One of the most useful books I ever read in medical school! This is money and time well spent for a second, third, or fourth year medical student who wishes to vastly improve his clinical thinking skills! This book presents numerous clinical vignettes based on chief complaint and presentation. The vignettes include all of the most common problems you will encounter in a medicine ward (very very few zebras, although he discusses those in the differential diagnoses).

It is marvelously written and organized. You will become much more comfortable with considering differential diagnoses and pursuing workup and management of medicine inpatients.

I ended up pursuing otolaryngology, but I am definitely a better clinician for having read this book (and studied my arse off in med school). I looked like a superstar med student on my internal medicine rotation, largely because I had read this book. It should be required reading for every introductory clinical medicine course!!!

Third edition by author of proven merit in solving problems by context. Uses a think-along-with-me techinique which is annoying during rounds but very profitable in print. A must read, great review, regardless of specialty.

the first book i found that spells out everything you need to know, and wastes no space on the things you don't. if you're an independant theatre producer/director read this book!

Paul Harris' Producing Your Own Showcase provides a winning examination of the theater and performing arts, explaining the legal and practical issues of producing theater and providing tools for actors, directors, and would-be production managers. From tips on skills needed to produce to assessing performances and gaining funding, this provides solid advice from seasoned pros.

This is a *delightful* book that I wish I'd had when I was a kid. The story is a little jewel--funny and simply perfect as it is. And the *pictures*! Lord, the pictures are wonderful. One could look at them for hours--a child could look at them throughout childhood--and be endlessly delighted by the details, the colors, the pure charm. Even the endpapers of the book, with their pictures of Professor Puffendorf's inventions, are worth looking at for a long while. Can't wait for tomorrow night's bedtime reading!

Funny! Funny! Funny! The characters will keep you and your children laughing. Good story line and a very cute ending. Young or old...it doesn't matter. This is a page turner for the entire family to enjoy.

This book is an excellent multimedia experience for someone to learn Java Programming at home. It can also be used as a supplement to a lecturer or a hardcover Java book. I highly recommend it as the best way to learn on your own. This is what online or multimedia teaching is all about!

I loved this product. Like nothing else I have seen on programming, it makes learning programming and java easy and interesting because it is so visual and dynamic. The CD is a resource that you can keep for life. i would recommend this to anyone wanting to learn how to program in java from a master of the discipline.

I wasn't really excited about the subject of the book, but I bought it anyway because I've loved everything else that I've read by this author. I could not put it down.
This book is so real, so true, that you feel like these characters might still be alive; like you could meet them and shake their hands and have a conversation with them. And better yet, Watkins gives his characters and stories a moral core, so much so that you want to meet some of these folks and be their friend.
Do yourself a favor and find out why so many people consider Paul Watkins to be the greatest writer of his generation. Start with his acclaimed memoir, "Stand Before your God", to find out about his growing up, then move on to his great novels, like this one.

Paul Watkins is not just the best young writer we have, he may well be our best living writer, period. His first book, Night Over Day Over Night, published when he was just 23, was nominated for the Booker Prize. Since then he has added a series of excellent novels and one brilliant memoir, Stand Before Your God, that have earned him the reputation of a modern Hemingway or Conrad. His work certainly warrants these lofty comparisons and his omission from Granta's Twenty Best Writers Under Forty casts a shadow on the whole list.

Promise of Light opens, in 1921, with Ben Sheridan taking a ferry back to his home in Jamestown, Rhode Island. He has just secured a long sought job in a bank and his whole future seems open before him. But by the end of the night, his fireman father will lie dead as the result of a blood transfusion from Ben, which reveals that Ben was not his son. In fulfillment of his "father's" dying wish, Ben takes his ashes back to Ireland, where he hopes to discover his real parents. But before he even reaches land, he is embroiled in the bloody Irish Rebellion, as it turns out that his father was a legendary IRA gunrunner who, like a figure out of myth, was expected to return one day.

Watkins brilliantly combines Ben's search for his true identity with rousing action sequences, indeed the final fifty pages of the book depict a running battle between Ben's band of IRA gunmen and the dread English Black and Tans as they race to the farmhouse where the man Ben now believes to be his father is holed up.

The comparisons of Watkins and Hemingway are based on both the settings of his novels (in wartime, on fishing boats, in Africa) and the clarity of his prose. Here he describes Ben's reaction to the death, in battle, of a lobsterman named Tarbox:

I knelt with the others, dew soaking through my trousers, and I tried to remember a prayer. But nothing came to mind, not even a song. All I could think of were Tarbox's bright-painted crab-pot floats, bobbing in the water off Lahinch. And now Mrs. Fuller's words sank into me, about whole generations dying out. I saw how it would be. Tarbox's wife would move away and their tin-roofed shack would fold back into the earth. There would be no children to inherit the land and keep the name alive. The faint scratches that Tarbox had left on the earth would be rubbed out by a year or two of wind and rain.

I had not liked him much. If he had lived and I'd gone back home again, I would not have remembered him kindly. But now I cried for Tarbox and for his wife, because I had been jealous of how much they were in love.

The reasons for comparison to Conrad are evident in his description of the brutal fanatic leader of the IRA cell that Ben joins up with:

I couldn't imagine a childhood for Clayton. I couldn't imagine him younger or older or any way except the way he was now. To me, Clayton had begun to make sense. He didn't try, like the others, to live as if the war could be forgotten from time to time in the dark-paneled walls of Gisby's pub or in front of a fire at night. Clayton lived in black and white. He saw no boundary to violence. The war never quit and his instincts for war never rested. he had no other instincts. Everything else had been put away in a warehouse in his mind. he claimed no friends or love of family because he could be hurt by people who hurt them.

Such are the men that Conrad warned us of, time and again.

The other thing that makes Watkins' work exceptional, is a moral core which seems increasingly rare in our society, never mind in our literature and culture in general. His characters recognize that their actions have consequences and behave as if they cared about those consequences. They are capable of making ethical judgments--a quality that seems to be disappearing elsewhere.

I urge anyone who is not familiar with the work of this great young author to remedy that situation post haste.

GRADE: A+

This book is a must read.

From their first book "The Alien Abduction Survival Guide" you will learn more on the unbelievable abductions that have followed Paul and Michelle over their lifetimes.

Michelle and Paul has known alot about these kind of Alien Agendas, that is because they have lived them, year after year.

Prophecy's Edge should make academics think twice before simply dismissing or ignoring the subject of abductions.

Louise A. Lowry...

This book was fascinating! I was amazed as I read page after page of how Aliens are effected our world through the people who live in it.

Absolutely one of the best books I ever read concerning ETs and the people who interact with them.

I highly recommend it!

THE LAYOUT IS VERY CONSISTANT AND THE CONTENT MADE EASY TO READ AND UNDERSTAND EVEN FOR BEGINNERS STUDYING AT GCSE A'LEVEL. THE KEY AREAS: THE NATURE OF PSYCHOLOGY, COGNITIVE, SOCIAL, COMPARATIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, AND PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES AS STATED ON THE BACK PAGE. PLEASE DO NOT OVERLOOK OR NEGLECT THE AGEING,ADOLESCENCE AND ADULTHOOD, SEX AND GENDER,PSYCHOPATHOLOGY, AND TREATMENTS AND THERAPIES.THEY ARE INVALUABLE TOPICS.

Using this book to supplement studies in psychology at advanced level courses makes understanding key concepts easy. However, some high foluted language often makes the text confusing.

Lacan's seminars are superior to his articles because he clearly is addressing an audience, and needs to make himself understood, but he has already anticipated all of his students questions, as if he could read their minds: "I know what you're thinking." The argument of the third seminar is easy to summarize: the psychotic, because foreclosed from the father, faces a hole in the imaginary that is filled by the symbolic (or is it the other way around?), hence the hallucinations and voices. The psychotic always imagines that somewhere the big Other resides, in this world, like the man who broke into the US capital because there was a time machine inside that was trying to control his mind. The psychotic is in fact unable to distinguish the small from the big other. Lacan is always thought to be a little mad himself, something of a fraud, "il gagne beaucoup d'argent," and even Heidegger gave up reading Ecrits because he couldn't make sense of it, and he does make something of a display of his learning (not so much in this seminar). That said, there is something to Lacan, and eventually he will get his due, and outside the narrow circle of his devotees.

The work of Jacques Lacan is infamous for the often obtuseness of its language and presentation. It is often said that the reader must work hard at Lacan to reach a glimmer of understanding. The work of Dr Russell Grigg as translator to this edition certainly gives the reader a head start. Dr Grigg address the work of Lacan from a new perspective of the 21st century, nolonger happy for the work to remain arcane and cloistered from the reading public, but he throws open the windows of further understanding for those willing to look and read closer the work of this French master. An excellent work.

Paul Halpern's book The Pursuit Of Destiny is three excellent books in one. The first book is a look at humankind's attempts to predict the future through the ages from a physicist's point of view. The second book is a good overview of physics through the ages, including Newtonian mechanics, relativity, quantum mechanics, chaos, and complexity. The third book concerns the philosophical implications of all this and its bearing on whether humans have free will. The book is not overly technical and should appeal to a wide audience. On occasion, I felt that Halpern lost the main thread of the book - the ability of humans to predict the future, but it never distracted from my enjoyment of the book. I recommend this book to anybody with an interest in humanity's ability to predict the future or in physics.

Paul Halpern's latest book gives the reader much to ponder. It is a fascinating history of mankind's efforts to predict the future, many times unsuccessfully but often with astonishing results. Ancient methods of prediction, Nostradamus, Kabbalistic Judaism, and the occult are discussed alongside Einstein's theory of relativity, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, quantum mechanics, cosmology and computer algorithms. A particularly intriguing description of David Deutsch's multiverse, where time does not flow and where your memories really correspond to events experienced by a different you in a different universe, is mesmerizing.

The guy knows how to make you think. This book is full of profound ideas but is easy to digest, eminently readable and leaves you wanting more. A kaleidoscope of human endeavor is distilled to 233 pages of spellbinding tapestry, woven in rich detail for those captivated by history, science and the quest for life's meaning.

This book is packed with many wonderful creative ideas to help children become very involved in learning about ancient Egypt. I was really impressed. We homeschool and found this to be one of the best purchases we've made while learning about this ancient civilization. I should note that online the recommended age is 9-12. However, on the back of the book it is clearly printed for kids ages 6-12. My daughter is 7 and we found it to be age appropriate.

THis book is jam-packed with great activites and information. I have went through it numerous times and found new things everytime I pick it up. The activities are not difficult and do not require alot of expense to create. I really enjoyed the animation and colored type. It is nice to look through a book that is made appealing and is well illustrated.