Even if your educational background is in labor law, this book is vital for understanding the complex procedures of the National Labor Relations Board. Practicing before the NLRB is a very unique experience and you will quickly find the agency has its own way of doing things. I am a lawyer and I use this book every single time I represent a client in any kind of NLRB proceeding. It's expensive, but well worth every penny (besides, it's tax-deductible as a business expense).

Captain John J. Dickison, 2nd Florida Cavalry, CSA, was Florida's equivalent during the Civil War to Virginia's celebrated partisian John Mosby, or to Kentucky's John Hunt Morgan. It was Dickison and his small band of horsemen who almost single-handedly kept Florida's interior from falling under Union control. Using the states natural terrain for cover and employing modern guerilla tactics, he inspired such fear and respect in his northern enemies that Federal forces rarely ventured west of the St. Johns River in central and north Florida. This land became known as "Dixie-land", a play on his last name, and he became known to all as the "Swamp Fox". Using numerous published and unpublished primary sources, Mr. Koblas has written the first-ever thorough military biography of this legendary and overlooked Confederate.

This is the first person account of the founder of the Quakers (Society of Friends), George Fox, and it is the best resource for the life and testimonies of Quakers. It is an exciting read full of action, truth and common sense living.

Little Fox is tired of having to play in the same area day after day. She wants to travel to the end of the world. When her mother asks about the end of the world, Little Fox tells her of the many dangers and problems that she will have to face to get there. From deep forests to the island of the One-eyed Cats, Little Fox is determined to make it. Her mother is frightened, but Little Fox explains how she will overcome each of these conflicts. Will Little Fox make it to the end of the world and back home safely?
This was a great book, and I recommend it to anyone looking for a fun short story. The illustrations correspond wonderfully with the storyline. This is a quick and easy read. Enjoyable for children of all ages.

I was saddened to find out that this book is out of print (I was acutally hoping for a revised edition). I have been collecting Roman coins for about ten years and this is the book that got me started. Mr. Fox has written a genuinely readable book that, even after ten years, is an excellent introduction to an addictive hobby. Be aware, though,that this book is not (nor does Mr. Fox intend it to be)a reference book. There are appendices and photos to help the novice collector to locate basic information, but their intent is to get you started, not to sustain you over the distance. Once you get hooked (and you will), you will discover that there are enough references available to consume all but the most well-endowed checkbook. To me, the greatest value of this book is that Mr. Fox took great efforts to show me that Roman coins, in addition to being a fascinating window into the Roman world, are both available and affordable. If you have any interest at all in Roman coins, this book is worth any efforts you may have to make to find it. I recommend it without hesitation.

Very well balanced book in an almanac form. This covers places and chronological events. There are many charts, maps and significant pictures to support the information. There is a very descriptive table of contents.
You can see that Colonel Harry G. Summers, Jr. has a very good understanding of the region and events leading up to and after the Vietnam War.
I picked this book because it is one of the few that include an armored reconnaissance unit, the First Squadron, 10 Cavalry. Also the other units we travel with it in the Central Highlands in II Corps. Being an almanac, not enough information was given to tell the feel of the location.
This book is well worth the cost.

In California Gold, John Jakes has once again created a very engrossing story wrapped in lots of interesting history about California. As usual, his plot moves along at a brisk pace and he introduces many interesting characters -- both fictional and real-life. The main character, James Macklin Chance, is one of Jakes' more memorable ones. I'm sure you'll enjoy how he comes to California as a young man, poor financially but rich in ambition, and his adventures in building one fortune on top of another. If you enjoy historical fiction, and especially if you're a John Jakes fan, do yourself a favor and get a copy of California Gold. You'll be richer for the reading experience.

This was certainly a book that you could enjoy. This book also gave you a good picture of the history of California. This book chronicles the rise from poverty to massive riches for a young man from Pennylsvania. He first grows immensely wealthy by taking part in the oil industry of California. From making big money in petroleum he moves into the citrus industry. He is able to continue making money in the citrus business. His next step is in water rights. This novel also tells of some of his lady loves that he becomes familiar with. Also interesting is some of the potent enemies that he gets in the state of California. This is a good depiction of wealth and power gained in the Golden State. If you read this book you will read a good story as well as get a good history of the state of California. It is also very unique the way that John Jakes uses some historical figures from these days in this story. Read this book,you will not be dissapointed.

I thoroughly enjoyed this exceptional novel by John Jakes. Previously I had read only the Bicentennial Series-Kent Family Chronicals, which I loved. I liked California Gold because, being from California, I loved the rich historic information. It was more than 49's and/or movie stars. I loved reading about Hearst and Bierce, and the fact that the story ends in my neck of the woods, Riverside. The California orange-growing business is under-rated. This novel incompassed virtually every aspect of history and life in California, and that is saying quite a lot!

Damn, that was a good book! For being a James Bond fan I sure say that the book "Goldeneye" was better than the movie "Goldeneye"! The book had an extra story line an parts that the movie left out. My birthday was yesterday, June 7, and my dad wanted me to help him pick out a good B-Day gift so I found the "Goldeneye" book by John E. Gardner. Believe me if I had to do it all over I would pick the same book.

No,no,no no more foreplay. Finally another Bond novel that would not bore you to death. I think that the movie also perfectly compliments the book; it kept the same storyline for most of the movie and did not start to go into stuff that you never see or hear about as in almost every other Bond book. It takes from to the top of the Byelemore Dam straight into the chemical proccesing plant and the exciting runway part. that there was a big part of the book which leads into Janus as you will find out in the book. Bond is then forced into tracking down a stolen helicopter, Janus and the very beautiful Natalya Simoniva. In the path he must deal with Janus a man whom at one point in time trusted his life to. Again bond is asked the famouse question"Why are you so cold." the reply "It's what keeps me alive." and again"No, it's what keeps you alone.'' I also would reccomend Tommorow Never Dies By:Raymond Benson

Once Xenia worked for the KGB. But her new master is Janus, a powerful and ambitious Russian gang that no longer cares about ideology. Janus's ambitions are money and power; its normal business methods are theft and murder. And it has just acquired Goldeneye, a piece of high-tech space technology with the power to destroy or corrupt the West's financial markets. But Janus has understimated its most determined enemy... John Gardner has done it again. A great book to read and an cool Bond book. Buy this book!

A master of English prose, Chambers was a senior editor of Time magazine until he resigned, in 1948, to testify against a man he once considered his friend, Alger Hiss. Chambers testified that several years earlier, before World War II, he had been a member of the Communist Party of the United States, and that through the Party he had met Hiss, a fellow Party member and a State Department employee. What's more, Chambers charged that Hiss routinely delivered to him secret U.S. government papers to be given to the Soviets.

        At the time of Chambers' testimony, Hiss was president of the prestigious Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Chambers' charges shocked the liberal establishment. Hiss denied ever being a Communist and denied even knowing Whittaker Chambers. He made these denials in the wrong place, before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Thanks in part to the efforts of a congressman from California named Richard Nixon, Hiss was eventually convicted of perjuring himself in his testimony before the House committee and went to jail.

        Witness, Chambers' account of his ordeal, is powerful, wrenching book. Any conservative who reads the first section, Letter to My Children, should become a Chambers admirer for life.

I recently read this book and was stunned at what it held. I always knew there were spies and traitors (every society, even the communist ones, has them) but to have such a large endeavor displayed before your eyes and to have it supported by reams of material evidence makes such knowledge real.

Mr. Chambers lays out why he was a communist and why he spied. He lays out the factual circumstances of his spying along with his traitorous compatriots (to include, despite "The Nation's" shrill cries of protest - Alger Hiss). He explains their motivation as well as their activities. He then goes through the agonizingly personal process of justifying his switch from communism to freedom and God. He makes clear that his choice was between two religions - the religion of man and slavery known as communism - and the religion of God and freedom - known as Christianity (as manifested in a culture of tolerance and freedom). He is explicitly personal and religious and he has been derided for such stands since he made them. His actions were a typical mix of faith, doubt, courage and cowardice, but he finally stood on the side of faith and courage and he was counted and Alger Hiss went to jail - where he belonged. Not even the slanderous bilge of "The Nation" can change that.

Kelly Whiting

I acquired an original 1st edition copy of this classic, but oddly enough I kept it shelfed, assuming it to be rather mundane. I was very wrong! This is a fascinating biographical account of a former American communist, who 'defected' to the cause of freedom after seeing communism for what it really was- a LIE! Witness profiles the life of Whittaker Chambers during his hey-day as an avid Marxist to his conversion, which was as much a spiritual transformation, as an ideological one.

He was the whistleblower who offered the account of over Alger Hiss and an entreched number of communist agents in the U.S. State Department and other positions of power. I also recommend his biography by Sam Tanenhaus. Chambers would later continue his journalism career, writing for Time. He eventually came under the umbrella of the conservative William F. Buckley's National Review.

Billy is a gay Holden Caulfield for our age, in his narration style as well as personality. Though I am a straight woman, I read this book during a decision-making time of my life, and Billy's struggle with figuring out, exploring, and enjoying his own homosexuality turn out to be surprisingly applicable and encouraging to anyone coming to terms with a novel facet of their own character. The book is a good, fast read, and tells a believable story, peopled with characters one can identify with easily--or recognize!

I read this book when I was first coming out 6-7 years ago, and I was amazed at how well it was written -- it's a poignant coming-of-age story that I think a lot of us can relate to. Written in the first person from the point of view of a 16-year-old who is popular in school and is athletic (and who just happens to be gay), I thought the writing captured very well the way that teenagers think and talk. For anyone who has bittersweet memories of the first time they fell in love, this book is for you.

I hadn't read reviews before I read the book, so I had to check out if I was the only one who thought this was the gay "Catcher In The Rye"...I wasn't! This Holden Caulfield, Billy, is a wonderful character with all of the same charm, faults, and insecurities as his predecessor. I've always loved the "voice" Salinger used for Catcher and John Fox has totally captured that same style in "The Boys on the Rock". And Fox does some of the same "flashback" narrative that Salinger used. I actually headed to Amazon to check out other books by John Fox, but it doesn't look like he has any others! Bummer! This was an excellent book and I recommend it highly! (And it is a quick read...under 150 pages and fairly large print.)