Getting ready to do the |FRCR Part II. Looking for MCQ books. There are many on the bookshelves. Some are very difficult and some too easy. Some are old and do not cover the latest advancements. This book is quite new and is based on Grainger and Allison's radiology textbook which in itself is almost a gold standard for radiologists. If you read the mcq book you really get the extract of most of the relevant information in the 3 volume Grainger and Allison's book. Buy it before it goes out of stock. A must before the exams.

This hobbit's journal is an impeccable display of an artist's visions of Middle-Earth setting and character. The calligraphy and layout of the journal is wonderful. Each page has deliberately yellowed paper for journal writing, but who would wish to disturb such a balance or artwork and imagination?

From the 1880's to the 1940's, non-Navajo individuals entered a world seldom seen by outsiders and became esteemed residents on the Navajo reservation. They were the Navajo traders, and they played a significant role in Navajo life during this time period. They ran the general store and pawn shop. They pushed for higher levels of craftmanship in Navajo arts and crafts and then marketed those products to the rest of the United States. The trading post was a central meeting place and a communication center, and the traders were the social service providers.

Lorenzo Hubbell was one of the earliest Navajo traders and is perhaps the most well known. Hubbell and his family ran the trading post at Ganado, Arizona. It is now the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site. The book is a small coffee table style book designed to be interesting to look at and quick to read. The text is primarily about Hubbell and his family and how he was involved in the issues of his time. It includes a summarized history of the Navajo people and well appointed color and black and white photographs.

Since this book is only about Hubbell and the Ganado trading post, this book is an excellent historical resource if you are planning on visiting that site or would like a souvenier book. I purchased it as a supplemental text to learn more about Hubbell after I had learned about other trading posts and the Navajo culture. If you are interested in learning more comprehensive information about the Navajo culture and the role of the traders, I would recommend "Wide Ruins" by Sallie Wagner and "Navajo Trader" by Cladwell Richardson. Out of the two books, "Wide Ruins" is my favorite, but both books contain personal stories of Navajo people and their culture. I learned more about the role the traders played in the Navajo world from "Wide Ruins" and "Navajo Trader" then from "Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site", but it achieves its purpose with style.

This is a new edition of a book published in 1984 that has long been out of print. So far as I can tell, the only change is a new preface of Joseph Pierce. The republication is due in part to the surge of interest in Middle Earth occasioned by the new movies, and in part due to the interest the publisher, Ignatius Press, has in the book's subject matter.

What Tolkien, Purtill, and Ignatius Press all have in common is their Roman Catholicism, and of particular relevance to this book, a common sense of morality stemming from it. Between the Purtill the critic and Tolkien the author are additional commonalities as well: Purtill, like Tolkien, is an academic who is also an author of fantasy.

Given the commonalities between Purtill and Tolkien, it is therefore not surprising that the critic is entirely sympathetic to the author. In explaining, Purtill also defends. There are a few passages where Purtill makes the defense explicit, citing negative comments by others and then arguing against them. For the most part, however, the defense is implicit, inherent in the explanations he gives. The explicit defenses are not fully satisfactory. In terms of tone they come off as, for lack of a better word, defensive. A deeper problem however is that the explicit defenses by their very nature tend to distort that which they defend - points minor in Tolkien can become major in a defense of Tolkien. These defects make Purtill's explicit defenses sufficiently unsatisfactory that the work would have been improved through their omission.

Where Purtill succeeds and succeeds quite well is when he defends Tolkien implicitly. The strength of his book lies in his explanations of Tolkien's moral views, as well as how myth is used as a means to convey them. When Purtill works directly with Tolkien's published writings and with comments he made about them in his letters, Purtill is at his most interesting and his book most worth the time spent with it.

The main works of Tolkien taken up by Purtill are "Leaf by Niggle", "On Fairy Stories", "The Hobbit", "Lord of the Rings", and "The Silmarillion". The attention paid by Purtill to the first of these, "Leaf by Niggle" will surprise some readers, but it is I think justified by the parallels between the character Niggle and Tolkien; to understand how Tolkien saw Niggle is to a considerable extent to understand how Tolkien saw himself. "On Fairy Stories" is similarly self-referential in that Tolkien is writing about a genre in which he himself works. If "Leaf by Niggle" is about the relationship between Tolkien and his writing, "On Fairy Stories" is about the relationship between Tolkien's writing and the world. Together, these works give the reader a sense of how Tolkien saw his writing and it is through these works that Purtill approaches the others.

Tolkien's chief works, "The Hobbit", "The Lord of the Rings", and "The Silmarillion" share a common world, and are treated by Purtill in an overlapping fashion. Purtill's main goal is to separate and discuss the works' moral themes. In his discussion of how morality is presented in the three works, Purtill applies the approach developed in his discussion of the previous two: the use of a particular world and a particular story to illuminate the universal and unchanging. What is the nature of good? What is the nature of evil? How do good and evil operate in man? It is simply by explaining what Tolkien has to say about these themes that Purtill's literary defense of Tolkien succeeds; it is when he is least concerned with defending him and most concerned with simply explaining him that Purtill defends Tolkien best.

Tolkien employs multiple methods to make his moral points. First, he often simply makes the moral physical - beauty and ugliness representing good and evil. Second, he facets personality; this character receives this facet while another character receives another. Third, he makes moral choices stark. While it is many other things as well, morally Tolkien's work is one of analysis - he breaks up complexity into simpler parts for study. Given this, an analytical reader is doomed to failure because his work has already been done for him - he can't break up Tolkien's characters into simpler parts because they are simple parts already. Morality in Tolkien becomes interesting not when he is read analytically, but when he is read synthetically - when the reader considers not the parts in themselves but in how the parts relate to each other.

Purtill's book benefits its reader in two ways. First, in his explanation of particular moral points that Tolkien makes that many readers may not have caught, but which enrich the experience once understood. Second, and more importantly, Purtill explains how to read Tolkien - Purtill has by no means exhausted the moral complexities of Tolkien's work; he opens the door but ultimately leaves each reader with the pleasure of crossing through and exploring it for himself.

I found this book to be a very insightful look into the work of John Constable. Ronald Parkinson, the author, shows remarkable restraint by resisting the urge to transform Constable into a mythic misunderstood genius from the glorious history of English painting. The book reads like a good biography. It tells us what Constable was up to, what artists he was looking at, and the images of what he was painting at that time. What more could you ask for.

My only qualm with the book was its lack of information on Constable's contemporaries. A few hints at what Turner was painting was not enough. I would have liked to have seen more examples of English painters dealing with the landscape even if it meant details from the backgrounds of uninspired portraits.

All in all this was a wonderful book, even if you have little interest in English landscape paintings.

it is good, very very good, i think that you should buy this book.

I rather enjoyed reading this book, but the warning that I give to people is that this book is written in French, not just fancifully titled. The grammer sections are written in French as well as the explaination of the written languages. There are two dictionary sections in this book one for Quenya, the other for Lindarin, where the translations are given in both French and English. The content of the book is well detailed and the words are all presented with a location, to find where they were introduced. As for the fact that the book is written in French, I can say that anyone with a basic grasp of the language can read this book with little trouble. The book is well organized and clearly presented.

Though dated (the book covers Mathematica 3), I found this book very helpful in getting started with Mathematica 4.1. Half an hour with this book will make using Mathematica a joy and save many frustrations that beginner users who just 'jump' into the program often encounter.

While I had no complaints with the text and contents. I think I'd have just felt better if the cover said "Covers Mathematica 4.1"!

nuclear medicine diagnosis & therapy is an excellent text of contemproray nuclear medicine the book is writen in an authoritative style refernces given at end of each chapter are worth mentioning they are enough to satisfy the need of a genuine research worker & sometimes very helpful in research work there are a few week points in book aswell the chapter on therapy of ocular melanoma is inconlcusive too much references in the text of chapter interfere the continuty of text & are sometimes boring a brief summary at the end of chqapter( pertinent conclusions) would 've bn very helpful for revision overall text is well written though needs some chapters on image registration & artificial intelligence etc & PACS as well a god for desk of nuclear physician

A gripping story of a fascinating man who served in the Boer war, WW1 and WW2. The history of the man who was the true founder of the Army Physical Training Corps, showing his life from bloodthirsty bayonet instructor to mentor.
Well worth reading for anyone interested in WW1 or the APTC.