General things of Pharmaceutical Suspensions, Stability of this dosage form. Quality assurance of Pharmaceutical suspensions

Out of all of the pharm books I have used, this is the easiest to understand. Not as thorough as some but great. I recommend it. Wish I had it for the whole nursing program.

Reading this book is much easier after taking the author's course. You get a better feeling for how the book is laid out after listening to the author's lecture style. An organic chemist by training, the author naturally gears this book to the organic chemist. He gives just enough physiology to understand the pharmacology behind it. The book follows his lecture course fairly well with more in-depth discussion on topics of interest. A standard reference text that should be in any chemists' library starting out in the pharmaceutical field.

That book is the best one I found in Hong Kong bookstore for the Pharmacy staff or the student in the Pharmacy. The information is update and very clear. GOOD

I read this book and I learned more about pharmacy, drugs, and medicine than I learned in high school and college chemistry. A very well written book in simple language which made it easy to understand technical language and difficult concepts. A must-read for litigators, pharmacists, law students or individuals that wish to learn more about the pharmaceutical companies in this country. I personally spoke with one of the authors, Art Borja, and he offered me additional resources and tips that assisted my research. My firm purchased this book for a recent case that settled for an undisclosed figure in excess of eight figures!!! Well worth the investment.

This is the best book of Philadelphia I have seen in years. It captures the city in a way that you don't see in other photo books of the city. It makes a great coffee table book. You will love this book.

As a Precepts Upon Precepts leader, I usually purchase no less than three commentaries on each book I lead. Invarably, one of these commentaries always stands out above the rest. That is certainly the case with this excellent exposition on Philippians written by the great nineteenth century New Testament scholar, J.B. Lightfoot. It is written in an easy to understand verse by verse layout with an excellent emphasis given to the original Greek usage of the words. The detailed explaination of the use of the word "form" will certainly enlighten any believer to the true meaning of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. If you are studying Philippians and can afford only one commentary, this is the one to purchase.

A very interesting and informative guide to the gay culture of this island nation.

Joseph Agassi, The Philosopher's Apprentice: In Karl Popper's Workshop. Series in the Philosophy of Karl R. Popper, Volume V. Edited by Kurt Salamun. Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam and Atlanta GA, 1993. xx + 252 pp. -- Agassi describes himself as "the foremost exponent and leading critic"(p. ix) of his teacher, Sir Karl Popper, who, he claims, is "the greatest philosopher of the mid-century" (p. xiv). This account of his studies under Popper applies the idea that criticism is an expression of respect, so forcefully preached by Popper, and notes Popper's tragic failure both as teacher and as a leader. Agassi does not hold much back, not even the charges of treason voiced by insiders provoked by the circulation of earlier drafts of this work. To discourage those who might dismiss this work as mere gossip, we may observe the rule proposed herein: discuss a book's importance before considering whether its message is true (p. 182). Agassi succeeds in applying the idea, so forcefully preached by Popper, that criticism expresses respect. And we learn here of Popper's failure to practice his own teachings, of Agassi's loss due to a repeated failure to communicate, and the public's loss of Popper's intellectual leadership. The importance of this work is in the unblinking courage with which it presents this record of failures. In addition to the "melancholy" (p. ix) story, the "wild" (p. xi) narrative structure of this book, which is sometimes chronological, sometimes thematic and always open to an interesting digression, makes it hard to summarize or characterize. It opens thus: Popper's (Einsteinian) view of science dispenses with the authority of science and with the demand to defend views. Why then do scientists and philosophers -- including Popper -- continue this defense? The problem receives its face from embarrassingly detailed descriptions of the tensions between Popper and his associates, the harshness of their personal dealings, their defensiveness and their intrigues. As the story unfolds we see Popper's unbecoming sides, his cult of hard work, his maudlin Christianity and his anti-semitism (p. 25), and his resentment of willful distortions and dishonest dismissals. The estrangement between Agassi and Popper haunts this book. Gratitude, admiration and discipleship do not overwhelm his autonomy, nor do they mute his criticism. He views Popper's thought as the best expression of the morality of critical autonomy. Yet his efforts to secure his autonomy create the rift never to be mended. Indeed the most crucial source of the rift is Popper's refusal to discuss ethics. Agassi criticizes Popper's retreat from traditional positivism as "not sufficiently open" and as concealed under his constant (and just) disavowal of "logical" positivism (p. 173). This conduct is at variance with his own strong condemnation of "surreptitious" changes of opinion (p. 174). When Agassi criticized Popper's theory of corroboration, he generously conceded in a footnote that here Agassi may be right, as he may have correctly detected in Popper a "whiff of inductivism" (p. 6). This, he suggested, should satisfy Agassi's desire for recognition and silence his further criticism. Agassi, on his part, rejects the acknowledgment as far too generous (p. 7). How could Popper, the philosopher of critical rationalism, be so apparently closed to criticism? Agassi' s answer is the central lesson here: "... no one can judge how open to criticism one is and no one can declare adequate one's acceptance of a criticism and one's subsequent alteration of an opinion" (p. 69). One can never be one's own judge. Popper's personal failures should be seen as a shortcoming not of the critical standards he espoused but of the view of oneself as able to judge oneself in one's sincere efforts to be severe with oneself. Popper's life in the intellectual community, his reputation there and its sources are discussed in a series of vignettes that concern some of the most important figures in mid-century philosophy: Wittgenstein, Ayer, Carnap, Isaiah Berlin, Bar-Hillel, Bartley, Lakatos and more. Carnap and Lakatos emerge as villains. The latter was an ambitious and treacherous schemer who, appealing to Popper's vanity and defensiveness, isolated and manipulated him. Carnap's distorted version of Popper's views became canonic for a generation and blocked their public exposure. His Testability and Meaning (1936) identifies Popper's view as concerning not science but its language. The difference is this: the negation of a scientific theory is not scientific, yet the negation of a sentence is a sentence. So while science does not include the negation of the theories that it includes, any language does. Confusing the two leads to confusing refutation with verification: the refutation of a theory is confused with the verification of its negation. Thus verifiability and refutability, Carnap's view of science and Popper's, would appear symmetrical. The novelty and significance of Popper's vision are thus lost. In the final chapter we find an insightful critique of Popper's theory of leadership and a discussion of Popper's mistreatment at the hands of the philosophical leadership(p. 235). The epilogue is a call for the "grass root revolution in philosophy" (p. 246) implicit in Popper's views. This explains the resistance to them: leaders tend to be conservative. Yet "the present global crises which threaten our very survival" (p. 244) and the inability of philosophy to "join the action" (ibid. ) make the revolution imperative. Agassi suggests that discussion of the issues raised in this volume, particularly among students, is a contribution to this revolution. Being myself a former student of his, I wished to test his suggestion. I did, and I agree. I hope this important book is widely read and discussed, and that we begin an open debate on the criteria of what is serious philosophy. This would indeed be the start of a philosophical revolution. -- Michael Chiariello, St. Bonaventure University.

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