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I received the product in the condition exactly as stated in the posting. Delivery arrived in a timely manner. I would definitely purchase from this buyer again.

I had to buy this book for my pharmacology class. I have been very satisfied with it. It has very detailed explanations, leaving few questions unanswered. The format is great.

This is a wonderful resource and an excellent reference text for the practitioner at any level. It is a well written and an exhaustive book.

The AABB publication Clinical Laboratory Medicine contrives a set of multiple choice questions for each topic in Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine. Not only will the questions test your knowledge and problem solving skills, the key provides a comprehensive review of all of the choices given for a specific question. You will find your weak points and be reassured by your strengths when answering the questions. This review is well worth the expense.

Clinical skills exams, such as OSCEs, are a daunting but essential component of medical undergraduate education.

To prepare for these exams, our generation of medical students had to pull together vast amounts of information from maladapted resources. This tedious and time-consuming process can now be avoided, as all this information has been compiled into this one, handy book.

Indeed, this book covers all the clinical skills that are likely to be tested during the clinical years of a medical course. Although it aims to be comprehensive and detailed, its primary purpose is to be easy to read and to the point. Clinical Skills for OSCEs does not attempt to teach its reader medicine or surgery, but rather gathers and organises a large amount of information and presents it in a structured and memorable fashion.

We hope you find Clinical Skills for OSCEs useful both for your revision and for the consolidation of skills learnt at the patient's bedside.

Neel. L Burton

Akbar H. de Medici
Nicholas C. Stacey

Using a clear layout and matter-of-fact style, this book is the most comprehensive guide to basic clinical skills available.

- Takes a systems-based approach
- Includes just about every clinical skill taught in medical school
- Provides listings of the conditions most likely to be covered in your exam and valuable boxes of additional background information
- Written by recently qualified medical students who understand the real needs of students

The ideal clinical skills guide for all exam candidates, from third year to finals. No other book makes preparation for the OSCEs or PLAB so simple.

Many questions are good and useful for preparing the USMLE, not only for step 1 but also for step 2.

As indicated on the blurb, this is probably the among closest you can get to the real questions. The format makes the book easy to carry along. Work through these questions and try to think one step beyond what they're asking for!

Mine is actually the white paperback version, not blue hardback, but excellent condition at a great price. It arrived quickly, in time for the start of my class. I'll use this as a good reference for grammar--not quite as much explanation as I would like, but I have a few other texts I can use with it. It has lots of exercises for practice. My husband learned from the Second Edition, (40 years ago), and he's glad I'll get to try Cochran this semester.

As a Student at UMD I have had the honor of learning German under the guidence of Professor Conant. He is a great teacher and his text is a great learning tool.

Its a great book in a field with very few references ( the trailer ) .
As a hollywood trailer researcher was very useful for me .
Congratulations to Lisa Kernan !

No matter whether you're a film professor, film industry professional, or just plain moviegoer, you'll never look at a trailer (movie preview) the same after reading this book. Written with academic rigor and thoroughness, it explains how previews came to referred to as trailers and analyzes trailers for their intended affect, subtext, and demographic. The book follows the author's passion for examining " the hypothetical spectator that can be read within the trailer texts themselves: an "audience study" who can read through the looking glass of the Hollywood film industry." She submits case studies of some 30 trailers, from Casablanca to Paper Moon to Air Force One, dividing them into three eras. By the end of the book you'll really appreciate these free mini-movie/commercials that we all alternately enjoy and hate yet use to decide whether to see a movie or not.

My compliments to this book. It's better organized than most dictionaries and encyclopedias. It's full of copious and well-chosen pictures (which admittedly display the author's nudist sensibilities!) It embraces a large number of films from silly comedies to angst-filled dramas. What they all have in common is that they deal with young people confronting sexual awakening (For a Lost Soldier) or awareness of mortality (A Separate Peace), in short, some catalytic, transformative event of their adolescence.

Everything you could want to know about these movies is in this book somewhere. Everyone involved in their making is mentioned, as are any awards the film earned and a clear synopsis of its plot. Lort's gay nudist perspective insures that nothing is censored, and pictures containing rape, cross-dressing, prostitution, and intergenerational eroticism are dealt with openly.

When Lort gives 5-star reviews to some of my favorite coming-of-age films, like "Stand by Me," "Second Best," or "Rebel Without a Cause," I really enjoy the read. I hope and pray that Lort updates this valuable book (written in 1997) since some important pictures have come along since then like "L.I.E.," "Y Tu Mama Tambien," and "Hearts in Atlantis."

There are over 500 entires in this A to Z video guide. Each contains plot, five-star movie ratings, cast, credits and ratings for sexuality. Also there are multiple indexes and a hard-to-find video locator. Many of our finest actors got their start in coming-of-age films. Tom Cruise, James Dean, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Dillon, Edward Furlong, Ethan Hawke, Chris O'Donnell, River Phoenix, Jason Priestly, Keanu Reeves, Brad Renfro, Mark Wahlberg, Scott Wolf and Elijah Wood are just a few. What is a coming-of-age film? In simplest terms, a coming-of-age story is one in which a child or a teenager reaches a critical turning point or event that results in a loss of childhood innocence. Not surprisingly, most often this turning point revolves around adolescent sexuality. Recommended!

"Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007" by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (Editors) delivers a high-quality anthology about the contemporary environmental crisis. The seventeen articles are written by leading thinkers associated with the socialist movement. Collectively, the articles make it clear that capitalism's perpetual growth imperative cannot help but push the world towards environmental catastrophe; yet the authors also guide us towards envisioning real environmental and social justice in which the sustainable production of goods and services for the benefit of all people may be attained.

A key line of criticism shared by several authors pertains to inequality and environmental destruction. Brenda Longfellow discusses how global warming is driven by a fossil-fuel based economy controlled by large corporations but whose costs are most immediately felt by the poor. In a similar vein, Achim Bunnengraber argues that the Kyoto Protocol has merely shifted polluter responsibility around and can only succeed in delaying a real solution to the problem of CO2 emissions. Neil Smith describes how environmental legislation is often designed to allow short-sighted decision making to persist as nature is transformed into a tradable commodity. Henry Bernstein and Philip Woodhouse' article on Africa shows how the powerful continue to exploit the continent for profit, resulting in the exhaustion of land resources and increasing deprivation and exclusion for the poor.

A number of thoughtful articles link economic theory with the environment. Joan Martinez-Alier relates Marx's theories pertaining to uneven development with the routine practice of wealth extraction from peripheral nations for the benefit of capitalist power centers. Daniel Buck punctures the idea that environmental catastrophe might somehow lead to systemic breakdown, arguing that capitalism is principally a means of social organization that tends to thrive on crisis. However, Costas Panayitakis theorizes that consumerism represents a particularly harmful form of capitalism that cannot be sustained indefinitely.

The subject of greenwashing is addressed by several contributors. Jamie Peck shows how the Heritage Foundation played a major role in framing media coverage of the New Orleans reconstruction controversy and help win public approval for the Bush administration's neoliberal policies. Heather Rogers believes that public relations campaigns have succeeded in obscuring corporate responsibility and inscribing an erroneous belief that individuals are the principle source of the pollution problem.

Political struggle is discussed in Barbara Harriss-White and Elinor Harriss' article on the nuclear energy industry's successful attempts at minimizing renewable energy policy in the U.K. Frieder Otto Wolf reflects on the difficulty that the German Green Party has had in reconciling theory with practical politics. Philip McMichael discusses how food policies allow agribusiness to claim control over genetics and other resources while relegating most farmers to an increasingly marginalized existence; and Erik Swyngedouw considers the increasing commodification of water versus the public good of providing access to all citizens.

Solutions are proposed in many articles. For example, Dale Wen and Minqi Li contend that China must restructure itself in a manner that secures environmental justice for the Chinese people in order to avoid worsening social and environmental conditions. Elmar Altvater argues that alternative fuels can help enable socialism by diminishing the power of those who currently control limited energy resources. Michael Lowy proposes a shift to qualitative forms of production could better serve the social good while decreasing environmental harm. And in the powerful concluding essay, Gregory Albo suggests that an international socialist vision is a necessary corollary to achieving democratic success at the local level.

I highly recommend this exceptional book to everyone.

Edited by Leo Panitch & Colin Leys, Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007 is an anthology of essays by learned authors discussing the dramatic ecological challenges to capitalism today, and whether socialist thought has progressed sufficiently to address capitalism's weakness in this regard. Writings include "China: Hyper-Development and Environmental Crisis", "Neoliberal Hurricane: Who Framed New Orleans?", "Africa: Eco-Populist Utopias and (Micro-) Capitalist Realities", and much more. It should be noted that "Coming to Terms with Nature" is not a wholesale attack upon capitalism, nor a blind sermon on the mount extolling the virtues of socialism; the purpose here is to explore the failings of each system in addressing serious social and environmental problems, and thereby pave the way for more effective solutions. From smokescreen attacks against "litterbugs" that fail to question the overproduction and overpackaging that contributes to litter and landfills, to so-called "green capitalism" that too often fails to meet the mark of being truly ecologically sustainable, to the significance of the impasse concerning the Kyoto protocol, Coming to Terms is a solid keenly whetted reader, offering eye-opening perspectives to ecological issues long in the making.

It's the best Commander Toad book! I like them all. They all are great. The monster in this one was cool.

Commander Toad is a delight. He's "bold and bright", though not quite as bright as he thinks. His crew (an amalgam of loose takes on Star Wars and Star Trek characters) puts up with his prideful ways, because he is, after all, a good leader. Together with his mixed-gender crew he gets into and out of a wonderful series of scrapes. This book is the first in the series.

Jane Yolen writes for kids. For example, when Commander and crew are threatened by a sea monster who makes it clear that they're about to be lunch, I asked my 4-year old what he thought would happen.

"Shoot him with a ray gun," he answered.

"I don't know," I said. "I think that they'll find out that the monster's just lonely, and they'll make friends."

Turn the page, and BAM! Lt. Lily, Toad's female weapons master, is blasting away (to no effect). Thanks, Jane. Only you could make a story about a bunch of space-explorer frogs be true-to-life.

Jane Yolen also writes for the adults who read books to their kids. There's nearly a pun a page, and the Commander's ludicrous solutions to problems have a germ of genius unrestrained by the laws of physics that will have you shaking your head over his cleverness.

Buy this book, or regret the lost opportunity.

It's a short and enjoyable read. The book should stay on the near shelf, available for review.

This book is an excellent compilation of (all?)the research on what actually works in community building. It is an absolute "must-read" for anyone or any organization who/which is interested in community building. Their organized listing of key elements which must be considered is very helpful and good checklists to the practitioner to determine if all bases are covered.