Before my first spay, I watched the demonstration video a few times, read over my spay manual a few times....but reading the procedure over in Fossum upped my confidence in remembering each step.

I've used this book to clarify certain procedures mentioned in my classes, and it has helped me so much conceptually. The illustrations are great and provide a great model to accompany the instructions.

It's a standard for any vet student!

The best surgery book out there. Detailed, full-color drawings give me confidence that I can actually do the procedure. I did my first GDV last week with this book!

A must have for any practitioner. The first edition was great, replacing my 2 volume Slatter's, the second edition is even better! Other authors should learn from this reference, provide the information needed and include terrific pictures and drawings!

Whether you want to heal emotional hurts, change negative behavior patterns, or cure disease or disorders of a physical nature, you must know how the mind works in conjunction with the body. This book describes "Biogram Therapy" which is an organized and systematic method of healing what ails you.

The goal of the book is to teach you how to be in control of your emotional and physical well being. It deals with healing through mind/body communication. The causes of health problems can be identified. Emotional problems can be corrected by helping to change the biological conditions associated with them. Conditions related to stress are addressed. Behavior modification for children can be treated. This therapy is a great pain management tool.

This is an amazing therapy which has been proven clinically to significantly increase the healing success rate even with diseases formerly thought to be incurable. The therapy process described in this book brings hope for the hopeless. It is all encompassing and well written.

I find this book very helpful in preparing for bible study and for the other teacher in Sunday school help them teach the lessons to the children.

I was pleased to be introduced to the textbook Thermodynamic Loop Applications in Material Systems by D.L. Johnson and G.B. Stracher during the Fall of 1997 when I enrolled in a course entitled Geochemical Thermodynamics offered by the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences program at Georgia Institute of Technology. I am an Environmental Engineer with a traditional Civil Engineering background. I provide this background information on myself solely to indicate that I had been exposed to thermodynamics instruction from a different perspective during my undergraduate training. The book begins with 2 chapters that provide fundamental terms, equations, and thermodynamic laws that are essential to understanding subsequent chapters. The book advances rapidly, so the first 2 chapters serve as a readily accessible "home base" for quick reference. By the end of Chapter 2 the reader is fully prepared to be introduced to the thermodynamic loop (TL) concept of solving thermodynamic problems.

The TL analysis method is a revolutionary way to understand thermodynamics. I struggled with thermodynamics as an undergraduate student, but after studying with the aid of this text I finally grasped the fundamental concepts necessary to use thermodynamic principles in my own research endeavors. TL analysis allows the student to graphically "see" the thermodynamic problem. After learning TL analysis the reader will be able to derive thermodynamic formulas and relationships that previously were cumbersome and difficult to memorize.

Drs. Johnson and Stracher have taken great care to provide tables that summarize notation (which is consistently referenced throughout the book), a table of physical constants and conversion factors (which could otherwise lead students through frustrating reference searches), and appendices (which summarize the thermodynamic data necessary to solve example and exercise problems throughout the text). I frequently recommend this book to fellow students at Georgia Tech. Numerous students and professors have borrowed my book since 1997 and have found it to be useful for their own thermodynamic applications in Environmental Engineering. It's a small book packed with valuable information. I would recommend this book over any thermodynamic text I have consulted.

This book was a visual journey into the lives of early 20th century black america. Many of the pictures could be termed as "dignified photo essays" of life in the black community.You feel as though you are right there behind the lenses of these photo's while they're being taken. They almost have an "ethereal beauty" about them. In these photo's you can see the dignity of a race of people who were considered low class at the time of the photographs, but in the way they are portrayed you feel like you're in the presence of royalty. "A visual treat for the eye's" is the best way to describe this book . It is also well worth reading as you enjoy the beautiful photography! I would highly recommended this book to african americans and those who enjoy a look into the past!

In 1997, Theresa W. Fossum and 4 colleagues wrote a comprehensive book on Small Animal Surgery. I have not seen it but I have heard excellent comments about its illustrations and descriptions. For this reason, I bought the Manual thinking that it was a summary of the larger text. Great disappointment! It is a summary but without pictures! Paraphasing Alice: "What good is a surgery book without pictures?" There is nothing wrong with the Manual, except the absence of pictures; I don't feel secure trying to image operating procedures guided only by text, regardless how good it is. The Manual costs $ 50 against $ 150 de original; I should have sprung the full price and bought the original.

This book covers most procedures you'll ever need as a practicing veterinarian. tough less comprehensive than Bjorab's or Harris's small animal surgery books, it simplify many procedures with wonderful colourful images. A very attractive price (~45$ instead of more than 200$),makes it the perfect decision for students. I think that most veterinarians will find it sufficient for their needs. Enjoy

In the past, we could use Chicago or Philadelphia as models of the urban reality; however, the United States is rapidly becoming a more racially and ethnically diverse nation. The model of this current reality is Los Angeles. "Prismatic Metropolis: Inequality in Los Angeles" addresses questions of how race and ethnicity, space, gender and group identities and attitudes are linked in complex ways that result in divergent opportunities in the population. The editors (Lawrence D. Bobo, Melvin L. Oliver, James H. Johnson Jr. and Abel Valenzuela Jr.) and a distinguished group of younger scholars cover demographic transitions, economic restructuring, residential segregation, and the interplay of group identity, attitudes, and the dynamics of workplace interactions. "Prismatic Metropolis" is an essential starting place for understanding urban society in the 21st Century.

In its time I'm sure that Boswell saw the commercial advantage (and likely popularity) of publishing a journal of his travels in Scotland with England's preeminent genius. Sort of like some little known writer taking Stephen Hawking to Tierra del Fuego. But with the passage of time, it is Boswell overshadowing Johnson that makes this book worth reading. The prose is crisp and mercifully unaffected by the stylistic impenetrability of Johnson's writings. One can see the journal as a travel book, but it is more akin to an 18th century version of William Least Heat Moon's "Blue Highways". There is an argument to be made that Boswell's prose has had greater impact on the english language than the entire Johnson canon. Worthwhile.

I've never been a fan of Samuel Johnson. The greater writer and more interesting character, to my mind, has always been Boswell. I don't doubt that Boswell had a sincere affection for the man, but I sometimes wonder if Boswell (perhaps subconsciously) duped Johnson into letting him write his biography as well as this account of their travels to show him up. Time and time again, Johnson shows himself to be, well, a curmudgeon, both in word and deed. From his comments on Hume, the great Scottish philosopher and historian, "I know not indeed whether he has first been a blockhead and that has made him a rogue, or first been a rogue and that has made him a blockhead." to his ordering Boswell back by his side when Boswell was just trying to ride ahead and prepare things for his arrival (all according to Boswell, of course), Boswell's Johnson does not come off very well. Though Boswell attests to his worship of the "Great Cham" again and again, one can't help wondering if there was a smirk on Boswell's face as he penned this journal of their travels...Surely, it had to have occurred to him that readers would come away with a snicker or two at his descriptions of what almost seems a straw man for Boswell's sharp pen. I, for one, am not convinced by his show of naive devotion to Johnson.-What then was Boswell trying to do? Make a name for himself, of course. And what better way than to associate himself indelibly with the man many considered the greatest literary figure of the time.-He was very successful in doing so, and his writings are now much more in demand by readers than anything written by Johnson, who, in turn, has turned out to be the "harmless drudge" he ironically defined himself as in the dictionary that made him famous. Finally, then, my verdict on the book is that it is passing weird.-Weird, in that the psychological interplay always just below the suface in Boswell's account of the journey leaves the reader in constant doubt throughout the book as to Boswell's true intent in writing his descriptions of Johnson.-Was Boswell smirking with a mercenary eye to the future of his own literary reputation, writing ludicrous descriptions of a man considered great at the time, all beneath a faux-naif bluster?-I, for one, am convinced that, at least subconsciously, he was.-But this is what, for me, makes the book so much more intriguing than your average day-in, day-out journal.-4 stars though because it's still a journal and makes for yawns at times.

This is a well-written, easy-to-understand concise commentary written in 1982 according to its copyright page. Most quotations are from the Revised Standard Version which is a 1952 translation. For a more current and more in-depth commentary on Proverbs read THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS by Cody Jones (1999). Six translations including the New Revised Standard Version (1990) are presented in parallel to aid understanding. The comments are interesting and readable and include many historical drawings and photos to give you a sense of the culture of the time.

I'm a computer engineering student and have been studying this book for 3 months and I've concluded that it's impossble to learn from. In almost all of the examples, the author skip steps that are vital for students who have never analyzed circuits in such detail before. The reading is difficult to understand, even after reading each chapter two or three times. It's as if the authors wrote this text to impress their colleages. I'm fortunate that my professor explains the material faily well. I'm definitely going to sell this book back at the end of the semister and use the money to invest in a useful circuits text. I highly recommend you do not buy this book, I wish I never did.

Take my suggestion: "Don't ever buy this book". I am a second year student and my school use this book as a text for Introduction to EE. Since my instructor is so bad in explanation, at the very beginning, I thought, I could rely on this text for understanding. I HAVE READ EVERY SINGLE WORD IN THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS AND REPEATED SO MANY TIMES AND STILL, I DON'T COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THINGS. Very vey hard to follow. If you don't believe what I said, read it yourself before buying it.

This book is extremly difficult to learn from. The material that is covered is not explained very well for someone just starting out. There may be one of two reasons for this, either the authors know the subject matter so well they lost touch with the basics or they more or less wrote the book to impress their peers.