"TSL" is VERY elementary. It reads very much like a textbook or operating manual. It offers many evaluative instruments for students to do self-assessments of their comprehension of the material Murray covers here. To that extent, "TSL" smacks of a "teacher-proof" text. The field of leadership studies is much too exciting & dynamic to be conveyed via such a tepid, pedestrian approach. I'm a leadership educator of high school students. Unfortunately, I found very little of value here for either my faculty colleagues or adolescent students themselves.

This is an excellent for educators working with either college or high school students. The book is designed as a practical text for beginning leaders. The focus is on self discovery and communicating with others.

Excellent as a text or a source for designing lesson plans or workshops.

Although I see some of his points in his attempt to portray Nazism as a type of New Age Movement, his arguments are very lacking. The book reads like a bad,overly verbose bachelor's thesis. His style needs polishing. The whole Nazi era, as Carr sees it, was a spiritual struggle between good and evil. Some of his theories seem plausible to a religious person, like Hitler was demonically possessed. However, Carr goes about claiming that virtually all the world leaders at the time were demonically possessed. Hmmm. . .just because some leaders did not react to the Holocaust, it must mean that they're possessed. Wow, what an incredible piece logic.

This book is currently out of stock. Inconvenient but nevertheless glad to here it has been in demand. I do hope you soon are restocked.

Thanks, Paula Brown

I'm not writing to review this book, I'm writing to correct an error in the author's bio (The "corrections" section of your website did not have a space for this, so I'm doing it here). Joe Passov is the former editor of LINKS Magazine, not the current editor. Please do not post this message, just make sure the correction is made. Thank you.

Finally a travel guidebook that offers something other than meaningless fluff! Passov is a great storyteller who relates what's its really like to play some of the best golf courses in the eastern U.S. You'll want to clean the grass off your shoes after browsing the chapters. In addition to honest and informed opinions on the golf courses, Passov also provides an encyclopedic amount of information on resorts, restaurants, and other activities in the vicinity of the golf courses. If all guidebooks were this breezily written, entertaining, and full of hardore travel info, you'd never have a bad vacation or a disappointing round of golf. My only hope is that Passov will cover the rest of the country-- and the world-- soon so I know where to go next for a great golf vacation.

I could not stand these people! They were so self-centered and obnoxious. I don't know if it was the author's style of writing but this book seemed more about the family's dysfunctional way of interacting with each other and some employees. But actually I think they really are that way. Skip this one and buy Carol Drinkwater's "The Olive Farm" or Susan Loomis's books instead.

Jeremy Josephs writes this book so convincingly that I just wanted to read this book over and over again.
The style of writing he provides us with is truly gripping. I reccomend this book to everyone with a taste for great litterature.

If the audio weren't so poor, I would have enjoyed this. Not recommended

I have listened to this tape many times in the car on my commute. It is fantastic and filled with lots of little gems. I highly recommend it to anyone who is artistically inclined and attempting to untie the knots concerning what it is you are about. As Campbell mentions, "Young male artists very often have to get the matter straight in their head before they can let their action move." This has been true for me, and this tape has been one of the lights helping me to see the path.

This book first appeared and quickly disappeared in a soft cover version during the autumn of 1998. It ran 96 pages, more than 30 pages less than the publisher's stated specs and it exemplifies precisely the disaster created by having an out-of-town PR person team with an out-of-town writer to interpret any town's local history. The cover sets the tone by claiming that the township is 300 years old -- in fact, it was founded in the 1860's. The uninspired text gives no feeling or understanding of time or place and completely lacks the nuance which makes any town unique. The photos are often incorrecly identified and as unbelievable as it sounds, some photos are not even of West Orange. We long-time residents had hoped for much better...

I just recently completed the History of West Orange and it was a fantastic journey into the history of our township. I felt as though I was re-living West Orange's history through the author's rich, lively text and the interesting photographs which bring his words to life. If the author is an "out-of-towner" than we should be grateful to him for giving us a historical book that we can all be proud of.

I love Joseph Campbell, but these tapes are more about the interviewer, Michael Toms. I was really disappointed at the questions he asked and the way the whole thing seemed to be edited together.

Look for the tapes of Campbell's lectures instead!

This is a fun book to go through and listen to. It tells about how mythology effects us today and how it's evolving for the future. Michael Toms's voice bears a stricking resemblance to Bill Moyer, who made an excellent series called the Power of Myth. To learn more about Joseph Campbell visit the Joseph Campbell foundation or watch/listen to the Power of Myth.

There's a fine line between the false and the true - it varies for every person where that line lies. This book, to me, is totally false. To another it may not appear so... I think that it was subtle, what turned me off. It seems to fit some sort of postmodernist gargantua novel formula - the odd 'personalized' form of writing, the occasional strange diagram, and the far out math that, in this case, the author probably doesn't even understand and only threw in to make himself look smart - and there's the key. This book feels like the author is trying to make a name for himself, to prove that he's smart, and it just doesn't work. Pynchon can get away with that sort of thing because he was an engineering major and worked for Boeing - he actually DOES understand the yaw control formula, I would be willing to bet (I'm talking about Gravity's Rainbow here - if you havn't read it, don't buy Women and Men until you do, it's what McElroy was trying to be compared to). However, he talks about animal biology and Pavlovian mind programming, which he may not be as well-versed in as it would seem in his writing, but he makes it seem so real, so true - McElroy just has that underlying rot of falsification for me. Perhaps it's just me, maybe I'm being too skeptical, or maybe McElroy just didn't have a solid story so he decided to mask it in an experimental form of writing (actually, the concept of the story is great, it's just that in practice it did not turn out well - another author writing another book may have more success).

Having recently joined the undoubtedly small list of people who have read Joseph McElroy's Women and Men from start to end (took about a month) am I compelled to write to You Who Are Reading This and tell you that I found this book amazing and endlessly beautiful and endlessly rereadable. Yet be forewarned, not necessarily of its size (any fool can see how big it is), but of its style. If you haven't read McElroy, don't jump into this unless you consider yourself the boldest and bravest of readers (McElroy's A Smuggler's Bible, Lookout Cartridge, and Plus will give you a good idea of his work, though W&M takes the concepts in these earlier novels and not only recycles them, but reconfigures them).

The plot of Women and Men is very much tied into the structure of Women and Men, and one can think of the structure as a vast net ballooning outward (think Big Bang) as the novel progresses. Facts, storylines, characters and themes accumulate and swell at an alarming rate, and by the novel's midway point the reader will no doubt feel overwhelmed. But McElroy's Universe appears to be a closed one, and, slowly, eventually, the facts start coming together, storylines mesh (to a degree), characters sort themselves out (mostly), and some resolutions occur (though not all). And if the structure of Women and Men is a ballooning/expanding mesh (it could be, yet is also so much more), and if the characters are the points where this mesh (or "field") crosses, then the connecting mesh between these points could be seen as representing one of the most distinctive aspects of this novel: the first person plural narrative, the "We" who sometimes refer to themselves as angels (during sections titled "Breathers"). Messengers yes, but also Medium. Of the sound (voices) and the light (images) that connect the characters, of how they know one another, of how they become part of each other's lives and are thus reincarnated in others. (Something like that; I'm fudging this, but I'm not far off: they also represent the ultimate "connectors," we the readers.)

Main plot points? Two lives: Jim Mayn, an estranged journalist who's mother committed suicide when he was fifteen, and Grace Kimball who lives in the same apartment building and runs a very '70s feminist Body-Self workshop. They never meet, but do influence one another's lives (through the web of characters). There is also woven into this some international conspiracy involving a possible planned assassination of Chilean President Allende (talk about a tangled web!) and a fascinating underlay of Native American myth and "real life" biography involving Mayn's grandmother and a Navaho "prince" who has fallen in love with her and follows her across late 19th century American). And much more, all minutely detailed and told in endless Faulknerian sentences (some over a 1000 words long) that actually speed the reader along. The last 50 pages are breathtaking (including a wonderful, and necessary, dreamstory), the last 10 are as affecting as anything I've ever read.

Either give this book up after 100 pages, or read it all the way through; it's a book that's only complete once it's completed, and you should find yourself vastly rewarded and awed as I was, and still am. Few writers put as much into a novel as, say, Beethoven would put into a symphony. Joseph McElroy does. But like all of his novels (excluding his The Letter Left to Me), it does ask a lot of you (this is "cool" media, not "hot"), and it is as good as you, the reader, are willing make it, and I think that is a good thing.

I also highly recommend Tom LeClair's The Art of Excess, which has an essay on Women and Men that puts this grasping review to shame. The Dalkey Archive Press's Joseph McElroy Number (Spring '90, Review of Contemporary Fiction) is invaluable too.

Joseph McElroy is currently at work on two novels, one of which should be published in the near future. I eagerly await them.

I couldn't wait to receive this book and possibly have another reference for my high school students as they learned how to write a research paper. As soon as I opened the book I noticed obvious mistakes in format and even incorrect information for the Works Cited page.
If you need help with MLA documentation, you're better off to buy the original MLA Handbook. (It also includes APA format) Whatever you do . . . do not trust this book.

If you are like me lost in the full version of the MLA, this is for you...the answer is always a few pages away.

Nothing is all bad. This book provides about 40 photos of Nisei GIs serving during WWII. It also lists the names of many AJA soldiers (Americans of Japanese Ancestry). However, the reader is generally left to speculate about who, what, when, where and why. Harrington hops all over the map and the calendar, even within a single paragraph. This may have been intended to cover "demonic" research.

A promotional quote on the book's dust cover states: "Kenneth Littauer... when asked what kind of researcher Harrington was, responded with `A demon!'" This seems like an odd comment until one reads his book. YANKEE SAMURAI reads more like an incoherent collection of notes from phone interviews than the fruits of exhaustive research. Harrington's attempts to demonize ADM Nimitz, the USN and the USMC are unsupported in his book.

Harrington claims to be a retired CPO (presumably from the USN), although he does not reveal when he served nor in what specialty. Based upon his acerbic opinions of the USN and USMC, one can conclude that his naval service was a bitter experience for him. His effort seems directed more toward demeaning the USN and USMC than to providing a credible history of service by AJAs.

Harrington's rambling sentence construction is frequently so tortured that the meaning is lost. This barely literate author is apparently inclined more toward histrionics than histriography. The AJAs who served their country deserve better, as do those who are drawn in by the hype on the cover.

Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act and the efforts of the author, Joseph Harrington, the accomplishments of the over 5,000 Nisei to the American victory of Japan are now documented. Virtually unknown before the publication of this book, these loyal Americans volunteered from the concentration camps their families had been condemned to by Executive order 9066 in 1942. By using their knowledge of the Japanese language, U.S. intelligence knew the order of battle of Japanese forces in the Pacific almost down to the level of sergeants and corporals. This book recounts the many personal experiences of the men who so gallantly served the United States in the Pacific war, and who were commended by General MacArthur's staff for shortening the war by two years and saving a million American casualties. They have even been honored by the Japanese government! It has been my honor to know many of these fine men personally through the MIS Service Club of Southern California. All Americans, especially those who still think of Nisei as "Japanese" need to read this book, and find out what the color of honor is all about.