For anyone who struggled to understand why the nephron concentrates, then dilutes, then concentrates again the urine, this book will do much to ease your pain. Since medical school I've purchased Editions 1, 3, & 5, just so that I could keep up with my interns & residents. Here's how he does it:
#1: short book, (you know how intimidating those tomes can be)
#2: lots of diagrams
#3: end-of-chapter questions (with answers & explanations)

If you want to understand the Kidney, no matter where you are in your studies or practice, I wholeheartedly recommend this text.

Renal physiology can be very difficult to truly understand, and yet an understanding of it is essential to understanding so many aspects of physiology, pathology, and pharmacology. Studying diuretics for cardio pharm is nightmarish unless you understand the physiology of the loop of Henle. Vander takes this difficult yet important subject and makes it easy to understand. The book reads extremely quickly, and the flow-charts and diagrams are amazing. I never even opened Berne & Levy for renal phys--I read Vander's book (which is no longer than B&L's renal chapters) and cruised through renal phys. I am writing this review now, a year after I took physiology, because I am now studying for the USMLE Step 1. I have not looked at Vander's book in a year, but I still remember renal phys, and reviewing it now is the easiest part of my studying (the only easy part, in fact). That is because, thanks to Vander, I actually understand renal physiology. A great book!!

For any medical student that needs a comprehensive, but easily understood explanation of the structure and function of kidneys, I highly recommend Renal Physiology by Vander. It is very well written, and covers all the basic principles that you will need to know to understand pathologies associated with the kidneys.

Too often are works of historical note written with cold dispassion. You won't find any dry writing here. Hinton manages to encapsulate the drama and tension of the period in grand style. To those looking for simply a overview of the Harpers raid, be prepared for an information overload that includes biographies, primary excerpts and a rousing tale of cathartic proportions.

I was searching for my ancestors through the Keagy line and found this book. In it, I discovered that John Henry Kagi, an earlier form of the spelling "Keagy", was one of John Brown's men. Later I found another book about John Henry Kagi entitled, "John Henry Kagi and His Old Log Cabin Home." I am interested in learning more about Keagy Family Line and especially John Henry Kagi. My wife and I traveled to Harper's Ferry, VA to visit the site of John Brown's raid. Unfortunately, the papers and photographs of John Henry Kagi were damaged in the Spring flood. It was a great disappointment to us. The only records that we have are the information that I gained through those books, "John Brown and His Men," and "John Henry Kagi and His Old Log Cabin Home." Both of these books covered the raid on Harper's Ferry and gave me a wealth of new facts about John Henry Kagi. It brought history to life and presented a hero to my family.

This is a very tender book, with love and understanding children and adults can relate to. Ideal for ages 2 and up.

John Brown is a large shaggy dog living contentedly with Rose. When a cat arrives needing food and love, Rose is ready to open her heart and home to the new arrival, but John Brown has a very hard time sharing Rose, and watching Rose take care for someone else. By the book's end, John Brown has changed. In simple words and marvelous pictures, this book helps children - and the adults reading to them - consider a difficult and complicated emotion: jealousy. The perfect book to help children get ready for a baby brother or sister, it's too bad it isn't easier to find.

With the advent of VENTURA version 7, Corel had to re-write the application completely. By doing this, they brought out a version that was rich in the functionality of its predecessors but would suffer all the pains of a version one release. At the same time, Corel decided not to publish a full reference manual with the software but only a general guide to the basic features of the new version. Corel received a good deal of criticism for their strategy. This, coupled with the inevitable bugs and problems arising from the re-write, did not augur well for VENTURA 7. However, help was at hand. Soon after the first interim maintenance release, numbered 7.1443, Corel VENTURA(tm) 7: The Official Guide, was published by Osborne McGraw-Hill. It was written by three authors, Ed Brown, John Faunce and Carol Lovelady, who have, between them, over 30 years of experience with VENTURA. An outline of their backgrounds appears inside the front cover. Suffice to say, they are acknowledged experts who are well qualified to write a book such as this. Although the writing of the book was a team effort, the authors, in the introduction, have supplied the reader with details of who was responsible for each section of the book. This refreshing approach is continued throughout the 35 chapters and appendices. In addition, the authors have taken the brave step of supplying the reader with their e-mail addresses so that you can write to them with your comments or queries. Ed Brown has further demonstrated his commitment to the product and its support by setting up a Corel Forum at the Universal Thread web site. Here, he is attracting a growing community of VENTURA users who are not only receiving a high level of support from Ed but who are also providing valuable help to one another. This book has five major parts plus appendices. Part one, Getting Started with Corel VENTURA 7, contains an introduction to the Corel VENTURA 7 software suite and how to create your first document. In part two, Developing Your Documents, the authors take the themes introduced in part one and expand them. Advanced Topics are covered in part three. Here, I was particularly pleased to find a section, on Corel Database Publisher, written by Carol Lovelady. This is a part of the VENTURA suite that has been sadly overlooked in the past. It is a utility that enables you to take enormous amounts of data from one or more databases, organise and format the data to your specifications, and publish it to Corel VENTURA 7 and to the World Wide Web. Part four, Corel VENTURA in the Electronic World, covers publishing to HTML and the creation of CD-ROMs. This is followed, in part five, by Corel VENTURA 7 in the Real World. I am not sure if I am comfortable with the differentiation but this part of the book brings all the guidance in earlier chapters together in the description of various projects undertaken by the authors. These include a Budget Newsletter, a Scientific Paper, Maintaining Books, Creating Brochures, Creating a World Wide Web Page, and a further section on Advanced Customization with Corel SCRIPT which is initially introduced in the Advanced Topics section. The 140 pages of appendices seems to be a mix of reference material and material that could be easily covered elsewhere in the book. They are nonetheless valuable and cover the Utilities, Keyboard Shortcuts, Corel-supplied Scripts, Equation Editor, Table Commands, and VENTURA Text Codes, with final sections on Questions and Answers and Upgrading which are of particular value. I believe that the authors did not find it easy to write this book. To their credit, it has indeed been a team effort and that effort has brought together their unique skills and knowledge into an outstanding final product. Although the book is entirely cohesive, the individual styles of the authors can be spotted in the various sections for which they were responsible. I have to confess that I have got to know Ed Brown fairly well and I was interested to see if my perception of him was realised in the sections which he prepared. I am happy to report that the high standard of support and help that he has provided to his many friends, both privately and at the Universal Thread Web site, is reflected in this book. However, this does not minimise the significant and well-written contributions from John Faunce and Carol Lovelady. Each of the authors has managed to bring their unique and valuable skills to bear upon a complex product which continues to have the ability to please and infuriate its users in equal measure. Since this book was published, Corel have included, with the maintenance release 7.1465, a reference guide (over 600 pages) in various formats on the CD-ROM. This is, at long last, a valuable resource for VENTURA users. However, I highly recommend that all users of Corel VENTURA 7 supplement this resource by obtaining a copy of Corel VENTURA(tm) 7: The Official Guide. It is an excellent mix of reference and descriptive material that you will find yourself returning to, time and time again. I look forward to further books on VENTURA from Ed Brown and his colleagues.

This book about Strange Crimes, is very funny and everyone I load it to finds it very funny, is a classic if you like stupid crimes

Im a teenager who happens to have a liking of philosophy,so, in response, i was given a copy of this book by my world history teacher. It amused with the various types of thought compounded in this anthology. It views the thoughts of many philosophers through a religious context(as the title notes). Noticable names are missing though,such as Immanuel Kant and russell. But was made up for by the views of lesser known philosohers. I dont what else say.Well actually i do, but my friends are rushing me off.

This book is one of my favorites, and has been for many years. Its beautiful color illustrations are grouped by the period and country in which they were created. The book presents works (mostly paintings) from many countries (mostly Western) beginning in the Byzantine era, extending up until the early twentieth century. Many of the works are accompanied by art historical abstracts which offer insight for both the inexperienced and learned art enthusiast. This is a great book to have around as an extensive survey of Western painting.

On March 31, 1621, Philip III, third Habsburg ruler of Spain, met a premature death, reportedly clutching in panic at the same crucifix his father and grandfather had held on their deathbeds generations before. His son and heir, the sixteen-year-old Philip IV, succeeded to what is now known collectively as the Spanish Empire - a vast conglomeration of lands and people whose progressive decline as a political entity has long remained a basic assumption amongst twentieth century historians and yet whose cultural vitality has given its period the title of "The Golden Age of Spanish Art." The accession of Philip IV seemed to inaugurate a new era of reform after the previous regime's mindless inactivity and self-interested grandee domination. As the contemporary playwright Tirso de Molina remarked, "New architects acceded with the new king."

This premise serves as the central metaphor in A Palace for a King. Elliott, a historian, and Brown, an art historian, examine both the literal and political architecture of the reign, charting the complicated, often surprising interrelation between art and politics. The palace of the title is the Buen Retiro - an intended recreational center built for Philip IV with astonishing speed during the years 1630-33, left largely in neglect after the 1640's, and finally decimated by French and English troops during the Napoleonic wars. In reconstructing the circumstances surrounding its construction and initial occupation, Brown and Elliott attempt to furnish the reader with a "total" history of the Spanish Habsburg court during its penultimate representative's first twenty years of rule.

The scope of the book is immense. In a prose that is precise and elegant, if at times monotonous, it describes the political and economic issues of the day as well as the relationship between the continuously vacillating king and his powerful minister, the Count-Duke of Olivares, who until 1643 held the true control over Spanish government. It then goes on to analyze the palace of the Buen Retiro itself, exploring the process of palace-building and the symbolism of the palace as a repository of the values of the ruling class. Simultaneously, it looks at Spanish baroque painting, theater, and architecture and their inextricable connection to the court at Madrid, which, itself, was in so many ways like a giant theater. Elliott's inquiry and interpretation of the troubles besetting the institution that was then called the monarquía española and of the role played by Olivares makes for particularly rewarding reading.

The book appears to be extremely well-researched and provides an abundance of evidence from primary sources as varied as confidential memoranda, secret expense accounts and drawings of architectural plans; the endnotes alone constitute twenty of its almost three hundred pages. However, it is its very wealth of references and information that also lies at the core of its greatest weakness. Too often, the text becomes bogged down in statistics, where apparently meaningless figures about who paid whom and whose plot of land was where replace any real insights. The authors seem to become trapped in unneeded details, losing track of the larger picture that they originally intended to convey. As a result, in certain chapters, more attention than necessary is devoted to the actual logistics of building the palace and, consequently, not enough to the palace's political, social, and economic implications.

Still, aside from these slightly irritating flaws, Brown and Elliott's work remains a highly absorptive and very informative look at subject that has thus far remained sadly underrepresented amongst the scientific community. The sheer extent of the information to be found makes this book a valuable resource for anyone interested in the period, while the distressing lack of similar studies makes it absolutely essential for those at all curious about Spain's architectural history. It is, in my mind, a fascinating complement and worthy companion to R.A. Stradling's landmark Philip IV and the Government of Spain.

A very good book about roman catholicism. One of the very few evanglical books including a chapter about modern catholic theology. Worth reading, a must for everyone who is interested in the subject.

Brown's Systematic Theology is organized around the doctrine of the covenant, which few (if any) modern systematics emulate. Brown surpasses, in my estimation, the work of Reymond, Berkhof, and Hoeksema, though (may it be said) he lived in a different era with different conflicts. Still, Brown's systematics, based on his seminary lectures, should be read and re-read by modern theologians and laymen; after all, how many systematics end each section with words such as: "Now, O my soul, think what astonishing displays of Jehovah's perfections appear in this covenant!" Buy it, read it, live it.