this book is an excellent resource for your basic lab campanion. each chapter is outlined clearly and is detailed for the individual student to understand. I so much enjoy this book I have introduced even the new students coming into the respiratory program to purchase this book. this is a Must Have! all required information that is needed is here, and explained step-by-step format. buy it, this book is a breath of fresh air,not filled with unnessary medical jargon.

This was one of Safire's first books after leaving the government and setting up shop at the New York Times. It's a massive but highly readable memoir of his service as speechwriter at the Nixon White House. His view of the president is highly nuanced but ultimately sympathetic. He unloads on Henry Kissinger for having Safire's phone tapped; writes a revealing portrait of Pat Moynihan and how that administration became more "progressive" than either liberal critics or conservative allies could admit; writes admiringly about Julie Eisenhower as "a glimpse of what her father could have been if he hadn't listened so often to the dark side of his personality." He touches on Haldeman, Ehrlichman, and the dirty tricksters and puts them in context of the domestic civil war that was produced by Vietnam--Safire was ahead of his time in giving Nixon more mercy and judging his adversaries as hypocritical (and disasterously wrong about the consequences of a Communist takeover in Southeast Asia.) Highly entertaining and informative--also see his novel of about the same time, "Full Disclosure", for a "roman a' clef" about his Nixon experience.

I recommend this book very highly. It's well written and explains the concepts of beginning photography using this system clearly and concisely. Having some, but not a lot of experience with photography, I was interested in finding an instructional book that would help me get started quickly, but also see good results. The concepts and processes detailed are also illustrated quite nicely with photos, some eye catching, some stunning. Having read it through I went to work applying what I had learned with great success! I think it would be just as effective for a total beginner. I'm very happy with it.

Jimmy White is one of those people everyone wants to be at one time or another: a lose cannon, a maverick. A bad boy. But very few live up to that in the end; after all, everyone has responsibilities. This fantastically entertaining book presents White as the man who all to often forgot his in his schooldays and early professional career. Skipping school, gambling, drinking, brushes with the law, it's all here. Not surprising with characters like Alex Higgins mixing in the same social circles.

The most unlikely of games - snooker - became somehow sexy in the 1980s, with White's whirlwind style of play securing legendary status despite the fact that he has failed to win any of the six world finals he has reached. But this is the story of a man, not a player, one who has beaten his own excesses as well as cancer to survive on the circuit today as still the most popular player out there. Put simply, Jimmy White is a human being with extraordinary stories to tell. The best biography I have ever read.

This book is a wonderful tool to help you establish your goals and provide you with realistic steps to getting there. The format of the book is very intuitiave. I'm having my 12 year old read it next!

The Belle Gone Bad stands out among other books of criticism for two reasons: accessibility and originality. Dr. Entzminger's prose invites the reader in-she does not obfuscate the text with theory-speak, and yet her text is informed by the writings of Judith Butler-and then traces the evolution of the trope of the bad belle from its mid-Nineteenth Century origins to its peak in Gone with the Wind to its retirement in contemporary Southern women's fiction. Entzminger demonstrates how the bad belle represents a socially subversive space of sexuality, creativity, and independence. She couples this with a discussion of the bad belle's dark double, which at times represents a conventional racial stereotype, but in certain texts, calls into question many of the South's artificial constructions of whiteness and purity. Despite my previous encounters with many of these texts in my own research areas, I was repeatedly impressed with Entzminger's acute observations, connecting what had seemed to be disparate genres joined only by geography. The accessibility of this text as well as the strength of its argument will inevitably make it one of the major works in the field that both students and scholars of southern women's fiction will have to consider.

This is an excellent factual book about the birth, habitat and life of a beluga whale. The text is full of information stated in a simple and direct way that young readers would be able to read. The pictures are wonderful, although the actaul photograph of the baby beluga being born is one I would avoid in my elementary classroom. I know the students would think the photos are as adorable as I did! The table of contents, pronounciation keys and glossary are helpful for young students. The big print and bold face vocabulary words make this book perfect for an elementary classroom. The authentic photographs make this book perfect for any child interested in whales or aquariums. I think this is an excellent resource for young children. I love this book!!!

This book introduced him to a love of mystery books and is the first Bear Scout book in his Berenstain Bear book collection. The Too Tall Gang and the Bear Scouts have a boat race. They never passed them, but the nasty gang won the race. How? In an underhanded way by using two boats and a short-cut trek through the woods to the finish line.It was fun reading this book 'slowly' trying to come up with different scenarios as to how the Too Tall Gang won the race without passing the Bear Scout boat. We were happy that one of our scenarios was close the the outcome. A discussion about fairness in competition and deception followed. It made great reading and great conversation with our book loving 6 year old. I highly recommend it.

This books is a warm and comforting book bringing together all of nature! The author takes the reader for a walk along side of the bay meeting many living creatures of nature. The reader gets to look at the bay, sky, and animals in vivid colors. This book gives you the feeling that you belong at the bay with the boy in the book. It is a favorite for young and old readers

This book will help to breed healthy skepticism. 2002 was a defining year for modern business crimes, or at least reported business crimes, and this book provides a succinct and clear review of the highflying companies, the colorful players, their notorious crimes, and the pertinent issues. I finally understand how Enron schemed and ImClone conned. The editor has selected some of the best reports of each crime, crimes where greed and vice, instead of virtue, were rewarded, and he has brought each story up to date with unfolding news. In Part One, Surowiecki selected stories about the corporate hucksters, conmen, CEOs, visionaries, and villains, from the Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Forbes, The New York Times, The LA Times, The WSJ, and even The Edmonton Journal. The stories illuminate the events at Enron, WorldCom, ImClone, CriticalPath, Quest, Tyco, and Adelphia. The Edmonton Journal's story on WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers is among the best I read. No Mississippi paper would touch that profile. You might never read a business press puff piece about a CEO, or trust a devoutly religious or visionary CEO the same way again. In Part Two, the stories focus on "Who Watches the Watchmen?" Stories from The New Yorker, The New York Times, BW, USBanker, and The WSJ highlight the SEC and NY Attorney General Elliot Spitzer, and the corruptions of Wall Street analysts, "independent knowers," and at the self regulating Big Five accounting firms, especially Andersen Worldwide. The profile of Jack Grubman, a disgraced telecom analyst who lacked objectivity is a delight to read. In Part Three, the selected stories concern "What Went Wrong, and How Do We Fix It?" Stories from the WSJ, Business 2.0, Slate, Bloomberg, Fortune, The Weekly Standard, and The Atlantic Monthly investigate whether corruption is an always a byproduct of bull market bubbles, whether stock options lead to the rewarding of bad behavior, and whether greedy investors themselves are to blame for what befalls them.