this book does not give enough clinical information at one point it even suggested that a post MI patient be referred to a health care professional for information on sexual activity! Are RNs not health care professionals!! There was not enough information on hemodynamics and other clinically important data. But plenty of ethical debates!

I am a RN with 11 years experience. I have worked in critical care units for 4 years; CCU, SICU, MICU, including open heart units and neuro untis. I have been wanting to purchase a good reference book to read through and keep my knowledge up to date. I found a lot of review books for CCRN, etc.; but no basic critical care book that gave more depth and explantions for a better understanding. I am very pleased with this book and am so happy that I chose it. It is easy to read, but not repetetive and boring. It gives the reader a full understanding of the material. I plan to read this whole book in preparation for the CCRN exam and feel it will benefit my nursing career greatly by giving me a greater confidence in my knowledge base and nursing judgements.

I had been out of critical care for some time and found the book extremely useful in updating my knowledge. It is well-referenced, clearly written and interesting.

Despite the fact that this nearly broke up their marriage, this book is not what I hoped for when I picked it up and began reading. I missed the old Mrs Carter who had a wry story about her life on the campaign trail. I will never forget the many adventures that she detailed in "First Lady from Plains" which is a superior book in every way. The time she was trapped in bathroom stall and had to crawl out of it. Then there was the time when she had to cut her way out when trapped in a car by her seatbelt. Funny stuff and real human interest. If bizarre things can happen to the first lady of the land the can happen to anyone, can't they? The book I wanted to read was a kind of sequel to the masterful "First Lady from Plains." This clearly is not that book, though I hope Mrs. Carter will consider writing it one day real soon.

... even former Presidents and their First Ladies, as Jimmy and Rosalynn show us in this, their entry in the self-improvement / retirement advice category.

Of course, anybody who's not a Dem is likely to be unwilling to take any such advice from the self-styled peanut farmer and his wife. So, I'm going over my stock of acquaintances, trying to remember who voted for Carter.

The book would make a great gift not just for recent retirees, but also those whose life has just gone through change, whether it be a layoff, a disabling illness, or the death of a spouse.

Sure wish my father had read it, twelve years ago, when my mother died -- so many ideas for him! Instead, he simply curled up in front of the TV.

Jimmy and Rosalynn show how devastated they were by their 1980 defeat, then, step by step, how they rebuilt. Parts of the book delve too far into global health and other policy issues, but chapter after chapter, they introduce new activities, like a flower opening!

If you're tired of fist-pounding self-improvement tomes, here is one that feels like a gentle friend, sitting beside you, arm around your shoulders, sharing the same problems you're having, and showing you several ways out of the "box" you've built for yourself. Read it and relax, then, go out and make the most of the rest of your life -- whether it's the next ten or next fifty years.

Collaboratively written by former American President and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize Jimmy Carter, and his beloved wife and former First Lady, Rosalynn Carter, Everything To Gain: Making The Most Of The Rest Of Your Life is a revealing and inspiring memoir about personal challenges they've had to face and overcome; the satisfaction of their work with Habitat for Humanity; their struggles to promote peace and human rights; and the personal steps they've taken to enjoy physical and spiritual health at home. Everything To Gain is enthusiastically recommended as a deeply rewarding and heartfelt encouragement to living our lives to the fullest.

Written with biting irony, Horne has produced the most comprehensive analysis of the Watts uprising to date. He examines that rebellion from a variety of angles, and gives the casualties of the repression a human face. This book will become required reading for any public policy course that deals with the urban unrest of the 1960s.

Gerald Horne's book, Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s is an extensive scholarly study into one of the United States' most violent riots and an event that characterized the civil unrest of the turbulent 1960s. Originally published by University Press of Virginia in 1995 and reprinted by Da Capo Press as a paperback in 1997, Fire This Time thoroughly examines the causes, conflict, impact, and meaning of the 1965 Watts Uprising. Horne, a noted black social historian, contends in his thesis that the Red Scare retarded Los Angeles' left based liberalism, once a progressive minded center of the working class in the United States. This move away from the left created a "vacuum that would be later filled by black nationalism" and eventually fueled the flames of the riot. Furthermore, this black nationalism manifested itself in the Nation of Islam, cultural nationalists, and the Black Panther party, all of which played a role throughout the uprising.(5)

Although Horne devoted some of his introduction to a brief survey of Los Angeles social history, he never made a convincing argument that the absence of a left based movement brought on by the Red Scare lead to black nationalism. This accusation coupled with the work's emphasis on class struggle gave the book a Marxist slant typical of many of the author's previous works. Instead, a more convincing argument might have been that racist attitudes and behaviors on the part of a white majority in the Los Angeles area resulted in South Central's devastated economic condition thereby leading to black nationalism. In the economic squalor of Watts, African Americans had no other recourse than to turn to themselves when society abandoned them. In essence, racism served as a catalyst for the emergence of the black nationalism that the author writes.

Horne chronicled the denigration of African Americans in Los Angeles by demonstrating the numerous ways in which government failed to treat them as equal. In chapter seven the author portrayed the Los Angeles Police Department as the "principal malefactor, the single offender in angering blacks to the point of insurrection. . . . [It operated] at the behest of the political and economic elites who administered the city." (134) Later, in chapter ten, the voting populous of the State of California betrayed blacks by passing the racially biased Proposition 14. This legislation repealed the Rumford Fair Housing Act in an effort to keep blacks out of white neighborhoods.(224) The remainder of this chapter describes the appalling housing, education, and religious opportunities afforded to blacks in Los Angeles thereby steering them toward black nationalism.

Horne superbly illustrated the importance of black nationalism's role in the 1965 uprising. He explained that due to years of repression and disenfranchisement African Americans had come to be stereotyped as the subordinated, dominated, or "female" race even behind Mexican and Asian Americans.(12) Black nationalism offered African Americans an identity the void of such stereotypes. In addition, black nationalism made no apology for being black and anti-white sentiments in Watts intensified. Organizations that celebrated black nationalism such as the Nation of Islam, gangs, and the Black Panther party grew in popularity along with a new cultural identity. Black organizations established in white society like the NAACP, with their lighter-skinned, middle-class leadership lost appeal.(13) The nonviolent message of Dr. Martin Luther King seemed diminished compared to the rising popularity of Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam.(102) Clearly, by 1965 black nationalism championed the view that African Americans were no longer the submissive race dominated by white society. Blacks tired of the long, slow civil right movement demanded taking back economically depressed neighborhoods for themselves.

The author's thorough academic research of the black nationalistic movement in Los Angeles brought a human characteristic to the story of Watts. The stories, in many cases tragedies, spoke of people affected by the riot and demonstrated an uprising directed against the LAPD and the "well-to-do."(340) A careful analysis of the events that followed the Watts Uprising showed a significant "white backlash" to the violence that propelled Ronald Reagan into the governor's mansion and eventually the White House.(281) Finally, Horne revealed that little changed since the 1965 revolt and the Rodney King Beating Trial of 1992 sparked similar civil unrest.(358)

The author extensively drew on the papers from Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots and transcripts from the McCone panel both governmental studies into the uprising. Horne used records from various city and county agencies along with studies and oral histories from Southern California universities. The most valuable primary sources came from The Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research which is located in what was once the curfew zone and is a depository of numerous historical facts on the Watts community. At this library, Horne collected oral histories from residents in conjunction with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the riot invaluable to his study.(423) Before the extensive notes the book is 364 pages and includes a map of Los Angeles and photographs from the period.

Unequivocally there is no other treatment of urban racial unrest that can compare!

John Russell wrote this "biography" while Francis Bacon was very much alive and tends to emphasize the influences on Bacon's work more from an environmental standpoint than an art historian view. But to jump into Bacon's raucous life "in medias res" is a gift that now can be savoured, like picking the grapes off the vines that in years to come will become a fine vintage wine. A diversion, and only in black and white reproductions, but a rather important comment in retrospect.

Like many biographies, Russell's work concentrates more on the man's times than on the man himself. While we learn a lot about what was going on around Bacon, what he himself experienced is left unexplored. Granted, Bacon made gathering biographical information very difficult, but I would have appreciated more insightful analysis of Bacon's life and its connections to his work. Overall it is a very good introduction to Bacon's career and total output, and includes a huge number of pictures that make the book extremely valuable as a reference. Unfortunately though, while there are many color reproductions, they are outnumbered by black and white ones that take away from truly experiencing the power of Bacon's work.

Well i really think that Francis Bacon is a great artist. I just stratid reading about his art work and he has so many goos drawings like Henrretta Moraes, and his selft portrait. They are veri nice drawings.So i really think his greatt.

This is a poorly written book on the important subject of race in politics. Carter spends the entire book blaming conservatives' exploitation of race for their recent resurgence. In many examples, he is outright wrong(such as his analysis of the Willie Horton debacle), and in others he dramatically overstates the significance of the particular action. The only credible observation is that of the evolution of a new form of politics, a political system in which "image is everything". However, Carter complete ignores liberal manipulation of race in politics, and this book subsequently comes off as being very biased. If you're looking for a good book on race in politics, I suggest reading The End of Racism by Dinesh D'Souza or Hating Whitey by David Horowitz.

This book is four essays that deal with ideological drift of the GOP towards rightist and culturally conservative themes, and the appeal to white racism that underlies much of the GOP's appeal to the voters. The essays are chronological, the first one deals primarily with George Wallace, the others with Nixon, Reagan, and Gingrich.

Carter uses George Wallace's presidential campaigns of 1968 and 1972 as his starting point - how a racist demagogue from a cultural backwater quickly develops a national constituency, appealing to whites who feel threatened by the civil rights revolution of the 1960s. He then analyzes Nixon's exploitation of the same fears in his building of his "Silent Majority", and Nixon's important role in transitioning the Wallace voter to the GOP in 1972 and after.

The last two essays focus on Reagan and Gingrich, and how they in essence "deconstruct" racism to better fit their conservative ideologies and broaden the GOP's appeal. Nixon, Reagan, and Gingrich are far more circumspect in displaying overt racism than a Wallace, but Carter's arguement that their focus on exploiting the fears of middle class voters has its roots in the racism of George Wallace and his ilk is fairly compelling.

Carter sometimes seem to take this theory a bit too far, but that will happen in a short four essay book. Carter is troubled by the GOP's appeal to white racial fears, and his viewpoint that the GOP is 'playing with fire' around these fears is always evident, and sometimes heavyhanded.

This is a very readable thought provoking book.

In four clear, well-written essays, Carter shows how the conservative counter-revolution had its origins in white revulsion against the gains of the civil rights movement. From Montgomery to Milwaukee, whites found the prospect of racial equality frightening and unacceptable. In response to this--and, Carter acknowledges, other issues--a political realignment emerged. No one was more telling and important to this conservative backlash than George Wallace, the Dixiecrat from Alabama whose independent campaigns for the White House showed the Republican Party how to employ coded racial appeals to go from the party of the country club to the party of country music. This is a lively, thoughtful book with hard evidence and engaging anecdotes. And Carter is one of the best literary stylists writing history today. Better still is his magnificent biography of George Wallace, THE POLITICS OF RAGE, which describes the same transformations through the biography of a fascinating Southern demagogue who once received 34 per cent of the vote in my home state of Wisconsin!

For fans of Lovecraft? From what I've seen this has nothing to do with the Cthulhu Mythos. No Cthulhu, R'Lyeh, Nyarlathotep. I don't think you should have "psychic gumshoe" in horror stories. It sounds like something from the kid's section. If you want Mythos buy Lovecraft.

This is a great collection of stories. Recommended for not only fans of Carter and Lovecraft, But for people who want some good old fun action packed horror/adventure stories. I highly recommend this!!

Robert Price is a genius editor. Rather than having his eight writers created new stories of the late Lin Carter's hero in the exact same mold as the originator, he let them run loose with the character. The results are 8 marvelous adventures, each giving us
new and different approaches to Anton Zarnak' from action, to horro and even some comedy mixed-in. More anthologies should be this
fun.

As an educator in a high poverty, low performing school I agree with many of the points brought out in this book. Unfortunately, this Heritage Foundation work (i.e. extreme right wing, ultra-conservative) comes off as solely pushing a pro-voucher, anti-public school agenda. Most of the schools listed in the book are public schools who have turned the situation around and I know personally one of the principals. The book is extremely critical of teacher education programs in our colleges and universities and advocates the direct instruction, anti-whole language, anti-person centered classrooms that almost all extreme conservative educators and think tanks rally around these days. Another interesting point to note in this book is that of the 21 schools listed only 2 are high schools. It has been my personal observation that it is easier to turn around an elementary or middle school than it is a high school because of the age factor and decreased parental involvement as students progress through the system. Overall, this book lists several good points that EVERY school should implement but I could have surely done without the extreme conservative agenda the book's author rams down your throat. Perhaps the NEA or a progressive educational teacher training university should publish a book with their agenda refuting this research and ideaology point for point- I am sure there would be plenty they would agree with and disagree with in this book.

If there's any book that works like a coach in a locker room giving a half-time pep talk, this is it. The tone is inspirational and invigorating and Carter identifies several important points that educators need to tune into in order to be better teachers. Yet....

Yet there is something bothering me. For all the important emphasis on teacher and administrator improvement (a priori knowledge in recent educational debates), there is a heavy reliance on standards. Listen: No teacher is opposed to standards. It would be tantamount to saying I am against breathing. But just what those standards are and who sets them and who measures them--that is the debate.

Maybe it is the emphasis that Carter places on the importance of Direct Instruction as an instructional method that bothers me. DI has been widely advocated in educational certification programs as the standard modus operendi for classrooms instruction and it relies heavily on behavoralistic methods of learning: skill and drill, frequent assessments, highly scripted teacher stimuli and highly structure student response. Carter says that we have built too much into studying how children learn and forgotten to teach them. While this is catchy, I disagree: we must be cognizant of our students abilities when instructing them. It reminds me of one of my favorite teacher jokes. Did you hear about the teacher that went home and taught his dog how to whistle? ....No? She didn't learn, but he taught him.

But I still endorse this book. The 21 different schools are important for someone looking for other schools that have gone ahead with reform programs and that may be beneficial.

The book is outstanding and very inspiring. A must read for any teacher.

Since a nice synopsis of this book already exist at the web site, I will skip this. The problems with the book, in my opinion is in the character of the heroine. She is a circus performer and daughter of a gypsy with prediliction for 1990's new age philosophy and mother earth religion. The character is just out of step with the setting. She is also suprisingly helpless for someone with such a non-traditional upbringing. The sterotypical damaged hero is not badly written. The sex scenes which I believe are essential to this type of story are dececntly done. The plot itself is lacking,even if one suspends one's belief this story not credible.

Accused of murdering his wife, Damien Sharpe, once wealthy and respected, was condemned and shunned by society. Now reduced to living as a recluse in a hunting lodge - part of the estates which were once his - a concession from his childhood friend, Rolf Pembroke, who was the present owner of Hyperion Walk, Damien's home. His wife's murder had shattered his world and the life he had known before was no more.

Kira Scottney, part-gypsy part-gentry, returned to her family in England after the death of her mother. On the way to her father's estates, a runaway carriage brought her into Damien's path. Blatantly defying her father to tryst with an outlaw, she was the one person who steadfastly believed in Damien's innocence and sought ways to clear his name and bring him back to society.

It doesn't take two peas to deduce the identity of the real murderer and the motive behind the crime.

What makes wonderful reading is Kira's unwavering faith in Damien (this is not story where the hero and heroine fight over misunderstandings or jealousy) but from the beginning, Kira and Damien struggle to have their love accepted. The one drawback is that for all the harm the villain caused Damien, the perpetrator got off too lightly without the humiliation he deserved.

In 1884, eighteen year old circus performer, Kira Sergenkov is suddenly summoned by her English aristocratic father, Lord Scottney who she has never met. Because of a death bed promise made to her mother, Kira travels to England to see her aristocratic father, who pleads with her to stay for a year in the hope that she might marry an aristocrat so that a legitimate heir can be born and the family line will continue. If, at the end of the year, she is unhappy, he will fund a circus for her to manage back in America. Seeing the rainbow at the end of the year, a reluctant Kira accepts the offer.

Kira meets Damien Sharpe, a nobleman who is thought to have gotten away with killing his wife. In spite of the overwhelming circumstantial evidence agaist him and his uncouth manner, she believes him to be innocent and the pair falls in love. Kira begins to help Damien find the evidence that will prove his innocence. However, if Kira is correct in trusting her beloved, than someone close to him has to be the killer and that individual would never sit idly by and let proof of his guilt surface.

This novel is an interesting blending of the Victorian romance with elements of a who-done-it. Even though readers will know the killer's identity rather early in the story, they will find much pleasure with the historical romance of the characters and the mystery of finding evidence to identify the true killer. Though not for pure mystery aficionados, A FIRE IN HEAVEN is a book that fans of romantic suspense and historical romance will fully enjoy.

Harriet Klausner

Had to read this book for a lit class. Unless you like really strange hard to read pointless liturature, I would strongly recommend taking a beating instead of reading this book.

In this, one of Carter's boldest and most subversive novels, the protagonist undergoes an excrutiating exercise in de-masculinization. As a female, he realizes that women truly are "made" into nurturers, into mothers, into objects of sexual desire. Carter's prose is richly--chillingly--beautiful, as she describes one man's confusing transformation from being the "hunter" into the "hunted." Quite possibly Angela Carter's finest work--as well as one of the most provocative studies of gender construction in the Western world.

This is the most outrageous Angela Carter novel I've read. Just when you begin to settle into one bizarre plot, Carter turns everything upside down and takes the story down a completely different avenue. She still manages, however, to bring all of her seemingly disparate plot elements together at the novel's satisfying close.

Evelyn's transformation from loathesome creep into a protagonist the reader actually cares about is a riotous roller-coaster ride, punctuated by Carter's beautiful prose and embellished by her perverse sense of humor. As always with Angela Carter, a satisfying, thought-provoking read!

John Dickson Carr, also known as Carter Dickson, was famous for his locked room or impossible murders.The Peacock Feather Murders, originally published in 1937, is no exception. Two men are shot at close range, two years apart, in vacant and sinister houses. Both murders stump New Scotland Yard, as these killings have been committed under impossible circumstances...the Carr/Dickson locked room signature. When Carr/Dickson wrote the Sir Henry Merrivale mysteries I had the impression, even as a teenager, that these novels did not measure up to Carr's very successful Dr.Gideon Fell mystery series. After all these years I still have that impression. The Peacock Feather Murders, apart from this edition being in very tiny print, is far-fetched, filled with stock characters, dated if you are familiar with bowler hats, antiquated if you aren't, and features as its sleuth, Sir Henry Merrivale, a rotund shadow of the Great Man, Dr. Gideon Fell. If you enjoy cozying up to an English mystery in the classic tradition, try a novel under the name, John Dickson Carr. Heat up some tomato soup, prepare a grilled cheese sandwich or grab a box of chocolate chip cookies and enjoy the Master of Crime at his best!

In Carter Dickson's THE PEACOCK FEATHER MURDERS, Sir Henry Merrivale tackles an interesting variation on the locked-room murder. A man is seen entering a room. Gunshots ring out, and the man is dead--but where did the murderer go? Certainly not out the door or the window. As usual, Dickson gives us an impenetrable "impossible crime" scenario, and while the complex plot has been meticulously worked out, the solution isn't as impressive as some of his others. That, and a few lapses in pace, keep this from being one of his best books. Nevertheless, Merrivale is as sharp and perceptive as ever, though a bit more restrained this time around, and the book has two strong bonuses: the character of Mrs. Derwent, a truly disturbing femme fatale, and one of the eeriest and most suspenseful drawing-room confrontations I've read in any mystery novel.

Carter Dickson (one of John Dickson Carr's pen names) presents one of his most complicated locked-room mysteries in this novel, and Sir Henry Marrivale is back to solve it. "The Peacock Feather Murders" begins with a man entering a room that is under tight police scrutiny. Outside the door to the room, one officer is watching. The only other exit to the room is a window that is forty feet above the street. Despite the fact that the man in the room is alone, two shots ring out. The officer outside the door rushes in to find the man dead with a bullet hole in the back of the head and one in the spine. A gun lies on the carpet next to the corpse, but there is nobody else in the room. The officers watching the window swear that nobody left.

To make matters more confusing, the house in which the murder occurs was vacant until that day. Only one room is furnished, and it consists of a most peculiar set-up with ten tea cups set up around a table. The fact that a very similar crime happened some years before only adds to the confusion.

Carr is known for his "impossible" crimes, and this one may top the list. As always, though, Carr plays by the rules and sprinkles the clues throughout the story (even including footnotes when the solution is revealed). I do not consider this book to be the best of Carr's work or even of the H.M. cases, but it is still far better than most mysteries, particularly for those who like the "howdunnit" aspect of a mystery as much as the "whodunnit" aspect. When it comes to the impossible crime, Carr is the undisputed master.