Very good book. Essential to every medical student and physician.

Sackett and colleagues have written the best introduction to clinical epidemiology for students and clinicians. Their approach helps clinicians and investigators see the value and pitfalls of quantitative approaches to clinical research. The explanations of Diagnosis and Management and the relationship between common clinical tools and epidemiology form the basics for the student to understand the emerging field of technology assessment in medicine. This book is must reading for the serious clinical investigator and student alike.

Sackett's book is a classic. It walks the new or old and grizzled reader through the techniques of literature review, test interpretation, and probability-based clinical decision making. It has pocket cards attached to help with a variety of analytical and interpretive activities. It is a must read by anybody who wants to practice quality medicine. Hopefully, that's all of us.

This well done book is partly an introduction to teaching/practicing Evidence Based Medicine (EBM)and partly an act of evangelism. The authors are concerned not only with describing the basic methods of EBM but also with convincing readers that this is the appropriate way to practice and teach clinical medicine. EBM and its precursor movements are based on the correct realization that physicians tend not to be very critical about clinical practice, much of which is learned by emulation. This book builds on an existing movement and the presence of widely available online resources to tap into appropriate critical evaluations of clinical practice. In doing so, the authors attempt to educate physicians about how to use these resources, relatively simple statistical tools that can be incorporated into application of good clinical literature to practice, and how to teach these methods. Because the authors are academics who wish to influence medical education, there is a good deal of emphasis on educational methods. While this may be an apparent short coming for readers who are not academics, it is actually worthwhile for all physicians because self-education is a constant part of our job. This book is very well done with some nice features. It is small and has a durable plastic cover, designed to carried in pockets or in a medical bag, there is a small CD with good examples, and a set of plasticized flash cards on major key points. Drawbacks are relatively minor. More information on how to analyze clinical trials and studies would be useful but in a concise book, something has to give way. Used carefully, the information in this book may change your practice and teaching methods.

Short and concise, this book really excels at demystifying EBM and making it easier (and more importantly, fun!). The use of flash cards for summarising points is great, and it's clear that the authors are enjoying themselves teaching EBM. This honestly is the first medical book that I'd classify as 'un-putdownable'!

Evidence based medicine. Those three words cause more frustration and despair than almost any others in medicine today.

This book demystifies all of that. No exaggeration... this is simply one of the best resources ever in learing the practice of EBM. Chapter by chapter, each aspect of EMB is explained... from diagnosis to treatment to prognosis and more.

The math is clearly explained with examples, as are the principles behind them.

After reading this book, I felt that not only could I understand EBM, I could explain it to others.

A must read!

This is a great book for learning about working with composites out of the home workshop whatever you're doing. Although the title of the book is "Competition Car Composites," only the last chapter deals specifically with the auto racing field. The book is broken down into chapters dealing with the materials used in composites, the tools and equipment, the methods, etc. There is also a chapter that talks about the equipment available to industry and professionals.

Simon McBeaths book clearly explains the different fabrics and outlines the equipment and procedures to start experimenting with composites yourself. The equipment assumes you are working out of the home shop, though there is a chapter on expensive industrial techniques. The book is a little on the wordy side for quick reference when working on a project.

Brian Michael Bendis is an excellent Daredevil writer. The other Daredevil trads "Wake Up", "Underboss," and "Out" are much better than this one. This one kind of eats in comparison to those really cool books.

"I hate this ninja crap," is what daredevil says when he learns he must reunite with the disciples of his former sensei, Stick, in order to defeat the bad ninja clan, The Hand. You get the feeling, though that Bendis hates this ninja [stuff] too. Bendis is best when he is writing gritty street stories and this story seems silly in comparison.

There are some good things to be said about this trade, though. The art by rob haynes and david self is excellent. They purposefully set out to have the comic book make the reader feel he/she is actually watching a movie. their use of panel layout, inking, and especially hsadow pull this off surprisngly well. In this way it's a concept trade. I wonder why more people don't try this. Inventive story telling is always good.

So, Daredevil is cool. Ninjas are cool. Daredevil stories with ninjas are cool, just not this one.

Writer Brian Michael Bendis is the best thing that ever happened Daredevil. There are some who would dispute this statement, pointing toward the groundbreaking work done by Frank Miller, but Bendis's work with the Man Without Fear has been consistently the most engaging stuff written about that character. Sadly, even Bendis can have an off game. Enter DAREDEVIL: NINJA.

According to the afterword - or "Director's Commentary," as it is called in this trade paperback collection - written by artist Rob Haynes, DAREDEVIL: NINJA was meant to be as close to a movie as the comic-reading experience allows. The narrative has been stripped down to its bare essentials and even the art was drawn in such a way to invite impressions of dynamic motion such as one might see in the theater. DAREDEVIL: NINJA does move quickly, and there is plenty of action, but like many contemporary films, the emphasis on wowing the audience has forced the script into the back seat.

DAREDEVIL: NINJA collects a standalone Daredevil miniseries from 2001. The work is intended for the casual reader, perhaps one who doesn't know much about Daredevil. One wonders, then, why Bendis chose to incorporate one of the more convoluted elements of the character's past: the titular ninja. Those who've followed the exploits of Daredevil over the years will have no problem whatsoever following the story as Daredevil becomes embroiled in an ancient war between Japanese warrior clans. When a mysterious ninja steals a fighting stick that belonged to the man who once trained Daredevil, and a wild pursuit begins, these readers will know exactly what's happening. A newcomer will be nothing short of bewildered, though, and the narrative doesn't do neophytes any favors.

Perhaps Bendis felt there wouldn't be enough time for readers to grow confused. The action in DAREDEVIL: NINJA zooms from America to Japan and back again, throwing ninja at Daredevil and his companions at every turn. The dialogue is kept light, maybe a bit too light, with Bendis playing up Daredevil's confusion at what's going on for humorous effect. This might be Bendis's way of winking to the reader, saying, "Yes, we know you're lost, but Daredevil's lost, too. Enjoy the sword fights!"

Bendis's tacit advice isn't worthless. DAREDEVIL: NINJA is an enjoyable tale, despite the exclusionary plotline, because it moves like a rocket and features more than a few outstanding moments. Haynes's artwork doesn't make any pretense to realism, and though the back-cover copy calls it "Japanese-influenced," it has a very American feel to it, despite the lack of detail. This is not the obsessively detailed art that enjoyed its heyday in the late-1980s and early-1990s, but a very clean style that includes just enough elements to keep it from looking plain.

In the final analysis, DAREDEVIL: NINJA cannot be included among the very best Daredevil stories. A little too complex for comic book novices and a little too slight for veterans, the story is an entertaining diversion, but not much more than that. Readers seeking the deeper textures of Bendis's Daredevil will most likely come away disappointed.

Anything with or about Ninjas makes me happy because I really like ninjas. here's some stuff about ninjas:

1. All ninjas are mammals

Did you know that? I did.

The spyship of the title is the mysterious "Mary Castor" a trawler built and launched with no minor fanfare from an working class British port town, and then mysteriously lost. The story has less to do with the ship than the investigative reporter who will do nothing uncover the secret of her loss. There are some clues - pictures of the ship's antennae and its not-quite-regulation electronics - and some interesting background info (the North Sea area in which Castor trawls is also rife with Soviet Submarine activity). While the mystery takes the book to solve, it's obvious from the start that something bad is going on, something so serious that the government (British at least) will do anything to cover up the secret.

So why is this book so bad? It may have to do with why this book is so unbelievable. The charachters aren't quite paper thin, but they're all losers - weak and timid on the inside where it counts. The writer goes to great pains to show how just about everyone here has some mixture within them of bitterness and timidity - whether it's an amatuer detective who's on the verge of uncovering the secret, or the chairman of a commission looking into the official cause of the Castor - each seems to think that the world has cheated them out of something, yet nobody has the slightest idea to get it back. This is a big mistake because the governmet goes to extreme ends to silence these people, even though few of them are intuitive enough to get through with their own lives, let alone uncover as big a mystery as the Mary Catsor. The next problem is the conspiracy - with British intel hiring a one-man murder crew to eliminate anybody who continues looking into the Mary Castor. Why such extreme measures are needed (even if the other charachters weren't losers) seems hard to accept. None of the other charachters seem suited to discover the Mary Castor, so why bother killing them? The hit-man aspect of the story seems strikingly less plausible than anything else in the book - only there for the action, and that only makes things worse. (The hero is a reporter, yet he manages to succeed where others fail in neutralizing the seasoned killer). And let's not forget the mystery. Ofcourse, the author had - and the story never progresses to the final discolsure. Instead, the charachters meander around until they discover somebody who can answer the questions for them. So much for investigative journalism. If you want to read about true tails of nautical intrigue, pick up a copy of "Blind Man's Bluff" or "Project Jenniffer".

Spyship could have been from Le Carré, Ludlum, or Forsythe: a well-written, well-documented, fast-paced novel. Its plot, about the investigation of a reporter into the mysterious sinking of a British fishing ship in the North Sea, takes the reader into a nightmarish world of political cover-ups of international consequences in the last decade of the Cold War. Pick up Spyship (if you can find this out-of-print jewel) and hold on to your life-jacket!

This book tries to do too much. I needed to change my oil pressure sending unit in my Dakota and there is no reference to an oil pressure sending unit much less a picture of one in this book. A waste of time and money.

To place it short and sweet, I also have found this mannual to be lacking in technical information. In the past I found Hanynes' manuals to be very informative, but this one needs a unconditional money back guarantee. It is very vague. It appears to be more of a maintance manual than a repair manual, which is the main reason I bought it!

I purchased this manual over a year ago and my Brother and I have replaced the carbeurator (87 only), head gasket, replaced radiatior and hoses, set rockers, learned the values of numerous electrical tasks we were stumbling over. The pages we use are referred to by us as dirty page maintenance, sort of a, been-there, done-that, symbolism. We are not mechanics, just broke enough to try the work ourselves. The manual has told, showed, and given hints to prevent oops-events. I give it Four Stars and have no reason not to give it Five.