As a Legal Nurse Consultant and active Operating Room Nurse I found this text to be an excellent resource. It is easy to use with each condition referenced in an easy-to-read, concise table format. The table of contents is divided into 34 alphabetically listed conditions. I highly recommend it for nurses caring for critically ill patients (includes just about every nurse these days!) as well as those needing to reference care for a particular emergency condition.

Even after many years as an ER nurse, I found this book to be an excellent resource about emergency medicine. It is nicely laid out, easy to read and full of current information about emergency procedures and medications. I highly recommend it not only for EDs but for ICU, med-surg and outpatient medical offices.

This book is a godsend in this world of changing healthcare. Nurses are frequently asked to cover departments that they know nothing about. Now,when they are asked to work in the Emergency Department they can bring Pat's book and know how to deal with the most common ED complaints. This book explains patient care from triage to discharge in a precise, consistent and easy to read format. Every Emergency Department should have at least one copy of this book. If you work in the Emergency Department and have float nurses coming to help you GIVE THEM THIS BOOK!

I find this book fantastic. It will help students learn how to read passages, charts, cartoons or ads. It has five chapters and on page 1 to 11 there is a pre-test. The test will show students on what chapter they should focus. Besides, there is a post-test at the last part of this book. Students can evaluate their work and will know what to review. "Main Idea and Details","Summarizing and Paraphrasing","Making Inferences" or "Predicting" are included in some chapters. By using this textbook, students will acquire critical reading and thinking skills. I am going to use this book as a textbook for my English class.

The book utilizes various strategies to assist students with reading comprehension. The examples are easy to understand and they allow for students to develop and test concepts taught. The book has been extremely helpful for students with disabilities who struggle with reading comprehension. If one approach does not work there was always another approach provided by the author. I've used several strategies to assist a student with comprehending classroom material and preparing for state exams.

Alice writes in the voice of her daughter about her daughter's favorite recipes and adventures at the restaurant. Wonderful reading and DELICIOUS recipes. At first looks a little like a children's book, but great for adults!

This book is written as Fanny telling about her life with her mom, the fantastic chef Alice Waters(she wrote the book). MyDaughters & I share in our love of this book, to read it...enjoying the pictures which are wonderful to the eye. then the bits on cooking and the pleasure of food & preparing it along with flavor is shared in such a great way. Allow yourself to sit down and get lost in the spirit of this book.

I would have to say the book made a little more wiser especially when it comes to buying a house, car or my favorite shopping for clothes!!!! Now I will have more money in my pocket thanks to the book! I recommend this book to everyone because we all been taken for a ride by some salesperson.

The first thought that came to mind after finishing "Dirty Little Tricks: How Sales People are Robbing You Blind" was I've been robbed! Mr. Crowel has spared no professional occupation as he opens my eyes to the world of "shading dealings." This book is definitely a page-turning as it sheds light on the value of caution and points directly to the fact that not all salespeople are honest or have your best interest in mind when they're repairing your vehicle, diagnosing a health problem, selling you a car or trying to get you to sell their products to family and friends. Because of the author's open review of companies and their dirty tricks, I've committed to being an educated consumer. This book is a must for anyone who's contemplating the world of sales.

After reading your book, Dirty Little Tricks, a thought was evoked in my mind of the Latin truism "Non scholae, sed vital discimus--We learn not for the school but for the life." You as a learned individual and a vast background in business describe in this book the amoral practices in merchandising and the pitfalls thereof with a judicious and eclectic manner. Since you passed through your profession from the very bottom up to the top, you know both the bright and dark sides of the enterprise. You are indeed a teacher of the truth which is often camouflaged in all walks of our life. It is said that a picture is more eloquent than any sophisticated word. And your book employs this veracity. Moreoever, many a clipping from sundry newspapers form a suitable frame to the content of the respective narratives. Your linguistic dexterity, non-convoluted phraseology, and truly businesslike insights create a mosaic pleasing to a beholder. Tom, my appreciation for your book can be hardly expressed by mere words.

While not the first reference book I would recommend for a general library, it is certainly one a library or chemist's office shouldn't be without.

This is an encyclopedia, with abstracts on zillions of chemicals. Is this the most authoritative book on the planet? No. If you want that, go read Chem Abstracts.

If you want an handy reference which will give you a pointer in the right direction for information on chemicals/drugs/biologics, then this is for you.

Got chloroform in your waste water and wondering how it might have inadvertently developed from miscellaneous stuff dumped down the drain? Wow - acetone + bleach powder catalyzed with sulfuric acid = chloroform, with citations.

Not always the most useful, but definately a good resource.

This edition of "The Merck Index: An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, & Biologicals" shows remarkable improvement over its predecessor.
Boasting of diverse groups of chemicals and pharmaceuticals, it is a success in its own right. There are just plenty to be explored! The book brims with accurate up-to-date information. Pharmacists, Medics, Chemists, Biologists, Physicists, Agriculturists, and many other professionals who work with elements, compounds and mixtures will find this book very useful. It is revised, and is complemented with detailed descriptions, which include molecular formulae, molecular weights, as well as the percentage compositions of constituent chemicals in a compound or mixture.
It is a valuable reference tool.

This book must be the most organized reference book I have ever used. Its so fulfilling to be able to find exactly what you're looking for when you need it. Includes a common name index, chemical formula index, as well as registry numbers, therapeutic categories for drugs, useful tables, and organic chemical equations. highly recommended!

My company has given out at least 500 of these books. We have senior citizen seminars and read a few excerpts from this book and give one away when attendees make an appointment with us. It is the "light" side of our seminar and we get so many questions on where to get this book - people love to use it as a gift! Some people tell us there are more than 1003 things and some tell us there isn't one good reason! However this book can lighten up even the cogiest old coot!! Love it!!

More like three and a half stars than four, this is a decent little gift.

I received this book as a gift when I turned -- well, that's not important. What is important is that this turned out to be a nice gift - not roll over laughing funny, but good for a cheerful, smile-provoking gift for friends turning one of the Big O's.

In this thick, but palm-sized paperback, the editors combined more than just a selection of platitudes, but provides a variety of semi-useful bits of information.

"What's so great about turning...." gives sappy reasons why your age - from 1 to 100 - is so good. There are reasons kids think being old is better ("I want to be older so I can make out checks and be a millionaire." John Semple, age seven) ; great things people have said about getting older; parting statements; how old you'd be if you lived on various planets (I personally prefer Mars, where a 50 year old is 27); a list of things life is now to short to do (doing push-ups; wondering if you should have gone to medical school instead); birthdates of several stars (from Mickey Rooney to Maccauley Caulkin) and bunches of other useless but amusing tidbits.

Those not amused by maturing might not find this a good gift, but for office gag gifts and add-ons to more meaningful gifts for that someone going over the hill (from 30 to 50 or so), this is a nice purchase for that "under $10.00" limit.

Here was the surprise book of the era. Something I give to every friend who turns 40 and over. Lots of laffs--yes with two ffs and seasoned pros behind it. Well done.

Ann A. Estill writes:

This scholarly feminist anthology offers essays on several topics where feminist thinking casts new light on old thinking and writing...As with any anthology, readers are drawn to some topics more than others, but all will be rewarded with well-researched material to aid them in the never-ending task of seeking to be informed feminists.

Excerpt from a review in "Theology", July-August 1999.

As someone who struggled to get feminist theology taken seriously in Cambridge in the 1980s, I was delighted to find that this volume contains lectures delivered in a series called "women's voices in theology" which began almost ten years ago, and is clearly still going strong.

This series continues to offer a platform for the wide range of disciplines and interests which cluster under the broad umbrella of feminist theology. As such this volume offers a window into the state of the subject today. It is clear that a lot has happened in the last decade....Extremely illuminating work continues to emerge from the interface between gender studies and both biblical studies and church history.

Feminist theology continues to engage in a competent and often original way with the "high theory" of philosophy and social theory.

Linda Woodhead Lancaster University

I purchased this as a gift for my grandmother. When I visit she always tells me lovely and amusing stories of years past. With this book she is able to jot them down in order, or when her hands are tired she can just recite them into a tape recorder. She loves the book and was pleased to know how interesting I, and to find out, everyone, all find her life and how we want to preserve it. The older generation is among the wisest and it's nice to have a personal reference book to look upon. Everyone else in the family are now requesting copies and I haven't been able to locate it at any stores. With so many people to buy for the price is perfect.

After a short intro on why one should write an autobiography and some general suggestions, most of the rest of the book is groups (by topic) of questions that, when answered, will result in your autobiography. A quick look through the book left me thinking "I can do that". It takes a very big project (especially for us non-writers) and breaks it into small bit sized pieces. My 84 year old father has started on his autobiography - something he never would have done without this gem of a book.

I liked this book quite a bit, but then there are things that leave me wondering as well. It is the story of a little boy who wants to go to school, but his mother says that he is too young. One day, when his mother and father are at work, he notices that his grandmother, who is supposed to be watching him, has fallen asleep. So Philipok goes to school, and it is quite an adventure getting there. He does arrive, and is afraid to go in, because the teacher might be angry, but he is also afraid to go back and face the things which hindered his journey. I think this book portrays that fear well - that fear that comes when one is doing something that they maybe aren't supposed to, but have gone so far that it's just as scary, if not scarier, going back. As for the "moral" of the book, i'm a bit torn. On one hand, I feel that going to school is a noble endeavour, and that it wasn't wrong for Philipok to want to go, but on the other hand, i'm not sure that i totally agree with the way things turned out at the end. Children SHOULD listen to their parents, and they meant him no harm in saying that he wasn't old enough. However, i do think the book was pretty good. The illustrations, while not bright, are very intricate and set the mood well. I love the very Russian setting, and the use of Russian words (with Cyrillic characters) in some of the illustrations. There was the minor glitch, however, when Philipok is spelling his name. This book was translated (this IS Tolstoy) and when Philipok spells his name for the teacher, he spells it "Filipok" - which is closer to the Russian letters, rather than Philipok, which is how it is spelled in the book. I know, it's a minor glitch, but it bugged me a little nonetheless, especially with the emphasis on knowing the alphabet toward the end of the story.

I read this book in a women's studies class. It is based on a qualitative study about HIV+ women. It features a collection of voices from a series of interviews with several support groups, and focuses mainly on the emotional/spiritual aspect of living with HIV/AIDS. The two researchers who ran the study and edited the book are as much a part of the book as the women are. They keep a running commentary on the bottom of each page reflecting on the interviewing process and their relationships as researchers and friends to the women in the study, keeping the reader aware of the power differentials that might have an effect on the women's stories. The book also contains several angel "intertexts" which I personally didn't find to be very necessary, but Lather and Smithies explain it in the book. Overall, as a person who's never known anyone with HIV/AIDS, I liked how it focused on everyday "living" with HIV/AIDS. The voices of different women were featured and it showed the wide range of emotions and experiences that these women faced while living with HIV/AIDS.