Churchill Books

I didn't think I was going to like this book, but it is very, very good. I have a library of esoteric books, mostly classics, and have the problem of running into the same information over and over again. Not the case with this book. I also thought this would be a book written from an outsider's view, but the respect that Mr. Christian shows his subject its figures reveal that he is a true student. His portrayal of initiation into the Egyptian Mysteries and the life of Julian stand out as exceptional sections of the book. This is a classic work.
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I purchased this book solely on the strength of Lida A. Churchill being one of the authors. Well, Lida A. Churchill is no where to be found in the book.

I was lucky enough to find a boxed set of the 1st translated American edition, which if you can find one, I'd highly reccomend over the paperback version. Covers the old witches sabbaths, medieval herbal medicine, different types of divination (in the old ways), fairie culture from many places around the world, palmistry, the Black Books & their spells, the pope (Honorius) turning to magic (as well as a prominant Rabbi, Psalms as a spell, comparitive eastern & western magic (as well as Tibetian as a separate section), voo doo, pstchic research, the switch from a matriarchal society to patriarchal (the hostile take-over in todays words), magic from the beginning of Christianity, Ancient oracles, the pyramids, Indian thoeology and
the supernatural in science from the beginning as a basis of science & I could go on and on... but this book has just about everything you'd ever want to know about "Magic" (the supernatural/ spiritual type) and it's influence in Christianity (men taking over society, etc.) and even how our "science" is interpreted - even today. Even though this book was originally published in 1963, it gives one a LOT to think about!

Even Christ used what people today (and then) think of as magic and asked that we follow in his footsteps to heal the sick, feed the poor, etc.

Being a Christian, I thought it would be basically heiricy, but after reading it, it got me to study my Bible more and more (as well as to question the KJV's circumstances in it's interpretation, and had me go back to translating my Bible I'd grown up with, and thus realize that so-called, "magic" as many look at it today is not at ALL what it appears to be, and many a witch from the old school would be pretty pissed at some of the "neo-wicca" stuff going on today.

It was interesting that, also with the deletion of so many books with Christ's words were burned (but many survived with other copies that were hidden many times over to ensure they'd be preserved) in his time, and some even before his time up to around 100 years or so after his (Christ's) death. It's made me a stronger Christian and challenged my beliefs and changed others after much research and prayer. Not by what was written in this book, but research I did into Christian texts (and comparative religions) BECAUSE of this book! I've come to the conclusion that we are all ONE, and ONE with Christ, God, Buddah, Allah, whatever you call God. What an insight! Amazing!!! A MUST READ for ANYONE who takes their religion &/or faith seriously!

Amazing books! If you can only get the paperback copy, get A copy! Follow up and it will probably change your life. Don't believe everything you read from an incomplete and skewed version of the Bible! Keep researching, praying and although the KJV helps as an introduction, it has many inaccuracies in it that I believe were put there intentionally, as well as missing books that were intentionally left out and those holding copies of these biblical texts that didn't agree with the king's view at the time were burned, as were many of the copies. I'm glad I read this. I never expected to get much of anything but a history lesson about witchcraft out of these two volumes. I got SO much more!

I believe that Paul Christian's book is one of the best I have ever read. Though it is sometimes hard to understand and someone may have to reread it a few times. I found it a key element in understanding astrological aspects and the tarot in view. The book is very indepth and helps one to understand. Though it is not a step by step book it will help one to dive into the mystic world a little easier. If one knows how to work the aspects of astrology and the meaning of tarot they can help to become a more spiritual person. But remember it is one thing to read something. It is another thing to actually apply it to real life.

Jan has done an outstanding job telling the slow and fast FAC stories from SEA. I am proud to recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about forward air controller operations durng the Vietnam War.

Jan has taken the reader into the cockpit with the Forward Air Controller. She has translated the various stories into a well organized history of what this mission was all about and tells the story of the pilots who flew at tree top level to direct airstrikes in Southeast Asia. It puts me back into my O-2 and I can re-live my experiences as a FAC all over again.

I know Jan Churchill, in fact bought an 0-1 birdog from her'wonderful airplane. She has put together an exhaustive, and accurate account of the development of Forward Air Control, Tactics, Equipment, Procedurees, and History. I was a Forward Air Controller in Vietnam, North and South, also flew in Laos with 324 missions total. She taught me many facets of the FAC business I did not know. I would consider her an expert in this field.,

This professionally researched and documented history of Forward Air Controllers in South East Asia is excellent. The author has done extensive homework and research to gather a factual account of the FAC's experiences through many interviews and searching for the true stories as were lived by them. The photograghs that are included in each chapter are excellent and provide the reader with the flavor for the events described. This reviewer has personally worked with many Airborne Forward Air Controllers that the author writes about. This is a true accounting of their lives, missions and experiences in country South East Asia. The documentation and chronological organization of this writing add immensely to the finished professional product. The Epilogue and Appendices, the latter a collection of actual training procedures and instructional handouts used by Forward Air Controllers also contributes to the books validity. I would recommend this book to all who served or came in contact with Forward Air Controllers or had their lives saved as a result of the work these pilots and aircrewman did to place ordnance on target. SIERRA HOTEL!

Book was written by Winston Churchill, an American from St Louis. He also wrote The Crossing, The Crisis, and a nukmber of others. Richard Carvel may be his best. Highly recommended.

Winston Churchill wrote this book when he was still in his twenties ; this intrigued me enough to read the book. It is a novel that focuses on the life of Richard Carvel ; a wealthy young man from a prominent Maryland family just before and during the Revoloutionary War. Although sweeter and more sentimental than the modern approach itis still a captivating and exciting story.

This was Churchill's first historical novel (his second book), and it was wildly popular (historical fiction was all the rage at the time). Set at first around Annapolis, it's about a boy (Carvel) who is kidnapped and sent to England by pirates under his wicked uncle's direction in order to cheat him out of his estate. Meeting all sorts of major figures of the day, including John Paul Jones and Edmund Burke, he has all kinds of adventures in London. When the war breaks out he goes to sea again, this time aboard a ship commanded by Jones. He participates in the famous sea battle between the "Bonhomme Richard" and the "Serapis" (these might be the best scenes in the book). Wounded, he is brought to London to recuperate; he marries his childhood sweetheart there and they both sail to Annapolis to live.

It's a rousing good adventure story, though it does have some major flaws. The biggest for me was that Carvel is the narrator of his own story, which makes for very awkward situations when he is involved in heroic and daring deeds. How does a "hero" brag, or even talk, about himself under those circumstances? Well, he can't, so Churchill has to come with ways to get around that, which is not too easy or natural at times. Some of the character portrayals are pretty stiff and unbelievable, the worst perhaps being George Washington (Jones he gets down fairly well). The novel presents a very idealized story with all things either black or white, good or evil, right or wrong; yet the historical aspects of the book are accurate (Churchill did his homework). If one can suspend belief along the way in terms of character portrayal, and take the book on the level of pure adventure story, one might get enjoyment from Churchill's book.

I read this book just after I got out of college in 1976. My father read it when he was in prep school in the '30's and had been pestering me for years to read it. After I finished it, I scoured every antique shop and used-book store to find other titles by this American author. Three of his books: Richard Carvel, followed by The Crisis and then The Crossing, team up to form what could be one of the first trilogies in American fiction.
This is the story about a young Marylander in pre-Revolutionary America and his journey to independence. Anyone who likes historical novels will love reading this author. I will advise you, however, to have a good dictionary nearby as some of the words are archaic and need looking up - but that's half the fun of it.

I quibble with some of Read's inferences - I don't think that Churchill was in favour of the broader trend of Globalisation - he was too nationalistic for that. However, Read writes well, with enthusiasm and with a lot of detailed research. His analysis of Churchill's skills is unbiased and quite on the mark. I have read many books on Churchill and this is one of the better ones with some insight, passion and common sense.

Good effort - some of the facts i quibble with. But thankfully this is no hagiography. Read has done a good job of detailed background research, proper analysis of events all contained by a fluid, effervescent and lucid style. A good read and a must read for those interested in perhaps the 20th century's most important person.

Interesting approach to Churchill Discusses leadership, philosophy as well as Churchill's role in this century and why he is important Read has done a detailed analysis of Churchill's skills including his demerits. The result is pretty objective. Most facts seem right. Twist on world government is interesting and subtle. Should be read by anyone interested in Churchill.

I read this book cover to cover before starting my Neurosurgery subinternship and it really gave me a great overview for the patients I saw in clinic and cases I scrubbed on. The text flows nicely and it is easy to get through in a couple days, yet detailed enough so you can sound intelligent when talking about the topics. Good illustrations too. I would say this is a good read before the rotation starts, and then I recommend Handbook of Neurosurgery while on the rotation for specific cases.

This is the original essential neurosurgery handbook that your junior attendings may have used while in medical school or in residency. It covers all of the basics and gives you a step ahead. The chapters are short and well organized. Nevertheless, a second edition has been published and is recommended over this edition.

Kaye provides a concise introduction to neurosurgery with good coverage of major topics. Chapters are short and enable the student to read while on rounds. Ideally, you would supplement the reading with a true text or original articles. Nevertheless, a good first start.

As is becoming typical for this series, this is a nice book with fine photo illustrations but falls somewhat short due to its brevity. Better than the typical chapter in a multiauthored general pathology textbook, but not as comprehensive of a typical textbook or as useful as the AFIP fascicles.

This book includes all of the important information needed for the surgical pathologist dealing with Head and Neck specimens. Very logically presented along with great photographs. Another great book in the series.

I am a general anatomic/clinical pathologist with 20 years experience in a small community hospital with a heavy ENT service. I found the format, photographs, tables, and charts to be excellent and exceeding my expectations. The presentation of "Fact Sheets" and "Pathologic Features" is concise, easy to find, and is very useful when there is a need for rapid retrieval of information (e.g. when you are alone on a late Friday afternoon with a difficult frozen section or you need to answer a surgeons question over the phone).

There is a glaring lack of information on thyroid and parathyroid pathology. I suppose that these areas were considered best left to endocrine texts, but I found this very disappointing, especially given the controversies and difficulties in this area (last time I checked these organs are most often found in the neck). There are other gaps. For example: Squamous dysplasia is not covered in depth and there is no separation into keratinizing and non-keratinizing types. There is no discussion concerning invasive SCC often arising directly from mild keratinzing dysplasia, especially in the oral cavity. I found no information on thyroglossal duct cyst. I do not remember specifics of other abscences, but over time I found myself passing this book over and reaching for other sources on difficult cases. The times when I came back to this book I found it most often lacked any additional information.

One of my big complaints about textbooks is the irritating habit of failing to cross reference items in the index and the numerous abscences of key words in the listing. This one is no exception. For instance Mixed tumor and dysplasia are not listed. Instead of dysplasia there is a listing of "precursor squamous leisions of larynx/hypopharynx/trachea" - no mention of oral cavity. Look up Warthin tumor and you find "See Papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum" with no page listing - how much more trouble and paper would it take to give a page number and save the reader a bit of time and trouble ? Do editor's/publishers ever use their books or do focus groups ? Are you listening Elsevier ?

I believe the goal of providing a foundation was accomplished and I would recommend this book as a basic text for residents and as a part of a practicing pathologists library. It is inadequate as a comprehensive specialty textbook, especially for those with a large volume of ENT cases. Compared to other books in this area it is highly cost effective.

For a man of whom Gen MacArthur stated "I believe that no, repeat, no officer suggested for promotion to General has rendered more outstanding and brilliant service than Kenney... Nothing that Spaatz or any other air officer has accomplished in the war compares to what Kenney has contributed and none in my opinion is his equal in ability", surprisingly little has been written about this innovative and charismatic air power proponent. Griffith changes that with this well written, fast-paced biography. While not a comprehensive biography, Griffith focuses on Kenney's leadership in the Southwest Pacific Area during World War II. Taking command of a weary, demoralized group of flyers in which MacArthur had lost confidence, and turning them into an offensive-minded, hard-charging unit was perhaps Kenney's greatest victory. Griffith clearly explores Kenney's philosophy of how to train and treat his men as well as the five point of his air power formula. Over and over again Griffith points out how Kenney stuck to his formula with resultant success against the Japanese war machine. While lacking the depth and completeness of an exhaustive biography, Griffith's book is nonetheless the best and most balanced account of General George Kenney's life to date; especially regarding his role as air component commander in the Southwest Pacific. The rather abrupt ending of the book at the conclusion of WW II leaves the reader wanting more and perhaps some future writer will examine Kenney's post-war life. Regardless, MacArthur's Airman is an excellent place for one to start any research on this superb, somewhat neglected air commander who was instrumental in turning the tide against the Japanese in World War II.

I purchased this book with high expectations, but they haven't been met. While there are some interesting facts, it appears that the author depends to a large extent on his own opinion and that of other historians. There are also contradictions - he accuses Kenney of exaggerating certain events, then a few paragraphs later will comment on his military brilliance. It also appears that the author failed to do all of the research he should have. In one instance he refers to a mission in Europe when B-26s went into Holland at low altitude as evidence that Kenney's faith in low-altitude attack was ill-founded. But while the missions - there were actually two - resulted in very heavy losses, about half of the losses were due to operational causes and most of the airplanes shot down were lost to German fighters. Such claims distract from what could have been an excellent book. The author also fails to place the Kenney's decisions in the context of World War II where casualties were expected and accepted, but rather follows the modern military aviation philosophy that casualties of any kind are unacceptable. While I would recommend the book for lack of anything else on the subject, the reader should beware.

George C. Kenney was one of the most significant air officers of the World War II generation. That is saying quite a lot because such well-known American air commanders as Hap Arnold, Carl Spaatz, Claire Chennault, and Curtis LeMay are also members of that cadre. But Kenney is less well-known than the others. This biography of Douglas MacArthur's air commander in the Pacific Theater is a welcome addition to the literature of air power, rescuing Kenney from obscurity. Born into an elite New England family and educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, rather than West Point, Kenney became enamored with flight during World War I and enlisted in the Army Air Service where he became a pilot. He flew 75 combat missions in Europe and shot down two enemy aircraft. He ended the war as a captain, and received the Distinguished Service Cross and the Silver Star for his valor.

The air arm of the Army during the period between the two world wars was small but filled with young officers fired with a vision of independence based on the possibility of strategic bombing to win future conflicts. Kenney was one of those young men. He served in a variety of positions, concentrating on aeronautical development and its application to warfare and pursuing the chimera of victory solely through air power.

In August 1942 with the United States entering the Second World War less than a year earlier, Kenney assumed command of all allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific, and worked throughout the war as MacArthur's air component commander. Kenney found that meeting MacArthur's stiff requirements was not easy. The Japanese were at first stronger, of course, but the distances in the Pacific, the unique climate, the difficulties of logistics, and the dearth of virtually all resources made every campaign a challenge. His abilities as a leader, his willingness to cut through regulations and to innovate with both tactics and equipment, and his unique conceptions on how to organize forces and mass them for victory were critical to success in the Pacific. For instance, as this biography points out, experimentation with ordnance made possible the unusual but successful tactic of skip-bombing Japanese ships. In addition, Kenney's organizational approach of composite units with bombers, fighters, transports, and all support ingredients ensured that smaller units could conduct effective warfare in the expanses of the Pacific.

In 1946 Kenney became commander of the Strategic Air Command, the central organization charged with nuclear bombardment. In October 1948 he became commandant of the Air University. While in this position in 1949 he published a significant book, "General Kenney Reports," a work available in reprint from the Office of Air Force History, which was not only a memoir of his career in World War II but also an explanation of his theories on air superiority.

All of this and more is explored in this biography by Thomas Griffith. It is well-done and fully worth the time necessary to read and absorb its lessons.

An easy and amusing read for students but requires a prior grounding in clinical skills. Useful but certainly not a must have and not the sort of book students can carry and refer to on the ward. Would have benefited from more appropriate tables and flow charts to refer to in the clinical setting.

if you are planning to spend some time on paediatric ward I recommend this pocket-sized book,its quite useful.It includes thorough examination of the child with some important additions

The "Paediatric Clinical Examination" is now in its fourth edition, and rightly so, because it is helpful to all working in pediatrics. Professor Denis Gill and consultant paediatrician Niall O'Brian from Children's Hospital in Dublin, Ireland, have done a wonderful job with this small and handy pocketsize book for students, residents and others working with children.
The book has 11 chapters with introduction to pediatrics, a "form of veterinary medicine", history taking, approaching children, examination at different ages, systems examination, pediatrics as the "measuring doctor", hydration and nutrition, developmental assessment at different ages, the art of examining excreta, using your senses and finally pediatric tips and topics with sound advice.
The book is full of wonderful illustrations, funny and profound advice with quotations, like the words of Sir Dominic Corrigan (1853)" "The trouble with many doctors is not that they do not know enough but that they do not see enough" or the advice to teach thy tongue to say" "I do not know" (Rabbi Moses Maimonides or Rambam, 1135-1204).
All in all a very handy book for the student, the resident or other professional working with children. I had a lot of fun reading it.

Professor Joav Merrick, MD
Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and Medical director, Division for Mental Retardation, Box 1260, IL-91012 Jerusalem, Israel, email: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net

I am a physician and psychiatrist currently using this textbook for a graduate course in psychopharmacology in the United States. It is the first and only textbook I feel that comes close to the truth of what the field of psychopharmacology is really about. The information is invaluble for anyone taking psychiatric medication, anyone prescribing psychiatric medication, or anyone loving anyone on psychiatric medication. I have come over the years to see the sad truth that science these days is being severly compromised by marketplace economics. Since our science is no longer truly in the hands of scientists, it behooves us to listen to someone who has the insider knowledge about how the data is manipulated and his valuable speculations on how the drugs really work. From my view, he is an unrecognized pioneer who can give us hope and inspiration about a very important aspect of our society: the use of drugs to modify and control our emotions.

This book is more of a medical-school textbook describing the major drug categories. It only mentions briefly the principal drugs in each.
Although the 4th edition was published in 2005 it does not mention many of the newer drugs like Lexapro,Trileptal, Abilify, Modafinil etc . I did not find the "User Issues" text boxes to be an innovation or of much help.
This is definitely not a book for quick reference. And it is expensive too!

Now in its third edition, this is an indispensable book for mental health professionals. Although written from the UK perspective, it does list the US and UK proprietary names for drugs. It is very clearly laid out for easy reference with a comprehensive index and references for further reading if needed. The "User Issues" text boxes are a great innovation in this edition and will be of great use to any mental health professional, but in particular those organising psychoeducation or medication information groups. The book seems to be purposefully designed for quick reference, the first page of each chapter even has its own contents list with page numbers for issues covered in that chapter. If you only ever get one psychopharmacology text, this is it!

This is a basic book that describes the main study designs used in medical research. It is an easy-to-read book about epidemiologic studies.

This is a basic book that describes the main study designs used in medical research. It is an easy-to-read book about epidemiologic studies.

This is a basic book that describes the main study designs used in medical research. It is an easy-to-read book about epidemiologic studies.