Very nice text covering pediatric surgery. Covers a multitude of topics w/ good explanations and well drawn pictures outlining the key points of the operation. More oriented to the actual surgery, would recommend something like Ashcraft for more in depth discussion of pathophysiology.

This is the new edition of the "classic" textbook of Pediatric Surgery. It is the most comprehensive text available on the subject, a must for all practicing pediatric surgeons and aspiring pediatric surgeons. Perhaps a bit too comprehensive for non-pediatric surgeons looking for a simple reference book to keep on their shelf. Nevertheless, even in its fifth edition, this remains the "bible" of Pediatric Surgery.

A long overdue updated edition of the Paediatric Surgery 'Bible'.The new panel of authors have maintained the traditionally excellent charecter and readability of the book.It has been throughly updated and many sections rewritten.A extensive and exhautive reference book for all surgeons involved in the care of babies and children.

The topic is explored from all angles, and I agree with the reader from Copenhagen: we see objectivity in an area where objectivity is lacking.

I take issue, however, with the article written by the editor himself. He assumes that an overdose of love for children will result in sexual attraction for children. Rather, I see people of all ages and both genders needing people of all ages and both genders, and I see people of different age/gender groups fulfilling different needs.

Research tells us that:

1. a pedophile tends to lack early experience in nurturing children younger than himself

2. pedophiles seldom offend against a child whom he had nurtured from infancy, and in fact, tends not to have nurtured any child from infancy

In light of these findings, one might conclude that pedophilia is impossible in an extended family setting, which is exactly what predominated until very recently in our evolutionary history.

In this collection of essays, the topic is explored from many different angles.

Some of the writers observe other animal species. Anderson & Bielert tell us that preadolescent sex play abounds in other primate species, whereas there is very little intergenerational sex. de Wall surveys the bonobo species, in which adult males mount female juveniles. Eibl-Eibesfeldt summarizes childlike features and gestures in animals. Feierman comments that no nonhuman primate has ever been observed to prefer juveniles.

Some of the writers study history and prehistory. Diamond tells us about the culture of pre-Western Hawaii. Mackey theorizes on the origins of playfighting between adults and children.

A more apt title would be: "Sexuality - Biosocial dimensions". In order to establish a theoretical framework on which to base a discussion of pedophilia, the book reviews several general theories on sexual behavior. The book is therefore a valuable ressource for anybody who wants to get a general understanding of sexual behavior from the point of view of behavioral biology (=ethology) as well as for those who want to understand the biological roots of pedophilia. Unlike psychological texts, this book is virtually free of moral judgments and emotional vocabulary.

Percy was never terribly anxious to talk about himself, so it was a joy to read Tolson's well-researched account after devouring all of Percy's books. Where Percy has left only hints, Tolson delves more deeply to uncover Percy's troubled childhood which was redeemed in his teenage years by his Uncle Will, author of Lanterns on the Levee. If you read Walker Percy, you undoubtedly find you want to know more and more about the enigmatic genius. Tolson's biography of him fills in a lot of gaps.

I was quite pleased when this biography came out because I had been a fan of Dr. Percy for many years. I'd read through his fiction and nonfiction several times, including various interviews, literary criticism, and minutiae -- in short, anything connected with Percy. Had I pursued that course, I very likely would have written a dissertation on Percy.

So I was even happier to discover that Mr. Tolson did a fine job with his subject. He examines the books in the context of Percy's life and in a way that is friendly without becoming overly academic. Percy was a private man who didn't have much use for biographies or biographers. Fortunately, Tolson respected his wishes by neither prying too much nor engaging in the sort of amateur psychologizing which is all too common in modern pathography. He proves a sensitive reader and biographer.

Having said that, there's a strain in Percy's life and work that most biographers and critics have missed. They correctly indicate the significance of alcohol and suicide in the illustrious Percy lineage. But they examine that significance only in a metaphysical way rather than a physical (biological) way, that is, in a psychological way rather than a psychiatric way. Why did Dr. Percy never seek psychotherapy or some kind of medical treatment for his clinical depression? What sorts of things might have interfered with that search?

I found Pilgrim in the Ruins to be an enjoyable look at Dr. Percy and his work. It is well-grounded in southern history, Percy's family history, the works themselves and how they fit into the larger currents of American literature. Even the reader who is a stranger to Percy will find much to appreciate here.

This book is one of the finest I have ever read. I don't say that lightly; I have read my share of books and devoured anything written by or about Percy.

Tolson is worthy of the novelist whose life he portrays. He writes beautifully and takes the reader through the many periods of Percy's life. The biography is particulalry strong with the formative influences that shaped the novelist's life and world view-- the suicides, the depressions, both the "Old" and "New" South, his Uncle Will, Shelby Foote, modern America, religion, race, etc.

The book impacted me more than any other I have read, and I would not be the same person today without it. There can be no finer praise for a work; 5 stars seems so insufficient.

How fortunate we are Percy had Tolson as a biographer.

I'm a big fan of historical romance novels. I liked the way the author kept the characters and environment in a historical setting. All too often I see so-called historical novels with characters who are behaving like people of the 1990's.
I also liked both of the main characters, Isbella Wiston and Hope Bishop. Isbella Wiston is the daughter of the land-gentry class, while Hope is from peasant type people. Both of the women in the book are quite young, teens or perhaps early twenties. Hope initially meets Isbella when she (Hope) subsitutes as a piper in the all male group of dancers called the Mossmen.
Isbella asks Hope if she will be her maid---or lady in waiting, as it is also known. This pleases Hope, as she has wanted very much to get closer to Isabella.
The political actions of Isbella' s family, involving her two brothers, James and Alistar leds to Isbella and Hope having to flee.
While Isbella & Hope end up in a somewhat unlikely situation at the conclusion of the book, I, nonetheless, found
the novel, over all, quite satisfying.

I do like historical novels in general even though Ifm not actually that familiar with many historical events. This novel was especially unique as we see a beautiful lesbian love story unfold in this historical setting. Isabela and Hope seem like an unlikely couple but, events and may I even venture to say, fate take them on a journey that will shape their lives. I found this story very emotionally stimulating.

Its wonderful, romantic and full of hope! Writing is excellent. Congratulation to the two women who wrote it! More quality lesbian fiction like this is needed.

Writing today a book that still has something to say about Shakespeare is hard on our days. This is the reason why one can consider this book outstanding. Nonetheless, I have read many recent books about Shakespeare and I consider that behind the interesting concept of social energy lies an excessively skeptic version of Shakespeare. I can agree that Shakespeare's preeminence in the canon is largely due to the circulation of social energy, but I think that many of the richness of Shakespeare is too reduced to this factor. The book is an excellent reading for anybody interested in Shakespeare but requires some balancing. My recommendations would be the heterodox book by Rene Girard and the passionate and excessive approach of Bloom. This triad gives an excellent approach to contemporary theses on Shakespeare with complete counterarguments that neutralize the radical points of view of the three authors.

Although Greenblatt as received a good deal attention for his interest in critical practice and for his coining of the terms "New Historicisim" and "cultural poetics," his real strengths ahev also ben doing close readings of literary and historical texts. In Shakespearean Negotiations, Greenblatt offers typically brilliant and engaging readings of some of Shakespeare's major plays. His book is of interest to a wide audience beyond an academic one. The man is an exceptionally gifted writer and storyteller. It's a pity that so few other literary and cultural critics even come close to matching him. Perhaps only Stephen Orgel and Stanley Fish have equally brilliant prose styles and analytical powers.

Published over a decade ago, this book has become not only a classic in Shakespearean study but also the exemplary of the "new historicism." Even nowadays it does not lose its refleshing power, and never fails to stimulate controversies (e.g. the issue of subversion and containment) that still continues well into the new millenium. Greenblatt has been criticized for homogenizing the history and sacrificing the complexity of the text (for an alternative model of new historicism, one can refer to Louis Montrose's articles and his book "The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Elizabethan Theatre"), but still he has successfully made a strong case for his major argument, namely that Shakespeare, far from a single-handed isolated individual genius coming from nowhere, heavily drew upon the cultural resources and "social energy" circulating among various domains beyond the boundaries of theatre and literature. Greenblatt is very deft in reconstructing the historical and ideological context that enriches the Shakespearen play. Time and again readers feel that the historical anecdote Greenblatt talks about even eclipses the play itself with its magic power of invoking wonder, which might make even those sympathetic readers like Frank Kermode complain that the part on Shakespeare in this book is less interesting than the part on history. But isn't this refocusing of interest not exactly part of demystifying the notion of genius and his sacred writing in order to appreciate Shakespeare more as a negotiator in the marketplace who purchases and exchanges symbolically? The last chapter on "Tempest" is especially highly recommended for its skillful intermingling of the issues of ruling strategy by means of inciting anxiety, colonial (counter)history, the space of theatre and finally the institutionalisation of literature.

This book from the start is action action. Some sub books that I have read get way into the techinical aspect of the sub. This book could be read by both a novice or an exeprienced sub reader and still be enjoyed. The ending is a spectacular display of tactical writing that could easily compete with Tom Clancy. High recommendations

Tense and thrilling, but without a lot of the artificiality of many submarine books/movies. Riker's story kept me glued (I won't say "riveted") to its pages.

This was a very fast, engaging, enjoyable story from beginning to end. I have read all of the Silent Service series books by H. Jay Riker and they just keep getting better. I am really eager for the next one, which -- I won't give anything away -- the epilogue suggests will be called VIRGINIA CLASS. At least I hope so. I am a real fan of submarine novels and this one stands up well compared to the rest of them. Read it soon!

I hardly read and most of the stuff I read i never finish anyway, but The Pigeon was a mystery i just couldn't put down. Its about a boy named Brian and his friend Donna asked if they could meet up to talk to each other. Brian agrees then he is on his from New Jersey To New York. He goes to Donna's Apartment and he discovers his best friend Donna is dead. He didn't know it at the time but he was being set up for muder. He pick up a phone that was ringing in the apartment and on the other side of the line was a warning for him to run because the cops were coming. He smelled his jackett and it smelled like whiskey, and he looked down in his hand because of a throbing pain and he saw a knife with blood on it. Is there anyway he could prove his innocence. I found The Pigeon to by a top noch thriller! it was a great story and i think anyone he likes mysterys will love this story.

i read this book in 9th grade while perusing the school library shelves for something to read that wouldn't take up a lot of my time, nor expand my mind -- as I was in no particular mood to learn anything. Little did I know about the book when I picked it up -- that i WOuLD make me think -- and that it would eat up a lot of my time that next week. The book is about a highschool senior who's framed for the murder of his girlfriend -- and the reason for the murder is more complex than I'd ever guessed.

In reviewing this book I will only comment on one particular character, for brevity's skae, and that is Jo-Jo, the Gypsy who figures as a prominent player in all of this. He is an extremely fascinating character, the kind that live on the edge -- the kind you'd love to meet, just as long as it wasn't in a darkened alley somewhere. And yet he shows an unusual compassion for Brian, the hero, one not rarely seen in (what we first perceive as) a standard villain. The fact that he is not the villain is even more shocking, due to how Jay Bennett (the author) describes his character -- with words like iron, steel, and darkness that don't make us think exactly of heroes, knights in shining armor. And yet he is not the typical antihero, like R.P. McMurphy or Cool Hand Luke. He is more along the lines of Capote's Perry Smith, one of those "native Iagos" that modern literature shuns so much to portray. He is not the villain, but the fact that he could be and is made a good guy in a way that is unimaginable to us upon a surface reading is reason enough to read the book.

Jay Bennett's novel is what I think should get 5 stars. It is a great novel. It is about a teenager who has been set up for a murder. He goes through a lot of trouble but finds a way out of it.

The Price of Magic continues the tale told in the first book in the series, The Scent of Magic. Magic does not come free, it ALWAYS extracts a price. The novel follows Rolf, Dark, and Elena as they find themselves forced to travel unexpected paths, driven by their desire to find peace in a land torn by war.

Everyone knows about the price paid by artists with their second effort -- the "sophomore curse" befalls the second work--usually the curse is a lack of originality compounded a lack of polish.

Jay Seaborg's sophomore project, "The Price of Magic" DOES NOT suffer from the "sophomore curse." While this volume is slightly trimmer in size than the first volume in the series, it is as well-crafted as the first, albeit a little slower in pacing.

Further development of characters introduced in the first book keeps things interesting and it's nice to see a male writer have female characters that are as complex and as important as the male ones. As before, the characters are believable and approachable. Characters squabble, get tired, pissy and cranky. They're not all goody-goody perfect and the bad guys aren't necesarily totally evil. Everyone one has tough choices to make and it doesn't always end easily or happily.

I found myself wanting more detailed visual descriptions of people and places but Jay Seaborg's methodology does allow for the reader to really envision everything as they want to, rather than forcing a vision upon them.

All in all, a solid followup to an excellent first effort. I'd like to see Thexta get her own series as a spin-off. =)

I was extremely pleased with the second book in the series, it was even better than the first book (The Scent Of Magic) Cant wait for the next one, keep up the excellent work.

If you're looking for in-depth detailed information on RDF, XML Schema, DAML + OIL etc., then don't buy this book.
If you're interested in DAML + OIL, and applications of it, then you don't want this book. (It covers DAML + OIL, but only touches its surface.)
If you want to read about new standars rising from the XML community, and you don't have any particular preference, then this might be a book you like.
If you can't cope with minimal cohesion, then you definitely should not buy this book. There's no single message in this book.

By now, I guess most of IT professionals have atleast heard about XML and know what problems XML can help solve, however it's challenging to keep up with fast evolving technologies around XML, like RDF, Topic Maps, Schemas, etc. I myself had heard about these technologies, but didn't quite understand them fully till I read Professional XML Meta Data from Wrox. As far as I know, this is the only book available in the market today that covers technologies useful for data description, discovery and exchange, in so much detail. The book covers XML Schemas, XML Linking and Querying, both the RDF specifications, Topic Maps and more. All the topics are explained in detail, the book is very well connected and the chapters flow nicely in sequence. I personally liked the final chapter "Advanced Meta Data Use Cases" that covers couple of areas where meta data can enhance the applications.

If you need to know about the latest XML metadata technologies or concepts like the Semantic Web and machine readable metadata, you need this book. I found it very useful in explaining RDF (there are three excellent chapters on RDF) and Topic Maps, which are potentially difficult subjects to understand. The book also suggests some interesting uses for metadata in the future, and has a useful chapter on extracting metadata from databases.

If you are looking for a book to bridge the gap between a beginner at linux and an admin this the the book to buy. And that is precisely the problem. This book assumes a fair amount of knowledge about linux. if you do have this level of knowledge, this book will bring you up to the level of a beginner admin, at which point you will have to go out and buy books on topics like Apache, Networking and so on. If however, you are prepared to read through some 1000 pages, and then an armful of other books, HOWTOs and man pages you will not be disappointed.

I would suggest this book to all Red Hat users who are bored with the beginner books and are looking to expand their knowledge of linux. The system admin information contained in this book is useful in the "real world". Thumbs up!

Exceptionally informative, well presented and very highly recommended, Red Hat Linux System Administration Unleashed shows readers how to configure and manage a Linux system to keep it running optimally in a 24x7 environment. The book covers advanced topics such as RAID, customizing the kernel, and hacker security. Readers will also learn the issues and skills related to running Red Hat Linux with other operating systems, internetworking Linux in a network setting with a large user base. Intermediate - Advanced, 1100 pages.