This book is long overdue! I highly recommend it to anyone interested in issues of allometry (how characteristics of organisms change with their size), scaling, and how attributes of organisms influence larger scale patterns in ecology and evolution. Scaling is probably the most important problem facing biology and this book is a fabulous launching point to a series of new approaches. The book presents several chapters by several of the leaders in the field - and range from vascular morphology of mammals, physiology, plant physiology and ecology, biomechanics, life-history, ecology and evolutionary biology, and even conservation biology. The long introductory chapter provides a nice introduction, history, and overview of the growing field. Probably the best attribute of the book is the underlying synthesis of biology. Those interested in building linkages between organismal biology, physiology, community ecology, ecology, large scale ecology, or evolutionary biology need to read this book.

Serving the Allergic Guest: Increasing Profit, Loyalty and Safety is a very well written, easy to read book that educates restaurateurs, chefs, caterers, culinary schools and bakeries like ours how to keep their guests and customers with food allergies safe. We've implemented the ideas and are able to delight our allergic customers.

Beyond that Joanne Schlosser, the author is President of the Food Allergy Awareness Institute. She has worked in the industry and has suffered with severe food allergies for over 40 years, providing a wealth of examples and expertise.

This book bridges the gap between guests, food servers and food preparation. It's a must for anyone in the industry who wants to protect their guests and their business (lawsuits and liability are hot issues these days) and build on guest loyalty. Joanne takes a delicate subject and lays it gently on the table. Thanks for the foundation for some powerful tools!

Lynne Wellish,
Cookie Architect
Cookies Amour

It's been years since I read this book and I still remember how delightful I found it. The author's participatory study is illuminating and her subject matter interesting, but one thing I remember above all -- her prose style, the manner in which she communicates, is of the highest order for a study of this sort. This author is worth reading wherever you find her for her literary value alone, let alone the light she sheds on an important and little-understood aspect of Korean life. Go read!!

If you have ever wondered what a film archivist does, this book is for you. If you are really serious about your passion for silent films, this book is for you. Mr Usai's concise book is packed full of research tips. There are over 50 illustrations, many in color, of all kinds of different early film frames (70mm, 35mm, 9.5mm, 28mm) plus early color processes, even early 3-D frames. He explains how the early color processes worked and how early films were assembled. He goes into great detail on how that silent film that you may watch today may be drastically altered from the original in the early 1900s. And he explains the many frustrating problems that silent film archivists encounter. He explains the pitfalls of compiling filmographies, and how some printed sources are valuable and others are worthless. If you are just becoming interested in silent films, this book will be too much for you. But if you are really interested in the "nuts and bolts" of archive work, or the detective work that we do to study silent cinema, then you won't be able to put this book down!

This report, as well as the previous did, summarizes the current knowledge about an ever-growing issue. The guidelines provided in the report are usually regarded as canon for physicians and researchers as well. This report is freely available (as a PDF file) in this direction: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/jnc6.pdf; however, at the prize displayed, it could be convenient to purchase it from Amazon.

As we hear more and more about "smart growth," it's great to have a book like this, which takes a broad and intelligent look at the topic. The essays in this balanced collection provide a useful history of suburbia and sprawl, analyze how smart growth is defined and used today by various parties, and discuss the future of not only suburban growth but also core city development. It's fascinating--I would recommend it not only to planners and professionals, but to anyone concerned with how our communities grow.

Takashi's portrayal of the rigorous life lead by Meiji-era Japanese farmers is so vivid and realistic that this book was selected by the University of Maryland, Asian Division history department as a supplemental text in the Japanese history class. The professor promised it would be a excellent read. He was right! Emotional and visual, the book makes the reader a part of the Meiji world. Yet, as sublime as the work is at moments, there are other moments when it is suprisingly harsh in the presentation of life's hard realities. After I returned the text to the university, I had to buy a copy for my own library.

I believe this book will help you understand the concept of Spinal Cord Injury a little better. It explains how the function of having the injuries in great detail. I would really recommend this book to someone that if basicly look for more information about spinal cord injuries.

This is the course guide that accompanies the SAS Institute instructor-based training course SQL Processing with the SAS System.

The manual is an excellent desk reference guide and provides in-depth explanation and exercises with accompanying solutions that can be utilized outside the course itself.

The course guide has 5 sections and an appendix. All sections exercises and chapter summaries.

Section 1 Introduction includes: structured query language, accessing data and SAS functions.

Section 2 Basic Queries has: overview of PROC SQL, specifying columns, specifying rows, presenting data, summarizing data, subqueries.

Section 3 Combining Tables includes: joins, complex joins and set operators.

Section 4 Creating and Modifying Tables and Views has: creating tables, creating views, creating indexes and maintaining tables.

Section 5 Additional SQL Features includes: setting PROC SQL options, dictionary tables and views, interfacing PROC SQL with the macro language, and program testing and performance.

Excellent review of sevral topics. Great research resource and spring board. Also, an outstanding read when you just want to focus a specific topic a do not have a lot of time