This great book is a requirement for completing the BTLS course (Basic Trauma Life Support). It's written in a simple language, with full explanation of the pathophysiology of the life-threatening and the potential life-threatening diseases occuring during accidents. It teaches you first the knowledge and then the skills needed to perform certain procedures.
It has numerous colored diagrams, pictures, and tables.

The BTLS Course is about 2 days long; the test is on the form of MCQs (choose the best answer) which is much better than True/ False questions.

We had the pleasure to meet one of the book authors, Ms. Donna Hastings from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. According to her, this book is gonna be published in Arabic language in the future.

This book comes in 364 pages, published in 2000 by the Prentice Hall, 4th edition.

Chapters inlcude: Scene size-up, Assessment & initial management of the trauma patient, Patient assessment skills, Initial airway management, Aiway Management skills, Thoracic trauma, Thoracic trauma skills, Shock evaluation & management, Fluid resuscitation, Head trauma, Spunal trauma, Spnal trauma, Spine management, Spine management skills, Abdominal trauma, Extremity trauma, Extremity trauma skills, Burns, Trauma in children, Trauma in elederly, Trauma in pregnancy, Patients under the influence of alcohol or drugs, The trauma cardiopulomnary arrest, Blood and body fluid precautions in the prehospital setting.

Appendices include: Optional skills, Radio communications, Documentation: The written report, Trauma care in the cold, Role of the air medical helicopter, Trauma scoring in the prehospital care setting, Drowning Barotrauma & decompression injury, Injury prevention and the role of the EMS provider, Multi-casualty incidents & triage, Glossary, Index.

Recommended for Paramedics and every health care worker.

Now a compulsory part of US paramedic certification, this book is an excellent addition to the shelf of anyone interested in prehospital care, be they nurse, paramedic, EMT, First Responder, physician, or even First Aider.

It logically and systematically lays out the skills and knowledge required to handle trauma effectively in the field, taking a system by system approach to underline the conditions and pitfalls commonly associated with certain injuries.

For me, this was one of the most entertaining courses I have taken in my EMS career. I would definitely recommend this book to all prehospital care providers at every level.

This is great text for all Paramedics to own. It entails the most up-to-date information on trauma assessment, patient care, patient packaging, ALS interventions, and transport methods and considerations.

This text is easy to read and learn from, intergrating lecture material with the practical material.

A must for the serious Paramedic.

Let's face it. Who is the most likely reader of THE BOOK OF GREAT BOOKS by W. John Campbell? Probably the same people who buy Monarch Notes, Cliff's Notes, and the like. That is students in high school and college who doubt that they lack the time, inclination, or ability to plow through a series of novels, poems, plays, and essays. What Campbell's book does is to break down what seems an imposingly difficult work of literature so that after ten minutes a reader can get a sense of the 'big picture.' Campbell has chosen 100 of the generally accepted classics of English, American, European, and Greek and Roman works that have survived the test of time to be called that. Each work is divided into a plot summary, a handy picture that connects the major characters in terms of how they relate, the background, key characters, themes, symbols, style, structure, and critical overview.
The level of detail and the degree of analysis is just enough to permit the reader to follow the work and still retain the joy of reading the original. Nowhere does Campbell bog the reader down in detail sufficiently heavy to cause him to wonder why he bought TBGB in the first place. One of the problems that I had in reviewing this book is that Campbell makes no attempt to discuss exactly what a great book is and why he chose the one hundred that he did. I would have appreciated an introduction which could have clarified those two points. As it is, TBGB is simply a valuable addition to the bookshelf of anyone who likes to think that he is a reader of the classics.

FACT: Each book is summarized and analyzed by sections. The author summarizes the action in a chapter-by-chapter Plot Summary, which ends with a very useful Character Chart schematic thingie that makes character relationships crystal clear. (Why isn't anyone else using this kind of chart?) Background section covers type of work (epic poem, adventure novel, etc.), author's background, setting. Key Characters section gives a couple sentence overview of each. Main Themes & Ideas section has a paragraph on each theme, and in my opinion this is the most useful part in aiding understanding of each analysis. Main Symbols: self-explanatory. Style & Structure section analyzes and evaluates other literary elements of the work: language, tone, irony, figures of speech such as metaphor and simile, foreshadowing, plot and composition. Critical Overview covers the relationship of the work to the society and time from which it emerged or how critics and readers react to the work's main ideas. Each book critique is about 8 pages long. It addresses mostly the works of "classic" authors--shakespeare, conrad, virgil, homer, chaucer, miller, milton, dante, tolkien, hemingway, ibsen, dickens, swift, steinbeck, orwell, melville, austen, camus, c. bronte, hawthorne, shelley, twain, wharton--yet there are a few post-modern works too--Joy Luck Club, The Bluest Eye, Caged Bird Sings, Color Purple.
OPINION: This wonderful book deserves much more attention than it's gotten. More than just a plot summary, it's a very useful and fast guide to literary analysis and evaluation of some major Western Civlization literary works, and it would serve any high school or college student well. My sole complaint is that it only covers 100 Great Books. Desperate Comp. I and II students will love this (hint-hint!) The price was right, too.... The Main Themes & Ideas section is quite helpful in understanding the central message an author is trying to convey by his work, and it's made several hard-to-fathom plays and books easier for me to grasp. It's probably inevitable that it will be compared to Cliff Notes, yet the critiques are briefer, easier to read, more fun, and perhaps not so penetrating and comprehensive. This book ought to be on the shelf of everyone's personal library--along with a copy of How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler. Happy reading!

This book is a must have for anyone in highschool, college, or just want to read as many books as possible in a limited time period. It takes you through many or the classic books and stories such as Jane Eyre, Animal Farm, The Lord of the Rings, and many of Shakespeare's works. This book gives you summaries of the stories, describes characters and symbols in the stories and much more. This is your best friend when it comes to writing book reports or understanding a story. I absolutely love this book. Also the price was fantastic. You could not buy the 100 books this book contains for the price of this book.

I received a copy of this book from the publisher when I was teaching a university course on cartography. The textbook for the semester had already been selected, so I used this book originally as a second resource while preparing lectures. By the end of the semester, I found myself using this book as the primary source for topics and explanations and suggested it be used in future semesters.

This book explains concepts such as projections and coordinate systems in ways that are easy to understand, particularly for new students. The explanations are thorough without bogging down in details. The figures are large, many take up a full page. They are helpful, relevant, and excellently reproduced. The chapters on terrain representation, contours, and topographic features are exceptionally good (there are almost 40 examples of terrain representation) The remote sensing and GIS chapters are brief and introductory, but those are topics best left for other books.

I was a little skeptical when I first saw this book, since it appeared to be a somewhat thin, and we were using Robinson's book, which is basically a standard. But I would recommend this to any map student, teacher, or user. It packs a lot of information in its pages. I still use it as a reference and feel somewhat guilty that I didn't have to pay for it.

If I were stuck on a deserted Island like Tom Hanks in Cast Away, and I could only have one book, it would be this one. It would help me to get off the island and determine my global positioning! Lots of help.

When you've been working in a field for 30 years it's really difficult to drag yourself backwards and review data you already know, so when I signed up for a GPS (Global Positioning Sattelite) software course I looked at "Map Use & Analysis" by John Campbell as something I could just skip over, but since it was required reading I finally got it out. I was really pleased with the depth of material and the extremely clear explanations of all those mystifying cartography words. Anyone who has no idea about mapping or is a begining student will be able to use this book. The format is excellent with terms higligted and the index and dictionary are well coordinated. I feel that this book is such an excellent reference that I am buying a copy for myself. The only negative thing I have to say is that the illustrations, which are plentiful seem to wander several pages ahead of text, but they are carefully numbered and correspond exactly to the descriptions. Well done! Les L. Johnson

It is almost tragic that this excellent, personal, detailed and brutally honest, heroic and even quietly poetic memoir has fallen out of print. This, perhaps one of the finest histories ever written about WWII, tells the story of the front line soldier from the first person.

Long before Saving Private Ryan inspired Tom Brokaw and the rest to capitalize on the rightfully named "Greatest Generation", Cambell and Leinbaugh's book captured the harrowing narrative of combat that so many men of that era are sadly taking to the grave with them. This book personlizes the story in a voice that appears to have been culled from a combat veteran reunion. The Men of Company K willingly recountsthe horror of battle as a permanent record. A warning really as to what freedom ultimately costs. May we be damned should we ever forget.

As a historical document, it boils in as much action and tension as any Clancy novel.

Ambrose frequently has used The Men of Company K as a carefully cited reference in his longer works. This alone may be a testament to its greatest. Please search this fine work out.

I can not begin to express to you how much this book means to me. My grandfather was Clarence Jarvis. He was one of the men in Company K. We really never knew anything about his death. He died when my father was only an infant. To the writers of this book I say Thank You !! The personnal touches brought my grandfather into our lives some 50 years later. I only wish more history books were written this way.

This is a moving account of the combat experience of one rifle company as told by the commanders. What makes this book so special is all the personal recollections that are compiled. The men of company K get their first battle after D Day in Holland. They continue east through the battle of the bulge, the crossing of the Rhine, and occupation duty in the conquered Germany. The little personal touches are on every page. One man defines REMFS as "any sob behind my foxhole." A future mathematics professor uses geometry and a map to plot a German rocket launching site. The description of their Christmas Eve 1944 battle in the bulge, and how a Belgium village renamed their main street to honor this battle brings goosebumps to my arms as I recall it. One man blinded in this battle by tank gun fire was happy to know that his dreadful wound was his Christmas gift of survival and evacuation to the rear. Others recall the blinded soldier crawling over them to the rear without a guide and wishing them all "Merry Christmas" as he groped his way to the medics miles behind the battle. It was a battle in which company K fixed and held a numerically superior armored force with only rifles and grenades. In one captured German city with still working phones, a German speaking GI got a call through to German Army HQ in Berlin to tell them to "expect company K in about two weeks." This book is full of personal accounts of horror and humor, terror and triumph. This book evokes visualization by the reader like no other account of infantry combat in Europe. I only wish that the publisher would put it back in print! It should be required reading for high school U.S. History classes. Not because it is a historical text, but rather for the personal context it gives to such a critical point in history.

A little boy had a set of tin soldiers that were made from a melted spoon. One soldier was missing a leg because there was not enough metal left over from the melted spoon.

Tossed aside by the boy, the one-legged soldier sees a paper cut out figure of a ballerina. She is poised on one leg and he feels an instant bond. He has found another one-legged toy and believes this to be love.

The steadfast tin soldier has a series of mishaps. He falls off the window sill into a stream. From there, he is transported to a rat infested sewer. He is swallowed by a fish and through an unlikely stroke of luck, winds up back in the boy's playroom with the other toys and the ballerina.

The ending is what gets to me every single time. A gust of wind lifts the paper ballerina up and she flutters into the fire place, winding up a charred heap of ashes. Devastated, the tin soldier joins her. The remaining metal that was once the tin soldier is a charred piece of heart shaped metal.

I still think this is a very sad story. The photographs really emphasize the feeling this story evokes.

I taught 1st grade for 4 years and all of the teachers in my grade passed this book around at Christmas to read to our class. I cried everytime I read it. It has a wonderful message and my kids in my classroom always loved it! I have now (finally) purchased my own copy of this book to read to my little girl. It is a classic and I know she will love it as much as I do. Every home should have this book to read at Christmastime.

This is a really good book. It has all the characteristic's that made the original a cherished and remembered fairy tale. It is a great gift for any young child, and can be enjoyed by adults too. It maintains the feel of the original tale, but is more like a poem. The art work on each page is beautiful, and the pictures are totally devine. I would recomend buying this for a different and fully enjoyable version of the original.

This book about 43 Heros touches your soul . The author John Campbell did an oustanding job !......Julia Carpelli

THEY WERE OURS IS VERY 'POWERFUL' READING FOR FAMILIES WHO HAVE/HAD SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE ARMED FORCES.

This is a beautifully written book about 43 soldiers killed in Vietnam .The book takes you into their lives , so you really get to know them and the people they left behind .Very heartwarming . It makes you laugh and cry .

This well-illustrated volume provides an excellent introduction to the Anglo-Saxon period. The "picture essays" regarding coinage and other specialized topics help provide detail without interrupting what amounts to historic narrative.

The problems of using source documents are detailed as well as the triumphs of modern archealogy in expanding our understanding of this period of history.

The photographs, drawings, and maps compliment and support the text nicely.

Highly recommended as an introduction to the period and its people.

Written by three of the leading historians of the Anglo-Saxon period, this is easily the best introduction to its subject. The writing is authoritative yet accessible, giving a good idea not only of the course of Anglo-Saxon history, but also of the problems with the sources and of disputes within the historical community. Only in the final chapters, by Eric John, do major historical disputes sometimes go unnoted; one would not know, e.g., from his discussion of Harold Godwineson that some historians greatly respect Harold, or that not all historians believe that Edward the Confessor firmly intended William of Normandy to succeed him. To his credit, however, John's presentation here is more orthodox than elsewhere (for his unadulterated views, see his contentious and delightful Reassessing Anglo-Saxon England).

The physical presentation of the book is far more attractive than is usual for textbooks. It is in a large format and lavishly illustrated, including a number of color pictures, and has several good maps of England (although it is curiously lacking in maps illustrating the European context of English history, and it could also use genealogical tables to help sort through some of the myriad characters). The bibliography is good up to 1981, the original date of publication, but unfortunately it was not updated when Penguin reissued the book, and thus cannot take account of the scholarship of the past two decades. It also has, regrettably, "secret" endnotes at the back of the book, not signaled in the text, which often lead the reader to primary source material and some secondary discussions; it is well worth the reader's effort to seek out the endnotes periodically.

In short, The Anglo-Saxons is highly recommended for anybody seeking a general introduction to the history of this period. My highest praise is that when I taught a university course on Anglo-Saxon history, this is the only book I considered for a main textbook.

Hepatitis c is the main reason for a liver transplant...thats what i was told when i was diagnosed in july 2000, i was sent home with a box of needles, tylenol and another appointment for a liver biopsy. I sat in my car unable to digest the horrible news about my liver, i cried for 30 minutes i have never been so afraid, ever! I decided not to do anything until i knew all of the treatments available, after diligent searching, i found a book that i know saved my life, "Triumph over Hepatitis C", Lloyd Wright lit the path for the rest of us, his simple approach to getting well was very enlightening to me, i feel as though everyone has a purpose in life, Lloyd Wright knows excatly what we "heppers" are going threw, and what we need to survive, it was so obvious to me the minute i started reading the book, they way Lloyd Wright conveyed the message to the readers, we knew it was for real, he is the most informed human being on the planet when it comes to hepatitis c, i know because my hepatitis c is almost in remission! I am so thankful for this book, Lloyd, and especially God, for leading me to this book, it has changed my life! it gave me hope, my one wish is to someday meet Mr. Wright just to give him a hug for saving my life, i have purchased several of the books and passed them on to others, it is such a light hearted book to read once i started reading i could not put it down, and still have not, i constantly refer back to it, it picks me up! continuely... The author of this book takes the reader on a path threw his life dealing with this horrific virus, what he did for the virus, blood tests, personal dilemas and then, he so openly shares what would take years for most of us to find out concerning the cleaning and rejuvinating of the liver, i am pleased to say that i will not be needing a liver transplant, it is a gift for anyone that is fortunate enough to have this book placed in the palm of their hands, i mean that with all my heart, and that is what Lloyd Wright did when he wrote this book, he had to it was his mission in life, to follow his heart! I wish i could give this book 10 stars....thank you Mr. Wright~ sincerely, Katie Glenn

I reviewed Mr. Wright's book, Triumph Over Hepatitis C prior to publication and conferred with him on the published edition. I have read the entire volume. Mr. Wright was a patient of mine begining in 1996 and I worked with him in developing the remedy in Triumph Over Hepatitis C. I reviewed many of his blood tests prior to treating him as well as reviewing blood tests as he used the herbs and supplements prescribed and a continues dscline of his liver enzymes took place as he continued on the program. Futher he had sustained sever liver damage to near cirrhosis and had complications from cancer and lengthy chemotherapy and radiation therapy. He had been a patient at UCLA and diagnosed with hepatitis c in Dec.1994. In accordance with his biopsy results his liver enzymes readings were AST (SGOT) panel at 210 (1-41normal) and ALT (SGPT) panel at 245 (0-45normal). He was bedridden, and he could not tolerate interferon treatment. He was in the last stages of the disease, and there was no hope for him. Then with a good nutritional program along with a concentrated effort to take everything in the remedy he describes in his book, he started to feel better right away, and a year later he was healthy and virus free---they couldn't find any virus in him. He has been hepatitis c free for nearly 3 years and has liver enzyme readings of AST(SGOT) panel at 23 and ALT (SGPT) panel at 12. Mr Wright's account of the events he encountered from contraction of hepatitis c to his complete recovery and the remedy that saved his life is a must read for anyone with hepatitis c, cancer, HIV and AIDS. This is a true patient to patient testimonial which can save hepatitis c patients a lot of disappointment, trouble and money. It also is a good story that gives real hope for the patient with dire diagnosis. It would not surprise me if this book is made into a movie in record time. DR. John Finnegan,N.D.

I was recently diagnosed with Hepatitis C and had been feeling afraid & overwhelmed. My wife found Lloyd Wright's book which I read cover to cover without setting it down. I immediately felt so much better! The book is a little rough, but very funny, engaging, and full of specific, understandable, useful information. All of the alternative treatments are clearly explained and are well supported by historical reference and descriptions of how they work in the human body. His explanations of what to stay away from and why are equally detailed and enlightening. Try to get the run of the mill doctor in this country to explain ANYTHING as clearly as Mr. Wright has. I feel hopeful and almost "normal" again. Thank You

This is a very handy resource for high school age students of theatre arts. My 22 students found that the reading level, vocabulary and style combined to make a very accessible introduction to technical aspects of theatre. The anecdotes provided clear examples and advice, to which the students could relate readily, and the author's unique style manages to assume that the reader is ignorant of the subject without insulting the reader. My students were grateful to find the questions they would be afraid to ask (the "dumb questions"), answered clearly and comprehensively. The many and well-placed diagrams and illustrations add significantly to the value of the book as a whole. I highly recommend this book for any youth theatre program, or high school theatre arts class.

Very practical and straightforward. An essential tool for anyone starting in theater as it discusses the very basic materials for survival in the trade. Theater old timers will also like the book for the numerous sample situations (anecdotes) included.

The book went beyond academic and in fact, is more experiential in content. It's a balance blend of terminologies, systems and case studies.

Simply put, this is the most helpful book on the technical side of theater I have ever read. Mr. Campbell is a rare individual. Although a technichian, he has written a sympathetic and yet extremely informative book on lighting, sound, stage terminology, etc. The amount of really usefull information in the book is astounding. I am a high school drama teacher, and I think this book should be in the library of every theater teacher and theater student. No other book I've read so clearly explains the essentials one needs to know about the technical craft of theater. If you are a person who doesn't want a book where the author is trying to show what an expert he or she is and what an idiot you are, then Drew Campbell's book is just for you. He is an expert who understands his job is to help those of us who aren't. Bravo for this book. I hope Mr. Campbell keeps writing on theater. We can use his knowledge, wit, and empathy. Five stars for this book, and a few thrown in for the actor with glass in his butt telling jokes on the way to the hospital. Thanks for a great book.

I worked backwards through "The Thing" stories. I remember as a young kid in the 60's watching Howard Hawk's A Thing From Another World. I had a much older brother who had a color TV who I spent Saturday nights with. We had 3 great "Creature Feature" tv shows for about 6 hours each Saturday. I got to see all the great classic Sci-Fi movies, and Hawk's Thing was a favorite.

I had just been commissioned an Ensign in the Navy in '82 when Carpenter's Thing came out. I loved it. I then didn't get to see the movie again for another 12 years. Finally, with my own boys, I found both movies on VHS. Scared the hell out of my boys. Both are now avid Sci-Fi / Horror fans.

Enter 2002. Now there is a video game, based on a proposed sequel to the 82 movie. It starts off where the movie ends. It is an odd game, but very enjoyable. I found Campbell's novella at a game site. Was it really written in 1934/37? The storytelling is very good for that vintage. Like EE "Doc" Smith, some of Campbell's vision was extraordinary. I love reading the historical, genre-defining early Sci-Fi stories. I think any fan of the movies and or the new game will love this story. It is a quick read, and an amazing story coming out of the '30s.

This collection is a superior value. It contains not only Campbell's superb novella of sci/fi terror (Who Goes There?) but six other stories! All in a quality hardback! John W. Campbell, Jr. was one of the great science fiction writers in history. His approach to his craft in his all too brief career as a writer, and his long career as an editor (his employer would not allow him to both write and edit, so when he started as an editor he quit writing) were of incalculable influence. Many of sci/fi's greatest honed their craft at his feet. Unfortunately (indeed the word is disgracefully) very little of Campbell's work remains in print. Happily, Buccaneer Books has published this excellent collection. It opens with an interesting forward by Campbell himself. It contains the novella "Who Goes There?", and the stories "Blindness", "Frictional Losses", "Dead Knowledge", "Elimination", "Twilight", and "Night." 230 pages all told, nicely hardbound in blue cloth, and well worth your time and money.

I first read this short book back in 1960, when I was ten. Coming off of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke, this one grabbed me by the short hairs and dangled me above the floor. Then someone told me they had made a movie of it. You can't imagine how disappointed I was to see James Arness as a humanoid plant. What riles me more is how John Carpenter's remake was lambasted by both the critics and the director of the previous film for its excessive violence. Carpenter had only remained faithful to the original novella. For fifties-era SF, this was not your typical pre-teen reading, and it still packs a strong punch even today.