This book was a very interesting read and and a minimum offers any reader a real "View" from Nashville, TN the World Capital for Country music and the stars and players involved.. I give it 4 stars and reccomend to all.

your first book was 2 thumbs up I will read your 2nd god bless you mr.emery since hee haw has gone and most of any old tm. music it is a pleasure to read about the real country from you some one who was there

When a man has been in a business for all his adult life, he is well quialified to write about that business and the people within. There in lies the story of "View From Nashville". No other living person knows and can tell the story of "Nashville" scene better than Ralph Emery. The reader gets to know as a person one on one Dolly Parton, Marty Robbins, Tammy Wynette, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Conway Twitty and countless others. Loretta speaks of an out of body experience as she stood by the bedside of her dying friend Conway Twitty. Merl Kilgore relates through Ralph the message Jim Reeves sent him from the other side. One finds that being a child star does not always mean living in a big house, and driving a fancy car as Brenda Lee relates. That Elvis might have appeared on a recording after his death. Through the writing of this Nashville Icon one learns the humor of Roger Miller, and gets to know stars Reba McIntre and Brooks and Dunn. For Elvis fans he writes extensively about an interview with Colonel Tom Parker and the book he would never write. One can feel the love the author has for the business, his city, and peers. No one else could or has told the Nashville story like Ralph Emery in View From Nashville. No wonder his TNN program was voted the networks most popular for 10 consecutive years. Thank goodness he has had time to pen these stories in written form so they may be enjoyed forever.

This book provides a good history of how brain-injured children have been treated in the past 50 years and what has been done to improve their chances of recovery. I read this book in order to try to help my brain-injured son who is recovering from meningitis. While this book gives a lot of good insight into how the injuries are treated, it does not give me any information I can personally use for my son. A more appropriate title might be "What Can Be Done For Brain-Injured Children". Dr. Doman's Institutes has a 1 week course for parents with the same title as the book which is a pre-requisite. I would recommend this book to a parent of a brain-injured child, but I would also tell them not to expect an answer to be found here. I will continue my search for help for my son and hope all parents of such children find help as well

What do you need a book like this for? After all, everyone knows what you do with your "developmentally disabled" child, whether he has Down's Syndrome or Autism or epilepsy: You drug them, take care of them for as long as you live, or as long as you can stand it, then you institutionalize them, where they get more drugs, shock treatment, and some therapeutic abuse from the doctors and orderlies. It's a problem that society has totally handled, yet the Domans and the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential ... insist on pushing "alternate solutions" to something we're all happy with.

And they have the nerve to insist that their techniques work on almost =all= children, and that, really, brain injury is largely a matter of degree. The kid who has trouble reading may have an extremely mild brain injury, as may the kid who has trouble sitting still. And that a perfectly normal kid can become physically, intellectually and socially "superb" through techniques described in the above book and the Institutes other works. Can you imagine responsible doctors and therapists suggesting that kids =don't= need drugs, and lots of them?

Worse still, they actually fix these kids! They've developed techniques for helping blind kids to see, deaf kids to hear, and immobile kids to move. Not only have they brazenly published their results in the Institutes magazine, they invite all others who work with hurt children to submit their results for publication! They even have the audacity to introduce you to these children.

The clincher, though, is their insistence that highly trained professionals shouldn't be raising, educating and rehabilitating our children! They expect =parents= to do that and actually give them the tools to do so! What do they expect the hundreds of thousands of tax-funded professionals to do if =parents= are raising their own children and helping them get well far faster and far better than the experts?

This book recklessly places the health and well-being of a few children over that of a well entrenched, extremely lucrative agglomeration of pharmaceutical companies, mental health professionals and public educators. It cannot be endorsed by any responsible person.

Glenn Doman & his Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential make ground-breaking progress in the treatment of brain-injured children. Where the conventional medical community treats symptoms with medications & surgical interventions, IAHP treats the actual injury by training the brain to learn and develop. This method is controversial, but there are just too many success stories to ignore.

This book was an excellent insight into the President who never lost sight of the fact that he was nothing more than a common man. Refreshing attitudes that we do not seem to see in politicians today. In his own words, on many subjects, and shooting from the hip his words provide a greater understanding to what Harry Truman was made of. I recommend this book to anyone who would like to know more about Harry Truman or anyone who has an interest in U.S. history.

This collection of quotes, letters, and anecdotes gives the reader a comphrehensive overview of Truman's life as well as insight into the kind of man he truly was. This book allows the reader to feel connected to Truman in a way a biography can not.

This is a wonderful collection of quotes, letters, and anecdotes which together give the reader a quick view of Truman's life as well as a mental picture of the man from many different instances and viewpoints. This book, because of its clear depiction of Truman's character, makes the reader feel connected to Truman in a way that a biography perhaps does not.

I read this monograph years ago and lent it to someone who obviously found it equally fascinating because I've never had it back. If risk is a theme in your work, the ideas in Fischoff and Lichtenstein's book are worth reading. They offer explanations and analysis which seem to match how real people and organisations take risk decisions.END

This is a brilliant and stimulating book. Although it nominally concerns itself with the area of hazard management, policy and technology choices associated with loss of life or limb, it provides a great deal of insight into all forms of risk management and formal decision making.

A very well-researched book, it is obvious that the authors have not only thought long and hard about the subject matter, but have also applied a very disciplined analysis to it. Although the authors are scholars, the book is not necessarily aimed at an academic audience. While challenging, it is still approachable by the lay person.

The text does not recommend any particular methodology for decision making, but instead provides a context within which different decision making methods can be understood and evaluated. It begins by analyzing the problems confronting all acceptable risk decisions, discussing '5 generic complexities' that negatively affect all forms of formal risk analysis. Then the authors provide '7 criteria for evaluating the acceptability of approaches to acceptable risk.' The remainder of the book is spent analyzing approaches to risk management on a spectrum of empirical to formal methods, using their 7 criteria.

I found it an extremely enlightening text with applicability beyond that stated by the authors. It sheds light on many of the 'formal' methods that have been developed for areas of concern to me, specifically in the Information Security field, which often tends towards voodoo analysis based on unstated assumptions and incomplete methodologies. Although it was written over 20 years ago, it still provides a great deal of utility and insight today. One of the text's final recommendations is that the field of Risk Management be made into a formal career choice, with all of the 'formal trappings'. It is a tribute to the foresight of the authors that this is exactly what is happening today, with the emergence of the Chief Risk Officer role, trade journals devoted to the generic concept of risk, and ever greater academic attention and career training in risk management.

I am an attorney. A client of mine recommended this book to me. This treatise and its authors are recognized in their field. I have found this book extradinarily helpful in my practice.

Ralph Underwager and Hollida Wakefield were among the first to warn of the growing danger of uncautious over reaction to the issue of child abuse. Frequently they are criticised for their forward looking views. However, time has proven them correct. Most of the "outrageous" things they were saying fifteen years ago have become mainstream opinions among informed psychologists and professionals. This book is the first rigorous scientific review on their field and the definitive statement of their position. It is a classic work and should be read by all serious students and professionals interested in the issues around child abuse allegations.

I loved this book. I never thought of the background of witchcraft before. This is my first time reading any witchcraft book and I found it amazing.

As an archaeologist who does research on ritual archaeology in the Americas I found this book to be a useful and informative source of comparative data. The author provides examples (and illustrations) of many types of ritual behaviors and their material correlates. The focus is primarily the Old World, and Roman and Medieval periods, but anyone interested in ritual archaeology or the material construction of religion would do well to check it out.

Very good book covering the many chord constructions and progressions of mostly rock songs. The author assumes you are past the basics of knowing how to play guitar/musical instrument and concentrates instead on chords and progression & playing them, giving a good mental framework for playing and learning/figuring out songs. More descriptions would help since the book seems more like a collection of chord structures and progressions. Make sure you get the CD that comes with the book. More on songwriting/songwriters would be nice. If you're beyond the basics, get this. You won't regret it.

I am not an accomplished guitarist (I play at an intermediate level) so I need all the help I can get. This book is great for everyone except, perhaps, the novice guitarist. It sets forth chord progressions and gives examples of well known songs that use the progressions. The book is accompanied by a cd which illustrtates the progressions. One thing the book does not do is show you how to play the chords so you might need to have a basic book on how to play chords handy as a reference.

Every rock guitarist knows how simple some of the best chord progressions are. If you can play a simple I VIminor IV V, you can play literally hundreds of classic oldies from ballads, such as "In the Still of the Night," to upbeat rockers such as "Runaround Sue." Remove the VI minor and you get another, classic three chord progression. But, there are many other great rock progressions, some surprisingly simple, others less so, and this book explains them. Also, the book helps to understand the theory of chord progressions so you can play them in different keys.

Knowing chord progressions is important for rhythm guitar but even some lead guitar relies on chord progressions, i.e, not all lead guitar comprises playing riffs. So this book is essential for lead guitarists as well as rhythm guitarists. An early example of sort of a "rhymth/lead" would be Buddy Holly playing "Peggy Sue" on his stratocaster. He varied the order of the I IV V chords (he played in the key of A so the chords he used were A D E). However, there are many more advanced and complex examples of chord progressions constituting lead guitar.

This book will be very helpful to everyone from someone just barely beyond the most basic skills to fairly advance guitarists. I recommend this book and cd highly.

I bought this as a gift for my best friend who collects all things Coca-Cola. However, while it was in my possession, I did get a chance to reveiew some of the recipies. They cover a wide range and use ingredients I'd forgotten about (remember Fanta?) or wished I had (powdered milk and vegetables that I didn't even know came in canned form)!!! But even if you never wanted to learn how to make Coke Glazed Ham or learn about any of the other things Coke can do: Check it out for the novelty--Coke is an evolving relic of Amer ican culture and history and the recipes were all created by consumers--not the company itself!!

The book Muffins and Breads by Patricia A. Ward is a outstanding book that makes cooking breads and muffins easier than other books, and whats most important it makes cooking fun. I would have to say that it's one of the most intriging books that are involed with making you understand the way to make a certain bread wihtout confusing you. Patricia if I may this is a book that is really worth buying, you won't reget buying this book like you would with other books. Her book has many worth-while making so my advice is to go out and buy this book, if I can do it you defenitly do it. -Amber Erin 13

Howdy folks! I'm James Drury. I used to play the Virginian on television, back in the 60's. I hope that gives me some kind of edge in reviewing this western book by Ralph Compton.

I have read several books by Compton, and all have been good. He kept his books clean, and I really appreciate that. I wish he would have hung around longer for us to enjoy.

Pick up this book, and if you like it you will also enjoy books by Kirby Jonas. Because of Kirby's books, I have gone into reading books on tape. They're wonderful. Since Compton is gone now I hope Kirby Jonas gives many a reader of Westerns a place to turn to.

Unfortunately for the last reader, Ralph Compton died a couple of years ago, so he won't be reading the next in the series. Too bad, because we finally had a writer besides Kirby Jonas and Elmer Kelton who wasn't afraid to be morally proper in his books. Compton didn't need the filth to put out a good story. They call Kirby Jonas the New Louis L'Amour, however, and he more than fits the bill. He is even quite a bit more historically accurate than L'Amour and COmpton, and if you haven't read him then you need to. Yea for Compton, and carry on Kirby Jonas!

RALPH COMPTON HAS AGAIN WRITTEN A STORY THAT I COULD NOT PUT DOWN. THE WES STONE CHARACTER HAS PICKED UP WHERE HIS FATHER NATHAN STONE LEFT OFF . I HATED TO END THIS BOOK YET HATED TO PUT IT DOWN. I CANT WAIT TO GET THE NEXT IN THE SERIES.

I learned a lot about client/server communication reading this book. It must be noted, however, that some of it is getting outdated now (8/1998): Windows NT 3.5 is replaced by NT 4, C is replaced by C++ and Java, Networking classes can be bought in a class library. I recommend this book to people who want to understand the fundamentals. Chapters I liked most: How to build DLLs, how to build an NT service, explanation of process-to-process communication.

There is a lot of good stuff here. And the code is very easy to read and use in your own programs. However, the authors spends way too much time covering topics best left to other books (like threading, memory management and file I/O). It would have been better if there were more real-world examples instead of covering things already in Petzold's and Richter's books.

I'm a professional NT "BackOffice" developer and I regard this book as an absolute must have. It does rehash a lot of Richter and Petzold, but the book is worth having just for Chapter 16, "The LAN Manager API for Windows NT." If the LAN Manager API is better documented by any other book in print, then I'd like to but that book, but I think this is the best one. That makes this book essential for the professional NT network developer.