This book contains the partitures of the songs mentioned in Uppercase in the Editorial's review and the lyrics for all the other songs of this great rock-opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber. The partitures are written for piano, with chords for guitar and lyrics, and are quite faithful to the original songs. They aren't difficult, so you can play them without too much troubles and remember with pleasure the voices of Yvonne Elliman, Carl Anderson, Ted Neeley and the other artists. This book doesn't give you a complete satisfaction if you are instead looking for a more "seriously" thing, with all the partitures including the instrumental songs.

The songs included in this book are Heaven on Their Minds, Everything's Alright, Hosanna, Pilate's Dream, Last Supper, Gethsemane, King Herod's Song, and Superstar. A few things should be noted: Firstly, Heaven on their Minds does not include the "all gone sour" last four verses that are used in live productions of jcs. Instead the song is written to fade away. That might present a problem to people performing or using that song for an audition. The last supper only includes the chorus that the apostles sing. Superstar is tuned to a C instead of the original E that is on all of the recordings and live productions. Other than that, all the other keys are the same as you might hear them on cd recordings, 1973 movie, and live productions. Chords are also included for guitar players.

I bought this book when it first came out and love all the nice vocal selections in them. Now that it is the Lenten Season... Great time to go back and play and listen to them again on my old LPs! Have a nice day! BUY THE BOOK!

Having read this book two thoughts come up:
1. They should have had much more in-depth data, why stick so much to the surface ?
2. Is their overview of ways to deal with radical innovation comprehensive ?

Seen the impressive list of authors and the impressive research they've done the book is disappointing. Maybe because they were limited on what they could disclose, time pressure etc.

To learn more about dealing with radical innovation I recommend the books 'Corporate Venturing, 'Intrapreneuring', 'Webs of Innovation', 'The Innovators Dilemma'.

So should you read 'Radical Innovation ? Well if you're active in the field it should be on your shelves, otherwise I wouldn't spend my dollars on it.

I think this book will have the greatest value if read in combination with Yoffie and Kwak's Judo Strategy. Why? Because the authors of that book correctly stress the importance of maximizing organizational speed, agility, balance, and leverage in any competitive marketplace. What they do not address (except perhaps indirectly or by implication) is the importance of radical innovation which, more often than not, proves to be a decisive competitive advantage. Indeed, the seven authors of the book I am about to review identify "Seven Challenges in Managing Radical Innovation" (see Table 1-1 on page 8) and meeting these challenges effectively indeed requires maximizing organizational speed, agility, balance, and leverage. Obviously, no single volume asks all "the right questions," much less provides "all the right answers." Hence the importance of carefully correlating the ideas from several different sources. I also strongly Michael Hammer's The Agenda which offers a "model" by which decision-makers in any organization (regardless of its size or nature) can determine appropriate priorities and then set appropriate objectives before formulating strategies and tactics by which to achieve those objectives.

The subtitle of this book ("How Mature Companies Can Outsmart Upstarts") reminds me of Jack Welch's comments when explaining why he admires "small and sleek" companies:

"For one, they communicate better. Without the din and prattle of bureaucracy, people listen as well as talk; and since there are fewer of them they generally know and understand each other. Second, small companies move faster. They know the penalties for hesitation in the marketplace. Third, in small companies, with fewer layers and less camouflage, the leaders show up very clearly on the screen. Their performance and its impact are clear to everyone. And, finally, smaller companies waste less. They spend less time in endless reviews and approvals and politics and paper drills. They have fewer people; therefore they can only do the important things. Their people are free to direct their energy and attention toward the marketplace rather than fighting bureaucracy."

For those who seek radical innovation in so-called "mature" companies, the challenges which the authors of this book identify are obviously much greater than they are for those in the "small and sleek" companies which Welch admires. A majority of upstarts pursue a "judo strategy" (in one form or another) because they lack the resources of their much larger competitors. (David had no chance if he wrestled Goliath.) For that reason, they cannot afford incremental innovation. They must take bold, decisive action when and where it will have the greatest impact.

When explaining what they call an "imperative," the authors of this book make a critically important distinction: "...incremental innovation usually emphasizes cost or feature improvements in existing products or services and is dependent on exploitation competencies. In contrast, radical innovation concerns the development of new businesses or product lines -- based on new ideas or technologies or substantial cost reductions -- that transform the economics of a business, and therefore require exploration competencies." This is indeed a key distinction.

Much of the material in this book was generated by the authors' research over a period of five years (1995-2000) which followed the development and commercialization activities of 12 radical innovation projects in 10 large, established ("mature") firms. For the authors, a radical innovation project must have the potential to produce one or more of these results: an entirely new set of performance features, improvements in known performance features of five times or greater, and/or a significant (i.e. 30% or more) reduction in cost. What the authors learned from the research serves as the foundation of their conclusions; also of what they recommend to those who seek radical innovation in their own organization. All of the ideas presented are anchored in an abundance of real-world experience. Although this brilliant book's greatest value may be derived by decision-makers in "mature" companies, I think substantial value can also be derived by decision-makers in the "upstarts" with which such companies as DuPont, General Electric, General Motors, IBM, and Texas Instruments will continue to compete. One final point: All of the "mature" companies discussed in this book were once "upstarts" themselves. How revealing that all of them are now so hard at work on regaining or preserving certain competitive advantages which once served them so well.

Very succinct yet comprehensive. It has key advice on the marketing, finance, and people skills necessary to see a new idea advance to a great new product. This book should be required reading for all MBA students, managers, and anyone who has the dream of a great new idea but is unsure as to how to make it come real. Although the title states that the book focuses on how more established companies can create environments to promote radical innovations, the information can readily be applied to any firm regardless of length of operations - and yes, to individuals.

The authors present a list of 7 challenges that face the radical innovator and then they provide the competencies, or skills, that are necessary to meet these challenges. Throughout the text, real-life examples from well-known firms help the reader to understand how these challenges come about, and to even recognize a challenge should it present itself. The examples do tend to focus on radical innovations that are new technological products, but the recommendations could also be applied to other new ideas such as new management systems or organizational structures.

Let me mention upfront that I live on Block Island. Not a native, but I moved here and live on the Island year round. I got the book because of the nature of it's setting, not the storyline or the author.
I found the book slow without a "hook" to keep my interest. The storyline is unimaginative. The "real" story, it seems, is the Island and island live and characters. To that end the author goes to great pains to write as if she actually knew anything about the island. However, beyond some topographical knowledge, she has none. Indeed, she completely distorts the live and people here. To be sure, we actually have a complete police department, Police Chief and all. Moreover they do live in nice homes, not broken down lean-tos. As for the "rich" natives riding in customized, fancy cars, I have never seen a single one. These are just a few examples of many.
Now don't get me wrong, I believe very much in "poetic license" but not under the cloak of personal, intimate knowledge of a place and people. Clearly, as the previous reviews show, the author dupes readers with her alleged knowledge when in reality there is none. In an interview to our local paper she explained this complete lack of local knowledge and distortion by calling her work "fiction". I would accept her rational, had she desribed a "fictional" place. Instead the author has gone through all her pains of picking a real place, seemingly describing this real place and people who live here.
So - if you like slow, unimaginative stories about a real location distorted by ignorance, this one's for you.

Block Island is the perfect place for FBI agent Poppy Rice to recuperate--along with her lover, ATF agent Joe Barnow. Admittedly, the law on Block Island is comprised of one aging Constable and an alcoholic state trooper, but that's all right. There was never any crime on Block Island. At least there wasn't until Poppy almost runs over the body of an overweight teenage girl twisted and tortured in death.

A con man has opened a camp for overweight girls on Block Island and someone is targetting the girls. Joe goes into retreat, unwilling to accept the possibility that his island harbors a serpent in its heart, so it's up to Poppy, along with alcoholic Fitzy, to get to the bottom of the case. Bumbling officials in Rhode Island and in the Center for Disease Control end up making things more difficult for Poppy.

Author Mary-Ann Tirone Smith writes a compelling page turner. Her descriptions of the people of this north-eastern island are convincing and three-dimensional. Poppy is sympathetic and smart, without being superwoman. I especially enjoyed the character of Fitzy--a hugely damaged individual who battles himself and his own fears.

DC based FBI Agent Poppy Rice and her boyfriend ATF Field Advisor Joe Barnow go on a "required" vacation on Block Island, Rhode Island after her harrowing war in Texas (see LOVE HER MADLY). While riding a bike, Poppy finds the corpse of a teen.

Poppy performs her civil duty by calling the police. A local physician concludes that the female victim died from using bad drugs, but an autopsy proves Dana was clean plus there were external injuries on the body. Three days later, a second teen is found dead. The two share in common attendance at Camp Guinevere, a camp for the obese. Police Officer Francis X. Fitzgerald investigates the homicides, but Poppy finds him and the "medical examiner lacking as the former spends most of his time drinking and the latter under the influence of a prescription drug. Thus Poppy does what she does best, conducting her own inquiries as to whom killed the two overweight farm campers even as the island is quarantined due to a reported plague epidemic.

In her second engagement Poppy Rice remains a wonderful law enforcement investigator who cannot resist involvement even when it could cost her life. The "dual" investigations (local vs. Poppy) are fun to compare as one seems indifferently amateurish while the other passionately professionalism. Joe enables the reader to see the feminine side Of Poppy while the islanders add quirky amusing peculiarities to an enjoyable tale that means forty-eight states and several territories to go.

Harriet Klausner

This book is good and bad. The reason is these writers write an essay based on Anne's books. It might be interesting to the reader or not. But the main problem is that in some essays, the essays is not really talking about the books but a particular subject. If you are want to read a book that has an in-depth look at the books, this book is not it. I did buy it for the history of Making of Interview with the Vampire. And two short stories Anne wrote. So try it out a little. Read a little and if it sparks your interest then buy it otherwise wait for it to come to the library

I think that this is an excellent book - I enjoyed it tremendously. An employee at the Garden District Book Shop in New Orleans recommended reading this book before I read Violin, and she was correct - I understood Violin much better. I think that this is a must read for any and all Anne Rice fans. And if you are not a fan, there is a good chance you will be after you have read this book. Wonderful!

"In the first place please bear in mind that I do not expect you to believe this story," says our narrator in the opening line of "At the Earth's Core," the first book in the Pellucidar Series by Edgar Rice Burroughs. The narrator is young David Innes, who joins Professor Abner Perry in test driving a mechanical prospector drill that develops steering problems and takes the duo down, down, deep into the earth. Just about as they think they are about to die they pass through the earth's crust and into the core world of Pellucidar. The world is inhabited by sloth-like "Dyryths" and the Sagoths, agile man-apes with tails. Captured by these latter creatures, Innes and Perry are taken before the Mahars, a race of sentientt flying dinosaurs, what Abener identifis as "A rhamphorhynchus of the Middle Olitic." The Mahars are the overlords of Pellucidar, enslaving the Mezops, the human-like inhabitants of the inner world. Innes wants to bring the Mahars' reign of terror to an end, but he has another problem, to wit, a love triangle with Dian the Beautiful and Jubal the Ugly. At least the characters in Edgar Rice Burroughs novels pick up primitive and/or other wordly languages within the span of a chapter.

There is something nostalgic about these old ERB novels with their standard opening where the narrator asks us to treat the unbelievable story we are about to hear as true. "At the Earth's Core" was originally published in "All-Story" magazine from April 4 to April 25, 1914. It was ERB's tenth published novel at a point where he had written the first two Tarzan novels and the first three Mars books. The Pellucidar series was probably his third best series, coming ahead of the Carson of Venus books. The trade off here is that the adventure is fun but the dialogue wears thin quickly (how many times can the native of Pellucidar comment on our hero's ignorance of the ways of the inner world). Besides, David and Dian are are a second rate John Carter and Dejah Thoris (i.e., do not do the Pellucidar novels until you have enjoyed the Mars series). This is one of the few non-Tarzan novels that made it to the big screen, albeit with some of the worst fake dinosaurs for the Mahars you have ever seen. The book is better, so stick with it. Besides, there are more adventures for David and Abner in the rest of the series.

Burroughs keeps a vigorous pace to this story, with many fine bits of story telling. The terrors in the Mahar temple is one of my favourites! Along with the Martian series, this would have to be amongst the most enjoyable of his books.

Don't be fooled by the title of this book which should be more appropriately named, "The Whole Grain Japanese Macrobiotic Cookbook". That is what it is! That is ok, however I wrongly assumed what the contents were when I ordered it online. There are very few recipes for breads and 90%+ of the main recipes call for ingredients such as: mochi, burdock, nori, daikon, amazake, kombu, soba, etc... Being non-Japanese, I have no idea what these are and unfortunately, in a very rural community, I doubt I could find them. Also, if you are allergic to CORN, a lot of corn products are called for.

This is by far the best whole grain book available using the powerful macrobiotic principles of healthy balance. I highly recommend it! The recipes are simple, easy to follow and clear. Since it is out of print, get it while used copies are still availble

When I met Wesley Brown in 1998, I was a college student and the professor of a class I was taking (who was friends with Professor Brown) was able to convince him to visit the class (The Black Novel) so we could ask him questions about Darktown Strutters. It was the kinda thing where we absolutely HAD to read the book, lest we embarrass our professor and get him ticked off at us. Fearing a possible bad grade, then, I obviously read the entire book. But I really enjoyed it. The book is valuable for many reasons, but two distinct things I liked were: (a) its historical accuracy and clarity with respect to Jim Crow laws and the advent of Vaudeville, and (b) the "your momma"-style, sharp street barbs traded back and forth by the characters.

For a novel that's practically a classic, it's actually a great read! You go deep into the belly of the black experience before, during and after the Civil War. The cast of characters Jim meets along the travels of his showbiz life are rich and varied. The book will remind many readers of the adventures of Huck Finn. However, it takes a dark Puddinhead Wilson twist. This hurts it slightly, in my opinion, but still doesn't knock the novel off its lofty perch as a very funny, deeply moving and totally rewarding book.

While Burroughs remains a craftsman of science fiction, the Venus series never contained that special spark that the Mars books had. This book was originally published as four novelettes in pulp magazines, and while that's not really strange, in this case the set up for each was so similar that it really shows.

Begin with the Mars books. Read these if you're a die-hard fan.

Shut Up man! I've read these books and they're awsome, so just SHUT UP! It's true, the Venus series may not have been as good as the Martian series, but there 5 stars in my book!

The summaries in the book were way too short and wanted to kill them. the index in the back is too brief and does not contain every thing I wanted to know

I didn't knew anything about X-files characters and stories before reading this book. It is a great way to understand the stories behind the stories (why they did that story ? Why this character reappeared ?). However, if you are an experienced x-files' viewer you will not find a good reference about episodes, characters, writters, etc. Anyway, I enjoy its reading and it is a good reference for new or intermediate x-philes.

What can I say? it was great.