A. Merritt Books

The best reference book to get the license.

I enjoyed this book more than I did Blue Street. Many of the poems in Parks reveal such tender and touching feelings that you know they are honest and from-the-heart.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Mr. Merritt included several innovative twists and turns, as well as incorporating the Pre-tribulation Rapture viewpoint into a fictional account that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very end! I wish he would write a sequel! A must-read for anyone who enjoys end-times fiction or is it truth? Hmmm...

When I discovered this book shortly after it came out in the early 1980's I was thrillled. I was MORE than thrilled. I knew then that I had a treasure in my possession...the kind of special treasure which can only increase in value through the years. What IS this book? This is NOT a book very many will be crazy about. Not at all. It is a photography book---black and white photographs---portraits to be exact. Of who? Theatre people. Anyone and everyone who had anything to do with theatre in New York City during the 1970's...actually, with the Public Theatre of New York...the wonderful theatre founded by that theatre giant, Joseph Papp. Many of these represented here were just starting out in their careers, and are now well known in the entertainment industry, such as Barry Bostwick, Maureen Stapleton, Swoozie Kurtz, Meryl Streep, Stacy Keach, Neil Simon, John Lithgow, Sam Waterston, James Earl Jones, and others. Many well known individuals here sadly have since passed away too, such as Joseph Papp, Yul Brynner, Jessica Tandy, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein, Colleen Dewhurst, Raul Julia, Bob Fosse, Jason Robards, Robert Shaw, Tennessee Williams, Henry Fonda, Zero Mostel, Robert Preston, and others. There are approximately 125 portraits here, and at the back of the book, a brief biographical piece about each person and their career. By the way, though these are "portraits," they are not your usual studio "posed" portraits. Each person is naturally represented here. Again, this book is not for everyone. Not even all theatre lovers will delight in this book, because if they are YOUNG theatre lovers, they may very well not even be familiar with many of these who are represented here, so would not be interested in this book at all. But IF you ARE a theatre lover, and you ARE aware of WHO all the people are in these portraits, and you love black and white photography, you WILL THOROUGHLY DELIGHT IN THIS BOOK. Why, I think you may even come to cherish it as much as I do.

Although he doesn't give any real examples of how to apply public journalism, Buzz Merritt explains the concept clearly and in a way that makes you realize how wrong the media is today. This book should be included in every journalism professor's classroom. If future reporters could understand what is needed by them, then maybe the public would start trusting the media and not lumping them in with the same category as politicians

Love Child...

Casey Oliver froze when she heard the news. Jess Lonnigan was back! Jess, the devil-may-care rodeo star who'd captured her youthful heart during one breathless week of stolen ardor. But this time she planned to stay far, far away from him. For if he ever discovered the truth about her five-year-old, she'd lose everything....

After a lifetime of wandering, Jess was finally reasy to settle down- with Casey, the passionate, headstrong woman he still fiercely wanted. But she had a child now- a child who looked disturbingly familiar. Then Jess mane an amazing discovery. And now he was more determined then ever... to come home.

He wants her, but she doesn't want to fall again for him. If you like love battles, it's the good story for you...

For all those who are disenchanted and frustrated by the jargon and mythology that now afflict management, industrial planner Merritt Kastens has written a truly "Utopian" book. It redefines the manager's role: "The manager takes available resources and manipulates them in such a way as to create something of value that did not exist before." It employs a new conceptual framework for the functions of management, providing innovative but rational approaches to handling today's complex responsibilities. Kastens shows how to: recognize new opportunities for organizational and personal growth, get things done while others sit on their hunches, focus resources on results, make production productive and support services supportive, cope with forces you can't control, escape double taxation. get rid of incopetents, substitute rational procedures for irrational practices, plan for the real world, overcome managerial lag, get more output from fixed assets, and much more.

This book is a wonderful specimen of family research! I learned alot about my background that I otherwise didn't know. Looks like new additions to the family might lead towards a revised or second edition . . . the author should get busy incorporating all that new information!

It was most interesting to read about the young John Speirs family's early days in Maryland.

Set in New York City in the 1850's, Scandal's Daughter by Mallory Dorn Hart is a vivacious and entertaining novel based on the life of Isaac Merritt Singer, developer of the sewing machine, and as told from the viewpoint of Gussie Singer, his fictional daughter. Filled with steamy romance, the power of new technology made available to the masses, and the imminent threat of the Civil War, Scandal's Daughter is an exciting and immersive read that fully captures the spirit of its time.