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Clinical Anesthesia
Published in Hardcover by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Publishers (15 January, 1997)
Authors: Paul G. Barash, Bruce F. Cullen, and Robert K. Stoelting
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Good standard text book with some surprising omissions
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.

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

magnificaq obra que todo anestesiologo debería tener.
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


Mid-Atlantic Lighthouses: Hudson River to Chesapeake Bay (Lighthouse Series (Philadelphia, Pa.).)
Published in Library Binding by Chelsea House Pub (Library) (1999)
Authors: Bruce Roberts and Ray Jones
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Great Picture Book for Lighthouse Lovers
Bruce Roberts is one of the best lighthouse photographers working in the U.S. today. He and his partner Ray Jones produce great lighthouse travel guides. For each lighthouse featured, you get a great picture from Roberts, a little historical story from Jones and directions of how to get to the lighthouse. Lighthouse lovers could scarcely ask for more.

These books are good for finding the lights that are in them
There are directions and other info for finding and visiting lighthouses. They do not always show all lights for a given area. The photos are all color. I own 3 of these books. There are not many other guide books out there so if you are looking for guide books these are good to have. Since there are so many books in this series I thought I'd help people find them easier. This is the series.
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American Lighthouses
California Lighthouses
Eastern Great Lakes Lighthouses - I own this one
Western Great Lakes Lighthouses - I own this one
Southeastern Lighthouses - I own this one
Southern Lighthouses
New England Lighthouses
Mid Atlantic Lighthouses
Gulf Coast Lighthouses

Gorgeous pictures and informative text
I love Atlantic coast lighthouses and this book is a dream come true, chock full of images and info on mid-atlantic lighthouses and light ships, including how to get to each one that is open to public. A must for lighthouse lovers, esp. those like me who love the mightly Atlantic!


Moose, Bruce, and the Goose
Published in Unknown Binding by Robert Scott McKinnon ()
Author: Robert Scott McKinnon
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A great coming of age story.
I first read this book about 20 years ago. I recently found it and re-read it. I'm keeping it in my sons room for when he's old enough to read. It's a great story that teaches right from wrong, good versus evil, and about life and death. It does contain a couple hunting sequences.

A wonderful book..
This book is for children of all ages..parents who are children and grandparents who are also children. If you are not a resident of Montana, take the trip to the "BIG SKY COUNTRY", travel the roads and see where the story began and where it finished. It will be worth you time.

This book is a classic
A story of a teenager growing up in Great Falls Montana who comes across an abandoned greyhound and his companion cagey male Canadian Goose. The story is hilarious, especially at the end where the dog catches the rabbit at the racetrack, and rips it to shreds (during a race) and the goose manages to create chaos with the other dogs. The greyhound inspires the teenager to train hard as a track star. I enjoyed the book immensely.


New England Lighthouses: Bay of Fundy to Long Island Sound (Lighthouse Series (Philadelphia, Pa.).)
Published in Library Binding by Chelsea House Pub (Library) (1999)
Authors: Bruce Roberts and Ray Jones
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Great picture book for lighthouse lovers
Bruce Roberts may be the best lighthouse photographer working in the U.S. today. The books by him and his partner Ray Jones are really lighthouse travel guides. For each lighthouse featured, you'll get a great picture from Roberts, a little historical story from Jones and directions of how to get there. The lighthouse lover could scarcely ask for more.

great book if you want to find lighthouses
This book is great if you love exploring and finding lighthouses. The authors give a nice overview and history of the lighthouse and then give detailed directions on how to find it. We just spent time finding many of the lighthouses described by the authors on the Maine coast and had a great time.

new england lighthouses
excellent review of all lighthouses in the area. photos superb. recommend it to anyone who loves lighthouses.


Keystone Kids
Published in Library Binding by Bt Bound (1999)
Authors: John Roberts Tunis and Bruce Brooks
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Best Baseball Book
In this book the arthur I think did very well in describing the baseball game. He really brought entertainment into the book. In the book a rookie baseball player became the general manager of a MLB team. That is very weird. One thing I really like is that the arthur put alot of problems in the team like the playeres were prejudice of a Jewish rookie.

Slow start of no consiqence
Despite starting more slowly than the other Tunis novels I've read, the book quickly makes up for lost time Spike and Bob Russell are slick-feilding brothers who come to a Dodger team whose manager fails to inspire. Spike is apointed manager and success increases. But when Babe Stansworth, the Brooklyn catcher is injured, it falls to Jocko Klein, a young Jew, to fill in. In a world of religous bigotry Jocko cracks, making his teamates and opponents alike belive all the more that "Jews are yellow"-that he can't take it. It falls on Spike to stop this horrible stream of verbal (and physical-pitchers throw beanballs to him) attacks and make the team WORK as a team.

'KEYSTONE KIDS" DEALS WITH PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
It's hard to believe this book was written before Jackie Robinson made his debut with the real Dodgers in 1947, because "Keystone Kids" touches on many things that were dealt with when Robinson became the first black player in the majors. Bobby and Spike Russell are a pair of middle infielders brought up from the minors to the Dodgers during the WWII era. Both encounter the usual difficulties that rookies face in the Tunis series. The difference here is another rookie, Jewish catcher Jocko Klein, who has to endure prejudice from opponents and even his own teammates. While the title of the book suggests the Russell brothers as the main characters, Jocko is the real story here. To me, this book and "The Kid Comes Back" are the two most socially relevant of the Tunis series. Any parent wishing to instill a sense of conscience in their kids could do a whole lot worse than getting them "Keystone Kids."


Special Edition Using Windows NT Server 4 (2nd Edition)
Published in Paperback by Que (1997)
Authors: Roger Jennings, Donald B. Benage, Steve Crandall, Kate Gregory, Darren Mar-Elia, Kevin Nikkhoo, Michael Regelski, J. Brad Rhoades, Alan Simkins, and Robert Bruce Thompson
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Win NT 4 Book
Great reference for all aspects of this subject. Use it every week. Highly recommended for novice-expert.

Bigger Better Best
Its even better than the previous edition. Check my comment in the previous edition's review. Good work Roger Jennings and Group.

The best available
Along with Robert Cowart & Kenneth Greg's book on the WindowsNT Bible which is for beginners, this book by Roger Jennings is the BEST that is available for NT.


Western Great Lakes Lighthouses: Michigan and Superior (The Lighthouse Series)
Published in Library Binding by Chelsea House Pub (Library) (1999)
Authors: Bruce Roberts and Ray Jones
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An Ideal Guide
I found this guide ideal when I used it to locate lights to visit in this region last year. Bruce Roberts' superb photography and Ray Jones interesting and informative narrative significantly enhanced my enjoyment in visiting the lights.

These books are good for finding the lights that are in them
There are directions and other info for finding and visiting lighthouses. They do not always show all lights for a given area. The photos are all color. I own 3 of these books. There are not many other guide books out there so if you are looking for guide books these are good to have. Since there are so many books in this series I thought I'd help people find them easier. This is the series.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
American Lighthouses
California Lighthouses
Eastern Great Lakes Lighthouses - I own this one
Western Great Lakes Lighthouses - I own this one
Southeastern Lighthouses - I own this one
Southern Lighthouses
New England Lighthouses
Mid Atlantic Lighthouses
Gulf Coast Lighthouses

Excellent travel companion
I know that Bruce and Ray Jones don't visit or include all of the Great Lake lights in their books, but it is highly arguable that they do portray the best looking ones. I travel from Chicago to Upper Peninsula and have to include their books on the trip with all of the excellent directions. They are excellent travel guides and provide nice context to why and where they lights originated and give sufficient information about the beacon. They are my number one travel books when I go on a lighthouse expedition and they are bar none no better book published with directions on Great Lake lighthouses.


The Adaptive School: Developing and Facilitating Collaborative Groups
Published in Hardcover by Christopher-Gordon Pub (1999)
Authors: Bruce M. Wellman and Robert J. Garmston
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The Adaptive Review
In this book, the authors survey a broad range of organizational and educational literature and sourcebooks to present a useful guide for educational leaders of all stripes who wish to affect change. Chapter topics deal with communication, facilitation, organizing and managing meetings, group and institutional development, and conflict resolution and management. Drawing heavily from systems theory literature, this book is an essential tool for anyone who knows their school needs to adapt, but isn't sure where to start, and for school leaders in search of particular tools or approaches to help guide new practices. (Unfortunately, Garmston and Wellman's bibliography takes the form of an "Author Index", which, if I may be generous, seems inadequate.)

Garmston and Wellman have chosen carefully the word "Adaptive" to describe their vision of effective schools. Organizations, like individuals or species, must adapt or perish. And, as Darwin's theory teaches us, adaptation is not a static, one-time experience for those who survive the test of time. Garmston and Wellman assume that schools have an obligation to provide the best possible educational experience for every child in an era of increased public accountability and fast-paced social change. To accomplish this, they must be become adaptive - steeped in the modes, mindsets, and methods of change and improvement. This sourcebook provides anyone with similar views a rich array of theory, skills, and tools to help move schools from their historically atomized structures and cultures to become more integrated, collaborative, and responsive organizations.

Imperative of Facilitation
Garmston and Wellman have written a book that belongs on the shelf of every administrator in the country. They outline practical strategies for creating action-oriented/outcomes-based collaborative groups in a school community. These strategies work in faculty meetings, parent meetings, classrooms, district meetings. In short, this is an excellent book that clearly delineates the best and proven practices from the fields of education, psychology, and business management for developing, motivating, guiding, and maintaining collaborative groups across the school community.


The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Cliffs Notes)
Published in Paperback by Cliffs Notes (2000)
Author: Robert Bruce
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Huckleberry Finn's Critique for Dr. K's Class at RMU
JWD at RMU

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn "Critique"

Huckleberry Finn introduces himself as someone who appeared in an earlier book reminding us of what happened towards the end of that story. Though he won't mention it until later in the story, when his irresponsible father has left him by his self. Huck has been living with Ms. Douglas a widow, a kind woman who wants to teach him all the things his father has neglected, the things all normal kids would usually learn.

He tells us about Miss Watson, the widow's sister, who is strict on teaching Huck good manners and religion, and about Tom Sawyer and his stories, a boy like Huck looks up to because of his wide reading and imagination ability. He is also friendly with Jim, the black slave. Huck's father returns and takes him away from the widow. A pig has murdered when his father begins beating him, Huck runs away and makes it look as though Huck. He hides out on a nearby island, intending to take off after his neighbors stop searching for his assumed dead body.

Jim the black slave of Miss. Watson is also hiding on the island, since he has run away from Miss Watson, who was about to sell him and separate him from his wife and his deaf little girl. They decide to escape together, and when they find a large raft, their journey on the Mississippi River begins. After a couple of adventures on the Mississippi River, a steamboat hits their raft, and Huck and Jim are separated. Huck goes ashore and finds himself at the home of the Grangerfords, which allow him to come and live with them. At first Huck admires these people for what he thinks is their class and good taste. But when he learns about the deaths caused by a feud with another family, he becomes disgusted with the Grangerfords. By this time Jim had time to repair the raft, and Huck rejoins him. Two men who are escaping the law and who claim to be a duke and the son of the king of France soon join them. Huck knows they are actually small-time crooks, but he pretends to believe their stories.

After watching these frauds bilk people of their money in two towns, Huck is forced to help them try to swindle an inheritance out of three young girls who were recently orphaned. He goes along at first because he doesn't want them to turn Jim in, but eventually he decides that the thieves have gone too far. He invents a complicated plan to escape and to have them arrested. The plan almost works, but at the last minute the two crooks show up and continue to travel with Huck and Jim. When all their moneymaking schemes begin to fail, they sell Jim to a farmer in one of the towns they're visiting. Huck learns about this and decides to free Jim. The farmer turns out to be Tom Sawyer's uncle, and through a misunderstanding he and his wife think Huck is Tom. When Tom himself arrives, Huck brings him up to date on what's happening. Tom pretends to be his own brother Sid, and the two boys set about to rescue Jim.

The true to his imaginative style, Tom devises a plan that is more complicated than it has to be. Eventually they actually pull it off and reach the raft without being caught. Tom, however, has been shot in the leg, and Jim refuses to leave until the wound has been looked at. The result is that Jim is recaptured and Tom and Huck have to explain what they have done. Tom, it turns out, knew all along that Miss Watson had set Jim free in her will, so everyone can now return home together. Huck, however, thinks he's had enough of civilization, and hints that he might take off for the Indian Territory instead of going back to his home.

Excellent
I found this book an excellent choice of words to describe Mark Twaine's Huck Finn


Lighthouse Ghosts: 13 Bona Fide Apparitions Standing Watch over America's Shores
Published in Paperback by Crane Hill Publishers (2003)
Authors: Norma Elizabeth Butterworth-McKittrick, Bruce Roberts, and Norma Elizabeth
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Ghostly guardians of our Shores
This is a lightweight, amiable guide of the sort you might pick up in a tourist trap on your way to Martha's Vineyard or Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The lighthouses described in the book are located on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, and on the Great Lakes, with one on the Gulf of Mexico thrown in to make an 'even' thirteen stories.

The lighthouses and their keepers are meticulously described with some not-so-scary ghosts added as an extra tourist attraction. There are also black-and-white photographs of each lighthouse and/or the keepers' residence, along with directions on how to find them.

Some of the lighthouses or keepers' dwellings are bed-and-breakfasts, so you can check out the phantoms during an overnight stay if you so desire. All of the stories are supposedly authentic, so take a flashlight with you in case the big beacon fails---or turns on when it shouldn't (see the story of the Old Presque Isle Light Station on Lake Huron.)

The saddest story involves the history of the St. Augustine Lighthouse in Florida, where there are a multiplicity of spirits to choose from, including one who smokes cigars. The smallest phantom might be the daughter of a nineteenth-century lighthouse keeper: she was killed along with two of her friends, when a tram used to haul supplies from the dock to a construction site, "suddenly broke loose, hurtled down the rails, and dumped the three girls into the water. All of them drowned."

A must for lighthouse buffs, and lovers of ghost stories.
Anyone who has a romance with lighthouses like I do, and likes great stories like I do, will love this book. I certainly do. 'Excellent writing and photography too.

Intriguing and fascinating
Once you start reading "Lighthouse Ghosts", you will not want to put it down! Anyone interested in lighthouses and their history will thoroughly enjoy reading this book. The stories of the lighthouse keepers and their families are fascinating. I want to go visit every one of them! The stories are very easy to read and understand, and some of them give you shivers up your spine!

I really enjoyed reading this work, and I hope another book on some more haunted lighthouses is printed soon!


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