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This book is very excellent and easy to understand, giving me a logical structure about projects, based on acronyms like GO CARTS, CRACS, DRIVER, and very clear examples about concepts. I think this little book values more than its cost. I take advantage with this book for for my current task. After read this book, I understand better, and have some essential habilities for Project management, Team work and a better sense on Getting job & things done! Go and get it. You will be enjoy and appreciate it.

From clean humor with Noha's ark project, to very clear explanation on Gantt and PERT Graphs, this little book will help a lot to anybody, whom is really interested in teach Project Management. Of course, there are many excellent Project books, but specially this, is very easy to understand, giving you a logical structure about projects, based on acronyms like GO CARTS, CRACS, DRIVER, and very clear examples about concepts. Get it, and enjoy drawings, phrases, and metaphors, and take a tour in a very clever learning adventure. Do you agree with me? No problem, I think this little book values more than its cost. If you are thinking in teaching efforts for explain to students, workers, team members, take advantage with this book. After read this book, your people will understand better, current software capabilities, and will have some essential habilities for Project management, Team work and a better sense on Getting job & things done! Buy it and enjoy it. Do you feel very basic this book? then enjoy it and remember: simple but useful things always will improve your life. Live happy! Armand Mark.

The USA needs to be able to work with and engage the world and develop a worldwide Team USA. Unfortunately, the American secret dominating metaphor is the Marlboro Man leading us to operate on our own mostly with an attitude of "Bring'em On".

This book shows the way out of this situtation and I welcome your contact at my web site http://jkennethboggs.home.mindspring.com

We need ALL of us and we need to work together constructively. Whatchasay America?

Ken Boggs

To many people, teams are best represented by the National Football League and competition. This is not the metaphor this book addresses. Rather this is the first book to get under the skin of teams and translate that insight into specific skills that can be taught and exercised by any individual.

Here now is the first opportunity to convert any team into one that can out perform other individuals and groups. Here is the new arena for competitive growth.

Ken Boggs

If you wish to own a single book about the contributions of the 100/442 this is it.

This book probably should rate at least 588 stars. 588 stars because that is the number of Silver Stars won by these fine AMERICAN fighting men in WWII.

A lot of folks probably know the 100/442 was the most decorated unit in WWII. In fact, this fighting team was the most decorated unit in AMERICAN history. This great volume goes a long way to perhaps explaining why this was so. These AJA men were fighting a two front war. Hitler and Germany tried this and failed. The fighting men of the 100/442 prevailed on both fronts they were fighting on. These men proved their were good Americans with their bravery and with their blood.

Mr. Tanaka knows, he was there! He was one of the few men to make it through all of the major campaigns with the 100/442. His personal experiences appear to have been invaluable in putting the story together.

The men of the 100/442 had the Germans and their allies to deal with in Europe and the stupidly cruel actions of the American government and people to deal with back in the US and they prevailed.

Mr. Tanaka skillfully weaves first person remembrances into the story, and this coupled with the many fine pictures personalizes the AJA men of the 100/442 and the two battle fronts they were engaged on in WWII. The reader will come away knowing war is hell if they had missed the point before. The reader will come away with the idea that courage and spirit applied in liberal doses to any situation will win out.

Mr. Tanaka's book provides a fitting tribute to those members of the 100/442 who did not live to come home, men who fought and died while their families were imprisoned back at home.

The Japanese American 100th Infantry Battalion and 442ndRegimental Combat Team were among the finest units of World War II.Their astonishing exploits, decorations awarded, and casualties taken are legendary, but when the cheering subsided the discrimination they and their families suffered did not disappear.
Their story is well told here in this fine pictorial record of their achievements, with 240 photos, 8 maps, and informative endpapers, tied together with a good narrative, to form an admirable tribute to these brave soldiers.
Highly recommended for military history readers, students of the ETO campaign, and WWII buffs in general.

(The "score" rating is an unfortunately ineradicable feature of this page. This reviewer does not "score" books.)

Just when it seems that Author Trina Robbins and
Artist Anne Timmons have outdone themselves with GoGirl!
TPB they create this!

This one one is over 90 pages and its size is
slightly bigger than pocket,but the content you could say
is "dynomite!"(as in triceratops) fun that only , a reader,a teenage superheroine and a teenage student
could appreciate! Calling all Readers!

I know Anne Timmons because she is my godmother and I love her comics. The artwork and story line for the first Time Team book, series is really good. You've got to read it!

This fascinating book is packed with exciting text and brilliant color photos. You will discover the Army Parachute Team: The Golden Knights, what they do and how they do it. This book provides a history of the Team and of parachuting, describes their mission and maneuvers and then looks to the future. Web site URLs are provided for more information.

The Golden Knights, based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, have both demonstration teams that perform at air shows and competition teams that win championships.

Ellen Hopkins also wrote The Thunderbirds: The U.S. Air Force Aerial Demonstration Squadron.

As a skydiver (1,200 jumps, D-454), pilot (SEL & gliders, hang gliders and paragliders),author and publisher of seven books on parachutes and skydiving, I recommend this book to young readers interested in aviation....

This fascinating book is packed with exciting text and brilliant color photos. You will discover the Army Parachute Team: The Golden Knights, what they do and how they do it. This book provides a history of the Team and of parachuting, describes their mission and maneuvers and then looks to the future. Web site URLs are provided for more information.

The Golden Knights, based at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, have both demonstration teams that perform at air shows and competition teams that win championships.

Ellen Hopkins also wrote The Thunderbirds: The U.S. Air Force Aerial Demonstration Squadron.

As a skydiver (1,200 jumps, D-454), pilot (SEL & gliders, hang gliders and paragliders),author and publisher of seven books on parachutes and skydiving, I recommend this book to young readers interested in avaiation...

I'm not a Twins fan, but I enjoyed this look at their history. Great moments, sad moments and lighter moments are all here. Brought back a lot of memories for me. It's an easy and entertaining read with lots of interesting looks from behind the scenes.

My history with the MN Twins is different from Mr. Aschburners, but I have many fond memories as well. My mother and father played the organ at all the games from the inception till 1974, and I got to see the early greats play the game OUTDOORS!

What a fun book to read - I totally went back to my childhood -

Thanks for writing this, Steve!

Sincerely

Paul Peterson

This book was informative and offered many activites that would enhance an early education movement program.

I ordered a few books similar to this one but I am most impressed with this book. The activities seem realistic to do even with a larger number of children. You don't need a bunch of complicated equipment either. Some games require beanbags, balls, hoola-hoops, jump ropes, or nothing at all. Some games are the traditional ones like Duck, Duck, Goose, Red Light, Green Light, and Hot Potato but are modified a little bit to keep all the children engaged. The book is organized nicely and the instructions for each game is simple and easy to understand. I am looking forward to implementing these activities in my classroom.

...can there be any better way to spend a few hours of reading time?

I have seen other positive reviews of Mr. Guffey's book: they are well-deserved!

"The Milan Miracle" is one of those sports legacies as big as the world of sports itself. To think that the characters Mr. Guffey writes about are real--and to know that the story he tells actually happened--makes this book an even more compelling read.

With the arrival of the 50th anniversary of this milestone sports event comes another occasion to remind ourselves of the sheer joy provided by the greatest all-American game!

Perhaps it is the fact that I live in Indiana that I can relate to this book's underlying themes of fundamental human emotion: through the telling of this true David-and-Goliath story (and a fast-forward to the lessons learned in the meantime), we encounter the doubt, the disbelief, the sheer grace of high school sports the way it existed 50 years ago.

If this book merely retold the tale in order to wax eloquent about the 1950's as a "time of innocence," I could not recommend it as highly.

But here is a story that's more than a story...it's a history of a simpler time when the values of hard work, perseverance and dogged determination could carry a small-town kid to the pinnacle of achievement.

Most importantly, Mr. Guffey's book provides the encouragement that these values still exist--and are worthy of pursuit.

There is much to be said in favor of Mr. Guffey's writing style. There is an underlying respect for the characters in this book. Having seen some of the recent ESPN coverage of the 50th anniversary ceremonies, it is evident that many of the individuals Mr. Guffey interviewed are from social backgrounds as varied as their Hoosier drawls. Whether conveying the voices of the townspeople or the Milan players themselves, Mr. Guffey writes with a real respect for the characters. It's an important element of his obvious respect for the "Milan Miracle" and high school basketball in general.

I look forward to Mr. Guffey's next work!

The one class state basketball tournament. I miss it and I am not even from Indiana. I miss it despite the fact that I have never watched a single game of Indiana high school basketball. I miss it even though in Texas I have never known anything but multi-class basketball.

And reading a book like Greg Guffey's "The Greatest Basketball Story Ever Told" is a big part of why I miss the single class tournament. The story of the two-season run by the overwhelming underdog Milan Indians in 1953 and 1954 is not only the greatest basketball story ever, but maybe the greatest sports story ever.

Everything I love about small town America is here. The spirit, the hope, the despair and even the pettiness. Reading this book made me wish I was from Milan and made me wish it was 1954.

I was fascinated by the follow up stories of the players; each of them a success in life in their own way. I was deeply moved to find out that Marvin Wood, the coach, had lost a battle with cancer at around the same time of the change to a multi-class basketball tournament.

I really enjoyed this book. I'll read it again. And when I do, I'll be in the stands at Butler Fieldhouse watching Bobby Plump realize the ultimate high school dream in the ultimate American era.

Read it, and you'll know what I mean.

After the Astros won a playoff series in 2004 and actually made the World Series in 2005 a big weight was lifted off the shoulders of all Astro fans. They had finally won a playoff series!
Yes, there were the first round losses of 1997-1999 and 2001 that were tough to swallow. The league championship series losses in 1980 and 1986 were just plain heartbreaking! In my opinion the two best league championship series ever, and the Astros came up heartbreakingly short in both series.
Izenberg's book recaptures the twists and turns of the 1986 league championship series and goes into detail of game six - "The greatest game ever played".
I was a little leary of the book when on page one Izenberg mentions Carlton Fisks memorable home run in the 1976 World Series - of course, Fisk hit the home run in game six of the 1975 World Series. But after that, except for a couple of typos (ex. Winterhaven instead of Winter Haven) the book was great.
Even though I knew the eventual outcome of the series, and game six in particular, as I read the book I kept thinking "maybe the Astros can pull it out and win this thing".

Jerry Izenberg's Greatest Game Ever Played is a review and analysis of Game 6 of the 1986 National League Championship, a duel between the New York Mets and Houston Astros. Replete with player biographies and an in-depth study of key plays throughout the series, this book is a must-read for any baseball fan, but particularly those in New York and Houston who reminisce about the Greatest Game Ever Played, Knepper vs. Ojeda.

Howard "Hopalong" Cassidy, Rex Kern, Archie Griffin and many more memories of Saturday afternoons in the "Shoe"

With so many Ohio State books out after the national title season, this book does a great job of capturing the essence of the final seasons. This is a must have for Ohio State fans to remember the greatest moments in Ohio State history, particularly the Fiesta Bowl season.