Tietz Fundamentals of Clinical Chemistry is great book spicailly for medical technology , u can find every detail , u need , i have the 3 rd , and the 4 th edition , and i will bring the 5 th

Essentially, this book contains the German military theorist and tacticians best writings. Clauswitz, the Prussian Sun Tzu, effectively brought the concept of total war into acceptability. Gone our the days Antonie Henri Jomini's chilvarious code of conduct and honor- Civilians will not only be subject to attack - they'll bear the brunt of the battle in an age of total war. Several points are made- which are crucial to surmising Clausewitzian theory- 1) "War is the continuation of state policy by other means;" 2) "All war is based on the art of deception;" 3) "No one starts war... without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it;" 4) War is "an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will." 5) "If the enemy is thrown off balance, he must not be given time to recover. Blow after blow must be struck in the same direction: the victor, in other words, must strike with all his strength... by daring to win all, will one really defeat the enemy." To me this work is valuable in its historical context- and as an ardent student of military history.

I got this from the Conservative Book Club, which is tied to the Regnery publishing house. Apparently, one of the reasons that this book is pushed by the conservative publishing house Regnery- isn't because conservatives are thought of as warmongerers, but because the this book is so widely disseminated in the Communist Bloc nations. Understanding the strategic theory that so profoundly influences them should wake us up.

All in all, a pretty good book. It covers two complete case studies, from requirements to detailed design. It also includes finished examples of the programs that were designed. While the use of Yourdon's method is a little outdated, I would definately recommend this to those who want to get their feet wet in OO.

This book is great. It starts from a description of the case studies and it ends with the implementation. With this book, you can make your first object oriented project a GOOD one with ease! A must have for a beginner on object-oriented projects. I've tried other books, but none compared to this. Really great!

Tourist Season is Carl Hiaasen's first novel, a very impressive debut. What really shines through is his bitter satire with a comic touch; very wicked indeed! One also has to be impressed with how the prose and (often crude) langauge flow so well - Tourist Season is an effortless read.

As for the plot, well here things are a bit messy. The story involves a hapless gang of 'revolutionaries' looking to chase out all tourists and snowbirds from south Florida because, well, south Florida was much nicer before all this development stuff started. Caught in action are sleazy Miami city officials, crazy newspaper writers, a beauty queen and, of course, a few tourists who fall victim to these revolutionaries. Actually, this 'mess' is a lot of fun but it does run out of steam towards the end ... by which time I felt tired of Hiaasen's "gee, I hate everyone who moved to south Florida after me!" attitude. Having said this, much of his sarcasm is very well focused.

Bottom line: a delightful, non-stop attack on Miami and the uglier side of Americans. While perhaps some of the humor is too American-centric for folks this side of the Atlantic, all others will find much to enjoy with Tourist Season. Recommended.

(PS - Hiaasen's later works, such as Strip Tease, is even better.)

Hiaasen is a GENIUS! Tourist Season was my first Hiassen book, and it was a beautiful start to my Hiassen reading rage. Since Tourist Season, I've read 3 more by C.H., and I'm not done yet.

Carl Hiaasen's style has always surprised me. Each one of his stories begins with what seems like many many separate, totally independent stories. Somehow, within a few hundred pages, each one of those stories become closely tied with every other one.

Tourist Season had me laughing hysterically, more than any other Hiaasen book I think. Being a South Floridian, I've also traveled to most of the places described in this and other books. I find his depiction of the South Florida ecosystems splendid. Tourist Season especially evokes a genuine concern for the loss of Florida's natural land, and the final scene in the book is simply heart-wrenching.

The perfect dose of humor coupled with a great look into natural Florida, away from Disney World and South Beach, I recommend Tourist Season to everyone, anywhere in the US. Definitely a good book to buy and keep forever.

I've been reading Carl Hiassen's work for years, having jumped in around the middle, with "Native Tongue," "Skin Tight" and "Striptease." I've more recently been working my way through the rest of his catalog, including "Stormy Weather" and "Double Whammy," with his two latest books in hardback waiting on my to-be-read shelf.

But years after the liner notes for a Jimmy Buffett song ("The Ballad of Skip Wiley and Skeet" off his "Barometer Soup" album) made me go look for this Hiassen's guy's works in a book store, I'm finally getting around to "Tourist Season," the first novel Hiassen wrote, featuring rogue newspaper columnist Skip Wiley.

It's said that you spend your entire life writing your first novel, as you inevitably put pretty much all the good stuff in that one. Whatever the state of your craft, it's where your ideas, your good bits, your passion all gets poured into. While I've enjoyed other Hiassen books more (notably "Native Tongue" and "Skin Tight"), this certainly seems to be true for "Tourist Season." While all of his books have an overt current of rage directed at developers, destructive big business and endemic corruption, he always makes sure to leaven that with humor, a little zaniness, and some sweetness. Not here.

Sure, there's some amusing bits, a lot of them, really, but Hiassen's subsequent work has never been this dark, his rage never so undiminished. While all of his books barrel towards their climax, this is the first one I've read in which it's hard to see how there could be a happy ending, where the bad guys aren't REALLY bad and where it doesn't all seem like cosmic justice on the last page. I won't spoil the ending, but by midway through the book, it's clear that with the heaping handfuls of moral ambiguity mixed in, it's hard to have anything better than a bittersweet ending.

In a nutshell, Miami newspaper columnist Skip Wiley has had enough. Enough of the influx of Yankees to Florida and the concomitant woes of greed, development and reckless destruction of the environment. Especially the latter. When Skip Wiley goes missing, and a new terrorist organization, the Nights of December, starts targeting the tourist industry in South Florida (starting by shoving a rubber alligator down a man's throat and then putting his dead body inside his luggage), Skip's editor calls a former reporter turned private investigator to track him down.

Hiassen almost certainly does not advocate terrorism, murder and kidnap, but the cause is clearly near and dear to him, and he argues the Nights' cause eloquently. That makes their extremism tragic, and the possible endings all troubling.

A solid novel, and one of Hiassen's best. While all of his novels will make you laugh, and keep you turning the pages, anxious to see what the next twist in the roller-coaster ride will be, "Tourist Season" will make you think, too.

Definitely recommended for any of his existent fans, as well as fans of Dave Barry or Elmore Leonard.

'Strip Tease' by Carl Hiaasen might be better known through the rather horrendous Demi Moore film 'Striptease', which is a shame. It was because of its relationship to the film that I avoided reading anything from Hiaasen. But the reviews in amazon.com were so overwhelmingly positive I decided to take the gamble. And boy, am I glad I did. 'Strip Tease' is a delight.

'Strip Tease' is a somewhat farcical story of a stripper with a heart, doing her dirty business only to put bread on the table and pay back debts related to a (losing) custody battle with her hoodlum ex-husband over their daughter. Our stripper heroine has the most wacky friends and associates, and is caught up into a political murder/sex scandal involving a rather perverted congressman. Surprising, the story holds together well despite sounding much like a cheap made-for-TV film script. However it is Hiaasen's well-timed one-liners and satiric/sarcastic wit which really makes 'Strip Tease' shine; this book is seriously funny.

Bottom line: South Florida at its worst, and its funniest. Hiaasen puts together a comedic mystery with a nasty bite. Recommended.

I've read all of Carl Hiaasen's books, and although my favorites are "Native Tongue" and "Skin Tight", I choose to review "Strip Tease" because the film did not represent it very well. In all fairness to Demi and company, I don't think Hollywood could ever do Hiaasen's dark humor justice. By now everyone knows the plot line of "Strip Tease": Erin the reluctant stripper becomes involved with smarmy politicians, environmental despoilers, and slimeball ex and inlaws in her struggle for custody of her daughter. Sexploitation, murder, and blackmail ensue, but with the help of a good-hearted Cuban cop and a deranged but devoted doorman, our protagonist prevails. As in all Hiaasen's tales, the climax is upbeat for the heroes while the villains reap their twisted, greatly-deserved kharma. For those not already familiar with Hiaasen, reading this book is a good way to begin the experience. The characters are a little less wacky, the plot a little less zany than his other novels'. But the writing style is every bit as riotous. Warning: Hiaasen is addictive! Like tattoos and chocolate-cordial cherries, you can't stop with just one. And after the insanity of the recent Elian' Gonzales tug-of-war and the rigged election, the reader will realize where Hiaasen dredges up the loony characters who populate his Florida settings. But his genuine love for his home state -- along with his genuine frustration over the rape of its ecosystem -- is evident in all his writings. Those who appreciate Hiaasen's crusade against Florida's political corruption and development & tourism industries will enjoy reading his fine little non-fiction rant, "Team Rodent: How Disney Devours the World".

of "stripping" and "teasing" if by stripping you mean sex and violence and "teasing" you mean satire and Mr. Hiaasen's legendary caustic political wit. (If Congress ever takes meaningful action to reduce or eliminate the federal "giveaway" sugar price-support subsidies to the big growers, the best-informed average citizens outside of the Sunshine State will undoubtedly be Hiaasen fans who read this book.) But Mr. H. says that the Latino-American sugar barons portrayed in this book are just a figment of his warped imagination. Well, his imagination may be warped, but it tickles me.

This just may be Hiaasen's very best novel. The pacing is nice and zippy. Its story line has all the elements in the right degree: I mentioned the humor and the savagery, and the characters are priceless, including a bouncer who "has a high threshold" and inhales cigar smoke when he lights up, thinking that everyone else does. To an unusual degree with this frequently cynical author, the guilty suffer and the good are rewarded, though sometimes in unorthodox ways. I do agree with earlier critics who found the lady stripper a bit too good to be true. If you can spell, turn on a computer and look good in pumps, a legal secretary earns just as much money, has the drop on the best day-care centers and is about eleventy-seven times more likely to get home in one piece. I just have to forgive Hiaasen his title character's chosen profession; as the folks in the English departments do, write it off as a "convention of the genre," which is academese for "make believe it's so or else there ain't no story."

This is an excellent starter book for neophyte Hiaasen fans (notice I assume that anyone who picks up his books will become a fan); though if you prefer to work up the pace slowly you might consider the earlier, more leisurely "Double Whammy."

I guess Hiaasen's works do seem to sound alike; this one even appears to be a sort of sequel to "Strip Tease" as it includes the eccentric ex-governor Skink and his devoted State trouper pal Jim Tile, who are featured in that novel. Knowing this, however, I was looking for something with some bite to make me laugh and once again Hiaasen didn't disappoint me.

The plot of "Stormy Weather" thoroughly lambasts developers, real estate and mobile home salesmen, and the governmental agencies that exist to "regulate" them. Hiassen is entirely cynical and savage in his depiction, which spares no group in its scathing satire. Ex-governor "Skink" again serves as the noble savage committed to a Quixotic effort to avenge trepidations against nature and basic human decency.

Once you have read a few of Hiaasen's works, the initial shock value is diminished. Nonetheless this made me repeatedly laugh out loud, at one point in uncontrollable giggles.

This isn't great literature, but if you have a sardonic sense of humor and want to be entertained, this is ideal. A perfect plane, beach, single dining in a restaurant book.

Hiaasen creates a clear view of hurricane devastated South Florida. The physical damage is daunting, but the moral devastation is inescapable. The characters he draws together in this novel are, as always, an amazing collection of the strange and extreme with a few "normal" types thrown in. This group includes insurance rip off artists,"drive-by" building inspectors, trailer salesmen, a honeymoon couple (the husband abandons his wife to take video of devastated people), Skink, the former governor of Florida who lives in the swamps, State Police officers doing their job, disappearing roof contractors, and some people who sacrifice animals. The story centers on people taking advantage of people in crisis and those who are attempting to right the balance of good and evil. As always Hiaasen creates a fast paced book with an amazing array of characters and his unique humor winds it's way through out this tale.

Hiaasen has done it again with Stormy Weather. This is the second book of his that I've read this week, and both have been a complete joy.

The books revolves around a couple going through their first marital problems, and on their honeymoon of all times!

A hurricane has ravaged south Florida and it brings out the worst in everyone.

Hiaasen once again brings Skink into his story. Skink is a fun and colorful character that gave up on politics to live the life of a recluse in the everglades. He is appalled by what is happening to Florida and every once in a while goes off the deep end.

The story is fast passed, and kept me interested from cover to cover. The characters are well developed and I found myself truly feeling for the good guys, and repulsed by the bad guys.

Over all I found this to be a very easy read, and very entertaining.

Skin Tight will undoubtedly appeal to almost all Hiaasen fans, that is for those fans of this author who for some reason have not already read this early classic of his. I agree with a prior reviewer that these novels, all set in South Florida, are not accurately described as "mysteries" or "thrillers", since there is very little mystery associated with the plot and the action is always a little madcap and far fetched.

Skin Tight involves former State Investigator Mick Stranahan, who lives a hermit's existence out in Biscayne Bay in an historic house on stilts in the water (part of the locally famous Stiltsville property, which the Federal Governement is actually about to tear down). As the action unfolds, Mick is rudely interrupted at his small house on the water by a hit man intruder, who is dispatched by our hero with the help of a stuffed blue marlin. This should give you a good idea of what is to come.

Like all protagonists in Hiaasen novels, Mick is 40-ish, ruggedly good-looking (seemingly every women in every novel has a crush on the main character), and jaded from a series of bad marriages. We learn that Mick has married five waitresses over the course of his life, as he has a dangerous habit of falling madly in love on a whim. In any event, the story of the novel revolves around an old missing persons case with ties to a shady and incompetent plastic surgeon (hence the name), a shyster lawyer brother-in-law with garish billboards all over South Florida, and a cast of crooked Dade County cops and County Commissioners.

As any fan of Hiaasen comes to expect, the bad guys seem to eventually get what's coming to them, there is always a rogue gangster or hitman around for a few laughs (in this book the hit man loses a hand and replaces it with a weed whacker), and the handsome hero somehow always gets the girl without compromising his principles. Formulaic, sure, but always a heck of a ride. Skin Tight is one of Carl's better novels.

I am always amused when I see Hiassen's books referred to as 'mysteries' or 'thrillers'. People who want these kinds of books won't really find them in Hiassen's work. What he creates are darkly comic morality plays about excess - specifically that of south Florida. What is wonderful about his books, apart from the zany characters, great dialogue and memorable absurdaties, is that in each one we see the 'forces of evil' suffer the fates they deserve. Maybe good doesn't triumph in real life, but Hiassen gives us the satisfaction of seeing horrible things happen to horrible people.

In Skin Tight, Hiassen gives us his usual cast of interesting and very peculiar players drawn from the mix of modern day Miami. Without giving any of the plot away, I will only say that there are two things about this book that I bet will stay with any reader: the fate that befalls the vain and insufferable TV host in his Geraldolike quest at expose and the character Chemo's choice of a prosthesis - a weed-whacker. These are a couple of the overthetop high points in Skin Tight, one of Hiaseen's grizzliest and funniest tales.

This was my first Carl Hiaasen book and I thought it was terrific. The characters are excellent, the story moved along at a brisk pace and some of it was downright hilarious. After reading more serious crime/thriller type novels, this was a great break. I tore through the book quickly. People looked at me funny when I laughed out loud on the exercise bike or treadmill trying to read as much as possible, anxious to find out what happens next. I will definitely order more books from Hiassen in the future!!

If anybody can take the pains to read and reread a book inch by inch, over and over again, ad infinitum, until you reach the other side, then by all means read this book! Being able to learn, retain and actually actualize the ideas he espouses, as you go along, into one ever expanding platform is all essential to even remotely comprehending so much as the first chapter, let alone the first page of this entire book! Mr. Whitmont is extreemly intellectual and wrote this book for people like him that thirst for inner knowledge. The text is written AS IF you already happen to know a number of words used only by depth psychologists. So be prepared to learn literally a text book of data per every page. This work is hailed as the next generation of Jungian thought written by Jung's prodigy student and spiritual heir apparent. And cannot be expected to be instantly readable by everyone, especially those already angry with Jung in general.Yet with each new concept integrated into your understanding of Jungianism, there will be a definite reward in terms of personal growth. I promise you a rose garden!

The Symbolic Quest remains the best popular introduction to the theory and practice of analytical psychology.

Contents: Introduction -- The Symbolic Approach -- The Approach to the Unconscious -- The Objective Psyche -- The Complex -- Archetypes and Myths -- Archetypes and the Individual Myth -- Archetypes and Personal Psychology -- Psychological Types -- The Persona -- The Shadow -- Male and Female -- The Anima -- The Animus -- The Self -- The Complex of Identity: The Ego -- The Ego-Self Estrangement -- Ego Development and the Phases of Life -- Therapy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Whitmont presents the basic concepts of Jungian psychology in prose which is, indeed, intricate (one of the less pejorative meanings of "convoluted"); but there is no better overview and summary of Carl Jung's astonishingly broad and comprehensive theories. This is not and is not meant to be a "popular" book but does seek - and reaches - a general reader who is willing to learn. The Redwood City reader takes the allegedly incomprehensible sentence out of the context in which it is embedded. On the page previous to it, active thinking is contrasted with passive thinking and thinking is contrasted with feeling. With that in mind - a "translation":

"Active thinking brings a representation (i.e. a likeness or image rising from perception) to a process of ordering and sequencing which establishes a cause-effect relationship between a given event and that which appears to [but does not necessarily] follow it."

Whitmont's next sentence points out that this interpretation [i.e. the assignment of a cause-effect relationship] is "imposed" upon the facts and because of this may or may not be a true and valid interpretation of them. "Pretentious" can mean "making demands on one's skill" - though I doubt that is what Redwood City reader means to say. In the sense of "unjustified claims of value" - which is probably what was meant, he is in error; but in the former sense, it is true, the book makes demands and offers great rewards.

This book should have been called, the "Elders Salon," or something to that effect. This book is designed for Elders and STs wanting to run Elders in their Chronicle.

Of Interest to STs and PC Elders: 1) The re-write-ups on Higher Level Disciplines (a new level for each Gen below 9th). EXCELLENT 2) A re-write of the Influences level 6+, irrlevant if you have LoE, excellent otherwise. 3) A re-write of the "What it is to be an Elder" from Laws of Elysium, excellent 4) How to run an Elder Chronicle, or insert them into your game, mediocre 5) How to design a city, mediocre

Of Interest to General PCs: 1) Gagoyles re-written with Visceratika, Excellent 2) Bunch 'o' Paths for Tremere, Excellent (now they are even MORE powerful, great. 3) Decent description on what each of the Camarilla positions are, and expect, including Scourge. EXCELLENT 4) Presenting to the Prince. EXCELLENT

Chapter Four is worth the price of the book, in and of itself. Regardless of Generation or Flavour of your, (unless you are Sabatt) Chronicle.

What is TERRIBLE about this book. NO INDEX!

I would recommend this book, and would love to play in a LARP that approximates the level of Role Playing required to fulfill the very high expectations of Chapter Four.

Enjoy!

Carl Hiaasen is back again and venting his spleen at Florida developers and politicians as usual. His vehicle for this diatribe is full of the same formulaic characters and plot lines as all of his previous books--wacky but loveable eco-terrorists versus zany but stupid crooks and pols. In fact Hiassen's running character, the former governor and current eco-crazy "Skink" Tyree, returns in a big way, to mentor the novel's protagonist Twilly Spree. Over the last several books Skink has been comically but steadily deteriorating. (What is it with Florida's nature loving series heros? James Hall's Thorne is also being whittled away!) Fortunately he loses no body parts this time, but I wondered if Hiaasen's characterisation of Spree isn't designed in part to replace Skink eventually. Or maybe it's just a twisted Batman/Robin kind of thing...

If you've read Hiaasen before, you are familiar with the scenario. To put Hiassen in august company, I'm reminded of John Irving, who also seems to be writing the same book over and over. Irving does so superbly, while Hiaasen does so less well and with a shorter reach. But if you enjoy Hiassen, you will enjoy this book. Like some of the other critics here, I had thought that his last couple of novels were getting too repetitious. But Sick Puppy recaptures the best of the absurd tone that Hiaasen had done so well in the past, and flavors it with a certain darkness and self-awareness in his characters. To call it a "mature" work seems wildly inappropriate for a novel in which one character is fixated on creating living Barbie dolls, another listens to recordings of 911 calls for enjoyment, another has a well deserved phobia about chipmunks; and the hero lives in a swamp wearing a plastic bag on his head, a kilt made from a racing flag, and a glass eye from a gypsy king. But it certainly is one of Hiaasen's best books to date, and recommended to anyone with a fondness for the absurd and no sense of delicacy whatsoever.

After Hiaasen's last two novels "Stromy Weather" and "Lucky You" I wondered if my favorite author had slipped a notch or two. Hiaasen returns with "Sick Puppy" a dark but funny look at the seedy side of political lobbyists. Hiaasen goes too what he knows best in "Sick Puppy". Corruption, the destruction of Florida's great nature and good old boy ex-govenor Clinton Tyree or Skink to true Hiaasen fans.

In "Sick Puppy" Hiassen introduces us too Willy Spree, who is like a Skink Jr. On a highway Spree sees a literbug and decides he will teach this literbug a lesson. The literbug is Palmer Stoat a corrupt lobbyist who is the middle of getting the Shearwater Island Resort throught the capitol. After a few hilarous pranks, Spree finds out about the resort and is determined to stop the resort and save the small island from the bulldozer. He ends up dognapping Stoat's dog, a lovable black lab named Boodle. Boodle whose name gets changed too McGuinn is the star of this novel. The following events are funny involving great characters, both good and bad that only Hiaasen can create.

I did notice that this book is much more well rounded than the previous two. Hiassen uses his typical style and timeline to create another fantastic read. This one is a must for any Hiaasen fan.

I read and enjoyed this book a year ago, then read it to my wife and enjoyed it a second time (she liked it too). It's a fun, sometimes gruesome, tale featuring eco-vandalism, anger management, true love, political lobbying, safari hunting, 911 tapes, Barbie dolls, littering, and more. Each character is more sleazy, disturbed, dirty, or otherwise fascinating than the last.

The sick puppy of the title is a big black lab named McGuinn (or is it Boodle?), who has major plot impact. Or is the sick puppy the litterbug sleazeball lobbyist? Or maybe it's the porcupine-haired hit man? No, it's got to be the Barbie-loving developer. Or maybe the red-glass-eye-wearing Everglades-dwelling ex-governor. Or... you get the idea. Even the good guys aren't folks you'd want to have over for the weekend. (In fact, the only truly nice characters are the women.)

The whole story is told with an "it could only happen in Florida" tone, which makes me want to read more Hiaasen (and Dave Barry). It was also my first eco-fiction read, which makes me want to read others, including TC Boyle's "A Friend of the Earth."