Well organized, clearly written, and comprehensive, this book describes the unique nutritional needs of all developmental stages of human life. It has extensive chapters on pregnancy, breastfeeding, infancy, childhood, adolescence and old age. It addresses the special nutritional needs of women, minorities and populations in the Third World. Extensively illustrated, it provides a fascinating journey through the human lifecycle, showing how nutrition is a primary influence on growth, development and aging. Highly recommended.

Being a lover of fine literature, the world of Charles Dickenshas always held a special place in my heart. It's a place and a timeuniquely his own. I had always know that much of what he wrote about was autobiographical. But not until reading MacKenzie's work did I have a full understanding of the man. She starts with his rough origins, which strongly reflect the world of David Copperfield, takes us through his early working years, his personal life, and lastly, his physical decline. The book gives us insights into the man, and fleshes him out like so many of his characters. MacKenzie describes his jealousy of other writers, his struggle to financially care for his extended family, describes the plays he painstakenly put on with his family and friends, details the summer vacations with his family, his reading tours of America, and, most importantly, his writing. His serialzied novles became the number one source of entertainment in the English speaking world. Crowds would gather on American docks, waiting for the English ships to unload the next installment of his latest novel. Families would gather around and read the work aloud, living and dying with each plot twist. MacKenzie shows how Dickens himself agaonized over every plot twist. The characters would become like family members to him. Bringing harm to them would often bring tears flowing from his eyes as he read the just finished installment to his family and friends. It's well worth the effort to try and find.

This book is full of clear and complete definitions of most of the terminology used in the Oil business. It also have lots of illustrations. It is very hard not to find what you are looking for. Excellent for people that intiates in the Oil business.

Norman's Dinosaur! brings the Paleontology to life by telling this science history with vivid descriptions of the first dinosaur fossil hunts and interpretations in the first charpters, so the reader may follow how the facts and toughts about the dinosaurs evolved and understand their importance to the modern man and it`s an almost unique approach. Norman proceeds by showing how the dinos arose, how they lived, their classification and some extinction hypotesis. The book is very well written and beautifully ilustrated, presenting scientific information for all kinds of readers that whant a better general view, except if you are looking for a real schoolar text. Due to all of it, it is an excellent book by this price and a must for everyone who would like to know more about the terrible lizards.

Chouliaraki and Fairclough survey the landscape of contemporary critical theory as familiars and even masters. The authors' command of the human sciences is beyond impressive, so much so that the book is equally valuable to sociologists and discourse analysts - one need not be familiar with the esoterica of text analysis, for example, to appreciate the dense connections made here between discursive and social realities. Highly theoretical and pragmatic at the same time, the book provides crucial links between the semologic and sociologic dimensions of late modern life. Drawing on CDA, on the one hand, and the social theory of Bourdieu, Giddens, Foucault, and Bernstein, on the other, the book will be valuable reading for anyone concerned that the proliferation of discourses (of all kinds) in late modernity has not yet been accompanied by a critical awareness of the social systems in which these discourses emerge and interact - only to implode back into the social.

This effort may not appeal to everyone...certainly not as a coffee table book....but for those of us who follow Kent, his writings, his art and his life story, it is a commendable compliment to the study of his art. This book drove me nuts, so much so that I travelled to Greenland to see the Arctic light and shadows for myself. Kent captured the light and images of a unique land and this book provides a worthwhile reference to many of his Greenland landscapes. I sure would like to see one of his original landscapes hanging on my wall at home:-)

Wonderful insight and great knowledge combined into one! A must for every doctor!

Prosopography is the study of pedigree, biography, and genealogy, especially among royal and noble families (i.e., those of power and influence in society), including the study of family names, and focusing especially on the person, his environment and his social status -- that is, the individual within the context of family and other social groups, the place or places in which he was active, and the function he performed within his society. Keats-Rohan is director of the Unit for Prosopographical Research at Linacre College, Oxford, and this project is an heroic attempt to synthesize the genealogy of families in the first century following the Conquest and the histories of the manors which they either owned or labored on. For "only by determining the identities of persons concealed in a repetitious mass of names in the text of Domesday Book can we hope to understand what happened next, or who was who in subsequent records such as the Pipe Rolls." Domesday Book contains some 45,000 personal names, many of them duplications since tenants-in-chief held land in several counties. If you also leave out the churches (as tenants) and the surviving English tenants, fewer than 20,000 names remain, and about 8,000 of those are identified by forename alone. The author has analyzed 19,500 records of continental names into about 2,500 individual persons, including some 200 tenants-in-chief and about 600 Englishmen. Their entries, which make up the bulk of this large volume, range from a single sentence (Harduin was a"Domesday tenant of William fitz Nigel under earl Hugh in Chester") to several pages for those at the top. Citations to appearances in Domesday Book itself, as well as in later charters and other sources, are very complete. The descendants of the great men whom the new king made tenants-in-chief became the great barons of the English feudal system, and nearly all of them appear here. For instance, Eudo Dapifer, son of Hubert de Ryes, married Rohais, daughter of Richard de Clare. One of Eudo's tenants in 1086 was Osbert, husband of his sister Muriel. Eudo also acquired the land previously held by his brother, Adam, who was a tenant of Bishop Odo. Farther down the social ladder were men like Herbrand de Sackville, tenant of Walter de Giffard, who had sons named Jordan, William, and Robert, and a daughter named Avice, who married Walter d'Auffay. The author also has included seventy-five pages of background history and prosopographical methodology, which make this work very accessible to the non-specialist. This is apparently the first published installment (there are also several online databases) of an extraordinary and fascinating enterprise which should open new avenues of research for those interested in medieval English genealogy.

I stumbled across this book as I was perusing the European History shelf. As a high school French Teacher, I look for ways to introduce my students to French history. I also try to instill an awareness of the nature of language, and the etymology of English. In this process, I have become aware of the Latin, French, and German and Scandinavian roots of our own language. Until I read this book, I did not understand how the English that we speak evolved from so many seemingly disparate cultures. Michael Wood did a masterful job of clarifying this for me, while drawing me into a fascinating account of English history.

Wood opens with the purpose and content of the Domesday document, which in and of itself would be dry and dusty. Because the Norman Conquest was such a pivotal point in the history of England, many British historians have built on the premise that post-Conquest civilization was actually created and defined by the incoming French ruling class. Wood challenges this position, tracing the roots and institutions of English medieval society back to influences which pre-date the Norman Conquest by more than a thousand years.

As an anthropologist, Wood uses a number of tools to reconstruct the development of this social fabric. Any one of these tools - tax records, geographical analyses, lists of village names - if considered in isolation, would be as opaque as Domesday itself. But with the insight and skill of a master storyteller, Wood uses clues provided by their data to sketch the evolution of a people, and then to paint an engaging portrait of the common man in 1086. Along the way, he introduces us to the native, colonizing, mercenary, and migratory populations alike: Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts, Romans, Danes, French. We watch as the dynamics of domination, subjugation and assimilation characterize their interactions with one another. And we conclude with him that the Conquest was not the beginning of civilization, as some would have it, but the interruption and re-routing of the history of a very old, already well-defined society. Further, it is a testimony to the strength of that society that it survived and thrived in the wake of the devastation of the Conquest, maintaining the essential fabric of long-held beliefs and institutions.

I find that many of my students share my fascination with the historical background behind the etymology of our modern-day languages. While I do not use this book directly in the foreign language classroom (it is an expository text), I have found it very helpful to give me a solid foundation for understanding the curiosities I try to share with my students. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in the link between history and the development of language.

Dorland's Pocket Medical dictionary is among the best medical dictionaries. It is nice and thick - lots of info between those covers. As a nursing student in an R.N. program it was a required reference book. 20 years later I am ordering another one because I gave my old copy to a new nursing student and I now I need it. I highly recommend it to students in the health sciences, medical coders, technicians and degreed health professionals. It would also be a good home reference for the interested layman.