This is the long awaited basic textbook for osteopathic medicine. It is surprisingly complete, covering philosophy, history, research, and manipulative techniques. The beginning osteopathic student may find it most useful for its practical discussion on the techniques--high velocity, myofascial release, etc. I believe it is also helpful in standardizing our terminology, which will make it easier when taking board exams or talking with colleagues from other osteopathic schools. It includes contributors well known within the osteopathic community, including Michael and William Kuchera, Melicien Tettambel, Eileen DiGiovanna, and many others. As a family practice resident I frequently turn to this textbook first when I want to know more about how to treat a patient or when preparing lectures for students and housestaff.

This text is actually required reading for most if not all osteopathic medical students. It is a 'textbook', however, and hence completely (sometimes exhaustively!) comprehensive. But it is easy to read so that anyone with an interest in OMT will get a methodic how-to for myriad techniques, also a thorough history of osteopathic medicine to boot! One of my OMT professors at the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine wrote or co-wrote a few of the chapters so of course, I think those are the best! If you are looking for an educational approach to learning manipulation and the reasons behind it, this is a valuable resouce.

This is a collected set of lectures presented at the Smithsonian Institution in September of 1993. The book has been out for several years, and it's just my bad luck to have recently discovered it; I'm happy though, to live in a time when such information is open to the public, and open almost as soon as it is known.

The lecturers proceed through the phases of the life of Jesus-- or rather, chronologically as they would through the life of any person. The lectures deduce from archeological information the politics of the times, and reason to the kind of message Jesus must have delivered in order to attract a following. They are not afraid of the implications of, for example, the fact that Jesus came from Galilee. They dismiss with granite hard logic, the infancy narratives of Luke and Matthew as fiction, and then proceed to deal with the fact that Jesus' origins in Galilee meant certain things, and here in what they are.

The gospels are not dealt with as historical documents, but they are dealt with as texts that contain valuable information of the nature of Jesus message, (or at any rate, the public's reception of it) and therefore what made him attractive as a missionary figure. Several of the lecturers peel away layers of the texts to show different historical additions and interpolations. Jesus' eschatological message may not have been part of his original message after all, we learn.

This book is full of tightly packed prose, with little "paradigmatic" lecturese to wade through-- it's actually exciting to read. If you have the opportunity, you may read it in one setting.

I guess that the lectures must have come from notes, and not transcriptions, because they are chatty to different degrees. Some almost seem to be transcriptions, and some read like book chapters. I found this jarring at first, but as I read more, I found that it helped me distinguish among the lecturers, and that this was helpful.

My only reservation is Stephen J. Patterson's "Sources for a Life of Jesus." There is nothing new here. He gives the usual information about the historical question of the primacy of Matthew, the Markan Priority Hypothesis, the Q Hypothesis, the interpolation of Josephus, the Talmud Sanhedrin, etc. Anyone who has read a book on the historical Jesus before can skip this lecture.

And anyone with even a cursory interest in the Jesus of history should read this book.

Anyone wishing to get a brief overview of current trends in biblical scholarship as it focusses on the gospel narratives will find this book useful and enjoyable. Warning: fundamentalists will not like this book.

I'd known about the legend of Hondo Crouch since I was a boy, from my father always playing Jerry Jeff Walker's "A Man Must Carry On"--dedicated to "the clown prince of Texas." But this book took my interest to a whole new level. What a character! The best thing about it is that it could have been just a sentiment look back at one girl's kooky dad, but it isn't. It's honest, and just as heart-wrenching at times, as it is hiralous at others. "Hondo's girl" paints a beautiful portait of her old man here, one that may even change the way you look at the world yourself.

One of the most fascinating aspects of this novel, was not its sheer page-turning power, but the way the author introduced the weather as an additional character. I read this book last summer and literally found myself shivering from the cold that the Greenland setting induced. Would make a great Harrison Ford movie!

I love this Bible - I make sure this is the Bible our church gets for our graduation gifts for the seniors every year - it's also the Bible I bought my wife. The print is clear, and it's a durable Bible with lots of accurate notes.

This study Bible is one of the best versions out there. It is very easy to follow and understand. It has outlines and footnotes that allow you to apply each verse to everyday life.

I am a Seminary student and have gone through many study bibles. However, this work by W.A. Criswell is by far the best in the business.

No doubt it is true. A must for everyone who has seen the movie 'Ghost & the Darkness'. Story of two man eating lions slaughtering railway construction workers in Tsavo, then the British East Africa and how they were eliminated. If you have ever hunted or had a brush with wild cats in the wild you will get the same feeling of nervousness and helplesness again. It is also very informative regardng african tribes and the customs we rarely see even on television these days. The movie was good the book just makes it better.

The Man-Eaters of Tsavo is an exciting account of the author's pursuit of 2 man-eating lions that are disrupting the progress of a British railway. While I was disappointed the lions were dispatched early into the book (all suspense ruined by the chapter title "death of the first man-eater"),the rest of the book shows us a bit more about Lt. Colonel Patterson, Africa, and the era Man-Eaters of Tsavo was written in. Even if the man-eaters are dead, Patterson still manages to recount other hunts and adventures he has in Africa while the railroad is being built.
Also of note are the stunning photographs of the wildlife, land, and natives. They add immensely to the book, although it can be argued a good book needs no pictures. The pictures, in addition to the large font, make this book a short, but enjoyable read.

You don't have to be a hunter to enjoy this book--I'm not, and I loved it. Contrary to the title's suggestion, this book is not merely about the Lions of Tsavo. In fact, both lions are dispatched fairly early in the book. Nevertheless, Patterson's account of their carnage, and efforts to kill them, are detailed and exciting, and probably unlike anything that will ever be written again.

This book is also gives a micro-social look at British imperialism in Africa around the turn of the century...an interesting slice of Africana, especially through our arguably hypersensitive, politically-correct modern eyes.

Generally, an easy read, filled with local color, hunting, and excitement.

Need to get inside the hardware, and don't mind a few bumps along the way? Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach will take you deeper than you probably ever thought you wanted to go. The focus is on uniprocessor architecture, although it does provide introductory coverage of multiprocessors. This work covers the various designs and alternatives for instruction sets, pipelining, cache, memory, I/O, etc. and provides current examples as well as historical references. The weakness of the book is that the exercises at the end of each chapter go beyond the scope of the material covered. Although certainly worthwhile and complimentary to the material presented in the chapters, the exercises seem to be material for the next level. The authors should either make the exercises more related to the chapter explanations and examples, or they should offer relevant extended references. It would also be helpful if they provided an answer set to a percentage of the exercises. The user of the 2nd edition is well advised to grab the errata file from the publisher, see Preface, as there are many errors in the printing. Overall, I would recommend this book to those who are serious about gaining an advanced understanding of modern computer architecture. Be advised, a good basic understanding is necessary before tackling this work.

To address some of the cocerns others have raised, let me start by saying this is absolutely *the* reference book used in all of Computer Science and Computer Engineering. This is the book they use to teach the very basic and the most advanced classes. So bear that in mind.

If you are not a serious student, this book will be difficult to work through. If you are lazy and unwilling to really sit down and think about the material here, you won't be able to comprehend it well enough to solve the problems.

But, if you have a desire to learn this material and approach it with an open mind, you'll be delighted with the content. I wish it went more in-depth into modern processor design issues, but it lays the groundwork for understanding not only where we have all come from, but leads to where we're going, and why.

No other single book covers such a huge and complex topic so clearly and simply. But if you're unwilling to work at it, be prepared to hate the book.

This book walks you through the evolution of the computer architecture, touching on all the core concepts: basic operation in an ALU, cache systems, memory management, branch prediction, multiprocessor interconnects, specific processor designs, pipelining, and so much more. There's no better book to put on your desk.

The complaints of one of the reviewer are perfectly justified in the sense that using this book as your first one in "computer architecture" will probably make you leave the subject very soon. This is an advanced book discussing the problems of computer architecture but with the "instruction set" point of view. The intent of this book is not to teach you basics in computer architecture!

For introductory textbooks, rather go to the other one from Hennessy and Patterson "Computer organization and design : The hardware/software interface" or Tanenbaum's "Structured Computer Organization".

However, with considerations about the scope of the book, it is excellent even if not easy. I don't think there something better on the market in the subject.

Some chapters are easy to read, but some just don't have enough examples. I found myself stumped many times trying to attempt the exercises and finding the info that I was missing on the internet.

As others have stated, this book is full of advanced computer architecture concepts, details, and real-world case studies.

However, while using this book in a class, I have come to realize how poor of a job it does at explaining said topics. I almost gave this 2 stars for an educational text, but for overall use I gave it 3.

The examples in the book give the answer immediately and provide hardly any explanation as to the answer. The most explanatory portions of the text are figures, which you have to reason through with little help.

An analogy to an example in this text is this:

Problem:
"Addition is the sum of two numbers. As an example, add 3 + 3."

Solution:
"3 + 3 = 6. Hence, addition is a useful operation and we'll use it from now on."

This is slightly exaggerated, but is not much different from how this book treats topics that a student needs explained.

I congratulate the authors on their knowledge and credentials, but they need to do a better job at instructing their readers.

This is by far the best text for a second course in computer architecture. It is an advanced book, so I don't recommend it for as a text for a first course in comp. arch. For a first course, refer to the text by the same authors titled Computer Organization and Design: A hardware/software Interface.
In any case, this text is one of the best text I've seen. (And I have seen lots of computer books, from compiler design to VLSI design) If you're interested in how hardware works, get this book!

This book is very well writen. It is done in a well thought out manner and the layout and discussion parts are excellent. It would be good to have a decent handle on recent theology, however. It will breach some answers and conclusions that will need prior knowledge for the reader. Dale Allison does a fantastic job with his argument and ideas. It is a great book for those considering the idea of the Apocalyptic Jesus.

The book is good at keeping your attention. It is the second Patterson novel I've read (both in the last three weeks). The first was Kiss the Girls and Jack and Jill is not as intense. The Truth School Killer storyline reveals the author's need to infuse the life of black low income Washington D.C. residents into his novels. In Kiss the Girls, you had some description of Alex Cross's home and neighborhood. Although good background for that novel, Patterson goes too far with the Truth School Killer storyline. He should have stuck with Jack and Jill as a solo storyline. The ending was too abrupt and cliche'd in dealing with the conspiracy angle, perhaps because of the overall length of the book. I was disappointed when he cut off the story in the last few chapters. The entire novel would have been much better off focusing solely on Jack and Jill and their killing spree. In fact, more development of their motivation would have been better.

Okay, so Jack And Jill was not as great as Along Came A Spider and Kiss The Girls, but those two were quite exceptional. Jack And Jill was right up there, though. Like always, I was there at Alex Cross's side observing the D.C. life. In all of Patterson's novels everything is so realistic; it is so easy to get lost in the city and to experience everything with Cross. I thought I had solved the homicide cases, but I should have known. With all the eerie and suspensful twists, there is absolutely no way of predicting the novel. My advice to you? Read the book! You don't have the money? Go to the library (sorry Amazon)! You won't be able to finish it before it's due? Yeah, right. Trust me, you'll read the first page and you'll keep readin' 'till the "Dragonslayer" is finished. You don't understand "Dragonslayer?" - well, you'll just have to read the book, now won't you

I loved Kiss the Girls and Along Came A Spider, and felt that Jack and Jill was a continuation of a look into one mans life. Patterson created a terrific character in Alex Cross. I can't wait for the next Cross book.