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Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and the Legend (A Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook)
Published in Hardcover by Newmarket Press (November, 1992)
Authors: Francis Ford Coppola, James V. Hart, Diana Landau, and Ralph Nelson
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Nice coverage on the legend behind Dracula and the movie
I think this book is a must for fans of horror films and artsy movies. This Dracula is an artistic venture into the horror genre, most notorious for its gore and guts aspects. I like the photographs and the conceptual designs being put into the movie.

Marvelous account of the film.
If you liked this movie, you will like this book even more. It is perhaps one of the best books about the making of a film ever written. You will even get a chance to enjoy the script, and the actors' thoughts. Director Copppola is quoted throughout, as well as the costume designers, and other people involved. However, I felt, as I read through the book, that there was not enough about Gary Oldman, who starred as Dracula. I was looking forward to more of HIS insights than any one else's, for it was HE who brought such new and wonderful emotions to the role. The pictures in the book are wonderful. Drawings and little un-known facts are everywhere, making this truly an interesting read.

A GREAT BOOK!
This book includes tons of photos from the hit film Bram Stoker's Dracula.Includes the script from the film and the legend of the REAL DRACULA! A must have for Dracula fans!


Champagne Kisses, Cyanide Dreams
Published in Paperback by David R Godine (June, 2003)
Authors: Ralph Graves and Raplh Graves
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Not so much a murder mystery as a Hollywood novel. Fun!
I found this to be a highly enjoyable read particularly since it is based on Martha's Vineyard, and shows a side we know about but rarely see. The characters aren't based on real people, but its easy to imagine who would play them in a movie. Jason's character reminded me of Dave Eggers in "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius", which I also enjoyed.
I found it easy to follow the who's who of characters and enough of a mystery to keep you trying to guess until the end.

a fun read
If you like mystery novels about celebrities, then "Champagne Kisses, Cyanide Dreams" should, on the whole, satisfy. The mystery unfolds mostly on the island of Martha's vineyard, at one of Mildred Silk's coveted dinner parties. Martha Silk is a rather poisonous but powerful writer and hostess, and most people take great care to stay on her good side. So that when Martha throws a dinner party to celebrate the publication of her latest tell all book, the dinner guests are understandably nervous and curious. Not Jason Alexander however. A rich and indolent young man, Jason has been invited to fill-in for an unavoidably detained guest. He's sure that this is going to be a dinner to remember and dine out on, and he's proved right when Mildred Silk keels over while sipping her after dinner drink. The cause of death proves to cyanide poisoning, and the police believe that the motive was to stop Mildred's book from being published. This would make nearly every single guest at the ill fated dinner suspects in the murder. And when the suspects themselves start dying one after the other, Jason enthusiastically throws himself into the pursuit of cyanide murderer.

Ralph Graves droll and wry writing manner alone makes this novel worth reading. Mystery wise, it's a rather straight forward read with very few twists and turns and red herrings. And I found myself missing the old-fashioned 'grilling' of the suspects for dirt -- esp in a mystery novel about celebrities, some of that might have been rather fun. However, I did enjoy reading this novel very much.

Brilliant psychological thriller
Lots of depth. Unexpected; Caught by the plot, one may miss the brilliant subtleties of character development. I need to read it again; this was a very interesting novel. I think this may be an underrated work.


Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
Published in Paperback by Park Street Pr (December, 2001)
Authors: Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham, and Jean Houston
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Repackaging flair
For those new to the works of Sheldrake, this could be the perfect buy.

Yes, it's a repackaged version of what the authorities would consider "Old School." So if you want a book with a cool title, cool cover, and probably one of the more digestible texts of Sheldrake's ideas, (and you don't have any Sheldrake on your shelf) then this would work.

As for complaints by Sheldrake fanatics, hey, at least this is getting those marvelous ideas by McKenna and Sheldrake out to newer and newer audiences!

Entertaining and Enlightening, Intellectual 60s style
I read this book while on jury duty. Because I ran out of reading materials, I went back over it and decided to write down some of my favorite quotes. Here is one example, by Ralph Abraham. "I find the whole idea that the world's soul is confined in a space/time continuum of four or ten dimensions extremely claustrophobic." So, you all get the idea. This was not a book to summarize, so I kept writing down quotes and buzz words. What gave me a lot of chuckles were the interspersed references to psychedelic drugs and various qualities of mushrooms, and the use of mushroom examples and so forth. I don't know much about mushrooms, but it helps date these guys, even while they are talking about ten dimensions being claustrophobic. I will say this-- they must have had some good trips.

I don't pretend to understand a lot of their references, mushrooms aside, but it is an easy book to read as long as one doesn't feel the need to follow up every lead and reference. Their approaches seem to be kind of cutting edge, but dated, if there is such a combination. I am particularly interested in Sheldrake's morphogenetic fields, which is what led me to the book. My attention span tends to be a little short, so I wanted a kind of breezy overview. Although I enjoyed the book a lot, I don't think I got much out of the morphic fields discussion. So I will look elsewhere for that.

I lent this book to my daughter, who is enthralled by it, particularly since she just took a bunch of final exams, some having to do with statistics and econometrics, so their discussions of modeling were most interesting to her.

And who wouldn't go for the idea of creativity coming out of chaos? Aren't our lives in chaos most of the time anyway? There must be a purpose for it. That's it. I get more creative after every chaotic event!! The discussions about beginnings, endings, various attractors, etc. were really fun to read. Not sure which ones came from their imaginitive minds (resulting from chaos), or their super intelligent brains, and which ones were from the mushrooms.

Oh, here's another Abraham quote I absolutely loved. "As the waves pass the rock, their shape is changed. There is a hologram of the rock within the wave that comes forward and crashes on the beach, then there's a reflected wave back."

Ok, that was cool!! All things considered, if you have some extra time (either on the beach, or on jury duty) read this book. They weaved in references from all aspects of experience-- mythology, mushrooms, science, waves, psychology, philosophy, history, etc. I love that!! I consider a book a success for me if I get one good idea from it. And I got more than that from this one, although I am not any more inclined to take psychedelics than I was prior to reading the book.

Cutting-edge Cosmology
This is a gripping series of conversations between the three authors discussing various aspects of the psyche, the universe, the role of chaos theory in the dynamics of creation and the rediscovery of ancient wisdom. The authors, all three of whom stood at the cutting edge of their respective disciplines, challenge the reader about our current views of reality, morality and the nature of life. The sometimes breathtaking insights emerging from this will not fail to move the reader. The chapters on creativity, the imagination and chaos are amongst the most compelling, and deal with theories like the cosmic imagination as a higher dimensional magnet that pulls the evolutionary process to itself, the Omega Point, and imagination arising out of the womb of chaos. Other fascinating topics include indeterminism in nature, nature's organising fields as mathematical representations, and the encoding of information in crystals and in written language. The chapter "Light and Vision" is one of the most poetic, dealing as it does with physical light and the light of consciousness, the theory that one's thoughts are a measurable field emanating from the eyes, the similarities between electromagnetic and mental fields, the concept of a world soul, and morphogenetic fields as a medium of divine omniscience. Incorporeal intelligence and non-human entities are discussed - are the latter merely inhabitants of the psyche or do they have an independent existence? Scientists and inventors like Kekule, who received answers in dreams, are referenced here. The book concludes with a glossary, bibliography and biographical information about the authors. It is a stimulating text in which the power of the mythical imagination, scientific observation and innovative speculation combine to create a thought-provoking reading experience.


Civil Procedure
Published in Hardcover by Fred B Rothman & Co (June, 1991)
Authors: Larry L. Teply and Ralph U. Whitten
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Indispensable
This is the single best resource on Civil Procedure that I have ever encountered. Easy to read yet comprehensive, this book demystifies a subject that gives many first year law students difficulty. I consider this an essential resource for any serious law student.

Great overall source for all your Civ Pro needs
I was "forced" to purchase this book (in addition to a casebook) for my law school civ pro class. I avoided the "red book" as much as possible and sold it at the end of the year. However, I soon came to realize that the book contains a great wealth of info from basic stuff to very cutting edge theory. Although my first year I struggled through the material in my civ pro course, I could have done much better had I utilized this book! Now, I have repurchased this book and rely on it immensly. This book is teaching and reteaching me the civ pro course.

It is not for the extreme beginner (i.e. it is not a replacement for an emmanuel), but Civil Procedure is a very academic and intellectual source worth the 40-something bucks.

Civil Procedure, Teply & Whitten
This book offers the civil procedure beginner easily accesible and easy to read information on basic civil procedure concepts on up to more advanced problems. It is easily read and I would recommend it to any first year law student looking for a source that gets to the point, while offering basic reasoning behind the concepts that one would apply on a law school exam.


Cutting Corporate Welfare
Published in Paperback by Seven Stories Press (October, 2000)
Author: Ralph Nader
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Made you think about corporate fat and corruption, but.....
I think Mr. Nader is a little too much of an idealist. There are drawbacks to every system of government and every type of economy. In this book Nader points out a lot of waste that the government participates in and he makes some suggestions on how to clean things up. I don't regret reading the book at all (it was a very quick and easy read), as I feel I have learned a lot from it, but I think that Nader has to realize that we don't live in Utopia. Judging from the current world order, it appears that capitalism is the most successful economic model. But capitalism, like ever other system, is not perfect and Nader wants it to be.

An interesting read for those who believe in the American way but want to get a glimpse into some of the negatives that Nader and his guys feel need some improvement. Books like this need to be written because it forces people to take a closer look at some of the government waste and the sometimes shady corporate/government partnerships. But I don't think that Nader's solutions are very practical politically nor will they be easily implemented.

Ralph Nader is the best man for the job.
Ralph Nader has intelligence, convictions, heart, and character. More of what I can say of Bush and Gore, not sending any sublinibabalbal messages of course. It would sure be nice to see a modern American political have the guts and courage Nader has to STAND UP TO SPECIAL INTERESTS! What a concept! In his book, Nader brilliantly writes about corporate greed and welfare and who suffers??? We do! The working man, the people. Wonder why only 49% of the American people vote? Leaving mostly the poor and lower classes left behind? Could it be that the Republicans and Democrats don't respond to their issues? These book is useful for those of us that love our nation but don't want to see it become the corporate welfare state it is oh so quickly becoming. An excellent read.

A campaign book we'd like to see more like
I guess you'd have to call this a campaign book, since Nader was running for president when it was published. But if we had more campaign books like this, presidential campaigns would be much better indeed, because it's a substantive book with real convictions and real recommendations.

Nader coined the term "corporate welfare" in 1956, before he became famous for attacking General Motors, and it's been a pet topic of his ever since. It means, basically, government spending of any kind whatsoever that has the effect of benefiting corporations.

Some government give-aways are obvious, like the $70 billion in lost revenue from the 1996 Telecommunications Act, when the feds gave big broadcasters a new broadcast spectrum for free, instead of auctioning it off. Nader says this is because broadcasters contribute heavily to political campaigns; and that's the essence of his view, that all corporate welfare is based on campaign kickbacks.

But some government give-aways are a lot less obvious. It's impressive how Nader can apply that specific a concept to such a wide array of policy issues. (He can do this successfully because he has spent the last 45 years thinking about little else. When an interviewer asked him what he likes to do with his free time, he responded, "I like to visit a meat-processing plant. Or a coal mine.)

The problem, as Nader sees it, is that government giveaways to corporations are repaid by campaign donations, so the politicians who support the corporate welfare get corporate support back for their re-election, and the cycle continues indefinitely. This is what Nader meant when he called Gore & Bush "tweedledum and tweedledee", with no substantive differences between them. When pressed, Nader conceded that Gore & Bush DID differ on the issues, but he says that the only REAL difference is which corporations support Gore versus which support Bush. They both kowtow equally, says Nader, and that's the source of inherent corruption.

This book is never going to have the impact of Nader's 1960s classic "Unsafe at Any Speed," which basically gave bith to the consumer safety industry. But it DOES address a resonant chord in the American electorate, as we saw with John McCain's immense popularity. McCain addressed the same basic issues of campaign finance problems (and in fact was one of the few Senate opponents of that 1996 Telecomm Act), but without the deeper underpinning that Nader presents.

Some examples of Nader's applications of misuse of government resources on corporate welfare:

* Subsidizing defense industry mergers

* Pork-barrel highway projects

* "Export assistance" to big companies

* Tax holidays for sports stadiums

* Corporate tax loopholes

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Eichmann Interrogated: Transcripts from the Archives of the Israeli Police
Published in Hardcover by Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group) (13 October, 1983)
Authors: Adolf Eichmann, Jochen von Lang, Claus Sibyll, and Ralph Manheim
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Truth be known...
Adolf Eichmann was the main character behind the deportation of the jews to concentration and extermination camps during the second world war. With that in mind, one better understands the historic and sociological value of a book made of the transcripts of his interrogation at the hands of the israeli police prior to Eichmann execution at the conclusion of his trial. However several things wich I will now detail diminish the impact of this neverteless important work.
The first of these diminishing factor is Eichmann himself... Eichmann lies constantly all trough the transcript and try to weasel is way out of most of what he consider to be potentially damming evidence for his trial... Given the man's weak intellect most of his lies are unimaginative and most of the time he doesn't even realize he is not making any sense and denying evidence already backed by numerous witness and written evidence... He doesn't even have the common sense to realise what constitute dammaging evidence and what doesn't and he sometimes argue against or refute very technical details of little importance and yet not realize that by his own previous admission he has already confirmed the most important charges against him. All through the book Eichmann shows himself to be an uninteresting bore of little character or imagination. Totally selfish he constantly blame others for his wrong doings. He is also completely unrepentant (One gets the impression that under the same circunstance Eichmann who do it all over again, as he doesn't even seem to grasp the importance of his part in the holocaust)
Another factor that raise question about the value of this book is the circumstances in which the transcript were obtained from Eichmann. Even considering the disgusting nature of the character, one must admit that sending secret agent to kidnap him from Argentina (with not respect for the sovereignty of that country)and to bring him to trial on such short notice, trial which ended by Eichmann execution, might raise questions about the impartiality of the israeli authority and the fairness of the procedings. Incidentally, Capt. Avner Less the man who interviewed Eichmann had lost several direct family members to the extermination camps ... So are the extract presented in this book truthfull representation of what really took place in the interogation process? Probably, but one must nevertheless not forget the circumstances in which Eichmann's words were obtained...
In conclusion, the transcript will be of limited interest to people trying to get a better picture of the holocaust and the role Eichmann played in it. Eichmann's constant lying and droning on and on in his answers leave very little interesting facts and you will get a better picture of the holocaust or the role Eichmann played in it in other books. However this book will be of great interest to anybody interested in knowing and undersanding more of the personality and mind of a man who is responsable for the death of 6 million jews. Reading this book makes one realise the rather unconfortable fact that a man like A. Eichmann is not exceptionnal but rather a very dull, very normal man, the kind of promotion chasing heartless civil servant like there are hundreds in every big city ...

Nutritive but rather distasteful
Yuck. Reading this is like eating liver and onions ~ a wonderful aroma, and a few tasty morsels, but for the most part to be choked down a little bit at a time. I don't know why i picked this up at this particular time; perhaps it resonated because i had recently finished "Schindler's List" and was interested in knowing more. Now i know...very little more. Eichmann spends almost the entire transcript of the interrogation avoiding questions, claiming to be a minor official with no decision-making capacity, remembering arranging transportation of Jews with no reference to what happened to them afterwards, and justifying every action he ever took by Befehlsnotstand ~ being legally constrained to follow the orders he was given. This is the record of a man who was, apparently, happy enough to participate in evil once he had been brought into it ~ in his defence, it doesn't appear that Eichmann went out of his way to become the Reich specialist on Jewish questions ~ but was unwilling either to renounce it when given the chance or to stay with it unrepentant to the end, as Himmler et al did. I literally had to read this in small doses, because he was so casual about this actions, and yet so unwilling to see the consequences of any action taken; the interrogator, one Avner Less, must have wanted to shake the prisoner and ask him, just once, to listen and think.

Just a normal man??
The Israeli agents involved in his capture couldn't believe that such an unremarkable man could be the one with the blood of six million Jews on his hands - This book reveals how he could! This is one of the best books I have read in a long time, not (I agree) everyone's cup of tea but definately mine! Once started I couldn't put the thing down. I was locked to it with disbelief at the way Eichmann could rationalise all his actions (almost justify them) and distance himself from the end product of the conveyor-belt he claimed to be....just the transporter of! I know others have written not particularly savoury reviews of this book, but if you are in any way interested in the Holocaust then reading of the bringing to justice of one of it's most notorious perpetrators will be time well spent. Highly recommended...............Fascinating!


The Catholic Church at the End of an Age: What Is the Spirit Saying?
Published in Paperback by Ignatius Press (November, 1994)
Author: Ralph Martin
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Loyal Dog of the Hierarchy
This is an insightful book in many ways, and a deluded one in others. Ralp Martin's devotion to Jesus Christ is no doubt powerful, but he is such a typically loyal lapdog to one of the most corrupt, misogynistic, spiritually disturbed institutions in the world. By this I mean the Hierarchy of the Roman catholic Church, and not its members(or at least not the ones who are interested only in living a simple Christian life and are not concerned with the centuries-old power delusions of the hierarchy.) Martin has a balanced approach to Christian virtue and value in this book. He takes great care to delineate a proper devotion to Christ and to Mary, but it is sad that he cannot find the voice to speak up against the sado-masochistic spirituality that runs through so much of popular Catholicism today in the form of well-known "victim souls," ridiculous miracles,and the whole general sense of shame. If writers like Martin were brave enough to take the warped sense of guilt out of Catholicism, that religion might finally have a chance to breathe.

Tendentious
Despite an erratic and often clumsy writing style, Ralph Martin manages to make some key points regarding the Church in crisis. Indeed, giving credit where it's due, Mr. Martin is notably successful in getting many of these points across through the use of statistics -- no easy task.

My main probem with this book is Mr. Martin's true agenda. His primary objective is to engage in charismatic apologetics. The charismatic movement within the Catholic Church remains highly controversial -- and, in the interests of full disclosure, is not at all to my taste.

A much better book on the Church (and the West) in crisis is Father Rutler's "A Crisis of Saints."

An Excellent Summary
Martin has hit a bullseye with his analysis of the Church's situation as she enters the third millenium. Martin reveals the 'pre-Vatican II' versus the 'post-Vatican II' Church for the false dichotomy that it is, and the rends in the Church that such false a false dichotomy creates. The Church is ever-ancient, ever-new, the Faith has not changed. The split in the Church is not a chronological one - it is a crisis of Faith. The Church is filled with infallible 'teachers' of false Faith, who never seem to question what will become of those in the flock who subscribe to their teaching. As far as the reviewer who calls Martin a 'loyal dog' of the hierarchy, his bitterness and angst is sad and prophetic. The Church has a hierarchy, locations of employment have a hierarchy, every government has a hierarchy, and the only alternative is chaos and cruelty. This bilious anti-authority streak is shared by many Church dissenters, who pretend to barf at being included in anyone's flock of sheep. Boredom is the sentiment most often evoked by those who can not put aside childish ways and become men (or women). Martin's book is excellent, and should be read by all who are concerned about the attack on the Faith and the faithful. What an exciting time to be in the great Chariot of the Ages!


Celt and Pepper: A Mystery Set at the University of Notre Dame
Published in Hardcover by St. Martin's Minotaur (01 December, 2002)
Author: Ralph McInerny
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You either love Notre Dame or hate Notre Dame...
...and either way, this book makes for entertaining reading. Though the Knight brothers are billed as the investigators of the murder, many of the other characters offer opinions, have theories, and act on impulses. As the pages turn, the crime seems almost to succumb to group pressure and to resolve itself. As revealing about Academia as Jane Smiley's _Moo_, Richard Russo's _Straight Man_, and M. D. Lake's Peggy O'Neill mysteries. You may never look at benefactors and building names in quite the same manner.

Real feel for Notre Dame U. and campus politics
Visiting professor Martin Kilmartin wasn't healthy, but there is still something strange about his death. With his romantic 'dying poet' airs, Kilmartin had settled on the most attractive graduate student at Notre Dame, offending established professors. And academic rivalries run deep in that university. Still, when evidence points to murder, the detective/professor and brothers Knight are surprised. Surely disagreements over Yeats couldn't result in murder.

Fans of this series will enjoy author Ralph McInerny's views into University of Notre Dame's present and its past. The brothers Knight make interesting and sympathetic characters as they mingle uneasily with the staff and faculty at the University. When a wealthy ex-student wants to express his appreciation of Notre Dame more financially, Professor Roger Knight is brought into the middle of campus politics--and into closer contact with the soon-to-be victim.

McInerny's writing, his ability to dip into Notre Dame history and philosophy, and his wonderful descriptions of the petty politics that matters so much in any University form the strongest features of CELT AND PEPPER. Improved from earlier books in the series, the two female characters have some added dimension here. Few readers will be challenged by the identity of the killer, but that isn't really the point. Simply put, the book is a pleasant and fast read.

delightful Notre Dame University mystery
Everyone on campus during the winter break is shocked with the death of visiting Irish poet Martin Kilmartin. The South Bend police rule that the ailing Martin died from a heart attack while in the office he used while visiting the University of Notre Dame.

Professor Roger Knight met the poet once, enjoying the discussion and Martin's works. He immediately finds discrepancies at the crime scene that he feels should not be sneezed away as the ramblings of an obese academia amateur. With the help of his professional sleuth sibling Phil, Roger investigates what really happened to Martin. Instead of a simple case, he soon finds university backstabbing, politics, and dispute over establishing the post of Director of the Malachy O'Neil Center of Catholic Literature, an assignment Roger thought Martin was perfect to lead. Did one of these individuals with motive actually pepper the deceased Celt's phone causing the sneeze that killed Martin?

The investigation is fun, but take a back seat to the university that stands out in this exciting amateur sleuth tale. Fans will enjoy the satirical look at professors acting more like Ali-Frazier (either sex) and kissing the butt of a donor. Additionally, the intriguing look at the football stadium during the season (especially with the Fighting Irish in the top ten) brings home a further taste of the school. Still the who-done-it is nothing to sneeze at as Ralph McInerny ironically pokes fun at his own previous work in the series with a delightful Notre Dame University mystery.

Harriet Klausner


Circuits, Devices and Systems: A First Course in Electrical Engineering
Published in Paperback by John Wiley & Sons (January, 1976)
Author: Ralph Judson Smith
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filled with errors
The one of the authers of this text teaches at UC Davis. The worked examples and questions in the book were basically taken from the work of his graduate students. This may explain the large amounts of errors found in both the examples and the problem sets. My professor has found so many errors that he no longer assigns problems that he himself has not personally checked. My professor realizes that there is nothing more frustrating than learning the methods taught in a text and not being able to reprduce the given answers. This text could also use more worked ( and corrrect ) examples of some of the more complicated problems. On the other hand it has nice pictures. (I hear the author was tranfered out of teaching electronics... I wonder if this is true)

A good reference book for circuit analysis.
My porfessor always give us difficult problem to solve. Everytime I encountered difficulty on basic concepts and theorems, I can find clear explaination and representative examples from the book. I think it is better to have detail solution to the problems.

The life work of RJ Smith is a masterpiece.
One of the best books. It is clear, easy to understand, and treats subjects in depth. They changed numbers in the problems in the 5th edition but did not change "answers to selected problems". For example problem P4-7 should be R2 = 5 ohms(not 6) and L = 5 H (not 8). I got the correct numbers from the 4th edition. P4-13, P4-15, P4-24 have similar errors in chapter 4 for example.


Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology (3rd Edition)
Published in Hardcover by Benjamin/Cummings (29 July, 2002)
Authors: Frederic H., Phd Martini, Edwin F. Bartholomew, William C., Md Ober, Claire W., Rn Garrison, Kathleen, Md Welch, and Ralph T. Hutchings
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This Book is A Hard Book to find anything
This book is way to complicated. It is not very helpful to tryto find information in an easy simple manner. I would try to findanother book for anatomy and physiology!

Why I like this book.
My daughter who is taking a course in nursing likes this book.
I find this book neat and the illustrations done by Dr William
Ober clear and easy to the eyes. If you are not anybody who is
involved in the health or medical studies, and wish to know
more about the human body (anatomy and physiology), then I highly
recommend this concise "essentials" book. Take a look at page
132, Figure 6-6, you actually get to see the whole of human
skeletal system which appears as photograph, not a drawing. I
can use this page to show my children what the human skeleton
looks like and name the parts, which are clearly labelled. The
reason I have given 4 stars because I cannot say this book is
100% perfect. The authors will later improve it in their future
editions, still this is a good buy ...you won't regret.

Good bargin Book on A & P
This is a great book for anyone that needs a small (less than 700 pages) book to look up basic concepts. I bought a used copy as a low cost way to start an A&P library. Medical students may not want to use this book unless they are in their very first year and know nothing about anatomy and physiology; but anyone in the allied health field will want to keep this one handy. Anyone who is willing to immerse himself in this book will definitely acquire a good working knowledge of A & P. I found numerous chapters that were great starting points to motivate deeper study. For instance, the Chapter on Muscles is very useful. It provide views of each major muscle, along with a diagram that lists what type of motion the muscle creates, and it's origin & insertion points. Many chapters have clinical examples as well as special sections that deal with aging and it's effects on the body's systems. If you are on a tight budget, get a used copy and you won't be disappointed.


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