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The transaction was easy and I received the book in a reasonable amount of time. The book was in good shape and came just as described.

I got this book because I needed something to study for my M3 clerkship shelf exam and I was told Blue Prints was not good and there is no First Aid. It took me a long time to go through all of the questions and extensive explanations but it was totally worth it. Some of the questions I had on the shelf were almost identical to those in the book. I have since loaned my copy out to several people with rave reviews. This has been my favorite book in medical school so far!

I used this book while on my Fam med rotation during 3rd year of medical school. At the time, there were not many books designed for medical students specifically on FP. The was no First Aid or Blueprints Family Medicine book for example.

This book was just average. The FP shelf exam is one of the most difficult ones. I found that the format of the questions in this book did not really reflect the types of questions usually asked on those shelf exams. This book was not that helpful, it was tedious to work through, and overall not an efficient use of study time.

I found it more useful to read through the Blueprints books again on Int. Medicine, Peds, and Ob/Gyn. The "Outpatient Medicine Recall" book is actually really good and I would recommend that book very highly.

Overall, this family medicine question book represents a decent review for the clerkship and shelf exam. I spent countless hours working through this book and managed to get through it once before the shelf, but I wonder if my time would've been better spent with another resource. Here are some things I noticed:

1. The cover clearly states "nearly 500 all new questions", but I counted about 870 questions! While more questions are welcome, it is definitely hard to master so many in a 6 week rotation. Had I known the true number of questions before, I would've considered purchasing the new Pretest Family Medicine book instead.

2. The style of questions does not resemble the nbme shelf exam questions (my subjective opinion after taking the shelf)

3. Some questions require a very detailed level of knowledge - to the point of splitting hairs to get the question right. Even after looking things up in several textbooks, there were some questions that I still could not find the answer to. I sometimes wondered if these were valid teaching points.

4. The answer explanation format could be better. Instead of listing each answer choice separately and stating why each is correct/incorrect, there is a paragraph. It was sometimes difficult to know which sentence went with each choice because there was no transition from one answer choice explanation to the next.

Just use this and your set. I had a 4 week rotation in fam med & had not yet had, ob/gyn, peds or IM, but I did well using this text. I only got through half of the text, but did that the night before. I only wish I'd got it sooner.

I never received this book. I ordered it and the book was unavailable.

This makes heaven palpable, real place. He pulls it all together so well. I know this is true and it is harmonious with the scriptures. I need to read it again.

I read the book. It did not touch me as other books have. I've enjoyed incredible books such as THE MESSAGE and RETURN FROM TOMORROW. This book was not in the same calibur. I was rather disappointed. I don't recommend buying it--try your local library first.

quite a phenomenal book, and i would easily say that it's one of the most powerful books that i have ever read. forced to deal with the death of his own child, crowther uses people's very personal, spiritual experiences to illustrate theories of life after death. easy to read, but very, very deep.

I first read this book the summer of 1973 after my mother died. I had grown up believing fully that there was, indeed, life after this earth experience but I was SO ALONE at the age of 13 that I hardly knew what to do. My twin and I were the youngest at home and the rest of the siblings were grown. My father buried his grief in work. I had no comfort until I found this book. It gave me my time to work through the process of death but mostly to grieve as I couldn't cry in front of anyone else so, I'd read the book and have a good cry. I now have six children of my own and have purchased 8 books, one for each of my children, one to keep in my home, and one to keep as a loaner copy...always ready. Over the years, I've given many of these books to friends and the families of friends going through this process. I KNOW it makes a difference but YOU'LL have to judge that for yourself. It's NOT newfangled or fancy but truth never is! I recommend it with all my heart!

The beauty of this wonderful reprinting is how it shows John Muir as a person, how it helps us to understand the dynamic and overwhelming beauty of Alaska, and the changes in the people of Alaska. Muir's complete, tireless, and joyful commitment to nature comes through on every page. The book unintentionally provides an excellent portrait of the kind of inexhaustible devotion it takes to change the world as did Muir. The book also provides a stunning portrait of Alaska in the latter part of the 19th Century and allows one to compare the Alaska of those days with Alaska of earlier times and of today. The biggest changes are in the glaciers and in the people. The glaciers have receded dramatically as a natural part of their centuries' long retreat. It is interesting to compare what Muir saw with the experience of Vancouver almost exactly 100 years earlier (ca. 1793). Vancouver could hardly enter Glacier Bay. Muir could enter quite some distance, but the glaciers were still the dominant features. Today, the glaciers have largely receded into deep valleys. Muir encountered people in Alaska living largely as they had for centuries. They were hunters and fishermen and lived in small groups along the shore line. As Jonathan Raban points out in the intricately woven fabric of his sublime book "Passage to Juneau," the people of southeast Alaska considered the sea to be the real environment of their lives while the land was considered dangerous and unknowable. They lived along the shore and knew how to live off and with the sea year round. The lives of the Alaskan people are very different today but greatly influenced by the past. Raban often characterizes Muir's writing as overblown and florid. However, it is a portrait of a man, a maritime land and a people. To do justice to those three, the book had to be what it is - an astonishingly colorful and detailed portrait in words.

John Muir's "Travels In Alaska" is his accouts of his trips to Southeast Alaska in 1879, 1880, and 1890. Southeast Alaska 125 years ago was sparsely settled and poorly explored; Muir's adventurous spirit and enquiring mind led him to investigate the numerous inlets and glaciers in the area, including the magnificent and much-celebrated Glacier Bay.

Muir's simple, muscular prose weaves a fascinating narrative out of descriptions of the people, wildlife, and geology he encounters on his journey, suffused with his endless sense of wonder at the landscapes in which he saw the hand of God. The reader can hardly help but be carried along by Muir's enthusiasm. Muir's descriptions may be most relevant to those traveling Southeast Alaska by cruise ship, for a sense of what the landscape looked like before the population reached today's size and spread. Those not interested in the travel aspects of the book and in numerous descriptions of glaciers may find this book less interesting.

This book is highly recommended to fans of John Muir's writings, and to those planning a trip through Southeast Alaska.

Nature is a beautiful and highly complicated phenomena of this world. Many have sought to understand it and capture its essence in writing. The nature writings of John Muir succeed in capturing the beauty of nature as well as the scientific aspect. I have to be honest, I wasn't that enthused about reading a book about science. I expected Muir's book to be identical to a science textbook, definitely not my idea of enjoyment. However, his book was actually full of detailed descriptions and creative uses of similes, metaphors, and analogies. In fact, it completely changed my perception of a scientific novel.

In his book, "Travels in Alaska", Muir brings alive the magnificence of the vast expanses of unexplored Alaskan territory. His prose reveals his enthusiasm for nature, and he weaves clear and distinct pictures through his words. Muir's writing is very personal. His favorable feelings toward the land are very apparent, and reading the book is like reading his diary or journal. He avoids using scientific jargon that would confuse and frustrate the average reader; his words are easily understood.

Muir also uses very detailed descriptions throughout "Travels in Alaska". Although at times his painstaking description is a plus, at others, he seems to take it a little too far. Numerous times throughout the book, Muir spent a paragraph or two talking about something slightly insignificant. He would go off on a tangent of enthusiasm for something as simple as a sunrise or the rain. While his careful observances make the book enjoyable, the sometimes excessive detail tends to detract from the point he was trying to make. The description also reveals that his heart and soul was in his research; this became very evident upon reading the long and thoughtful descriptions.

"Travels in Alaska" can be appreciated by a wide audience. Muir shines light upon the Alaskan territory, and he is detailed in his account of the many people he meets. Anyone could read the book and find enjoyment learning about Alaska when it was for the most part unsettled. Muir shares with the readers his keen insight upon the various Indian tribes that lived in Alaska. At one point in the book, he gives a very detailed description of one tribe's feasting and dancing. His observances capture exactly what he saw and the feelings these observances evoked in him.

John Muir's writing is of high quality. He incorporates beautiful and creative similes, metaphors, and analogies. His prose is very poetic, which makes it an enjoyable read. For example, Muir says that "when we contemplate the world as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty." His work is also very organized. The book is divided into 3 sections, or parts of his trip, as well as separate chapters devoted to specific subjects. Muir spends one chapter describing his trip to Puget Sound, another on Wrangell Island, etc. The book follows a specific format that ensures that everything is easily followed and understood.

Truthfully, I was impressed with the writing, and the fact that it was nothing like a textbook. It incorporated the literary aspect so well, that the book held my interest whereas a textbook would not have. I had the wrong impression of a scientific novel, and I urge anyone unfamiliar with the genre, to give "Travels in Alaska" a fair try. It may just change your mind about scientific writing.

I confess up front, it's been a few years since I read Muir's Travels in Alaska. Yet significant aspects I remember well. Given Muir's exuberance for life and almost everything he encounters in his travels, one almost looses view of Muir the botanist and geologist. But not quite. Here we find the author contemplating the activity of glaciers and documenting the flora of southeast Alaska. Muir (who tended strongly toward vegetarianism) gleefully entertaining himself by foiling duck hunters. Baffling the locals by happily wandering out into major storms.
The book is a journal of Muir's 1879, 1880, and 1890 trips (he wouldn't mind if we called them adventures) to SE Alaska's glaciers, rivers, and temperate rain forests. He died while preparing this volume for publication.
I remind myself, and anyone reading this, that Muir isn't for every reader. And, as other reviewers have stated, this may not be the volume in which to introduce oneself to the one-of-a-kind John Muir. One reviewer doesn't think that Muir is entirely credible in these accounts. I won't say whether or not this is wrong, but I tend to a different view. For some of us -- and certainly for Muir -- wilderness is a medicine, a spiritual tonic, so to speak. For the individual effected in this way, physical impediments and frailties rather dissolve away when he is alone in wildness. I once heard Graham Mackintosh (author of Into a Desert Place) speak of this. In all of his travels alone in the desert, he doesn't recall having ever been sick. This may not sound credible to some, but I strongly suspect it is true.
If you like Muir's writings, read this book. If you like the stuff of Best Sellers, perhaps you should look elsewhere.

From the title, one would think this a type of travel journal, a panorama of episodes along the way, a sequence of stations between the starting off point and the destination. Instead, the overall weight of the book is given to glaciers, their descriptions, their influence on the landscape, their geological record, the discovery of new glaciers, and other characteristics of these moving rivers of ice. While Muir offers descriptive powers unequaled among authors on nature, never repeating himself though constantly repeating his subject, the sheer repetition tends to bog the work down. Two whole pages might contribute to our view of a particular glacier, and suddenly Muir reports that he's finished a 200-mile leg of his journey on foot. He tells us when he's climbed a glacier, and along the way we've missed an entire week. Time and space almost have no medium in this publication, utterly lost when gazing upon a glacier. For nature lovers who will never go to Alaska, the descriptions in this book make the ranges and glaciers come alive in print, but as a dramatic journey, a travelogue, or a field manual for the Alaskan bush, this book forms only a vague shadow.

Does anyone know where one could attain the Vitalogy 1900 version? If you do please inquire about it. I have tried online and libraries, which have lead me to a dead end. My email is dharter@birch.net.

Does anyone know where one could attain the Vitalogy 1900 version? If you do please inquire about it. I have tried online and libraries, which have lead me to a dead end.

This is where we got our "Grandma's healing oil". It is a concoction made of linseed oil and turpentine, and something else - ahhhh the secret ingredient. Anyway, we have been putting this on ourselves since I was a boy and a few dogs and barnyard animals as well! Great antiseptic for minor cuts and scratches as it stops the pain and promotes rapid healing. When I described it to a pharmicist, he thought I was crazy. He should be more open minded.

Also in this book there is listed a cure for hair loss. It suggests washing your hair with 'coal oil'. Sounds crazy - doesn't it. Well, while noticing a funny odor from my Denorex anti-dandruff shampoo I decided to read the label. Interesting enough, it contains coal oil. Must at least cure itchy-flaky scalp! We'll see on the hair loss bit.

Some theories seem laughable today, but they were probably state of the art at that time. A mix of Better Homes and Gardens and patent medicines. I showed some of its entries to a nurse and she burst out laughing. Family lore says it was accompanied by a set of glass disks that built up a violet electric corona to stimulate nerves and build up health. My great grandfather claimed it temporarily restored his hearing for a brief period -- maybe just to get well-meaning relations to stop tingling his ears.

This is a great book (or books in my case)! I Have the two book set vitalogy 1&2 printed in 1913, very intresting, these are medical books from the 1900's which speak of holistic remedys for any deases that you can think of and then some..(for both human and animals)there are anatomy charts, Information on herbs, how to choose a mate, raising childern....Great reading ,if you can get a hold of the one book or the set of two do it, I promise you'll never regret it ! (please email me if you have more insight to these books)

This was a wonderful book. I presented it as a Christmas gift to my GodDaughter. She enjoys the book. I would purchase it again for another child. The service from Amazon was excellent and ontime.

An easy to read book with nice pictures. My kids love it.

The title of this book might lead you to believe race is a major theme. In fact, it isn't addressed except to note that the characters have brown skin. There is very little text, and what there is describes, in rhyme, physical attributes of the four children as they go about a normal school day.

This book is one of the "Feeling Good" series, written for beginning readers. At least one of the children, Olivia, has appeared in another book. Olivia is actually the daughter of author Bernette Ford. The other characters are Ethan, Alexa, and Jordan.

Illustrations by George Ford (husband of Bernette?) of watercolor or pastel pencil show incredibly cute African American kids with dimples in their cheeks and chins, heart-shaped faces, etc. The book falls into that category of story that could be about anybody, appropriate for all; the characters just happen to be African American.

My 2-yr-old is so in love with this book. She is fascinated by the simple story and also by the great illustrations. It is one of her must-read bedtime books. It is indeed a "feeling good book", however I think it is only appropriate for children under 4-yrs.

This would be a nice book for small children about to head off to preschool for the first time. It shows four darling children as they play and eventually nap at their school.

The artwork is reminiscent of Dick and Jane and is very appealing. As other reviewers have noted, there is very little text. In fact, here is the text from the first 4 pages (see below).

Bright eyes,
Brown skin...
A heart-shaped face,
A dimpled chin.

Now, Amazon has the ages for this book listed as 4 to 8. I would think Baby to beginning preschool would be more appropriate as there is no real story here. In regards to using this book as a beginning reader, I think it would be a miserable choice. Certainly there are not a lot of words, but the one's that *are* here are not suitable for beginners. Words like `heart-shaped' and `dimpled', `ticklish' and `special' are simply too hard.

Three Stars. Wonderful `Dick and Jane' pictures with brown-skinned children. I borrowed this book from the library for my entering-preschooler: 1) because he will be entering soon, and 2) because I am tired of looking at white-only faces in books (even though we are not brown skinned).

Not a great read-aloud, the conversations that can come from discussing the pictures make up for this flaw.

This is the cookbook I go to for recipes that always work. I am not a vegetarian, although I was for years and I worshiped her other two books when they came out. Now, even though I do eat meat and have a lot of fancier cookbooks by professional chefs, I find that I go back to this book again and again because everything is delicious and easy and healthy. Also, you can tell that she has really developed and perfected these recipes because they always turn out well and there are no surprises.

There are a couple of fancier recipes in the book but for the most part the recipes are pretty simple everyday stuff (depending on your taste-- her taste is very fresh food/California/flavorful). If you are looking for a cookbook to actually cook out of, this is the one-- I think I have made over half of the dishes in the book and they were all great.

I have owned this book for years and have found it to be inspirational and accessible. The recipes are very good - some are easy for either weeknights or a casual weekend and others are more time-consuming for either a special dinner or when you just feel inspired. I like that she broke the book into menus - it's nice to see how a full course meal will go together. Of course, if you don't have the time you can always cherry pick what you do want to make.

She does have one small section on how to roast a turkey but I don't see it as an issue. She, and we, live in a diverse world. She happens to have some meat eaters in her family and she accommodates them. Vegetarianism is great but it is still important to be understanding of other peoples' life choices. In this situation, I think it is thoughtful that she gave her husband the opportunity to contribute his prized turkey recipe. It's what makes this book a little more genuine.

I discovered this book in the library in the middle of one hot summer. After trying a few of the recipies and being inticed by many others, I purchased it and added it to my cookbook collection. It has gone with me everywhere since from France to Greece to Japan and back home again. I am not a vegetarian, but this book has opened my eyes to some of the amazing ways that vegetables and grains can be prepared. Additionally, the book has inspired me to pursue a culinary career. There are many cultural influences present in this book, and while some ingredients may be difficult to find, she often suggests substitutions. (Butternut squash for kabocha, for example). And quite honestly, we are seeing a wider array of ingredients available to us with each season in our local supermarkets. (If you are fortunate enough to have a garden or farmer's market, you can REALLY profit from this book!) When I want to find an interesting way to prepare the fresh asparagus in the spring or red ripe tomatoes in the summer, I consult this book.

This book is for people who like to cook, not as much for people who want to create quick meals. That said, I didn't find the recipies or menus overly-fussy, but rather enjoy the time it takes to create truly great, delicious food.

This is a great cookbook full of flavorful dishes, arranged by season. Visit your local farmer's market then treat yourself to some "fancy" dishes.

It's....good food. It's tasty. I can't really fault the flavor of the recipes in this book.

I've got a major quibble, however. Where the original Vegetarian Epicure had a cozy down-homeness, this new version is like reading a cooking magazine. The amount of cream and eggs overall has been reduced, the cooking times have been cut down, and we see no more of the odd potato peel broth she loved so much twenty years ago. These are good things. But somewhere along the line it's as though most of the soul has been taken out.

I stress again that the thing reads like a cooking magazine. There's hardly another way to describe it. The emphasis on absolutely fresh produce, on unusual ingredients, and on clever presentation--these are the hallmarks of food that is just a little too fancy for the home cook to bother with on a busy Tuesday night. And there's no hope for you if you don't have access to a farmer's market.

Newer isn't always better. There's a reason people have been using their copies of the first Vegetarian Epicure for twenty years. It's accessible. It's adaptable. This one? Not so much. Try feeding eight of your friends Raspberry Borscht, and I'll bet that six of them will wish you'd made Mushrooms Berkeley again.

Amos' My Michael is an intriguing reflection on the nature of romantic love, the volubility, subtle shades of temper and mood of a relationship tracked over time. Hannah is perhaps Amos Oz's most fully realized character. Unlike some of the more impressionistic and sometimes grotesque characters of his later fiction, Hannah, in My Michael occupies a middle ground between deep emotional expression, vulnerability to her outer world, and servitude to her inner. Oz etches her struggles across the page, and the result is mesmerizing and profound.

This is definitely a book which was difficult to put down, because of the sense of anticipation the reader develops. It was an excellent look at the devastating effects of mental illness on a victim and her family, told more subtly than in other literary works. Though I am unfamiliar with Amos Oz's autobiographical work, it does become evident that the author's development of Hannah's character and the first person voice can only be derived from personal experience. Michael's character is also developed brilliantly. Descriptions of Hannah's mad dreams and illusions are quite laborious and it is difficult to associate the details in them with Hannah's real world. The early days of the State of Israel serves as a historical backdrop for the novel. I believe there is symbolism in the novel which would be more apparent to Israelis and those reading the novel in its original language, Hebrew.

As others have said in their reviews, there are similarities between the couple in My Michael and the authors own parents. The way the father speaks to his son in both books is very similar (If his highness will do us the favor, etc...), as is the mother's mental/emotional instability. This is not a criticism of Oz; it is not surprising that he based the characters in My Michael largely on his own parents.

Hannah Gonen, thirty years old and living in Jerusalem in the late 1950s, has been wife for ten years to Michael, a man she pursued and married when she was in her first year at the university and he was a graduate student. Michael, who describes himself as "good...a bit lethargic, but hard-working, responsible, clean, and very honest," eventually earns his PhD. in geology and begins work at the university. Hannah, who has given up her literature studies upon her marriage, soon finds married life--and Michael himself--to be tedious.

Writing in short, factual sentences, which come alive through his choice of details, author Amos Oz, often mentioned as a Nobel Prize candidate, creates the story of a marriage which may or may not survive. Hannah and Michael married in 1949, shortly after Israel gained its independence, and the author often uses Hannah's battles for independence and control to parallel the growing pains of a new land determined to defend itself. As their family backgrounds unfold, the behavior of Hannah and Michael within the marriage are seen in a wider context. Hannah yearns for excitement, often drawing on her store of vibrant childhood memories to escape into a dream world. Michael, hard-working and pragmatic, remains a geologist, firmly connected to the earth.

Mired in depression after the birth of their son, Hannah gradually becomes more and more unstable until she makes herself physically ill, a condition which she sees, ironically, as offering her freedom. As the marriage and Hannah's sanity deteriorate, the author's use of symbols gives depth and universality to the story. Hannah often imagines a glass dome over herself and her family. She remembers, as a child, dominating Arab twins in her neighborhood, and she now fears they will wreak vengeance on her. Her platonic relationship with an innocent Orthodox teenager turns into a power struggle, and she creates a new personality--that of Yvonne Azulai, a young woman who leads an exciting life. Even the changing seasons often parallel Hannah's state of mind.

Rich with imagery, dense with symbols, and psychologically true, the novel is as pertinent today as it was when it was written in 1968, achieving rare universality, even though the reader may not empathize completely with the self-indulgent Hannah, or with Michael, who, though reliable and honest, has little imagination. Beautifully realized, My Michael, which shows Hannah's need for control in its choice of title, depicts an immature woman who does not know herself when she joins her life to that of someone else. (4.5 stars) n Mary Whipple

I am a fan of Amos Oz's novels, but I found "My Michael" bleak and unrewarding. Having recently read Oz's memoirs of his childhood, the parallels between the young couple and Oz's own parents are evident. This makes it even stranger to me that Hannah is such an immature personality, which I believe is the reason the novel fails.

An essential book to understand what has to be done to regenerate diachronic linguistics and the diachronic approach of Sanskrit, Irano-Aryan languages, and then Indo-Aryan and Indo-European languages. Whitney is one of those who set the main concepts by projecting onto Sanskrit his "modern" European concepts. This is clear when he speaks of participles, infinitives, gerundives and gerunds. It never comes to his consciousness that maybe these forms - be they antecedent to or derived from conjugated verbs - are no longer either only or at all in the temporal field but are positioned, in a way or another, totally or partially, in a spatial domain, are spatialized. So he is reduced to speaking of these forms that he mostly sees as declined nominal forms as being quasi-infinitives or infinitives not by the spatial value of these forms but by a pure parallel with the corresponding translations in our languages. In the same way he sees that the genitive is mostly not expressing possession but he does not see it expresses the attribution of something or some quality to someone or some other thing, which implies we have to reconsider the basic value of this genitive. The third example would be that he does not see verbs are by principle dynamic and that all roots are "verbal" (and we should discuss this term because we are before the very distinction between verbs and nouns, in a proto semantic state where nominal and verbal are irrelevant) that is to say dynamic and not static. It is the use of the root in either a nominal or a verbal derivation that makes it a verb or a noun. The book what's more does not give any syntax, I mean the syntax of sentences. He does not see for one example that "BHU" is both "BE" and "BECOME", static and dynamic localizing "state" neither verbal nor nominal in our understanding of these categories in the root itself (and the reference to the traditional translations `be' and `become' is pure intellectual laziness based on the fact that our languages do not have a proto semantic form that is neither nominal nor verbal, before verb and noun emerge). But when the nominative subject of this BE-BECOME understanding when conjugated into a verb is declined in the genitive the BE-BECOME relation from this nominative to the nominative predicative noun is transformed into a HAVE-(GET) relation (note it is purely relational and has nothing to do with a special semantic unit) from this genitive to the nominative predicative noun. If he had dwelt on this case, and there are others of the same type that he quotes at times when examining the uses of the various cases, he would have been able to understand the genitive does not express a possession but the beneficiary of an attribution movement. Yet this book has to be checked, be it only because it is rather clear and explains what has been said since on Sanskrit, as long as linguists did not question the basic concepts. Luckily some linguist have started to question them.



Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine & University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne

Whitney is the prototype for Sanskrit grammars in English. I suspect the author had in mind Allen and Greenough's Latin grammar or H.W. Smythe's Greek grammar when designing the numeric scheme for each point, theme, and paradigm. It is a very useful system of notation for referencing from other works.

I can't honestly see going through this lesson by lesson with most students who are not dedicated to long term research in the field and want to begin reading Sanskrit without learning every arcane morphological exception. This book serves as an indispensible reference work by including Vedic forms as well as accentation in the paradigms, which I would imagine is more authoritative than Coulson's simple rules. The book is long and comprehensive, and like Smythe and Greenough, has gained the respect of being "the" authoritative source. It is a wonderful book for learning troublesome concepts correctly and more fully than several of the shorter grammars treat them.

I am presently useing this book in conjunction with Lanman's- Sanskrit Reader. In a University setting with a competent professor, this is undoubtledly a superb combination.

Although I am turning the corner on this language (picking up steam, "cooking" with oil...) might I suggest to other beginning independent students such as myself, try something a little kinder and gentler, then work up to this.

It is customary and common practice for me to jump headlong into these sorts of disciplines. However, since the difficulties of this language are at the begining; perhaps something along the lines of: Edward Perry's- A Sanskrit Primer, might be more in order.

As I do have a measure of: Greek, German, and Morse Code(that counts also); the general grammatical concepts and terms I am for the most part familiar with. Since this is a very detailed, comprehensive Grammar; it does require: patience, persistance, and effort.

As for me, I am accustomed to the underdog posistion- looking for fairness and justice, you ain't gonna find it down here. Furthermore, if I am going to be dominated by anything; it might as well be Sanskrit.

This Grammar is a "Classic", and I shall rise to the occasion. See, I can sound like college kid's and your professors.

And that's my review.

This book is AWFUL. If you are trying to learn Sanskrit grammar as a beginner or just interested in getting some basics, this is NOT the book for you. This book would be great as a reference material if you understood complex grammar terms such as another reviewer mentioned. The books is entirely too dense, the index to look things up is awful. All and all I would NOT recommend this. Please stay away from it unless you are holding your Master's in Linguistics or already have an EXTREMELY THOROUGH knowledge of Sanskrit language and grammar. Very disappointing book indeed.

I like the introductory sections and discussion of differences in classical and Vedic Sanskrit. Still it moves quickly into more detail than can be absorbed with casual study. It is a good reference text -- easier to find things than some of the other grammatical texts -- and it answers some basic questions, like the history of the word spacing in modern texts. But still engages in the vocabulary of advanced grammar without defining the terms -- for example, desiderative, aorist, etc.

This book was required for one of my classes. My only complaint is that it doesn't have enough slides to get to know histology.

Good book to have to supplement the Basic Histology Text and Atlas by Luiz Carlos Junqueira. Provides brief explainations and more pictures to assist you with identifying things under the microscope.

I found the book nicely edited, the illustrations were priceless and contained lots of information. The theoretical content of the book though cannot be compared with Ross, this is why it can be used only as a review book. The main quality of the book is in its illustrations and images, which are truly excellent.

I found this book to be a great resource for my medical histology class. The pictures helped me to remember key concepts for on my histology lab. The difference between squamous and transitional epithelium can really only be appreciated with the help of this atlas since it is harder to describe it in words. If you really want to know the type of medical histology questions asked on histology medical exams, get the following which is on amazon:
Histology Study Guide: Key Review Questions and Answers by Patrick Leonardi
This study guide helped me to know what type of questions to prepare for on my exams. I give both books 5 stars.

Excellent photomicrographs with explanations of each. Good review of each subject at each chapter. Can be used alone as a review book.

This book came bent by Amazon and there is no phone number to contact for returns. I did not have a printer attched to my computer so when I went through their online return process it said to print out a return label, I could not do that and so there was no one to contact and no way to return the book. DONT BUY FROM AMAZON!!!!

This small board book is simply and beautifully illustrated in bright flat colors. Usually the illustrations are very understandable and clear, but occasionally the color contrast between the object and the background is poor making the object disappear into the background. The main text is in large bold print and simple language; however, the labels for each object are in very small print, making them difficult for my older eyes to read. My 3 year old enjoys the book. Its a beautiful book and I would buy it again; however, I would check out some of the larger formats of the book first.

As a teacher, I have always loved this book. The bold colors hold children's attention, and it fits well with lessons for younger children on what seeds/plants need to grow, the growing process and includes a recipe for making your own vegetable soup. For early childhood teachers,it can become an early science/social studies/math lesson and also a parent/child activity. A must have!

As well as being attractive and quite an easy read (my five year old managed it), it encourages children to be interested in vegetables-both growing and eating them. Great book.

This book has gotten good reviews by others but I am a little less enthusiastic about it.

Certainly I love the concept of teaching about gardening and how food makes it's way from the soil to our plates; but the artwork, I think, gets in the way of making this a superior 5-Star text.

For example, the abstract art [bold and attractive] is okay for demonstrating seeds sitting in the soil, but it is not very good for actually showing what a squash blossom looks like. For all you can tell, it's a open tulip on a vine. Likewise the corn is shown as being orange instead of yellow.

Four Stars. This book gives children an idea of how food goes from the ground to the bowl, but if you are looking for a book that will give your young child an accurate picture of what growing veggies look like, you'll have to keep searching.