I am a leadership trainer and give over 200 programs per year. My leadership library is extensive and varied. Most of the new leadership books are just "love song" books - they are saying the same thing in a different way. In this book, the messages are the same, but the writing methodology is fresh and different.

James has accomplished an intriguing and "page turner" leadership lessons book by including detailed historic examples of each of Maxwell's 21!

This book is a complete handbook that will find itself on the bookshelves of advertising/ communication practitioners and researchers alike. It is unique in the way it approaches the study of advertising and sales promotions, combining strategic and tactical issues with real-world examples of creative advertising campaigns. The book is excellently researched and rich in providing insight and original ideas to the reader about the world's oldest profession!

From Planeta Journal - This wonderful book provides a much-needed overview of travel that enriches the soul. The diversity of "alternative" travel is as broad as the interests that propel travelers to leave the comforts of home. Chapters cover independent travel, special interest vacations, senior travel, family travel, disability travel, adult study, student overseas programs and living abroad. This volume synthesizes the most practical information for making the most of traveling abroad. This is an excellent resource.

This book is clearly written in a user-freindly manner. You won't feel that it is over your head. I found it a interesting and useful lab manual.

The term "Win-Win" has become an every day buzz word. I read Gerard's book nearly thirty years ago when the term was really something new. He actually coined the phrase "Everybody Wins." Virtually the same concept.
His examples are creative and pertain to real life situations. It is good to read a book by someone who has actually been there and done that. His other books are quite informative also. ;-)

This book is an excellent compilation of the best military writers throughtout the ages. The book begins with authors from ancient Rome, Greece and China and progresses through history. It goes on to include the best works of about 100 military geniuses. Excerpts are from Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Erwin Rommel and many others. If you want a book on military history and generalship through the ages, this tome will provide it. Be forewarned though, this book is over 1000 pages and not all the early writers are easy to read. But, overall, an excellent book for anyone who loves military history.

It's a pity that most of the author's books seem to be out of print, since he's a very clear writer. This book isn't necessarily accessible to the complete beginner--the intended audience is advanced computer science students, computational linguists/natural language processing people, and library/information science students--but if you fall into one of those categories, you should find this a very readable book. The coverage of topics is heavily slanted towards practical applications--editting and formatting, compression, encryption, file access, information retrieval, indexing, abstracting, spell checking, syntax and style checking--rather than towards theoretical background. That's not a bad thing, though--for many of those topics, this might be the most accessible resource you'll find.

The book was published in the late 80's, and hence is a bit dated by now--for instance, the statistical revolution in NLP pretty much isn't covered (Bayes doesn't even show up in the index). However, that in no way detracts from the value of what IS covered.

Fourth in the Necro Publications chapbook line, "Bastards of Alchemy" is a collection of two short stories from a couple of wonderful horror writers, Tom Piccirilli and Gerard Houarner. This is not the gross-out fest of the first Necro chapbook "Partners in Chyme," nor are the stories linked by theme as in the "Skins of Youth" chapbook. Instead, we're treated this time to something simple--well, simple in that there's no overriding theme to carry the stories along, no connecting bond between stories other than them appearing in the same book--two horror stories written by two authors. Nothing more than that.

Tom Piccirilli's "Alchemy" is, quite possible, the best short story I've ever read. A story about suppressed emotions and hidden rage, all finally coming to the surface in what can only be described as a horrible example of early-adult one-upmanship, this is what I hope to see horror fiction become very soon--literary horror. This isn't the spooky stories of your youth, nor one of the bloody, anger-fueled gore-fests of the late 80s and 90s. This is a piece of literary fiction--it just happens to be a horror story.

Brilliant. I've noticed a move lately in some horror fiction toward a more literary approach, horror as a serious method of communication. No longer do you need to read the "mainstream" novels or the serious poets to find the real voice of a generation, because a lot of horror writers seem to BE that voice, and Tom Piccirilli is definitely one of the ones at the forefront.

Gerard Houarner's "The Bastard" is a different breed altogether. While it could probably also be considered literary horror, Gerard Houarner has never written like everyone else. I don't know WHAT'S going on in his mind when he sits down, but it's certainly far removed from what most of us horror writers are thinking about. I knew that 3 years ago when I reviewed his "Road to Hell." And later when I read one of his stories in the first (and only) issue of "Midnight Hour" magazine. Whatever's going on in his head, it's nothing I'm familiar with.

Gerard Houarner is not writing easy fiction, this isn't stuff you sit down and pound out in an hour or so. It never has been, at least not from what I've read of him. All I can say for sure about Gerard Houarner's work is that secret organizations and magic seem to be important to him. Other than that, I'm lost as to how to figure out this man. But that's the way I like it, just so long as he keeps turning out work of this quality.

If Necro Publications keeps publishing work like this (along with the Ed Lee's Quest for Sex, Truth, and Reality chapbook), I'm going to begin thinking maybe Dave Barnett, Necro's owner and publisher, is growing up a little bit. I don't know if the world's ready for a mature Necro. But I hope we get to find out.

Lynne Gerard has written a lovely little book about the wonders of friendship. Anyone would appreciate receiving this book from a friend so I have purchased several to share. This is a book to keep on a table where guests can look through it or you can reread it often.

This book is only 116 pages long, but it has a wealth of information about digital image manipulation. Not really the interactive kind you might do in Photoshop, but the math behind some interesting transformations. This book presents a simple image manipulation language (popi) and the interpreter for it as well. I think that is this available on the net too. Overall this is a great book for anyone interested in getting into the programming/math side of image manipulation.

Oh, many of their sample images are of famous people from the Unix community at Bell Labs.