A very interesting analysis of Diana, Princess of Wales and the media and how she packaged herself, written by a media insider.

Thanksgiving is a time of gratitude, and for many, a time for philanthropy.

Of course, if you strongly believe in a charity or a cause, you will not only give to that cause, additionally you will proactively promote and fund-raise for that cause.

Promoting, or marketing for charity has its own unique set of challenges.

To overcome those challenges, publicity expert Michael Levine has written a powerful guidebook entitled "Selling Goodness".

In this book, Mr. Levine delivers strategies and tactical guidelines for creating newspaper, radio, and television awareness for your charity.

More importantly, this book will give you an effective leadership "mindset" that will empower your entire organization and fundraising efforts.

Whether its your childrens soccer team, The United Way, or raising money for a neighbor in need of an expensive medical procedure, "Selling Goodness" will give you the mindset and the tools to make your next fundraiser successful.

I was spoiled to have Dr. Gelles be my professor while I was using the textbook for my intro course at Penn. The textbook itself draws in many interesting sociological concepts using examples from real research and historical data. I don't see why someone who wants to learn about sociology, history, and a lot of other things wouldn't just read this book. The book is well organized and designed to culminate knowledge from previous chapters to develop the sociological imagination.

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Noted author and scholar Rabbi Jacob Neusner wrote, "this book brings to synagogue song the discipline of the musician, the learning of the scholar, but most important, the aesthetic sense of the pious person who serves God in the beauty of holiness. Teaching us what has been and what can be, Levine promises to turn what is into something better:musically a service to God through aesthetic beauty consonant with the musical tradition of Judaism. A book of enormous value to the life of Judaism today."

In addition to giving Jews everywhere a key to unlock the secrets of their traditional chant, the book is also a practical guide to one branch of a universal musical tradition: liturgical chant. It's a must read for anyone interested in what makes the cantorial art so compelling to listeners and so important to worship.

Compiled and edited by Harry Thomas, Talking With Poets comprises unique selection of interviews with five very different, but highly notable poets: Robert Pinsky, Seamus Heaney, Philip Levine, Michael Hofmann, and David Ferry. A deep and moving examination into lives, motivations, and how life experiences flow into written words on the page, Talking With Poets is an enthusiastically recommended look into what goes into the making of elegant and expressive verse, and of these five men who are particularly gifted in such creations.

I am a big fan of the Avant-Guides. I used this book almost exclusively for a trip to NYC in the spring of 2002--thus some of the information had changed. Otherwise I would have rated it at a 5 star. The information on the museums and where to get the best deal on theater ticket was very helpful. I have since ordered the guides for Las Vegas, New Orleans and Toronto in hopes of finding the same cool, underground type of information provided for NYC. PLEASE--do guides for Montreal, Washington D.C. and Seattle.

Honestly, I've been living in New York for the past two years, and I think I have a reasonably fair grasp on its nighlife, restaurants, whathaveyou. Not only did this book have a listing of some of my favorite spots, but it talked about some places I wish I'd known about earlier. Some good stuff here.

I love to travel and I love guidebooks. This one is the best series Ive seen. it makes me laugh, has a great senseability about the places I like and really feels like it was written by a friend. I never write these reviews, but Im inspired to write this one because the book is so good.

I rank this book with "Dark Alliance" and "C.I.A.: Cocaine In America" as the most telling indictment of America's pseudo-war on drugs. Unlike most suthors who pontificate solutions from ivory towers and exhort stratagem with quill pens, Mr. Levine, not unlike Mr. VesBucci, for that matter, advises from hard-fought experience.

Note that this review is 4 years after publication... four years of silence.

A book that tears the mask off the fraudulent "War on Drugs". It exposes the growth of the war from two (highly mutually destructive) agencies in 1971 (Customs and DEA) to 55 and counting. It describes very extensive, high-volume CIA involvement in smuggling itself to obtain unaccountable funding.

It documents the cost of the fraudulent war. In dollars misspent, in innocent lives lost through raids gone amok and witnesses silenced, in the credibility of government agencies and the news media, and in the harm resulting from the 5-fold increase (his figures) in drug usage during the time $1 trillion has been wasted in the fight.

Recommend finding this book used or in a library, or reading Levine's chapter in "Into the Buzzsaw" by Kristina Borjesson.

Michael Levine is a former DEA agent who, throughout the 1980's, worked to uncover, expose and convict many of the leading suppliers of cocaine to the United States. Unfortunately for Levine, many of the most powerful cocaine dealers proved to be CIA assets, supported and even bankrolled by the American government in pursuit of shadowy foreign policy objectives. Levine's diligence in fighting the so-called "drugs war" brought him the ruination of his reputation within the DEA and ultimately the destruction of his career. The cynicism that Levine exposes within the highest levels of American government is breathtaking - and profoundly depressing.

This book was awesome!! If you watch Party Of Five, like me, you got to read this!!! I have read all the Party Of Five books...and I love them all!! This is a " must read " kind of book.

This is one great book. I love Party of Five and actully just started reading these books.I intend to read them all. I'm 12 so these books are good for almost any age.!!!

This was really a very touching, cool book. I must say, I cried near the end. It is very awesome, and I would recommend it to anyone.

Money is the root of all kinds of evil and this case is no different. Deep Cover points out not only the incompetence of the DEA, but also an ageless tale of Greed that controls the irrational actions of many men.

Mr. levine has seen the inside of the US DEA. He has personally witnessed the corruption of Agents and Supervisors. What is their motivation? Cold hard cash! Nothing more and nothing less. How else could men excuse the propagation of harmful illicit drugs into the American culture.

Although the book does not exude the danger and excitement of Rogue Warrior, it is none the less insightful and may serve as a wake up call for many.

The government for the people, should be open and held accountable by the people.

I am a retired DEA Field Division SAC. Levine's book, like his radio program, is objective and doesn't pull any punches. The lack of cooperation between organizations is well-known to anyone inside and Levine describes this infighting with brutal candor. The cost to Americans who expect more of their government is painfully high. Well-researched and documented.

Fact: The U.S. government traffics narcotics, and also lets drug-dealing nations and cartels go unmolested, if it is the politically expedient thing to do. Yet at the same time, the Federal government was at the time of writing, and still is today, waging a "War on Drugs." As most knowledgeable Americans are now aware, this was a facade, and much more distressing, an act of hypocrisy. The so-called War on Drugs has allowed the U.S. government to further erode citizens' rights, unjustly seize property, and further establish a 1984ish "Big Brother," America. This book should be read.

Author Michael Levine noted many interesting insights into the D.E.A., how it functions, and how this bureaucratic machine plays role in relation to foreign policy, and the political pressures that guide and influence this agency. Levine was considered to be the D.E.A's number one undercover agent, having arrested over 3,000 individuals over twenty-five years.

Seeking truth, and having passion for his career, and strongly believing in the mission statement of the Drug Enforcement Agency, He wrote in a very direct manner which I appreciate. What he observed in the agency was contrary to his life's work, and he had the courage and drive to speak out about it. In certain instances, the more a D.E.A. agent penetrated into serious drug operations, the more anxious and admonishing the bureaucratic "suits" who ran the agency in Washington D.C. became.

When he and the agency came to close to nailing major drug kingpins, some with high political status in some South American nations, the agency basically shut the operation down. Some of the Cold War alliances the U.S. had with nation-states were similar to it's relations/alliances to drug-dealing countries and cartel kingpins. The Cold War made strange bedfellows politically and this transgressed into the War on drugs.

The most appropriate thing to do is prosecute United States political figures, Military, D.E.A., and C.I.A. bureaucrats for trafficking and conspiring to traffic narcotics. Of course we all know, that isn't going to happen. Yet we must fill our prisons with nonviolent, small-time working stiffs, casual drug users, to serve out mandatory minimum sentences.

I was impressed by this book because it presents the suffering of people in WWII without staying completely focused on the Jews. The Nazis were willing to murder anybody, who, for any reason, did not fit in to their ideology or view of the world. With this book, there is a more clear demonstration of that - yes, a couple of the stories are about Jewish children, there is also a story concerning the plight of a Polish child, one about a gypsy girl, and a child's view of the horrendous occurence at Lidice, Czechoslovakia. The stories about the Jewish children are also varied; one escaped via the Kindertransport, one story was about girls hidden in a convent, and another whose father was featured in a very famous photo that made it out of Germany to tip people off to the kinds of things happening there.

My main gripe about the book is fairly minor. I enjoyed the pictures and the background given to each story, but every once in awhile I felt that the text was patronising. Mind you, this is targeted towards a juvenile audience, but if one believes that the children that will be reading this book are mature enough to deal with this type of material, they probably are not in too terrible need of some of the simpler explanations, and I found these a bit distracting from the focus of the text.

Overall, it is a very good book that serves a subject that is often neglected.

The book I read was Witness to War by Michael Leapman. This book was about eight true-life stories of children that were sent to concentration camps, and others who the Germans tried to make into German citizens. The German police and army shipped off some kids to different places so they did not get caught. A lot of the Jewish people that got sent to camps were well-respected people in a society of German. Most of the people in this book are Jewish but one of the kids is a gypsy. I think this book was very good. It is very odd that people can treat others so cruel.

When I read the book "Witnesses To War" I couldn't put the book down. I was disgusted by the true Nazi persecution. The book is about collections of the true life stories during the holocaust and the Nazi persecution . One of the stories I liked the best was about the Polish children being tested for Germanization because it was twisted that the Nazi's could capture a child .The parents were helpless. I liked this book a lot because I am interested in the holocaust . It's well written and makes you want to read more aobut the holocaust.