The 5-minute pediatric consult is written in an easy to read outline format. The writers have eliminated unnecesary obscure data and offer a concise outline of all major pediatric diseases. The topics are designed to be read in 5 minutes or less and all the up to date information to diagnose and treat a specific illness is included. The topics are alphabetized, so they are easy to look up. The writers are accomplised experts in their fields and the book has been edited by the distinguished Dr. Schwartz, at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. As a professor of Pediatrics, I highly recommend this book to practicing pediatricians, family practitioners, nurses and students.

when will the CD be available? I travel to several schools providing healthcare to uninsured children and would like to use this valuable reference. (a PNP)

love the format. listed alphabetically, the items are presented in a easy to read format. Just about all I want to know about the problem when working in a busy office. I can read more later but this gets the job done. an excellent 90's type of book. where is the CD?

June Singer's Blake, Jung, And The Collective Unconscious examines the words and images contained in Blake's works, considering Jung's concepts of archetypes and other ideas inherent in the verbal and visual images. An important, involving work.

The letters of people 'in the world' are full of the boundless love of an elder, who lived his life in Russia and Finland in the Valaam Monasteries. Skhemaigumen John had a vast correspondence that was collected in the fifties by a small group of people.

Here is a short extract form the book:

In our Monastery life goes silently on although the brothers are quite old, just like in an old peoples home, one older than the other. If I am alive in July I will be 79 - a respectable age, and I am ready to enter eternity. I thank God that I have lived to such an old age and that he has allowed me, a sinner, to live all my life in a monastery. I have not had to experience the worldly life, full of deceit, vainglory, lies and pride. Can anyone amidst these sins feel peace and tranquillity in their souls? Surely not."

Theophane's writings of full of piercing insights into the human condition and the path to union with God. Theophane is a guide along the Bhakti path, pointing out it's pitfalls and the essentials needed for success. I have read this book over and over again and each new reading I glean many new insigts.

Esther Newton is an extremely gifted thinker and writer. She points up important issues for gender studies in a clear and compelling, and still quite groundbreaking, style. This book works very diligently and successfully at several levels: as a historical narrative of the trajectory of Newton's life and career; as a theoretical discourse which is situated specifically by her historical narrative; as a critique of and a profound contribution to her profession, anthropology; as a powerful argument for the inevitable relationship between theory and history; as a courageous and provocative piece of scholarship.

Many of these essays were written early in the second wave of feminism, so the issues they engage point up the degree to which Newton has been ahead of her time. That she narrativizes the essays as the historical life of an academic (herself) attests to the fact that she is still ahead of her time: everything-- political, academic, social, sexual--is lived. There are no categories which happen outside of the people who make them.

Because of Newton's autobiographical, comfortable style, it should be noted that the book, although clearly academic, is a fairly easy read.

I can't tell you how much this book has changed my life. I've been a therapist for years and a friend of mine has begged me to read this book. I despised psychobabble-fluff. After this book I know why! It's a bit difficult to understand particularly if you're not familiar with the Orthodox Church but don't let that scare you off! It's well worth the struggle!

Awe Inspiring and practical at the same time. These insights to understanding prayer is amazing and puts to shame the many useless sermons I have endured in my day. :)
These riches from Orthodox Christianity is opening up new doors in my heart.
Both soothing and challenging.

I have about 4 other books on OS/2 REXX, they are either too easy, poorly written with bad illustrations or un-organized. With this book, I believe the learning curve is very smooth and the book is extremely well organized. You can read the book from front to back (really, in about a months time) and be a real expert on OS/2 REXX. Good illustrations and very simple language. The book emphasizes "hands-on" learning by not including a disk of all the programs listed in the book. This may be the only downfall of the book, but still a big thumbs up. If you're going to buy one book on OS/2 REXX programming, this is it!

Ms. Williams writes with surprising candor of her early Hollywood
days. There was a great deal I didn't know about Esther Williams prior to reading her book and was pleasantly surprised to find out what an interesting woman she is! She speaks openly about her co-workers (other movie "stars"), the education she received from making movies and the studio system and her family life. An astute businesswoman as well, Ms. Williams was also very involved in synchronized swimming including its induction into the Olympics. I was surprised to find that I had a hard time putting the book down.

Esther Williams is one of the most successful of the handful of world-class athletes who made the transition to Hollywood star. She had the goods as a champion swimmer, though she never quite made it to the Olympics. This breezily written autobiography makes it all seem rather a lot of fun, making movie after movie that showcased her very particular talents. The descriptions of how the visually spectacular swimming sequences in her films were achieved, often with great physical danger to the star (this was long before the computer-generated effects that are commonplace today), are among the most interesting--and hair-raising--portions of the book.

There was plenty of drama in Williams' personal life as well, and her travails with various alcoholic, abusive and swindling husbands and lovers make depressingly familiar reading. There are enough titillating revelations about the men in her life, Johnny Weismuller and Jeff Chandler among them, to keep a reader eagerly turning the pages, though one wonders as usual about the ethics of revealing intimate secrets about people who are no longer around to defend themselves. Still, such discomfort didn't stop _me_ from finishing the book, nor will it dissuade many others, I suspect. In short, "Million Dollar Mermaid" is a highly entertaining entry in the Hollywood tell-all sweepstakes.

More interesting than I expected April 1, 2002
Ms. Williams writes with surprising candor of her early Hollywood
days. There was a great deal I didn't know about Esther Williams prior to reading her book and was pleasantly surprised to find out what an interesting woman she is! She speaks openly about her co-workers (other movie "stars"), the education she received from making movies and the studio system and her family life. An astute businesswoman as well, Ms. Williams was also very involved in synchronized swimming including its induction into the Olympics. I was surprised to find that I had a hard time putting the book down.

'Tooth Imprints on A Corndog' is great. This one is an unreadable collection of rambling nonsense.

Leyner is more often than not a solid 4-star writer (My Cousin, Et Tu, Tetherballs), but his first book offers little pleasure beyond the fun of its title. A number of years passed between this debut and the much more worthwhile "My Cousin" and it was a healthy period of artistic growth, evidently. There are a few flashes of cleverness here and there, but this is overall a soggy and underdeveloped effort that makes you realize how delicate and precise his unique style is: in later works, it's a marvel of pop culture satire, rapid fire wit, and intriguing arcania. Here, it's a sophomoric dud that too often reads like really bad Barthelme. Or really bad Leyner.

Don't misunderstand: everything Leyner's done after this first collection is brilliant writing and mandatory reading. But ESTHER WILLIAMS is the most godawful hodgepodge of literary conceits and pratfalls you may ever be unlucky enough to read. Obviously, some episode of satori marked the time between this and his next book, the now-classic MY COUSIN, MY GASTROENTEROLOGIST. I'm being harsher than I should be, perhaps, considering how great a satirist Leyner has become. But even he probably wishes this book would crawl off his resume. Take a pass on ESTHER and go straight to his other four collections.