Bradford Books

If you live in Key West or like to spend time there, Lizardlix is an indespensible guide to the city you never saw. It hilariously illustrates the culture and politics of Key West as it was becoming the place it is today. I had a great time reading Lizardlix; I learned all about the local culture, corruption, characters and attitude in the fresh and edgy way one can only get from a cartoonist. Judi Bradford's book is a pleasing read both for those who are intimate with Key West and those who are just getting to know it.

Ok you could say that I could do without some of this information because it is very detailed and would be better off in a library setting. The fact is I may not hold everything I learn so the more I read; the more information I will absorb. Magill's Medical Guide is appropriate for the general reader, and is very educational. As stated by the editor, it has 960 alphabetically arranged articles ranging in length from 500 words (a half page) to 3,500 words. The majority of articles relate to diseases and disorders and include information on causes, symptoms, and treatment. This is a set of 4 big books which are very interesting to read. I suggest this set for the curious reader to any person working in the medical field. I bought mine on Amazon very reasonable and they cost a lot to be mailed to me because of their weight, so I basically got them for free when you think of it. The best medical reference on diseases, disorders, symptoms and treatment. I know you could get smaller books out there on the same contents as this book but they are most likely not as detailed as this book. THIS SET IS GOOD TO HAVE IN YOUR LIBRARY COLLECTION.

This little book gets right to the point. To teach effectively, you need to need to manage your classroom effectively. Whether you are a substitute, a long time teacher or a novice you'll find a host of great ideas in this book. I am currently working on my teaching credential and after paying out several thousand dollars in tuition and book fees, one of my teachers loaned me her copy of this book. I wish I could talk to the people that select textbooks and I'd ask them why this book, instead of the ones I paid big bucks for, wasn't selected as a basic text book. I see Amazon.com has it on their backordered list, so since my instructor insisted I return her copy, I am patiently awaiting my copy.

This book is part of a series that is a `must have' for all orthopaedic and neurological surgeons interested in spinal surgery. It is a highly organized and comprehensive review of the major techniques used in spinal surgery today. There are numerous figures that correspond exceptionally well to the text, which greatly enhances visualization of the techniques.

Very helpful for Vet Tech School, very easy to understand, better than books they give in school. Love It. Highly recommend this book for anyone having trouble in this area!!!

The ever-wonderful Penguin Classics brings together the distinguished father-son scholars Thomas and Nathaniel Philbrick to edit a small anthology of the earliest documents of American history. Son Nathaniel used these documents to create his National Book Award-winning MAYFLOWER; Dad Thomas no doubt taught the works in his English courses at the University of Pittsburgh. The selections provided elegantly elaborate and support the bare bones knowledge most Americans have of our first colonial forebears. Some may find the writing in all its 17th and 18th century archaic funk to be difficult, but to those who persevere, much like those colonials, the works reward generously. Represented here are William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Thomas Morton, Benjamin and Thomas Church, and, with all appropriate obeisances to multi-culturalism, the fascinating account by Mary Rowlandson of her captivity during King Philip's war. This collection not only complements and supports Philbrick's book on the Mayflower, but also the earlier Penguin Classics EARLY AMERICAN WRITING. Both of these would make excellent textbooks, but are also great reading for those of us who still love the challenges posed by a younger, perhaps more complex language.

"Acton, in this novel, battles a very conflicting question," If God is perfect and holy, then how and why does evil even exist? And yet, if he is truly Omnipotent, then how can a revolt against him even begin?,"

Within the pages of "Memories of Kaos", Acton depicts the very battle for creation that took place before the time of man, between Satan and his legions, and God and his few! A great story of doubt, questions, and the reaffirming of one's, Kaos, faith. A great read for any soul!

-Bry

Dr. Joaquin Fuster, in Memory in the Cerebral Cortex : An Empirical Approach to Neural Networks in the Human and Nonhuman Primate, has organized and integrated a wealth of neurobiological and neuropsychological information concerning cortical memory processing and formation. He provides the reader with a clear and succinct understanding of how the cerebral cortex processes information for ultimate storage into memory. The book starts with an overview of cortical specialization of function and then examines developmental issues and memory formation, different models for understanding memory networks, provides a detailed, but concise, description of perceptual and motor memory organization, examines the dynamics of cortical memory retrieval and attention, as well as the phenomenology of memory. In response to this book's thorough and concise presentation, I highly recommend its review by the many professionals who study and work with cortical memory.

Cognitive psychology started to study the self-monitoring and self-control possibilities of the human mind in the 1970's. The topic configurated a promising research area in the 1990's. Metcalfe & Shimamura have selected for this book a representative sample of the field until 1994. The selection includes basic and applied research focused on memory monitoring, problem solving monitoring, metacognition development, and some classic methodological issues. A reedition would probably need to include a chapter on attributions monitoring, and a chapter on the philosophy of mind.
This book gives the best state-of-the-art until 1994. All the researchers on metacognition should read this selection carefully to avoid ill-structured studies.

Editor James C. Bradford does the academic and professional military establishments a great service with the publication of this interesting and insightful collection of historical analysis of military establishments caught or placed between competing cultures. This is a work of serious academic style military history, there is very little of the popular �guns and trumpets� material in the work. It will appeal primarily to those that seek to understand broader questions of military history, not the specifics of particular events.
The central idea binding the work together, albeit loosely at times, is that throughout history it has been soldiers, or warriors, operating on the respective boundaries of their cultures that have increased or decreased the friction between the cultures. Along the same lines, it is soldiers that sometimes are the primary determinants of how much of that friction is translated into violence. In the post-superpower world of the 1990s this is an interesting framework to hang a series of essays on military history upon. It almost guarantees the utility, intended or not, of the book for the professional soldier or defense interested civilian.
Bradford brings together nine historians for this book. Each is a specialist in their respective sub-fields of military history. The book is divided chronologically into �The Premodern era,� and �Western Forces and Indigenous Peoples,� and finally �Twentieth Century Cultural Perceptions.� It is also initially divided along a thematic line, primarily focused upon the idea that if early military forces were in fact polyglot in content, then how could that military maintain any sort of unique cultural character? The essays in the first part, written by Dr. John Guilmartin of Ohio State and Dr. Dennis Showalter of Colorado College, explain how even in pre-modern military forces, the specialization of specific types of troops led to de facto segregation by function if not by organization. The second part of the book stays in the Western Hemisphere. American Western historian Robert M. Utley leads off by examining the nature of the conflict between American Indians and the U.S. Government. John W. Bailey deals with the schism between the intent of the American �civilizing� mission in the West, and the reality of some very uncivilized methods by looking at the different styles of the general officers at work on the Great Plains in the late 19th Century. Finally, in studying South America historian Richard W. Slatta finds that in Argentina there was a dual struggle going on. One was the cultural elite trying to gain control of their own populace, and the was second that larger group of Hispanics seeking to marginalize and eventually exterminate their own Native Americans. In the third section of the book Douglas Porch recounts the methods of the French used in northwest Africa while Carol Petillo looks at the effects of 50 years of Philippine involvement and its� effects upon the professional U.S. military. The closing essay by Robin Higham deals with the topic of intercultural command.
We need look no further than the Balkans, or Somalia, or Chechnya to validate the importance of this book. We are without any doubt, entering a new era where limited war is not only the most probable, but where it is increasing likely to occur between groups with unique cultures. At a minimum, there will be soldiers at the interface between cultures even if they are not necessarily at war. A reflective reader may therefore draw several useful insights from history from this work. Although it is somewhat more expensive than the normal work of popular military history due to the fact that it is an academic work, the cost is made up by the depth of the material. In all essays the writing is clean and free of excessive specialized jargon, and in most cases the footnotes serve double duty by adding depth through supplemental explanation. I would heartily recommend this book to any serious military historian.