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REVIEW OF A GUITAR INSTRUCTION BOOK
Great book! really broke down the notes help me look at the art of guitarplaying in a different way. I really uderstood it I would recomend it toanyone! Even a beginner could understand it. Sincerely, Pete.E.Ramirez ... Read more

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Philip Moorley a Change Master?
I have used this book for the past three semesters in my MBA class Organizational Theory and Behavior at the University of St. Thomas inMinneapolis. Students like the book because it is written as a novel. Theyidentify with the main character and see the types of dilemmas that changebrings for the leader of an organization. They also appreciate that thebook is international taking place on England. Some of the cultural aspectsof the company's culture become evident and are central to the changestory. Students also like the fact that personal and business issues areillustrated causing us to discuss relocation, stress and family balanceissues. I like the book for these reasons as well. In addition, Iappreciate that Warner presents change as an imporatant business processwith a language, tools, concepts and steps like other important businessprocesses.I recommend this book to faculty who teach organizationalbehavior courses, to students of change and to business leaders caught upin thge dilemmas of change. ... Read more

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Great Introduction to "New" Scottish Writing
An excellent introduction to "new Scottish writing" this collection features one short story each from Irvine Welsh (Filth, Trainspotting, Ecstacy Club, Maribou Stork Nightmare), Alan Warner (MorvernCallar, These Demented Lands,The Sopranos), Gordon Legge (The Shoe, InBetween Talking About the Football), James Meek (Drivetime), Laura Hird,and Paul Reekie. Gordon Legge's "Pop Life" is a gruffly tenderportrait of three friends who've grown up and apart. Alan Warner's"After the Vision" is typically long on tone and atmosphere as itfollows a stranded raver trying to find a place to sleep until the morningtrain. James Meek's "Brown Pint of Courage" amusingly depicts atrio of parking ticket writers who blow off their job. Paul Reekie's"The Submission" was perhaps the lesser of the six stories,written as a long rambling letter to a friend. The most "sexy"story is by the lone female entrant, Laura Hird, whose "The DilatingPupil" is about a middle-aged teacher and a female student who havedesigns on each other which are derailed in a night of booze and drugs.Irvine Welsh's "The Rosewell Incident" is the shallowest, butpossibly funniest read of the lot. It throws together alien abduction and"lads" in an unholy alliance to rule the world. A bit silly butfun. The collection as a whole is well worth checking out if you want tosee what the Scottish kids are up to. ... Read more

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The Warner Collection
This book is a must for anyone interested in American folksongs. It ranks right up there with the Lomax, Beldon, Hunter, and Randolph collections. It may be hard to find, and a bit pricey, but well worth the effort. I'd give it ten stars if the rating would go that high. You will enjoy this collection.
Michael Breid, a.k.a.Arkansas Red-Ozark Troubadour
Ozark Mountains, Arkansas

I can't believe what an incredible book this is.
You may go to this book to find out about the Warner's fascinatingsong-collecting trips begun in western North Carolina in 1938 and lastinginto the 1960s, but you'll find an amazing repertoire of songs waiting tobe sung.

Tom Dooley is the song Frank Proffitt sang to the Warners longago. The Kingston Trio heard Frank Warner sing it in the 1950s and made ittheir signature song. But it is only one of hundreds of songs that theworld is waiting to hear.

Read the words of rural America in the voice ofLee Monroe Presnell, Yankee John Galusha or Grammy Fish. These are singersthe Lomaxes would have spent a lot of tape on.

The songs themselves wouldbe enough, but this is a book full of Anne Warner's scholarship andthoughtful treatment of her subject. Frank Warner's photographs will takeyou to a far off place. ... Read more