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.

Romeo and Juliet

Felipe Gravier and Lorenzo Schiavo review:

We think that Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers whose families are in a terrible fight which prevents them from coming together. How far the couple will go to be together becomes the focus of the story. Of his richest poetry. The opening and closing choruses are some of his most outstanding work. Romeo's It is a brilliant love story but not much more. It still possesses however some wooing of Juliet is fabulously written. The Friar gets the best lines. Mercutio is one the best friends of Romeo. It is not as good as Shakespeare has written but it's still a fabulous book and up there with his best work. One part of the play we didn't like was that for the tow families get arrange there two kids had to die.
The English language wasn't finally finished so Shakespeare had the liberty to create words and play with the language, as he liked. That's why It was so difficult to understand what each character wanted to express so the teacher had to explain us each of that words and teach us all the words in that age and told us which were the words in the English of today.

This book provides lots of Shakespeare's Storys like "A Midsummer's Night Dream" and "Hamlet" with a children's fairy tale twist. The storys are the same as Shakespeare's, but easier for children to understand. My favorite story was Hamlet because I had just seen the play. A while after we read Children's Shakespeare and it helped me to understand Hamlet better.

Shakespeare is for kids and adults in E. Nesbit's creative mind. I always liked fairy tales, but I couldn't read Shakespeare very well. In Children's Shakespeare E. Nesbit turned his work into fairy tales without changing the story and morals. This book is not much like Nesbit's other books because it was written by Shakespeare, but I bet there are some simularities.

This book was a overall well writen book and I beleive E. Nesbit put a lot of hard work into her books in her life-time. I'm sure if she were alive now she would still be writing good books to this day.

The first amendment gives us the right to free speech and for the most part this is a fairly simple concept right? Well in 1994 in Massachusetts this became a complex legal issue that turned a simple parade into chaos.

Riveting from beginning to the very end, this 600-page fact filled legal expose on how our court system really works, is like nothing else you'll ever read. The authors take you on a journey from the state court right the steps of the highest court in the land.

Using actual trial transcripts and painstaking detail, the author's leave no stone unturned. I was simply amazed at how much information was packed into the book. I was simply astounded by the way the system works.

Law professors and students of law need to take and read this work. It is most likely the best book of the first amendment law. A great work in the legal field and a very good read - well done!

As an attorney, what I found most interesting about this book was the use of trial transcripts to help frame the debate on the larger First Amendment constitutional issues. The authors did a superb job of telling a complex story from beginning to end. I would recommend some of my old professors take a close look at this work, and consider using it in trial advocacy and constitutional law classes. I don't remember anything like this when I was at school, but can say it told me a lot more about how the judicial process works than I learned in the classroom.

By far, this book tops all others on how our courts operate. The authors have given a detailed look at the legal system at every level, state and federal, and cover so much territory in so short a space that the book borders on being overwhelming. This is the definitive book on "process". Using rich citation to trial transcripts the authors show in meticulous detail how some judges try to unwrap constitutional guarantees to achieve what they think the law shoud be. I read three other works which aspired to this detail: "Out of Order", "Civil Action" and "Closed Chambers" and can state that none were as insightful as this. This is truly a remarkable work, and should be mandatory reading in every law school in this country.

The Mini CMMI is a handy reference that allows for effective and efficient review of the material. Organizations that are making the transition to CMMI will find the tool invaluable when implementing the goals and practices of the model.

Sitting in a meeting and need to cite a goal or practice? This handy reference is there to help. Easily fits in a shirt pocket or portfolio case.

Ralph Williams, an SEI Authorized CMMI Lead Appraiser and Transition Partner, has produced an easy to use guide to assist the process improvement professional! It's well-organized and structured in parallel with the CMMI Staged Representation.

Mini CMMI(SM)
by Ralph Williams - Cooliemon LLC

Thanks Ralph for helping to make the incomprehensible available to the rest of us. This thirty something page guide is a summary of almost 750 pages.
It clearly shows the process areas relevant to each maturity level and discipline (or bodies of knowledge), and the generic goals, which are the significant factors that were not explicit in the old CMM's.
These are the rocks that provide the stepping-stones to increasing maturity levels applied to all process areas.
As a practicing process engineer this book is in daily use with me. I wholeheartedly recommend it.

The book has a lot of info.I may be 12 and a girl but I LOVE Mustangs.I can refer to my book to get info on a 69 429 Boss.But I wish it had the original list price!The pictures are great! Not only does it have old Mustangs but they also have newer mustangs as well.I enjoy seeing the evalution of the Mustang

This was a gift for my boyfriend--a Mustang owner and lover! He loves it! It's very informative, has great pictures, and information on the history of the Mustang. This book includes the number of models reproduced and he loved that aspect! Not only does it include info on the cars itself but Mustang Memorabilia!! Too Cool of a Book!

The Ford Mustang has had a love affair with Americans since its inception. This book, with polished photos, easy to read format, and brilliant content is a must purchase for any car enthusist.

The book traces each generation of Mustangs as well as the difefrent varations in each "family." It shows the car in all its glory as well as its failures. We get to view the Shelby's, Saleens, Cobras, Mach's, and GTs as well as the pathic Mustang II Coupe. The reader will also get a glance at Mustangs production models and designs.

If you like the American pony cars, then you'll love this book. Long live the Mustang!

We often forget how much we all are attached to our own behavioral and psychological habits. But more often we find that it is very challenging to face our own vices of ignorance which continuously divide ourselves from the most natural state of mind, Bliss. This book truly invites the readers to the most profound Vedic guiding light which can uplift anyone's precious life with its most NATURAL, easy and comfortable techniques. I was very pleased with the simplicity of the author's approach to the physiological mind-body coordination and his "manual" to re-program one's own consciousness.

If you are looking for an EASY and NATURAL way to re-program your-old-self and ready to make a positive change to your old habits, this book would be your must-to-have to start with! "Bring the Light of knowledge and the darkness of oneself and one's surroundings will go away." -Maharishi Mehesh Yogi.

Spiritual Recovery Manual

We all want to get beyond "one day at a time" and put addiction behind us. This book can take you beyond recovery to wholeness.

A good book for those in recovery and his or her loved ones. Very methodically describes the stages of spiritual recovery, and the tools available to help you.

If you're going to do the work of recovering, you might as well have the best advice you can get to help you on your way. In my experience, this is it.

The yogic techniques Williams describes in "The Spiritual Recovery Manual" are practical and surprisingly down-to-earth, presented in a way that tends to resonate with everyday experience. These subtle mental and physiological roots of recovery provide valuable models for recovery not available in traditional, "Western" addiction/dependency literature.

I admit that when I picked up the book, I thought it might be something lightweight and fluffy, filled with affirmations and good moods but little substance. But it's packed (and I use the word advisedly) with practical techniques (some of which I have since tried and found quite effective) from meditation to preventative Ayurvedic medicine to balanced, balancing diet tips, to architecture (of all things). Williams throws in a surprising amount of solid research on the recovery techniques, which a lot of people will find reassuring. I was particularly interested in his societal framework for addiction ("Healing Society"), in which he ties individual addiction to addictive socities (like America's), and offers solutions to create balance and recovery at that level, as well.

I found this toolset to be of real use in issues around being an adult child of an alcoholic parent, not only in the strict definition of recovery as it's traditionally understood, but -- and this is the great gift of the book -- in taking my recovery to a broader, and more profound level, towards spiritual enlightenment: the "Total Recovery" with which the book culminates.

I hope this book gets into the hands of people in recovery, and particularly that it's read by recovery professionals: I think "The Spiritual Recovery Manual" represents -- yes, I have to say it -- a paradigm shift in thinking about recovery.

I read the book and saw the movie Deadly Intentions. I believe it but how can anyone be so sick? People like that are a threat for as long as they live.

It's a very good book , here we can even feel the coldness of this young doctor and his terryfied wife .Mr.Stevens did a wonderful work. It really worth reading!!!!

This book is written about my father and the love he had for his people and how he captured it with the stroke of his brush. His paintings tell the story of the ojibwe people and how they once lived. It also tells of his personal journey through life as an artist. I still have the tapes of that interview and every so often will listen to them so I can hear his voice again. We were all very sad when cancer took his life at the age of 51, he had so much to offer the world with his creativity and uniqueness. We considered him a "Picasso" among Ojibwe artists. He produced many paintings during his lifetime and was honor with his own show " Patrick Desjarlait - A retrorespective " back in September of 1994 at the Minnesota Museum of Art in St.Paul,Minnnesota. They purchased the famous RedLake Fisherman painting from the Patrick DesJarlait Estate. The family has one original painting left for purchase called " The Chippewa Dancer " which is shown in the book. The family also has several prints available for purchase. I recommend this book to persons wanting to learn more about the Ojibwe culture and also those who want to look through the eyes of an artist and join his adventure that he took during his lifetime. It is a beautiful book filled with pictures and paintings. The 2nd edition is much,much better than the 1st edition in terms of beauty.

DesJarlait told of his life to Red Lake tribal co-member Neva Williams, to pass on his experiences and heritage -- which he'd set himself to record in paintings -- before his untimely death in 1972. This book is a revision of one Lerner Publications (of Minneapolis, MN) brought out in the mid-70's, now using a great variety of paintings, family photos and other material brought together by the Minnesota Art Institute for a 1989 retrospective of this Ojibwe artist's work and life.

The current book contains many beautiful full-color pictures in DesJarlait's unique style, influenced by many European artists he studied (informally, in books and museum visits) but shaped by his own unique vision. There is also a history and recollections of life on Minnesota's remote, northern Ojibwe reservation, as well as DesJarlait's Navy experiences with the US Japanese POW internment camps, set up during World War II. This reminded him of Indian reservations, which began, under US Army supervision, as POW internment camps.

In addition to being a successful Native fine-arts artist, with paintings in many museums and private collections, DesJarlait was the first tribal artist to "make it' as a commercial artist, employed for many years in studio work for ad agencies. He was very proud of his commercial masterpiece the "Hamms beer bear" TV commercial (Fra-HUM tha LAND of sky-blue Wa-HA-HA-HA-ters... drumdrumdrum") though today in the Indian community such an artist's involvement with promoting alcohol would be criticized.

The picture he is proudest of, however, shows Red Lake fishermen braving the waves. (The family owns it now.) Red Lake Ojibwe tribe was the first to start a major industrial (fishery) co-op, in 1929. It was a big business until acid rain killed off most of the fish. Even today, there are few tribal co-ops, mostly small arts-crafts marketing enterprises. As well as one of the strongest in maintaining traditions, (and the only tribe in MN to keep most of its land) Red Lake has also been one of the most forward-looking Native Nations in economic enterprises to help its citizens.

You can see a better review, and pix, and a memorial essay by Patrick's son Robert DesJarlait -- also an Ojibwe artist, who documents lifeways, but with his own vision and a style very different from his father's -- on my website, at http://www.fdl.cc.mn.us/~isk/art/art_minn.html, part of my ArtPages about Native American and First Nations artists. I think it is a shame that amazon.com is so careless with the book's price, but I think although Lerner pegs it as "grade 5 and up" this book will be liked by anyone with an interest in Native art. It is a model of how to learn about culture and history through art.

I really wish my teachers had this book when I was in school. It would have made Shakespeare so much more fun to study. Going back to Shakespeare after reading Secrets of Acting Shakespeare, you can actualy see the stage directions with every word Shakespeare writes. When you know the stage directions Shakespeare wrote into his texts, Shakespeare's works become so much more fun to read. Patrick takes you through the way Shakespeare's plays were performed when Shakespeare was still alive, and leads you through the discoveries Patrick's actors made when he and his theater company started performing Shakespeare's plays the way Shakespeare wanted it done. Needless to say, this book is the best book on Shakespearian Acting I've ever read, and would recommend it to anyone who's even slightly interested in the Bard's works. I would also recommend Patrick Tucker's First Folio Monologue books for men and women. They're a crash course in the work Patrick covered in Secrets of Acting Shakespeare, and a great way to sink your teeth into Patrick's ideas.

-Christian, Improvactor.com

This is an exciting book about how Shakespeare's plays actually got on to the stage. The actors then were hardworking, often doing a different play each night, and there was no time for rehearsal as we know it today.
The actors learnt their parts from cue scripts, long scrolls showing the last few words of the previous speech and then their own. They had to be extra attentive or they might miss their entry. The Book-holder, or prompt, was the only person to have the entire text (a valuable document you didn't want anybody else to steal, no copyright in those days) was prominently on stage to see that things went right and, if a prompt was needed, it was given openly. The audience accepted this as part of the performance though anybody needing too many prompts would doubtless get some barracking.
The author, who clearly has a science background and knows how to present a logical case, shows that all the information needed is in the First Folio which is an actors' tool, not a dead piece of Eng Lit. 'you', 'thou' and 'thee' are not interchangeable but actually tell the actor where to stand in relation to others on the stage. Modern editions of Shakespeare have tidied the text up to be read by students; the First Folio had lines, half lines, capital letters in odd places, strange commas; but all actually telling the actor what to do.
The author has been working as a director for the last forty years or so and has refined his theories on the job. He has run The Original Shakespeare Company with many successful productions using his methods. He is wildly popular with his actors and the few productions he was allowed to do at The Globe, London, were sold out and enthusiastically received.
The academic world and theatre establishment are not so happy to see their entrenched theories challenged; and it must be extra annoying that he writes so well and is such a pleasure to read.

I love this book. Its first person accounts by the courageous men and woman who fought valiantly for social justice and economic equality for all people, and stood strong against reactionary forces are so inspiring and moving that I was often in tears.

The book is also immensely informative and even quite funny at times. It vividly presents an amazing array of personalities and is arguably the most affecting, revealing and far-reaching volume about the most shameful chapter in Hollywood's history

Tender Comrades is required reading. We are all indebted to Patrick McGilligan and Paul Buhle for gathering these testimonials, which are true profiles in courage.

I grew up midwestern 1950's, in a hotbed of Mc Carthyism. Needless to mention, my ingrained image of who and what was a communist was somewhat different from the thoroughly humanized portraits that emerge in the pages of the book. Not that the interviews with individual victims of the blacklist result in glamorized or enviable cameos. They don't. Instead, we get a glimpse of what life was like for people of strong conviction who defied the fashion of their day even when it cost them dearly. The fact that most were communists was enough to demonize them in the eyes of so many of us, who, when it comes right down to it, were victims ourselves.

To those of you who have been assailed by America's peculiarly virulent strain of anti-communism, read the book. It won't make a communist of you, but it will give you second thoughts about a political culture that regularly demonizes its opposition, whoever that may be. The interviews reveal not only an America that was, but in many ways an America that still is. The individual stories themselves are fascinating. The names are ones you may have seen briefly on a late night movie credit crawl. Here they come alive in their own words; names and faces that were on the screen one day, then gone the next. Not celebrities, but the kind of people who made movies memorable because they brought more than varying degrees of talent to their work, they brought social concern.

I hope the authors soon bring us a similar volume on non-Hollywood victims of the purges, of which, I gather, there were thousands. Folks without marquee names, but with their own stories to tell about how the world was made safe for democracy.

For anyone that's ready to move past the historical books about the Blacklist period and is ready to hear more about the people involved this is the book to read. It contains interviews with 35 blacklisted personalities (many of them screenwriters, two of them were even in the Hollywood Ten) and deals with more than just the blacklist. This is an intimate book that gives a voice to those that are not often heard or have been forgotten. Many of these people led fascinating lives outside of Hollywood (one of them having fought in the war in Spain against the fascists), and you will hear about their own childhood, how they came to Hollywood, and all the dreams and visions they had before the Red Scare destroyed them. It is also interesting to hear these people talk about this turbulent time in their lives since it is something that can only be explained by those who were wronged. Some have moved on and forgiven the friendly witnesses while others still recall those horrible moments and refuse to forget and forgive their transgessors (which they have a reason to). Among those included are Norma and Ben Barzman, Hugo Butler, Alvah Bessie, John Bright, Ring Lardner Jr., Frank Tarloff, and Bernard Vorhaus. All in all, this book is clearly one to read.