Teams Books

Despite my title, the book is a great history of the close non-neighborly relation between the Yankees and Red Sox over the years. The famous stuff is all there, but there are also many lesser-known vignettes of people and surroundings of Grand Concourse/Jerome Avenue and Kenmore Square.

This was a christmas present to a devout red sox fan living in Australia. He says it was an excellent book.

Do you know need a reason to buy this book? I can give you an excellent one -- it's called the Table of Contents. It lists 700 pages worth of Robin Hood ballads, plays and more. It has the earliest ballads and plays where Robin is merely a yeoman, the first play that casts him as the Earl of Huntington, and later ballads that give the "origins" of Little John, Maid Marian and Will Scarlet. Also, there's an introductory article on the history of the legend and complete introductions and notes to all the ballads and plays. The notes and introductions are by Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren, two top Robin Hood scholars. If you want to read the original tales of the outlaw, or if you are teach a course in Robin Hood, this book is an excellent buy. Just treat it with care. I notice my cover is fraying somewhat.

Before my professor pointed it out I hadn't really given much thought to where my knowledge of, and love for, the Robin Hood tales came from. Once I began to give it some thought, I realized it wasn't from books at all, it was from the Errol Flinn and Disney movies (such poor literary sources!). We all seem to know one or two Robin Hood tales, but Robin Hood is a much more complex character than those few tales would show.
I was also suprised to learn that no Robin Hood tales are included in the major anthology of English literature (Norton's), which seems odd to me, since the tales are classic English literature.
This collection of Robin Hood material is comprehensive, many stories I had never heard are here, and if you are looking to really learn about the literary sources for Robin Hood this is great (that is the publisher's purpose). This is not a children's storybook however. Much of the language is in the older forms of English, and even as an adult I sometimes wrestled with the language to understand it.
All that to say, that as a Robin Hood fan, I am thrilled with this book.

The scrapworks' team consists of Denise Hoogland, Jackie Bonnette, Jamie Waters, Kim Heffington, Shelley Sullivan and Stacey Sattler and they've united to bring scrapbookers an incredible book. The layouts are colorful, crisp and have a simplicity that speaks to the heart. Embellishments are coordinated with the paper, allowing the photos to remain the center of the project. The projects are clearly titled and the materials list is provided. Clustered by the product used, each section includes facts and tips that make working with the chosen product easier. The last section is devoted to cards created with the scrapworks line. This book will appeal to all levels of scrappers.

I got the second idea book yesterday, and am seriously in AWE of these women and their amazing talent! The book features all the new goodies Scrapworks came out with at HIA, which means you can hear the register ringing in your head as you flip through the book...."I need THAT, and THAT and THOSE!" Oh my gosh! It's just awesome!! GET IT!!!!!!

From front to back the action never stops. Another great book in this series. Highly recommended for action lovers.

I've just finished reading this book. This is great read. WOW! It kept me reading from cover to cover and I couldn't put it down. The author should have this book made into a action pack movie. Seriously. Couldn't you see an actor like Harrison Ford, playing the lead role as Lieutenant Commander Blake Murdock? Or even, Jason O'Mara (The Agency) who also played in Band of Brothers as Lt. Thomas Meehan? How about actor, Wilem Dafoe, playing the role of David "Jaybird" Sterling, Machinist's Mate First Class Lead Petty Officer, who has a quick mind and is a fine tactician-he would be great in this role. Or, how about making this book and some of the others in this series into a TV miniseries? I've just purchase the Ambush and just now getting into Payback. These books are great and now I want to order the rest in the Seal Team Seven series.

Fast paced story with lots of action. Seals must locate some looted nukes before the terrorists sell them. A great read with a lot of depth.

SEAL Team Seven readers will enjoy this fast paced addition to the series. The action starts on page one and doesn't let up throughout the book. There are some assumptions that you know who all the main characters are - but even if you don't you'll catch up... if you can keep up. A serious situation splits into two sits then four and so on... Very enjoyable.

As a Human Resource Consultant, I am always looking for new ways to help organizations design and manage teams most effectively. In Selling Is a Team Sport, Eric Baron provides practical, applicable information that transcends the "sales team" and can easily be applied to all teams. In a very readable and humorous style, Mr. Baron offers his knowledge-based experience on how to obtain workable skill sets in such areas as: team building, problem-solving, needs assessment, facilitation, listening, questioning, action planning and closing. Each of these areas readily translates to all of our everyday interactions- whether it be in a team setting or on an individual basis. The applicability of this book is readily apparent, for example, the reported facts from focus groups about what "buyers" want. "Buyers" wants can easily be translated to facts about what people want in their interactions. The acronym CREST and its translation presented in Mr. Baron's book is a wonderful mnemonic to strengthen quick acquisition of these sensible approaches to dealing with people. Charts, diagrams, anectodal experiences and text make the lessons being taught by Mr. Baron easily acquired and remembered. I thoroughly enjoyed the learning experience I had when reading Selling Is A Team Sport.

As a professional that has been part of the sales process from a direct sales, sales management, and marketing role I found this book to be very impactful. It offers insightful and pragmatic processes and skills that can be applied by anyone associated with the sales process. Whether you are a sales manager, a technical support professional, a product manager, or the line salesperson I think that you will find some valuable information.

I thought the processes regarding the successful facilitation of a "team" sales call to be especially interesting.

This book is awsome. If you are a Buckeye or college football fan this is a must have!

A fine book about a great man as written by a great man - Todd Skipton.

Reaching six sigma quality levels is not a simple tasks. Sure the results of improved quality levels are well known both in terms of increased customer satisfaction and overall lower costs. But six sigma ....

Both of these authors have a long history of working at the six sigma level. They've written this book not as a how-to, but as a report on their experiences in achieving six sigma.

First, it contains several reports of the "this is what we did and it worked," type along with some "this is what we did and it crashed."

Second this is a an alert to management to let them know what their committment has to be to enable a top-down alignment flow of understanding.

Because of their wide experience with six sigma, the authors know not only their own company (Raytheon) but have worked with other market leaders at companies such as GE, Delphy Automotive, Pratt and Whitney, Allied Signal and with consulting groups working in the quality area. They have talked with these other companies and report on some of the activities that have led them along the six sigma path.

This book can save a lot of heartaches in the implementation of working systems.

Knowledgeably and deftly written by David H. Treichler (Master Expert at Raytheon Intelligence and Information Systems) with the assistance of Ronald D. Carmichael (Senior Manager for the Raytheon Company electronic Systems Group), The Six Sigma Path To Leadership: Observations From The Trenches is recommended as an informed and informative support guide for corporate managers seeking to improve company efficiencies, reduce errors, and increase bottom-line profits. Enhanced with a wealth of illustrative examples of what works and what doesn't, and showcasing lessons learned from hundreds of non-traditional applications and specific Six Sigma projects, The Six Sigma Path To Leadership is strongly recommended reading regardless of whether the reader is a novice to management or has worked their way up to senior level management positions of global responsibility.

I don't even know if this book is in prin anymore but, if it is, any sports fan should read it. It is similar to Friday Night Lights, The Last Shot, The Right Kind of Heroes and several books that have been written following one high school team through one year of their season. This chronicles one inner city high school team from Oakalnd and their quest to win the city championship. It follows everything surrounding the players-the one being recruited by every major college football program in the country, the lone whote player in the entire league, the up and coming superstar, the thug hoping to get his life straightened out...this book has it all. It is amazing that the author was given the access to these obviously skeptical players lives that he was and the way he details it is captivating beyond words.

This book is a must read for any youth coach of any sport and for any parent thinking of sending a kid to a inner city public high school. Filled with facts and statistics of graduation rates, medium grade point averages and anecdotal stories of tough young lives. If you're at all interested in why the Afican American young male has so many chips stacked against him from day one then read this book.

Mike Sroka's photographs of the Canadian Forces 'Snowbirds' fighter planes would have been treat enough, but when paired with behind-the-scenes access into Snowbird team aviation history and daily details, it becomes an outstanding pick any military or aviation collection must have. Gorgeous color photos accompany insider's details that could only have been gained from a photographer who had access to the team as one of their official photographers. The history, aviation insights and eye-catching photos make for an extraordinary package.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

This book is full of Canadian Pride. I have seen the the Snowbirds perform in the US a few years ago. As an avid airshow fan I was impressed. Their red uniforms stand out. The book gave a great account in the the life of a Snowbird. The pictures were first class. A great addition to my aviation collection of books. Larry S