It has alot of basic common-sense advice that every worker at any level of the company should learn. It is targeted to the Gen X, but I am not sure how the younger ones of my generation will react to the 'kindly old man' tone of the book. If you have not read a workplace self-help book, this will be good start. It does not give advice for specific situations, but it does ofter you references for more information on a subject. It's really a read for the 'Y' Generation.

I thought this title was a great general guide to interactions in and important aspects of the workplace. I read it when I was 27 and dealing with a ton of office politics, but I would have found it incredibly helpful before starting my first full-time job.
A great read for someone trying to decide on a career or dealing with a new work environment. It's a quick, friendly, easy read that you'll come back to time and time again.

Good luck!

I brought this book two years ago and it has been a continual source of information! It helps you deal with any boss, conniving co-workers, office politics and image building, how to recognize a good company/employee fit, resume and networking tips and how to know when it's time to get moving on from a job that isn't working out. Been laid off or fired? Then this book is definately for you!

Mary Shelley's novel, 'The Last Man' is a work which is slowly gaining the critical attention it richly deserves. Fans of 'Frankenstein' will be astounded at how much deeper Mary Shelley's indictment of 'masculine' visionary Romanticism, technology, and the faults of humanity go in 'The Last Man'. At the same time, the novel is fraught with problems and contradictions which give an already paranoid work a whirling sense of internal dementia.

The action of 'The Last Man' takes place between 2073 and 2100 AD. England is ripe for change as the last King of England abdicates his throne in response to public outcry for a more democratic form of government. Lionel Verney, a shepherd, is drawn out of a life of wildness and crime by Adrian, the former crown prince of England. The charismatic Lord Raymond enters the story as the lover of Lionel's sister, Perdita, and the newly-elected Lord Protector of England. Torn between his love of power and his affections for his wife and a persistent attachment to Evadne, a Greek woman, Raymond renounces his political position and flees to Greece. There, he leads a military campaign to establish Greek independence and bring about the end of the Turkish empire.

Then, the Plague takes over. The nondescript malady has wiped out the population of Constantinople just as Raymond conquers it, making his victory meaningless. Word of the plague's virulence comes in from Asia and America, and from the southern, eastern, and western corners of the world, the plague begins to encroach inward towards Europe and England. The remainder of the novel tracks Lionel and Adrian's attempts to save the human race from utter annihilation.

In 'The Last Man', Mary Shelley gives us a horrifying, desolate prophecy of the future, when religion, technology, and human effort are all exposed as meaningless. Although many might say that she also abandons the redemptive possibilities of art, I think that art provides the novel's only hope. Mary Shelley's dependence on art of every format is clear in the novel's influences - She has Lionel refer to literature, including the works of Daniel Defoe, Charles Brockden Brown, Ann Radcliffe, Homer, Shakespeare, and Jonathan Swift among others.

The novel is fraught with problems of gender and power relations. At any moment of emotional weakness, Lionel calls himself 'girlish' or 'womanly,' and the novel seems to privilege women who are selfless and submissive. On the other hand, as Morton Paley's introduction points out, the plague itself is consistently described as female, at one place referred to as 'The Queen of the World'. With regard to power relations, Lionel continually mentions that in the dying world of humanity, social distinctions have all been abandoned - and yet there are still references to his 'servant' or those of other people. The most problematic scene in the novel revolves around racial distinctions when Lionel encounters a dying black man in London.

There are a million things to talk about in 'The Last Man,' and a novel so rich for discussion deserves to be read by as many people as possible. This is a book I warmly recommend, so pick it up and discover that there is more to Mary Shelley than 'Frankenstein'.

The Last Man starts with a man telling the story of his life; how he was orphaned at an early age and had to go to work at the age of five(!) and grew up to become a juvenile delinquent with a probable career as a criminal. His life is utterly changed by an admirable young man who is simply kind to him. What you may be asking does this have to do with the title? Mary Shelley is being sneaky here. She pulls you completely into the narrator's life. You and he barely notice when someone mentions a plague in China. Here the comparison to the AIDS epidemic is all to apt. A plague is advancing. The end of the world is at hand and no one pays attention because it doesn't directly, personally affect their lives. Suddenly, the plague is everywhere and then, too late, the human race scrambles to find a way to survive. It's a very profound, very sad book, well-worth the effort.

Written in 1826, this is, as far as I know, the first novel to take up the subject of a deadly plague that threatens the survival of the human race. Potential readers need to be warned that the writing style takes an effort to get used to. There is nothing wrong with it. It's simply different from a different age, the age of the Bronte sisters and Jane Austen. It is well worth the effort.

True imagination and a wonderfully written tale of a tortured man. I thought Frankenstein was a powerfully depressing book of a man's loss of self, but Shelley tops herself with this gothic masterpiece (POOR VERNEY). Don't let Shelley's critics fool you. Give this book a try.

Nancy Pace, the first female to graduate from The Citadel, the presitigous
military college in South Carolina, tells the story of her experience there
in her new YA memoir, IN THE COMPANY OF MEN: A WOMAN AT THE CITADEL.
Although the writing is passable, it's not top-notch--there's a lot of
"telling" and too little "showing"--and there are some details left out that
might have helped.

HOWEVER, I do believe it will have an audience with younger high school
students (and maybe middle schoolers, are though there are a few S and F
words scattered throughout), and I recommend it on this list for that
reason. In the current national climate, there is likely to be more demand
for books about the military and training for it. I think this book is
valuable, especially for teen girls, because it depicts a woman successfully
completing a rigorous, typically male-dominated course of study. In
addition, she has ADD, and triumphs in spite of her troubles with school
work.

Nancy Mace wrote a balanced and mature account of her experience as the first female Citadel graduate. This book is most useful for high school girls considering The Citadel, VMI, or a national military service academy. School counselors need this book too. If you are considering The Citadel, read the book twice to see why the 4th Class (plebe) system works. This reviewer graduated almost 40 years ago from The Citadel and found nothing disturbing in Mace's account or much different from the 4th Class system when the college was then exclusively white and male. For male cadets and alumni who still have trouble accepting females or others different from themselves as peers - get over it.

Mace explains that the Citadel is a functioning anachronism and always has been, that's part of its appeal. This reviewer commanded a battalion when women were first assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division about twenty years before The Citadel integrated women into the Corps of Cadets. In a long special operations career I consistently found women who met every expectation - physical and mental -- of their male commanders. My rhetorical question at that time was, if our unit is provided female paratrooper officers, why none from The Citadel? Why no female Citadel graduates in industry and politics? Mace helped to change that nitwitterey.

It sometimes seems that Mace's book is more about Mace than The Citadel which under her circumstances is acceptable, but limiting. Many girls will read this book and ask who needs all the stress created by the 4th Class system along with the other pressures of college? Unfortunately, Mace doesn't provide the answer. Here is the answer: The Citadel graduates a higher percentage of its freshman class in four years than any other state college or university in South Carolina and among the top five percent in the nation. The Citadel does this providing a superior education, an honor system that works, a commitment to national duty and fidelity, and a sense of self worth rare on most campuses. Cadets are taught by professors, not graduate students, the education is demanding, and one of the best education values in this country. The Citadel "system" develops a young person's mind, physical capability, and character in a crucible of measured stress. It's a good preparation for real life. But, a word of caution - the motivation for all this must be from within the student, not urged by the parent.

Having just completed Philippa Strum's 'Women in the Barracks,' about the court cases leading to the 'assimilation' of women into the Virginia Military Institute, I was eager to look at the story's next chapter and dive into Nancy Mace's account of her time at The Citadel (it was VMI's defeat in the Supreme Court that prompted The Citadel to admit women like Mace). With some of the caveats noted by other reviewers -- notably that the book skips over two-thirds of her time at the school -- I found this a very worthwhile read.

I don't often get into 'juvenile literature,' which is how this book is categorized. In fact, the last 'juvy' book I read was 'Battle Dress,' Amy Efaw's fictionalized account of her first year at the US Military Academy, a title to which 'In the Company of Men' bears certain obvious similarities. Some of the things other reviewers have considered lacking in this book -- insufficient legal context, not enough sociological analysis -- can, I think, be explained by looking at for whom Mace was writing. Having read Strum and Brodie about VMI, as well as Catherine Manegold's tendentious 'In Glory's Shadow,' I too hope to see some of these issues addressed first-person on an adult level. But that's not to take anything away from this book.

Nancy Mace's story is well written and inspirational. And though I understood the strong feelings and resentments many of The Citadel's alumni and friends bore about the (inevitable, in my opinion) decision to admit women, I was still shocked by the vehemence of the abuse she received -- especially from 'the wealthy Charleston women who formed the backbone of Citadel social support,' known as South of Broads (referring to Broad Street), or SOBs. Mace considers the abbreviation apt, and I can't say I disagree with her. Similarly, the drunken alumnus who took it upon himself to personally berate Mace at every Citadel football game should be shamed into seclusion by her portrait of him (though I suspect he still considers himself a hero).

At the same time, there's also a lot of humor in this story, as well as touching comradeship with (some of) her fellow cadets and a deep and reciprocated love for her parents. Mace may not address the larger question of why a young woman (or, for that matter, a young man) might want to attend The Citadel, but it's clear why *she* did: she loved her father, and she loves the school. I'd been looking for some time for a book that details the life and experience of a cadet at VMI or The Citadel, and here at last is that portrait. It's moving, challenging, and its target audience should, I hope, find it inspirational. I commend the author for writing the book, but more importantly for her determination to confront the challenges and emerge on top.

By now y'all know Mary Higgins Clark is the ex-mother-in-law of our author here, Mary Jane Clark. Many speak to the similarities of style -- a dashing (and gorgeous wholesome single mom, young widow, and accomplished professional) leading lady who overcomes all odds; enough violence and suspense to entertain and befuddle; and a nice clean ending we can all feel good about. Well hopefully that could be said about many a good book. The differences I see are more interesting. First the venue -- set mostly in the surrounds of a major news network, midst the tribulations of the early morning shows and anchor broadcasts at night, we certainly get (ala the movie "Network News") plenty of up close looks at the pressured lives on the news set. In the best tradition of write about what you know about, MJ speaks from personal experience as a producer and writer for CBS News. Indeed, Dan Rather gets a cameo mention in the story, as he does in the acknowledgments up front for his encouragement to the author. I just hope the romances reported among many co-workers aren't quite that prevalent, although as we know, propinquity is a powerful force (said Zelda to Dobie...).

Second, we get a pretty good story line. The first shocker is the apparent suicide of a famous anchor, followed thereafter (but paced well) by the murders of his doctor and his secretary. Even the most dense of us realize the connections, though the trained newshounds seemed to miss it. A big surprise at the end serves up a murderer I dare say few suspected more than a page or two before the unveiling, so high marks for suspense.

Third, and of course not as welcome, we do get an awful lot of characters, relationships, AIDS pleas, disease causes, snippets of events, changes in scenery, etc.; to me, all that clutter gets a little tiresome. Certain loose ends never do get wrapped up, and I'm not even sure that a major subplot, the campaign machinations of a presidential candidate, really advanced the basic story line that well. I also personally disliked chopping the book up into 141 (!) chapters - do the math, they span 302 pages, so that's like two pages each. And the last 35 span only 25 pages, so we're down to barely more than the "sound bites" so lovingly quoted throughout.

So - for her first outing (of four to date), not bad. Clean things up, simplify a little, give us a little longer reading stretch with out raising and lowering the curtain a hundred times, and we might have something here. I'll at least move on to number 2 - "Do you promise not to tell?". And you?

If you like Mary H. Clark books, you'll love books by Mary J. Clark. "Do you want to know a secret" is full of suspense with a surprising twist ending. Eliza Blake is a popular co-anchor for KEY news. She has a 4 year old daughter and is starting to get over her husband's death. One day, the anchor, Bill Kendall, is found dead in his apartment. The autopsy shows suicide, but what made him do it? Read this book and find out.

Mary Jane Clark's intelligent mystery novel gives the reader the inside scoop on the on the high stakes network news game. This was a book that I couldn't put down. Her heroes and villains alike are both believable and compelling. Certainly one of my best new mystery purchases, I couldn't stop reading until I had finished this book.

I'm a first time malamute owner. I read the whole book in a couple of hours and found that it does not contain any more information than what I already knew from reading various websites on the Internet. It lacks details and insights. For example, the section on feeding basically said to follow the breeder's guide and does not provide any diet recommendation. Further, a major section of the book is about showing dogs at dog shows. Being a first time owner, the last thing on my mind is showing the dog. I'm more concern about raising and training my puppy. Overall, the book was a waste of money for me.

I'm a first time Malamute owner and I must admit that this book is generally good for knowing most facts about the breed. I thought, however, that the book lacked information on how to properly keep a Malamute in a run outdoors. I also thought strange that a longtime owner such as the author would not recommend keeping such a breed outdoors when it's clearly proven to like it better outside than indoors, especially in the winter time when houses are heated and can cause depression for the dog. Other than that, the book is rather good and the pictures are beautiful.

I especially liked the selection of the top winning dog in the history of the breed, Ch. Nanuke's Takes No Prisoners, to grace the cover. The information in the book is accurate and the authors well versed in the breed.

My child had to read this book as an assignment in class. I read the first page and was horrified that in 2002 a teacher would have the class reading a book where the first page says "she's no wise pretty, but she's strong as a mule" and in that same page it says "She (Mary McLeod Bethune) was a champion cotton picker."

This book was offensive to me as an African American woman. I was enraged that my child would have to wade through all of the negative stereotypes (e.g. Mary was uppity b/c she used a fork and no longer sopped her gravy up with her biscuit) before she can begin to appreciate all of the remarkable accomplishments of Mary McLeod Bethune.

Although Mary McLeod Bethune endured a hard life, focusing on the aspects that perpetuate negative stereotypes of black people minimalizes the importance of Mary's story.

When I was in fourth grade our teacher read this story to us. I was so touched by it, that at the end of the school year my teacher gave me her copy.

Several years later I found that during moves I had misplaced this book. I found another...I cherish this book very much. I just finished reading this story to my second grade daughter. She learned so much about how life was and how life should be. I think it is a wonderful expression of how everyone should and can get along in this world.

I picked the very thin book up at the ASU "kitty lit" library, mid quarter, early 1973. I needed a book for oral review and I needed one I could read in a hurry. I was mother of four, wife for their dad, working part-time and going to college. It had to be read for tomorrow's oral report. After supper, dishes still on the table, I pulled the book out of my book bag. The first page got my undivided attention. A couple pages and I was tearing. About middle ways I was sobbing. I couldn't see the large print to read through the tears. I stopped, tried to compose myself and stop the tears so I could read on. The kids and their dad were in the other room; they would think the stress had finally brought on the breakdown. I read on. Finally, she had broke through the impossible and had brought freedom of reading to Black Women. I felt her pain. I felt the joy of her success. With tears streaming from my eyes, amid sobs and laughters I stood and cheered her success as she lead the march across campus to make a stand for the freedom of education. Class time and my time to do my report. The title and author identified, the book in my hand, I started my report. Tears welled up, my throat tightened, I felt a sob coming on ... "just read it," I said, holding the book up for the class to see. Mary McLeod Bethune should be every Black Woman's hero. She sure is this White Woman's.

At last! A book that really does what it says! It's a practical guide through one of life's tough chores. Collating and managing information in the event of a death is one of the most exasperating exercises in life - yet we all face it. No wonder funeral directors, hospices, insurance companies and those facing a death are snapping up this practical 'how to" guide. The forms and work sheets are particularly helpful. They are well structured and user friendly.to walk you through the "where, how, and whys" of collecting and managing the information that every family must have when a death occurs.

The guidelines and worksheets in this book help you record all your preferences and details concerning the decisions and choices your family will someday face. Additionally, the comprehensive structuring of your financial resources will ensure your family will have straight forward access to your estate. If you are over 50, this is an obligation as well as a necessity.

This is more than a book -- it's a very comprehensive, well organized tool to family planning. The guidelines help you record all your preferences and details concerning the decisions and choices your family will someday face. The comprehensive listings and organization of your financial resources will ensure your family will easily manage your estate. This is a very important document for family, death and estate planning.

First of all, you have to find this book. Once you have found it and read it, you cannot escape that feeling that only you and a few others know about this little nugget. Perhaps the search for this obscure book, published in 1980, enhances that feeling but I'm not so sure. Since this is autobiographic, Mary Jayne Gold is the main character but you know from the jacket cover that Varian Fry and his American Relief Center in Marseilles is the raison d'etre for this memoir.

Let me digress a moment to take you on a short journey that led to my special find. It started when I read Jonathan Fenby's excellent new book "France on the Brink" in which he refers only in passing to Varian Fry, an American who was responsible for saving thousands of Jewish intellectuals while in Marseilles, France in 1940-41. Since I had never heard of Varian Fry it piqued my interest to say the least, especially since I am a former resident of Marseilles. Do we have another Schindler here? A library search was fruitless but the internet turned up Mary Jayne Gold's book. After reading Mary Jayne Gold's account of her involvement with Vivian Fry, I did a subsequent search and discovered that Andy Marino has just published a fine, well researched biography of this remarkable man, "A Quiet American".

It took Mary Jayne Gold 40 years to write her account of that historic period in Marseille but it took the next writer, Andy Marino, 60 years! Why so long to recognize this man? In 1945, Varian Fry wrote his own account of that rescue in Marseilles but his book "Surrender On Demand" soon drifted into obscurity, meeting the same fate as Mary Jayne Gold's Memoir, now long out of print.

This memoir, like the person who wrote it, remains an enigma. Who really was Mary Jayne Gold? What happened to her? Was she as strange and different as her biography? Mary Jayne Gold was a rather attractive young lady with a lot of money, who decided to stay on in France long after France had been overrun by the Germans. Despite the hardships of the war she decided to flee to the south of France and try to continue her carefree existence. It was a journey, like her life, without any particular mission, until two men came into her life. The first was a n'er do well hoodlum, recently escaped from the French Foreign Legion and the second was Varian Fry. The Scoundrel and the Saint. It all makes for fascinating reading because it is written by an amateur writer who could never have made up this bizarre chapter in one's life. She may have been flighty, maybe even flaky, but her heart was in the right place. Mary Jayne Gold's contribution to history is little more than a footnote but I do wish that Andy Marino had not given her such short shrift in his new book on this episode. All I can say after reading all this is that it should be a movie. If, after you've read, Mary Jayne Gold's account you wonder what happened to her, (and who wouldn't?), drop me a line.

First of all, you have to find this book. Once you have found it and read it, you cannot escape the feeling that only you and a few others know about this little nugget. Perhaps the search for this obscure book, published in 1980, enhances that feeling but I'm not so sure. Since this is autobiographic, Mary Jayne Gold is the main character but you know from the jacket cover that Varian Fry and his American Relief Center in Marseilles are the raisond'etre for this memoir.

Let me digress a moment to take you on a short journey that led to my special find. It started with Jonathan Fenby's excellent new book "France on the Brink" in which he refers in passing to Varian Fry as an American pimpernel responsible for saving thousands of jewish intellectuals while in Marseilles, France in 1940-41. Even though a former resident of Marseilles, I had never heard of Varian Fry so it piqued my interest to say the least. Do we have another Schindler here? A library search proved fruitless but the internet turned up Mary Jayne Gold's memoir. After reading her book, a follow-up search revealed that Andy Marino has just published the first well- researched biography of this remarkable man, "A Quiet American."

It took Mary Jayne Gold 40 years to write her account of that historic rescue operation in Marseilles but it took the next writer, Andy Marino, 60 years! Why so long to recognize this man? In 1945, Fry wrote his own account of that rescue mission but his book "Surrender on Demand", like Gold's later memoir, disappeared into obscurity and both are long out of print.

Gold's memoir, like the person who wrote it, remains an enigma. Who really was Mary Jayne Gold? What happened to her? Was she as strange and different as her biography? Mary Jayne Gold was a rather attractive young lady with a lot of money, who decided to stay on in France long after the German invasion simply because she didn't want to go home. She fled to the south of France with French friends in a vain attempt to continue her carefree existence. It was a journey, like her life, without any particular mission, until two men came into her life. The first was a n'er do well hoodlum, recently escaped from the French Foreign Legion, and the second was Varian Fry. The Scoundrel and Saint. It all makes for fascinating reading because it is written by an amateur writer who could never have made up this bizarre chapter in one's life. Gold may have been flighty, maybe even flakey, but her heart was in the right place. Gold's contribution to history will be little more than a footnote but I do wish that Andy Marino had not given her such short shrift in his new book on this episode. She deserves better than that. All I can say after reading Gold's book is that it should be a movie. If, after you've read Gold's account, you wonder what happened to her (and who wouldn't?), drop me a line.

This is a good book.I believe that what she is telling is true.I think O.J. is the kind of person who would make his own family wait in line to get tickets to watch him play football.Jesus,how inconsiderate!And when Terri and her family came down to visit,O.J. would go out to dinner with other people and leave them at home.They must really care for him,they stood by him through his trial.If he had treated me like that,family or not,I would say the hell with him!!Glad to see Terri had the guts to speak out,I can imagine the rest of the family probably shunned her for that,but the truth is the truth.I hope Terri you have managed to stay sober,I know it's a tough road to maintain it, being a recovered addict myself.ROCK ON!!

When I first bought the book,"I'm Not Dancing Anymore" by O.J. Simpsons neice I thought it was going to be another book trashing O.J. I really thought I was going to sit down read the book and hear about how awfuel O.J. was, but I was completly wrong. Terri Baker describes a completly different character of Nicole Simpson. Nicole was described as having a bad temper, writing people off and contributing to her argumets with O.J. In all the books that I had read so far,(and I have read all but five)not one book describes the pain that the Simpson family went throught throughout the trial. Miss.Baker did mention that for a while she never really knew who her Uncle O.J. was growing up because he was never really around. This book having been written by one of the Simpson family member, was not a book to defend him and not a book to blame him, she just told us in her eyes who O.J. Simpson was to his family. This is one of the many best books about the Simpson case that is worth the reading.

Terri ... You did an excellent job of describing the trauma and emotions involved.

One thing that I had never thought about: what happens to the defendant's family. It is almost as they are guilty by association. Yet society does not provide anyone to help them thru the emotional trauma they must endure.

A consolation: You do not have to be black to have an important member of your family do something reprehensible, humiliating, and illegal. I speak from experience. It happens in those 'superior' white families also. And how to they handle it? Just like your family did ... some better than others.

By the way, the reason the police appeared to bungle things: they are as much in awe of the 'juice' as his family. Heros just DO NOT do things like that!

The Clark family has a real feel for the suspense novel. This member has set her mysteries around a television network's news division in NYC. Her main character is an up and coming producer of a 60 Minutes-like news program. She is working on a story of the diappearance of a young boy from the old Palisades Amusement Park, not knowing that both she and her superiors at work have ties to the incident. The plot twists and turns are engrossing and I had a hard time putting this one down.

This book was read in just a couple of hours. It was too interesting to put down! All the characters were very real and I loved the way Mary Jane Clark describes different things! I'm currently reading her second book - should be done shortly! I'm on the waiting list for Book #1. I hope her fourth book is out soon! I also like the fact that you don't have to read these books in any particular order - they're all great!

Oh my God, Mary Jane Clark did it again, and this time its better than before. Her latest novel "Let Me Whisper In Your Ear" is true to its media thriller genre. Mary Jane Clark had me hooked from the first page to the last. She is so good with the whodunit's that she had me guessing all the way to end, and even then I was shocked to find out who it was. Her writing is so clear and easy to read, you get hooked on the characters and you get to know what goes on behind the scenes of the television world. She has got the media world down packed. You have got to get this book its too good not to. Also read her two prior books, "Do You Want To Know A Secret" and "Do You Promise Not to Tell," for more info on them check out her website www.MaryJaneClark.com, that's how I found out about them or just read what the other amazon customers have written about them. I really think she is definitely the Next Big Thing...