Baby Dear, though old-fashioned in culture, is timely in it's advice. The story unfolds as a new baby is brought home and the older sister receives a doll of her own to care for while her mommy cares for the real baby. Big sister never seems jealous because she has a baby just like mother. The most poignant part is when they rock their babies and tell them how special they are; "This is how our babies know they are the most wonderful babies in the world." It's too bad this book is out of print. It makes an excellent gift to give with a doll to a child experiencing sibling jealousy. Wish Golden Book would re-release it and the classic illustrations of Eloise Wilken.

While mother was still in the hospital with my brand new baby brother, daddy gave me this wonderful book and my very own Baby Dear doll. I asked to have this book read to me again and again. While mother took care of my baby brother, I took care of my doll. It helped me to adjust to the new baby and be proud to be a big sister. It is a shame that this book is no longer in print, as I have recommended it to several people.

I absolutely LOVED this book as a child!! I had older siblings that I would ask to read it to me until I had it memorized! I then taught myself to read by comparing the words to those in my memory and moved on to read other books - at the age of 4! When I was 5 years old my little brother was born. I remember a time when my mother was changing my little brother and I brought my doll in and layed her next to him to do the same. I then quoted a comment from the book: "Mommy changes her baby, and I change mine!" It was so wonderful for me to copy my mother's love for her own baby ("Mommy's baby is my baby brother. Maybe someday I'll let my brother play with Baby Dear."). I found a brand new copy in a store a few years back and have it saved. I didn't realize that it was out of print! It would be great if I still had my old copy - I bet it was worn! I wanted to get a copy for my 1 year old niece who is already showing favoritism with her other books. It would be nice if she were to use memorization as a tool to help her learn to read as well. Keep in mind... no matter how frustrating it is that your child wants to hear the same book read over and over, or watch the same movie... their little minds are hard at work!! I'm 26 years old and looking at this book still gets to me! The illustrations are ADORABLE and the story is so en"dear"ing!!

Dr. Wilken, founder of the Grace Evangelical Society effectively takes on the challenges of unclear gospels. Using the Word of God as the authority, Wilken shows the weaknesses in many of the arguments presented by some of today's leading theologians. Using many scripture references for each point, Dr. Wilken doesn't fall into the trap many contemporary authors do when they take a single verse and try to make it say what they want it to. There is no doubt that Wilken presents a clear gospel that is in accordance with Scripture. Confident in Christ is set up in an easy format making it both excellent reading, and a very important research tool as well. Any Christian who wants to be challenged with Scripture after Scripture truly must read this book.

For anyone looking for a book that is easy to read and clear regarding the Lordship Salvation debate, this book is for you. Dr. Wilkin writes in a style that is irenic and lay-friendly. People with little or no theological training will find this book very helpful. Wilkin (like his associate Zane Hodges) takes a strongly free grace approach to the Gospel. Though I do not agree with all of his exegesis of difficult passages, he makes a convincing case why Reformed/Lordship salvation is unbiblical and is more steeped in tradition rather than proper Biblical interpretation. He takes you through various passages in the Synoptic Gospels, John's Gospel and letters, Paul's letters, Hebrews, and catholic epistles. Unlike how most Reformed scholars dubiously interpret warning passages as intended for "professing" Christians, Wilkin convincingly argues that the NT writers warned TRUE believers of the dangers of disobedience and backsliding (loss of rewards and divine chastisement). Most Reformed people should know that not all warning passages deal with eternal destinies. A narrow interpretation of warning passages advocated by most Reformed/Lordship commentators result in eisegesis rathar than exegesis. In all this time of personal study of salvation, I found that most Reformed interpretations of difficult passages have been wanting. In order to conform to their understanding of the perseverance of the saints (a doctrine developed by the Synod of Dort and Westminster Confessions, not the Bible) Reformed scholars read into passages rather than exegete them. Wilkin gives the corrective to this type of faulty "exegeting" of passages. It is strange that so many professing "evangelicals" are giving support or passive allowance of various forms of "nomism" in the evangelical scene today, and at the same time chastising scholars like Hodges, Ryrie, Dillow, Kendall, Eaton, Lightner, Radmacher, and Wilkin for trying to be as faithful to the Bible and evangelicalism. This is sad indeed. What we need is a return to the Biblical Gospel of grace, and Wilkin does a superb job taking us back to the Gospel preached by Paul, the Apostles, and most of all Jesus Christ our Lord. Readers will not be disappointed by this book.

This book shows a true concern for accuracy of doctrine and a desire that as many people as possible share in the glorious good news of the grace of God which is found only in Christ Jesus. The author writes as a man who has struggled with the issues personally and resolved them in a reverent, accurate, a understandable way. Mr. Wilson is a man with both a first rate education and real-life experience in dealing with the issue of personal salvation. The book is not wordy or inaccessible. It it lucid and organized and betrays a great amount of thought, inquiry, and scholarship. I would not hesitate to recommend this book to anyone. The work is equally suitable for the inquiring unbeliever, the confused or hungry believer, and interested scholars of all persuasions.

Just don't know what to do?
Hate yourself, your partner, happy pregnant women, even God?
Then you should read this book.

This book have everything you need to know after Pregnancy loss
(including termination of impaired pregnancy), Still bitrh, Newborn death.
Medical information, of course, this book will tell you how to
deal with the response of your partner, family, friends, neighbors and colleagues.

A helpful chapter "Finding solace in your religion" covers
Jewish traditions, Islamic traditions, Catholic traditions,
Protestant traditions and Mixed religions.

...and then you should keep it and read at the holidays, at the anniversary of your loss, at the anniversary of your baby's due date, and any other time you need to understand the experience of losing a baby. If you have a friend or relative who has experienced a pregnancy loss, send her (or him) a copy of her own. No other book covers such a wide range of medical, phyical and emotional experiences that surround pregancy loss. I should know -- after the stillbirth of my first daughter, I read everything in print about pregnancy loss. I just read the recently revised edition, and was happy to see that it increased information about the kinds of losses that so many women are experiencing in this age of high-tech infertility treatments, and that Kohn and Moffitt are dead-on about the complex range of emotions women and their partners undergo. Combining deep wisdom about ageless issues of parenthood and grieving with the often terrifying new territory of high tech childbearing, this is a book that will touch many lives.

For anyone who has had the sadness to suffer the loss of a child, A SILENT SORROW is THE definitive book to own. It is not only written for the Mother and Father, but grandparents, siblings, friends and health care professionals. It's section on dealing with your loss, understanding the devastation of the grief and coping with it were instrumental in helping me deal with the loss of my daughter, who was stillborn at nine months. I read it, and reread it - sometimes daily - because it provided the comfort and support I needed. It also provides practical advice on creating services, coping with others, thinking about second pregnancies and anniversary reactions. I cannot say enough good things about this book, and would recommend it to anyone looking for a sensitive and practical insight on the sad, and often little known subject of pregnancy loss.

This book is great when you just need the down and dirty on a disease, and don't want to wade through a 50-page description in the heavy-duty references. It was also very useful during second-year, when you're just trying your hand at figuring out the diseases, and need a little confirmation of your diagnosis and treatment plans. Or, when you're totally clueless and need help get started in the right direction. Fair warning, faculty usually won't accept it as 'reference' especially if you're trying to argue a point, but during a recent open-book final, I brought mine in anyway and there was practically a mob of other students rushing over to check out one thing or another.

Tilley's 5 -Minute Veterinary Consult book has been an extremely valuable asset to my library. When the CD-Rom came out, it was even more useful in that immediate and current information can be retrieved much faster than picking up a book. It is faster since topics related to a case can be searched for and reviewed with a touch of your mouse. This information can be quickly printed and given to clients to further understand their pets diagnosed condition. This printed information alone is priceless! A client that has something in hand and can follow and confirm their veterinarian's diagnosis and treatment, helps establish the trust a client needs to have in their pets doctor.

I reach for my 5- Minute Vet Consult CD-rom more than any other resource in my library. It is very accurate and has a surprising amount of detail to assist in the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of each topic. The drug search is a very helpful formulary for those quick reference needs. The most recent CD has a good number of cytology and radiographic images attached to the topics. These can be enlarged to see more closely the great detail.

In my opinion the 5-Minute Veterinary Consult CD-Rom was one of the best reference investments for my practice. It is definitely the most utilized reference I have. Time is money and this has saved me many steps and thus time and money. Every practice needs this reference without doubt!

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My vet suggested me getting this book (I have worked for him for 6 years) and I am glad I did! It has 4 different sections in it, "Presenting Problems and Physical Findings", "Diagnostic-Laboratory Tests", "Diagnostics-Electrocardiography", and "Diseases and Clinical Syndromes". Each section has detailed information on each finding, usually two pages per each problem, which covers the Basics (definition, signalment, causes and risk factors), Diagnosis, Treatment, Medications, Follow-up and a Miscellaneous. There is plenty of information in the Appendix section of the book as well. Including a Formulary, Conversion Tables and more! I would highly recommend it to vets, students and vet techs.

The title of this book is rather misleading. A title more descriptive of its content would have been that of Aldous Huxley's "Time Must Have a Stop."

Actually, it is two books in one. The major book is a history of horology, "The science of the measurement of time or of the construction of timepieces." It covers over 2000 years, from the sand hourglass "clock" of the Egyptians to the atomic clocks of modern times. In between, for example, we learn about the advances in the design of mechanical clocks enabling the chronometers so vital to navigation in the 18th century. And, we are given a glimpse of time measurement based on the heavens beyond our solar system (sidereal time). It is a fascinating account of horology, though probably a bit too technical for the average reader.

Meantime, in the counterpoint book we are treated to a Shakespearian tragedy in miniature of how the protagonist's wife's life ticks away -- not happy reading for anyone who has had to attend a member of his immediate family dying from Alzheimer's disease. The time (actually longitude) of her death is measured "precisely" -- almost. Perhaps ordinary solar time, as measured by the rotation of the earth on which we live, is good enough.

Wilkins is a skillful writer. A master of the bawdy as well as of the beautiful in the prose (figures of speech in particular) in one book, and of clarity in the other. And, he has a philosophical message. Or does he? Maybe it's just a question -- beyond the mind of human beings to comprehend, not helped one whit by Einstein's contention that the time of even atomic clocks is altered by how fast the clock is moving. What IS time?

This is an exceptional novel. As precise and exquisite as the timepieces described within its pages.

The mechanics and philosophy of time discussed in the book contrasts clinically with the deeply emotional personal story which is told with great skill and grace.

There is one chapter of the book, in which a doctor explains to the husband the nature of his wife's disease, which is one of the most remarkable pieces of writing I have ever read. The reader is transported to that place and time and is as confused and heartbroken as the narrator.

I read the UK version of this book which is called The Horizontal Instrument, a reference to one of the timepieces discussed in the novel. I am amazed that the book, now 2 years old, has not been a huge success - surely word of mouth alone would ensure strong sales. I will purchase a copy for friends in the same way as I have done with The Secret History, Cold Mountain, Snow Falling On Cedars and others.

A remarkable novel which I will read again and again.

Robert (20) marries Elizabeth (36). Robert, master watch maker, searches for the perfect time and the perfect instrument to mark it. But time keeps changing. Only in the case of his wife, who slowly dies of Alzheimer, is time constant and measurable. Robert spends the next five years to build the perfect instrument to measure time. Even caesium and laser clocks do not satisfy him, because they do not compensate for the differences in the time of the earth's revolutions. His final instrument coordinates with the Greenwich meridian - that also touches his wife's grave. Now his clock is perfect - even if it does not show the "correct" time.

A perfect book - even though strange.

Of all the great European novelists of the first third of the century -- Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Knut Hamsun, Herman Hesse -- Robert Musil is far and away the least read; and yet he's as shapely as Gibbon, as mordant as Voltaire, as witty as Oscar Wilde and as indecent as Arthur Schnitzler, a fellow Viennese writer who gets more attention. "The Man Without Qualities" is an extraordinary amalgam of the formidable, the delicious and the unfinished; and no doubt each of these attributes is in some measure dissuasive.

If we take it that the characteristics of 20th-century life are fatuity, doubt and confusion; the "barbaric fragmentation" of the self, where "impersonal matters . . . go into the making of personal happenings in a way that for the present eludes description"; a crisis of individual identity and collective purpose -- then it is Musil's astonishing achievement to make a comedy of all this.

The book begins with a baroque meteorological description; its first action is a car accident; the hero is first seen looking out of a window, stopwatch in hand, conducting a statistical survey of passing traffic. Can there be any doubt that it is a prophetic book about our world? Musil is us. The world of "global Austria" in 1913 and "the Parallel Action" -- the plan, in the novel, to claim 1918 for the jubilee celebrating the 70th year of the reign of the Emperor Francis Joseph before the Germans get it for Kaiser Wilhelm's 30th, made nonsense of by the intervention of World War I -- is our world of the United Nations International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction and other fatuous schemes. While Musil's contemporaries Proust and Joyce chose interiority and the private world of memory, Musil is uncannily prescient about modern life, where sportsmen and criminals are indifferently idolized, where quantity sits in judgment on quality, so that an author, as Musil puts it, "must have an awful lot of like-minded readers before he can pass for an impressive thinker," where we sit and stew among "bobsled championships, tennis cups and luxury hotels along great highways, with golf course scenery and music on tap in every room." So "The Man Without Qualities" is satire; as one character says, "The man of genius is duty bound to attack." However, it is not harsh satire, nor is it sour. There is something loving about it. Musil's tone is unlike anyone else's. Partly it is the Austrian melancholy that underlies the book, the melancholy of a defunct empire, of a closed conditional: what was to happen did not. WHAT if, the novel implies, instead of expressing itself in the carnage of World War I, human folly had chosen another form? Partly it is the equable irony that plays over every character, institution and group in the book that makes reading Musil such an exquisitely flattering experience. No characters in the book escape mockery -- especially for taking themselves so seriously. All of them are skewed and partial, but none are caricatures; perhaps the book's almost complete lack of physical description plays a part here -- and yet, in spite of that, you feel you could pick them out in a lineup. They are Musil's puppets.

In his early career he wrote stories, plays and novels that had a certain popularity. But none of those prepare a reader for the expanse of "The Man Without Qualities". It took up the last two decades of his life, before he died in self-imposed exile in Switzerland in 1942, at the age of 61. It is a quite overwhelming novel, quite indeed...

I've only gotten through volume l and part of volume ll (so far). I agree that I find it incredible that Musil is not as well known as Proust...he's his equal as a writer and in my opinion a much finer thinker. The brilliance of the book is in the extended introspections rather than the events...the multi-page musings on the human condition illustrate the timeless aspects of what we conceitedly think of as our "post-modern" psychic quandry. In common with Proust we are inside the protagonist's head, but in the third rather than first person, which gives the experience a different feel...we're a little outside at the same time. It's a ghostlier sort of connection, but I think equally as immediate. We walk the streets of Vienna as vividly as Chambray, but, perhaps Ullrich's less romantic nature, I find him a better correspondent. His perceptions are intellectual rather than the sensual, and yet, experiencing that intellect is a sensual experience for the reader (at least for this one!)

A note: I do not think the recent translation compares to the original English one...it may read more breezily, but my brief comparison suggests that it loses a LOT of subtlety in trying to achieve a more colloquial, effortless, less dated narrative voice. For instance, a passage in the original English translation reading "knowledge was beginning to become unfashionable" is translated in the new as "science became outdated". Two totally different meanings, and the first is clearly closer, given the context..(in which Musil is waxing sarcastic about a silly but dangerous bourgeois "believing" fad - spookily portentious of the Hitler era). An incredibly absorbing psychological novel...if your reading time is precious...nothing will reward more deeply or stay with you longer.

No doubt the book is a little draggy and you can glean a lot of what Musil wants to say in his earlier more tightly written work. But, read this work (I've read this work twice) with the unpublished posthumous papers and you will get a feel of the vast scale of this masterpiece. If Musil had lived to complete this masterwork the way it would have inveitably turned out, it would have been the greatest novel of the century. It would have been the consummation of European thought of several centuries placed in context of both the first and second world wars...now that's something to think about.

Stedman's Medical Dictionary is a near-perfect lexicon that should serve the needs of anyone interested in medical language. With it, you are assured of simple but precise definition of terms. Although its biggest shortcoming is having fewer entries than the Dorland's, its colourful illustrative figures are far better than the black and white charts that the Dorland's boast of.

This dictionary has many helpful features such as a well-illustrated color anatomy section, a large word-finder index, appendices of DRGs,blood groups, lab values, temperature scales, elements, symbols, and more. The inside cover details the many features contained in the definitions. The layout is easy to read. This also contains many illustrations and diagrams. This is an excellent medical reference book.

Having just started my medical studies I was looking for a complete dictionary to meet my demand for a comprehensive and "easy-to-use" book to guide my among the vast and sometimes difficult medical language. I found quickly that Stedman's had everything i could ever ask for in a medical dictionary. It's up to date in current research and also has many entries for termonology of old. The book is very comprehensive and detailed and even surpassed my dictionary of organic chemistry when I studied the subject.

What I especially apriciate with this book is it's pedagogical illustrations and a passage with "building-blocks of the medical language" wich has been a great help for me in understanding and memorizing medical terms.

During my studies I have compared my dictionary with many other medical dictonaries and have found that Stedman's remains my first choise by far!

A new 8th edition has been published. But this is definately the Bible of Respiratory Care.

This is the "Bible of Respiratory Therapy" as once said by my professor. It's a great learning tool that should be used at all colleges offering the respiratory program. I'll always keep this book around no matter what.

The Egan's manual for respiratory therapy is the most benificial learning tool and reference manual that I have come across in all of my career. The information in this book is not only easy to understand but layed out in a manner that makes finding what you need an easy task. It gives a thorough review of all the important clinical data and physical characteristics needed to become a competent practitioner. The information in this book is explained in a very simple form which makes it easy to understand and retain the material that is covered. I would recommend this book as a refence tool to any student pursuing a career as a nurse, respiratory therapist, or physician. While this book may apply specific emphasis to the respiratory related field, it will reinforce your nursing or medicinal background by examining disease processes from a cardiopulmonary standpoint. This book has been a valuable learning tool and greatly aided me in both respiratory and nursing related classes and God willing as medical student. Best wishes to all and I hope you enjoy your read.

I've had a string of bad luck with computer books lately so I was hesitant to get this one but I'm glad I did. The title says it all. I would not encourage people who are new to Maya or people who already know MEL to read this book, but for those of us experienced Maya animators who need a place to start with MEL it's perfect. Very well done and clearly written.

This book is a very clear introduction to the mel scripting language. Often a user will need or want to explore mel to get the most out of Maya, to speed up workflow, repeat tasks more quickly, or achieve complex actions difficult to do in the GUI alone. Those users with programming experience will have little difficulty understanding mel fundamentals from the documentation included with Maya, but those with little or no previous programming experience will have a tough time learning from the documentation alone. Now Maya users of all levels of experience can gain the benefits of mel through the concepts presented in this book, in the form of detailed explanations and dozens of example scipts.
Mark Wilkins and Chris Kazmier have writen an excellent book for anyone who wants to learn mel and get the most out of Maya. I highly recommend it.

Mark and Chris have done an enormous service to the Maya animation community by writing this book. I was very impressed, as I reviewed this book prior to its publication, with how well they were able to communicate important programming concepts to an audience that usually has little or no experience with writing code. Many of the chapters will serve as an invaluable reference for future projects, while the examples show how the concepts are applied in the context of specific requirements. There is no other book on the market that specifically teaches this language, even to experienced coders. Animators with absolutely no prior knowledge of programming may buy this book with confidence, knowing it will clearly explain the concepts they need to know to use MEL effectively in their work. Highly recommended.

I've really been searching for an exercise log that also contained room for my food entries. This book gives equal space to both of these aspects, which is really helpful because they go hand in hand. I love using the book - it's very easy to use and eye-catching so you want to write in it. I've finally found it!

This journal is quite comprehensive in terms of types of exercise listed, which I appreciate as my work-out is varied. The strength training section is perfect for almost any program. It's also helpful and easy to keep track of your diet, and let's face it, the two go hand-in-hand. I also like the "extras" included in this diary, like the weekly planning schedule, progress pages and calendar.

This journal is the BEST on the market! My boyfiend, a personal trainer, ordered one for each of his clients and they love it! The best gift to motivate clients! Very easy to use and well organized. Also try the DietMinder. You will be amazed at what you put ( and don't put!) in your mouth.