I would Like to take a look in the content of the Book.

This review starts with a disclaimer. The principal author of this book, Dr. Harry Greenberg, was one of my teachers. All the authors are my colleagues at our medical school and Dr. Greenberg and I are members of the same department. I would not, however, review this book if I didn't feel that it is very good. This is a concise and clear introduction to brain tumors, concentrating on primary brain tumors. This book is aimed at a broad audience of practicing neurologists, neurosurgeons, and oncologists who will probably encounter brain tumors in their practices. While most neurologists, neurosurgeons, and oncologists will probably refer care of brain tumor patients to subspecialists like the authors of this book, we all need to have a solid knowledge of the fundamentals of clinical neuro-oncology. This book provides that knowledge. It is clearly written and well referenced book covering primary brain tumors with a good final chapter on metastatic disease. Chapters are organized uniformly with key information on pathology, clinical features, treatment and prognosis. This is actually a fairly difficult task because of the wide variety of brain tumors and their distinct clinical and biologic features. An excellent addition to the bookshelf of any neurologist, neurosurgeon, and oncologist.

Even with substantial improvements over the previous edition, this is one of the few ASM publications that does not live up to expectations. While the very basics of hardness testing are covered, the book addresses testing from a manufacturing/production/quality control perspectve, and does not focus adequately on the test as mechanical property evaluation. Hopefully one more iteration of this text will put it at the class of reference book we have come to expect from ASM.

A dense textbook (3 stars), yet a 5 star, four page gem: The "Busy Reader Style" What a concept! Enable your reader to decide as soon as possible if the text is relevant (using good titles, sub-titles, first sentences...) Thank you Mr. Chandler.