Most businesses in the world today are owned by families, but only a small percentage of these companies will survive and grow into major corporations. The unique challenges posed by family ownership can undermine even the best-performing small business, as issues of control and succession permeate the generations. In Generation to Generation, the authors apply the simple premise that managing a family-owned business to a large extent means managing the family itself. To that end, they provide a rich compendium of research and strategic suggestions for those charged with making a family business work, including the consultants who guide them. We from getAbstract highly recommend this book for these applicable measures and methods, which will help the performance of both business and family.

The authors effectively present a theoretical, as well as practical model of family business dynamics, incorporating the complexities of development over time. This book is a must-read to gain a deep understanding of families in business from the key perspectives of familiy, business, and ownership. Their use of case examples effectively illustrate the practical application and relevance of theory. To sum it up, it's steak AND sizzle!

I think this is one of the best books available on family businesses! I found it insightful and informative. I think anyone interested in the subject should read this book. I strongly disagree with the review that describes this book as "too theoretical." I found it immensly practical.

I'm a very big fan of the James Bond movies, so that's why I picked up this Black Widow graphic novel. In this great story of espionage, action, and intrigue, we meet Natasha Romanov, who is the girlfriend of the famous vigilante Daredevil, and who is also a superspy known as the Black Widow, who works for the espionage organization known as S.H.I.E.L.D., that is headed by the super-tough superspy Nick Fury.
In this Black Widow story, the Black Widow is ordered to stop the sinister operations of an Arabian Warlord who plans to produce an army of vicious super-soldiers with a chemical virus. But along the way, Nastasha runs into Yelena Belova, who is a young spy still working for Russia and who believes she is the real Black Widow, and thinks that Natasha Romanov is just a pretender to the throne and must be eradicated. Thus, Natasha is charged not only with confronting this insane Arabian Warlord, but also with confronting this obviously misguided Yelena Belova.
This is really a great spy graphic novel, and is written by one of the greatest comic book writers of all time, Greg Rucka, who is famous for his superb works in the Batman mythos. As I said there is great action, suspense, espionage, and intrigue in this book. It also presents the fact that being a spy for your country does not always turn out to be the "gravy train" that it sometimes appears to be.
Any fan of the Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Elektra graphic novels would love this great spy thriller graphic novel!

Not only is the artwork great, the women gorgeous, the action non-stop and the plot compelling, what distinguished this graphic novel was its human story. It would have been easy for the authors to create a good girl/bad girl scenario. But by making it a good girl/good girl situation, they've doubled the suspense. You want Natasha to win, but you can't help but worry about naive young Yelena. A terrific read.

I always looked at the Black Widow as one of the sexiest comic heroes out there. There's a hiddent mystery in her that just seems to mesmerize. That long red hair, that skin-tight, S&M leather costume of hers and that amazing perfect figure. The name, Black Widow, truly gives her justice. You fall in love with her and she kills you with every look.

In this book, written by the team of Devin Grayson and Greg Rucka (on loan from the Batman books, it would seem), weave an intricate web of story, where epsionage and betrayals are key and we're taken back to the days of the cold war. Natasha Romanoff is pitted against someone who might be her better who claims to be the Black Widow herself. We have a fiery cat fight between two beauties. I don't think anyone would mind that this lasts for eternity.

The character is true to her origins, being very cold and inanimate at times of great danger, but you just can't let go of the way she looks or the way her body moves. The person to thank for this would be JG Jones. Jones's Widow is sexy, anything else is just not an adjective to describe the character. Hampton's work, on the other hand, though appealing doesn't do the Widow justice when it comes to beauty. There's no detail that you get to see in Jones's rendition, especially the folds of leather on skin.

If this team is out to make another Black Widow story, then it's going to be a definitive winner. Girls can go head over heels for James Bond, we, guys, have the Black Widow to satiate out appetite.

This was probably the most boring book I've ever read. The fact that it was also confusing and pretentious didn't help matters. Okay if you need a light read, but a huge disappointment.

A quick, easy, fun read. Mr. Lardo has connected with the two worlds of East Hampton; the dirt poor, born and bread locals and the powerful and indulgent weekenders who spen little time and much money in the East Ends most beautiful Village and Town. The book provides an enjoyable guided trip around the area while weaving a tale of power; greed; lust; murder and ambition. Mr Lardo's East Hampton is accurate and true.

So often, murder mysteries aren't all that mysterious; in fact, they quickly become predictable. This is not so when Vince Lardo is the author. I am one of his greatest fans and I especially like the fact that in his "Hamptons" series, the reader never knows where the story is going.

Mr. Lardo has an amazing eye for detail. As a resident of East Hampton, the town about which he writes, I can say that he gets things right. He doesn't miss a trick, making one of his books as good as a week's vacation in these parts.

The way he moves among narrators is excellent, developing his stories from different characters' points of view, and staying with each of their voices. There is a stillness to THE HAMPTONS CONNECTION, a pervasive sense of foreboding.

Mr. Lardo also took over the "Archy McNally" mysteries, set in Palm Beach, when their creator died. These books are great fun, maybe even more fun than the Hamptons series. The Archy books are meant to be as frothy as champagne and so they are. The Hamptons novels are far more compelling, and they stay in a reader's memory in the same way in which a fine red wine does.

Depending on one's mood, Vincent Lardo is an author for all seasons.

This book is very nice, but fo not buy it when you are looking for a book which takes a look inside these beautiful houses. It only shows the outside and ,i think, too many pictures of the gardens. It is really a nice book but i thought there would be many pictures of the houses and not so many detailed pictures of gardens...

I love this book! Reading it over this past winter brought back all the great feelings of being in the Hamptons. I love the fact that the beautiful photographs don't focus on just the ocean, but show hamptons life behind the scenes. The photographs of the gardens and artist's studios are especially nice. This is a great collectable book and I highly recommend it as a gift.

We live in the city - downtown. We have three children and wish/dream about getting out of town on a weekend and letting the children run and play on the grass in the country or sand on a beach. This book puts you there and without any of the sense of overwhelming and intimidating wealth that would take away from the beauty and feeling the Hamptons can offer. The photos are beautiful and the subjects are different and interesting. I truly do love this book and have given many as gifts to friends from out of town who have heard so much about the east end of the Island but have yet to visit.

Wade Hampton was a remarkable individual. Wellman does a fairly good job of chronicalling his life, but only scratches the surface in connection with his early life, wealth (he was one of the richest men in America when war broke out) and business career. He was J.E B. Stuart's senior commander during the Civil War, and was wounded 3 times. When Stuart was killed, he took Stuart's place as Lee's calvary commander. Wellman is to be credited for a good overall look at the man, although he could have gone deeper.

Judging from the hometowns of all the other reviewers it is apparent that Wade Hampton is not a household name in any other place than South Carolina. That is a shame. His role in the southern army was crucial, especially in battles such as First Manassas, the Peninsula campaign and the last gasp ones around Petersburg (although he was never senior to JEB Stuart in command as you read above). This book is a very quick summary of a very interesting man. It makes for a great addition to your library and is definitely worth the search for this out of print book. If you fail here any Big bookstore can order you a copy.

This one of the few bios of Hampton surprised me as much as the man Hampton. Not too long, though could have been a little more in depth, and not too short--it was a fun AND illuminating read. I highly recommend it. Hampton was much more a facinating figuer than I had expected.

This is the second book in the series. In this story Josce must search out and "avenge" the death of his father. While he is the recognized bastard son of his father there are still many who don't want to recognize him. The herorine in this story is Elianne who's father is the sherrif in the area where Josce's father was killed. She is basically like a slave to her father in the fact that he doesn't have any money to give her a dowery and expects her to do whatever he wants to have done, whether she agrees with it or not. In fact he expects her to act as a spy and even "seduce" Josce if need be. But, she can't believe that is what he wants her to do and goes about things the way she normally does, but manages to fall in love with Josce.

This book has it all, including a setting in Medieval times. Ms.Hampton has done a masterful job of creating her characters. Elianne and Josce are wonderful. One cannot help but feel sympathy for Adelm as a victim of the villian,Reiner.
You will like this book whether you are an avid Medieval Romance reader or if you just like to read. Everything is perfect.

When Josce FitzBaldwin, bastard son of a nobleman, rides into Knabwell to avenge his father's and two young stepsister's deaths, he has no idea of the web of betrayal, deceit and greed he'll be facing. Neither does he expect to fall in love -- with the daughter of the man he suspects is protecting the others who killed his family.

Elianne du Hommet is the destitute daughter of the sheriff of Knabwell -- a greedier, more selfish man you would be hard put to find. There is no love lost between the two and Elianne, with her own suspicions, agrees to help Josce and his stepmother in their quest to uncover the truth of their family's murders. After all, what else can be done to her? Thanks to her father, she is no longer welcome at the local priory and is near to being homeless.

Elianne is a strong, prideful character, aware she cannot have what she wants, but that doesn't stop her from falling in love, even though that path leads to danger. Josce is a most honorable, compassionate man intent on his duty, and the epitome of a romance hero. Secondary characters will make you laugh, cry, and tear your hair out. Especially Sheriff du Hommet whom I wanted to string up by his toenails!

MY LADY'S TEMPTATION is an intriguing, fast-paced novel filled with suspense and treachery. The climactic ending will leave readers flipping pages as fast as they can, only to find themselves hoping there will be another book in this series.

Denise Hampton hits her stride with MY LADY'S TEMPTATION. Reminiscent of her writing as Denise Domning, I highly recommend this spin-off of THE WARRIOR'S DAMSEL. Don't miss this top notch tale of love and its incredible power to beat all odds.

Remember when you were a child filled with curiousity and wonder about nature? You asked many questions such as why do ducks float, do people go crazy during the full moon and why does do collect in the morning? All of those were great questions and some of them may or may not have been answered to your satisfaction. Now your children are asking the same questions and what are you going to say?

Never fear, dear friends. Outside Magazine's "The Wild File" has provided us with a book answering those various hard questions that we have about nature. Why Moths Hate Thomas Edison is a compendium of the best of The Wild File column. You are presented with five files dealing with various forms of nature. Each file has a question/answer format and cites the person who asked the question.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Some of the questions sounded stupid but in reality made sense. The answers were informative and hilarious. You would be surprised over the number of experts in such esoteric fields of wildlife. For example, one informant researched the number of pushups that lizards do in their exercise regimine. Yes, there are people who really do that.
What is also great about this book is its brevity and accessibility. You can share it with your children as they ask you the great questions of nature. You can spend time finding those answers to questions you had as a child. This is a delighful read. So go out and find out why lizards do pushups and why llamas spit.

This is one of those books that you read in one page sections. It is basically a collection of interesting questions that the author has answered while working for a magazine. The questions are fun and he gives pretty complete answers. The answers are usually about a page in length so if you want to read something for five minutes this book is perfect. The information is cool, I really enjoyed it. It gives you a lot of responces to questions you often hear.

217 pages of funny answers to weird questions asked about the world, nature and, in general, the universe around us. Like, how many times can a stone skip on water? Is Pluto really a planet? What is foxfire? How do ducks float? Where does the white go when the snow melts? Are blue moons really blue? Why do worms always show up after the rain?
The book comes with an index, so you can look up facts fast, and the intro comes with an e-mail address because 'The Wild File' which the book is based on still lives on the pages of 'Outside' magazine and they still need questions!
Easy to read, funny and with answers anybody can understand. I would suggest this book for anybody, young or old.

This paperback details the "Animated" Batman continuity's missing period, the time between the Batman and Robin (and occasional ally Batgirl) period and the Batman/Batgirl/Nightwing/new Robin period.

After reading this volume, fans will know why Barbara and Dick stopped being an item, how Batgirl and Batman learned each other's identities, why and how Robin left Batman's side to become Nightwing, how Batgirl replaced Robin as Batman's partner, and how a new Robin emerged on Batman's team.

The only real questions that go unanswered are (1) How much did Batman train Batgirl, (2) Where did Batgirl's new costume come from, and (3) what were Batman's feelings during the many changes that took place in this book?

Still, the story is fun and interesting and moves very quickly. A good, fun read for Batman fans.

THE BATMAN ADVENTURES: THE LOST YEARS collects the full five-issue THE BAMTAN ADVENTURES: THE LOST YEARS comic magazine miniseries.

This story bridges the five-year gap between the end of BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES (Fox) and the start of THE NEW BATMAN ADVENTURES (Kids' WB!). Some of these plot points were told or alluded to in episodes of THE NEW BATMAN ADVENTURES or BATMAN BEYOND but they didn't go in depth as much as this book does.

THE LOST YEARS tells how Batgirl became an official part of Batman's team; Dick Grayson dropped his Robin persona, left Batman, and became Nightwing; and how Tim Drake became Robin. In the "real" comic book continuity, these events were sloppily spread out over dozens of years and creators, with filler all over the place. Here, Hilary Bader and the animated team tell the story in a much more satisfying, concise, and kid-friendly fashion, in 128 pages.

Forget your preconceptions of Hilary Bader -- here, she is gold. Hampton and Beatty are at the top of their form, and, of course, Ty Templeton's covers are always welcome.

My only problem is with the physical book: the paper is cheap and the cover's pretty wobbly. But this shouldn't be a problem for any kid or adult who reads this superb story.

Enjoy! // koby c.

P.S. If you like the animated style: Also reprinting the animated comic books are THE BATMAN ADVENTURES, BATMAN: DARK KNIGHT ADVENTURES, and BATMAN: GOTHAM ADVENTURES, and the Harvey and Eisner award-winning BATMAN ADVENTURES: MAD LOVE. You can pick up BATMAN: GOTHAM ADVENTURES monthly at your neighborhood comic shop. The animated cartoons I mentioned above are now on CARTOON NETWORK, except for BATMAN BEYOND, which is still on Kids' WB! Saturday mornings and in production as of this writing.

This is not just an outstanding re-telling of "The New Batman Adventures" episodes "Old Wounds" and "Sins of the Father." It has SO much background information that this is a definite must-have for any fan of the series. The art and writing are great and makes me wish they'd have made this entire story into an hour-long episode. There are things in this book I'd never thought of watching the show and you can tell a lot of care and time went into this book. Congratulations to all involved!

Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty, shows our beloved dark knight fighting against Vandal Savage across three different Millenias. The story is very good and have unexpected twists, the art changes in each Millenia, which i must tell that the art here is one of the best i ever seen. Its a worhty book for any Batman reader!

Incredible tale(s) about 3 generations of the dark knight and each is spun together with an impressive nemesis

What a cool concept. Batman through the ages (and genders). This book has well thought story lines and marvelous colors to match. I'd like to read more of these ancestorial tales.

Very fluently written, but Rockford, the PI who got bad knees, is a really pathetic character. The law couldn't do nothing and has to let the rich doctor go away with the triple murders is just another bad laugh after the OJ Simpson's trial. A pathetic, small-time PI struggled to make a miserable living in LA after so many years is another hopeless irony that we could do without. The story itself wrapped up roughly in the end after a too-long and tiresome merry-go-around plot that also going nowhere.

I have watched Rockford since the age of 6. We are reading about Rockford some 20 odd years later. Still living in Paradise cove, and taking his lumps! He is now morning the death of his fatherand STILL having to deal with Angel Martian! True to characters personalities! Good to read again and again...

Stuart Kaminsky has written an enjoyable and satisfying novel based on the characters from the television series, "The Rockford Files." Jim, Beth, Dennis, Angel, and the Firebird are all here in form true to the original characters.

Jim Rockford is older now; mourning the loss of his father, Rocky; battling bad knees; trying to elude Angel's ubiquitous scams; and reflecting on his relationship with Beth and what might have been. Despite the passing of the years, Jim retains his wry wit and keen observations of the human condition. Mr. Kaminsky provides additional insight into the character of Jim Rockford, particularly the formative years and the time in prison.

The story is well-paced and intriguing. I enjoyed this book more than many of the recent 2-hour "Rockford Files" movies presented on television in recent years. If you enjoyed the original "Rockford Files" series from 1974-1980, you will enjoy this book.