I am an internist. During my residency years, I diecovered this book. It made me a distinguished resident in nephrology in a remarkably short time. Nephrology is the most complicated branch of internal medicine but this book has made it unbelievebly easy, meaningful and attractive. It is specialy written for those who want to learn complex issues as soon as possible.

David Burton's Confident Imperialist of Theodore Roosevelt shows that Mr. Burton knows not only the president but the man himself. The life of Teddy was what I can consider a short time for such a great man. David Burton captures the great moments of Theodore Roosevelt's lifetime and displays them in such a way were the reader can read them and relate to them as well. Theodore Roosevelt is such a great person in American history; and to exploit him, his compromises, and way he stood for is dissapointment to historians and to Americans. David Burton showed the world how Teddy Roosevelt was and what he did for his counrty. The Uniter States of America is stronger becuase of this man: Theodore Roosevelt. To know who Teddy Roosevelt is and what is stood for can make yourself evaluate who you are and what you stand for. David Burton does an excellant job at that and shows the reader that Teddy Roosevelt was a great man. Readers can also capture the excitement and sorrow of Theodore Roosevelt's life. The only problem that I had with the book is that Mr. Burton's idea to write everything in five chapters. Theodore Roosevelt's life history is more than Five chapters and should be expressed in that manner. All in all, Mr. Burton's masterpiece of Theodore Roosevelt is to be desired by Theodore Roosevelt fans as well as Daivd Burton fans.

This book was written by people who spent their lives for something they loved. Their passion is evident from the in depth analysis and their personal contribution to many aspects of the presented theory.
This book is highly recommended to engineers and students, however it might not be very useful to people with limited engineering knowledge.
And a personal comment: If you are a Mechanical, of Aeronautical engineer fascinated by aerodynamics, David Sharp's section will surly challenge and intrigue you...

This is a very different book than the Loa Tzu. It's written in a much less poetic style, but I find Zhuangzi more readable for that reason. The style is more conversational, and well rendered into contemporary English by Burton Watson.

These inner chapters contain only the core of a much longer work. Over the 2200 years since its writing, many accretions had crept into the work, including commentaries and addenda by other authors. Watson strips those away and leaves only the central and most vivid writings. Some of those may already be familiar to today's reader. For example, this book originates the man dreaming to be a butterfly dreaming to be a man. Zhuangzi offers many more of these anecdotes, too long to be analogies but too short for fables. He also calls on the history and mythology of his time - not always distinct from each other - and creates mythology of his own, whether he meant to or not.

That mythology lived on in Chinese alchemy, when Zhuangzi's magical sages were taken as literal beings. Zhuangzhi lived on, too, in Taoism's eventual alignment with Buddhism. His cryptic, non sequitur style of answer seems to foreshadow the koans of the distinctly Chinese and Japanese schools of Buddhism.

This is a wonderful complement to the Lao Tzu. If that book is the art of enlightenment, then this is more like the practical craft. I recommend it highly to any student of eastern classics.

I must add that Zhuangzi is a more recent romanization of "Chuang Tzu" - different renderings of one name. It is easy to become confused and think that the two were different writers. It is especially confusing since Watson published this same material many years ago under the "Chuang Tzu" spelling, and now as "Zhuangzi." While I have the highest respect Burton's scholarship, I think that this difference-without-a-difference should be made more explicit.

This is not the Complete Arabian Nights, some nights are missing, I bought this E-Book for a particular night- "Ma'aruf The Cobbler And His Wife Fatimah", but it was not there.

I think it's better to buy the Paperback edition to get all 1001 nights, or what we Arabs call it "Alf Laila wa Laila".

I have been searching for an Arabian Nights book for months. The only books I found were rewrites for children. Then I came across this masterpiece. While it was alittle hard to read at first (because of the old english used), I was soon drawn into the enchanting stories held within. This has all the classic "Nights" tales that we grew up with (Alladin, Ali Babba, Sinbad) plus many, many more! They will undoubtably grab you and draw you in. I highly recommend this to anyone! You won't be dissapointed!

We are all familiar with the stories of Ali Baba, Aladdin, and Sinbad. But where did these tales come from? The answer lies in this wonderful (condensed) volume known as the 'Arabian Nights.'
The story is of a woman, Scheherazade, who marries a king. The king's custom is to spend one night with a woman and execute her in the morning. To avoid this, Scheherazade tells him a tale, but leaves part of it unfinished, thus gaining the king's interest and insuring her survival for another day so she can finish the tale. Being clever, she never finishes it, but keeps it continuously going, until the king finally spares her life.
The stories presented here, though often somewhat crude, have great moral lessons to be learned. The serve as a sort of moral reminder as to how a good person should act.
When Richard Burton translated the Nights, he collected as many manuscripts as possible and pieced together the tales. Many had been created centuries earlier, and were often told during gatherings among friends. Burton, through his unparalelled knack for translation, managed to capture all the magic and mystery that are the Arabian Nights.
Besides the delightful stories and good lessons to be learned, the Nights serve another purpose--they provide an intimate look at the culture of the time. By examining their legends, one can gain a basic understanding of how Arabic culture functions. There is as much to be learned about the people who tell these stories as there is from the stories themselves.
I read this book for historical and cultural value, and found it to be abundant in both. Besides that, though, I encountered a mesmerizing set of tales which will be entertaining to any audience, even (after some revision and editing) children.

I must admit, the exposition can get a little hairy at (very few) spots, but the problems are good, and it has served me well as a reference (for certain limited topics). Great introduction.

I'm a first-year Ph.D. student, taking a graduate-level number theory course, and I still use this book from my undergrad years as a reference. Just about any basic number theory topic you're looking for is in here. I can't recommend it highly enough!

This book is the best introduction to number theory that I have found.

I only have single maths A Level, but found this book extremely easy to get into. It starts out with gcd lcm stuff, then introduces modular arithmetic and chinese remainder theorem; it does some other things as well (I forget), and then goes on to fermat's little theorem and wilson's theorem...then does lots of other things like 'arithmetic functions' and continued fractions, quadratic residues...which I haven't got to yet. Certainly, it doesn't look as though it's going t get any more difficult in this book, and the excersises are realistic (if a little too simple)

Anyone who cannot work through this book should not be studying maths. The book surely covers most first year degree courses.

I should also say that there are about 14 chpters in the book, even though I have only described the first 7 or so; the book also gives a history of maths, with short passages about famous mathmos like Gauss, Euclid, diaphantus. About 300 pages in total, loads of examples, plenty of spaces for rough working (big margins). What more can I say? Buy it.

This is a one stop book. Renal physiology and Acid-Base Balance is explained in detail and in simple terms. Author provides various scenarios for each condition. Implications of each change in renal physiology is described in many occasions.book is divided into four section and after brief introduction major part of the book is about regulation of water and electrolyte and best part is the final chapter where acid-base disorders are explained with physiologic concepts. Relatively thick book on a single subject and therefore coverage is very good yet it is it is very easy to read and understand.Another good part is that each chapter has few questions and you can check yourself with answers provided at the end of the book.

This book describes renal physiology and the regulation of water and electrolyte balance and then reviews various disorders of the above. The author takes a difficult subject and puts it into simple terms and gives excellent examples of the clinical implication of various renal physiologic mechanisms. There are several problems and solutions for each disorder, and these are also helpful in solidifying knowledge. The detail and physiology probably make this book most suitable for clinical and research fellows in nephrology but medical students and residents would find it useful as well. The price makes the book a real value given the amount of excellent information the book contains.

I haven't read much on this subject, but I enjoyed this book. The description above says that it's designed for college juniors and seniors, and many of the technical details really will require that level of mathematical maturity. However, there is enough of what the author calls an emphasis on the "bibliographical element" that much of it would be interesting to read through only skimming the technical parts. The author also tries to explain why progress was made at certain times in history but not at others.

The scope is relatively comprehensive: spanning from archeological finds that suggest early numbers systems to early twentieth century work in countability and set theory.

The text itself reminded me quite a bit of my old high school history books -- readable but a little slow-paced at times. More interesting, though, are the problems at the end of every section
-- problems that require the use of ideas and techniques from the time period being described. The author suggests these exercises as a good way to learn both mathematics and history, but they can be safely skipped.

Just a single complaint: the book seems to have a slight slant toward Western mathematics: early Greeks, Europeans from the middle ages, modern Americans recieve the bulk of the attention while there is a single ten-page section entitled "Mathematics in the Near and Far East". While not a fatal flaw (it is of course true that most of modern mathematics has its roots in the West), I would have liked to see a more balanced account.

I got a lot of information from this book. It has easy to follow explation about the therom.

Sorry. Some things are just too much, and a robot which cries oily tears is one of them. As is a sailboat blown up by an explosive strapped to a remote control boat (it's tried twice in this book), a couple of beautiful women who are murderesses and/or criminals...hey, wait, there are at least THREE of those. And some nerdy guys who are developing major technological breakthroughs in artificial intellegence (hence the robot and the boat. Get it?) Add a car chase down a rocky mountain road and a shoot-em-up battle in a gun shop and five dead people--this is a thrill-a-minute book in less than 300 pages. It reads like a screen play, actually, rather than a novel, but if you like plot-heavy novels, this is a good one for you to read.

I loved Manmade for Murder. It kept me up till the wee hours of the morning, so that I could finish it. There was enough suspense and very imaginative "things" happening to Tommy without being overdone. It was a real page turner. I'm looking forward very much to the next book with Tommy.

This book can be considered complimentary to more physiologic books about the acid-base/electrolite balance books about renal system. Author describes all pathologies with related test procedures and values. Provides pointers for what to look and what not to mix with. Overall very good introductory book in the subject of renal pathology.

This is a comprehensive and thorough guide in the land of acid base and electrolites. Great for the ones who wish to understand the renal functions. This book will take you all the way through Medicine rounds and exams.