While this book does contain some facts, all of those facts and more are set out much more clearly, intelligently and properly researched in The Life Behind the Legend. Myers takes some historical information, a lot of creative thinking, mixes it with some general western myths and serves up "Doc Holliday". Some is entertaining, but it left me wanting a real read, especially after having read other better documented information on Doc's life. While his bibliography is long he failed to dig into the historical documents of the era and reiterates a lot of myths that have been exploded by 2002.

This book is a good read if you can sit down and keep your mind on it. The author uses in my opinion too many words to get the point across and loses you. This book is not easy to read. If you are a hardcore Doc fan this is the one for you. Not personal just the facts.

I love John Myers Myers, and his writing style, but I understand how many people can be turned off by it.

First of all, this is not so such a biography of Doc Holliday as Myers WRITING a biography about Holliday. What I mean by this is that Myers is a VERY self-indulgent writer. He loves to play around with words, include quick humorous phrases on a whim, and make self-referencial comments throughout any book he writes, which includes this one.

His research tends to be strong, and he tends to take rather radical views of his topics, views which challenge what is normally held as the truth about his subjects. (His book on the San Francisco vigilante committee days completely deflates the idea that the vigilantes stood for anything other than their own personal vendettas and profits.)

This book is pretty tame by Myers conventions, but is still a bit indulgent. It's a good read, but do expect to have to re-read pages, get side-tracked by witty comments, and indulge in wordplay. That's the Myers way!

I struggled to learn Autodesk inventor on my own before I got this book. I was an experienced AutoCad 14, 2000 user and was having a hard time changing over to 3D modeling. Autodesk Inventor R5 Fundamentals provided excellent instruction for a 3D modeling novice. The book is laid out very nicely and has extremely easy to follow step-by-step instructions and explanations. I would strongly recommend this book for anybody that is going from a 2D CAD program to Autodesk Inventor. Additionally, the book comes with a CD that takes the user through various tutorials. I use this feature frequently. The only reason I did not give the book 5 stars is because I felt the index was slightly lacking. I could not always find the topic I was looking for in the index. And I felt the price was a bit steep for being a paperback without color drawings. However, I would not let these minor things prevent me from buying this book.

hello i'm a student from the netherlands and I just started reading this book about Inventor. after the "quick look" I was already impressed about the quantity of information this book can give about Inventor. for me it should be perfect when it was also availeble in dutch, but books about inventor are hard to find so I have to deal with this book. I'm sure that this book will teach me a lot about Inventor R5 and I will recommend it to everyone who just started using Inventor.

I currently teach Inventor using this material as class courseware. What the authors do cover they cover in detail. I have yet to see a more comprehensive section on "Projects" in Inventor. Where most authors skim over topics, and expect you to know what a particular option in a dialog does, these guys have gone through the trouble of including definitions for all options within the dialog. For example, if you are wondering what the "Preserve Features" option in fillet dialog means, this book will tell you. I have seen other examples where this book gives a description of a certain command, that contradicts the online help system. Guess what though, the book was right, the online documentation was wrong. There are more topics covered in this book than other Inventor Fundamental books I have seen. Everthing from Extrusions, to sweeps (yes sweeps are covered on page 164) and a bunch more in between. If your goal is to learn Inventor, this book will get you there.

Although this is an excellent textbook for medical students and hematology fellows who need to learn more about certain topics and diseases, it offers limited assistance to the clinician who has to work backwards from lab results and symptoms in search of diseases. It covers the molecular biology of hematology in great detail and also discusses some of the treatment options. It is a great book if you are doing a paper on a hematologic topic. There are also chapters on the new techniques used in labs and the differences in these techniques. On the other hand, if you are looking at abnormal results on a CBC, this book may not offer much help.

A comprehensive text of practical clinical hematology. Clearly and concisely written for use as a reference or 'at the bench.' One of the most useful materials in the Hematology laboratory.

This book is written primarily for the laboratory, and the haematologist. In that area it is excellent, for clinical treatment, williams or other books are better. But for the laboratoru I would reccomend this book, as I have this and several of the previous editions.

This book attempts to cover the whole gamut of wildlife for the Amazon basin and Pananal. It can't do it; no book can. It did make an admirable attempt and as such is a great book for the tourist traveling to the area. On a recent trip north of Manaus, it covered 98% of the bird life. It is concise enough that the occaisional bird wathcer will be able to identify most birds. It is not quite as adequate for other species- fish are very superficial, as are reptiles. I would like to see these expanded. This is a terrific guide for the tourist- concise, adequately complete, and easy to use.

I used this book for a recent trip to Brazil's Pantanal. The book is specific to only two geographic areas: The Pantanal and the Amazon, admittedly, Brazil's biggest natural draws. However, since the Pantanal and the Atlantic rainforest were my destinations, the book's usefulness was only partially utilized. Also, it is a heavy volume, and when considered with the other guidebooks I packed and used for cross-referencing, this book was by far the heftiest.

The book does fill a unique niche, that of ecology and natural history guide to these two unique wild places. No other book that is easily carried provides as much enjoyable natural history reading on the Amazon and Pantanal. The illustration plates are uniformly excellent, but it is not noted whether species occur outside of the Pantanal and Amazon. Many species do occur outside, as I quickly found out. Eliminating the rest of Brazil all together just seems a bit restricting. An average traveller to Brazil is most likely to make a stop in Rio de Janeiro, perhaps visit the easily accessible Parque National de Tijuca, and wonder if what they're seeing is that similar looking bird in their book.

Brazil is a big country, and no guidebook has yet to cover all its flora and fauna in one volume, in English, and travel-sized. This guidebook attempts to cover at least the animals and birds of Brazil's largest natural treasures, and succeeds for the most part. Given its quality of illustrations and plates, written descriptions of behavior, ecology and geography, this book is a good when used in conjunction with other bird and mammal guides.

Great book when you want to start with Inventor or if you want to know the tricks in inventor. This book is also for the more professional designers. Step by step with screenshots and examples you learn how to use Inventor and which commando's there are available.
I'm working since 2 years with inventor and this book was a welcome addition to my inventor knowledge.
I would recommend this book to everybody !!

I have found this book in a number of libraries. If you are interested in the ocean or submarines than this is the book to have. It is great book. It really is more of a compilation of other great books but it puts all the useful information right where you need it. I look for it in used book stores and auctions.

I really enjoyed this book. In my opinion Myers best work. It has more action than Silverlock, and again detailed the transformation of a louse into a man. The book takes place in Celtic Europe, and talks about life and how individuals affect the events that eventually shape the way the world changes.

This book will build a good base for calculus. The only problem with the book is that there are not enough examples nor enough variability in the exercises. Sometimes you would have to use another precalculus book as reference. In overall it has great subjects in logistic and mathematical theorems with their proofs,and you would learn how to build those proofs.

This text provides a quick, concise review of the pimary topics covered on emergency medicine exams. I found it to be a good way to prepare for inservice exams and the written boards.

This book tells the story of the San Francisco vigilante movement of the 1850's, and the story of one man, Ned McGowan, who barely escaped the vigilante groups and managed to become a real thorn in their side, only to be abandoned and ridiculed by history writers until Myers could refurbish his reputation.

Myers' writing style is dense, with many clever phrases thrown in, apparantly for his own amusement. It is a style that can be difficult to cope with at first, but just as a new style of food takes some getting used to and can be ultimately rewarding, the reader who sticks with Myers usually ends up enjoying the ride, as well as eagerly anticipating the next bizarre phrase or incident.

A reader who enjoys history and stories of unlikely heroes will be in for a treat with this book.