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This book is AWESOME!!! I've had it for over a week now and haven't put it down. If you are a doll collector, this is definitely better than the other book "Girls Toys of the 50's and 60's" This book is primarilly all dolls, not kitchen sets, costumes, games, etc.! Although it is in black and white, the pictures are very clear and definitely help in identifying original dolls, outfits, and accessories. I'm going to also buy "Girls Toys of the 70's and 80's", but I wish they also had a DOLL ONLY book for that time period. Anyway, if you collect dolls from the 50's and 60's, this book is just GREAT!

Having gotten your attention, I think this is a fun book BUT the buyer should be aware that it does not represent the complete pages of dolls in each year of the Sears catalogs. If you are doing research on vintage dolls, this book will not serve you well AT ALL. It lists only a few of the dolls pages from the catalog, and it isn't clear what method the author's used to decide which to include and which to exclude. On the other hand if you just want a book for a bit of nostalgia, it is indeed a fun look at dolls from yesteryear.

Just as the previous commnetator stated, this book does not contain all the SEARS Wishbook catalog photo from the 1950's-60's.

However, since I only purchased this VOLUME ONE, it could be that VOLUME TWO had more Sears catalog photos, ---those not shown in this Volume ONE.

I still enjoyed this book though, for it's historical value. As also stated by the previous commentator, this book is not really a DOLL & TEDDY BEAR Value book, but rather, it is more a book that compiles some of the 1000's of Sears catalog photos from their CHRISTMAS Catalog.

The author uses a lot of wordy language to make simple concepts complicated. Also I agree with another review: there is a lot of macroeconomics. I think Dr. Shapiro needs to understand how his readers learn, not how he can enjoy his writing.

We adopted this book during the first semester of 1999 with excellent results. Our students were delighted with the practical approach, and the breadth of its contents. Recently our country has been through a monetary turmoil, and the book served very much to explain the policies that our local central bank authorities have been pursuing.

This textbook may not be a good choice for undergraduate students or for someone who does not have an intermediate or higher knowledge of finance. Wording in the chapters and in the end of chapter problems can be confusing. Statements are made and then not backed up with supporting information. The book spends a large amount of time on a macroeconomic view.

I found this story a little repetative. The two main characters have an old rivalry that has gone on most of their lives. They each run family owned business and have always tried to out do each other, but they are also attached to each other. Greg's grandfather brings them together to empty his Boston home, so he can sell it. They find the Montclair Emerald Necklace while they are in the house and it seems to have a magic power to it. Their is another book, "Bedazzled", that has three stories in it. There is a story about a bracelet, a ring and a pair of earrings, all with the same power, all Montclair Emerald Jewelry.

This book isn't really worth reading. It passes the time, but it isn't really all that entertaining and it's very easy to put down. The characters have very unrealistic conversations and seem pretty immature to me (One scene has them playing a strip Boggle/combination truth or dare game). To top it off, there is a "magical" necklace involved that the characters all-to-readily accept as being the force that brings them together. If you're looking for an interesting read, pass on this one.

The book underscores the love of you life my be some one under your nose. Had equally strong characters in comptempory times. I enjoyed the book. AN easy fun read

This is an excellent book for trying to understand the problems between Ireland and England. Also the problems between fellow Irishmen: Prostestants and Catholics.

On the face of it, Marcus Tanner's history of Ireland's religious conflicts looks impressive. Although Tanner is an English journalist, his book is published by a leading university press, it possesses 39 pages of notes to 431 of text, and its bibliography contains many primary sources as well as considerable research among eccelesiatical journals and centuries old books. Tanner's thesis, according to the cover is that "the roots of the Irish conflict are profoundly and inescapably religious," the consequences of England's failed attempt to turn Ireland into a Protestant country.

A closer look reveals some problems. Tanner has written a history of Ireland while ignoring most of the leading historians of the subject. Marianne Elliot goes unmentioned, as does everyone's favorite trio of anti-nationalist Marxists, Paul Bew, Henry Patterson and Peter Gibbon. Nicholas Canny gets only a couple of articles, as does Kevin Whelan. One of the leading concepts in Irish ecclesiastical history, "the denominational revolution" goes completely unnoticed, and so does Emmett Larkin. John Whyte's nuanced history of church-state relations in independent Ireland is nowhere to be found. Donal Kerr's recent book on the Catholic Church and the famine is ignored. The economic historiography of Ireland is also passed over, no mention is made whatsoever of Vaughan, Clark, Moody, O'Grada or Kinealy.

But then that is not surprising, since the economic history of Ireland is also passed over. There is no coherent account of the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland or its consequences, outside of its effects on the Catholic church. The Irish potato famine gets only five pages, and mass emigration gets even less, much less than the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1868. In fact the "religious" origins of the struggles is not really coherently presented. In the first few chapters the "Old English" and the Celtic inhabitants are shown to be quite capable of quarrelling despite their common Catholicism. The Catholic hierarchy shows little sympathy to the 1798 rebellion or to Fenianism, and Tanner spends the relatively few pages on the current "Troubles" showing the Protestants and Catholics trying to encourage an ecumenical peace. (The emphasis is on the good will of the Protestant denominations; the role of the Unionist parties, by contrast, isn't even mentioned. On the other hand Tanner views Ireland's political parties as the Catholic Church's willing toadies.)

What we have then is a journalistic effort more eccentric than scholarly. Much of it consists of journalistic anecdotes, such as the appalling state of Irish butter in the 1500s, or illegitimacy among Irish priests, or Machiavellian Anglican bishops. As a history of Irish religion it is curiously old-fashioned. Compared to the sophisticated historiography of the Reformation of such scholars as Christopher Haigh, Ronald Hutton, Gerald Strauss, Eamon Duffy and David Parker, it seems quaint and shallow. Rather than the sophisticated research about what people actually thought, the depth of their Christian convictions, the chimera of popular "paganism", the social role played by Christian institutions and other matters what we get is a history that looks at the bishops and the preachers and assumes the diffusion of their efforts. The last few chapters are particulary unsatisfactory. Gerrymandering in Derry corporation gets only a paragraph, discrimination and the Special Powers Act in Northern Ireland gets even less, but we get several pages on the rather marginal topic of Catholic anti-semitism. The final two chapters exude a shallow complacent attitude of "modernization" sweeping away the dark shadows of Catholicism's influence.

The idea that the Irish conflict is a religious one seems like common sense. Yet there are several major problems with it. For a start if England had not broke with the Church over Henry VIII's divorce, would the subsequent conquest of Ireland have been any nicer? There are other problems. Are the members of Sinn Fein or the Democratic Unionist Party more religious than their compatriots? Not really. Only one Catholic priest has died in the Troubles, one accidentally shot by the English army. Only one Protestant minister has been killed, and he was a leading Unionist politician. Sinn Fein has actually been more liberal on abortion than the Social Democratic and Labor Party. Northern Ireland's urban areas are both more violent and less religious than the rest of the province. In Richard Rose's loyalty survey only 8% of Protestants volunteered that they disliked the Irish Republic because of interference by the Catholic Church. It is not clear that denominational education are encouraging sectarian struggle (they don't in Canada). Tanner does not really discuss any of these matters. Ultimately, this is a book which sheds less light on Ireland than on the limits of journalism.

This history of Irish religion may have trouble finding an audience. Its rather exclusive focus on Irish ecclesiastical history in the past 500 years will not satisfy readers expecting a more general account of Cromwell, King Billy of Orange, the IRA and the rest of the Troubles. Moreover, it apparently is not scholarly enough to placate more learned specialists (see other review, below).

As an intermediate pupil of Irish history, however, I found this an enjoyable read. Tanner, a journalist rather than a professional historian, synopsizes some fairly dense material and keeps it lively. He is a master of the devastating thumbnail sketch. For example, the failure of the reformation in Ireland can be partly attributed to the low quality of the churchmen responsible for its implementation, such as the disagreeable, mediocre, corpulent English Archbishop of Dublin, Browne, and the slippery Irish Bishop of Cashel, Miler Magrath, who became rich from embezzlement and confiscation, and was "little better than a gangster who galloped about his diocese in armour, preceded by outriders and a man carrying a skull on a tall pole."

Writing about the evangelizing Protestants during the Famine who were accused of "souperism," or buying converts with food, Tanner cites one obtuse clergyman who defended himself by boasting that not one penny of his funds had been wasted on famine relief. He became exalted preaching to one group of "living skeletons" in Connemara, who in all probability would soon become first-hand witnesses to the glory of God that he described (Tanner puts this better, but I don't have the book in front of me).

The Catholic Church as well comes in for some well-deserved roasting, particularly those monumentally arrogant princes of the church who dominated the political life of the Republic until toppled by the sex scandals of the 1990s, exemplified by Archbishop Croke, an "oriental pasha" who made and unmade Parnell and other politicians.

Some of Tanner's choices are indeed eccentric (why does the chapter on the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland in 1869 precede the chapter on Daniel O'Connell and his agitating priests of the 1820s?), and a few errors creep in (the patrician, peripatetic William O'Connell at one point is assigned to New York, when of course "Gangplank Bill" was Cardinal of Boston).

As well, Tanner doesn't give enough credit to the churchmen, North and South, who played a crucial role in finally ending the Troubles (see last year's Secret History of the IRA), ironically when both Catholicism and Protestantism are dwindling in importance in a secular modern Ireland. (Archbishop Croke and de Valera would fulminate to see the girls of Dublin today in their miniskirts and platform shoes tottering about the discos of Temple Bar.)

I'm a new Rn (13 months) working on the L&D unit at a large teaching hospital in Orlando, FL and I've been researching maternity nursing software for a new smartphone/PDA that I plan to purchase. The search lead me to the Skyscape website and this Johns Hopkins manual. Skyscape allows you to download a trial form of the software onto your pc so that you can view the product before buying. This is the 5th item that i've viewed today alone and I'm so incredibly HOOKED on the manual that I plan to buy it from Amazon immediately and purchase the pda software (though I am a little apprehensive about the software now based on reading the second reviewers comments on here). Anyways, I will be precepting a graduate nurse in a couple of weeks and I will totally recommend that she purchase this manual as well because it provides an AWESOME, EASY TO READ, TO THE POINT, description, instruction and medication treatment (dosage, side effects & contraindications) for EVERYTHING that I've encountered thus far on L&D - and I've only read the section on "Normal Labor and Delivery, Operative Delivery, and Malpresentations". I wish I had read this when I first started working on the floor because it would've provided a GREAT transition into this field of nursing from nursing school. The information provided is SHORT, SPECIFIC and VERY CLEARLY WRITTEN. Even though the manual is written for med students, it totally provides a great learning tool for nurses as well because it will help me with anticipating the need of the physician when providing intrapartum care on the labor floor, which in turn increases provision of effective patient care. A big THANK YOU to the authors ! :o))

This is a compact book following the same formula for the other manuals from this collection (Ex Washington manual). It is not a treatise and it is not intended to be so, quite the contrary. It is a pocket book, easy to carry and to manipulate. It cover all the topics you might need for your day to day life in the hospital in a short , but not too short, and up to date format. I like the fact that you can read any chapter in less than 30 minutes. I recommend this book for medical students in need of a compact book to carry during the GOB internship or for revising topics before an exam.

Do NOT buy the PDA version of this classic manual. The manufacturer shipped me a mismarked (wrong Operating System) shrink-wrap package with a warning that opening it would disallow a refund. The correct product had been mailed despite the mislabeling, but the convoluted registration process was time-consuming and produced an INVALID activation code. The purported SmartPatch fix also failed. Now, 6 days after paying for the product, it still doesn't work and the short East-coast technical support hours mean that MAYBE tomorrow, the 7th day after purchase, I MIGHT be able to use this product. Had this manufacturer been less paranoid about piracy, using a more standard serial # activation (like OTHER manufacturers), I'd be a happy customer recommending their product.

great for studying......better than kaplan.......
many explanation. very step by step and thorough

I bought this after I threw out my Kaplan's comprehensive guide. This one was much better. The explanations and advice were helpful and easily understood. It deserves 4 stars. I put 2 stars by mistake

I love the layout and organization of the book. The look and feel is similar to that of the real LSAT. The questions are well crafted and strategies are pretty helpful though some questions are easier than those on the LSAT.

This revised edition of the Fire Service and the Law has resulted from the major changes that have occured during the last decade which have affected the legal position of all members of the fire service . This book is designed not merely to give instruction in the law , but to provide understanding of how the fire service operates within the bounds of our nation's laws. Among the basic topics covered are characteristics and behavior of fire , fire hazards of materials and buildings , fire protection equipment and systems, codes and standards for fire protection and prevention, and fire fighting forces and how they operate.

I have ENDURED the last two weeks reading this book. It was required reading for me because it was listed on my FD's source list for our upcoming promotional exams. I had to read each chapter a MINIMUM of three times before attempting the next one.

My primary complaint is the wording of the text. It was not written for firefighters. It reads as if one was attempting to impress a review board with "scholarly" words and abstract ideas. If you thrive in academia, then this is the book for you. If you are looking to gain insight to real world, firefighter-motivated management - skip this book. It's content reads "sluggishly" and "rambles on" like Brannigan's "Building Contruction for the Fire Service". An abridged version of this textbook would be MAYBE 100 pages.

My secondary complaint is that it appears to be written for either volunteer or small combination fire departments - not for large career organizations.

Being a management major in college and MBA candidate, I was initially excited about studying a fire service oriented management book. After reading it, my study group of firefighters and I were disppointed.

This newly-revised standard text for fire service management is a must-read selection for the serious fire service manager (or those who aspire to such positions). In this latest edition, my co-author and I have revised, updated, and reoriented the chapters on every aspect of fire service management, leadership, administration, and operations.

We have added case studies to emphasize the facts which are being taught in each chapter.

A new chapter has been added on the latest service delivery developments. EMS, Hazardous Materials, and specialzied rescue topics, among others, are now covered.

We have added an extensive list of related management reading recommendations to assist those who will teach their fire service management courses from our text.

It is our hope that you will enjoy our efforts at improving the ways in which fire service people will look at managing fire and related emergency service organizations.

I got this CD-ROM because it had the SF medical manual in it but it also includes every Field Manual that a Medical specialist would ever need, and certainly NOT need. But the price was right.

Many of the books are old and out of date editions. some of the info is useful but a more current set of manuals would have been nice. I will absorb what is useful and forget the rest.

This is the most excellent resource I have found for "medic reference." Normally I prefer to have the actual books, but the great part about the CD is that I have all the books all the time (all the time that I have my laptop). Well worth the money.

another paddington bear book that charms and delights and is read over and over without ever growing stale. the best aspect for parents is that it doesn't tell lies. the santa is clearly a store temp. and the winter wonderland is a tired show of shoddy plastic. and paddington's disappointment is overcome when those things are refurbished because his imagination does the rest. again: bond teaches without preaching, a difficult thing to do and which he does well!

I am extremely disappointed that Amazon is becoming more and more of a problem store for me. I've noticed that it is taking them well over a week and sometimes 2 weeks to ship most items. I ordered this book in late Jan, Amazon delayed the shipment 3 times, first to late Feb, 2nd time to mid March and on the third time it was going to be late April. I finally became fed up, cancelled it and just bought it from another store. The book is wonderful, Amazon is plain awful. Beware!

Paddington is on another adventure again. This story is about Paddington's trip to Barkridges to see the Christmas displays and Santa Claus, but the trip is not what he expects. He tries to help Barkridges and fix the faulty displays, but causes more commotion than help. However, Paddington did help when the story appeared in the newspaper, bringing the crowds and a few improvements to the store. And Paddington received a special present from Santa. This beautifully illustrated book has vibrant, new drawings giving Paddington a fresh new look. This books will become a favorite of any Paddington Fan.

...this book does...provide a disturbing look inside the State Department and other areas of the US government vis a vis Romania.
Romania was given a political "free ride" for many years by the US. This was because of cheap and shallow political gestures against the Soviet Union made by Romania, such as sending athletes to the Olympics during the Soviet boycott. Meanwhile, the regime did Moscow's bidding where it really counted and also repressed the Romanian people to devistating extremes.
This book provides useful insight into many of the outrageous actions by the Romanian government and US refusal to do anything meaningful about it.

David Funderburk--the former history professor at the hardline Baptist Campbell University, one-term US Representative from rural North Carolina, protege of Sen. Jesse Helms and former Ambassador to Romania in the early '80s--is in the mold of those Red-baiters of the early '50s. He denouces the State Department as communist sympathizers and throughout the book belies his extreme right-wing Christian fundamentalist ideology. He is certainly correct that the Ceausescu regime was horrid, but that was not due to the State Department. His solution, end detente with all communists, has been tried time and again with failure. Funderburk obviously harbors a deep insecurity about his less than stellar academic career and that he was ostracized by everyone in the foreign policy making apparatus from George Schultz on down. If any book deserves less than a star, this is it.

The author recounts the process by which he was nominated & confirmed to be US ambassador to Communist Romania. Interesting insight into the inside workings of the State Department, as well as life in Ceausescu's Romania. An important historical text.