For the Record Books

This book has the most useful, beautiful, and engaging illustrations of anatomy I've seen yet. The skeleton is addressed in a much more dynamic fashion, and the artist did a great job technically. The book is as old as I am, and out of print, but it's worth looking for.

This is being used as a textbook in an advanced ICD-9 class. Trust me the words "for the beginning coder" is not what I expected. It's more of what I expect to see in the coding world.

This is a "must have" for coding with color coding for easy referencing.

The softbound instead of spiral is just as easy to use. Great resource!!

If I could own only one book on horses and horsemanship, this would be it. I recommend every equestrian, from beginner to advanced, have a copy in their equine library as well.

This book, despite its deceivingly small size (210 pages), is a treasure of information about information systems for health care enterprises.

The first telling sign is the author's qualifications: an MD and a PhD ... in computer science. Most books I have looked at take one angle or the other (health care vs. information systems), but none has the depth of understanding of the issues involved, including human aspects, organizational aspects, and technical ones.

Health care enterprises have inherent complexities that make information system implementations complex and fraught with danger. The author understands that, but more importantly, understands how that impacts the development of information systems to support health care organizations (see e.g. chapter 3). Most of the chapters discuss the issues surrounding a particular aspect of information systems (human, organizational, cost, regulatory, legal), and how those issues impact information system development.

The case studies, historical notes, and personal experiences of the authors are both entertaining and enlightening.

The technical discussions are equally profound and detailed. The author's computer research background gives him a unique perspective, not afforded by many other authors. He is able to demystify "hot" technologies with straightforward explanations, and down to earth expectations.

This book is a must read for both health care professionals who wish to embark on a major information system initiative and who would like to understand the technical issues, but I would definitely make it a required reading for information systems analysts who intend to enter the health care arena.

Books on Internet research for lawyers have become a crowded genre. This one stands out in three ways:

a. It concentrates on TECHNIQUES, rather than just providing a giant, soon-to-be outdated list of URLS.

b. It covers factual research, which is probably a better use of the Internet for lawyers than legal research.

c. It is much better written than most books for lawyers, with lively prose focusing on real people, real problems, real Internet research.

CONCLUSION: This book is a bargain for lawyers seeking to learn to use the Internet for research.

Jerry Lawson, Esq. Netlawtools, Inc.

We got the title of this Gospel Music Classic WRONG!

It's: "Say Amen, Somebody" !!!
oh well...
its reputation precedes it, and even though it was long ago now, as measured in product life-cycles, still can raise the hair on your head assuming you haven't been slapped bald-headed by the vicissitudes of life and/or joined a prison gang so you can keep your plastic spork hidden safely under your mattress.
AMEN! There, I said it.

I borrowed the book from a friend, and found the information on self-promotion of music records to be invaluable. The writing is done in a light-hearted, funny manner which makes this book a very easy read, and extremely enjoyable. I can't wait to get my own copy, and I highly recommend this book to anyone in the music industry.

I was extremely fortunate to obtain a copy of Murad al-Qudsi's rare 2002 book (Wilprint, Inc, Lyons, N.Y.) while researching a piece on former Stanford professor Joel Beinin.

Beginning on page 202, the book includes 2 pages of al-Qudsi's comments on Beinin's discredited 1998 book, The Dispersion of Egyptian Jewry, followed by some 26 pages of documents, articles and letters, elucidating Beinin's determination to misrepresent the factual history concerning the Karaite Jewish community of Egypt.

Al-Qudsi, for those who know no Arabic, means "from Jerusalem," indicating the al-Qudsi family's ties, dating back thousands of years, to the capital of Israel and the Jewish people. In fact, contrary to Beinin's contention, as the documents and record in this book show, the Karaite Jewish community are fervent Zionists, as they have been since the Babylonian conquest of Judea in 568 BCE--and the movement's origin, as a movement, following the second conquest of Jerusalem in 70 CE.

Al-Qudsi includes information about Beinin's false representations of Karaite history, and more specifically, the contents of interchanges he had with Beinin following the latter's initial misrepresentations in a 1997 online article, as well as Beinin's written replies, in which he dared to deny facts as experienced and documented by the Karaite Jewish community, which was isolated in ghettos for its duration in Egypt, and then forced to leave Egypt in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, along with other Sephardic Jewish people whose rights, possessions, jobs and wealth were stripped.

A genuine scholar would have, in addition to interviewing the subjects of his work, documented their statements with written Karaite and Egyptian historical publications and records such as are included in this book. But Beinin denied their veracity without even so much as citing any of these valuable sources in his work.

Al-Qudsi here exposes as an American-born, Communist anti-Zionist whose stated political agenda--rather than thorough and genuine research--governs his entire body of work. This material clearly demonstrates why the Karaite community is so deeply offended by Beinin's polemical work, which his Stanford affiliation allowed him (for a time anyway) to falsely parade as scholarship.

In addition to this extremely valuable chapter, the book also contains exact photocopies of many Karaite historical photographs, journals, newspapers, manuscripts and so on, in English, Hebrew and Arabic, and the important truths about this intellectually rich, Jewish religious community.

At the time I received this book, al-Qudsi was about 91 and remained as lucid as the day is long. His book is likewise lucid and scholarly, a source of enlightenment, in short, a real treasure.

--Alyssa A. Lappen