What else can I say? It's lightweight material (but you knew that), but this book documents a bygone era in a unique and unforgettable way. There are many images in the book that alone are worth the purchase price. In particular I like the photo of all of the Eisenhower brothers caught in the midst of cracking up over a good joke.

This is the perfect coffee table book (If you still have a coffee table). It has great pictures of famous people jumping.

I ran accross this book back in the late 80's can I gave it to a friend. She loved it and I have been looking for a copy ever since for myself. I finally found it at Amazon.

The picture of Nixon jumping is priceless. He looks happy! This is my second favorite picture Nixon (Nixon and Elvis is #1). These are unique pictures taken by a master photographer -- Priceless.

Philippe Halsman's Jump Book is not just for people who love photography. Oh no - no matter who you are, what your age, sex or nationality is, you will love this book. It has everything, from actors to politicians to artists and even royalty - up in the air!

Each person has his own way of jumping. One hides her legs in her skirt, the other bends them and yet a third person will kick them as high as possible. I think each person's jump tells us a little bit about who he or she is, really. Each jump also has its own setting -some are indoors and some are outdoors, each person picking the place they want to be photographed at.

The book is divided into sections, which makes it easy to compare people's jumps with their peers'.

This is for the open-minded, as it is not your regular "straight" photography.If you're interested in more convetional pictures, I recommend Halsman's Portrait book, which is also beautiful.

This is the perfect gift for any fan of Texas history. "Big Foot" Wallace was one of a kind. Our family is related to him and would like to hear from anyone else who may be related to him.

this is my husbands great great great uncle it was something reading about pure american history

I had to read this book for a Media Ethics class and I must say that it was one of my favourite books! Salant teaches readers about the workings of a newsroom and the struggle to do what is right with the news through funny annecdotes and interesting stories. Any aspiring journalist MUST read this, and anyone just looking for a good biography would do well to read this. (Actually, EVERYONE should read this as journalism and the media are a strong presence in all our lives, and this is a fun way to learn more about it.)

The Buzenbergs have captured the essence of a unique man of principle. Using Salant's voluminous archives, this book is a fascinating trip through an era that established high standards in broadcast journalism. The book raises issues and questions which are at the heart of today's journalism. Household names Cronkite, Rather, Brokaw, Jennings, Sevareid are the characters in the tale of how the premiere broadcast news organization came to be - what and who held it together - and the inside view of a corporation struggling with its identity. The players were giants in a land that has more recently turned into a universe of pygmies. You don't have to be a news junkie to enjoy and learn from this book - you just have to ask yourself: "if I see one more Monica Lewinsky story"...I won't take it anymore! Good reading.

Peter Herford

Something not highlighted in any of the comments I've seen on this book is that it contains a .res to .rc conversion utility which I think alone is worth the price of the book.

This book is good

Hecht was quite a fellow, a screenwriter, playwright, novelist, newspaperman and propagandist on behalf of the dying Jews of Europe. At the end of his career, he had a tv show and this book details his quick rise and fall, on account of his outspoken views on everything from politics to sex to religion, things that just weren't talked about on tv in the late 50s.

Highly recommended.

If you're exploring an enterprise-wide solution, even if it isn't an ERP package, or are planning an implementation after the software has already been selected this book will prove invaluable. Unlike other books about ERP (and e-business and enterprise application integration for that matter), this one is focused on the business processes and what it takes to prepare for and manage the implementation.

Of course, while much of this book applies at a high level to any enterprise application, it is all about ERP. The authors take great pains to avoid talking about software, which in itself is refreshing. They also skillfully guide you through a panorama of key issues, including what ERP is and how it fits into the overall scheme of business value and competitiveness. However, the best part of this book is their implementation strategy, which explores how an ERP package is going to require changes at the business process level, how to break down the implementation into manageable stages. In this respect the book is a combination of a management overview of ERP, organizational change strategies, and project management approach to implementation.

The key areas addressed by this book reflect reality. For example, all of the major challenges that you're likely to face are addressed. The critical success factors, such as training, preparing the organization for the system (from a people perspective), and the way the implementation phases are sequenced can either be learned from this book, or learned the hard way (which is sure to include schedule and cost overruns at best and a disaster at worst). In particular, the process-oriented approach that is reiterated throughout the book needs to be heeded. This is the essence of any ERP package, and it will change your organization. This book gives good advice on how to effect the shift from discrete jobs and procedures to a workflow.

In addition to this excellent book I highly recommend two other resources: (1) "Scorecard System For World Class Enterprise Resource Management" by Travis Anderegg, which is a unique book/online survey combination you can use to evaluate the alignment of your ERP system to business processes, and (2) "Enterprise Resource Planning Systems: Systems, Life Cycle, Electronic Commerce, and Risk" by Daniel Edmund O'Leary. O'Leary's book completely complements this one and fills in a few gaps.

This would interest any child who likes sea creatures. Plenty of facts, poetically worded, and presented in small digestible blocks. The illustrations are beautifully drawn and coloured.

This book gives you the basic information about the F/A-18 & very nice pictures. What I am impress is the pictures are in color, it is very difficult to find this kind of pictures. The information provided are very basic but it will satisfied you. This book will be a valuable aset to fans of the F/A-18 because it has very amazing pictures & very basic but complete information about the F/A-18 Hornet.

As early as the preface authors Burrows and Wallace dispel the legend that the Dutch bought Manhattan from the Indians for $24. For just twice that you, lucky reader, can own this behemoth (1383 pages) which teems with nearly as many characters as does the city itself. GOTHAM is history is the old-fashioned narrative style, a rich story colorfully told. If you're going to invest in one book this season for your library, you could do a lot worse and I doubt that you could do much better than to place GOTHAM on your bookshelves.

Washington, D.C., may be the nation's capital, but New York City is the nation's soul. The fact that we use it as a standard of measurement indicates how we feel about the city. We compare our art, our politics and the sizes of our cities to it. We sneer at it. We tell jokes about it. Glance at a map, and its place names (Coney Island! Brighton Beach! Bedford-Stuyvesant!) pop out, impressed on our collective memory from movies, plays, literature, television shows. America belongs to New York City and we're just paying rent.

Two books go a long way toward showing how it got that way: "Gotham" is a massive yet readable history of the city, while "Writing New York" From the Library of America makes an amiable companion with its collection of stories and memoirs.

"Gotham" takes 1,350 pages to tell its story, starting with the Lenape Indians roaming the fertile lands and closing at the end of the 19th century when the five boroughs voted to bind themselves together. In between is a kaleidoscope of characters, incidents, good times and bad times, and Burrows and Wallace succeeded in crafting a history where you can dip into it at random, be enthralled or appalled and not lose your way.

This is the definitive book on New York City history and is a remarkable accomplishment for it's authors. You'll find in Gotham not only a history of New York City (and an exhaustive one at that) but by default, a companion to the study of the foundations of this nation. Gotham is remarkably colorful in it's portrayal of the many characters that make up the history of this great city but doesn't skimp on poignant, and sometimes sobering, detail. An ambitious read, but worth every word. This is the kind of book that spawns the reading of ten more!

A sure cure for the unfortunate predisposition of the popular media to portray the history of New York as beginning with the first immigrant who set foot on Ellis Island (the book terminates prior to 1900). Read Gotham and become immersed in the richness of the mostly untold New York story.

Having read many of these reviews, I can bundle them into two groups? Those who read it to appreciate its potential value (both Mormon and non-Mormon) and those who have something against the Mormon church and are using this venue to vent their dislike. If you give it a bad review, you should be bold enough to sign your name. You know, to "stand for something". But the fact is, if you read this book and find something you can actually apply to your life to benefit you and/or your family, then Hinckley has done his job. He has set out to give us a few basic, simple methods for improving the society we live in. Honestly, I didn't consider it a page-turner, but I found numerous ideas that I can readily apply to my work, social, and family life. It is profound, and simple enough for the common person, like me, to apply. It will forever reside on my book shelf with other great works for easy reference ... and I intend to refer to it often.

With their lack of objectivity vis-à-vis this book, many of the previous reviewers make me wonder if they've read it at all. In possible contrast to some of them, I actually did read the book this weekend at a friend's house.

Readers who would praise self-improvement books of other stripes have no reason to demur at this "light read" by the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Judge the values Hinckley espouses for yourself: love, honesty, morality, civility, learning, forgiveness and mercy, thrift and industry, order, gratitude, optimism, faith. Not only are they not exclusive to Mormons or Christians, but I would posit that even most irreligious people would find little fault with any of those attributes, save perhaps faith. Hinckley himself repeats two or three times that he is "a churchman", so finding faith on the list is no surprise.

Hinckley had an extensive public relations background within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints before and after accepting leadership responsibilities so no one should doubt his capacity to author this book. That being said, it is also patently clear that Hinckley chose to write "Standing for Something" at about a Reader's Digest level--which in itself is no bad thing. Most casual readers aren't looking for Augustine or Aquinas. If they were, then Chopra and Covey wouldn't sell.

It is naïve and highly myopic to suggest that this is one of the best books ever written, but it is equally dishonest to pan it as sheer pablum. The truth is that the book is an accessible and straightforward review of principles presented in a manner that is for the most part engaging, if not particularly complex. If you are looking for a more intellectual treatment of ethics or morality, then you should already be aware that you are shopping in the wrong department. If you are looking for a casual read that reinforces principles of good living, then this will meet your needs.

In an effort to bring Americans back to the basics of goodness and purity, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes, by Gordon B. Hinckley, addresses the problems of the secularization of America.

Hinckley, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, blends his years of religious study and experience into one book, which offers ten important keys to solving many social problems in America today.

Love, honesty, morality, mercy, thrift, gratitude and faith are a few of the virtues Hinckley feels America has lost touch with. Refocusing our lives on them, he says, will help stop the moral decay that surrounds us.

In his book, Hinckley recounts the inspiration our founding fathers received when they drafted the Constitution and the faith that the country possessed at its very beginning. He sites the rejection of these values as the source of America's toughest problems, namely the deterioration of the family and a national loss of faith.

Hinckley draws on his own life experiences, world travels and our nation as it is today to illustrate his virtues. And, though he centers his points on his own faith, Standing for Something is a book from which all Christian denominations and religious sects can profit.

60 Minutes reporter Mike Wallace, in his forward to the book, says that Hinckley persuades the reader to "ruminate...on old-fashioned values: by name, Virtue and Integrity."

Hinckley's virues come from the basic rules of human decency and civility, no matter a person's race or creed. Standing for Something not only serves as a guide for individual living, but it also reminds us of the code on which America was founded: Faith, God, family and country.