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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Bill Haley, Bobby Joe Morrow, Ed Fagan, Thomas Haden Church, Jim Messina, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Nick Stahl, Cayetano Garza, Rachel Mclish, Dylan Gandy, Leo Araguz, Roel Campos, Juan de La Rosa, Gina Haley, Gig Gangel, Caitlyn Taylor Love, Tom Barker. Excerpt:Beth Nielsen Chapman Beth Nielsen Chapman (born September 14, 1958 in Harlingen , Texas , U.S. ) is an American singer-songwriter , mostly known for her numerous hits recorded by country and pop music performers. Early history In 1976, Chapman played with a rock and pop group called "Harmony" in , effectively replacing Tommy Shaw who had just left to join Styx . She played acoustic guitar and piano as well as providing vocals for the group in a locally-popular bowling alley bar called Kegler's Kove and has returned to play in the area on an infrequent basis ever since. Career success as songwriter Chapman has had several popular songs on the Adult Contemporary charts in the 1990s, such as "I Keep Coming Back to You", "Walk My Way", "The Moment You Were Mine" and "All I Have". In 1993, she sang a popular duet with Paul Carrack , "In the Time it Takes". Co-songwriter of Faith Hill 's hit song "This Kiss ", Chapman has written songs performed by numerous artists: Trisha Yearwood ("Down On My Knees", "You Say You Will", "Trying to Love You"), Martina McBride ("Happy Girl "), Willie Nelson ("Nothing I Can Do About It Now", "Ain't Necessarily So", "If My World Didn't Have You"), Tanya Tucker ("Strong Enough to Bend"), Lorrie Morgan ("Five Minutes"), Mary Chapin Carpenter ("Almost Home"), Jim Brickman ... Read more

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Chapters: Lance Armstrong, Florence Shapiro, Craig James, Alan Tudyk, Chuck Swindoll, Michael Urie, Nathan Green, Nick Stahl, Vickiel Vaughn, David Lofton, Jimmy King, Hunter Parrish, Hollie Vise, Billy Ray Smith, Zig Ziglar, Anson Funderburgh, John Herrington, Scott Mechlowicz, Nick Garcia, Scott Eder, Kristin Adams, David Jacobs, Malcolm Perry, Adam Miller, Casey Joyce, T. J. Thyne, Jordan Tata, Rocky Thompson, Michael Viscardi, Douglas Otto, Quindon Tarver, Pat Thomas, John Henry Rasor, John Benjamin Hickey, Aristotle Athiras, Thomas Chilton Jasper, Colleen Marie, Taylor Hooton, Joseph W. Shepard, Kevin Murphy, Stephen Katz, Tara Hitchcock, Thomas Muehlenbeck, Glen Kimberlin. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 156. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: World Cycling Champion (1993)US National Cycling Champion (1993)Clásica de San Sebastián (1995)La Flèche Wallonne (1996)Tour de Suisse (2001)Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (2002, 2003) Lance Edward Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson on September 18, 1971) is an American professional road racing cyclist who is best known for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times, after having survived testicular cancer. He is also the founder and chairman of the Lance Armstrong Foundation for cancer research and support. He currently rides for UCI ProTour team Team RadioShack. In 1996 he was diagnosed with testicular cancer, a tumor that metastasized to his brain and lungs. His cancer treatments included brain and testicular surgery and extensive chemotherapy, and his prognosis was originally poor. He went on to win the Tour de France each year from 1999 to 2005, and is the only person to win seven times, having broken the previous record of five wins, shared by Miguel Indurain, Bernard Hinault, Eddy Merckx and Jacques Anquetil. ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=23243880 ... Read more

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A novel by David Hagberg

Based on the screenplay by Jonathan Mostow, John Brancato, and Michael Ferris

The novel of the blockbuster hit film

For two generations of moviegoers, the Terminator movies have defined adrenaline-soaked action filmmaking. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as a machine from the future, a machine who can take-or save-lives, capable of enormous violence and destruction, these films are the quintessential action thrillers of the new millennium.

Now, twelve years after Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Schwarzenegger is back in a new Terminator film that is even more exciting and action-packed than the first two films. With incredible new computer-generated imagery and an enormous arsenal of new effects, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, is a roller-coaster ride that moviegoers won't be able to resist.

David Hagberg, the bestselling author of dozens of action thrillers, has written a novel that goes inside the minds of the terminators and shows readers the post apocalyptic future as they've never seen it before, creating a thrill-packed novel. On the screen, Terminator 3 will dazzle and delight the eyes and rivet viewers to their seats. With masterful storytelling and a pulse-pounding pace, Hagberg has written a novel of heart-stopping tension that will keep readers in suspense until the very last page.
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T3 for english
John Connor, now older, is still a target for killer cyborgs from a possible future.The human resistance of the future has also sent back a Terminator, who saved Connor's life before.John's cyborg assassin, a Terminatrix(T-X), is far more advanced than anything ever seen in previous models.If he doesnt survive, the future of humans is lost.His only hope lies within himself, a girl from his past, and a Terminator(who looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger).

I thought it was a good book and helped further explain the movie.It added more detail to the scenes.Its action packed and hard to put down.This novelwill be a favorite for any terminator or schwarzenegger fan.While the movie may not be as good as the others, the book is just as good as any.

Terminator 3 rocks
This book is the most thrilling and exciting book ever. It has awesome details to show the reader what is happening in the scene combined with an all ready spectacular plot this book is awesome and deserves all the complements it gets.The book tells an awesome story and has amazing events that will keep the reader reading intensly. The movie was also great but I think that reading the book before the movie sort of ruined the ending but all in all it was okay. I would reccomend this book to anyone who likes to read and is a fan of the terminator series.
An those who like the Governer of California.

Based on the Movie with A Little More Insight
I watched Terminator 3 in the movies before I read the book.It was good to refresh my memory of the movie, because the movie was intense and, the way memory works, you inevitably forget certain important scenes.

If you have not seen the movie, I would highly recommend the book.It describes many of the scenes in great detail.Also, some events in the movie that are a bit unclear are explained quite well in the book.For instance, when the T-X reprograms Terminator's memory system, it would seem as though it would be impossible for the Terminator to be on John Conner's side again.But the book explains that the Terminator re-booted his computer system, and thus was able to have a fresh start.In the movie, this is not explained at all, and the Terminator just comes back to save John Conner, which appears puzzling since he was, at that point in time, programmed to harm John Conner.

The book is very action-focused - with very vivid descriptions of the actions that are occuring.I am actually quite impressed with the ability to write a book based on a movie of this complexity -- and still make it very readable, exciting, and a fun read.

-- Michael Gordon
Los Angeles

Inconsistent storyline
I read the book after having seen the movie.A book is supposed to give more of an insight into characters and the storyline than the movie can convey, but if a book is based on a movie (not the other way around) I would expect to see some consistency.I have to note one major mistake in the storyline from the book: Both in the book and in the movie, the Terminator tells John and Kate that Kate sent him back, not John, as the future John was dead.However, the book clearly shows the future John Connor sending the Terminator back through time (right in the beginning chapters). Unless there's something I'm missing here, that's a pretty bad blunder.On a positive note, it's still fun to read!

The machines are rising.
Artificial intelligence has been growing by leaps and bounds in the last 40 years, but advances in the field have been difficult, and recognition that advances have indeed been made prove to be very transitory. Research in AI is very odd for this reason: the belief that one has discovered an intelligent software system is very short lived, unlike other fields of research. It seems that researchers in AI are too hard on themselves, too easily persuaded, that their discoveries do not represent true intelligence.

Writers though have expressed considerable enthusiasm regarding AI, and this book, and the movie that accompanies it, is ample proof. If only the field was advanced as this book portrays it to be. Concrete results and applications of AI though are currently accelerating, and there is little doubt that battlefield robots will be a natural consequence of the current AI technology.

The book illuminates to some extent the method of time travel that was not discussed in the movie: the Hawking/Einstein wormhole scenario but generalized to superstrings. The superstring wormhole/time travel machine was discovered in the story by a graduate school at Oxford...an incredible achievement for one individual, and even more astounding given the fact that current superstring theory has no experimental ramifications, except for predicting a huge value for the cosmological constant. To go from the current state of superstring theory to one where one can do spacetime engineering as a consequence is quite a leap in knowledge. The wormhole is opened by the focusing of sunlight using of all things a solar sail, which results in several hundred terawatts of energy over nanosecond time scales to arrive at the place of the singularity equipment. Objects are able to travel backward in time, and the time machine has a replica under human control.

The story has some plausibility in light of the current use of artificial intelligence in network engineering, especially network security, network event correlation, and network capacity planning. Indeed, it was announced this week that a technology is now available that will identify security risks and take action using auto-adapting artificial intelligence. The story makes Skynet one of these smart network applications, so intelligent in fact that it becomes "self-aware", gets paranoid about human intentions, and therefore orders a massive nuclear strike in order to remove the human threat. This move by Skynet makes the story somewhat implausible, for if, as the story holds, there is no "central core" to Skynet, it being instead a distributed application that runs on computers all over the world, then it would destroy itself in the very act of a global nuclear strike. It would have been better for Skynet to "lay low" and make sure power systems cannot be tampered with instead of ordering such a self-destrucutive act. It is the power systems that are most crucial for the survival of Skynet, and its distributed nature requires such power sources to be left intact globally, and not just "under the mountain" where its inventors program it. In addition, there is no need in the story for Skynet to become "self-aware" in order for it to engage in reasoning that will protect it from harm. The agents and spiders it moves around in the global Internet could make logical deductions to this effect. Such agents would then spend most of their time insuring that power supplies are redundant enough to keep Skynet's global nature intact.

The action in the story is typical of the Terminator movies and book series, with the female-emulating TX Terminator robot, highly sophisticated technologically, taking the story for sure in this regard. But the story also captures the introspection of John Connor, the main character and hero, and the one responsible for leading the future war against the machines. A human being facing this knowledge of the future would be under considerable stress, and this is brought out in the story via his dreams. The dreams are of a nightmarish future, with a devastating war of humans against machines, a war that Connor and his lieutenants will eventually win, much to the chagrin of the machines. The machines can't accept their defeat, and consequently send replicas of themselves through time to try and kill Connor and his lieutenants.

Should we label the machines as intelligent considering their behavior? Do intelligent entities engage in the violence and horror that these machines do? One can of course imagine schemes and plans that might justify such behavior, but a more practical strategy would be to ignore human interactions, or possibly engage in a mutual symbiosis. Intelligent entities realize the waste of resources and intellect in the making of violent confrontation, using it only as last resort. There are so many scenarios that would be more optimal for the course of action of these machines, and it would not be a credible argument to hold that they act as they do because of their training via humans, considering the relative sparsity of human violence throughout history. One should interpret therefore the machine decision for war as a mistake, and not one that is practical, and therefore not moral. They failed to seek alternatives that would insure their survival, and this is ample proof that they are not intelligent, or at best marginally so.

The book though in a sense is a portent, however inaccurate, of things to come, and things that are happening right now in artificial intelligence. We do not have robot armies, but we have AI invading many domains: financial engineering, network engineering, mathematics, physics, Ecommerce, bioinformatics, to name just a few. The applications of AI are accelerating, and there is every indication that this trend will continue. We are entering a world of the silicon geniuses, the world of the avatars: we are indeed witnessing, and are priveleged to do so, the rise of the machines... ... Read more

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Characters of Carnivàle. Mythology of Carnivàle, List of Carnivàle Episodes, Carnivàle, Traveling Carnivàle, Daniel Knauf, Nick Stahl, Adrienne Barbeau, Michael J. Anderson, Casting (Performing Arts), Article Sources and Contributors, Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors ... Read more

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Title: Venganza en el norteño Maine.(TT: Revenge in northern Maine.)(Reseña)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: April 17, 2002
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on July 31, 2002. The length of the article is 876 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mentes perdidas. (Cine).(TT: Bully. (Cinema).)(Reseña)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: July 31, 2002
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
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LEGENDS OF THE GOLDEN AGE... THE BLACK TERROR & DAREDEVIL... IT'S EXCITING!... IT DARES TO BE DIFFERENT!... It?s two of the greatest heroes of the Golden Age in some of their most thrilling adventures! Torn from the pages of ?Exciting Comics? comes America?s Fighting Nemesis of Crime, the Black Terror! With steel-hard skin and super-strength, he wades through crime like a one-man army!... Then, blasting out of the classic 1940?s ?Daredevil Comics" by Charles Biro, is the original hero of that name! With unbeatable fighting prowess and his unerring boomerangs he shows the thugs and tough guys a taste of hard-knuckled justice! All five of the Golden Age Comic Stories are presented in glorious FULL-COLOR, and this is one collection that should be on every fan's bookshelf... Two champions of yesteryear to thrill you with Classic Comic stories and ALL NEW prose adventures! Edited by Wayne Skiver, with stories by Barry Reese, Phil Bledsoe, Don Lee, Kevin Breen, and Dansen L. Stahl... Two true LEGENDS OF THE GOLDEN AGE in one volume! Cover Art by Keith Howell, with additional Art & Pin-Ups by Nick Neocleous! ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

READ THE FINE PRINT!!!
You read the description of the book, and even some of the reviews, and it LOOKS like this is a collection of comic book reprints. Sure, you note a mention of some short stories, but that's just mentioned in passing and not very much so. The book itself, however, is a different kettle of fish. Yes, there ARE four "Black Terror" and two "Daredevil" stories. BUT... WAY more than half the book is devoted to prose NOT Graphics. The stories are not bad. They are, in and of themselves, quite entertaining in a pulpish sort of way. BUT THAT'S NOT THE BOOK THE COPY WOULD LEAD ONE TO BELIEVE ONE IS GETTING! Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying "Don't buy" this. I'm just saying KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING!

only wish is for more reprints
The Black Terror has long been a favorite of mine...what a costume!! And, at last, some color (not the B/W ones out there now) reprints of his 1940's adventures. There are 4 Black Terror stories, with covers, including the extra-long origin story. Add to this 2 Daredevil...the 1940's superhero with the alternating blue/red costume and boomerang, including again, the extra-long origin tale. There are also new short stories about the Black Terror written (and done well) for this volume.As my title said, I only wish there were more, full-color, Black Terror and Daredevil stories re-printed in ths volume. Perhaps in a second one???

Shameless self-plug
Okay, I have a short story in this book, so I am hardly qualified to review it. Honestly, though, even if you (GASP!) don't like the new stories, the reprints of the old comics alone are worth the price. My friend Don Lee has an excllent Black Terror story following mine, but I may be biased about that. Order a copy and give it a chance. ... Read more