Very easy to read and to make consultations on it for the road, as every branch of medicine one needs a helper and in acupuncture this is a friend, a very good one.

I like books like this in the medical aspect of acupuncture, it has every thing I need to know. Maybe it's price is too low to be real...I think it's a need for the serious student and for the old acupuncturist to remember the points and it's clinical relations on both western and eastern medicine.

Fundamentals of Acupuncture is unique among English-language textbooks for beginning students in that it actually is a textbook, and it actually is written in English. Sadly, it has not received the recognition or application it so richly deserves.

Fundamentals was developed from a variety of modern and pre-modern sources, and seamlessly incorporates those sources into a coherent work that honors the past and imparts present-day acupuncture simultaneously.

This book clearly presents the foundations of acupuncture theory, including all aspects of the channel system, from primary, connecting, divergent, and sinew pathways to channel communications and extraordinary vessels. It describes a variety of needle techniques as well as moxibustion. Entries for individual points include functions, indications, both classical and modern instructions for location, a translated name, the Chinese name in characters, the Chinese name in Pinyin with tone marks, regional anatomy, insertion depth, stimulation methods, and where applicable, a description of acceptable qi sensation.

What most sets Fundamentals apart from similar books is its pragmatic orientation and inclusion of translated Chinese disease-diagnoses, with a useful glossary of terms. A large portion of the book is devoted to point selection, combinations, and therapeutic principles, all with an emphasis on real-life clinical applications. This is the only beginner's book to properly translate and give the meanings of disease-diagnosis terminology, which makes the specific character of each point and the structure of acupuncture treatments much easier to understand for beginning students. By comparison, other similar works have been so terminologically vague as to be useless.

If I could only recommend one acupuncture book to beginning students, Fundamentals would be it.

This book surprised me with its ability to break through the technical jargon and explain security in a very familiar sense. It gives an item-by-item breakdown of what companies need to do to get their networks in order. It also explains the pitfalls and the potential consequences very well. It should be on the bookshelf of every company's security auditor. I found it to be invaluable as a resource and very helpful in finding ways to expand my knowledge deeper into the areas of interest to me. It is obvious the authors are not only technically sound but have an understanding of what it all means from the business side. I would highly recommend it!

This book should be required reading for every IT professional because unless security is everybody's business there will be no real security. The problem to date is that IT security is becoming increasingly complex, and the reality of Internet connectivity just adds to the complexity.

What makes this book so valuable is that it clearly explains the fundamentals of Internet security and its most important parts in terms that someone who is not a security professional can understand. Aside from the complexities of security itself, factors such as cryptography, authentication and public key infrastructure and messaging are highly specialized and difficult for the non-practitioner to grasp. Again, this book clearly explained those in such a manner that you "get it".

The authors don't stop with a great discussion of security in general and the technical issues in particular, they next lead you through the development of a plan to address common exposures. I like this approach. I also liked the response scenarios and advice for steps to be taken when you inevitably become a victim - and chances are that you will if your company is on the Internet (and what companies aren't these days?)

This valuable 375-page book wraps up with a big picture view of a total security package and two appendices: one on available security tools and the other a computer emergency response team (CERT) report template.

I highly recommend this book to anyone in IT, especially management, because awareness is the first step towards an effective security program. It is so well written and packed with great advice and information that it earns a solid 5 stars.

A plain english review of what internet security means to the enterprise. There is enough information to educate without overwhelming the less-than-technical. If you are wondering if your company's internet connections are as secure as they need to be, this is the book for you. It is filled with references to helpful sites and software as well as guidelines for coming up with a security policy that fits any type of organization.

Techies: Haven't been able to get your decision makers to listen to your security concerns? Buy them a copy of this book.

In this debut mystery, Detective Sergeant Wesley Peterson has recently transferred from London to the port town of Tradmouth. Just prior to his transfer, the Tradmouth police are faced with a kidnapping of a small boy by person or persons unknown. On Peterson's first day on the new job, a woman is found brutally murdered in the local park. The first thing the police must do is identify her. Also, archaeologists working on a dig of an Elizabethan merchant's house find a skeleton in what they think is the cellar. Finally, Peterson's wife begins visiting a local medical clinic in an effort to get pregnant and he must be present at several appointments. Peterson had expected a laid back kind of life in the countryside, but Tradmouth's criminals keep him and his colleagues busy.

In the hands of a lesser writer, juggling four distinct stories might turn into a confusing morass. Ellis, however, pulls it off and keeps the readers' interest sustained in all three stories. She is able to deftly pull the stories together at the end. Peterson is an interesting and likable character - well rounded with interests (archaeology to be specific) other than police work. The minor characters are also likable, and one hopes that they will be fleshed out in future books.

While not strictly a historical mystery, one of the four stories is set in Elizabethan Tradmouth and adds piquancy to the modern-day stories. This has all the potential of being a first-class series - part procedural, part historical, part cozy. This is an excellent start.

I like this series immensely. There are three books out so far (the
last one "Unhallowed Grave" has only recently been published
in the UK); and in all three mysteries, Kate Ellis blends a
contemporary mystery with that of a historical one. And she does it
brilliantly. You know that the solution to one will link you with the
solution to the other, and it makes for an enjoyable and interesting
read to see if you, the reader, can see the solution before either Sgt
Wesley Peterson of the Tradmouth CID, or Neil Watson of the County
Archaeological Unit.

In this instance, Tradmouth CID is stretched
thin trying to find a missing child and solve the murder of an
unidentified young woman whose face has been horribly
disfigured. Meanwhile, the County Archaeological Unit while escavating
a 17th century house make a grissly find: the skeletons of a baby and
an adult from that period. The intuitive reader will at once realise
that both mysteries are linked in some way. But how?

The central
motif of this mystery in that of the relationship between mother and
child. What a woman feels at her failure to conceive a child; the fear
of losing a child; and how she copes with the death of a child.

This
is a really good series with great characters. My only complaint is
that with all these interesting personalities-- Patterson, Watson et
al-- the book seems hardly long enough to give them each the focus
they deserve. However this series is a winner and I recommend all the
three books.

Well executed tale about Wesley Peterson, a black English detective in an interracial marriage, who moves his wife Pamela and his job from London to the English countryside. His first day on the Tradmouth police force presents Wesley with a gruesome murder and a seemingly unrelated case of a missing child. On the other side of town his long time friend and archeologist Neil (who happens to be Pamela's former lover) has unearthed an unidentified skeleton from what used to be a 17th century merchant's house. Little does Wesley realize that the skeleton may be the key to solving his murder case, as well as the case involving the missing child.

Also intriguing is the 17th Century diary of John Banized, the merchant whose home Neil is now excavating. We are greeted with excerpts from John's diary at the beginning of each chapter, and this creates a whole other story line that is just as compelling and suspenseful as the main plot.

I was fascinated by the multi layers of this novel. Ellis very deftly draws the reader into two story lines simultaneously. The medieval plot of John Banized's infidelity and his ominous secret is unfolding just as rapidly as Wesley Peterson's missing child and murder cases. There is also a premise that evolves around children...infertility, greed and desperation. But I won't say too much about that here. Just suffice it to say that this is a very well written and enjoyable mystery with unrelenting suspense. I consider it one of those rare finds that you always look forward to discovering on a rainy day.

Enjoy.

Lily is just your normal average teenage girl living in a normal average town. She's not popular. She dosen't have many friends, and she's constantly picked on by the school bully. But that all changes when she wants to learn about the founder of the town, Aaron Lemachard II. The only problem is when she dose she finds herself drawn into a world of vampires, both good and evil. And if she dosen't look out Lily will get caught in the crossfire. Sound good? Well it is. Usually I can't stand comic books or graphic novels but this one took me by surprise. It was a great fast paced read with an interesting story. Even though it was very short (I read it when I was supposed to be working) it was very enjoyable. And if you liked it as much as I did look out for Zombie Night Fever, the next edition to the series. Enjoy!

Hey, this book rocks! Sure, it's a graphic novel that's not graphically VIOLENT, but the story's solid, the art tight, and the concept kinda nifty. The big question is, why did Scholastic abandon it? We got this book and the sequel (ZOMBIE SATURDAY NIGHT), then NADA! How it about it? We want (and deserve) more!

I picked up this book and thought it looked like a pathetic 3rd-grade level novel w/size 20 type. WRONG! The cool art took me totally by surprise and the story was actually really good. I think this would make a cool comic book, but alas I don't think it is. Try it!

This book goes into graet detail on the the pros and cons of differetn years and models. It really helped me in selecting a plane for purchase.

this book is a great guide for anyone playing with the thought of owning a small airplane. the prices may not be totally up to date, but the aircraft are still the same

I found Mr. Ellis' book in a local bookstore shortly after starting my private pilot training, based on my eventual desire to buy my own plane. The book reads quickly and combines a perfect blend of hard facts and anecdotal material to really define the issues a prospected buyer needs to focus on.

I pretty much devoured the book in a few days and referred back to it -- especially for the invaluable aircraft model summaries -- until I concluded that a Cardinal RG was the right plane for me. Using the "Selecting Your Airplane" chapter, I found my perfect bird after using Mr. Ellis' expertise to eliminate many contenders.

The book is AWESOME and, having read most of what is out there on this subject, the best I have found.

I think that this book has great depth, and is one of the best Stephen Hawking books I have read. My favourite remains 'A Brief History of Time', but still this book is extremely excellent. My compliments to the chef.

This book is now a classic and is written by two giants in mathematics and physics. It wil be used for many years to come and is certainly one of the most widely quoted in the subject.

The authors begin the book by a discussion of the role of gravity in physics and its role as determining the causal structure of the universe. They introduce the idea of a closed trapped surface, setting the stage for the goal of the book, namely the study of the conditions under which a space-time singularity must occur. Black holes and the beginning of the universe are cited as examples of these singularities. The authors also outline briefly the content of each chapter. A neat argument is given for the significance of focal points via the use of Raychaudhari's equation.

The second chapter is an overview of the background in differential geometry needed in the rest of the book. Although complete from an axiomatic point of view, the approach is much too formal for readers who do not have a knowledge of differential geometry. Such a reader should gain the necessary background elsewhere.

General relativity as a theory of gravitation is discussed in chapter 3. Spacetime is assumed to be a connected 4-dimensional smooth manifold on which is defined a Lorentz metric. The topology is assumed to be Hausdorff. Some of the more interesting or well-written parts of this chapter include the example of a spacetime that is not inextendible, the determination of the conformal factor for the spacetime metric, and the discussion of alternative field equations.

The authors discuss the physicial significance of curvature in chapter 4, namely its effect on families of timelike and null curves. The most important part of this chapter is the discussion on certain inequalities tht the energy-momentum tensor should satisfy from a physical viewpoint. These inequalities, called the weak energy condition and the dominant energy condition, allow the authors to prove the existence of singularities in a later chapter. The reader can see clearly the role of the Jacobi equation, and its solution, the Jacobi field, in measuring the separation of nearby geodesics. The existence of conjugate points is proven, and shown to imply the existence of self-intersections in families of geodesics. As a warm-up to showing the non-existence of geodesics of maximal length, the authors employ variational calculus to study how to vary non-spacelike curves connecting points in convex normal neighborhoods in spacetime, and between points and hypersurfaces. In particular, it is shown that a timelike geodesic curve from a hypersurface to a point is maximal iff there is no conjugate point to the hypersurface along the curve. In addition, the authors prove that two points joined by a non-spacelike curve which is not a null geodesic can be joined by a timelike curve.

The authors consider the exact solutions of the Einstein field equations in chapter 5. Most of the "usual" spacetimes are considered, including Minkowski, De Sitter, Anti-de-Sitter, Robertson-Walker, Schwarzschild, Reissner-Nordstrom, Kerr, Taub-Nut, and Godel. The emphasis in on the global properties of the spacetimes and the existence of singularities in them. The famous Penrose diagrams are used to "compactify" spacetimes in order to study their behavior at infinity and their conformal properties. The authors first introduce the concept of a future (past) Cauchy development here, so important in later developments in the book. The reader can see the tools developed in chapter 4 in play here; for example, the existence of a singularity in a spatially homogeneous cosmology is shown to follow directly from the Raychaudhuri equation. The existence of the singularity is proved to be independent of any acceleration or rotation of matter in such cosmologies.

In chapter 5, the authors consider the causal structure of spacetime, namely the study of its conformal geometry. The consideration of the set of all metrics conformal to the physical metric allows one to discuss "geodesic completeness" of spacetime, this concept forming the basis of a later definition of a singularity in spacetime. The more interesting topics discussed in this chapter include the causality conditions (there are no closed non-spacelike curves), and the Alexandrov topology and its connection with the strong causality condition (every neighborhood of a point contains a neighborhood of the point no non-separable curve of which intersects it more than once). When strong causality does hold, the Alexandrov topology is equivalent to the usual manifold topology, and thus the topology of spacetime can be determined by the observation of causal relationships. The discussion on the role of global hyperbolicity in showing the existence of a maximal geodesic is also very well-written.

The next chapter is pretty much independent of the rest, and was put in no doubt for the mathematician who desires to understand the Einstein equations as a set of nonlinear second-order hyperbolic partial differential equations with initial data on a 3-dimensional manifold, the famous Cauchy problem in general relativity.

Chapter 8 is the most important in the book, for its uses the constructions of earlier chapters to define the notion of a singularity in spacetime. The authors argue that singularities are points where physical laws break down and thus to characterize them one attempts to find out whether any such points have been removed, making spacetime "incomplete" in some sense. Such a notion of incompleteness is very meaningful in topological spaces with a positive definite metric, since in that case one can define completeness in terms of the convergence of Cauchy sequences. In spacetimes with a Lorentz metric, the authors discuss the notion of geodesic completeness for null and timelike geodesics. A very detailed treatment of the now famous singularity theorems is given, these theorems involving an inequality of the Ricci tensor. The last two chapters of the book are more physical in nature wherein the singularity problem is shown to have physical relevance via the occurence of black holes at the endpoint of evolution of massive stars.

The early seventies saw a revolution in cosmology; for the first time, modern mathematical methods were applied to the discipline, with intriguing results. This book was (along with Penrose's articles) the seminal work in global general relativity. Often overlooked is that the first half of Hawking & Ellis is devoted to traditional GR via the tensor calculus, and the q-form conception. However, trying to learn GR with this volume is not recommended (instead, cf. D'Inverno). The meat-and-potatoes of the book is the discussion of gravitational collapse, and the singularity theorems. They provide us with intuitively good reasons for believing in some very strange phenomenon. If you're interested in the frontiers of modern science, and have the appropriate mathematical background, this book cannot be recommended too highly. The little yellow book stands supreme in the hierarchy of works of modern physics.

It surprises me to see so many positive reviews of this biography here. Mister Amburn never gets to know his subject, but makes wildly off-base observations Orbison's psychological make up. He also talks about Orbison's so-called big cocaine habit...What he has to back that up ONE quote from ONE person, claiming Roy TOLD him that he had done $700 worth of the drug one night. I could go on, but why bother. Ellis Amburn did a poor job of writing his book. I don't know anything more about Roy Orbison now than I did before reading the book. Hopefully, someone who can actually WRITE will attempt another bio soon.

Dark Star chronicles the life of the big O from boyhood. It doesnt jump about like some biographies that get lost on the way. There are comments from those who not only new and liked him but also those who were slightly put out by some decisions that were made, by others, on his behalf. Not that he agreed with those decisions e.g. going from The Candymen to Roy Orbison and the Candymen. All in all a very informative book which includes a bibliography of his singles at the back.
John Keeble U.K.

After reading this book Roy s music took on a whole new meaning to me. What a tradgic life for a remarkable man who was admired and respected by his peers. A person and voice we could only dream of having. I also need a copy,can anyone help me?

This book is one of my favorite Goosebumps books. It keeps you guessing until the end!

Jerry and Terri visit some relitives on an island, on an island that is HAUNTED! on their trip they get bored so go outside, and meet there strange kids about their age, one day the kids dare Jerry and Terri to go into a cave that has a flickering light, the rumurs of the cave are that a 3 hundred year old ghost lives in the cave a ghost that came when the first people arrived. Jerry and Terri accept the dare and go inside, and they saw... THIS WAS A PERFECT THRILLER THAT SOULDN'T CHANGE.

Jerry and Terri meet some strange kids. They dare them to walk into the cave that has been hanted by a 300 year old ghost. Jerry and Terri do it. Guess what happens to them...

For some reason, perhaps because many intellectuals suffer from and write about it, depression has become a trendy psychological affliction among people who by objective criteria have little to complain about.

Julian L. Simon suffered from depression for many years, yet he was able to defeat it through an eclectic approach incorporating ideas from his Jewish cultural background, cognitive therapy, existential therapy, Eastern philosophy and other sources. It's refreshing to find someone who emphasizes that depression derives from an unhealthy form of self-absorption that needs to be disputed vigorously. Stop making comparisons between your actual life and some hypothetical "ideal" life; recognize that you have an obligation to provide an emotionally healthy environment for the people you love; cultivate the values that conflict with your depression. In general, take action against your depression instead of selfishly wallowing in it.

Although Simon mentions his economics research only in passing in _Good Mood_, I also recommend reading his books about the positive trends in the environment, population and general material well-being to provide some cognitive support for a better attitude towards the human prospect.

The premise of Simon's theory is that depression is due to our tendency to compare ourselves to others, how we used to be, what we hope to be, etc. It sounds simplistic, but the book is actually very comprehensive. Rather than making generalizations about all depressed people, he details many different methods and combinations of methods so that you can choose the ones that will work for you.

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Dreaming of America

Eve Bunting wrote the original copy of the true story Dreaming of America. This book is for kids in their middle childhood. The book was published by Bridge Water Paperbacks.
The main character is a girl, who is from Ireland, who's name is Annie. Annie and her two brothers, Philip and Anthony, are on their way to America on the SS Nevada. I have missed my mom and dad just like in the book. The most interesting thing in the book is Annie's 15th birthday present. The least interesting thing in the book is when Annie doesn't let Philip do something in their cabin.
I like this book because there are no unanswered questions or problems. I especially liked this book because they went to America on a boat! That's why I think you should read this book.

This book is wonderful. The story is a classic example of the pain and hardship of coming to America. The graphics are beautifully done and combine both drawings as well as real pictures of the period. It brings the history of the period to life. Highly recommended.

What an emotional, inspiring story of the first Ellis Island immigrant -- a girl from Ireland who journeyed to America with her two younger brothers. This award-winning book is graced with beautiful illustrations as well as rare historic photos. An involving story by Eve Bunting that is a tribute to all immigrants who have helped make America great.