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Like most UFO dabblers, I had written the Aztec affair off as a hoax (spurred on by Kevin Randle's account of it in his "Casebook of Crashed UFO's), but by the time I was several chapters into this enormous work, I took time out to re-read the Scully book that started it all. It put a new light of beleivability on the whole Aztec crash story.
If you have any interest at all in Ufo crash retreivals, this book is as much a MUST READ as Scully's original 1950 book.
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I started leafing through this book before recognizing it was by the same group and the same editors plus one. But I found listed in the contents several names I recognized from my reading about Sherlock Holmes in other books even if along with some of the pseudowriters from the other book. Many of these essays were of far more interest than the earlier volume. It even had some fiction and some humor. And a third editor was listed, the first one listed here, though he came last on this book's title page. But his name should come first alphabetically as here. Curious. On the strength of the other editor and the listed topics and because it was priced cheap, I bought it. I still didn't expect much. I was pleasantly surprised.
Besides a pompous, overwritten, self-glorifying introduction by a man listed as president of the group publishing it, who probably broke his arm patting himself on the back, and a woefully inadequate and trite rehash of Sherlock Holmes's film career, a lot of the stuff in this book is good and some really good. I really like a story explaining what happened to Dr. Watson's wife, written from Watson's perspective like the original Holmes stories. It was well-written and heartfelt. Probably one of the best I've read, and worth the cost of the book alone. In fact everything in this book was better than the other, which I think was published later than this one. Why the difference? Besides many different writers than the other book, I deduced like Holmes that it was the third editor, the one who had no involvement in the other book, that made the difference. Like the dog in the nightime, he did nothing in the other book. So logic dictates he must have done much for this one. Further investigation uncovered that this editor is a professional writer. His name turns up many times if you search for it here. The others don't, not even for the other book they edited. Case solved. The third editor must have done a lot of writing behind the scenes on this book. He also wrote one of the stories. So maybe he did just too good and that's why the other two no longer work with him, or he with them. His being listed last in the book while his name comes first alphabetically suggests some ulterior motive for the listing and later disassociation. Jealousy maybe on the parts of the less talented editors. If they had any sense they'd have hired him to help with the other book and would get him back if they plan to publish further anthologies, especially if they only use the same people from their own club again. They need real writers and real editors if they want to sell much outside their own circle of friends. Fortunately this book has some real writers and one real editor and is mostly very readable and enjoyable.
My advice. If you find this book in a used book store with a price in the low teens or less like I did, buy it. Look too for anything else by the first editor listed alphabetically here. Same for anything by the author of the Watson story, John Burrows(?) I think. Avoid like bubonic plague anything by either or both the second two editors especially if published under their club name "the Illustrious Client's". There's too much over priced poorly written and edited books in the Sherlock Holmes small press world. Thankfully except in part this is not one of them.
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Most of the questions are based on case scenarios. In addition, many questions are accompanied by x-rays, diagrams, and ECG.
Chapters include: Allergy & Immunology, Infectious Disease, Rheumatology, Pulmonary Medicine, Cardiology, Endocrinology & Metabolic Disease, Gastroenterology, Nephrology, Hematology & Oncology, Neurology, Dermatology, Prevention & other Topics.
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Written in an easy-to-read style, READY FOR THE REAL WORLD covers most of the elements that college seniors must consider from the more practical aspect of the budgeting of finances to the often neglected consideration of psychological changes that take place as one goes from the rather protected status of a student to that as a job applicant and employee.
This book is an excellent one for college classes which are offered at the end of the senior year to help prepare students for life after college, but would also be helpful to individuals who are seriously thinking about the transition from college to the "real world."
The book includes checklists and activities that allow readers to assess their status financially, psychologically, and personally. I highly recommend this book.
times. Becoming very dark and seemingly desperate but in the
end realizing his true comfort, solice, and salvation. A must read for anyone who has entertained notions of suicide, been
through heartbreaking family seperations, or has felt that
there is no reason to go on.
The previous reviewer has provided a fantastic overview of this work, to which I need not add more. I give this work 4 stars, and would give it 5 if not for the numerous typos. But it's an enjoyable work. What's not to love about a thick 625 page UFO book that has an alien head and a flying saucer embossed on its cover?