I have owned-A Sigh of Relief- for many years, I find it easy to read and easy to understand. A must for anyone with children!!

Hello Mary Clement Ph.D. How are you Do you remember me I am Ali Qasem Abu Dayyak you were my teacher in Birzeit University, you give me your book to read it, but unfortunatly i can't return it because you leave Palestine befor, i miss you i am looling for you every where, i reach this site during looking for you by name , by the book Address, by Virginia Commonwelth Un....elect. i aske for ur e-mail, your address, any thing to connect u. I am sorry to use this way to connect u but i have no choices, as every body look for his mother, sister.
Your Faithful Ali

Bill Jones and his many fine companions have compiled a truly noteworthy collection of stories, reviews, columns and more. I spent hours and hours poring over this distinguished work.

This book is the Bible of Internal Medicine. Anyone considering a career in medicine should have this book in their library. Comprehensive and well written, it is the gold standard of medical textbooks.

This book is the Bible of Internal Medicine. Anyone considering a career in medicine should have this book in their library. Comprehensive and well written, it is the gold standard of medical textbooks.

I have been using the 14th Edition of the main textbook for over two years now. The sheer size [and weight] of the book does not allow for easy carriage, especially when you have limited space. Moreover, I often had to leaf through reams of pages or read through several paragraphs when looking for information on specific topics. The companion handbook makes all these unnecessary. It is easy to carry around unnoticed in a small bag and, when there is need to double-check that elusive info, it is right there. Of course it is not as detailed as the parent text, but as a companion text, it fulfils its role very well.

I very much enjoyed this book, but could only give it four stars because it is a bit out of date regarding some of the instruments of the capital markets. For instance, credit derivatives and total return swaps are used to round out and diversiry bond portfolios especially in structured finance. Tavakoli has written an excellent book on these products: "Credit Derivatives" (Second Edition). These are off balance-sheet products that are a form of financing. Tavakoli also talks about other types of financing which reduce portfolio concentration risk.

For a textbook, this is written in a reader-friendly style. You can almost see the author at the blackboard explaining the concepts AND math in plain English. And yet, very little handwaving at all. On the other hand, this may also present special readability challenges: you may find yourself constantly flipping between text and tables to follow the discussion.

From a pedagogical point-of-view, some of the developments might have been more intuitively presented. For example, the chapter on option-pricing theory should mention the expected-value interpretation. Over all, however, this text does very well on this score.

I particularly liked the survey of empirical studies at the end of each major concept, that discusses the imperfections that other researchers have looked into, and their findings.

This is one of the core reference texts I keep on my desk.

This was one of the texts I had to read for one of my MBA classes. It provides an excellent theoretical background in finance and the theories that link finance to macro and micro economics. It is not very practical however. Not much in the book can be applied. It is a must, however, for any serious student of finance. The coverage of option models is a little light, however. I highly recommend that people have a background in calculus, differential equations, probability theory, and linear algebra before reading this book.

Recently I have had to brush up on my C programming skills as I haven't written anything since mid 1983. This is one of two books I have found that have been most useful. Unfortunetly, I have yet to find a book on C that is all encompassing and comprehensive. This book goes a long way to meeting this. It is written in a very readable manner and can be read from start to finish as well as a refernce for specific topics. The only reason I didn't give this tome 5 stars is that it failed to meet a few of my queries (these were very specific) and I would have liked a few more example bits of code. But perhaps I am being a bit picky. I would certainly buy any future updates to this book.

I am a Freshman in High School and I received this book a few weeks ago. To tell you the truth I haven't finished the book; I'm about half-way through but I just had to right a review on it.

The book shows a lot of good examples as it takes you through the different sections. Often times the book stops to tell about the concepts and throws in a diagram or example to make sure your still paying attention. The book often asks: How do you think this works? or what do you think function x does in this list of code? what's going on in this diagram/code? Sometimes these little questions help me to sit back and visualize the code instead of continuosly reading and trying to absorb a gob of information.

There are review questions and programming exercises at the end of each chapter. This definatly gives you the vibe of a classroom book; which it basically is. But, this book is very easily self-taught and there is no need for a teacher to teach you it, though a formal education is always the best way to go.

This book is definatly easy to understand. It is for the new users of C and experienced users alike. Don't be afraid to jump into this book if you don't know a scratch about C; after all, I did it!

It's been an excellent book so far and I would recommend it to others.

If you are familiar with programming basic concepts then you will have no problem in getting started in C with the help of this book. Author has done great job explaining C concepts with excellent examples. However this book does not cover data structure and algorithms in too much details. I would like to recommend "Introduction to Algorithms" by Thomas H.Cormen to learn Algorithms.

If all you know of MLK is his I Have A Dream speech, you should definitely read this book. The book does a good job detailing his life and the struggle he lead for civil rights in this country. My main problem is that book seems to be too reverent of MLK. His extra-marital affairs are not examined at all in the light of how such a moral leader could have betrayed his wife. Also, the book examines his stand against the Viet Nam war, but never really asks the question of how much more the civil rights struggle might have progressed if this stand had not been made. But MLK was a great man and all Americans should know his story. Even though I knew had the book had to end, I still felt choked up when I read through the section of his murder.

This book was about a big part of our United States History. It was about Civil Rights. Martin Luther King Jr. was a big Civil Rights activist in the 1960's. I learned quite a bit about Martin Luther Kings's life that I did not know before I had read this book.
Martin Luther King was one of the most important people of our country's history. He fought for African-Americans Civil Rights. He was a very determined man, who was alwyas put into jail numerous times for his "peaceful protests". He had given several speeches as well. The author of this book is Stephen B. Oates. He is a good writer, who has written 16 books.He has also won many literary prizes such as the Christopher Award. This book is very well written. He clearly tells the story as if he had experienced it. His strenghts include: Getting actual quotes from the people that were important in this time, having pictures of Mr. King and others, and having footnotes that explained the story more in depth. I can not think of many weaknesses that he has. However, the book was long but I did not expect it to be short due to the importance of the topic. I would reccomend this book to many people. The reason why is because it tells you in depth stories about Martin Luther King Jr. and his life, but it does have profanity and innappropriate content for young children. All in all, this was a very good biography and taught me many things.

This is the best biography I've read, not only about King but overall. Oates does a fine job balancing between illuminating details that help make King accessible to the reader without getting bogged down in this detail. Likewise, this balance provides a fine introduction to the Civil rights movement. (I don't consider a weakness of Let the Trumpets Sound that Oates doesn't dwell on certain of Kings weaknesses, as he instead focuses on King's message and actions; again, I think Oates concentrates on the myriad aspects of King's life, and the movement, that truly were important.)

Anybody trying to learn more about the Civil rights Movement should read this (along with such books the Autobiograpohy of Malcolm X and any of a number of books about Gandhi).

this collection contains a good deal of good stories like daoine domhaine and the church in high street. stories by campbell, lumley, copper, sutton..... not the most inventive stories i have read, but good storiess, well written. this is in fact one of the finest pulp collections

H.P Lovecraft, while unappreciated in his own time, is now widely regarded as one of the true masters of horror fiction. His proficiency at creating deeply unsettling locales and creepy atmosphere is legendary, while his imagination is viewed as limitless in its breadth. He was also very giving when it came to other authors and his personal inventions; his Cthulhu mythos, centred on beings of hideous visage and infinite age (the "Old Ones"), has been taken up by countless authors since, at his own bequest.

It is only natural, then, that his other stories also be used as fertile ground for the imaginations of others. Stephen Jones has commandeered this challenge, corralling an impressive group of authors to edit together homages and emulations to one of Lovecraft's most redoubtable tales, "The Shadow over Innsmouth." The result is much in keeping with Lovecraft's own writings; they are by turns gripping, frustrating, brilliant, and overall, unforgettable.

"The Shadow over Innsmouth" leads off the collection, an atmospheric yarn of a tiny Massachusetts hamlet which harbours a dark secret. Into this town comes a curious young man with an interest in architecture; what he discovers is a village who claims allegiance to the Esoteric Order of Dagon, a strange religion with more than simply surface connections to the sea. In what is essentially a chase novella, Lovecraft weaves an atmosphere so dank and damp, you can practically feel the sea breeze on your skin, and smell the unpleasant aroma of rotting fish.

Lovecraft has penned an exercise in suspense, a unwholesome tale of insanity and beings beyond imagination. It also displays some of Lovecraft's lesser traits; he has a prevailing habit in his writings of describing entities which "cannot be described"; things of such loathsome natures that his protagonists cannot bear to remember their features, much less describe them for the reader. As well, his dialogue, minimal though it is, is rather stilted. Stephen King, in his memoir/treatise ON WRITING, states that, in all the millions of words Lovecraft put to paper, only five thousand or so were spent on dialogue. It shows. (King has also dabbled in Lovecraft's world; see his short fiction "Jerusalem's Lot" in NIGHT SHIFT, and "Crouch End" in NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES.)

That aside, "Shadow" is a marvellous tale of the macabre, and lends itself easily to other writers's themes and styles. Nonetheless, a severe fault with this compilation is that some author's follow Lovecraft's style too lavishly. Basil Copper's "Beyond the Reef," an almost direct sequel to "Shadow," is rather confusing in its melange of Lovecraftian wordplay and Copper's plot. This is not to mean that it is worthless, far from it. It has moments of true terror and mystery; it simply doesn't hold together in the end. However, Ramsey Campbell's "The Church in High Street" manages the feat of successfully combining both Lovecraft's expressions and Campbell's ideas.

Of the stories that can trace direct themes and atmosphere to "Shadow," Michael Marshall Smith's "To See the Sea" is the most accomplished. Transferring the basic plot to the English shores, Smith tells of a tragic love story, family mystery, and horrors from beneath the waves. It is mesmerizing in its balance of the sanity of an outsider and the insanity that religion can provide. Brian Lumley's "Dagon's Bell" is almost Smith's equal, in its telling of archaeologists, hidden monsters, and local customs for dealing with said monsters. (Lumley has some experience in this area; he's used Lovecraftian themes and characters in his writings for years.)

Despite the inclusive quality of these stories, the least of them suffer somewhat through a necessary knowledge of their forefather. Reading the tales on their own, without the fortuitousness of familiarity of the original, lessens their impact. More striking and memorable are stories which take certain aspects of Lovecraft's prototype, and venture forth into new dimensions of fancy.

Neil Gaiman's entry, "Only the End of the World Again," benefits from his unusual take on the denomination of Dagon. He almost repeats the tale, but adds the unforeseen element of lycanthropy to the mix. Like the best of Lovecraft, it is eerie, confusing, and sticks in the mind long after the pages are closed.

Arguably the most entertaining piece is Jack Yeovil's "The Big Fish," which goes in a direction Lovecraft likely never dreamed of; detective fiction. In Southern California, a private eye gets enmeshed in a case involving a sultry yet off-putting screen siren, a missing child, mobsters, and human sacrifice. Yeovil conjures up a mix of Dashiell Hammett and Poppy Z. Brite, resulting in sheer enjoyment. It would make a good duo with Clive Barker's tales of his supernatural investigator Harry D'Amour.

H.P. Lovecraft is not an author for every taste; his style is far more esoteric than, say, the mundane horror fiction of Dean Koontz or Bentley Little. Yet there's no denying the influence he has had on a generation of authors. SHADOWS OVER INNSMOUTH is a prime starting place for anyone who craves more than Koontz can provide.

...and it's all right here.

Lovecraft's own inspirational story, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" - curiously, one of his own least favorite, but one of his best - leads off this terrific collection of clever spin-off tales by contemporary authors on the same theme: namely, that there are isolated seaside places around the world where the inhabitants not only pray to, but interact with, ancient subaqueous demon-gods from other worlds.

Many of the tales are more or less sequels to Lovecraft's seminal story, set in and around Innsmouth itself, the fictional Massachusetts town the author first "sailed" the concept in. Each of these reads very well as its own stand-alone piece, successful entirely independent of Lovecraft's story, but all the more entertaining for being one way or another connected to it. Other tales, such as Ramsey Campbell's "The Church In High Street," are set in other locations, like the decayed, dockside areas of Great Britain, where similar interbreeding with noxious hellspawned water-gods also is occurring. One especially good story, Kim Newman's "The Big Fish," actually reads like a credible direct sequel to Lovecraft's original, and is all the more perfect for essentially performing like a 1930s noir-horror film. Even Neil Gaiman gets in on the act, with a skin-crawling little bit of nastiness about an Innsmouth descendant coming to terms with his gruesome genetic heritage.

One thing you can count on, in this collection: something in it will definitely appeal to your Lovecraftian tastes - so long as that taste is for fish.

HARRISON'S is synonymous with clinical books that worth their weights in gold. This 15th/ed CD-ROM maintained that tradition. It adds the much-needed portability to some 2700-paged heavyweight. However, the air-tight use-restrictions attached to the ...price is simply suffocating. I wish that the publisher had relaxed a bit!
Overall though, there were compensations. The CD contents are superb: far better than what the textbook versions offer. Anyone with interest in medical science should give it a try. It is elaborate and easy to understand. The excellent chapters on pharmacology and infectious diseases are particularly worth mentioning.

I have been reading Harrison's Medicine right from my residency. Its a fabulous book one can refer to as an undergraduate or postgratuate student. However for a practitioner one would prefer to have little more stress on management details. Adding audio to CD of the same book will make it more useful.

Mukund Baheti Consultant Neurologist Nagpur- 440 012 India

This book is the Bible of Internal Medicine. Anyone considering a career in medicine should have this book in their library. Comprehensive and well written, it is the gold standard of medical textbooks.

Not only do I own this book, but also his book True Maine Woodland stories. He was my mother's cousin and both my books are autographed. What most people don't know is Al Martin was also a wonderful artist painting with oils on canvas.

HAND-TAMING WILD BIRDS AT THE FEEDER. By Alfred G. Martin with Photographs and Illustrations by the Author and with Cover Art and Illustrations by John Still. 144 pages. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania: Alan C. Hood & Company, Inc., 1991 [1963]. ISBN 0-911469-07-9 (pbk).

Alfred Martin was something of an oddity. When he was ten years old he learned how to tame wild birds by trapping songbirds for the English bird trade. Later he found his way to Maine, built a house in the woods, fished, hunted, practised taxidermy, and cultivated the friendship of wild birds. Although he possessed a great fund of knowledge about birds, we learn that no great knowledge is required to teach a wild bird to feed out of our hand. The method Martin employed, and which
will work with many though not all birds, is simplicity itself and is clearly described in his book. What is required, then, is not knowledge but something far more difficult for us moderns - what is required is a shift of attitude, and a great deal of patience.

The intelligence, skills, and abilities of wild creatures are vastly underrated in our modern world. So puffed up are we with arrogance, so obsessed with the illusion that we are at the tip of a mythical 'evolutionary tree', so proud of our technical achievements and contemptuous of life forms which seem to get along without the aid of technology, it has become almost impossible for the average person to accept the fact that wild creatures, far from being wholly other than us, are our fellows. But for Martin birds were not so much animals as persons, and he emphasizes that without a genuine respect for their intelligence and talents, without fully accepting them as our fellows and equals, they in turn will never come to respect and trust us enough to come to our hand.

Martin's book is written in a rather rambling style and contains much else besides his method of hand-taming wild birds. His book is rich in personal anecdote, and in addition to the many good stories about his experiences with numerous species of birds and other animals there is also a great deal of information and practical advice for anyone who may be thinking of setting up a bird-feeding station to attract birds to their backyard. Among the many topics he covers are how to build a birdbath, how to build houses and feeders, how to select appropriate foods, how to care for injured birds, and so on.

Given modern society's strict insistence on the otherness of nature, however, Martin's most important lesson for us is his seemingly outrageous notion that birds are every bit as worthy and deserving of our respect and compassion as are our fellow humans. He assures us that once we begin to see wild birds, not so much as 'animals' but as little people in their own right, it won't be long before we experience the thrill of them landing on our hands to receive the gift of food. But before this can happen it is absolutely essential that we drop all feelings of superiority.

The prevailing ideology insists on our separateness from nature. But the idea that we are essentially different, being false, runs contrary to our nature and leads to
real suffering, the suffering of an alienation that issues in boredom. Martin points out that birds rightly consider man as their worst enemy. Terror is the form their suffering takes. Martin's achievement is to have given us a book which demonstrates how easily both the bird's terror and man's boredom can be replaced with real joy.

I am originally from the state of Maine where Mr. Martin hailed from. This book is terrific and not only gives insight on how to hand-feed wild birds, but also gives helpful information about them. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in birds.
And don't let Karen Seichevilch's review get you down; she just didn't have the patience to go through all the steps to get birds to feed from her hand. It took me 6 months to get a bird - a chickadee - to feed from my hand.