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the book suits my tastes well. i'm always interested in how passionate people come together to develop ideas, overcome obstacles, and get things done. double-bonus that the theme is golf.

i hope to play "the Seventh" someday and experience, first hand, whether the intense passion and unusual approach of the team and its leaders actually produced a good result.

I purchased this book as a favor for my great-aunt who wanted this book as a gift for her son. She was told by a friend this would be a great book for my cousin as he is an avid golfer.

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As a non golfer who has never even walked a course I enjoyed this book immensely. Mr. Gummer brings the entire process of course building to life and his book is populated with larger than life characters. A great read and a perfect present for any golfer.

Hi, I'm David McLay Kidd and I wanted you to know what fun is was working with Scott on this book, he captured both the artistic and social level of what I and my team do and MOST importantly WHY we do it. I have been amazed at the positive comments I have received from those that have read the book, it reallys seems to capture the imagination of golfers. I hope you enjoy it. David...

Meet N.

She may be your next-door neighbor or someone who lives down the block. Maybe she is a relative or just a person you happen to see when shopping at the local grocery store. N. has struggles on the rugged track of life - divorced mother, rocky finances, a relationship falling apart - but it's the shadows which lurk in the deepest regions of the soul that seem to be consuming her.

Author Diane Johnson takes the reader on a wild ride of raw emotions, quirky feelings and fears as N. tries to find love - and answers - in all the wrong places. She does a masterful job in developing N. and a wealth of supporting characters, with each one playing a believable role in a story that is rich in imagery and a plot that - like life - takes an unpredictable twist in the end.

And the consequences to shine a strong light on those shadows may be very chilling.

This is one of the best books I've ever read. It has a tete-a-tete, intimate style (characteristic of many novels written by women from the '60s to the present). You feel as though you are talking to your best friend, who is telling in an informal way a fascinating story whose events are very bizarre and--and this is what makes this book brilliant--very familiar.

The protagonist speaks in the first person. It is the voice of a middle-class American housewife of the '60s. She is thoughtful and sensitive; she is perceptive; she is mild mannered--even a little self-effacing. She is a devoted and nurturing mother of several kids. She has a warm, gentle, bemused jenny-wren-like quality, not unlike many women we have known and loved.

She is recently divorced from her husband because they were emotionally incompatible.

Here's where the story starts to veer slightly to the left of center. The protagonist, although apparently middle class, is living in a public housing development, because divorce has left her in financial straits with several children to raise. And the character seems to become more anomalous when she starts getting death threats. She gets threatening telephone calls, finds dead animals placed on her car windshield, and threatening amulets in her mailbox. This gentle, mild-mannered, self-effacing, healthy, normal, and conscientious woman is being threatened with death.

For the rest of the novel, our heroine casts about in her thoughts, memories, and fantasies, with greater and greater intensity, to think of who might want to kill her.

And as she ponders this mystery, she puts together a longer and longer list of people who might like to kill her.

At this point, we begin to see the black humor peeping out of the structure of this novel, somewhat akin to ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. Femininity, daintiness, nurturance poised against death and violence.

And this is where the novel finally becomes most radical, most improbable, most bizarre. A wry, subtle humor becomes more and more apparent, as we realize that no matter how truly sweet, how mild mannered, how gentle, how nurturing this prototypical woman is, she still has a very long list of people who would like to kill her.

Diane Johnson makes us want to know who the culprit is, and at the same time she has us laughing and nodding in recognition--that women in general have many virulent enemies--even a woman of valor and sweetness; that the most stable, sane, and healthy people have bizarre currents running underneath their lives and threatening to engulf them.

And that, along with the author's brilliant writing style, is what endeared this book to me.

Note:
This is not a review of the Romance Novel by Diane Johnson. This is a review of the 1977 School Textbook "The Shadow Knows" it is a book of Old Time Radio Scripts of the radio series The Shadow.

ISBN: 0-673-03533-6

The Shadow was on the air from 1937 until 1954 one of the longest running Mystery/ Drama series from radio's best and brightest years.

The Text book has many many episodes that do not survive other than in script form. This book is out of print so if you are a fan of the Shadow, and want to read episodes that are 'truly' lost. Find this book. It's out of print and quite hard to find but worth the effort.

I read this book when it was first published, a long time ago. I loved it then. It was funny and scary and elegantly written. I'm buying it in this incarnation because I want to reread it. I'm so glad it's available.

Diane Johnson writes with great sensitivity and skill about a divorced woman with four children, a lover, and ANGST. Her protagonist's interior monologues describe the paranoia engendered by the dislocations and unpredictability of modern life. About halfway through the novel, I found the themes too repetitious and I stopped caring. My ennui ultimately marred my appreciation for this well-written novel.

This is a wonderful book: at once gracefully summarizing what is known and adding importantly to that store of knowledge, Kastan's book, gracefully and often wittily written, compellingly tells the story of how the plays we love to read reached print -- from their own time even to our own computor age. This is a book that will delight lovers of Shakespeare and also reassure those who are worrying that the age of the book is quickly passing. The beauty of this book alone itself insures this will not be so. Bravo!!

I loved this book. It is beautiful written, even funny in places, is a clear and always interesting account of how Shakespeare made it into print (and what print has done to him since). Anyone interested in Shakespeare and in books will enjoy this and learn from it.

This is just plain fun--or not so plain, but amazingly enjoyable for something so filled with new and surprising information. Kastan writes well, seemingly knows everything that has been written on this vast topic, and makes it accessible and exciting.

this is informative, wittily written, and filled with surprises about how Shakespeare became "Shakespeare"; it is also a beautifully produced book, as one would expect from Cambridge.
The paperback makes a great gift for anyone interested in Shakespeare or in the history of the book, even as that history moves into the digital era. A great buy and a must for any college or good high school library.

Shakespeare as we read him! This is wonderful! hard to believe so much information could be made so available and fun to read. Well written and a good looking book--and the price is right!

This book has quite good coverage of topics and simple to follow.
References and follow-up/conclusion were useful.

I've maybe three or four books on the subject of software security and this is the best so far. Very concise and well organized and covers just about every facet of software vulnerabilities that I've ever heard of. Very helpful too because at the end of each chapter it gives detailed advice on how to avoid the vulnerability that they dicussed. Also, the CD comes with some nice tools and source code. I definately learned a lot from this book and highly recommend it to both web application and desktop application developers.

Every month, hundreds of security vulnerabilities and warnings are announced. Although they cover a wide set of products and programs, the underlying reason for them is generally the same: insecurely written software. When software is written in insecure code (which includes most software programs written today), serious security flaws are inevitable.

The Software Vulnerability Guide was written to help software developers acquire the methods necessary to write secure code and find existing problems in current software. After making a persuasive case for secure code in part one, the book progresses into the areas that are crucial to writing secure software.

Part two of the book covers system-level attacks and details important topics such as passwords, scripts and macros, and dynamic linking and loading (DLL). Part three plunges into attacks on the software, exploring heady concepts such as buffer overflows, format-string vulnerabilities, and integer overflow vulnerabilities. Most of these attacks have been known for decades but are only receiving wide-scale attention now.

Further chapters delve into securing data and Web servers. For each of the vulnerabilities mentioned, the authors describe how they occur and how to prevent them.

An enclosed CD-ROM contains software examples described in the text, plus various open-source security software testing tools, including Ethereal, Nessus, and Nmap. Any business serious about writing secure software should ensure that all of its code writers receive a copy of this book

Herbert H. Thompson and Scott G. Chase's Software Vulnerability Guide comes from a security director and a security architect, drawing upon their combined expertise to consider techniques developers need to use to produce secure code in modern software. Developers and testers receive both tools and assessments of tools designed to help recognize and prevent common vulnerabilties in source code. Commentary and code examples pack a guide which includes a CD-ROM with source code and many tools described within.

If you consider yourself a solid developer but know you probably don't give the security of your software/databases as much attention as you should, then you need to get your hands on The Software Vulnerability Guide.

Unlike a lot of other security books, this one isn't full of a bunch of vagure generalities. It gives you solid details on some of the most common (and perhaps some less common) holes that exist in the software you just released. The information contained in each useful chapter is easily digestable by beginners.

Buy the book and spare yourself the embarrassment from some twenty something who stole some script off the web and deleted all the data in your intranet application.
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I totally enjoyed this book - Linda Scott DeRosier tells it like it is. She adds humor and that is one thing that makes life so much fun - humor -and I'm a Southern woman. :-)

There seems to be a lot of talk about Tom Brokaw's latest: A Long Way from Home: Growing Up in the American Heartland. What he has done for South Dakota and the generations that came before him, Linda Scott DeRosier has done for Appalachia and her people. This is a beautiful memoir: honest, intelligent, loving, and most of all human. I definitely recommend this book.

This book reminds me of my own family. I'm not from KY, but our lives our similar, but I never could have told the story as well as DeRosier. This is really a great book - she revisits her raising, as well as that of her parents, grandparents, and as far back as she could find genealogical information. It's been a long time since I read a book from cover to cover and enjoyed every chapter. She tells honest, charming, and heartbreaking stories with sensitivity, humor, and the kind of wisdom families used to pass on. Songs of Life and Grace is one I'll be reading again. This is a great author; highly recommend this book.

"Songs of Life and Grace" addresses, among other things, the primacy of the married state [for better and worse as they say]-not only its impact on every aspect of the couple's life but even their offspring. Strongly recommend this memoir for the following disciplines: women's studies, cultural/regional studies, family, and oral history. I recommend this as strongly as C. Bateson's autobiographical material. DeRosier writes well and the text is strong from beginning to end, enjoyable and thoughtful.

Quite simply, Songs of Life and Grace is proof that each person makes all the difference in his or her own life. But they don't do it alone. As a native Kentuckian I am proud of where I come from. It's rare though to find a book that addresses the good things about Appalachian families. But this book isn't just for Appalachian families. It's for anybody who loves to read a good memoir. She's telling stories about her family that take place over the past century or more. But it's more than that. She's talking about the coal mines, the changes in women's lives in the past few decades, the value of remembering with pride where you come from.

DeRosier could have lingered on what was missing, on weaknesses, but she didn't. She zoomed in on the strengths that were present; saw in them her family's gifts to her. She succeeds, in part, because she knows where to focus. She knows finding the good always beats finding the bad. She understands each of us builds a life on the shoulders of those who came before.

I read DeRosier's first book, Creeker [it was good too!] and am glad she has another one out. This book is nothing short of a glorious tribute to the power of family and place in our lives. If you enjoyed Creeker, you'll love this. If you haven't read Creeker... save yourself the extra shipping costs...buy both NOW!

The first 2-3 chapters are slow but is definitely important to introduce the characters in the book. Once I started reading it, I can't put down the book anymore. I really enjoyed reading it because of the different combination of everything like a touch of romance, a little bit of comedy and especially the good part, the thrill,horror and suspense.This book will definitely keep your imagination active.I sure dont want to missed another book like this of Scott Ebright.More power and God bless!!

Theresa B. (O.A.C)

Yes, I liked this book. I finished reading it in under 24 hours. That is a compliment all by itself! I thoroughly enjoyed the story and would definitely recommend it to anybody who likes a good believable ghost story; however the first three chapters are slow but interesting. Then, the story really grips you and demands you continue reading it to find out what happens next. You can't put it down. I found the characters to be everyday people that you can empathize with and I would read more books by this author if and when they become available.

this is the human experience on all the levels. it was one of the best books i have ever read. bravo!

First real good story I've read in years.
I was very, very impressed with this story. I liked many aspects of this story. It was more than a typical horror story. Also, this is a book somebody can read and enjoy without the vulgarity found in so many other books. I recommend this to anyone like me who hasn't had time to read alot of books, but when I do, it had better be good!

I read this book during a week I was supposed to be studying for final exams (4th year broadcasting major). I just kept on and on, reading one chapter after the next because everytime I tried to stop thinking about this story, it kept coming back into my head so I couldn't concentrate on anything else. This book was a lot different than any other mystery or horror book I ever read. It was very suspenseful without being extreme or gross like most of those other books of the same genre. Maybe that's because this was a true story. Anyway, I liked everything about this story - especially the characters. The author (Ebright) seemed to know just when to change scenes or add a little levity here and there so I wouldn't get too worn out by the heavy subject matter of ghosts or demonic entities. It seemed to be a good balance...I was hooked into reading the whole book within two-a-half days! And the surprise I discovered was that unlike any other scary book I've read, this one left me feeling more positive about myself and my own spirituality. (Incidentally, I used this book as a basis for my semester project to adapt a book to a one hour screenplay.)

Adlerberg has woven a masterful tale of suspense that is a compulsive and satisfying read. Set on the sultry island of Martinique, "Spiders and Flies" is a story of kidnapping, seduction, and betrayal. An ideal book to curl up with on a cold winter's night or to accompany you on a beach vacation, the author has provided readers with what has become an increasing rarity in the world of fiction--a thrilling story that is impossible to put down.

This well-written and detailed booked about a young man who takes drastic measures to avoid being caught in a family snare kept me returning to it's pages night after night. It is filled with intrigue, passion, desire, mystery and more. I recommend taking this book along on a vacation.

Spiders and Flies is a gripping and thrilling ride into the psychological underbelly of desperation and desire. Vividly hallucinatory and lush, this book kept tight in its visceral web from the first page to the last.

In a short book, Adlerberg gives a travelogue of the emotional landscape of noir, with snapshots of isolation, passion, treachery, longing, and sociopathology. Paul Raven is as alienated an anti-hero as they come: unspeakably lonely, self-justifying of the most appalling acts, oblivious to consequences. Born into a different set of circumstances, he could be Gordon Gekko. This is a book at home on the shelf with early Ian MacEwan. A great vacation read, though perhaps not for those who want to lay on a Caribbean beach.

Scott Adlerberg is at it again, not only with Spiders and Flies but with his next book which was nominated for the Benjamin Franklin Award, Jungle Horses. If you're an avid reader of suspense/mystery then these books are for you!

Trying to learn useful things about XML can be hard. XML is so flexible and can be used for so many things, descriptions of it have a bad tendency to be vague, never touching the real world. Or they are too detailed and technical to easily understand. This book has a really nice balance of these factors. For example, if you want to know what a web service is, and want to see an actual example of one without an overwhelming amount of technical detail, this book is a good place to look. You can see the code and what's actually needed to implement it.

As a strategic decision maker in the software development industry, transitioning into XML based technologies is at the top of my priority list. Strategic XML provides a very good introductory through advanced study of the topic. The author not only educates the reader from an academic perspective, but goes in depth with real world examples. He actually goes one step further and points the reader toward suitable tools and development platforms. For anybody moving into (or already in the midst of) joining the XML world, I would highly recommend giving Strategic XML a read.

I love this book, it's not your average learn to build a CD or Book database in XML. If you want to learn the XML, buy a generic fat red book with the lots of faces on it, if you want to learn how to apply the XML to practical situations, get this one. It's not going to take you years to read and the selection of applicable quotes at the start of each make it quite amusing and exciting. Add a bit of method to your madness, buy this book and apply a Software Engineer's approach to your data modelling.

I really liked this book. It gave me some very good insight into how to use the XML I have been learning for the past 2 years. It is not filled with a lot of useless rehash of XML primer material, it has a real nice review/overview of the technology and then focuses on the real issue of how to use it to solve business problems. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who doesn't need a 600 page regurgitation of XML basics, but instead is focused on solving problems with an exciting technology!

I initially read this book because I know the author and I promised him I would. I'm not a programmer but I am responsible for the technical direction of my company. Suprisingly, the book was written in plain enough English to give me a good general understanding of how to use XML, SOAP, Web Services etc. I'm passing it on to my programming department as a primer to start getting us up speed on these technologies.

You will not want to put this book down, and though a short read, you'll want to read it over and over. It makes the kind of gift that friends wil cherish, as it porpels them along the path of thier greatest joys and successes. The engaging stories of mountaineering life provide a great backdrop to exploring success and performance strategies that have been true forever. Do yourself a favor and read this book.

Gary Scott successfully confronts the personal challenges each of us face in the course of daily living. Using the real life circumstances of a professional mountaineer, Gary uses gripping accounts of attempts on some of the worlds most challenges climbs to demonstrate what one must do to overcome obstacles to personal success. Anyone striving for excellence and the desire to be an overcomer will enjoy Summit Strategies

Gary Scott shows the reader precisely what it takes to attain any goal in life through determination and focus. Whether it's a short term or long term goal, from the simplest task to climbing Everest--anything is possible.

Author Gary Scott shares some of his incredible stories and lessons learned from years of rock and mountain climbing and masterfully translate those lessons into simple steps anyone can use to achieve their goals and/or overcome obstacles in their everyday life. This was definitely a book I did not want to put down. I was excited to graduate to the next lesson, and at the same time sitting on the edge of my seat waiting to see how Gary's story on Everest concludes. Read this book and see what I mean. You don't have to be a climber or adventure seeker to enjoy and benefit from this wonderful read.

A powerful and thought provoking book, this book would benefit anyone interested in self growth. The author illustrates difficult concepts such as instinct and confidence with engaging accounts of his mountain climbs and then follows with the lesson applied in daily life. The life threatening consequences of climbing serves as a perfect laboratory in which to observe human behavior as climbing strips away the non essentials when ones focus is survival. And yet the book is entertaining and inspiring so that I didn't want to put it down. Having read over 30 self growth books and close to 100 mountaineering books, I highly recommend this book. This book enables the reader to learn from these experiences and apply the lessons to their own challenges either on the mountain or in every day life.

I have never met Lucile Manley, but I know I would like her. The author of Tail Talk has just the right attitude toward our furry friends--tolerance, respect, and (dare I say it) love.
Best of all, she has humor. Any book that can make me laugh out loud is a winner, and this book does just that. It is a privilege for me to review it for the Humboldt Beacon, our local newspaper.
I had trouble picking a favorite chapter (they're all so good) but "Now and Zen" finally won my vote. I will never look at a litter box in quite the same way again.

I have never met Lucile Manley, but I know I would like her. The author of Tail Talk has just the right attitude toward our furry friends--tolerance, respect, and (dare I say it) love.
Best of all, she has humor. Any book that can make me laugh out loud is a winner, and this book does just that. It is a privilege for me to review it for the Humboldt Beacon, our local newspaper.
I had trouble picking a favorite chapter (they're all so good) but "Now and Zen" finally won my vote. I will never look at a litter box in quite the same way again.

If you are a person who has decided that cats should not be a part of your life, this book will confirm all the reasons for your decision. If you are a cat lover, you will relate to all the frustrations, demands and delights of being owned by a cat (especially a French-speaking one). Thoroughly entertaining,funny, and imaginative with delightful illustrations, Tail Talk will make a fine gift to anyone, regardless of feline bias.

Tail Talk is a witty recounting of a relationship that begins when the author arrives fresh from the city with plans to grow flowers and vegetables which the gophers think are delicious. Manley buys a $1900 fence at the advice of her neighbor and looks for a cat to kill the gophers. She doesn't really want a cat. They are lots of trouble, tearing up the upholstery, throwing up on the rug in front of company and shedding hair all over the house. But there are those gophers, so she goes to an animal shelter and falls in love with a fifteen pound orange fur ball she names Barbara.

The book tells of the adjustments necessary to live with a cat. How do you adjust to a cat with gourmet tastes who loves the food one day and bats it off the dish and tries to bury it the next? How do you teach the cat to use the cat scratcher rather than your furniture? "Demonstrate," says Lucile, "with your own nails. My fingernails look great. I don't have to trim them half as often as I used to." And then there is the name Barbara for a male cat. This causes much stress for the veterinarian.

Cat lover or not, you will find these stories both amusing and hysterically funny and will want to read them aloud to your friends. As far as I can tell, the gophers are still enjoying the garden.

TAIL TALK by Lucile E. Manley
Illustrated by Mary E. Scott

Highly Recommended. Give it to a friend. Take a break from world turmoil and personal worries; read this book. If it doesn't make you laugh out loud, you are beyond hope.

Adoption of a cat can be a life-altering experience. Lucile Manley, avid gardener, wants a cat to eliminate gophers from her garden, provide warm, furry companionship, and never scratch the furniture. A cat to fill her "owner's" needs. Barbara Orange Cat has a different agenda.

In twenty delightful chapters, enchanced by Mary E. Scott's hilarious illustrations, Manley describes life with Barbara. The way Barbara uses her tail to communicate, her early morning demands for food (but only certain food), her needs in proper accomodations and equipment, including a Zen Garden litter-box, and her complete disdain for gopher hunting--all strengthen the bond between cat and human--and raise questions as to which is superior. Barbara remains Barbara Orange Cat, even though the Vet points out that she is a male cat.

Read TAIL TALK for fun and understanding. Manley says, "There's a lot to be learned from living with a cat." She offers a list of directions for selecting a cat at the animal shelter, then adds, "If your first glance at a whiskered, furry face tears out your heart, forget all of the above... you have found your very own personal cat."