All beginning ophthalmology residents should have this book. It makes the first night on call much easier. Great quick reference.

As an optometrist in practise for 25 years, I try to update my desk reference collection regularly. A new young associate recommended this manual,and he was right. Its compact, comprehensive, alphabetically-organzied format makes it easy to use and good browsing material for the rare quiet moment at the office. As well it keeps me current. I think this is a great buy.

Organized, thorough and useful. Includes refractive surgery management

Beautiful pictures, touching and moving story. About the restoration of the wolves.

Beautiful pictures illustrates the many different wolves that were restored to yellowstone (#10, #9etc...). Illustrates the effort the yellowstone had to put in to restore the wolf to its natural habitat. Very interesting to the average wolf lover and those who are interested in what happened in the 1995 restoration of the wolves to yellowstoen.

This book brings you right into the experience of bringing the wolves back to Yellowstone where they belong! Find out the behind the scenes activity that brought the sight and sound of the wolf back after an absence of over 60 years. You'll never be the same after reading this. Excellent!!

Well thought out and informative. The author strikes a solid balance between being two technical and glossing over the subject material.

The graphs, and illustrations are of high quality.

I found this book very helpfull in discovering some of the things needed to design a performance yacht.

Steve Killing and Douglas Hunter present a very well written and beautifully presented analysis of the historic and technical aspects of yacht design, and many the tricks of the trade in designing safe, fast and reliable yachts. Using many diagrams and examples, the authors introduce you to the basics of designing fast racing sailboats and present the challenges faced by contemporary yacht designers in achieving a good balance between safety and speed.
You will get to know most of the aspects of designing a sailboat, from hull design, speed predictions, stability, rigging, proper ballasting and keel design. You will be introduced to the use of coefficients which allow the comparison of different yachts in terms of relative weight for a given length, the sail area relative to displacement, etc.
Full with interesting details it is a delightful book to read and a very useful reference source. A great starting book on the subject.

This is a book written by a knowledgable and experienced designer, Steve Killing, who understood his audience to be the average person. You don't really even have to know how to sail to appreciate this book (but I'd suggest it). It's well written and the diagrams are perhaps the best I've seen in a boat book.

On the downside the editing of the book places diagrams occasionally two pages away from the text that details it. This does is disturb the flow of the topic you are deep in the middle of. Plus, some interesting topics (such as adjustable backstays) are given a very light overview, and some (like bulkhead/hull/deck joint mechanics) are not covered at all.

Basically, it's a book about performance yacht design. That means it is primarily focused on the sailing aspects or hulls, and rigging, and keels, as opposed to liveability, or pure structural tradeoffs in yacht building.

That said, I've read it twice already, which for me is a rarity. Buy this book!

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This is a great guide to a long forgotten SNES game created in 1995. This particular guide is much better than the "official" version, which only gave us long, hard to read maps. This "unofficial guide" provides a lot of detailed screen shots, especially helpful when trying to find certain hidden items. I found it a lot more useful than the Nintendo guide for achieving the 100 point levels needed to unlock the bonus levels. I think that there is a Game Boy Advance version of this game coming soon and if they don't make changes, this will be an excellent guide to the game.

I think that this book will help everyone who wants to know how to play Yoshi's Island; Super MArio World 2

i made to to harry hedgehosgs cave but tont know how to get out of it can you help me with this level

This is a most impressive book on the African Elephant, with page after page of fabulous photos of these mighty beasts. It would make a great coffee table book just for the pictures but it is much more than that.

The main focus is on preservation of the species in the face of shrinking habitats and the poaching for ivory that continues today. The efforts of 16 African wildlife preserves and parks are fully described here.

Each region is profiled with information on its elephants and several photos of the elephants specific to that area. The mature huge tuskers of Kruger National Park are truly awesome.

There is also plenty of information on elephant history, physiology and social interaction. This is a beautiful and significant book on the life and challenges facing the African Elephant.

This is a wonderful book for anyone interested in African elephants. It combines outstanding photographs with interesting and entertaining text.

This book moved me beyond what feelings I have ever known. I learned a great deal of facts from this book and hope to share them with others. I urge other readers to cherish this book...as I do.

In 1941 the United States of America started fighting the expansionism of the Japanese Empire during World War II. We needed a man who could win the war, save as many soldiers as possible and make the American people proud of their choice. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt made a smart choice. He chose General Douglas McArthur, the man would win World War II, make Japan the economic powress it has become, and charmed the American people with his great voice after Korea. This is the life of a man, who many people think, he should have been God, this is the life of General Douglas McArthur.

Manchester has produced a book that covers the entire life of the controversial five star general, from his infancy to his death, in the finest of detail and in a lively literary style. - If you want to know about MacArthur, this is the book for you. The author very carefully presents facts about the general and lets you the reader make up your mind on where the truth lies. Manchester does not appear to "take sides" in this book; he does not take the general and make him a god, nor does he denigrate what the general has done. He presents the many sides of this mysterious general and lets you, the reader, put it all together which is not difficult, since Manchester provides you the tools to do it: plenty of rich detail, plenty of quotes, excerpts of memos and messages, much detail on his private family life. Again, Manchester does not tell the reader what to think. For example, with the fall of the Philippnes, it seems that the general has made up his mind to stay and, along with his family, expects in a matter-of-fact way to commit suicide rather than be taken prisoner by the Japanese. You wonder about his wife and child, but Manchester doesn't tell you what they want to do: he lets them speak. - An excellent biography and significant historical account. Probably the best ever on MacArthur whether you like the general or not.

The book is alive and very interesting. It is like reading a newspaper and not a rendition of the facts about a dead man's life. It is inspiring to read how the general overcame every obstacle to achieve his goals. I have read the book more than once.

I found this book to have a good argument in many places - some of which are very original and often overlooked. For instance, Wilson does a good job showing how infants were included in the New Covenant Jewish community by their circumcision. The Old Covenant included believers and their children within it, and we find no indication that such family solidarity is annulled by the institution of the New. If the children of Jews were included in the believing community in NT times, why then not the Gentile children? Such a discrimination against the Gentile children would erect again the Jewish/Gentile barrier which Christ abolished through his death (Eph. 2).
While this book is a very good introduction to the issues at hand, I found his opinion that immersion is a viable option for baptism to be unconvincing. Simply because 'baptism' is found in Rom. 6 connected with Christ's burial and resurrection does not mean that immersion is a faithful mode. Christ's crucifixion is also mentioned. How then does immersion represent that? I must say, though, that I believe with Wilson that we should respect the baptistic traditions of other evangelical churches and accept those who not baptized according to our denomination as truly baptized.
One thing I wish Wilson did more was to cover the Old Testament ceremonial washings and Johannnic baptism. It seems to me that these are essential components to any study on baptism.
Don't get me wrong. I agree for the most part with Wilson's conclusions. I think it's a fine book. I wouldn't hesitate for a second to recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about the paedobaptist argument. But I wouldn't recommend just reading this book, either. And I don't think Wilson would disagree. It certainly wasn't intended to be an "Everything You Can Possibly Know About the Infant Baptism Debate" book.
My suggestion: read it. But also read Randy Booth's "Children of the Promise," Murray's "Christian Baptism," Jay Adams' "The Meaning and Mode of Baptism" as well. These are all good, short arguments that will fill in the gaps that Wilson didn't cover.

This book was one of two that finally convinced me that infant baptism is not only acceptable Biblically, but is, in fact, the proper approach.

Wilson's writing style is easy to read. The book is short, but powerful. If you have been wrestling with this issue (as I had for several years), you owe it to yourself to read this book.

The debate over infant baptism has raged across the centuries, often causing rifts and wounds that won't heal. The tragic thing about these debates is that they often rest on misinformation and confusion. How many advocates of infant baptism attempt to appeal to the phantom children of the Philippian jailer? How many opponents of infant baptism equate it with baptismal regeneration? In both cases, too many! Wilson, ever the careful exegete and consummate logician, presents a clear case for infant baptism by starting where any discussion on this subject should: in the OLD TESTAMENT! Very few if any proponents of believer's baptism begin their argument in the Old Testament (and if you start with the New, you will inevitably argue against infant baptism!) Wilson's discussion of God's covenants with His people is worth the price of the book, but it is only the appetizer. The main course is his studied presentation of the validity of infant baptism. Every objection raised by the adherents of believer's baptism is dealt with thoroughly and fairly. Even if you are dead set against the idea of infant baptism, you can learn much from this book that is beyond dispute: the nature of God's covenant relationship with all Christians. Every pastor and Bible teacher should have this volume in their library. Every Christian wanting to have a balanced view of baptism should as well.

Groothuis does an excellent job in debunking "postmodern" evangelical theological forays while concurrently defending and explicating historic Christianity. Acknowledging Francis Schaeffer and Carl F.H. Henry as paradigmatic influences in his own life, Groothuis is not ashamed to be identified (in our present "innovative" melieu) with such stalwarks that many in the christian academy would probably consider "passe".
His trenchant and insuperable criticisms of the logical fallacies, inconsistancies, and pedantic hubris of Stanley Grenz, William Willimon, Philip Kenneson, J.Richard Middleton, Brian Walsh, Lesslie Newbigin, and Nancey Murphy is sure to route this cadre back to their proverbial "drawing board".His reminder that they naively conscript atheist postmodern theoriticians into their cause additionally exposes them as victims of a "guilded" plausabilty crisis and a "loss of nerve" for the cause of Christ.
Douglas Groothuis valiantly and convincingly restates the True Truth that is Christianity and "Truth Decay" demands a reading from all of those that would be faithful in our time in "contending for the faith once for all delievered to the saints"!
Maybe a few of the aforementioned interlocutors could get Groothuis to provide autographed copies; that is if their not afraid of having their "virtual" subverted by Gods actual reality.

Groothuis has done a good job in this book of profiling postmodernism and discrediting it in light of its devastating theories on truth and living. In the process, he does a good job of affirming the reality of universal truth and showing how Christianity's worldview best honors absolute truth in comparison to other worldviews, most notably postmodernism.

This book is an attempt to touch on various aspects of the postmodernist issue. Groothuis spends a good deal of time deconstructing the postmodernist objection to universal truth and its embrace of 'cultural truths', along with the worldview's inability to provide any basis for the many presuppositions it makes. He also analyzes the massive internal inconsistencies prevalent throughout postmodern thought and eloquently demonstrates that many adherents to postmodernism tend to be first in line to fail the litmus tests of their own worldview. He also analyzes the issue of whether language can express truths beyond itself, which is a common assertion among prominent postmodernists. Groothuis also spends a chapter looking at the dangerous apologetics that some prominent Christians have developed which resemble postmodernist thinking. In many of these areas, Groothuis's analysis is thorough and excellent, with an emphasis on heavy quotation from those he is critiquing.

Although somewhat minor, I must also say that I thought the cover of the paperback was outstanding. The cover depicts a barren landscape, almost a wasteland. This illustration is very applicable to the postmodern worldview. After reading this book, I think quite a few readers will rightly conclude that postmodernism is an extremely depressing and hopeless way of thinking about the world and its inhabitants. In many ways, the impression I got from Groothuis's book is that postmodernism is really on a quest to devalue almost everything under the guise that we don't really know anything. Groothuis's quote from Dorothy Sayers about halfway through the book is one of the best quotes I've ever heard about the futility of the postmodernist outlook on life and truth. Utterly devastating.

I debated whether to give the book 4 or 5 stars. I opted for 5, but I will note a couple of regrets I have about the book that do not diminish the overall rating but are regrets nonetheless. First, Groothuis's analysis of postmodernism appears pretty confined to the atheistic/agnostic wing of postmodernism. And while I certainly appreciated his appraisal in this area, I think Groothuis would have really hit a homerun if he had also taken some time to analyze the spiritual postmodernism that is rampant as well. In many ways, the spirituality aspect of postmodernism is more important than the non-spiritual aspect. New Age spirituality draws heavily from postmodernism and this phenomenon is more prevalent than atheistic postmodernism, at least in America. But this is an area that Groothuis does not explore. Lastly, Groothuis's defense of egalitarianism against the charge of postmodernism is highly subjective in a way that the rest of the book is not. Groothuis and his wife are well known advocates of egalitarianism, and this advocacy is clearly prominent in this section. This would have been okay had Groothuis's analysis of this issue been as honest as the rest of the book. But whereas Groothuis quotes extensively from postmodernists throughout the rest of the book, he does not quote at all from the traditionalist school within Christianity while trying to advance the school of egalitarianism. Ultimately, Groothuis does not present a fair depiction of the traditionalist school of thought (he goes so far as to summarize that traditionalism, in his opinion, is based on prejudices that are outdated, which is ad hominem and inaccurate), and this is regretable since such an approach tends to resemble postmodernism in its superficiality.

But given that these two points are minor enough that the book still stands on its own as a solid critique of postmodernism, I give the book 5 stars and recommend it to anyone who is struggling with the meaning of truth, whether truth can be authoritative and universal, and what this means to daily living.

Everyone who is interested in a Christian approach to postmodernism with applications for theology must read this book. Groothuis is the first author to provide a useful overview of postmodernism from a Christian perspective while at the same time dealing substantively with theological issues. What we have here is a nuanced evangelicalism that sees evangelical theology's recognition of the objective and propositional nature of revelatory truth in scripture, not as a sad side effect of an Enlightenment Modernist ethos, but as a traditional, indeed pre-modern viewpoint that has viability in the contemporary context. While Groothuis is not naive about the way much evangelical evidentialism has relied too heavily on Modernist categories, he manages to avoid the broad strokes painted by authors like Grenz and McGrath, who at times seem to think that the very concept of scriptural infallibility itself is an Enlightenment construct, rather than the premodern notion that it is.

This book is the first to reply to Stanley Grenz and Alister McGrath in a way that does not fall prey to naive ultra-foundationalism (rather to more of a "modest foundationalism" like that of Alvin Plantinga) but at the same time does not run tail-tucked from pomo fads that evangelical theologians seem to be more scared of than anyone else (as Alan Jacobs rightly noted in his recent article in Atlantic Monthly). Unlike Grenz and McGrath (and their popular counterpart Chuck Smith, Jr.), Groothuis achieves a balance: he recognizes the importance of understanding the postmodern condition and even learning from it, without selling out to it.

One only hopes that Groothuis's next project will be his own book along the lines of Grenz's Renewing the Center, in which Groothuis will offer a more extensive version of the chapter that deals with the approaches of Grenz, McGrath, et al., and show that there is a credible way to be an evangelical in the postmodern era without scrapping the last 250 years of evangelical theological wisdom.

Mr Cazort is awesome. Never has one person done so much for mankind.

If you are confounded by "fickle fragments, subterranean subjects, pliant pronouns, or homonyms from Hell," Douglas Cazort offers help for those who transgress against the conventions of formal English. In UNDER THE GRAMMAR HAMMER, Cazort examines the 25 most significant grammatical errors committed by violators he identifies as "educated Americans." This concise reference book provides quick remedies for lessening the blows from hammers wielded by defenders of the correct word. Replete with colorful anecdotes and cogent explanations, UNDER THE GRAMMAR HAMMER provides strategies for resolving a dangling modifer or avoiding sexist language. The author's friendly yet authoritative approach to explaining the principles of English dispels the notion that grammar sometimes can be a four-letter word. Cazort accomplishes another purpose when discussing popular rules of thumb; he liberates readers from the idea that the English language is the sole property of English teachers or authorities on usage. He contends that the language belongs to all who speak and write English, and says he hopes his book helps people feel more secure in their ownership of language, especially when they are in the presence of English teachers. An English instructor and counselor at Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Oregon, Cazort completed the first edition of his book on the quincentenary of the publication of the first modern European language grammar. In 1492, when the Bishop of Avila presented Queen Isabella of Spain a copy of the premier grammar, he remarked, "Your majesty, language is the perfect instrument of empire." Five hundred years and a new edition later, readers will discover Cazort's UNDER THE GRAMMAR HAMMER to be an attractive alternative to imperialistic rule books.

(This review is reprinted from the spring 1998 issue of VANDERBILT MAGAZINE, the alumni magazine of Vanderbilt University, with permission of the reviewer.)

The humor, cartoons, and folksy style of this book make it easy to read and study. Highly useful for helping teachers to learn the grammar they most need in order to help students learn to edit for these twenty "most important" grammar mistakes, the book is great for student use, too. It includes a reassuring chapter titled "You Know More Grammar than You Know You Know, and You Need to Learn Less than you Think." The last chapter recommends "America Lighten Up."

From the moment we started reading this book, my kids and I were laughing about all the things moms can't do. It's funny and nicely illustrated, but best of all it puts a cute spin on how we involve our kids in our daily activities. If you like this one, you'll also like OLIVIA, about an energetic pig who wears herself and her mother out.

My toddlers love this book. They adore the bright pictures of the Mommy and child dinosaurs and especially the fun concepts (like racing in a grocery cart).

It is a quick read and often requested at bed time.

Douglas Wood really captures the pre-school mind as he takes a long look at all the little things Mom can't do. She can't push a grocery cart fast enough. She never knows how to pick out the right clothes. She eats all the wrong things for breakfast, like coffee and yogurt and bran flakes instead of Yummos with purple marshmallows. She always has trouble saying good-bye and she can't let go of a hug without a kiss or two or five. Poor Mom, she's helpless. It's a good thing she has her little one to look after her..... Told from the child's perspective, What Moms Can't Do is a creative and inventive story all pre-schoolers will love. Mr Wood's simple, gentle and witty text are beautifully complimented by Doug Cushman's colorful and expressive artwork featuring a mother and little dinosaur. Fortunately, that little dinosaur has found one thing that Moms do better than anyone else...they love you!