nest

Egg & Nest
$39.95
egg&nest is a feast for the eyes,and is also a great read.every winter i add one book (ornithology) to my collection.this one is a must. the beautiful photography will inspire my artwork.

In My Nest
$8.99
I purchased both In My Nest and In My Pond for my 18-month old nephew. He LOVES them. This is a unique presentation for a children's book and a good way to introduce them to nature. The illustrations are beautiful and are cleverly revealed from page-to-page, and the finger puppet makes the bird and fish come alive while you're reading the stories. I highly recommend them.

Defusing Armageddon: Inside NEST, America's Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad
$27.95
A close friend of mine was intimately involved in NEST and Livermore Lab... from what little he could share of his experiences, this book is extremely accurate...

The Nest
$19.98
Being no particular fan of foreign action films, I was pleasantly surprised by "The Nest," which is both competently done and decently paced, with excellent performances from the cast. Some characters are perhaps underutilized, particularly the intriguing Pascal Greggory (one of the warehouse security guards, who is formerly a fireman). I also wish we'd gotten to see more of Angelo Infanti, the villain, though when he does get some screen time it's memorable.

French actress Nadia Far���s is very believable as Laborie (whose FAMAS assault rifle is never far away; I started to see it as an integral part of her character). She has an almost hypnotic screen presence and a subtle style that expresses much with little effort. My favorite character had to be Richard Sammel, however, in his bulletproof steel facemask, toting his Steyr AUG with attitude to spare. Apparently he appears in Daniel Craig's Casino Royale, though I did not remember him from it.

An impressive array of weapons and tactics are on display, against a backdrop that is essentially just the plot of "Assault on Precinct 13" done with mostly French people. As you might expect, under pressure the defenders show their true colors, either for good or for ill, and heroic sacrifices abound as the cast is whittled down. The body count is very high on the part of the villains, too, who seem to have an endless supply of automatic weapons and glowing red night vision goggles -- not to mention cannon fodder troops who fall like bug-sprayed flies in wave after implacable wave. One wonders how a single crime boss could inspire such loyalty; you would think the contingent of bad guys surrounding the warehouse would get very tired of getting shot dead in each attempt to penetrate the perimeter.

I didn't particularly care for the way the movie wraps up; obviously the filmmakers tried to be clever in showing you who lives and who dies, but I found it less than satisfying and at times a little confusing. Still, this is a decent action movie that is worth watching, if you don't mind subtitles (the version I've seen was with the origianl predominantly French dialogue and English subtitles, though Richard Sammel's character speaks English a few times). I was expecting the usually disappointing, low-budget foreign fare and got a much better film instead.