Hi we've got this book in our CJP-NHRecord Office to show to anyone interested in obtaining a rewarding career in the Music Industry. This is one book they should read from cover to cover and cherish as a treasure. It's a full of great wisdom from a great gentleman who enriched the lives of so many and whose spirit is carried on and alive through Joan Carol, his wife, who is a great lady in her own right. Take the opportunity to read about WHY "you've got to be bad before you can be good" and then you can work toward the rewarding career in the Music Industry that Cliffie himself understood, loved, & lived so well. Thank you for letting me tell you IT'S WORTH YOUR purchase and actually UNDER priced for its value of knowledge enclosed. It will make a GREAT present for anyone this season and all year long. God Bless and now "BE GOOD!" & add it to your order!!

The word on the street in L.A. & Nashville has been that this is THE BOOK to buy if you're serious about music. The people who told me this didn't even know who Cliffie is or that I knew him! The book has an extremely friendly & encouraging tone, which I appreciated. The thing that had the most profound effect on me was that I felt like Cliffie was talking directly to me! I felt like he was still with us - telling stories, imparting his wisdom & wit, and that this book was a labor of love, a gift to us after his passing. I felt like he was sitting on my shoulder the whole time I was reading it - I've read a lot of books and have never had that sensation before. (I'm getting chill bumps as I am writing this.) I would not be suprised to learn that he's sitting on lots of people's shoulders while they read this book. The front cover looks warm & friendly, and the copy leads the reader to believe there will be lots of useful, practical advice and suggestions inside, which there is. The back cover looks like a Cliffie & Joan Carol Production! They both look great and the graphic border compliments their Southwestern style. ( I'm a graphic artist as well as a musician, so the first thing I look at is the graphics!) Also, the quotes and their authors are extremely impressive! I don't think anyone has ever written a step-by-step comprehensive guide to moving ahead in the music business, especially one so accessible to the layperson. If I had read it 10 years ago, I could have saved myself a lot of time, energy & frustration; and reading it at this point in my career will help me move ahead more efficiently. We, as the readers, get to benefit from "The Master's" (Hey - I'm not the only one who calls him that!) vast experience & expertise.

It is a rare opportunity to recieve knowledge from one who has done it all, writes from experience, passes on the lessons. It is a book you will want to refer to over and over again as you journey down music road.

I was a student of Harris Stone's for several classes during my career at KU's School of Architecture and Urban Design in the 1980's. The book "Dispersed City of the Plains" is just so very typical of Harris. Harris was one of the best Critics (that's the code word for Architecture Teacher, Professor, etc.) that I ever had. He was truely wise. Stone had a way of looking beyond what was fashionable to print in the Professional Journals to see the truth in the Architecture. Harris always taught us, as students in Kansas, to be proud of our herritage. He had the ability to see the art in what others disregarded as mundane and below their recognition. Harris was a proponent for the masses, the end users of Architecture. It didn't matter to him how great a building was proclaimed if it didn't serve it's purpose for it's users. Stone's books always remind us to design for the people, and the environment, not the Journals.

This is a challenging, original analysis of the meaning of the built environment of the Great Plains. The author begins much the way that Walter Prescott Webb did in his pioneering work on the same subject, by analyzing the building blocks that organize space and the economy of the region, in this instance grain elevators, barbed wire, and windmills. He then moves through types of housing, and communities from hamlet to major city.

Harris Stone's basic thesis is threefold: 1. The Great Plains experienced a fundamentally different pattern of settlement than the Eastern U.S., because the land was subdivided before settlers arrived; 2. European models of city form are not valid for analyzing the built environment of the Plains; 3. Instead, the settlement pattern of the Plains is a work in progress that anticipates the impact of today's information-age economy, and it should be evaluated accordingly.

The author's text is handwritten, with his own drawings illustrating his points. His ideas are spare and challenge the reader to participate and "fill in the blanks." His style is somewhat akin to the way Jane Jacobs analyzes city life, while his conclusions contrast dramatically with hers.

There is also a poignance that permeates the book, because Harris Stone was dying of cancer as he wrote it. Too weak to finish preparation of the text for publishing, his wife and colleagues at the University of Kansas School of Architecture completed the final few pages, in a different style of handwriting and illustration. One mourns the loss of so original a thinker, as one is simultaneously stimulated by his text.

Having seen the movie before reading the novel, I must admit I was a little doubtful as to whether it would be just as good or not. I'm happy to say I was not disappointed. And neither will you.

I have seen the tour of TITANIC twice before, and this book just livens the show even more. I totally reccomend it to any fan of the show. Or even anyone who is interested in it! It tells you everything that you could ever need to know about this glorious tribute to the stage. May the show sale on forever.

I am only 14 and I have seen many Broadway Musicals. This one is definatly up there with my top ten. The power of how all of the different people acted and learned on the great ship is greatly shown in this book. The musical really highlights on the fact that all of the classes looked at the world with different eyes. I have just purchased the soundtrack from amazon and hoping to purchase this too! It is a great story to be passed on.

I WAS at the closing of theshow and saw it 3 times before and it was terriffic this is a great memory for any fan of the show

With "Circles of Stone," Joan Dahr Lambert follows in Jean Auel's very large footsteps. With the caveat that no work of prehistoric fiction can, in my mind, measure up to Ms. Auel's book, "Circles of Stone" still proves an enjoyable read for the most part.

Lambert starts off her saga of three different women, all named "Zena," way, way back before Ms. Auel's Aurignacian/Gravettian heroine Ayla. The first Zena is a "Homo habilis", the second is "Homo erectus" in transition to Homo sapiens, and Zena III is a Cro-Magnon of the Aurignacian (ca. 30,000 BCE) era. All three Zena's are the strong, competent, independent type of woman in the Ayla/Chagak/Kwani mold most readers of prehistoric fiction enjoy reading about. While Zenas I and II are interesting, original characters (perhaps because very few if any authors have attempted to set stories this far back in human history), Zena III approaches being a cheap Ayla knock-off - she rides on the back of a bison, for instance, and is a revered healer and "wise woman".

There was one thing about the story that really jarred me, and that was the part about the "patriarchal invaders from the north" in the saga of Zena III. While Marija Gimbutas, and others, provide ample evidence these invaders did, in fact, exist, and did overrun numerous peaceful, Goddess-worshipping settlements, these events did not take place until ca. 5000 - 4000 BCE - NOT 30,000 BCE! There were many "northern tribes," at Dolni Vestonice, Kostienki, Sungir, Mal'ta (Siberia) and others, but they all worshipped Goddesses too! The same "fat lady figurines" (Venuses) have been found from the Pyrenees to Siberia, and they likely represented a female creative principle or Goddess. So that part of the plot fell completely flat in my eyes, though it did make for exciting reading. It also gave Lambert a good opening for preaching about the Goddess - which I don't mind since I am a radical feminist pagan myself.

All in all, I enjoyed the first two sections of the book more than the last. Maybe I'm just spoilt by Jean Auel and impatient for that fifth book to come out. Still, "Circles of Stone" is an enjoyable read, the first two sections cast an interesting and revealing light upon a little-known period of prehistory. It just might help while away the time until Ms. Auel finally comes out with that long awaited fifth book.

I finished this book several days ago, and it is still with me. How ironic to be sitting in an easy chair in my climate-controlled house, in my safe little neighborhood, drinking tea and eating a cookie while reading about Zena I desperately digging into a riverbed in search of water, Zena II watching everyone she loves die in a stampede, and Zena III risking her life with a herd of bison to keep from freezing to death. The story is fascinating; the characters seem incredibly real; and the spirituality is a comfort to those of us who feel connected to the universal force we call "mother". The author becomes a bit preachy toward the end of the book, but by then we've been led on such an incredible journey that we are inclined to forgive. This is a beautiful book on so many levels, not the least of which is that it made me want to learn more about anthropology so I could feel even closer to the characters. Highly recommended!

Anyone who would like to gain some understanding of the violence and abuse in our lives, or who yearns for a world centered around life and life-giving activities should read this book. Lambert not only gives the reader a graphic picture of the dangers in pre-historic times, but she also offers subtle and not-so-subtle explanations for violent behavior and male/female tension. She lets the reader discover through her characters what our ancient ancesters faced just to let homo sapiens survive and evolve. CIRCLES OF STONE winds its meticulous way from the discovery of fire through the recognition of heredity. Lambert's three Zenas (not to be confused with the Warrior Princess) experience danger from other creatures and the planet itself. They also lead the reader into their recognition of a power beyond themselves, called MOTHER, and to tenderness and commitment to another person. CIRCLES OF STONE is good story-telling with fascinating characters discovering more than themselves; they are discovering humanity. Even though this book is Lambert's first published novel, I sincerely hope that she has several others ready for publication. This book has influenced my sense of history as much or more than CLAN OF THE CAVE BEAR by Jean Auel. I have recommended it to several friends who hurried to their bookstores, and were glad they did.

Well, the writing style of this book is friendly and enjoyable, it has useful and non-intimidating music-business chapters mixed in with the songwriting advice. He keeps taking about a song called "Sixteen Tons" which I've never heard of, but it's a Nashville-scene thing, that's cool.