The pedagogy of Pediatric Cardiology is already well covered by two masterfully written texts: Moss and Garson. They are, admittedly, tough acts to follow. A clinically oriented text, directed specifically toward the difficult problems encountered in the intensive care setting, however, would be appreciated. This text attempts to fill that need.

Not surprisingly, pediatric cardiac Intensive care is largely dedicated to perioperative management of congenital heart disease, and this text approaches it in this manner. After the expected chapters in monitoring, pharmacology and so on, large sections are devoted to preoperative care, operative considerations and posoperative care. There is a generic discussion of extracorporeal support and dialysis. The text ends with consideration of social and ethical issues,

I had hoped, when I read this book that it would enhance and expand the information found in general texts. For example, I know the litany of agents used for sedating posoperative patients. What I would like is some discussion of which is useful in a given set of circumstances, and how each might intereact with other aspects of care. Does any provide a specific advantage in a given clinical situation or represent a unique hemodynamic risk? This text generally does not explore cardiac care in this depth.

The text does have its strengths. The descriptions of surgical repair are well done and the illustrations of them are clear. They would be very useful in describing the surgical procedure to parents or staff. The generic approach is most useful to nursing staff and respiratory therapists, especially those just orienting to the PCCU.

Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care is a well organized general text on the subject. Its approach is best suited to the nursing staff. Cardiac fellows, attendings and cardiac intensivists will find little here that expands their knowledge.

What I liked most about this book was it's multidisciplinary aproach and down-to-earth explanations. Wer good dravings of the procedures. It lost one star since it was not easy to find information by surgical procedure.

This volume is interesting but it tries to cover too much. The author also makes too many unsupported claims and over-generalizations.

An ok introduction to the complex topics in this field.

Dr.Tony McMichael, author of numerous IPCC and WHO reports on climate change, has here assembled an astounding array of information on the human species and how we have come to put our own health and the planet at risk. Designed for the general reader, though authoritative, Planetary Overload makes an ideal item for your personal bookshelf or for assignment in college classes.

McMichael is particularly good at putting human health in a social context since many current threats are on a population basis and fueled (literally) by human consumption, production, and population.

Planetary Overload presents a useful and interesting overview on human evolution, the connection between health and wealth in various countries,a section on global climate change and its direct and indirect health effects from heat, extreme weather events,the spread of infectious disease and the like. There are also startling summaries of the effects of urbanization and forest destruction, and, best of all, sane perspectives on the importance of politics and involvement for solving these growing health threats.

A brilliant synthesis of biology and medicine, economics, and politics, Planetary Overload puts McMichael in the first rank of concerned scientists and public intellectuals.

Perhaps something went wrong in the translation because the book is hard to use. Example: To find subscript in the index you have to know if you want an array subscript or a literal subscript. The user guide is better if you can find one so don't waste your money.

A very good reference book. I find it easier to get information than the user guide. The first part covers the basic of the program while the second part (what I like) classifies into each type of mathematical problems with examples. If you know what type of the problem you encoutered, just look through the required chapter you'll find related theory and example. Covered version 7&8.

Anthony Boucher's is one of the more prominent names in mystery writing; indeed, an annual convention of great stature, Bouchercon, is named after him. "Rocket to the Morgue" is one of Boucher's locked-room mysteries and is the sequel to "Nine Times Nine," another locked-room mystery. "Rocket to the Morgue" combines the crime-solving talents of Suster Ursula, who solved the first locked-room crime, and Lieutenant Marshall of the L.A.P.D., who was also in on the first crime.

Hilary Foulkes is the son of one of the greats of science fiction, and he calls the police to report apparent attempts on his life. Marshall arrives just in time to be present for the arrival of a bomb. Though the police defuse the bomb, soon Foulkes is found stabbed the back in a room that seems to have been securely locked. Only two doors exist, and one of them is chained from the inside. The other door leads to another room, where several observers are prepared to swear that nobody went into or came out of the room in which Foulkes was found. Motives are hardly a problem--unless too many motives is a problem. Foulkes has been exceedingly penurious in allowing use of his father's works, even denying one of the nuns permission to translate a book into Braille.

As much as "Rocket to the Morgue" (which Boucher originally published under the name H.H. Holmes) belongs to the locked-room subgenre of mysteries (and therefore to the classic tradition in which John Dickson Carr and Clayton Rawson wrote), it is also very much concerned with the nascent science-fiction genre, then contained to the pulps and fanzines. In 1940s' Los Angeles, the future of science seemed almost limitless, and Boucher's cast of suspects delights in exploring the frontiers of the new world. Still, the centerpiece of the book is the mystery of the locked room, and the book succeeds or fails on the strength of the puzzle and its solution. The puzzle is competently constructed, and the clues are all there, to be certain. Still, there is something a bit unsatisfying about the end result when one compares it to the works of the other masters of the locked-room.

"Rocket to the Morgue" isn't the greatest mystery novel ever written; it isn't even the best locked room mystery ever written. The ending is telegraphed from the fictional excerpts before the first chapter; there are far too many characters and more than one detective to keep track of comfortably. But "Rocket to the Morgue" is a joy to read for a completely different reason: the author, Tony Boucher, was a close friend of many of the golden age of science fiction's writers living in Los Angeles before the war. Boucher took his friends, mixed them up a bit, and turned them into characters in the novel. The fun comes in playing detective yourself, and trying to figure out who is who. Jack Williamson identified most of them in his autobiography, and the rest are fairly easy to figure out if you know your writers. Don't read the rest of this review if you want to figure them out on your own! Austin and Bernice Carter are based on two pairs of husbands and wives: Robert and Leslyn Heinlein, and Henry Kuttner and C.L. Moore. After they are first introduced, the Kuttner and Moore fade away, and the rest of the Carters are pure Heinlein: reading Austin Carter's arguments is like being a fly on the wall of Robert Heinlein's writing room! Joe Henderson is a mix of Jack Williamson and Edmund Hamilton; Matt and Concha Duncan are Cleve and Vida Cartmill. Chantrelle is a lunatic of a rocket scientist who also believed in hermeticism by the name of Jack Parsons (after the war, a certain science fiction writer turned religious founder stole Parsons' wife and swindled him out of $10,000). Don Stuart is editor John Campbell; the murder victim is based on an obnoxious fan by the name of "Tubby" Yerkes. All in all, anybody interested in the character and lives of the early golden age of science fiction in Los Angeles needs to read this roman-a-clef.

Because of the historical American bias against mercenaries, there is not much reputable literature on this side of the Atlantic about modern mercenary operations. Anthony Rogers goes a long way towards rectifying that shortcoming.

He provides interesting accounts of operations in Africa, the Indian Ocean, and South America. However, one sees a common thread emerge: the same individuals (Hoare, Denard, McAleese), fighting as mercenaries or for foreign governments, appear over and over. I am not knowledgeable enough in mercenary operations to know whether this was to mean that such operations tend to be carried out by the same people, or whether Rogers was sampling from a limited number of primary and secondary sources.

Rogers, drawing on his time as a journalist in the Balkans, provides good details on the 1990s wars there. However, he only glances over recent mercenary operations in Africa (Angola, Zaire).

Someone Else's War is a straightforward account of operations. It discusses individual motivations only in broad terms. If there is any weakness to the book, it is that the reader never specifically knows what motivates someone like Peter McAleese to fight under harsh conditions all over the world.

C. Husing ex-Dept. of the Air Force military historian

An extremely readable book, giving details of some of the smaller, less well known mercernary actions from the '60s on, as well as the more 'Popular' actions such as the congo. Knowing Tony personally gave me a better insight into his experiences, not only his time in the Royal Marines and later the Rhodesian Light Infantry of the late '70s, but also his experiences as a photojournalist in places such as Northern Africa. I thoroughly recommend this book.

a far to detailed volume for what needs be

The basic things, which generally neglected by the Detailer, are explained well.

The typical conn. details & the most useful details are presented with the sketches.

The dimensions, which we can't always keep in our brains, are tabulated very well.

Like this there are so many to describe....

I for one give this book a 3 because is it was good but 2 off and a little boring. If you like a calm read this is for u.

I thought this book was realy crackerjack and almost a 5. I know the name sounds completely boring but try it and you shall see what I mean. I never thought I could like a book that boring but I was wrong it is a realy cool book.

This book takes eight chapters to get into the fire
itself. It has a large amount of information about the
Theater Trust organization that is not necessary to the
story.

Mr. Hatch has written a taunt true story of grim reality. Like the Titanic, The Hidenberg, The Coconut Grove and other assorted and avoidable human disasters, the reader knows the ending before opening the book. But like all good reporters - and Mr. Hatch is first, last and always a well seasoned newsman - it is how he stacks the facts that counts. In Tinder Box it is not 'what' happens, as much as 'how' and 'why,' and finally, sadly, who pays the price. In today's era of litigation, much is made of the lawyer-sharks; but before their arrival, the victims of these man-made tragedies were like guppies swimming with piranhas. Only the victims paid. Mr. Hatch is never brutal, but neither does he turn aside from the grim facets of those ghastly events of that day in in late 1903,when 600 victims, many of them women and children, burned to death in an "absolutely fireproof" building. It is a great read, fast paced and gripping.

This book caused a major stir when first released in the 60s. But labor history studies have changed a great deal since that time. The entire orientation of this book is patronizing to the amazing works of the IWW.

For example:

1) It completely ignores the IWW's international aspects, for example that the IWW had more influence in Chile and Australia than in the US and Canada.

2) It glosses over the IWWs activities during the 1920s, the Marine Transport Workers' control of the Wetsern Hemisphere's shipping, longshore workers in North America, the 1927 Colorado Miners' Strike, etc. etc.

3) It has no coherent understanding of why the IWW declined. How FDR worked with Lewis and the CIO to force unionization, the principled stands the IWW took to stop the rise of business unionism, and some buttheadedess by the IWW's membership.

It contains many good stories and is an OK overview. The definitive work is still waiting on the subject.

Historiographically speaking, this is THE book to read on the history of the IWW. There are other attempts worth reading, (Renshaw or Thompson for example) but for a solidly researched, brilliantly written academic study, this is the place to go. Renshaw's book includes a few things on the IWW oustide North America, and can be thought of as an easy to read summary, but as a historical research and analysis work, it is not in the same league. Thompson's official history of the IWW is a different attempt as well, as its focus is strictly an institutional history; it is not a work of historical research and analysis, it is written in the dry prose of a chronicler's accounts. You won't find in-depth analyses and a major historian's work there, although it has its uses. Given the fact that We Shall Be All was produced more than three decades ago, it still holds much better than a great many number of studies published in its time. In the absence of a new and comprehensive historical work on the history of the IWW, Dubofsky's book is still the major, requisite reading on the subject.

This book, written by a professional trainer and a champion powerlifter, presents useful information about how to structure a strength-oriented workout program. Unfortunately, the book is marred by numerous typographical errors that make it difficult to follow and, at times, misleading. In short, this book cries out for the copyediting that it obviously never received. The book includes interesting information on diet (including recipes, tips for eating on the road and at fast food restaurants, and foods rich in various nutrients), nutritional supplements, stretching, exercise performance (although sometimes the advice is confusing), and exercise programs for specific sports. Thus, it might be a worthwhile purchase for those who can figure out what the authors MEANT to say when the typos make that difficult to discern. But for people new to weight training, or for the fastidious who don't want to guess at important information, it might be better to look elsewhere (at least until the authors bring out a new "corrected" edition.

I'm a personal trainer and I REALLY THINK THIS BOOK IS GREAT! I am using the information in my own personal routine, as well as my clients, with very successfull results. In my opinion, the book is easily read and comprehended... written simple enough to get even the most technical points across to most anyone. Bottom line... a great book based on covering all aspects of modern fitness training.