This book read very easy and I found myself not wanting to put it down. Joe had a lifetime of stories to tell and some will shock you and others will make you laugh. All of you NASCAR fans will learn how some of the early drivers learned how to handle a car. I would recommend this book to anyone that has an interest in how things were done in the south years ago. Enjoy!

Carter Dickson (a.k.a. John Dickson Carr) is certainly the master of the locked-room mystery, a category which might as well be named after him. In "Death in Five Boxes," Carr presents not a locked-room mystery but a nonetheless apparently impossible crime. A gathering of five people ends when four of them are found unconscious and nearly dead from atropine poisoning. The fifth faired far less well; he was dead, stabbed. As the room in which the five were found was not locked, the crime should be an easy one. But there's a slight catch; it seems impossible that anyone, whether a member of the group or an outsider, could have put the poison into the drinks.

Sir Henry Merrivale, Carr's best character, is determined to solve the crime, though, and he naturally does so. Along the way, we learn that the five people who were at the table have many secrets, all of which only serve to cloud the mystery.

"Death in Five Boxes" is an excellent novel for those who would like to be able finally to solve one of Carr's puzzles. The solution is perhaps the most obvious of any of his novels or short stories, though it should be pointed out that "obvious" and Carr's name do not lend themselves to use in the same paragraph. The novel might be better for aspiring mystery novelists. With such a (relatively) obvious solution, the book becomes an exercise in the mastery of hiding the obvious. Though the novel is far from Carr's best, either as a simple story or as an impossible mystery, the way in which this undisputed master goes about hiding the truth while playing entirely by the rules is something to behold.

This book is very good. After being a chairside dental assistant for twenty years and on the job training, this is excellent for training someone in from scratch (which I am about to do). It is very detailed in some areas that an assistant does not necessarily use, but answers the mental questions about the Doctors procedures that one might never ask. It also teaches the basics and the in depth information that one would learn and want to refer back to that evening to review. It is a great book to have "before" you begin the job, so once you begin, you can understand the what and the why of the procedure. You will need to practice the hands on techniques that the book illistrates, and you will be on a roll!

THIS IS A VERY GOOD BOOK AND I AM GLAD THAT THE SELLER WAS WILLING TO SELL THIS BOOK. IT WILL AND HAS BEEN VERY HELPFUL IN MY CAREER. THE BOOK IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION AND WAS SHIPPED WITH NO PROBLEMS VERY PROMPTLY.

As are most of the Pooh tales, this story has the ability to touch a youngster with glee, anxiety, and an ending which reaffirms the value and over-riding nature of friendship. For adults, the book reminds us that misunderstandings evoke many pointless meanderings, but when taken with the right attitude, they should teach us something. The simple values of friendship and love are the lessons here.

This book is one of the 4 (that I know of) books in a series sharing backgrounds, but not characters set in a futuristic Mars where the native civilization is in decline and earthlings prospect for native Martian artifacts. "The Man Who Loved Mars" is probably my favorite, "a rose red city half as old as time..."
a recurring theme. This one is set in the same setting and is a short novel, but an engrossing story. Bad guy with heart of gold, rescued women, outlaws chasing through the desert. It's all there with some twists.

This book was outstanding!

Este libro me encanto, es sumamente bueno, se lo recomiendo a todos.

Cloud has taken us on his journey to sea from the historic port of New Bedford, Mass. Setting out to "Go a Whalin" Cloud seems to not have fully appreciated what he was in for and did not take the advice of an old salt on shore who had warned him off. Sailing for the oil was the boom of his day, and the years it took to return were well rewarded if the ship did well. Each day cloud takes us about the ship to feel the day's events as he personally lived them, the chase, the pull, the hook, the cutting, the boiling, the oil always the oil. Cloud is very eloquent in his description of the crew and is always one for a humourous tone if it need be. A longing for home and the comforts of family are the true story here and the diary is always the best to read the real story behind the words. A perfect book for a rainy stormy night under the covers!!!

This is a reprint and translation of a groundbreaking work by an eminent scientist. Every hospital, university, and medical school library should have a copy of this work. At this price, they should have at least two copies. In addition to its importance for the medical profession, this book has a great deal of potential interest for historians and feminist scholars. Semmelweis was the father of modern antiseptic theory, the first to recognize a connection between medical students' visits to the dissecting lab and the deaths following their subsequent visits to the maternity hospital, with no washing of hands in between. His fellow physicians refused to listen to him, unwilling to believe that they themselves were carriers of disease. Semmelweis lost his reputation and his job, dying in disgrace, for his refusal to deny the truth. Only after his death, and the deaths of millions more women from childbed fever, were his theories finally recognized and accepted. For a fascinating look at Semmelweis the man, see Jens Bjorneboe's moving play, Semmelweis, published by Sun & Moon Press.