluff that many computer books have these days.

My one wish there could be a another updated version (PDF book :) available to users that bought it. Hey, I can wish can't I!!

Very precise and informative.......2004-08-26

Well-written book which covers the important security aspects of the Exchange 2003 product. The book covers a wide area of security topics and is a "must have" if you're starting to look into Exchange & OWA security in general.

Now that I have a good insight into Exchange 2003 security (and my bag full of neat "reality checks"), I can move on to one of the more hardcore Exchange books :)

A few lines from the author of the book..........2004-07-11

When I wrote CYA: Securing Exchange Server 2003 & Outlook Web Access the idea were to provide you with a relatively short, very concise, very pedagogy book that teaches you how to configure Exchange 2003 with security in mind. Though the book isn't intended to be a complete reference book on Exchange 2003 Security, as well as it won't teach you everything you need to know about this topic, it will provide you with the most important information.

Also note that CYA: Securing Exchange Server 2003 & Outlook Web Access isn't for true Exchange gurus, instead the book focuses on Exchange Admin's who are relatively newbie's when it comes to Exchange 2003 security.

If you want to read an excerpt from the book (chapter 5) or want to see some of the other stuff I've written, I recommend you give MSExchange.org a visit (click Author > Henrik Walther).

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