Walsh Books

Dr. Foster's book is required reading for anyone interested in working in a front office of a major sports franchise. Foster provides context, cases, analysis, and methods for addressing the problems and opportunities that confront decision makers in front offices.

Not only is the book exceptionally informative, providing excellent examples and explanations, it's also a fascinating read that can provide a different perspective on how decisions are made (and should be made) in sports. It's rare to have a textbook that's this much fun to read; rarer still that it's actually insightful, valuable, and applicable to the real world.

This isn't just a great textbook -- it's a great book period.

Written by Ann Walsh, By the Skin of His Teeth: A Barkerville Mystery is a historical novel set in Barkerville, British Columbia, during the year 1870. When a Chinese man is found stabbed to death outside his restaurant, only a young Chinese boy can testify against the prideful and cruel accused perpetrator. Seventeen-year-old Ted MacIntosh befriends the boy, helping him stand up for justice while the Chinese community is scared into silence. Ted and the boy fight to bring the truth to trial, with lives and the future of the community hanging in the balance. A gripping, suspenseful drama; also recommended are the previous novels about Ted MacIntosh, "Moses, Me and Murder" and "The Doctor's Apprentice."

This is a must have book that you need at your shelf.
All the examples are clear and consistent.
If you want to learn how to interface Clipper with other languages like C and Assembler - this book is for you !!!

This is an excellent study except I need the Video to go along with it. I have tried every way possible to buy one and cannot seem to find anyone with the Video. I have the Leader's guide and student books but I would like to get the Video. One cannot effectively do the Study without the Video.

If there is anyone with the video please contact me.

How thrilled I was to find that this book was still available. I sat down and went through it page by page immewdiately. Along with all the detailed information of the hall's history, it brought back special mem=
ories of concerts I'd attended there in the 1980s. It's a real treasure.

Rodolfo Walsh is the founder of investigative journalism in Argentina. In this book he describes how the military power in 1955 moved his secret slayers to appropriate the biggest newspaper in the country. Information was always power and they knew it. So it was not enough for them to assault the state. They needed a voice and the newspaper La Razón was the goal. The story could have finished in the police chronicle, but Walsh digged into it and discovered the connections. How the military, usually presented to the public like gentlemen, used common criminals to get their goals. Here there are no happy endings but we can find lessons. We can not forget this is non fiction and something could be used in real life. But the most important thing is that Walsh can penetrate your brain even if you don't want. Try it, and try to resist him. You'll see.

I just got this book a few days ago, and haven't finished it yet, but am thoroughly enjoying it. If you're interested in American Catholicism, are a history buff, or just want to know more about the Cold War Era, this is a must read.

This book is perfect if you have just worked your way through recorder lessons and learned all the basic notes. I used the The NEW Nine-Note Recorder Method: Easy Music for Beginners (a great method) and I was ready to start playing some melodies. This book is perfect for three reasons: (1.) most of the music is in easy keys for recorder players, (2.) it comes with a CD, which I, as a beginner, find indispensible, and (3.) what a CD! Up until now I didn't realize how a recorder could sound... the player on this CD puts so much expression into the notes, it's helped me become a much better player. My only complaint would be that the melodies are uniformly melancholy... even the cheerful ones! Perhaps that is just Celtic music for you.

Chad Walsh Reviews C.S. Lewis With a memoir by Damaris Walsh McGuire Compiled with an introduction by Joe R. Christopher. Altadena, California, The Mythopoeic Press, 1998 ISBN 1-887726-05-5, pb, 52 pp., $4.95

If C.S. Lewis was indeed `apostle to the skeptics', as Chad Walsh once wrote of him, then Walsh was his first American disciple. The Beloit College professor's 1946 Atlantic Monthly essay thus headlined, later reprinted a year later in Reader's Digest, certainly gave many Stateside readers their initialt inkling of the writing of C.S. Lewis. Later the writer would expand the article into a book so titled, the first on Lewis. This slim book is hardly slight, nor to be slighted. Its twenty reviews, most first published in The New York Times Book Review, show a thoughtful and sympathetic reader's first response to everything from the gradual revelation of the Chronicles of Narnia to a complex appreciation of the autobiography Surprised by Joy seasoned by a friendship of a dozen years. Of special interest are two reviews of Till We Have Faces, one from The New York Herald Tribune Book Review and a more reasoned, reflective piece done later for Marquette University's journal Renascence. In the latter, reacting to the "bewilderment and frustration" this novel caused some longtime Lewis devotees, Walsh calls this Lewis' "most difficult" book and concludes by suggesting "...its quality...resembles G.K. Chesterton less and Charles Williams more than any of the author's previous work. Perhaps it is true that all religious insight, as it grows as deepens, moves toward music, liturgy, or silence. The prose writer finds the words bending and breaking with the burden they must carry. Lewis has not reached that point, but Till We Have Faces represents a far stride toward a direct perception of the love that moves the sun and the other stars." (20) While many reviews are but three paragraphs, Walsh packs a lot into them. His reviews of Narnia are informed by reading them to his four daughters as they grow. One hitherto unpublished review, a corrected typescript on Letters to an American Lady from the Wade Center at Wheaton College, adds to the value of the trove. Daughter Damaris Walsh McGuire's introduction "Memories of Joy, Jack, and Chad" is a charming memoir of her father's friendship with Lewis. Walsh, we learn, first suggested Joy Davidman write Lewis directly. In 1955, when the Walsh family visited Lewis and Joy in Oxford, Damaris writes that after a golden afternoon of charades in the Magdalen College deer park "my wise and observant mother [said] `I smell a marriage.' She was right." (xvii) Joe R. Christopher's foreword is a lucid, succinct summary of the similarities--both poets, both deeply religious men who had rejected Christianity as boys--and the differences--Walsh was liberal and political, Lewis was neither--between the two unlikely friends. Indeed, Christopher's short critical biography of Walsh will send some readers to the challenging but rewarding task of seeking out Walsh's superb poetry, such as the stark 1970 elegy "Kent" and The Psalm of Christ, forty Lenten poems, one on each verse of Ps. 22. Quibble: the exact date of these reviews' original publication might be of interest to some Lewis analysts. But that mite of a quibble aside, this small (52 pp., four by six inches) but lively book fits easily in pocket or purse (I'm a pocket kind of guy, myself) and sheds light on Lewis, including the illumination of a little girl who saw him do a charade enacting a bullfinch. No reader of Lewis should lack it.

--reviewed by Mike Foster

(To order, send ($4.95 plus $1 S&H) payable to the Mythopoeic Society to: Joan Marie Verba, PO Box 1363, Minnetonka, MN, 55345-0363)

Dr. Richard Walsh's monumental work is an absolutely vital addition to the library of any student of the Court of Valois Burgundy, and any student of the last Valois Duke of Burgundy, Charles the Bold.

The book covers the Italian influence in Charles the Bolds court, as well as the major diplomats and the Italian exiles and adventurers, who helped shape the ultimate form of the Burgundian army of the Ordinances, and of course explores the political course of Burgundy in the Italian peninsula, offering evidence for a more effective diplomatic strategy than has generally been acknowledged or recognized by previous scholarship.

The only critique I can add as a student of the Companies of the Ordinances of Charles the Bold, is a slight confusion as to the Italian condottiere captains tenure (sometimes brief, as the captains of companies were appointed or dismissed on an annual basis, and sometimes more often as necessity dictated) as captains of ordinance companies that existed prior to the Italian captains entering Burgundian service. Many of these existed both before and after the Italian captains tenures,which confuses the nature of the ethnic origins of the personnel of some companies with the Italian lances brought into Burgundian service in 1473. The author does address this in one example, but insufficiently in my understanding of the subject.

For a scholarly work, the book is eminently readable. If a student of Valois Burgundy could only have four authors works as the basic foundation of a library on the subject, they would include Walsh's book, alongside of Vaughn's four volumes, John Foster Kirk's Charles the Bold, and Blockman and Preveniers.

A must read for any student of the subject.