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Prisoner of War Der Luftwaffe
Published in Paperback by Ivy House Publishing Group (May, 1997)
Author: Frank Farnsley
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A Savvy & Respected look at POW life
Frank Farnsley weaves a tale of hardness with a rare sensitive approach. In "Prisoner of War", Farnsley takes the reader through POW camplife like a tour guide in New York City! Unlike many war authors who lose their style of writing to grasp the fact of horror, Farnsley maintains his sly storytelling tongue and produces an epic that will go down in his family's history. I found out, after reading this book, that Farnsley died shortly after it's release. He end's his tale with Thomas Wolfe's quote: "You can't go home again" and disagrees saying that: "As long as I have one close,living relative, I shall go home again, because it's one of the most wonderful experiences I've ever had." In light of his passing, he truly has gone home again.

Gripping, intense, yet easy-to-read
This is a moving, first hand account of humor and horror, the torture and deprivations experienced by bombing crews shot down and captured over Nazi-occupied Europe in the closing days of WWII. It is a subject much overlooked by students of WWII and the daily trials and tribulations are painstakingly detailed by the author over fifty-years later in a short, simple but gripping narrative rarely spoken about by the men who lived through it.


Provolone in the Casket: Memoirs of a Mortician
Published in Paperback by Xlibris Corporation (October, 2001)
Authors: Frank Montimurro and William F. Higbie
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Praise to my Mentor
I graduated from Sussex Tech in 1999, proud to have had Mr. Montimurro as a teacher & a friend. He's seen some interesting things in his line of work, and told our class many a good story; the best I found out he saved for the book! Well written & enjoyable even if you're not invovled in mortuary science.

Provolone is much better ala Casket!
Yes, Yes. It is time for another raving (-ly mad) book review from the mind of Sussex Tech Sophmore, Tom Duff. Please use caution...this review may not make any sense, and may induce headaches, leg cramping, and paranoia. Dear fellow readers, I want to first start off by telling you that I have not read this book as of yet. I plan to in the very near future though, as I feel a strange connection to the authors. You see, Mr. Montimuro and Mr. Higbe are teachers at the school I attend, Sussex County Technical School, in Sparta, NJ. I feel that anything that is written by a person in my area is worth reading. By the title, "Provolone in the Casket: Memoirs of a Mortician", it seems to already titilate my senses. Please enjoy reading this book, and remember, though Sussex Tech may not be strong in Football, we make up for it in the culinary arts department's secret underground funeral home. Yum!


Psychology of work behavior
Published in Unknown Binding by Dorsey Press ()
Author: Frank J. Landy
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Useful reference & reading.
Recommended reference and reading text for anyone interested in organisational behaviour and occupational psychology. All the key topics are covered in depth. However, the author could issue a new edition as printing date of 1989 gives the impression it may be out of date!.

Comprehensive overview of research concerning HR topics.
This book was required reading for my undergraduate I/O Psych class. Since then, this has become my bible when researching topics having to do with HR and training and development. Every HR person should have this book, or one like it. Would be nice if it were updated soon, but all info still applies.


The Queen of Puerto Rico: And Other Stories
Published in Hardcover by William Morrow (November, 1993)
Author: Joe Frank
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A very compelling group of short stories
I can little relate to stories of heroic millionaires living in castles, or titled members of European Society. Joe Frank gives us a group of short stories about real people with real problems, worries, and conditions. From stories of compulsive, loser nebbishes like "Fat Man" to the tragedy of the Human condition found in "Night", Frank gives us characters we many times find disgusting, yet fascinating. And Frank's excellent narrative storytelling style only makes it better. I would highly recommend this book.

Joe Frank Amuses Again
Frank keeps you intrested with his own discriptive style characterized in his weekly radio programs. Worth reading.


Random House Webster's Wit & Humor Quotationary
Published in Paperback by Random House Reference & (14 November, 2000)
Author: Leonard Roy Frank
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People will believe you . . .
. . . if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. While great quotations are fun for everyone, they are particularly useful to the author or professional speaker seeking confirmation of his or her premise.

This book is entertaining, uplifting and a valuable resource. The book categorizes the quotations by author and, unlike most books of quotations, it provides background information on the person such as the dates of birth and death as well as his or her occupation. The Index references the quotations by subject.

As a publisher, author of 26 Books, over 90 revised editions, six translations, 51 reports and over 500 magazine articles, I spend a lot of time looking for appropriate quotations. I need the best tools. This book is a great tool. DanPoynter@ParaPublishing.com.

A Brief Comment
There's not a whole lot to be said for the Wit and Humor Quotationary -- except that it's the funniest, wittiest book of quotations I've ever seen.


Red Boots for Christmas
Published in Hardcover by Concordia Publishing House (November, 1995)
Authors: Carol Greene and Frank Rocco
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An amazing book!!!
Red Boot's for Christmas is amazing book, that tells the true meaning of Christmas. It is very easy for children to understand and get the true meaning of what is going on.
It is about a poor woman who pleades with a shoe maker to make her grandaughter a pair of shoes for Christmas because she has none. The shoe maker refuses to do it, then changes his mind because of events that occur through out the book. The book also has beautiful illustrations in it , that keep you fixed on the pages

A wonderful way to share the miracle of Christ's birth
This beautifully illustrated children's book tells the tale of a cobbler waiting for a very special Christmas present. It has all the aspects of a great children's story--a poor little girl with no shoes who lives with her poor Grandmother, a rich Mayor and his spoiled daughter, a picturesque village filled with loving people, and a disgruntled cobbler angry at everybody's happiness. This book is espically good at telling the wonderful story of Christmas and Christ's birth. This book is a great reinforcement of the ideas found in the movie.


Reflections of a Nuclear Weaponeer
Published in Library Binding by Shelton Enterprises Inc (01 January, 1996)
Author: Frank H. Shelton
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yep, it's worth it...
I've had a serious interest in the history of nuclear weapons for many years now (ever since high school, about 20 years). It's been very exciting to see a lot of previously classified information become available, thanks to the FOIA and the end of the cold war. I've managed to amass a quite substantial collection of historical and current documents about the US nuclear weapons program.

Dr. Shelton's book was first published in 1989, and contains a wealth of information about his own work from the early 1950s to the last atmospheric tests in 1963, along with additional information about the subsequent underground testing up to 1989.

He details each testing event with an excellent summary of the historical context, and goes into substantial detail about each shot, results, and his own thoughts and opinions about the motivations and rationale.

It was a wonderful read, and fills in a lot of gaps that other sources just can't supply; after all, he was there, and has a far better understanding of the whys and wherefores than someone trying to write about events 30 years later. I found his comments on the high-altitude tests to be extremely valuable, especially as little in the way of first-hand accounts is available anywhere else. Sometimes it's too easy for people today to just dismiss a lot of the "goofy-sounding" test programs; the context was very different back then.

The book is beautifully printed, and includes many gorgeous color photographs. It's expensive, but I feel the price is more than justified by the contents and its size.

If you have any serious interest in the history of the US nuclear weapons program, you won't regret this purchase.

An Excellent primer of American Nuclear Tests.
Dr. Shelton's book covers the major American tests from 1945 through 1963. The book consists of his reflections on the tests and the people involved in them. Fascinating reading.


Regarding Wholeness : Design for a Deeper Life
Published in Paperback by PublishAmerica (April, 2003)
Author: Frank G. Briganti
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Elegant invitation to be whole
I very happily add Frank Briganti to my list of first quality teachers. His ease in making Carl Jung and William James understandable reminds one of Joseph Campbell being interviewed by Bill Moyers. Fans of Thomas Moore (for self-realization), Thomas Keating (for centering meditation)will find not only an ally and teacher in Briganti, but one who helps to deepen their understanding and indeed their motivation to become more whole. The author gives original contributions on topics crucial to wholeness such as "creating with people," "reinventing love, justice, gratitude," and "final wholeness" (death). This is a winner.

This is a winner!
I very happily add Frank Briganti to my list of first quality teachers. His ease in making Karl Jung and William James understandable reminds one of Joseph Campbell being interviewed by Bill Moyers. Fans of Thomas Moore (for self-realization), Thomas Keating (for centering meditation)will find not only an ally and teacher in Briganti, but one who helps to deepen their understanding and indeed their motivation to become more whole. His own contributions on the important issue of freedom,"masks" and honesty, creating with people and indeed death ("final wholeness") round out a wonderful offering. This is a winner!


Remembrance of a Restaurant: A Decameron of Dining
Published in Paperback by Writers Club Press (September, 2001)
Author: Frank Palescandolo
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Enter a World of Culinary Enchantment!
Enter a world of culinary enchantment! The author is a distinguished translator of Neapolitan poetry,novelist and poet who explores the supremely human side of the Neapolitan cuisine of a noted restaurant in a once hey-dey,and fallen Playground of the World. I was an habitue of the restaurant in its greyer years,but still vibrant with activity and color.From an early age,(he must have been compelled to become a novelist) the author's mind was flooded to overflowing with vivid sense impressions of a bustling emporium: temperaments of cooks on fire,the wiles of wily waiters,the adult antics of staid and notorious patrons,and so many "originals" of many walks of life.Bye the bye this memoir is also a bit of recent ethnic history as seen though the stagelike atmosphere of this restaurant-chantant. How well he revivifies, and animates a populated dining room:an orchestrina strumming,singers singing canzoni, a comic doing a sketch,the general bonhomie in a haze of tobacco smoke from Turkish Helmars and Murads,the lovely coiffured women,an evening when chorines from the Follies and Vanities displayed shapely legs from under tables, ballerinas from the Ballet Russe tiptoed a tarantella ,at other tables Jimmy Walker,Bugsy Seigel,Will Rogers,Damon Runyon,Tito Schipa, Marie Dressler,Jimmy Durante.or one of the Barrymores summering at Sea Gate---Villa Joe's,A little Bit of Naples in Coney Island ,was one of many fine restaurants that graced the shores of Coney Island and Gravesend which included Guffanti's,Feltman's,Reisenwebers,Garguilo's,Beau Rivage,Villepique's,Tappens,Lundy's----Consider if all these restaurants were gifted with a recorder such as our author? How enrichening it would be to patronize by word these various worlds of culinary enchantment.Reserve a table!

A World of Culinary Enchantment
Enter a world of culinary enchantment which explores lovingly the human side of the Italian (Neapolitan) cuisine in this memoir of a notable landmark restaurant (1915-1975) in a heyday Coney Island. The memoir begins as a recollection of a small boy reared in a Neapolitan restaurant founded by his parents. Here- we find all the ins and outs,the antics and foibles of patrons,the wiles of waiters,the flaring temperament of cooks at the hot ranges,"originals" of staff and patrons, and in passim an entertainng history of a recent immigrant ethnic past in the proscenium of a restaurant dubbed A Little Bit of Naples in Coney Island. During the course of about a hundred anecdotes,vignettes,sketches,short profiles, we meet Al Capone's cook,Jimmy Durante, Vittorio De Sica,
Jimmy Walker,Sam Liebowitz,Tito Schipa, the Ballet Russe,the Follies and Vanities chorines,Bugsy Siegel,Damon Runyon,Frankie Yale,the Dodgers,Fred Thompson--the notable and notorious of the roaring Twenties and ensuing decades, May I suggest a companion read by the same author, his Under the Blue Skies of Naples,a picaresque novel in which the scion of a magnate pizza manufacturer in the USA sends his callow son to Naples to eatablish a frozen pizza franchise. The premise is kinky from the start with uproarious situations in the manner of Tom Jones by Fielding .It is a romp through Naples.The author has all his bona fides and credentials, he is a distinguished translator of Neapolitan poetry. Yes, this memoir is a sesame to a culinary enchantment.Buon appetito!


Restaurant Biz Is Showbiz!: Why Marketing Is the Key to Your Success
Published in Hardcover by Spirited Living (October, 1992)
Authors: Dave Steadman, Dinah Witchel, and Frank Springer
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Restaurant Biz is Showbiz!
A must book for your business. Filled with ideas and examples. Absolutely inspiring. I not only believe in this book but I have bought it for friends in the business -- but only the ones with restaurants in other cities! A no brainer, buy it now.

Must reading for restaurant managers or wannabes
This is the marketing info that I didn't get at school. Easy to read and to the point. Every chapter has one or more ideas that work.


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