I think every doctor and clinician should have this book as a reference. It is also useful for family members and patients. It is the best one that I have found that gives clear information regarding the benefits of clozapine, risperdole, and olanzapine as well as guidelines for changing from the older medications that have more risk of tardive dyskinesia. If you only buy one book on up-to-date treatment of schizophrenia, this is the one! There are chapters with advice for patients as well. I gave a copy to a friend who needed this information, so am ordering another!

Breakthroughs In Antipsychotic Medications provides an important, in-depth survey of the antipsychotic medications which have succeeded in helping many, surveying the pros and cons of their side-effects and applications and including insights on the symptoms and treatments of various mental conditions.

While researching for a National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) assessment I discovered "Founding Fathers & Mothers : A Field Trip to 18th Century America" by Stacey Marlolf and Laurie Pessanno. I was searching for a way to help my students understand the spirit and inner life of Colonial America through art, literature, documents, drama, crafts, writing, etc. When I opened "Founding Fathers & Mothers" I knew I had found it all, and MORE in just one book!

The authors presented a well rounded, well researched, egalitarian approach using humanities to integrate learning in history. Their book was a valuable resource for the NBPTS assessment and my fifth grade students and I are currently using the drama and craft sections to prepare for our "Colonial Fair" in the spring. We will be presenting their play "Tempest in a Teapot" and have already practiced our colonial dancing by using the audio tape that comes with this book.

When I first discovered this book, I liked it because it was well rounded, comprehensive and was a great tool for my research. But now after actually using it in the classroom I love it because it's actually FUN. My students loved cutting out the Betsy Ross star and creating their own acrostic and silhouette.

As an educational writer, I am extremely impressed with this book. The ideas are unique and designed to appeal to a variety of age groups. I firmly believe that learning should be fun. This book promotes learning through art and imagination. The play (and other activities) involves all students. They will be having fun and learning at the same time. I would highly recommend this book to any first through eighth grade school teacher. A wonderful first attempt by a new curriculum writer. I look forward to more.

The book brings together two of my passions : random
walks and electric networks. It turns out that there are
interesting relationships between these two areas, so insights
in one can be used to prove things in the other.

There is this beautiful theorem by Polya which states that a
random walker on an infinite street network in d-dimensional
space is bound to return to the starting point when d = 2,
but has a positive probability of escaping to infinity without
returning to the starting point when d >= 3. The book
reinterprets this theorem as a statement about electric networks,
and then proves the theorem using techniques from classical
network theory. The proof relies on showing that the resistance
of the corresponding electric network in 1 and 2 dimensions
is infinite, whereas it is finite in the 3 dimensional case.
Thus some current [like our random walker] can flow to infinity.

Strongly recommended!.

This book provides fascinating insights and analogies between random walks and electric networks- and how you can exploit these analogies to solve difficult problems in one using the other... there's also a nice proof of the "Polya's theorem" using these analogies- basically Polya's theorem says that a random walk in dimensions >2 is transient, while a random walk on a plane or a line always returns to its starting point...

This book is wonderful for young girls with an interest in ballet. The illustrations by Linda Griffith are beautiful and bring the book to life for the young child. It is one of my 4 year olds favorites. As an adult reader, I found it a beautifully told and illustrated version of a classic. Brava, to the writer!

In my opinion, how much you like this book will depend on how much you know now. If you are a novice to linguistics or just curious, this book is excellent. It covers a broad range of subjects, avoids heavy use of technical jargon, and gives explanations that anyone can follow. The information is clear, well explained (not just "It's like this because it is because I said so."), and entertaining.
If you have already been doing some reading in linguistics, this book may be a bit simplistic. While I found parts interesting, much I already knew. In other cases, since similar arguments are in many works about linguistics (see "Teach Yourself Linguistics 5e" for much more detail than this book), as soon as the argument started, I could figure out the rest faster than it was explained. So, if you have some background in linguistics, this book is good for either (1) light reading, or (2) good explanations to use when people present the misconceptions described in the book.

A good collection of essays on language myths. Each essay is well written, informative a thorough. They destroy most of the fallacies about language that are so embedded in peoples minds, not just in the layman's mind but in the minds of some scholars, especially those with a philology background whose training consists mostly in the study of literature and poetry, for example; Spanish philologists. Taken collectively, however, some of the topics/ideas overlap in different essays making the reading somewhat repetitive at times (for this reason alone I haven't given the book full marks). Nevertheless I highly recommend it both to linguists and non-linguists with an interest in language.

Ask any group of people about language and you will be sure to encounter a variety of unscientific notions. In this rather easy to read book 21 such notions are debunked by experts in linguistics. A few of my personal favorites are:

"Some languages have no grammar" "Some languages are just not good enough" "Children can't speak or write properly any more"

These same notions are found in languages around the world.

I recommend this book for all those interested in a basic introduction to language. The book has enough details to be credible, but is also easy enough for non-linguists to understand.

I picked up this book at my library because I am interested in the history of public libraries in the United States. This book offers a general history of libraries, from ancient cultures up through the origins of American public libraries. I found this book is very informative and I think the editors did a very good job on compiling the photos and illustrations. I like this book. However I found there is a mistake on Page 40. On this page there is an illustration about papermaking in Far East in the ancient time. The caption indicates that it is an illustration of early Chinese papermaking. Unfortunatle it is completely wrong. The characters/languages in the illustration are NOT wriiten in Chinese, but in Japanese. Also the clothing of the man in the illustration apparently is not in Chinese style--he is wearing a men's style kimono. I am not very disappointed when I notice the mistake. I believe that one incorrect illustration won't degrade the value of the book. And, I really enjoy this book. It is not only a "coffee-table" book, but also a very good reference book!

My 4th grade students were mesmorized by the story and moved by the illustrations......even more so because I actually KNOW the illustrator.
Can't wait for another from the same........

River of Mountains is more than a travel journal. It is also an historical and anecdotal work about the Mighty Hudson River. The author recounts his journey from the headwaters high in the rugged Adirondacks (Lake Tear of the Clouds), down 315 miles of whitewater, dammed water, polluted water, and brackish water to New York City and the Atlantic Ocean. He meets many interesting river people along the way, and relates much historical information about river. A must for anyone with any interest at all about the Hudson River

Moon guides are in general well researched, balanced, informative and truly valuable travel companions. Northern California, for example is quite excellent.

This "new" edition of the Philippines Handbook, published in late 1999, is, however, a sharp contrast to Moon's normal standards.

Sloppily edited and badly out of date its errors are too numerous to mention, the accomodation sections being especially unreliable. I checked out accomodation comments for several cities which I personally know well including Manila and Cebu and the data in this book are either very out of date, very incomplete, or just plain wrong. Information on shopping in both Manila and Cebu is similarly outdated or just plain absent.

No travel guide, unfortunately, takes this interesting, challenging and rapidly developing country seriously. The "new" (1977) Lonely Planet guide is little better than the Moon guide

In summary, if you have an older edition of either guide, use it. These "new" editions are a sham.

Unlike the great South Pacific handbooks by Moon this book lacks detail. It mentions areas you can go to, but not how to to get there or where to stay. It has general information but is not worth it. Would rather like to depend on Lonely Planet, am going to check out Jens Peters book as well. I'll pass on this guide.

This was our guide to our last trip to the Philippines, and was priceless. Was enjoyed just as much by our relatives there. Would never have enjoyed the 'Hobbit House' so much if it hadn't been mentioned. This is a must have guide for anyone travelling there.

This is a very good book for apache. When I first got the book, I agreed with other readers' complain of poor organization. However, after 1 hour of reading it, I began to realized that I was wrong. The unique part of this book is that instead of teaching you about install and configure apache on the first shot. It actually teaches you the more detailed configuration by trying different option one at a time. This way, you learn more about the internal of the apache instead of compile and install based on the original options set by apache.org. This way, you can avoid many problems that might occur later on. By the way, if you don't know much about linux/unix, don't bother to install apache on a linux/unix machine.

O'Reilley and Associates seems to have a knack at publishing good, solid technical manuals -- and "Apache: The Definitive Guide" is no exception.

One of the best features of this book is the assumption that the reader knows nothing about web servers, and builds a good solid knowledge of apache, the most popular web server on the internet today (and one of only a few offering true HTTP-compliance). The book guides the reader through the purpose of Apache, the HTTP protocol, and then on to writing Apache config files from scratch (once you learn how to do this, you'll never want to use the default config). From there, the book goes on to discuss advanced topics such as server-side includes, Secure socket layer, and even a reference into the Apache API.

The only suggestion I'd add -- when you try the examples in this book, make sure you have a clean install of Apache. If you're on linux, don't use the version of Apache that shipped with your system -- start from scratch, follow the book. For windows users, don't be intimidated by the lack of a visual front-end (this is actually a benefit on a real production web server). Follow the book and all the special notes for Win32, and you'll be an Apache guru in no time.

I am a computer professional and I got the book in order to install and run Apache on our company web servers. I do know my way around UNIX and NT, but I'm no system administrator.

I was shocked at the bad reviews. I found this book to be a great read and organized as should be.

The only reason I think someone would not like this book is if they are use to GUI tools in the Windows world. If you know UNIX/LINUX and aren't scared of OS command lines, this book is great.

If you are a Windows geek, this book may not be that great, but let's face it, Apache and TCP/IP is UNIX at it's best.

I found this book a good training source and reference manual.