The Handbook of Treatment for Eating Disorders is an excellent source for gaining insight into the general and specific aspects of all eating disorders. The impressive compilation of writers cover everything from the history of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, to various treatment approaches for these and other eating disorders, to special topics that are rarely explored in other eating disorder literature. Such additional topics include various eating-related issues with prebubertal individuals, how to address treatment refusal of patients with anorexia nervosa, and treatment issues of those with eating disorders and personality disorders. Each chapter is well written with technical, yet clear, language leaving the reader satisfied with the overview and anxious to explore more literature on the topic. Overall, the entire handbook is a comprehensive guide to most issues in this field. I am a Masters of Social Work student, specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, and this book served as the backbone for much of my research. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to learn more about these issues!

This book is the first comprehensive source for comparative immunology in such a wide range of species. As such it will be an invaluable addition to the library of any researchers working outside of the usual primate-mouse paradigm. It will also prove useful to veterinary scientists working in vaccinology or other immunology related fields and as a graduate level reference text. Each chapter provides information on a given animal or group of animals and is edited by at least one expert on that particular animal or group of animals. The chapter sections, covering specific immunological areas, are likewise edited by at least one expert in the field. Chapter sections are kept essentially the same in all chapters to make for easier comparisons between species. Easy comparisons are also facilitated by the great amounts of information presented in tabular form. Extensive references direct the reader to important papers and authors in the various fields thereby allowing the reader to pursue more specific, in depth knowledge. One weakness to be perceived in this excellent book may be the need for more diagrammatic representations of the genes encoding antibodies, TCR and MHC thus making for quick, at-a-glance, genetic comparisons. Readers will hopefully suggest other improvements and expansions so that future editions will contain still more information, and perhaps more species, as knowledge increases. Due to the vast array of international expertise brought to bear in the preparation of this book it is a top quality production, able to cover even such a broad range of vertebrate species very well. All in all the importance and utility of this book can hardly be overstated. As its use and familiarity grows, the editors may expect many thanks from colleagues around the world for this timely work.

This book is great. I went to Italy a lame American devil and came back a lame American devil, but what a great book anyway.

All the locations for hip convents are detailed, and mapped out. The Italian culture is described in intimate detail, by some of the finest wordsmiths since Dante. The restaurant reviews are so well written you almost see the stains from the extra virgin olive oil. There is section that descibes Italian fashion. The tip on the large lapels was most helpful for my nights on the town. Common Italian slang that peppers the pages makes this an educational as well enjoyable read. "molla benny"

I love this book, no matter where I travel, even in the USA I read it for area recommendations.

Good book.

Paul Theroux takes a close look at the places and people he visits. He is very discriptive, but yet manages to entertain and capture the reader. Once I started the book, I did not want to put it down. It's a must for everybody who wants to travel to the South Pacific.

Paul Harder has created the best book on music theory I have ever had the privelege to use. His systematic course will take the reader from basic chordal theory to Voice leading, and beyond. I have been searching for just such a book for almost twenty years. My composition instructor and I have used this book to teach me the proper "rules" one needs to create tonal compositions of any scale. This book allows one to find their weaknesses and their strengths through it's well thought out structure, and the answers set in to the margins. By covering the answers with a sheet of paper and doing the excercises, then removing the paper to check his/her results the student can immediately identify his/her weaknesses and strengths. Supplemental and mastery excercises help the student achieve the level of knowledge necesary for the creation of their own masterpieces. Long standing as a mainstay of instruction for Harmony, Dr Steinke, through his thoughtful revisions, has assured that "Harmonic Material in Tonal Music, A Programmed Course part 1" will continue to teach many more up and coming composers.

I bought the book the other day and it literally paid for itself in the first day when I sold an article that I had written to a publication that I had never sold one to before. Paul Harris has performed an amazing service with the guide...

An editor told me that she believes that one of the main reasons for the improvement in the editorial quality of local and regional gay papers is the guide as it is increasing the number of people offering their work to editors and publishers..

If you're looking for a novel that has a happy ending, don't read this book. This is a very sad novel. Which is precisely the point. Its aim is not to give us a warm fuzzy feeling, but to make us recoil over the horrors of abortion, feel ashamed, and motivate us to do something about it.

As a pro-life activist, DeParrie is well qualified to write a book like this. As he notes in the after-word "This story is not really fiction. I have merely compiled true stories from within the pro-life movement." What this brilliant work of fiction does is convey the truth - a horrible truth about abortion. It is a story well-researched, and well-written.

By means of several intertwining plot-lines, DeParrie successfully and comprehensively covers nearly all the important issues relating to abortion, including the emotional and psychological trauma suffered by post-abortion mothers, the legal history of abortion, the judicial and legal bias and corruption against the pro-life movement, the selfish motivation that frequently accompanies abortion, the lies advanced by the pro-choice (make that: pro-abortion) movement. Yet DeParrie is fair to both sides of the debate - he first pictures the situation from a pro-choice perspective and initially portrays the pro-life movement as anti-abortionist radicals. Throughout the novel he presents all the arguments raised by the pro-choice movement, and lets them speak for themselves with their own reasoning.

But in the end, these arguments are shown to be what they really are: selfish, and hollow, and merely covering up the unavoidable truth that abortion is murder. DeParrie heightens his point with a unique authorial device of describing part of the story from the perspective of the newly conceived baby.

As a reader, you may not find yourself completely agreeing with DeParrie on all accounts, but you are sure to gain respect for his view-point. For instance, if you do not already agree with DeParrie's defence of civil disobedience by form of peaceful protest will certainly make you rethink your position on this controversial matter. One criticism I do have to make is DeParrie's description of a protester's "Jesus loves you" sign, which seems entirely inconsistent with the message on the back cover of the book "The wrath of God is coming." It seems to me that the message of the cover is in this case correct - there is no love for those who reject Jesus, and the wrath of God remains on all those who do not repent from their sins, including the sins of abortion (Jn 3:36).

In the end we are left with the grisly facts that will bring tears to your eyes. The grisly content is certainly suitable for mature readers only, but all who regard themselves as mature will greatly benefit by reading it. In such a novel, there can be no happy ending - not for the unborn babies, nor for the pro-life protesters. And in the end, there is no happy ending - and a good thing too, because it would only have softened the author's terrible message, a message that needs no softening because it is a message of truth. It's a appalling truth. But it's a truth from which you and I are wrong to continue hiding from.

I love "Choose-Your-Own-Adventure" stories, and this largely light-hearted one is great for the younger kids. As to the storyline(s), I offer but one piece of advice: don't take candy from strangers -- especially if they're Furry Turtles! :)

Paul Strathern, author of the outstanding Philosophers in 90 Minutes series, hits the mark once more in a series about scientists. In this work, he gives the reader a comprehensive yet brief overview of Stephen Hawking's life & works. Strathern, as usual, is entertaining, informative & funny. Strathern cuts through the vernacular & brings the subject matter in plain, direct language. This book is definately a winner!

The Hawks of Fellheath, second book of a triad, is one of those impossibly obscure books that deserves much more recognition. When Orne runs away in search of his dead friend, the best tracker in the land happens to be Moleander's enemy. In spite of many fights and near starvation, not to mention numerous near-death experiences along the way, the small group of searchers discover determination in its purest form, the meaning of true friendship, and their destiny.