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Lisa Milroy first received attention during the 1980s for her paintings of familiar and quite ordinary objects, often devoid of any specific context, which explored issues of space, repetition, pattern, rhythm, and order. Since the early 1990s, Milroy's subject matter has expanded to include landscapes, cityscapes, architecture, people, and animals, revealing her continued interest in objects in relation to space.This book documents the breadth of Milroy's career, bringing together a range of her paintings from the past two decades and including a body of her new work. Beautifully illustrated, it is organized by subject rather than chronology, providing a visual catalogue which reveals recurrent themes and ideas. ... Read more

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This report documents work on the planning phase of the Army Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution System. The Army had modified its planning and programming documents and asked the Arroyo Center to assess several of them to determine the extent to which the reengineering was successful and to suggest improvements.This report focuses on The Army Plan (TAP), the document that links planning to programming and provides the initial programming guidance to the Army Program Evaluation Groups.This report provides an assessment of TAP 2000-2015 and its Mission Areas (MAs) and recommends improvements for TAP 2002-2017.The authors identify several problems in TAP 00-15: mixing of operational and institutional functions, overlapping areas, overly broad and inappropriate MAs, unwieldy structure, and imprecise performance measures. ... Read more

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Note: These Journals are from May 14, 1804, the day the expedition left
the Mississippi River, to September 26, 1806, a day or two after they
arrived back in St. Louis. It includes all possible Journal entries of
Lewis and Clark. Most of the "courses and distances" and "celestial
observations" have been omitted. The notes and most of the corrections
of past editors have been removed. There are a few OCR errors, but most
of the misspellings are almost 200 years old. The dates with the names
in the brackets are a little redundent. They are included to provide
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Nut Case Please!
This book has some knowledge if you know what your looking for....And in defense of Brother York some jus follow and some truly seek....He spoke the truth and payed the price as all our true leaders do.....no time to hate its time to vibrate on the positive vibes...PEACE

Powerful Knowledge for the Adept, not for Neophytes
The Book is very powerful and if one were to take the time to study the book carefully one would realize the many connections between the ancient people of Khem and the Hebrews, and that in effect they are the same people with identical Beliefs but expressed differently due to political and ideological controversies at the time.As for the Idiot who made the comment about Malachi Z. York.Only an absolute idiot/Christian/anti-spirit would speak such nonsense.The bible itself speaks of the consequesnces real prophets would face, how the anti christ's and it's world governement will seduce all but the elite, and how false prophets will lie to the people. Was not Christ Himself pursued, wrongfully imprisoned by his "ROMAN OPressors".Get this book if you want to understand more. Ignore Fools who are trapped in thier own version of the truth.This book is truly powerful. Add to it Nur Ankh Amen's book, and York's teaching and you will start to "feel" the difference.

Correction
I don't have a review for this book. But I was looking around when I noticed the negative review written about Mr. Malachi Z. York. First off I am not a nuwabian, but I have looked into some of their teachings. If one was to look past the fact that they are coming from a "black" man, then one would easly see that this man knows what he is talking about.

As for being placed in jail, if you go to youtube and type in Malachi Z. York, you will find a video made by the STAR WITNESS in this case. After finding out that Mr. York was going to receive over a hundred years in prison, she decided to recant her testimony. She admits that she and other disgruntled members conspired against Mr. York. Of course, the courts won't listen to her now because they want this man--as is the case with any man that offers a way out of this hell we call reality(Kennedy, Ghandi, Dr. King come to mind)--out of the picture so we can all be good robots and stay asleep.

I wrote this because it's time for ALL OF US to stop taking the governments word on anything. THEY ARE LIARS! If you wanna know the truth about something, seek out information from both sides of the argument then draw conclusions. Don't be robots.

Outstanding Book
This book is outstanding for anyone wanting to know about Melchizedek! Don't listen to the nutcase Malachi York follower, which York is currently serving a 135 year sentence for molesting many children. Malachi York is a satanic nutcase, exploiting everything from Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Freemasonry, UFO's and anything else he can for his own personal gain, so don't listen to this nutcase, their just another disgruntled follower. Outstanding book!

Missing A Lot Of Facts About Melchizedek
This book doesn't have all or (should I say) doesn't have the correct info on who Melchizedek was or is.

First of all, Melchizedek is a title.According to the founder of the Ancient Mystic Order of Melchizedek, Dr.Malachi York, aka Malachizodok York-El, who is an incarnation ofMelchizedek, the word means "King of Righteousness". He is alsothe Archangel Michael and in the Sumerian is Murdock, son of Enqi andNinqi. In the Bible Melchizedek is known as the Ancient Of Days, having nobeginning nor end, nor father and mother. In the book of Hebrews, evenYashua was initiated in the Order of Melchizedek, which makes you want toask, if Yashua was God, why would he be initiated in a sacred order?

Thebook doesn't go to much into detail about the chakras or the 7 planes ofheaven. And also, Yahweh is not God's name, it's also a title, meaning,"He Who Is Whom He Is" which is a title that can be applied toany man who is worthy of the title. If you're curious who the God of theBible is it is Tammuz, a member of the Anunnaki, son of Ishtar andDammuzi.

Melchizedek's galactic name is Yanaawn, and he's one of theIgigi, 24 Elders of Revelations, along with the likes of Matatron, Sananda,Gabrial, Urial, Raphael, and others.

The rest of the book is nothing morethan motivational speaking, which doesn't make since, (I mean, it does hasits place) but the mysteries of Melchizedek are way more complex than whatthis book is saying. ... Read more

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Two centuries ago an American epic unfolded as Lewis andClark’s Corps of Discovery mapped the lands, described the naturalwonders, and encountered the peoples of western NorthAmerica. Following orders from President Thomas Jefferson, CaptainsMeriwether Lewis and William Clark set out from Saint Louis in 1804 tosearch for a river passage to the Pacific Ocean. In their own words,recorded in the famous journals of Lewis and Clark, the members of theCorps of Discovery tell their story with an immediacy and powermissing from second-hand accounts. All their triumphs and terrors arehere—the thrill of seeing the vast herds of bison on the plains,the tensions and admiration in the first meetings with Indian peoples,Lewis’s rapture at the stunning beauty of the Great Falls, the fearthe captains felt when a devastating illness befell Shoshoneinterpreter Sacagawea, the ordeal of crossing the Continental Divide,Clark’s joy at seeing the Pacific, miserable days of cold and hunger,and the kidnapping and rescue of Lewis’s dog, Seaman.

The natural wonders of an unspoiled America are captured in these pages. The lives and customs of its Native peoples also come vividly to life: Lewis and Clark’s friendship with the Mandans and the Nez Perces, a deadly fight with the Blackfeet, and a series of intricate interactions and negotiations with numerous northwestern tribes. The cultural differences between the corps and the Indians make for living drama that is sometimes comic but more often poignant and, at least once, tragic.

In this riveting account, editor Gary E. Moulton blends the narrative highlights of his definitive Nebraska edition of the Lewis and Clark journals. For the first time the voices of the enlisted men and of the Native Americans are heard alongside the words of the captains. New maps and illustrations enrich this American epic of discovery.

Gary E. Moulton is Thomas C. Sorensen Professor of American History at the University of Nebraska. He is the recipient of the J. Franklin Jameson Award of the American Historical Association for the editing of the Lewis and Clark journals, and he won the Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award from the University of Nebraska. ... Read more

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A Bold Endeavor for Early America.
In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson sought to expand westward for commercial purposes which ended in obtaining land from France.He was confident that an expedition on foot seeking a route for establishing a waterway all the way to the Pacific Ocean was viable.When he needed an "errand" done right, he sent his Secretary of the President of the U S., Meriwether Lewis.As a result of his need for his legislature to appropriate $2500 to cover the cost, not realizing it would result in the death of Lewis -- after years of surveying, fighting off bears and other dangerous animals, Congress passed an act which Lewis as co-leader would abide by as appointed by his boss "to carry into execution."

They were to start surveying at the mouth of the Missouri river to explore ways and to map out the territory from detail orders and instructions from the president himself.The object would be to discover a direct water "communication" across this continent "for the purpose of extending the external commerce of the United States."It was to culminate in a transcontinental route for interoceanic trade.

Months later, on May 14, 1804, the adventure began with the departure of the Lewis & Clark Expedition into unknown territory.Thus, one of the most important events in history took place, called the Louisiana Purchase.Along the way, they were to be-friend the natives ("treat them in the most friendly and conciliatory manner which their own conduct will admit") and complete a census of all the nations.It was especially necessary to have the detailed information set out by President Jefferson on June 20, 1803, even to the point of choosing his successor as commander "on the accident of your death."Lewis was on his way (alone?) to give a report to his boss when he was killed in Tennessee on the Natchez Trace, not too far from the Alabama border.On a Sunday excursion down the trace, I had the opportunity to read the marker at the cabin where he died.It is one of life's mysteries one can only surmise, an anecdote of history and its consequences.

If you only read one book about L&C, this ought to be it
This one-volume abridgement of the 13-volume "definitive Nebraska edition" of 2001 is a fascinating read from historical and anthropological perspectives as well as being a gripping adventure story. The presentation of the 1804-06 trek of the Corps of Discovery is superb; the editor provides a comprehensive introduction that tells the story crisply, then presents selections from the journals of the officers and men of the Corps (judiciously annotated with sidenotes), and finishes with an afterword that lays out the fortunes of the Corps members after their return home. A really satisfying book!

Best one-volume L&C journals ever produced!
As an historian with an interest in the L&C expedition, I have dozens of books on my shelves detailing their adventure, including at least a half-dozen one volume editions of the journals. Until recently, Bernard DeVoto's 50 year old edition was the best.Now Gary Moulton's masterful editing of the definitive 13 vol edition of the journals is echoed in this single-volume abridgement that is destined to become the standard for the foreseeable future.If you must read a popular accounting of the Corps of Discovery, Stephen Ambrose's _Undaunted Courage_ is quite readable and provides ample context for the expedition. But then do yourself a favor and read Mouton's abridgement of the journals, and learn firsthand the thrill of reading L&C's original words. Recommended for all with an interest in the expedition.

Fascinating and Fun
The only better source for understanding the adventure of the
Lewis and Clark expedition would be the full 11-volumn set
edited by this same author for the U. of Nebraska.As a readable one-volumn summary of their fabulous and hair-raising
expedition, the editor has selected many of the most interesting
passages from the actual diaries of the participants, and many
readers will be able to vicariously experience the wonder at
what the men saw and how they reacted to the natives of the large region, as well as to the flora and fauna of a then-unknown part of the continent.
Frequently, the same adventure, or the same encounter, is told
in the words of multiple observers, and it is most interesting
to see how they reacted.
One of the most fascinating, and almost humorous, attitudes is
that of Lewis toward Grizzly bears and how that attitude changes quickly as he encounters the great bear.It is easy to
feel the superior attitude of Lewis as he relates the first warnings of the Indians about the ferocity and size of this distinct bear.He first writes: "...the indians may well fear
this anamal equiped as they generally are with their bows and
arrows...but in the hands of skillful riflemen they are by no means as formidable or dangerous as they have been represented."
He is speaking of someone who is acquainted with the black bear
of the Ohio valley.
Shortly thereafter he notes, writing of another grizzly, that he
was "...extreemly hard to kill..." specifying that bear had been
shot 10 times before finally expiring.Only a few days later,
after another terrifying encounter with a grizzly, where a party of hunters had to go after a bear wounded who had escaped,
after chasing one of his men, Lewis concludes, "...these bear being so hard to die rather intimedates us all; I must confess
that I do not like the gentlemen and had rather fight two Indians than one bear;..."
These passages are only a sample of the learning curve the great
explorers were on, and their own words show how they learned and
adapted so quickly that they made their amazing trek to the Pacific coast and back with no casualties other than Sgt. Floyd
who died of a burst appendix.The editor relates that Sgt.Floyd
couldn't have been saved even with the best medical care available at the time.
The book abounds with descriptions of birds and animals seen for
the first time by any white man, and both Captains provide details showing their dedication and ability; in addition, Clark
drew many significant maps of the area.
But the book isn't perfect; some decent maps should have been
provided, because the very small, sometimes confusing maps aren't helpful at all, and the serious student or reader will have to find some maps to accompany his reading.Not even one
example of the fine maps drawn by Clark is provided.A few more
of their drawings of animals would have been very helpful and entertaining.
But fascinating beyond belief are their copious observations and
notes of the native Indians they encountered.They show far more sympathy toward the Indians than might be thought possible
from upper-class East-coast white men, and both Lewis and Clark
reveal their wonder at the various customs and practices of
the Indians.Both the Captains the the others who kept diaries
frequently express appreciation of the skills and lifestyles of
the tribes, and this expedition helpled forge considerable friendships between the white Americans and their native counterparts.
The fact that later government mistreatment of Indians led to
wars and the loss of life is an indictment of later political
administrations in Washington, rather than any indictment of
these wonderful leaders and the members of this expedition.
But the writers whose words are provided here show a depth of
curiosity and thirst for knowledge of these different cultures
that has to astound most readers today.
And we have to read the exact words of those men who encountered the Blackfeet in present Montana to know just how
it happened that the only violent deaths happened there; the
Lewis journal entries are very revealing.
Hundreds of entries show just how cool and thoughtful all expedition members were as they encountered unbelieveable problems and obstacles, and how they met them with both good
humor and determination.
You can learn here why the Lewis and Clark expedition was one of
the greatest explorations in the world and why those particular
men were the absolutely best choice for their unique roles.
Anyone interested in American history needs to read these words
and imagine what these men saw and heard.

The Fun is Gone
Somehow the rip-roaring adventure of the Lewis and Clark expedition is missing from this plodding tome--and I do mean tome. By religiously sticking to the antiquated spelling and including snippets of every day, what you gain in detail you lose in adventure. Scholarly historians will want to read the unabridged journals; for the armchair historian, this book misses the mark. ... Read more

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Shepherd's Notes- Christian Classics Series is designed to give readers a quick, step by step overview of some of the enduring treasures of the Christian faith. They are designed to be used along side the classic itself- either in individual study or in a study group. The faithful of all generations have found spiritual nourishment in the Scriptures and in the works of Christians of earlier generations. Martin Luther and John Calvin would not have become who they were apart from their reading Augustine. God used the writings of Martin Luther to move John Wesley from a religion of dead works to an experience at Aldersgate in which his ""heart was strangely warmed."" Shepherd's Notes will give pastors, laypersons, and students access to some of the treasures of Christian faith. ... Read more

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Debes tener el libro
Es como una guía para que vayas entendiendo el libro, si no lo tienes o pretendes leer esto en lugar del libro, pierdes tu tiempo.

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This is a great book to use in compliment with Mere Christianity and I had no problems with the seller.

I used this book SO much!!!
I used this book a ton for my world religions class where the book Mere Christianity was required.I found the full length book very dry and repetitive, this book helped me tremenously to get through the text.I am getting a good grade in my class which is based half on my knowlege of this book and half on one other and lecture.I would reccomend it if you have a problem reading C.S. Lewis.good stuff!! The seller got this book to me super quickly and it was very affordable.

Detailed Devotion
I am really enjoying the detail that Mere Christianity Shepherd's Notes has for group devotionals, and individual study.This is a great companion to the complete book.

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This book is not "Mere Christianity", it is a guide to go along with it.Do not Purchase it thinking that you will get the text of the book "Mere Christianity". ... Read more

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Poetry by Lewis Carroll, including Jabberwocky, Bessie's Song to her Doll, The Crocodile, Father William, I'll Tell Thee Everything I Can, Life is but a Dream, The Manlet, My Fancy, Size and Tears, The Walrus and the Carpenter, The White Rabbit's Verses ... Read more

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The Oxford Handbook of Clinical Diagnosis is the first and only book that describes the diagnostic process clearly and logically so that it can be effectively learnt.It showshow to justify intuitive diagnoses clearly and logically in an evidence-based way.It provides the differential diagnosis of every symptom, physical sign and initial test result.This handbook uses 'pattern recognition tables' which enable the reader to scan the page to see which diagnostic explanation would apply best to a patient or case history.

The book is aimed at medical students and others who wish to improve their diagnostic skills and interactions with patients.It describes how to justify diagnoses and management decisions verbally or in writing and clarifieswhat evidence is needed from research, and its statisticalfeatures.It provides senior doctors with a clear framework and examples help to teach trainees and students to approach diagnostic problems in a logical way and to effectively justify their opinions.It provides all doctors with practical help when dealing with problems outside their immediate field of expertise, especially general practitioners and those who are faced with unforeseen situations and emergencies. ... Read more

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Unbelieveably Bad Psychiatric and Neurological Chapter
As you can see from the preview section, the information is divided up into 10 topics.One topic is "Psychiatric and Neurological Symptoms and Signs".This chapter is about 80 pages long.There were alomost 70 topics covered in the section.As a psychiatrist, I felt competent to reflect on the quality of 16 of the differentials.The most note-worthy were as follows.

General Anxiety
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Page 570,1.The listed "Main differential diagnoses" were as follows:GAD, Panic disorder, alcohol withdrawal, thyrotoxicosis, hypoglycaemia, phaeochromocytoma.This is a DDx list of 6, of which the sixth is phaeochromocytoma!Have you ever seen a phaeochromocytoma? Me, either.That's a dumb differential for a beginner's book.Panic disorder is "confirmed" by the basic DSM IV criteria for panic disorder (as if, if someoene had only had 3 (and not 4) episodes of panic in the last month they wouldn't have the disorder) and the following organic exclusions: thyrotoxicosis, hypoglycaemia, Cushing's disease, phaeo', and no other physical cause of symptoms.Well: the "no other" is the bit of this book that I wanted to know about.And it was dumb to put phaeo' ahead of cardiac ischaemia, cardiac arrhythmia, hypoxia, cardiac ischaemia, major depressive disorder, agitated depression, psychosis and etc.

The section on alcohol withdrawal says that there is decrease in MCV, which is wrong.It also says that the initial management is "sedation and alcohol detoxification (e.g. chlordiazepoxide) with tailing off over days."May I suggest, 20 mg oral diazepam, IV thiamin and call the registrar as a better plan?

The section on thyrotoxicosis gives the basic management of thyrotoxicosis.Would anyone striking this rare diagnosis not have time to look up Oxford Clinical Medicine?

Anxiety Response to Specific Issues
===================================
This section has numerous problems.For example, one of the DDx's is somatization disorder.The Initial Management includes: "explanation of mechanisms of symptoms.May I suggest that what no body needs is the resident taking it upon themselves to explain to the patient that their symptoms are all in their head.

Simple phobia.They recommend "flooding, implosion therapy, and benzos", amongst a few other things.If someone routinely treated simple phobia with benzos, I would recommend reviw by the medical board.As for flooding, are there many fully qualified psychiatrist/psychologist who would not confer with other seniours before they did this?Remember, this is a book for juniours.

In the PTSD section, they give some manaement ideas, but do not mention the all-important first aid following traumatic events.

Depression
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Major depression has "Antidepressant, especially if somatic syptoms" as the initial management.I suggest that decisions about what therapy to use should be made according to severity (and patient preference) rather than the presence of somatic spymtoms).The differential "Depression Secondary or Partly Due to Other Conditions" suggests that this diagnosis is "Suggested by any other illness that undermines self-confidence , e.g.physical illness but especially anxiety disorders, alcohol abuse, substance abuse."This suggests that the mechanism of alcohol induced depression is the undermining of one's self-confidence!Unbelieveably dumb.

The section "Depression Secondary or Partly Due to Medication" mentions beta blockers first.It is possible that they cause depression.But they do not mention medications for dyslipidaemias!

Delusions
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The physical differentials listed are only: infection, hypothyroidism, etc.This is dumb.They also say that schizophrenia is "confirmed" if you have two schniederian first rank symptoms for a month or more and clear sensorium (if you are not manic or depressed).This is so dumb.

Acute Confusion
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Reasonable DDx, I think.But I am not an expert in Dx-ing acute confusion.

Fatigued, "Tired all the time"
==============================
Diabetes is 7 out of a DDx of 10.I think is should have been listed ahead of Post-Viral Fatigue, don't you?

Disturbed Consciousness
=======================
Page 604.Recons "probably moderate brain injury" if CGS is 9-12.I'll keep it in mind next time someone overdoses.Details the scoring and categories, but does not tell you how to do the test - i.e. how hard to try and wake the person up.

Speech Disturbance
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Recons "Innatention dut to dementia, depression, etc" is "confirmend by low MMSE with or without CT/MRI showing cerebral atrophy".Way to ignore delerium and any number of psychiatric illnesses, Einsteins.

Course Tremor
=============
Lists hepatic failure (a flap is not a tremor, guys).Much worse: their entire DDx list for Parkinsonian tremor is: Park Dis, Lewy body Dem, drug-induced, post-encephalitis and morm press hydro.Dear Reader, please refer to page 499 of the OHoCM for a decent DDx.

Brisk Reflexes
==============
Three differentials: thyrotoxicosis, pyramidal tract x2.Well: brisk reflexes is probably the first sign of serotonin syndrome that is not caused by anxiety, so, how bouts mentioning it?

Diminished Reflexes
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The DDx does not include "normal for them" which I recon is the most important cause.

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After all that, the authors have the cheek to have a complicated, mathematical chapter at the back of the book about pre and post test probability and what not.I suggest that the authors concentrate on getting the basic differentials right, not being so reckless about saying when a diagnosis is confirmed, forget about listing rare treatment (e.g. flooding) and list urgent management (e.g. IV thiamine).

Also, I understand English is commonly spoken and written in England, so, can some joker stop these bozos using 'danger quotes' wrongly.Which gets me started on their excuse of a MSE.The say " 'affect' " and don't bother defining or using the word.(It means "facial expression" at your level).

The bits of this book that I have read are no good for students, residents, registrars or consultants of any speciality. If you want a book about DDx, start with Differential Diagnosis Pocket (Pocket (Borm Bruckmeier Publishing)).

P.S. For dementia, there are only 5 differentials. The 5th is CJD. I can see it now, consultants sitting around the tea room, laughing at how the resident missed a case of CJD, all because the resident didn't read this book... not. Here's hint from me, next time you wonder if someone has dementia, don't bother ruling out CJD, ok?

P.P.S. For Abnormal tongue movement, they have four DDx's all and the way to tell the difference is with MRI for each of the four. Way to waste a page! Except that they forgot to list tardive dyskinesia, which can not to be Dxed by MRI. Way to waste my money, Huw.

Good medical text book. Easy to review what is important.
When you study the material initially, it is good to use the text books, and if you can, in your own language and in other languages too. At a certain time,
when you have used the information over years, it is good to review a book which
helps you recall the volumes of material you have stored in your brain.Although I was born and raised in the USA, I found that the text books written in English
and not American English, were easier to understand; a friend asked me what I was using for Gray's Anatomy and I said I was using Voss, written in German. I really could not understand the English; he smiled and said I should get the Gray's Anatomy English version, showed it to me, and I read a section and I understood it. He said, most of the Medical Student's used the English version because no one could understand the American Version of Gray's.
I read this book in about a week and actually enjoyed reading it. I would buy it again.

needs a new edition
Most of the Oxford Handbooks are very good.This one needs to be reworked. The idea is good but it doesn't deliver.It is really Organ system and disease oriented not symptom and finding oriented.There is some of both but it looks like someone went through an Internal medicine text and copied down DD lists for various diseases.

For instance; where is Fever?

"Mankind has three great scourges, War, Famine and Fever of these the worst is fever"Oslerapproximate quote.

There is no heading in this handbook on fever and its' causes and how to evaluate.There is no dermatology section. It is possible to describe skin lesions with words and use them to find the picture. It might be useful if the authors added a derm sectin in the next editon. ... Read more

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Chapters: Jerry Lee Lewis, Al Ater, Sam Hanna, Bryant Hammett, Fred L. Schiele, Mike Sanders. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American rock and roll and country music singer and pianist. An early pioneer of rock and roll music, Lewis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and his pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked him number 24 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. In 2003, they listed his box set All Killer, No Filler: The Anthology number 242 on their list of "500 greatest albums of all time". The Jerry Lee Lewis Drive in FerridayLewis was born to the poor family of Elmo and Mamie Lewis in Ferriday in Concordia Parish in eastern Louisiana, and began playing piano in his youth with his two cousins, Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart. His parents mortgaged their farm to buy him a piano. Influenced by a piano-playing older cousin Carl McVoy (who later recorded with Bill Black 's Combo), the radio, and the sounds from the black juke joint across the tracks, Haney's Big House, Lewis created his style from black artists who were unable to play to white audiences, mixing rhythm and blues, boogie-woogie, gospel, and country music, as well as ideas from established "country boogie" pianists like recording artists Moon Mullican and Merrill Moore. Soon he was playing professionally. His mother enrolled him in Southwestern Assemblies of God University in Waxahachie, Texas, secure in the knowledge that her son would now be exclusively singing his songs to the Lord. But Lewis daringly played a boogie woogie rendition of "My God Is Real" at a church assembly that sent him packing the sam...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=98419 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: George Washington Dixon, Dutch Schultz, Fritz Joubert Duquesne, Sarah Jessica Parker, Nellie Bly, Al Lewis, Buddy Hackett, Sônia Braga, Andrea Rosen, Jonah Bobo, Madame Restell, Peter H. Matthews, Joe Seneca. Excerpt:Al Lewis Al Lewis (April 30, 1923 February 3, 2006) was an American character actor best known for his role as "Grandpa Munster " on the television series The Munsters ,and its subsequent Film versions. Later in life, he was also a restaurant owner, political candidate, and radio broadcaster . Early life Lewis was born Albert Meister on April 30, 1923. Few other facts about Lewis are known with any certainty; most of the information comes from interviews he gave, but there are inconsistencies in his statements. Sometimes he gave his birth year as 1910, other times 1923. Ted Lewis, his son, said his father was born in 1923. Dan Barry of the New York Times writes: "Actors who lie about their age usually subtract, not add, years, and few would have the nerve to fudge those years by more than a decade." Al may have been born under the name Albert Meister or Alexander Meister to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York . Other sources place his birth in Wolcott, New York , but no official record of his birth has been published to date, and officials in Wolcott say they have no record of any Meister. The Times wrote: "Lewis was born Albert Meister, probably in 1923, although he insisted that he was born in 1910. This, and Lewis's many other questionable stories, means that much of the actors life is a broth of conjecture that his fans will no doubt squabble over for years to come." On his application for a Social Security number , completed sometime between 1936 and 1950, Lewis gave a date of birth of 30 April 1923. The date of birth must be verified by a birth certificate... ... Read more

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Chapters: R. Thomas Flynn, Catherine Petroski, Al Lewis. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 18. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: R. Thomas Flynn (born January 29, 1938) is an American college administrator and the retired president of Monroe Community College (MCC) in Rochester, New York, USA. He helped MCC grow in size and stature, as well as introducing new programs at the college. The R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center on the MCC campus is named in his honor. Russell Thomas Flynn was born in Bluffs, Illinois to factory workers Bernard and Myrtle Flynn. He grew up in nearby Canton, Illinois. At 6 ft 3 in tall, Flynn was a good baseball and basketball player and earned a scholarship to Bradley University; he was injured and lost the scholarship. Flynn received a bachelor's degree from MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois and a master's in education from the University of Montana. He taught mathematics for one year at St Andrew's School in Boca Raton, Florida before joining Rutgers University as assistant dean of student services between 1965 and 1969. Flynn was dean of student services at Ocean Community College 19691974. In 1974, he joined Monroe Community College as vice president of student services, a post he held for 20 years. He then became vice president of administrative and student services in 1994. He was made interim president in 1999 and president of the college in 2000. He retired in 2008. While at Rutgers, he helped start a community college in New Jersey. During his tenure at MCC, the school has grown, adding more than a dozen new associate degree programs and online courses. New campus facilities have been built, including on-campus housing for 700 students, unusual for a two-year college. Enrollment has grown about 17 percent, from 15,000 to 17,500 students in c...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18169727 ... Read more