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You remember those old Dr. Atlas style adverts - you know 'I used to weigh fifty pounds and have sand kicked in my face by nasty men who stole my girl until I got with the Dr. Atlas programme'?

Well, this book is the Dr. Atlas programme of DXing. Before I read it I was a clueless, puny, DX wannabe. Now I work 200+ countries a year, even in solar minimum, with 100 Watts and a doublet in the middle of a big city.

Bob Locher sets out exactly how to find the rare stations on the band, how to break pile-ups and how and where to listen to find the rare ones when the maddening hordes don't.

Some may find it's relentless focus on the DXCC Mixed programme does not quite tally with their own operating style. No matter - the lessons are as valid for other programmes. Some may find Locher's focus on CW too much - while he does discuss SSB operation to some degree, Locher is a morse operator through and through and CW is by far the most effective mode for those of us with underendowed signals.

This is no dry tome - told in story form, the book is littered with interesting and amusing anecdotes. We feel we are hunkering down in the pileups with W9KNI, sharing with him the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat. Bob's love for amateur radio, CW, and the not so gentle art of DXing shine through on every page. Would that more amateur works could combine such insight, humour and utility.

G0RTN - GI0RTN

After reading Bob Locher's superb text, I found a new world on the bands.
With his excellent advice, I was able to work Clipperton with 80 watts to a vertical on 15 meters CW!
If you're interested in DXing, buy this book. It will put more countries in your log than your amp will.
I've gotten 307 countries worked (306 confirmed), and am waiting for A35RE for #307.

AA4SY

After 20 years of Amateur Radio Operation I thought I knew how to listen to a HF band.......I still had a few things to learn. Just reading the two chapters on listening techniques provides a wealth of information. The author shows the reader how to take the pulse of a band. How to quickly determine the paths that are open and the probability of success with each station

The techniques for listening to a band are applicable to nearly all phases of HF Operation. This text clearly deserves the classic status it has obtained in the amateur community.

this book is an excellent choice for anyone that loves horror. i started to read it Saturday morning and could hardly put it down. i read almost all of it by Saturday night, and finished it Sunday morning. it is scary, creepy, exciting, fascinating and a wonderful book. Cassandra Lee is an excellent writer. i enjoyed this book immensely.

Cassandra Lee has done it again. She has created characters that draw you in and invite you to be part of the adventure they are about to partake in. You feel them cringe, and often you find yourself screaming for them if not at them to turn around and run. Join her at the Hot Spirings and meet Shelby, his new girlfriend and the doctor. Then discover the terror that waits in the dark, damp crevices of the sulphur caves. You may think twice..... snik-chik-chik-chik

"The thrill of shocking and captivating a reader is almost as big a turn-on as stroking cool leather on a warm thigh." - Cassandra Lee
Do you ever wonder where horror authors come from, I think I know. Imagine sitting in your mother's favorite rocking chair while watching Chiller Thriller Theater in the great white north, Manitoba Canada and realizing that horror soothe the winter chills.
But wait there's more, from her college days studying journalism, to lead singer for a rock band, and keeping journals between all those gigs, Cassandra Lee has a writing style of frank reality with the gift of keeping it relaxed.

The novel I had the honor of previewing is Darkness Springs, with Shelby McDonald a fifteen year old boy vacationing with his family in the crisp mountain air of Banff, Alberta. As in all good horror stories you have to have a love interest, Debbie Foster, and what happens to them is gripping.
There is something that has overrun the Hot Springs cave that will scare the pants off you, I mean I had to go back and re-read a section that, well for lack of a better term, gave me shrinkage, quite literally. Cassie's descriptive detail of the anguish, horror and impalement to a victim in her novel was exceptional. What lurks in the slimy walls of shadowy caves and in the endless chasm of the darkness will haunt you... I'm never going in a cave again!
Cassandra Lee is the author of Darkness Springs and The Raising (Blu Phi'er Publishing). Other works include her novella in the anthology Gifts of the Flesh slated for release December 2008 (Blu Phi'er Publishing) She has also contributed to the following anthologies: Concrete Blood, Tabloid Purposes IV, Word Weavers Anthology, Darkened Horizons, Diabolic Tales II and Cadaver Girls Magazine.
This is her first novel, and I'll be looking for the name Cassandra Lee with genuine interest, there is more on the way.

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I was glad to find out about this book from a Parade magazine review. I've heard some real scary stories from friends about their emergency room experiences. This book tells how to get the best care possible in the ER and what to do to protect yourself from mistakes, long waits, and other ER problems. For anything life threatening, call for an ambulance as you are likely to get attention faster when you arrive at the ER. For a cough, any chronic condition, really push your regular doctor to squeeze you in. That's better than sitting around for hours being exposed to flu and diseases in the ER waiting room.
Don't go alone, as you need someone to be an advocate for you. Their help can make a difference, since you aren't in the best of shape to fight for good care.

Hospital emergency rooms are typically understaffed, overstuffed, and manned with inexperienced doctors and nurses rendering them potentially hazardous to patients. This is the persuasively argued premise of Dr. Joel Cohen's ER: Enter At Your Own Risk. Dr. Cohen goes on to recommend a solid plain of action to avoid real and perceived dangers inside contemporary hospital emergency rooms that will enable non-specialist general readers on how to get treated by experts rather than the inept; how to provide children with the best care; and how to decide when and where to seek emergency professional care. ER is a welcome and invaluable compendium of sound advice in dealing with doctors and medical personnel on call so that when an emergency strikes, they will have all the facts and strategies in hand for being healed and not harmed in a hospital emergency room environment.

If you're like most Americans, it won't be long until either you or someone you love becomes a patient in an emergency room. And, if you're like most Americans, you will blindly trust the doctors and other ER personnel to provide optimal care. That might be a reasonable expectation in a perfect world, but we don't live in a perfect world. We live in a world in which the quality of emergency care is considerably variable from one hospital to another and from one practitioner to another and even from one minute to another. Are you willing to cross your fingers and hope that everything goes well?

Fortunately, you need not leave your fate to chance. If you follow the advice given by Dr. Cohen, you can become an intelligent participant in your care and proactively take steps to reduce a myriad number of risks, any one of which may put you at increased risk of death or disability. Or you can play the blame game, in which you or your survivors point fingers in a courtroom. That's great for lawyers, but is it good for you? Obviously not, if health means more to you than money. Malpractice attorneys like to justify their existence by believing that they're performing a useful public service: namely, punishing doctors for real or imagined errors and thereby enhancing the quality of medical care. In theory, that sounds great. In reality, that system just isn't effective.

If everyone read and followed the advice in this book, Dr. Cohen would do far more to enhance the delivery of first-rate emergency healthcare than every malpractice attorney in this country. Collectively, Dr. Cohen's advice could save billions of dollars and an untold number of tragedies. I don't know of any other book that offers so many helpful ER tips. If you don't read this book, some day you will probably wish you did. Even though I'm an ER doc, I learned some helpful things from Dr. Cohen. His splendid advice could help so many people in so many ways. Do yourself a favor, and read this book.

Review by Kevin Pezzi, M.D., author of "Believe It or Not! True Emergency Room Stories."

I saw this book online and just HAD to buy it. I'm soo happy I did too because now ER Vet is like my dream job. I carry this book everywhere with me, I'm not even kidding. And it's not just the job that's so appealing to me. It's the book too. I love all the colors and how some pictures take up whole pages and you really feel like you're getting a first-hand look at what it's like to work in the animal ER. Plus, the book tells you what an average day is like for ER Vets, Vet Techs, and in an animal emergency hospital in general. It gives you background information on lots of animals and teaches you tips to help you at home with your own animals. I'm not joking when I say this book is pretty much perfect.

Great information about the world of emergency vets for adults as well as kids. Well-written with excellent photos and a section on dealing with the death of a pet. Great gift for anyone considering the profession.

Subbing at an elementary library earlier this month I came across this marvelous book on the shelving cart. I bet it is not on the shelf very often.

Kids love books about their favorite animals. Books on dog and cat breeds fly off the shelves. Put a puppy on the cover and there is instant interest.

Veterinary medicine is a career that is intriguing to many children. The photography shines in this book and invites the reader into a state of the art emergency care facility. There are photos of surgery that are detailed but not gruesome. The images of animals being cushioned with pillows and blankets are particularly comforting to young pet owners. Kind and caring professionals offer insight into their work at the ER.

The book also deals with the loss of a pet. Lucy is a ball python who escaped from her bag and got behind the dash of her owner's car. Despite the vet's attempts to revive the snake Lucy dies from hypothermia. Her owner describes his feelings of sadness and loss.

There are interesting insets, including abbreviations and terminology the doctors use (example HBC is hit by car) and human foods that are dangerous to animals.

State reading assessments use nonfiction selections to test student reading ability. This would be an excellent choice to model nonfiction reading. Young readers will also pick this one up and pore over every word on their own.

This book has become a sensation among my friends and I. We can't stop talking about it! We adore Simon, Lucy, Mrs. Mouse, and the cast of equally wonderful characters. This book follows a young mouse as he goes to his grandmother's house, detailing his many adventures and quarrels with sister Lucy along the way. I would recommend this book to any child, teen, or adult. I could never get tired of this classic story and constantly find myself quoting, acting out, and mentioning Hurry Up, Slowpoke in my daily life. This book will entertain and enlighten anyone lucky enough to get their hands on a rare copy. Well worth your money and time.

This book has been a favorite of mine for a long time now. Even though I am not a child, I find the plot and character development in this story extremely good. My friends and I all cherish this classic story, and often refer to it in real life. If you want to have a good time, read a good story, and feel happy, read Hurry Up Slowpoke.

My grandmother read this book over, and over, and over again to me when I was a small child. I now read it to my children and enjoy it just as much. It is a fun wonderful book to be cherished.

Many many many books have tried to tell a story using only a very few words, so that children could easily understand them. This technique usually results in books so boring that they ought to be taken out and burned en masse -- except for this one. With a vocab. of not more than 70 or 80 words, this tells a hilarious tale of two bunny brothers trying desperately (and failing) to keep quiet while their papa sleeps. I just love it when Mama says, "Why is this here, and this here, and this here?" Then: "Chip and Pip were very quiet. Chip and Pip made no noise." Find this book and hang on to it.

The best service yet - really fast.I live in WI and I spent quite a few holidays/summers filling cars up, I loved it!

The automobile was as much an integral aspect of Wisconsin's economic and cultural evolution as it was for the rest of the country. Co-authored by Wisconsin historians Jim Draeger and Mark Speltz, "Fill'er Up: The Glory Days Of Wisconsin Gas Stations" celebrates one of the key institutions responsible for the success of the automobile in the Badger State. Beginning with an informed and informative introduction and historical overview entitled 'Wisconsin Gas Stations: Tracing Their Evolution', "Fill'er Up" showcases fifty-nine representative stations in Wisconsin's western eastern, northern, and central regions. The informative text is superbly enhanced with both historical black-and-white photos, as well as full-color photos of those original stations as they exist today. Featuring an appendix providing a map of station locations, a section of notes, and a comprehensive index, "Fill'er Up" is a unique, entertaining, and fascinating examination of the cultural and economic history of the Wisconsin gas station, making it a welcome and enthusiastically recommended addition to personal, school, and community Wisconsin History reference collections and supplemental reading lists.

After a long journey from Ankara to Baghdad, which took no less than
100 hours, because of floods in Syria and Iraq, I arrived in Baghdad.
I had the intention to visit Sufi places and thus I asked someone to
write down the name of shaykh 'Abdul Qadir Jilani on a sheet of
paper. I showed this paper to several people in the streets of
Baghdad, who only spoke Arabic, but by means of pointing into a
certain direction still could guide me to the dargah of this "Rose of
Baghdad". I paid several visits to the dargah, but was at first
unable to establish a contact with Sufis. After walking once again
away from the dargah, suddenly it was as if I perceived the scent of
a rose. This reminded me of shaykh 'Abdul Qadir Jilani and
immediately I returned to his shrine. A man in Western clothes
approached me there and it appeared that he was a khalifah in the
Qadiriyya order.

Shaykh 'Abdul Qadir Jilani is one of the most important Sufi shaykhs
of all times. It so happens that shaykh Taner Ansari has translated
his "Sirr-al-Asrar" into English as the "Secrets of Secrets". He
added another English translation to the same book. It is the
"Guidance to Mysticism" ("Al-Burhan-ul-Mu'ayyad", lit.: Confirming
Proof) by no one less than shaykh Ahmed er Rifai. The first book has
already appeared in an English translation but its quality was not so
good, so that a new and better translation is always a welcome event.
The English translations of both books are based primarily on Ottoman
Turkish renderings of the original Arabic works.

When looking at the contents the translations of the two books have
been given after a short biography of shaykh 'Abdul Qadir Jilani,
shaykh Ahmed er Rifai and a biography of the translator shaykh Taner
Ansari. The "Secret of Secrets" gives the very essence of Sufism. The
Sufi path is very clearly explained. It contains 24 chapters. Chapter
21, dealing with recitations and prayers related to the path of
seclusion, has not been translated. Shaykh Taner Ansari explains the
why thus: "Since khalwa should be engaged in under the guidance of a
shaykh or shaykha who prescribes practices particular to each
student, the chapter will not be translated here". This attitude of
not translating the chapter demonstrates the atiitude of someone with
practical and inside knowledge of the Sufi path, which is considered
more important than giving a complete translation. As for the
"Secrets of Secrets", you willl be able to read about subjects like
your return to the original source, about several subtle faculties,
about spiritual states and stations, about spiritual practices, about
dreams and many other aspects of the Sufi path.

The translation of "Guidance to Mysticism" was first introduced via
the Internet during weekly talks by shaykh Taner Ansari. He presented
one chapter at a time. The manner in which the shaykh gave his
commentary varied. Sometimes he did a second reading of a chapter
with his commentary and at other times he gave his commentary
throughout a single reading. He felt that some chapters needed no
commentary and others prompted a student question-and-answer session.
The translation reflects the flavour of these online sessions. So you
see the result of a modern day Sufi shaykh in his interaction with
people of modern times, while the subject matter is a classical Sufi
text. This is a way of presenting it for people living in the here
and now.

The book "Grand Masters of Sufism", published by Ansari Publications
(www.qadiri-rifai.org) arrived yesterday at my home. When opening the
book it was as if a nice rose perfume spread in the air. Some roses
give their scent to the desert wind and remain unknown to people. It
is up to you to get acquainted or not with the perfume of the
teachings of the two aforementioned grandmasters of Sufism.

Siraj

Wonderful book !!!! Mandatory read for any sufi. I would say this book was like a key for all the other sufic books I have read. Very well laid out and talks to the point that a novice, gnostic or a seeker needs to look for on the path. This book is enough for a true lover and seeker. Definitely many treasures would unearth from reading this book cause I learnt a lot of secrets hidden in this book. One will be certainly satisfied and would be in a state of awe after reading with many key questions of the path answered very well. I felt that it definitely stands alone as a Sufi Textbook / Treatise for now.

This book is chock-full of information about characters, plotlines and episodes. Although it only goes through the fourth season, leaving certain aspects of characters lives unknown, it is a definite for any ER obsessive. Each main character is discussed in detail, including education, personal life, family members, situations at the hospital and professional evaluations. Each minor character is also discussed briefly. Every episode starting with the pilot through the last season four episode, "A Hole in the Heart" is summarized by plotline as well.

As an ER fan, I found this book informative and fun. Though some newer characters are left out, the book is very detailed and easy to refer to when watching the show. And if you want to know just how many of Mark Greene's relationship were work related, you need this book!

This is an amazing guide to the first four seasons of the best show ever made. It's filled with facts on all characters - major and minor - along with show recaps and actor bios. It is essential for all true ER fans to own.

Chris Manning's book is an outstanding account of the importance of teamwork. Manning avoid drifting into cliche, as other "True stories" do, in order to present us with real life characters, warts and all. Through an almost game by game recount, Manning keeps the reader on the edge of his seat every game, conveying the emotion that he and his team felt during every pitch. This is a definite must read for anyone who loves baseball, especially anyone who wants to be a baseball player. It's refreshing to read about athletes who put their team, instead of themselves, first.

Being a kid that spent every minute of his time growing up wanting to be on a baseball diamond, Chris Manning's book "One Team One Dream" brings back all of those feelings that I had so many years ago. He does a wonderful job covering the highs and lows, the ups and the downs, essentially the true roller coaster emotions that embodies high school baseball. It was easy to relate to the players as the games and season unfolded, each chapter bringing me not only closer to the ending, but bringing back those lost memories of my high school glory days as well. I recommend this book for any sports fan, or even just the casual one who wants a reminder of the innocence of the game.