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History can be used to tell some smashing stories. Cormac McCarthy used the real Glanton gang for the plot lines and characters for "Blood Meridian." Larry McMurtry used the real Charles Goodnight/Oliver Loving story for "Lonesome Dove." But both authors honored the facts of their stories, and they brought imagination and empathy to the retelling.

Mr. Huebner brings only blood and gore, written in a thick style that turns oddly funny about halfway. How many times can you describe generals drinking whiskey by a fire? Four, maybe five, in this book. It's "Copy and Paste" run amuck. Every time a soldier fires a gun you're ankle deep in teeth, brains, blood, and bone. I can take a large dose of gore, but here it is just description. How many times can you shoot an Indian in the chest with a single-shot carbine before he falls down? Three, maybe four, in this book.

If you don't mind strings of cliches, history thrown into a corn popper, Indian skirmishes that turn into Vietnam-style assaults, zero character depth, then maybe you won't mind "American by Blood." But the book is just a bad cavalry movie from the 1950s updated with blood and gore in the name of realism, with a 1980s PC overlay.

I did like the title and the cover.

Beware, this book is written in stilted and somewhat disontinuous prose and is not too easy to read.

It is very desciptive particularly of the environment and the blood and gore of war in this period. It does not portray this period of American history and the destruction of the ethnic indians as in any way glamorous,unlike most American westerns.

The descriptions of war and human injuries are far closer to reality than potrayed in western movies. The weapons and bullets used in that period caused significant injury which the author is not afraid to detail. To remove or tone down the blood and gore would detract from the objectives of the work in my opinion.

The author is able to give life to the charaters such that you can imagine them as having lived in that period.

I did not find the book easy to read because of the prose style: some sections required reading twice to fully understand the authors intent.

This is a specialist piece of work and I believe would only really be enjoyed by some one who has an interest in this period.

I enjoyed this book on so many levels...the rich historical figures, the prose and style, the social context (was the aftermath of Little Big Horn America's Balkan-like "Final Solution")and most importantly as a view to man's struggles with himself. Huebner investigates what the days following Little Big Horn were like for the people on both sides of the struggle for the American west, and what that life and death struggle did to the "little people" involved. Huebner's work juxtaposes the beauty of the American West with a clear view of the carnage accompanying battle. I think he gets it right, as he loses me in page after page of beautiful and at times confrontational prose. I literally couldn't put it down, and look forward to more from this fresh voice.

The teacher who teaches this is an enviromentalist wacko and this book can be used solely for that purpose.

The authors obviously put a lot of work into making science accessible and interesting! The information in the book is up-to-date, and the approach is balanced. Great text!

This text is a clearly defined study of environmental science. It is full of content and each chapter offers extensional learning through the use open-ended presentations of current events applicable to the content. There are loads of interesting topics and there are also references to Online sources for additional information. This is an excellent book for the study of environmental science.

I bought this book to learn MRI, but the work is more of an encylopedia than a readable textbook. It contains too much useless information, while the important material is not particularly well written, presented, or organized; for example, the first 300 pages of physics is too often impenetrable and consistently overly theoretical, esp. the parts written by PhD's as opposed to MD's. The chapters are inconsistent in quality, varying from poor to very good. Although the book was supposedly printed in 1999, most of the references are 7-8 years old, the most recent being around 1995; this book is hardly state-of-the-art in its field. It is hard to believe that a book this expensive and in its 3rd edition could have so many typographical errors; did anyone proofread this book? The print is very small, the smallest I've ever seen in a top-of-the-line radiology reference work. On the plus side, it is well illustrated and an outline precedes each chapter.

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"MRI:the Basics" was my first introduction to MRI. It did get me into the field quickly. However, there are some major flaws in this book.

The chapters on frequency/phase encoding is badly written. The basic mechanics is described in an imprecise way that it is misleading, if not completely wrong at some points. This leads to inconsistencies in many places, and makes the treatment of k-space unsatisfying. (That's pretty much all the major important topics in basic MRI!)

I still recommend it to newbies. But always consult a more technical book (for example, Liang and Lauterbur) when in doubt.

My feeling about this book is mixed. It was my first introductory book to MRI, and it did get me into the field very quickly. However the chapter that describes frequency encoding and phase encoding is so badly written (the description is misleading, if not completely wrong at some points) that the treatment of k-space does not make sense. This makes the understanding of more advanced pulse sequences difficult, if not impossible without extra sources of information.

Since there really isn't that many choices for a beginner, this is a passable book. Just remember that the signal processing part of the book is inconsistent and misleading. Always consult a more technical book (for example, Liang and Lauterbur) when in doubt.

This 300 page paper back has 400 high quality and relevant illustrations (mainly diagrams and line drawings) that greatly help to illustrate some otherwise difficult-to-grasp concepts. The emphasis is on the how and why of magnetic resonance imaging, not on the interpretation of the images.

The authors have successfully negotiated the narrow difference between a book that is filled with mind numbing details and one which is over simplified with a trivial approach. While not getting bogged down in minutia that are endlessly fascinating to physicists, but demoralizing to many physicians, they haven't avoided the concepts which form the basis of MRI such as, K-space, Fourier transform and pulse sequences. Nor have newer scanning techniques that involve tissue suppression and MRA been slighted.

At the end of each chapter a succinct "Key Points" section emphasizes the most relevant features of the preceeding chapter. Also included at the end of each chapter is a self-assessment quiz (with answers at the end of the book).

This book is excellent for MR technologists, radiology residents in board preparation and non-radiolgist physicians who want to get up-to-speed in this exciting and rapidly growing subdiscipline of diagnostic imaging.

If this book were a movie, I would give it an enthusiastic, "Two Thumbs Up."

Spiritual Quests offers some terrific pearls of wisdom from various writers whose works contain religious themes. If you want to learn about writing inspirational literature, this may not be the best choice for you, but if you are interested in hearing a variety of perspeictives from people of different faiths and backgrounds, you may enjoy this book.

I particularly enjoyed that each writer shared specific instances from his or her writing. Fredrick Buechner's essay was my personal favorite with David Bradley's a close second. The book may be more enjoyable for those who have read something by these writers, but I found food for thought even though I haven't read their works.

Spiritual Quests is not a quick read, and some parts do drag. At other times, the "spiritual" aspect of writing was not clear, and some authors seemd to be more interested in sharing the spiritual dimensions of writing (ie. letting your characters guide you) rather than how spirituality can affect a writers' work. But it was still interesting, even if not what I expected.

This is a pretty decent book. I love make-up effects so I thought I'll love this book. Well, it could've been a LOT worse. The pictures in the book was great. Some of the pictures on the were inapporiate. I saw several pictures on the cover of Stewart, Brooks, Shatner, and other actors w/o special make-up. If I was mostly interested in props, this book would've just 1 star. This book is pretty good. I love the Do Your Own Make-up and props section, although the only prop that looks cool enougth to build, I'll need my dad's help. OH, and this is for the guy who said that the Do Your Own Make-up was a waste of time, how the hell would you want to like a Star Trek alien, take days and make molds and sculpt clay? I thought the make-up application pictures were great, except for John Poole's finished Ferengi picture, I saw the edge of the latex, not glued, around his eyes. The authors were kind enougth to tell how to make more base makeup for the pieces except the obvious ones. (Most Vulcans and Romulans have the same pigment as each other.). Overall a pretty good book, if love make-up and want to apply it to yourself.

I bought this book for two reasons. 1: I love Star Trek (all series) and 2: I love looking at and reading about behind the scenes things. And this book was really good for both! It is really interesting as to how the actors got on with their respective make-up whether it be a Trill's markings or a full head mask worn by a Ferengi. My only two quibbles were that there were no pictures of the actors without their makeup (eg. Armin Shimmerman - that would have been interesting!) and also, the DIY section wasn't very long, you had to buy the proper masks and make-up etc and there was only 1 or 2 props to make. But other than that, I'd say buy and enjoy! Adam.

Comprei este livro, como sempre faço com os livros de referência de Star Trek que a Pocket Books lança. É um livro regular, nada de especial, formato pequeno, muito bem feitinho, mas que não traz realmente nada de novo. Algumas fotos foram até recicladas de outros livros. Se você, fã brasileiro ou português, quiser comprar algo que realmente valha a pena, compre o "Art of Star Trek", edição hardcover.