I used this book in statistics classes while working on a BS in accounting. This is a very good textbook. My instructors also compiled their own notes for the students which complemented the book perfectly. Many real-life and thought provoking examples in this book.

This was the book I used in my graduate consulting school in Arthur D. Little which was probably the most read of all my books, up to this time. I still used it as my reference now that I'm back here in Manila as a Financial executive and adopted it as my class textbook in my Strategic Management class.

I teach an undergraduate class in "Organizations & Technology" at the University of Phoenix (Southern California campuses) and we use the Garth R. Jones book as our textbook. I have found the book to be so comprehensive and well-organized that I am able to link the organization and content of my lectures directly to the textbook. I find that I cannot do this with many textbooks.

I am most anxious to obtain the "instructor's version" of the text and the accompanying videotapes. (These are mentioned in the preface.)

Jones' text on organizational theory provides the casual reader with a good review of the main currents of thought on that subject. The layout of the material helps readers identify key points easily.

This reader found the surprising number of grammar errors, particularly split infinitives, distracting.

Amongst several Organizational Theory textbooks, this book stands unique. It is very comprehensive, profound, and detailed while being simple, exciting, highly organized, and not wordy. The language of the book is conversational and it helps you "digest" the theoritical concept very quickly depending on a wonderful set of examples and real-life profiles. This text was definitely helpful to me in develpoing a very clear understanding of organizational design, stucture and culture through an excellent coverage of up-to-date topics and well-refined treatment of textual presentation. I advise every management reader to enrich his/her personal business library by acquiring this book. It is really awesome!

The Death Bringer

The Blood Jaguar by Michael H. Payne is an exciting story about 3 animals that have to save the land they live in. They also have some help on the way. This book has great humor.

Bobcat wakes up in his house, he starts out the morning by going on a walk. But on this walk he meets the death bringer. After that he finds his friend and they go to a witch that might help them with this problem that they discover. But that is only the beginning of there problems that they find on the road they travel.

This book is very exciting. Why I also liked this book is because it is full of humor. I also like it because it as a great plot. The characters in this are very believable and they have all different backgrounds.

I think that this book was really great, I think that you should read this book to. This book is one of the best ones I have ever read. This book is sort of slow at the beginning but then it picks up very quickly. I would recommend this book to everybody.

Have you ever looked at an animal and known what it was thinking? Then a moment later you shrug and laugh at yourself for anthropomorphizing? Suppose you're not. Suppose your cat really is an irreverant catnip junky snoozing through his potential.

In Michael Payne's debut novel "The Blood Jaguar", Bobcat is exactly that. Bobcat's cohorts are equally real and equally flawed in their own ways. And, just like your house cat, Bobcat and his companions are precious and dear.

I found Mr. Payne's book to be involving, his world to be clever and original, but what I liked best about this book is the characters. They are willing to do what they must if only they knew just what that was. They shine...pretty impressive for fuzzy animals.

I can strongly recommend The Blood Jaguar. It is a gem. I hope to see a lot more of Michael Payne's work in the future.

Every so often you find a rare surprise. That first novel that captures the imagination and holds it from cover to cover. Michael H. Payne's _The Blood Jaguar_ is just such a book. He's created a rich world of possibilities, a North America on an Earth where man never arose and the other animals did, with their lives guided by the twelve Curials. The trio of heroes, Bobcat, Skink and Fisher, are all fully realized characters whom you really feel for as they take a remarkable journey to stop the thirteeth Curial, the Blood Jaguar, from unleasing her Plague Year. Here's hoping Payne takes us back to their world for further stories.

I was very dissapointed with this book. It had a few good decorating ideas. I love Michael's show and rarely miss and episode but I thought this book was not up to snuff. After going through the book and looking at all of the pictures carefully, I noticed that most of the before and afters were directly from his show. Considering the price tag of the book, I would recommend to just keep watching his show. Definitely not worth the money.

After reading this book decorating makes so much more sense. Michael really gives straight, concise answers to common decorating problems in a very well put together book. It was a delight to read. The graphics and photographs were great. The book is divided into several chapters, each one focusing on a specific room of the house, bedroom, kitchen, etc . It's extremely organized and very helpful. This would be a good general reference book to have on hand as pretty much all styles of decorating are included in this very informative book. Anyone who has seen Michael Payne's show on HGTV knows what a great personality he has, and it really comes through when you read this book.

I first stumbled upon Michael Payne's TV show in the midst of a messy divorce that amongst other things, was founded in my wife and my inability to compromise. In contrast with my matrimonial disaster is Mr. Payne's book, a literary haven of balance, understanding, and peaceful resolutions. Problems are solved and egos soothed in a series of creative solutions, all of which are brilliantly illustrated in the pictures and design of this book. Although geared towards a house-owning audience, the decorating advice in this book can be applied to any living situation, from the lowliest college dorm room to the finest Hollywood mansion. A five star effort by Mr. Payne et al. Not four. Five. Well done.

I have been a fan of Mr Howard for nearly 12 years now, which in my opinion, makes me a bit of a connoisseur, and frankly this book was a bit of a disappointment. Undoubtedly the contributing writers are well-respected and immensely able but their writing lacked the Howardian flavour I have come to love. Ghor's sudden personality shifts are hard to follow and the various ideas in the story lack sufficient depth. This book is not the way Mr Howard would have written it. Nevertheless, this should be read because the original idea belonged to the great REH.

Ghor is a nice blend of Conan and the Cthulhu Mythos together. Abandoned as a child because of a deformity, Ghor is adopted by a pack of wolves. Raised by them, he adopts the ways of the wolf, yet when he meets up with humanity joins them. Constantly struggling with his wolf upbringing and his human surroundings, Ghor becomes a mighty war hero wherever he goes.

This is an excellent adventure book that takes a Conan like hero and plots him against all sorts of evil (and good), including some Cthulhu creations as well.

Originally Ghor was an unfinished story by Conan creator Robert Howard. Upon finding this unfinished story, a magazine decided to finish it. What they did was have a different chapter every month written by a different top fantasy writer. It made the reading interesting.

While most of the chapters were great. Some were excellent. Unfortunately there were a couple chapters that I just wanted to get through to reach the next writers' chapter. Overall a really good read.

I WAS VERY SUPRISED ABOUT HOW WELL THIS STORY CAME OFF. THE VARIUOS WRITERS DID AN EXCELLENT JOB IN WRITING AN EXCITING BOOK THAT FLOWED SMOOTHLY. IT DID NOT COME OFF AS A SERIES OF SHORT STORIES. THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR ROBERT E. HOWARD FANS, AND FANS OF FANTASY IN GENERAL.

Very superficial. Not nearly the depth of the authorized biography.

Payne Stewart was a gifted professional golfer, a loving father, devoted husband, loyal friend, and a man of faith. On October 25, 1999, a plane on its way to Texas and carrying five people, crashed in a pasture in a remote area of South Dakota. The pilot and all of the passengers, including Payne Stewart, died. When he died, Stewart was enjoying his greatest year as a professional golfer as current defender of the U.S. Open, a member of the Ryder Cup Championship team, and the winner of the AT&T Celebrity Pro-Am in Pebble Beach. His silky golf swing and his knickers with a tam-o-shanter perched upon his head were all familiar trademarks of his colorful golfing persona. I Remember Payne Stewart is a tribute to his legacy as a golfer and as a human being through the comments, memories and anecdotes offered by relatives, college buddies, fellow golfers, sports reporters, and more. I Remember Payne Stewart is a striking and memorable collection of personal memories by those who knew him best and a "must read" for all Stewart fans who followed his golf course accomplishments with great enthusiasm for the man and the game.

Fantastic treatment of this golf icon. And so timely. Couldn't recommend it more highly.

Now ten years old A Concise History of New Zealand Painting is still the most recent work in this field. According to the Introduction, Dunn intended it to be "...a short, accessible account..." of what he sees as the major developments in New Zealand painting . Rather than being short and accessible, it is verbose and fails to make any points. Dunn dances around making any actual statements, preferring to give plenty of evidence, but not deriving any thesis from this evidence.

Michael Dunn does a good job of grouping together a broad selection of New Zealand painters to demonstrate the stylistic evolution of New Zealand paintings from our early colonists to recent times. The chapters are based around themes, not strictly chronologically and include such topics as landscapes, images of Mäori, the La Trobe scheme, expatriate New Zealand painters and various stylistic classifications. The weakness of the work is not in the content which is very well researched, but in the style that information is presented.

Dunn does not make connections between events in New Zealand's history, other than the colonial period, and their effect on New Zealand painters and their paintings. Nor does he mention of other happenings in other mediums, which may have influenced painting.

In contrast to his omission of the influence of New Zealand history Dunn does a good job of contrasting developments in New Zealand Painting with art movements overseas. The main fault in this area is that Dunn chooses not to draw any conclusions from his research. This causes his writing to seem tedious in places and dull in others. An example of this is the lack of emphasis on our isolation from the beginnings of modernist painting. It seems as if Dunn recognises this as one of the main factors in forming a definitive style in New Zealand painting, but again he stops short of actually stating this.

A Concise History of New Zealand Painting is a very specific work. It is a textbook style piece, quite like Gordon H brown & Hamish Keith's An Introduction to New Zealand Painting 1839-1980. It is not an entry-level book, but is suitable for students of the subject. It has little biographic information or explanation of motivations. It would, however, be a useful supplement to an existing collection of books on New Zealand painters, putting all of our diverse history into a single narrative.

Dunn tends to be too specific regarding style in a specific painting. He chooses to neglect the history aspect of art history, choosing to investigate the technical merits of the works instead. The layout, especially the use of reproductions is very poor compared to most books about art. The whole book has the feeling of a government document. The readability suffers from being formed of long chapters, which are not broken up into smaller sections to guide readers to points of interest, even though with the material this would be easy to do. The pictures are small, many are black & white, and all seem squeezed in by the incessant and bland text surrounding them.

While this would not be the first book you would consult on a matter of New Zealand painting, it does warrant reading, as there are so few works on this scale in the subject of New Zealand art. For the artists among us A concise History of New Zealand Painting provides a whakapapa of our influences and teachers, linking us to the traditions that may still be visible in our own works. A book that does live up to Dunn's aspirations of being accessible is Gil Docking's 200 Years of New Zealand Painting to which Michael Dunn even wrote the last chapter in the latest edition. It is a book that allows the art works to be dominant over the text, a book that gives the feeling that it is about art, and values art. It is Docking's book that I would recommend over A concise History of New Zealand Painting.

I had this book for one of my classes at my University this semester, and although the content of the book is concise and updated, nonetheless the authors rely too much on self-reference. The book is written too much from a "USA is superior" perspective. I also found some errors such as translations from other languages that were completely off. If you have to get this book for Intl. Business it is overall a good book, but if you can get a better one, do so.

This small book (just 72 pages, 10 x 7,5 inches) consists basically of a collection of (very good) pictures, with its respective legends, most of them unpublished until now (at least in the books I got). All the books of the "Luftwaffe at War" series have this same size and format. The stile is similar to "Aircraft of The Luftwaffe Fighter Aces", from Bernd Barbas's, made only over pictures and practically without technical text. Noteworthy is the initial section, with 10 (ten) WWII original color pictures, from the author and other sources. A small four pages introduction summarizes the action and operation of the 109 from Spain to Battle of Britain. Of course, because that, the book cover only the versions until the "Emil" (Bf 109E). The photo collection includes a rare image of the first 109 sent to Spain (the V-4) for evaluation, piloted by Hannes Trautloft. The pictures, most in close-ups, are an excellent reference for modelers. As this book is part of a collection, which covers the Luftwaffe action over all fronts, I recommend the purchase of all of them. (Note: Although all these qualities, I ranked this book only 3 stars because it is edited based only in photographs, without any other technical information. As just an image bank, it could be, perhaps, a five star one).