Get the Truth: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Persuade Anyone to Tell All
Philip Houston, Michael Floyd and Susan Carnicero
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Former CIA agents and the bestselling authors of Spy the Lie, Philip Houston, Mike Floyd and Susan...
Steve Martin & Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget For the Rest of Your Life (2018)
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Comedians and writers Steve Martin and Martin Short perform a live comedy set with music by The...
Joe Goodhart (27 KP) rated Marvel Masterworks: The Uncanny X-Men, Vol. 4 in Books
Nov 30, 2020
One thing I definitely noticed, and did not think about altogether until my wife and I started rewatching FIREFLY, was how Wolverine/Logan was like the Jayne Cobb of the X-Men. Serious similarities! Even down to how both characters would have barbs toward their respective leaders (Jayne/Mal; Wolverine/Cry-clops), but when it came down to it, both were pretty good at fighting/backing up the team.
One other observation.. I did not realize how "politically incorrect" some of the early characters were. For example, a member of Alpha Force, "the Canadian X-Men, was Michael Twoyoungmen (codename: Shaman). That is probably the WORST Native American name EVER! I am surprised they have not tried to retcon his real name! Then again, now that I think about it, I can't recall the last time any of the Alpha Flight team members were mentioned in last 10 years, other than Northstar! I wonder if that had anything to do with it.
Overall. it's good run of X-Men stories. Yeah, many times the dialogue will seem corny AF, but the overall story is what really matters, and at the end, that will really be what matters! Check it out, or miss it, but I think you will be sorry if you overlook it...
Managing Forests Over Long Time Spans: Past, Future and Present
Erland Marald, Tomas Lundmark, John Moen and Annika Nordin
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The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are...
Enlightened Aid: U.S. Development as Foreign Policy in Ethiopia
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Enlightened Aid is a unique history of foreign aid. It begins with the modern concept of progress in...