Myst IV: Revelation (Prima Official Game Guide)

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walkthrough for Myst IV: Revelation

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Myst IV Revelation

Buy the game, not the guide.

Myst IV: Revelation (Prima Official Game Guide)
Bryan Stratton
Manufacturer: Prima Games
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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Release Date: 2004-10-05

Book Description

·Full and complete walkthrough of your journey, from Tomahna to Serenia
·Supplemental background information about every Age that you can't get anywhere else
·Comprehensive puzzle solutions that explain the logic of each riddle, not just their answers
·Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of screenshots and previously unseen concept art
·Quick-reference appendix that includes every journal found in the game
·All branching storyline pathways explored and explained
·Fill in the missing aspects of the story that began in Myst and continues in Uru

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walkthrough for Myst IV: Revelation.......2007-05-18

Great to have helps the story to read with the game. Enjoy, The Larghe's

Another good Guide.......2005-10-04

I have used Prima Official Game Guide for all my Myst adventures. This one is taking me though the adventure without a hitch, so far. I am about 2/3 though. I like to play the game while reading the guide. Its more like the game is a high quality support for the guide. I don't like to spend too much time exploring on my own and spending hours on puzzles. I like the story, not the play. If there was no Prima Guide, I would never have finished Myst. I have however experienced and enjoyed them all and have ordered the final one.

Game playing Revelation.......2005-09-07

This game was exciting and interesting at every turn. The graphics are interesting and beautiful. The puzzles are challenging. The characters are well fleshed out and interesting.

The only fly in the ointment is the several puzzles that require dexterity to get through. The problem solving in the Myst universe has never required such a level of expertise in timing and placement before. . . just find the answer and go has been the solution in the past.

Myst IV Revelation.......2005-09-04

I found the guide very helpful in getting me past the places where I was stuck.

Buy the game, not the guide........2004-11-28

While Myst IV: Revelation is another beautiful, great game in the Myst series, this guidebook is not so great. If you are playing a game that relies heavily on difficult puzzles, then you need a good guide - however, this one is full of errors. It took me hours to figure out why I couldn't get past some puzzles after following the guide, only to realize it had given me the incorrect information in order to solve them. It would be better to find an online guide or walkthrough, instead.

Please, don't judge a game by its guide!

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The Years of the Beaver.......2006-09-02

This is the type of book that went out of style when the internet became popular, but I'm an old school fetishist who just loves me my WORLD ACCORDING TO BEAVER. Author Irwyn Applebaum was obviously an obsessed dreamer who collected scraps of Beaver trivia like fools gold. Most of the last part of the book is an episode guide, the kind you stumble on to at a site like IMDB and you just can't stop reading. Remember the days when TV shows had 39 episodes to a season? How did the actors keep from keeling over? Especially the young ones like Jerry Mathers and (sigh) the immortal Adonis Tony Dow, who must have also had to go to school for at least a few hours a day on top of starring in a Top Ten show!

No wonder the two actors sometimes looked a little peaked as the 60s began and the Beav got older and pudgier.

Tony Dow kept his good looks, however, as well as that trace of acting ability which set him off from his peers. As "Wally," the older brother of the Beav, Tony Dow had a girlfriend every week; women idolized him for being straight up with them. He was possibly the first man on TV to treat women like equals. As Beaver said, "You know something, Wally, I'd rather do nothin' with you than somethin' with anybody else." Applebaum even invents a newspaper, the Maple Drive News, and has a trivia IQ test in which, I'm ashamed to say, I got not one answer right! So you know this separates the men from the boys. The book also has updates about the cast, Barbara Billingsley, Jerry Mathers, and King Dow, but seeing that the updates stopped at 1984, the publication date of this book, they feel eerily incomplete.

A Fun, Light, And Breezy Romp Through Beaver Cleaver's World!.......2005-11-25

"The World According To Beaver" (subtitled: "The Official Leave It To Beaver Book") is a very pleasant 328-page trip down memory lane with Beaver Cleaver, Wally, Ward, June, and the rest of the clan that comprised the fine cast of one of the most endearing television sitcoms of all-time -- "Leave It To Beaver".

This softcover volume (originally published in 1984) is laid out in a carefree and fun-to-read style, with tons of "LITB" tidbits of info scattered throughout its 300-plus pages. Many black-and-white photographs are also included here, some of them posed "publicity stills" produced by Universal Studios, and some of the pics being "video captures" from several of the 234 episodes that were made during the successful lifespan of the "Beaver" series (it ran for six TV seasons, from 1957 to 1963).

"The World According To Beaver" is a nice companion piece to the "Leave It To Beaver" full-season DVD collections produced by Universal Studios Home Entertainment. The back cover of the book, in fact, includes a somewhat-odd remark about this book indeed being a "Tie-in" to the "Home Video" releases of LITB. That's odd only because the series had never been released on home video at the time this book was published.

The reader of this book will become well-versed in the "Beaver Language", via the section on "Vocabulary Words". You'll also learn all about the Cleaver gang, and many of Beaver's and Wally's friends as well. Plus, there's invaluable data concerning "Aunt Martha", "Gus The Fireman", "Fred Rutherford", "Miss Landers", and "Uncle Billy", too. :-)

The book also contains some fun 'behind-the-scenes'-type stuff in segments labelled "Secrets Of The Cleaver Home", "Inside The Boys' Bedroom", and "A Visitor's Guide To Mayfield".

And there are lots and lots of "quotes" from the LITB episodes. Reading all this funny dialogue from this great TV series should provide more than a few chuckles for fans who remember just about every episode by heart. :-)

The book also includes descriptions of all the episodes, although no air-date or guest-star info is provided here. The lengthy chapter on "The Shows" is presented in a "newspaper column" style, with four columns of program synopses per two-page spread.

The Beaver-related trivia never seems to stop flowing from this volume; there's a wealth of intriguing factoids regarding the series on tap here. One of my favorite sections in the book is the hilarious one-page summary that delves into Ward Cleaver's mysterious job and office activities (a segment humorously entitled "Ward At The Salt Mines"). As all stalwart Cleaver fans know, Ward's occupation was never really clearly defined throughout the entire six years the show was on the air (which, in itself, is a rather amazing "Let's Sidestep The Subject Of Precisely What Job Ward Has" achievement that was integrated into the scripts of writers Bob Mosher, Joe Connelly, Dick Conway, and several others who were apparently bound and determined to keep Ward's occupation a partial secret for all six seasons).

Reading that brief "Salt Mines" essay about good ol' Ward (who was definitely one of my favorite LITB characters) is bound to produce a few smiles from Beaver fans. There are tongue-in-cheek references to Ward having a corner office, while second-banana Fred Rutherford had to struggle without such luxuries at their "Job X" downtown office structure. There are also mentions made in the book of some of Ward's major work projects that pop up on the show from time to time -- like the infamous "Miller Audits" and "The Thompson Deal". ~grin~

This fun paperback also comes complete with a "Beaver I.Q. Test", which offers up some pretty tough trivia questions for the LITB faithful to sink their teeth into -- like "What is the name of Ward's secretary?" .... and .... "What is Beaver's bike-lock combination?" (I must admit, as I hide my head in shame, that I didn't know the answer to that one myself.)

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Following is a batch of "Leave It To Beaver" trivia (and "quotes") that Beaver fans might find useful and/or entertaining. To tell the truth, I can't recall if all of the following trivialities are located in this book or not; but I'm sure that some of it is. But, if not, here's some additional earth-shattering info that could be added to "The World According To Beaver".......

Who reading this can recall all six of the "Show Openings" for "Leave It To Beaver"? (A new Main Title opening sequence was filmed for each of the six seasons.)

In case you can't remember them, let's have a gander at all the openings:

Season 1 --- The "Handprints In Wet Cement" opening.

Season 2 --- Ward and June meet the boys at the bottom of the staircase.

Season 3 --- Ward and June enter the boys' bedroom, awakening them for school. (The first season in the "new" house at 211 Pine St.; Mayfield USA.)

Season 4 --- "The Ward" & "The June" hand the boys their coats on the front porch.

Season 5 --- "Yard Work" (featuring June presenting a tray of ice-cold homemade lemonade for her hard-working crew of three men in the front yard). This is the worst opening, IMO, which also features the "Magical Closing Front Door" after June exits the house with her tray of beverage delights. Perhaps Eddie was inside to serve as "Doorman" or something. I only hope somebody gave this opening's creator "The Business" for producing such an opening-credits sequence, which comes complete with Beaver's delightfully-fake "lip licking" in anticipation of receiving a glass of June's ice-cold beverage. :)

Season 6 --- The 1962-1963 "jazzed-up" beginning, with everybody running toward Ward's brand-new '62 Plymouth Fury four-door sedan.

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"Leave It To Beaver" had its fair share of laugh-out-loud lines of dialogue during its 6-year duration on network TV. As mentioned earlier, this book is chock-full of funny quotes from the series. Here are some of my favorite bits of LITB humor:

EDDIE HASKELL -- "Good morning, Mrs. Cleaver! Gee, Mrs. Cleaver, your kitchen always looks so clean. My mother says it looks as though you never do any work in here."

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FRED RUTHERFORD -- "Oh, you don't have to worry about Clarence's driving, Ward. When it comes to brains, he's got a head on him like the Rock of Gibraltar."

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WALLY -- "Gee, dad, we didn't mean to get Mr. Rutherford {with the 'barrel hoops'}."
BEAVER -- "Yeah, we yelled 'meathead' and he came runnin' out."

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JUNE -- "Ward, what happened at the office today?"
WARD -- "Well, one of the office jokers put pencil shavings in Fred Rutherford's instant-coffee jar."
JUNE -- "Did Fred think that was funny?"
WARD -- "No -- he never noticed."

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WARD -- "Oh, my comment {re. hairstyles} wasn't referring to you dear -- your hair looks like it never saw a curler."

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JUNE -- "Who's Cornelia Rayburn, and when did she see YOU off your feet?!"

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JUNE -- "Ward, why don't you ever bring me flowers?"
WARD -- "I'm the kind that says it with seat covers."

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JUNE -- "Honestly, Ward, he {Wally} just looks like a...a...a GANGSTER! The next thing you know he's going to be wearing a leather jacket and motorcycle boots!" (Via "Wally's Haircomb".) :-)

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WARD -- "Remember when Beaver had to have that football helmet? I paid six dollars for it. Two days later he gave it to the milkman in case he had a head-on collision."

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WARD -- "How can you try too hard to be a good parent?!"
JUNE -- "I don't know, but it looks like you've mastered it."

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WARD -- "Well, Duke, is Mayfield going to have another good basketball team next year?"
DUKE HATHAWAY -- "Oh, I don't think so Mr. Cleaver -- I'm graduating."

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WALLY -- "Gee, dad, if a girl called here for me, you wouldn't tell her I was in the bathtub, would ya?"
WARD -- "Well, Wally, with the number of baths you take, I don't think the risk is very great."

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EDDIE -- "That look he {Ward} gives me when he answers the door. Sometimes I think he'd be happier to see Khrushchev standing there."

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MRS. HANSON (Alma's Mother) -- "Mrs. Cleaver, I hope we didn't keep you away from your dishes."
JUNE -- "Not at all -- they're used to being alone!"

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JUNE -- "Well, Ward, just because you were a hoodlum when you were young, is no reason to have my babies travelling around the countryside like a couple of gypsies!!"

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WARD -- "Oooh, that Eddie Haskell!!"
JUNE -- "Just for that, I'm going to put mayonnaise on his sandwich!"
WARD -- "That's my girl."

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WARD -- "Hey June, Wally just told me that Beaver intercepted a pass today and ran for a touchdown!"
JUNE -- "Oh no Ward! Now they'll probably want him to play ALL the time!"

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JUNE -- "Well, Beaver, did you have a good day today?"
BEAVER -- "No -- I went to school."

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JUNE -- "I hope Beaver had something to eat over at the Mondellos."
WALLY -- "I wouldn't worry about that, mom. Every time you go over there, somebody's always eating."

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JUNE -- "Ward, sometimes I think you like to stay late down at that office."
WARD -- "Oh sure. It's a regular 24-hour Mardi Gras down there."

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WALLY -- "Women are funny -- maybe they like to smell like old catcher's mitts."

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EDDIE -- "Athletics are fine, Mr. Cleaver -- but my father prefers me to develop in a normal manner."

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WALLY -- "Gee, mom, the way they fix ladies' hair nowadays, you can't tell whether they've been to the beauty parlor or just standing around in the wind."

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WALLY -- "You know, Lumpy, your whole tailpipe is wired up with a coat hanger."
LUMPY -- "Yeah, I did that to pass the safety inspection."

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Another interesting topic that can be used for "LITB List Making" is .... "Wally's Girlfriends". .......

My favorites would be both Mary Ellen and Julie -- a dead heat for "Top Doll" (aka: "Wally's Top Babes"). :-)

Here's a relatively-complete list of girls whom Wallace Cleaver was associated with throughout the LITB series:

>> Mary Ellen Rogers (Played by Pamela Baird).
>> Julie Foster (Cheryl Holdridge).
>> Gloria Cusick (also played by Cheryl Holdridge).
>> Carolyn Stewart (Vickie Albright).
>> Evelyn Boothby (Mary Mitchel).
>> Margie Manners (Candy Moore).
>> Alma Hanson (Carol Sydes).
>> Penny Jamison (also portrayed by Carol Sydes).
>> Kitty Bannerman (Bernadette Withers).
>> Kathy Gregory (Carole Wells).
>> Lori Ann (Brenda Scott).
>> Gail Preston (Laraine Stephens).
>> Ginny Townsend (Linda Bennett).
>> Caroline Cunningham (Karen Green).
>> Shirley Fletcher (Beverly Lunsford).

Honorable Mentions:

>> "Judy", played by Barbara Parkins. Judy can't really (officially) be considered one of "Wally's Girls", but he did make goo-goo eyes at her in one episode in Season 5.

>> "Carol Martin", a tennis player (played by Cindy Robbins) who took Wally "for a ride" in order to lure her real boyfriend back into her scheming arms. That vixen! She doesn't deserve the likes of a Wallace Cleaver!

>> "Marlene Holmes" (Diane Sayer). This girl, from "the wrong side of the tracks" -- who drank beer and smoked cigarettes (that tramp!!) -- gave Wally, to my knowledge, his only on-screen kiss; and a beaut it was, which took Wally by surprise as he uttered, after the sensuous smooch, a shocked "Goll-y!!". :-)

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Let me (finally) conclude with just one more hunk of Beaver-endorsing commentary......

"Leave It To Beaver" is one of the classic American television sitcoms. The simple and easy-going stories that made up the scripts each week for those six "Beaver" years are worth re-visiting over and over again, IMHO. And that laid-back and wholly-uncomplicated flavor of the series has been nicely captured by author Irwyn Applebaum in "The World According To Beaver".

A classic coming of age sitcom.......2001-10-19

I remember watching "Leave It To Beaver" when I was growing up in the 1960's-It was a well-written show,which looked at life from the perspective of a young boy-In my opinion,it's one of the best sitcoms of all time-Now that it's on the TV Land cable network,I never miss a single episode-Irwyn Applebaum did a fantastic job in putting this book together-Not only do you get classic lines of dialogue,but you get a thorough summary of all 254 episodes-Whether your favorite character was Wally,the Beav,Lumpy,or that meanie Eddie Haskell,you'll have a great time reading this book-Highly recommended for the true Beaver fans.

Very enjoyable for Beaver fans.......2001-08-07

This is a great book for Leave It to Beaver fans with background info, show quotes and dialog organized by topic, and an episode guide. The characters are described with show details and dialog samples. Reading the episode summaries, I can't help smiling. The author wrote a useful and fun guide to the show.

GREAT!.......2000-06-17

I live in Germany now and can't get old reruns. This brought back some memories and laughs from the shows I used to watch as a kid. This stuff is classic and doesn't go out of style!

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The World According to Beaver
Irwyn Applebaum
Manufacturer: Bantam Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000GU6L3Y

Book Description

An insider's look at the world's first major rock-and-roll tour, Ticket to Ride tells the Beatles' story like it's never been told before.

• Includes a CD featuring an hour of Kane's rare interviews with the Beatles
• Features a foreword by Dick Clark

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"Ticket to Ride" ...Yeah Yeah Yeah !.......2007-07-16

Larry Kane's "Ticket to Ride" is simply a must-read for all Beatles fan. As the only American journalist to cover every single date of both the '64 & '65 North American tours, Kane was in the eye of the storm of the hysteria of Beatlemania. The journalist developed a rapport and friendly relationship with John, Paul, George & Ringo, and his insights are invaluable.
It's fascinating to witness Kane's transformation from cynical journalist who was at first reluctanct to accept the assignment, to someone who developed an admiration and respect for the Beatles as musicians and as men.
It's a light and breezy read, and the paper-back edition is light and easy to carry. Perfect summer reading for the beach or a plane ride.
An added bonus is a CD featuring snippets of exclusive interviews Kane conducted w/ the Fab Four.

Interesting and Entertaining Just like Kane's Other Beatle Book.......2007-06-09

I really enjoyed this book. I loved the eyewitness recollections of each concert and city. I enjoyed Larry's anecdotes just like anyone who has asked him, "What was it like"? The stories on the plane were a delight, especially the revealing ones. I wonder who made that anti semetic remark anyway? I can't help thinking it was John because he was so outspoken, and I've heard he made other"jew" remarks. Who knows? Concidering Larry's catty, unfair, unwarranted, little asides about Paul McCartney, you'd almost think Paul was the one who made the remark, and maybe Larry knows this but isn't saying. There has to be some reason why Larry digs Paul throughout this book. Like other reviewers I found this book biased in Lennon's favor. I'm not begrudging his picking John as his favorite. He has excellent taste, but like his book Lennon Revealed this book puts Lennon on a pedestal and doesn't mention the others enough. Okay, for a book about John Lennon but not a book that's supposed to be about all four of them. Also people who love John the most seem to feel that this means that they need to show Paul in the worst possible light, and the Paul fans seem to always do this to John as well. Nothing is more boring and childish. We're not in 7th grade. Please grow up, Beatle writers. Jeez I love both of them equally. Why doesn't everybody else? Larry doesn't bash Paul McCartney in this book, but he never misses an opportunity to spin every event to make it look like everything Paul did had an ulterior motive. For instance, at the Capitol Records garden party the boys were expected to sit on little stools and greet over 500 guests, who shuffled past them one by one. Larry observes that while John, George and Ringo seem to be going through the motions, Paul greets each guest warmly and even finds something to say to almost all of them. (I'm not quoting from the text because I don't have the book in front of me) Then Larry somehow slants this observation to make it seem like Paul is phoney or superficial. Because my oppinion is not biased by dislike, I view this story as an example of professionalism. If Larry really knew the boys as well as he pretends to, he would have seen that all four of them were professional like this. They always went that extra mile and every obligation was carried out with enthusiasm, even if they weren't feeling that way deep down. Paul is more well known for this but all of them played the game. Another thing that Larry seems to have missed about Paul because he really does not know him very well, is that Paul is NICE. His father was NICE. His brother is NICE. The entire family has always been described by insiders as impeccably well behaved and well mannered. Paul was brought up to beleive in a work ethic and to be a team player. In fact he has said that if he didn't act this way, it would have been phoney. I'm sure if John or George were seen greeting the guests with enthusiasm Larry would have gushed about what troopers they were and how professional. In fact if Larry had portrayed George in this unfavorable light, all of the Harrison mommies and daddies would be slamming this book, and giving it one star. ( see Here There and Everywhere and Revolution in the Head) In another part of this book, where Paul is talking about his views on civil rights, Larry even has the nerve to insert words into the text that Paul never said, to try and show that he's really a racist in disguise (listen to the accompanying cd which has the actual, Paul and Larry civil rights interview to see that what he really says differs from the text.) After reading this book my feeling is that ALL FOUR of them were lovely men, with a strong sense of humanity and for twentysomething pop stars, they had an unusual amount of integrety. They were discreet in their personal lives, wonderful to their fans, and just really down to earth. This book does a fantastic job of conveying that.

Another wonderful thing are the recounting of stories by the fans who were lucky enough to either witness a concert first hand or at least were first generation fans and remember the magic first hand. I love Beatle books that do this. It's always nice to hear what other fans have to say.I gave this book five stars because I really loved everything about it. It was fun, facinating and exciting to read. I'm just not happy with Larry's snotty, catty remarks about Paul, especially since he doesn't seem to have anything to back them up. Paul doesn't deserve it. Larry is lucky to have been given the priviledge of traveling with, and getting to know The Beatles. And we are lucky that he finally wrote a memoir. Add this one to your collection.

A Great Ride Down Memory Lane.......2007-05-27

I was 16 years old when I learned about the Beatles in February, 1974. I was totally blown away, and have yet to recover. I bought, Meet The Beatles, as quickly as I could scrape up $3.00, and get to Woolworths, where the records were in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. It seemed like it was a matter of days, and the Beatles owned places 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, on the Billboard Top 100 Chart.

Then I started working on Mama to buy me my first guitar, which I still have, with 5 others. It was a $50.00 Silvertone from Sears. I constantly play the songs I heard on the 3 Ed Sullivan Shows in Febtuary, 1974.

I didn't really understand why the Beatles stopped touring when they did. Now I do since I read this book. I learned a whole lot of things that I didn't know after reading, Ticket To Ride. If you want to go from city to city with Larry Kane, Brian Epstein, the Beatles, other insiders, and the avid Beatle fans during the 1964 and 1965 tours, read this book.

I am a Christian, a rock and roller, and a serious Beatle fan. This book is written in pretty good taste, yet it gets down to the nitty-gritty of Beatlemania. Get this book!

Steve Hummel
steve0094@aol.com

Take a ride with the Beatles.......2007-01-17

Larry Kane is familiar to most of us in Philadelphia as one of our most well-known and loved newscasters, but before coming to our city he experienced a news story of a lifetime: traveling with The Beatles on their 1964 and 1965 concert tours of America. Working for a Miami radio station at the time, Larry takes us city by city from his first meeting with the band to their hotel rooms on the road, their chartered plane zigziagging across the county, and to Shea Stadium to witness the frenzy of Beatlemania.

The story makes for an easy, fun read, seeing the Beatles from a unique "insider-yet-outsider" perspective. Not one of the band's inner circle of managers or road crew, Larry still had an exposure to and a relationship with the band that few others enjoyed, and was entrusted to report on the band for his job while keeping some of the more scandalous sights he saw out of the public eye. Even here, he mostly leaves the sex and drugs out of the rock and roll equation, only suggesting and hinting at what may have happened (and probably did happen) behind closed doors. He obviously holds the Beatles in high respect and did not write this book to in any way diminish their reputation.

You won't find deep insight into the band members here, either, nor a great deal about their creative process. Larry's opinions of each member of the band come through quite clearly, though, especially his strong admiration for John Lennon, who comes across as easily angered yet intelligent and passionate in his convictions. Paul McCartney is the only member of the band who comes across sometimes in a less than favorable light, as Kane suggests a polished, suave, yet perhaps superficial character to "The Cute Beatle". The descriptions of fan behavior and the lengths to which fans would go to meet the band are quite interesting and revealing, at least to those of us who never experienced Beatlemania firsthand.

One weakness to the book is at times, Kane's newscaster profession takes over the writing style and the book can read like a transcript of "48 Hours" or "Dateline NBC". Most chapters end on a teaser or cliffhanger note that seems begging for someone to add, "That story after this commercial break!" The book is at times repetitive as well, as if he was stretching to fill out a page count by rehashing information. But overall, this is still a good read for any Beatles fan, or for those curious about the impact of Beatlemania on America in the 1960s.

FAV BOOK ABOUT THE FAB 4!!!.......2006-06-20

I think Larry Kane did a wonderful job on this book! I actually bought this off of amazon, and i am glad i did. He Describes the American tours so well, you can picture everything!! THis is my favorite book about the "Boys" and i am sure you will think so too!

Book Description

"Knowing" itself is a problematic concept and what was once seen as the clear objective of "knowing," that is to discover "truth" or "reality," has become increasingly less certain. This is even more the case when scholars move from the present to examine epistemology in the past. Two fundamental questions arise: What constituted knoweldge in the context of early modern Germany and how was knowledge gathered, assembled, organized, deployed, and interpreted? Ways of Knowing seeks to answer these questions. Taking their cues from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives, including art, German literature, social, political, medical, and religious history, the contributors offer readers a rich and insightful portrait of knowing and knowledge in early modern Germany. Investigators look at what people "knew" in early modern Germany and how they "knew" it. Four essays in part one consider how knowledge was created and organized. In part two, six authors examine how knowledge was evaluated and how it functioned, especially in the realms of belief, law, politics, and medicine.

Ways of Knowing: Ten Interdisciplinary Essays

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Ways of Knowing: Ten Interdisciplinary Essays
Fr Uhe Neuzeit Interdisziplin AR
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Publishers, Incorporated
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000MV4JC2

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Ways of Knowing: Ten Interdisciplinary Essays
Mary (Editor) Lindemann
Manufacturer: Brill
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NDL76U

Ways of Knowing: Ten Interdisciplinary Essays (Stu

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Ways of Knowing: Ten Interdisciplinary Essays (Stu
Alan Lorenz
Manufacturer: Brill Academic Pub 01/31/2004
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000MBW0V4

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Hollywood buffs.......2007-05-22

Great entertainment for baby boomers that have enjoyed the Hollywood scene for years

Book Description

Mobile robots range from the teleoperated Sojourner on the Mars Pathfinder mission to cleaning robots in the Paris Metro. Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots offers students and other interested readers an overview of the technology of mobility -- the mechanisms that allow a mobile robot to move through a real world environment to perform its tasks -- including locomotion, sensing, localization, and motion planning. It discusses all facets of mobile robotics, including hardware design, wheel design, kinematics analysis, sensors and perception, localization, mapping, and robot control architectures.

The design of any successful robot involves the integration of many different disciplines, among them kinematics, signal analysis, information theory, artificial intelligence, and probability theory. Reflecting this, the book presents the techniques and technology that enable mobility in a series of interacting modules. Each chapter covers a different aspect of mobility, as the book moves from low-level to high-level details. The first two chapters explore low-level locomotory ability, examining robots' wheels and legs and the principles of kinematics. This is followed by an in-depth view of perception, including descriptions of many "off-the-shelf" sensors and an analysis of the interpretation of sensed data. The final two chapters consider the higher-level challenges of localization and cognition, discussing successful localization strategies, autonomous mapping, and navigation competence. Bringing together all aspects of mobile robotics into one volume, Introduction to Autonomous Mobile Robots can serve as a textbook for coursework or a working tool for beginners in the field.

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Good guide to computational robotics.......2005-08-22

This book is one of only a few of its kind. That is, it is a book that focuses on the computational issues in robotics rather than the all-too familiar hobbyist approach.
Chapter one is somewhat expendable, since it is simply a prosaic overview of the entire text. Chapter two talks about the theory of robot motion at a high level, with few helpful technical details. Chapter three, "Mobile Robot Kinematics", is where the book takes a dramatic upturn in quality. The computations of robot kinematics are discussed in detail for several kinds of robotic wheels. To really understand this chapter, the reader should already be familiar with dynamics and statics as well as the concepts of three dimensional rotation and matrices. For a companion to the kinematic material, I suggest Craig's "Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics and Control (3rd Edition)". It is much better than the reviewers say. Chapter four covers the various sensors used in robotics, as well as the mathematics needed in the integration of those sensors. The chapter concludes with some basic image processing and computer vision techniques. The material here is broad but somewhat shallow. I suggest that you already be familiar with basic image processing techniques and computer vision, or possibly have a copy of Gonzales & Woods "Digital Image Processing" handy, as well as a copy of Trucco & Verri's "Introductory Techniques for 3D Computer Vision". This is especially true if you wish to grasp some of the statistical techniques at the end of chapter four. Chapters five and six, on localization and navigation, respectively, are mathematically deep. The material on the Kalman Filter is somewhat oversimplified, and to truly grasp the subject of Kalman Filtering one will need to go to an outside source for a full tutorial. In my case, my instructor's notes were sufficient.
In summary, this is a very good book for someone who is mathematically mature enough to handle the computational aspects of mobile robotics. The reader should already understand dynamics, statics, numerical linear algebra, image processing, artificial intelligence, and computer vision. This book collects and connects all of these concepts well, but you will have to go digging elsewhere for the complete amount of detail required to perform all of the calculations for the methods described in this book. In short, computational robotics is a type of "capstone course" for engineers/computer scientists with the correct background and reference library, and for those engineers, this is the best guide published to date.

Great emphasis and overview.......2004-08-03

Having spent years working in this field, this book
in my opinion places the emphasis on one of the most
basic yet most important robotics problems of today:
mobility. It also addresses other broad issues related
to mobile robots. Despite the book's breadth, it is filled
with numerous great examples of functioning robots.
The robotics problems tackled by each chapter are
well explained and the exposition is deep enough for
the reader to truly understand the main issues and
the main solutions associated with each research challenge.
It is a book that in my opinion can be enjoyed by
both an expert and a complete novice in robotics. It's
fun to browse, yet if you want to delve into more detail on
any given topic you can.

Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction

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The book provides a very good introduction to mobile robots.

Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction
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Mobile Robotics: A Practical Introduction (2nd edition) is an excellent introduction to the foundations and methods used for designing completely autonomous mobile robots. A fascinating, cutting-edge, research topic, autonomous mobile robotics is now taught in more and more universities. In this book you are introduced to the fundamental concepts of this complex field via twelve detailed case studies that show how to build and program real working robots. Topics covered in clued learning, autonomous navigation in unmodified, noisy and unpredictable environments, and high fidelity robot simulation. This new edition has been updated to include a new chapter on novelty detection, and provides a very practical introduction to mobile robotics for a general scientific audience. It is essential reading for 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students and postgraduate students studying robotics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and robot engineering. The update and overview of core concepts in mobile robotics will assist and encourage practitioners of the field and set challenges to explore new avenues of research in this exiting field. The author is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Essex. "A very fine overview over the relevant problems to be solved in the attempt to bring intelligence to a moving vehicle." Professor Dr. Ewald von Puttkamer, University of Kaiserslautern "Case studies show ways of achieving an impressive repertoire of kinds of learned behaviour, navigation and map-building. The book is an admirable introduction to this modern approach to mobile robotics and certainly gives a great deal of food for thought. This is an important and though-provoking book." Alex M. Andrew in Kybernetes Vol 29 No 4 and Robotica Vol 18

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The book provides a very good introduction to mobile robots........2000-04-30

This is a very good introductory book on mobile robots. It assumes no background of the readers in the subject. Chapter 3 provides a introduction to the hardwared aspects including sensors and actuators. Chapter 4 on machine learning by robots is also very very interesting. The case studies presented in chapter 5 and 6 will be very much useful to the new-entrants of this discipline. Chapter 7 on analysis of robot behaviour is important for the researchers working in the discipline.I like the book for its simplicity in presentation and direct reference to the points to be discussed, rather than providing a lengthy introduction to the topics. The phrase "A practcical introduction" in the title is really worthwhile for the book.

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