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My dad did a tremendous job pulling alot of these memories from his childhood throughout the years. The book is from the heart and brings out what the true tribe fan has gone through.

This book hits on all cylinders. Few thought Long could possibly top his classic rookie effort, "Browns Memories," but once again, Long has stunned readers with his literary prowess. "Indians Memories" is truly a masterpiece-- and Long-- a legend in the making.

I had read about this book several months back, and, having followed Ferrari Formula 1 racing since the early 1970s, I had to have it. The photography is excellent, although most of the pictures are behind the scenes at Maranello or at various racing circuits around the world. The cars and the crews definitely take frontstage here, with the drivers being mentioned secondarily.

The author and photographer were given access to the team during the time that Rubens Barrichello was Michael Schumacher's teammate. This was definitely the modern golden age of Ferrari, with 5 straight driver's championships for Schumacher. The insider information is nice, but if you really follow Formula 1 you have probably heard much of this before.

What I liked best was the section featuring the tour of Enzo Ferrari's old office, the comparison of the racing and road car divisions of the factory, and the details of both Maranello and Fiorano, the two test tracks that Ferrari owns. The fact that the team can take the cars out, run full racing lengths daily, wet down the track as needed to test tires, etc. shows how important racing is to the workers that have taken Ferrari to the pinnacle of the pinnacle of motorsport.

At the price, this book is a steal. Stop reading and buy it!

I bought this book for my dad for Christmas. We are huge Ferrari fans and it's great to have a book on Ferrari that has some authenticity... there are stax of book on Ferrari, the cars, the F1 team and so on, but few of them have any real ties to the factory.

This is where this book is different. The foreword is by Jean Todt, the photographer is a hugely respected F1 photographer and the guy who wrote the bits between the photos is one of the most successful F1 writers around - a great recipe!

The authors were given exclusive access to Ferrari. Anyone who has been to the factory will know how secretive and restricted it is for visitors and appreciate seeing this hidden side of Ferrari.

If you are a Ferrari fan, you will want to add this one to your collection!

It's very motivational and also provided several strategies to help our call center perform better. We have retention and hiring issues. We also have difficulty with consistency in our center. This book gave our supervisors great ideas! The consistent theme we all agreed after listening to this book was "People Matter"!

Our company always looks for ongoing training materials for our call center management team. This audio book is exactly what we were looking for. It is divided into chapters, and we conducted a team meeting about each chapter after listening. I highly recommend this audio book for anybody who supervises a call center. It is PACKED with creative ideas - we're going to listen to Inspiring Call Center Performance, and use the information to motivate our agents.

Ray Pelletier has done it again! In his straightforward, candid approach, he makes great points - then backs them up with REAL LIFE examples. It's no wonder he consulted with so many companies. Having seen him speak LIVE, his passion for delighting customers is easy to see.

Mr. Pelletier's work is inspirational and practical. He has an uncanny understanding of true enthusiasm. Indisputably a must read.

The way this book reads is a direct analogy to the Jaguars. A quick and powerful example of how to write and how to win correctly. The Andre Rison anedote and Tom Coughlin's use of fear to gain respect were excellent. With the Jaguars poised to make a run at the Super Bowl, I look forward to seeing a following on this model franchise by these two gifted writers.

Anyone who regularly reads the Florida Times Union sports page would expect that John Oesher and Pete Prisco could provide this fascinating and sometimes provocative story of how this world class franchise was put together. The pair's sensibility and willingness to force Coach Coughlin's respect lends to a short but compelling read.

John Elway: Armed and Dangerous, by Clay Latimer, is a must for the John Elway and Denver Bronco fans. It is an easy to read book on Elway's career and personal life filled with quotes from players and unknown stories about other football greats. It sometimes drags a little as it gets off the subject quite a bit.

This book is a great read for Bronco and Elway fans of any age. It chronicles the life of John Elway from the time he was a child, through college and his joining of the Broncos, to his victory against the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXII. Black and white pictures are included with each chapter, and the center section 14 pages of color photos, as well. The author (Clay Lattimer) is a sports writer for the Rocky Mountain News, and he also draws on Sports Illustrated, Becket Football Monthly, and even Newsweek, as well as several other sports sources, so he packs a lot of information, dates, and statistics into each chapter. He also packs a lot of superfluous detail, too -- the writing meanders a bit and doesn't always stay on focus. But hey -- if you're an Elway fan (like me), who cares? The book is fun to read even in the places where it goes off topic. If there was such a thing as a "definitive" biography of an Elway, this would probably be it. If you're an Elway fan, get this book and enjoy it!

Don't be fooled by gower's reputation as a stern moralist, the Confessio is an entertaining collection of mini tales (exempla) told to illuminate the seven deadly sins. While Gower's not as humorous as Chaucer or Bocaccio, it's not a dreary sermon. Accessible, glossed text with good into. Note this is vol 1 of 2(?) only, & it's arranged rather oddly, with the prologue, book 1 and book 8 included in this volume, but for my money, book 8's Tale of Apollonius is the best of the lot in any case.

John Gower has been almost forgotten outside the confines of medieval studies, having been, in the modern mind, thoroughly eclipsed by his good friend Geoffrey Chaucer. Despite scurrilous accusations of pedantic morality, Gower is quite an entertaining author to read if one accepts that one cannot read all of the Confessio Amantis (Confession of the Lover) in a single sitting. The Confessio, like Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales consists of a series of tales told within a frame narrative, which in this case is the dream vision experienced by the lover Amans. Amans dreams that he comes into the presence of Venus, the goddess of love, and begs her to grant him his lady's love. Venus declares that he must first be shriven, and lends her own confessor, Genius, for this purpose. Genius in turn not only puts Amans through confession, but gives a tutorial on love and self-governance in terms of the Vices and Virtues. Following this pattern, each book of the Confessio focuses on one Vice and its countering Virtue, giving illustrative stories which provide context and examples of "real-life" application. Many of the stories are drawn from classical and Biblical materials, and despite the mild difficulty of a Middle English presentation will be familiar to the modern reader. Even those that are not are often entertaining and illuminating, though readers should be warned that Book 7 contains voluminous catalogs of knowledge which can be very tedious.

The Confessio contains a total of eight books plus a Prologue; this particular volume (Vol. 1 of three) of the TEAMS edition contains the Prologue, Book 1, and Book 8. Volume 2 (Books 2, 3, and 4) is currently available, and Volume 3 (Books 5, 6, and 7) should be published sometime during 2005. The TEAMS editions are quite useful for all ranges of readers, whether one has a casual interest in Medieval literature or a more focused academic interest in the material. The extensive introduction to the Confessio provides both an introduction to Gower himself and Russell Peck's explanation of the three books of the Confessio covered by the volume. Within the text itself, side glosses help the inexperienced reader of Middle English understand the language, and (see note) annotations direct the reader to explanatory notes that might help to illuminate confusing textual references. In addition, the volume contains textual notes which reveal both the editor's emendations and variants from other MS (Fairfax 3 is the base text; Bodley 902 and 294 were checked for variants) and another edition (that of G. C. Macaulay) of the Confessio.

I read the book The Junction Boys: How Ten Days in Hell with Bear Bryant Forged a Championship Team, written by Jim Dent. The book is a nonfiction book about the legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and his Texas A&M football team. In my own words the theme of this book is, don't ever give up, no matter how stressful anything is, don't ever give up. Bear Bryant is known as one of the greatest coaches ever. One question you could ask about this book is, is why does Bryant always state that his 1-9 Texas A&M team his favorite team he has every coached?
One hot August day in 1954, two busses sped through a two-lane highway. Those buses were on their way to Junction, Texas where the players would soon arrive at the infamous dirt field. The field was filled with rocks, cactus, dust, and gnarled mesquite trees. The Texas A&M football program has been in a dreadful drought. Coach Bryant will eventually turn that around but at the same time he would be killing them. He came to Texas to teach a football team how to play his kind of football. Hard, fast, smash mouth football. He pushed his players through the toughest drills you could think of. Every night at least one or two people couldn't stand the throwing up anymore, they would try and escape the dreadful 10-day training camp back to College Station. The many men who survived defiantly did not regret it, because the Aggie's would top the rankings and be the nations best.
I thought this book is very intense, here is just one bit of evidence, "Practice is worse than hell when we don't get any water breaks." This quote is very intriguing and shows me that Coach Bryant doesn't give a damn about his players. It all matters to him in the end of the week on game day. The book overall was a good book, I thought the book explained in great detail about how tough the practices were. It's nothing that a TV show or a movie could explain. On the other hand I thought the author could have explained in more detail about the games that they played in. In the end I thought the book gave a good amount of information and facts and that the information made the book better. If you are a football fan, I strongly recommend this book to you. The junction Boys is a great learning experience for not only football players but for everyone.

After watching The Junction Boys on ESPN, I knew I had to read this book. Of course the movie barely scratched the surface of the story. Jim Dent does an excellent job of bringing the historical events of Aggie football in the early 50s to life. I'm not a big fan of college football, and know very little about Texas A&M; however, after reading this book I wanted to know more about Paul Bryant and college football. You don't have to be a football fan to enjoy this book. Coach Bryant's philosophy of life would serve us all well--hell, he should have been president. Of the 30+ players that survived Coach Bryant's 10 day boot camp from Hell, many went on to successful careers in business, football, and coaching. The success of his students is testament to his abilities as a leader, teacher, and coach. Jim Dent makes it palatable in this book.

I recently purchased The Undefeated by Jim Dent, which is a story of the Oklahoma Sooners, and have found it equally enjoyable. Jim Dent is a great writer, and I'm thankful to have discovered him.

This Is My FAVORITE book of all time!This is the Story:

It's about Roy Tucker.He crashes in a plane,and hurts his leg.

I'm not gonna tell you anymore.Just buy it to find out.Plain and simple.

BUY IT!

One of the most interesting books in the Tunis series about the Brooklyn Dodgers, "The Kid Comes Back" is very unusual in that it's not really about baseball so much as it is about courage. Roy Tucker ("The Kid From Tomkinsville") serves in the U.S. Army during the Second World War in Europe, where he suffers an injury in battle. This book deals with what he goes through in the war effort, his rehabilitation and his difficult return to major league baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Tunis, who also wrote "Silence Over Dunkirk," is extremely effective at letting younger readers know what WWII was like. He also does a masterful job of painting a word picture of what it was like for veterans to come back to an America that had changed while they were gone. Of all the Tunis books, this (to me) is the best. The "gee whiz" tone of the first four books in the series is subdued, and a very strong storyline carries all the way through.

The "Young Left-hander" compiled a great recap of GT Football history as seen from the sidelines and pressbox. A must have for any Tech fan!

This book is phenomenal!! If you are a Tech fan read this now!! A great history of the last half decade of Tech football!!! Kim King delivers his story of the ups and downs of the Ramblin Wreck over the last half century!! Check it out!!