I think this book will fill a gap in the surgery of uppergastrointestinal system.It is a specific work of art about esophagusand stomach cancer.It gives excellent and extended information about the staging ,surgical manegement,mechanisms of occurance,radiotheraphy and chemotherapy of esophageal and gastric cancers.I think it is important to predict that it reviewed the Japanese and Western experiences of both gastric and esophageal cancers.It also has extensive chapters about complications and palliations of both organ cancers. The chapters about early gastric carcinoma and gastric lymphoma are superior works.I congratulate the writers for this excellent book.

Reynolds Price proves, once again, that he is the masterful poet we always knew. He shares deep emotions in so few words, but we come away with such a great admiration for the person who wrote them. RP likens the world and it's misery, as well as joys, to the fire that can warm you, but also engulf you.

This book show you the best way to discover the Valais' Alps : by walking. Valais,the mountainous part of Switzerland, is just the best Europe can bring you : wonderful casttles, living history, and splendid moutains. If you want to discover the Alps, then buy this book. In Valais, it is like all the picture about Switzerland, Heidi, ... coming true in front of you. Buy this book, you won't be disapointed.

Many of the greatest Victorian poets have been ignored or been paid lip serice by the canon, simply because they were women. This anthology seeks to correct that. A great starting point for anyone searching for research topics, this book is also wonderful just to have on hand for browsing. The editors give lengthy biographies of each poet and criticial interpretations of some the poems that have been included. This book is invaluable to anyone who is curious about what's been hidden all these years

Blindness, the inability or refusal to see why we commit violence and to see the effects of violence on ourselves and others that continue for generations, is a kind of spiritless, hopeless and, in the end, impotent power.

That is one of the points of this marvelous book, a collection of articles written by anthropologists who have been through or who have been with those who have been through violence. Not only does violence kill, main and destroy, it changes those who live after. Violence sears identities, amputates parts of self, twisting how the survivors see themselves and others. We are some of those others.

From China to South Africa to Sri Lanka to the former Yugoslavia to India to Pakistan to Nigeria to what we call Western civilization, these essays carry us around the world to meet people to have done their human best to deal with inhumane circumstances. Sorting identities of the circumsized as opposed to the non-circumsized, trying to be a man when men have no fathers and whose primary role is to serve as targets for the enemy, the erasure of identity through steralization and the importance of memory are questions faced by the most ordinary of people. One of the most riviting and thought-provoking essays is titled, "On Not Becoming a "Terrorist"". In a culture of terrorism, can a person refuse to become one - and survive? It was a Mayan social commentator, Sam Colop, coming to terms with the decades of mass murder, who described the conqueror type. "It is not merely that his power makes him blind," he wrote, "nor that his power is accompanied by blindness, nor even that his power required blindness; it is, instead, quite simply that is blindness, his willed amorality, is his power, or a large part of it." And is it then the victims who should likewise seize power?

Arthur Kleinman brings it all home to "the violence in middle-class life under the regieme of disordered capitalism." "Rather than view violence, then, simply as a set of discrete events, which quite obviously it can also be, the perspective I am advancing seeks to unearth those entrenched processes of ordering the social world and making (or realizing) culture that themselves are forms of violence: violence that is multiple, mundane, and perhaps all the more fundamental because it is hidden or secret violence out of which images of people are shaped, experiences of groups are coerced, and agency itself is engendered." Or, to use a "mundane" example, can you recall in either a movie or TV show a single non-family dispute that was resolved without violence or aggression? Can we any longer imagine a way of solving social and political problems without violence, the threat of violence, creating new weapons, passing "tougher" laws, building new prisons or insisting (making) "the other person" make the sacrifice?

A great book.

A great book, providing a very human view of the development of higher education. Andrew Rice is the perfect vehicle to explore Oxford, Tulane, and several experimental curricular attempts at collegiate education. Reynolds is a gifted writer. Her research is deep, her charactors compelling.

Salerno really knows what he's talking about in this well written, precise and intriguing look at the build up to WWII. I found the original research accurate, the organization easy to follow and the analysis fresh and well supported.

This was an eloquent and visually exciting way to experience all aspects of the Washington Wine Industry. I never realized that there were so many award-winning wineries in such a conentrated geographical area. I will definitely be sending this book for wedding, birthday and Christmas gifts from Amazon.com!

Details of microscopic granularity make this tome a pleasure. A breadth of trivial details (did you know that 16th century Paris tried to dress streetwalkers in Indian calico to reduce the demand for this import? did you know speculators became wealthy gambling on the outcome of the Revolutionary War? did you know that herrings were bought before they were caught in 1688?) that presage the modern financial markets. If you enjoyed Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay, Bernard M. Baruch you will enjoy this dense work.

A tapestry of well told tales, WHIMS TWISTS and FANCIES is for me the ultimate compendium of assorted short stories that etches itself into the top ten. The character of Gramma in 'The Invitation' will not soon be forgotten. The loneliness of an old man in 'Another Year,' waiting in vain for a family visit, is a moving portrayal. I laughed aloud at the antics of the gentleman saddled with an unwanted date in "An Ethical Easement,' and the moral in 'Flaherty's Flute' set me pondering over another solution. All the stories are crisply told, the style is pleasing, and the total enjoyment is thoroughly satisfying.