"Clinical Anesthesia Procedures of the Massuchussets General Hospital" offers concise yet thorough coverage on all aspects of anesthesia. From preoperative visit to basic airway management, from fluid requirements of the surgical patient to specific considerations on cardiac, respiratory and liver diseases, this book has it all in an easily accesible way, especially when your above the "blood-brain barrier". I would especially recomend the chapter on resuscitation of trauma and burns victims, because of the thorough coverage of the subject, better than in many surgical textbooks I have read.

I have over 15 years of experience as an anesthesiologist at the prestigious Yale-New Haven Hospital in Connecticut. I've seen it all; however, this text challenged me. I highly recommend it, and every practicing MD and CRNA should have a copy to review and use as a teaching tool and guide.

This book encapsulates all the necessary information for clinical practice of anesthesia. It also includes MANY charts and protocols for drugs, malignant hypothermia, ACLS, etc. I can't enter the OR without it.

Brown and Bolton's edited book on Clinical Electromyography remains a classic for electromyographers. The chapter on Diabetic Neuropathies by Asa Wilbourn is a logical and concise guide through the maze of manifestations of diabetic neuropathies. The chapter on Autonomic Nervous System by Zochodne and Kihara provides hard to find information on Autonomic testing. Each chapter of this book is packed with clinically useful information. A must read for the serious electomyographer.

With stories like "Ferryman" (Eric Brown), "The White Stuff" (Peter F. Hamilton & Graham Joyce), and "A Night on Bare Mountain" (Graham Charnock), anthologies don't get any better than this. My only quibble is with the experimental narrative "Thirteen Views of a Cardboard City"(William Gibson) which rounds out the volume with a whimper, not a bang. Otherwise, this is Hugo & Nebula territory.

I haven't read this book but I know these guys personally and I can't imagime that this book could possibly be informative.

My professor suggested this book and deemed it the "Bible on Evidence". I bought it and it is. A great book that will clear up many of your questions. If you don't understand what your law professor is saying, this book will make it clearer.

This is the book that Powersoft should have provided with the libraries. And nothing more. It is absurd that a library like PFC should be sold with just a list of function and objects. The authors of this book are very good at organizing the original list and presenting it in a more friendly way. I still would like to know why the release of the book was held back 6 months. Was it because of the chapter on PFC 6.0 that never made it into print but is included in the CD? On the bright side, the authors are household names for the PB/PFC community and it is like having a friend's book on the shelve.

I routinely recommend the PowerBuilder Foundation Class Library Professional Reference to other PowerBuilder developers who are interested in using PFC. By reading it before starting a PFC development project this spring, I cut approximately 4-6 weeks off my development effort. By the time I got around to taking an actual class on PFC, it was all review.

The text is a relatively easy read for an experienced PowerBuilder developer with a good understanding of object-oriented principles. It provides step by step code examples for implementing key PFC objects. Watch out, though, for the occasional typo!

Although I refer to it less frequently now, I still keep the book handy on my desk. More significantly, I refuse to loan out my copy. I tell everyone to go get their own copy from Amazon.com.

Experienced PFC developers may still learn something new from this book. It is well written, well presented, and has good script examples. I recommend this book to anyone using, or about to use, the PFC on a PowerBuilder project.

Ockham is generally said to be a difficult philosopher. As the translator says in his introduction, one does not read the Latin of Ockham; one studies it. So it helps little that this book gives such a small selection of Ockham's works. Harldy enough to give the reader even a vague idea of Ockham's stance concerning universals. Because translations of Ockham are hard to find, or very expensive, this book has its place (it is often the only translation that can be found in libraries), but it would be best to buy a single, complete work of Ockham and to read that.

This is a good sampling of important exerpts from Ockham's writings dealing primarily with metaphysics and ethics. It is useful in a course on medieval philosophy or on Ockham in particular.

Ockham is an important philosopher who's nominalism can be reasonable viewed as the beginning of british empiricism. It is the shift from the metaphysical realism of the ancient and medieval worlds to the nominalism and mechanistic understanding of human beings that is essential for understanding the difference between early and modern world views. Ockham's volunterism in ethics is also the foundation of the Protestant reformation (at least Luther's reformation) and also for the moral relativism of modern ethics, especially Hume.

Needless to say, I am in sharp disagreement with Ockham and find that his approach is fundamentally wrong and his criticisms of Scotus' realism rather weak. A good read on the influence of Ockham's nominalism in breaking down society is Louis Dupre's "Passage to Modernity." Check it out.

This volume contains a nice amount of material for anyone interested in trying to read and understand Ockham's thought. The introduction is a nice treatise explaining the contents and providing the reader (especially the beginning reader) with a good explanation of Ockham's work. The book itself contains these particular philosophical works: 1) The notion of knowledge or science, 2) epistemological problems, 3) logical problems, 4) the theory of '[supposition,' 5) truth, 6) inferential operations, 7) being, essence, and existence, 8) the possibility of a natural theology, 9) the proof of God's existence 10) God's causality and foreknowledge, and 11) physics and ethics. So as you can see there is enough that is provided in this one volume to give any reader a better grasp on some of the things Ockham taught and espoused. If you are interested in Ockham's logical treatises (which is one of the things he is best known for) then I recommend Alfred J. Fredosso's translation of "Ockham's Theory of Propositions: Part II of the Summa Logicae" which is also available here at Amazon.

A Book Review of "The Agrarian Revolt in Western Canada: A Survey Showing American Parrallels" by: Erin L. Smith

Does Uncle Sam and Jack Canuck share a common history in regards to their agrarian movments? This was the question ask by Paul Sharp in his thoughtful book "The Agrarian Revolt in Western Canada: A Survey Showing American Parrallels". Orgainally published in 1948 this monograph does a fine job of illustrating with remarkable adroitness the narrative of the agrarian sedition in Western Canada. In his opening chapter Sharp shows well that "It was the existence of cheap land to the south that was largely responsible for the delay"1 in devolpment and settelment of the canadian prairies. Sharp goes on to show that by 1909 "the same type of land could be purchased"2 in canada at two dollars instead of 50 per acre. In his next three chapters Sharp developes for the reader a picture of the growth in farmers' associations between 1889 and 1915. The following three chapters are dedicated to the affects of World War One on the farmers' movement, also discussed in these chapters was the establishment of farmer leagues which were exclusively for politcal action. The last chapters delt with the epidemic of organized agrarians between 1918 and 1922 including the eventual collapse of the movement.

Dr. Sharp does a skilled job of showing simlarities or parrallels between the American and Canadian farmers movements. However intersting and obvious historical parallels may appear to be, understanding them well does not necessarily mean a complete comprehension of the past. In fact utilizing such methods to apprecate the elapsed may obfuscate ones survey of the prior. The dissimilarities are just as important to understanding the past as similarities may be.

Francis Bacon felt that through thought, we were capable of understanding the human potential and some universal truths. However, he named four false idols that could prevent us from that higher understanding about the human experience. He felt that if we were not ever aware of these idols we could be led away from the truth. An idol is something with a false or misleading meaning not necessarily pertaining to religion. One of these idols of which he warns us of is the "The Idol of the Cave...For every one has a cave or den of his own, which refracts and discolors the light of nature..." This idol seems to be what we call bias. Consequently the way we see and perceive our world is obscured by our own cave. Hence, our experiences and ideals form our cave. The cave then discolors our study of past in its own unique way. Studying the parallels can become its own cave unless all efforts to remain honest and detached are used. The enterprise to authentically know the past is already handicapted by a scholars cave. Sharp added an extra layer to that stuggle by focusing on the parallels.

Sharp utilized a plethora of varied sources such as newspapers, goverment documents, even political prapaganda. However much importance and reliance was placed on primary evidence like the Grain Growers Guide, and the Nonpartisan Leader or other nonpartisan newspapers. These sources can provide much useful evidance about the state of the movement, major uncertainty faced by farmers, even strife within the movement, along with other helpful information. These sources also give a one-sided and partial narrative focusing the authors attention away from a comprehensive awareness. This reviewer can not help but wonder if more impartial evidence had been used for the study, if the picture painted, by Sharp would have been in piercing contrast.

However Sharp must be commended for his efforts to show the reader the whole picture as a North American. Because of environmental factors, clearly the Canadian and the American farmers shared many of the same hardships and frustrations. In his effort to show the parallels, considerable worthy evidence was provided to show that there was much ingrained dissatisfaction within the farming community towards the market system, and it's apprent inability to give everyone an opportunity. "Railroads were attacked for charging exorbitant rates and for failure to provide sufficient cars to handle the farmers' crops."6 as early as 1890. Sharp used this evidence and much like it to prove that unfairness was a fundamental part of farming, long before the revolt had poltical consequences in the late 1910's and that there were years of education and awareness on behalf of the farmers prior to the revolt. Furthermore there was "...growing sentiment that political action alone could save the western farmer."7 well before the turn of the century.

Sharps most meaningful contribution to the discussion of cooperatives and grain growing was that the farmers perceived the market driven grain industry as unfair to farmers. Beginning in 1901 with the formation of the Territorial Grain Growers' Association or TGGA8 farmers began a critique of the mercantilistic system that was grain selling, and transporting in western Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Out of the early farmers movement came a fundamental principle of cooperation which was predominantly antagonistic to market economics. Moreover Canadian farmers concept of cooperation was interventionist in its approach. Chiefly affected by the governments policy setting authority during the First World War the agrarian revolt perceived such market control as essential for survival.

Sharp did leave an important qusetion unaswered. Was the agrarain revolt a politcal or economic awakening. Sharp provides some evidence that indicates the revolt was primarily a political manifestation. However he also uses information that identfies the revolt in a dualistic form, both political and economic. These dualing ideas create confusion for the reader and can ultimately obscure some of the leading concepts. Nevertheless many interesting ideas, and concepts about the underlying factors surounding the agrarain movement have been brocked by Sharp and though the abstractions are sometimes twofold they do create awareness and may ultimately provided the necessary historical foundations for future scholars to find answers.

This book is in the end a noteworthy jumping off place for one who wishes to study the agrarian movement in western canada between 1885 and 1928. Sharp has provided much historical context for the scholar, which makes this book a good first read on the subject. It is the opinion of this reviewer that too much attention was paid to the parallels between America and Canada: and that the real value of the work was its effort to prove the intrinsic frustration of farmers and their class consciences. Moreover Sharp's book leads us on an entriguing path of study about how the mercantilism of farming led farmers to politcal, economic action. Finally, Sharp and the the publisher should be complimented for a job well done.