Chapters on Management and Supervision(7) and Development and Operation of a Clinical Engineering Department(8)are the most useful ones. Conatin excellent pictorials, graphics and flowcharts especially for initiating programs in a new set up or revamping a latent one. Chapters 3 & 4 on Technology Management and Technology Assessment and Acquisition respectively are a good refernce for the fundamental concepts of the role of Clinical Engineering in Healthcare.

I found Mancuso's Small Business Resource Guide quite helpful. This book gives the business "beginner" many useful contact options for each business subject catagory. I really liked the included telephone numbers! The only way I see to improve on this book would be to include Website address's for the contact options.

Brignolo made his way through thousands of Buildings in Manhattan. R.P; Rca Building; more. Joe was the first person to be in Manhattan in my imagination. I was in Rockefeller Center in 1997. Joe has been a Handful of Manhattan to you! If you like Manhattan This is a Must-Read. Three Cheers for Brignolo! I Fell in love with him on July 13, 1998.

This book was the text in my first course in mass spectrometry. The book is a good introduction to MS for advanced undergrads and graduate students. I felt the book was very helpful, it covers the multitude of ionization sources, mass analyzers, and even tandem MS. I give it a thumbs up.

This book is a good collection of temerature dependent material data on a number of materials commonly encountered in electronics packaging. It is very useful for those who do structural modeling of microelectronic packages.

A majority of the data is in graphical form, forcing the user to interpolate from the plots to get numerical data. However, each material has numerical data listed for room temperature properties. Mechanical properties tend to be stated in english units. Sources of the data are cited.

The author clearly explains the topic. My only complaint is that some of the problems are rather difficult, and there isn't a solution key.

There are tons of blather, mostly from the bleats of the so-called intellectual class, that will forever bury the truth of Soviet subversion in the United States. They scream "witch-hunt," and the learned nod and scratch their chins, and imagine Lillian Hellman as a heroic figure. But, as Dwight MacDonald (no conservative) said, there ARE little witches. The Venona de-crypts, the testimony of the actual Soviet case-officers, the later confessions---all these things mean nothing to liberal myths. In this volume, brothers-in-law Buckley and Bozell (with an uncharacteristic lack of humor, but with a surgeon's scalpel) look at McCarthy's charges. From Moss to Lattimore, the dramatis personae and the evidence and the words of McCarthy's critics are laid before us. The conclusions are left to the reader; but the authors make a central point: nothing, EVER, said by McCarthy was as outrageous as those yawped by his critics. This book will inform those who have the Schrecker view of communism ("non-traditional patriotism"), the Appleton loyalists, as well as those who seek the facts. Recommended.

Being in the public safety business for over 5 years, I found this book extremely valuable in providing my staff with a quick, easy to learn, and most importantly, practical approach to controlling non co-operative subjects.

Sometimes the worst problems are the ones that are just plain ignored. That is apparently the case with Medicare, possibly the least discussed, but largest crisis facing government today. In Medicare in the Twenty-first Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform, a collection of authors ranging in profession from economic analysis to health insurance professors elaborate on differing solution to this troubled government program.

The compilation of essays begins with an introduction describing just how inefficient the government’s second largest entitlement program has become. According to government actuaries, Medicare’s ability to cover hospital funds will expire in 2015. This expiration has major implications considering that the program covers and estimated 39 million elderly and disabled persons, according to the book. Furthermore, as the baby boom generation ages into its retirement years the number receiving care will grow substantially and that is not taking into account the rising costs of health care. Judging by this information alone, it becomes apparent to the reader that something must be done. Yet what?

In the first essay, Joseph Antos and Linda Bilheimer outline the differing policy changes that could be possible solutions or at least the very least corrections to the program as it works presently. To correct the problem, they explain, either requires reducing the costs or improving efficiency. Efficiency is achieved when the marginal cost of producing an additional unit of care is equal to the additional unit of care that the patient receives. They then group the solution into three categories; ones that reduce costs without improving efficiency, ones that reduce costs and improve efficiency, and ones that simply restructure the way Medicare is financed. After describing all these policy changes the authors note a pathetic truth. None of the policy changes they outlined have even been looked at by congress â€" even after, congress passed the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, which was intended to address this exact point. By the end of the second chapter it becomes frightening clear to the reader, if it had not already, how bad Medicare is functioning.

The remainder of the essays expand on the ideas put forth by Antos and Bilheimer, but also go further in asserting the idea of fairness. By fairness the authors’ mean the disparities between the rates of return for high-income individuals compared to those with lower incomes. Due to their higher tax rates, the richer see a lesser return in health care from the government. Mark Pauly, a professor in health care systems, says this problem is due to the politics of Medicare. If a courageous politician took a stance and said that those who paid more should receive better benefits, then he or she is vilified as being indifferent to the plight of the needy. Conversely, if a politician declared that the wealthier members of society should pay more money for the care of others, then he or she loses support from those higher income earners.

Medicare in the Twenty-first Century: Seeking Fair and Efficient Reform takes a critical, unbiased look at the situation Medicare is faced with today. The authors seek innovative policy changes to the second largest government entitlement program. But after reading the collection of essays and the mountain of difficulties their policies would have to surpass to be implemented, it seems Medicare is not likely to escape from its current crisis situation.

I bought and read this anthology for my Medieval Literature class in college. The book includes an interesting introduction, parts of BEOWULF, parts of THE CANTERBURY TALES, SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT, THE WAKEFIELD SECOND SHEPHERD'S PLAY, the classic play EVERYMAN, a fragment of MORTE D'ARTHUR, and various other poems and short stories of Medieval English. Each major piece is prefaced by an introduction describing various details and history about the text. This book also includes some black and white pictures and copies of art from the period. Towards the very end of the book a glossary describing in detail medieval literary terms and such can be found. I sold most of my literary textbooks and anthologies, but I kept this one because I enjoy the literature of the period and it's also one of the more well put together anthologies that I have read. A nice reference book to have on hand if your interested in the really old and good stuff in English literature.