For the first time ever, a fascinating look at the remarkable life of Barbara Taylor Bradford. From the cobbled streets of Yorkshire to the sweeping avenues of Manhattan, Barbara's own story is as dramatic a tale as any one of her bestsellers.
Een nieuw tijdperk voor de familie HarteNa een angstaanjagende ervaring besluit een jonge vrouw onder een andere naam –‘M’– een nieuwe start te maken in New York. Ze slaagt er al snel in als topmodel te gaan werken, en ze ontmoet ook nog eens de liefde van haar leven. Ze worden het beroemdste internationale celebrity-koppel, en de wereld ligt in no time aan hun voeten. Alles wijst erop dat de geesten uit M’s oude leven verjaagd zijn. Maar dan wordt er een serie aanslagen gepleegd die geen toeval kan zijn. Er blijkt nog steeds iemand rond te lopen die het op haar en haar familie gemunt heeft. Een nieuw tijdperk voor de familie Harte is aangebroken…De boeken van Barbara Taylor Bradford worden in meer dan 40 talen in 90 landen gepubliceerd. Wereldwijd zijn er meer dan 80 miljoen exemplaren van verkocht. Al haar romans werden bestsellers. De meeste faam verwierf ze met de zesdelige serie over Emma Harte; Een eigenzinnige vrouw is het eerste deel van de vervolgserie over de familie Harte.
Praise for Playing the Game: 'As romantic and thrilling as the rest' The Independent on Sunday 'It is a classic BTB: glamorous people in glamorous places doing glamorous things!' The Independent on Sunday 'The novel has that compulsive page-turning quality that marks out a bestseller as this one is bound to be' Daily Express Praise for Breaking the Rules: 'It's nail-biting stuff! it sweeps you up and puts you into a world of big houses, luxury yachts, international capitals and Parisian catwalks' Express 'Thirty years after A Woman of Substance, BTB hasn't lost her touch' Woman & Home Praise for Barbara Taylor Bradford: 'Queen of the genre' Sunday Times 'Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping the reader turning the page. She is one of the world's best at spinning yarns' Guardian 'Memorable and moving!a sure-fire winner' Express
Als kunsthandelaar Annette Remmington een onbekende Rembrandt ontdekt, is ze in ? klap wereldberoemd. Haar man Marius begeleidt haar bij alle publiciteit en regelt voor haar een interview met de bekende journalist Jack Chalmers. Annette valt als een blok voor hem, en hij voor haar. Wat ze echter niet kan vermoeden, is dat Jack bij toeval schokkende zaken over Marius ontdekt. Daardoor opent hij ook een deur naar haar geheime verleden. Haar huwelijk ?haar carri? staan opeens op het spel?De boeken van Barbara Taylor Bradford worden in meer dan 40 talen in 90 landen gepubliceerd. Wereldwijd zijn er meer dan 80 miljoen exemplaren van verkocht. Al haar romans werden bestsellers. Ze verwierf veel faam met de zesdelige serie over Emma Harte.
From Barbara Taylor Bradford, comes this novel combining traditional blockbusting storytelling with contemporary issues, and addressing the universal themes of love and loss, passages and renewals, and the inexplicable twists of fate that shape our lives
This unique book tells the story of a select group of schools and teachers who have managed to beat the odds in terms of improving elementary students reading achievement. Originating with the CIERA School Change Project directed by Barbara Taylor and David Pearson, it was subsequently expanded to include the work of other research teams doing similar work. It combines large scale studies of effective schools and teachers (Part I) with case studies of individual schools and teachers who have successfully transformed research findings into situation-specific strategies appropriate to their schools and classrooms (Parts II and III). The book's distinct contribution is showing that no matter how consistent the research findings on effective school and classroom practice, groups of teachers must improvise their own situation-specific programs and practices. In short, they must be able to create variations on a common theme. Key features of this outstanding new volume include: *Integration of research and cases--One cannot fully understand research-based general principles without knowing how they play themselves out in specific settings. Similarly, one cannot fully understand cases without seeing the commonalities across different schools and classrooms sharing similar goals. This book provides both perspectives. *Diverse cases--The schools and classrooms depicted in this book are urban, rural, and suburban; poor and middle class; and English-only and bilingual. Rather than telling readers how to beat the odds, it provides them with a wide variety of cases from which they can extrapolate to build their own customized teaching programs and practices. *Summarizing section--The final section contains a summary of research on effective schools and teachers and a concluding chapter by Gerry Duffy and Jim Hoffman in which they reflect on the book's content and possible directions for future research. The book is targeted to both in-service elementary teachers and literacy students in advanced college courses.
Deze fraaie box bestaat uit acht legendarische boekverfilmingen. Indrukwekkende Klassiekers geschreven door de bekendste auteurs. Onder andere Jane Austen, Catherine Cookson, Charlotte Bronte en Barbara Taylor Bradford’s nemen u mee in de prachtige ver...
Deze fraaie box bestaat uit acht legendarische boekverfilmingen. Indrukwekkende Klassiekers geschreven door de bekendste auteurs. Onder andere Jane Austen, Catherine Cookson, Charlotte Bronte en Barbara Taylor Bradfords nemen u mee in de prachtige ver
Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts in infants' cognitive development, as well as the evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in human understanding, development, and behaviour. Contributors: John R. Searle, Richard E. Grandy, Crawford L. Elder, Amie L. Thomasson, Jerrold Levinson, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Dan Sperber, Hilary Kornblith, Paul Bloom, Bradford Z. Mahon, Alfonso Caramazza, Jean M. Mandler, Deborah Kelemen, Susan Carey, Frank C. Keil, Marissa L. Greif, Rebekkah S. Kerner, James L. Gould, Marc D. Hauser, Laurie R. Santos, Steven Mithen
Introduction - The Sociological Perspective 1. C. Wright-Mills - Private Troubles, Public Issues 2. Anthony Giddens - The Scope of Sociology 3. Richard Jenkins - What is Sociology For? Further Reading PART 1 Theories of Society 4. Karl Marx - Human History as Class Conflict 5. Emile Durkheim - From Mechanical to Organic Solidarity 6. Sylvia Walby - Structuring Patriarchal Societies 7. Zygmunt Bauman - Intimations of Postmodernity 8. Anthony Giddens - Riding the Juggernaut of Modernity Further Reading PART 2 Research Methods 9. Alan Bryman - Quantitative versus Qualitative Methods? 10. Alan Buckingham & Peter Saunders - What is a Social Survey? 11. Barbara Merrill & Linden West - Researching Individual Lives 12. Philip Abrams - Sociology's Historical Imagination 13. Loic Wacquant - Participant Observation / Observant Participation Further Reading PART 3 Natural and Urban Environments 14. Georg Simmel - Individuality in the Modern City 15. Richard Sennett - Creating Humane Cities 16. Saskia Sassen - The Global City 17. Riley E. Dunlap - A New Ecological Paradigm for Sociology 18. Anthony Giddens - A Politics for Global Warming Further Reading PART 4 Institutions and Organizations 19. Max Weber - The Spirit of Capitalism 20. Emile Durkheim - The Essence of Religion 21. Goran Therborn - Families in Global Perspective 22. John Taylor Gatto - The Hidden Curriculum - A Teacher's View 23. Alan S. Blinder - Work in the Next Industrial Revolution Further Reading PART 5 Social Inequalities 24. Wendy Bottero - What is Social Stratification? 25. Simone De Beauvoir - Woman - The Second Sex? 26. Patricia Hill Collins - Intersecting Inequalities 27. Rosemary Crompton - The Rise, Fall and Rise of Social Class 28. Colin Barnes, Geof Mercer & Tom Shakespeare - The Social Model of Disability Further Reading PART 6 Relationships and the Life-course 29. Stephen Hunt - Life Cycle or Life Course? 30. Jeffrey Weeks - Social Constructions of Sexuality 31. Ulrich Beck & Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim - The Normal Chao
Zeven montere vriendinnen - Tillie, Jo, Willemien, Annabel, Martha, Leonie en Barbara - vormen een hechte leesclub, hoewel Barbara er sinds haar faux-pas een beetje uit ligt. Met zijn allen gaan ze een literaire cruise maken in de Schotse wateren ('in de geest van Moby Dick') onder leiding van hun allerfavorietste auteur, Gideon de Wit. 'Onze knieÙn werden slap bij het vooruitzicht het ruime sop te kiezen in het gezelschap van de auteur van een van de meest spraakmakende oeuvres van deze eeuw Ún de vorige.'Donderwolken in IJmuiden werpen hun schaduw al ver vooruit, daar helpen geen krat Famous Grouse en een tweepittertje aan. Eenmaal op de boot met 'hun' schrijver loopt alles totaal in het honderd. 'Ergens wel zonde dat Gideon de Wit het niet heeft overleefd.'Over de auteurRenate Dorrestein is een van Nederlands belangrijkste romanciers. Ze blijft haar lezerspubliek verrassen met boeiende personages en steeds nieuwe invalshoeken. Haar roman Mijn zoon heeft een seksleven en ik lees mijn moeder Roodkapje voor schoot in 2006 in ÚÚn keer naar de top van de bestsellerlijsten. Zowel Zolang er leven is als Het Hemelse gerecht verschenen ook als luisterboek, voorgelezen door de schrijfster zelf. Ook schreef ze in 1997 het Boekenweekgeschenk Want dit is mijn lichaam, en in 2008 het Boekenweekessay 'Laat me niet alleen'. Boeken van haar werden genomineerd voor de AKO Literatuurprijs, de Libris Literatuurprijs, The International OMPAC Dublin Literary Award en de Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse boek. Haar boeken zijn in vijftien talen vertaald.
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* The explosive untold story of Barbara Stanwyck * Includes revelations of affairs with some of Hollwood's leading men...and women * Written by best-selling author, Wayne, who had first-hand access to the actress's second husband, Robert Taylor
Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts in infants' cognitive development, as well as the evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in human understanding, development, and behaviour. Contributors: John R. Searle, Richard E. Grandy, Crawford L. Elder, Amie L. Thomasson, Jerrold Levinson, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Dan Sperber, Hilary Kornblith, Paul Bloom, Bradford
Zeven montere vriendinnen - Tillie, Jo, Willemien, Annabel, Martha, Leonie en Barbara - vormen een hechte leesclub, hoewel Barbara er sinds haar faux-pas een beetje uit ligt. Met zijn allen gaan ze een literaire cruise maken in de Schotse wateren ('in de geest van Moby Dick') onder leiding van hun allerfavorietste auteur, Gideon de Wit. 'Onze knieÙn werden slap bij het vooruitzicht het ruime sop te kiezen in het gezelschap van de auteur van een van de meest spraakmakende oeuvres van deze eeuw Ún de vorige.'Donderwolken in IJmuiden werpen hun schaduw al ver vooruit, daar helpen geen krat Famous Grouse en een tweepittertje aan. Eenmaal op de boot met 'hun' schrijver loopt alles totaal in het honderd. 'Ergens wel zonde dat Gideon de Wit het niet heeft overleefd.'Over de auteurRenate Dorrestein is een van Nederlands belangrijkste romanciers. Ze blijft haar lezerspubliek verrassen met boeiende personages en steeds nieuwe invalshoeken. Haar roman Mijn zoon heeft een seksleven en ik lees mijn moeder Roodkapje voor schoot in 2006 in ÚÚn keer naar de top van de bestsellerlijsten. Zowel Zolang er leven is als Het Hemelse gerecht verschenen ook als luisterboek, voorgelezen door de schrijfster zelf. Ook schreef ze in 1997 het Boekenweekgeschenk Want dit is mijn lichaam, en in 2008 het Boekenweekessay 'Laat me niet alleen'. Boeken van haar werden genomineerd voor de AKO Literatuurprijs, de Libris Literatuurprijs, The International OMPAC Dublin Literary Award en de Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse boek. Haar boeken zijn in vijftien talen vertaald.
As an artist, Chip Taylor is mostly known as a country-oriented singer/songwriter. As a songwriter, however, he's mostly known for the most commercially successful of his compositions, all of them popularized by other artists between the mid-'60s and mid-'70s. This CD -- another exemplary entry in Ace's series of compilations of the most famous and/or interesting covers of work by outstanding '60s songwriters -- has 25 of them, ranging from a number one hit to a previously unissued demo. That number one hit, of course, is the Troggs' 'Wild Thing,' which kicks off this anthology and remains by far his most famous song. But the two dozen remaining tracks on this disc (written by Taylor alone or in collaboration with others) are also generally quite impressive, if not as hard-rocking as 'Wild Thing,' and recorded by a very impressive roster of performers. Taylor's work was usually more pop-soul-country-oriented than 'Wild Thing,' as heard in some of the more well-known songs here, like Merrilee Rush's 1968 hit 'Angel of the Morning,' Lorraine Ellison's 'Try (Just a Little Bit Harder),' Evie Sands' 'I Can't Let Go' (in turn covered for a hit by the Hollies), the Pozo-Seco Singers' 'I Can Make It with You,' and Barbara Lewis' 'Make Me Belong to You.' As usual in this series, some quality recordings weren't included -- like Evie Sands' 'Picture Me Gone,' the Hollies' 'I Can't Let Go,' or the Troggs' hit recording of 'Any Way That You Want Me' (here represented by a far more obscure version by Tina Mason) -- owing to licensing hurdles, or the wish to avoid presenting more than one version of any song. Also as usual, however, Ace throws in a heap of obscurities and lesser-known cuts by stars who are at or almost on the same level, also demonstrating Taylor's versatility as a tuneful composer and romantic lyricist able to adapt to numerous formats. Some such highlights on this collection include Walter Jackson's lush soul ballad 'Welcome Home': Madeleine Bell's delightful uptempo pop-soul take on 'Picture Me Gone,' which deserved to be a hit and never was: 'I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face,' one of Aretha Franklin's finest pre-Atlantic recordings: 'Don't Say It Baby,' one of Dusty Springfield's better early LP cuts: and 'Storybook Children,' a groundbreaking interracial duet between Billy Vera and Judy Clay in its hit version, but here represented by a previously unissued demo on which Vera duets with Nona Hendryx. Even some of the songs that clearly aren't up to Taylor's highest standards are entertaining, like Reparata & the Delrons' Shangri-Las-like 'Tommy.' Elsewhere some notable names like Peggy Lee, Patti Austin, the Hollies, and Little Eva weigh in with fairly little-known tracks, while the mid-'70s recordings by Stoney Edwards and Taylor himself -- the ones of latest vintage on this CD -- point toward the country sound with which he was ultimately most comfortable. ~ Richie Unterberger
GWP productions and the GWP label worked with a host of soul performers based in New York and Detroit, though as the liner notes to this compilation frankly note, their 'successes were few and far between.' This 24-track CD has a couple dozen tracks cut under their direction from the late '60s and early '70s, half of them previously unreleased. A reissue with an unwieldy title such as GWP NYC TLC Vol. 2 is obviously geared toward the collector market, though even soul specialists might not view it as a jump-off-the-shelf item owing to the pretty average level of the music and the obscurity of most of the performers. Of the numerous artists here, only the Hesitations made a commercial impact, and a mild one at that, though some might recognize Larry Banks as the composer of the early soul classic 'Go Now' (made into a British Invasion hit by the Moody Blues). As a composite, the CD is the sound of a company casting about for a hit, knowing what it's doing production-wise, and recruiting skilled performers, but not having that something special needed to make either a commercial or artistic impact. It sure tried a lot of approaches, tending toward the slightly glossier soul style of the period, though some bluesiness creeps into the efforts by Banks and Benny Gordon. Occasionally a track stands out as worthy of closer attention than most, like the Hesitations' lusciously harmonized cover of Barbara Mason's hit 'Yes I'm Ready' or 'How Long Can This Last' by Debbie Taylor, whose despondent wailing vocals have an urgency missing from many of these artists. Influences are sometimes pretty obvious for those who like music of a certain type, Alice Clark's 'You Hit Me (Right Where It Hurt Me)' sounding a great deal like an end-of-'60s Motown production. ~ Richie Unterberger
Wall Street-gigant Steven Taylor lijkt een toegewijde echtgenoot. Dat is hij niet. Mooie Emily Bradford Taylor lijkt een trouwe echtgenote. Dat is zij niet. En wanneer Steven Emily’s minnaar inhuurt om haar te vermoorden, lijkt het de perfecte moord. D...
Introduction Joseph Schear 1. The Myth of the Pervasiveness of the Mental Hubert Dreyfus 2. What Myth? John McDowell 3. An Expert's Reflections Barbara Montero 4. On Over-intellectualizing the Mind Alva Noe 5. Space, Perspective, and the Abstraction Condition Susanna Schellenberg 6. The Given Tim Crane 7. Intelligence in Action James Conant 8. Detectivism and the Inner Light Dan Zahavi 9. Heidegger, Consciousness, Content, and Care Robert Pippin 10. What is the phenomenon of conceptual articulation? Joseph Rouse 11. Conceptualism and the Scholastic Fallacy Taylor Carman 12. The Charge of Intellectualism: Dreyfus, McDowell, and Merleau-Ponty Charles Siewert 13. Retrieving Realism Charles Taylor 14. Kant's Transcendental Deduction, Phenomenology, and the Philosophy of Mind Sebastian Gardner 15. Never Mind: Subjectivity in the Dreyfus-McDowell debate Lee Braver 16. The Exclusion of the Mediational from the Rational and the Thoughtful in both Dreyfus and McDowell Adrian Cussins 17. Rationality and Self-Consciousness Joseph Schear Index
Introduction Joseph Schear 1. The Myth of the Pervasiveness of the Mental Hubert Dreyfus 2. What Myth? John McDowell 3. An Expert's Reflections Barbara Montero 4. On Over-intellectualizing the Mind Alva Noe 5. Space, Perspective, and the Abstraction Condition Susanna Schellenberg 6. The Given Tim Crane 7. Intelligence in Action James Conant 8. Detectivism and the Inner Light Dan Zahavi 9. Heidegger, Consciousness, Content, and Care Robert Pippin 10. What is the phenomenon of conceptual articulation? Joseph Rouse 11. Conceptualism and the Scholastic Fallacy Taylor Carman 12. The Charge of Intellectualism: Dreyfus, McDowell, and Merleau-Ponty Charles Siewert 13. Retrieving Realism Charles Taylor 14. Kant's Transcendental Deduction, Phenomenology, and the Philosophy of Mind Sebastian Gardner 15. Never Mind: Subjectivity in the Dreyfus-McDowell debate Lee Braver 16. The Exclusion of the Mediational from the Rational and the Thoughtful in both Dreyfus and McDowell Adrian Cussins 17. Rationality and Self-Consciousness Joseph Schear Index
Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts in infants' cognitivedevelopment, as well as the evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in human understanding,development, and behaviour.Contributors: John R. Searle, Richard E. Grandy, Crawford L. Elder, Amie L. Thomasson, Jerrold Levinson, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Dan Sperber, Hilary Kornblith, Paul Bloom, Bradford Z. Mahon, Alfonso Caramazza, Jean M. Mandler, Deborah Kelemen, Susan Carey, Frank C. Keil, Marissa L. Greif, Rebekkah S. Kerner, James L. Gould, Marc D. Hauser, Laurie R. Santos, Steven Mithen
Creations of the Mind presents sixteen original essays by theorists from a wide variety of disciplines who have a shared interest in the nature of artifacts and their implications for the human mind. All the papers are written specially for this volume, and they cover a broad range of topics concerned with the metaphysics of artifacts, our concepts of artifacts and the categories that they represent, the emergence of an understanding of artifacts in infants' cognitive development, as well as the evolution of artifacts and the use of tools by non-human animals. This volume will be a fascinating resource for philosophers, cognitive scientists, and psychologists, and the starting point for future research in the study of artifacts and their role in human understanding, development, and behaviour. Contributors: John R. Searle, Richard E. Grandy, Crawford L. Elder, Amie L. Thomasson, Jerrold Levinson, Barbara C. Malt, Steven A. Sloman, Dan Sperber, Hilary Kornblith, Paul Bloom, Bradford
As an artist, Chip Taylor is mostly known as a country-oriented singer/songwriter. As a songwriter, however, he's mostly known for the most commercially successful of his compositions, all of them popularized by other artists between the mid-'60s and mid-'70s. This CD -- another exemplary entry in Ace's series of compilations of the most famous and/or interesting covers of work by outstanding '60s songwriters -- has 25 of them, ranging from a number one hit to a previously unissued demo. That number one hit, of course, is the Troggs' 'Wild Thing,' which kicks off this anthology and remains by far his most famous song. But the two dozen remaining tracks on this disc (written by Taylor alone or in collaboration with others) are also generally quite impressive, if not as hard-rocking as 'Wild Thing,' and recorded by a very impressive roster of performers. Taylor's work was usually more pop-soul-country-oriented than 'Wild Thing,' as heard in some of the more well-known songs here, like Merrilee Rush's 1968 hit 'Angel of the Morning,' Lorraine Ellison's 'Try (Just a Little Bit Harder),' Evie Sands' 'I Can't Let Go' (in turn covered for a hit by the Hollies), the Pozo-Seco Singers' 'I Can Make It with You,' and Barbara Lewis' 'Make Me Belong to You.' As usual in this series, some quality recordings weren't included -- like Evie Sands' 'Picture Me Gone,' the Hollies' 'I Can't Let Go,' or the Troggs' hit recording of 'Any Way That You Want Me' (here represented by a far more obscure version by Tina Mason) -- owing to licensing hurdles, or the wish to avoid presenting more than one version of any song. Also as usual, however, Ace throws in a heap of obscurities and lesser-known cuts by stars who are at or almost on the same level, also demonstrating Taylor's versatility as a tuneful composer and romantic lyricist able to adapt to numerous formats. Some such highlights on this collection include Walter Jackson's lush soul ballad 'Welcome Home': Madeleine Bell's delightful uptempo pop-soul take on 'Picture Me Gone,' which deserved to be a hit and never was: 'I Can't Wait Until I See My Baby's Face,' one of Aretha Franklin's finest pre-Atlantic recordings: 'Don't Say It Baby,' one of Dusty Springfield's better early LP cuts: and 'Storybook Children,' a groundbreaking interracial duet between Billy Vera and Judy Clay in its hit version, but here represented by a previously unissued demo on which Vera duets with Nona Hendryx. Even some of the songs that clearly aren't up to Taylor's highest standards are entertaining, like Reparata & the Delrons' Shangri-Las-like 'Tommy.' Elsewhere some notable names like Peggy Lee, Patti Austin, the Hollies, and Little Eva weigh in with fairly little-known tracks, while the mid-'70s recordings by Stoney Edwards and Taylor himself -- the ones of latest vintage on this CD -- point toward the country sound with which he was ultimately most comfortable. ~ Richie Unterberger
GWP productions and the GWP label worked with a host of soul performers based in New York and Detroit, though as the liner notes to this compilation frankly note, their 'successes were few and far between.' This 24-track CD has a couple dozen tracks cut under their direction from the late '60s and early '70s, half of them previously unreleased. A reissue with an unwieldy title such as GWP NYC TLC Vol. 2 is obviously geared toward the collector market, though even soul specialists might not view it as a jump-off-the-shelf item owing to the pretty average level of the music and the obscurity of most of the performers. Of the numerous artists here, only the Hesitations made a commercial impact, and a mild one at that, though some might recognize Larry Banks as the composer of the early soul classic 'Go Now' (made into a British Invasion hit by the Moody Blues). As a composite, the CD is the sound of a company casting about for a hit, knowing what it's doing production-wise, and recruiting skilled performers, but not having that something special needed to make either a commercial or artistic impact. It sure tried a lot of approaches, tending toward the slightly glossier soul style of the period, though some bluesiness creeps into the efforts by Banks and Benny Gordon. Occasionally a track stands out as worthy of closer attention than most, like the Hesitations' lusciously harmonized cover of Barbara Mason's hit 'Yes I'm Ready' or 'How Long Can This Last' by Debbie Taylor, whose despondent wailing vocals have an urgency missing from many of these artists. Influences are sometimes pretty obvious for those who like music of a certain type, Alice Clark's 'You Hit Me (Right Where It Hurt Me)' sounding a great deal like an end-of-'60s Motown production. ~ Richie Unterberger
/BRADFORD BARBARA; A/ The author of A Woman of Substance returns with her New York Times bestseller, Dangerous to Know. Charismatic millionaire Sebastian Locke is a man renowned for his charm and intelligence. When Locke is found dead at his country estate, Vivienne Trent, a journalist and Sebastian's ex-wife, sets out to find the truth about his death--and life--and uncovers startling revelations that will turn her life
