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I'm now into the vast subject of inherited metabolic diseases for about one and a half year. This book is the perfect guide in dayly clinical work. It gives a short introduction at the first page of every chapter, showing the metabolic pathway and giving a short summery of the different types of metabolic defects in this part of metabolism. It's not only brief but also based on the recent publications. The very systematic structure and the much better index of this new edition is another reason why there is no day without Fernandez et al. in my clinical work.

For a first time author, this book is a good read and full of Scripture to back up his assertions.

It will make you rethink your previously held beliefs.

This book begins with self knowledge and then prepares one to understand the metamorphosis required to go from a mundane earthly caterpillar to a spiritual esoteric butterfly. An incredible book that helps the reader understand the pitfalls upon the path.

The book doesn't cover convention abuse, it focuses on meat and potato issues taht are frequently botched.

We all know how to bid and respond to take out doubles, right? The book has some good hands that intermediate players frequently get wrong.

We all know standard bidding and always make correct responses with misfitting hands, right?

In competition we know when a weak hand increases in value and when a strong hand decreases in value, right? Example: pard makes a take out double over 1 Club and we have a diamond suit Q 10 8 7 2, we are not looking forward to bidding. Thankfully RHO bids 1 Spade. Pard bids 2 diamonds, and RHO bids again. Our hand has just marketly incraed in value. Pard has a very strong hand to be bidding after a take out double, especially since we couldn't respond. We have 5 Diamonds in the suit he bid with teh Q and the 10. Raise to 3 Diamonds.

While the book was written a long time ago, its still current, because these are the types of problems that are timeless.

Kashmir has always loomed large in the national consciousness. It has been a symbol of humanism, possessing a unique identity and culture which preserved it from the bloodshed committed in the name of religion elsewhere in the country after Partition. And its beauty, praised by kings, commoners - and film-makers - has made it the receptacle for our dreams.

But a shadow, which the passage of time has only served to deepen, has fallen over Kashmir. Since the eighties, when a latent secessionism, fuelled by maladroit political manoeuvring and administrative bungling, turned into a fuill-blown movement for azadi, resulting in the full exercise of the state's might, thousands have died, normal life has been disrupted, and the economy is in a shambles. Innocent citizens have fallen, caught between the guns of militants and govenment troops, and the state's minority Kashmiri Pandit population has fled, scared by the Islamic fundamentalist wave that has swept the Valley.

In this compelling, hands-on account of why Kashmir has come so close to the edge, Tavleen Singh unravels the complexities of its recent history to expose the political machinations, corruption and downright ineptitude that have alienated the Kashmiris from their mother country. As a journalist who has covered the Valley since 1981 she has met virtually everyone connected with the course of events, from national political leaders and the incumbents of Raj Bhavan to the unemployed youth and the militant leaders themselves, and in Kashmir: A Tragedy of Errors she uses this first-hand knowledge of the situation to present a view of it that has not been seen before.
--- from book's dustjacket

A book that is under appreciated, it's not just a book, it's the word of God.

If you liked "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage," you will love "The King's English."

For three generations, a single book dominated the market as the authoritative reference in matters of grammar, style, and usage in the English language: "A Dictionary of Modern English Usage" by H.W. Fowler, first published in 1926, now in its third edition (published 1996). Twenty years earlier, however, Fowler and his younger brother F.G. (their given names were Henry Watson and Francis George) had collaborated on a precursor, "The King's English," first published in 1906 (and which went into its third edition a quarter century later, a few years after the first edition of "A Dictionary" appeared).

This book is every bit as charming and graceful as the later "Dictionary" and, while this earlier work covers fewer topics than "Dictionary," it treats the ones that it does cover with as much thoroughness and skill as "Dictionary"--in some cases with more thoroughness, since the book is structured as part essay, part textbook, and can thus afford more examples and exercises than "Dictionary." The book begins by laying out five "general principles" worthy of Strunk and White (whose masterpiece "The Elements of Style" did not appear until half a century later): "Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance."

The Fowlers expand upon those five "principles," and also treat vocabulary, syntax, punctuation, and other such technical matters in great depth. But amidst these technical chapters they also include a lengthy chapter on "airs and graces," in which they advise the reader about imbuing writing with art.

The Fowlers write with every bit as much elegance, flair, and humor as they advise their readers to use, and their mastery of their subject is unsurpassed. "The King's English" has stood the test of time and, today, a century after its initial publication, it still stands the Fowler brothers with Strunk and White from half a century ago and Bryan Garner of today in the first rank of authors about style and usage in the English language.

Learning from Medical Errors is a concise overview with pointed advice and learning points by two physicians who have been on the 'front lines', and not from the 'Ivory tower' kind. Each case scenario leads you through the case, and the debriefs the clinician and then brings up actual cases from live patients. Sometimes I find myself sweating through 'near misses', and count myself lucky to have found a concise text for the clinician, the resident or medical student. A must read for those practicing medicine, highly recommended. I haven't found anything like it in one text.

The author has found a brillant and creative way of illustrating legal issues in medicine in a format that healthcare providers can understand. He also presents clinical cases to show the pertinence. A must for every physician and medical student.

Learning From Our Mistakes: Beyond Dogma In Psychoanalysis And Psychotherapy by practicing psychoanalyst and therapist Patrick Casement is a practical-minded look at mistakes commonly encountered in a mental healing profession, as well as what can be done to avoid them, and how to minimize or mitigate their damage. Anecdotes, issues of technique, and practical-minded reflections round out this informed and informative treatise which is especially recommended for those members of the psychotherapist community who have the needs of their patients foremost in mind.