I used this book extensively for a college report on the bottled water industry and found out there is a lot more to water than I thought. I use to take it for granted but now I really think about water and what makes it so unique. The author did a good job of researching and writes on some really exotic brands. It would be fun to have tasted all the waters.

Good reference book. Includes good discussions on foundations and principles of Colorimetry. Should be updated to include examples of modern colorimetry applications such as Digital Color Management topics, Scanners, etc. If a person is starting a career which requires a knowledge in colorimetry, it a must.

I found this book to be extemely helpful in my career as a neuroscience nurse. It's a great handbook with just enough information to help understand the many diagnoses in the world of neurology. I am about to precept a new nurse to our floor and thought that this book would be a wonderful resource for her orientation.

Ord-Hume managed to weave the harmonium's history into a readable, cogent whole. This well-illustrated text also includes valuable appendices about one important maker(Mason&Hamlin), and stop lists of widely-varying instruments. This book is a touchstone for the reed organ enthusiast, but appropos too for one interested in the development of craft/industries in the Victorian Age

The Harvard Business Review on Managing High Tech Industries is a collection of very interesting articles addressing the issues facing managers, engineers and all participants in the high tech industries of electronics and pharmaceuticals.

The core issues covered by these articles are:

* Building effective product development capabilities in the high tech industry to bring better products to the market faster.
*Building effective processes to translate R&D efforts into world class products.
*Economics of the High Tech Industry
*Ideas to transform High Tech companies to global organizations.

There are many examples from successful organizations who have developed a competetive advantage in the areas of product devlopment, manufacturing and management of global R&D networks. These can be adapted to one's own organization.

Overall a good book that helps a manager or an engineer to benchmark his or her company with the best and most sucessful companies (and ideas) in the high tech industry.

King's book deals with the performance of Arthur Conan Doyle's short play "A Story of Waterloo" by eminent Victorian actor Henry Irving and a devastating review of this production written by George Bernard Shaw in 1895. The play is about an old and feeble soldier who has played a heroic role at Waterloo and pathetically dies while reliving his finest hour, thereby bringing the house down (in the theatre, that is). King uses this intersection of two remarkable theatrical careers to consider the Victorians' retrospective glance at the Napoleontic wars, the nature of Irving's performance, which by modern standards would be inconceivably sentimental, Irving's relation to his audience, Shaw's development as a critic and playwright, Irving's leading lady Ellen Terry and her son, the theatre director, designer and Irving acolyte Edward Gordon Craig. An instructive and entertaining read for anyone with a broad interest in the theatre and (cultural) history. Highly accessible, but marred by some unnecessary excursions into academic obscurities that the opening chapters had led me to believe were going to be avoided. Still, fascinating stuff.

....recommended for the collector of alchemical treatises. One could wish for some commentary on the symbolism in the texts, but you'll find some of that in Jung's work.

This book gives a thorough review of the chemistry of each particular class of heterocycles, covering structure, reactivity, and synthesis. Unique to this book is a coverage of the organometalic chemistry associated with each class. It is my opinion that this book is a touch better than the Thieme and Gilcrest heterocyclic books, based mostly on the organization of material. I do wish, however, that the authors had given aminoheterocycles a bit more attention!

Covers the diagnosis of bottlenecks in the system. It's a little short on what to do about it if you are tuning a purchased application. If you're a developer, it's a good start a diagnosis what your program is doing to the system. The networking concepts need the most work. This is where it's most dated, simply because this discipline advances so quickly.

This book is a compilation of eight short stories "written" by Dr. Watson after Holmes "retirement." All are set after his capture of Dr. Moriarty.
The first three short stories, aren't that interesting. I found myself knowing the end result way before the end of the story. However, the fourth story "The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans" which concerns a young man working for the British government that ends up dead on the London subway tracks with 7 of the 10 pages of plans for a super secret submarine in his pocket. The other three are missing. Holmes and Watson must find out who killed the young man and where the plans are. This one is not only the best one of the book, but also one of the two longest.
The other great story in the book is The Adventure of the Devil's Foot.
There's also a great historical insight in the book, with a couple of the characters and plot lines surrounding the British conflict with Germany, and one is also set after the beginning of World War I.
I whole heartedly recommend this book to anybody interested in mysteries or great literature.