I have now use Dr. Epstein's CD-Rom based text and atlas for approxmately six months. I find it extremely helpful on daily surg path issues, and it often saves me from pulling Sternberg or Rosai off the shelf. The text provided is very brief but generally provides "what you need to know." This CD is lacking in two area. First, grading systems for most tumors is not adequately covered (although this is more of an atlas), and you will need to refer to larger texts or to the CAP's Reporting on Cancer Specimens (also highly recommended). Second, variants of lesions just can't be adequately covered (there is no competition for the AFIP series) for all of surgical pathology on a single CD. Where this CD-Rom shines is in ease of use (the search tools are great) and in the high quality photomicrographs. Overall, if you've got a computer near your microscope, then this CD should easily be worth the purchase price. I look forward to upcoming editions.

I read this book at suggestion of my therapist. I later purchased this book to be able to refer to it. I am a nurse and am having difficulty understanding what is happening to my body. I found this book basic enough for the lay person and still not insulting to my intelligence. I would recommend this book to anyone who is having problems with anal incontinence.

unless your absolutely interested in history or want to know about the life of Clinton Fisk this is interesting, otherwise i would search another just for fun book.. i acutually read this book for a usap class... finding other information was useless so if you plan on doing a report on Clinton Fisk.. go for it!

I ordered this book thinking its short stories would be about Lithuania by a visitor, perhaps. Instead, the stories, while quite well written, are about the author's experiences in Baltimore, where some Lithuanians happen to cross paths, peripherally, with the author, and about his interactions with Arabs, here and in Africa -- which stories have a decided (I think) homosexual bent. Readers hoping for a travelogue about Lithuania are sure to be disappointed, if not annoyed, and might well ask for a refund.

For a book that conspicuously describes itself as a "pocket sized manual", the Manual of Common Bedside Surgical Procedures is curiously large. Measuring 6 inches in width from spiral binding to cover edge, the manual is the exact same dimensions as the pockets of 3 of my lab coats (all by different manufacturers). Thus, it is impossible to put this book in the pocket of a size 38 lab coat. Nonetheless, it is the only major complaint this reviewer has about this book.

Written by the Halsted Residents at Johns Hopkins Hospital, the book covers most of the common bedside procedures any surgical, IM or ER resident may encounter. Many handbooks cover a few of these topics (ie, nasogastric intubation, urinary catheterization,sutures, etc.) but not nearly in depth as does Chen's work. From Airway Management,through vascular access procedures, lumbar punctures, splinting to needle biopsies and joint injections the book covers everything well. Each procedure includes:

-indications for the procedure -contraindications -anesthesia needed (if any) -equipment ( I LOVE having a "shopping list" handy when I'm doing procedures) -patient positioning -step by step technique instructions -complications and management after the procedure

Several of the procedures also have graphics to aid in the positioning of the device,incision site,or relevant anatomy.

The book does provide a cautionary warning in the Preface that experience and knowledge cannot be replaced by simply following directions in a book. Despite this statement, I was suprised that some of more highly specialized procedures did not contain enough information about the difficulty or the suitability for a house officer. For example, when the vermillion border of the lip is disrupted, a 1 mm error in matching up the edges is visible to the naked eye. Because of this and the potential for scarring on the face, most surgical residents I know prefer to leave such procedures to Plastic Surgeons and/or their residents. It would perhaps be prudent for some of the more specialized and/or potentially troublesome procedures to include mention of the pitfalls and the possible need for consultation.

All in all, the book is a valuable resource for the fresh resident and I would recommend it to anyone doing a surgical, medicine, or emergency medicine residency as an asset to their book collection.

In this text, the author attempts to read Hopkins' poems as prayers, the fruit of his relationship with God. His hope is that the reader will understand Hopkins' spirituality as well as his poetic sensibility. When read with the poems, the text also serves as personal spiritual reading.

In clear, unaffected language, Dr. Prunty reveals myriad truths in "ordinary" situations; and he does so with controlled power and, occasionally, with great humor. As stated by Howard Nemerov, "His diction is plain, but his thoughts are not."

William McBride's book is accurately titled, although it needs to be understood that this is a social history of naval technological change, not technological history (nor economic history) per se. However, the little he does say about technology is mostly well informed, at least up to 1945 -- he has avoided the technological know-nothingism of many of the others who write on such subjects. He served as a junior naval officer and this background seems to stand him in good stead in forming his judgements about people and events.

The principal theme is the rise and evolution of ideas about battleships and their rivals for naval dominance. There are no profound new insights here, but on the whole McBride does a good job with his subject. He elaborates the picture in important respects and has many thoughtful observations to offer.

McBride sometimes is rather quick to impute motives to individuals and groups without much substantiation or consideration of alternative hypotheses. No doubt he is correct in most of these judgements, and he is less summary than many authors on these subjects have been, but I personally would have preferred a somewhat more measured approach.

Unfortunately, his prose can be off-putting at some times, due to his fondness for clothing fundamentally common-sensical concepts in obscurantist academic jargon. Fortunately, there is not too much of this and most of the book is reasonably readable.

One regrettable distortion comes in his somewhat tortured discussion of the naval arms limitations treaties (the Five Power Treaty of 1921 and its 1930 and 1936 London Treaty sequels). Although it has little to do with his ostensible subject, McBride ventures into judgments regarding the effects of various U.S. actions on opinion in Japan and the Imperial Japanese Navy, apparently without having consulted some of the most important scholarship on the subject. For instance, I can find no citation of his to James Crowley's book, Japan's Quest for Autonomy, with its extended and authoritative treatment of the U.S. as well as Japanese side of the London Treaties. Nor does he cite David Evans' and Mark Peattie's essential study of the Japanese Navy, Kaigun. These sources, based in extensive Japanese-language primary research, paint quite a different picture than McBride favors regarding the impact of the U.S. naval expansion of the 1930s on Japanese Navy views, relative to other influences. This is a self-inflicted wound: if he was unable to conduct more thorough research in the issue, peripheral as it is to his main point, McBride could perfectly well have avoided forming judgements regarding it without loss to his main arguments.

I puzzled over McBride's bald assertion that "the [rigid] airship could have succeeded," citing its supposed high search rate. He does make one citation to a book that examines this question in some detail and comes to quite different conclusions (Richard Smith's The Airships Akron & Macon), but seems to have relied principally on other sources. Few who have studied the issue carefully would agree with him -- some years ago, two of the last of Goodyear's rigid airship engineers disagreed flatly with him in the course of an extended discussion I had with them regarding proposals for reviving the technology.

It is understandable that there is no reference to the recent study by Thomas Hone, Norman Friedman, and Mark Mandeles, American & British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919-1941 -- no doubt McBride's book was already in press by the time it appeared. Nevertheless, this is unfortunate, as their insights and evidence would have enriched McBride's work significantly in some areas.

In his final chapter, McBride ranges far beyond the period he set for himself, attempting not only to draw sweeping conclusions but to provide policy recommendations. Regrettably, this is the weakest part of the book. He is too ready to pronounce conclusions without careful analysis and without having developed strong evidence or given adequate consideration to alternative hypotheses. His treatment of recent developments often seems quite ill-informed and many of his confidently-asserted predictions seem dubious or even silly in light of what has transpired since the book was written. And he indulges especially in dense academic jargon in this section. Most readers will want to skip this chapter, and will retain a better opinion of the book for having done so.

Notwithstanding some lacunae, however, on the whole this is a valuable study of the process by which the U.S. Navy adapted itself to changing technology and needs in the period between the Civil War and World War II.

Will O'Neil

Though much of his information is accurate, Nadler makes the crucial error of relying only on wriiten text, ignoring the vast rich oral history of this historic topic. In addition he declares that "half of todays Orthodox Jews are Mithnagdim", this iserroneous. "Mithnagdim" literally means "opposed", there is no longer any substantial oppositionto Chassidism among Orthodox Jews. Though roughly half are not Chassidim per se, thay include many Sefardim and others who never opposed Chassidus. Even among Lithuanian Jewry, only a small percentage actually follow the customs of the revered Gaon of Vilna, and many of their descendants have now incorporated many Chassidic teachings and customs.

Sure to infuriate the more fanatical and intolerant, this book provides a balanced perspective on Hasidic Judaism and opposing views. It is well organized as it presents the objections to Hasidism's beliefs and practices. I am amazed that Nadler can be so restrained in his presentation, as he presents such diverse views.

In his pioneering book, "Faith of the Mithnagdim," Dr. Nadler presents the point of view too-long lost in the increasingly popular discussions of Hasidism. Focussing chiefly on primary sources, he presents the depth and complexity of Mithnagdic thought in astonishing clarity.

In addition to his impeccable scholarship, Nadler writes with enormous grace, making tightly constructed theological and philosophical arguments open to lay reader.

This is a tremendously rewarding book for the thoughtful and committed reader.

Hi,

I bought this book as well as all other books on the topic AND took the training at Apple. Conclusion:

If you want/need to learn WebObjects, take the course at Apple (become good in Java first !) because no book available on the market today will really allow you to get passed the many subtilities of this environment. The learning cure is very steep. Get ready to become a Java guru otherwise you'll be totally lost.

As for this book, the Authors intent are very good, but I could not complete any of the very good techniques described. It gives you an idea of the potential WebObjects has, but it's not a HOWTO kind of book. The examples used are full of errors an ommissions which makes it impossible to fully understand the otherwise valuable techniques the authors are trying to explain. As a proof, I could not compile any applications by doing the exercices, only when downloading it from Wrox's very poor website. When analysing the downloaded source with the book's explanations, I discovered all the hidden java code required to compile the application. That's very frustrating because what they were describing was exactly what I wanted to learn.

The chapters on Direct2Web were great but a whole book would be required on the subject. The D2W apps I've tried with it generated too many errors and no one to turn to for help. D2W potential sounds very good, but it's ONLY for experts in Java I guess.

Anyway, it's still worth buying it, hopefully an errata page will eventually be publish or a second edition to finish the otherwise excellent effort. This book is really for experts only with a very good experience in WebObjects, Java, HTML and sql.

I found Ruzek's book much easier to read.

Regards,

I started coding WO almost 2 years ago now and I sure wish I had this book sitting on my shelf when I started! To be honest I have not read this book from cover to cover, but I did browse all the chapters and the earlier chapters would have turned on the light bulb a lot quicker for me when starting out.

Having said that, this book is not limited to beginners. I have recently started the process of learning DirectToWeb and this book has already paid for itself with just the couple of D2W chapters there are. These chapters are especially important because D2W documentation is sorely lacking in the WO world.

A must have for any WO developers shelf.

The very eager to have my own web site that helps me organize many lab chores made me buy WO software. I was shocked at nice interfaces of tools first, and more shocked at little tutorial resources of provider, Apple(though it is very often the case with this company, good product, poor documents/resources) . I've read through this book, which made me a near-intermediate WO programmer. (though becoming a wizard is another-actually learning curve for this framework-especially EOF-seems sigmoidal)

Frankly, I think any book like this should be included in the sw package. Vendor should provide much reading/practicing material, I think. This book is well organized, and teaches much of the basic concept and coding/structuring techniques. But, as for me, a novice in this WO field, this book is somewhat hard to follow at first. So I've read whole documents the Apple provided, and then I could follow the way this book points out.

Though making distinction is somewhat obscure, this book is for from 1/2 beginners to 3/4 intermediates. To make a long story short, this book won't disappoint you.