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This book has long been considered an excellent pocket reference for on-call pediatrics and quick-reference topics. Even past editions seemed more useful to me than even the excellent Harriet Lane handbook. With the 10th edition, the Hospital for Sick Children Handbook has greatly improved on its previous formula. It is more detailed, more complete and up to date with the latest information and standards of care.

Strengths include the new fold-out emergency drug reference card and fold-out flowsheet on common emergency conditions like anaphylaxis, status epilepticus and hyperkalemia. If the book has any weakness, it is that the print is quite small and the book is a little heavier than the 9th edition. But again, there's way more information!

This book is highly recommended to all pediatricians!

William Carlos Williams is known for his huge contribution to American literature during the first half of the twentieth century. He was friend, rival, or mentor to some of the most influential modernist and post-modernist poets of the era. He was also a pediatrician with a practice in and around Paterson, New Jersey for most of the same half-century.

Williams the doctor is the subject of House Calls With William Carlos Williams, MD. In an unusual collaboration, photographer Thomas Roma captured the streets where Williams had made his trademark house calls, and physician Robert Coles contributed the text from his memories of "rounding" with Williams as a medical student.

The linking principle between the photos and text is Williams's own practice of taking in the image and moving from there to the understanding. According to Coles, Williams "connected hearing and thinking to close, attentive watching, all part of the doctor's job." Coles quotes Williams on artists: "They made their house calls on us, got us to stop, look, consider -- the artist become a learner, a teacher, just as a house-calling doctor takes something in through his senses, then comes up with his 'findings.'"

Williams, steeped in urban America, was strongly socialist in his politics, and his doctoring was guided by the need to see patients in their social context. His role as observer is strongly stated in this book -- sometimes the sympathetic observer, sometimes passionate. Coles quotes Williams watching a group of children: "They never did, those big shots in Washington, during the 1930's, ask a lot of kiddos like those ... to talk about what's there, waiting to be heard, seen, handed over to others ... Where was the urban version of the FSA, aiming its sights at ordinary city kids? I guess we've gotten lost a little."

The reference to the Farm Security Administration's photo collection can't be accidental. The FSA collection is a definitive photographic record of rural and small-town life between the Depression and WWII, and Thomas Roma's bleak black-and-white cityscapes, taken in 2006 and 2007 for HOUSE CALLS, have the same feel. Harsh shadows, derelict buildings, drooping utility wires, fire escapes, trees blossoming against chain link fences -- they speak as strongly as the text. Both echo Williams's interest in structures, in juxtapositions, in the life of the city streets that gives modern America its shape and voice.

This small book (107 pages) is half text and half photos, with a few of Williams's poems incorporated; it's impossible, after all, to separate the doctor from the poet. Elusive, thought-provoking, deceptively simple, HOUSE CALLS begs to be read and then read again; like Williams's poetry, the structure and imagery convey as much as the words. Recommended for anyone interested in the poet, or in photography or mid-century urban American life. Five stars for a gift that keeps on giving.

Linda Bulger, 2008

This is an outstanding coffee table book, an extremely well-written and readable history of a remarkable institution. It tells the story of the fulfillment of a dream against insurmountable opposition. It is a story about endurance. The book is a demonstration of how an invaluable resource can be created for a community and its children by the pioneering commitment of founders who relentlessly pursued their goal. The binding, paper, type, color and photographic history are excellent. It is beautifully written and elegantly illustrated.

Told with wit and charm, Kathleen Eagen Johnson's engaging account of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration restores to prominence an all but forgotten chapter in American history, the two weeks in September 1909 when New York boisterously announced its arrival on the world stage with a dazzling variety of parades, pageants, and parties.

Commemorating Henry Hudson 1609 voyage of discovery and Robert Fulton's 1807 introduction of commercial steamship travel between New York City and Albany, the Celebration built on Washington Irving's world famous history of Knickerbocker New York - here gloriously illustrated by George Cruikshank, Maxfield Parrish and others - to create an Empire City whose past rivaled that of Boston and Philadelphia.

The backstory was more complicated. New York's great history parade advanced a confused social agenda bent on tutoring immigrants - New York was awash with them - in traditional American values while selling the public a raft of progressive programs. Electricity, used with manic zeal to illuminate every bridge, boat and boulevard in the five boroughs and beyond, was the Celebration's leitmotif.

Johnson's lively pictorial review makes outstanding use of the fine and popular arts produced by the Celebration, reproducing more than two hundred photographs, illustrations, and souvenirs of every variety, from medals and badges to sheet music, cigar box labels, china, silver, and needlework.

An expert on the material culture of Dutch and English New York, the author has an eye for telling detail. Dressed as Dutch girls or sailor boys, children marched in parades throughout the state in a quixotic display of cultural diversity. Barely recognized, writes Johnson, were African Americans, who had lived in New York since the early seventeenth century.

Art afficionados will likely recall the Hudson-Fulton Celebration for the pair of exhibitions Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art organized in tribute. In the great international art grab of the post Civil War era, American wealth trumped European lineage. American financier J.P. Morgan organized the Met's spectacular Dutch paintings show, including thirty-four Rembrandts, twenty Hals, and five Vermeers, a staggering assertion of power even by today's blockbuster standards.

The Met's tandem exhibition is rightly considered pivotal. It marked the first time that American decorative arts were displayed by a major American fine-arts museum and validated the ensuing antiques collecting craze that continues today.

This is the Text book to have for those clinicians involved in the care of patients with benign breast disease. It addresses all the conditions likely to be encountered in a breast clinic with concise and recent knowledge on the subject. It is a must have in organising a breast clinic

This text has a chapter written by Professors Marty Sapp, R.L. McNeely, and Jose Torres on how to apply Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) to the process of dying for aged African Americans and Latinos. This chapter describes how to adapt REBT to African Americans and Latinos. Clearly, this text addresses the social and psychological issues of African Americans and people of color. In addition, within this second edition, Professors Marty Sapp, R.L. McNeely, and Jose Torres have a second chapter entitled "Hypnotherapy: A Useful Modality for Serving African American and Latino Clients and Patients." This chapter presented an innovative approach for using hypnosis with these groups. In summary, this text will continue to be a classic, and it has many practical applications for African Americans.

Well, not much more to say than that it's an embryo textbook for class... everything you would expect. Very in depth

I first ran across this book a few years ago when doing research for my book, "The PK Zone." I needed something that covered the different functions of the left and right brain, and how they interact. "The Human Frontal Lobes" proved to be a virtual goldmine! This book is an incredible compilation of chapters on a field where not only is there intensive research, but recent findings have greatly changed our understanding of how the brain works. The pages contain a virtual wonderland of everything currently known about how the frontal lobes work, including split brain studies, functional (fMRI) brain scan results, CAT scans, and more. I absolutely loved "The Human Frontal Lobes," found it extremely insightful, and am delighted to have it in my library. If you want facts and details it simply cannot be beat.

I would add one caveat. The terminology in this book is very complex as befits a medical textbook. Anyone who doesn't have a background in medicine or physiology may have real trouble understanding the material, even with a scientific/medical dictionary. It is not for the casual reader. Also, this version is several years old. Because of the cutting edge research continuing in this field, one hopes that it will be updated soon. As it is, I am greatly looking forward to any and all future editions.

This is a important book about human sexual dysfunctions. Help us to treat an attend pacient demand in these health area.

Since 1912, the Junior League has been a leader in volunteer service to Baltimore. It is an organization of women committed to promoting voluntarism, developing the potential of women and improving communities through the effective action and leadership of trained volunteers. The Junior League is open to women of all races, religions and national origins who demonstrate an interest in and commitment to voluntarism. This cookbook is filled with wonderful recipes you will make again and again for company. The chapters include Beverages, Appetizers, Eggs, Pasta & Cheeses, Soups & Sandwiches, Fish & Shellfish, Poultry & Game, Meats, Vegetables & Side Dishes, Breads, Salads, Sauces & Spreads, Desserts, Pies & Pastries, Cakes, Cookies & Candy, Pickles & Relishes, Celebrities, Restaurants, Caterers & Vineyards, Ethnic Festivals, Menus and This & That. Be sure to try the Crab Cakes on pg. 84 and the Chicken and Crescent Almondine on pg 114. You won't be disappointed!