This was the main textbook used for my Calculus AB class. Its explanations are clear, though sometimes difficult steps in algebraic manipulation are skipped (which may initially confuse but can be figured out after some additional work). The text progresses within each chapter, relying initially on an exploratory section where concepts are not directly stated but figured out through a little guidance with the questions. This first section introduces the readers to the concept being studied in each respective chapter. Then, the information is given in ensuing sections of the chapter. The best part of this text is the "green boxes" which sum up concepts learned, definitions, formulas, etc., which make reviewing for a final exam a much simpler task. It has a simple presentation with few colors, sticking mainly to a light olive green and gray for the pictures and other illustrations. This textbook is a very good tool for calculus students, relying on varied methods of learning and some self-discovery of the subject matter.

This is a great book, I used it in my Pre-Cal and BC Cal class. It's very easy to understand, and easy to get into Calculus class!

This book made a difficult subject (calculus) easy to understand through its effective use of diagrams, examples, and word problems. I would not have been able to survive Calculus BC AP without it.

The author's delight in the areas he travels is palpable. Paul Rea's passion for rock, river, plants and birds unfolds as he strides through a canyon or paddles a stretch of quiet river. His prose awakens the senses and creates a strong desire to experience these places for oneself.
This is not a book to be speed-read. Each sentence packs so much color, description and nuance that the reader wants to read slowly and savor each line.
The enthusiasm the author feels comes through "loud and strong." In addition, he invites readers to understand that some of these wonders will not be accessible to our heirs if we do not carefully set aside/preserve these environs. His concern for the environment is balanced by a sense of fair play-trying to find solutions that work for everyone.
If you are passionate about the "great outdoors," this is a book for you!

Reading Rea's book is truly like being in the red rock country. His adventurous stories are alive with colorful sensory detail and suffused with his love for the natural world, with all its challenges, grit and glory. Rea writes with a naturalist's keen eye, weaving in history and philosophy, and concern for the threat our species poses to the wild.

I generally am a reader of fiction rather than nature books. After a friend recommended this book to me, I found to my surprise that it was enchanting. The poetic descriptions, which are both sensual and spiritual, lovingly render the incredible beauty found in this part of the world. This motivated me to plan a glorious trip to the red rock country to see it for myself.

This is a wonderful book about Cezanne. Every artist who is studying art history and esp. the impressionists and post-impressionists should own this book.

I have read many books on Cezanne over the past 10 years and in my opinion this is the best. For a combination of well-written text and excellent reproductions of the paintings this book cannot be beat. The text is jargon free. Mr. Rewald was a wonderful writer and he gives you a warm and sympathetic biography of a great artist and complex and difficult man. Cezanne was very neurotic. He had a fear of women and would not use nude models. His famous bather series was worked up from photographs and plaster casts, etc. He could be very anti-social: he sometimes would cross the street to avoid meeting someone he knew. He was very emotional and struggled to keep his emotions under control. This was reflected in his work. His early work was full of violence and shadows and you feel as though he barely was able to keep himself in check as he coated the canvas in a thick impasto. The later, carefully controlled and beautifully harmonized works are the more familiar to the general public. The cover gives you some indication of the beautiful reproductions which are inside this book. This is a great addition and in my opinion a must have for anyone's art library.

I really enjoyed this wonderful book about a wonderfully delightful artist. I would recommend reading it if you are a Cezanne admirer, absolutely a wonderful book!

This suspense novel is quite good for a first time author. Although you are let in on "whodunit" from the very beginning there is still a desire to read the cat and mouse game between the killer and female Homicide Detective Paris Murphy. The book is fairly predictable but the great writing and the intriguing and likeable heroine make for an exciting time. The ending also draws to a satisfying conclusion.

If you like mysteries a little on the dark side this would make a fine reading choice. I look forward to reading something by this author in the future.

Theresa Monsour writes a lot like John Camp AKA John Sandford...Good.

... Monsour is a fine writer with an interesting story. Clean Cut reads very, very much like a John Sandford "Lucas Davenport" novel but don't believe for a moment that this is ripoff of Sandford's work. Monsour writes her own story with her own characters. Her main character is Paris Murphy, a St. Paul police sergeant chasing down a well-bred "clean cut" psychotic killer of hookers in MN. About a third of the book is told from the perspective of the killer. Monsour handles the change of views effortlessly and IMhO it makes for a more interesting book. ...There is sex and violence in the book but it's part of the story. Monsour does NOT play Paris Murphy as some sex obsessed bimbo, she gives all her character a suitable amount of depth.
... I really look forward to seeing more novels from Theresa Monsour. I'm sure she is going to get tired of being compared to John Camp but since I consider Camp to be the best of the best I hope she takes it as a compliment.

He is one of the most esteemed plastic surgeons in the Twin Cities and is connected, through his relatives, to the people in power of St. Paul. Dr. A. Romann Michaels is married to a high society woman and has two beautiful daughters. After having a fight with his wife, he leaves his country cabin and returns to the city. He does what he does best when the buzzing in his head becomes too loud: find a longhaired prostitute to rape, kill and cut off her hair as his trophy.

St. Paul homicide detective Paris Murphy doesn't realize at first that she is dealing with a serial rapist killer when she is assigned the case of the murdered prostitute. The case doesn't begin to take shape for her until a Catholic priest is almost murdered in the confession booth, holding the prostitute's cross in his hand. As the death toll mounts, Paris and Michaels are involved in a cat and mouse game that will only end when one of them is dead.

This is Theresa Monsour's debut novel but nobody reading this exciting police procedural would ever believes it. The characters are well developed to the point where the reader ever understands even the killer's motivation. CLEAN CUT is fast-paced and the plot is believable but the heroine is the star of this work. She is determined to find a way to bring the antagonist in so justice can be served even if it means putting her life on the line. She is courageous and spunky.

Harriet Klausner

If you consider buying you might want to add the little "handbook" that goes along with it. This combination works pretty well for review.
Overall, most chapters are well written and complete. However, the index is often less than ideal and can make finding a not so outlandish topic like SBE-prophylaxis rather difficult.
Should you get this one instead of the big "Miller"? Well, the coverage in Miller is still broader and more complete but at the price of a abundant prose, abundant weight and two volumes. Again, in my view the handbook makes this book more useful.

ANESTESIA CLINICA EDITION 2 0 3 IN SPANISH.I HAVE THE HANDBOOK IN SPANISH,MANUAL DE ANESTESIA CLINICA THANKS

I write in Spanish ok: Es un libro muy completo dentro de la especialidad de anestesiologia, sus variados capitulos son muy didácticos ya que por medio de cuadros sinópticos facilita el apredizaje y la comprensión de los conceptos expuestos en la obra. Segun veo la edicion que ofrecen uds. es de 1996 sin embargo cuando conoci la obra el copyright señala 1989 editado poor J.B Lippincott Co. Tiene 86 contribuyentes en el desarrollo de la obra. Agradeceré me envien mayor información de preferencia se hay otra edición posterior a la fecha señalada de 1989. Gracias.

Dr. Roberto Fco. López Meneses Profesor titular del curso Universitario de Anestesiología del Hospital General de Veracruz S.S.A. Espero sus informes a través de mi Email: rflopez@.ver1.telmex.net.mx

Most definitely worth your time, although compared to the original Dragonlance it does not measure up. If you are into fantasy, then this has everything to offer. Not the best idea to read this novel as a first fantasy book. I recommend it to anyone who has read Dragonlance or loves these kind of non-stop action stories.

Very provocative!! I loved the characters but I think the world needs to be a bit more original... The adventure the characters embarked upon were interesting as well. The main character needed to develop a better personality, although some of the situations were very humorous. As far as being a Dragonlance book, it didn't match up, but different authors can change a novel drastically. I did like the cover design, though!

It had been so long since I had read Dragons of a Fallen Sun that I had almost entirely forgotten about it, when I finally bought this book. I was glued to the book the moment I started reading it.

Weis and Hickman are truly amazing... I've said it a million times and I'm sure I'll say it again.

THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF ARCHEOLOGY is an overview of the discipline of archeology from it's inception til modern times. The book covers various aspects of archeology (physical, classic, historical, etc.) around the world - including sites in Asia and North America - although the focus is mostly on the 'classic' sites in the Middle East which contain the remains of some of the oldest settlements on earth.

The history of the study of antiquities covers 500 years, from the Renaissance when "Antiquarians" and others mostly destroyed sites in an effort to recover "treasures" through the 20th Century when scientific archeology really began. I personally would have preferred a focus entirely on the 20th Century since much of what passed for the study of archeology before sites were systematically controlled and excavated is virtually useless except as an illustration of what not to do.

The last 20 years in Archeology have been very exciting, but this book provides only a very slender overview of recent work. The text is probably best suited for as an introduction to the topic for high school or even junior high school students in some cases. I bought the book for my 12-year old granddaughter who is entering 7th grade.

This history includes many biographical sketches of the male explorers who have studied mankind's artifactual evolution -- Sir Flinders Petrie who excavated in the Near East, Howard Carter who found Tutankhamen, Scliemann who found Troy, and V. Gordon Chile who went looking for the Aryans and coined the terms "Neolithic Revolution" and "Urban Revolution". The book suggests the latter's ethnocentric positions were not politically correct, but that he "repositioned" himself in later years.

I searched the photographs of Sir Max Mallowan and his workers and site visitors for Dame Agatha Christie, but she was no where to be found although Leonard and Katherine Wooley and Eric Barrows are pictured. Many famous people have taken an interest in "archeology" including Goethe, Darwin, and Lawrence of Arabia.

This is a wonderful book. If you are interested in archaeology, you want this book. The interesting, informative text is richly illustrated. The printing is excellent.

However, I am going to be churlish and gripe. What about China? The terracotta army? (three quarters of page 322). Come on, everybody's granduncle knows about the terracotta army. Staggering finds are popping up all over China, and all Cambridge gives us is the terracotta army.

What kind of finds? Okay, a peculiarity of Chinese archaeology is that there are very few early religious sites, so let me tell you about three of them: from the neolithic Hungshan culture of nothern China, a temple with statues of nude goddesses; from the neolithic Liangzhu culture of central China, altars with thousands of incredible pieces of jade, engraved with images that must be gods; from Sichuan in the southwest, the mysterious Sanxingtui sacrificial pits, with the astonishing seven foot tall bronze statue of (?) a shaman, and astounding bronze masks=-=- and don't forget that I just said religious sites are not common. With all this activity in Chinese archaeology, they show us the terracotta army AGAIN!

but other than that, it's a great book. You'll enjoy it!

This is truly a beautiful book and an excellent overview. The reader who thinks it doesn't go into chinese archeaology in depth is correct - but it doesn't go into any area in any great depth - it's an overview for general-interest readers. My one complaint is addressed to the publisher, Cambridge University Press: on my copy, pages 259-274 are printed upside down! This is pretty sloppy for a book that costs this much. But otherwise, I recommend this highly.

"Caught by Surprise" is the story of Saeger, and his love for ex-college student Beth Livingstone.

Saeger is one of the cursed 'merpeople' born only with a tail and not able to switch between mer and human form. Harpooned by her father's flunkie Ralph, Saeger is kept in a tank below decks for eventual study and sale. Beth, curious about the new 'fish' her father has captured goes to investigate, only to discover the fish is no fish at all, but a merman!

So far, Saeger's tale is the best in this series. I found Saeger to be charming, romantic and funny, and at times a bit tragic (because of his inability to change). The funny parts were amusing. (I particularly liked the scene with the piranha) and Sandra Paul managed to breath a great deal of life into Saeger making him a sympathetic and interesting romantic lead (despite his 'mer-ness') and it was for this reason that I gave this novel a 4 star rating.

Unfortunately, the other character's were fairly weak. Beth, the heroine is a nice girl with no discernable occupation and a vocabulary which seems to consist of "Omigosh" and "Darn." She seems to have no purpose in life other than to serve as Saeger's girlfriend, and that was disappointing. Her father, a 'befuddled scientist type' was a caricature, as were his inept assistants. Nothing new there.

Even with these obvious problems, I still was impressed with Paul's writing. If Paul were to write another, perhaps longer "Merperson" book, I would definitely buy it.

Reviewed by Kelley Hartsell for Love Romances

Saegar, son of the former King (Okeana) of Pacifica, is one of the cursed of his people; he is meremer. Every once in a great while, one of the merfolk is born unable to change. Tail or legs... they can only have one and cannot change back and forth between land and sea abilities. Twenty-five years ago, he and his sisters were sent away from home for their protection, when war ravaged the island.

Beth Livingston hates the sea, getting dreadfully seasick every time she sets foot on a boat. Her father, Carl, loved the ocean and was always happiest when sailing its broad expanse for one of his adventures. Lately, his health had been failing and Beth would do anything to make him happy, even if she was less than thrilled with the idea.

Saegar was finally returning home after his long exile in the seas. He couldn't leave the water, so he had spent many lonely years swimming the ocean. One day, he sees Beth on her father's boat, and mistakes her being ill for a plea for help in the old ways of his people. He comes to aid her... and gets captured for his trouble. Carl's crew, headed by the smarmy and sometimes cruel Ralph, captures Saegar and locks him in a tank in the hold. They plan to showcase him as the exotic being he is, and make lots of money in the process.

When Beth first sees Saegar in his tank, she is stunned. Unbelievable! Here in the flesh (or should she say scales?) is her father's dream come to life. He always believed there were merfolk out there somewhere, but was made a mockery of for his beliefs. She is excited for her father but at the same time she feels sympathy for - and overwhelming attraction to - the creature. When she discovers he has very human characteristics, along with his tail, as well as feelings and a family, she feels terrible he is a virtual prisoner.

Saegar asks her help in regaining his freedom but Beth is torn. Does she keep him there, as proof of her father's dream? Or does she help this being whom she is drawn more and more too, and her to her, as they have gotten to know each other?

This is the delightful third installment in A Tale of the Sea miniseries. Ms. Paul has written such an entertaining story, full of laughs and angst. Saegar and Beth are perfect for each other, in spite of their biological differences. The humor in how Saegar comes to Beth's attention was well done, as is Beth's treatment of him when she believes he cannot understand a word she says. The rest of the supporting characters are wonderfully depicted as well, from Beth's eccentric father, to his rather mismatched crew.

The story does tend to drag a little in the middle however. There really is not a whole lot one can do with being stuck on a ship and trapped in a tank for the bulk of the story. But the wit used to liven things up keeps the reader entertained. This story caused this reviewer to be Caught By Surprise with the way it was written and the exploits of the crew and their entanglements with a creature of myth. One certainly looks forward to the conclusion of the series in October with, For the Taking by Lillian Darcy.

I really enjoyed reading about Saegar and Beth Livingstone story. Saegar was a good looking Merman with his gold tail. I am glad that Beth hooked up with Saegar instead of Ralph. Ralph was a real jerk. I'm not going to give the story away.. This book is an excellent read.

The clumsy, poorly written text in the first few chapters is almost impossible to read. Since it's so disjointed and quotes too much from Cezanne's personal letters or from other writings, I skipped over a large portion of this. I was also surprised that the authors tried to make Cezanne into some sort of religious deity, rather than a master of his art; it could be marketing hype accompanying the show, but Cezanne's work speaks for itself. In spite of these flaws, the painting and sketches are wonderfully reproduced, and the accompanying description is pretty good. But because the accompanying description is always laudatory and doesn't adequately talk about his mistakes, it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between Cezanne's masterpieces and his OK work. The best part is learning what other artist, such as Monet and Matisse, owned what Cezanne painting (and then trying to speculate on why they liked a painting so much).

Picasso, speaking about modern art and artists, referred to Cezanne as "the father of us all." He was that rare artist whose vision -and ability to express it- was so keen and unique that it can actually impact the way we se the world around us. (How often I look into the trees and think "that looks like a Cezanne.") More than any other book of his work this volume succeeds in showing the sweep and depth of Cezanne's genius. The reproductions are superb and plentiful. The descriptive text accompanying each image, while interesting, needs to be taken with a grain of salt, as is often the case in catalogues of this nature. But the truth is I buy art books for the pictures! For text, try Rewald's book which is also excellent and contains some paintings not elsewhere printed, and deals extensively with the relationship between Cezanne and Zola. I also recommend Gotz Adriani's book on Cezanne. But if you can only have one, this is it.

This is a must for art lovers, in general, and for 19th cent. french art lovers, specifically. Rich in colour images and a detailed editorial on each piece. Also gives the history of ownership.

Absolutely wonderful. A must.

The Christmas Bear

The Christmas Bear by Henrietta and was one of the best picture books I've ever read! It's cute, elegant, and adorable. This book is a fun filled book that will make you feel good at the end. You will get excited as you feel the joy of the bear on his journey out of his cozy den.
This story is about a curious bear as he wanders outside of his den when suddenly he falls into a bright and warm hole. The North Pole! (Santa's workshop.) Santa thinks the little bear is there to apply for a job. After along day of looking at jobs Santa realizes the bear isn't there to apply for a job. Responsibly Santa takes the little bear home but first gives him a gift he will never forget.
This book was a magnificent book to read. I liked it because it was not hard to read and I truly pictured the little bear as he discovered lots of things about the North Pole. The illustrations were marvelous! I would highly recommend this book for young kids. And probably read this book before any other Christmas tale.

The Christmas bear
The auther that wrote the Christmas bear made the book interesting.The book has nice illustrations and great words that attract you to the wondreful book.
The christmas bear takes place at the north pole. The crazy bear in the syory falls bown and lands in Santa s workshop. Santa and the crazy take a fun long walk around the place.
I like this book because the pictures are funny looking. The words grabbed ma attention like no otyer book in the world.

This is a beautifully illustrated, kid friendly book. It helps to point out that though Christmas presents are fun, the true spirit of Christmas is family. The pages of this book are so bright and detailed that a child can spend days pointing out new things.