Most people (lucky for them) have no experience with pituitary tumors. In fact, even many people who have pituitary tunors go to their graves (from other causes) without ever knowing that they had them. Almost half of these tumors are now discovered as "incidental findings" when a patient is given a CT or MRI scan for some other reason. Once you have the diagnosis howver, you really need some guidance as to your options. This book will help you find that guidance and help inform your opinion about an area that the average family doc is not very fluent in.

This book has been very helpful in researching info on acne.
Thank you.
Rich

My Father dedicated years of research and interviews in order to complete this work. In fact, even though we lived in Fort Chipeywan the old-timers who were children settlers would not grant my Father an interview.... Not until he himself canoed to Fort Chipyewan from Fort MacMurray (two week trip) was he accepted into the community and their hearts.

Dad went on to start, build and develop the University of Alberta Archives where he was director until 1990. His purpose was to help those who share in his love of history as they themselves secured positions to better protect and document our beautiful Canadian history.

The Parkers

Great book. A wealth of information!

If you don't know the difference between "masculy" and "lozengy," or if you can't envision a "gilly-flower," this is the book for you. Besides the 600+ pages of alpha-betical, often illustrated listings, Parker includes a complete synoptical table of principal terms, logically and systematically arranged. It's also easy to become absorbed in longer articles on heraldic oddities like the "Collar of SS" and the putative arms of Prester John.

The reason I think this a 5 stars book beacuse it help helps me understand New Yorks History. It Has many things I didn't know until now.

Designed for people who are new to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, this sourcebook has been created for patients who have decided to make education and Internet-based research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it is designed for patients who are less familiar or are new to the Internet as a medical research tool. It tells the reader where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are compiled and reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Following an introductory chapter, the sourcebook is organized into three parts. PART I: THE ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1. The Essentials on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis: Guidelines; Chapter 2. Seeking Guidance; Chapter 3. Clinical Trials and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis; PART II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVANCED MATERIAL; Chapter 4. Studies on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis; Chapter 5. Books on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis; Chapter 6. Multimedia on Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis; Chapter 7. Physician Guidelines and Databases; PART III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. Researching Your Medications; Appendix B. Researching Alternative Medicine; Appendix C. Researching Nutrition; Appendix D. Finding Medical Libraries; Appendix E. Your Rights and Insurance; ONLINE GLOSSARIES; IDIOPATHIC PULMONARY FIBROSIS GLOSSARY; INDEX. Related topics include: alveolocapillary block, cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis, diffuse fibrosing alveolitis, fibrosing alveolitis, Hamman-Rich syndrome, idiopathic diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, interstitial diffuse pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary fibrosis, usual interstitial pneumonia.

Designed for people who are new to sarcoidosis, this sourcebook has been created for patients who have decided to make education and Internet-based research an integral part of the treatment process. Although it gives information useful to doctors, caregivers and other health professionals, it is designed for patients who are less familiar or are new to the Internet as a medical research tool. It tells the reader where and how to look for information covering virtually all topics related to sarcoidosis, from the essentials to the most advanced areas of research. The title of this book includes the word official. This reflects the fact that the sourcebook draws from public, academic, government, and peer-reviewed research. Selected readings from various agencies are compiled and reproduced to give you some of the latest official information available to date on sarcoidosis. Following an introductory chapter, the sourcebook is organized into three parts. PART I: THE ESSENTIALS; Chapter 1. The Essentials on Sarcoidosis: Guidelines; Chapter 2. Seeking Guidance; Chapter 3. Clinical Trials and Sarcoidosis; PART II: ADDITIONAL RESOURCES AND ADVANCED MATERIAL; Chapter 4. Studies on Sarcoidosis; Chapter 5. Patents on Sarcoidosis; Chapter 6. Books on Sarcoidosis; Chapter 7. Multimedia on Sarcoidosis; Chapter 8. Periodicals and News on Sarcoidosis; Chapter 9. Physician Guidelines and Databases; Chapter 10. Dissertations on Sarcoidosis; PART III. APPENDICES; Appendix A. Researching Your Medications; Appendix B. Researching Alternative Medicine; Appendix C. Researching Nutrition; Appendix D. Finding Medical Libraries; Appendix E. Your Rights and Insurance; Appendix F. More on the Lungs; Appendix G. More on Lung Diseases; ONLINE GLOSSARIES; SARCOIDOSIS GLOSSARY; INDEX. Related topics include: Besnier-Boeck disease, Boeck's sarcoid, erythema nodosum, Hilar adenopathy plus uveitis, Loeffgren's syndrome, sarcoid of Boeck, Schaumann's disease.

Last Man Out: A Personal Account of the Vietnam War by James E. Parker, Jr. is the best book I've read in a long time. If this author didn't have a tape recorder or a diary that he wrote in everyday then I have to say he has a most remarkable memory. James takes the reader back to his home in North Carolina and introduces his family and friends. He continues as he makes the decision to enlist in the Army at a time when others were already doing everything they could to avoid serving their country. The reader goes through Basic Training with James and his buddies at Fort Gordon, Georgia in February 1964. Two months later after being named "Outstanding Trainee" James reiterates some of his time while at his Advanced Infantry Training. You are there when he signs up for Officer Candidate School and while he waited to be selected. You go through that six-month course with him too beginning in November at Fort Benning, Georgia. Upon graduation James goes to Jump School. From there the book gets even better. James first Permanent Party duty station was at Fort Riley, Kansas with the 1st Infantry Division. Then through his Tour of Duty in Vietnam. James told about an encounter with General William Westmoreland following a mission. The general flew in to review the troops, present medals and then was gone. It was a mere media event. When the general departed, another officer walked the line and took back the medals. After Nam James next assignment took him to Fort Ord in Monterey, California. He became the Officer-in-Charge of the 6th Army Area Drill Sergeant School. It was a great assignment. BUT James was thinking about leaving the Army but he "felt guilty about forsaking my duty, abandoning my obligation to country at a time of war." Unable to find a job that suited him he applied for and was accepted as a member of the Central Intelligence Agency. By September 1971 James was headed back to Southeast Asia "as a case officer in the Lao program, the CIA's largest covert operation." James was involved with several operations before heading stateside in 1973. He spoke openly about them. By January 1975 James was the only American left in Vi Thanh province. At that point he secured himself a "bodyguard." James wrote of the fall of Ban Me Thout, Hue, Da Nang, and Saigon. He took part in the evacuation of the Vietnamese who worked as agents for the CIA. He spoke of the problems encountered onboard the USS Vancouver and the transfer to the USNS Pioneer Contender. James Parker Jr. wrote an incredible account of his military and civilian service to our country and the people of South Vietnam. It is a book well worth reading. I'm glad I had the opportunity to meet the author in person in 1998. AND I'm glad I took the time to read his book. You will be also.

This book is a necessary and thorough follow-up to the author's first account of his involvement in southeast Asia on behalf of our government: CovertOps. It is yet another compelling story in exquisite detail and poignant analysis of his development as an infantry officer into a paramilitary officer and finally into a skilled case officer for CIA. It provides the essentials for anyone considering such a career, as well as properly articulated facts for historians and others who are interested in hearing "the other side of the story" about those who served with honor, dignity and courage (or as he would put it, "hang")in a noble cause to preserve, protect, and defend freedom on behalf of our country. His wit, humor, objectivity, and humility are testimony to his credibility as a professional in service to his country and as a skilled writer. Read now with the advantage of historical hindsight, it brings into focus with uncommon clarity and precision what we were fighting for then, and the political and social values that our efforts there continue to serve our national interests today, despite what many conclude was a lost war.

The subtitle "A personal Account of the Vietnam War," turned out to represent the contents of the book. This book was very different from superhero soldier book.

The author began with his experiences being recruited and trained. He recounted what it felt to first arive in Vietnam, and what his thoughts were during his first encounters with the enemy. Mr. Parker takes us through his experiences until at the end of the book when tells us about the confusion surrounding the end of the war.

In reality, Mr. Parker could be considered a superhero, not for his ability to handle weapons, but for fighting in what he believed was best for Vietnam and for the people.

Great book! This book, Blues for Bird, is worth all the other biographies of Charlie Parker combined. A concise and direct evocation of the jazzman's life, it tells the tragic story of his rise and fall, and the tragic decline of his later years--it censors nothing, it tells the story better than a more detailed biographical volume, And does it with a poet's ear and eye! Alright! Be-bop!

Somebody ought to make a bunch of CDs, with an actor reading these highly accessible poems against a backdrop of Charlie Parker's music. They'd be a wow!

How can you write an epic today when the world is no longer 'story-shaped'? You can go back and translate 'Beowulf', as Seamus Heaney has done, or you can be like Martin Gray and write an epic life in quantum bursts of three-stress energy.