This is a good beginning book on employee ownership that is written in a down-to-earth style that makes it easy to understand the technical financial and legal jargon. I highly recommend it !

This book is a wonderful step by step how-to book on employee ownership. The best part of it is that it is written in down-to-earth english that makes it very easy to understand the sometimes complex financial and legal jargon.I highly recommend it!

If you like golf, you'll like this book. If you like to readwell-written mysteries, you'll like this book. If you like books thatdrop names of famous persons all over the place, you'll like this book.

All in all, it's almost totally satisfying, even to this non-golfer, and who doesn't even watch it on TV! Although I do read about it in the daily paper. Because what I do like is reading. On almost any topic, as long as the book is well-written, craftily plotted, with some wit and characters I wish I could meet, in person. There are a couple of small and annoying editorial glitches, plus one habitual trick that I almost wish the author would have left out. Set during the Crosby Pro-Am Golf Tournament at Pebble Beach in January, 1974, the author, AP golf writer John Logue, continually writes " . . . would in future years . . " or " . . . would win this tournament (or some other one.)" It's nice to know what would happen in years to come, but it might have been better had he made it contemporary, and looked back, rather than all that looking into the future.

That's a minor niggle, though. Much can be forgiven for writing of this high quality; there is a serenely poetical walk-through of each of the holes of this famous course, carved as it is out of cliffs and ocean, and exceedingly vulnerable to the whims of Mother Nature. On its own, this chapter could send you heading for a travel bureau - or an instructor in golf, so you could experience it firsthand.

Bing himself plays a minor role, finding himself in the hospital. His brother Larry, plus entertainers Phil Harris and Clint Eastwood, rub shoulders with all sorts of major golfers of the time (and earlier) - Nicklaus, Weiskopf, Bolt, Strange, Snead, Hogan - who wander through the pages along with the eventual winner of the rain-shortened tourney - Johnny Miller.

This is the fourth of a series about golf writer John Morris and his lady, Julia Sullivan. I'd not read any of the previous ones, but this one sent me to my library for the first one - FOLLOW THE LEADER, from 1979.

John Morris, the 1974 Associated Press sports reporter, is on the way to the Bing Crosby Pr-Am tournament accompanied by his long term companion Julia Sullivan. Both look forward to the event and a chance to renew old friendships. The Crosby is an invitational only tournament, consisting of the crooner, his friends, pro golfers, and Hollywood celebrities. It is also a time when old resentments rise to the surface, manifesting in fisticuffs between two senior citizens.

Morris breaks up the combatants before anyone is hurt, but moments later one of the fighters begins to foam at the mouth and ultimately dies. While trying to revive the man, Morris smells almonds on his breath, leading him to suspect cyanide poisoning. The subsequent autopsy confirms Morris' suspicions. Morris and Julia decide to help their good friend, the local sheriff, on his investigation. When the second combatant turns up dead, a victim of cyanide poisoning also, the sleuths realize a killer is on the rampage and needs to be stopped.

Fans of golf, historiography, and amateur sleuths will want to follow the latest escapades of Morris and Sullivan. Though 25 years have passed since the events described in A RAIN OF DEATH took place, readers will be shocked at how much the world has changed. Through his two protagonists, John Loque has captured the essence of the early seventies. The story line and the two likable lead characters make this novel enjoyable for non-golf buffs, but it is the fan of the hole in one who will devour this birdie.

Harriet Klausner

To say “The Feathery Touch of Death” is “par for the course” would be a cheap pun. Author John Logue sets this episode to follow up “Murder on the Links” in the world of golfers. In this story, the setting is the Open and appropriately at The Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. What a setting it is What a venue for another murder mystery series!

In this one, golf writer John Morris and his girlfriend Julia Sullivan find themselves knee deep in bunkers after a young American golfer is found dead--with an antique golf ball stuffed in his throat. Soon after, a second murder, also quite savage, is discovered. Morris and Sullivan think they’re “playing at par,” until they discover they’ll need a good hanidcap if they’re to complete this round! Someone is playing from a great lie! One doesn’t have to be a golf lover to appreciate what Logue has done here, but perhaps it helps in the appreciation of the finished product. Logue seems to revel in his golfing lore, the mystique of St. Andrews, the history of the sport. All this makes a great combination for a great read--plausible, logical, enjoyable.

This is one of the best books I have ever read. Adler lays bare the underlying political structures that *guarantee* continued warfare between nations. His clear prose and logical, patient approach guides the reader carefully through the underlying assumtions of national sovereignty which serve as the flywheel for war. He provides a series of definitions for war and peace that provide a necessary foundation for understanding. He asseses both the possibility and probability that the human race will ever know international peace and provides useful recommendations for anyone who wants to work meaningfully on a world without war.

If you think "Southern Living" is just your mother's favorite magazine, read this book by the couple of crazy guys who started it. Logue and McCalla's hilarious back-and-forth is just one of the many attractions of this terrific story. Their irreverence about one of the New South's beloved institutions is refreshing, and their insights into the magazine business are like a short course in publishing smarts. A great read!

For those of us who aren't lovers of golf, John Logue's golf mysteries are a revelation. And for those of you who are, don't miss out on this wonderful series. This is the best volume yet -- it's funny, engaging, engrossing, well-plotted, and much better written than the usual run of mysteries.

buy this book if you want to know the "Real World" of employee ownership and not just what you read in the papers!

A spectactular collection of 36 American Civil War chromolithographs. The author captured a great deal of feeling that no camera ever could with these rare and beautiful images.

Before delving into the review of this book I feel it is imperative to tell you how and why it entered my library not once but twice. I attended a small liberal arts college in the midwest, of Norwegian heritage. As a History major I elected to enroll in MODERN SCANDINAVIAN HISTORY since I was reasonably sure the course would be well taught. It wasn't. I guess I can't blame the D+ solely on the professor but he is the one who assigned the book in question for class. Two years later I decided to retake this class since a visiting prof had signed on to instruct. And he assigned the same excrutiatingly dry book. But I received an A- this time around. Enough about me. Now let's get to the book of horrors. Modern Welfare States is the only comprehensive study of the governmental transition in the five Scandinavian countries. These countries were the world's first to move away from strict monarchies into constitutional monarchies. The book also discusses the history of the each country's monarchical control over the other (Norway has been ruled by both Sweden and Denmark. and Sweden by Denmark as well), accounts the alliances through the World Wars and covers the development of the Welfare State of post WWII. Why should you read this book? Simply because it is assigned to you. Both professors warned the class that this book was "rather dry" (it makes the Sahara look like a rice paddy) but also extolled it as the best and only available in depth study on the subject. Too bad. When a book is the only available source on a subject, how could it not be the best? I hope, in the near future, some bright mind will take it upon themself to retell this history in a more entertaining fashion. Maybe it's not possible. But for the sake of all the young minds hungry for a taste of Scandinavia, someone please come to the rescue! 2 stars instead of 1 since the book does end, eventually.