Survival Rule #1 Watch Where You're Driving and that doesn't just mean at the tee off! Like all the Worst-Case Scenario Books in the series, this one has the familiar, easy to read layout with step-by-step instructions that are brief but informative. Nice how this sport edition gives a few words of advice on playing the game and explains how the official rules of golf apply in the unique situations, plus highlights a few guidelines to keeping good golf etiquette, which is all helpful for preventing confusion and heated debate among players.

The topic is divided into just a few chapters called: Bad Lies, Equipment Disasters, Dangerous Animals and Golfing Emergencies. The scenarios covered range from how to retrieve a ball lost in the ball washer, retrieve a ball from a gopher hole, how to keep score without a pencil, how to spot a cheat, disarm an irate golfer, start a dead cart, stop a runaway cart or free a cart from a sand trap. How to prevent a club from flying out of your hand and how to retrieve a golf club or golf ball lodged in a tree [they recommend wearing a hard hat to protect your head during this operation, imagine that!]. How to drive with a putter or putt with a driver, how to survive if you run out of tees, how to treat a sprained ankle, a blister, poison ivy, sunburn, heatstroke or dehydration. How to deal with a brush fire, alligator, snake, rabid animal or an attack by birds, not to mention how to deal with a fashion emergency or recognize a golf addiction. There is even a little over view on gambling bets and some translation of golfspeak. Also advice is included for avoiding lighting strikes and tornados while you're outside in open areas.

This book is a riot and the illustrations are great, they add so much and they truly are hilarious. A golfer at any level or interest will love it and even those who make fun of the sport and hate it, might find the book enjoyable too. It has an answer for nearly every golfer's nightmare, giving tips for surviving a life and death situation that probably will just end up being all par for the course.

This is THE present for someone in your neighbourhood that's always boasting about his (or her) golf relations... Seen the beautiful greeeeeen cover? Me too...

I picked this book up for my parents as an afterthought and a joke (one avid golfer for life, mother just picking it up) and they LOVED it! Both sat down and read it straight through, laughing out loud and enjoying it. Now I wish I had saved it for the holidays!

"Audubon's Watch", by John Gregory Brown is the first book of his work that I have read, and I intend to read his previous two books very soon. While reading this tale I often thought of the work of Wilkie Collins, one of the great writers of the late 19th century, and the man widely credited with the creation of the modern mystery genre. The Audubon of this novel is the famous artist who documented the birds of America, and while knowing some of the man's history is helpful it is not necessary.

A great mystery work maintains the suspense, the tension of the story to the very end. The tale itself sustains and lures the reader throughout the book without the need for blind alleys or misdirection. The facets that I mention can be great fun when used by many authors. Mr. Brown did not use them here, and I think the work is all that much better without the devices.

A young woman dies and Audubon is asked to sit watch with the husband the first night following her death. There is a second watch that has three owners, a watch that works or doesn't, a watch that appears to have a mind of its own. A common ritual in this instance has immense importance, for the husband is considered a notorious anatomist/resurrectionist, and Mr. Audubon has knowledge that drives his guilt for 30 years, when on his deathbed he summons the man he sat with that evening. But what is he guilty of, why does Emile, the deceased's husband, make a month long trek dealing with his own failing health to hear what Audubon wishes to say? And what could possibly be haunting Emile for these now past 30 years? The answers are all in the book, and they are not what appear to be obvious or even high probability predictions. The author is brilliant at manipulating what he shares and how he shares it, so that what you may take as a conversation among characters is something very different.

The author seems to play with the reader's need to know and the reader's willingness to make presumptions before the tale is complete. The effect he produces is really marvelous and entertaining. When he digresses from the specifics at hand to share the imagery of a roaring fire, a hurricane, and the flashing blades of the cutters of the cane as they work in his inferno is great reading.

John Gregory Brown is another writer that seems to have yet to be discovered by large numbers of readers. His work will now be on my reading list going forward.

I loved Brown's first two novels, "Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery" and "The Wrecked Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur", but I think this new one is his best. As with the others, this is a terribly sad and rather disturbing story but the writing is glorious and the observations about John James Audubon completely fascinating. Brown takes us into the minds of Audubon and the anatomist Emile Gautreaux not just as artist and scientist but as men. He examines them the way they examine their subjects. The novel's real subject seems to be grief and passion and the way both can take hold of us. I think John Gregory Brown's books deserve to get much more attention than they do.

An eminately scientific book. Uses phenomenological and imaginally accurate approaches to its topic, and offers rarely quoted material from psychoanalysis which will provoke irritated responses from those supporting the "accepted canon" of psychoanalytic literature. Little known (though accurate) citations of Freud and Jung broaden the discussion of psychology to include environment, to the chagrin of the traditional psychoanalytic establishment which gives little value to environmental influences on psychological health. Views presented here describe how an empathic relation with the environment is being dumbly, and politically, grandstanded as a regression to "the noble savage". Contrary to this "regressive" view the authors offer a vision in which person and environment are mutually effected. The book will prove its value with its revolutionary conceptual vision, and its practical application of ideas.

This is a highly informative book. It tells about people's different points of view on the highly volatile and up-and-coming field of ecopsychology. This book is a great source of information and knowledge of the field as well as it's a pretty easy read. I used this book as a jumping off point for research for my undergraduate thesis. If you are interested in environmental issues and psychology, read this book.

Assembled here are some of the leading lights of ecopsychology, with papers and excerpts from the books they've written: Roszak himself, Aizenstat, Hillman, Gomes, Glendinning, and on and on. A rare collection of important voices.

The idea of ecopsychology is to open up awareness to the unheard voice of the Earth. "Animism" is a 19th century assumption that assumes the world lives only to the degree we project into it. The authors here realize that animism is a reductionistic and outdated concept that only serves to justify the ongoing rape and dematerialization of the natural world--a world that in fact projects her presence into those of us who can learn to hear her.

This is not a back-to-nature project but a necessity if we are to preserve what's left of the Earth from our greed, haste, and the global warming of the psyche endemic to a society of rapacious and immature consumers too bent on private advantage to do what our ancestors did for a million years of history and prehistory: recognize and respect her personhood. And today, we can do so with all our critical faculties intact and a bit of help from green technics.

James William Brown masterfully recreates the microcosmic atmosphere of warmth, closeness, suspicion and gossip that are intrinsic to any small place where generations of people have lived and worked since the beginning of time. The village, as divided into distinct dramatic choruses of "men" and "women", is as much a character in this story as is "Katrina", the citified, unaccepted archaeologist who marries the village's favorite son, and their silently rebellious daughter, "Amalia", who grows from childhood to womanhood as the story unfolds. Different life altering events trigger different reactions from the main voices; we see the action from the four above-named perspectives. Above all, one thing the inhabitants of the Island agree upon besides their absolute need for a continuance of and adherance to the island's old traditions, is their resistance to change as introduced by the stranger--in this case a young Scandanavian hustler. Intrigued, young Amalia finds herself attracted to what the stranger represents--freedom from her inevitable future as an island woman--escape from the island itself--her needs and desires as mirrored through her actions catapult the village into a whirlwind of reaction that drives the rest of the story and reveals secrets of the past and present that only such an isolated place can store up and preen over like a hoard of buried treasure.

I recommend this story as the four distinctive voices move it along brisquely--and yes, with some repetition necessary to complete the cyclical structure as represented by the blood dance itself. This type of tale succeeds in peeling back the holiday ambiance and charm of the white-washed Greek Isle to reveal real people that are true to the Homeric characters of old.

Blood Dance provides the reader with an outstanding glimpse into the lives and day-to-day transactions in a very isolated and unique setting. The tiny island and its people are portrayed in intricate detail. The author has obviously researched his topic well, for he has a rather personal understanding of the subject. Amalia, the young lady who is to marry Nikos, is a classic example of a woman who feels tied down to an existance which she does not want. She is on a tiny island, and it is evident that she longs for something bigger; something greater. Her mother, Katina, who fled from Turkish devastaion of her homeland, was and still is treated like a stranger who can never claim to understand the ways of this remote village. She has never been excepted by the people who live there, and she fears that Amalia, her only child, will be trapped as she is. She marries the son of a distinguished family with deep roots in island traditions, although her husband seems somewhat enlightened than most. He dies, and the story begins to focus on Amalia. After Katina's husband, Grigoris, passes on; she is even more isolated and tries to keep the family business going. It seems to her that she can never become part of village society, and now her daughter must endure the same fate. The many perspectives which Mr. Brown uses to get his point across make the book a unique mosaic of personal attitudes, conflicts, and opinions. This reader had a much better understanding of rural life in insular Greece after having read this book twice from cover to cover. On reflection, I wonder how many small communities like that exist anywhere else in the world at any given time. One can only hope that someone will show that community in the same light as Mr. Brown shows the island in Blood Dance.

Brown's novel focuses on village life on a Greek island. He uses a similar series of events that are told separately through the voices of the three main characters. This technique adds depth and shows truth from individual perspectives. He also brings in the collective voices of the village women and men. He has captured the essence and layered texture of village life and values, the beauty of the surroundings and the people, and the blood that unites and divides them. This specific ethnic portrayal of one small group of people reflects the universality of their ideals for all who read it. The novel is flawless and the voices are resonant

The Corporate Coach is a good book for all would-be and new managers. The book reinforces the idea that a manager is not so much a boss as a supporter of his employees. Every company should hope that each manager understands he has employees entrusted to him and he must be able to maximize their effectiveness. To do this, the manager must be able to be a supporter, a cheerleader and a corrector of problems in an atmosphere that is positive. The Corporate Coach explains all of this from the know-how of someone who has done it and proven it's success. I give it to all my new managers to read.

An excellent case study of a company dedicated to customer service. If you want to retain and add customers, and retain high-quality service people who know the value of your customers and the true value of team-work, this book is a must-read.

This book focuses on serving customers as the customer wants to be served not as the service provider wants to serve. The "Coach's Checklists" at the end of each chapter are each worth the price of the book. This book drives home the point that the ONLY difference between a business and sports team is the field they play on.

I am very pleased with my new Pitt Minion Bible. It is ideal size for travel and durable to boot. I have the Goatskin cover so I expect many years of use out of it.
I always "cringe" when I deliberate on buying a Cambridge Bible because of the price, but I do want exceptional quality and this is their specialty. I always search Addall.com or Bestbookbuys.com for the best price.
As for the small print, I am fine with it since I don't have to wear eyeglasses to read (yet!).

I don't want to rain on the parade regarding these new Cambridge Pitt Minion KJV Bible releases, because they are well made and most everything the professional amazon review says they are, yet.....too small print is just simply too small print. You open these slim little editions and the first impression is the dimensions of the edition shouldn't really call for that small a print. It just has to be said. I would also say that the bonded leather editions really look almost inferiour to much, much less expensive similar-sized editions from other publishers; and the French Morocco and Goatskin editions can look very different individually (I had the opportunuty to look through several of these editions). Overall, the feel you get about these editions, the first and enduring impression, is that they are not really that well-designed a Bible for their really kind of shockingly high price tag. The small print to me is their biggest downfall. (I should say too that I don't use reading glasses and have no problem with small text, but there is a point when text passes over into that area of just too small to be comfortable and the text of these editions are in that category. With a double-columned page like a Bible as well it makes for just too uncomfortable an experience for the price tag. Though, for somebody interested in a good leather Cambridge bible their other editions (that are actually very close in dimensions to these Pitt Minion editions, though with larger print) can be acquired for the same price or less as these editions. My advice is to look all their editions over at the Cambridge Bible site on the net and then come back to amazon and order the edition you want for much less...

My new French Morocco-bound Cambridge Pitt Minion is fast becoming my constant companion; not only is it ideal for travel, but it is so legible and pleasant to handle that it has become my standard for daily reading at home. Mind you, I am 62 years old and require reading glasses in any case, but this Bible is clearer and sharper than any of its several "portable" predecessors. The old calfskin Cambridge Cameo with Apocrypha is still preferable for study because more complete, a bit easier to read, and as well bound; and I do use the Logos CD for Greek, Hebrew and comparing translations, but my Pitt Minion is a joy to carry, hold, and read. Like the KJV it contains, it is a classic. It could only be improved by including the so-called "Apocrypha" in the same volume. This was integral to the Holy Scriptures as revered in the early Church, used by all Christians for 1,500 years, and by all Catholic and Orthodox Christians to the present day. But I'm dreaming. The Anglo-American Bible business is run by Protestants, so I'm lucky to have a well-bound, almost complete, classic translation of the Bible at all. And doubly blessed that the same great University on the Cam have now republished the best portable Bible available in English. Bravo!

I really enjoyed reading this book. I think that anyone who reads this will feel more comfortable in nowing that many people may love them and that it is okay to have more than one "family." Many love you just the same and they can care for you in their own special way. I think Oscar is unique and even though this is just a book I respect the characters.

Warm, homey illustrations that almost seem to glow are paired nicely with the sweet storyline. As always, James Herriott knows his animals, and can capture their essence on paper. I have known cats like Oscar, who is most definitely a "people" cat--he loves to be in the thick of things!--and reading Oscar's story was like a touch of nostalgia. If your little one loves animals, do get them this book. I have a hunch they'll like it.

I think I have not had a more pleasant reading experience than sitting down next to a burning fire place, listening to my favorite antique clock ticking.. the patter of rain on the window panes and reading James Herriott. It is a memory of that afternoon that all these years later I have never forgotten. James Herriott is the most pleasant, relaxing, refreshing writer. Forget all the worries and cares and escape for a few minutes into a quiet world where the animals speak their own language.. A wonderful book, a wonderful writer. Thank You James Herriott for the memories.

I have read a lot of business books about leadership. While most of them have been interesting, they have also been a little dry because the references to real people have only been used by way of example. Therefore, I liked this book because it allowed me to spend a liitle time with 50 people that one has to respect and acknowledge for their accomplishments. They have had to do something right in order to achieve what they have. But, then the book takes these 50 real life experiences and distills it down into a framework and a few basic lessons that helps all these individual experiences make sense within the larger scheme of things. People might say that there is nothing new here, only common sense notions, yet until one sees things within a larger picture or framework that ties things together, these are just disjointed ideas with little context, synergy or power to change. I can apply these lessons for the top to my own life situation and career and that makes the book work for me.

Unlike most business books, Lessons from the Top is fun to read AND offers practical, insightful, thoughts on great leadership. It draws powerful stories from great leaders but unlike many anecdotal business books, Neff and Citrin collect their stories from a group that they have not picked at random, but based on an analytical framework.

Each of the chapters is like sipping coffee with a business leader for a few hours- each page a glimpse of which paths these leaders have taken and the combination of personality skills that have contributed to their tremendous success.

After all of these great insights, Neff and Citrin then outline the lessons they learned (and the reader does too!) in a powerful way, delineating many of the traits these leaders have in common. Some of these findings be quite surprising!

In sum, this book is fantastic. You won't put it down until you have finished it and when you do, you will feel like you could call any of the leaders by their first name AND use the "lessons learned" to practically aspire to join this list!

I have seen an early edition of "Lessons From the Top". Remarkably, "Lessons From the Top" brings America's Corporate Board Room to the rest of America. As a former Assistant Corporate Secretary for what was at the time, America's largest outside Board of Directors, I had the unique opportunity to participate in strategy sessions and become acquanted with captains of US business.

Now, I am happy to say, the rest of America is provided this special opportunity with a glimpse into some of the country's finest corporate leaders. "Lessons from the Top" takes a look at what makes these 50 industry leaders tick and how their actions and skills have contributed to their leadership success.

The access afforded these authors is impressive, as is the statistical selection process utilized to select the participants.

The book is clearly organized and valuable lessons may be learned as we take this book with us on our business travels.

I recommend it for everyone who is interested further insights into leadership skills for work and extra-curricular activities.

The book I have just finished was not something I recommend. I read My Brother Sam is Dead.

In this story, the character that stood out the most throughout the book was Tim. This story took place durring the Revolutionary War, which was not a good time for colonistsor anyone really in that time period. Durring this book, Tim's brother, Sam, is in the Army in the colonies, and this makes Tim confused. Time looks up to sam as a soldier, thinking war was all fun and games.

As this story moves n, Tim realizes the reality of war ast comes closer to his home and the tavern the family owns. Tim's father and brother draw further apart being that the father was a tory and sam is a colonist fighting for freedom. The differences between tim's father and brother are what make up the moral of this book.

I would not recommend this book because the title of the book gave the story away, which was mainly the death of Tim's brother Sam.

I read the book My Brother Sam is dead for a school project. It only took me seven nights to complete this book I'm in 8th grade and I'm not a very fast reader. This book starts out when Sam comes home from Yahle and tells his family that he is going to fight in the war against his country( he wants to be free from England). Sam and Tim's dad was in a war and does not want his son to fight because he knows how hard a soldgers life can be. Sam and his dad get in a fight and Life (dad) kicks sam out sam went to live with tom he snuck back into the house one night to get the Brown Bess (gun) a couple of days later tim found out that Sam stole the gun adn tried to get it back but sam wouldn't let him. Well if you want to find out what happens, you will have to read this excellent book.

Set in Redding Ridge,CT, in the days immediately following the battles of Lexington and Concord, this story unfolds slowly but inexorably, presenting the harsh realities of war upon ordinary people. Not only soldiers but their immediate families must endure the horrors of revolution. This was particularly poingant for the fictitious Meeker family: Father, Mother, Sam (16) and Timmy (10). Compounding the local suffering is the fact that their political loyalties are dividied, for they live in a Tory area of Connecticut.

Timmy resepcts his father who is smart and a loyal kingsman; but he also admires his daring older brother, who defies his father to run off and join a regiment of Rebels (or Patriots) depending on your viewpoint. Throughout the entire novel the young hero struggles to choose one side over the other, but he always tries to help and protect Sam.

Don't be put off by the title, for the book offers hope along with anxiety over Sam's fate, as it portrays a realistic glimpse into a difficult era: the Civil war was not the only time in our history when families were torn assunder by politics. Readers may well reflect on the cost to those Colonial families, as we enjoy the benefits of their sacrifice. A thoughtful, provocative tale which strives to remain neutral, which will educate the mind and touch the heart of American readers. (Concludes with a note as to which events really happened and which characters actually existed.)

There's a reason why Stephen wasn't the main character in "Ulysses." While his hypersensitivity, acute intellectualism and quasi-pretentious ideas about the aesthetics of poetry and Shakespeare are attractive from a distance, his callow arrogance and sarcasm are ultimately off-putting. Leopold Bloom, for me, is the greatest character in 20th century literature because his age has brought him qualities that the post-adolescent Stephen can only ponder or mock: humility, inquisitiveness and a love for his wife that can withstand the challenges of Blazes Boylan.
I don't mean to disparage "A Portrait" by claiming its worth lies primarily in its position as a precursor to "Ulysses," but it really is dwarfed by that book and Joyce's masterpiece, "Finnegans Wake." Here, the prose experiments are clumsy and frustrating: take, for example, the romantic drivel about birds, dew and Eileen in chapters four and five; while Joyce might have intended this second-rate Yeats impersonation to demonstrate how Stephen's naivete is struggling with new ideas, it's fairly embarrassing nonetheless. The journal entries are kind of cool as a taste of what would soon come in "Ulysses," but they come off a bit dry.
I found Stephen much more likeable before his decision to repent in the third chapter. Before, he had to struggle with the conflict in his soul between the pleasures of the brothel and eternal damnation. This was also before he became stubbornly confident in his own self-righteousness, and I can believe that the feelings he describes are painfully real. Afterwards, he briefly becomes a priggish repentant, and then the climax of the novel comes when he throws off the yoke of the priesthood and embraces the sight of Eileen stroking the sea-water "hither and thither" (a delicious reminder of the much more appealing ALP in the "Wake").
Eileen is now kept in the distance as Stephen prattles endlessly about Aristotle and Aquinas, his precious individuality and his oncoming exile. His friends are intelligent but boorish and scornful. By the end of the novel, Stephen is ready to embark on his artistic journey, but I couldn't help noticing how cynical his final journal entries sounded.
Joyce is the master novelist of the past century, and even his mediocre work is woven with the threads that would continue in his two final novels. "A Portrait..." remains a fascinating though curiously empty tale of a young man growing detached from his senses and beliefs.

A Portrait of an Artist was a surprise to me. I read it as a school assignment but I actually
enjoyed it a little. It was a thought provoking book and was very well written. James Joyce's'
fictional but semi- autobiographical novel was very creative. It was written in a style that I have
never read before. It wasn't first person or third person, but it also wasn't quite a third person
omniscient. It was a new style to me but James Joyce made it work.
It is a novel about a boy, Stephen Dedalus and his struggles to grow up, break away from
the confining restrictions of church, family, and country (patriotism), and to ultimately find
himself as an individual and artist. Most of these struggles are very similar to things that all of us
have gone through(with exception of becoming an artist). I think many of the problems he faced
were a little amplified, and that helped show what kind of person Stephen was. He was very
thoughtful and he tried, like many of us to fit into many places that he didn't naturally fit.
All through the book Stephen changes schools and is never accepted by the other kids at
the school. Eventually he decides to stand up for himself by talking to the school master after
being punished unfairly. He is rewarded for his bravery and begins to be accepted by his peers.
But he still doesn't quite fit in.
The thing that stuck out most to me was the jesuit priests and how they preached about
hell and damnation. I thought it was an extreme way to try and control the way the kids act. It
seemed as though they were trying to scare them into being good instead of having them do it for
the right reasons. Ultimately scaring people into something rarely works. If you want them to do
something they have to do it for the right reasons or they will not continue to do it in the future.
One of the most interesting things for me was seeing the way Joyce used the imagery, he
is so good with words. I enjoy reading the vivid descriptions he uses and find myself forming a
mental picture much easier than I do when reading other books. One thing I disliked about this
book was the lack of plot. I t was difficult to find a story line to follow. While the creative style,
imagery and wording of the book interested me I did find it hard at times to continue reading
because there was nothing that made me want to continue to the next chapter. Nothing that
caught my attention and made me want to find out what happens next.
Overall I would recommend this book because of it's creative style and great word usage.
I think if you read this book through and give it a chance, then you will be satisfied. With this
book you do have to read all the way to the end or it will seem like a waste of your time.

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is James Joyce's autobiographical novel, first appeared in book form in 1916. After over 80 years it is still read and studied all over the world highlighting the place it has received in literature. It portrays the early and teenage life of Stephen Dedalus. This is the same character who later appears in 'Ulysses' (1922) as a matured adult.

Joyce walks us through the life of Stephen Dedalus in five stages written in a third-person narrative. Anyone interested in Joyce's intellectual, spiritual and physical journey of life should read this great classic which is the prelude to 'Ulysses', one of the best novels ever written in the 20th centaury.

As Ezra Pound correctly predicted 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man' would "remain a permanent part of English literature" for centuries similar to the place 'Ulysses' has reached in literature.