A must for the general internist seeking a better understanding of mechanical ventilation or anyone new to the critical care field. This along, with "Guide to Mechanical Ventilation and Intensive Respiratory Care" by Pierce, is a great, and painless, way to get started.

"Rapid Interpretation of Ventilator Waveforms" is a 132 page introductory text on ventilator waveforms by three well known professors from Georgia State University, Jonathan Waugh, Vijay Deshpande, and Robert Harwood. They have put together a systematic presentation of waveform analysis starting from simple flow, pressure, and volume changes all the way to flow volume loops and troubleshooting problems in the clinical setting. This is an excellent little book jammed packed with information that can be carried around in your lab coat when doing clinicals or when analyzing ventilator waveforms on the job. The book has hundreds of waveform examples with clear and easy to understand explanations. This is one of the few complete books available on ventilator waveform analysis and at only $29.00 it is definitely a must have book!

It provides a precise and to the point review of what is required for the USMLE !

I used several prep. test books for the test and this one most closely matched the content of the exam. It covers many of the topics and it's explanations are perfectly detailed. It's a great tutor. It needs better diagrams and the version I read had an insulting degree of editing errors--the publisher informs me the edition currently for sale is corrected. Even with the errors, this was the best collections of printed tests I used. Good luck!

The author Jascha Kessler's short fictions are masterpieces of wit,quirky observation on well excavated personas,a continuous merry-go-round of provocative narrative which never lets the reader down. RAPID TRANSIT presents another challenge: written in first person, present-tense this early full length novel is raw -the emotions of the anti-hero shaking with the effects of the second world war. It is not difficult to see how RAPID TRANSIT is really the ground of consciousness for Kessler's brilliant short fiction that follows. The evocation of a young man's precocious universe,,,Celine-esque, is literary of course, but the narrative has compelling reality and quirkiness which defines Kessler's writing DNA.One is drawn into the roar of the historical/sexual narrative: 1940's in the Bronx was never more more sexy.Take the ride!

RAPID TRANSIT, the "story" of a young man's intellectual and emotional odyssey through a few months in a post-World War II Bronx neighborhood. It is a brilliant tour de force in which speech, direct written speech is the mode. The protagonist, Ted, libidinous, iconoclastic, philosophically-inclined, is a conflicted modern Jewish Dedalus. Hearing this anti-hero tell day-by-day of his search for certainties in our mid-century, amoral morass where Aristotelian logic simply doesn't apply and only the "anarchy of desire" reigns is an experience well worth some effort.

From the tough street kid whose teeth are knocked out when trying to defend his heritage, to the adolescent's first amorous gropings, and on to the "adult work" of full-blown sexual powers, we are taken by Mr. Kessler on a roller-coaster ride of emotions and intellect colliding, imploding and perhaps (for the reader) reconciling. By turns it is a novel bawdy, sensual, comedic, lonely, poetic, philosophical, but always touchingly poignant. It is as if Ted swims and simmers in a testosterone-boosted cauldron from which there is neither escape nor hope of answers - only questions and drives - and the strange meeting each day (and all his nights) with anguished fears and surprising joys brought by friends, family, lovers.

RAPID TRANSIT: 1948, An Unsentimental Education is not a philosophical essay variously expressed as a novel, but rather a challenging story of the everyday, told with vitality, through a search for poetry, and the interconnections of people struggling to fulfill themselves. After all, Ted's cerebral musings occur as our hero is desperately trying to get laid, get a job, and find a life. It is couched in a real Bronx neighborhood replete with delis, parks, bakeries and with specific odors of moldering apartments, lusty youths, and the new Bop sounds of Bud Powell and Max Roach at Manhattan's jazz clubs.

RAPID TRANSIT is peopled with some of the most idiosyncratic characters I have met in modern fiction. Besides Ted and his alter-ego, Leon, their buddies and lovers, there's a Runyanesque assortment of personalities: an ancient kosher slaughterer who spends his lonely days killing flies on a window sill with a slash of his ritual knife, Leon's dying father suffering in morphine-blurred agony, and Hanuschka, an Auschwitz survivor, who after experiencing truly absurd horror, is now beyond philosophy and seeks only an American normalcy.

The closing chapters, explosively hallucinatory, are as brilliantly written an exploration of Existential angst as any I have read, reminiscent of, who else but? Joyce's own Stephen Dedalus. Ted descends into his own Hades in a drug-induced state, and we follow him reluctantly into the surreal, fractured, and murderous night world where he almost loses himself. However, unlike the positive affirmation of life that is ULYSSES' mature denouement, RAPID TRANSIT leaves the reader with a sense of loneliness and tragic solitude in the deathly, impersonal universe that opened to our consciousness indelibly after 1945.

RAPID TRANSIT is probing serious fiction that both challenges as it delights. Mr. Kessler, an accomplished and noted poet and writer, clearly is a lover of our urban language. Though he pays homage by allusion to the like of Joyce and Eliot, he is clearly the master of his own luscious, incandescent prose and poetry. This author has created a genuine, if unusual masterpiece that deserves to be read for its skeptically contrary and disturbing view of our society 50 years ago, and its wide window on our world today, for its clearly delineated and idiosyncratic characters and setting, and for the sheer enjoyment of reading an author in full command of his language and his art.

One of the stones around the neck of Darwinist evolutionary theory is that it hasn't been observed to happen.Thousands of years of intensive breeding of dogs (not even the undirected evolution Darwin described) hasn't produced a new species of non-dogs. Same with cats and other living things.

The way around the problem is to avoid defining what evolution is or broaden it to simply mean "change" so that anything that changes is said to evolve. Defined that way, evolution can be trumpeted every time a rock rolls down the hill.

It's sort of like AIDS in Africa. First you had to be tested and found to have HIV to be counted as an AIDS case. Well, it was hard to test, so instead AIDS was redefined to be a class of symptoms. If you had the symptoms, you were counted. Immediately after the redefinition of AIDS, the reports started about an explosion of AIDS in Africa.Now whenever the stats need to be cranked up, a commission meets to add new symptoms to the list and expand the pool of what can be called AIDS.

These are also the author's primary methods, used in the hope no one looks too closely at all the semantic shell games being played. At times evolution is used in a context which implies "change". Then there is a shift and the idea is blended without warning to mean speciation (Darwinism). Word meanings flip back and forth without distinction so credibility can clandestinely be transferred from what everyone knows to be true (genetic variation) to that which is unproven (Darwinian speciation).

The organisms that develop resistance to antibiotics are the same type of bacteria as before they developed resistance. They have not become a different kind of bacteria. Exposure to the solvent DMSO has made resistant bacteria again susceptible to the old antibiotics. The reason isn't certain, but it appears as if it might have something to do with an external coating rather than genetic coding. Inheriting a useful slime coat from a pool of bacteria (that reproduce by splitting) is now being trumpeted as evolution without evidence, just like AIDS is exploding in Africa without testing. An artifact of definition.

It's like how one might persistently catch colds until beginning to take vitamin C supplements. If I no longer catch colds, have I biologically evolved? The author would have you think so.

The actual criticism of Darwinism is directed at the claim new information (new species) can be developed by undirected natural selection. It just has not been observed to happen.

Now if you want to falsely represent the critics of Darwinism, you can define evolution to simply mean "change". Then every time there is change in a biological system -- bingo -- you can say it "evolved". And critics of Darwinism then can be made to appear foolish and ignorant by ignoring all the "evidence of evolution (change)" exploding around them. Deeply dishonest. Lousy thinking, lousy science.

Everyone is aware of genetic variation. Blonde and black-haired spouses may have brown-haired children; tall and short may produce children in-between, etc., etc. This is the biological equivalent of painting-between-the-lines; radically different from the production of new species and the origin of life.

The subject of antibiotic resistance is a serious and interesting one, but using it falsely to wrap around evolution as a disguising cover is disingenous; an act of propaganda, not science.

It is completely true that accepting genetic variation but not speciation is a failure of imagination. Imagination is simply not enough to do the job.

Speciation by natural selection is claimed to be a science, yet hasn't been observed,isn't repeatable and can't predict results. It's not science, but a philosophy of rationalization; it allows little stories to be constructed to explain why things are without regard to reality.

Darwinist start with the question "How do I want the universe to be?" and then determine truth to fit the answer. Actual science reverses the questions: "What is truth?" THEN "How shall we live?"

This excellently-done book explores the human tendency to cause explosive evolution in our environments. Don't believe in evolution? Note how effectively we've caused many disease organisms to evolve resistance to our best antibiotics, in the course of less than 100 years. Or the fact that all of our food and pets have been selectively bred to exacting standards for more than 10,000 years. If we hadn't accelerated the evolution of maize, we'd still be eating cobs less than an inch long, you know. So there. And to counter your arguments: yes, selective breeding is too evolution. It's evolution by artificial selection, which is a perfectly valid mechanism. So there again.

Palumbi is both a colorful and informative writer. He spends a lot of time discussing HIV, and why it's so hard to beat (it mutates constantly, overwhelming the immune system). I would have liked a more in-depth discussion about whether humans are still evolving or not -- I think we are -- but he only touched on that subject. Nonetheless, highly recommended.

This is a great read. Steven Palumbi shows everyone why evolution matters today in real and meaning ful ways.
Two quotes from the book
".. the best education is the one that bites back, the one that shows with clarity of glacial ice that the facts and principles of the scientific world are of crucial importance to every day life.... not through eclectic recourse to scientific theory or historical anecdote. Instead, I need to do it through examples about how evolution in the world around us matters."

And why does it matter: " And if antibiotic resistance just happens, then we have no notion of how it comes to be, and no real chance to block the rise of some of the world's deadliest forms of life. But if something evolves, then the science of evolution can chart the answer to why, and perhaps prevent or change it."

Pretty impressive book that covers the major topic areas and is laid out sensibly. Could have dealt with some of the topics in more detail and the sample site on the CD could have been more "involved". But again this is a rapid review! I would give it 4.5 stars but this is not available. Let down by some minor errors (The major ones are published on the website). PS I passed the IIS exam with 850'ish and this was my major text book with some "braindumps"

I bought a few books to prepare for my exam, and this book is the BEST that I have seen. It 's easy to read and understand since the Author gave real life examples that you can relate to. I passed 4 tests already and hope that this book will help me to pass the 5th one. I have about 100 computer boooks at home and this book is one of my favorite. There's very very few good book out there for IIS4. Trust me, I've done my research. So my recommendation to you is run and get this book. I feel I have a solid understanding of IIS4 now. There's some minor errors but you should be able to catch it.

I don't know what has happened to the title of this book, but it should reflect that this is a Study Guide for the IIS 4.0 exam. Also, it is not a hardcover book, but more of a workbook. I feel that it is the absolute best guide out there for IIS 4.0 exam review. The exercises prepare you for the type of questions you will get on the exam simulation.

If you have ever had a hard time dieting and staying motivated to stay on a diet, this is the book for you. I have lost 50 pounds in 12 weeks and have not really felt hungry. I've still managed to lose the weight while eating pizza, donuts and ice cream. Some diet. Two other members of my family have been on this diet and between the three of us we've lost 150 pounds. I highly recommend this book and would love to be able to get in touch with the author to thank them for such a wonderful and life changing book!!!!!!

This is, hands down, the best diet out there. I have tried them all. Low fat, low carb, just eating less, eating certain foods at certain times -- I've done it all. This is the one that works always, all the time. This is the one I do when I am serious. I've only strayed because it's an older book, and I keep thinking new diets must be better somehow or use better information. I now have a huge collection of very dusty diet books. This book, on the other hand, is tattered and food-stained by being with me constantly, and traveling with me. It works.

The book, written in 1988, begins with a discussion of the genesis of the Two-Day Diet followed by a look at various psychological and motivational aspects of dieting and how the Two-Day Diet differs from other diets. This book states very simply many of the concepts being touted as "new" today.

The plan is then presented. It is a high-protein, low carb plan. However, all the major food groups are represented, including fruit, which you do not get on some other low-carb plans. Plenty of vegetables are allowed and encouraged, especially green vegetables (unlimited salads are allowed) and lots of other veggies. Plenty of meat and dairy is represented, as well. Low-fat cottage cheese is also included, which other low-carb plans do not allow. I get lots of fiber on this diet, which means the plumbing problems associated with some low-carb plans do not occur. In fact, I use this diet to get the digestive system started again after following some other plans. This diet, over the long haul, increases my health and makes me feel very energized. I simply do not get tired on the Two-Day Diet!

The plan is fairly simple. You have two "on" days, followed by one "off" day, followed by two "on" days, followed by two "off" (usually the weekend) days. As anyone familiar with the Three Day Diet making the rounds on the internet, etc., will recognize, this diet is similar, but works better, in my experience, simply because two days are shorter than three. On this diet, you get two "cravers" every "off" day -- which, for me, translates to three candy bars a week! (You get to choose your cravers from a fairly extensive list.) There is a mild ketosis, which turns off the appetite on "on" days, making them very energetic feeling and overall, very easy. Each type of day - "on" or "off" has columns of foods(A,B,C,or D) and you simply choose one from each column. There are also unlimited items such as the familiar diet jello and salad greens.

There is a recipe section, which I have made some use of, however, the diet is so easy that I have no real need for specific recipes for it and my husband and kids have been "on this diet" for years without knowing it! There is also an exercise section, but, truth be told, I have never done the exercises and the weight, literally, melts off overnight. Every time, and even as I get older (I am now in my early forties.) By using this diet over the years, I have never been clinically obese, just overweight, and when the weight gets too much I simply Two-Day. Or rather, I try another diet for several weeks and then come back to the tried and true Two-Day! After weight loss is achieved, there is a method presented to ease back into maintenance eating, which is how I eat usually, and even allows a candy bar every day, if I want to use my daily two cravers on maintenance that way! It is only when I stop the maintenance plan that I begin to regain weight.

In a way, I agree with some other reviewers wishing for an update, however, it is relatively easy to substitute newer items. I wonder what the authors would add or change -- it is perfect as it is, and I'm afraid they would mess it up somehow.

Cheers to all -- and remember, it's never too late to be who you were meant to be -- and this book will definitely help you get there!!

This was the easiest diet I've ever been on & it works the best - and I've tried them all!! By the end of each week, you've actually consumed fewer calories than you would have on a restrictive 1000 calorie-per-day diet, yet it feels like you're only dieting 4 days out of each week! The rest of the time, you're able to eat all the foods you love - even fast food! I've never been a happier, less grumpy dieter in my life! (So my husband loved it too!)

I received this book, the second edition, two months ago and I am very happy with the variety and ease of preparing the foods. While I could have done without the brief personal info of the author at the beginning of the book, her tips for dining out, and the typical grams of carb in raw foods (although not quite accurate), were very helpful.

The ingredients were easy to find at my local grocer, outside of the Atkin's Baking Mix - which I haven't tried. The average recipe is 3-4 steps and relatively easy to make with nearly any level of cooking skills.

This book is not without some minor (or if you count carbs closely, major) flaws. As I mentioned earlier, some recipes mention inaccurate carb counts. One example (however a personal favorite recipe of mine) is the Breakfast Custard Squares which appears later in the Desserts section of the book as simply Baked Custard. These are both the same recipe to the last measurement, except their serving sizes vary from 6 for the Breakfast Squares, and 4 for the dessert. According to Lauri's book, the smaller serving size Breakfast Squares claim to have more carbs per serving than the larger custard dessert of the exact same recipe! So, don't count on this book for accurate carb counting.

The only other issue I have is the number of recipes calling for artificial sweetners. I am not a fan of artificial anything, especially aspartame, and I find the number of recipes with Sweet 'N Low (saccharin) to be a little high for me. However, I use an "herbal supplement" (can't be called sweetner according to the FDA) called Stevia which can be found at health food stores (Whole Foods is where I get it) that seems to substitute well enough. Lauri mentions that she doesn't care for this herb, but this herb varies in taste wildly by manufacturer, so experiment if you choose to try it. Anyhow, my point is we're trying to wean ourselves away from sweet cravings (especially those with carb addiction), maybe reducing the amount of recipes that call for sweetners would be helpful.

In closing, despite this book's minor drawbacks, the recipes are really what I wanted to add some variety to the chicken and broccoli routine. This book satisfied my need and I highly recommend it for this purpose.

I just started Dr. Adkin's diet and I can already tell that variety is the key to staying on track. I have tried several of the recipes already and have liked every one of them. The directions are easy to follow and Lauri has a good selction of different recipes. The Custard Breakfast Squares are a wonderful alternative to fried/hard-boiled eggs. The Cheescake recipe is really good and EASY as well. I bought Dr. Adkin's Quick and Easy New Diet Revolution Cookbook at the same time I bought this book and I like this book better. The ingredients are not as "fancy" and, therefore, more affordable and easier to find in the local market. This book is really a winner!

Last year I watched a co-worker totally transform herself on the Atkins diet. So I went out and bought Dr. Atkins' book and cookbook, but didn't start the diet until the first of this year. The induction period (the first 2 weeks) were not too bad, I mostly lived on T-bone steaks, but the next 2 weeks were disasterous! To me, cooking is "throw it on the grill" or "pop it in the microwave". After the induction period, I was tired of steaks and so I gave my best shot at Dr. Atkins' recipes. Each night I sat down to what can not be called a meal. After a few bites, it usually got tossed into the trash and I would drive off to McDonald's or some other place not in keeping with the diet. Then the next morning I would vow to try again. I not only gained the 11 lbs I lost during the induction period I gained a few extra bonus pounds.

Not to be defeated, I talked to my co-worker and she told me about "Lauri's Low-Carb Cookbook" and I bought it immediately. She was right, there are plenty of simple and yummy recipes! I'm now back on track. In February, I not only lost 16 lbs but I'm also learning how to cook! Just as the cover says, Lauri's Low-Carb Cookbook is my constant companion in the kitchen. Thank you Lauri, for some simple and tasty recipes. Soon, I might even try some of the more challenging recipes.

If you too are "cooking-impaired" but want to lose weight on a low-carb diet, then this is the cookbook for you - I guarantee!

Richard Wolters work was recommended to me by a fellow bird hunter. I found the book to be well written and to the point, pardon my pun. I purchased this book in preperation for my first Bird Dog. I tested Mr. Wolters technique on our family dog, a Beagle, and I was able to have her stopping on a dime to "WHOA". And after just ten minutes I was able to get her to Quarter back and forth across a baseball field. I can't wait for my hunting dog to arrive so that I can begin training him for the next hunting season. "Gun Dog" has definitley become my training bible.

Wolters offers the weekend hunter an easy and fun(for both you and your pup) way to bring out what naturally lurks inside every dog. The upfront, no nonsense style is fantastic and I have used this book for years with great results. From beginner to old pro, this book has it all.

I have read and applied three of Wolters book each better than the next. If you an amature dog trainer such as I was this book will help bring you to the next level. My hunting hat goes off to you Wolters!

I found this book to be almost useless for the "family" although it may be great for the body builders. I could not find some of the ingredients such as the sodium free Accent or sodium free Mrs. Dash, which is in the majority of the recipes. I also could not find the low fat pancake mix at our local grocery. I'm assuming that you can find these ingredients in your "big cities".

I could not find some of the ingredients that were listed in the recipes. Most of them called for (sodium free) Accent or Mrs. Dash. All of which were not available at my local grocery. Some called for Sweet 'N Low in main dishes and a lot called for wine....which I do not keep in the house. I did not find these recipes helpful to me in my fight for a more fat free lifestyle.

this book is by far the best cook book i have ever bought.this book is a must for any bodybuilder the recepies are low in fat and sugar. i highly recomend it for any body trying to gain lean mass.

A fine book for Intranet development - a seriously flawed effort for Internet work. All material is covered using VB script, which is utterly worthless if your trying to develop a site that works with both Navigator and MSIE. Though you can complete every task discussed in this book with either VB or JavaScript, the authors summarily dismiss JavaScript. Don't purchase this book if you plan to develop sites that work across the browser divide!

The reader from Raleigh, NC obviously didn't read the title of the book before purchasing. This is an "IE4" book, not a Netscape, or any other third-rate browser book. If you want cross-browser support, than DON'T buy a book that is named "IE4 Programming".

I though that this book gave decent coverage and was worth the $.

I appreciate the authors' simple style--direct-to-the-point in simple English (unlike the abstract prose used by experienced programmers who lack the gift of of sharing information in simple terms). The book has lots of examples and screen shots, and with generous lists of properties, methods and events. The indices at the back of the book serves as a reference when done with the entire book. This book is a must in every Web programmer's library.