Churchill Books

This book has been invaluable to me during my residency. I strongly recommend it. It is an easy read- not intended to be a comprehensive textbook. The only criticism I have is that some important diseases get glossed over for other less important ones. Otherwise, great.

the perfect companion for treating lower and upper extremity infection, in fact the best tool for just plane understanding how to treat infections of the skin and bones.

Great book, but in need of a new edition

Absolutely outstanding book..and I am a Neurologist..

As a Physical Therapist specializing in Orthopaedics, I have treated headaches for 11 years. Raskin has created the most thorough yet understandable resource for diagnosis I've seen.He describes what to look for during evaluation in order to differenciate between types of headaches. He makes the subject understandable without watering down the complexity of the problem.

This book was "prescribed" for me by my current neurologist during my first appointment. It's the hardest book I ever read all the way through. (My Ph.D. is in Computer Science.) I had a dictionary at my side the whole time. HOWEVER, I learned a whole lot more than I knew from 20 years of treatment for migraines: Varieties and mechanisms of headaches; Superstitions I'd picked up that weren't true; An immense variety of treatments, each of which is successful for some patients. Most treatments are not known to most doctors. E.g., Ergonovine Maleate, with which I have had good success, although only one pharmacy in my area will compound it. This is the book for serious sufferers of headache who are willing to learn more than their doctor probably knows, and then collaborate on their own treatment. Too bad it's out of print. WHERE'S THAT THIRD EDITION???

This is a fantastic find for any history buffs who want to hear Mr. Churchill's words in the original format.

The editor's introductions to the speeches are sometimes inaccurate, but Churchill is a wonder to listen to. Highly recommended by anyone with an appreciation for history or literature.

Those 16 of his finest speaches made during the darkest days of WWII demonstrated courage and inner strength of a great leader in modern world. I and my 11 year old have enjoyed it very much.

This is a wonderful book. Every ophthalmologist should have this book on their shelf. Experts from the field describe the most important procedures in oculoplastics. The descriptions of the surgeries are clear, and the illustrations are very helpful in understanding the nuances of surgical technique. Having this book is almost as good as having the master, Dr. Levine, beside you guiding you through surgery.

I utilized this book during my oculoplastics rotation and it proved to be an excellent resource. It is not an epitome - but rather focuses on the basis of the procedure to be performed, step-by-step techniques, caveats to avoid, and postoperative care. The advantage is that you can quickly learn about and/or review a procedure between surgeries; it made me shine. My attending even look it over and stated that it is more then sufficient for learning procedures. The techniques in the book were 99.99% identical to his. I rated it as only 4 stars as it could improve on illustrations.

very good book for the price, though pictures are in black and white. not for beginners

When I was undertaking Pediatrics rotation during my junior clerkship, I noticed that our Faculty staff was using this handbook, so I was wondering (what is so special about it?) Then I decided to buy it in a Book Exhibition, and discovered the reason later!

This handbook stresses on the development of communication, observational and instincual skills. The approach is essentially clinical i.e. confined largely to symptoms and signs.

The used language is very simple, and the handbook uses numerous graphs, funny pictures, and boxes containing special pediatric terminology with which the student may experience difficulty.

The first few chapters use a child-centered clinical approach towards problem solving in pediatrics.

There are 11 chapters: Introduction, History taking, Approaching children, Examination at different ages, Systems examination, A measure of progress, Hydration and nutrition, Development assessment, Examining excreta, Using your senses, Pediatric tips and topics.

The last chapter (Pediatric tips and topics) is very attractive and contains very useful information. It covers (Normal findings, Tools of the trades, Tricks of the trade, Biological warning signs, Clinical curios, Rules of thumb, Maternal myths, Acrimonious acronyms, A-Z eponyms, Alarm signals, Memorable mnemonics, and others ...)

This handbook comes in 251 pages, and the last edition was the 3rd (1998).

I strongly advise you to buy and read it when you have a free time in the ward.

Gill and O'Brien's book is a useful little complement to any larger paediatric textbook. It makes the salient point which medical students always forget - it's no use knowing the genetics of ultra-rare syndromes when you don't know the basics of paediatrics, and the most important way to learn is examine lots and lots of children.

Gill and O'Brien's book is a useful little complement to any larger paediatric textbook. It makes the salient point which medical students always forget - it's no use knowing the genetics of ultra-rare syndromes when you don't know the basics of paediatrics, and the most important way to learn is examine lots and lots of children.

fast shipping, reasonable price, product shipped as described. However, still waiting for refund of the same item ordered double by one click mistake.
Kim Syho

A great book for young residents. Very good for getting your basic orthopaedic knowlegde. The book is based upon easy and comprehensive drawings. The drawings make it very easy to read and gives a quick understandment of general treatment guidelines.

The books downsides are some of old remnants in the femur-fracture-treatments and that it's not as indepth as one needs at a later stage. Many of the internal fixation techniques described can be a little too indepth without any real theoretical knowledge. At our hospital we usually use different procedures from the ones described in the book making the descriptions a little useless since McRae doesn't pinpoint which principles are important in each procedure and how to avoid common errors.

This excellent textbook systematically deals with the mechanisms of injury, symptoms, signs, treatment and complications of all common Orthopaedic injuries. In addition to X-rays,the author has also illustrated his book with superb line drawings. It has saved me many needless calls to Orthopaedic Registrars - I thoroughly recommend it.

Drawing on her Chicago childhood, Sauci Churchill has created a very moving book. Writing with great economy of style, she tells us a lot about her parents with one line:

"My father and mother were linked like the teeth of a zipper,"

and the bittersweet:

"He owned so little there was nothing left
but the Northern Lights,
the march of lemmings to the sea,
the single day a Mayfly lives on land."

and

"There was a peach glow
the night of the lunar eclipse
the night my father was made to dust."

The memories Churchill shares with us are sometimes happy, but often sad, always thought-provoking, and lovingly crafted.

This is a book to be read and reread.

I grew up in the city, and this poetry chapbook brings back so many memories. Sauci Churchill has skillfully created a masterpiece, adding layer upon layer of details, emotional and evocative situations. Each poem has a story to tell, and you want to savor them, one by one.

Having experienced an urban childhood myself, though in a city much smaller than Chicago, I recognize in Sauci Churchill's sharp and skillful poems the days when food (and garbage) smelled stronger, streetcars were noisier, and grown-ups (I thought) knew what they were doing. If James T. Farrell and Saul Bellow had been poets, maybe they would have written verse like "Running Down Division Street." I commend her short, evocative book.

I really appreciate this book. It is a very helpful study guide and it has a lot of interesting information on it. I can recommend it very much.

Last year, I graduated from International School of Shiatsu in Doylestown, Pa. Prior to this school, I attended another Shiatsu school as well. Through both schools, this book was used as the main reference for me. I highly recommend this to anyone studying this wonderful art. It has all the detailed meridians, both standard and "Zen" and extensive info on the 5 elements. Buy it....you'll love it!!!

We use this for our Shiatsu textbook at The American Institute of Massage Therapy (...). It is easy to read and understand. I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn the fundamentals of Shiatsu.
Aloha,
Elizabeth

Since Predator Came: Notes From The Struggle For American Indian Liberation is an anthology of fierce, stringent, and singularly compelling essays about Native American history and political science, particularly focusing upon the struggle for survival and identity since Columbus' arrival heralded an age of colonization and genocidal extermination. One essay is a scathing critique of Columbus' elevated position in history despite records of his bloodthirsty atrocities against the indigenous people he met, which skillfully compares Columbus to genocidal Nazi engineers due to his ruthlessness, and to the fictitious sociopath Hannibal Lecter with regard to how Columbus' achievements are lauded in spite of his cruelties. Another is the story of the American Indian diaspora. Still another offers an "indigenist perspective" on Marxist theory and practice. All essays are fired with literate passion for justice and human rights, and make no apologies for their scathing attacks upon crimes and inequalities. Highly recommended.

When I read "Since Predator Came" by Ward Churchill, I was not surprised by the subject matter of the series of articles by Ward Churchill which appeared in academic journals from the 1980s to the mid 1990s. What I was surprised by was how much I enjoyed the book. Churchill pushes for an "Indigenist" worldview, in which all people have a right to self determination and land stolen illegally by conquerors, no matter where they are. In such a world, no state could arise and the world would be "balkanized" into thousands of homelands, ruled by local councils, similar to many anarchist viewpoints. His call for tactics of "US Off the Planet" instead of "US out of Iraq", by making the United States abide by its treaty obligations that it made to American Indians centuries ago seem a little far-fetched, but Churchill admits it could be just one of many tactics. Churchill, for any who doesn't know, is a long time Indian activist, writer, and professor at Colorado State University, and recently made national headlines by comparing the people who died in the 9-11 attacks to "little Eichmans" who were not entirely innocent.

Churchill's argument is pretty convincing. He talks about Natives using legal tactics of forcing the government to abide by its broken treaties to recover land, specifically citing the Iroquois and the Ogalwa Sioux. He also has a fascinating chapter where he makes the argument that the human species came from the Americas, not Africa, and people migrated from the Bering Strait into Asia and across Greenland into Europe hundreds of thousands of years ago. He also cites non-North American struggles who fought both Communists and Capitalists, like the h'Mong of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and the Miskito Indians in Nicaragua (who at first supported the Sandinista revolution but then turned against it when the Sandinistas betrayed their word about giving Indigenous peoples self determination, and also fought the Contra counter-revolutionaries.)

What is lacking from the book is how non-Indigenous peoples can support the struggles of Indigenous, especially in America. However, that isn't really what the book is about, so I don't blame him for leaving that out. He does touch briefly by stating that, in North America at least, Indians do not see race quite the same way, not so much as blood. In other words, whites and blacks, like they did in the case of the Seminoles in the 1830s, could "become Indians" if Indian nations got their land back. I'm not sure how this would really work, and I also am a little suspect of tearing down industry, but otherwise Ward Churchill's collection of essays in "Since Predator Came" is a worthwhile read indeed.

Since Predator Came is personally one of my favorites by Churchill. The essays cover a wide range, from the Spanish conquest to the (very) theoretical Bering Land Bridge to the diaspora of Native Americans. Also, included is a succinct introduction by Native Hawaiian activist, Haunani-Kay Trask.

Excellent journalistic history of the Six-Day-War. A must read for those with a serious interest in either Military History or the events related to the 1967 war in the Middle East. Makes fascinating, almost riveting reading even for those otherwise not particularly interested in military history.

The most engaging nonfiction I have spent time with in more years than I care to remember.

In a rather short book, the political and military aspects of the events surrounding the Middle East War of 1967 are well examined. Amazingly enough; enjoyable reading .