This is one of Barnard's best. After you have long finished the book, you can't get the sound of beating and flapping wings out of your head.

I am very impressed with this book. In particular, the descriptions of the many diagnoses and symptoms in depth explain what to the person experiencing such many times feel is unexplainable.

Just to know someone has the ability to understand in very simplistic terms gives one a sigh of relief. Ah ha! I am not unusual or alone--there are those who understand.

The author explains the processes of applying for Social Security disability--step-by-step.

Explains the whys and wherefores of this complex issue to those applying.

This book is truly a necessary part of a hunter's library. I believe that this book, along with Roosevelt's African Game Trails and Bror Blixen's African Hunter, is one of the best books on hunting in Africa available. Even though things have changed alot in the past 100 years, the book is both entertaining and informative.

A must have for any neuroscientist interested in the imaging of neurons. This manual has several chapters focusing on the most up-to-date neurophysiological and neuroanatomical techniques used commonly and uncommonly. The book discusses the full gamut of techniques and how they are applied to hypotheses on neural function. Fluorescent photolysis of caged neurotransmitters, optical imaging using laser scanning, multi-photon laser confocal microscopy, and fMRI are all covered in depth. The best feature of this book is that it is written concisely with several pertinent references at the conclusion of each chapter for easy reference. It does not deal directly with the fabrication and usage of intracellular recording pipettes which is adequately covered in books like R.D. Purves.

Brendan Simms' "The Impact of Napoleon" is one of the best historical texts I have ever read. The author presents a cogent and persuasive argument that Prussian foreign policy from 1797-1806 was not influenced in any major way by domestic politics, correcting a mistake that German historians have been making since they began writing on the subject. He shows that there was no "Pro-French" lobby in the court, and that the ministers changed policies to suit the wishes of the king. Simms shows how foreign policy was firmly in the hands of the King, Frederick William III, and the ultimate decision rested with him. Simms shows how the Prussian system of government (put in place by Frederick the Great) led to disaster in the hands of a weak and timid king, when confronted by Napoleon.

The book is broken up into a section on the Prussian system, and to a section on how the system and the individuals in it reacted to events. There is an epilogue explaining how the horrible defeat at Jena led to a reevaluation of the system and its reform in favor of a more professional and independent governmental system and foreign ministry. For anyone who is interested in Napoleonic diplomatic history or in German history this is a must-have book.

This is the best discussion of still-life work. I use this book as tool for learning and execution of still life in traditional style. Great illustrations and intelligent discussion of the artwork depicted.

This is an outstanding story of triumph in the life and death struggle with the disease of cancer. The author discribes how to move beyond fear to action, the power of hope and faith, and the importance of being an equal partner in one's own treatment. This should be required reading for every medical student. I strongly believe anybody diagnosed with cancer or loves someone with cancer should read this book.

A loving, meticulously researched, and critical biography of Frederick William "Peter" Twort by his son, Antony Twort. The elder Twort, working with George Ingram, was the first to publish (1912) a method for isolating and culturing the extremely fastidious Mycobacterium paratuberculosis, the bacterium that causes Johne's disease, or chronic dysentery of cattle. He was also the independent co-discoverer, along with Félix d'Hérelle, of bacteriophage (viruses that prey upon bacteria), and the first to publish a report (1915) on the subject. After these initial successes, which earned him a Fellowship in the Royal Society, he spent the rest of his increasingly unhappy professional life trying to find conditions under which viruses, which he thought to be a primitive life form, would grow independently of their host cells, and engaging in endless skirmishes with the bureaucracy that funded his research. He was forced into retirement after his laboratory was bombed during World War II. Supplemented with 25 pages of black-and-white photos, one drawing, a facsimile reproduction of the 1915 paper "An Investigation on the Nature of Ultra-Microscopic Viruses," and an excellent index. For a biography of Félix d'Hérelle see Félix d'Hérelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology by William C. Summers (Yale University Press, 1999).

Great book filled with informative information, photos and drawings on life in Bible times. Follows the journey of our Lord and shows how the land may have looked then and how it is today. Easy to read. great childrens refernce book

This is the book used by me to find the very best durgs to cancel my worries and to put me quietly into a sleep where I do not hurt and burn and fear. Many things I learn in this book, like Dilaudid and Qualuude and Valium and Klonopin and such. These are the things that make me my goddest and very, very quiet and tired. Oh so happy has this book made me, I thank you Dr. Constantine you are the Elvis of medicine and a man of many RX.