This book has five complete novels for one comparatively low price! "Watch and Ward," is a novel that James himself preferred to ignore as a youthful indiscretion, but I found it a vastly entertaining and suspenseful love story. Roderick Hudson is a compelling cautionary tale. The American is a gripping story that cries out for a movie version (in my fantasy Peter Weir would direct, and it might star Tom Cruise and Winona Ryder, although I'm sure many others would do just as well). This novel has love, a duel, a frightful skeleton in the closet, blackmail, Carmelite nuns, etc. The ending should be adjusted along the lines of the play version that James later wrote. The Europeans did not grab me, but Confidence is a delightful novel with something James later tended to avoid--a happy ending. This collection provides a lot of great novelistic entertainment for the buck. The way the Library of America does it is that for one they are non-profit, and second they use top quality thin acid-free paper, which allows them to fit five books into the space of something slightly larger than one thick paperback. The book even has a silky little bookmark to hold your place. Classy!

This is an ok book, in the beging you [human], and two other youths in your village [demi-humans; lizard & monkey] are chosen to go on a quest to prove your manhood. The quest is to go investigate this mountain where a strange light is showing. There are a lot of bad endings [aka the story ending soon because you didn't choose the right path]. I like the main characters, and I like some of the trouble they get into. In conclusion, this book [and a lot of other CYOA books] would be much better with fewer bad endings.

Although it was 22 years between editions of this book, the title likely will be familiar to many persons in professional broadcasting and in academics. The 1976 second edition for many years occupied the top-rung of choices for management texts in the field; its endurance no doubt was due in part to the authors success in gauging the long-term impact the social movements of the 1960s would have on broadcast station management's roles and responsibilities.

Similarly, in its new incarnation, Brown and Quaal's work, (with author names reversed for this edition), seems in step with the new electronic media landscape: they have fashioned a work in sync with the economic, organizational, regulatory and technological changes of the recent past. Emphasis in management clearly is placed upon management's role and responsibilities in the age of mergers and bottom-line thinking.

This book seeks a larger audience than a typical textbook, presenting a vast collection of research and literature data in footnotes, endnotes, and in separate historical and numerical displays. It would seem most appropriate as a text for advanced college courses emphasizing the radio-TV-cable industries and for which historical context is especially desired. In addition, this book would seem to fill a niche as a solid reference work for scholars and working professionals interested in a comprehensive survey of the field and a balanced philosophical approach to viewing major management issues. The authors represent both the academic prospective (Brown) and the working media professional (Quaal) and at times reflect this point of difference in their treatment of subject matter. For example, they openly disagree on the broad question of who owns the airwaves-broadcasters or the public. The result for the reader is a work that offers engaging and insightful views of relevant issues from alternate perspectives.

This is a big book, broad in its audience target and exhaustive in its treatment of many subjects. Its mass may be its weakness for many teachers and students who want a more streamlined text with fewer historical side trips and quantitative displays. Moreover, I found it disappointing that the chapter on theory did not present wider representation of traditional management theories: the authors favor the alphabet theories such as X, Y, Z, and in so doing perhaps place too much emphasis upon their own V-Theory of managing. One may need to seek out other published sources on management to get a more representative serving of prevailing management theories.

W. Joseph Oliver, Ph.D. Professor of Communication Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas

I thought that it was a pretty cool book but was aimed towards younger children. I read when I was about 5 and have now picked it up again. I think that it might tend to get a little confusing if you try to go all the different ways in choosing which path you want to take and which of the three things you want: (of course) thering, the sword, or the unicorn. Although sometimes it may get confusing all in all its a very good book

I read this book when I was in the eigth grade, that was 1969. It was spellbinding.....an account of cative torture was probably too unsettling for a thirteen year old, but otherwise, awesome. It introduced me to Comanche culture and started an interest in American Indian history that has continued to this day. Fabulous read!

No, no, no. Kern should have never been born. He is too dense, stupid, and his relationship with Listle was funny but grew dumb in the end. Phlan, a supposedly strong city, gets ruined 'cuz a damned hammer is lost. Gimme a break! Sirana is just another goof like her dad Marcus (see Pools of Darkness), even worse. Again, the extra star goes to Miltiades. This character is too cool, he should have been in another book! =D Seriously, I'm just glad there is no more sequels. Too lame for FR caliber.

The book is fairly good, and great if you love the series. But there are better ones.

Lovely, witty, humourous. Quite a good plot. Satisfying and exciting, though the plot, on second thought, is a bit too simple. Good enough for people who aren't searching for the greatest book in the world. The characters are portrayed nicely

Garret Sheldon's short work opens up a door previously pointed out by Katcham, in which Ketcham specified Madison amongst others believed the Ten Commandments, Sermon on the Mount,and Romans to be canonical. As most of Madison's personal papers may have been destroyed this work offers an insight not frequently explored, but certainly worthy of consideration.

Sheldon explores an area of Madison's life most just generalize - his early education. Frustrated by the lack of direct Madison writings covering this early period, many authors choose simply to generalize his educational process. Sheldon uses evidence we do have about the people (John Witherspoon) and institutions (College of New Jersey) to help better define what shaped this Founding Father. Very helpful in understanding what motivated Madison - especially the time spent under the strong Calvinist influence of John Witherspoon and the College of New Jersey (Princeton).

What is the point of this book? Gods from past and present real life religions are written up with combat stats. Why?

The purpose of writing up religions for role playing games is so that players can use those religions for their characters. Gods should not be "monsters" to fight with, so their combat stats are totally unnecessary.

When you discuss religions, even relgions that are essentially dead, you are discussing people's cultural heritage, and mythology that shapes their world view. It is insulting to write up these religions in a ignorant and wildly inaccurate way. It is even worse when you do this with religions such as Hinduism that millions of people believe in. If they had of written up Yaweh as having 400 hit points and the powers of a 20th level mage, and Jesus as a "Lesser god," with some kind of write up about how he is the god of healing, it would be obvious how strange and offensive this is.

If you want to use historical religions in your campaign, then go to the library and learn about them. If you want to use fictional ones, then make them up. Either way, this book is not useful.

While this book doesn't serve much purpose in most campaigns, it's still a good book to get. The reason I say it doesn't serve much purpose is because most campaigns don't use our world's mythology as a basis for the gods.

On the other hand, it's a good book, because it let's a DM see exactly how he/she should write up gods he/she creates. It also is a good referance for learning who the gods are throughout mythology.

While some might insist that it is somewhat insulting to faiths of the world, one should look at it not for the statistics that it gives, but what the D&D world/campaign was trying to do. The people at TSR, when they were fun and enjoyable under the guidance of Gary Gygax one of the best writers in the world of gaming...wanted...IMO...to show what deities were like in this world and how they might interact with the fantasy world of gaming, giving examples of how war gods, love goddesses, and those like can mean for the player characters. THIS IS NOT suppose to be a tell all on all the cultures and religions of the world. Hardly. If you want that, I would suggest you read the works of Joseph Campbell. If you want to look for something real quick to see how it might fit in to your campaign, this is for you. I love it myself.

This was one of my earliest fantasy reads and I got through it faster than I had ever read a book! The first chapter is one of my favourite opening chapters of all time. Although I have'nt read the first book I found the characters in this one very likeable. Pools of darkness I think is a classic example of good traditional high fantasy. Read it if you have too much spare time.

This book was great! I really liked Evaine,and Gamaliel.Buy this one,borrow it,READ IT!!James Ward is one of the best authors.Maybe Mr.Ward could write a series about Miltiades(hint,hint!).Really enjoyable!!!!

I gotta say,James Ward rocks! I really,REALLY loved this book.Gamaliel is my new favorite charactor.Miltiades is great too.I've read alot of Forgotten Realms books,This is one of the best.I just wish Ward would continue this series,or maybe write a Gamaliel series(hint,hint).Thanks Mr.Ward,this book made me smile!!

If the 1st edition of the book wasn't a necessary item for most gamers, the second edition is. The reason for this is that the book tell you which sphere of control are accessible to a priest depending on his deity and also the special powers granted to priest by their deities. This is a positive change that make the priest class seems more realistic to me. However the new concept of avatar (a weaker physical representation of a god that can be sent on the prime plane in his place) is unecessary to say the least. The gods have already many servant Solaar, Planetar ,Deva, Demons & Devils to do their work that the creation of the ambiguous notion of avatar (probably created to avoid the sacrilege of having high level players posing a threat to the gods) is only complicating the problem. The beautiful artwork that was one of the strong point of the original edition is absent from the second edition and you also loose two pantheons (finnish & sumerian )in the mix. All in all you can consider that the second edition is completing the original one but is a little weak to stand on it's own.

Good book, but i am looking for the second edition of this work. If you are looking for the earlier model I have located 3, and will consider trade.