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Textbook of Pediatric Intensive Care
Published in Hardcover by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins (15 January, 1996)
Authors: Mark C. Rogers and David G. Nichols
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Still One of the Best
This textbook presents topics in a clear, concise manner while providing the detail necessary for the study of pediatric critical care. It is considered the definitive text for this field. However, it is somewhat dated and pricey.


The Trail Book: Sun Valley and the Surrounding Area
Published in Hardcover by Peak Media Inc (1997)
Authors: David Stilwill, Clarence Stilwill, Michael Cord, Mark Kashino, Rob McDonald, Peak Media Inc, and Inc Staff Peak Media
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I wish other publishers would adopt this format!
Loose-leaf bound, so you can remove the pages you want to carry with you. Very clever. Covers the Sawtooth Wilderness and surrounding areas from Challis to Lowman to Ketchum. Includes detailed descriptions and good contour maps. Black-and-white photos.


We Don't Speak Great Things - We Live Them
Published in Paperback by Scroll Pub Co (1990)
Authors: Marcus Minucius Felix, David W. Bercot, Mark Felix, Justin Martyr, Robert Ernest Wallis, Marcus Dods, and Justin Apologies
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Readable and Accesible, with a Nice Price
In 'Greek and Roman Philosopy After Aristotle', there is and extended excerpt from 'Octavius' by Marcus Minucius Felix. Its summary of pagan Roman views on Christianity was so dead-on accurate, I just had to read the whole thing. Unfortunately, the Christian response isn't as incisive as as the attack. It is primarily a defense of the idea of a single creator god, coupled with the idea that Christians are restrained, ethical and good people. Jesus is not really menitioned at all. Felix's view might be called "Ethical Monotheism". The second work in the book, Justin Martyr's 'First Apology' is very revealing of 2nd century Christian thought, and touches on many practical and philosophical issues, not only regarding Christian practice and paganism, but Jewish uses of Greek philosophy. This book is quite a find. While it is not a new translation, it is a modern, idiomatic, if somewhat oversimplified, rendition of the translations contained in the hoary, 130-something year-old 'Ante-Nicene Library'. Portions of 'Octavius', and Justin Martyr's 'First Apology" are rearranged, to a degree, on a paragraph-by-paragraph basis, and other portions are relegated to appendices, but both works are present in their entirety, and a bit more logical, to modern readers, than the originals. At the price of $..., you'd be silly not to check these accessible, yet ancient works out. See what they were thinking in the 2nd century. They won't bite!


Working With Behavior Disorders: Strategies for Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation
Published in Paperback by Communication Skill Builders (1900)
Authors: Mark Ashley, David K. Krych, Craig S. Persel, and Chris H. Persel
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good book for the rehab resident
This book is excellent source for resident's interested in brain injury and in particular those interested in rehabilitation of these patients. Some of the neuropharm used in the book may be a little out dated but for the most part it is a great source of information.


World Series Baseball 2K1: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
Published in Paperback by Prima Publishing (02 August, 2000)
Authors: Matt Rushton, Patrick Mauro, David Chong, and Mark Cohen
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If you have the game buy the book!!!
This book is great to help you play World Series Baseball 2k1. It tells you all the stats, how to create double plays, how to pitch, and how the teams rank in World Series Baseball 2k1.If I was you I would buy the book and go all the way in your season.


Lonely Planet Australia (8th Ed.)
Published in Paperback by Lonely Planet (1996)
Authors: Hugh Finlay, Mark Armstrong, John Chapman, Monica Chapman, David Collins, Denis O'Byrne, Dani Valent, David Willett, and Jeff Williams
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Time for a change?
I have made four trips to Australia using various versions of this guide. You have to remember that it started off as a backpacker's/ alternative travel guide and has kept the strengths (in depth coverage of offthe beaten track areas) as well as the weaknesses (concentrates on low end travellers) of that approach. It needs to be not just revised and updated but also completely rewritten from scratch. The book is also geared to the traveller who is already in Australia. For example, it is extremely sparing in giving out email addresses and, after all these editions, still does not give the Australian postcodes for places. In its attempt to cover the entire country, it has also gotten very bulky and inconvenient.

I like Lonely Planet and its guides, but I think that it is time for them to either abandon or change the focus of this country-wide guide. In the meantime, I am relying on their series of Australian State guides for my next trip.

ROSIES BACKPACKERS HOSTEL IN CAIRNS AUSTRALIA
CHECKED IN THE STAFF WERE AMAZING VERY HELPFULL POLITE AND READY TO SERVE YOU AND FULL OF HELPFULL KNOWLEDGE ON ALL THE LOCAL TOURS IN THE AREA AS WELL AS OTHER TOURS IN AUSTRALIA CLEAN AND VERY AFFORDABLE GAMES ROOM TV/CABLE SWIMMING POOL THE BEST THING ABOUT THE HOSTEL IS THAT IT WAS ONLY FIVE MINSTO THE CITY AND THEY GAVE YOU A FREE MEAL EVERY NIGHT AT A RESTURANT COME NIGHT CLUB VERY GOOD PLACE GO AND HAVE A LOOK OR JUST PHONE THEM ON (07)40410249 FROM TWO HAPPY POMMS BACKPACKING AROUND THE WORLD MY RATING FOR THE PLACE IS 5 STARS

Insight into Australia
Because Australia is so big.. and there is just so much to see no single book can possibly cover the whole country. That's why lonely planet has published so many titles pertaining to this country.

I think the intention of this book is to give insight into what is available where... then select the relevant lonely planet guide for the area that most interests you.

A lot of people don't know what is where in Aus, as an outline to learn... I think this book serves anyone very very well.

It's much cheaper to buy this book.. and choose where you want to find out more about... than buying the complete series of lonely planet guides in the Australia range.


Let Me Take You Down: Inside the Mind of Mark David Chapman, the Man Who Killed John Lennon
Published in Hardcover by Villard Books (1992)
Authors: Jack Jones and Jack Jonse
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sick joke
i was just lookin for a lennon book when i came across this book ive never read it i never will how the hell can some of u lot give this 5 stars? tha chapman done it for publicity and some of you are falling for it!even if your not lennon fans why are you so interested in this scum? ive heard he has posters on his prison wall saying i killed john lennon he is proud of it! and you silly people are interested in this killer? may i ask why?to read about him and to say his name is giving him the fame he wants dont do it!!and the authour if he thinks this is some sort of a good idea to give publicity to that scum well he is one <@!(* thank you.

A Not a Nobody Book
It hurts me a bit to read that Chapman was a nice guy, appreciated for some of the things he did. A picture even shows him playing a "guitar during a meeting of his prayer group from the Chapel Woods Presbyterian Church in Decatur, Georgia." Someone who was six years old when Chapman shot John Lennon in 1980 would have been 18 in 1992, when this book was published, and decided to remain a nobody in American society, could have been 25 in 1999 and taken part in the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. A real nobody wouldn't have known that the bombs were falling on an embassy, and nobody would really be held responsible, either, because everybody wants to maintain their rights to be nobody. The frightening thing about this book is its consideration of options for anyone to be somebody in a global society which encompasses millions of people in the United States and billions in the world. There are pages in this book about drug use. Is this book the reason that so many more people in our prisons are serving time for drugs than back in 1980, when some people were surprised that John Lennon was shot?

Excellent
It was entertaining and extremely informative. I really cannot say enough good things about this book. What I love is that most text in the book is dialogue taken from interviews with MD Chapman, and you really get a chance to know him through his words. Terrific. You see an emotional, logical, artistic, and human side of him.


Women in Love (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
Published in Paperback by Penguin USA (Paper) (1995)
Authors: D. H. Lawrence, David Farmer, Lindeth Vasey, John Worthen, Mark Kinkead-Weeks, and Mark Kinkead-Weekes
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Way too much theatre and not nearly enough play!
I was tricked into reading this book due to it being a well known classic and from a desire to read a good romantic story which I thought it would be. Well, um, IT'S NOT.

I like to read books that draw me right into the story and then a couple of hours later you notice you are turning page 250 when the last you recall touching was page 97. This book was not like that at all. Unfortunately, I was always conscious that I was reading print from a page but kept reminding myself that a book this famous had to get good sooner or later. Far from not being able to put it down, I found myself often looking to see what page I was on and if I had read my quota for the night. It never did get good and when I had finished the last sentence I felt frustrated and cheated.

I worried that my lack of appreciation for this classic must be due to my inferior intellect and that I must after all be just some obtuse hill-billy. Thankfully I found that several people who had offered their reviews here shared my opinions for this book and I was quite relieved that I was not alone in my reaction.

For me, Lawrence's supremely descriptive, possibly brilliant (although I really wouldn't know) and flowery writing is all for not because of selfish, unlikeable and unbelieveable characters who don't really do anything. At the very end, the only care I had for anyone in the book was poor little Winifred. I hope she was alright.

In conclusion may I suggest that you pass on Women in Love and read instead Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. It is so much more a wonderful book about believable, likeable, women in love.

Women In Love
Women In Love written by D.H. Lawrence is not as explicit as his other novels, and instead of concentrating on sexual content, Lawrence chose to depict the relationships between two sisters and their boyfriends. D.H. Lawrence goes deep into the minds of human beings and reveals the real secrets of emotions, feelings, and thoughts that people usually hide inside. Statements such as "The Dead Should Bury the Dead" illustrate the content of living and dying, which the book frequently discusses. The book is difficult and long to read, but it opens up the reader's mind and forces the reader to reavaluate the content of his or her relationship with other people.

One of the best I 've ever read
First of all, I have to own you up that reading Women in Love was one of the best experiences on books that I ever had. I know it's not Lawurence's masterpiece, but I touched me very deep. Everthing seems to wok in this book, from the characters to their enviroment.

It seems to me that Lawrence took daily events and showed them the way they are: unglamourised. He showed me what love and support seem to be. It's not about being happy all the time or that kind of love that happens only in movies. The book deals with the ordinary love, the one that normal human beings have the chance to face.

Following the experience of both couples made me see how different love can be and it is the still the same. I could perfectly understand all the worries and anxiets Gudrun had. And I think Gerald and she made quite a couple! Yet Birkin and Ursula look very nice together since the begin. Their love is not as 'wild' as the other couple's, but it is very strong indeed.

When the book was over I got down because I had to let them go. Following the lives of such people for a few days made quite an impression on me. Even though they may not be XXI century people like us, they have the same essence we do.

All in all, I know this review may read very emotive and personal, but this is a book that I couldn't apart in other to write about


Lotus Notes and Domino 4.5: Professional Reference
Published in Hardcover by New Riders Publishing (1997)
Authors: Jay Forlini, Bill Maxwell, Randy Davison, Bill Drake, Chuck Griffin, Mark Lawrence, David Sanders, Wayne Whitaker, and New Riders Publishing Group
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DO NOT BUY THIS!!!!
It is the most shallow coverage of Notes that I've ever seen. I still don't understand how they managed to pack so little information into so many pages.

For example, a new feature of 4.5 is Multidatabase indexing through a site search database. Here is the unabridged exerpt from this "reference" on site search:

"The Multi Databse Indexing feature enables you to create many indices at once. After these indices exist, it is possible to search more than one database at a time for data (such as a client's name or company name). This feature can be extremely helpfull when designing a Web page. As shown in figure 8.21, you must be a manager of the file to enable this option."

That's it. That pathetic, inane, useless, and technically incaccurate blurb is all the info this book provides on site search. They don't even know what a site search database is (its the tool used to actually build a multidatabase index). And the worst part is that the whole book is like this. Uhh... I don't know exactly what this is but uhh.... here's the property box for it and uhh... you can click boxes and stuff on it. And uhh.. oh, yeah, you have to have sufficient access to do that.

Avoid this one like the plague. New Riders Publishing should really be ashamed of themselves.

Never have some many words been used to say so little
This book is less than useless, I had more questions than answars after reading it. The book is terribly shallow and never goes into any depth.

Great book ..
Read some reviews here.

Some folks feel it is not a good book, so I went to a local bookstore and spent an hour leafing ... for the 2nd time. For my project [ where there were some challenges, this book came closest to giving me script pointers, though not solutions]

I beleive this book is by far the best I have seen for Notes/Domino 4.x and would be happy if they released one for R 5.0 - same manner....

Great book in my personal opinion..and stands out in the Notes/Domino arena.


Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel
Published in Textbook Binding by Prentice Hall (19 March, 1997)
Authors: David M. Levine, Mark L. Berenson, David Stephan, James Pellissier, and Davidyes Stephan
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Bring on the confusion and mistakes
A worse textbook I have not seen. It's riddled with mistakes and misprints. The authors should be ashamed. The examples are virtually impossible to follow. Unfortunately, most students don't have a choice but if you do go with Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics (Mason, Lind & Marchal).

Not bad, I guess...
There is a newer edition out. However, the good thing about this one is the fact that they got a good Excel Section.

Nothing to do with Excel or How To
Don't let the title mislead you: Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel (Student Solutions Manual) has almost nothing to do with Microsoft Excel. This book is useful IF and only if you are using it as a companion to the Statistics for Managers Using Microsoft Excel text book in a statistics class.

The book provides ANSWERS. It does not provide any how-to; it does not provide any Excel formulas/etc. But is does provide the answers to all of the even-numbers problems in the companion text book. That's the only reason it got as much as a "3 stars" rating from me -- it was helpful for feedback.


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