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Textbook of Radiology & Imaging (2-Volume Set)
Published in Hardcover by Churchill Livingstone (15 May, 1998)
Author: Dr. David Sutton MD FRCP FRCR
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A Comprehensive Title !!!
Textbook of Radiology and Imaging encorporates all the aspects of diagnostic imaging starting from basics and going on to the intricacies of the subject. It has been very well written and includes almost all the common diagnostic problems that the studnt or the practising doctor is likely to come against. In summary, a thouroughly recommended title.

General Information
Hi, I just wanted to inform you that the 6th edition of the book was published in 1998.


Dark Terrors: The Gollancz Book of Horror
Published in Paperback by Trafalgar Square (1998)
Authors: Stephen Jones and David Sutton
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don't let the cover fool you...
3 years ago, when I was in England, I bought this book. My friend held it up for me and said "How about this? It looks creepy." I thought, from the cover, it looked silly. I thought every story would be about vampires rising from the grave, and mysterious tahitian dolls that cause mayhem... Was I ever wrong. I adore this book; every story is a gem of subtlety. Most, if not all, are wonderful examples of psychological horror. Think of the old t.v. series, "The Twilight Zone" and you'll understand what type of horror these stories are aiming for.


Ecology: Selected Concepts
Published in Paperback by John Wiley & Sons (1973)
Authors: David B. Sutton and Paul Harmon
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Outstanding text for thoughtful readers
Sutton's tour de force is an outstanding textbook for thoughtful students concerned with our environment. Sutton truly understands the intricate way in which all components of our environment are woven together. As a testament to its universal appeal, the book has been translated into several languages and is a standard text in Europe.


Readings in Organizational Decline: Frameworks, Research and Prescriptions
Published in Paperback by Ballinger Pub Co (1988)
Authors: Kim S. Cameron, Robert I. Sutton, and David A. Whetten
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"Readings in Organizational Decline"
Quite simply, this is the best book on the subject of organizational decline.


Worlds of Music: An Introduction to the Music of the World's Peoples
Published in Paperback by Schirmer Books (05 October, 2001)
Authors: Jeff Todd Titon, Linda K. Fujie, David Locke, David P. McAllester, David B. Reck, John M. Schechter, Mark Slobin, and R. Anderson Sutton
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Fascinating and scholarly!!!
This book is wonder and a treasure trove of musical ideas from around the planet. For example, how many music historians are aware of how the Native Amercians used song to identify each of their tribes?
Mr. Titon has provided very interesting facts about music making from many world cultures. He has also produced a 3 CD sound compilation of musical examples for this book that is indispensible.
If you're tired of today's bland market of music that has sadly squashed historical music making of any kind, this book is an excellent journey into the world's most basic roots of song and music.


Hawks in Flight : The Flight Identification of North American Migrant Raptors
Published in Paperback by Houghton Mifflin Co (1989)
Authors: Clay Sutton, Peter Dunne, and David Allen Sibley
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Hawks in Flight
Disappointing. Many pictures are dark and/or fuzzy. I find that hard to distinguish features of different hawks.

Useful book...
HAWKS IN FLIGHT by Peter Dunne is a useful book because it includes many photos and drawings of various species of Raptors in flight. When you see a Raptor, you generally have no way to identify it except by it's flight profile. Feather markings simply cannot be seen when a bird is sailing on a current of air or scuttling after prey. Once in a while I've surprised a hawk at rest, but generally it is well hidden in the leaves of a tree and takes off before I can get a good look. Even the Cooper's Hawk I see on my morning commute along the parkway is usually sitting back on a branch waiting for road kill (he is one fat lazy bird).

The photos in HAWKS IN FLIGHT show the birds as seen from the side flying close to the ground and as well as overhead. The book also includes drawings showing birds that resemble each other juxtaposed side by side as they would never appear in nature. Some of the photos are not very clear and the drawings are darker than I like, but no less a birder than Roger Tory Petersen recommended this book which nicely complements his own books.

Although the title includes the reference to hawks, the chapters cover Buteos, Accipiters, Falcons, Kites, Harriers, Eagles, Ospreys, and Vultures. The chapter on Accipiters covers the Cooper's Hawk, the hawk I see by the roadside in Washington DC. We also see Falcons chasing our song birds. A whole lot of back-stabbing goes on in this town.

The best guide for serious hawk watchers
There is no other guide which even approaches Hawks in Flight for thoroughness, clarity, and utility. Anyone who seriously pursues the sport of hawk watching must have this book.

For those just starting out in hawk watching, and for general use by even the most serious hawk watchers, I strongly recommend another work by Dunne et al., Hawk Watch: A Guide for Beginners, which is a large-format condensed version of Hawks in Flight. this book does focus exclusively on eastern species, however. Having both books is ideal.


Tartans: Their Art and History
Published in Hardcover by Arco Pub (1984)
Authors: Ann Sutton, Richard Carr, and David Cripps
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Wide ranging - for the beginner
This is a popular-level, wide ranging book about tartan, including some historical details, some discussion of tartan design, and some (ridiculously brief) instructions on hand-weaving.

The bulk of the book is a set of gorgeous pictures of tartan swatches, and matching thread counts, with a few historical notes. These are mostly the better-known clan tartans, with pictures (but not thread-counts, damn it!) of a few regimental, royal and district tartans.


Bettelheim: A Life and a Legacy
Published in Hardcover by Basic Books (1996)
Authors: Nina Sutton and David Sharp
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Another Attempt at Pseudopsychoanalysis
The reviewers who praised this book didn't check the facts and neither did the author. In fact, the book is highly inaccurate both in its facts and conclusions. The book merely applies the same pseudopsychoanalysis as the subject applied to his "patients," including me.

I was a source for the book and nearly everything in it about me is totally wrong. I shared considerable information with the author following a 1990 article in the Washington Post I wrote detailing Bettelheim's unsupported claims and physical and psychological abuse of his wards. The author promised that I could control anything that appeared in the book about me. But the book came out with all sorts of unsourced untruths about me that the author never bothered to check with me. From the looks of them, I suspect some she made up and some she heard from Bettelheim's defenders who worked at the school and broke their professional code of silence to reveal "information" about a "patient." It evidently never occured to the author that these people may have wanted to smear me to save their own reputations. The author even had the nerve to state as fact how I was feeling, which is amazing because she never asked me. In fact, I never felt the way she said I felt.

The book just amounted to the same type of Freudian nonsense I was subject to at Bettleheim's school -- someone else telling you that you don't feel what you feel -- you really feel what I tell you you feel. The book even managed to completely misrepresent what I wrote in the Washington Post. I have been quoted in many publiciations on this and other matters but I have never seen anything so far from the truth. The author didn't like my thesis and couldn't get me on the facts, so she apparently made up her own.

Immediately upon the book's publication, I notified the publisher by letter of the book's errors, but the publisher never corrected them in subsequent printings. And no one even had the decency to answer my letter. To this very day, the company continues to sell a book it knows is inaccurate.

The gift and tragedy of a surviver as child psychologist
I simply wish to say that there would no controversy if thoughtful, sensitive people were in control of their own emotions and were objective enough to put Bruno Bettelheim and his times in perspecitve. This is one of the implicit themes of the book.The author, a journalist, has study the facts and has the intuition to understand as much as any biographer can at this time a complex suffering personality. I hope only that the time will come when such a understanding can be objectively drawn. But meanwhile the biographer has made at least this attentive and by no means unskeptical reader understand the controversy and the facts of the case are not always one and the same...

A truly remarkable and enriching biography
This book moved me deeply. Not only did it tell me a fascinating story about a man whose life span the century, but it moved me deeply. It's not a funny book, but it is a riveting one. Rather than pretending to know it all, the author takes her reader on an investigative journey: Who was the true Bettelheim? She shares her doubts as well as her discoveries some of which I shall never forget. And in the end, everything seems to fall into place - the good, the bad, everything human, I guess.


Dark Terrors 2: The Gollancz Book of Horror
Published in Paperback by Victor (1998)
Authors: Stephen Jones and David Sutton
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Absences and celebrations
Published in Unknown Binding by Chatto and Windus : Hogarth Press ()
Author: David Sutton
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