I have just received my Harvard Brief Dictionary of Music and am thrilled. As an adult without formal musical training who is singing in a college choir, this book will be invaluable. It not only explains musical terms and other basics of the machanics of music, but it also covers such topics as music theory, musical works, etc. The entries are comprehensive, but short and understandable to a person without musical training. And it is small enough so that I can carry it with me to rehearsals!

This book focuses on the addicted health care professional, be it a physician, pharmacist, or nurse, among others. It give concise, plain English answers to many qusetions concerning the addicted healer. Healers, by virtue of their ready acces to their drugs of choice have many different situations to deal with apart from their non-medical addict cohorts. This book touches them all. This book can potentially save the life of your doctor or pharmacist!!!!

This book is an excellent desk reference and text in the area of health and environmental risk analysis. The appendices are excellent and provide over 25 tables related to the field. Included are tables listing various RCRA and CERCLA hazardous substances. Also in the appendices are tables related to hazardous air pollutants health effects such as subchronic and chronic toxicity, and carcinogenicity. The text covers the latest methods used in hazard identification, consequence analysis, and exposure assessment. Methods to estimate toxicity of chemicals based on structural activity relationships are also covered. I highly recommend the book to anyone working in the field.

This readable, well-researched, and often hilarious book will delight the dickens out of any boater, power or sail (great gift!!!). More broadly, anyone interested in business management -- what works, what doesn't work, and where technology fits in -- will find much to ponder in this book. Spurr chronicles the demise of dozens of failed boating companies; an all-too-frequent theme is the destruction that follows on a company's acquisition by a large corporation seeking to "diversify," which seems, inevitably, to result in bankruptcy. Of equal interest are the few stories of genuine and lasting success, typified by Catalina Yachts, founded by Frank Butler. Mr. Butler independently arrived at the conclusions reached, belatedly, by legions of high-priced consultants and business school professors: innovate to create new markets, build quality in, treat your employees as if they were part of your family, speak personally to customers, resist acquisition, and -- if possible -- remain privately held. There's also much to ponder for economists and business historians. Imagine what the automobile industry would be like if cars lasted for 50 years -- well within the lifespan of a properly maintained, well-built fiberglass yacht. Spurr remarks that the industry's greatest mistake, viewed cynically, was its failure to build obsolescence into its products. But another factor in the industry's overall decline is the recalcitrant character of fiberglass boat-building technology, which is notoriously resistant to assembly line methods; were you to visit the Beneteau, Catalina, or Hunter factories, you'd see labor-intensive, one-at-a-time boat building techniques that do not fundamentally differ from those of 50 years ago. Unable to lower production costs, companies have instead turned to volume as a way to force down supplier prices -- that's why you get three big, dominant manufacturers in this market -- but the result, overall, is that most new fiberglass yachts of reasonable length (30' and up) are too expensive for middle-class buyers. Fiberglass boats were invented by dreamers who wanted to bring boating to Everyman; Spurr suggests, soberingly, that the dream seems destined to die.

This is a highly entertaining and educational book with many short little one-liners that reflect the practice of the art, and has many handy tips that we have already heard before from our consultants - now all collected into one small book.

Contains over 400 quotations. Examples include:

Despite frantic urgings from the referring physician, avoid operating on dead people.

If the pupils remain small, the soul usually cannot escape.

These quotations are classified into several sections- Preoperative Operative & techniques Postops Residents & other fellows Colleagues and other strangers.

It is very easy reading, and can be finished within half an hour.

Enjoy.

Daniel Berthold-Bond explains why, in Hegel's Philosophy of Mind (part 3 of the Encyclopedia), madness is logically prior to reason. The answer lies in the extreme negavity of consciousness. Mad destruction is required before the subject can build a symbolic existence. The work is heavily Lacanian without any evidence in the footnotes that this was consciously intended. The book does much to make the under-recognized connections between the thought of Hegel and Lacan. The book is extremely well written and is one of the finest contributions to Hegelian interpretation in recent times.

"When two lions meet, How do they say hello?" Turn the page of Miriam Schlein's fun and imformative picture book and find out. "They rub their foreheads together, and make a humming noice... like this...HMMMM... That's how two lions say hello. Mmmmmm. HELLO." Now, see how polar bears, chimpanzees, wolves, and beavers, zebras, penquins, and elephants greet each other when they meet..... Ms Schlein's simple explanations are engaging and creative, and complemented by illustrator, Daniel Kirk's bold and evocative artwork. Together word and art offer easily understood animal behaviors, and then relate them back to humans. "How do you say hello? With a smile? With a wave? With a shake of the hand? With a bow? With a hug? With a kiss? HELLO!" Perfect as a read aloud at story time, or for use with a unit about animals, Hello, Hello is a preschool crowd pleaser, and early non-fiction at its very best.

Amanda adored her adopted daughter more than anything in the world, so she was crushed when Jamie's biological mother wanted her back. Jamie was three when her biological mother Paige got custody of her. Now almost three and a half years later Paige's brother shows up at her door step and asks her to marry him.

Ross recently found out that his grandfather bribed the judge that gave Paige custody. Ross now raising his niece thought that the best way to keep her was to marry Amanda. Ross did not want to take the chance of losing Amanda if the custody case was reopened. Ross, of course, does not tell Amanda about the bribed judge.

Amanda agrees to marry Ross believing it is the only way that she can be a mother to Amanda again. The question is-Can there little family get over the past in order to have a future? And, what happens when Amand learns the truth?

Emotional story. Ross and Amanda are both characters that you feel for. People will do almost anything for the love of a child.

I recently purchased this book becasue I am an avid cook and recnetly purchased an herb garden. Looking for some interesting ways to use my new herbs, I picked this book up. The recipes are simple enough for an average cook and turn out restaurant quality dishes. The only trick to this book and virtually any cookbook is having QUALITY ingredients on hand. Not many people have all of the herbs on hand that the book requires for many of its dishes, but if yo do you will be rewarded with great dishes your friends and family will love.

I bought this book for my almost teenage son, and I enjoyedreading it myself. It was very insightful and full of great shortstories. As usual the authors have did it again!