Really enjoyed the series of modules by Anasari and Jan Bell. We used these modules for study and case presentations in my MBA class. The content is easy to comprehend and very applicable to modern firms. Have to give 5 stars!

The author did a great job in putting mathematical concepts in simple language.

This second edition of Shortliffe's textbook is an excellent overview of the field. Although I used it as a course text, it is extremely readable. The chapters are not overly technical, as befits an introductory text, but by no means is this a "Dummmies" book either.

There are now a variety of introductory/overview books on medical informatics. However, of the ones I've read (including van Bemmel's Handbook of Medical Informatics and Coiera's Guide to Medical Informatics), this book is by far the best.

Although I've only recently read this book, I've used some of these same meditation techniques in the past in order to drop a few pounds, and they work. You should keep in mind that this is not a typical diet book, and the exercises that LeShan presents are not necessarily easy. His approach is designed to get inside the inner workings of your mind, to face your demons. The idea is that learning to control your mind leads to better control of your body and your habits. In this age of fad diets, LeShan's book is a practical approach for anyone who wants to shed some weight and live a heathier life.

The book's final chapter, "The Meaning of Wholistic Health," is especially engaging. LeShan presents an enlightening and informative discussion of "the medicalization of American society," where "the hospital is displacing the church or the parliament as the archetypical institution of Western society." His points are too numerous to summarize here, but his overall intention is to make us more aware of our own healing capacities and less dependent on the so-called experts.

About ten years ago, when I was in the Army, I found this book (in the Stars and Stripes bookstore of all places) and promptly fell in love with it. To be brief, it is the fictional account of a brain surgeon who falls victim to brain damage (in the form of a tumor). The book narrates (from the perspective of apparent sanity--one is led to suppose that the narrator overcame his ailment) the gradual mental collapse of a highly intelligent physician who is quite aware what is happening to him but is only intermittently able to do anything about it. To make matters worse, his insanity takes the form of a kind of sporadic allegiance to his own disease, a revolutionary fervor that leads him to reject the "tyranny" of his brain in favor of the cancerous cells rebelling against it. The result is a kind of Moebius strip, a story with no stable foundation, a narrative that proceeds in a series of self-devouring cognitive maneuvers worthy of Samuel Beckett: no evaluative judgement of the apparently insightful narrator can be trusted, since any such judgement is apt to dissolve and reform very convincingly into its antithesis at any moment. Shainberg brilliantly mocks standard assumptions about sanity, health, and "normality," provides many marvelous examples of satire and fine writing along the way (e.g., the devastatingly funny portrait of the phony guru Sensei, who interprets the narrator's disease as enlightenment), and manages to build the tension relentlessly until the novel's grotesque and shocking conclusion.

In short, the book is a small masterpiece. Naturally I looked for others by Shainberg, but he seems to have written very little--the only thing I found by him was a book called "Brain Surgeon," which was good but pedestrian compared to his foray into fiction.

This book is a must read for everybody, whether you plan to get married or stay single all your life. It uncovers the true source of all conflict in human relationships and provides the remedy as well! Shock!.

Have you been abused? Mistreated? This book is definitely for you. It is the answer that we all need to hear whether we want to or not. It's gentle and truthful. It will knock your socks off, and massage your feet!

This is another one of the best books I've ever read.

I can't put it down. I read it over and over and each time I find something else I didn't see before. At times you'll want to read ahead to see where the author is going. It is just that intriguing. I found myself getting frustrated the first time through it. I kept asking out loud, "Will you please get to the point?" But man... woman! was it ever worth it. I'm ready to get married again! *lol*

Men of Character is a book that I bought for my son at his request. However, I too read it! I am a woman and I find the encouragements of this devotional to be exceptional. Each segment tells me about a particular man of God and his challenges. The segments ask thought provoking questions. Each segment takes but a few minutes to read, and I walk away each time with a new encouragement and perspective that I apply to my own life. I think this book would be a wonderful resource to men but I find it rich for me personally too. I have ordered this devotional for my nephew and for a female friend of mine. It is inspired and insightful!

Mesozoic Birds: Above the Heads of Dinosaurs edited by Luis M. Chiappe and Lawrence M. Witmer is an astounding book on the evolution of birds. In the 1980's and 1990's there have been fossil discoveries that can link the development of birds for eighty-five million years.

This book is written by thirty-one authors as they have written abstracts on some very interesting finds and connections. This book is NOT a childrens book as the authors are writing for students and professionals in the field of paleontology. There is a lot of comparative anatomy and phylogenesis, morphology and systematics in this book. If your looking for the current information on the link with birds and the dinosaurs, this is the book that will convince you that they did exist together.

The contents of this book is divided into four parts, each with abstracts for chapters. These parts are as follows:

Part I: The Archosaurian Heritage of Birds

Part II: Taxa of Contriversial Status

Part III: The Mesozic Aviary: Anatomy and Systmatics

Part IV: Functional Morphology and Evolutions

The greatest percentage of the book is in part three where with all of the recent discoveries locks in the theory that birds were flying in the time of the dinosaurs. If your are into learning some interesting information on the origin of birds than this book is for you. If you were wondering about the connection between the dinosaurs and birds, again this is the book for you. This is a very techical book and is written for older readers looks for current theory along with knowledgeable erudition.

The writing is very technical, but it is easily readable and the information is priceless.

This book is a concise history of the beginning years of the "Johnstown" diocese. Well written and researched, Presented to the reader in a simple fashion as not to confuse, which is so many times the case with college level Orthodox reading. This is a book that anybody with Carpatho-Russian background should read. It will inform you of the struggles "Our People" had to endure in both the "Old Country" as well as in America. It is a proud testimony to a people that have always placed their Christian faith above all worldly pleasures. All in all it is a "GOOD VICTORY".

I was in Doctor Rubenstein's Michigan History class at the University of Michigan-Flint in the late 70's. This book contains information from primary research papers from students not only in the class I was in but several other of Doctor Rubenstein's classes. I enjoyed his classes because the information presented not only contained the standard information people receive from high school history classes but also in depth accounts of what really was going on during those times. When I read this book it is like I am reliving those wonderful history classes. I highly recommend this book and any others Doctor Rubenstein has written. You will gain a vast wealth of knowledge about the real Michigan history. I own one of the first printings of this book and will keep it in my library as a cherished memento.