Oliver Books

As a medical disability analyst, despite over 30 years of prior work in the medical field as a nurse and technologist, I frequently find myself in need of a quick brush-up on anatomical aspects of medical conditions and diseases. Since I have discovered this excellent and beautifully illustrated anatomical reference, I have found as much use for it as for my PDN and Dorland's. The book is simplified in layout and easy to use. The full-color diagrams and attendent identifications are well rendered and concise. In short, this is a book that is well worth its cost for all the assistance it provides when you can't quite recall exactly how the inferior human Framis Garbazongoid ligament joins to the Ortheoleptroid Whazis muscle, but need to "bone-up" on the subject without wasting any more time than is necessary. I highly recommend you replace that tattered old Gray's with this extremely functional, modern substitute (and you won't sprain a Trapezius hefting it, either...).

I used to keep by feelings all bottled up inside. After reading this book I have decided to become more open. Why, just yesterday I told my wife she looked fat and that the casserole she made me for dinner tasted [bad]. Sure she ran out of the room crying, but it further validated my thought process that expressing feelings are a healthy part of any relationship.

After I get back from the shooting range I plan to tell my boss a thing or two.

Having read Really, I'm Fine! I must say that I found it very funny and very moving. It's a great inspiration to all of us who have obstacles in our lives.

Sir Oliver Lodge is a famous name in scientific circles. His encounter with the death of his son, during World War I, led him to find answers to the question of life after the death experience. Brilliantly written with a great deal of personal feeling, as well as expression from one of the great scientists of our time.

A crisp, clear edition of the famous play about a whoremastering Captain who, because his Shropshire lass stoops to conquer, winds up manning a playhouse.

This is an incredibly exciting book! It is very practical and extremely easy to understand. Miss Tirabassi shows the reader, through her personal experiences, that prayer is for everyone. Steeped in Scripture, this book will show you how you can harness the power of prayer and how you can become a more effective prayer warrior. She explains that through this process your relationship with God will become very intimate and personal. This book will challange you to stretch the parameters of your Christianity and it will challange you to take God at His word. This book has inspired me to take a serious look at my pray life and to make time for something that should be the most important part of each day. A must read for all Christians.

This book has been so helpful. My wife and I have looked long and hard for something as appropriate as this book to help us through a powerful substance abuse problem with our (now) 17 year old son. He is just completing almost 7 months in the best residential treatment facility in our state, has had several hospitalizations both voluntary and involuntary as well as a stretch in a group home because of his wild and dangerous behaviors. During all these months my wife and I have been reading a lot of books, seen the best therapist we could find for ourselves, had intensive counseling sessions with staff at all the facilities he has been committed to including four good psychiatrists. But during all that time this book hits home more specifically to the patterns we have been through and is better even than the book recommended to us by the latest psychiatrist in our son's treatment facility. It reinforces everything we have learned to improve our parenting and we wish we had found this book years ago. I recommend this book for parents of any difficult or troubled kid, and I am buying extra copies to give to both our family therapist and and to our son's staff psychiatrist.

Unlike most self help parenting books, this book provides concrete and paractical examples from real case histories and further offers very easily applied strategies to help empower parents who feel helpless and are in pain. This book gives parents tools that work to improve the apparently impossible situations they find themselves in with their teenagers in trouble. It shares a tremendous pattern of commonality between many troubled adolescents. It shares and guides in a homey and friendly way in a time when parents feel so alone and guilty, humiliated and hurt, blindsided or incompetent. The title of the book doesn't even mention adolescents but that is exactly the age it helps with the most.

The Rembrandt Panel ( in paperback copy) was a pleasure to read. The story is set in Boston, but the feel is London.. the environment is the art world and a slightly complicated murder mystery.. engrossing read.. I focus on finding and reading older mysteries along with good new ones that may be published. The quality of the used paper back was moderately o.k., definitely readable. Delivery was adequate.

Collaboratively compiled and edited by Christine Huemer and Pierluigi Petrobelli, "Remembering Oliver Strunk: Teacher And Scholar" is the twenty-first and strongly recommended title in the Pendragon Press 'Festschrift Series' and focuses upon the life and work of William Oliver Strunk (1901-1980) who served with distinction as a professor of musicology at Princeton University. Comprised of papers presented at a conference at the American Academy in Rome (January 18-19, 2002), as well as including two additional and subsequent contributions, "Remembering Oliver Strunk" is an academically prestigious, thoughtful and thought-provoking, specialized contribution to musicology in general, and Professor Strunk's contributions and work in this academic discipline in particular.

"This impressive work, in the same league as Richard Kluger's Simple Justice, not only emphasizes the decision itself but wisely focuses on the internal working of the High Court and the all-important, often controversial nature of constitutional interpretation. This fine analysis is recommended for all libraries."
-- Library Journal

"A tremendously interesting and highly readable documentary history. This work will serve as a seminal source for those interested in the development, strategies, documents, and inner Court workings that resulted in the landmark Brown decision. At the same time, it will serve for the novice as a comprehensive guide to the judicial process much as Anthony Lewis' Gideon's Trumpet (1964) served for another generation. Whitman's analysis and commentary are first-rate and make this book an important one in the field of civil rights and the judicial process."
-- Choice