Matt married Lily for money and never denied it. Lily being shunned by her Father when he wanted to marry a woman who didn't want her around. I got so mad at both of them neither would admit they loved the other until they both thought that they has lost the other. As always you feel as though you are right there living the story with the characters. Very good Story.

I loved this story and couldn't take myself from it from the very start. It's the kind of story, Ms. Mason is known for. Passionate and real characters with the backdrop of the American Revolution behind their story of learning to trust and love one another.

Matt is the American cousin of English nobility. He is invited to the coming-out ball of young and vivacious Lily Montage, given to by her father who wants to make peace with his bride-to-be by getting his daughter married and out of the house.

Matt had made it no secret that he was only marrying Lily for her inheritance so that he can arm his ships to go back to war with England.

Through a tale of mistrust and deception (on the part of Matt's former mistress) and being shipwrecked on a deserted island, Matt and Lily learn to love with their bodies before they find the love in their hearts that has always been there from the start.

A wonderful, fast paced read, don't miss this book!

I have quickly become a Connie Mason fan. This was a great romance filled with lots of passion. For the first half of the book I found Lily quite annoying. She loved Matt's love making but then would accuse him of using her. The lack of trust between the two of them caused them a lot of problems. I was anxious for Matt to finally admit that he truly loved Lily. I read this book in a day. I didn't want to put it down. Great read, Ms. Mason!

Although this book covers a very interesting time period and the story of the men USS Mason, it lacks readability. The tool of letting each person tell his story at each phase of the action leaves the book disjointed and hard to read. Historically it is wonderful and that Ms. Kelly told this story is admirable but this is not the way to do future books. The history and subject of this book make it a must read despite the disjointed story telling.

My father (Wm.H. Farrell) was one of the officers on the Mason. He was the Engineering officer. When I was a kid, he "regaled" me with stories about the ship and crew. His favorites were the dog that got tossed into the drink off of Newfoundland, the big storm the ship experienced in I believe '44, and the time they were in port in the Azores and woke up to find a German submarine berthed near by to them. He thought very highly of the 1st Captain (Binford?). I think in general, he was pleased with the effort that Mary Kelly gave to this book. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I found out that the crew was black Americans. My father was always interested in the ship first (and especially the engine room!) and never distinquished crew members to me by their color.

Mary Pat Kelly's Proudly We Served strikes an important balance. She successfully weaves the narrative with the men's own words, which are poignant and powerful. The battles they faced on shore with racism and with the US Navy were as tough as facing German U-Boats in the Atlantic. This book is vital because it points to a significant historical event that even naval historians aren't familiar with: the only African American crew on a US warship in WWII

It's good to see Chaosium getting back to topnotch books again. This one along with Unseen Masters, represents a "new wave" of Call of Cthulhu - as good or better than any of the stuff released in years.

You can't really go wrong with this package, it's got background resource material for the Goatswood area and a nice bundle of scenarios that look like fun to run (I can't wait to spring some of them on my group! HEH HEH HEH) I don't want to give away any spoilers but there's an S&M club, and the "GUARD" at the club is such a wicked idea not to mention the dude who runs the place. Good to see Ramsey the man himself giving the introduction, read his Silent Children book if you really want to get chills!

The artwork is decent, and lots of it. Plenty of handouts too, which are really important as far as I am concerned. One thing I could do without though is the side illustrations, they take up too much room that could maybe be used for information. But that's a small jibe compared to the value.

I'm a longtime Cthulhu keeper but new to Ramsey Campbell (other than the material in the rulebook). The first half of the book is devoted to resource material covering magic, monsters and locations in the fictitious Severn Valley (well the Severn Valley itself isn't fictitious of course). The second half is devoted to a campaign of 7 or 8 scenarios. Everything is well written, well thought out and seems very playable. I'm looking forward to running it!

I've waited a long time for this one, and the wait was worth it! It's chock full of scenarios (forming a campaign which you can ignore if you want), and lots of background material on Ramsey Campbell's Severn Valley. I wish there'd been more maps and maybe more info on some of the locations but all in all, this is a COOL package!

Ok , this book is named after what it exactly is, true seduction, on both CJ and Wes 's part! Wes was there to do a job, by any means necessary, and a seduction seemed perfect. CJ on the other hand, had other things on her mind as well. CJ herself has had many a men. Trying to to make a change in her life, but one look and she just had to have Wes. Even though it only started out just a seduction for both Wes and CJ, but love crept in somewhere and surpriased the both of them. A really good read!

Ms Mason, brought so many different possibliites into Seduction, I was clueless about who the witness was, the only person I figured out was Margaret. I didn't understand why CJ was so secretive about her identify. It wasn't like she was hiding, she just needed to get away from her lifestyle, and I wondered why Wes didn't give CJ the benefit of the doubt, especially knowing all of her addictions, and hear her explanation. All in all I enjoyed this book immensely. Nice way to pass a quite afternoon. I'm definitely going to read more by Felicia M.

Felicia Mason does it again!! This book kept your interest all the way to the end. I kept thinking I had it figured out only to find out I didn't!! I kept hoping that CJ wouldn't take a drink I found myself holding my breath at times. Very enjoyable book.

And that is descriptions of longer treks.
There are a few described as 4-8 days long in this book, but when walking I found that that would have been at a snail's pace and the times given had to be halved. Even a quick look at the regional maps will confirm that all hikes described only cover relatively small areas.
So those planning a longer trek through the backcountry of Japan might be disappointed, but I understand there aren't many of those.
On the other hand, those looking for advice on short hikes in national parks or near the major cities will find lots of good ideas, and practical details that tend to be amazingly correct by guidebook standards!

I found that you really don't have much of a choice if you are going to Japan and are interested in recent comprehensive English hiking guides. There is a lot of information once you get to Japan on day hikes available from the tourist information places in each town. I found that for a survey trip, this book was just extra weight in my pack. (I ended up using this book thrice for 1-2 days trips on a 3 week trip to Japan, and that was pushing it.)

I did read it and looked at the pretty pictures to get an idea of where to go during my Japan trip planning phase. It is useful to the person focused on hiking around Japan. This may seem obvious, but it's basically a trail guide. It gives great information (including translations of hiking signs) that isn't found in other more general guide books. It tells you how to get to a trailhead, and where to go once you get there, and has some sections on floura, etc. native to Japan.

Although they are great (just because they exist), I found the trail maps lacking at times, especially (and surprisingly) for the everybody-does-it Mt Fuji trek.

Good reading if you're thinking about multi-day treks. Otherwise, skip it for a more general (regular Lonely Planet) guide since it will just weigh down your pack.

Very well written and detailed description of the trails of Japan. Excellent resource to prepare potential hikers and walkers for the task of exploring the hinterlands of Japan...

Nice referane book. Great examples of the product. A must buy book for collectors as well as finge enthusists. Would love to see more great work.

Roger Renick did a fine job pulling together pieces for the lovely book (and the show at the Santa Monica Historical Society was terrific). Some of the pieces featured are rare treasures, indeed, and it says alot that those who are passionate about Monterey shared their collections. Having written about Monterey Furniture and met some fascinating -- and always fun loving-- collectors, I was happy to see a book on the subject. ...

This wonderful book guides you through the history of Monterey and Spanish Revival furniture in pictures and text. Both Monterey and Spanish Revival styles have been long overlooked in standard furniture guides. This book is straight forward, informative, and contains numerous color photos of furniture, artwork and pottery. A great guide for identification of manufacturers and finishes! The only thing that would possibly make this better is a prce guide.

This book is a fantastic reference to OpenGL, Glut and Glu APIs. Even if you didn't want to do Computer Graphics with OpenGL - the Glut and Glu APIs are fantastic in their own right. This book rocks - what you can't figure out directly is given in clear and meaningful examples.

What says it best: At the end of the semester I didn't try to sell it to the college bookstore!

I am an experienced graphics programmer an I have found this book to be the absolute bible for OpenGL programming. To all the readers I would suggest to pay an special attention to chapter 3. The camera analogy made by the authors conatins perhaps the most clarifying paragraphs along the book. This book covers all aspects about 3D application programming and OpenGL. It is so easy to go through it in a progressive fashion that no one should find any difficutlties in becoming a real expert 3D programmer. The chapters devoted to avanced rendering techniques make things to appear so simple... So lots of ins for the whole book. The only out I have found along it, is that it looks pretty much like the OpenGL specification, and for those readers without a good background of programming and windowing might be a little difficult to understand how opengl relates to X windows or Windows NT. Anyway, thanks to the authors for this text. I guess that Mr Kempf isn't going to have the things easy with his 'Official Guide to learning OpenGL release 1.1'. I wish him the best luck in the world. Javier Velasco (SPAIN)

Regardless of what other OpenGL books you get, the Red Book is the place to start. Get the latest version for OpenGL 1.1. Comprehensive review of entire API, and how to do all the basics.

I've read this book many times. "A Promise of Thunder" is another great book from Connie Mason. It takes place in September, 1893 during the Cherokee land rush in Guthrie, Oklahoma. Grady "Thunder" Stryker and Storm Kennedy clash after a stray bullet in a gunfight hits Storm's husband. Storm loses her claim to Grady, and he gives her an offer she can't refuse. To keep her land, she has to marry him and take care of his motherless son from his first marriage. She grudgingly agreed only to fall in love with him. But there's an obstacle... the sister of his dead first wife has come to deliver his son to him and plans to stay and get between Storm and Grady. The love Grady and Storm have won't allow it, and the need to separate the intruding woman from their relationship (and the budding relationship between Storm and Grady's son) leads all the way to Wyoming and Grady's parents' farm. This wonderful book is the sequel to "Beyond The Horizon", the story of Grady's parents, Swift Blade and Shannon Branigan.

When I started this book I just couldn't get into it, about the first chapter or a little more. Then it got into it Thunder is very passionate, this makes only the second one that I have read, I am now into Indian Romance and hooked. I have found out they are very passionate, and brings excitement to you. I would like to see the cover for the men to look more Indian like. But other than that it was great.

I really liked this book. It takes place in OK when the government offers free land to homesteaders. The year is 1906. I follows "Beyond the Horizon" the story of Grady's parents. I wish I had read that one first, and will be sure to look for it.

This is a smart book. Dealing with the quality gurus, their impact on post-war Japan and the subsequent quality movement(s) in the U.S., it's a must read for every worker, manager, and executive. Quality is a must in any business. The only drawback is that the authors need to update it.

Unlike many PBS companion volumes, Quality Or Else is not simply a chapter-by-chapter echoing of the television series. Each of the three one-hour televised episodes presents a completely different aspect of the need for quality in America. The series can best be described as topical, and the intent is clearly to inspire. The companion volume can better be described as historical and is intended to inform. Dobyns and Crawford-Mason have "decided to take a historical approach because, to the best of (their) knowledge, no one has ever written the history of the quality movement."

To those well versed in quality, and the need for it in their organization, Quality Or Else offers nothing new in its content. However, in its form, Quality Or Else offers a tool for communicating within the organization. For those of us who work in organizations where management has demonstrated their commitment to using the quality movement to change everything about how the organi! zation runs, this tool will not be needed. But for those of us working for management teams that are not yet striving for such grand levels of change, Quality Or Else can be used as an education vehicle.

For Quality Or Else has a single theme that permeates every aspect of the discussion: quality "isn't a matter of an adjustment here, a bit of fine tuning there; quality is a change in the structure and purpose of an organization, ... The only reason to do it is because it works." The continual emphasis is on the role of senior management in making quality happen; walking the talk. "With a quality program, the chief executive is still the chief executive, but he has a lot more help."

The emphasis on, and challenge to, managers is most obvious in the video presentations. The companion book offers a similar message but tends to hide some of it behind the extra details provided in the book that are less covered in the videos. This makes the videos a useful ! tool for planting the seeds with managers who are not ready! for many of the details and background.

For those who are ready for background, the book offers it. Much of the book echos statements and stories shown in the video, however two particular topics are extremely well covered in the book that were only briefly mentioned in the video.

In Teachers and Sensei (Chapter 3) Dobyns and Crawford- Mason offer an excellent cross-referencing discussion of the works and theories of Deming, Crosby, Juran, Feigenbaum, Ishikawa, and Taguchi. Their intent is to document the differences among these quality leaders while also illustrating that the qualities they share are far more significant than the areas where they disagree.

In describing attitudes towards defects, Deming and Juran advocate reduction while Crosby calls for elimination. To Crosby the cost-of-nonconformance is central to understanding an organization's needs, while to Deming the cost-of-nonconformance is unknowable. Juran's approach is described as "flexible" as ! opposed to the "dogmatic" approach of Deming. Crosby says that quality is "relatively easy,", Juran says it's "not revolutionary," yet Deming warns that it's "hard." These differences can seem significant to the beginner, yet synergism can be achieved at the intersections by those willing to adapt the best-of-the-best to their own organizations.

The second area in which the book version of Quality Or Else excels is in its description of The Baldrige Award (Chapter 8). Much has been written on the National Quality Award, and Dobyns and Crawford-Mason build on the same basic facts before going on to a discussion that has real impact in describing the need for personal motivation and commitment from management. They do an excellent job of describing the award as a process rather than a product; a means rather than an end.

The authors state in their conclusion that "of all the senior managers involved in quality (they) have intervie! wed since 1980, and there have been a lot of them, not one ! has ever said he wished he had not gotten involved with a quality system. To a man [regrettably, there were no women], each said it was the best and smartest thing he had ever done, and he only wished he'd done it sooner. Not one said it was easy."

The 186 interview subjects in Quality Or Else look like a social register of acknowledged quality experts and industry success stories. Quality Or Else, book or video, provides a clear and forceful message with a breadth and depth that could only have been possible with the level of effort that has been expended over an exhaustive two years. No manager can listen to the message, from the variety of sources that are used, without getting excited about quality. It's a tool we can use if our need is to get management moving.

Two graduate courses at RIT (Rochester, NY) in quality controls, taught by the same professor, required this book as a text in one of the courses. He was a stickler for statistics and the like. For him, because of my constant reference to the book and the main characters' directions of quality, especially W. Edwards Deming, he mentioned that he'd probably look for another text.

Deming's attitude towards tests and grades in the academic world parallel mine, for I am taking cross-disciplinary graduate courses at age 60 and have some background experiences in writing and publishing. This professor created a set of highly structured tests even demanding that students write at least three questions for each quiz and exam he gave. Those questions selected by him would give bonus points to the student. He would become angry and nearly explode when I harped on Deming's feelings, for the prof. used his name as a near idol of his with great respect for the man's abilities and guidance.

I would say for academics that the most damning statement in the book towards American education commences at the bottom of page 91: "There is an inherent difficulty in teaching a subject as amorphous as quality. Academics talk of "a discipline." What they mean is an area of specializaiton, and a graduate student who tries to dabble in more than one area of specialization will run into trouble from academics whose view of life is a good deal more narrow than life is. ... There have been successful interdisciplinary study programs recently in some US universityes, but they aren't the norm."

This book works well for getting American educated people out of the "box," if they are willing.

An additional superb book for academics and ALL MEN is the latest Fifth Edition, 1999, of Ashley Montagu's "The Natural Superiority of Women." This is a killer and is fodder for fire for a great many "men" with Eurocentric backgrounds!

The author, Ernest Mason Satow, wrote a book in 1905 which still nowdays is a masterpiece. In his fifth edition, Lorde Gore-Booth, editor, and Desmond Pakenham, assistant editor, include in this referecial book the kind of cartesian information about United Nations that Lorde Mason would consider of deserving all his honours. Read this book must be not so much as a diplomatic decision but a decison of any human being in a diplomatic mission.

Mansell begin to write a book in 1905 which still nowdays is a masterpiece. In his fifth edition, Lorde Gore-Booth, editor, and Desmond Pakenham, assistant editor, include in this referecial book the kind of cartesian information about United Nations that Lorde Mansell would consider of deserving all his honours, not so much as diplomat but as an human being in a diplomatic mission.

Satow's book is the master piece for the "diplomatist" of not only 20th Century but also of the 21st. Satow and his Guide, indeed is the materialisation of the mystic bond that the diplomats of the world have towards each other by virtue of their special profession.