Dr. Wendy Samter has published a truly insightful paean to the intricacies and bafflements inherent in the communication skills of adolescents.
Compended following years of clinical research (meticulously authenticated), Children Communicating represents far more than an arriviste's take on youth verbal and non-verbal communication patterns. Broken down by age groupings as well as gender related categories, Children Communicating should be required reading for educators, child care porfessionals, and others engaged in professions where insight into communication skills is essential.
My only complaint is Dr. Samter's failure to include "Good Dog, Carl" in her listing of reccomended children's literature used to generate discussion with talk-averse preschoolers. Otherwise the list is well thought out.

This is a very clear and elegant book which will appeal to students approaching coastal studies for the first time at the college or university level. The material is up-to-date and a vast improvement on existing texts that have been in print for many years.

same old pattern and lacks indepth knowledge and descriptions.Pj Kumar is easy to read,contains current and up-to-date info and correlates Disease process,diagnoses and management.

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THIS IS BAR NONE THE BEST INTERNAL MEDICINE TEXT YOU CAN GET.

Easy to read, chock full of photos, color pictures, graphs, tables, and beautifully illustrated diagrams. even the most difficult concept can be grasped with ease.

ACHILLES HEEL - the spine - do not lay completely flat during the first week or so of use or when it is cold; it will pop.
I am on my third copy(despite the annoyance I keep going back b/c this book is so completely superior).

This last copy has lasted w/o problem for over a year so maybe the glue issue has been fixed.

Also -- british spelling -- a minor issue.
Hope the come out with an international ed.

having read a multitude of medical textbooks including harrison's, current medical diagnosis and treatment, cecil essentials i can honestly say that this is perhaps the BEST clinical textbook i have seen so far in my experience!

the book is a beautiful one to behold, complete with EXCELLENT diagrams of the clinical presentations of many diseases and fantastic charts of differentials as well as evidence-based medicine all in COLOR!!! i can't tell you how much easier this is on the eyes than slogging through page after page of grey text!

every chapter is organized in a similar fashion with the first two pages going over all the relevant parts of an exam in a specific specialty like cardiology, gastroenterology, etc. davidson's reviews some basic pathophysiology, pertinent studies within the field before launching into the various disease entities.

although the book is not nearly as comprehensive as harrison's principles of internal medicine, it's structured much better for those with limited amounts of reading time (i.e. medical students cramming for the next shelf exam, residents trying to catch up on their sleep, and even newly dubbed attendings who are expecting children!!!).

this book will SURELY help you prepare for those annoying attending stumper questions like: who can tell me all the extra-pulmonary manifestations of sarcoid? what are the exam findings in a dialysis patient?

no respectable internal medicine library should lack this book!

In his debut collection of nine stories, Adam Haslett takes us into the hearts, minds, and souls of his characters in an effort to show us the pain of his characters, in the hope that we will actually feel it and show our sympathy toward them. I believe he has accomplished his goal. These are characters that are at the crossroads of their lives.

In "The Storyteller", a despairing man gains comfort by making up stories to help a dying boy. In "The Volunteer", we meet Elizabeth, an elderly woman who has spent the better half of her life in the Plymouth Brewster Structured Living Facility. She lives for her weekly visits from Ted, a young high school boy, and is devastated when her new doctor forbids his visits. These are people struggling with inner despair and deep loneliness. And in "Reunion", a young man who is compelled to make arrangements for his own impending death writes inspiring letters to the father with whom he will soon be reunited.

These are painful stories that could have chased many a reader away. However, Haslett's exceptionally beautiful command of the language and his emotionally intense portraits of his characters, only prove to be helpful in giving us the courage to face our own pain, life decisions, and unexpected changes. It's that kind of collection that makes you hope this talented writer has more stories to send our way in the near future. This is a powerful debut!

Joe Hanssen

Adam Haslett's collection of short stories held my attention from the first word until the end; when is his next book coming out? I was well into the book before it dawned on me that each story contains a character with different forms of mental illness. Mr. Haslett really seems to understand different forms of these illnesses. Several stories are told from the point of view of the mentally ill person, and this reader found them likeable, in their own way.At the same time, he also conveys the (sometime) frustration of family and friends who do their best to coexist with them. I finished reading this book with greater appreciation and understanding of humanity in all it's "capacities". (Who doesn't have a few crazies in their family?) One might expect a book of short stories of "eccentrics" to be a bit depressing, but that is not the case. Adam Haslett writes with clarity, humor, sadness, and love. Best wishes to his writing career!

Adam Haslett. Keep the name in front of you and watch it sail. This 'first book' is an astonishingly fine collection of stories that are peopled with folk we haven't met before, yet whom we know after these introductions like family skeletons. Haslett has the ability to create characters teetering on the edges of sanity and social adjustment and pairs them with counterparts who are at the opposite poles of perception. He knows the minds of schizophrenics, of awkward adolescents facing first sexual encounters, of men stuggling with both knowledge and fear of homosexuality, of people whose minds have evacuated their bodies and stretch for safe havens which at times imply death. He seems to have figured out the lost generation and has even taken the time to explore its genealogy. In a brief 237 pages he presents nine stories that are so well crafted that they become indelibly etched on our minds, and at the same time he leaves portals of escape for not only his characters futures on an unwritten further page but in our imaginations for musing long after finishing this book. This is a stunning debut: we can only hope that his current status as a law student doesn't preclude his visiting us with more books of equal merit. A rich mind, this, and much like the words of his final mental patient character "You and all the inheritors of wealth who think life is a matter of perfected sentiment. You are wrong." This book is a keeper.

The author takes too long to say too little. Essentially the claim is that capitalism should be combined with strict redistribution of wealth upon death. No serious thought is given to the effects of this "solution." Don't waste your time. If you want to understand capitalism, read Hazlitt, not Haslett.

This is a very in-depth and detailed economic as well as philosophical analysis that incorporates morality as a means of justification. Perhaps to difficult for drr8066 to understand, the book is highly detailed and informative. With strong ideas of reformed capitalism, the author well supports his argument. He speaks to various facets and ideals of society including liberty, opportunity, and employment. As a college student, I thoroughly enjoyed and benefited from this intellectually stimulating composition. I strongly recommend it!