Lot a good things about Jeff's training program. I've found it
very helpfull over the last year so decided to pick up this journal. Big mistake. While it's got it's good points; I especially like the training programs, time predictors,
sensible layout for daily entries, and lots of room in the back for notes, it has one fatal flaw. Contrary to the claim on the back cover that there are "daily entries for one year", you will find by the end of October you're using those empty note pages because you've run out of pre-printed log pages.

No journal, no matter how good, that doesn't have space for a full year doesn't pass my minimums. The fact that the cover lies
I find inexcusable. Get the Runner's World Training Diary, it's got most everything this book has plus a full year's worth of entry space, and it's [...] less [money].

I followed the Galloway training program for my first marathon. I started using the training journal as I began training for my second marathon. I am able to record my progress and make sure I stay on track. The motivational quotes each week push me along and I often copy them into emails that I send to my fellow training partners. The book is organized so that you can begin any week and write in the dates. Also helpful are the pacing charts at the end of the book. I like to be able to look back at previous weeks and map my progress. I always write how I felt during the runs or other workouts and who I ran or trained with. It helps me to recognize patterns in my workouts. I plan to purchase another training journal after the Disney marathon to continue monitoring my success with running.

This novel is a big disappointment. I'm a Poyer fan, but this is far below his usual standard. A boring book full of unpleasant characters & diving-jargon techno-babble. The plot, such as it is, doesn't even get going till the last 80 pages. If this had been my first Tiller novel I wouldn't bother continuing with the series. Another problem is that Tiller isn't that likable in this novel. It's OK to have a rogue hero, but the rogue has to have some redeeming qualities or be likable in some way. In this episode Tiller is an unattractive jerk even though he does the "right thing" in the end. But by then who cares. I'll continue with the series but I hope they get better!

In Louisiana Blue, the third of the Tiller Galloway series, Tiller and his partner, Shad leave North Carolina and head to the oilfield trash towns of South Louisiana looking for offshore diving jobs and a chance to put their lives back together. They find work with a less than reputable company, DeepTech, headed by a hard drinking, fast living cajun, Roland "Bender" Boudreaux. Just as things are starting to look good, Tiller find himself in deep trouble again! Deep as in 900 feet down in the Gulf of Mexico! Very smartly written, I couldn't read the last three chapters fast enough! As a diver, a former oilfield employee, and a native of the Bayou State, I was very impressed with Poyer's detail and vivid descriptions of South Louisiana and the Offshore Oil Industry. Galloway reminds me of Clive Cussler's DIRK PITT and James W. Hall's THORN all rolled into one! Readers who enjoy a good thriller with lots of vivid underwater action will love David Poyer's LOUISIANA BLUE!

This was a book that didnt bring up any new current ideas.....It is apparent that the author has no experience with any formal dance of her own, or any in the real world. Ideas were stale, old-school, and didnt make sense for this generation. I think anyone with Internet access could find this stuff on the Net for free. Sorry, but THIS IS NOT a book for anyone who needs info on proms......Save your money and get the info on the Net.......

This book totaly kept me together. My friends and I couldn't put it down. Now we have complete journals of the funniest details that I know I would forget about if I hadn't had this book!

This book paints a decent protrait of Galloway in the years before, during and after the American Revolution. However, Freling does not offer his own opinion of Galloway's historical significance. Overall, a decent book, but a bit tedious at times.

Although David Galloway has written a very detailed andinteresting novel told from the point of view of perhaps the mostimportant woman of the doomed Donner Party, I have some serious problems with his book. First, though some historians believe that Tamsen Donner kept a journal of her own during her family's 1846-47 trek from Springfield, Illinois to Alder/Prosser Creek and Truckee (now called Donner) Lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, no such journal has ever been found. The fictional journal that Galloway "re-creates" is quite rich and fascinating--until the families reached the spot in the Sierras where they were forced to winter-over without adequate food supplies. Instead of coming up with more convincing vignettes of his own, Galloway lifts entire scenes from the only known and published diary of a Donner-Camp survivor, that of Patrick Breen (for example, the Donner children toasting bits of the fire-rug and eating them). Second, I found the sexual scenes unnecessary, unsubstantiated, and improbable. There has been no suggestion that I have found in other Donner Party literature that Lewis Keseberg raped Tamsen Donner before he allegedly murdered her. Finally, Galloway's "Tamsen" contains the ONLY references to homosexual relations among teamsters during the great migration to the American West that I have found in Donner literature. Where did Galloway find his information or inspiration for this plot-twist? Criticism aside, "Tamsen" paints a glowing portrait of Tamsen Donner, an incredibly strong and brave woman dedicated to her husband and children. On the basis of Galloway's book, she should be beatified! "Tamsen" stays very true to the chronology of events and gives the reader a real sense of the desperation of the people trapped in the mountains and of the heroic efforts of the men who came to their rescue. The strongest point of David Galloway's novel is that he provides what I have found to be the most plausible explanation I've read yet of how Lewis Keseberg may have disposed of Tamsen Donner's body. Overall, "Tamsen" is an interesting and entertaining book, but it should be read by Donner Party aficianados who already have a basic understanding of the events that happened so that they can recognize the points at which Galloway's account varies from the actual events.

Why is the name of this book "Selling on the Web?"

75% of the book is devoted to non web selling-placing ads in newspapers for catalogs and other non-web selling instruments. Finally, late in the second half of the book, the author says, "oops, this is about selling on the web." and finally puts web related selling info in.
There is nothing about using things like targeted marketing through purchasing keywords at services like ... Amazon.com stores. Anyone who is not experienced with selling on the web would FAIL AT IT--MISERABLY!!
If it was possible to give this book no stars I would!!

Selling on the web (E-Commerce) has one very big problem; selling on the web.
The author starts the book out with traditional non-online selling information that may be beneficial for people trying to reach a smaller group of people, such as go to the newspapers in your area, how to write headlines for ads and copyrighting.
It isn't until chapter 2 that the author even mentions the web and then not until the fourth section of the chater. Then when he does, he starts out by insinuating that the reader has the mentality of a newborn by explaining what the difference is between the internet and the web and what email is. Unless you have been living on Pluto the last ten years, you should know this. Each subsequent chapter only has one or two sections that touch on the internet, almost as if this is an afterthought. He touches on advertising on newsgroups and bulletin boards. He expains what search engines and directories are but doesn't explain how to get the optimum use out of them.

The only good section of the book is the resource listings that the author gives you at the end.
The publisher E-Z Guides also has a book available called Internet Marketing Made EZ. Does it have everything that should have been in this book or is it about plumbing?

I would recommend Starting an ebay business for dummies for good information on web selling.

Selling on the Web by Paul Galloway reads like a short course primer on Web development, Website promotion, copywriting, advertising, marketing, and selling. Galloway provides concise instruction on these topics as they directly relate to successful online selling.

Readers will learn about important Website design considerations that will help them get sales, how to write content specifically for the Web, how to market online with Websites, e-mail, newsgroups, chat rooms, search engines, and how to market offline by using traditional broadcast, printed, and direct mail campaigns.

Galloway illustrates throughout most of the book the power of the written word - words used in copywriting to get sales. He illustrates how to legitimately play upon the emotions of people - fear, greed, guilt, pride, and love to get sales. He will also help his readers to write to gain their prospect's attention, to capture their interest, to arousing their desires, and to move them to take action.

Paul Galloway offers beginners an excellent opportunity to go online and to make the best of it. This concise guide to Web selling is packed with excellent information and instruction. The book is written in an extremely easy-to-read style anyone should appreciate - short paragraphs, bulleted and numbered lists, tips and notes, and a wealth of resources that are easily accessible and can be put to immediate use to generate an income. Convenient listings of books, services, and Websites are provided.

This book is highly recommended for new Web developers, small business operators, students, and for classroom and seminar use. It will greatly enhance every Web selling opportunity and create new ones. A Windows and Macintosh compatible CD edition of the book is also available from the publisher.

The lack of organization and lack of a glossary result in a poor textbook. Do not use this as your main source of info when trying to learn about depositional systems- much more understandable books exist.

This is a book packed full of information. Each chapter could be a single book, and that would help, expanding more on the ideas contained within.

Just when you think that something is going to happen, it does not happen. And vice versa.