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Recreate the adventure of the Chronicles of Narnia with this figure pack from Play Along. Complete with authentic accessories and a playset piece, these highly detailed and authentic figures have up to 10 points of articulation and are the only 3.75″ figures with real battle action features.

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Survive and Thrive As a Nurse from Day One!
Welcome to the compassionate and caring world of nursing! You are entering a profession that offers great rewards and endless opportunities. But you must prepare for the challenges ahead and do everything you can to ensure that you experience the best that nursing has to offer. This invaluable book will get you started!
Written by an experienced R.N., Your First Year As a Nurse provides practical, real-world solutions to the profession’s most common and difficult issues. Inside, you’ll find out what you really need to know, who you need to know, how to avoid missteps, and where you can go for help when you need it. Gritty, witty, and full of invaluable tips and advice from first year nurses, this book is your personal mentor for your new career.
Ensure a healthy first year by knowing how to:
·Acquire the job that’s perfect for you
·Create your own patient-centered style of nursing
·Develop positive relationships with doctors, patients, and other nurses
·Stay positive, deal with conflict and adversity, and avoid burnout
·Network, enhance your education and career, and become a leader
“Combines common sense with the wisdom of a seasoned professional. A valuable resource for new graduates as they begin practice.”—Lucille A. Joel, R.N., Ed.D., FAAN, professor, Rutgers College of Nursing, and former president, American Nurses Association
“A must-read for all nurses, not just new graduates!”—Joan Orseck, R.N., president, National Association for Health Care Recruitment

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4 Stars Good
Good book but I bought it a bit too late in my first year of nursing. I was getting burnt out and looking for ways to deal with stress of work and bought this book. It helped in some ways mainly to show me it wasn’t just me. But overall this was a good buy.

5 Stars First months as nurse
I was not sure if my first job as an RN was a bad fit or just me— after reading this book, I determined it was not me!!! Resigned during orientation and am now going in a new career direction out of Med Surg into Public Health. This book was very reassuring and gave me the courage to start a new path. Helped greatly in my analysis. P.S. Listen to yourself and get this as a guide. The hospital I resigned from is now using this book in orientation.

5 Stars Your First Year as a Nurse
Timely, sensible, practical, & reassuring info for new nurses entering hospital nursing.

1 Star Don’t waste your money - this book should be titled “Common Sense”
I’m borrowing from Kath’s review because she said exactly what I wanted to:

I picked up this book and hoped that it would give me an idea of what my first year as a nurse would be like, as the title implies. I was seriously disappointed because advice in this book was so general, it could fit almost any “first” job. It didn’t have ANY solid advice for nursing.

If you are looking for a book about what your first year will be like and advice on that subject, this is NOT the book for you. Also, it’s written on maybe a 9th grade level, so anyone who has been through nursing school might find that the book insults their intelligence.

The book can be summed up in one sentence: use common sense. If there’s anything that a good nurse has, even a new one, is common sense.

3 Stars Good referrence but not a must have.
Although this is a helpful guide, there’s a likelihood that some may not find it effective enough. It’s an ‘okay’ book. With the price being affordable, I’d like to say that it’s worth the money. It could be a good reminder or refresher in the long run.

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Its a double dose of comic adventure when the barbarians are hired to babysit spoiled identical twins. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Peter Paul Christian Cousins Run time: 93 minutes Rating: Pg13

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4 Stars Not the best movie, but….
I know. It’s not Forrest Gump and it’s not Titanic. But entertaining none the less. With the right attitude you’re in for a good time.

5 Stars twin sitters
old goofball movie, just a fun, silly movie! the barbarian brothers are not bad to look at either!

3 Stars childhood memories
I remember seeing this movie when I was a kid and enjoying it. I haven’t seen it in a long time but remember it having those twins from Kindergarten cop in it. If you liked Problem Child you’ll definately enjoy this film. From what I remember it’s basically about these twin body builders who are called upon as a last resort to babysit these rich twin terrors! Then after some hilarious pranks are pulled, one of the boys decides to runaway while the other no longer wants to be mean to the new sitters. But instead the boys are kidnapped and the twin sitters save them. I guess the funniest parts in this movie were the twin guys with the muscles coming down the street in that huge wheeled truck and the kids getting them into all sorts of hilarious mishaps! Worth a view, both corny and funny. You should order a pizza and other junk food when watching this movie!

2 Stars More disappointing than funny
The title of my review says it all, the whole thing was more disappointing than funny.

5 Stars If you like poop, this movie is for you
Holy Schutt! I thought I was the only person in the world who saw any value in this piece of crap. I had openly told people that I would rather be diagnosed with cancer, or that I would rather be raped by a clown, than have to sit through this movie again. Yet… I have a copy on DVD and insist that guests in my home watch this. It kind of sums up all the horribly predictable and unimaginative humor produced throughout the late 80’s and early 90’s. Thank god the barbarian brothers are likeable, or my physical person would have transformed magically into poop, just from witnessing how horrible this movie was. Even though this movie was like having my balls stepped on with a high heeled shoe (for those of us that don’t enjoy this, and I imagine we exist, it would be tortuous!), I still wouldn’t use the ’safe word’. I really did enjoy this movie, immensely. Buy a copy of this movie, rip&burn the movie(assuming you don’t live in the US where that is ILLEGAL!), then throw a frozen ball of poop at it, to shatter the original, then sign the petition to have a sequel made.

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Straight out of the hit Battlestar Galactica and into your action figures collection, these articulated mini-replicas are out of this world. Sculpted by Jean St. Jean Studios and featuring multiple points of articulation, these 7-inch figures are a must for any sci-fi fan. Figure measures 7″.

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5 Stars Good enough to keep, good enough to give away
Some books you read and pass along; some books you read and keep; the best books are those that you read, keep, and buy copy after copy of to ensure that EVERYONE you know reads them too.

You may not have been there all along, grabbing the fortnightly alternative paper from the top of the jukebox and leafing through it to see if a new episode of DTWOF had appeared - reading it with glee whilst ignoring the offer of the strikingly good-looking (YOUR GENDER HERE) to buy you a drink - but now you have your chance. Catch up. Read it straight through, or dip in again and again. It’s the counterculture FRIENDS: You’ll never get tired of DYKES TO WATCH OUT FOR.

Buy at least two copies, all right? And make not just your own but also someone else’s Yuletide gay.

5 Stars A brilliant book
You can run out of superlatives trying to do justice to this compilation, just wonderful ! …buy it

5 Stars Brilliant! The latest DTWOF book along with a hefty retrospective
Whether you’ve been anxiously awaiting the next installment after Invasion of the Dykes to Watch Out For, or have lost track of our favorite lesbian heriones and want to get caught up, this is the book for you.

Hardcore fans will be delighted to see that we have an entire new book’s worth of fresh, unpublished comics to get us up to date. I looked at how many comics each of the previous books has had, and we have an equal amount of new content in this one. But, for only a little bit extra, you get this thick, glorious retrospective which takes us through the entire series, giving us clips and the best highlights from over the years.

If you missed the last couple books - no worries - this will catch you up enough to enjoy the latest comics at the end. And if you’ve read everything and just want the latest book - you won’t be disappointed with everything else included. I’ve read every book multiple times, and I enjoyed reading the entire thing as a lead-up to the new comics at the end.

Bechdel is my number one favorite cartoonist ever, and I’m not even a lesbian - I just find her characters are so human and so interesting that I connect with their lives deeply.

So if you read Fun House and aren’t sure if you might like to move on to this series, I’d encourage you to pick up this book and give it a try.

5 Stars Essential Goodness
And there they are on pages 76-77, the first DTWOF strips I ever saw. They were in a student run women’s paper in the Fall of 1991, I had just arrived at the university and my life was about to change for the better. Therefore, it’s impossible for me to be completely objective when I talk about this strip and its brilliant creator (channeler?), Alison Bechdel. At first I didn’t know what to make of the strip - I feel like I walked through my first two decades in a haze because I was not used to a comic strip dramedy. It didn’t take me long to fall in love with it. I bought all the collections that were available at the time (three books!), saw Bechdel’s slide show when she came around to my school and even wrote her a letter - and she responded. I still have that letter.

It’s great to see so many strips reproduced here, forming a running narrative of twenty years in the lives of the characters. Not all of the strips are here nor are the nifty little supplements that the older books included but for the first time reader, I don’t think they’ll feel the loss. They can also go and seek out some of the older books for completion.

This is one of the best graphic arts collections of the year.

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The animated movie “The Golden Blaze” features multicultural characters and is the story of two boys whose schoolyard rivalry spirals out of control, when in a freak accident their fathers develop superpowers and become puppets in their sons’ war. The movie is filled with plenty of lively action and loads of laughs, and will delight and thrill both kids and adults of all backgrounds.

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4 Stars Pretty good movie
I recently purchased this movie and viewed it in two days. I think kids will enjoy this movie. Adults shouldn’t have any problems either. I’m a fan of the animator and I’m familiar with his work from urbanentertainment dot com. If you enjoy super hero cartoons, this should be enjoyable. One aspect that I like about this movie is that it was created using Macromedia Flash (Now Adobe Flash). It think it’s great that anyone can create his or her own cartoon using Adobe Flash and distribute it to DVD. I think it’s also a nice aspect that Sanaa Lathan, Michael Clark Duncan and Blair Underwood got to do the voices in the cartoon.

5 Stars Great Kids Movie
The animation is pretty nice. If you like comic books you’ll love this story about a high school kid and his father who go around doing good. This is a nice treatment of good versus evil. I do not want to give too much info but I will say that the cast is great and the story is well done.

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The ultimate crime fighter needs the ultimate crime fighting vehicle - the new Shadowtek Batmobile. This tricked-out cruiser features electronic lights and sounds, twin projectile launchers and two modes: stealth and attack. Activated with the push of a button, attack mode delivers a dramatic transformation that nearly doubles the vehicle’s size and power. Shadowtek Batmobile fits most 4.75″ figures, not included. Measures approximately 14″ long. Batman figure sold seperately.

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The popularity of manga continues to row, inspiring interest in learning how to draw in this exciting style of comics. Estudio Joso creates the ultimate guide to illustration—384 pages of manga instruction. The Monster Book of Manga is divided into sections focusing on the most figures and themes—Girls, Boys, Samurais, Monsters, and more. Each illustration is broken down into six stages accompanied by step-by-step instructions, taking the artist from initial back-and-white sketches to the final color piece. They are all accompanied by practical suggestions, hints, and tips.

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5 Stars Awesome Anime Charaters
This is one in a series of three books.

This book is filled with awesome designs, which area a great resource of inspiration and learning.

Highly recommended.

3 Stars Awesome Book But..
The book I received, about a third way in was written in Spanish for some reason… The book does give out nice information and HUGE amount of examples. But I can’t read about 1/3 of the BOOK! I don’t know if this is the case with all of them but other than this translation error the book is pretty nice and informative.

4 Stars The Monstoer book of Manga
My daughter of 14 absolutley loves this book. It great to learn how to draw. She has spent hours improving her drawing skills.

4 Stars Very informative artbook..
I have been enjoying this book alot. it gives me quite abit of refs and it helps me out when I have projects due and I am stuck on a pose or having anatomy issues and need to freshen up on my art skills. I will admit though that this book is rather for someone who is intermediate in illustration not so much a beginner since there is alot of techniques that are kinda a refresher course for an artist not really someone who is just starting out in art. but all-in-all it’s a good read. great for refrences^^

5 Stars A beautiful book on Manga !
This book is about many projects. Drawing girls, robots, heroes and everything else that is in manga. Every project is 4-8 pages long, in which each page is one step of the whole process. Beginning with very easy out-linings and sketches, and ending with the finished image.

Every page is art. The lines are very elegant, precise and beautiful. The pages are glossy. When it comes to a tutorial, this one and the others in the “Monster book of Manga” outshines anything else.

A must have for everyone who wants to learn how to draw.

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3 Stars Ummm…yeah
This movie didn’t really make sense to me because it jumped around a lot. They didn’t really explain a lot to the movie watcher as the movie progressed. But this movie will most likely keep children intrested ao i’d recommend it to anyone with children.

5 Stars Original, Refreshing . . . and Campy
If you (or your kids) liked Playing Dangerous, 3 Ninjas, Catch That Kid, Agent Cndy Banks (this film originated the idea), you’ll probably find this almost as good, with a touch of Thunderbirds Are Go. Some of the acting is campy, but much is competent. Some of the effects are phony in an almost intentional or nostalgic way - and some quite good for a low budget. Some of the comedy childish, but much is witty (”If your boy survives, he’ll be the greatest hero since Ollie North!”). The Dr. Strangelove-like villain wears a Hitler puppet, until he’s blown up and only his brain survives and communicates with a TV. For the most part suitable for children, moderately fun for adults. I gave it 5 stars because the target audience will love this.

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