Maybe it is unfair to evaluate this book by the coverage of one condition, but I ordered it for one reason, to find out what is the best available evidence about inflammatory bowel diseases (Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). The 34 page index includes only one of these terms: Crohn's disease. This leads me to the section titled "Inflammatory bowel disease". In it ulcerative colitis is mentioned as many times (once) as Crohn's disease. Yet those terms have escaped indexing.

The section contains only one paragraph with 6 lines. Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are not differentiated. The therapies mentioned are surgery and the drugs that are already most often prescribed and most toxic. Nothing about elemental diets and other nutritional approaches. Nothing about nutrients that are depleted due to the disease or due to the recommended drug therapies. Unlike most sections in this book, this one contains no references to literature.

This is a fine example of authority based medicine in an evidence based medicine book. The only reason for including this section must be that the chapter on "Bleeding from lower gastrointestinal tract" would not be complete without it. The authors did not have the time or interest to search for evidence on this topic.

My only other impression is that the frequency of numbers (mainly percentages) exceeds the frequency of words that could be found in a general purpose English dictionary.

I did find a list of references for inflammatory bowel diseases in another book on evidence based medicine. This book is in Japanese but most references are in English. Publisher Kinpodo, 1997/11, ISBN476530874X.

More hagiography than biography, David van Praagh has provided a highly lucid and very readable account of Thailand's democratization process covering a 50-year period.

This history is primarily based on the words and deeds of MR Seni Pramoj, accomplished lawyer, diplomat, musician and politician. The book is well researched and sourced, and the author has obviously conducted numerous interviews with the key players over a lengthy time frame. However, Seni is nearly always portrayed in all too good a light, and this becomes grating after a while. All too often in Thai history, the reality of any situation is obscured by various shades of grey, but in this book Seni, at least in his own view, played the unwilling and humble hero throughout many key events in Thailand dating back to 1932.

The author is especially strong on providing detailed background about events leading upto and after the end of the Second World War. As a wartime ally of Japan, Thailand (then Siam) was in danger of losing its sovereign status to the victorious Allied powers, and Great Britain in particular had designs on Thai land and resources. The description of how Britain was stymied (principally by Seni) in its aims reads more like a thriller than dry history, and the author is to be commended in this regard.

Military rule in the 1950's and 1960's and the tragic events of 1973, 1976 and 1992, when many students and others lost their lives in the fight for democracy, are all well documented by van Praagh, who also provides some interesting insights into the role played throughout by the Thai monarchy.

Unfortunately, the book ends as true hagiography in praising Seni almost without reserve.

I would certainly recommend this book to anyone interested in the fascinating period of Thai history it covers. I would also add the caveat, however, that one must take much of the information provided directly by or about Seni with a "pinch of salt".

I wont buy your book! Are you floating in money now? He didnt fool anyone. The Christian grows over time. Good Try though. :)

quote: berkowitz is so smart he can MAKE people believe what he wants them to believe

David Berkabum still doesn't understand WHY he SLAUGHTERED HIS VICTIMS.

You're saying this guy's reformed and yet he still doesn't know why he slaughered his victims. You're saying the space shuttle's safe to fly but you can't understand why the Columbia broke apart? Doesn't repentance involve taking the time to examine your conscience? Taking the time to understand why you made mistakes?

There are also many lies and inconsistances in his testimony.For example, did any of you born agains know that he was a born again christian long before he slaughtered? Yeah that's right, he was baptized in a baptist church in 1974. Attended church services regularly. Was an active member.

I hope not all born again christians consider this slaughter boy their hero...To do so is to advocate what he's done.

IF ANYONE WAS PAYING ATTENTION YOU WOULD HAVE NOTICED THAT SOME OF THESE POEMS WERE WRITTEN WHEN HE CLAIMED TO BE THE "SON OF HOPE". JUST THOUGHT YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW THAT!

i would not recommend it for reading, trust me.

The Enterprise takes Kostas Spyroukis and his daughter back to his new home planet. Spyroukis is an explorer and renowned colonizer of worlds, and has decided to settle on his final world. On the way home he collapses, and dies. Dr. McCoy discovers that the cause is a combination of argon in the planet's atmosphere, and zeton radiation emitted by the sun. Alone, neither of these things is harmful, but together they make up a slow poison. Captain Kirk sends the ship off on a mission to remove the colonists from the deadly planet, but on the way they are intercepted by a powerful being calling himself Enowil, who identifies himself as an Organian split with his fellows, and living in an uncharted region of space. He has brought the Enterprise, as well as a Klingon and Romulan ship to his home to help him answer the question of what he is missing. The first to discover will be given anything they desire. Kirk determines that he must participate, lest one of the others discover the answer and wish for an unbeatable superweapon.

The writing here is rather pedestrian, not what you would expect from a seasoned s-f writer such as Goldin. Too often I found myself saying, "Why don't they just.....?" The usual answer is, because then the problem would be solved and the book would be even shorter than it is (179 pages). Couldn't Kirk ask Enowil to intervene on the colony world, and set that problem aside? Eliminating the argon from the world's atmosphere would seem to be an effective method.

This book also suffers from a malady common to the Bantam paperbacks, which all seem to have a title with some variation of "world" in it. It involves an extremely powerful machine or being, which Kirk and crew must outwit, or persuade to their side, or some such. This was also a frequent problem on the TV series, and is a symptom of lazy plotting. With a nearly omnipotent agent, virtually anything can be accomplished, and any plot holes the writer puts him/herself in can be dodged. However, it also leads to many "why don't they" questions.

I can't recommend this book, unless you are a real ST novel completist. It's not bad, really, but there's not much to get excited about.

This book was written in the 1970s - and it's very...primitive. The Klingons are power-hungry bullies out for blood at any cost - this was really annoying. And Romulans with a strict code of honor? The two species seemed somewhat reversed. And the "guessing game" got real old, real fast. Also, there were many unnecessary, confusing scenes. For early Trek, it's okay, but it doesn't live up to current expectations.

The field of patent searching has changed greatly over the last few years -- mainly due to the fact that all searching is done electronically now. Any book on this topic more than a year or so old is necessarily going to be dated. This probably wasn't a bad book when it came out, but you cannot learn to patent search properly with this book now.

If you have a decent command of computers, have performed searches on the internet before, are capable of following basic instructions, and are familiar with libraries, then don't bother buying this book. All of the information in the book is readily available from the PTO website and it's links. While the information is available elsewhere, this book does do a fine job of compiling it all in one source that is accessible to everyone (read lowest common denominator).

Many references that speak of Internet sites require updating, and Mr. Hitchcock and crew have done just that for this second edition. Inventors have various levels of expertise; some need more instructions than do others. This book puts all on a nearly- equal footing. It takes the mystery (and a lot of work) out of what once was a daunting and truly tedious task. Kudos to David and to Nolo Press -- and to the Internet and those agencies and companies [e.g., IBM] putting their data on-line for free access!

This work on foraging theory is extremely weak on all aspects of foraging theory or ecology. I would recommend to interested individuals almost all other textbooks on foraging, most which are much more informative.

During the course of my Ph.D. (still unfinished), I have worked my way through Stephens and Krebs' "Foraging Theory" four times. Here are my impressions:

The book is very well organized; chapters introduce new concepts incrementally, and the overall flow is very good. The authors start with the classical patch and prey models, adding complexity in later chapters. Separate chapters address trade-offs and simultaneous optimization, dynamic optimization, and rules-of-thumb. The concluding chapters consider model testing and the success of the optimization paradigm.

The writing is somewhat stiff, but still pretty good for a technical work. The bit about how great tits rarely feed on conveyor belts in nature is an exemplar of scientific understatement.

If mathematics are not your strong point, or your background is weak, you will have a hard time with many of the proofs. I skipped over most of these sections expecting to get the gist of the material, only to regret my decision during my comprehensive exams!

While Stephens and Krebs provide a thorough overview of the material, "Foraging Theory" suffers from one serious flaw. The presentation focuses on model development, rather than analysis and interpretation. In order to truly understand these models, the student absolutely must work through "real" examples under the tutelage of an experienced mentor.

The binding has held up very well. The book looks nearly new, despite having been stomped on several times and thrown out a third-story window at least once.

Even after all of these years, "Foraging Theory" still represents the state-of-the-art in optimization-based approaches to behavioral analysis.

This book is a very entertaining read. I have done extensive research on the CIA, particularly regarding the Bay of Pigs, and this was one of the first books I read on the subject. HOWEVER, even though I assumed that what I had read in the book was highly accurate, as I read two and three other books on the same subjects I was looking for [The CIA's Secrete Operations, Spying For America, and others] I realized that the other books seemed to agree with each other, as well as with the official, recently declassified reports on the Bay of Pigs by Colonel Hawkins-who ran the Bay of Pigs operation- yet THIS BOOK CONSISTENTLY MISLEAD ITS READER, which confused the hell out of me, since this book had been the first one I had read on the subject. There remarks such as the following: "Some two thousand Cuban rebels land at the Bay of Pigs. They are hit immediatly by Castro's armed forces. A debacle is in the making." (pg.307, opening of chapter 22) this is just one example of misleading information. What actually happened was that the 1187 cuban-exiles that landed were actually split up into three separate groups miles away from each other, none of which where "hit" by Castro's forces for hours. They did encounter a roving militia of about 40 people who promply surrendured, and a CIA scuba team that was leaving beacons for the invasion boats to navigate to were forced to open fire on a small contingent of Cuban forces (the CIA forces eliminated them). This does not, however, suggest what is reported in the above quoted statement. Other examples proliferate across the book. just a warning that this book seems to want to tell a good story more than give an accurate account of what actually happened. If all you want is an entertaining read, then the book will probably still be fine, since the fact bending tended to be restricted to small, inconsequential details. I must say, however, that Ambrose sure does know how to write an entertaining book.

This book is very helpful in understanding the challenges of today's world. Intelligence is a vital requirement for three objectives: Knowing what your opponents are doing; deceiving your opponents about what you are doing; and using covert means to change or replace your opponents.

As Ambrose makes clear, Eisenhower was introduced to the world of intelligence by Winston Churchill and rapidly became fascinated with it. His chief intelligence officer Kenneth Strong, a British General, kept him remarkably informed throughout the Second World War. Ambrose argues, and he is almost certainly right, that only the combination of great intelligence about the Germans and the most successful deception plan in history made the invasion of France possible in 1944. He also notes that deception had also been brilliantly used in 1943 to convince the Germans that the allies were going to invade Sardinia or Greece rather than Sicily. The result was a reallocation of German forces to the wrong places, which weakened their forces in Sicily.

There are a lot of lessons in this book for our generation. Eisenhower valued technology and took risks to develop it. He knew how to undertake successful covert operations. For anyone who would understand the uses of intelligence in the modern world, this is a useful book.

After reading Citizen Soldiers, D-Day, and Band of Brothers, I came to one conclusion. Ambrose is great at interviewing veterans and taking those interviews and making pretty good books out of them. However, he should not attempt to analyze the strategy of several generals in World War 2. Ambrose is ignorant to the fact that even though our allies in the east were communists, they still bled alot more than the Western Allies did and suffered far more from the wrath of the Third Reich. Ambrose is a fool for criticizing Cornelius Ryan's The Last Battle. Ryan was able to interview hundreds from BOTH sides of the war. While Ambrose just interviews Americans, Ryan interviewed Americans, British, Russians, and Germans. Also don't forget that Ryan was able to interview all the key players of the Battle of Berlin; Ike, Bradley, Chuikov, Rokossovskii, Heinrici, and too many more for me to list here. If you want a great account of the Battle of Berlin and the decision of the West not to attack the capital, read Ryan's The Last Battle. Take it from a guy who was with our troops and interviewed ALL of the major players in the battle.

This is a short book about why Ike did not use the opportunity to capture Berlin in 1945. This is an earlier book before Ambrose became widely known, and to be honest more scholorly and less reader friendly. It is a short read.

Ike did not sanction the capture of Berlin for a number of reasons. First, Berlin was in the Soviet sphere in Germany, and second because his troops were not in as good a position as the Russians of taking the Nazi capital. The cost in human lives would also be great, especially if the city would have to be handed back to the Russians. For these reasons, Ike decided that Berlin was not worth the risk, and sent his forces toward Leipzig. Ike made a sound military decision.

I am a hugh fan of Stephen Ambrose. However, this very small book was a great disappointment. First of all its only about 100 pages plus appendices. It is more like reading a college history report. Stephen Ambrose is my favorite history author but, he seems to have a blind spot when it comes to Eisenhower. In Ambroses eyes he can do no wrong. If you want a much more detailed viewpoint of the battle for Berlin read The Last Battle by Cornelius Ryan.

One star may be a bit harsh, but books like this should be fairly easy to put together and this one just doesn't work. The Q&A format is all wrong because there is no way that the author can anticipate half of a reader's questions. And the format also makes it tougher to use as a reference because the book does not systematically go through the software. Some things get glossed over and anyone looking for detailed help will be disappointed. Even though I have Money 2001 software, I preferred to use the MS Money 2000 for Dummies book because it's far better organized. And the software revisions don't change much from year to year, so the book was still highly valid.

I bought this book because I was having trouble figuring out certain things that can be done with MSN Money 2001. I would have returned it but I bought it and didn't read for 4 months, when I finally read it I was truly disapointed. This book does not tell you anything but the pure basics, it is not a reference book, it is a how to balance your checkbook book. Please before you buy this item or any by this company, I would suggest getting something else.

This is a good, solid beginners guide, very readable and well organized. It's not as 'cute' as the Dummies series, but stronger on content. Worth a lot more than it cost!!

Although Prima has written many good guides, this is not one of them. It stinks. Descriptions are weak, strategies poor, and instructions difficult to follow.

The Prima guide has tons of useful information, like how to get certain items and where certain bugs tend to be. The information is accurate for the most part, but it lacks the one thing that is essential for a game like this--pictures of all the items, characters, insects, ect. What I like about the Prima guide is that it goes into more detail about gameplay and has strategies for doing things (such as getting items). Since item collecting is like 99.99% of the game focus, and will be 150% of your obsession, having pictures of all the items is essential and the lack thereof a huge oversight.

This is a good book for those hardcore Animal Crossing fans out there. It's good because it lets you check off those items that you have already gotten. It also lists all events and all possible characters that can be encountered in the game. However, this really isn't that necessary because you can find most information online. =x