This is the best conditioning book I've ever read. By following its 3-month training outline, I have improve my game 150%. I have improved my vertical jump by 4 inches, my mile run by a full minute, and am stronger and more fit than ever.

It's too bad this book is out of print. You should try to order it used or see if your library has it. Gross writes with a very no nonsense style. He didn't try to win a writing prize with this book like James Stewart did with his Whitewater book. And, of course, Gross isn't a hard core Clinton apologist/worshipper like Gene Lyons and Joe Conason. This book explains the relationship between the Clintons and the McDougals, goes through the task of explaining the transactions, and by the end of the book leading the reader to conclude that Whitewater, contrary to Clinton supporters, was a scandal that should have dethroned their king.

Larry Coryell's Power Jazz Guitar: Extending Your Creative Reach is a straightforward "how-to" instructional guide strongly recommended for anyone seeking to learn the rhythm and joy of playing true jazz guitar music. Chapters include musical scores, descriptions of the music's moods and nuances, instructions on using special finger styles, and much more. An accompanying CD contains the lively jazz scores and lessons to better demonstrate and perform the music! If you aspire to proficiency on the jazz guitar, begin with a careful reading of Larry Coryell's Power Jazz Guitar, and practice along with the lessons on the "user friendly" Larry Coryell's Power Jazz Guitar compact disk.

Well written and beautifuly illustrated with breathtaking photographs, Captain Pike's thesis on motorboating teaches and entertains through every page.

Enlightening and education and uproariously funny at times, the writing is understandable for master yachsment and landlubbers alike and there are enough pictures to delight even the youngest readers.

You will learn the basics of boating. What makes them float to the more technical aspect of cruising. This book also makes a good reference guid or teaching resource for boating safety skills.

With sections on how to price and buy a boat, where to buy and when, how they and their systems work and explanations of many of the sometimes mysterious terms of the sea, this book will educate and amuse.

Captain Pike brings decades of seafaring to the reader in a narrative that elicit smiles and laughs along the way. A consummate skipper and wonderful storyteller, he keeps the reader interested with personal anecdotes and easy to understand explanations. Before you even consider buyng a boat, give this book a close read. Whether you intend to boat on the open seas or inland waters a few feet deep, you will be very glad you did.

Most exiting book for any peanut size and even the bigger types of rubber power enthusiast. A lot of practical advise is given and it will give hours of pleasure for the small model builder and flyer. It is a must for any aircraft model lover.

Powers That Shape: Memories, Images, & Fables is one of the most entertaining books that I have ever read. The author takes the reader through many various experiences that are remarkably entertaining and brutally honest. This book will make you laugh, cry, and blush. One of the best books of all time. A "must have" for every library.

Seeing that this title was first published in 1989 you'd have thought it to be a victim of obsocelence (and you should perhaps consider taking a look at "Japanophobia" anyway -- essentially a newer edition of this book) but it is alarming how little has changed in modern day Japan from the days Emmott first analyzed this country as the Japan bureau-in-chief of the Economist.

As "different" as the Japanese may appear or believe themselves to be, in the end they are subject to the same market forces as anyone else as Emmott argues with this fabulous, in-depth, comprehensive analysis of the Japanese economy in the late 80s/early 90s, and concluded that Japan's trade surpluses, capital exports, and savings rate are destined to subside as demographic, cultural, and economic forces follow their natural course. Must to the dismay of Japan, these predictions have indeed come about and will most likely not be easy to alleviate.

To give you an idea of the scope you can expect from this fabulous collection of essays, Emmott talks about the "Predictable 4" ills of this country, which is still quite impressive given that these may not have been the top priorities of those Japan-crazy times...

(1) Lack of natural resources
(2) Lack of a military
(3) Low birth rate and aging population
(4) Hostility towards immigrants

...but then even more impressively goes on to discuss at length some factors that were conventionally perceived as strengths in the 80s --

(5) Japan's high rate of personal savings, though understood to reflect frugality, actually derived from the complete absence of other outlets for consumers. With no opportunity to buy a home and no need for a car, the citizenry had nothing else to do with their money but to put it into low-yield savings accounts.

(6) Extensive trade barriers, which on an artificial level seemed to protect Japanese industries, actually stifled competition and drove up prices for domestic consumers.

(7) The homogenous population and practically one-party government, which were thought to provide stability and societal cohesion, predictably leading to stasis, insularity, and corruption.

(8) The conformity and obedience which made for such a good workforce also made for a supremely unimaginative people. Japan has become an economic force by manufacturing high quality products cheaply, but the products themselves were invented elsewhere, mostly in US or Germany. This was double trouble because there were several other nations (Korea, Taiwan, etc.) with equally disciplined labor corps, capable of meeting the same quality standards, and willing to work for lower wages. But more importantly, as the world economy moved from the old heavy manufacturing model towards one based on intellectual capital, Japan found itself unable to compete.

(9) The myth of centralized planning, as is recognized by all except pseudo-intellectuals, is so inefficient that it is almost entirely unresponsive to any changing circumstances, but especially to such an enormous paradigm shift. If no one, or very few, even recognize or understand what's going on in the economy, how are a few bureaucrats supposed to intelligently direct the economy.

For any astute watcher of the Japanese economy, this should perhaps be THE de facto introduction, even before anything by Alex Kerr or Ikujiro Nonaka. Some of the statistics may obviously be dated but the thoughts and the frame of analysis are both highly relevant even today.

Also recommended: Porter's Can Japan Compete? and Emmott's Japanophobia.

I bought all three books in the series while I was in college in 1994, around the year they were published. I loved them all. Cover letter express and Interview Express were the most useful, however. They are short, in a simple step-by-step format and get right to the point. There are examples of good and bad situations. I was checking online to see if they still made the companion software and was surprised to see that the books are out of print. They are only 6 and 7 years old. Worth looking for.

Unlike the author--who consulted with Clinton on his State of the Union speeches--most of us are too embarrassed to admit we were seduced by Clinton's intellect. Through the vehicle of memoir, Prof. Barber is at once candid about his expectations of the President, his own ambition, his seduction, and his ultimate disappointments. The best parts of this book are Prof. Barber's discussion about the way that language shapes our understanding of civic life; and how Clinton's inability to use language effectively left his legacy empty.

Now in an updated and expanded third edition, Richard Hepburn's Understanding And Reducing Your Home Electric Bill continues to be a timely and invaluable guide for the homeowner on keeping their electric bill as minimal as possible. This compendium of practical, applicable, "user friendly" tips, tricks and techniques covers everything from reducing air conditioning costs, heating bills, lighting bills, and high efficiency appliances in terms of their performance/cost ratios. From the kind of light bulbs to use for illumination to the proper sort of water heater to have given a family's needs, Understanding And Reducing Your Home Electric Bill will be a major source of money saving ideas, advice and information that will prove to be one of the most financially rewarding, money saving investments a homeowner can make with rolling blackouts, power shortages and increasing utility prices.