Basic Sciences Books

I am a pre-veterinary student. This book is great for having clear acurate images. They are much more helpful than drawings or black and white photos of other text books. Plus, they incorporate radiographs and ultrasound throughout. However, there is no text or information about anatomy as in other books, so don't expect that. This is purely for the pictures!

This was the single best purchase I made as a freshman at CSU vet school. Everyone I know at school was hot and bothered to get this book.

This book was not recommended to me for vet school, but a friend of mine had it and after looking through it I bought one for myself. It has proved to be money well spent as it has helped me through a number of courses including anatomy, radiology, ultrasonography and surgery. I would highly recommend this book to anyone in vet school!

Un ouvrage particulièrement bien travaillé, tant au niveau de la pertinence de l'explication qu'au niveau de la qualité de l'iconographie.

I am a Chef Instructor and this book is been very helpfull. It is very complete from the measurements to the cost control and is easy to understand.

This book clears up the math questions for all levels of preparing foods. From the diference in dry measure to liquid measure to getting the quantities right for the number of guests you are feeding. Bravo!!

I'm a culinary student and found this book very helpful for converting units into metric units. It helped me with my baking class because it showed how to convert measurements properly and with great accuracy. I also used the following to study for the National Servsafe Test which is also on amazon.com:
Study Guide for the National Servsafe Exam: Key Review Questions and Answers with Explanations (ISBN: 0971999678). It showed me the type of questions asked on the exam. In addition, was quite helpful for my sanitation class. Get both books if you're in culinary school.

This is what I've been waiting for. For those of us who aren't too good with numbers and measurements (foodservice math), this is a god-send. It's got great information and it makes the whole subject of "culinary math" reasonable and understandable.

excelent resource for the bedside nurse to care for patients with advanced illness. Great tables and recommendations for multiple symptoms.

Although I have been a icu nurse for the past 20 years, I am new to end of life care. This book is with me for reference. I am becoming more informed each day. I especially like the fact I can research a symptom and then treat it without delay. The lay out of the book is easy to follow with fifteen of the most common symptoms experienced with the dying.

An excellent Primer on the subject with clinical vignettes and straight-forward discussion and therapeutic suggestions.

I recently started as a Hospice Nurse. I have found this book to be a great tool. It is very simple to use and easily understood.

If you couldn't attend CIT in 1962-3 because you weren't a twinkle in your parents' eyes, or could not afford to attend, then the tapes are the next best thing.

From a peadagogical point of view i think the tapes enhance the books but do not stand on their own, so i rate them 3 stars. He is often writing/refering to stuff that is in the books, but you obviously cannot see on a sound track. Given today's technology it would be even better if they produced a CD which contained the written material as well, so you could follow along a bit better.

If you ever wondered what the great man sounded like this is your chance.

The lectures were recorded live so the acoustics/mic'ing could be better. But electronics were not as good in the 60's.

The books themselves are an excellent introduction.

it will be an excellent high school text book expecially for those wh oare preparing for the Ap physics C or those who loves physics and are willing to place themselves in advance standards. i would recommand that book for all high school seniors and first year college students who major or intend to major in science or engineering since most of today's "lectures" are generally mediocre. P.S. u have to reread each chapter for at least 2 times even though u think u understand it

recorded Nov 1962 to April 1963, Cal Tech
Cassette 1 - V2 Ch30 The Internal Geometry of Crystals
Cassette 2 - V2 Ch32 Refractive Index of Dense Materials
Cassette 3 - V2 Ch39 Elastic Materials
Cassette 4 - V2 Ch10 Dielectrics
Cassette 5 - V2 Ch11 Inside Dielectrics
Cassette 6 - V2 Ch34 The Magnetism of Matter
There is something magical about hearing Richard Feynman deliver a lecture on physics that goes beyond the content of the textbooks derived from these same lectures.

I read the entire book back in college. The approach to explaining quantum mechanics was so different from the other books I read back then. The derivation of the rotation matrices, the discussion of symmetry and superconductivity, among others, were simply breathtaking. Definitely a classic.

This book is a lifesaver (maybe literally, when I start my internship!). It made F+E comprehensible for the first time ever. Yeah, I understood bits and pieces before, but my intuitive understanding has grown exponentially since reading this small book. Every fourth year medical student should read this. Dr. Pestana, thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!

This book is a "should" to a "must-read" for anyone wishing to have better than the most basic understanding of fluids, electrolytes, and enteral /parenteral nutrition therapy. Dr. Pestana starts with the basics and continues through to practical bedside therapeutics. I wish there were a newer edition (for typeset, tables, etc.), but the concepts and facts as presented in this brief text will not change appreciably over time.

This book is a lifesaver (maybe literally, when I start my internship!). It made F+E comprehensible for the first time ever. Yeah, I understood bits and pieces before, but my intuitive understanding has grown exponentially since reading this small book. Every fourth year medical student should read this. Dr. Pestana, thank you from the bottom of my heart!!!

Dr Pestana taught my F&E down at St George's USOM in Grenada. He was as brilliant a speaker as could be and this book does his lectures justice. I have easily retained the education he imparted to me through this volume and his lectures. Be a better doctor and read this. Youll be amazed how poorly udnerstood this topic is and how porrly maintained patients on IVF are after you read this. Thanks once again Dr. P.

The 2007 edition of the "free radical bible". I strongly recommend this book to anyone currently in or seeking to enter the field of free radical biology. Are you a grad student writing quals or T32/F32? A post-doc going for PI/K99? A seasoned PI trying for the second R01 related to free radicals? One of the fastest ways for a proposal to get tossed is to propose questionable methods. Simply reviewing Pubmed is insufficient, since many papers also use questionable methods to assay for species such as superoxide or lipid peroxides. With this book one can easily reference the oxidative stress markers of interest and quickly determine a reliable method that is commonly accepted, as well as pinpoint the paper referenced to include in your own reference section.

Excellent book that provides a thorough grounding to the field. Keep the updated editions coming every few years and it will continue to stay at the top.

Free radical biology has become a big research area. This text is definitely a helpful tool for students and professionals alike. Halliwell and Gutteridge are both the "authorities" in free radical research. The book contains the basic concepts of metabolism, metal interactions, free radical formation, and antioxidation. The book then relates these processes (that is, oxidative and nitorsative stresses) to pathological events using various disease paradigms. The text contains good illustrations. It is an excellent reference material for everyone who is entering the field of free radical biology and medicine.

Excellent book that provides a thorough grounding to the field. Keep the updated editions coming every few years and it will continue to stay at the top.

Every speech is so relevent today. As I read them, I realize yet again, what a loss his death was for our Country. His message,then, is even more important now. A book to save and reread. May we see another man of his potential and character to carry out his great vision with the same passion for all the citizens of this country.

Veda Jo Byrne

Most campaign speech collections (including from the candidates whom I liked) are light on substance. Those campaign speech books which actually dare to have substance unfortunately find themselves weighted down as being a product of their own time and the issues which they speak are not necessarily valid any longer.

Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign had so many ongoing presidential campaign themes with 'today' that this book remains relevant. It is one of the few 'historical' books which seriously could end up also being classified in the current events section of a library just because Kennedy's policy prescriptive remain this poignant.

This book (unlike previous texts from other authors) does not attempt to position Kennedy as a 'new democrat'. Rather, Norman Macafee uses Kennedy's own words to argue that he would have been a dam good president. Thinking is not a sign of weakness or indecisiveness, it is a sign of morality and ethics.

When compared against the current White House occupant who is infamous for hating to intellectually rationalize the consequences of his own policies upon others, a politician with such a powerful social conscience is all the more inspiring. This is an excellent book for anybody on the left who needs a pick-me-up and anybody in general needing to read about a presidential candidate who knew where they stood and what they stood for.

Robert Kennedy's humanity, common sense, humility, and passion shine through his own words in this wonderful little book. The editor, Norman Macafee, does an excellent job of culling the best from the final 1968 campaign speeches. Most movingly, Macafee provides crystal clear brief introductory comments which set the context for each of Bobby's speeches and indicate how relevent his evolving thinking on the key issues of war, poverty, racism is to today's dangerous world. The echos in Kennedy's words of our own times are heart-rendingly prescient. The book's conclusion is achingly clear: if Bobby had lived we would not today be tangled in a pre-emptive war without end.

Perhaps I am not as objective as other reviewers of this book in that Robert Kennedy is one of the people I most admire. Having read numerous books about him, I was delighted to find this little book. More than any biography, this book speaks about who Robert Kennedy was.

If Robert Kennedy were alive today, he would not be pleased with the current direction of the government. By looking at the speeches documented in this book, one could see exactly what RFK stood for. In the clever design of this book, the author prefaces each of Kennedy's speeches with a short explanation of how that stance applies today. Speeches topics range from civil rights, environment, poverty, education, war, and employment. Of the quotes that best states what Kennedy is about is "I believe that men would rather work at disagreeable jobs that accept the humiliation of a handout..."

The commentary on Vietnam is particularly biting when applied to Iraq. "Together we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft." I believe what Robert Kennedy said. America is the richest country in the world. There is no reason for people to go to bed hungary and die of starvation in this country. The book only demonstrates how far this country has to go for true equality. A politician would be well served in reading this before hitting the campaign trail.

This book was just what I needed the cost was less than the college bookstore and that was a PLUS. In addition the book was in great condition and arrived in a timely manner.

As an old timer going back to college, I purchased this book for my spring semester course. My daughter is in medical school, and she looked it over. Her pronouncement was that she knows most of these topics in more depth, but that if I master the contents of the book, it will be like "med student lite". That's a definite compliment.

This is a great book. It gives a perfect amount of information, not too much, but not too little. I love the pictures and the diagrams. I have the newest edition, 3rd. It's only about 5 pages more than the 2nd edition, so if you need to save money, you won't be missing out on much if you get the 2nd edition.

This wonderful book gives the reader a comprehensive presentation of the biology of the workings of the human body. The book comes with a CD ROM inside the cover and a free registration number for the tutor center which offers the learner internet and telephone support.

The central theme of this scientist's theory is summarized in the last sentence of the book.

"The stars and galaxies that fill our view as we survey the depths of the universe are really just a froth delineating the massive, dark unseen structures beneath."

He is telling us that almost all of the matter of the universe is hidden from our view. All of the stars we see just account for 10% of the matter in the universe. The other 90% is invisible.

How does he arrive at this conclusion? A certain amount of mass is necessary to provide enough gravitational force to balance the opposite force in the universe, the force that drives stars away from each other. Without this mass, the stars would be hurtling off into space, not forming galaxies.

And the stars we can see only account for 10% of the necessary mass. What is the other 90%?

He answers this too. The other 90% of the matter of the universe is composed of black holes the size of beach balls and the mass of Jupiter.

What leads him to say that? He'll explain it all to you. It has to do with variations in the light of far-away quasars. He believes that this light is varying because it is being seen through the "lens" of a lot of little black holes that happen to exist in the line of sight between us and those quasars.

What is a quasar? What does baryonic mean? What is a black hole? What is inflation? There is a terrific glossary near the back of the book. It might be the best part of the book. You will learn a lot just from taking your time browsing through the glossary.

It is mind-boggling to me that all these millions of little black holes would have formed within the first millionth of a second of the universe's existence.

If there is a creator, she was certainly not hurried by our conception of time. She came from a place that isn't hampered by time constrictions.

He addresses the debate between the Big Bang and the Steady State theories, and he believes that the Big Bang necessarily supports the existence of a creator while the Steady State does not. I don't really see his point there.

If you choose to believe in a creator (and I can't think of a reason why you should back away from that idea, except for being utterly fed up with the nonsense of Noah chasing around the arctic to kidnap polar bears and haul them to the Middle East in a damn hurry) you are pretty well stuck with her (the creator) even with the Steady State theory. Wouldn't she have been the one who made the stars in the first place? That's her job, no?

This book also leaves us with the cheery thought that the world's scientists tend to be stubborn, jealous, impressed by status, rarely objective, and a bunch of annoying crapheads. Thank you for letting us know. It renews my faith in humanity.

British astrophysicist Hawkins presents his theory as to what makes up the missing mass (dark matter). Primordial black holes - small massive objects that are all but invisible to any attempt to perceive them. They are detectable only by their gravitational influence, which Hawkins believes he has found by examining the variability of light from quasars. All quasars apparently have this variability, which to this point has always been accepted as intrinsic to to the quasar.

Hawkins treats us to the theory only after 130 pages of his own views of the evolution of cosmological thought, complete with his take on the feuds, backbiting, and troubled waters of academic squabbling. His insights are interesting and his book a pleasure to read, but I had the troubling impression that I was being treated to someone else's dirty laundry all the while, though that's the way science works I suppose. Among opinions he expresses that ring true is that of the "HST bias," that results which come from HST observations are somehow given automatic priority over those of ground-based observations, a bias which is clearly not always warranted.

The most interesting part of his book, for me, was his detailed descriptions of his own observational programs - using a series of Schmidt plates of a single patch of sky, accumulated over a period of years, to search for faint variable stars. His hopes were to find microlensing events to bolster his theory. He ended up finding lots of previously unknown quasars, and finding new patterns of quasar variability spanning years, not months or weeks.

Hawkins is an unabashed UK promoter. I had to grin at many of his descriptions of the superior astronomy of the UK. He has a lot to brag about though.

Pretty good if your scientist! It isn't really a good source of information about blackholes, but if your looking for a nice scientific debate...this is the book for you! It mostly discusses arguments. Thats about it. See what you think.

Hawkins spends the first nearly two-thirds of the book going over some of the history of cosmology and astronomy and the personalities of some of the great historical figures. He clearly shows that if an idea is not acceptable to the "community" (of astronomers, cosmologists, physicists, etc.), it will most likely be rejected out-of-hand regardless of its potential validity or usefulness. The last third of the book is an explanation of his own theory of the missing matter question. While this book is interesting and historically enlightening, Hawkins spends a good deal of time taking pot shots at the powers -that-be. It is evident after the first couple of chapters that his theory is not taken seriously enough. One cannot help but agree with Hawkins that certain scientists are unpublished and/or unpopular because their ideas conflict with or diametrically oppose the accepted main stream. This close-mindedness and protectionist attitude toward scientific theories needs to be made public and Hawkins expresses himself in a manner that is not off-putting or whiney; he is always professional. If one is looking for a good, easy to read insider's view of historical and current astronomy, cosmology and physics, this is a good book with which to start. I gave it a 9 only because it took him so darned long to get to his theory.

This book is an excellent combination of empirical research, helpful anecdotes, and forward thinking. I wish that I had read this book at the start of my career. Perhaps I would have made the same decisions, which were largely based on emotions and "good faith." But reading this book would have provided a healthy dose of rationality as well as helpful warning signs to watch out for when facing the challenges of balancing career and family life.

It's too bad that this book is out of print and
(to judge by the few reviews) apparently not widely-read.
It provides what are perhaps the first and only
published guidelines for working toward economic and
political parity in marriages where there is a
part-time or full-time stay-at-home mom. Buy this
book first, before you read all the other books
on transitioning fronm workplace to home.

This is a stellar book and will especially resonate with women who have studied economics, law or negotiation. Mahony uses common frameworks (for instance, BATNA - best alternative to no agreement) to analyze the day to day choices parents make. She comes up with some powerful suggestions for change. Don't "marry up" if you want a career, marry someone who will not make as many professional demands on your family life -- maybe someone who makes less money. There's a radical idea for most professional women. Buy this for your feminist MBA friends.

This starts a dialogue on some of the issues facing dual earner couples. Clearly geared toward the 35-45 year old crowd. Younger women may feel alienated by some of the assumptions that she makes. A great place to start looking at some of the issues yourself, whether or not you agree with her final analysis.

For those brought up in a milieu that expected women to do primary parenting, this will be shocking and controversial. She argues that a main issue is whether or not women will let men take care of children. Whether you agree or not with the outcome - she brings up questions that we all should be asking ourselves about the nature of "fairness" and "gender equality vs equity" - as well as who is really holding back women now?