Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nitendo)

Product Features

* Skilled players will want to collect new Comet Metals, which will unlock harder levels with even more challenges
* Mario collects stars as he travels from galaxy to galaxy, sometimes upside-down, sometimes floating from place to place. Every level is new, but the game retains the charm, sense of wonder and beauty in line with Mario's history
* On some stages, Mario can find an egg, smash it open and hop onto the back of Yoshi. Yoshi can use his tongue to grab items and shoot them back at enemies, or to snag attach points and swing across chasms
* Yoshi has an interesting diet. When he eats a Dash Pepper, he gets so hot and frenzied he can run up steep inclines and vertical walls. When he eats a Blimp Fruit, he inflates like a balloon and floats to new heights
* New power-ups include a drill that Mario uses to tunnel through the planet's surface all the way to the other side of a planet

Amazon.com Product Description
Super Mario Galaxy 2 is an action platformer for Wii that continues the space-based fun begun by the 2007 runaway hit Super Mario Galaxy. Featuring out-of-this-world platforming across a wide array of unique planets and space environments, players can go it alone as Mario or team up with his old buddy Yoshi as they platform and puzzle-solve to their hearts content. Additional key features include new and returning power-ups, special power-up abilities when teamed with Yoshi and the new drill mechanic that allows Mario burrow into and through planets.

Product Description
Launch into a new universe of gravity warping worlds in the sequel to one of the greatest games of all time! Yoshi joins Mario as they traverse a wild variety of galaxies exploding with imagination, helping out our hero as he gulps enemies, runs at super speed, or inflates like a blimp to reach high cliff tops. Whether Mario’s leaping into orbit around tiny micro-planets, tumbling through rooms with constantly flip-flopping gravity, or drilling through craggy worlds to emerge on the other side, he’ll need new abilities and serious jumping skills to survive the all-new challenges ahead!

Super Mario Galaxy 2

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Kindle Edition)

Amazon.com Review

Amazon Best Books of the Month, May 2010 As the finale to Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest is not content to merely match the adrenaline-charged pace that made international bestsellers out of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire. Instead, it roars with an explosive storyline that blows the doors off the series and announces that the very best has been saved for last. A familiar evil lies in wait for Lisbeth Salander, but this time, she must do more than confront the miscreants of her past; she must destroy them. Much to her chagrin, survival requires her to place a great deal of faith in journalist Mikael Blomkvist and trust his judgment when the stakes are highest.

To reveal more of the plot would be criminal, as Larsson's mastery of the unexpected is why millions have fallen hard for his work. But rest assured that the odds are again stacked, the challenges personal, and the action fraught with neck-snapping revelations in this snarling conclusion to a thrilling triad. This closing chapter to The Girl's pursuit of justice is guaranteed to leave readers both satisfied and saddened once the final page has been turned. --Dave Callanan

From Publishers Weekly

The exhilarating conclusion to bestseller Larsson's Millennium trilogy (after The Girl Who Played with Fire) finds Lisbeth Salander, the brilliant computer hacker who was shot in the head in the final pages of Fire, alive, though still the prime suspect in three murders in Stockholm. While she convalesces under armed guard, journalist Mikael Blomkvist works to unravel the decades-old coverup surrounding the man who shot Salander: her father, Alexander Zalachenko, a Soviet intelligence defector and longtime secret asset to Säpo, Sweden's security police. Estranged throughout Fire, Blomkvist and Salander communicate primarily online, but their lack of physical interaction in no way diminishes the intensity of their unconventional relationship. Though Larsson (1954–2004) tends toward narrative excess, his was an undeniably powerful voice in crime fiction that will be sorely missed. 500,000 first printing. (May)

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest

Logitech Portable Webcam C905

Technical Details

* The world is your office. And when you're out of town on business, you can't wait to be home again with your family.
* Video calls have always offered the promise of connection to your distant friends and family
* Vid keeps things simple from the start. It's set up when your webcam is
* Other free software offers video calling as another hard-to-find feature in a long list of features
* Vid software is free with your new or existing Logitech webcam

Amazon.com Product Description
Logitech and Amazon.com have teamed up to offer this item in Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging, a recyclable, easy-to-open alternative to traditional packaging. A Frustration-Free Package comes without excess packaging materials such as wire ties, hard plastic "clamshell" casings, and plastic bindings. It's designed to be opened without the use of a box cutter or knife and will protect your product just as well as traditional packaging. This item ships in its own box, without the need for an additional shipping box, and Amazon.com is continuing to work with manufacturers to make the packaging even more streamlined.

Logitech Portable Webcam C905

The HD webcam for your on-the-go life

Whether you're at home or on the road, this compact HD webcam for notebooks makes crystal-clear video calls easy. Logitech was the first to bring HD-capable webcams to the market. And the Portable Webcam C905 makes being together online more real than ever. With HD video recording, premium optics and a built-in video calling application, you've got everything you need to be there face-to-face in true-to-life detail.

Compatibility
# System Requirements Windows XP (SP2 or higher)
# 1 GHz (2.0 GHz recommended)
# 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended)
# Windows Vista or Windows 7 (32-bit or 64-bit) 1 GHz (2.0 GHz recommended)
# 512 MB RAM or more
# 200 MB hard drive space
# CD-ROM drive
# OS-compatible sound card and speakers
# Hi-Speed Certified USB 2.0 recommended

For the best video calling experience, we suggest:
# Dual-core CPU with 1 GB RAM
# Broadband Internet with 256 kbps upload or higher

Package Contents
The Logitech Portable Webcam C905 now ships to you in an Amazon Frustration-Free Package, an easy-to-open box that comes free of excess packaging materials. The product inside—our high-quality webcam—is exactly the same. What we've done is streamline the packaging, designing it in such a way that it is now easier to open while still fully protecting the product (just like our traditional packaging). Plus it's recyclable.

# Logitech 2 MP Portable Webcam C905
# Eye-level desktop stand
# Travel case
# USB cable (3 feet)
# Webcam software CD, including Logitech webcam applications: Logitech Vid, Logitech Video Effects, one-click video e-mail, QuickCapture for photos, webcamming software applications for Windows—Windows Live Messenger, Skype with free full-screen video calling, video-enabled AIM, Yahoo! Messenger with free video calling
# Quick-start guide
# 2-year limited warranty

Product Description
Make high-clarity video calls home with the best travel webcam for road warriors. The travel-size 2 MP Portable Webcam C905 goes where lesser mobile webcams don't--smooth, razor-sharp full-screen video. High-precision Carl Zeiss optics, ultra-smooth AutoFocus, and light-correcting RightLight2 Technology work together to make your video calls look so real, it's like being in the room with your spouse and kids back home. Enjoy crystal-clear conversations with a built-in premium microphone that suppresses background noise like airport chatter. Logitech even includes a protective travel case and new Logitech Vid--the fast, free, easy, one-click-to-call video calling software.

XL Sport Dual Control Nylon Kite: Orange by X-Kites

Product Features

* Dual control so that you can do stunts with your kite!
* Fiberglass airframe.
* Made of ripstop polyester.
* Wind rating of 7 to 20 mph.
* Comes with handle and line.

From the Manufacturer
Looking for a day of fun with your family? The 72” XL Sport Stunt Kite with dual control will give you hours of hi performance flying fun! This kite is tried and true and our staff had a blast flying this kite. The XL Sport Dual Control has a 70" wingspan and is made of ripstop polyester.

Product Description
THIS XL SPORT STUNT KITE HAS A 70 IN. WINGSPAN (ALMOST 6 FOOT) WITH DUAL CONTROL LINES. IT'S A GREAT BEGINNERS STUNT KITE WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY FIBERGLASS FRAME. IN NO TIME THE BEGINNER FLYER CAN DO STUNTS, LOOPS AND EVEN DIVES WITH THIS COLORFUL BEAUTY. WIND RANGE IS 7 TO 20 MPH. LINE WEIGHT IS 55 LB. AND LENGTH IS 75 FT. GREAT PRICE FOR A STUNT KITE!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

I have some experience kiting and wanted to get a cheap beater kite to help my 7 year old daughter learn to fly a two line. I think deltas are easier to learn on than soft kites but they are easier to break.

This kite flies well and is pretty hardy. For the money I would say it's a good beater kite. We changed the lines to 100 pound dyneema and it improved performance quite a bit. The handles that come with the kite can be frustrating to use. If you don't want to spend money on lines and straps, I would suggest measuring 50-75 feet of line from each handle and tying it off to the handle. This will save you some head ache when setting up the kite.

This kite is not going to do crazy axels or flic-flacs, but it turns well, has a big window and flies in a decent wind range. It will help you learn the basics of launching and controlling a two-line kite.

WARNING: This kite will probably lead to other kites.

The Hurt Locker [Blu-ray] (2009)

Editorial Reviews
The making of honest action movies has become so rare that Kathryn Bigelow's magnificent The Hurt Locker was shown mostly in art cinemas rather than multiplexes. That's fine; the picture is a work of art. But it also delivers more kinetic excitement, more breath-bating suspense, more putting-you-right-there in the danger zone than all the brain-dead, visually incoherent wrecking derbies hogging mall screens. Partly it's a matter of subject. The movie focuses on an Explosive Ordnance Disposal team, the guys whose more or less daily job is to disarm the homemade bombs that have accounted for most U.S. casualties in Iraq.

But even more, the film's extraordinary tension derives from the precision and intelligence of Bigelow's direction. She gets every sweaty detail and tactical nuance in the close-up confrontation of man and bomb, while keeping us alert to the volatile wraparound reality of an ineluctably foreign environment--hot streets and blank-walled buildings full of onlookers, some merely curious and some hostile, perhaps thumbing a cellphone that could become a trigger. This is exemplary moviemaking. You don't need CGI, just a human eye, and the imagination to realize that, say, the sight of dust and scale popped off a derelict car by an explosion half a block away delivers more shock value than a pixelated fireball.

The setting may be Iraq in 2004, but it could just as well be Thermopylae; The Hurt Locker is no "Iraq War movie." Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal--who did time as a journalist embed with an EOD unit--align themselves with neither supporters nor opponents of the U.S. involvement. There's no politics here. War is just the job the characters in the movie do. One in particular, the supremely resourceful staff sergeant played by Jeremy Renner, is addicted to the almost nonstop adrenaline rush and the opportunity to express his esoteric, life-on-the-edge genius. The hurt locker of the title is a box he keeps under his bunk, filled with bomb parts and other signatory memorabilia of "things that could have killed me."

That none of it has killed him so far is no real consolation. In this movie, you never know who's going to go and when; even high-profile talent (we won't name names here) is no guarantee. But one thing can be guaranteed, and that is that almost every sequence in the movie becomes a riveting, often fiercely enigmatic set piece. This is Kathryn Bigelow's best film since 1987's Near Dark. It could also be the best film of 2009. --Richard T. Jameson

Product Description
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (summit) Release Date: 01/12/2010 Run time: 131 minutes Rating: R

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Acqua Di Gio By Giorgio Armani For Men. Eau De Toilette Spray

Product Features
Size: 3.4 oz

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Safety Information

For external use only. Avoid contact with eyes. Keep away from naked flame or direct heat sources. Do not apply to sensitive skin. Do not apply to broken or inflamed skin. If irritation develops, reduce frequency or discontinue use.

Product Description

A resolutely masculine fragrance born from the sea, the sun, the earth, and the breeze of a Mediterranean island. Transparent, aromatic, and woody in nature Aqua Di Gio Pour Homme is a contemporary expression of masculinity, in an aura of marine notes, fruits, herbs, and woods. Fragrance notes: citrus notes, rosemary spiciness, jasmine, hint of wood and ocean breezes. Recommended use: casual.

Acqua Di Gio By Giorgio Armani For Men. Eau De Toilette Spray

The Art of Avatar: James Cameron's Epic Adventure (Hardcover)

Product Description

Academy Award-winning writer/director James Cameron, the maker of Titanic and the creator of the Terminator series, has been crafting Avatar for over four years. The film follows the story of an ex-marine who finds himself thrust into hostilities on a distant planet filled with exotic life forms. As an avatar, a human consciousness in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. The Art of Avatar, the companion book to this epic 3-D action adventure, explores the developmental and conceptual art used by the creative team to create the original world of Avatar.

With over 100 exclusive full-color images including sketches, matte paintings, drawings, and film stills, The Art of Avatar reveals the process behind the creation of set designs for the imaginative vistas, unique landscapes, aerial battle scenes, bioluminescent nights, and fantastical creatures. Interviews with art directors, visual effects designers, animators, costume designers, and creature makers bring insight into this creative process. The Art of Avatar brings readers behind the scenes of this unprecedented moviegoing experience.

About the Author

Lisa Fitzpatrick has been a writer and editor for over 15 years. She has created illustrated books for a wide variety of films and television shows including Kung Fu Panda, 24, Star Wars, Shrek, Madagascar, and The X-Files, as well as anniversary editions for Sony Pictures Imageworks and the USC School of Cinematic Arts. She lives in San Francisco.

Peter Jackson is a three-time Academy Award-winning director, producer, and screenwriter, best known for The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Jon Landau is an Academy Award-winning producer and former executive vice president at Twentieth Century Fox, and is currently a partner in James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

Have you ever eaten at a fancy restaurant? A massive plate arrives, with a tiny morsel of exquisitely-prepared food, sitting in a puddle of sauce. The Art of Avatar is similar. It's a lavishly-made tie-in for James Cameron's fantasy film. The brief bits of text mention that this film required an army of concept artists over a decade to create. Looking at the beautiful paintings within, one can appreciate that artistry. The problem is that this large hardcover book is so thin! It's barely one-hundred pages long, and feels like fifty.

It is a nice addition to one's "Art of" collection, but there are so many rival books that offer better value. The Art of Halo, a stylistically-similar book, is one example. Recent offerings by Design Studio Press might also appeal to the reader.

Link To Buy This Product The Art of Avatar: James Cameron's Epic Adventure