Jane Rice has outdone herself once again. This book has everything there is to know about Pharmacology for Medical assisting. It's not only easy to understand but is also very informative. After I read it I got a 94 on my Pharmacology test, and now I'm a certified pharmacist thanks to this astonishing book. If you are thinking becoming a medical assistant or a pharmacologist this is a book I'd definitely recommend. Buy this and you'll be glad you did, I guarantee it.

"The Prodigal's Son" is an easy read. It held my attention all the way through. The only problem is that it ended too quickly. The author states that this is the first in a series of books about the same family and I am looking forward to the next edition.
This book is probably more enjoyable to the inhabitants of small towns than to city dwellers. I found I could relate to the descriptions and events of small town life since I live in such a town; however, I do feel that you will enjoy the book no matter where you live. Its worth the price!

I have prepared several of the recipes in this fine book and they were wonderful. The recipes not only sound good, but are clearly written and easy to follow. It is important to me that a recipe book take the time to standardize the recipies so that the recipe comes out the same each time it is baked. That has clearly been done here. And even more important, the recipes are delicious. I highly recommend this book to both new and experiences bakers.

This work from Stan Rice is so necessary in our world now.
It is thick in its simplicity; intricate, dreamlike whisperings; his honesty burrows the raw truth, the raw emotions into you inescapably. His words come from an undeniable primal state interwoven within the metal intellect.
Stan's poetry is to be read and reread, to the rind. For his work, this one particularly, goes directly to the core of the soul.
You will find it an otherworldly conversation; a secret world you marvel nervously as you dare to enter!
Thanks.

The minute you see this volume anywhere, buy it. (Unless, of course, it's a library book. In that case, just borrow it for a while.) Take it home, and after an aggravating day, pick it up and read THE PROOF OF THE PUDDING by Barbara Metzger. I guarantee you'll laugh out loud as you read about the ingenious young widow who tries to find a husband for her sister--only to win one for herself, instead.

On the other hand, if you're already too buoyant, and want to shed a few tears, Patricia Rice will oblige with THE CHRISTMAS GOOSE. Men go off to war seldom considering the woman they leave behind, and if you mix in a curmudgeonly father who ignores his now-widowed daughter, you have the ingredients for a real tear-prompting tale.

If you've ever all-of-a-sudden come to realize something that had been lurking in the recesses of your mind, you'll identify immediately with the young duke in Edith Layton's THE GINGERBREAD MAN. Awakened every morning by a scented memory, he discovers his heart's desire practically under his nose. You'll feel wonderful all day after this delight.

Have you ever wondered what on earth was a Syllabub? Wonder no more. In this instance, it, too, is a memory-maker as Sandra Heath whips up the tangled remnants of a marriage into a new concoction, and straightens them out to everyone's satisfaction in SOPHIE'S SYLLABUB.

And finally, Mary Balogh utilizes THE WASSAIL BOWL as a receptacle for love, hope and still more tears--all the things you need, in order to have a wonderful Holiday. Be sure to have a good one--and don't blame the reviewer for the calories you'll find in this delicious book--along with a related recipe from each author.

I am working my way through a little horde of Regency Christmas anthologies, savouring them one at a time. I picked this one up whilst on holiday recently and just read it; what a pleasure it was! I don't ordinarly seek out short stories as a matter of course but I am very fond of this particular little mini sub-genre. Three of the contributions stood out for me.

"The Rake's Christmas" by Edith Layton is the poignant story of a young man, back from the Peninsular wars, saddened and a little self loathing, who throws himself into some half-hearted rakery in order to put the wars behind him. He is taken up by a truly accomplished rake, Lord Shelton. During a Christmas house party, the elder rake plays deus ex machina to young Ian, Viscount Hunt in order to bring him together with Miss Eve Thompkins. Eve is the daughter Shelton never had - the offspring of his true life-long secret and unrequited love. So, he stands in an almost fatherly way over Hunt, helping him to overcome his sombre loneliness and sad boyhood in making a match for him and Eve. Edith Layton is a favourite of mine and she packs a lot of emotion into just a few short pages.

Jo Beverley is a writer whose books I have been collecting with the aim of indulging myself. Why she and Layton and Balogh are not published in the UK is beyone my comprehension - such a shame! I was delighted with her contribution to this anthology. "A Mummer's Play" is the story of Col "Lucky Jack" Beaufort, by default the new Duke of Cranmoore. Justina Travers lost her fiance in the Peninsula when he was under the command of his close friend, Jack. Justina has some reason to suspect that Cranmoore may have been a traitor and, therefore, the cause of her fiance's death. She insinuates herself into Jack's first Christmas house party as the new duke by hiding herself amongst the mummers who come to perform. Her aim is to expose him as a traitor and murderer. The story takes place during the course of just one evening and, in just a few intense, emotional pages, Jo Beverley brings an almost unbearably high degree of tension and emotion as these two lonely, hurt but passionate people find an extraordinary and unexpected love and mutual redemption. Simply excellent.

Mary Balogh's contribution is, as always, as near to perfection as you can get. Hers is the story of three young orphaned children whose wastrel parents largely ignored them. Their maternal uncle, Viscount Morsey, and paternal aunt, Lady Carlyle, reluctantly leave London to come to the depths of the countryside to "do their duty" and make some half-hearted provision for their upbringing. It emerges that the two adults were once engaged but huge family problems, anger and recriminations tore them apart. The story is largely told through the eyes of the children and the theme of the story, as Lady Carlyle discovers, is that Christmas is about birth, parenthood, love, hope and commitment. In the context of this very brief piece, all five players find themselves turned into a loving family. Mary Balogh is pure magic. She writes such poignant, moving and emotional stories which are refined to pure gold. Wonderful.

Do find yourself a second hand copy of this anthology; reading it is simply a pleasure worth the effort.

This volume of advances in Chemical Physics presents a selection of pathways in the formulation of irreversible quantum mechanics. A problem related is the extension of Hilbert space.

T. Petrosky and I. Prigogine show a new formulation of dynamic laws on the statistical level for "large Poincare systems". Several examples are use to illustrate the general formalism.

The framework for a formulation of unstable quantum states with regard to the study of neutral Kaon system is presented by E. C. G. Sudarshan, Charles B. Chiu and G. Bhamath.

The quantum chemistry E. J. Brändas characterizes complex systems and the question of irrevesibility using the complex scaling method. Brändas also suggest a microscopic self-organization.

"Time, irreversibility and unstable systems in quantum physics" is the title for the E. Eisenberg and L. P. Horwitz's work. The autors rewiev the Lax-Phillips theory and its applications to the measurement process and quantum scattering theory.

I. Antoniu and Z. Suchanecki provide the natural framework for the discussion of general problem of irreversibility. They also derive the Pauly master equation without resorting to the thermodynamics limit and establish a clear definition of states and observables with the diagonal singularity.

The paper by V. V. Kocharovsky and Vl. V. Kocharovsky presents nonadiabatic effects concerned with quantum optics and chemistry of excited molecules.

"Can be observed microscopic chaos in the laboratory?" by Pierre Gaspard shows the links between dynamical randomnes, Lyapunov exponents and entropy.

In the last chapter C. A. Chatzdimitriou-Dreisman provides new experimentally verifiable consequences of CSM theory of qunatum correlations (for protons only) in the framework of dynamical processes in large and dense systems.

this is an excellent book that provides excellent pictures with fantastically tasty recipes. featuring cooking styles from india, asia, spain, italy and much more with an idiot proof guide to cooking them (lots of pictures and careful instructions). i could live on this book for the rest of my life and never get bored. thumbs up christine...

In this thorough and readable study, Daniel C. Littlefield examines the African heritage of rice cultivation in colonial South Carolina. Littlefield discusses the choices rice planters made in securing workers from certain African regions; he also discusses the knowledge these Africans brought to the plantation economy. Littlefield argues that expertise in rice cultivation mostly came to South Carolina from Africa. Rice was grown by the Malagasy, the people of Madagascar, and by many peoples of Upper Guinea (a region encompassing the modern nations of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia). South Carolina planters, in fact, paid the highest prices for workers from Senegambia (the environs of the Senegal and Gambia rivers), a major center of rice cultivation in Africa. Littlefield argues that, throughout the era of the slave trade, South Carolina merchants and planters showed an increasingly sophisticated knowledge of African regions and ethnic groups. He also asserts that not only African labor, but African expertise helped generate the wealth of the opulent Carolina Lowcountry. This work should prove interesting to those interested in African-American history, Southern history, and colonial American demography. Particularly intriguing is Littlefield's research based on the newspaper advertisements for runaway slaves in South Carolina. That portion of the work includes a list of different African ethnic groups present in South Carolina.

This book if full of excellent vegetarian (suprisingly!) one-dish meals. The author's tastes run along my own lines. In this book you'll find recipes that come from Japanese, Indonesian, Indian and Thai roots as well as American eclectic innovations. The author has included main dish, soup and dessert recipes.

I'm not a vegetarian, but have been pleasantly surprised at how satisfying the dishes are. I never thought that vegetarian dishes could be so good. Rice is, of course, the common thread that ties all of the collected recipes together and the author has devoted the first chapter of the book to educating the reader about the different types of rice and how to prepare rice in a foolproof manner.

What I loved about the book is the way I changed my eating habits by getting hooked on the simplicity of the one-dish meals contained within, the flavors of the dishes (incredible) and the way I felt after eating (full, but not stuffed = more energetic).

This is my current favorite cookbook.