Dixon's book, while exploring aspects of Organisational Communication in a competent manner, fails to hold the attention of the "lower-academic" reader, also known as Undergraduates or even those below the Doctorate level. It employs bombastic words and sentence structure is wa too long for normal comprehension. I know that this book is adopted as a text in some University classes and would sympathise with those students not only having to grasp the ideas behind the book but to understand the form of language used in the book itself. Finally, while sufficiently researched and credible, it lacks readeability

This 1965 (not 1969 as printed above) issued Ballantine paperback is an honest to goodness 'how to' book on the art of surfing, ummm, I mean sport of surfing. Back in the 1960's when people actually built things and were self-taught in their endeavours, as opposed to today's world when we buy everything off the shelf and can take courses on practically anything, a book like this was probably a godsend to every midwestern kook and gremlin wannabe out there, for this book literally covers everything from the history of the surfing, to how waves are made by mother ocean, to how man has contrived to ride them over time, to how one can do it today, circa 1965 and even to building a board of one's own. Oddly, for a paperback, the text is heavily sprinkled with really great photographic examples of such things as the 'quasimodo,' 'hanging five,' wake surfing, pearling, trimming, carving and stalling, keeping in mind that surf photography then was done with Brownies, Leicas and box cameras. It's all done in a tone of earnestness too which makes the book that much better. Anyone who has a love of and interest in the history of surfing should probably at least read this book and should probably own it. I mean, who knew that France has been an European surf mecca since the 1950's, or that so few spots in California were surfed back then (yep, primo California surf spots are mapped)? Finally one of the really great sections of the book is its discussion of modern surfboard design (with requisite diagrams). Let's face it, if you've read this far you're gonna buy this book, and you should!

WBPT, Bayport's local TV station is being sabotaged by a villain calling himself the Masked Marauder and it's up to Frank and Joe to stop him before he puts WBPT off the air permanently. For fans of the series, like myself, that are mostly familiar with the lower volumes, this book is different; the book is shorter than the low volumes and the writing style has changed. The plot reminded me of something I would have seen on an old episode of Scooby-Doo, just written better and more seriously. The book has plenty of action and it's centered around the mystery (instead of something like "At the top of the staircase Frank tripped and went flying down the stairs"). I'd recommend this book to fans of the higher volumes and for fans of the lower volumes who are looking to try some of the higher volumes; this would be a good one with which to start.

The Hardys go to Hawaii to see a total eclipse. But as soon as the sun is covered by the moon, a murder takes place. This is another average Hardy Boys book. Plenty of action, but nothing extraordinary.

Deep trouble is an okay kids book - adventure, treasure, and a touch of education. It's not the best Hardy Boys book out there, but it's okay.

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Odon Von Horvath was an Austrian contemporary of Brecht's, and although he rejects ideology and the formal principles of Epic theatre, there is something Brechtian in the way his characters argue by hurling dialectical aphorisms at each other.

'figaro gets divorced' is his most famous play, and reintroduces the famous quartet of Beaumarchais' 'Barber of Seville' and 'Marriage of Figaro' - the Count and Countess Almaviva; their married servants, Figaro and Susanna - seven years later, or over a hundred - we first see them flee an unnamed Revolution, not unlike the Russian one.

It may be distressing to see Beaumarchais' farcical subversion made heavy and Germanic in a three-hours, thirteen-tableaux political drama. The impish Figaro soon leaves his anachronistic employers to become, once more, a barber, this time in a sleepy, ultra-conformist, soon-to-be-Nazi German town. The bourgeoisification of this free, cynical spirit stifles his wife, and she has a brutal affair. Sex in this play is no longer, as in Beaumarchais, an expression of power, just an admission of defeat.

Figaro returns to the Communist State to become a prominent apparatchik; Susanna waitresses at a White cabaret where all the menials are ex-royalty; Almaviva gets embroiled in debilitating gambling and criminal activities. A lot of goodwill for these characters is carried over from Beaumarchais, Mozart and Rossini, so when we watch their inexorable decline, it's hard to know whether it is our memories, or Von Horvath's writing that affects us.

Certainly, there is something powerful about watching the spirit of one Revolution grimly debased in the age of another; and there is a vivid intensity to the playwright's expert tableaux. The dialogue initially seems lumpenly didactic until we realise that it is didacticism he analyses and undermines. Hearteningly, despite all the despair and misery, Von Horvath doesn't forget he's writing in an important tradition of comedy. More please.

Someone wants to kill a champion surfer. In steps Frank and Joe. This is really nothing new for a Hardy Boys book. Fast paced action and stuff like that, but it's not nearly the best of the series.

Frank and Joe Hardy aid their friend Phil Cohen in trying to find a missing software designer. A true computer "nerd" would really love this story because of all of the high tech gadgets that almost do in the Hardys. A weak spot is that a couple of loose ends are not tied up, such as when the boys' van gets totalled as they are trying to avoid exploding computerized bats, and no mention is ever made as to how they will recoup their loss. One would figure that some mention might be made that the computer company's president awards them with a brand new van for helping save his company. Little things like this prevent the newer stories from being as well-written as the older ones.

The Hardy Boys go to Mexico to investigate stolen artifacts. This kids book has plenty of fast paced action, but it's far from being the best in this series.