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Makes you think twice about the secrets Physicians keep from themselves. You get into this book within the first 5 pages and it holds you there to "THE END".

K.A. Williams book answered so many unanswered questions I had about God and the church! This little book is packed full and easy to read! If you like the books by Rob Bell you will love this book!

One of the best books concerning scientific approach in GIS technology.

Excellent reference source with a good number of examples.
I used this in parallel with the book by Shu Lin and costello. While the second one lacks many examples, this one helped me a lot to check my codes using many of the examples given in the book.

Must be part of your "digital communication" library if you are an Engineer or a Scientist!.

I would like to review this book, but respectfully request a review copy first for this institution (University of the West of England) before we adopt the text.

How often do you need a quick answer to a simple grammatical question? Just when should you (or would you) place (or put) a hyphen between (or inbetween) words?
Is it "its" or "it's?" "Shall I?" or "Will I?" Is your handwriting "legible" or "readable?" Do you "lend" money or "loan" money? Is your perfume "sensual" or "sensuous?" Did your last job interview go "nowhere" or "no place?"

A great copyeditor is a writer's best friend - and I have one sitting on my desk! His name is Harry Shaw.

"Errors in English" has a dictionary-like section that quickly provides the answers to questions like: Is Susan a "person" or an "individual?" Is that chewing gum sample "free" or "gratis?"

Shaw's book provides quick tips on correct sentence structure, word usage, spelling and punctuation. He even helps tackle the difference between the passive and the active, and so much more.... (Reviewed by: Marion E. Gold, Author of "Personal Publicity Planner: A Guide to Marketing YOU," and "Top Cops: Profiles of Women in Command." Marion is a past president of the Illinois Woman's Press Association)

When someone is hurt during medical treatment it is an understandable reaction to blame the doctor for the harm. However, the great majority of errors which occur in medicine are a simple consequence of conscientious doctors being fallible human beings just like the rest of us. Hospital systems are generally full of design faults which pre-dispose doctors to make mistakes. Blaming doctors for simply being human directs attention away from these design faults, reduces the chance that system improvements will be made, and makes it likely that the same error will repeat itself in the future - thus perpetuating patient harm. Human error cannot be avoided, but patient harm can, through better systems and procedures. Genuinely negligent acts do occur in medicine, but it is important that these are distinguished from the inevitable human errors of clinicians doing their best. This is a distinction which is also required in law to ensure fairness in both the prosecution of negligent doctors and the compensation of harmed patients. This book goes several steps beyond the Institute of Medicine Report ("To Err is Human") in identifying the mechanisms and nature of error within health care and in its detailed discussion of the intricacies of culpability, blame, violation, error, legal fairness, and patient safety.

The U.S. Supreme Court has always been known as the nine old men (Sandra Day O'Connor included). In the summer of 1953, at the height of the cold war, it was known as the nine tired old men. The nine old men were tired of the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, designated as America's most dangerous spies, whose espionage activities were the epitomized those seeking to undermine and take over America for Soviet communism. The Rosenbergs could be pointed to by those creating, and benefitting, from the cold war as an example of how those with privilege and position were working tirelessly to overthrown the government and leak its most precious secrets to an implacable enemy. But the author takes the reader past the obvious, past the well rehearsed rhethoric by asking a simple question--not whether they were guilty or innocent, but whether they received justice. If America is to show the world the superiority of its judicial system, where better than a case in which it dispenses justice to those most hated--traitors and spies. The book has two important themes. One, that the Rosenberg's attorney, Emmanuel Bloch, misunderstood the true nature of the case, thinking of it as just another communist party case. Two, that a secret agreement, in violation of the Code of Conduct and legal ethics, had been entered into between the Attorney General and the Chief Justice, without the presence of the Rosenbergs' attorneys, precluding any possibility that new evidence would be fairly adjudged by the High Court. "Fatal Error" outlines in dramatic and stunning detail how numerous judges ignored evidence pointing to a defective indictment by the U.S. government and aided and abetted the speedy execution of the Rosenbergs. In their briefs, attorneys Daniel Marshall and Fyke Farmer sought to alert both the Court and Emmanuel Bloch to the simple fact that the Rosenbergs, had they been indicted under the Atomic Energy Act of 1946, instead of the Espionage Act of 1917 would have, in all likelihood, received prison sentences that were contemporaneous with those received by other spies at that time. "Fatal Error" outlines a shockingly, sad, disgusting trail of legal and judicial malfeasance leading to the interior of the U.S. Supreme Court. As Philip Elman, a former law clerk remarked, "The Rosenberg case is the most disgusting, saddest, despicable espisode in the Court's history." "Fatal Error" is an explosive, dramatic, highly recommended expose of a heretofore unexposed episode in cold war history." Kenneth R. Kahn written a screenplay based on "Fatal Error" and is currently seeking an agent.

I love this book as much as the first one. My son's standardized test scores increased greatly due to the use of Find The Errors.