The 10th edition of Hurst's The Heart was eagerly awaited in India by a lot of people. The editors have yet again suceeded in maintaining the lucid style of writing that differentiates the current textbook form various other titles on heart disease. At the same time mayn chapters have been totally re written and lot of new chapters incorporated in keeping up with the recent developments in cardiovascular science. My congratulations to the editors in bringing out an authoritative as well as readable textbook - a truly amazing combination.

This is the favorite raconter of millions of TV fans back in the 1950's and 60's!!The bestselling author of books such as Mine Enemy Grows Older and May This House Be Safe From Tigers!Alexander King tells you all about the women he's known,liked,loved,married-and kissed.Here they are in splendid array(and sometimes disarray):the hot tomatoes and cool chicks,the ladies,women,girls and girlies who have saunterd,stormed or slunk through Alex's Kingdom!

A very informative and enjoyable book for all fathers. The letters from the children were heart wrenching. The book gets down to the most important element of fatherhood-what children need from their father, from their point of view. It is an easy read with many vitally important but simple acts and thoughts for fathers to think about while being a child's father. It is not heavy text but thought provoking and could be life changing for a child if a father would incorporate some of the ideas children feel are important especially in a divorce situation. It is a must read for all dads. I loved it.

This short book contains the story of Humberto Alexander's 22 years in Castro's prisons. It is a story of courage and faith under the ugliest of conditions. Alexander was shot, tortured repeatedly, starved, and treated in the most unspeakably inhuman ways, yet through it all his faith in Christ allows him and his fellow prisoners to survive and even to love those who were torturing them. You will not regret reading this book!

The book of A.D. Knysh is an excellent reader for those who are interested not only in the personality of Ibn Arabi himself or his ideas, but also in the reception of these ideas by the medieval Muslim society (second half of XIII to XV centuries) in the framework of which Ibn Arabi lived. The author takes completely impartial, scholarly position without leaning for or against the Great Sheykh. The author limits himself to Arab speaking regions (Egypt and Syria, Maghreb and Yemen) This reception as it appears was far from unanimous and produced a heated polemics which started just two decades after Great Sheykh's death. The detractors of Ibn Arabi who were more numerous than supporters subjected Ibn Arabi's work to rigorous criticism and very often outright condemnation. One of the driving forces behind the criticism was the care of the Islamic scholars about the interest of the community and their apprehension that Ibn Arabi's monistic worldview blurring the distinction between God and the world, and the idea about the invisible hierarchy of saints etc. can make prejudice to the beliefs, morality and social order of the Islamic ummah. The struggle for the ideas of Ibn Arabi was not always disinterested struggle on dogmatic matters, it was often related with the vying for quite "earthly" things such as official positions, power and social prestige. Quite often the deabate was quite dangerous and fraught with serious consequences for those involved in it. A.Knysh shows that the detractors of Ibn Arabi were not completely able to comprehend the entire sophistication of Great Sheykh's style and ideas. Yet, to his opinion, they were able comprehend the key issues of his teaching especially those which can ideological or social relevance to broad masses of the believers. However the usual taxonomic schema used by medieval authors to classify the figures of the Islamic thought(specialist of hadith, jurist, theologian, mystic) has appeared inappropriate to fully comprehend the sophisticated teachings of the Great Sheykh which defied all the attempts of classification( extreme literalism and thorough going exotericism both present in the works of Ibn Arabi). Besides that under the main themes in Ibn Arabi's became settled there were little attempt to cast a fresh into the Sheykh's work. The detractors, as well as the supporters, are shown to be not limited to any particular school or sect, rather the line between being pro- or against Ibn Arabi runs across various schools. The author shows that being anti Ibn Arabi by far was not equivalent with being anti Sufi, and that the absolute majority of the detractors were in one or other form affiliated with Sufism or exposed to its ideas. A.Knysh equally questions the usual assumption about the struggle between " "Theologians" with "Sufis" showing that most of the participants of the debate were all the three, and that the debate was the encounter between the various standpoints in both theology and Sufism. A. Knysh also questions the usual assumption when Islam is presented as an "orthoprax" religion where dogmatic difference are not so important when the requirements of ritual decorum are satisfied. The heated debated on the doctrinal issues concerning the "unity of being" clearly show the opposite. While describing the reception of Ibn Arabi's ideas in the Western part of the Islamic world the author shows that differently from the Eastern lands of Islam, Ibn Arabi was not considered here such paramount figure or founder of the monistic school, but rather as a representative of the broader tradition or "plot" of monists, and Ibn Sab`in, another monistic Sufi from Maghreb was considered of equal importance to Ibn Arabi, if not greater. A.Knysh devotes separate chapters or parts of them to some of more known detractors of Ibn Arabi such as Syrian Shafi`i scholar Izz al-Din Abd al-Salam who as the first detractor and contemporary of Ibn Arabi had great importance to later makers of the polemic image, to well-know Hanbali Ibn Taimiyya, and to Hanafite al-Taftazani. In the chapter devoted to Maghreb he analyses three specific personalities, one of them being the famous Ibn Khaldoon. Chapters are also devoted to the reception of Ibn Arabi's ideas in Mamlook kingdom of Egypt and Syria, and in Yemen. Since the Islamic life of Yemen is relatively little known, and A.Knysh is one of the leading experts on Yemeni Islam, this chapter of his book is especially interesting and instructive.

This book brings alive a period of British history in which pamphlet wars--not unusual in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London--are used by the author to elucidate how Tories and Whigs work to undermine each other. I recommend this book highly to anyone with an interest in British history, English literature, politics, and culture. The author knows how to write a sentence, but more important, he knows how to write a thrilling book that goes beyond academic interest and would make anyone who is interested in history enjoy it.

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This CD-rom is a good exemple how easy can be Immunology, witha good teaching guide. The interative of Navihedrom and the quality ofthe information display in very nice animations is sensational. Dr. Roitt is a leader in Immnology and his leadership go further with these wonderful CD-rom.

Alexander III is a tsar who has disappeared in history, probably because he reigned for too short a time to make much of a difference in Russian history. He ruled in between two of Russia's better known monarchs: his father was Alexander II, who freed the serfs, while his son was Nicholas II, the last tsar. Alexander III has been ill-served in biography; the sole real English-language biography of him was written in the 1890s and contains (unsurprisingly) numerous errors. Bokhanov's "Imperator Aleksandr III" fills all the gaps (although it is, alas, in Russian). Bokhanov quotes from tons and tons of letters, including Alexander's letters, those of his siblings, those of his wife, those of his children, and those of his parents, and even includes a section on Alexander's short-lived, more liberal older brother (whose fiancee he inherited). Bokhanov's scholarship and use of primary sources is, as always, fantastic. (See "The Romanovs: Love, Power, and Tragedy" in English for an example.) Lots and lots of beautiful family photos, too. A fascinating book for anyone interested in Alexander, his charming, iron-willed wife, Maria Fyodorovna, the intertwined world of late nineteenth-century royalty, or the early childhood of Nicholas II.

Alexander Thomas wrote about three towns in upstate New York, which has been having pretty bad economic problems. What makes this book worth reading is that he shows how what's happening today developed from the end of world war II. He talks about Utica and the urban renewal programs, the highways, the effect of companies moving out, and how the state of the city today is really the product of fifty years of events. Then he shows how small towns like Cooperstown and Hartwick have suffered the same trends but, because theyre small towns, they experienced them differently. Everybody interested in upstate New York needs to read this book! Anybody interested in social change needs to read it too.