Walsh Books

...I bought this book because some years back I did basic research with this remarkable substance and wanted to learn more about its background.The Story of Taxol is a very scholarly book, with footnotes almost as long as chapters, and extensive literature references. As the subtitle makes clear, the tale is mostly about politics, viz. politics within the National Cancer Institute and other agencies involved in the procurement of this initially natural chemotherapeutic agent. In minute details we are also informed about collections of bark of the pacific yew, the principal raw material for taxol prior to its total synthesis, as well as about the fulfilment or non-fulfilment of collection quotas. Because taxol's mode of action at the cellular and molecular level is completely different from that of other inhibitors of cell division it accounted for much activity in cell biology. The book is silent about this aspect. Whereas It may be a valuable addition to some libraries, overall it clearly offers too little of interest to the individual reader...

This book is a combination of unusual true stories and speculations into the occult. The true stories include the amazing story of George Willig, who climbed the outside of the World Trade Center in New York. Using devices of his own construction, he was able to use the runners for the window washers to climb the entire 110 stories. Another true story is the Japanese soldier who continued the war in the Philippines for thirty years after the surrender.
Some of the others are simple embellishments of old stories regarding how ancient structures were created. There is the old, tired speculation about "ancient astronauts" helping build the pyramids in Egypt, structures in the Andes mountains of South America, the stones of Stonehenge and the giant stone statues of Easter Island. These stories always have one central theme, a significant underestimation of the cleverness of humans. The people who built these structures possessed a lot of engineering knowledge; it is only modern chauvinism and a belief in the necessity of technology that leads people to doubt their capabilities. The story of Patience Worth has been debunked so many times it is difficult to believe that anyone still takes it seriously.
This is not a book that I can recommend in the totality. Some of the stories are worth reading, but others are pure bunk. And in all cases, they are presented using a method of embellishment and exaggeration that is over the top.

Excellent information on strength & speed development for the contact athlete......however there is no particular info that pertains to rugby itself. There is no specific exercise or training for front row, locks, etc. just a well rounded and generic strength training manual

This book, although covers all aspects of time management, lacks liveliness, energy and vivid examples.

In addition to this book, I highly recommend "First Things First" and "7 Habit of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey, "Getting Things Done" by David Allen, and "Time Drive" by Gleb Arkhangelsky.

A distinct feature of this book is the chapter about time management software, but this chapter is very brief.

In this book, you will learn to:
- Distinguish between the important and the urgent - this is the essence of time management, and more skillfully described in "First Things First" by Stephen R. Covey, as well as in virtually all books related to time management;
- The power to say "No" - this is also a major issue in all time management books, and is very well covered in "7 Habit of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey;
- Delegate - I recommend the book "Leadership without easy answers" by Ronald Heifetz on this issue;
- Communicate more effectively - please refer to "Never Check E-Mail In the Morning" by Julie Morgenstern and "The Hamster Revolution" by Mike Song, Vicki Halsey, Tim Burress, and Ken Blanchard;
- Cope with stress - please refer to the books by Deepak Chopra on this issue.

Bought this book intending to use the part of it on decking. However, it's fairly short of detail and is only for small decks laid out on existing patios. Not really very useful at all for decks - or the one I had in mind anyway. However, for general guidance on more mundane aspects of garden DIY it's quite helpful, so OK if you're not doing anything too ambitious.

I liked this book because it had had many adventures and it kept me guessing. The story is about the Greeks trying to find a home for the Oympic torch. It has been so long they don't know where the torch belongs anymore. Follow the adventures of Cal and Dio, you will enjoy it. I think the ending was a little disappointing, but I enjoyed the book overall.

This book is really the same as Tudor Houses: Portfolio of Floor Plans, except for subtitle and ISBN. The book is light reading, as the text amounts to glorified captions accompanying mainly illustrations and 8 photographs. The first 15 pages are color illustrations and text overviews of structure, materials, doors & windows and chimneys. The next 16 pages are decorating ideas, featuring one color photo for each of 8 different typical rooms, including 2 color illustrations for each room space, showing alternate decorating themes, one often flamboyant. The repetition of offbeat decorating sends the message that anything goes in a Tudor house and you call it eclectic. Most of the rest of the 208 pages are text and duotone illustrations, showing floor plans, exterior views and interior views. Although there is some overlap in square footage, the descriptive plans are divided in Cottages, Villas and Manors (small, medium, large), as chapters. Plans featured are 30 cottages, ranging from 1,176 to 2878 sq. ft., averaging 2,290; 36 villas, range 1,943-3,712, avg. 3,145; and 15 manors, range 2,617-7,282, avg. 4358. The plans are virtually in ascending order by square-footage size. The book concludes with 10 pages of how-to resources on reading floor plans, choosing a contractor, ordering plans and Index to Plans. Ordering forms are included on the final pages.

While this book was quite up to date when it was published in 2002, the advances in the understanding of Web Services since then suggest that you consider a more recent text.

Specifically, there has been a buildout of Service Oriented Architecture, due to significant interest by many developers. Also, a new language has emerged - Business Process Execution Language. This was in response to people using WSDL and finding that while it adequately described a given Web Service, it had a harder time with more involved business logic. And with trying to aggregate multiple Web Services into a larger, dispersed entity. While one method might have been to upgrade WSDL, instead, BPEL was chosen. Starting afresh. But using WSDL and the ideas learnt from it.

En este libro Rodolfo Walsh se luce con narraciones muy ricas en descripciones y, al estilo Agatha Cristie, va desarrollando la trama de los cuentos con los mas intrincados razonamientos detectivescos.
Es entretenido hasta un cierto punto pero para mi, en algunos casos llego al limite del tedio. No conozco mucho de la obra del autor y pense que me iba a encontrar con un libro del estilo de "Operacion Masacre" pero no fue asi.

To fully understand this book, you need to travel back in time to the year 2001. Marvel Comics plans to capitalize on the female based tv shows and movies that are hot at the time. They decide on using three mostly unused magical female characters in their universe (Jennifer Kale from the "Man-Thing" comic, Topaz from the "Werewolf By Night" comic, and "Satana - the Devil's Daughter" from several of Marvel's horror comics) and have them led by the most recognizable Marvel comic-book sorcerer, Dr. Strange, in a quazi-Charmed/Charlie's Angels storyline, having Dr. Strange acting as Bosley. Fine and dandy. Enter writer Bronwyn Carlton and artist superstar Mike Deodato Jr.

Marvel hires Bronwyn to do the writing chores and Mike to draw the comic and tells them that the project will be a regular monthly release comic book once it's on their schedule. Happy to have a new series to work on, Mike then goes above and beyond the call of duty by releaseing his preview art on many on-line comic book sites to drooling fan-boys. And drool they did! The thing you have to understand about comics is that the majority of them focus on testosterone filled male characters whereas the female counterparts are generally not as popular and harder to sell. This is somewhat understandable as the majority of comic book readers tend to be male. With that in mind, it was very suprising to have the general response to the on-line preview art be: "Wow! I normally don't collect female character comics but after seeing Deodato's pencils I'm definately giving this one a shot."

Now flash-forward three years. (Yes, you heard me right. THREE years.) Marvel Comics finally releases the comic, and the storyline and art barely get any notice. Why you say? Here's the answer: Bronwyn Carlton and Mike Deodato work hard on two issues and submit their work. Marvel flounders on the storyline and characters used and ultimately decide they want a total revamp AND the regular series is now to become a mini-series. (four issues in length) Bronwyn and Mike listen to the changes and submit many MORE pages of work with their requested alterations. Little happens after that. It is then decided to put the comic on the back burner for a while as Marvel just can't decide on what it wants, aside from the fact their vision was crystal clear years earlier. Mike is left hanging so he goes off and is hired for other comic book projects. Similarly, Bronwyn Carlton leaves the title as there are no black and white directions given.

After sitting on their hands for a while Marvel comes back to Witches and hires Brian Walsh to take over writing for the title and he tries to make some semblance of a story out of the conveluted mess the Marvel editorial staff made from a once simple idea. (Axel Alonso and John Miesegaes replaced Lysa Hawkins on the editing chores) The reason for the sudden interest? Mike Deodato Jr. had just had a successful run on The Incredible Hulk and was moving over to Amazing Spider-Man. Never one to miss out on a buck, the long forgotten Witches was back in the fore-front. One problem though, with Mike Deodato Jr. busy on another title, he had no time to work on Witches anymore. Solution? Enter another artist: Will Conrad.

The storyline goes something like this: A decendent from a powerful magic family, Danny Kale, accidently opens a book of magic and thus an evil monster escapes. Sensing what happens, Dr. Strange recruites three witches, one being Danny's sister Jennifer, to stop the monster before it destroys the world. Though the girls don't exactly see eye-to-eye due to their varied personalities, they agree and the Charmed/Charlie's Angels storyline ensues.

Though the story is for the most part understandable, it does suffer due to the fact you can pick up on areas where the original story was most likely butchered from. And although I LOVED the beginning Mike Deodato Jr. artwork in the book, the second half's artist leaves the reader scratching his head as to why the book's art isn't as polished as the first half is. And worse yet, the book ends on a dangling point where a whole new adventure is to begin, yet despite the fact this book was released in 2004 the storyline is yet again left floundering as nothing has been done with the story a year after the fact.

All in all, I WANT to love this book after hearing the premise and seeing so much of the beautiful artwork, but can't give the book more than 3 stars due to the directionless feeling recieved once the story is over. Hopefully Marvel Comics can stick to their lorals and accomplish a solid book originally thought of. The only other option is having potentially great work such as Witches suffer needlessly at the hands of luke-warm editorial decisions.