Best choice for medical students who desire an introduction to Obstetrics an Gynecology. Includes guidelines for treatment. The first book at this speciallity for newcomers.

Now in an updated and expanded second edition, Allen Benson's Neal-Schuman Complete Internet Companion For Librarians offers a definitive, comprehensive, immensely helpful, reader friendly text enhanced with an accompanying CD-ROM annotating links to 500 sites. A core reference title for library staff, Neal-Schuman Complete Internet Companion For Librarians is comprised of invaluable chapters on What Is The Internet; Internet Addressing Systems; Copyright And Digital Information; Librarians' Roles In A Global Network Environment; Connecting To The Internet; Tips On Choosing Hardware; Software For Establishing A Basic Connection; Developing Your Software Toolbox; General Security and Virus Protection; Happy Hacking in UNIX; Lynx For Hard-Core Searching; Resource Discovery On The Web; Transferring Files On The Internet; Telenet Remote Login; Archie; Online Library Catalogs; Free-Nets; Integrating Tools Into Traditional Reference Practice; Integrating Internet Tools Into Other Library Services; Virtually Yours For Free; Creating And Editing Multimedia; Multimedia On The Web; E-Mail; Mailing Lists; Usenet News; Publishing On The Web; Implementing Web-Based Search Engines And Databases; Digital Publishers And Digital Libraries.

Professor Lu has written a thorough cross-cultural analysis comparing classical Chinese and classical Greek rhetoric. She corrects many of the incorrect assumptions regarding ancient Chinese rhetoric, such as the mistaken notion that Chinese rhetoric was inherently illogical and non-persuasive. Lu presents a thorough analysis of the many early Chinese rhetoricians and rhetorical approaches and compares them to Sophistry and Aristotlean theories of rhetoric.

For TV Broadcasting Engineers and Technicians, this book is very important for updating all about concerning Technology and Systems. For Engineering Students is the way to learn more the future of the TV systems. Digital Tech on TV is spreading more and more from the broadcasting systems to the consumer equipments.

I like this novel and I think it is a well developed and suspenseful murder mystery. When I thought I had narrowed down who the murderer might be, another element was added that made me re-think my position. I was immediately taken into the story; Chris has a way of writing that makes you want to know more about the characters and how they interact with each other. I especially wanted to know more about the main character (Angela). What was her driving motivation? Even after losing a job in Peoria for relying on one source--how she found the courage to dig deeper into this story when she was yet threaten with another dismissal. What had she experienced to make her such a determined person?" What happened in her earlier years that made her the person she had become? I feel the book was definitely worth the read and would definitely suggest others read it.

The female protagonist is a young journalist in D.C. plying and being plied by sources in a highly competitive environment. A suspicious death of an associate becomes the central theme of the book after several chapters of character development. That is typical of Chris Benson, it seems, in that he feeds elements of the plot to the reader at a measured pace. Almost all of the characters, including the heroine, have secrets and Benson divulges them in a manner well-timed to advance the story. By the end of the book, a whole raft of characters have become real people with multiple and intersecting agendas. The deceased character, in particular, is so full of life, yet beset with enigmas, that it is especially tragic that Benson kills her. But it is what makes for an excellent mystery.

The author is clearly familiar with "special interest" politics and journalism. The characters' dialogue is just right; the defense offered by the tobacco company PR person during the TV station roundtable interview is letter perfect. The author has a good ear for what makes a credible PR statement somewhere between artificially true and blatantly false. This is not the snappy patter of a Fletch novel or an exercise of the the "little grey cells" by Poirot, but professional people sounding professional.

All in all, an absorbing book.

An exciting 'spin' that keeps you on the edge of your seat till the unexpected, and shocking conclusion. I must say that Chris Benson has a way with women, as a writer that is. The depth he takes the protagonist, Angela, to---hits home with a woman's point-of-view. Finally, we are portrayed with sophistication and wit, without having to shed our clothes to get there. With that said, Benson certainly knows how to capture the sizzle, as well. I read another story this author wrote called 'Click' that I found in a recently released book, 'Brown Sugar: A Collection of Erotic Black Fiction, edited by Carol Taylor.' And, I must say that Benson adds just the right amount of 'brown sugar' to Angela's [Special Interest] character, flavoring the story with perfect taste'and pulsating passion....

This book is a pretty good introduction into the basics of psychology. It explains the different perspectives and approaches to studying the mind and the different therapies used to treat disorders and undesirable behavior. The illustrations are rather helpful, and there are insights into the history of this science. It's worth a quick study for someone who may be thinking of making psychology their college major or considering therapy or counseling for him/herself.

Personally I have to say that this is one of the better books on psychology written specifically(hence the title "Pyschology for BEGINNERS). To illustrate, the book is 176 pages with a fairly good index and some interesting and quite explanatory pictures and lots of good information on different psychological tecnhinques. It starts out explaining what psychology is and what it is NOT. It goes back to the philosophers to find its origins(psychology) and traces to the future where we learn and know more about genes, our brain. The book tackels subjects, whcih are quite controversial in teh psychological industry quite tamely and does give different points of view. Like on the nature-nurture debate. It explains some of the new techniques psychology uses and used to classify behavior. It, the book, gives information on psychological and psychiatric associationn. The book explains the courses to take if you want to major in psychology. There are also lots of good graphs showing different information on different behaviors. The author's explantions are interseting and simple even for the layman reader. Some words can be quite techniquel but in all in all, its quite manageable. The author profiles different people and psychologists providing a paragraph to a couple of pages on the figure depending on improtance. The book also gives a good explanation of Freud's theories though does not delve into Jung as much. But thats good. Cause getting into Jung or other psychiatrists would have been to techniquel and not for the "beginner." Buy the book if you are interested in psychology. You will not be disappointed.

I found this book to be a disappointment. In the introduction, the author talks about proofs that occur due to a sudden burst of insight, a phenomena he calls a mathematical epiphany. The next point is that he hopes to share instances of mathematical epiphany with the readership. However, the material of the book is largely routine mathematics that has appeared in many other popular works. The promised aha! moments are practically nonexistent. There are no mathematical epiphanies to be found in the mathematics of secret codes, the finding of large primes, the development of the negative numbers and the fundamentals of a proof by contradiction or infinite descent.
That aside, the book is well written, as Benson explains things in great detail. Anyone interested in popular mathematics will find interesting topics, my point is that there are no points of revelation. Perhaps I have been spoiled by the material in "Aha! Insight", that wonderful book by Martin Gardner, where apparently difficult problems are suddenly solved by looking at them a different way.

This book has been written for laymen, but unlike most such books manages to convey the flavor of mathematics. It also contains a fair bit of elementary combinatorics and number theory. It can take its place alongside Courant and Robbins' "What is Mathematics", and Hilbert and Cohn-Vossen's "Geometry and the Imagination." It could be read with profit and enjoyment by college freshmen intending to specialise in mathematics, and used in enrichment programs in high schools.My only cavil is that the book is too short (330 pages).

A good mathematical proof can be better than sex.

My definition of the joy of mathematics:

You have a few facts, awkwardly arrayed. You have some idea of a new fact you think might be a logical consequence of those facts. You start finding ways of stating them more interestingly. This may lead you to defining new composite concepts. You play around with them for a while. Sometimes you have to throw them out and start over. Often if you are brilliant, once in a great while if you are me, things start falling into place rather elegantly. Then you finally discover a snappy way of articulating all the pieces of a problem and the proof pops out.

And it feels amazing.

This book allows people like me, who wish they could have these moments more often, to live them vicariously through the great selection of theorems and demonstrations Donald Benson has put together. I didn't find this book particularly hard to read. In fact, I often read it while walking -- wishing I had a chalkboard, admittedly. It is written for laypersons who are not afraid to spend quite a bit of time on a page: all the knowledge you need is there, but seeing how it fits together to produce a given result can take some effort. The proofs are all some combination of elegant, surprising, and subtle, and always cause a few minutes of ecstasy.

I revied the book and overall I thought it was okay.Don't get me wrong I've read better than this, but it is worth reading.

It seem like everybody tends to hate these books since the worls seems to get more and more violent. but above all this don't forget that still the people do the killing and not the books. Personally I bought the book for a school project, involving burning and explosion speed and presure of chemicals. All in all I think such books are extremly important for us to understand how things like this work, and I hope there are people who will keep this important work up, thanks

THIS IS AN EXCELLANT BOOK FOR EASY IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVES. MOST EXPLOSIVES ARE SCARY TO MAKE. THIS IS ONE OF THE EASIEST TO MAKE AND SAFEST TO HANDLE AND HAS RELATIVELY HIGH EXPLOSIVE VELOCITY IN COMPARISON TO C-4. THE ONLY THING I WOULD ADD TO THIS IS THE NEED TO HAVE MATERIAL ADDED THAT KEEPS THIS MIXTURE FROM SETTLING AND COMPACTING. I ADD STYROFOAM THAT HAS BEEN RUN THRU A BLENDER TO ACCOMPLISH THIS. HAVE FUN.

This is about one of the most ridiculous products of misinterpreted "political correctness" that I can imagine. Next we get the african american easterbunny, Martin Luther King in a whiteskin version and not to forget the sory of the native american pope in Rome...
Nice attempt to reap up some extra profits for christmas, and please leave us alone with such nonsense. I hold myself beack from using the adequate term instead of nonsense.

I just loved it. My daughter, a kindergardener brought it home from the library today, and here I am purchasing it already it was so enjoyable. I am a white woman (if it matters). I dislike what feels to me like no diversity in children's books, or rather the kinds of stories I was raised on 40 years ago. Likewise I don't like the lack of diversity in toys, movies...neither of my children fit the 'retail' norm. To me, this was not so much "An African American Version" as a just a book I loved to read and they loved to hear. There was a different word here or there than the version I seem to have memorized accidentally (no matter, I never could figure out what a sugar plum was anyway). I love it that the book is so big, makes the already wonderful illustrations more enjoyable and easier for my kids to see as they lay on either side of me when I read. The book focuses on The Night Before Christmas, not the night before Christmas in a black household, so I liked that too. And I was especially happy my daughter selected this book since she is biracial (again, if that matters), my son is also biracial and disabled, and I feel it is so easy to find non-minority books and toys and movies I love everyday finds like this book. Now if Walt Disney would be so kind as to give us an African American princess (for starters), I'd be much obliged.

I hope everything I said would compel anyone of any nationality to get this book.

Finally! Too good to miss! I am a grade school librarian and I am always searching for books that speak to our children. I have ordered other titles by this author/illustrator and will be looking forward to more from Ms. Rosales.

This book is the single most thorough anesthesia book available for veterinary medicine. It covers specifics for almost every single species, including exotics and zoo species. It is quite wordy and not a brief reference if you just want a "quick fix" answer, but the explanations are excellent and this is THE resource to reach for with anesthesia questions...

Too detailed for the lay reader or the clinician looking for quick recommendations.

Excellent review coverage of pain, analgesia, monitoring, and anesthesia in general.

Detailed coverage of agent classes and anesthetic considerations by species.

I have many anesthesia books (both veterinary and human) on my shelf - but none better.