Buy this book now!!!!

From routine to feel to rhythm to confidence, Rotella provides in this good read the mental expertise he has demonstrated in his work with golfing greats. Now, it's here for all golfers.

I find to listen to the tape on the way to the course helps prepare me for a great day of putting.

As for me, I will eagerly await his new book...

P.S. Now I only wish all NYC's cabbies were friendly and interesting like him!

After the lost of Rhodes the Knights move to the island of Malta which they make of the best fortress and start their naval attack against the Ottoman Empire, at the beginning it was saw by the Turks as minor raids but as the year pass the problem grow and the small community of crazy fanatics in Malta begin to create trouble to the powerfull Emperor Suliman, an amazing amry was prepare to destroy this small island but Christians Hold the powerfull attack of the Artillery and the the Janissary corps.

Well done work, a unique glimpse into warfare in the RENAISSANCE. Also check The Shield and the Sword:The Knights of St. John by Ernle Bradford and for more reference the books of Tim Pickles describes in a small way the epic siege with alot of nice maps and illustration but is my sincere opinion that the book of Mr. Bradford is one of the best resource.
From Osprey also check The Janissaries (Elite,No 58)by David Nicolle, for a deeper work on the Warfare in the Mediterranean The Barbary Corsairs of Jacques Heers is a Excellent book.

Ernle Bradford gives a clear and informative account of the events of the siege, based on good research. There is no need for him to dramatise the story. This is compelling reading and a story that tells itself.

If you don't know this story you have to read it. No excuses, believe me, you want to read this story. History never was as good as this in school.

This book does not have five stars for nothing. Listen to me, you have to read it. (anyone would think I was on commission here).

all the earlier reviews saying this novel was inspiring are true, at least i think so. i read the book in under a week and this was back in the days when i hated reading and dragged a book out for weeks on end until i finally finished it or just gave up.

i felt the book was worth every second i took to read it. it actually inspired me to give it my all for an entire day! that's something. i've read this book a few years ago, but i still remember it. one scene that still sticks in my mind was when emma and edward were in the garden and she told him she was pregnant. when she broke the news to him that she would leave, he didn't ask WHERE she was going, but WHEN she was leaving. i was like WHAT!?

The back cover of this addition compares Red Sky At Morning to The Catcher In The Rye. But there are few similarities that I can draw between the two books. Two struggling teenage boys, yes, but totally different personalities.

Catcher In The Rye - In short, Holden cracked. His brother died and Holden had so many emotional problems that he ended up in a mental hospital. (It's hard to catch but in last chapter Holden makes reference to "psychoanalyst guys." The entire story is not being told to the reader, but to a psychiatrist).

Red Sky At Morning - Josh is composed and has control over emotions. He is able to take charge of things and responsibility for other people, such as his mother. He narrates the book in a way that lets the reader understand that he has control. Things are said bluntly and firmly, he doesn't question anything.

Josh has control, Holden does not.

Being from the Southwest would probably help the reader's interest. There are some parts of the culture that could be new to the reader, (just as they are to from-Alabama-Josh). This isn't a standard required reading assignment for people who don't live in New Mexico just for that reason.

But for those of you who don't a) have to read it for a class or b) aren't comparing it to The Catcher In The Rye, it is a funny, touching book, with a little bit of a Southwestern twist. Setting is everything in this story, and it brings an atmosphere that can either captivate or discourage a new reader.

My opinion: give it a try, try to read with an open mind, and don't analyze too much.

I, too, grew up in the "real" Sagrado. In fact, Bradford's son and I were briefly acquainted as teenagers. I think the book is more autobiographical than Bradford would like to admit; my aunt has said that almost all of the teenaged characters were recognizable as actual people at the local high school at that time--especially Chango.

Any time I'm homesick, all I have to do is reread the book and I'm right back home again. I'm glad that so many people from so many walks of life have enjoyed it as much as I have. It totally captures, very affectionately, all of the GOOD things about Northern New Mexico--things you wish would stay the same forever.

It's like Catcher in the Rye, but it's warmer. It lovingly represents the wholly unique people of Northern New Mexico, who are unlike people anywhere else in the world. But it also reflects human nature and adaptation through scenes of humor, pain, the clashing and meshing of cultures, and the inevitable unwelcome changes that come with the passage of time. Red Sky at Morning bears witness to the coming of age of Joshua Arnold--the futile battle to remain young and untouched by the uglier side of the world, the bittersweet and inevitable transformation of boy to man. It was originally an allegory, I believe, parelleling Josh's growing pains with those of a post-war America. Ironically, it is now an allegory for what has become of the "real" Corazon, Sagrado--full of bittersweet memories--the end of an old road and the beginning of newer, less innocent one.

Just beware: you won't be able to put it down and you WILL read it again and again. It really is that good.

Josh, himself, is a smart kid. Perhaps it's because his author is pretty sharp himself as youthful ignorance seems to be missing in much of Josh's observations and narration. Nevertheless, this story takes me back so smoothly, successfully and with such wonderful dead-pan humor that I made time for it almost every night before my eyes slammed shut until I'd read the whole thing. Now I ache for my kids to add this book to their reading experience. Once I read with incredulity of that Southern delicacy called Coca-Cola ham I was hooked and laughed my way through the rest of the book. I fervently hope my kids will too.

My wife is Mexican-American. I was always jealous of the kids that could speak Spanish in school and thus maintain their privacy in a crowd. That makes our kids half Mexican and our son speaks it regularly with his abuela. Our daughter, welllll... I delved into my Spanish/English dictionary, and my wife's knowledge, many times throughout this book because it thrills me to learn what I can of this language in an everyday setting. This being the case, it makes this book doubly good for those who have an interest (if you don't you ought to) in our country's "second" language. Even though many of the phrases may be from a era strange to us now it opens a wonderful and accurate picture into the Hispanic community in a much simpler time. This book will help those of us outside the Hipanic community understand the pride that comes from being born into it and the distinct priviledge of being welcomed into it.

I highly recommend this book to beginners, who want to understand the fundamentals of business planning, as well as to experienced professionals, who can benefit greatly by streamlining their planning processes.

This book may be a disappointment for those who want expedition photographs as few of the photographs include people. Indeed, having a few more pictures of people would have warranted five stars. Yet, many of the pictures are aerial photographs so the lack of people in many is not surprising. What makes it ultimately worthwhile is the crispness of the pictures, the attention to details on the ridges and valleys of the mountains, the patterns revealed in the flow of glaciers, and so on.

One other point of interest is that this book was the Grand Prize Winner of the 2000 Banff Mountain Book Festival -- the only pure photography book to win that award.