I am a 3rd year medical student and this book has been a lifesaver more times than I can count. Like most books of its kind, each chapter is based on a single symptom followed by a list of the most common diseases or processes that cause the symptom. However, the difference is that for each of the items in the differential the author gives a VERY BRIEF description of THE MOST pertinent positives and negatives, and these help you, the medical student (read "novice"), differentiate between them quickly. This book is so well organized and so easily and quickly read it will amaze you. Keep in mind, however, that this book doesn't give you all of the symptoms for each item in the differential, nor does it give an absolutely complete or exhaustive differential for each symptom, so if that is what you are looking for this book isn't for you. One other bonus though, this book fits very easily into a coat pocket.

I am a third year med student and this book is great! It takes a single finding from your history and physical exam and gives a differential to boot. There is even a brief description of all the things listed in the differential. It even has color plates in the back of common findings. Definitely a book to look into for all of you starting out like I am.

This book is a gem and should be on the reading list of any fan of Fitzgerald or Hemingway. Much of the contents are anecdotal recollections of Hemingway regarding Fitzgerald who he regarded as immensely talented but weak and dominated (by Zelda and the bottle). A variety of letters between the two help to bring to life the closeness that was in evidence in the early friendship before Fitzgerald's decline and Hemingway's enormous success (followed by his growing intolerance of the waning and less successful like FSF). This book also does not attempt to hide the sometimes incomprehensible mean -spiritedness of Hemingway when despite all his success (largely aided by the early support of others he later cast aside) still felt enough threatened to throw his drowning friends an anchor.

This has new stuff that wasn't in Brucolli's previous book on the two authors SCOTT AND ERNEST. I read that one, and when starting FITZGERALD AND HEMINGWAY, thought I'd read the same book, but with a few added facts. Well, there are tons of new facts in F & H that are EXTREMELY interesting to the Fitzgerald and Hemingway fan. I recommend this book highly. I've read much of it more than once.

I have read this book three times and I can read it again. I really enjoyed this novel. I recomended to anyone who loves to read novels that include drama and suspense.

This is a novel of one man's heart wrenching battle to gain the love of a women who is emotionally blind. Gastby once turned down for being poor feels the same rejection now as he is rich. Throughout the whole novel his life is read aloud by his only friend who loves him for himself...the narrator. The compelling drama of this story brings ones own life into reality....do we actually form materialistic relatioships? That may be one question worth asking yourself at the closing of the novel. From the destruction of his massive parties inflicted by his "friends" to the destruction of himself from his beloved Daisy, one wishes they may reach in the book and and make Gatsby see what everyone but himself can see. His goal in life...his compelling love, is leading to his inevitable destruction.

This book is truly a work of art. The plot, the characters, the similes, and the quotes are superb. The story is about Jay Gatsby,the man who did everything to achieve love. But he still failed. The theme is illusion. This is a great classic which reflects upon the lives of American people. It is not at all slow and boring. U will definitly enjoy this book. Mark my words

F.S. Fitzgerald had successfully depicted the glamorous lives of the American upper class during the 1920s. The story centers on Jay Gatsby, a millionaire, whose past is a mystery, but with his tremendous wealth, he is able to attract everyone into his life circle. However, his entire motive is to win back his old lover, Daisy; his loyalty of love eventually leads to his tragic ending.

Telling the truth can be a painful exercise. Telling the truth can open unhealed wounds with poisonous pus erupting. Once told the silence is broken. Only then can truth be liberating and true healing can take place.

African-american women get the truth told about their lives in this diverse collection of essays, poetry, interviews and photography. Through these various mediums we engage Black women in discussing the difficulties in telling about their lives, healings which took place, relationships that have been broken and reclaimed and the challenges of resisting marginalization.

For years many gifted Black women have been relegated into the obscurity of silence by the culture at large and sadly by their own people. Travel with Alice Walker as she rescues Zora Neale Hurston from the pit of obscurity. Walker shares with us the adventure of one Black woman writer searching to honor another Black woman writer who was placed in obscurity. Zora was independent and shows what happens to a woman with a mind of her own.

Kate Rushin questions us about suicide. Are Black women crazy enough to consider it? We're too busy going through life changes to worry about it. Or do we? Consider Rushin's poetry. Overall this volume presents Black women as they are. They are not the superwomensapphiresbitchesmammies and other stereotypes that are placed upon them but are reflective, intelligent women whose lives have enriched their culture. A brief glimpse of their works enables us to appreciate them for whom and what they are. Through the telling of the truth then we can appreciate ourselves and those women in our communities who have given so much. By all means put this book in your own personal library. I have.

I bought this book this weekend after hearing Drs. Bell Scott and Johnson-Bailey read from it on campus. I did not expect to be so moved, to experience the power of these stories. Once I did, though, I had to buy the book to read the rest of it. I was amazed by my own emotional reaction to stories so far removed from my life as a young, white, yankee girl.

This book is my all time favorite. It has all the flies that I enjoy to tie. I open this book every time I sit down to tie flies, although it isn't something I do often anymore. I enjoy the quality of the photographs in this book for me to compare my own work too. The books arrangement of the flies was well done and makes for quick reference to find what I'm looking to make. I thank the people who were all involved in making this book for the amount of interest it provokes in me for flyting.

Randy Stetzer's selection of flies for "The Best One Thousand" is clearly the fly pattern index of choice. The fly selection covers warmwater, saltwater, deerhair, dries, nymphs and streamers and even includes some fanciful unique flies. This book doesn't include flies that are localized creations...each pattern has been accepted world-wide.

Scott C. Patchan's, "Forgotten Fury: The Battle of Piedmont", covers one of the most least-known but bloody fields of conflict during all the Civil War in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. And, the author does so in a highly-readable and definitive way.

Piedmont occurred while Grant was pounding Lee's army at Cold Harbor in June of 1864 and also followed soon upon the heels of Franz Sigel's much-publicized defeat at nearby New Market that May. Thus, this small but terrible engagement has suffered an undeserved obscurity until now--though it's ferocity and strategic importance should have prevented such a fate.

Piedmont was the key engagement in Union General David Hunter's thrust into the Upper Shenandoah Valley in early 1864. It had its inception in Grant's overall strategy of multiple, coordinated attacks in Virginia in an effort to tie-down Lee's Confederates and destroy them in the field that year. Though rarely graced with more than a few lines or a paragraph in most histories of the Overland Campaign, Hunter's efforts were vital to Grant's strategy. The Shenandoah Valley was Virginia's and Robert E. Lee's most vital source of supply--the "bread-basket" region of the "Old Dominion" State.

Without its crops, grains, livestock and recruits rolling eastwardly toward Richmond along the connecting Virginia Central Railroad, Lee could not keep his army alive for very long near the Confederate capital. Grant knew this and was determined to see the Valley in Union hands and it's supplies out of Lee's.

Many Yankee armies had tried to gain control of the Valley during the war, but all had failed to-date. Hunter's effort would be the most serious yet, and the rolling, picturesque fields at little Piedmont, Virginia would be where either success or failure would begin.

The battle itself resulted when Confederate General "Grumble" Jones' scratch force of Valley troops attempted to stop Hunter north of the crucial Virginia Central Railroad near Waynesboro. The battle started well enough for the Rebels who fought desperately to keep back Hunter's bluecoats. Casualties were extremely high for numbers engaged, and there was much hand-to-hand action. After see-sawing back and forth for sometime, Hunter's forces were finally able to exploit a weakness in the Southern battleline to turn the tide. The result--a Confederate defeat and retreat which opened the way toward Staunton and Gordonsville and the vital Virginia Central Railroad.

Mr. Patchan's narrative of how Hunter embarked upon his campaign and met and defeated the Confederates at Piedmont is expertly chronicled with a great deal of original, primary-source research as a base. The battle itself is a riveting and detailed story, laced profusely with accounts from soldiers on both sides who who remembered it as one of "the most destructive open-field fights of the war."

The battle had its own share of controversies as well, but the author does not shy away in the least from addressing each one with convincing arguments supported by abundant and creditable sources. Many time-honored assumptions about Confederate leadership at the battle are clearly rectified, and the engagement itself is shown for the first time to be what it was--one of the nastiest small encounters of the war in that region.

Any Civil War buff who enjoys good battle narrative will not be disappointed here; one "feels" oneself in the heat of the conflict reading this text. For those interested in the Civil War in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley or Grant's Overland Campaign against Richmond, this book is an absolute "must" read.

Theodore C. Mahr, former Natl Park Historian, reviewer and author of "The Battle of Cedar Creek: Showdown in the Shenandoah, October 1--30, 1864."

General Jones is well noted within the pages of this well written text. A must for any serious Civil War buff and historian. Scott has none a fine job

This is truly an enjoyable book. I certainly got a "kick" from his letters. I read two or three of the chapters several times. One thing I noticed about him from his writings was the hidden and totally unintentional secrets he exposed regarding his personality. I think the man was a "saint," because he revealed absolutely no vices or bad habits, as well as he was the ultimate possessor of Victorian manners. I spoke with a friend of mine, who also read the book, and he had the same impression of Willcox that I got. This book will make you appreciate the man once you get to know him more personally. I have quoted Willcox before, in my own writings, gleaned from other books, and from the Official Records, but until I read his personal letters, I never knew who he was. Mr. Scott should be commended for all of his hard work bringing these letters to life.

Orlando Willcox's voluminous memoirs, letters, and correspondence are an important, valuable contribution to our understanding of the Civil War. Covering his life in the army from his days at West Point in the 1840's through divisional command in both theaters of the Civil War, this magesterial compilation will interest specialists and buffs alike. Willcox's keen observations and trenchant comments on persons and events are reminiscent of the classic recollections of Charles Wainwright, E.P. Alexander, and Robert McAllister. Robert Garth Scott's judicious editing (footnotes are blessedly placed at the bottom of pages rather than the end of the book) greatly enhances what will instantly become a standard source for anyone seeking a greater knowledge of the American conflict. The price may seem hefty, but it is well worth the cost.

This is the long awaited basic textbook for osteopathic medicine. It is surprisingly complete, covering philosophy, history, research, and manipulative techniques. The beginning osteopathic student may find it most useful for its practical discussion on the techniques--high velocity, myofascial release, etc. I believe it is also helpful in standardizing our terminology, which will make it easier when taking board exams or talking with colleagues from other osteopathic schools. It includes contributors well known within the osteopathic community, including Michael and William Kuchera, Melicien Tettambel, Eileen DiGiovanna, and many others. As a family practice resident I frequently turn to this textbook first when I want to know more about how to treat a patient or when preparing lectures for students and housestaff.

This text is actually required reading for most if not all osteopathic medical students. It is a 'textbook', however, and hence completely (sometimes exhaustively!) comprehensive. But it is easy to read so that anyone with an interest in OMT will get a methodic how-to for myriad techniques, also a thorough history of osteopathic medicine to boot! One of my OMT professors at the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine wrote or co-wrote a few of the chapters so of course, I think those are the best! If you are looking for an educational approach to learning manipulation and the reasons behind it, this is a valuable resouce.

FOUR TO MIDNIGHT is a very unusual police novel. As a good, juicy page-turner, it delivers the goods and then some - Flander's handling of action sequences is particularly exciting, and very nearly cinematic (I'd definitely like to see the movie of this one). But it's also an exceptional portrait of a city and the cultures within it - Philadelphia, its neighborhoods, its citizens and their multiple mindsets are all conveyed intimately and immediately, so that you instantly feel like you know this place and these people. Finally, the writing is quietly brilliant. There are very few great stylists in this genre, but Flander, in this book, announces himself as one of them - he has drawn together plot, theme, character and place seamlessly and masterfully, creating, not only a great read, but a great novel.

In Philadelphia, two white police officers Mutt and Roy, call for supervisory help. Sergeant Eddie North arrives only to have African-American Councilman Sonny Knight scream at him to get the two cops away from him. Later, Sonny accuses Mutt and Roy of beating him up and adds Eddie to his list of accusation. Both officers deny ever touching Sonny and Eddie believes them because he knows he is innocent and neither of the policemen on the scene showed any sins of using force, let alone excessive.

However, the brass, the politicians, and the media think otherwise forcing an Internal Affairs investigation. As this scenario further splits a city divided over another controversial case, Eddie tries to learn why Sonny lied, but soon finds he is drowning in a polluted cesspool of corruption, bad cops, and duality racism.

The inquiries made by the IA staff and by Eddie are intelligent and entertaining so that police procedural fans have a powerful enjoyable tale. However, FOUR TO MIDNIGHT is more than another urban police story. Instead the theme focuses on how racism engulfs everyone in a swamp and destroys the innocent and their friendships. Thus the audience receives a superb police procedural with a cleverly interwoven powerful message.

Harriet Klausner