Roger Books

I always believe that information is most applicable in "context". This review comes from someone who is at the beginning of their management career. I have been working with PricewaterhouseCoopers for over three years now and am beginning to assume greater professional management responsibilities.

Not only do I think that this book is excellent and its 7 rules applicable to anyone looking to "Get Ahead" in their career, I have had the pleasure of working alongside Mr. Scovil as we both serve as members of the Board of Advisors for the non-profit organization AIESEC at Georgia Tech.

This book condenses 46 years of professional experience into 7 simple rules. Not theory, not guesswork...this comes from someone who was CEO of a major international corporation! I'm sending a copy to all my friends in management and leadership positions.

After a forty-six year career in business, Roger Scovil shares with us key rules in getting ahead in business. If you want to manage successfully in business, government, the non-profit sector and your life, this book is for you.

Roger Scovil's seven rules for success in management are a common sense approach in operating an efficient and thriving business. On the surface they may sound simplistic but these simple rules will make or break a company if not employed. Don't make enemies, hire smarter people than yourself, delegate, train your subordinates, treat clients with respect, get on the boss's wave length and remember the organizational chart are the rules. Scovil's explanation of applying those rules is the key to your successful career.

Anyone who is in management in any form should have this book as their personal mentor. It is full of wisdom, informative and gives you practical advice to enable for you to succeed both in the corporate world but also in life.

This book is wonderfully written and well researched (many of the locales are familiar to me as an Austin resident). It has all the elements of a great story -- adventure, danger, intrigue, romance -- while remaining realistic and wholesome. My 9-year-old daughter has already read it twice!

Fourteen-year-old Hallie Lou Wells is the daughter of a wealthy rancher in South Texas in 1878. At their mother's insistence, Hallie and her little sister are learning to be proper young ladies. But they are also learning how to run the ranch someday. When her father decides not to go on the annual cattle drive so that he can stay home with his pregnant wife, Hallie persuades him to let her go in his place, along with her servant and best friend, Dovey Mae. Along the trail, the two girls face the dangers of rattlesnakes, storms, river crossing, hostile Indians, outlaws, and illness. But Hallie becomes a braver, stronger person, and even experiences the joy of love. Told through the form of a diary kept by Hallie, this book was very similar to the Dear America series, and I would reccomend it to all fans of that series.

I enjoyed the audio edition of this book while driving to my work. My english comprehension is not very good, but the clarity of the pronunciation and the great content of the book made me happy during several Madrid's traffic jams

My profile: 42 yo, sales engineer.

I find this audiobook a constant refernce in my travel pack. As a sales engineer on the road I keep resorting to the techniques of this book to find the break-through awakening in the negotiation process.

This approach is not ivory-towered inspirired, its based on very concrete situations and it calls for leaderhip qualities that are assumed by default since you are your own worst enemy.

I find this audiobook more complete than getting to yes and a complement to it. negotiation is not a subject just to be left to one tool or aproach, I encourage anyone inetrested in the theme to spice-it-up with other tip observing book such as Herb Cohen's.

Be prepared to study and use a powerful technique.

Loved it! This is the first book I read by this author and from start to finish I was enthralled.

Annie O'Neill is a single person who owns a used bookstore in New York City. Her father died when she was young and her mother when she was 17. Her life is pretty uneventful until an elderly man, Robert Franklin Forrester, appears at the store with a chapter from a manuscript for her along with letters from her father to her mother that her mother had never received.

The main book is set in the present with another storyline running alongside spanning the years from Auschwitz to America in the sixties. The past and the present are both equally gripping.

A book full of vengence and betrayal - if you haven't read it yet, believe me it's worth reading!

When you read the accolades on the back page of any novel they're going to be complimentary. When you read the synopsis of the story contained within the outer sleeve, it'll sound interesting and worth a read. In a lot of cases, the resultant purchase of the book turns out to be a disappointment and you feel you've wasted both money and time on that book.

Not so in the case of Ghostheart. The accolades and synopsis are well desverved and accurate. This is a really great storyline which has a few catch-you-out moments just to keep you guessing who is really who that little bit longer.

As with other Ellory books that I've read, the fleshed out characters become so real that you get involved in their "lives" and just want to keep reading their story till you've got right to the last page.

This is my third RJ Ellory novel and I am left wanting to read the remaining books in his catalogue. His stories are just so interesting, well paced and filled with such believable characters that you can become lost in the fantasy american lives he's describing.

A great story and a damn good read.

This is a must have if you're using the Waltz and Park textbook. But I recommend it no matter what textbook you have. The outline is very clear, very thorough, and lays out both Cal and Fed rules of evidence.

Great summary. It's better if you read the FRE before and use the book to make sure you understand everything. No need to make a summary of your own with this book

When I first heard Captain Picard relating the story of Gilgamesh to Captain Dathon, my interest was piqued. Most of the story seems like it could be about ancient Klingons, and the portrayals of Enkidu and the other characters is vivid and detailed; the plot is stirring and engaging.

Now if we could only convince the Klingon Language Institute to tackle Beowulf and King Arthur...

This is truly a work of love by Roger Cheesbro (or DloraH as he is known to Klingon Scholars) - love of this timeless epic as well as love for the Klingon Language (thlingan Hol)! This work, sponsored by the Klingon Language Institute, is a superb translation of the Epic Gilgamesh into what is essentially Modern Imperial Klingon (ta' Hol). It is a dual language book with the Klingon on the left-hand page and the English (sorry Federation Standard!) on the right. Cheesbro makes every effort to capture the poetical style and intensity of the original poem (which incidentally originates from Sumerian and Akkadian sources) under the constraints of an alien (!) tongue that has little resemblance in grammar or vocabulary to the originals. Be forewarned, to get the most out of this you will need The Klingon Dictionary as well as Klingon For The Galactic Traveler by Marc Okrand to make sense of the Klingon. If you are beginning to study Klingon, however, this is an excellent source of Klingon writing to read as the sentences are fairly small and the action is lively and the vocabulary fairly straightforward.

One may occasionally read disparaging remarks about the usefulness of learning a fictitious language like KLingon usually ending with the admonition of "Get a life!".What people who say such things fail to understand is that learning something like Klingon is a hobby! We do it for fun! Yes there are real nerds out there who like learning REALLY foreign languages just for fun! After all what "use" is most other hobbies like stamp-collecting, or model train building, or watching college football for that matter? But in the long run tackling a REALLY foreign (alien?_ language like Klingon does have a practical value.There is ample evidence in the psychological and biological literature to demonstrate that learning a language quite different from your mother tongue helps maintain, support, develop, and reinforce cognitive abilities at every age. It helps keep one sharp (quite a boon to old geezers like me!. As such this becomes more than just a hobby!

Make no mistake about it, Klingon is not easy! My wife says "This is HARD!" My response is "Well, yeah!" (Apologies to Spike from BTVS). But hard work will pay off in the end.

I can think of no better way to really get into Klingon (as written) than this book after you have some familiarity with the language.

An exciting emancipating journey crossing science fiction with spirituality. One questions his place in the universe after reading this gripping novel. -Timothy Louis

Intriguing premise, masterfully executed. Bring your mind.

Years ago, when I was little my bought this tape for us to listen to. It has been listen to so much that the tape is worn and in bad shape. You have to have full volume to even hear it sometimes. I remember sitting in the car listening to it rather that going inside some place with my dad. The song playing was about Isabel the pig. "Isabel is a pig with a ring in her snout. You can dress Izzy up, but you can't take her out. She will jump in the middle of a big muddle, because Isabel is pig." All the trappings in the world, don't look pretty when you act like a fool or put on a pouty face.
My favorite song is "The School of the Fool." The guy in the song was "A first class, A+, student in the school of the fool." He was mean, lazy, etc.
"Go to the Ant" is really a well known saying from the Bible. It is also something we should be paying attention to. The ant doesn't have a boss looking over her shoulder. She does the work anyway. She works all day. Not like us. Some do may be, but most work a five, six, seven, eight, nine hour shift. Not from son up 'till sun down. "Are you responcible? Do you ever do a job without being told to? Or are you the lazy kind? And you mother and your father always have to scold you?" "Go to the ant, observe her. See how she works all day. And she doesn't even have a captain to tell her what to do, but she works hard anyway. Go to the ant, and listen. Tell me does she complain. She is God's illustration of organisation. God made her, now you immitate her. Go to the ant." "Well, there was a poor irrisponcible sluggard who slept when there was work to be done. Too late he realized his foolish behavior and poverty struck him like a man with a gun. Go to the ant."
I still find my self singing the song about the seven things God hates. "There are six things, even seven, that the Lord, that he cannot stand: Proud looking eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that thinks of wicked things to do, feet that run to evil do, anyone who loves to lie about others, and one who causes trouble with his brothers." "God hates things that we should hate too."
"From the lips of the little ones, he has ordained his praise." "You made man a little lower than the angels, put things under his feet."
"Talk to me. Show me that you care. Talk to me. Listen to what I say. Talk to me. There's so much we can share. I know you love me when you talk to me." "He always takes the time to talk to me."
I remember times when I didn't care much for Christian music (didn't know much about it either), the music was too dull, but (little children music it may be), music like this appeal to me ten times what the rest did.
The beats great, the words are not only great, but (sorry to about half the bands in the world) they are understandable. The message is clear and it is clearly benificial rather that to your potential downfall as some music now a days is.
I highly recommend this tape, whether you are getting it for a little kid like my mom was, or you're getting it for yourself. You won't regret it.
PS - I'm listening to it as I write this.

This cassette has musically rich tunes with sound, biblical lyrics. Judy Rogers uses mostly guitar with her songs. She has a very pleasant-sounding voice. She comes from a Reformed background - each song is well-written and pure in its doctrine. This tape has songs encouraging children to enjoy their work, to keep their conversation edifying and to listen to the words of their parents. My children have grown up listening to her many tapes - this one is for the younger ones, say ages 3 to 10. I have bought over a dozen copies as birthday gifts for friends of mine. Enjoy!

I thought this classic had been lost forever, and I'm so glad Penguin have republished it.

Jimmy Sullivan is a troubled adolescent relating the events which plunged him into turmoil. He has an existential bravado, swearing that he's going to put God in His place, that he's going to tell the 'truth' to the world about God.

The narrator's naivete is masterfully used to create dramatic irony and suspense.

It was a punch in my guts as I read his explosion of confusion and violence against everyone he loves in the midst of family disaster. The book and character are wound up dynamite, uneasy, brutal.

It was originally published in 1957, 6 years after THE classic of adolesence that I can't bear to name here, because the poor bastard must've got compared all his life and it's like he just wants to get out from that shadow. But the comparison is necessary. They're brothers.

The difference between this and Salinger's work is that the God Boy is darker, more suspenseful, and from New Zealand.

I wish this book was in print, I read it from the library and was quite frankly amazed. It mightn't be everyone's cup of tea, but for me, the author got into my mind and wrote down what I think and feel. It tells the story of one boy, and his struggling descent into delinquence due to his father's alchoholism, and the gradual break down of his family. Read it.

A fascinating insight into the mind of the madman Goering. A must read for any student of World War II. Part of the incredible Goering/ Himmler / Goebbels series by Roger Manvell & Heinrich Fraenkel. Great book.

Having just read Roger Manvells other two books on Gobbles and Himmler it is hard to believe the civilized world allowed them to prop up the manic ,Hitler, to cause such devestation on the world in general and Jews in particular.To think their objective was well known and we sat on the side lines.To think there are art treasures seized by the Nazis fom innocent victims still being disputed